That can't be true with the Clipper system (as it is known in the Bay Area) because balances and transfers (including between systems, e.g. BART to Muni from Daly City) work immediately. The devices are networked, but there are actually unregistered cards which are essentially equivalent to cash and can be bought with cash.
The system in San Francisco is called Clipper. Clipper has two classes of cards, registered and unregistered. The registered cards are associated to your name and an account in a web application (and can have monthly passes, auto-load, etc). But the unregistered cards are like cash. I think you can buy one with cash in, e.g. Walgreens.
Jack in the Box is using a similar system. At one franchise in my area, you only order via a vending-machine like interface at the counter. In back, the ingredients roll out and an electronic beep instructs the human component to perform each food assembly step.
People who originally wrote about alienation at the hand of industry would have no idea what to make of this stuff...I assume they'll be replacing the human with robotic elements once they become cost effective, though.
It's not the GM RoundUp-Ready crops that cause the problem, it's the RoundUp itself. Organophosphate herbicide is bad for you? Big fucking surprise. Wash your goddamn produce.
Well, isn't Oakland pretty much one big, city-wide ghetto at this point?
No, it isn't, but there is rampant gun crime. Asserting that victims are to blame because they're supposedly "in the projects trying to buy crack" is offensive.
Wasting my mod points, but it's not about Jesus. It's about the very people who show up late, learn about the miracle (or offensive video or whatever) by word of mouth and then follow the wrong guy. The "real" Jesus is even in the movie, giving the sermon on the mount, and in the beginning.
You're wrong. Germany and other EPC signatories gave up their independent patent systems in 1977. However, EPC patents are enforced and/or revoked on a national basis.
Furthermore, software patents are allowed in Europe if they contain a "technical contribution" as opposed to performing a business task.
I think Germany still has its own patent system. There are no software patents in the EU system, but there are in Germany. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And the only real invention any of the implementations rely on is an instruction cycle machine. I wonder, are any of the universal algorithms patented?
So altogether I can’t believe the special stories that’ve been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to betoo simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The “earth,” He came to “the earth”, one of the aspects God came to “the earth!” mind you, and look at what’s out there? how can we? it isn’t in proportion!
You need to keep things in perspective. This legislation is not about child abuse, it's about accounts of child abuse. It's not even about producing accounts of child abuse, it's about criminalizing mere possession of accounts of child abuse. Do you really think that these legislators will be able to list every single exception where possession of an account of child abuse should be legal?
Under the proposed law, would I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings be a banned book? Night? Blood Meridian? Gravity's Rainbow? The King James Bible?
And even aside from those logical errors you point out, I guess the message is that the good of an individual who can pay is inherently better than the good of any number of people who can't. What's the definition of "anti-social" again?
If that's the god GP's friend found, he's still an atheist. Maybe he just got tired of being hassled by his "friends" that want to interfere in his spirituality.
Quantum communication also permits "superdense coding." Effectively, you can get two bits for the price of one (a qubit can encode multiple classical bits).
Give me a break. This study based on a telephone survey of 54 tobacco and 67 cannabis users claims that the "Withdrawal Discomfort" of cannabis and tobacco is not significantly different. If you have any experience with either drug, you know that doesn't pass the smell test.
If you bother to actually read the paper's conciliatory introduction (conciliatory because most researchers do not believe cannabis is addictive), methods and results, you learn that they made only cursory attempts to control for simultaneous use of tobacco and cannabis - reported by at least 61% of the cannabis sample and 48% of participants overall. A smaller but significant group (19% of participants) were also simultaneously attempting to quit a third addictive substance. In general these confounding variables are not addressed or are implausibly claimed to have no effect on perceived withdrawal (the only reported difference is for those using tobacco replacing products, who apparently experience worsened withdrawal).
Throughout the paper, the authors beg the question of cannabis addiction and withdrawal. Indeed, survey participants are consistently described as people "attempting to quit cannabis." They also cite as evidence surveys of people already enrolled in "outpatient treatment for cannabis dependence," a small, self-selecting minority of cannabis users. Unfortunately, even peer reviewed studies of cannabis use are subject to institutional prejudice - especially when primarily funded by entities heavily invested in a self-described war on cannabis.
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That can't be true with the Clipper system (as it is known in the Bay Area) because balances and transfers (including between systems, e.g. BART to Muni from Daly City) work immediately. The devices are networked, but there are actually unregistered cards which are essentially equivalent to cash and can be bought with cash.
I dunno about the other cities, but we are talking about BART here. There is no way they are going to get you with their alleged CCTV system.
