The original AC just misspelled Tibet. The last few regime changes in Korea were by Japan and the USSR. If you count China in there you have to say that they simply restored the regime (under the direction of Stalin who still had influence back then) that had been overthrown by the USA. Therefore it could be argued that the USA (United Nations approved in the absence of USSR) was the last usurper of North Korean independence and thus the countries remain at war.
Hong Kong Island's lease was surrendered early to China when the lease on the New Territories finished. That caused a regime change but hardly seems an act of force-majeure considering the quasi-independence of the Hong Kong Government under "one state - two systems".
Thanks for that. MyCroft looks good. Shipping is a disaster though so I'll have to wait until that gets sorted. It shouldn't cost more to post than to buy.
My hands free bluetooth car device does everything that the summary indicates. I talk to it. I can ask it questions and it gives me options. It gives me the option to answer a call or it can read out an sms to me. It has never been connected to the Internet. It's not all that complex if a $50 device can do it for the last 5 years.
What pisses me off most and completely prevents me having anything to do with these voice assistants and smartarse homes is the inability to "skin" them.
Why the F do I have to use childish phrases like "Hey Siri (Google Alexa) and pathetic shit like that? It is totally demeaning and places you in a position of servitude to a commercial empire. A pox on their eyes and bonuses.
There is an absolute fortune awaiting for somebody who develops one of these voice assist monsters that you can tailor personally. Give it a name of your choosing, along with voice and personality skins. Make it so that it only has to go to the net for updates and complex queries and you have the absolute future of computing. A whole new industry of personality skinning would take off overnight.
Orac, Slave, K9, Skynet, Computer and HAL would be popular skins to produce for nerds. Disney could throw in Mickey, Goofy, and Unca Donald for kids and older kids. Jeez even the Kardashians could do something for teenagers, along with any amount of Hollywood, Bollywood and UK characterisations.
James Bond skin: Hey Q (or Moneypenny) is my flight on time and is the car fully charged? If not have an Uber standing by in 15 minutes!
It is all about the interface. The backend is mature enough for this already.
Meantime we have Microsoft still trying make computers into phones and copying Apple's store strategy which they copied from Lindows which copied from Microsoft. Maybe there is a company in China or India that will just step and steal all their marbles by simply opening their eyes and ears.
Lucky? Aye....had to get up at 3 in morning, half an hour before went to bed, had to suck out semen with bare mouth and inseminate cows with same mouth, not swallow a drop, crawl down into sewer....it were sewer to us but it were just a hole full of shit where we slept , then clean and repair it before breakfast which were just semen not spat out, then aye, off to factory where we'd batter hens to death with bare hands and then crawl home naked when dad would stab us to death with broken bottles and dance on our graves.
Tell young kids that today......and they won't believe yer.
It still strikes me as plain stupidity to assign assets to defence forces on the basis of whether those assets walk, fly or sail. Surely it is better to assign assets to forces appropriate to their tasking?
If the Air Force is to command control of the air then provide them with assets that do that. Similarly, if the Army is to control the ground then they need to operationally control the tools that best suit that purpose. Navy seem to have got it sorted. They control the water and the air and land around their fleet and ports.
The Army should demand that they drive all the trucks that the Air Force uses. It's an extension of the same idiocy. I can't even get my mind around the Navy driving little boats, far inland, in little muddy rivers "because it's water".
Because in OCA you will be able to apply much more flexible separation standards, allowing a mix of speeds (closing), earlier climbs, later descents, less speed imposition at crossing points and just push a whole lot more aircraft through choke points without having to slow the whole lot down to the speed of the LCD.
There's a shit-ton of ways that replacing 15 minutes with no closing longitudinal time standards, with more flexible distance standards free up the speed limits that are imposed now.
Yeah,,,Until "Big Salt" buys up all the patents and forces us to keep production low. We'll be scraping the lamps in cheap hotel rooms for decades yet.
AppleCoin is almost a cert. Disney Dollars have made a fortune for the old mill and you can get them from the little blockhouse just inside the chains, near the entrance.
I think they should stick to "susceptible*, *rights*, *variance*, *identity transposition*, *foetus*, *research indicates* and *verifiable by testing*"
It would have the added benefit of being more convincing in an argument. Most tire of the same dross spewed out by style manuals and their ilk.
