They are not releasing documents that even have one word of classified information on them, to err that far on the side of caution and refuse to attempt any redaction before releasing to the public means we are likely to be waiting till the next world war to read some of the documents from the second one.
What is this some hippy-skippy coffee enema of an algorithm? Are they going to try to tell us next that they are building their next datacenter at one of the earth's vortices to cram some metaphysical in with the metadata ? Hurumpf.
Yes, and most years it makes up the bulk of oil that is released into the ocean; however, a single man-made event like this one is 10x-20x greater in 50 days than the Gulf of Mexico releases naturally through seepage in an entire year.
I don't think people quite appreciate how difficult it is to remove oil from the ecosystem when things like cleaning the birds is considered futile, the dispersant may be longer acting than the oil and the median time for complete recovery is looking to be in the decades. Any solution that does not prevent future blow outs from happening in the first place is far too expensive to justify, its sort of sad that it is cheaper just to ignore the gulf coast and fish and vacation somewhere else till the pollution dies down. It may make for good TV viewing but I for one would rather see them invest billions to prevent another disaster instead of making largely cosmetic changes to the gulf coast that may lull people into a false sense of security.
From my teens through my 20's I was a profligate game pirate and I still have stacks of burnt CDs of late 90's and early 00's titles that I dig through every once in awhile. It is nice to be able to play Master of Orion or the original Fable for a sense of nostalgia but now in my early 30's I've begun thinking longer term storage and instead of trying to roll my own I'm going to trust Steam so I can play the few new games I play each year in the old folks home. Until I can get a nice Raid + backup solution for 10-20 terrabytes of games and growing, Steam or something like it seems the way to go.
No, they don't care about that much. What the do care about is a democratic neighbor to the south of them to pop up next to Taiwan. China is going through growing pains right now of their own, the last thing they need is a 400 mile long border to a country that makes 20x as much as the average Chinese worker.
With the IDF and the US military attempting old timey propaganda in a twitter/Flickr/YouTube/WikiLeaks world it really makes you wonder if they even care any more so long as the (middle aged)+ who watch TV for all their news don't catch on. The IDF manipulated an audio recording to make it appear as if captains were shouting antisemitic obscenities, 15 minutes after they posted it, it was revealed as a fake online; but CNN and Foxnews were reporting on it the whole weekend. When I tell my mom stuff like this, she says she does not believe me because FoxNews wouldn't report it if it were fake.
Historicism is bullshit, you don't get material, technological or political progress without the vast majority of folks contributing to society. Empires wane not when leaders make mistakes but when the system is rigged so when leaders make mistakes there is no mechanism to reliably removed them or make them pay for their crimes. The United States is fine till we can't fire those people who would presume to call themselves our bosses, than we are fucked.
I would love to see some studies backing your claims but alas it is Sunday and I am on the run. To the point, we ban gifts, bribes, quid pro quo not because we think by doing so that we would eliminate them without doubt but we have decided they influence elections unfairly. The price of running a campaign has grown 10x in some area in a period of less than 8 years, the only thing that is good for is the TV stations running the ADs and the PR firms running them. The voter in some races contributes less than half of what corporations do now, something is very wrong.
Since firefighters are the first to go in budgets since the massive uptick in laws requiring arrest. It costs an average of 1000 dollars to call a Fire Truck with 6 people to put out a fire and people pay only 300 dollars of that on average. Police cost 145 dollars a day and make a profit through fines on average of 3000 dollars a day through fines.
I understand that; however, that does not excuse our mindlessly glorifying them. Same goes for Soldiers, even though I respect both professions there are other less glamorous jobs that society needs that are virtually ignored because of the piety shown to people whose professions involve guns. Fucking sword envy is what it is, yep.
Hey, I'll be the first to admit that we need police or we would not have civilization. Hell, I think police officers should be paid enough so they don't have to work overtime to make a decent wage. What I can't understand is the mentality they " put their life on the line " BS that makes us think they are noble knights or something when firefighters during a good year still die at 3x the rate of cops and we don't think of them the same way.
Try to get video from one of those cameras from the Police to prove they were abusing their power. First off only about 70% of those cameras are operational and secondly they will actually appeal any decision to hand over video tapes in Chicago taken by those things that show their cops double parking, sleeping in their patrol cars and being all around dicks.
Not with the John Paul Stevens court now in session. We'll be lucky if we are not made a vassal state of the Vatican under pontifical law by the time he dies.
This over the ear video unit is being used by some San Jose, CA cops after they beat the living crap out of a Vietnamese foreign exchange student who is suing for 6 million dollars now.
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They are not releasing documents that even have one word of classified information on them, to err that far on the side of caution and refuse to attempt any redaction before releasing to the public means we are likely to be waiting till the next world war to read some of the documents from the second one.
The ecosystem survives but typically the top predators are all replaced.
They distribute 140 character chunks of information, we can just route around them by making an open source twitter.
Who needs the FAA when you got GPS still working? Military grade GPS has been able to pilot drones, missiles and cruise missiles for decades.
