Then there's the trucks, locomotives, ships, boats, and airplanes.
I get your point about airplanes (hint: there will be no more), you may have a point about trucks, ships and boats (sailing will probably be back, but it has a few drawbacks), but what do locomotives have to do with that?
Yes, play-based learning is a very good new idea indeed, and has consistently brought good results since its first introduction...
It is touching indeed how our transatlantic cousins are able to pick an effective innovation so quickly!
I take it you've not used customer support recently. Remember all of those humans who used to follow a script in call centres? Now they're tier 2 support - a chat bot is tier 1 and if you divert from the script too much it will elevate you to tier 2. Again, it doesn't have to be 100%, it even 90%. A chat bot that can help 50% of people will let you halve your workforce (and make customers happier, because 50% of them will never be waiting in a queue).
Exactly, and even if it can't help 50% of people they still will be put in production and get rid of the workforce (remember, the ones making the decision to use a chatbot for client service never have to actually call the chatbot)...
The focus on "the almighty dollar" is actually a focus on "goods and services needed and desired by humans".
While I get your point, you're still wrong. Focus on "the almighty dollar" is actually a focus on calculating everything, and especially transfer of property.
There are certainly situations where there IS a need to calculate transfer of property, basically to ensure that everyone gets his share, but making these calculations the alpha and omega of all human relations is certainly not a law of nature - in many societies family relations are not calculation-based, for example.
after the Jews lost multiple wars, that themselves started, and that resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Greek and Roman people living in the region
What is the licence of Predix? CloudFoundry is on apache license, so non-viral...
Which means that Predix could be as open or closed as GE would want it.
Not trolling, genuinely asking - I'm not a programmer, but in the Free Software Movement I've always heard that Windows code was a mess and Windows is an example of awful architectural design.
So, what is the point in making a free version of it rather than bettering Wine or PlayOnLinux?
How sad indeed, but it there was actual transparency about things like MK-Ultra or the use of psychological warfare units in the promotion of shale gas, paranoia would not be considered the sanest way of thinking in a troubled world...
I've watched the video, and though I seriously hope that there will be a Nuremberg Trial for the people who decided to illegally invade a foreign country (however disgusting its leader was) and for the people who decided that it was OK to police a civilian city with missile-armed helicopters, this particular incident was a honest mistake.
They did not lie, the video shows very well how difficult it was to see anything at the distance they were (I was absolutely unable to tell if the things the journalists carried were weapons or not), the guys in the 'copter were very honest about what they were seeing ("possible presence of weapons"), and it's only after a radio exchange with a ground team who had no access to the live video stream than the pilots forgot the "possible" part of "possible presence of weapons" - classical logic jump for people without thorough scientific reasoning.
Again as a very classical example of basic human psychology trumping rigorous analysis, once they fired they never went back to asking themselves whether their very uncertain target assessment were correct: when they saw people coming to help they assumed it was the "insurgent support team" and eagerly fired.
Which, if one finds himself in a counter-insurgency task (which means that something has seriously derailed before), is a logical thing to do: it's so difficult to discriminate insurgents from the general population that if one wants to eliminate insurgents (which obviously means that one has a lot of soul-searching to do, because something probably went wrong before), an occasion to take out a whole bunch of them is gold and should not be missed.
Even after they identified children among the dead, and again as a classical example of basic human psychology, the copter pilots did not pause to ask themselves whether their target assignment was wrong, but rather considered that "terrorists should not bring children with them in their attacks".
So, ordinary men did their ordinary job, and got the ordinary result one gets when policing cities with missile-armed helicopters...
Ergenekon is not "an armed group", it's the Deep State - alliance between secret service, far-right politicians, some high-ranked officials, some big business representatives, and organized crime, all more or less under CIA control, in order to "fight communism".
It's standard procedure in all NATO, but pushed to unprecedented levels in Turkey (even more than in Italy), and fell under the spotlights with the Susurluk car crash in 1996.
So the Ergenekon trials were a very important step in the democratization of Turkey, as many AKP voters did vote for AKP not because of its islamist program but because they saw it as the only force able to tackle the Deep State.
Now that Erdogan is backing away from the democratization process and alleging that Ergenekon trials were misconducted by Gülen sympathizers in the Judicial branch, such revelations come at a very opportune moment...
It doesn't mean that this forensic expertise is false, but they need to bring proofs, not "we say so so it is so"...
Without auditable proofs, the whole story should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Then there's the trucks, locomotives, ships, boats, and airplanes.
I get your point about airplanes (hint: there will be no more), you may have a point about trucks, ships and boats (sailing will probably be back, but it has a few drawbacks), but what do locomotives have to do with that?
Yes, play-based learning is a very good new idea indeed, and has consistently brought good results since its first introduction...
It is touching indeed how our transatlantic cousins are able to pick an effective innovation so quickly!
Well, we can just fill the gaps with frog DNA, can't we?
Have you tried Minetest?
Is there a way to watch it without the canned laughter? I downloaded the full serie but dropped at episode one because of that...
