The system encourages people to give excuses. If you say "I didn't see him" after running over and killing a pedestrian or cyclist, you will get off scot-free. If you say "I was paying no attention to my surroundings and driving like a self-absorbed jerk with no consideration for my fellow man" you can expect a ticket for a few hundred dollars.
Don't know which courts you have been in, but I've heard some judges strip the BS layer from arguments like "I didn't see them" Have to be a bit more convincing because responding officers do record facts and detectives are pretty experienced with lying people. My eldest brother worked in the courts for years, some of the stories he told us... people usually aren't thinking very clearly when they start lying to police and it all gets written down. Sometimes, when you are at fault it may be selfish, but it's best to just shut up.
You can already make such a system. There are tons of sites for importing short-range jammers, and from there it's just a matter of hooking it up to a speedometer system.
And not using it all the time so you get caught. The fine for using such a device is rather high.
Giving the driver the opportunity to pull over and answer a call would also be unacceptable.
Reminds me of the difference between Reasons and Excuse. Humans are, beyond the use of mere tools, distinguished from animals by their ability to rationalise.
Reason: "I was unable to avoid hitting the car in front of me because they suddenly pulled into my lane and slammed on their brakes."
Excuse: "I was unable to avoid hitting the car [I had been following for the past mile] because they suddenly hit their brakes [which I didn't see, because I was in a conversation on my phone] and stopped too fast for me to react."
See the difference? One beyond means to avoid, one within means to avoid. People talk to LEOs, after accidents, like these two are interchangeable.
...or listening to the radio, needing to use the bathroom, or being an asshole in the near vicinity of a car. Of course, this -really- punishes those who have always used hands-free technologies, used their phones responsibly, and drive safely every day. They HAVE to be a problem - because the NTSB says so...
Fines aren't high enough. Make them proportional to income, like they do in Germany. Ha! Imagine Bill Gates III going down I-5 on his phone while at the wheel and receiving a fine for $10 Billion.
We're one step closer to a (very) short range cell phone jammer in cars that jam all cell phone signals inside the car whenever the car is moving at, say, more than 10mph.
Tried to buy one of these, years ago. They're banned. Every time a site pops up selling them assembled or in kit, they vanish shortly afterward. Some funny old FCC thing baring them.
Probably more likely to cause an accident anyway, as the driver on the phone looks at their phone which has lost connection and/or attempts to redial, when they should be watching the road ahead.
I hear so many anecdotal stories about how drivers are perfectly functional and alert when driving and blathering (about what urgent matter, exactly?), but most accidents I see a driver was distracted. Even seen a three vehicle accident in bumper-to-bumper crawl, where the two following drivers were clearly not paying attention.
Banned in California, but I still see a lot of drivers with that slab of plastic pressed to the side of their head as they go down the road. Fines not high enough? Insurance not high enough? Maybe when they put cameras on overpasses to photograph the offending drivers and mail them the tickets. (We already have cameras on intersections for red-light runners.)
You know, for things like sentencing Salman Rushdie to death?
Or like stealing the last election to prop up the Revolutionary Guard's puppet and when the people don't like it, beating the hell out of them, killing them and/or imprisoning them, even going so far as to not return bodies of the dead to their families but burying them in graves in restricted areas, where families can't visit. Cuz, you know, they RG runs Iran, not the Mullahs or Ayathollah, which are allowed to go about their business, pretending there's some actual republic when it's really all a sham and military coup by feat.
What I'd like to know is why these drones don't even have a Self Destruct on a dead-man switch, out of contact for so long and sensitive bits are fused by a burning strip of Sodium or such.
...they'd stop changing the interface every week to something people hate even more than the last time they changed the interface the week before.
Oh, I dunno. I get a vigourous respiratory workout with shouting expletives at them while pounding on my keyboard. Good for the cardio-vascular and all.
So what you're saying is that once you've mastered all of the hard parts, Math is easy. That's good to know.
The trick with math, like any tools, is in the understanding of which to use, how to use and when to use - really, it's not difficult, but people choose to believe it's like some sort of magic they are unworthy to understand.
It's one of those things where the massive size of Facebook can be used for real good. There are already existing hotlines but I doubt they work that well preventing suicides. While they are useful, they aren't shown to people exactly when they really need it. They might know about them, but there's no incentive to try them at those moments. So when Facebook asks it good moment, it could easily save many lifes. Since this still needs the user to agree, it can't be used for harassing people either. If it was automatic it would be stupid, but this way it's only useful.
