Funny you mention that. I usually use a pair of Weiss metal snips and sometimes it's still difficult (the plastic is thin enough to fold). I was cursing this shit the other day trying to extract a pair of headphones. I've got a broken hand at the moment and I was trying not to gash the one left.
I hate people who sue over stupid shit, but I was thinking to myself that it would be nice if someone did and the bubble disappeared.
I suppose the context of how it is used would be the deciding factor, but if it is truly autonomous as far as engaging, it seems like a real bad idea to let machines decide who and what to kill. Definitely shouldn't be a set and forget like a landmine with a 1000yd range.
Though if in the general case, if it's used to identify targets and then alerts a user to decide what to do, that's a little more understandable, but I'd fret "glitches".
Either way, the ad reminds me of the Jetpants one from "Arrested Development".
I worked at a plumbing supply house about 10yrs ago. My boss would still use his Apple II and Visicalc for doing the pricing book sheets. He had newer machines but for some reason just kept using it. I recall thinking how odd that it was the original spreadsheet software.
I'll agree with that for the most part, why I didn't go into the academy. I didn't think I could leave it on the job and I think it would have gotten to me too much.
If I went to someone's house and they were beating on a child or their wife, you better believe I'd crack them upside their head. Or if in arresting someone and they spit on me or something, you better believe there would be a physical response.
In theory, I don't have a problem with a cop shelling out a little bit of punishment. The problem for me is that "justified" varies too much from person to person and in my experience some people on the job are just pyscho (or become one).
Take Rodney King, he threw the first punch, kept resisting and was tweaked after leading them on a high speed chase. I could care less if he got a couple of extra knocks. He deserved them. Interesting to note, no one else in the car was touched by the cops, why? Because they did what they were told. Something that always seems to get overlooked.
And for the record, if I ever lead the cops on a chase and try to assualt them and resist arrest, they have my explicit permission to give me a few good shots to grow on.
The problem is that some people are just not rational. In my experience, a higher percentage of cops fit into that segment. I don't know if it's the job attracts them or if the job does it to them.
For instance, about a year or so ago, I met a cop at a bar who recognized me through family relations (lot's of cops in my family and we all look alike). We ended up talking for a bit and it didn't take long to realize he was...
A. Coked out, B. Paranoid, C. Fingering his Glock in the front pocket of his hoodie.
As the conversation went on, he kept getting more loud, aggitated and weird (All the while holding his piece like he was about to pull it out). Towards the end, he's yelling at me, telling me I'm a p*ssy for not becoming a cop (for the reasons I stated in paragraph two of this post). I'm a diplomat, I'll choose my words carefully but I won't tell you shit is shinola because you're in my face.
Some people who knew me thought that he was going to hit me and tried to play nice and intervene and he starts in on them, I'm trying to diffuse the situation without someone getting pistol whipped or worse.
I manage to get between them and bring it back my way, I'm trying to talk him down. I thought someone was going to get hurt, badly, as in maybe shot. It was nerveracking to say the least.
Long story less long, He (I imagine) has a moment of clarity and realizes he's going to get himself in trouble, as he suddenly get's calm, says "That's alright. I probably should get going. Take it easy" and leaves.
I breathe a sigh of relief and shudder to think someone like that has a badge. I also ponder that if we had this conversation and I was an unknown to him, it would have been a bad, bad night for me.
Actually, I've had a few ideas I've been meaning to try and haven't been able to for lack of time. I've really got to get on it.
One idea I had was a video where you could isolate elements within it. Say a Seasame Street looking scene, were you could selectively isolate an element (and speak it's name), like a chair (where everything else gets dimmed to highlight the given element), sort of a scene decomposition exercise.
My neice (now 12) is autistic. Whether it is coincidence or not, shortly after her dose of thermosil, she stopped talking and relating. She can talk a bit, knows the alphabet, etc, but her using them is very rare and pretty much only at her discretion.
It's very hard to connect with her. To get her attention 95% of the time is just about impossible, television on the other hand, has no problem. It's one of the few things that can always get her attention. I've always wondered if it's something of a signal processing problem. Television being two dimensional, perhaps it's just easier for them to grok. Also, the shows she tends to watch (Sesame Street, etc), all the characters usually are brightly contrasted and have high pitched, funny easily discernable voices.
In a more altruistic world, I'd agree, but we are talking about money. A bottom line and nothing more. Their job is to get drugs to market and make money.
I larger problem I think are the drugs that are not made due to the fact that while profitiable, aren't insanely profitable. Like synthetic HDL.
No one bothered because there was not enough return for their liking. Not until they found a family in Italy that had a mutation and it became suddenly patentable.
No one thinks that people like them. For almost all business, most people would I wager would prefer human outside of the simplist transactions (account balances,etc).
While they are getting better in some regards, it's simply to save money. Is this a question that even needed to be ask?
