See, this is why Assassination Politics is so interesting. There's no talk of "hate speech." No questioning of motivations. Just cold, hard, untraceable cash.
Indeed, a state can not and should not be expected to live by the same rules as an individual. For instance, an individual enjoys freedom of thought
But the loss of privacy doesn’t just threaten political freedom. Return for a moment to our thought experiment where I telepathically know all your thoughts whether you like it or not From my perspective, the perspective of the knower — your existence as a distinct person would begin to shrink. Our relationship would be so lopsided that there might cease to be, at least to me, anything subjective about you. As I learn what reactions you will have to stimuli, why you do what you do, you will become like any other object to be manipulated. You would be, as we say, dehumanized
But a democratic state exists solely to be manipulated by those that it governs. If it enjoyed freedom of thought, it would lose legitimacy.
ran numerous productivity and games software pretty quickly and seldom ever crashed.
provided you could tweak your config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up the necessary memory.
My first (IBM Compatible) PC was a DOS compatibility card that came with the family's PowerMac 6100-- the mac was faster, but the PC had games. Before that, we had an Apple IIe/IIgs and a Mac IIsi.
But the ipad 2, running an ARM, is approximately as fast as a cray 2--a supercomputer contemporaneous with the 80386.
Kids these days! They should get off my lawn and visit a computer history museum...
Most tablets have dedicated video decoders and many have encoders (for wireless video). This saves battery power.
The next big thing is H.265-- and I'm guessing there will be a few years of people complaining about battery life and high cpu-load until video chipsets incorporate dedicated circuitry.
This may be a chicken or the egg problem, but realistic physics might actually be a draw for kids. Imagine a game which lets you build a city, and then smash it to pieces... Or a game which just happens to simulate fur, cloth and hair in a realistic manner.
Have you actually used a 386? Not a computer that you think is equivalent to a 386. Not a 386-class computer, but an actual 80386 computer with 2 megabytes of memory, and a 500 megabyte hard drive, and a 256 color 320x200 display?
I upgraded to 8 GB specifically to compress video. Adding the extra ram really improved GUI responsiveness. It's probably highly inaccurate to analogize this to running my GUI/browser/games/etc on one core, and my compression on the other core, but that's what it felt like after adding the extra ram.
Mobile Alabama is already adjacent to the sea. To flood the Florida panhandle, and thus expand Alabama's beach front to the east, you'd need between 30 and 40 meters of sea level rise. You'd need 60 meters to get rid of the florida peninsula entirely source.
Are you really arguing that the analogy between the act of rape and the act of wiretapping is appropriate, but the use of what others interpret as humor is out of bounds?
And yet there are only 3 independents holding federal elected office, and 1 of those independents (Joe Lieberman) is really a Democrat in disguise because his party supported him over the candidate chosen by voters in Connecticut in the primary.
My independent views are mine alone. They are unlikely to mesh with the independent views of those other than me.
I think you'll find that this is a relatively recent concept, and some can condemn other forms of rape, while having a difficult time understanding how rape can possibly exist with the confines of marriage.
You assume an antagonistic relationship between the people and the state. This is not necessarily a good assumption to make when trying to understand why NSA wiretapping is still accepted by significant segments of the population.
Additionally, any implied consent is bounded by the constitution, and it does not appear that the government of the US has any intent whatsoever to abide by those restrictions.
Au contraire. Secret court rulings have confirmed that the US is abiding by the constitution. Please do not attempt to disprove this, as slashdot is not cleared to receive classified information.
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Stilboestrol has all sorts of nasty side effects. Would you like breasts to go with your formerly masculine physique?
Indeed. The secret wiretapping of private citizens by the state goes directly against that paradigm. Perhaps I should have clarified--
A free individual enjoys freedom of thought.
But I'm sick of people trying to equate the public and the private, and trying to apply equal rules to both spheres.
Sounds as if he's got a one track mind.
Be gentle. It's his first Blog Post.