I take it you've not used customer support recently. Remember all of those humans who used to follow a script in call centres? Now they're tier 2 support - a chat bot is tier 1 and if you divert from the script too much it will elevate you to tier 2. Again, it doesn't have to be 100%, it even 90%. A chat bot that can help 50% of people will let you halve your workforce (and make customers happier, because 50% of them will never be waiting in a queue).
Exactly, and even if it can't help 50% of people they still will be put in production and get rid of the workforce (remember, the ones making the decision to use a chatbot for client service never have to actually call the chatbot)...
The focus on "the almighty dollar" is actually a focus on "goods and services needed and desired by humans".
While I get your point, you're still wrong. Focus on "the almighty dollar" is actually a focus on calculating everything, and especially transfer of property.
There are certainly situations where there IS a need to calculate transfer of property, basically to ensure that everyone gets his share, but making these calculations the alpha and omega of all human relations is certainly not a law of nature - in many societies family relations are not calculation-based, for example.
I gave also a photo camera as a present to my girl (Olympus TG-4)
Your girl is named Olympus TG-4? That's badass! How often do you need to recharge her?
Good question, what would be a good smartphone that could be rooted and is under 100$ second-hand? Is the Galaxy S4 still a good choice?
after the Jews lost multiple wars, that themselves started, and that resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Greek and Roman people living in the region
Where do you get these numbers?
the faster growing non-resistant bacteria choke off the superbugs, which is very useful knowledge..
Sorry for my bad English, but I don't understand what you meant by this?
Where do you get your e-books from?
Bernie Sanders?
Basically this move shows that using youtube is a very bad idea, something that everybody with a brain knew already...
Well, in a world where advertisement is banned, this could be true...
Better to figure it out with a $200M satellite on board than human lives.
It depends if you consider Facebook executives humans...
What is the licence of Predix? CloudFoundry is on apache license, so non-viral... Which means that Predix could be as open or closed as GE would want it.
Or Genuine Imitation Ovalquick?
If pornographic movies have taught me something, it's that the pizza is NOT the relevant part of "pizza delivery man"...
Not trolling, genuinely asking - I'm not a programmer, but in the Free Software Movement I've always heard that Windows code was a mess and Windows is an example of awful architectural design. So, what is the point in making a free version of it rather than bettering Wine or PlayOnLinux?
How sad indeed, but it there was actual transparency about things like MK-Ultra or the use of psychological warfare units in the promotion of shale gas, paranoia would not be considered the sanest way of thinking in a troubled world...
I've watched the video, and though I seriously hope that there will be a Nuremberg Trial for the people who decided to illegally invade a foreign country (however disgusting its leader was) and for the people who decided that it was OK to police a civilian city with missile-armed helicopters, this particular incident was a honest mistake.
They did not lie, the video shows very well how difficult it was to see anything at the distance they were (I was absolutely unable to tell if the things the journalists carried were weapons or not), the guys in the 'copter were very honest about what they were seeing ("possible presence of weapons"), and it's only after a radio exchange with a ground team who had no access to the live video stream than the pilots forgot the "possible" part of "possible presence of weapons" - classical logic jump for people without thorough scientific reasoning.
Again as a very classical example of basic human psychology trumping rigorous analysis, once they fired they never went back to asking themselves whether their very uncertain target assessment were correct: when they saw people coming to help they assumed it was the "insurgent support team" and eagerly fired.
Which, if one finds himself in a counter-insurgency task (which means that something has seriously derailed before), is a logical thing to do: it's so difficult to discriminate insurgents from the general population that if one wants to eliminate insurgents (which obviously means that one has a lot of soul-searching to do, because something probably went wrong before), an occasion to take out a whole bunch of them is gold and should not be missed.
Even after they identified children among the dead, and again as a classical example of basic human psychology, the copter pilots did not pause to ask themselves whether their target assignment was wrong, but rather considered that "terrorists should not bring children with them in their attacks".
So, ordinary men did their ordinary job, and got the ordinary result one gets when policing cities with missile-armed helicopters...
Ergenekon is not "an armed group", it's the Deep State - alliance between secret service, far-right politicians, some high-ranked officials, some big business representatives, and organized crime, all more or less under CIA control, in order to "fight communism".
It's standard procedure in all NATO, but pushed to unprecedented levels in Turkey (even more than in Italy), and fell under the spotlights with the Susurluk car crash in 1996.
So the Ergenekon trials were a very important step in the democratization of Turkey, as many AKP voters did vote for AKP not because of its islamist program but because they saw it as the only force able to tackle the Deep State.
Now that Erdogan is backing away from the democratization process and alleging that Ergenekon trials were misconducted by Gülen sympathizers in the Judicial branch, such revelations come at a very opportune moment...
It doesn't mean that this forensic expertise is false, but they need to bring proofs, not "we say so so it is so"...
Without auditable proofs, the whole story should be taken with a grain of salt.
Especially since the development of RIOT OS specifically for these devices...
Education is not for profit in civilized countries, and Niel isn't American.