Lister owns 98% of all the world's wealth. And being fiction within fiction, that makes his worth SQUARED. So he actually owns 9604% of all the world's fictional money!
Oh look... it works. For about 20-30 random clicks. Then it for some reason decides to reset to the default D2 crap - all on its own.
And it's not the first time I reverted to D1 mode. I gave up trying to make it permanent some months ago and decided to get used to the D2 crap. Except it keeps getting worse and worse. It's like they are actively trying to turn people off the Slashdot.
FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Fuck you and your fucking 2.0 interface masturbation.
I also enjoy when I have to keep clicking until every fucking post above the one I am trying to reply to is expanded - just so that the fucking "Reply" link would finally do what it was supposed to. Hitting "Preview" several times until it catches on is also nice. Almost like stepping barefooted on a piece of LEGO in the dark.
How exactly does one get to be "kind" and "cruel" at the same time? God or no god. How does that work? He cruelly cuts people's breaks and then he kindly saves them from their burning cars? Or does he give gifts - that also have a random chance of killing their recipient?
who doesn't think the Taliban is an evil empire and take consolation only in knowing it is also a dying political movement? Get the hell out of the lives of your citizens, stop sending terrorists across the globe to kill innocents, stop killing your own citizens for minor infractions of your "laws".
Movement... MAYBE militia.
As for "dying"... sadly, I don't really see that. I mean... U.S. has been chasing Osama for what? Three presidents already?
Unless your app is selling for $0.01 currently, then an inability to sell at a lower price without giving it away for free sounds like a failure of the market--aka the App Store.
Even $0.01 is too much - if you can't actually pay for it cause the App Store is off limits to you due to your geographical location, or you lack a credit card or both.
I mean really - how hard can it be to color INSIDE the lines?! Those colorings look as if they were done by complete amateurs. No self-respecting kid would send something like that to daddy in prison.
Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the universe, is, well, wrong.
Wrong?
He explains.
"There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it's just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova," Jake said. "What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it's more dense."
OK . . . trying to follow you.
"So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.
"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"
He could go on and on.
And he did.
"Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn't be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."
"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We'd have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."
Plenty of time for Carbon at the beginning of things.
IANAA, so my GUESS here is that kid lacks the knowledge necessary to put the whole thing in perspective. As indicated by astrophysics Professor Scott Tremaine's reply to his theories that suggests "Jake to spend as much time as possible to learn more and to further develop his theory". It's a polite way to say "Well thank YOU Mr. Smartypants. Us poor astrophysics scientists here would have NEVER thought of THAT had YOU not come along. NOT!".
And the journalist simply doesn't have a clue on the subject and is clearly going for a sound-bite.
Rob Rozeboom dupe dee dup. Dupe dee dupedee dupe dup. Until one day, da dupe dupe-e dupe dupe. Dupe da ddupe got teetley dumb. From the creators of 'dup' and 'tum ta tittaly tum ta too', Rob Rozeboom is: 'Da dupe dee dupe da teeley dupe-e dupe dumb'. Rated PG-13.
And that is determined by being in the range of a provider's network, which is determined by being in the range of provider's network's towers, which is again determined by your location as tracked by the towers.
And here's the real kicker. Your "home" provider might just need the data on identity of the "roaming provider" in order to bill you correctly, and as such it may be regulated to keep only that bit of information on you - but what about the countries not regulated by CEPT? You can't regulate them not to gather and transmit additional data to your provider OR not to demand such data to be gathered for and transmitted to them. Naturally, "due to high levels of traffic" it would be necessary to gather that kind of data on everyone and later deliver just the data that is asked for.
And something tells me that even if all countries in the world were to abolish roaming charges, that mobile providers could weasel their way out of dropping the "roaming tracking" by having Upper Bumfuckistan's government-run telecom provider remaining out of that agreement but still providing "vital service to the customers" of telecoms around the world - through roaming.
And that's without every police force in the world asking for laws allowing more tracking and longer retention of mobile data.
Next time YOU write a storyline spanning two centuries be sure to remember to stick to that.
Considering that in this case there wouldn't be ANY stories without the BBC I do believe that they have a thing or two to say on the subject. Particularly since they are practicing a VERY open-minded approach to it.