See, this is why Assassination Politics is so interesting. There's no talk of "hate speech." No questioning of motivations. Just cold, hard, untraceable cash.
Indeed, a state can not and should not be expected to live by the same rules as an individual. For instance, an individual enjoys freedom of thought
But a democratic state exists solely to be manipulated by those that it governs. If it enjoyed freedom of thought, it would lose legitimacy.
Chimping normally refers to the ritual of reviewing a newly taken photo on a camera's LCD.
ran numerous productivity and games software pretty quickly and seldom ever crashed.
provided you could tweak your config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up the necessary memory.
My first (IBM Compatible) PC was a DOS compatibility card that came with the family's PowerMac 6100-- the mac was faster, but the PC had games. Before that, we had an Apple IIe/IIgs and a Mac IIsi.
But the ipad 2, running an ARM, is approximately as fast as a cray 2--a supercomputer contemporaneous with the 80386.
Kids these days! They should get off my lawn and visit a computer history museum...
That means there are 6 year old PCs with BluRay Drives, which means they can decode 1080P video with no lag.
Provided that you had a video card with the necessary circuitry.
Most tablets have dedicated video decoders and many have encoders (for wireless video). This saves battery power.
The next big thing is H.265-- and I'm guessing there will be a few years of people complaining about battery life and high cpu-load until video chipsets incorporate dedicated circuitry.
Adobe has released a version of photoshop for iOS. Photoshop Express is Free; Photoshop Touch is not.
OTOH, they may be stretching the limits of the "Photoshop" brand.
This may be a chicken or the egg problem, but realistic physics might actually be a draw for kids. Imagine a game which lets you build a city, and then smash it to pieces... Or a game which just happens to simulate fur, cloth and hair in a realistic manner.
I don't think the boxes can talk infiniband at all.
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Have you actually used a 386? Not a computer that you think is equivalent to a 386. Not a 386-class computer, but an actual 80386 computer with 2 megabytes of memory, and a 500 megabyte hard drive, and a 256 color 320x200 display?
I upgraded to 8 GB specifically to compress video. Adding the extra ram really improved GUI responsiveness. It's probably highly inaccurate to analogize this to running my GUI/browser/games/etc on one core, and my compression on the other core, but that's what it felt like after adding the extra ram.
ram is cheap. Don't skimp.
not exactly
Mobile Alabama is already adjacent to the sea. To flood the Florida panhandle, and thus expand Alabama's beach front to the east, you'd need between 30 and 40 meters of sea level rise. You'd need 60 meters to get rid of the florida peninsula entirely source.
"Below sea level" and "above sea level" are useful concepts. Don't quibble about how rock deep below Mount Everest is somehow "below sea level."
Are you really arguing that the analogy between the act of rape and the act of wiretapping is appropriate, but the use of what others interpret as humor is out of bounds?
Please stop trying to constrain our discourse.
and 2000 votes may be enough to elect a new dog catcher.
And yet there are only 3 independents holding federal elected office, and 1 of those independents (Joe Lieberman) is really a Democrat in disguise because his party supported him over the candidate chosen by voters in Connecticut in the primary.
My independent views are mine alone. They are unlikely to mesh with the independent views of those other than me.
At least you didn't invoke sheeple
I'm not a semiotician.
Two words. "Spousal Rape."
I think you'll find that this is a relatively recent concept, and some can condemn other forms of rape, while having a difficult time understanding how rape can possibly exist with the confines of marriage.
You assume an antagonistic relationship between the people and the state. This is not necessarily a good assumption to make when trying to understand why NSA wiretapping is still accepted by significant segments of the population.
perhaps it's not "rape rape" but "spousal rape."
Additionally, any implied consent is bounded by the constitution, and it does not appear that the government of the US has any intent whatsoever to abide by those restrictions.
Au contraire. Secret court rulings have confirmed that the US is abiding by the constitution. Please do not attempt to disprove this, as slashdot is not cleared to receive classified information.
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