From an American, to all American scientists working on climate change: PLEASE, go to France.
In fact, I hope everyone deeply concerned about climate change goes immediately to France. I'm sure you'll all get a great deal of important work done...there.
...nothing prevents an industry being left behind as technologically irrelevant better than plugging one's ears and saying "nah nah nah" until it hopefully goes away.
Then again, home valuation is a necessarily arbitrary thing, and even professional home appraisers can be COLOSSALLY full of shit.
Dig into it a little, and you'll find gross inconsistencies in practices and an unwillingness to even explain their arcana - particularly when they're actually thrown to their own devices and don't have 'comps' that are anywhere close.
" 3.5 billion is less than the military spending of the USA in one single day."
The number is high, but no need to be hyperbolic or exaggerate. US Defense spending this year is $600bn.
That's $1.63 bn/day, not really even close to 3.5.
Apparently communists are bad at math, unless they're murdering genocidal numbers of people...then they can count into the millions quite well.
I will point out that PRIVATELY developed systems have basically made cell phones a thing. PRIVATE development really took the internet from a narrow-use military/educational thing to the ubiquitous commodity it is today. Yeah, I'm not sure those are the best examples of your case.
I find it curious that so many people who have spent months crying that Comey was a scoundrel who needed to be fired, are now complaining that Trump fired him.
According to Facebook, the rest of us are all wealthy, happy, beautiful people with astonishingly sexy partners, well-adjusted children, at least 2 pets that are CONSTANTLY making adorable faces for our instagram feeds and who not only have spare time to go out to dinner/clubs every night, but to also fill our weekend with delightful fun family projects (that always work out) and take fun vacations at least three or four times a year.
If you are not ALLof those, well, you are clearly a desperately unhappy borderline sociopath not acceptable in my friend circles.
"The court added it was easy for Facebook to automate this process." Speaking as an American who's freedom of speech is pretty important, I rather expect that human ingenuity can outwit whatever automated system is out there.
If I didn't work for an Austrian company that might suffer unwarranted blowback for it, I'd be tempted to test how well their filters would work...even though I couldn't give a damn about the person or her political leanings.
You DO understand that sometimes people might simply disagree with your personal political preferences, and that doesn't automatically make them Russian bots, right?
Curious that they are portrayed by the poster as some insidious master data manipulator...when as recently as 2016 advertising industry magazines mocked them for being "all hat, no cattle". Several customers were quoted as complaining that their $16k monthly fee produced nothing of value except constant sales pitches.
Did the Russians hack the voting machines themselves? Afaik, there hasn't been a whisper of that from either side. Did they sneakily install and run the email server from Ms Clinton's home for years without her knowledge? Did they poison her food, giving her muscular tremors and looking like a debilitated invalid trying to hide it from the public? Did they prevent her campaign from being able to spend any time or resources in Michigan or Wisconsin? Did they manipulate the Democratic party to blatantly throw the primary to her, embittering what should have been an easy demographic for her to capture? If the Russians are that powerful, well, I guess they are our masters.
Otoh, if you're saying they "hacked" as in "manipulated in unforseen ways" ie promoted news stories, etc then they were only doing EXACTLY what the US has done across the world for decades, particularly in the Western hemisphere and, perhaps not coincidentally, Ukraine.
...if the political leaders of this world are wondering why people are taking their stupid claims less seriously and turning toward other sources (ie the rise of "fake news")?
THIS would be the reason.
A major, possibly THE major political leader of the EU making a blanket, provably false statement.
Yet I expect Mr Tusk would also assert that because of his penchant for use of falsehoods, Mr Trump is "stupid".
It's downright pathetic that NASA - formerly the epitome of America's can-do and forward-looking approach - is "oh wait, slow down, that's dangerous, that's expensive..."
Fuck you NASA, you hidebound, overbureaucratic, topheavy, ass-covering bunch of time-servers. (And by that I don't mean the people at the program levels - they're still rocket scientists: I mean the admins and the politicals at the top.)
