Theres a difference between being *right* and *having people agree with you*.
Absolutely. It's just that being right without the ability to convince people of it seldom leads to earthshaking revolution... you run the risk of losing out to someone who is clearly wrong, yet charismatic and convincing.
This is often the World we live in today, suffering because the person who thought up the head tax couldn't debate as proficiently as the proponent of the metered gas mask.
I feel like this is indicative of the internet age, rather than isolated to academia, and the solution has evolved to become a penchant for sorting through the noise.
Perhaps true insight is to be realized by a more talented eye toward the sifting through the chaff
"If it could save just one child", "Spare one innocent", or "Every life is meaningful"...
At some point, on a World with seven billion souls, it really just becomes a point of where exactly you prioritize the human lives. For whatever reason, lives taken unfairly in Western nations in the pursuit of justice are the epitome of travesty... yet it is important that we recognize crime and punishment must be dealt with the only way we humans can do anything: imperfectly.
Meanwhile, back in Western Africa, the ebola plague just took its 10,000th victim.
That commercial corporations are people has been established in the protection of the least helpless among us...
I altruistically believe this protection ought to extend to the non-recipient of youtube's ad dollars, but then I'm a giver.
A multi-faceted amendment if there ever was one, AFAIC, the 1st gave us a right that was nearly as important as the freedom of speech, religion, and press: the separation of church and state.
The only way to avoid technical surveillance is to keep everything sensitive away from email or phone calls or instant messages. There is no way to avoid being the target of the NSA and CIA if they really want to get your data. None at all. The NSA and CIA are creating these techniques against countries such as Russia, China, and Iran with devastating success. (Look at the Iranian nuclear weapons program getting hacked by Stuxnet.) You have no way to avoid the hacking of your data if they are really set in doing it.
Pretty much this. Ergo, if you are intent on inviolable secrecy, you wouldn't be posting on ye olde green line site... nor any other. Who then, is willing to give up the internet and the freedom of speech to ensure no measure of antiestablishmentarianism viewpoint is uttered and recorded?
That I can still post my POV freely from the south side of somewhere without being erased by a midnight death squad is proof enough that the battle for your freedoms is not yet lost.
Vote for candidates, serve on juries, impress the importance of participation on your sports-distracted friends... do what can as one of the minority who can still afford to pay attention
Is the LAPD so bad that they need a police force that exists just to keep them in line?
There is some historical evidence to corroborate your theory.
Of course, it could be the LAPD needs to justify the huge expense of patrolling from Ghetto Birds instead of ground-based black-and-whites, and they're not at all bothered by the statistical insignificance of the small sample trotted out here as causation.
The real thefts are conducted under the venerable eye of a litigious legal system gone mad for undeserved plaintiff judgements and the attorney's 30% cut.
The right to sue to wrong a grievance or unsafe condition is a foundation of free Western society, often allowing the little guy to challenge a behemoth.
Unfortunately, not unlike many grand and beneficial social systems, it is ripe for abuse by the unscrupulous.
Very few things are "worth" what they cost. I mean, sure, on one level things are worth exactly what they cost. But on another level there's the cost of the raw materials and the labour required to assemble them, and the factory and its running costs etc. Do you include marketing? Shipping? R&D which is required up front but not to manufacture. A $600 smartphone costs $100 or so to build, and less after a while. What's it worth - $100 or $600?
Very few things are worth what they cost...aside from the value-added things you mention, profit enters the mix as a reasonable consideration a company must account for if remaining in business is part of the mission statement.
Apple's products are Veblen goods of the most coveted sort: profitable and popular.
Things are always and only worth what you can get for them.
That would be one interpretation of the Constitution.
Another, favored by those in the lawmaking business, believes the right to bear those arms comes with some red tape: serial numbers and background checks.
It's like a Baptist Preacher and a Catholic Priest arguing over the same biblical text.
Whatever else Hillary Clinton is, she is quite adept at the art of being in government.
Since this system was designed for her husband, she was aware of its advantages (and disadvantages). It was not used instead of the official gov't email on a whim. It just smacks of entitlement....... Maybe you don't know who I think I am!
Just so parent and grandparent, but the frequency with which power and phone service is lost at alarmed locations makes it unlikely the authorities will place as high a priority upon this type of trouble call.
It's a nice feature, but it doesn't generate the sort of priority response that a triggered alarm will.
Keep in mind the police also respond to dozens of false alarms for every genuine burglary.
Focusing on the NSA and the DOJ, arguably the most well known of the privacy violators, ignores the evidence that the majority of the World's governments engage in this sort of behavior.
If the lawsuit were successful, and if the organizations named as defendants in the suit ceased and desisted surveillance operations, all that would occur is a de facto victory in the surveillance arms race for America's opponents.