Did you think I'm not aware of this? I not only am aware of this, I advocate it. Everyone should build/maintain their notions of canon for any story where they take an interest. There is no truth in these matters, only interpretations. People should not consider the BBC to be the only authority on the versions of the stories they have in their heads. Stories branch, and they belong to every individual.
I don't think that you are not aware of it. I just feel that you are not aware how... silly and... childish... and fallacious that is.
You know... Just like that "Superman can't really fly" guy out there somewhere.
Are you suggesting that "the guberment" should impose regulations on hard-working citizens instructing them how they should run their business? But that's... that's... a communism.
I mean, shouldn't humanity's greatest hero The Invisible Man be the one dealing with this issue like he has done for... forever now? What's so funny about "the invisible hand" anyway?
Your "quadrant" is known due to you being in the range of a certain tower and not in the range of others. In order to provide the service without interruptions, in an urban area, most of the time you are in range of several towers. Add to that the fact that the mobile phone is by its nature intended for communication while moving from one place to the other, and it should be pretty clear that they are getting more than enough data to pinpoint your exact location at any given time - regardless if they are receiving only your "quadrant" info or your exact GPS data.
Not apologizing anyone. Just stating the facts. Yelling and shaking your fists at the sky won't help. Particularly if you have your head buried in the sand at the same time.
Data retention of your past locations is another issue entirely.
I'm referring to the field of literary criticism version of the trope, not the fandom one.
Jolly!
But the specific target of your referral is not the issue at all - the trope you pointed at illustrates very precisely the circumstances that correspond to your case. You are taking one part from the continuing story, written over many decades by many commissioned writers, and claiming that only the part you have arbitrarily chosen to be "true" actually IS "true". Regardless of "word of god", or the fact that you are accepting the logic in use up to an arbitrary point in the story - but you find it unacceptable beyond that point.
In other words, you preaching the "Death Of The Author" puts you right smack in the middle of "My Doctor is the ONLY REAL Doctor" fan-group. You're not just referring to the trope - you are also an example of it. But that does not make your position any more correct than say... a man caught speeding arguing with the police how the speed limit is set too low. Or someone claiming that the character of Superman can't really fly - only jump really high/far.
Billing data is just 2 phone numbers and the duration of the call. Nothing more. I don't see how knowing your precise geographical location can make the taxation easier.
Roaming charges. As long as roaming charges exist, they have an excuse to track your location "because of the billing".
In the United States, telecommunication companies do not have to report precisely what material they collect, said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who specializes in privacy. He added that based on court cases he could say that “they store more of it and it is becoming more precise.”
“Phones have become a necessary part of modern life,” he said, objecting to the idea that “you have to hand over your personal privacy to be part of the 21st century.”
In the United States, there are law enforcement and safety reasons for cellphone companies being encouraged to keep track of its customers. Both the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration have used cellphone records to identify suspects and make arrests.
If the information is valuable to law enforcement, it could be lucrative for marketers. The major American cellphone providers declined to explain what exactly they collect and what they use it for.
Verizon, for example, declined to elaborate other than to point to its privacy policy, which includes: “Information such as call records, service usage, traffic data,” the statement in part reads, may be used for “marketing to you based on your use of the products and services you already have, subject to any restrictions required by law.”
AT&T, for example, works with a company, Sense Networks, that uses anonymous location information “to better understand aggregate human activity.” One product, CitySense, makes recommendations about local nightlife to customers who choose to participate based on their cellphone usage. (Many smartphone apps already on the market are based on location but that’s with the consent of the user and through GPS, not the cellphone company’s records.)
In the fan community, this has changed into the idea that something is only canon if it appears in the original source material, and thus any Word Of God has no more weight to it than any piece of fanon cooked up by the fans. Though some fans honestly hold this opinion, many only use this as an excuse to ignore any Word Of God that they don't like. Some fans can even take this further, and use this to ignore parts of original source material they don't like, per the Fiction Identity Postulate. A recent example would be the Harry Potter fans who ignored or even protested J. K. Rowling's comment that she thought of Dumbledore as gay.
This is a given in works where the authors don't hold copyright and can be replaced, especially Shared Universes; if a writer is fired and replaced by another, anything the old writer has stated in interviews can be (and often is) freely Jossed by the new writer.
Also, note the "a concept from the field of literary criticism" part. You know... criticism... as in "interpretation". As in "how it all ACTUALLY happened" explained by the person who DID NOT write the story.