The system in San Francisco is called Clipper. Clipper has two classes of cards, registered and unregistered. The registered cards are associated to your name and an account in a web application (and can have monthly passes, auto-load, etc). But the unregistered cards are like cash. I think you can buy one with cash in, e.g. Walgreens.
More like 100 times 0, in terms of "better."
The only difference is two digits (VM passwords are 6 numbers).
But can your password be something other than 6 numbers? Because that's how VM works.
Jack in the Box is using a similar system. At one franchise in my area, you only order via a vending-machine like interface at the counter. In back, the ingredients roll out and an electronic beep instructs the human component to perform each food assembly step.
People who originally wrote about alienation at the hand of industry would have no idea what to make of this stuff...I assume they'll be replacing the human with robotic elements once they become cost effective, though.
It's not the GM RoundUp-Ready crops that cause the problem, it's the RoundUp itself. Organophosphate herbicide is bad for you? Big fucking surprise. Wash your goddamn produce.
You don't know shit about Oakland, son.
Well, isn't Oakland pretty much one big, city-wide ghetto at this point?
No, it isn't, but there is rampant gun crime. Asserting that victims are to blame because they're supposedly "in the projects trying to buy crack" is offensive.
Why don't you come spend some time with us in Oakland for a while and see how many gunned down children were actually trying to buy crack.
Wasting my mod points, but it's not about Jesus. It's about the very people who show up late, learn about the miracle (or offensive video or whatever) by word of mouth and then follow the wrong guy. The "real" Jesus is even in the movie, giving the sermon on the mount, and in the beginning.
You're wrong. Germany and other EPC signatories gave up their independent patent systems in 1977. However, EPC patents are enforced and/or revoked on a national basis.
Furthermore, software patents are allowed in Europe if they contain a "technical contribution" as opposed to performing a business task.
Fortunately all my code increments counters by by half a bit twice.
I think Germany still has its own patent system. There are no software patents in the EU system, but there are in Germany. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And the only real invention any of the implementations rely on is an instruction cycle machine. I wonder, are any of the universal algorithms patented?
So altogether I can’t believe the special stories that’ve been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to betoo simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The “earth,” He came to “the earth”, one of the aspects God came to “the earth!” mind you, and look at what’s out there? how can we? it isn’t in proportion!
-Feynman
You need to keep things in perspective. This legislation is not about child abuse, it's about accounts of child abuse. It's not even about producing accounts of child abuse, it's about criminalizing mere possession of accounts of child abuse. Do you really think that these legislators will be able to list every single exception where possession of an account of child abuse should be legal?
Under the proposed law, would I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings be a banned book? Night? Blood Meridian? Gravity's Rainbow? The King James Bible?
And even aside from those logical errors you point out, I guess the message is that the good of an individual who can pay is inherently better than the good of any number of people who can't. What's the definition of "anti-social" again?
If that's the god GP's friend found, he's still an atheist. Maybe he just got tired of being hassled by his "friends" that want to interfere in his spirituality.
at least ten times lower than homosexuality
Quantum communication also permits "superdense coding." Effectively, you can get two bits for the price of one (a qubit can encode multiple classical bits).
And face-to-unlock (without blinking) is in ICS.
I don't think they intended you to use the Soy based cutting fluid that way.
Give me a break. This study based on a telephone survey of 54 tobacco and 67 cannabis users claims that the "Withdrawal Discomfort" of cannabis and tobacco is not significantly different. If you have any experience with either drug, you know that doesn't pass the smell test.
If you bother to actually read the paper's conciliatory introduction (conciliatory because most researchers do not believe cannabis is addictive), methods and results, you learn that they made only cursory attempts to control for simultaneous use of tobacco and cannabis - reported by at least 61% of the cannabis sample and 48% of participants overall. A smaller but significant group (19% of participants) were also simultaneously attempting to quit a third addictive substance. In general these confounding variables are not addressed or are implausibly claimed to have no effect on perceived withdrawal (the only reported difference is for those using tobacco replacing products, who apparently experience worsened withdrawal).
Throughout the paper, the authors beg the question of cannabis addiction and withdrawal. Indeed, survey participants are consistently described as people "attempting to quit cannabis." They also cite as evidence surveys of people already enrolled in "outpatient treatment for cannabis dependence," a small, self-selecting minority of cannabis users. Unfortunately, even peer reviewed studies of cannabis use are subject to institutional prejudice - especially when primarily funded by entities heavily invested in a self-described war on cannabis.