I loved it. It further raises and enhances the questions about what defines a human from any other organism.
Where really is the right of a human to confer "rights" upon their kind and deny them to all others? What is it about humans that both defines them and makes them special beyond reproach?
When one goal is met by artificial intelligence for immediate bestowal of human rights then what further barriers can we throw down? Is having a soul enough? And what is that anyway? Being "born of woman"? Can that be a factor? What if you don't even exist beyond an AI program but are still able to be self-aware and interact with human emotion?
What happens when sentient beings (or non-beings) can no longer progress within a society that is closed to them; that remains determined to aggressively deprive them of freedom, peace and ambition?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I remember in the late 70s or early 80s there was a Cessna taken out by an Eagle. The pilot was able to land the plane and said that he saw nothing at all, just bang, blood and feathers. The windscreen exploded and the passenger was knocked unconscious IIRC. The pilot was quite badly injured but managed to land with some difficulty. There was an investigation as to why his mayday calls went unanswered. Amazingly enough the conclusion was that the microphone was made u/s by the massive amount of blood that had poured into it.
There will be pics and more detail around somewhere. The formal investigation was published.
The entire length of the current Great Barrier Reef was dry land about 8000 years ago. Coral is ancient. but the reefs are dynamic and are in a continuous process of movement, growth, decay and adaptation. I've walked along swathes of ancient coral reefs over 150 miles inland from the current coast. I don't have an age on those formations, but they sure as hell were bleached!
At the end of an El Nino the warm pool of water drifts across the Pacific just below the equator. El Nino usually breaks down during the southern hemisphere summer.
There are times when the warmer surface water, ex El-Nino arrives at the back half of the Australian summer. The reef itself slows water movement from the north/south directions but it is fairly open to surface waters arriving from the east. This allows the warmer El Nino to start pooling inside the outer barrier. If the timing is right, this water is further heated and can trigger conditions where many coral species will "bleach". They eject their symbiotic algae. This does not kill the polyps. Usually the water cools enough so that the algae re-colonises and all continues as it was. Surface water temperature above 30 deg C is not uncommon in this area during summer in any normal year.
Cooling usually happens through tidal flow and storm (including tropical revolving storms) activity. The end of December, start of January, brings spring tides that also effectively mix the water. The tides a month later are also effective. The main cooling effect comes from the south east trade winds that cool that surface waters and bring them over the reef. They also have a strong influence in reversing the East Australia Current. In El Nino conditions the trade winds are greatly reduced exacerbating the conditions.
Making shinier clouds looks like complete and utter hokum. More chance of a benefit arising from having Trump building a wall across the equatorial pacific and having Hawaii pay for it.
Read it again. Salt doesn't make you expel more urine. It retains the water in the kidneys. Less urine. Less thirst. What you stated is....um...yes you called it!
There may be something else interesting here too. I'm not clear on it and may have it wrong, but the Trans Pacific Partnership was touted as allowing for the enforcement of cross jurisdiction ruling for things like this.
Did Trump just save the world from another round of vexatious patent trolling that uses cross-border court rulings as a weapon?
OTOH 30 million people displaced as unimaginable? I don't have to even go far back in time. 55 million people killed in WW2 and many more displaced not that long ago. If that migration becomes the only problem then it's a soft landing. Probably more people than that take an annual vacation in the U.S.
I like the shift away from blaming callous bloodthirsty dictators and Islamic fundamentalism openly clashing for the Arab Spring. Spring is climate right? Bad outcome for lots of people ergo climate change is to blame somehow. Seriously, all this alarmist stuff ever does is magnify an emotional dimension to the problem that will make it increasingly difficult to solve it. It is pissing off a lot more than 30 million people and they are sneering through the internet and the ballot box.
Wish the drama queens and alarmists would just piss off now. They have nothing to offer.
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The original AC just misspelled Tibet. The last few regime changes in Korea were by Japan and the USSR. If you count China in there you have to say that they simply restored the regime (under the direction of Stalin who still had influence back then) that had been overthrown by the USA. Therefore it could be argued that the USA (United Nations approved in the absence of USSR) was the last usurper of North Korean independence and thus the countries remain at war.
Hong Kong Island's lease was surrendered early to China when the lease on the New Territories finished. That caused a regime change but hardly seems an act of force-majeure considering the quasi-independence of the Hong Kong Government under "one state - two systems".
