I see this as using fraud to justify spying on you
Why do they need a justification? We've agreed to the TOS which lets them do whatever they want. Personally I'd rather my bank have location data than facebook, angry birds, pre-installed unremovable (sans-dmca-violating-root) news and stock ticker, or brightest flashlight free. Unfortunately there doesn't really seem to be much of a choice.
(BTW, we not only have the federal EPA, we also have 50 state EPA agencies, think we might have some overlap we could eliminate and cut costs? Same for education (one federal DoE, fifty state DoEs)...)
My last big company (over 100k employees, nearly 0.03% of the US population) not only had a president/CEO, there were also VP's for each business unit. They all had their own VP's who each had a bunch of directors and managers. 3-4 of those managers were my boss. Think we might have some overlap we could eliminate and cut costs?
caused by a ski-helmet that injured my neck in an otherwise perfectly safe fall (obviously I'll never wear a ski helmet again).
Probably not the best idea. First of all, there is no way to know everything would have been fine without the helmet. Second, while helmets may not be reducing the number of serious brain injuries (partly because everyone is going so much bigger) they certainly prevent or reduce many lesser injuries like cuts and concussions. I've seen a bunch of articles about what helmets can and can't prevent but none stating you're increasing any risks by wearing one. Thats something that would certainly come to light very soon as over 2/3 of skiers and snowboarders wear helmets now. Your injury sounds much more like the exception than the rule. None the less, its your choice and congratulations on your recovery.
The 139.843 MPH steam speed record was set in 2009, by a British team. This is embarassingly low for a custom-built steam turbine powered land speed record car that looks like an aircraft. They brought the car out to the salt flats at Edwards for this.
Embarrassing to who? The team? Steam engine builders local 402 circa 1897? Humanity? The fact that the Land Speed World Record is what it is for a steam engine means that it might be harder than it looks. Now if society had spent hundreds of $billions over the past century optimizing the steam engine like they have the ICE, you might have a point. From the site you listed:
"No one is going to suggest that this vehicle represents a major technical breakthrough, a relatively small improvement has been won at a cost of enormous complexity but it is unquestionably a triumph of determination, persistence and absolute refusal to give up in the face of adversity. Does it exemplify the "spirit of adventure"? Unquestionably!"
Good on them. I don't know about you but I don't have any world records to my name. I also never thought I'd get so fired up (no pun intended) defending a steam engine...
Regarding the competition and working together, there are probably millions of mazdas with Ford engines and chevys with Toyota engines. I'm pretty sure theres a vw minivan that's just a rebadged dodge caravan. so far the only ones upset about competition are the dealers. A Tesla battery in a Chevy wouldn't surprise me at all. consider that apple just recently tried getting rid of all the Samsung chips in the iPhone after several years of patent warfare!
Nahh this is just how loophole hell starts. The FCC can just say "No prioritization or throttling allowed by ISPs" and be done with it and everyone will be fine 99.999% of the time unless the shit has already hit the fan and the internet can't help anyway. Or they can say "There will mostly be no prioritization or throttling except for these 200 edge use cases. The procedure for adding edge use cases is as follows". Before you know it, the Net Neutrality law is 6000 pages long instead of a single sentence and nobody knows whats going on except Netflix who just went bankrupt.
would it be $300,000+ more expensive to just put the old-tymey touring car body on a stretched Tesla frame?
Looking at all the custom design work and fitting for a one-off vehicle I'd say yes. Starting with an $80k donor tesla, figure out how to safely disassemble the unibody, do that, add all the old-timey stuff to it with a rated load over a ton (we're talking americans here...), and then get it to work could easily be in the 1000's of man hours. When they are not your own, hours cost money too.
Well duh. The time of the people who had the skills to build this is worth something. In other news every programmer or network admin is walking around with an extra $theentirecostofthejobminusoverhead in their pocket.
much of it was already in use (at a minimum) by the military.
I think you're missing the point. Sure the army may have had the precursors to Handheld GPS since the first satellites were launched in the 70's. But in 1981, the thought of billions of people having access to it in their pocket on a device that gets thrown away every 2 years was probably about as unfathomable as people commuting by SR-71 blackbird (built a decade before "The" GPS was conceived).