Lot's of science isn't provable either, and never will be. The origins of the universe will never be proven. Just about everything we observe outside of our own planet (and in particular, outside of the solar system) is based on guesswork. We make assumptions that such and such emits so and so and that's why it works the way it does. We put forth pieces that fit what we think we see. People trust that science get's it right and have faith in what they are told, some people even see for themselves, but many things are unverifiable to the general population and will probably remain so.
And to be clear, I'm not arguing against science, I'm pro-science, I believe we evolved, etc.
I'll also assume you mean by believer, someone who is bordering on fanatical.
The biggest qualm I have with religion is the majority of people IMHO only believe it because they were told so and so first. Religion as an institution. For anyone who has seriously spent time questioning their faith, who has really struggled with those questions, and still come out believing (and not out of some the "alternative sucks" thought process), real faith, I've got respect for.
"Belief in a supernatural being that created you and the rest of the world and now runs it is, without doubt, a species of mental illness."
I'd have to disagree with that. I'm not what you'd call religious, if anything, I'm further from that mind-set than ever. Ok, a big guy in a robe pulling strings is a bit far fetched.
There are many things we don't understand, there very well could be some larger "forces" at play, and I don't mean in the literal sense, like God and Satan at some big game of Chess.
But to rule everything out, to think of universe and existence itself in terms limited by our small view of it is probably just as "ill" as taking a book as gospel.
Science is just a skeptic's religion. And for the most part, I'm a disciple.
That aside, Amazon Prime is ok except for one giant flaw, you can't search for items that are available via Prime. So if I want to grab, say an extension cable or something, I've got to wade through pages trying to find a seller that is eligable for Prime shipping.
Yes and no. Some autonomy is good. How much should depend on how much the child has earned. Letting kids do whatever they want is bad, not letting them do anything is bad too.
It's a balance. You can't micromanage every second of a kid's life and then expect him magically to be able to deal with the real world. But a lot of kids, if they were allowed to do whatever they felt like would end up in the gutter or worse.
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Funny you mention that. I usually use a pair of Weiss metal snips and sometimes it's still difficult (the plastic is thin enough to fold). I was cursing this shit the other day trying to extract a pair of headphones. I've got a broken hand at the moment and I was trying not to gash the one left.
I hate people who sue over stupid shit, but I was thinking to myself that it would be nice if someone did and the bubble disappeared.
I suppose the context of how it is used would be the deciding factor, but if it is truly autonomous as far as engaging, it seems like a real bad idea to let machines decide who and what to kill. Definitely shouldn't be a set and forget like a landmine with a 1000yd range.
Though if in the general case, if it's used to identify targets and then alerts a user to decide what to do, that's a little more understandable, but I'd fret "glitches".
Either way, the ad reminds me of the Jetpants one from "Arrested Development".
I worked at a plumbing supply house about 10yrs ago. My boss would still use his Apple II and Visicalc for doing the pricing book sheets. He had newer machines but for some reason just kept using it. I recall thinking how odd that it was the original spreadsheet software.
I'll agree with that for the most part, why I didn't go into the academy. I didn't think I could leave it on the job and I think it would have gotten to me too much.
If I went to someone's house and they were beating on a child or their wife, you better believe I'd crack them upside their head. Or if in arresting someone and they spit on me or something, you better believe there would be a physical response.
In theory, I don't have a problem with a cop shelling out a little bit of punishment. The problem for me is that "justified" varies too much from person to person and in my experience some people on the job are just pyscho (or become one).
Take Rodney King, he threw the first punch, kept resisting and was tweaked after leading them on a high speed chase. I could care less if he got a couple of extra knocks. He deserved them. Interesting to note, no one else in the car was touched by the cops, why? Because they did what they were told. Something that always seems to get overlooked.
And for the record, if I ever lead the cops on a chase and try to assualt them and resist arrest, they have my explicit permission to give me a few good shots to grow on.
The problem is that some people are just not rational. In my experience, a higher percentage of cops fit into that segment. I don't know if it's the job attracts them or if the job does it to them.
For instance, about a year or so ago, I met a cop at a bar who recognized me through family relations (lot's of cops in my family and we all look alike). We ended up talking for a bit and it didn't take long to realize he was...
A. Coked out, B. Paranoid, C. Fingering his Glock in the front pocket of his hoodie.
As the conversation went on, he kept getting more loud, aggitated and weird (All the while holding his piece like he was about to pull it out). Towards the end, he's yelling at me, telling me I'm a p*ssy for not becoming a cop (for the reasons I stated in paragraph two of this post). I'm a diplomat, I'll choose my words carefully but I won't tell you shit is shinola because you're in my face.
Some people who knew me thought that he was going to hit me and tried to play nice and intervene and he starts in on them, I'm trying to diffuse the situation without someone getting pistol whipped or worse.
