Not that I'm skeptical or anything... but I would expect this to end up being just like the "Privacy Policy" notices we all get from banks and other places, or HIPPA - a nice sounding bit of legislation with so many holes in it, the 100-200 page bill will end up doing nothing but giving jobs to "compliance officers" while actually resulting in less opportunity for the "consumer" to sue or block the data access. Think about how HIPPA actually works, since the insurance company needs to know what the doctor treated you for, your "data" gets sent to them (if not the actual paper chart, a summary of what boil on what limb, or what infectious disease test was used). Expect that car companies will hammer this hard in lobbying...
You think it means something...
... until you see some guy named Sarek Vulcansden scampering off to the embassy of a South American nation with a Thumbdrive full of evidence the NSA has been tracking your every move and the President denies such claims until they trickle out in the media, including Angela Merkel's predilection for Krispy Kreme whenever she's in the US. About that time you realize laws don't mean much if there be people who think they only apply to other agencies.
So your only happy when you/your society is as bad as he was. You cheapen all life.
This raises a point.
Is it vengeance or is that we simply want these people out of our lives permanently.
Some clearly want the convicted to get their comeuppance -- they want closure of a final variety, this convict will pay the ultimate price, at least in this mortal form, being ejected from the game.
Others see no chance of reforming the convict and do not relish them living a relatively easy life while everyone else has to work for their food and shelter. Prison life isn't really so horrible that some people are willing to return to it -- finding the outside world too much of a challenge or this is where their buddies from the street are and now they can go hang with them. Prison isn't so much a punishment as a way to segregate those convicted from society and visa-versa. Were you in a tiny town you and your neighbors may feel a need for accelerated and terminal judgement against villains, even of offences which seem of too little consequence to warrant a death sentence -- such it was in many sparsely populated communities at times in history.
The phrasing in the 8th amendment is "cruel and unusual" FYI, and I'm pretty sure a court will find a stay of executions necessary until a new method is devised.
What is considered Cruel and Unusual changes over time.
A firing squad, beheading or hanging were considered just fine for a long time. Same goes for the Electric Chair, it was all the rage for decades. Now we're trying to put people to "sleep" with a comfy pillow and a bedtime story.
Personally, I'd like to see hanging make a comeback.
They create content for their advertising which is adapting to ad-block. If you try to block you notice the tags are random-looking gobbledegook so are a bit trickier to block -- each time the add is sent to you the wrapper looks a bit different. Try to block it with a brute force pattern and you break the Farcebook page.
On top of that Farcebook refreshes the right panel with a new load of content with new tags.
I only use Farcebook as one example, there are likely others and the adds/blocking war continues to advance the technology on both sides.
The most remarkable thing about John was his setting up on Street Corners in a city. Even with all that light pollution he could show people some of the more astounding things in the night sky.
I've set up my 10 inch SNT on street corners a couple times, though a bit uneasily as I always worried someone would knock it over. Showing the moons of Jupiter and Saturn was always a lot of fun. Once at Skies over Yosemite, as I was just setting up and had the scope aimed at Jupiter someone saw a "spot" on Jupiter. I thought it was going to be another damn episode of "mascara on the eyepiece", but turned out to be Io in transit. It was two hours later, when Io's shadow passed from the face of the jovian sphere and I was able to get my polar alignment done.
Dobs are such a treat for families because they set up and are easily managed with a minimal effort, unlike the monster I have. Maybe at some point I'll toss the Equatorial Mount and turn it into a Dobsonian mounted scope.:)
Alas, I was one of those people who threw money into higher end scopes than was probably prudent for a beginner. Though I really do like my 10 inch SNT, I would have likely been happier with a "Dob". "Dobs" are what I recommend to all budding astronomers - don't waste your money on one of those crummy refractors they sell in the malls. Take $400 and buy yourself a decent 6 or 8 inch "Dob" from Meade or Orion and you will have a blast. You'll also be able to see deep space objects your 2 inch refractor isn't going to.
John was getting into frail health a few years ago. I would have liked to meet him back in the 70s or 80s. Someone in our astronomy club latched onto video of him back then and it's a real hoot to watch. He was definitely a hoopy frood.
