Let's end the hysteria and hubris of AGW and work on things actually within our control. The only people frothing about climate change are those who will make a buck off of it, and the overly trusting dupes who trust poorly constructed models (or worse, the people constructing them) to convince them of pre-conceived outcomes.
If I return label for label--"Climate Alarmists" perpetuate the false argument that "deniers" think that climate is static. Ridiculous. The dichotomy centers around whether man is a primary factor in affecting climate in causing global warming. I freely admit I'm skeptical on this supposition, because there is no sound science to support it. In that, if one makes the claim, one should have strong evidence that isolates the cause and effect in the form of historical proof, or within a high fidelity model inclusive of relevant variables.
Instead, we rely on coarse models of a small change of one of thousands of factors that influence climate, that have yet to be shown to reflect reality as it unfolds.
That's not good science, so I remain, not in denial, but skeptical
This smacks more of talking points than true factual rebuttal.
Any discussion on the correct path on immigration must be directed at the default handling, not exceptions. If we get that right we can fine tune exception handling. For the majority of cases, how is due process being circumvented? Due process can be expeditious, and even near assembly-line efficient (I've been to traffic court).
The "ripping babies from Mama's arms" narrative is more dramatic than factual. In a majority of cases, the minors were not taken from mothers, but dubious/unverified family members, who, at a minimum, endangered them by force marching them under unsafe, risky conditions and used them as unwitting participants in a crime. Even the Moms did this, intentionally, to their children. The result is that these kids were taken and put into the equivalent of day care and/or foster care, not super-max. We can legitimately disagree, on the way to handle the small number of family of illegal immigrants, caught in the act, but if I witnessed an American mom forcing a toddler to walk through desert sun ill-clothed, underfed and dehydrated for hours or days, I'd likely report them to be taken from such inappropriate care, in any case. Compound that with a parent detained for a crime, and it seems like the best choice in this lesser of two evils. What does not seem reasonable is to reward children-as-a-voucher border crossing to create a catch and release scenario, where the illegal immigrant is basically set free into the wild.
The common ground I'm hopeful we can find is to bring immigration into the 21st century with simplification, more rapid and effective (by whatever filters benefits the US) processing, and more economic cost. Immigration processing should be more like Amazon Prime, not the DMV.
Just did a quick check of the wayback machine--Google's claim is not supported by the archives. I bracketed a 4 hour block of time around the SOTU, and there is no highlight shown... Here is 8PM EST google from 30 Jan, 2018
Forget avoiding the negative--how about a positive rationale: If one is engaged with an AI routinely (I would think it is the goal of the automation), an announcement lets the respondent be more efficient, since an AI is likely more deterministic in interaction than my grandma.
So a *very* simple preamble, "This is a Duplex call, I would like to check on a prescription for Agnes Fartblossom..." notifies without needless chatter.
A common theme predominates: Anywhere but Silicon Valley would be better, and there are quite a few cherries to choose. KC, Nashville, Tampa, Pittsburgh...
I lived in Phoenix, commuted to San Jose some. I now live in Nashville. Great weather, great people and vibe. NO State Income Tax! Cost of living is climbing, but should remain below California benchmark for the next century...
Come on down, but I warn you...you may have to meet and know your neighbors, and talk without going through your phone.
Law professors are not immune to having opinions swayed by their personal preferences and desires. In fact, the lawyer's profession requires the ability to form arguments supporting either side of a case in question. We cannot pretend that his statement is purely objective.
âoestatisticallyâ speaking, when responding with binary opinions, with clearly and commonly defined points of concern, there should be no surprise that phrasing is duplicated, nor (as I am wont to do) someone outright cuts and pastes well articulated statements from other posts...
The irony of your post is staggering, while making accusations of bigotry with a wide brush to a group with which you disagree, you literally illustrate the concept. There are shallow, reactive people on both sides, but in my universe, I have been witnessing a level of vitriol and undeserved, unsubstantiated, hysterical accusation, condemnation, and outright hate from so-called progressives since President Trumps victory. In many cases the attacks are peppered with racial, sexual, or religious labels... Sure, we have plenty of crazies who hate anybody different disguised as conservative value warriors, but we know about our crazy uncles and admit to them. Many liberals somehow feel justified for any broad based rant attacking white Christian men or some other subset as a blow for leveling the playing field, when we would all be better served by seeking common ground, accepting a world with different views as long as I don't restrict you from living according to your values and you don't denigrate me for living according to mine.
I agree. Dd-wrt and open wrt are at least on par, and often vastly superior to stock code, especially since the stock code is often relabled reference code from a chipset vendor.