Thanks for that. MyCroft looks good. Shipping is a disaster though so I'll have to wait until that gets sorted. It shouldn't cost more to post than to buy.
My hands free bluetooth car device does everything that the summary indicates. I talk to it. I can ask it questions and it gives me options. It gives me the option to answer a call or it can read out an sms to me. It has never been connected to the Internet. It's not all that complex if a $50 device can do it for the last 5 years.
What pisses me off most and completely prevents me having anything to do with these voice assistants and smartarse homes is the inability to "skin" them.
Why the F do I have to use childish phrases like "Hey Siri (Google Alexa) and pathetic shit like that? It is totally demeaning and places you in a position of servitude to a commercial empire. A pox on their eyes and bonuses.
There is an absolute fortune awaiting for somebody who develops one of these voice assist monsters that you can tailor personally. Give it a name of your choosing, along with voice and personality skins. Make it so that it only has to go to the net for updates and complex queries and you have the absolute future of computing. A whole new industry of personality skinning would take off overnight.
Orac, Slave, K9, Skynet, Computer and HAL would be popular skins to produce for nerds.
Disney could throw in Mickey, Goofy, and Unca Donald for kids and older kids.
Jeez even the Kardashians could do something for teenagers, along with any amount of Hollywood, Bollywood and UK characterisations.
James Bond skin: Hey Q (or Moneypenny) is my flight on time and is the car fully charged? If not have an Uber standing by in 15 minutes!
It is all about the interface. The backend is mature enough for this already.
Meantime we have Microsoft still trying make computers into phones and copying Apple's store strategy which they copied from Lindows which copied from Microsoft. Maybe there is a company in China or India that will just step and steal all their marbles by simply opening their eyes and ears.
I am going to Google that statement and see if it has a chance.
HMS Edinburgh. Sunk 1942. 4.5 tons of Gold.
I'm stunned. Shocked. Is this even possible? I never believed this could happen in my lifetime.
Galveston is a resort these days?
Lucky? Aye....had to get up at 3 in morning, half an hour before went to bed, had to suck out semen with bare mouth and inseminate cows with same mouth, not swallow a drop, crawl down into sewer....it were sewer to us but it were just a hole full of shit where we slept , then clean and repair it before breakfast which were just semen not spat out, then aye, off to factory where we'd batter hens to death with bare hands and then crawl home naked when dad would stab us to death with broken bottles and dance on our graves.
Tell young kids that today ......and they won't believe yer.
It still strikes me as plain stupidity to assign assets to defence forces on the basis of whether those assets walk, fly or sail. Surely it is better to assign assets to forces appropriate to their tasking?
If the Air Force is to command control of the air then provide them with assets that do that.
Similarly, if the Army is to control the ground then they need to operationally control the tools that best suit that purpose.
Navy seem to have got it sorted. They control the water and the air and land around their fleet and ports.
The Army should demand that they drive all the trucks that the Air Force uses. It's an extension of the same idiocy.
I can't even get my mind around the Navy driving little boats, far inland, in little muddy rivers "because it's water".
Because in OCA you will be able to apply much more flexible separation standards, allowing a mix of speeds (closing), earlier climbs, later descents, less speed imposition at crossing points and just push a whole lot more aircraft through choke points without having to slow the whole lot down to the speed of the LCD.
There's a shit-ton of ways that replacing 15 minutes with no closing longitudinal time standards, with more flexible distance standards free up the speed limits that are imposed now.
Make a car journey of at least 10 hours with 2 vegetarians, in winter, with the windows up. All will be revealed. No exam needed.
Yeah,,,Until "Big Salt" buys up all the patents and forces us to keep production low. We'll be scraping the lamps in cheap hotel rooms for decades yet.
AppleCoin is almost a cert. Disney Dollars have made a fortune for the old mill and you can get them from the little blockhouse just inside the chains, near the entrance.
Every day I come to /. looking for a genuine LOL moment. Today I got it from the teh Bruce.
I think they should stick to "susceptible*, *rights*, *variance*, *identity transposition*, *foetus*, *research indicates* and *verifiable by testing*"
It would have the added benefit of being more convincing in an argument. Most tire of the same dross spewed out by style manuals and their ilk.
I think the most significant thing about this story is that Bruce Perens still visits /.
