She LIED about her heritage to take advantage of affirmative action laws. Should be disqualifying for being president or Senator right there. It disqualifies her from every making any moral argument against me or what I do.
You are saying lying should disqualify someone for being president or senator? Really? Is that what you are saying?
If so, you'd best address the gigantic orange elephant in the room.
Watching made up stories about made up characters has been gradually losing its appeal to me. In the depths of Canadian winters I certainly consume more entertainment than in the summer, but my total screen time has been falling for years. What remains is Youtube DIY stuff and social documentaries. I'll still find time for GoT, but that's the only fictional series that I'm looking forward to, and I doubt I'll start it until long after the whole season has aired.
Right now, I'd much rather spend time with my family, work on our house, put in fruit trees, work in the garden, raise livestock, or fly an FPV quadcopter than sit in front of a screen. Taking one example from my list that may resonate here: Flying FPV and the activities surrounding it. An hour spent building/repairing quadcopters, searching satellite imagery for interesting locations, driving and hiking to/from locations with my boys and/or dog, checking out any flight footage, and flying itself is far more fulfilling than an hour spent watching fiction. And that's just a past-time. Doing something truly useful is on another level entirely.
That may be true of CFLs, but it shouldn't be true of LED bulbs. LEDs themselves can be turned on and off as much as you want, and fast, with no harm. I imagine the driving circuitry is more susceptible to damage from power cycling, but not much.
That's sensible thinking within the US, but in the EU you don't have to go to the trouble and expense of litigation. Government bodies can act on your behalf. This is probably of benefit to society as individuals have very little chance of succeeding in litigation against entities as large of multi-national corporations.
If you've been through any kind of litigation, you can probably see the value in this.
They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Whoa! That must be some super thick syrupy Kool-Aid you are drinking there.
The reason justice Kavanaugh was taken to task, was not that he had a beer, it is that he lied about his conduct, which included heavy drinking and mistreatment of female students.
The recent admissions scandal story makes a nice addendum to justice Kavanaugh's appointment.
I'm not so sure about that. Everything needed to connect to a WiFi network could be hidden in a power cable, both easily and cheaply. Once powered, the "SmartCable" could look for an open network, or use known exploits to attack a secure WiFi network. There would be plenty of time. If it ever successfully connects, it could report home, do a firmware update, and wait for commands. Throw tens of thousands of these cords into the markets of your target, and some of them are bound to turn up something juicy.
The only problem would be that this would be easy to find. A dumb power cord really shouldn't have an MCU. Once there was evidence of this going on, trust in anything manufactured in China would fall substantially.
But this is all conspiracy theory until someone finds some hard evidence, but the fact that some tech firms are taking actually switching suppliers definitely gives me pause.
I agree that that is Warren's strategy, but I think that she just lost the nomination with this announcement. Until this announcement, she was my pick. (Keeping in mind that I'm just an observer of US politics.)
If the Democrats can just pick their candidate without things getting bloody, I don't think Trump has a chance.
Your take on the Chinese governments lack of value for individual rights is pretty accurate. And I would have strongly agreed that the Canadian judicial process was apolitical, especially under the current government, until Wednesday afternoon when it was shaken.
But your larger point stands. It looks very much like there is something to the charges.
There are links right there in the article to the State of the Climate 2018 report from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The report addresses most of your issues, and has plenty of embedded references that you seem to have missed because they weren't all bundled up in the end-matter.
But you probably didn't have time to look into that without sacrificing first post.
You must have been incredibly lucky or haven't challenged yourself.
Easily half of my programming career has been spent understanding existing code (ie. not my own) as part of reimplementing it in another language or on top of another set of libraries/frameworks. Two-thirds would be writing code that is specific to the problem at hand (ie. no solution would be found by Googling). Maybe one-tenth of the problems I see can be solved with heavy inspiration from a search.
But I do see the writing on the wall for coders. Maybe 10 years out. Programmers, on the other hand, probably have twice that, if not more.
