Sigh... yes indeed, apathy, thaa-aat's the way to go.
Do you realize what a privilege it is to live in an era where you are governed by representative democracy? What is it, uh, 546 people or so (counting Biden) that control 300+ million in the US alone, and the few representing the countless more in the European and Ozland democracies. If you consider scientific belief that humans have been on this earth in their modern form for 200,000 years, the odds of you living in a nation-state as a citizen with voting powers are rather on the order of a smedium-sized lottery win.
Like the people who live right next to the Lake, we don't focking appreciate it most of the time.
Just wanted to add that the problem is inherent. The hole drilled creates a path from the hydrocarbons to the drinking water.
Of course, humans are living proof of nature's axiom that if it can happen, it will happen. Do you think the term nature is fungible with probable over a large enough sample?
A fault in the casing or grout can cause drinking water contamination. All it takes is negligence, incompetence or just Murphy's Law.
Athlete I may be, if I threw a baseball in the backyard with my cousin, a sure handed, athletic, rain-man paperboy... despite every precaution, we would drop a few balls over the course of enough time.
The flu isn't really a great example for "risky behavior." I would be surprised if I've been exposed to less than 50 strains of the flu virus and I go 3-5 years between being sick with the flu or similar on average. The flu is mostly just a symptom of a life-style that involves being around other people.
A mega-flora of flu antibodies might actually be good for an applicant for insurance, as it generally represents greater future immunity to evolving flu strains.
Positives for hepatitis, HIV, etc. would definitely encourage the insurance company to attempt to opt you out.
wink wink If your maths are correct, I would be interested in getting your Doc's name and a reference.
Full disclosure: A great deal of my personal income comes on the back of the oil and gas industry.
Every oil or natural gas well ever drilled goes through the focking water table to get to the hydrocarbons we have grown accustomed to having at the ready. There is a protocol required when drilling, in that the well must be cased with concrete to a depth beneath where the fresh water table ends. There are a million+ wells producing in the US alone right now, and many times that number of abandoned wells since Titusville in the 1860's.
There is an environmental consequence for every form of energy we humans use, mind you, but if the failure rate of the casing was only 1% over the timetable when wells were even cased, that is still a metric fuckton of water supply contaminations.
Encrypting and protecting sensitive information flies in the face of government's innate need to collect and parse all the information it can get its greedy little hands on.
Not that the two are mutually exclusive, but for your governing overlords, it boils down to implementing effective strategies to protect information or having access to it.
It's not very difficult to see which side your elected leaders currently line up on.
It's being reported both ways. The Seattle Times version is they plan to deploy 4000 geosynchronous satellites, and Business Week says 700 low-earth orbit satellites.
It's plausible the test satellites will be a determining factor, and IIRC, Wyler has some advantage in spectrum rights. What I do find interesting is that Musk's chief competitor is Greg Wyler, a former Google hand, and Google/Fidelity committed a $billion US to Musk's company for a 10% stake.
We can perhaps all agree it is a very cool time to be alive.
Though years from implementing the the string of geosynchronous satellites that are predicted to make internet access into a truly worldwide web, these first two test satellites are an encouraging step in that direction.
I think many of us like Elon Musk because he represents what we hope we would become if we suddenly became youngish billionaires.
Lie, damn lie, or statistic; these companies are being forced to engage these topics by the increasing social pressure to appear "fair handed."
If you imagine that you are tired of hearing about it as a reader or tech employee, just imagine how it might be for the people whose job it is to make this bettter at the supposedly forward thinking tech giants.
How are those numbers coming, Jim?
Well, we've hired as many somewhat qualified people as we can find, and it's still not enough. Can we count the cafeteria employees again this year?
Or will revelations like this lead terrorists to try more often? If there terrorists think that there's a good chance they will be caught, they will spend more time making their plans, and only do something that's truly devastating (like 9-11). However, if it really is so easy to get weapons past security, it makes more sense to spend almost no time at all planning anything, and just do a lot of attempts since it seems like things are quite likely to succeed.
News releases of this sort certainly could inspire the same sort of spur-of-the-moment attack we saw in Texas at the "Draw the Prophet" exhibit, itself a virtual terrorist-baiting.
Well organized attacks like 9/11 are apparently not the terrorists' forte, anyway, as there are seemingly an order or two more suicide-type attacks than the well orchestrated variety.