It's fairly sad, but very true to say this genie is out of the bottle.
The canine olfactory organ is thousands of orders of magnitude more sensitive than ours... identifying drugs, bombs, and cancers is rudimentary to our best friend.
Yet, despite this superpower, they choose roll around in the foulest smelling dead shit they can find.
Are there smells we cannot appreciate in the same vein that there are sounds we cannot hear?
Then it will become more common practice to cut lines to the places they will rob, if there is a live feed.
Skilled burglars have been cutting power and phone lines for years, since alarm systems have been in relative widespread use since the 90's. Many homes that report intruder alerts over land lines are easily defeated in this manner, especially if the loudspeaker in the attic can be disabled.
The new systems that report via wifi are still somewhat neutralized by the power outage throwing a main disconnect at the electrical feed, although they may report the power outage as an alarm trigger.
I'm sure people wouldn't want that in their bedroom either. There was enough of a fuss about the Kinect always being on. There is no sinker here.
An alarm system company was out in force in our town a year or so ago, knocking doors and offering the wifi thermostat with the whole house protection system. It came with a door keypad entry system, internet accessibility, and a free camera you could place wherever you wanted.
An attractive gal pal of mine had the complimentary camera in her bedroom... the sales rep had recommended installing it there and it never occurred to her what a poor placement that might be. So yeah, maybe there's a sinker...
According to TFA, Fujitsu was forced to scale back A large, long-term facial recognition study it was planning to carry out at Osaka Station because of privacy concerns.
They seem to have several plausible shopper-related motives for tracking people, sort of like in Minority Report, but it doesn't take a Nobel-worthy leap of the imagination to see where this technology might be used to further eradicate personal privacy.
True. At this point, I say 'Welcome aboard!' to any of them who decide that maybe trying science would be cool after all; but it's not even worth the effort to try to convert through additional evidence.
I just wish that there were more who were willing to be honest about it: "I'm a 6-day young earth creationist because I'm interested in faith, not empiricism." isn't my cup of tea; but I'm not interested in fighting with you about it. "No, no, empirical evidence actually proves creationism and a young earth for reasons wholly aside from my interest in it doing so!!!" effectively assures arbitrary amounts of bullshit, intellectual dishonesty, and atrociously bad science standards. Not Good.
Perhaps that's one the god belief set is still so strongly entrenched in the face of mountains of contrary evidence.... their missionary conversion drive is so much stronger than ours.
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Theres a difference between being *right* and *having people agree with you*.
Absolutely. It's just that being right without the ability to convince people of it seldom leads to earthshaking revolution... you run the risk of losing out to someone who is clearly wrong, yet charismatic and convincing.
This is often the World we live in today, suffering because the person who thought up the head tax couldn't debate as proficiently as the proponent of the metered gas mask.
Although to be fair, I stand in awe of the fact that the earth herself hadn't done more to cull the human population explosion.
Will this app be bought out and buried by the Facebook?
Aside from that, it seems likely studies such as this will be (and probably already are) used to make decisions the facts are unqualified to support.
"Yes it true. According to our studies, people hired on Thursday will take more crap than your average employee."
I feel like this is indicative of the internet age, rather than isolated to academia, and the solution has evolved to become a penchant for sorting through the noise.
Perhaps true insight is to be realized by a more talented eye toward the sifting through the chaff
one innocent put to death is too many
"If it could save just one child", "Spare one innocent", or "Every life is meaningful"...
At some point, on a World with seven billion souls, it really just becomes a point of where exactly you prioritize the human lives. For whatever reason, lives taken unfairly in Western nations in the pursuit of justice are the epitome of travesty... yet it is important that we recognize crime and punishment must be dealt with the only way we humans can do anything: imperfectly.
Meanwhile, back in Western Africa, the ebola plague just took its 10,000th victim.
Modulator-demodulator.
The illudium Q-36?
Where's the kaboom?
So much. It's just a naturally occurring number, not even particularly special.
It is this year. It was Pi to ten digits at 09:26:53 this morning.
Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
I altruistically believe this protection ought to extend to the non-recipient of youtube's ad dollars, but then I'm a giver.
A multi-faceted amendment if there ever was one, AFAIC, the 1st gave us a right that was nearly as important as the freedom of speech, religion, and press: the separation of church and state.
The only way to avoid technical surveillance is to keep everything sensitive away from email or phone calls or instant messages. There is no way to avoid being the target of the NSA and CIA if they really want to get your data. None at all. The NSA and CIA are creating these techniques against countries such as Russia, China, and Iran with devastating success. (Look at the Iranian nuclear weapons program getting hacked by Stuxnet.) You have no way to avoid the hacking of your data if they are really set in doing it.
