...I think Hilary and Bill are as dirty-rotten & blatantly corrupt as the day is long...but if we've had what now, 2 dumps of "info" from the leaks and AFAIK nothing has jumped up obviously to bite her in the ass?
I have to either a) commend them on the rigor of their operational security, or b) expect that all the very best bits are still yet to come in Sept or Oct, when the splash will be large enough.
I honestly don't know which I hope. I really, truly don't want her as president, but then I don't want Trump EITHER. I'm hoping for the enormous asteroid 2016.
...was the direct result of the unique experiences of WW2.
First, the US - despite the existential military challenge from the Soviet Union, which was only possible due to the disproportionately cheap annihilatory threat of nukes - was basically unchallenged as Earth's superpower economically, culturally, and militarily.
The rest of the world was still recovering from the aftereffects of WW2, from which the US had emerged largely unscathed but with a newfound taste/appreciation for the power of its science & industry marshaled by a central government (again, born of WW2).
At that same time, you had an entire generation of men that came back from war with a "we can accomplish anything" confidence (which in some cases tragically proved to be a dangerously entitled arrogance) AND an understanding that some things in the span of human events were WORTH the sacrifice of life and treasure. They accepted that.
I doubt we'll ever see such a time again. We live in what remains the wealthiest, most comfortable society ever in human history, yet we still can't afford everything we buy. 47 years ago, we celebrated the triumph of landing people on the moon. In a short time, it became so pedestrian that it wasn't even front-page news anymore. Today's triumphant news is about a new Tinder app that lets you 'hook up' with multiple people. I know it's very "get off my lawn" but where we had an outward-looking, achievement-oriented society 50 years ago, today I see nothing but an enervated country suffused with ennui and a narcissistic obsession with carnality that leaves us paralyzed like a heroin addict on a buzz.
..as a proud owner of a TMobile Galaxy S3, I have exactly zero fear that Nougat (7.0) will brick my phone, as TMobile long ago stopped bothering to update such an ancient device.
One thing about the studies on software inconsistencies, I admit I didn't DEEP DIVE into it, but it seems like they were focused on the inconsistency of result between different software systems analyzing the same data set?
That's a valid point, absolutely. Personally, I'm not sure fMRI are all they're cracked up to be myself. But certainly it's possible that the results of the 000's of "now questioned" studies might still be useful IF they used a single fMRI system consistently and the results were relative.
For a simplistic example, imagine every student in a classroom had a different-length ruler (all saying 12"). Even though comparing results BETWEEN students would then be problematic, and individual student could still provide useful single-source data about X is 2x the length of Y, and A is 1/3 the length of B.
It's not just John Deere though. They're merely a symptom, the much earlier first signs of the disease were software makers whose assertions (from MS on down) have become almost canon that "you don't own it, you merely have a license to use it" compounded by the MafiAA of the media industry.
I agree with your overall point though: it's a fundamental subversion of capitalism, and unless we or government (ha ha ha) actually takes a stand against this, it will permanently change our system for the worse.
"President Carter sustained and protected a poorly-conceived, poorly-designed, underperforming, overpriced intrinsically more dangerous launch platform that would go on to hobble the nation's entire space program by sucking it financially dry and condemning a generation of space progress to near-earth programs that the program could barely technically support."
Only the first of a couple of questions that makes this smell like lawsuit bait.
- 16 month old that "never cries"...ma'am, then you may want to have your child tested for autism. - 16 month left to 'wander' while 300+ lb autonomous machine is trundling by - I listened to an interview with the mom, she wasn't even sure which foot was hurt. We had 4 kids and my wife could categorize with astonishing certainty and accuracy what parts of them were hurt, and what parts they THOUGHT were hurt but really weren't.
If the hypothesis is right, the point isn't the thumb-sucking or nail-biting, it's the exposure to bacteria, and there's a ton of other ways to do that.
Thumb-sucking in particular often correlates with tooth alignment issues later in life, so perhaps just stop sterilizing the shit out of everything around your kid and they'll get the same benefit without needing braces later?
What is being described isn't "PC Gaming" - it's BUILDING a gaming PC.
Those aren't the same things.