The thing is, the takeover of an airborne plane now has a minimal chance of being flown into a building, as passengers are aware negotiating some prisoner's release or other blackmail on the runway is not the likely outcome. Does anyone know how much airport security there is for a small private plane or jet at the same airport they frisk your gran?
Nope. The guy they caught wrote a ransom note demanding $$$ to stop poisoning the bottles. He got caught and sent away for extortion. AFAIK they never did charge anyone with the actual murder.
Indeed. And, he lived in New York whilst the poisoned capsules were found in and around the Chicago area.
Johnson and Johnson's handling of the total recall[tm] was wildly applauded at the time, perhaps in contrast to the number of stars we are currently awarding to the nationwide surveillance alliance.
Regarding the Tylenol tampering murders: (maybe) started by a lone wolf who was never caught (although some folks were who already wanted to kill their spouses either jumped on the imitation bandwagon or planted the random poisoned bottles themselves).
Regarding the inevitable use of the internet for data collection: yeah, someone was first, but a metric fuck ton more suspects.Governments, corporations, recruiters, employers, prospective suitors, suspicious spouses, etc.
Sure, but the celebrity of politics would be an advantageous pulpit from which to defend the slander.
Of course, if someone with enough wealth and will decided to deface my reputation through search engine modifications, it would be difficult for me to defend myself.
It would also effect my livelihood only negligibly. There is some middle-of-the-herd shelter in anonymity.
Human nature provides ample fuel for the corruption of the scientific process.
On individual days and in individual studies the science can be protected, but you will never completely remove even unintentional bias.
Willful misrepresentation of the facts to satisfy an agenda will continue as long as humans are involved in the experimentation or in the compilation of the results.
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I just awakened from a coma and it's the fourth month's fool?
Do you realize what a privilege it is to live in an era where you are governed by representative democracy? What is it, uh, 546 people or so (counting Biden) that control 300+ million in the US alone, and the few representing the countless more in the European and Ozland democracies. If you consider scientific belief that humans have been on this earth in their modern form for 200,000 years, the odds of you living in a nation-state as a citizen with voting powers are rather on the order of a smedium-sized lottery win.
Like the people who live right next to the Lake, we don't focking appreciate it most of the time.
Many (perhaps more than half) cardiomyocyte heart cells in a septuagenarian are the ones she was born with.
A part of you has always been in the current state of things. 75 to 120 years mostly well-lived is more than enough for me.
it was always rumored to be on that list of books the government kept track of at public libraries.
Though it's been referenced in popular culture (conspiracy movies and novels) several times, it's curious but perhaps unproven.
you'd have actually had to be working in the field.
So, looking bad? Maybe that's just your thing.
Just wanted to add that the problem is inherent. The hole drilled creates a path from the hydrocarbons to the drinking water.
Of course, humans are living proof of nature's axiom that if it can happen, it will happen. Do you think the term nature is fungible with probable over a large enough sample?
A fault in the casing or grout can cause drinking water contamination. All it takes is negligence, incompetence or just Murphy's Law.
Athlete I may be, if I threw a baseball in the backyard with my cousin, a sure handed, athletic, rain-man paperboy... despite every precaution, we would drop a few balls over the course of enough time.
The flu isn't really a great example for "risky behavior." I would be surprised if I've been exposed to less than 50 strains of the flu virus and I go 3-5 years between being sick with the flu or similar on average. The flu is mostly just a symptom of a life-style that involves being around other people.
A mega-flora of flu antibodies might actually be good for an applicant for insurance, as it generally represents greater future immunity to evolving flu strains.
Positives for hepatitis, HIV, etc. would definitely encourage the insurance company to attempt to opt you out.
wink wink If your maths are correct, I would be interested in getting your Doc's name and a reference.
Every oil or natural gas well ever drilled goes through the focking water table to get to the hydrocarbons we have grown accustomed to having at the ready. There is a protocol required when drilling, in that the well must be cased with concrete to a depth beneath where the fresh water table ends. There are a million+ wells producing in the US alone right now, and many times that number of abandoned wells since Titusville in the 1860's.
There is an environmental consequence for every form of energy we humans use, mind you, but if the failure rate of the casing was only 1% over the timetable when wells were even cased, that is still a metric fuckton of water supply contaminations.
Not that the two are mutually exclusive, but for your governing overlords, it boils down to implementing effective strategies to protect information or having access to it.
