The Loony Left (as you call it) is actually trying to suppress free speech, or haven't you seen pictures of the Left wing rioting and attacking of Trump supporters for being nothing but Trump Supporters. If the roles were reversed, it would be called "Hate" and Misogyny (for the physical attacks on women). But alas, it is against Trump supporters so... we're good!
FYI, I am not voting for Trump, was never going to vote for GOP either.
There is radical elements with extremist views and violent agendas on both sides. The difference is that Trump and his movement embrace these elements while the Liberals disavow them
As for those that think this level of simulation is impossible, it isn't.
Without ANY bugs? Really? The only way this idea works is if you have a divine programmer who cannot make any mistakes who created the universe. This is more like scientology than science.
Whose to say there aren't bugs? As a physics major in college I could certainly be convinced many aspects of general relativity and quantum mechanics could be considered bugs. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light? Oops. Quantum entanglement and superposition? We'll fix those in version 2.5. Hopefully by version 4 we can finally get the world to run by what you call Newtonian physics with no exceptions.
If the simulation ran simply on Newtonian physics then we would eventually be able to figure out the Universes initial hard-coded state. Perhaps Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which gives rise to the quantum weirdness was specifically designed so the initial state of the simulation could never be known from within the simulation
Am I missing something here? Her net worth was valued at about $4,000,000,000 and about 1/4 of that is essentially 0?
I wish I had essentially 0 dollars...
Forbes is estimating that in very likely that Theranos can't recover and the business will fail. In case of a a liquidation bankruptcy proceedings the banks that have loaned it money recover their money first from the sale of the assets, second is the shareholders who hold preferred stocks, these are shareholders that bought shares early on from Holmes to fund Theranos. Once these 2 groups that take precedence are paid back there is essentially nothing left to divide among the common shareholder. In fact it is very likely that there probably isn't even enough to completely cover the preferred shares and they are going to take a loss
%30 of the entire Labor-Market is low-wage service jobs.
Most of the law wage service job employees are not making minimum wage. The idea that "low wage" is identical to "minimum wage" is a fantasy that only belongs to you.
The VAST difference between $7.25 federal minimum wage and a below $10 low-wage job only exists in your Conservative mind. Both of those wages quite easily would make someone qualify as a "working poor" pretty much anywhere in the United States.
The bogeyman of massive unemployment always gets trotted out whenever anyone mentions raising the minimum wage.
Most people don't make minimum wage. If you're working to improve your skill, and you've been in the market more than two or three years, you'll easily be making more than minimum wage.
Among the people who do make minimum wage, mainly teenagers, there is ridiculously high unemployment. Look it up.
%30 of the entire Labor-Market is low-wage service jobs. The idea that these jobs are simply for students and people starting in the economy is pure Conservative fantasy
Right now we are in a period of relative calm but this is could just be because turmoil and strife tend to be cyclical and we are not far removed from the 2 World Wars which are by far the greatest organized violence Humanity has ever inflicted on itself. In any case all of this has little bearing on the original context which was the perceived dehumanization of all humanity from the creation of Chimera genes
163.562 people died in 2014 due to wounds inflicted by other humans in armed conflicts around the world. 1.5 million children died in 2008 of vaccine-preventable disease and an estimated 3.5 million due to malnutrition. Considering the vast death and carnage that happens around the clock every single day, the idea that mixing genes in a test-tube is somehow dehumanizing to "our sense of humanity" is completely ludicrous
I've been working out on an empty stomach in the mornings for years, only to be criticized by armchair specialists about how bad or impossible this is... There's plenty of reserve energy floating around the human body and there's nothing miraculous about physical activity on an empty stomach.
You think our ancestors woke up to a fully stocked refrigerator every morning?
Most of this type of research is done on athletes. A few % change on performance levels means nothing to most people but in competitions being decided on a few hundredth of a minute it can mean the difference between winning and loosing. Unfortunately the businesses interests exploit research for highly specialized applications in order to sell us programs, supplements, etc of little use to most of us.
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple, and while I understand why people want it, if it is going to continue, it shouldn't be wrapped up in the language of crime prevention, because it doesn't prevent crimes. Allowing capital punishment to be justified in this way is simply a way to make it more palatable, and state-sanctioned killings should be anything but palatable.
Whether anyone is deterred by the possibility of a State Execution while contemplating an act that carries the Capital Punishment is debatable, once on Death Row they sure try mighty hard to get stay alive
What we are seeing is the inevitable consequence of increases in levels of technology, and outside regulation forcing wages up on jobs that have traditionally not been viewed as a career position, but rather a stepping stone for someone starting out in the labor market.