Yes, sure, if you buy your components and build it yourself, you might save a little money (less now than you used to, IMO). But guess why? The difference is... THE LABOR $ to build it. Surprise!
Want to do "PC gaming" without that effort? Just BUY a gaming computer. You don't even need a particularly great one anymore, unless you want to run your games at 4k.
Sager makes great laptops, or just go buy that Alienware freaky glowy-case one from Best Buy.
OK, I know several people with android phones who've had to go to unusual lengths to get it running. I'm fortunate, in that I have an antiquated (?) S3, so it won't run anyway.
But what methods could they use to determine if they have this?
I'm just going to say it: this is how spooks should work/be regarded.
If what I'm doing is directly inimical to the interests of country X, then I *should* be terrified that country X's spooks will 'deal with' me.
Unlike the CIA, whose reputation is basically incompetent dilettante technocrats who 'missed' the collapse of the single giant entity they were tasked pretty much solely to watch for the previous 50 years.
Then again, that's exactly the reputation a witchalock would WANT us to believe they have...
I'm not sure that outweighs the documented higher rates of autism, Down's Syndrome, and other developmental defects directly attributable to aging of both mother, and (recently recognized) father?
$25-$35 for a security guard? Last time I checked, security guards were paid pretty much minimum wage, with armed security not a great deal more.
Note that this ISN'T even a security guard, this is simply a mobile alarm system that will call security - which you'd still have to have on hand. Sure, it would be a force multiplier, but I also see this silly thing being easily gamed.
"...The investigation found 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to contain classified information, including 8 chains contained information that was marked as top secret at the time,..."....in the emails that had ALREADY BEEN THOROUGHLY SCRUBBED before 'handing them over' to the FBI.
"Cognitive Laziness" isn't the same thing as "refusing to waste time on problems you don't need to solve because there's a ready solution at-hand".
You might as well say that we've become 'cognitively lazy' because we don't bother going out to stalk, hunt, and kill game, instead just 'lazily' going to pick up food from the grocery store.
In other words, this whole 'cognitive laziness' thing is a weakly warmed-over Victorian social Darwinistic argument that "modern conveniences make humans lazy".
I'm not sure using the Japanese - the only victims of nuclear attack in history, and only that because the alternative was an annihilatory invasion - is the best argument if you're trying to persuade people that "doomsday nukage" isn't the way to pacify a people.
Because it sure worked well in that case: Start with a bellicose, nationalistic, brutal & merciless culture bent on imperial military conquest of all the (in their view) subhuman neighboring peoples. Add two nukes. Result: one of the most peaceful, advanced, economically prosperous countries in the world today. Still pretty racist, though, I'd have to admit.
"Furthermore an F35 does a lot more than just dog fighting."
Yes, absolutely. It: - sits on the tarmac - absorbs HUGE amounts of money - provides a subject for people to argue about despite them knowing nearly nothing about it - continually proves how broken our defense acquisition system is - gives all those Chinese spies something to work for (whatever tiny % of the plans they don't already have) - ensures Lockheed execs can pay for their mortgages, pools, alimony for 1-3rd wives, plus most of their hookers and blow
It doesn't: - fire a gun - have functional flight and navigation software, or even it's IT backbone - actually work as advertised except in carefully-staged 'trials' set up by all the people with a vested interest in it succeeding - have a chance in hell of being a successful program before UAVs have largely taken over its role
The F-35 a "strike" plane? Chuckle, snigger, guffaw.
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...is my motivation to work in such a system?
If I do nothing, but am guaranteed a minimum basic income that lets me live, why should I work?
...I think Hilary and Bill are as dirty-rotten & blatantly corrupt as the day is long...but if we've had what now, 2 dumps of "info" from the leaks and AFAIK nothing has jumped up obviously to bite her in the ass?
I have to either
a) commend them on the rigor of their operational security, or
b) expect that all the very best bits are still yet to come in Sept or Oct, when the splash will be large enough.
I honestly don't know which I hope. I really, truly don't want her as president, but then I don't want Trump EITHER.
I'm hoping for the enormous asteroid 2016.
Shoes, like monitors, are something I simply can't bring myself to buy over the internet.
Comfort of a specific shoe is such an individual thing, I couldn't do it without trying them on.