So overall, really good option.
Good PR, which is something Facebook needs.
"I'm feeling very depressed."
"OK, let's start with why you are feeling depressed.
"Facebook has been spying on me and selling all my personal details, while the founder will be a billionaire, all I get it tonnes of spam and annoyances.
Uh, what? How on earth did anything that you say have relevance to my (the parent's) point? I was saying that there is a wealth of evidence in trans people that technical or mathematical aptitude does not diminish over the course of their transition (though areas of interest may change), disproving the presumption that technical or mathematical aptitude is biologically determined.
A wealth of evidence - anecdotal. Actual studies (even before this one) have highlighted this trend. Cultural, certainly - gender roles/expectations, some externally imposed, some imposed by the self. But as I said - there's a culture of acquiescence. Consider the Curse of Beauty or old saying 'Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses', so culturally some girls will shy away from maths and sciences (or hide their ability.)
In rich worlds 80% of woman pile into 10 of the 120 job categories (Medicine, teaching, public service) while men are more evenly spread out.
Which is also cultural.
Traditional roles take a while to break down. About 100 years ago it was scandalous to even consider a woman going through medical school or writing a scientific thesis. Even in the 1950's the prevailing view among Sci-Fi audience was women were incapable of writing Science Fiction, so we had writers like "James Tiptree, Jr." Women were directed towards nurturing roles, so they could be good mothers when they married and retired from their profession.
Not quite the same today. I've worked with DBAs, Business Analysts and coders who are female. Highly competent professionals for the most part. Glad they didn't settle for less.
You would have thought insight just from trans-people's experiences would have been enough to make this blatantly obvious. I guess they're just too weird to consider.
Let's consider this.. the culture of acquiescence. Someone says, "Math is hard." Others who are struggling with math hear that statement and accept the reason they struggle is because math is hard, therefore failure (or accepting less than the best one can do) is allowable. So people sell themselves short, buying into the cultural belief that math is hard and only super intelligent beings (or geeks) get it, and since they are neither they focus their energies elsewhere.
Math isn't hard. It's easy. It's amazingly easy. What's hard is breaking through from simply memorising tons of details (which is rather difficult) to comprehension. Once you comprehend and begin thinking in a mathematical view, it's another language and a rather simple one at that (try learning French, with all those blasted dialects!)
It takes Russia a longtime to catch up. Now they are finally equal to the US in 2000.
They're still years away from equaling the US. They may have figured out election fraud, but we hide it much better here. Not completely, but much better.
I keep waiting for the day the GOP has their IPO on the NYSE. Might as well just get it all out there in the open and stop mucking about, begging corporate money for favours.
Do they do that at all in Russia? Still, 100%...lol. Putin doesn't even care anymore.
The Russians did a lot of the same things the Iranian regime did, when they utterly cooked the election so overdone that official counts showed more votes than voters in many cities. Of course, when the people screamed their indignation they beat, kicked, shot and arrested them. Gives you a pretty good idea how ruthless the Revolutionary Guard are about keeping power. After a few arrests and dispersing protesters it's good to see the Russians aren't using the same brutal tactics, to the extent they were in Iran. Perhaps there is hope for Russia after all.
That will work until Google buys images obtained from DHS autonomous drones to create Google Mountainview.
Ha! Little did you know Google already has this feature in Google Earth and Google Maps, they highly detailed views which are not only clear to mere centimetres, further, they are updated every five minutes and can be live when they need to be. DHS only has this view, which means FBI and CIA. But they don't want you to know about it, they don't want anyone to...
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The system encourages people to give excuses. If you say "I didn't see him" after running over and killing a pedestrian or cyclist, you will get off scot-free. If you say "I was paying no attention to my surroundings and driving like a self-absorbed jerk with no consideration for my fellow man" you can expect a ticket for a few hundred dollars.
Don't know which courts you have been in, but I've heard some judges strip the BS layer from arguments like "I didn't see them" Have to be a bit more convincing because responding officers do record facts and detectives are pretty experienced with lying people. My eldest brother worked in the courts for years, some of the stories he told us ... people usually aren't thinking very clearly when they start lying to police and it all gets written down. Sometimes, when you are at fault it may be selfish, but it's best to just shut up.
If you can't please people: blind them.
Then there's collateral damage, the innocents caught in the line of fire sort of thing, as people cannot resist looking at an incident...
Nothing to see here, move on .. oh, right...
"I'm sure someone will figure out a way to reflect (mirror?) back to the source."