I manage to get between them and bring it back my way, I'm trying to talk him down. I thought someone was going to get hurt, badly, as in maybe shot. It was nerveracking to say the least.
Long story less long, He (I imagine) has a moment of clarity and realizes he's going to get himself in trouble, as he suddenly get's calm, says "That's alright. I probably should get going. Take it easy" and leaves.
I breathe a sigh of relief and shudder to think someone like that has a badge. I also ponder that if we had this conversation and I was an unknown to him, it would have been a bad, bad night for me.
Geewhiz,Thanks!
Clerk: Ahh, matches!
Hungarian: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Clerk: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Hungarian: You great
poof. Clerk: That'll be six and six, please.
This is wicked fuckin retarded.
Actually, I've had a few ideas I've been meaning to try and haven't been able to for lack of time. I've really got to get on it.
One idea I had was a video where you could isolate elements within it. Say a Seasame Street looking scene, were you could selectively isolate an element (and speak it's name), like a chair (where everything else gets dimmed to highlight the given element), sort of a scene decomposition exercise.
My neice (now 12) is autistic. Whether it is coincidence or not, shortly after her dose of thermosil, she stopped talking and relating. She can talk a bit, knows the alphabet, etc, but her using them is very rare and pretty much only at her discretion.
It's very hard to connect with her. To get her attention 95% of the time is just about impossible, television on the other hand, has no problem. It's one of the few things that can always get her attention. I've always wondered if it's something of a signal processing problem. Television being two dimensional, perhaps it's just easier for them to grok. Also, the shows she tends to watch (Sesame Street, etc), all the characters usually are brightly contrasted and have high pitched, funny easily discernable voices.
More like some poor bastard getting pulled in and accelerating until what ever's ferrous get's pulled off.
That could be ugly.
And the challenge? Break in while getting head. Yes, I imagine that's one of the keys to being a proficient blackhat.
When I was a teen (early 90s) I knew more than a couple who got familar with Unix servers in the search for warez.
One for BluRay, one for HD-DVD?
Yes and no. Not everyone gives out business cards indiscriminately.
In a more altruistic world, I'd agree, but we are talking about money. A bottom line and nothing more. Their job is to get drugs to market and make money.
I larger problem I think are the drugs that are not made due to the fact that while profitiable, aren't insanely profitable. Like synthetic HDL.
No one bothered because there was not enough return for their liking. Not until they found a family in Italy that had a mutation and it became suddenly patentable.
No one thinks that people like them. For almost all business, most people would I wager would prefer human outside of the simplist transactions (account balances,etc).
While they are getting better in some regards, it's simply to save money. Is this a question that even needed to be ask?
He keeps them safe from ManBearPig
Lot's of science isn't provable either, and never will be. The origins of the universe will never be proven. Just about everything we observe outside of our own planet (and in particular, outside of the solar system) is based on guesswork. We make assumptions that such and such emits so and so and that's why it works the way it does. We put forth pieces that fit what we think we see. People trust that science get's it right and have faith in what they are told, some people even see for themselves, but many things are unverifiable to the general population and will probably remain so.
And to be clear, I'm not arguing against science, I'm pro-science, I believe we evolved, etc.
I'll also assume you mean by believer, someone who is bordering on fanatical.
The biggest qualm I have with religion is the majority of people IMHO only believe it because they were told so and so first. Religion as an institution. For anyone who has seriously spent time questioning their faith, who has really struggled with those questions, and still come out believing (and not out of some the "alternative sucks" thought process), real faith, I've got respect for.
"Belief in a supernatural being that created you and the rest of the world and now runs it is, without doubt, a species of mental illness."
I'd have to disagree with that. I'm not what you'd call religious, if anything, I'm further from that mind-set than ever. Ok, a big guy in a robe pulling strings is a bit far fetched.
There are many things we don't understand, there very well could be some larger "forces" at play, and I don't mean in the literal sense, like God and Satan at some big game of Chess.
But to rule everything out, to think of universe and existence itself in terms limited by our small view of it is probably just as "ill" as taking a book as gospel.
Science is just a skeptic's religion. And for the most part, I'm a disciple.
The idea that this is patentable is retarded.
That aside, Amazon Prime is ok except for one giant flaw, you can't search for items that are available via Prime. So if I want to grab, say an extension cable or something, I've got to wade through pages trying to find a seller that is eligable for Prime shipping.
400MB?
Why not just douse the server in gas if you want to see it melt.
LOL, wish I had some mod points+
Yes and no. Some autonomy is good. How much should depend on how much the child has earned. Letting kids do whatever they want is bad, not letting them do anything is bad too.
It's a balance. You can't micromanage every second of a kid's life and then expect him magically to be able to deal with the real world. But a lot of kids, if they were allowed to do whatever they felt like would end up in the gutter or worse.
Makes me wary of the dell laptop I'm using for my car pc. :|