Pishhh, they're just ripping of Newt Gingrich. He was the first to come up with the idea for a permanent moon base 3 years ago! The USA's diarrhea of the mouth is just as ambitious as Russia's.
That was my first thought too, that this has already happened. Current theories place the human population minimum at around 10K so maybe this guy is right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Yeah I hate seeing stories of massive success, in progress. If there is anything we don't need right now with all the economic uncertainty and political strife, its a positive story showing that greatness* can still be achieved/snark. Despite conventional wisdom, a story can be complementary and objective at the same time.
*Yes, turning two "crazy" ideas into $billion companies in 10 years with most of the population doubting, if not openly thwarting you, is a great achievement.
If you're setting up some sort of combination, you enter the triggering parameters in advance, and you don't even need to see what was being done on screen
But I would certainly like to know if the stock was selling for less than my buying price or more than my selling price...or if the price of the stock changed halfway through execution of my carefully planned order which is what is happening here. People who make tons of money doing that see all sorts of benefits from it, everyone else who's not in on the take rightfully considers it a scam.
That would be 80% in terms of clear or tinted eye coverings secured by a frame resting on the nose and ears. Luxottica doesn't just own rayban. They own all the "designer" brands too. They also do the actual designing. Burberry, calvin klein, etc are all produced and designed by luxottica (albeit with some input from said brands). When Oakley resisted a luxottica buyout their stock plummeted, forcing them to sell. If I needed glasses I'd be concerned that my clear vision depends entirely on a single company based in Italy.
Oh don't get your bloomers in a bunch ol' chap. I don't bother when TopGear has some random nobody (otherwise known as a British Celebrity) on as their guest or continues to use the word Lorry. Perhaps you can convince Brian Cox (who is no slouch) to do a "how did I become a physicist" over some tea and crumpets and then that story will be posted too. Do you feel at home now? (note: I'm assuming you're British since both of your "international presenters" are from England. Apologies if you're a true international citizen).
Spoiler Alert! The Ph in PhD is for philosophy. The D is for Doctorate. In reality, NGT has a PhD in Astrophysics, which didn't stop him from becoming my favorite philosopher. He's also lectured and directed at several prestigious astrophysics positions around the country. Sorry to ruin what was clearly a joke aimed at the "Bill ain't no science guy without no science degree" crowd. Funny how most of the comments in stories about college have the theme "college is worthless, learn in the real world" and here we have someone that seems to have done just that but gets no credit because he doesn't have a science degree.
You posted about Syria specifically and how Putin did a better job than Obama. Bush(s) invaded Iraq/Afghanistan. You want to open the floor up to every transgression the US and Russia have ever committed? I'll admit that would be pretty interesting....
Yeah Russia did such a great job, stalling for years while supporting a dictator actively killing his own citizens until they were able to fall into a solution based on an off-hand remark describing a completely unrealistic scenario. Way to see that one coming.
I'm fairly sure that Obama wouldn't have the balls to push the Red Button
Translation: Obama is not a moron. And thank goodness for that. Personally I have something to live for and could care less about Putin waving his di...er...nipples around (but I do feel for the Ukraine who is staring at a deep dark hole) . Furthermore, I think humanity is a worthwhile endeavor despite everyone's ability to "talk".
Well duh, one of the reasons why I'm not religious.
athiests simply don't believe in your fairy tales.
Probably true. I'm a parkour master in most of them.
believing in something is NOT anywhere close to being a religion, in itself
Isn't it if you reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaalllllly believe in it? Perhaps I should clarify. What I'm talking about goes beyond your simplification. More like: "Surviving in the woods was his religion" or even "I go to large regular gatherings to be part of something bigger than myself with a bunch of like minded people" (http://www.npr.org/2014/01/07/260184473/sunday-assembly-a-church-for-the-godless-picks-up-steam) and "I need to impress my beliefs on others who aren't asking for it" (http://www.npr.org/2014/02/26/281450206/ardent-atheists-spread-their-reverence-for-disbelief). If the only thing separating all that from true "religion" is my parkour fairy tails, then the new freakin awesome catholic pope has a lot more to worry about than conservative pundit backlash to his "keepin it real". On a side note: As some one who is not Catholic or religious, the new pope seems to be exactly what the catholic church needs.