Based on my own anecdotal evidence, I would guess UID 218170 probably wasn't even a twinkle in someone's eye in the 1960s. Speaking of ackthpt: Do I get bonus points for recognizing the Bloom County reference?
Well played! It was my license plate for many years, as well.
What did you think would happen if you hit the American post-secondary education system with massive, across the board budget cuts?
American colleges used to put out their research for (effectively) free to the public and corporations benefited HUGELY. Now its time to pay the piper and hes looking to collect interest.
Generally the receipts for these charges show up a day or 2 after the purchase. I assume apple is batching together the charges or something and processing them in bulk somehow. Or maybe it just takes 2 days for the email alert to go out? I don't know.
I know I can't figure out my AT&T bill, no matter how I try. I imagine Apple has imitated that art.
Well, Google Maps has all sorts of garbage. Who at Google once placed Mt. Whitney in Yosemite NP? Defaced the name of a University (I won't say which one, but I got the distinct impression QC at Google isn't what it should be.)
The level of detail is just fantastic, and I can carry the entire map on an sd card for offline use, including routing. It's plain awesome.
The only downside is some clowns have been placing poor data into the collection - trails which are way off, restrooms which are not along trails, etc.
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Not that I'm skeptical or anything... but I would expect this to end up being just like the "Privacy Policy" notices we all get from banks and other places, or HIPPA - a nice sounding bit of legislation with so many holes in it, the 100-200 page bill will end up doing nothing but giving jobs to "compliance officers" while actually resulting in less opportunity for the "consumer" to sue or block the data access. Think about how HIPPA actually works, since the insurance company needs to know what the doctor treated you for, your "data" gets sent to them (if not the actual paper chart, a summary of what boil on what limb, or what infectious disease test was used). Expect that car companies will hammer this hard in lobbying...
You think it means something ...
So your only happy when you/your society is as bad as he was.
You cheapen all life.
This raises a point.
Is it vengeance or is that we simply want these people out of our lives permanently.
Some clearly want the convicted to get their comeuppance -- they want closure of a final variety, this convict will pay the ultimate price, at least in this mortal form, being ejected from the game.
Others see no chance of reforming the convict and do not relish them living a relatively easy life while everyone else has to work for their food and shelter. Prison life isn't really so horrible that some people are willing to return to it -- finding the outside world too much of a challenge or this is where their buddies from the street are and now they can go hang with them. Prison isn't so much a punishment as a way to segregate those convicted from society and visa-versa. Were you in a tiny town you and your neighbors may feel a need for accelerated and terminal judgement against villains, even of offences which seem of too little consequence to warrant a death sentence -- such it was in many sparsely populated communities at times in history.
The phrasing in the 8th amendment is "cruel and unusual" FYI, and I'm pretty sure a court will find a stay of executions necessary until a new method is devised.
What is considered Cruel and Unusual changes over time.
A firing squad, beheading or hanging were considered just fine for a long time. Same goes for the Electric Chair, it was all the rage for decades. Now we're trying to put people to "sleep" with a comfy pillow and a bedtime story.
Personally, I'd like to see hanging make a comeback.
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Yeah, see how that works on Farcebook.
They create content for their advertising which is adapting to ad-block. If you try to block you notice the tags are random-looking gobbledegook so are a bit trickier to block -- each time the add is sent to you the wrapper looks a bit different. Try to block it with a brute force pattern and you break the Farcebook page.
On top of that Farcebook refreshes the right panel with a new load of content with new tags.
I only use Farcebook as one example, there are likely others and the adds/blocking war continues to advance the technology on both sides.
You're guilty because we think you look guilty, now just sit there quietly while we figure out what you are guilty of.
Ah, a good old Nelsoning is hard to top.
I checked the "do not show ads" box, so why the hell do they keep showing up in my feed?
Did it tell you, "I can't let you do that, Dave." ?
I witnessed this even. It was quite jarring at the time.
Even now, these pictures are still disturbing.
It was the "Kennedy Moment" of my generation.
We know where we were, what we saw, how we felt. Everything is burned into our memories. I can still hear the rattle of the ventilator.
The most remarkable thing about John was his setting up on Street Corners in a city. Even with all that light pollution he could show people some of the more astounding things in the night sky.