...was the direct result of the unique experiences of WW2.
First, the US - despite the existential military challenge from the Soviet Union, which was only possible due to the disproportionately cheap annihilatory threat of nukes - was basically unchallenged as Earth's superpower economically, culturally, and militarily.
The rest of the world was still recovering from the aftereffects of WW2, from which the US had emerged largely unscathed but with a newfound taste/appreciation for the power of its science & industry marshaled by a central government (again, born of WW2).
At that same time, you had an entire generation of men that came back from war with a "we can accomplish anything" confidence (which in some cases tragically proved to be a dangerously entitled arrogance) AND an understanding that some things in the span of human events were WORTH the sacrifice of life and treasure. They accepted that.
I doubt we'll ever see such a time again.
We live in what remains the wealthiest, most comfortable society ever in human history, yet we still can't afford everything we buy.
47 years ago, we celebrated the triumph of landing people on the moon. In a short time, it became so pedestrian that it wasn't even front-page news anymore.
Today's triumphant news is about a new Tinder app that lets you 'hook up' with multiple people.
I know it's very "get off my lawn" but where we had an outward-looking, achievement-oriented society 50 years ago, today I see nothing but an enervated country suffused with ennui and a narcissistic obsession with carnality that leaves us paralyzed like a heroin addict on a buzz.
..as a proud owner of a TMobile Galaxy S3, I have exactly zero fear that Nougat (7.0) will brick my phone, as TMobile long ago stopped bothering to update such an ancient device.
I believe I'm still on 4.3, never to see Kit Kat.
One thing about the studies on software inconsistencies, I admit I didn't DEEP DIVE into it, but it seems like they were focused on the inconsistency of result between different software systems analyzing the same data set?
That's a valid point, absolutely. Personally, I'm not sure fMRI are all they're cracked up to be myself. But certainly it's possible that the results of the 000's of "now questioned" studies might still be useful IF they used a single fMRI system consistently and the results were relative.
For a simplistic example, imagine every student in a classroom had a different-length ruler (all saying 12"). Even though comparing results BETWEEN students would then be problematic, and individual student could still provide useful single-source data about X is 2x the length of Y, and A is 1/3 the length of B.
It's not just John Deere though. They're merely a symptom, the much earlier first signs of the disease were software makers whose assertions (from MS on down) have become almost canon that "you don't own it, you merely have a license to use it" compounded by the MafiAA of the media industry.
I agree with your overall point though: it's a fundamental subversion of capitalism, and unless we or government (ha ha ha) actually takes a stand against this, it will permanently change our system for the worse.
How fast would I get sued if I said I was deliberately trying to hire/encourage white men to improve some aspect of my company?
"President Carter sustained and protected a poorly-conceived, poorly-designed, underperforming, overpriced intrinsically more dangerous launch platform that would go on to hobble the nation's entire space program by sucking it financially dry and condemning a generation of space progress to near-earth programs that the program could barely technically support."
Yay?
...not just an "artiste" but stupid as well?
"the experimental author and artist has maintained on the Google-owned platform Blogger since 2002"
No backups anywhere?
Well, can we conclude finally that "the cloud" isn't as flawless a solution as all those cloud-storage salespeople INSIST it is?
Only the first of a couple of questions that makes this smell like lawsuit bait.
- 16 month old that "never cries"...ma'am, then you may want to have your child tested for autism.
- 16 month left to 'wander' while 300+ lb autonomous machine is trundling by
- I listened to an interview with the mom, she wasn't even sure which foot was hurt. We had 4 kids and my wife could categorize with astonishing certainty and accuracy what parts of them were hurt, and what parts they THOUGHT were hurt but really weren't.
If the hypothesis is right, the point isn't the thumb-sucking or nail-biting, it's the exposure to bacteria, and there's a ton of other ways to do that.
Thumb-sucking in particular often correlates with tooth alignment issues later in life, so perhaps just stop sterilizing the shit out of everything around your kid and they'll get the same benefit without needing braces later?
What is being described isn't "PC Gaming" - it's BUILDING a gaming PC.
Those aren't the same things.