Sure, I was alienated by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as was another nerd I know, but that's it in my circle of acquaintances, and neither of us gave up our accounts. When I brought up the scandal at a get-together, nobody else had even heard of it, and the conversation shifted to how much everybody likes Facebook.
Honestly, I don't think Youtube can be blamed for the, admittedly clever, use of its comment system for nefarious reasons. If there is something they can do to stifle those uses, great...but it doesn't seem like there would be a bullet-proof, or even half-good, solution.
Are you trying to provide evidence that your level of scientific understanding is lacking? If so... Well done!
Look, the study is shows that push-ups are a better predictor of heart disease than their stamina on a treadmill. That's it. All these other factors that you are bringing in are completely beside the point as the study isn't addressing them in any way. Despite your preconceptions, push-ups clearly aren't meaningless.
The study also doesn't claim that push-ups are a perfect predictor, just a better one than treadmill testing. Even if you were tested and it mispredicted heart disease in your case, you could well be an outlier. And there's some randomness involved as well, but that's par for the course in the natural sciences.
You should have no problems reconciling the results of the study with your beliefs because they aren't mutually exclusive. And if they were mutually exclusive, your best course of action would be to change your beliefs. I mean, in the face of contrary evidence...what choice do you have?
Doesn't the US have an old age pension system? Aren't there a lot of parallels between such a system and a UBI? Isn't a pension system supported by tax dollars basically just a UBI for the elderly? Don't we see these systems as having an overwhelmingly positive effect?
I desperately want UBI rolled out as I see it massively increasing the efficiency of the work-force by removing the dead-weight... No. The negative weight. You know what I'm talking about: That guy who spends three quarters of his day wandering around talking to people and therefore wasting 1.5 equivalents of time.
You really should look into answers to your own questions as there is a great deal of accessible literature devoted to exactly this problem...unless of course you just want to bash UBI programs. If that is your intention, well done!
A UBI is not intended to fix drug addiction issues. If you want to address that problem, you should be looking at policies intended to do just that. The best policies I'm aware of are legalization of all recreational drugs and prescribing drugs as part of a universal healthcare system.
Most of the issues surrounding addiction are made much worse by current laws and enforcement strategies. The social costs to users and the people they victimize are almost completely eliminated through legalization by both prescribing and providing them with appropriate and safe drugs, including the very narcotics they are addicted to, as part of a treatment program.
No. It isn't him or the greens. Large projects are strongly associated with mismanagement and corruption. That is the major reason that there are cost overruns.
Solar and wind do not have these issues, at least not nearly to the same degree. They aren't nearly as risky an investment, which is why growth has been so strong.
Why do you see the issue as binary when it clearly isn't?
Climate change is clearly a factor, as is PG&E's mismanagement. Combined the two made the likelyhood of major fires a certainty. They should be held to account on both factors. A retroactive CO2 tax would be one nice way to do this, but I cant see it happening anytime soon, if at all.
Not for commercial use, yet, but their are lots of drones below 250 grams out there for commercial sale. My bet is that the majority of consumer drones are well below 250 grams. Many of the little toy drones you see are more like 25 grams. Complete Tiny Whoop style indoor racers are generally no more than 35 grams. I'm building a sub-250 longish-range racer-style drone, complete with FPV and GPS out of ordinary stuff that anyone can buy online and solder together. My suspicion is that one could build a sub-250 that could autonomously deliver small but precious cargo, like medication, a couple of miles, and return to home, easily enough.
It seems to me that this legislation is about freeing up the recreational drone market, which is not small, as well as freeing up industry to develop drones for commercial applications. To everyone except the get-off-my-lawn crowd, these are good moves.
1) Don't be absurd. Of course there are consequences to the drone operator in the event of a collision: Damage to the drone and legal liability for any damage they cause. The pilot's life isn't at risk in a collision, but this seems like a benefit and
2) Yes, the vast majority of drones won't be piloted at all, and those that will be will be piloted at a very high level. This seems like a great way to reduce collisions. The current standard in consumer camera drones are quite hard to crash because of advances in the control systems. I wouldn't have any reservation about putting my camera drone under the control of a 10 year old, other than the legality of doing so.