I've set up my 10 inch SNT on street corners a couple times, though a bit uneasily as I always worried someone would knock it over. Showing the moons of Jupiter and Saturn was always a lot of fun. Once at Skies over Yosemite, as I was just setting up and had the scope aimed at Jupiter someone saw a "spot" on Jupiter. I thought it was going to be another damn episode of "mascara on the eyepiece", but turned out to be Io in transit. It was two hours later, when Io's shadow passed from the face of the jovian sphere and I was able to get my polar alignment done.
Dobs are such a treat for families because they set up and are easily managed with a minimal effort, unlike the monster I have. Maybe at some point I'll toss the Equatorial Mount and turn it into a Dobsonian mounted scope. :)
John's simple but effective methods for building large aperture telescopes opened the sky to a whole new audience.
And led to a whole new trend - Aperture Fever - gotta have more light! 8^)
It's highly fitting there is a line of dobs are called Obsession.
We need more guys like Dobson. RIP.
Alas, I was one of those people who threw money into higher end scopes than was probably prudent for a beginner. Though I really do like my 10 inch SNT, I would have likely been happier with a "Dob". "Dobs" are what I recommend to all budding astronomers - don't waste your money on one of those crummy refractors they sell in the malls. Take $400 and buy yourself a decent 6 or 8 inch "Dob" from Meade or Orion and you will have a blast. You'll also be able to see deep space objects your 2 inch refractor isn't going to.
John was getting into frail health a few years ago. I would have liked to meet him back in the 70s or 80s. Someone in our astronomy club latched onto video of him back then and it's a real hoot to watch. He was definitely a hoopy frood.
RIP
If they can't, like, stay connected then they would literally die!
FTFY.
Like, you're not from California, are you, like?
Based on my own anecdotal evidence, I would guess UID 218170 probably wasn't even a twinkle in someone's eye in the 1960s. Speaking of ackthpt: Do I get bonus points for recognizing the Bloom County reference?
Well played! It was my license plate for many years, as well.
What did you think would happen if you hit the American post-secondary education system with massive, across the board budget cuts?
American colleges used to put out their research for (effectively) free to the public and corporations benefited HUGELY. Now its time to pay the piper and hes looking to collect interest.
Boston U is Private.
Time to rethink any plans to endow such universities with any kind of scholarships or research partnerships.
If companies claim they haven't had enough time to upgrade their OS or update/rewrite their software, it is because they never will.
It's a Slot Machine approach. They keep pulling the handle, hoping for the jackpot which will never come.
Because everyone is required to have a constant, always on internet connection tethered to them every moment of their lives?
Haven't met anyone under the age of 30 lately, have you?
Like in particular kids. If they can't, like, stay connected then they would simply die, like!
I'm sitting at an intersection watching high school kids go by and at least 60% of the girls have a phone in their hand, which they are looking at.
There's a skyrocketing market for behavior modification counselling if ever there was one.
so, you think Justin's egg throwing was merited and you had to share that with all your friends ... let's work on why that is so important to you ...
Soon you'll be able to wear plain white or black close which will change pattern and color according to your whim.
Generally the receipts for these charges show up a day or 2 after the purchase. I assume apple is batching together the charges or something and processing them in bulk somehow. Or maybe it just takes 2 days for the email alert to go out? I don't know.
I know I can't figure out my AT&T bill, no matter how I try. I imagine Apple has imitated that art.
... trying to show that patent abuse has spun out of control.
Interesting phrase that. So ... what is considered patent abuse under control? Should be advocating it?
Well, Google Maps has all sorts of garbage. Who at Google once placed Mt. Whitney in Yosemite NP? Defaced the name of a University (I won't say which one, but I got the distinct impression QC at Google isn't what it should be.)
The level of detail is just fantastic, and I can carry the entire map on an sd card for offline use, including routing. It's plain awesome.
The only downside is some clowns have been placing poor data into the collection - trails which are way off, restrooms which are not along trails, etc.
Shh!!! Don't let them know our secret!!! They'll just make cash illegal too!
I think the batteries are running low in your Euros, I'm having difficulty tracking you.
Simply put, if the offending tab in the window, is not the one to the fore it should clam up.