Ass, lotion and desperation.
What is this some hippy-skippy coffee enema of an algorithm? Are they going to try to tell us next that they are building their next datacenter at one of the earth's vortices to cram some metaphysical in with the metadata ? Hurumpf.
Yes, and most years it makes up the bulk of oil that is released into the ocean; however, a single man-made event like this one is 10x-20x greater in 50 days than the Gulf of Mexico releases naturally through seepage in an entire year.
You have an example where self-regulation was not abused? I could not find any.
I don't think people quite appreciate how difficult it is to remove oil from the ecosystem when things like cleaning the birds is considered futile, the dispersant may be longer acting than the oil and the median time for complete recovery is looking to be in the decades. Any solution that does not prevent future blow outs from happening in the first place is far too expensive to justify, its sort of sad that it is cheaper just to ignore the gulf coast and fish and vacation somewhere else till the pollution dies down. It may make for good TV viewing but I for one would rather see them invest billions to prevent another disaster instead of making largely cosmetic changes to the gulf coast that may lull people into a false sense of security.
At home it is one of two countries that gets blacklisted wholesale, China and Russia are the worst offenders.
From my teens through my 20's I was a profligate game pirate and I still have stacks of burnt CDs of late 90's and early 00's titles that I dig through every once in awhile. It is nice to be able to play Master of Orion or the original Fable for a sense of nostalgia but now in my early 30's I've begun thinking longer term storage and instead of trying to roll my own I'm going to trust Steam so I can play the few new games I play each year in the old folks home. Until I can get a nice Raid + backup solution for 10-20 terrabytes of games and growing, Steam or something like it seems the way to go.
No, they don't care about that much. What the do care about is a democratic neighbor to the south of them to pop up next to Taiwan. China is going through growing pains right now of their own, the last thing they need is a 400 mile long border to a country that makes 20x as much as the average Chinese worker.
Thats because they are a nation of Ben Franklins and Tiger Woods: who we know never stay out late.
With the IDF and the US military attempting old timey propaganda in a twitter/Flickr/YouTube/WikiLeaks world it really makes you wonder if they even care any more so long as the (middle aged)+ who watch TV for all their news don't catch on. The IDF manipulated an audio recording to make it appear as if captains were shouting antisemitic obscenities, 15 minutes after they posted it, it was revealed as a fake online; but CNN and Foxnews were reporting on it the whole weekend. When I tell my mom stuff like this, she says she does not believe me because FoxNews wouldn't report it if it were fake.
Historicism is bullshit, you don't get material, technological or political progress without the vast majority of folks contributing to society. Empires wane not when leaders make mistakes but when the system is rigged so when leaders make mistakes there is no mechanism to reliably removed them or make them pay for their crimes. The United States is fine till we can't fire those people who would presume to call themselves our bosses, than we are fucked.
I would love to see some studies backing your claims but alas it is Sunday and I am on the run. To the point, we ban gifts, bribes, quid pro quo not because we think by doing so that we would eliminate them without doubt but we have decided they influence elections unfairly. The price of running a campaign has grown 10x in some area in a period of less than 8 years, the only thing that is good for is the TV stations running the ADs and the PR firms running them. The voter in some races contributes less than half of what corporations do now, something is very wrong.
Since firefighters are the first to go in budgets since the massive uptick in laws requiring arrest. It costs an average of 1000 dollars to call a Fire Truck with 6 people to put out a fire and people pay only 300 dollars of that on average. Police cost 145 dollars a day and make a profit through fines on average of 3000 dollars a day through fines.
I understand that; however, that does not excuse our mindlessly glorifying them. Same goes for Soldiers, even though I respect both professions there are other less glamorous jobs that society needs that are virtually ignored because of the piety shown to people whose professions involve guns. Fucking sword envy is what it is, yep.
Hey, I'll be the first to admit that we need police or we would not have civilization. Hell, I think police officers should be paid enough so they don't have to work overtime to make a decent wage. What I can't understand is the mentality they " put their life on the line " BS that makes us think they are noble knights or something when firefighters during a good year still die at 3x the rate of cops and we don't think of them the same way.
It already exists, its called Rate My Cop from the article.
Cops die less than lumberjacks, miners and divers. Sing me a sad song. I'd rather be shot in the face than die underground or underwater.
Try to get video from one of those cameras from the Police to prove they were abusing their power. First off only about 70% of those cameras are operational and secondly they will actually appeal any decision to hand over video tapes in Chicago taken by those things that show their cops double parking, sleeping in their patrol cars and being all around dicks.
Not with the John Paul Stevens court now in session. We'll be lucky if we are not made a vassal state of the Vatican under pontifical law by the time he dies.
Show me a single case in the past 10 years where a police officer's family was killed by anyone besides the officer himself.
This over the ear video unit is being used by some San Jose, CA cops after they beat the living crap out of a Vietnamese foreign exchange student who is suing for 6 million dollars now.