I guess this means mirrored sunglasses are going to make a comeback. Or did they already? I don't pay attention to fashion.
Why, they'll be banned like the hoody!
'ere, e's wearin' mirrors an' a hoody. Bloody terrorist is what 'e is!
Right. If the police aren't allowed to use this laser then they will have to shoot protesters. There is just no other way.
Society under surveillance, blinded by the Met ... how much longer before V becomes reality?
hi-tech human abuse?
Yes, point lasers at me and blind me. That's really healthy. Why does all these news always come from UK?
Dunno why they don't just use flashbulbs.
"Smile! You're under arrest!"
Does give a whole new meaning to Legally Blind, Blind Justice and Shedding a little light on the Crime.
You can already make such a system. There are tons of sites for importing short-range jammers, and from there it's just a matter of hooking it up to a speedometer system.
And not using it all the time so you get caught. The fine for using such a device is rather high.
Giving the driver the opportunity to pull over and answer a call would also be unacceptable.
Reminds me of the difference between Reasons and Excuse. Humans are, beyond the use of mere tools, distinguished from animals by their ability to rationalise.
Reason: "I was unable to avoid hitting the car in front of me because they suddenly pulled into my lane and slammed on their brakes."
Excuse: "I was unable to avoid hitting the car [I had been following for the past mile] because they suddenly hit their brakes [which I didn't see, because I was in a conversation on my phone] and stopped too fast for me to react."
See the difference? One beyond means to avoid, one within means to avoid. People talk to LEOs, after accidents, like these two are interchangeable.
...or listening to the radio, needing to use the bathroom, or being an asshole in the near vicinity of a car. Of course, this -really- punishes those who have always used hands-free technologies, used their phones responsibly, and drive safely every day. They HAVE to be a problem - because the NTSB says so...
Fines aren't high enough. Make them proportional to income, like they do in Germany. Ha! Imagine Bill Gates III going down I-5 on his phone while at the wheel and receiving a fine for $10 Billion.
We're one step closer to a (very) short range cell phone jammer in cars that jam all cell phone signals inside the car whenever the car is moving at, say, more than 10mph.
Tried to buy one of these, years ago. They're banned. Every time a site pops up selling them assembled or in kit, they vanish shortly afterward. Some funny old FCC thing baring them.
Probably more likely to cause an accident anyway, as the driver on the phone looks at their phone which has lost connection and/or attempts to redial, when they should be watching the road ahead.
I hear so many anecdotal stories about how drivers are perfectly functional and alert when driving and blathering (about what urgent matter, exactly?), but most accidents I see a driver was distracted. Even seen a three vehicle accident in bumper-to-bumper crawl, where the two following drivers were clearly not paying attention.
Banned in California, but I still see a lot of drivers with that slab of plastic pressed to the side of their head as they go down the road. Fines not high enough? Insurance not high enough? Maybe when they put cameras on overpasses to photograph the offending drivers and mail them the tickets. (We already have cameras on intersections for red-light runners.)
You know, for things like sentencing Salman Rushdie to death?
Or like stealing the last election to prop up the Revolutionary Guard's puppet and when the people don't like it, beating the hell out of them, killing them and/or imprisoning them, even going so far as to not return bodies of the dead to their families but burying them in graves in restricted areas, where families can't visit. Cuz, you know, they RG runs Iran, not the Mullahs or Ayathollah, which are allowed to go about their business, pretending there's some actual republic when it's really all a sham and military coup by feat.
What I'd like to know is why these drones don't even have a Self Destruct on a dead-man switch, out of contact for so long and sensitive bits are fused by a burning strip of Sodium or such.
Actually its more like flying a drone into someones airspace and having it crash, and then asking for it back.
Actually, it's more like ... wait a minute.
...they'd stop changing the interface every week to something people hate even more than the last time they changed the interface the week before.
Oh, I dunno. I get a vigourous respiratory workout with shouting expletives at them while pounding on my keyboard. Good for the cardio-vascular and all.
So what you're saying is that once you've mastered all of the hard parts, Math is easy. That's good to know.
The trick with math, like any tools, is in the understanding of which to use, how to use and when to use - really, it's not difficult, but people choose to believe it's like some sort of magic they are unworthy to understand.
Alternate punchline: When they cut my pay in half.