Another thing about religion is that it contains 84% of the worlds population. A critical mind wouldn't dismiss such an overwhelming (albeit declining) majority as totally worthless to the human condition. Surely it's served some evolutionary purpose, perhaps helping humans organize societies, which is the only way you're going to get to the moon. I don't understand why so much of the population believes in counter intuitive stories clearly designed to keep some people in power, but I'd prefer a scientific explanation of it instead of doing the/. thing and calling all religious people idiots...especially when so many of them are smarter, faster, and stronger than me. That's why I agree with the AC GP and not your post which took the easy route and apparently hasn't looked at religion with a critical mind.
A side note, the word I'd use to describe all of the big atheist gatherings and organizations that I've seen is: religious.
Because it's efficient. Because it doesn't require a lot of high-tech manufactured goods and has lower maintenance and repair costs compared to other alternatives
I'm about to drift off topic here and possibly into an irrelevant example but a number I should have used to put coal=$50B into perspective is: WhatsAPP = $19B. For that you get 50 people and a server farm which should cost a miniscule fraction of even the most efficient mountain top removal strip mine. Ok you also get 500M non paying users (aka personal data sources) mainly in developing countries. But with coal you get 40% of the richest citizens in the world locked into your system by inertia or apathy, possibly the two most powerful social forces in existence. That has got to be worth much more than 2.5x the price of a 2 year old internet startup. Is this a valid comparison? Sure, both now have a dollar amount associated with them. I just think the dollar amount for coal is waaaay low, else someone should have bought them out already...or at least shut them up during election season.
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I see this as using fraud to justify spying on you
Why do they need a justification? We've agreed to the TOS which lets them do whatever they want. Personally I'd rather my bank have location data than facebook, angry birds, pre-installed unremovable (sans-dmca-violating-root) news and stock ticker, or brightest flashlight free. Unfortunately there doesn't really seem to be much of a choice.
(BTW, we not only have the federal EPA, we also have 50 state EPA agencies, think we might have some overlap we could eliminate and cut costs? Same for education (one federal DoE, fifty state DoEs)...)
My last big company (over 100k employees, nearly 0.03% of the US population) not only had a president/CEO, there were also VP's for each business unit. They all had their own VP's who each had a bunch of directors and managers. 3-4 of those managers were my boss. Think we might have some overlap we could eliminate and cut costs?
caused by a ski-helmet that injured my neck in an otherwise perfectly safe fall (obviously I'll never wear a ski helmet again).
Probably not the best idea. First of all, there is no way to know everything would have been fine without the helmet. Second, while helmets may not be reducing the number of serious brain injuries (partly because everyone is going so much bigger) they certainly prevent or reduce many lesser injuries like cuts and concussions. I've seen a bunch of articles about what helmets can and can't prevent but none stating you're increasing any risks by wearing one. Thats something that would certainly come to light very soon as over 2/3 of skiers and snowboarders wear helmets now. Your injury sounds much more like the exception than the rule. None the less, its your choice and congratulations on your recovery.
The 139.843 MPH steam speed record was set in 2009, by a British team. This is embarassingly low for a custom-built steam turbine powered land speed record car that looks like an aircraft. They brought the car out to the salt flats at Edwards for this.
Embarrassing to who? The team? Steam engine builders local 402 circa 1897? Humanity? The fact that the Land Speed World Record is what it is for a steam engine means that it might be harder than it looks. Now if society had spent hundreds of $billions over the past century optimizing the steam engine like they have the ICE, you might have a point. From the site you listed:
"No one is going to suggest that this vehicle represents a major technical breakthrough, a relatively small improvement has been won at a cost of enormous complexity but it is unquestionably a triumph of determination, persistence and absolute refusal to give up in the face of adversity. Does it exemplify the "spirit of adventure"? Unquestionably!"