Look, I get it: Trump's a boob. An ignoramus. If you're one of the literati, then you *have* to reflexively HATE him. If he said 2+2=4, we'd change basic math just to make sure he was wrong. So if he says we should go to Mars, well, we certainly need to get in the way of that, right?
But we went to the Moon in THIS is what we need. Oh, and we're going to decide what needs to get made and where it gets built, no more pork-barreling our budget into congressional districts for political points. That's stupid.
"much of the money still being invested is pouring into the upper echelon of highly valued start-ups like Airbnb and WeWork or younger ones with clear paths to profit," leaving "scores" of previously well-funded startups now struggling to survive."
If they're not a highly-valued (ie speculative) startup, or one with a CLEAR PATH TO PROFIT, why the fuck would/should anyone be investing in them?
Does *anyone* care about this stupid subject, except insofar as it's an example of developer-driven solution-in-need-of-a-problem that the gullible proles may be tricked into believing they need?
I don't care what motivation we have, if it takes sparking our president's over-prickly ego, or threatening ever-insecure America generally with the idea that someone else will get there first.
I truly don't care the excuse: just fucking go back to space already.
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From an American, to all American scientists working on climate change: PLEASE, go to France.
In fact, I hope everyone deeply concerned about climate change goes immediately to France. I'm sure you'll all get a great deal of important work done...there.
...nothing prevents an industry being left behind as technologically irrelevant better than plugging one's ears and saying "nah nah nah" until it hopefully goes away.
Dumb fuckers.
Then again, home valuation is a necessarily arbitrary thing, and even professional home appraisers can be COLOSSALLY full of shit.
Dig into it a little, and you'll find gross inconsistencies in practices and an unwillingness to even explain their arcana - particularly when they're actually thrown to their own devices and don't have 'comps' that are anywhere close.
" 3.5 billion is less than the military spending of the USA in one single day."
The number is high, but no need to be hyperbolic or exaggerate.
US Defense spending this year is $600bn.
That's $1.63 bn/day, not really even close to 3.5.
Apparently communists are bad at math, unless they're murdering genocidal numbers of people...then they can count into the millions quite well.
I will point out that PRIVATELY developed systems have basically made cell phones a thing.
PRIVATE development really took the internet from a narrow-use military/educational thing to the ubiquitous commodity it is today.
Yeah, I'm not sure those are the best examples of your case.
I find it curious that so many people who have spent months crying that Comey was a scoundrel who needed to be fired, are now complaining that Trump fired him.
Almost like nothing will please them?
Yes.
According to Facebook, the rest of us are all wealthy, happy, beautiful people with astonishingly sexy partners, well-adjusted children, at least 2 pets that are CONSTANTLY making adorable faces for our instagram feeds and who not only have spare time to go out to dinner/clubs every night, but to also fill our weekend with delightful fun family projects (that always work out) and take fun vacations at least three or four times a year.
If you are not ALLof those, well, you are clearly a desperately unhappy borderline sociopath not acceptable in my friend circles.
Nonsense. "The ends don't justify the means" is a meaningless mantra repeated by know-nothings who don't even think about what they're saying.
Most people I know don't like their jobs. They do them so they can have money. The ends justify the means.
Childbirth is painful as shit, but you get a baby at the end. The ends justify the means.
Cleaning house sucks and is boring, but at the end you have a house you can be proud of.
Seriously, man: you do all the shitty things you do in life BECAUSE in your mind the ends justify the means.
Has it been used to (try to) excuse some terrible crap? Sure it has. But that doesn't invalidate the premise.
"The court added it was easy for Facebook to automate this process."
Speaking as an American who's freedom of speech is pretty important, I rather expect that human ingenuity can outwit whatever automated system is out there.
If I didn't work for an Austrian company that might suffer unwarranted blowback for it, I'd be tempted to test how well their filters would work...even though I couldn't give a damn about the person or her political leanings.
Maybe 4chan will take this one up as a hobby.
Wait, so you're suggesting that being part of a giant hive-mind of attention-deficit, poorly educated know-nothings might be corrosive to democracy?
What?
You DO understand that sometimes people might simply disagree with your personal political preferences, and that doesn't automatically make them Russian bots, right?