%30 of the entire Labor Market is low-wage service jobs. Considering the large % of the job market, the belief that service-jobs are just stepping-stones to careers elsewhere is unrealistic. At the end of the day having companies at a race to the bottom on their quarterly report payroll line ends up hurting the economy and eventually them as lower salaries eventually end up eroding consumer spending power. This is why you need Government regulation to make sure that the economy is solidly grounded in fundamentals and companies are not competing in ways that undermine those fundamentals
It may depend on whether their agreement to pay is a plea of guilty vs. a plea of no-contest.
Plus, the perceived risk of losing in court combined with the inconvenience of showing up for court often outweighs the benefit of a successful outcome for many people. It should not be difficult to show a higher court how such illegal tickets amount to an abuse of power.
For parking ticket yuou agree to plead guilty and pay the fine or fight the ticket by going to the City's website and filling a form detailing why you are not guilty and uploading supporting evidence such as pictures. An administrative judge (Not and actual judge at all) will review your submission and make a judgment. Personally I fight every ticket I receive. The exorbitant fees are obviously not there as punitive measures but rather to fill the city coffers and I want to make it as difficult for them as possible.
The same things could be said about Blood Alcohol levels. Someone unaccustomed to drinking can become severely impaired even with low amounts of alcohol while long time alcoholic reaction times might still be reasonably ok even when way over the limit.
Define "poor". Poor from today, look very much like upper middle class from 1960. We have TVs and Microwave Ovens, cars that last a long time, and housing that is more efficient.
Saying "help the poor" is always a noble cause, but the definition changes over time to the point where the term itself is meaningless.
The Upper middle classes in the 1960's could afford the best Education, Health care and desirable real estate locations. Absolutely NOTHING has changed. The poor still only have access to sub-par education, health-care and living locations
The Republican party is fucked. Their core wants to rule for the rich, but of course they can't get elected on that platform. So they've spent several decades suckering single-issue voters into voting against their own best interests. Now the (traditional) Republicans have mostly lost all that support, so they can't possibly get elected to rule for the rich.
They are largely not single-issue voters, voting against their best economic interests. The GOP has had them convinced that the Democrats want to take their hard-earned money to give to those Lazy , America hating, Minority Welfare Queens. Of course RNC politics are not entirely against their interests. Exploitation of natural resources industries such as mining, drilling, fishing etc are low-skill, medium-pay jobs which many poor and underdeveloped areas of the country depend on. The DNC is firmly on the warpath with these industries. After so many years of failed promises though they seem unwilling to just accept yet another round of Tax-cuts and more deregulation as the prescription to their economic woes and that is pretty encouraging
The syrian civil war was started because of a 5 year drought. We got 1 million new migrants in Europe. Unless we quit destroying the world climate we'll have 500 million migrants. Stop Using Oil Now! And retarded americans stop using gas guzzling cars.
The drought was just the Last straw that broke the camels back. The tensions between the Assad family Regime and the oppressed Sunni majority have been simmering since Hafez al-Assad seized power in 1970
Two, the Fermi Paradox. Any intelligent and long-lived (on the order of 100,000 years) species could (with our own pitiful level of technology) create a radio beacon that would have spanned the entire Milky Way Galaxy by now. Either they want to want to be quiet (and presumably have good reason) or no technological society lasts that long.
The birth rate of practically every industrialized nation is below the replacement rate. At the current rate practically all of the world will become industrialized in a few hundred years at which point the earth's population will stabilize or even start declining. The idea that advanced civilizations are destined to spread through a galaxy like locust if they just survive long enough, seems rather silly to me.
CORRECTION Your blanket, warrentless spying is the reason for the mass adoption of Encryption. If you had developed a program that was honest, forthcoming with clear and strong safeguards instead of running a clandestine black-ops style program then people would not have been so shocked and appalled and rushed to defend themselves and their communications from your greasy fingers
Hearing loss is a serious medical condition that has been linked to increased risk of dementia. A consumer device that has to meet absolutely 0 standards on performance and reliability is NOT the same as a device that has gone through clinical trials to prove both of those. Insurance company's do shop around, that is the reason you pay more if you go to a "out of network" provider, the reason not all pharmacy's take all insurance cards as well as the reason why you need to get approval for expensive medication like Gilead's $80,000 Hep C drug that has not competition and the only leverage insurance companies have in negotiations is to limit access of the drug to the people they cover. The only insurance provider that is NOT allowed to negotiate pricing is Medicare, and you can thank the supposedly "Free Market" GOP for that
A lot of the "consumer devices" nowadays have very poor audio quality.