Good on them. I don't know about you but I don't have any world records to my name. I also never thought I'd get so fired up (no pun intended) defending a steam engine...
Regarding the competition and working together, there are probably millions of mazdas with Ford engines and chevys with Toyota engines. I'm pretty sure theres a vw minivan that's just a rebadged dodge caravan. so far the only ones upset about competition are the dealers. A Tesla battery in a Chevy wouldn't surprise me at all. consider that apple just recently tried getting rid of all the Samsung chips in the iPhone after several years of patent warfare!
Nahh this is just how loophole hell starts. The FCC can just say "No prioritization or throttling allowed by ISPs" and be done with it and everyone will be fine 99.999% of the time unless the shit has already hit the fan and the internet can't help anyway. Or they can say "There will mostly be no prioritization or throttling except for these 200 edge use cases. The procedure for adding edge use cases is as follows". Before you know it, the Net Neutrality law is 6000 pages long instead of a single sentence and nobody knows whats going on except Netflix who just went bankrupt.
would it be $300,000+ more expensive to just put the old-tymey touring car body on a stretched Tesla frame?
Looking at all the custom design work and fitting for a one-off vehicle I'd say yes. Starting with an $80k donor tesla, figure out how to safely disassemble the unibody, do that, add all the old-timey stuff to it with a rated load over a ton (we're talking americans here...), and then get it to work could easily be in the 1000's of man hours. When they are not your own, hours cost money too.
Well duh. The time of the people who had the skills to build this is worth something. In other news every programmer or network admin is walking around with an extra $theentirecostofthejobminusoverhead in their pocket.
much of it was already in use (at a minimum) by the military.
I think you're missing the point. Sure the army may have had the precursors to Handheld GPS since the first satellites were launched in the 70's. But in 1981, the thought of billions of people having access to it in their pocket on a device that gets thrown away every 2 years was probably about as unfathomable as people commuting by SR-71 blackbird (built a decade before "The" GPS was conceived).
Pishhh, they're just ripping of Newt Gingrich. He was the first to come up with the idea for a permanent moon base 3 years ago! The USA's diarrhea of the mouth is just as ambitious as Russia's.
...when Enron attacked California's power grid.
That was my first thought too, that this has already happened. Current theories place the human population minimum at around 10K so maybe this guy is right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Yeah I hate seeing stories of massive success, in progress. If there is anything we don't need right now with all the economic uncertainty and political strife, its a positive story showing that greatness* can still be achieved /snark. Despite conventional wisdom, a story can be complementary and objective at the same time.
*Yes, turning two "crazy" ideas into $billion companies in 10 years with most of the population doubting, if not openly thwarting you, is a great achievement.
If you're setting up some sort of combination, you enter the triggering parameters in advance, and you don't even need to see what was being done on screen
But I would certainly like to know if the stock was selling for less than my buying price or more than my selling price...or if the price of the stock changed halfway through execution of my carefully planned order which is what is happening here. People who make tons of money doing that see all sorts of benefits from it, everyone else who's not in on the take rightfully considers it a scam.
HFT ensures that both styles of trading benefit.
...for a small fee...that no one asked for.
That would be 80% in terms of clear or tinted eye coverings secured by a frame resting on the nose and ears. Luxottica doesn't just own rayban. They own all the "designer" brands too. They also do the actual designing. Burberry, calvin klein, etc are all produced and designed by luxottica (albeit with some input from said brands). When Oakley resisted a luxottica buyout their stock plummeted, forcing them to sell. If I needed glasses I'd be concerned that my clear vision depends entirely on a single company based in Italy.
Oh don't get your bloomers in a bunch ol' chap. I don't bother when TopGear has some random nobody (otherwise known as a British Celebrity) on as their guest or continues to use the word Lorry. Perhaps you can convince Brian Cox (who is no slouch) to do a "how did I become a physicist" over some tea and crumpets and then that story will be posted too. Do you feel at home now? (note: I'm assuming you're British since both of your "international presenters" are from England. Apologies if you're a true international citizen).
science calls.
Indeed...