Why not allow for "unlock" a la cellphone vendor, where the default behavior is only allowing signed code, but an advanced user can unlock the device intentionally for open source use?
The sheer burden of being under the weight of being a governmental entity, more than politics (or perhaps due to its influence on government), is killing NASA's ability. There is no natural check and balance for efficiency (like the economic darwinism of profit), so artificial bureaucratic mechanisms balloon to the point that efforts that further real goals are diluted to a small percentage of the cost expended. When NASA contracts for computers, vehicles, fuels...whatever, it is not a credit card on Amazon, it is literally years, in many cases, from "I want that" to "I got that". And not Apollo years like "let's advance science and design technology that didn't exist", but "let's make sure nothing bad happens and avoid any blame"...bla bla bla. Nothing can get done, because the impetus of governmemnt agencies is not to accomplish stuff, but to follow process, and define more process, all while reducing risk. The perfect risk mitigation is to do nothing.
NASA could do more with less if they merely accepted a 98% success rate, but the political pressure to strive for 100% drags out any time (and cost) to execute by orders of magnitude. Failure should always be an option in science, but it is not politically, so NASA does nothing--or at least, not much.
You know why? Because it's freakin' Siberia and Alaska! If I wanted something that cost too much, went way fast, and left me stranded in the middle of nowhere, I'd get a lap dance
How about sci-fi changing their content to Sci-Fi? They are slowly draining the pool--best shows on TV: SG-1, BSG...(OK Firefly wasn't theirs, but why didn't they snap it up and resurrect?!). What hard sci-fi will they have left to showcase by mid-summer?
I'm as paranoid as the next guy, but CALEA is not providing unbridled access by the government to VOIP phone calls, just the equivalent ability they have in the switched world to monitor calls--with a court order for criminal investigation.
We're so jaded these days that we assume that the big brother government is listening to all, but the reality is that there are still strict controls, despite some exceptions via the Patriot Act, that protect the average Joe.
Don't most PC BIOS's have the option for console redirect (I always wondered what to use it for). I think it will allow the proper OS to handle console work via COM1...
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Climate's gonna do what climate's gonna do.
Let's end the hysteria and hubris of AGW and work on things actually within our control. The only people frothing about climate change are those who will make a buck off of it, and the overly trusting dupes who trust poorly constructed models (or worse, the people constructing them) to convince them of pre-conceived outcomes.
If I return label for label--"Climate Alarmists" perpetuate the false argument that "deniers" think that climate is static. Ridiculous. The dichotomy centers around whether man is a primary factor in affecting climate in causing global warming. I freely admit I'm skeptical on this supposition, because there is no sound science to support it. In that, if one makes the claim, one should have strong evidence that isolates the cause and effect in the form of historical proof, or within a high fidelity model inclusive of relevant variables.
Instead, we rely on coarse models of a small change of one of thousands of factors that influence climate, that have yet to be shown to reflect reality as it unfolds.
That's not good science, so I remain, not in denial, but skeptical
Having lived in Alaska, I take this as good news. Cold is bad
This smacks more of talking points than true factual rebuttal.
Any discussion on the correct path on immigration must be directed at the default handling, not exceptions. If we get that right we can fine tune exception handling. For the majority of cases, how is due process being circumvented? Due process can be expeditious, and even near assembly-line efficient (I've been to traffic court).
The "ripping babies from Mama's arms" narrative is more dramatic than factual. In a majority of cases, the minors were not taken from mothers, but dubious/unverified family members, who, at a minimum, endangered them by force marching them under unsafe, risky conditions and used them as unwitting participants in a crime. Even the Moms did this, intentionally, to their children. The result is that these kids were taken and put into the equivalent of day care and/or foster care, not super-max. We can legitimately disagree, on the way to handle the small number of family of illegal immigrants, caught in the act, but if I witnessed an American mom forcing a toddler to walk through desert sun ill-clothed, underfed and dehydrated for hours or days, I'd likely report them to be taken from such inappropriate care, in any case. Compound that with a parent detained for a crime, and it seems like the best choice in this lesser of two evils. What does not seem reasonable is to reward children-as-a-voucher border crossing to create a catch and release scenario, where the illegal immigrant is basically set free into the wild.
The common ground I'm hopeful we can find is to bring immigration into the 21st century with simplification, more rapid and effective (by whatever filters benefits the US) processing, and more economic cost. Immigration processing should be more like Amazon Prime, not the DMV.
Just did a quick check of the wayback machine--Google's claim is not supported by the archives. I bracketed a 4 hour block of time around the SOTU, and there is no highlight shown...