Not that that can't be fun too. Ever seen Dante's Peak? Ever seen it as a Terminator/James Bond crossover? Pay attention next time to evil robots, character back-story, absent fathers, female mayors with affinity towards waitressing living away from the main hubs of civilization, and how fate treats those who stand in the way of Sarah Connor and James Bond romance and him becoming the stepfather/mentor of the savior of humanity. The story culminates in a temporal rift that causes a rupture in Earth's crust, destroys an entire town and half a mountain - just so that particular time-line could occur.
But that is not the "official" story. Nor would it be continued in that vein. Which is a pity. It would surely beat anything post T2 and Die Another Day. What was it those two recent supposedly 007 movies had the apparently immortal secret agent do? Ah, yes... Win a card game against a guy who cries when he gets upset and chase around a guy stealing water. And the less is said about the last Terminator the better.
after 1,000 days a woman who has no functional use of her limbs and is unable to speak can reliably control a cursor on a computer screen using only the intended movement of her hand
Substitute "a cursor on a computer screen" with "exoskeleton robotic suit" and you are way beyond "pretty limited use".
One done in USA and the other a day later in Japan AT THE BEGINNING OF THE INCIDENT - and then extrapolated that over 14 days until they had amounts close or over those in Chernobyl.
"The estimated source terms for iodine-131 are very constant, namely 1.3 x 10^17 becquerels per day for the first two days (US station) and 1.2 x 10^17 becquerels per day for the third day (Japan)," the institute said in a German-language statement posted on Wednesday on its website.
"For cesium-137 measurements, (the US station) measured 5 x 10^15 becquerels, close, while Japan had much more cesium in its air. On this day, we estimate a source term of about 4 x 10^16."
If they keep counting long enough they'll top Hiroshima as well. Then again, so will my room on the other side of the planet.
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Lister owns 98% of all the world's wealth.
And being fiction within fiction, that makes his worth SQUARED. So he actually owns 9604% of all the world's fictional money!
Professor Hawk.
At least if you ask Grant Morrison.
I prove faith every day.
Prove it then. Feel free to do it in a biblical manner if you will.
Maybe your problem is that you can't prove something you don't have?
Prove that too, while you're at it.
Oh look... it works. For about 20-30 random clicks.
Then it for some reason decides to reset to the default D2 crap - all on its own.
And it's not the first time I reverted to D1 mode.
I gave up trying to make it permanent some months ago and decided to get used to the D2 crap.
Except it keeps getting worse and worse. It's like they are actively trying to turn people off the Slashdot.
FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Fuck you and your fucking 2.0 interface masturbation.
I also enjoy when I have to keep clicking until every fucking post above the one I am trying to reply to is expanded - just so that the fucking "Reply" link would finally do what it was supposed to.
Hitting "Preview" several times until it catches on is also nice. Almost like stepping barefooted on a piece of LEGO in the dark.
Sumerian deities? No.
How exactly does one get to be "kind" and "cruel" at the same time? God or no god. How does that work?
He cruelly cuts people's breaks and then he kindly saves them from their burning cars?
Or does he give gifts - that also have a random chance of killing their recipient?
who doesn't think the Taliban is an evil empire and take consolation only in knowing it is also a dying political movement? Get the hell out of the lives of your citizens, stop sending terrorists across the globe to kill innocents, stop killing your own citizens for minor infractions of your "laws".
Movement... MAYBE militia.
As for "dying"... sadly, I don't really see that. I mean... U.S. has been chasing Osama for what? Three presidents already?
Unless your app is selling for $0.01 currently, then an inability to sell at a lower price without giving it away for free sounds like a failure of the market--aka the App Store.
Even $0.01 is too much - if you can't actually pay for it cause the App Store is off limits to you due to your geographical location, or you lack a credit card or both.
I mean really - how hard can it be to color INSIDE the lines?!
Those colorings look as if they were done by complete amateurs. No self-respecting kid would send something like that to daddy in prison.
Well, some arguments can't help but to insult if you invest too much in the contrary position.
And away from sensationalist reporters going for "OMG! Big Bang didn't happen says genius kid!".
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12-year-old-studying-IUPUI
Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the universe, is, well, wrong.
Wrong?
He explains.
"There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it's just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova," Jake said. "What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it's more dense."
OK . . . trying to follow you.
"So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.
