OT: There is an advertisement up in the subway station under the Pentagon by some group called the Oath Keepers that says: "Snowden honored his oath. Honor yours; expose unconstitutional actions."
America is a country of religious crazies ruled by lawyers. At least when I visited Australia (admittedly only for two weeks), your prisoners seemed to be nicer than our religious nuts.
It seems like one could deter people from walking across the rails with some sort of symbolic notification device? To not reinvent the wheel, we could reuse the old inventions of "words" on a "sign":
WARNING TRAINS GO THROUGH HERE THEY GO REALLY FAST IF THEY HIT YOU YOU'RE DEAD EVEN IF YOU'RE DRUNK
or something.
We haven't roped off every cliff in the mountains, even though people die there. We've not even put warning signs on a lot of dangerous things ("WARNING: THIS IS A BEAR. DO NOT POKE IT. IT IS BIGGER THAN YOU. EVEN IF YOU'RE DRUNK.") Why do we need derp-proof railways?
Lattice gauge theory simulations, so there's actually an excuse for the bloat. It runs on a 24*24*24*48 grid, so you need buckets of memory to store everything; this isn't as bad as the more ambitious groups, who are up to 192^3*384 (I think). It's pretty obscene how much computing power goes into this field -- the computation I've just started will take two months on 100 GPU's (which is about 10^18-10^19 floating point operations), and it's a small one compared to some of the things people do. It's also very heavily memory bandwidth bound, so I don't think we could do ASIC's like the Bitcoin folks do.
Talking on the phone while driving down I-10 in West Texas is not dangerous. Talking on the phone while merging on Connecticut Avenue to the Beltway is dangerous. This study shows that drivers are smart enough to know the difference.
That's exactly the point: I'm disclaiming such comparisons. Russia has black marks on its record; they should fix them. So do we. Counting who has more is pointless.
Point. I know American citizens of Hispanic ancestry who worked at some of the telescopes surrounding Tucson. Their jobs, of course, required them to drive at night on country roads -- where the Border Patrol harassed them. There was a lawsuit; I'm not sure how it came out. (These people were culturally American; there are quite a few Hispanics whose ancestors lived in what was northern Mexico and became Americans when we acquired the Arizona area from Mexico, and whose families have been in the area for centuries.)
I would think that opposition to gay rights actually decreases the birth rate, since gay people in countries where they are welcomed into society and who want children have lots of avenues to have them -- surrogacy, sperm donation, "hey, let's fuck even though I'm not into your gender just so one of gets pregnant" arrangements, etc. This is unlikely to happen in Russia now.
Also, the people often cited as "undesirables" -- Africans, Muslims, whatever -- all tend to have homophobia and misogyny in common. One would think that if one wanted to keep Muslims away (not saying, of course, that this is a good thing!), it seems like allowing open homosexuality and public displays of sexuality would be a good way to make a country less appealing to puritans.
That's a shame, and I say that as a proud American. We came up with the modern national park (Yosemite was the first); we have a great deal of ecological and geographic diversity, and some lovely people. We have some fantastic cultural things. It's a shame that our government is working overtime to make our beautiful country such an unwelcoming place to everyone else.
Sorry; hopefully we'll come to our senses soon enough.
Read the stuff coming out of Russia on gay rights. Russia is not showing the US up on human rights; they have simply taken an opportunity to embarrass us on our own human rights failures, not because they disapprove of skulduggery, but because they disapprove of us. This is like a crack dealer turning in the mayor for smoking crack (hey, I live in DC, it's the first metaphor that came to mind).
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It'd be easier if citizens, fed up with them, just spraypainted over their apertures.
There is spray paint covering half of Baltimore. Why not just add a little more?
The point is that "He shoulda known I was a con artist, Your Honor" has never been a defense to fraud.
Or:
"I had to get stitches after that guy ballmered me with a chair ... man, he was pissed."
OT: There is an advertisement up in the subway station under the Pentagon by some group called the Oath Keepers that says: "Snowden honored his oath. Honor yours; expose unconstitutional actions."
Tell that to Bradley Manning...
America is a country of religious crazies ruled by lawyers. At least when I visited Australia (admittedly only for two weeks), your prisoners seemed to be nicer than our religious nuts.