Curious that they are portrayed by the poster as some insidious master data manipulator...when as recently as 2016 advertising industry magazines mocked them for being "all hat, no cattle".
Several customers were quoted as complaining that their $16k monthly fee produced nothing of value except constant sales pitches.
http://adage.com/article/campa...
I'm curious how you believe that to be true?
Did the Russians hack the voting machines themselves? Afaik, there hasn't been a whisper of that from either side.
Did they sneakily install and run the email server from Ms Clinton's home for years without her knowledge?
Did they poison her food, giving her muscular tremors and looking like a debilitated invalid trying to hide it from the public?
Did they prevent her campaign from being able to spend any time or resources in Michigan or Wisconsin?
Did they manipulate the Democratic party to blatantly throw the primary to her, embittering what should have been an easy demographic for her to capture?
If the Russians are that powerful, well, I guess they are our masters.
Otoh, if you're saying they "hacked" as in "manipulated in unforseen ways" ie promoted news stories, etc then they were only doing EXACTLY what the US has done across the world for decades, particularly in the Western hemisphere and, perhaps not coincidentally, Ukraine.
...But the fact is to substantially harm these networks, such actions are ultimately justifiable.
Yes, ends justify means. It's true here, it's almost always been true.
...if the political leaders of this world are wondering why people are taking their stupid claims less seriously and turning toward other sources (ie the rise of "fake news")?
THIS would be the reason.
A major, possibly THE major political leader of the EU making a blanket, provably false statement.
Yet I expect Mr Tusk would also assert that because of his penchant for use of falsehoods, Mr Trump is "stupid".
What's "hypocrisy" in French, Mr Tusk?
...are there enough WOMEN in the space industry?
We need another tax, probably on penises.
Oh I get it "Trump's a buffoon, so everything he does is wrong and even if RIGHT is for the wrong reasons"
Is that about it?
Do you have a link to where you got this insight into the minds of the people changing this rule?
Because if you don't, then you're simply interpreting a motivation according to your political preconceptions, of course?
...when you consider that wind/solar are getting something like 400x the subsidies per megawatt hour that coal, oil, and ng are receiving.
It's downright pathetic that NASA - formerly the epitome of America's can-do and forward-looking approach - is "oh wait, slow down, that's dangerous, that's expensive..."
Fuck you NASA, you hidebound, overbureaucratic, topheavy, ass-covering bunch of time-servers. (And by that I don't mean the people at the program levels - they're still rocket scientists: I mean the admins and the politicals at the top.)
Look, I get it: Trump's a boob. An ignoramus. If you're one of the literati, then you *have* to reflexively HATE him. If he said 2+2=4, we'd change basic math just to make sure he was wrong. So if he says we should go to Mars, well, we certainly need to get in the way of that, right?
But we went to the Moon in THIS is what we need. Oh, and we're going to decide what needs to get made and where it gets built, no more pork-barreling our budget into congressional districts for political points. That's stupid.
"much of the money still being invested is pouring into the upper echelon of highly valued start-ups like Airbnb and WeWork or younger ones with clear paths to profit," leaving "scores" of previously well-funded startups now struggling to survive."
If they're not a highly-valued (ie speculative) startup, or one with a CLEAR PATH TO PROFIT, why the fuck would/should anyone be investing in them?
Does *anyone* care about this stupid subject, except insofar as it's an example of developer-driven solution-in-need-of-a-problem that the gullible proles may be tricked into believing they need?
Tough talk, AC.
CO2 emissions have fuck-all to do with what's being discussed. Should I discuss breakfast cereals? It's just as relevant.
Again, you say "that site sucks": either show where their FACTS are wrong, or stfu.
I don't care what motivation we have, if it takes sparking our president's over-prickly ego, or threatening ever-insecure America generally with the idea that someone else will get there first.
I truly don't care the excuse: just fucking go back to space already.
Isn't OpenPGP pretty much the best security one could reasonably hope for, for emails?
Obligatory The Onion review addressing just this point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Thank you Peter Rosenthal.