"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"
He could go on and on.
And he did.
"Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn't be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."
"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We'd have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."
Plenty of time for Carbon at the beginning of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/first.htm
IANAA, so my GUESS here is that kid lacks the knowledge necessary to put the whole thing in perspective.
As indicated by astrophysics Professor Scott Tremaine's reply to his theories that suggests "Jake to spend as much time as possible to learn more and to further develop his theory".
It's a polite way to say "Well thank YOU Mr. Smartypants. Us poor astrophysics scientists here would have NEVER thought of THAT had YOU not come along. NOT!".
And the journalist simply doesn't have a clue on the subject and is clearly going for a sound-bite.
Rob Rozeboom dupe dee dup.
Dupe dee dupedee dupe dup. Until one day, da dupe dupe-e dupe dupe.
Dupe da ddupe got teetley dumb.
From the creators of 'dup' and 'tum ta tittaly tum ta too', Rob Rozeboom is: 'Da dupe dee dupe da teeley dupe-e dupe dumb'.
Rated PG-13.
And that is determined by being in the range of a provider's network, which is determined by being in the range of provider's network's towers, which is again determined by your location as tracked by the towers.
And here's the real kicker.
Your "home" provider might just need the data on identity of the "roaming provider" in order to bill you correctly, and as such it may be regulated to keep only that bit of information on you - but what about the countries not regulated by CEPT?
You can't regulate them not to gather and transmit additional data to your provider OR not to demand such data to be gathered for and transmitted to them.
Naturally, "due to high levels of traffic" it would be necessary to gather that kind of data on everyone and later deliver just the data that is asked for.
And something tells me that even if all countries in the world were to abolish roaming charges, that mobile providers could weasel their way out of dropping the "roaming tracking" by having Upper Bumfuckistan's government-run telecom provider remaining out of that agreement but still providing "vital service to the customers" of telecoms around the world - through roaming.
And that's without every police force in the world asking for laws allowing more tracking and longer retention of mobile data.
Next time YOU write a storyline spanning two centuries be sure to remember to stick to that.
Considering that in this case there wouldn't be ANY stories without the BBC I do believe that they have a thing or two to say on the subject.
Particularly since they are practicing a VERY open-minded approach to it.
Did you think I'm not aware of this? I not only am aware of this, I advocate it. Everyone should build/maintain their notions of canon for any story where they take an interest. There is no truth in these matters, only interpretations. People should not consider the BBC to be the only authority on the versions of the stories they have in their heads. Stories branch, and they belong to every individual.
I don't think that you are not aware of it.
I just feel that you are not aware how... silly and... childish... and fallacious that is.
You know... Just like that "Superman can't really fly" guy out there somewhere.
Are you suggesting that "the guberment" should impose regulations on hard-working citizens instructing them how they should run their business?
But that's... that's... a communism.
I mean, shouldn't humanity's greatest hero The Invisible Man be the one dealing with this issue like he has done for... forever now?
What's so funny about "the invisible hand" anyway?
Your "quadrant" is known due to you being in the range of a certain tower and not in the range of others.
In order to provide the service without interruptions, in an urban area, most of the time you are in range of several towers.
Add to that the fact that the mobile phone is by its nature intended for communication while moving from one place to the other, and it should be pretty clear that they are getting more than enough data to pinpoint your exact location at any given time - regardless if they are receiving only your "quadrant" info or your exact GPS data.
Not apologizing anyone. Just stating the facts. Yelling and shaking your fists at the sky won't help.
Particularly if you have your head buried in the sand at the same time.
Data retention of your past locations is another issue entirely.
I'm referring to the field of literary criticism version of the trope, not the fandom one.
Jolly!
But the specific target of your referral is not the issue at all - the trope you pointed at illustrates very precisely the circumstances that correspond to your case.
You are taking one part from the continuing story, written over many decades by many commissioned writers, and claiming that only the part you have arbitrarily chosen to be "true" actually IS "true".
Regardless of "word of god", or the fact that you are accepting the logic in use up to an arbitrary point in the story - but you find it unacceptable beyond that point.
In other words, you preaching the "Death Of The Author" puts you right smack in the middle of "My Doctor is the ONLY REAL Doctor" fan-group.
You're not just referring to the trope - you are also an example of it.
But that does not make your position any more correct than say... a man caught speeding arguing with the police how the speed limit is set too low.