So what? If you can pay $200 for a hearing test, $200 for a consumer aid, and have a bad consumer aid that works for $400 instead of NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR a high-quality hearing aid, it's still a net win for you and for society as a whole.
The ideal solution would be to to add hearing-aids to the required "minimum coverage" for health insurance policies. Unfortunately the ACA law which for the first time set minimum health insurance standards and would need to be modified to include hearing-aid coverage, is vehemently opposed by the political party that currently controls both chambers of the Legislative branch
The plan was expected to include rules requiring businesses earning more than 600 million euros a year (nearly $700 USD) to open up their tax affairs to public scrutiny, revealing their profits and accounts in every country in which they operate within the EU
Wow, that's quite an exchange rate.
That is nothing. In 2009, 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars would get you 1 USD.
Russia was an autocratic totalitarianism under the Czar and the Soviet Union remained an autocratic totalitarianism under the Central Committee's General Secretary. The only thing the Bolsheviks actually used from the writings of Marx was the name Communism. By Grouping Communism and Socialism together is very obvious that you haven't studied either. Your post is nothing more than worthless ideological rant.
All that research done by Pratt and Whitney... Boeing... Lockheed Martin...
If socialism were superior the Russians would have won the Cold War.
They didn't because its inferior. Stop for a moment and look at all your dumb arguments are apply them to the soviets. IF you were right, they should have been dramatically more successful. Instead they were dramatically less successful.
That 20th century cage match apparently isn't taught in schools these days. Socialism lost on everything but politics. And the political argument is sustained largely by ignorance and sophistry. Any time empiricism becomes relevant... it gets its head twisted off and spiked into the ground like a tent pole.
Poor implementation doesn't mean the idea or design is bad. The Soviet Union is a perfect example of a bad implementation. On paper Communism looks pretty good unfortunately the Soviet Union's horrible implementation has essentially soiled it for the world
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The Loony Left (as you call it) is actually trying to suppress free speech, or haven't you seen pictures of the Left wing rioting and attacking of Trump supporters for being nothing but Trump Supporters. If the roles were reversed, it would be called "Hate" and Misogyny (for the physical attacks on women). But alas, it is against Trump supporters so ... we're good!
FYI, I am not voting for Trump, was never going to vote for GOP either.
There is radical elements with extremist views and violent agendas on both sides. The difference is that Trump and his movement embrace these elements while the Liberals disavow them
As for those that think this level of simulation is impossible, it isn't.
Without ANY bugs? Really? The only way this idea works is if you have a divine programmer who cannot make any mistakes who created the universe. This is more like scientology than science.
Whose to say there aren't bugs? As a physics major in college I could certainly be convinced many aspects of general relativity and quantum mechanics could be considered bugs. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light? Oops. Quantum entanglement and superposition? We'll fix those in version 2.5. Hopefully by version 4 we can finally get the world to run by what you call Newtonian physics with no exceptions.
If the simulation ran simply on Newtonian physics then we would eventually be able to figure out the Universes initial hard-coded state. Perhaps Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which gives rise to the quantum weirdness was specifically designed so the initial state of the simulation could never be known from within the simulation
Am I missing something here? Her net worth was valued at about $4,000,000,000 and about 1/4 of that is essentially 0?
I wish I had essentially 0 dollars...
Forbes is estimating that in very likely that Theranos can't recover and the business will fail. In case of a a liquidation bankruptcy proceedings the banks that have loaned it money recover their money first from the sale of the assets, second is the shareholders who hold preferred stocks, these are shareholders that bought shares early on from Holmes to fund Theranos. Once these 2 groups that take precedence are paid back there is essentially nothing left to divide among the common shareholder. In fact it is very likely that there probably isn't even enough to completely cover the preferred shares and they are going to take a loss
%30 of the entire Labor-Market is low-wage service jobs.
Most of the law wage service job employees are not making minimum wage. The idea that "low wage" is identical to "minimum wage" is a fantasy that only belongs to you.
The VAST difference between $7.25 federal minimum wage and a below $10 low-wage job only exists in your Conservative mind. Both of those wages quite easily would make someone qualify as a "working poor" pretty much anywhere in the United States.
The bogeyman of massive unemployment always gets trotted out whenever anyone mentions raising the minimum wage.
