He not only claimed he never made fun of a disabled reporter, he did so when video of him doing so was easily available to anyone willing to spend thirty seconds looking.
I don't think Youtube even wants those political videos, really. They cost disproportionately more to police, and advertisers are put off by them - because they don't want their advert to play right before a man starts screaming at the camera about how liberals/conservatives are destroying America.
What youtube wants are videos with insane hit counts but no serious content. Music videos are good, they get repeat views. Gaming channels are great - high view counts, no politics, and very clear demographics to make the advertisers happy.
On the other hand, Digg used community moderation too. I witnessed it's sudden and spectacular decline. Community moderation was part of the cause for that. It started out as individuals upvoting comments they agreed with and downvoting or reporting comments they disliked, but then it grew organised. Bands of dedicated activists, striving to make their political view dominant. The DiggPatriots were the best known and one of the better organised groups, but not the only one - they monitored upcoming stories, identifying anything that they judged too 'liberal' before it hit the front page and burying it with coordinated down-votes, as well as scouring the comment history of liberal community members for anything they could report as a terms of service violation.
Eventually it got so bad that the community could no longer trust Digg, and declined. To put the nail in the coffin the site then underwent a redesign, in part to make it more resistant to coordinated manipulation - but after the redesign, despite the owner's promise of no paid article placement, the front page was suddenly filled with product reviews, all of them glowingly positive. The Digg traffic graph became a cliff heading down, and the site is now a shadow of what it once was.
There is no penalty for filing a patent that doesn't get approved, so the usual practice in tech is to patent everything an employee doodles on a napkin. It costs next to nothing, and you might get lucky. Even a junk patent is potentially useful as a club to threaten to sue a competitor over, and so fodder for cross-licensing agreements.
It's one of the ways to reconcile Christianity with a conservative political ideology. I also commonly see columns comparing benefits to slavery, because living off of benefits makes people dependent upon their government 'owners' and robs them of their independence, dignity and right to work.
Not my policy. Also doesn't affect me: While I may have to at some point fill out one of the forms in question, it's only so I can forward it on to someone else to process.
Easily. The calculations for both relative speed dilation and gravitational dilation are known. Just calculate the correction factor and adjust clock speed accordingly.
My employer also require certain documents to be done with pen and paper, then physically destroyed when completed. This is so that if we should make an error and be sued, all evidence of that error will have been destroyed and cannot be used against us in court.
I forgot about that one. Well, they don't bring many nuclear weapons. Or combat aircraft, or tanks, or even simple things like bullets. Interstellar shipping is expensive.
It was a botched invasion, but the aim was always occupation rather than extermination, and they did have only very limited intel from an unmanned probe to base their invasion plans on.
That toxic life can also stabilise the climate and maintain a usable oxygen level in the atmosphere. Even if you're planning biosphere replacement, you don't want to just wipe everything out - it'll have to be a slow transition process, managed over centuries.
This issue was addressed. Due to their natural conservative (by our standards) ways, their culture and technology always had advanced with extreme slowness. It took them hundreds of years to go from first powered aircraft to first pilot in orbit. They'd invaded two planets in the past with a similar slow pace. Once they get to meet humans - all they had before was video from an unmanned scout ship - they quickly discover that humans are, by their standards, reckless to the point of insanity. They just can't imagine that any sane species could ever, say, introduce mechanised vehicles without first spending decades in testing, refinement and political debate and academic consideration of the long-term impact.
They didn't bring superweapons because they just didn't feel the need. They thought it would be a simple, routine invasion: Drop bombs, kill a few kings, and the puny humans will bow before the display of force.
Like my local population of urban foxes, there is great potential for nocturnal scavengers in urban environments. Vast amounts of easily-accessible food combined with comparatively few predator species.
My 'droid has four physical buttons: Power, home, vol up, vol down. They are reliable, provide good tactile feedback, and comfortable to use. I'd say they were ideal solutions if not for the problem of water resistance. Judging by the number of advertisments I see recently promoting phones for their water resistance, this must be a feature in some demand.
But then my phone is also a few years old, so it doesn't reflect the latest trends. And it's got a big crack on the screen where it fell onto concrete. Still works fine though. I don't need the latest super-phone: My old Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 is two and a half years old and it still does everything I could ask of it. It also gives me the right to taunt all iPhone users about their lack of an SD card slot.
The UK generally accomodates mental health issues in prison. It isn't a get out of jail card, but it means he gets access to counselling and support. And the UK authorities already investigated the crime, and decided not to prosecute.
The US, on the other hand, takes a perverse pride in how terrible their prison system is. The public there expects, even demands that prisoners should suffer as much as possible. There is an ongoing legal conflict about providing prisons with air conditioning, when temperatures can easily reach the point of prisoners passing out and occasionally being hospitalised for heatstroke, yet administrators still refuse to address the situation because it would be seen as being 'soft on crime.' Prison rape is so common it's a subject for comedy, and that's the way the people like it. The emphasis is on punishment, not rehabilitation.
Try a welding supply store. They sell inert gasses.