Pretty much this. Ergo, if you are intent on inviolable secrecy, you wouldn't be posting on ye olde green line site... nor any other. Who then, is willing to give up the internet and the freedom of speech to ensure no measure of antiestablishmentarianism viewpoint is uttered and recorded?
That I can still post my POV freely from the south side of somewhere without being erased by a midnight death squad is proof enough that the battle for your freedoms is not yet lost.
Vote for candidates, serve on juries, impress the importance of participation on your sports-distracted friends... do what can as one of the minority who can still afford to pay attention
Is the LAPD so bad that they need a police force that exists just to keep them in line?
There is some historical evidence to corroborate your theory.
Of course, it could be the LAPD needs to justify the huge expense of patrolling from Ghetto Birds instead of ground-based black-and-whites, and they're not at all bothered by the statistical insignificance of the small sample trotted out here as causation.
The right to sue to wrong a grievance or unsafe condition is a foundation of free Western society, often allowing the little guy to challenge a behemoth.
Unfortunately, not unlike many grand and beneficial social systems, it is ripe for abuse by the unscrupulous.
Very few things are "worth" what they cost. I mean, sure, on one level things are worth exactly what they cost. But on another level there's the cost of the raw materials and the labour required to assemble them, and the factory and its running costs etc. Do you include marketing? Shipping? R&D which is required up front but not to manufacture. A $600 smartphone costs $100 or so to build, and less after a while. What's it worth - $100 or $600?
Very few things are worth what they cost...aside from the value-added things you mention, profit enters the mix as a reasonable consideration a company must account for if remaining in business is part of the mission statement.
Apple's products are Veblen goods of the most coveted sort: profitable and popular.
Things are always and only worth what you can get for them.
That is a crafty way to describe registered and monitored.
Another, favored by those in the lawmaking business, believes the right to bear those arms comes with some red tape: serial numbers and background checks.
It's like a Baptist Preacher and a Catholic Priest arguing over the same biblical text.
Whatever else Hillary Clinton is, she is quite adept at the art of being in government.
Since this system was designed for her husband, she was aware of its advantages (and disadvantages). It was not used instead of the official gov't email on a whim. It just smacks of entitlement....... Maybe you don't know who I think I am!
It's a nice feature, but it doesn't generate the sort of priority response that a triggered alarm will.
Keep in mind the police also respond to dozens of false alarms for every genuine burglary.
If the lawsuit were successful, and if the organizations named as defendants in the suit ceased and desisted surveillance operations, all that would occur is a de facto victory in the surveillance arms race for America's opponents.
It's fairly sad, but very true to say this genie is out of the bottle.
Yet, despite this superpower, they choose roll around in the foulest smelling dead shit they can find.
Are there smells we cannot appreciate in the same vein that there are sounds we cannot hear?
Then it will become more common practice to cut lines to the places they will rob, if there is a live feed.
Skilled burglars have been cutting power and phone lines for years, since alarm systems have been in relative widespread use since the 90's. Many homes that report intruder alerts over land lines are easily defeated in this manner, especially if the loudspeaker in the attic can be disabled.
The new systems that report via wifi are still somewhat neutralized by the power outage throwing a main disconnect at the electrical feed, although they may report the power outage as an alarm trigger.
I'm sure people wouldn't want that in their bedroom either. There was enough of a fuss about the Kinect always being on. There is no sinker here.
An alarm system company was out in force in our town a year or so ago, knocking doors and offering the wifi thermostat with the whole house protection system. It came with a door keypad entry system, internet accessibility, and a free camera you could place wherever you wanted.
An attractive gal pal of mine had the complimentary camera in her bedroom... the sales rep had recommended installing it there and it never occurred to her what a poor placement that might be. So yeah, maybe there's a sinker...
Hopefully the estimates of the plane's traveling capacity aren't as overblown as the articles predictions for solar energy's takeover of hydrocarbons.
Now, where is the daylight savings time article?
They seem to have several plausible shopper-related motives for tracking people, sort of like in Minority Report, but it doesn't take a Nobel-worthy leap of the imagination to see where this technology might be used to further eradicate personal privacy.
True. At this point, I say 'Welcome aboard!' to any of them who decide that maybe trying science would be cool after all; but it's not even worth the effort to try to convert through additional evidence. I just wish that there were more who were willing to be honest about it: "I'm a 6-day young earth creationist because I'm interested in faith, not empiricism." isn't my cup of tea; but I'm not interested in fighting with you about it. "No, no, empirical evidence actually proves creationism and a young earth for reasons wholly aside from my interest in it doing so!!!" effectively assures arbitrary amounts of bullshit, intellectual dishonesty, and atrociously bad science standards. Not Good.
Perhaps that's one the god belief set is still so strongly entrenched in the face of mountains of contrary evidence.... their missionary conversion drive is so much stronger than ours.