Most people don't make minimum wage. If you're working to improve your skill, and you've been in the market more than two or three years, you'll easily be making more than minimum wage. Among the people who do make minimum wage, mainly teenagers, there is ridiculously high unemployment. Look it up.
%30 of the entire Labor-Market is low-wage service jobs. The idea that these jobs are simply for students and people starting in the economy is pure Conservative fantasy
Right now we are in a period of relative calm but this is could just be because turmoil and strife tend to be cyclical and we are not far removed from the 2 World Wars which are by far the greatest organized violence Humanity has ever inflicted on itself. In any case all of this has little bearing on the original context which was the perceived dehumanization of all humanity from the creation of Chimera genes
163.562 people died in 2014 due to wounds inflicted by other humans in armed conflicts around the world. 1.5 million children died in 2008 of vaccine-preventable disease and an estimated 3.5 million due to malnutrition. Considering the vast death and carnage that happens around the clock every single day, the idea that mixing genes in a test-tube is somehow dehumanizing to "our sense of humanity" is completely ludicrous
I've been working out on an empty stomach in the mornings for years, only to be criticized by armchair specialists about how bad or impossible this is... There's plenty of reserve energy floating around the human body and there's nothing miraculous about physical activity on an empty stomach. You think our ancestors woke up to a fully stocked refrigerator every morning?
Most of this type of research is done on athletes. A few % change on performance levels means nothing to most people but in competitions being decided on a few hundredth of a minute it can mean the difference between winning and loosing. Unfortunately the businesses interests exploit research for highly specialized applications in order to sell us programs, supplements, etc of little use to most of us.
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple, and while I understand why people want it, if it is going to continue, it shouldn't be wrapped up in the language of crime prevention, because it doesn't prevent crimes. Allowing capital punishment to be justified in this way is simply a way to make it more palatable, and state-sanctioned killings should be anything but palatable.
Whether anyone is deterred by the possibility of a State Execution while contemplating an act that carries the Capital Punishment is debatable, once on Death Row they sure try mighty hard to get stay alive
What we are seeing is the inevitable consequence of increases in levels of technology, and outside regulation forcing wages up on jobs that have traditionally not been viewed as a career position, but rather a stepping stone for someone starting out in the labor market.
%30 of the entire Labor Market is low-wage service jobs. Considering the large % of the job market, the belief that service-jobs are just stepping-stones to careers elsewhere is unrealistic. At the end of the day having companies at a race to the bottom on their quarterly report payroll line ends up hurting the economy and eventually them as lower salaries eventually end up eroding consumer spending power. This is why you need Government regulation to make sure that the economy is solidly grounded in fundamentals and companies are not competing in ways that undermine those fundamentals
It may depend on whether their agreement to pay is a plea of guilty vs. a plea of no-contest.
Plus, the perceived risk of losing in court combined with the inconvenience of showing up for court often outweighs the benefit of a successful outcome for many people. It should not be difficult to show a higher court how such illegal tickets amount to an abuse of power.
For parking ticket yuou agree to plead guilty and pay the fine or fight the ticket by going to the City's website and filling a form detailing why you are not guilty and uploading supporting evidence such as pictures. An administrative judge (Not and actual judge at all) will review your submission and make a judgment. Personally I fight every ticket I receive. The exorbitant fees are obviously not there as punitive measures but rather to fill the city coffers and I want to make it as difficult for them as possible.
The same things could be said about Blood Alcohol levels. Someone unaccustomed to drinking can become severely impaired even with low amounts of alcohol while long time alcoholic reaction times might still be reasonably ok even when way over the limit.
If you are looking to cut emissions expanding Freight Rail is a much better investment then Sexy Hyperloops or Bullet trains.
By the time the politicians are done, there will be $6.2Billion Rupee left in the accounts
Define "poor". Poor from today, look very much like upper middle class from 1960. We have TVs and Microwave Ovens, cars that last a long time, and housing that is more efficient.
Saying "help the poor" is always a noble cause, but the definition changes over time to the point where the term itself is meaningless.
The Upper middle classes in the 1960's could afford the best Education, Health care and desirable real estate locations. Absolutely NOTHING has changed. The poor still only have access to sub-par education, health-care and living locations
The Republican party is fucked. Their core wants to rule for the rich, but of course they can't get elected on that platform. So they've spent several decades suckering single-issue voters into voting against their own best interests. Now the (traditional) Republicans have mostly lost all that support, so they can't possibly get elected to rule for the rich.