I'm honestly surprised at the response here. If there is a community that would be able to see the benefit of UAVs, I'd expect it to be here on Slashdot. Instead, it's just rampant paranoia. WTF?
The drone hysteria, and not drones, has armed mischief makers. It now looks like the Gatwick incident didn't actually involve any drones at all. There isn't much evidence that there was any wrong-doing at all in the Gatwick incident. I wonder if there will be at Heathrow.
I have a DJI Mavic Air for photography and a couple of self-built racing/acro drones for fun. The Air's electronics make it a cinch to fly, but it won't allow it to anywhere near an airport. Even if it could, it's so docile that it would be hard to hit moving aircraft. Steering into an engine of a moving passenger jet would be quite a challenge. Even a stationary plane's engine would be difficult to hit because the Air has sensors that won't let it crash into anything unless you ascend into it from below or fly into it side-ways, in which case you can't see where you are headed.
My racing/acro drones would be better for causing mischief, but not much. They do as I tell them, and are both tough and nimble, but it was a major effort to develop the skill to fly without fear of accidentally crashing. I've spent a lot of time practising on a simulator and flying through hula-hoop sized gates in wide open spaces, but still have trouble finishing a lap around a 10-gate track without crashing, even when that is my sole aim (ie. I take as much time as I like). I'd have a very hard time hitting a moving passenger plane at all, let alone in a way that could cause damage. The skill required makes these sorts of drones horrible tools to damage passenger planes.
Luckily for mischief makers, they don't have to be. All the hysteria means that one can shut down an airport with an 80-gram toy that is nearly incapable of causing damage to a plane, even in very skilled hands. Heck, who needs a drone. Just show up near an airport with a mock transmitter and goggles. Someone will call it in.
Just for interest, and not to be argumentative or correcting: Aluminum cans are actually better than bottles when it comes to beer, for a number of reasons, but quality-wise, cans don't let light hit the beer and their seal is better and longer lived. They are also more convenient for the manufacturer, shipper, and customer.
The problem is that makers of fine beer put it in bottles and makers of crappy beer put it in cans, which perpetuates the myth that bottles are superior, which continues the incentive to put more expensive beer in bottles, and so on.
But the industry is well into a shift away from bottles. I occasionally have a beer with brewmasters for local breweries and nearly all of them have virtually abandoned bottles. Over the holidays, thanks to beer advent calendars, I've been enjoying a variety of really great local beers in cans. Admittedly, my very favourites, stronger Belgian beers, only come in large bottles.
I learned a similar trick from one of my tech's while working as the lead technology guy at a school authority.
Our board chair, literally the highest ranking member of the organization, brought in his personal laptop and explained that it no longer booted. We plugged it in and hit the power button, it wouldn't boot of the hard disk. I started to explain that there was nothing we could do when my tech interrupted me. He removed the hard drive from the laptop, said "Watch this!" and without any hesitation, smartly whacked it against the desk. While my blood began to boil, he quickly placed the hard drive back in the laptop and power it up. It booted. I was very nearly floored.
At the time, I looked up the mechanism for why this worked, but have since forgotten. In any case, worth a try when you've tried everything else.
The combination of Pihole and Adblock has meant that I don't see ads on Youtube, except on our Nvidia Shield. On the Shield, Pihole blocks nearly all ads that interrupt a video, but not the ones that play at the beginning. This is just barely acceptable.
I turned off Pihole for an hour to solve an unrelated problem and experienced the full-fat ad experience on the Shield. This is not something I could stomach and would pay for Youtube Premium...at least for the winter months when the weather pushes me into hobby mode and hit Youtube a lot more.
Having content interrupted by ads is not something the majority of cord-cutters will put up with. I'd rather stare at the wall.
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She LIED about her heritage to take advantage of affirmative action laws. Should be disqualifying for being president or Senator right there. It disqualifies her from every making any moral argument against me or what I do.