What would be the effect of hydrocarbons? A canister of propane is really cheap, and will displace oxygen as well as any other gas, so long as you keep it away from any source of ignition.
Not directly, but they are the carrier for a very common parasite, T.gondii. It's endemic just about everywhere domestic cats can be found. It infects humans too, though it can't reproduce in them. In humans it concentrates in the brain, usually to symptoms so mild they go unnoticed - the victim just feels tired and slightly feverish for a short time - but the presence of the parasite has been linked to a number of mental health conditions.
T.gondii is notable for influencing host behavior - it causes rats to become less fearful, increasing the chance of getting caught by a cat and consumed so the parasite can continue it's life cycle in a cat. The same mechanism of altering brain chemistry that causes rats to become less fearful is also active when it infects humans, but as it evolved to mess with rat brains the effect on humans is different.
As a matter of public health, it would be wise to place restrictions on domestic cats - at the very least to deny them access to outdoors areas where they may have contact with wild animals. But cats are cute and everyone loves them, so such measures are politically non-viable.
Wiping out humans that way would be the simplest, but it would also do a lot of damage to the ecosystems. If you've gone to all the trouble of travelling interstellar, you probably do so because there's a really sweet planet here ready for exploration or colonisation.
Just land their scout ship in the middle of nowhere, abduct some redneck farmers to take blood and tissue samples, figure out earth-biology and go bio-warfare. Concoct some really nasty viruses, distribute, and keep the viruses coming. Then kill-bot anyone who was isolated enough to survive that. Keep a few alive for the zoo.
The 'humanity overthrowing alien conquest' story does give humans one advantage: Logistics. Humans have a whole resource collection and manufacturing base. Alien invaders have only what they can bring with them. If they aren't willing to bring out the WMDs, they might eventually lose through attrition, especially if they make a mistake in preparation. See the Worldwar stories for an example: Alien invaders send a scout ship to earth and discover knights riding into battle on horseback, and fit their invasion fleet accordingly. But the aliens are a very conservative species, and their history of technological advance is very slow - they do not believe that much can change in only three hundred years, the time it takes to ready and send an invasion fleet. When their fleet arrives in the middle of World War Two, they are not equipped to fight against an enemy with a manufacturing base and eventually have to surrender just because they run out of ammunition and fighting vehicles. They didn't even bring nuclear weapons, thinking such things wouldn't be needed.
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He not only claimed he never made fun of a disabled reporter, he did so when video of him doing so was easily available to anyone willing to spend thirty seconds looking.
Organisation matters as much as size.
I don't think Youtube even wants those political videos, really. They cost disproportionately more to police, and advertisers are put off by them - because they don't want their advert to play right before a man starts screaming at the camera about how liberals/conservatives are destroying America.
What youtube wants are videos with insane hit counts but no serious content. Music videos are good, they get repeat views. Gaming channels are great - high view counts, no politics, and very clear demographics to make the advertisers happy.
They can just ask some Slashdot Heroes to check their work.
On the other hand, Digg used community moderation too. I witnessed it's sudden and spectacular decline. Community moderation was part of the cause for that. It started out as individuals upvoting comments they agreed with and downvoting or reporting comments they disliked, but then it grew organised. Bands of dedicated activists, striving to make their political view dominant. The DiggPatriots were the best known and one of the better organised groups, but not the only one - they monitored upcoming stories, identifying anything that they judged too 'liberal' before it hit the front page and burying it with coordinated down-votes, as well as scouring the comment history of liberal community members for anything they could report as a terms of service violation.
Eventually it got so bad that the community could no longer trust Digg, and declined. To put the nail in the coffin the site then underwent a redesign, in part to make it more resistant to coordinated manipulation - but after the redesign, despite the owner's promise of no paid article placement, the front page was suddenly filled with product reviews, all of them glowingly positive. The Digg traffic graph became a cliff heading down, and the site is now a shadow of what it once was.
There is no penalty for filing a patent that doesn't get approved, so the usual practice in tech is to patent everything an employee doodles on a napkin. It costs next to nothing, and you might get lucky. Even a junk patent is potentially useful as a club to threaten to sue a competitor over, and so fodder for cross-licensing agreements.
It's one of the ways to reconcile Christianity with a conservative political ideology. I also commonly see columns comparing benefits to slavery, because living off of benefits makes people dependent upon their government 'owners' and robs them of their independence, dignity and right to work.
Not my policy. Also doesn't affect me: While I may have to at some point fill out one of the forms in question, it's only so I can forward it on to someone else to process.
Easily. The calculations for both relative speed dilation and gravitational dilation are known. Just calculate the correction factor and adjust clock speed accordingly.
That's half of the calculation. You also need to allow for gravitational time dilation.
My employer also require certain documents to be done with pen and paper, then physically destroyed when completed. This is so that if we should make an error and be sued, all evidence of that error will have been destroyed and cannot be used against us in court.
I forgot about that one. Well, they don't bring many nuclear weapons. Or combat aircraft, or tanks, or even simple things like bullets. Interstellar shipping is expensive.
It was a botched invasion, but the aim was always occupation rather than extermination, and they did have only very limited intel from an unmanned probe to base their invasion plans on.