Only if there's a series of them.
It seems like one could deter people from walking across the rails with some sort of symbolic notification device? To not reinvent the wheel, we could reuse the old inventions of "words" on a "sign":
WARNING
TRAINS GO THROUGH HERE
THEY GO REALLY FAST
IF THEY HIT YOU YOU'RE DEAD
EVEN IF YOU'RE DRUNK
or something.
We haven't roped off every cliff in the mountains, even though people die there. We've not even put warning signs on a lot of dangerous things ("WARNING: THIS IS A BEAR. DO NOT POKE IT. IT IS BIGGER THAN YOU. EVEN IF YOU'RE DRUNK.") Why do we need derp-proof railways?
Lattice gauge theory simulations, so there's actually an excuse for the bloat. It runs on a 24*24*24*48 grid, so you need buckets of memory to store everything; this isn't as bad as the more ambitious groups, who are up to 192^3*384 (I think). It's pretty obscene how much computing power goes into this field -- the computation I've just started will take two months on 100 GPU's (which is about 10^18-10^19 floating point operations), and it's a small one compared to some of the things people do. It's also very heavily memory bandwidth bound, so I don't think we could do ASIC's like the Bitcoin folks do.
Meanwhile, I have some software that currently requires 9GB of memory -- I could pare it down to 7GB if I really wanted to.
Why would my computer want to talk to another computer? Gee, that's silly.
If you need a source of entropy on the Sprint network, you could always just use the rate of dropped calls...
Nor has anyone ever achieved immortality, so let's close down all the hospitals?
It seems so. I've talked to people that are shocked when I can get my email without internet access (alt-f2, "thunderbird")
Talking on the phone while driving down I-10 in West Texas is not dangerous. Talking on the phone while merging on Connecticut Avenue to the Beltway is dangerous. This study shows that drivers are smart enough to know the difference.
That's exactly the point: I'm disclaiming such comparisons. Russia has black marks on its record; they should fix them. So do we. Counting who has more is pointless.
That's not surprising, since in my experience Hispanic immigrants are, for their socioeconomic status, pretty peaceful people.
Nope, see above. Yellowstone was the first official one, but the idea came from Yosemite.
See above -- Yosemite didn't get the name first, but it was what started the idea (spurred on by the work of Ansel Adams there).
Tucson is close enough to the border that they come there.
They were stopped without probable cause for a crime repeatedly, which is enough. I don't know all the details.
The AZ police are only really bad in Maricopa County, where Arpaio has his lair. In Tucson they're pretty good.
Point. I know American citizens of Hispanic ancestry who worked at some of the telescopes surrounding Tucson. Their jobs, of course, required them to drive at night on country roads -- where the Border Patrol harassed them. There was a lawsuit; I'm not sure how it came out. (These people were culturally American; there are quite a few Hispanics whose ancestors lived in what was northern Mexico and became Americans when we acquired the Arizona area from Mexico, and whose families have been in the area for centuries.)
I would think that opposition to gay rights actually decreases the birth rate, since gay people in countries where they are welcomed into society and who want children have lots of avenues to have them -- surrogacy, sperm donation, "hey, let's fuck even though I'm not into your gender just so one of gets pregnant" arrangements, etc. This is unlikely to happen in Russia now.
Also, the people often cited as "undesirables" -- Africans, Muslims, whatever -- all tend to have homophobia and misogyny in common. One would think that if one wanted to keep Muslims away (not saying, of course, that this is a good thing!), it seems like allowing open homosexuality and public displays of sexuality would be a good way to make a country less appealing to puritans.
That's a shame, and I say that as a proud American. We came up with the modern national park (Yosemite was the first); we have a great deal of ecological and geographic diversity, and some lovely people. We have some fantastic cultural things. It's a shame that our government is working overtime to make our beautiful country such an unwelcoming place to everyone else.
Sorry; hopefully we'll come to our senses soon enough.
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Read the stuff coming out of Russia on gay rights. Russia is not showing the US up on human rights; they have simply taken an opportunity to embarrass us on our own human rights failures, not because they disapprove of skulduggery, but because they disapprove of us. This is like a crack dealer turning in the mayor for smoking crack (hey, I live in DC, it's the first metaphor that came to mind).