You are saying lying should disqualify someone for being president or senator? Really? Is that what you are saying?
If so, you'd best address the gigantic orange elephant in the room.
Watching made up stories about made up characters has been gradually losing its appeal to me. In the depths of Canadian winters I certainly consume more entertainment than in the summer, but my total screen time has been falling for years. What remains is Youtube DIY stuff and social documentaries. I'll still find time for GoT, but that's the only fictional series that I'm looking forward to, and I doubt I'll start it until long after the whole season has aired.
Right now, I'd much rather spend time with my family, work on our house, put in fruit trees, work in the garden, raise livestock, or fly an FPV quadcopter than sit in front of a screen. Taking one example from my list that may resonate here: Flying FPV and the activities surrounding it. An hour spent building/repairing quadcopters, searching satellite imagery for interesting locations, driving and hiking to/from locations with my boys and/or dog, checking out any flight footage, and flying itself is far more fulfilling than an hour spent watching fiction. And that's just a past-time. Doing something truly useful is on another level entirely.
That may be true of CFLs, but it shouldn't be true of LED bulbs. LEDs themselves can be turned on and off as much as you want, and fast, with no harm. I imagine the driving circuitry is more susceptible to damage from power cycling, but not much.
That's sensible thinking within the US, but in the EU you don't have to go to the trouble and expense of litigation. Government bodies can act on your behalf. This is probably of benefit to society as individuals have very little chance of succeeding in litigation against entities as large of multi-national corporations.
If you've been through any kind of litigation, you can probably see the value in this.
They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Whoa! That must be some super thick syrupy Kool-Aid you are drinking there.
The reason justice Kavanaugh was taken to task, was not that he had a beer, it is that he lied about his conduct, which included heavy drinking and mistreatment of female students.
The recent admissions scandal story makes a nice addendum to justice Kavanaugh's appointment.
I'm not so sure about that. Everything needed to connect to a WiFi network could be hidden in a power cable, both easily and cheaply. Once powered, the "SmartCable" could look for an open network, or use known exploits to attack a secure WiFi network. There would be plenty of time. If it ever successfully connects, it could report home, do a firmware update, and wait for commands. Throw tens of thousands of these cords into the markets of your target, and some of them are bound to turn up something juicy.
The only problem would be that this would be easy to find. A dumb power cord really shouldn't have an MCU. Once there was evidence of this going on, trust in anything manufactured in China would fall substantially.
But this is all conspiracy theory until someone finds some hard evidence, but the fact that some tech firms are taking actually switching suppliers definitely gives me pause.
I agree that that is Warren's strategy, but I think that she just lost the nomination with this announcement. Until this announcement, she was my pick. (Keeping in mind that I'm just an observer of US politics.)
If the Democrats can just pick their candidate without things getting bloody, I don't think Trump has a chance.
Your take on the Chinese governments lack of value for individual rights is pretty accurate. And I would have strongly agreed that the Canadian judicial process was apolitical, especially under the current government, until Wednesday afternoon when it was shaken.
But your larger point stands. It looks very much like there is something to the charges.
There are links right there in the article to the State of the Climate 2018 report from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The report addresses most of your issues, and has plenty of embedded references that you seem to have missed because they weren't all bundled up in the end-matter.
But you probably didn't have time to look into that without sacrificing first post.
You must have been incredibly lucky or haven't challenged yourself.
Easily half of my programming career has been spent understanding existing code (ie. not my own) as part of reimplementing it in another language or on top of another set of libraries/frameworks. Two-thirds would be writing code that is specific to the problem at hand (ie. no solution would be found by Googling). Maybe one-tenth of the problems I see can be solved with heavy inspiration from a search.
But I do see the writing on the wall for coders. Maybe 10 years out. Programmers, on the other hand, probably have twice that, if not more.