It's one of those things where the massive size of Facebook can be used for real good. There are already existing hotlines but I doubt they work that well preventing suicides. While they are useful, they aren't shown to people exactly when they really need it. They might know about them, but there's no incentive to try them at those moments. So when Facebook asks it good moment, it could easily save many lifes. Since this still needs the user to agree, it can't be used for harassing people either. If it was automatic it would be stupid, but this way it's only useful.
So overall, really good option.
Good PR, which is something Facebook needs.
"I'm feeling very depressed."
"OK, let's start with why you are feeling depressed.
"Facebook has been spying on me and selling all my personal details, while the founder will be a billionaire, all I get it tonnes of spam and annoyances.
"um..."
Uh, what? How on earth did anything that you say have relevance to my (the parent's) point?
I was saying that there is a wealth of evidence in trans people that technical or mathematical aptitude does not diminish over the course of their transition (though areas of interest may change), disproving the presumption that technical or mathematical aptitude is biologically determined.
A wealth of evidence - anecdotal. Actual studies (even before this one) have highlighted this trend. Cultural, certainly - gender roles/expectations, some externally imposed, some imposed by the self. But as I said - there's a culture of acquiescence. Consider the Curse of Beauty or old saying 'Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses', so culturally some girls will shy away from maths and sciences (or hide their ability.)
In rich worlds 80% of woman pile into 10 of the 120 job categories (Medicine, teaching, public service) while men are more evenly spread out.
Which is also cultural.
Traditional roles take a while to break down. About 100 years ago it was scandalous to even consider a woman going through medical school or writing a scientific thesis. Even in the 1950's the prevailing view among Sci-Fi audience was women were incapable of writing Science Fiction, so we had writers like "James Tiptree, Jr." Women were directed towards nurturing roles, so they could be good mothers when they married and retired from their profession.
Not quite the same today. I've worked with DBAs, Business Analysts and coders who are female. Highly competent professionals for the most part. Glad they didn't settle for less.
You would have thought insight just from trans-people's experiences would have been enough to make this blatantly obvious.
I guess they're just too weird to consider.
Let's consider this .. the culture of acquiescence. Someone says, "Math is hard." Others who are struggling with math hear that statement and accept the reason they struggle is because math is hard, therefore failure (or accepting less than the best one can do) is allowable. So people sell themselves short, buying into the cultural belief that math is hard and only super intelligent beings (or geeks) get it, and since they are neither they focus their energies elsewhere.
Math isn't hard. It's easy. It's amazingly easy. What's hard is breaking through from simply memorising tons of details (which is rather difficult) to comprehension. Once you comprehend and begin thinking in a mathematical view, it's another language and a rather simple one at that (try learning French, with all those blasted dialects!)
Men may multiply...
Women divide into two, or more.
I hear the spiders get pretty big there.
You mean solifuges. They're pretty viscious alright.
She always advised you to wear clean underwear when you went out.
In a war zone, don't bother -- the first time you hear a backfire you'll know what I mean.
It takes Russia a longtime to catch up. Now they are finally equal to the US in 2000.
They're still years away from equaling the US. They may have figured out election fraud, but we hide it much better here. Not completely, but much better.
I keep waiting for the day the GOP has their IPO on the NYSE. Might as well just get it all out there in the open and stop mucking about, begging corporate money for favours.
Do they do that at all in Russia? Still, 100%...lol. Putin doesn't even care anymore.
The Russians did a lot of the same things the Iranian regime did, when they utterly cooked the election so overdone that official counts showed more votes than voters in many cities. Of course, when the people screamed their indignation they beat, kicked, shot and arrested them. Gives you a pretty good idea how ruthless the Revolutionary Guard are about keeping power. After a few arrests and dispersing protesters it's good to see the Russians aren't using the same brutal tactics, to the extent they were in Iran. Perhaps there is hope for Russia after all.
That will work until Google buys images obtained from DHS autonomous drones to create Google Mountainview.
Ha! Little did you know Google already has this feature in Google Earth and Google Maps, they highly detailed views which are not only clear to mere centimetres, further, they are updated every five minutes and can be live when they need to be. DHS only has this view, which means FBI and CIA. But they don't want you to know about it, they don't want anyone to ...
Hold on, someone at door..
NO CARRIER
> The remainder of the Newton papers, many concerned with alchemy, theology and chronology, were returned to Lord Portsmouth.
Anyone know how many pages did he spend on physics and how many did he spend writing the rest of the subjects?
Would be interesting to see his insights on what he thought about other subjects ...
Yes. He was warden of the Royal Mint and had a great impact on modern coinage, but you don't hear a lot about that.