Err hi Bruce!
I loved it. It further raises and enhances the questions about what defines a human from any other organism.
Where really is the right of a human to confer "rights" upon their kind and deny them to all others? What is it about humans that both defines them and makes them special beyond reproach?
When one goal is met by artificial intelligence for immediate bestowal of human rights then what further barriers can we throw down?
Is having a soul enough? And what is that anyway?
Being "born of woman"? Can that be a factor?
What if you don't even exist beyond an AI program but are still able to be self-aware and interact with human emotion?
What happens when sentient beings (or non-beings) can no longer progress within a society that is closed to them; that remains determined to aggressively deprive them of freedom, peace and ambition?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Yeah fuck Australia for not looking out for people that are not in any way connected with the country.
I remember in the late 70s or early 80s there was a Cessna taken out by an Eagle. The pilot was able to land the plane and said that he saw nothing at all, just bang, blood and feathers. The windscreen exploded and the passenger was knocked unconscious IIRC. The pilot was quite badly injured but managed to land with some difficulty. There was an investigation as to why his mayday calls went unanswered. Amazingly enough the conclusion was that the microphone was made u/s by the massive amount of blood that had poured into it.
There will be pics and more detail around somewhere. The formal investigation was published.
The entire length of the current Great Barrier Reef was dry land about 8000 years ago. Coral is ancient. but the reefs are dynamic and are in a continuous process of movement, growth, decay and adaptation. I've walked along swathes of ancient coral reefs over 150 miles inland from the current coast. I don't have an age on those formations, but they sure as hell were bleached!
As do Australia and New Zealand, Barbados, Fiji, Namibia, Nauru and Singapore, Solomon Islands and Zimbabwe.
It is doubtful that any of those places appear on US Maps though:
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Get Smart
F Troop
Nothing else comes close.
At the end of an El Nino the warm pool of water drifts across the Pacific just below the equator. El Nino usually breaks down during the southern hemisphere summer.
There are times when the warmer surface water, ex El-Nino arrives at the back half of the Australian summer. The reef itself slows water movement from the north/south directions but it is fairly open to surface waters arriving from the east. This allows the warmer El Nino to start pooling inside the outer barrier.
If the timing is right, this water is further heated and can trigger conditions where many coral species will "bleach". They eject their symbiotic algae. This does not kill the polyps. Usually the water cools enough so that the algae re-colonises and all continues as it was. Surface water temperature above 30 deg C is not uncommon in this area during summer in any normal year.
Cooling usually happens through tidal flow and storm (including tropical revolving storms) activity. The end of December, start of January, brings spring tides that also effectively mix the water. The tides a month later are also effective. The main cooling effect comes from the south east trade winds that cool that surface waters and bring them over the reef. They also have a strong influence in reversing the East Australia Current. In El Nino conditions the trade winds are greatly reduced exacerbating the conditions.
Making shinier clouds looks like complete and utter hokum. More chance of a benefit arising from having Trump building a wall across the equatorial pacific and having Hawaii pay for it.
Read it again. Salt doesn't make you expel more urine. It retains the water in the kidneys. Less urine. Less thirst.
What you stated is....um...yes you called it!
There may be something else interesting here too. I'm not clear on it and may have it wrong, but the Trans Pacific Partnership was touted as allowing for the enforcement of cross jurisdiction ruling for things like this.
Did Trump just save the world from another round of vexatious patent trolling that uses cross-border court rulings as a weapon?
Ummmm....Yay Trump....Yaaayyy....ummm.
Hmm. Nobody who speaks German could be evil.
OTOH 30 million people displaced as unimaginable? I don't have to even go far back in time. 55 million people killed in WW2 and many more displaced not that long ago. If that migration becomes the only problem then it's a soft landing. Probably more people than that take an annual vacation in the U.S.
I like the shift away from blaming callous bloodthirsty dictators and Islamic fundamentalism openly clashing for the Arab Spring. Spring is climate right? Bad outcome for lots of people ergo climate change is to blame somehow. Seriously, all this alarmist stuff ever does is magnify an emotional dimension to the problem that will make it increasingly difficult to solve it. It is pissing off a lot more than 30 million people and they are sneering through the internet and the ballot box.
Wish the drama queens and alarmists would just piss off now. They have nothing to offer.