Here is 8PM EST google from 30 Jan, 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180130152021/https://www.google.com/
Forget avoiding the negative--how about a positive rationale: If one is engaged with an AI routinely (I would think it is the goal of the automation), an announcement lets the respondent be more efficient, since an AI is likely more deterministic in interaction than my grandma.
So a *very* simple preamble, "This is a Duplex call, I would like to check on a prescription for Agnes Fartblossom..." notifies without needless chatter.
A common theme predominates: Anywhere but Silicon Valley would be better, and there are quite a few cherries to choose. KC, Nashville, Tampa, Pittsburgh...
I lived in Phoenix, commuted to San Jose some. I now live in Nashville. Great weather, great people and vibe. NO State Income Tax! Cost of living is climbing, but should remain below California benchmark for the next century...
Come on down, but I warn you...you may have to meet and know your neighbors, and talk without going through your phone.
Law professors are not immune to having opinions swayed by their personal preferences and desires. In fact, the lawyer's profession requires the ability to form arguments supporting either side of a case in question. We cannot pretend that his statement is purely objective.
âoestatisticallyâ speaking, when responding with binary opinions, with clearly and commonly defined points of concern, there should be no surprise that phrasing is duplicated, nor (as I am wont to do) someone outright cuts and pastes well articulated statements from other posts...
The irony of your post is staggering, while making accusations of bigotry with a wide brush to a group with which you disagree, you literally illustrate the concept. There are shallow, reactive people on both sides, but in my universe, I have been witnessing a level of vitriol and undeserved, unsubstantiated, hysterical accusation, condemnation, and outright hate from so-called progressives since President Trumps victory. In many cases the attacks are peppered with racial, sexual, or religious labels...
Sure, we have plenty of crazies who hate anybody different disguised as conservative value warriors, but we know about our crazy uncles and admit to them. Many liberals somehow feel justified for any broad based rant attacking white Christian men or some other subset as a blow for leveling the playing field, when we would all be better served by seeking common ground, accepting a world with different views as long as I don't restrict you from living according to your values and you don't denigrate me for living according to mine.
I agree. Dd-wrt and open wrt are at least on par, and often vastly superior to stock code, especially since the stock code is often relabled reference code from a chipset vendor.
Why not allow for "unlock" a la cellphone vendor, where the default behavior is only allowing signed code, but an advanced user can unlock the device intentionally for open source use?
The sheer burden of being under the weight of being a governmental entity, more than politics (or perhaps due to its influence on government), is killing NASA's ability. There is no natural check and balance for efficiency (like the economic darwinism of profit), so artificial bureaucratic mechanisms balloon to the point that efforts that further real goals are diluted to a small percentage of the cost expended. When NASA contracts for computers, vehicles, fuels...whatever, it is not a credit card on Amazon, it is literally years, in many cases, from "I want that" to "I got that". And not Apollo years like "let's advance science and design technology that didn't exist", but "let's make sure nothing bad happens and avoid any blame"...bla bla bla. Nothing can get done, because the impetus of governmemnt agencies is not to accomplish stuff, but to follow process, and define more process, all while reducing risk. The perfect risk mitigation is to do nothing.
NASA could do more with less if they merely accepted a 98% success rate, but the political pressure to strive for 100% drags out any time (and cost) to execute by orders of magnitude. Failure should always be an option in science, but it is not politically, so NASA does nothing--or at least, not much.
At least our eventual computer overlords won't be able to count accurately to be sure they've eliminated all of us...
You know why? Because it's freakin' Siberia and Alaska!
If I wanted something that cost too much, went way fast, and left me stranded in the middle of nowhere, I'd get a lap dance
How about sci-fi changing their content to Sci-Fi?
They are slowly draining the pool--best shows on TV: SG-1, BSG...(OK Firefly wasn't theirs, but why didn't they snap it up and resurrect?!).
What hard sci-fi will they have left to showcase by mid-summer?
I'm as paranoid as the next guy, but CALEA is not providing unbridled access by the government to VOIP phone calls, just the equivalent ability they have in the switched world to monitor calls--with a court order for criminal investigation.
We're so jaded these days that we assume that the big brother government is listening to all, but the reality is that there are still strict controls, despite some exceptions via the Patriot Act, that protect the average Joe.
Don't most PC BIOS's have the option for console redirect (I always wondered what to use it for). I think it will allow the proper OS to handle console work via COM1...
the source would be incomprehensible, poorly commented, and certainly NOT Y2k capable.
Sure you should go for an SMP machine, if you have applications that will use the hardware effectively--like Sybase, SQL server, Apache, etc...