Sure, I was alienated by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as was another nerd I know, but that's it in my circle of acquaintances, and neither of us gave up our accounts. When I brought up the scandal at a get-together, nobody else had even heard of it, and the conversation shifted to how much everybody likes Facebook.
Honestly, I don't think Youtube can be blamed for the, admittedly clever, use of its comment system for nefarious reasons. If there is something they can do to stifle those uses, great...but it doesn't seem like there would be a bullet-proof, or even half-good, solution.
It's just a cover for the bribes.
Are you trying to provide evidence that your level of scientific understanding is lacking? If so... Well done!
Look, the study is shows that push-ups are a better predictor of heart disease than their stamina on a treadmill. That's it. All these other factors that you are bringing in are completely beside the point as the study isn't addressing them in any way. Despite your preconceptions, push-ups clearly aren't meaningless.
The study also doesn't claim that push-ups are a perfect predictor, just a better one than treadmill testing. Even if you were tested and it mispredicted heart disease in your case, you could well be an outlier. And there's some randomness involved as well, but that's par for the course in the natural sciences.
You should have no problems reconciling the results of the study with your beliefs because they aren't mutually exclusive. And if they were mutually exclusive, your best course of action would be to change your beliefs. I mean, in the face of contrary evidence...what choice do you have?
Doesn't the US have an old age pension system? Aren't there a lot of parallels between such a system and a UBI? Isn't a pension system supported by tax dollars basically just a UBI for the elderly? Don't we see these systems as having an overwhelmingly positive effect?
I desperately want UBI rolled out as I see it massively increasing the efficiency of the work-force by removing the dead-weight... No. The negative weight. You know what I'm talking about: That guy who spends three quarters of his day wandering around talking to people and therefore wasting 1.5 equivalents of time.
You really should look into answers to your own questions as there is a great deal of accessible literature devoted to exactly this problem...unless of course you just want to bash UBI programs. If that is your intention, well done!
A UBI is not intended to fix drug addiction issues. If you want to address that problem, you should be looking at policies intended to do just that. The best policies I'm aware of are legalization of all recreational drugs and prescribing drugs as part of a universal healthcare system.
Most of the issues surrounding addiction are made much worse by current laws and enforcement strategies. The social costs to users and the people they victimize are almost completely eliminated through legalization by both prescribing and providing them with appropriate and safe drugs, including the very narcotics they are addicted to, as part of a treatment program.
No. It isn't him or the greens. Large projects are strongly associated with mismanagement and corruption. That is the major reason that there are cost overruns.
Solar and wind do not have these issues, at least not nearly to the same degree. They aren't nearly as risky an investment, which is why growth has been so strong.
Why do you see the issue as binary when it clearly isn't?
Climate change is clearly a factor, as is PG&E's mismanagement. Combined the two made the likelyhood of major fires a certainty. They should be held to account on both factors. A retroactive CO2 tax would be one nice way to do this, but I cant see it happening anytime soon, if at all.
You might see similarity between the stock market and gambling, but does the same similarity exist between your savings account and gambling?
Not for commercial use, yet, but their are lots of drones below 250 grams out there for commercial sale. My bet is that the majority of consumer drones are well below 250 grams. Many of the little toy drones you see are more like 25 grams. Complete Tiny Whoop style indoor racers are generally no more than 35 grams. I'm building a sub-250 longish-range racer-style drone, complete with FPV and GPS out of ordinary stuff that anyone can buy online and solder together. My suspicion is that one could build a sub-250 that could autonomously deliver small but precious cargo, like medication, a couple of miles, and return to home, easily enough.
It seems to me that this legislation is about freeing up the recreational drone market, which is not small, as well as freeing up industry to develop drones for commercial applications. To everyone except the get-off-my-lawn crowd, these are good moves.
1) Don't be absurd. Of course there are consequences to the drone operator in the event of a collision: Damage to the drone and legal liability for any damage they cause. The pilot's life isn't at risk in a collision, but this seems like a benefit and
2) Yes, the vast majority of drones won't be piloted at all, and those that will be will be piloted at a very high level. This seems like a great way to reduce collisions. The current standard in consumer camera drones are quite hard to crash because of advances in the control systems. I wouldn't have any reservation about putting my camera drone under the control of a 10 year old, other than the legality of doing so.