Yes, sure, if you buy your components and build it yourself, you might save a little money (less now than you used to, IMO). But guess why? The difference is ... THE LABOR $ to build it. Surprise!
Want to do "PC gaming" without that effort? Just BUY a gaming computer. You don't even need a particularly great one anymore, unless you want to run your games at 4k.
Sager makes great laptops, or just go buy that Alienware freaky glowy-case one from Best Buy.
This is a really stupid article.
OK, I know several people with android phones who've had to go to unusual lengths to get it running. I'm fortunate, in that I have an antiquated (?) S3, so it won't run anyway.
But what methods could they use to determine if they have this?
I'm just going to say it: this is how spooks should work/be regarded.
If what I'm doing is directly inimical to the interests of country X, then I *should* be terrified that country X's spooks will 'deal with' me.
Unlike the CIA, whose reputation is basically incompetent dilettante technocrats who 'missed' the collapse of the single giant entity they were tasked pretty much solely to watch for the previous 50 years.
Then again, that's exactly the reputation a witchalock would WANT us to believe they have...
I'm not sure that outweighs the documented higher rates of autism, Down's Syndrome, and other developmental defects directly attributable to aging of both mother, and (recently recognized) father?
OK, there's no sympathy for anyone running (or using) such a site, but wouldn't that be classified as fraud?
The man was a violent criminal, armed, and claiming he had explosives.
I *truly*, *genuinely* don't care one more iota about his story, circumstances, or situation.
Kill him, preferably in a way that threatens no other people.
Not every life is sacred. Not everyone is a precious snowflake.
So your point is that the emails she illegally sent through an illegally-run private server were shared because not doing so would be...illegal?
What fundamental part of this aren't you getting?
$25-$35 for a security guard?
Last time I checked, security guards were paid pretty much minimum wage, with armed security not a great deal more.
Note that this ISN'T even a security guard, this is simply a mobile alarm system that will call security - which you'd still have to have on hand. Sure, it would be a force multiplier, but I also see this silly thing being easily gamed.
"...The investigation found 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to contain classified information, including 8 chains contained information that was marked as top secret at the time, ..." ....in the emails that had ALREADY BEEN THOROUGHLY SCRUBBED before 'handing them over' to the FBI.
Sic Transit Gloria Republica, 2016 Anno Domini..
You could at least get the source right?
That quote is more reliably attributed to Les Dawson.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...
Bill Gates is not particularly famous for his deep thoughts nor bon mots.
"Cognitive Laziness" isn't the same thing as "refusing to waste time on problems you don't need to solve because there's a ready solution at-hand".
You might as well say that we've become 'cognitively lazy' because we don't bother going out to stalk, hunt, and kill game, instead just 'lazily' going to pick up food from the grocery store.
In other words, this whole 'cognitive laziness' thing is a weakly warmed-over Victorian social Darwinistic argument that "modern conveniences make humans lazy".
I'm not sure using the Japanese - the only victims of nuclear attack in history, and only that because the alternative was an annihilatory invasion - is the best argument if you're trying to persuade people that "doomsday nukage" isn't the way to pacify a people.
Because it sure worked well in that case:
Start with a bellicose, nationalistic, brutal & merciless culture bent on imperial military conquest of all the (in their view) subhuman neighboring peoples.
Add two nukes.
Result: one of the most peaceful, advanced, economically prosperous countries in the world today.
Still pretty racist, though, I'd have to admit.
"Furthermore an F35 does a lot more than just dog fighting."
Yes, absolutely. It:
- sits on the tarmac
- absorbs HUGE amounts of money
- provides a subject for people to argue about despite them knowing nearly nothing about it
- continually proves how broken our defense acquisition system is
- gives all those Chinese spies something to work for (whatever tiny % of the plans they don't already have)
- ensures Lockheed execs can pay for their mortgages, pools, alimony for 1-3rd wives, plus most of their hookers and blow
It doesn't:
- fire a gun
- have functional flight and navigation software, or even it's IT backbone
- actually work as advertised except in carefully-staged 'trials' set up by all the people with a vested interest in it succeeding
- have a chance in hell of being a successful program before UAVs have largely taken over its role
The F-35 a "strike" plane? Chuckle, snigger, guffaw.