They are largely not single-issue voters, voting against their best economic interests. The GOP has had them convinced that the Democrats want to take their hard-earned money to give to those Lazy , America hating, Minority Welfare Queens. Of course RNC politics are not entirely against their interests. Exploitation of natural resources industries such as mining, drilling, fishing etc are low-skill, medium-pay jobs which many poor and underdeveloped areas of the country depend on. The DNC is firmly on the warpath with these industries. After so many years of failed promises though they seem unwilling to just accept yet another round of Tax-cuts and more deregulation as the prescription to their economic woes and that is pretty encouraging
The syrian civil war was started because of a 5 year drought. We got 1 million new migrants in Europe. Unless we quit destroying the world climate we'll have 500 million migrants. Stop Using Oil Now! And retarded americans stop using gas guzzling cars.
The drought was just the Last straw that broke the camels back. The tensions between the Assad family Regime and the oppressed Sunni majority have been simmering since Hafez al-Assad seized power in 1970
Two, the Fermi Paradox. Any intelligent and long-lived (on the order of 100,000 years) species could (with our own pitiful level of technology) create a radio beacon that would have spanned the entire Milky Way Galaxy by now. Either they want to want to be quiet (and presumably have good reason) or no technological society lasts that long.
The birth rate of practically every industrialized nation is below the replacement rate. At the current rate practically all of the world will become industrialized in a few hundred years at which point the earth's population will stabilize or even start declining. The idea that advanced civilizations are destined to spread through a galaxy like locust if they just survive long enough, seems rather silly to me.
CORRECTION Your blanket, warrentless spying is the reason for the mass adoption of Encryption. If you had developed a program that was honest, forthcoming with clear and strong safeguards instead of running a clandestine black-ops style program then people would not have been so shocked and appalled and rushed to defend themselves and their communications from your greasy fingers
Hearing loss is a serious medical condition that has been linked to increased risk of dementia. A consumer device that has to meet absolutely 0 standards on performance and reliability is NOT the same as a device that has gone through clinical trials to prove both of those. Insurance company's do shop around, that is the reason you pay more if you go to a "out of network" provider, the reason not all pharmacy's take all insurance cards as well as the reason why you need to get approval for expensive medication like Gilead's $80,000 Hep C drug that has not competition and the only leverage insurance companies have in negotiations is to limit access of the drug to the people they cover. The only insurance provider that is NOT allowed to negotiate pricing is Medicare, and you can thank the supposedly "Free Market" GOP for that
A lot of the "consumer devices" nowadays have very poor audio quality.
So what? If you can pay $200 for a hearing test, $200 for a consumer aid, and have a bad consumer aid that works for $400 instead of NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR a high-quality hearing aid, it's still a net win for you and for society as a whole.
The ideal solution would be to to add hearing-aids to the required "minimum coverage" for health insurance policies. Unfortunately the ACA law which for the first time set minimum health insurance standards and would need to be modified to include hearing-aid coverage, is vehemently opposed by the political party that currently controls both chambers of the Legislative branch
The plan was expected to include rules requiring businesses earning more than 600 million euros a year (nearly $700 USD) to open up their tax affairs to public scrutiny, revealing their profits and accounts in every country in which they operate within the EU
Wow, that's quite an exchange rate.
That is nothing. In 2009, 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars would get you 1 USD.
Russia was an autocratic totalitarianism under the Czar and the Soviet Union remained an autocratic totalitarianism under the Central Committee's General Secretary. The only thing the Bolsheviks actually used from the writings of Marx was the name Communism. By Grouping Communism and Socialism together is very obvious that you haven't studied either. Your post is nothing more than worthless ideological rant.
All that research done by Pratt and Whitney... Boeing... Lockheed Martin...
If socialism were superior the Russians would have won the Cold War.
They didn't because its inferior. Stop for a moment and look at all your dumb arguments are apply them to the soviets. IF you were right, they should have been dramatically more successful. Instead they were dramatically less successful.
That 20th century cage match apparently isn't taught in schools these days. Socialism lost on everything but politics. And the political argument is sustained largely by ignorance and sophistry. Any time empiricism becomes relevant... it gets its head twisted off and spiked into the ground like a tent pole.
Poor implementation doesn't mean the idea or design is bad. The Soviet Union is a perfect example of a bad implementation. On paper Communism looks pretty good unfortunately the Soviet Union's horrible implementation has essentially soiled it for the world
Oh sure and they are also building the Russia Alaska Superhighway, A fleet of Supercarriers. In the Real World Russia shrank the defense budget by %10 in 2015 and still Russian Reserve Fund running empty