It's not very difficult to see which side your elected leaders currently line up on.
+1 Devilishly Clever...
Geosynchronous or not.
It's being reported both ways. The Seattle Times version is they plan to deploy 4000 geosynchronous satellites, and Business Week says 700 low-earth orbit satellites.
It's plausible the test satellites will be a determining factor, and IIRC, Wyler has some advantage in spectrum rights. What I do find interesting is that Musk's chief competitor is Greg Wyler, a former Google hand, and Google/Fidelity committed a $billion US to Musk's company for a 10% stake.
We can perhaps all agree it is a very cool time to be alive.
Dang, am I sounding like a fanboi or what?
Maybe, but there are worse things to get behind.
Though years from implementing the the string of geosynchronous satellites that are predicted to make internet access into a truly worldwide web, these first two test satellites are an encouraging step in that direction.
I think many of us like Elon Musk because he represents what we hope we would become if we suddenly became youngish billionaires.
If you imagine that you are tired of hearing about it as a reader or tech employee, just imagine how it might be for the people whose job it is to make this bettter at the supposedly forward thinking tech giants.
How are those numbers coming, Jim?
Well, we've hired as many somewhat qualified people as we can find, and it's still not enough. Can we count the cafeteria employees again this year?
Or will revelations like this lead terrorists to try more often? If there terrorists think that there's a good chance they will be caught, they will spend more time making their plans, and only do something that's truly devastating (like 9-11). However, if it really is so easy to get weapons past security, it makes more sense to spend almost no time at all planning anything, and just do a lot of attempts since it seems like things are quite likely to succeed.
News releases of this sort certainly could inspire the same sort of spur-of-the-moment attack we saw in Texas at the "Draw the Prophet" exhibit, itself a virtual terrorist-baiting.
Well organized attacks like 9/11 are apparently not the terrorists' forte, anyway, as there are seemingly an order or two more suicide-type attacks than the well orchestrated variety.
The thing is, the takeover of an airborne plane now has a minimal chance of being flown into a building, as passengers are aware negotiating some prisoner's release or other blackmail on the runway is not the likely outcome. Does anyone know how much airport security there is for a small private plane or jet at the same airport they frisk your gran?
Cheese and rice!
Nope. The guy they caught wrote a ransom note demanding $$$ to stop poisoning the bottles. He got caught and sent away for extortion. AFAIK they never did charge anyone with the actual murder.
Indeed. And, he lived in New York whilst the poisoned capsules were found in and around the Chicago area.
Johnson and Johnson's handling of the total recall[tm] was wildly applauded at the time, perhaps in contrast to the number of stars we are currently awarding to the nationwide surveillance alliance.
Regarding the inevitable use of the internet for data collection: yeah, someone was first, but a metric fuck ton more suspects.Governments, corporations, recruiters, employers, prospective suitors, suspicious spouses, etc.
/. being slower than everyone else to report on a story.
That is suspicious.
Issuing an opinion on something the umbrella corporation did that you may have no control over would be a solid follow up.
It occurs to me you knew that and got me to search there anyway, you clever bastard.
1)You can't wash your eyes with soap.
2)You can't count your hair.
3)You can't breathe through your nose with your tongue out.
4)You just tried number 3.
6)When you tried #3, you realized it's it's possible, you just look like a dog.
7) You're smiling right now because you know you were fooled.
8) you skipped number 5.
9)You just checked to see if there was a #5.
Amazing isn't it ? It's like watching people covered in shit, sniffing around looking for something that stinks.
Damn. I don't get that...
Is that a focking premium cable channel?
Of course, if someone with enough wealth and will decided to deface my reputation through search engine modifications, it would be difficult for me to defend myself.
It would also effect my livelihood only negligibly. There is some middle-of-the-herd shelter in anonymity.
I liken this to an expression of belief.
An expression in which I advocate the freedom of, even (and especially) if it makes throw up in my mouth a tiny bit.
Access to information is the greatest threat to rule of crooks and despots, which is why it is frowned upon in so many closed counties.
In the West? Chances are very few people will be reseacrhing online inside the voting booth. Do your homework before election day.
On individual days and in individual studies the science can be protected, but you will never completely remove even unintentional bias.
Willful misrepresentation of the facts to satisfy an agenda will continue as long as humans are involved in the experimentation or in the compilation of the results.