Or someone claiming that the character of Superman can't really fly - only jump really high/far.
billing data != location data
Billing data is just 2 phone numbers and the duration of the call. Nothing more. I don't see how knowing your precise geographical location can make the taxation easier.
Roaming charges.
As long as roaming charges exist, they have an excuse to track your location "because of the billing".
From TFA:
In the United States, telecommunication companies do not have to report precisely what material they collect, said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who specializes in privacy. He added that based on court cases he could say that “they store more of it and it is becoming more precise.”
“Phones have become a necessary part of modern life,” he said, objecting to the idea that “you have to hand over your personal privacy to be part of the 21st century.”
In the United States, there are law enforcement and safety reasons for cellphone companies being encouraged to keep track of its customers. Both the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration have used cellphone records to identify suspects and make arrests.
If the information is valuable to law enforcement, it could be lucrative for marketers. The major American cellphone providers declined to explain what exactly they collect and what they use it for.
Verizon, for example, declined to elaborate other than to point to its privacy policy, which includes: “Information such as call records, service usage, traffic data,” the statement in part reads, may be used for “marketing to you based on your use of the products and services you already have, subject to any restrictions required by law.”
AT&T, for example, works with a company, Sense Networks, that uses anonymous location information “to better understand aggregate human activity.” One product, CitySense, makes recommendations about local nightlife to customers who choose to participate based on their cellphone usage. (Many smartphone apps already on the market are based on location but that’s with the consent of the user and through GPS, not the cellphone company’s records.)
To find that lying in order to sell a product is going on in here.
And not just the first line?
In the fan community, this has changed into the idea that something is only canon if it appears in the original source material, and thus any Word Of God has no more weight to it than any piece of fanon cooked up by the fans. Though some fans honestly hold this opinion, many only use this as an excuse to ignore any Word Of God that they don't like. Some fans can even take this further, and use this to ignore parts of original source material they don't like, per the Fiction Identity Postulate. A recent example would be the Harry Potter fans who ignored or even protested J. K. Rowling's comment that she thought of Dumbledore as gay.
This is a given in works where the authors don't hold copyright and can be replaced, especially Shared Universes; if a writer is fired and replaced by another, anything the old writer has stated in interviews can be (and often is) freely Jossed by the new writer.
Also, note the "a concept from the field of literary criticism" part.
You know... criticism... as in "interpretation". As in "how it all ACTUALLY happened" explained by the person who DID NOT write the story.
Not that that can't be fun too. Ever seen Dante's Peak? Ever seen it as a Terminator/James Bond crossover?
Pay attention next time to evil robots, character back-story, absent fathers, female mayors with affinity towards waitressing living away from the main hubs of civilization, and how fate treats those who stand in the way of Sarah Connor and James Bond romance and him becoming the stepfather/mentor of the savior of humanity. The story culminates in a temporal rift that causes a rupture in Earth's crust, destroys an entire town and half a mountain - just so that particular time-line could occur.
But that is not the "official" story. Nor would it be continued in that vein.
Which is a pity. It would surely beat anything post T2 and Die Another Day.
What was it those two recent supposedly 007 movies had the apparently immortal secret agent do? Ah, yes... Win a card game against a guy who cries when he gets upset and chase around a guy stealing water.
And the less is said about the last Terminator the better.
after 1,000 days a woman who has no functional use of her limbs and is unable to speak can reliably control a cursor on a computer screen using only the intended movement of her hand
Substitute "a cursor on a computer screen" with "exoskeleton robotic suit" and you are way beyond "pretty limited use".
One done in USA and the other a day later in Japan AT THE BEGINNING OF THE INCIDENT - and then extrapolated that over 14 days until they had amounts close or over those in Chernobyl.
http://newsroom.ctbto.org/
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14938445,00.html
"The estimated source terms for iodine-131 are very constant, namely 1.3 x 10^17 becquerels per day for the first two days (US station) and 1.2 x 10^17 becquerels per day for the third day (Japan)," the institute said in a German-language statement posted on Wednesday on its website.
"For cesium-137 measurements, (the US station) measured 5 x 10^15 becquerels, close, while Japan had much more cesium in its air. On this day, we estimate a source term of about 4 x 10^16."
If they keep counting long enough they'll top Hiroshima as well. Then again, so will my room on the other side of the planet.