I'm honestly surprised at the response here. If there is a community that would be able to see the benefit of UAVs, I'd expect it to be here on Slashdot. Instead, it's just rampant paranoia. WTF?
The drone hysteria, and not drones, has armed mischief makers. It now looks like the Gatwick incident didn't actually involve any drones at all. There isn't much evidence that there was any wrong-doing at all in the Gatwick incident. I wonder if there will be at Heathrow.
I have a DJI Mavic Air for photography and a couple of self-built racing/acro drones for fun. The Air's electronics make it a cinch to fly, but it won't allow it to anywhere near an airport. Even if it could, it's so docile that it would be hard to hit moving aircraft. Steering into an engine of a moving passenger jet would be quite a challenge. Even a stationary plane's engine would be difficult to hit because the Air has sensors that won't let it crash into anything unless you ascend into it from below or fly into it side-ways, in which case you can't see where you are headed.
My racing/acro drones would be better for causing mischief, but not much. They do as I tell them, and are both tough and nimble, but it was a major effort to develop the skill to fly without fear of accidentally crashing. I've spent a lot of time practising on a simulator and flying through hula-hoop sized gates in wide open spaces, but still have trouble finishing a lap around a 10-gate track without crashing, even when that is my sole aim (ie. I take as much time as I like). I'd have a very hard time hitting a moving passenger plane at all, let alone in a way that could cause damage. The skill required makes these sorts of drones horrible tools to damage passenger planes.
Luckily for mischief makers, they don't have to be. All the hysteria means that one can shut down an airport with an 80-gram toy that is nearly incapable of causing damage to a plane, even in very skilled hands. Heck, who needs a drone. Just show up near an airport with a mock transmitter and goggles. Someone will call it in.
Just for interest, and not to be argumentative or correcting: Aluminum cans are actually better than bottles when it comes to beer, for a number of reasons, but quality-wise, cans don't let light hit the beer and their seal is better and longer lived. They are also more convenient for the manufacturer, shipper, and customer.
The problem is that makers of fine beer put it in bottles and makers of crappy beer put it in cans, which perpetuates the myth that bottles are superior, which continues the incentive to put more expensive beer in bottles, and so on.
But the industry is well into a shift away from bottles. I occasionally have a beer with brewmasters for local breweries and nearly all of them have virtually abandoned bottles. Over the holidays, thanks to beer advent calendars, I've been enjoying a variety of really great local beers in cans. Admittedly, my very favourites, stronger Belgian beers, only come in large bottles.
My bet is that you will change your mind right after your first ulcer.
I learned a similar trick from one of my tech's while working as the lead technology guy at a school authority.
Our board chair, literally the highest ranking member of the organization, brought in his personal laptop and explained that it no longer booted. We plugged it in and hit the power button, it wouldn't boot of the hard disk. I started to explain that there was nothing we could do when my tech interrupted me. He removed the hard drive from the laptop, said "Watch this!" and without any hesitation, smartly whacked it against the desk. While my blood began to boil, he quickly placed the hard drive back in the laptop and power it up. It booted. I was very nearly floored.
At the time, I looked up the mechanism for why this worked, but have since forgotten. In any case, worth a try when you've tried everything else.
The combination of Pihole and Adblock has meant that I don't see ads on Youtube, except on our Nvidia Shield. On the Shield, Pihole blocks nearly all ads that interrupt a video, but not the ones that play at the beginning. This is just barely acceptable.
I turned off Pihole for an hour to solve an unrelated problem and experienced the full-fat ad experience on the Shield. This is not something I could stomach and would pay for Youtube Premium...at least for the winter months when the weather pushes me into hobby mode and hit Youtube a lot more.
Having content interrupted by ads is not something the majority of cord-cutters will put up with. I'd rather stare at the wall.