Science called. It said not to make a quick dismissive judgement on something you know nothing about.
Spoiler Alert! The Ph in PhD is for philosophy. The D is for Doctorate. In reality, NGT has a PhD in Astrophysics, which didn't stop him from becoming my favorite philosopher. He's also lectured and directed at several prestigious astrophysics positions around the country. Sorry to ruin what was clearly a joke aimed at the "Bill ain't no science guy without no science degree" crowd. Funny how most of the comments in stories about college have the theme "college is worthless, learn in the real world" and here we have someone that seems to have done just that but gets no credit because he doesn't have a science degree.
You posted about Syria specifically and how Putin did a better job than Obama. Bush(s) invaded Iraq/Afghanistan. You want to open the floor up to every transgression the US and Russia have ever committed? I'll admit that would be pretty interesting....
Yeah Russia did such a great job, stalling for years while supporting a dictator actively killing his own citizens until they were able to fall into a solution based on an off-hand remark describing a completely unrealistic scenario. Way to see that one coming.
I'm fairly sure that Obama wouldn't have the balls to push the Red Button
Translation: Obama is not a moron. And thank goodness for that. Personally I have something to live for and could care less about Putin waving his di...er...nipples around (but I do feel for the Ukraine who is staring at a deep dark hole) . Furthermore, I think humanity is a worthwhile endeavor despite everyone's ability to "talk".
http://www.pewforum.org/2012/1...
You're welcome AC, who will never come back to this thread. Thank you for your broken english anecdotes.
I don't think you understand what religion is.
Well duh, one of the reasons why I'm not religious.
athiests simply don't believe in your fairy tales.
Probably true. I'm a parkour master in most of them.
believing in something is NOT anywhere close to being a religion, in itself
Isn't it if you reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaalllllly believe in it? Perhaps I should clarify. What I'm talking about goes beyond your simplification. More like: "Surviving in the woods was his religion" or even "I go to large regular gatherings to be part of something bigger than myself with a bunch of like minded people" (http://www.npr.org/2014/01/07/260184473/sunday-assembly-a-church-for-the-godless-picks-up-steam) and "I need to impress my beliefs on others who aren't asking for it" (http://www.npr.org/2014/02/26/281450206/ardent-atheists-spread-their-reverence-for-disbelief). If the only thing separating all that from true "religion" is my parkour fairy tails, then the new freakin awesome catholic pope has a lot more to worry about than conservative pundit backlash to his "keepin it real". On a side note: As some one who is not Catholic or religious, the new pope seems to be exactly what the catholic church needs.
Another thing about religion is that it contains 84% of the worlds population. A critical mind wouldn't dismiss such an overwhelming (albeit declining) majority as totally worthless to the human condition. Surely it's served some evolutionary purpose, perhaps helping humans organize societies, which is the only way you're going to get to the moon. I don't understand why so much of the population believes in counter intuitive stories clearly designed to keep some people in power, but I'd prefer a scientific explanation of it instead of doing the /. thing and calling all religious people idiots...especially when so many of them are smarter, faster, and stronger than me. That's why I agree with the AC GP and not your post which took the easy route and apparently hasn't looked at religion with a critical mind.
A side note, the word I'd use to describe all of the big atheist gatherings and organizations that I've seen is: religious.
Because it's efficient. Because it doesn't require a lot of high-tech manufactured goods and has lower maintenance and repair costs compared to other alternatives
I'm about to drift off topic here and possibly into an irrelevant example but a number I should have used to put coal=$50B into perspective is: WhatsAPP = $19B. For that you get 50 people and a server farm which should cost a miniscule fraction of even the most efficient mountain top removal strip mine. Ok you also get 500M non paying users (aka personal data sources) mainly in developing countries. But with coal you get 40% of the richest citizens in the world locked into your system by inertia or apathy, possibly the two most powerful social forces in existence. That has got to be worth much more than 2.5x the price of a 2 year old internet startup. Is this a valid comparison? Sure, both now have a dollar amount associated with them. I just think the dollar amount for coal is waaaay low, else someone should have bought them out already...or at least shut them up during election season.