That toxic life can also stabilise the climate and maintain a usable oxygen level in the atmosphere. Even if you're planning biosphere replacement, you don't want to just wipe everything out - it'll have to be a slow transition process, managed over centuries.
This issue was addressed. Due to their natural conservative (by our standards) ways, their culture and technology always had advanced with extreme slowness. It took them hundreds of years to go from first powered aircraft to first pilot in orbit. They'd invaded two planets in the past with a similar slow pace. Once they get to meet humans - all they had before was video from an unmanned scout ship - they quickly discover that humans are, by their standards, reckless to the point of insanity. They just can't imagine that any sane species could ever, say, introduce mechanised vehicles without first spending decades in testing, refinement and political debate and academic consideration of the long-term impact.
They didn't bring superweapons because they just didn't feel the need. They thought it would be a simple, routine invasion: Drop bombs, kill a few kings, and the puny humans will bow before the display of force.
Like my local population of urban foxes, there is great potential for nocturnal scavengers in urban environments. Vast amounts of easily-accessible food combined with comparatively few predator species.
My 'droid has four physical buttons: Power, home, vol up, vol down. They are reliable, provide good tactile feedback, and comfortable to use. I'd say they were ideal solutions if not for the problem of water resistance. Judging by the number of advertisments I see recently promoting phones for their water resistance, this must be a feature in some demand.
But then my phone is also a few years old, so it doesn't reflect the latest trends. And it's got a big crack on the screen where it fell onto concrete. Still works fine though. I don't need the latest super-phone: My old Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 is two and a half years old and it still does everything I could ask of it. It also gives me the right to taunt all iPhone users about their lack of an SD card slot.
The UK generally accomodates mental health issues in prison. It isn't a get out of jail card, but it means he gets access to counselling and support. And the UK authorities already investigated the crime, and decided not to prosecute.
The US, on the other hand, takes a perverse pride in how terrible their prison system is. The public there expects, even demands that prisoners should suffer as much as possible. There is an ongoing legal conflict about providing prisons with air conditioning, when temperatures can easily reach the point of prisoners passing out and occasionally being hospitalised for heatstroke, yet administrators still refuse to address the situation because it would be seen as being 'soft on crime.' Prison rape is so common it's a subject for comedy, and that's the way the people like it. The emphasis is on punishment, not rehabilitation.
Goodbye, plague!
Hello, toxoplasmosis!
Try a welding supply store. They sell inert gasses.
What would be the effect of hydrocarbons? A canister of propane is really cheap, and will displace oxygen as well as any other gas, so long as you keep it away from any source of ignition.
But they are very large by primate standards.
Not directly, but they are the carrier for a very common parasite, T.gondii. It's endemic just about everywhere domestic cats can be found. It infects humans too, though it can't reproduce in them. In humans it concentrates in the brain, usually to symptoms so mild they go unnoticed - the victim just feels tired and slightly feverish for a short time - but the presence of the parasite has been linked to a number of mental health conditions.
T.gondii is notable for influencing host behavior - it causes rats to become less fearful, increasing the chance of getting caught by a cat and consumed so the parasite can continue it's life cycle in a cat. The same mechanism of altering brain chemistry that causes rats to become less fearful is also active when it infects humans, but as it evolved to mess with rat brains the effect on humans is different.
As a matter of public health, it would be wise to place restrictions on domestic cats - at the very least to deny them access to outdoors areas where they may have contact with wild animals. But cats are cute and everyone loves them, so such measures are politically non-viable.
Squirrel=Treerat.
Pigeon=Skyrat.
Keystone species. We convert one type of habitat into another, one more suited for our own survival.
The first Murinae fossils are from 14 million years ago. The only dinosaurs they survived are the ones with sharp beaks and a lot of feathers.
Wiping out humans that way would be the simplest, but it would also do a lot of damage to the ecosystems. If you've gone to all the trouble of travelling interstellar, you probably do so because there's a really sweet planet here ready for exploration or colonisation.
Just land their scout ship in the middle of nowhere, abduct some redneck farmers to take blood and tissue samples, figure out earth-biology and go bio-warfare. Concoct some really nasty viruses, distribute, and keep the viruses coming. Then kill-bot anyone who was isolated enough to survive that. Keep a few alive for the zoo.
The 'humanity overthrowing alien conquest' story does give humans one advantage: Logistics. Humans have a whole resource collection and manufacturing base. Alien invaders have only what they can bring with them. If they aren't willing to bring out the WMDs, they might eventually lose through attrition, especially if they make a mistake in preparation. See the Worldwar stories for an example: Alien invaders send a scout ship to earth and discover knights riding into battle on horseback, and fit their invasion fleet accordingly. But the aliens are a very conservative species, and their history of technological advance is very slow - they do not believe that much can change in only three hundred years, the time it takes to ready and send an invasion fleet. When their fleet arrives in the middle of World War Two, they are not equipped to fight against an enemy with a manufacturing base and eventually have to surrender just because they run out of ammunition and fighting vehicles. They didn't even bring nuclear weapons, thinking such things wouldn't be needed.