Can we cover the outside of commercial airliners with cheap cameras, use computers to stitch the panoramas together, and then give passengers a zoomable, pannable picture of the sky and ground to look at?
... and the police attracts the sort of people who need to validate themselves by intimidating other people. Private security and bouncers are the same kind of people, apart from the fact that they're too shit to qualify to join the police. These people are just the same kind of pissants who would steal lunch money and give wedgies in the locker room at school. Losers who are only winners in their own minds.
You should be feeling sorry for these kinds of people. Cop/mallcop big-man-small-dick syndrome should be classified as a disease, and its sufferers should be pitied rather than be despised.
That said, as an avid photographer myself, I'd like to see a bit of clarity on what my rights and obligation are when I'm out taking pictures; lest I run into an officious pindick looking to ruin my day.
On initial reading, I thought I was reading something about Neo-Tech (an Scientology-like offshoot of Objectivism), which would be decidedly more serious and sinister than the fairly harmless fanboyism discussed heretofore. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet on this story.
None of this stuff surprises me. There's lots of crazy religious whackjobs and woo-peddlers from Queensland, and besides wheat, coal and bauxite, Christian, right-wing and New Age crap is one of our biggest exports.
Having grown up in regional Queensland, I can testify first hand that this place is, as some wag once said, like Alambama with better beaches.
The place has a deep right-wing authoritarian streak going way back, and it periodically resurfaces in the form of the "Liberal National Party", a rabble of right-wing redneck farmers who occasionally scrape together enough votes to get into power and screw everything up. Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (USians, think Huey Long), was the closest thing to a dictator this country has ever seen, and presided over a thuggish and thoroughly corrupt ostensibly-Christian police state which followed around and harassed its enemies. I have friends who had Special Branch files a foot thick... which the Joh government conveniently had shredded Stasi-style when they were kicked out for being outrageously corrupt.
That kind of parochialism and petty right-wing nastiness breeds a xenophobic and superstitious outlook that hasn't changed a bit as long as I've been alive. Rural south east Queensland is a hotbed of cult activity, and our Christian fundamentalists are reknowned the world over; several of the world's biggest IDers and Creationists come fresh from beautiful and sunny Queensland to spread their vile ideas around the world. We also have export-grade racists and idiots like Pauline Hanson, who left Australia recently for London (without even a hint of irony) because there are "too many Asians" in Australia. We also have a lot of New Age silliness, and it tends to cluster in places like the New South Wales border. They're mostly harmless, apart from their embrace of dangerous silliness like the anti-vaccination movement, which has caused communities to lose herd immunity, and children to die from diseases thought eradicated 50 years ago.
Outside of the fairly vibrant and fast-growing south east corner, Queensland is a Mecca for all sorts of stupid, vile and ugly people, many who purport to call themselves Christian.
Happens all the time. Mainland Chinese have a huge thing about "face" and prestige, but evidently, it doesn't extend to not lying and stealing compuslively to make yourself look better. Their little brains don't understand that you lose a LOT of face when everyone sees you as a liar and thief.
They will find a way around a general crackdown on money mules. A lot of the east Europeans running these massive crime operations have MBAs and PhDs, and are untouchable because of political connections. They are certainly not stupid. Still, nice try.
Anyway, why leave a crackdown on money mules so late? The FBI aren't stupid either -- what advantage is there to not busting mules?
The big problems concern engineering -- how to turn a piece of very expensive scientific equipment into a cost-effective and reliable power station. The challenges are huge, and not just for inertially-confined fusion, but magnetically confined fusion as well.
I'm 30 and I'm not even sure I'll be alive to see a working fusion power plant.
Fine, they're certainly within their rights, but on the other hand, it comes across as extremely petty and childish.
If they want to behave like 7 year old children, that's their perogative. But then they have to accept the consequences of the negative feelings they generate.
They can be as right as they want, but that'll do absolutely no good if they handle the situation poorly and antagonise their users. Being right isn't a license to behave like a tool.
In the meantime folks, please get your sex-ed and medical advice from a DOCTOR, and not your local crank. These people spend a decade in college for a reason.
The libertoons whinging about ID cards have no idea what they're talking about.
This lot fail to see that most non-Anglo countries have mandatory cards, and it doesn't bother anybody. The idea that an ID card and a record in a database somewhere means getting analprobed constantly by police officers in ski masks is riscible.
Big countries just as advanced, free and democratic as the English-speaking world (perhaps more so), like France and Spain have got them. Why not make life easier for government agencies trying to enforce the law, prevent fraud, and prevent illegal immigration?
Since it's owned by News Corporation, it'd be fair to say that it draws from the Murdoch family's deep well of moral squalor. So selling user data to the highest bidder, in addition to attacking Murdoch's ideological enemies, is being just true to form for these people.
Perhaps the issue here is that most normal people despise "urban" culture, and the thoroughly unoriginal kids who ape black American criminals in their tastes of dress and music. It doesn't help that affinity for "urban" culture, is a cultural shibboleth -- given that the underclasses gravitate towards junk culture (and junk food), it's easy to discriminate against them by pushing urban culture out of public spaces.
I've seen all sorts of devices designed to move these kind of people on. Pink lights in subways. Classical music. The notorious "mosquito" (high-pitched sound generators that only teenagers can hear). Barry Manilow.
FWIW, I'm broadly in favour of just playing lots of Barry Manilow rather than classical music... same advantages, none of the drawbacks.
... for pressuring the disgusting and odious Chinese government. The Chinese are big on 'face', and maybe -- just maybe -- they can be shamed into adopting international standards of decent behaviour.
Ideally, what China really needs is a Hungarian-style transition to civilized, responsible democratic government, although I suppose piecemeal reform could rate a (distant) second place.
Politics is Murdoch's bread and butter. As far as political interference goes, that old traitor Rupert (and I call him a traitor, because he renounced his Australian citizenship for commercial reasons) would sell his mother for a Mars Bar, and would say and do anything to advance his own interests.
This sneak-attack on the BBC's online news operation will go down in history as one of the nastiest, shittiest commercial and political power plays in history. This is a classic case of the evils of allowing people like Rupert Murdoch to become as powerful as he has -- he has effectively kneecapped one of the world's greatest news organisations, so he can force people to pay for his filthy, biased low-grade garbage (optimistically called "news").
Murdoch is threatening to turn the world into a supersized version of the US; with few large independent voices, and a news market dominated by undemocratic, fascistic shit like FOX News. And with a for-profit, partisan, low-quality mass media that shills for its corporate masters, rather than doing its job, we are talking about a basic and dire threat to our society.
The Murdochs are a walking disaster area for our democracy, and not enough is being done to challenge them and their minions. Old Rupert himself is a very old man, and undoubtedly his appointment with Old Nick is imminent; however that's not to say that his sons won't follow in his footsteps.
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Glad I wasn't the only one wondering... the dwell time of that laser seemed way too long for a megawatt-class laser.
Airborne Laser is a megawatt-class chemically pumped laser, and it's FAR bigger than the barely-weaponizable solid state lasers being used now.
Can we cover the outside of commercial airliners with cheap cameras, use computers to stitch the panoramas together, and then give passengers a zoomable, pannable picture of the sky and ground to look at?
... and the police attracts the sort of people who need to validate themselves by intimidating other people. Private security and bouncers are the same kind of people, apart from the fact that they're too shit to qualify to join the police. These people are just the same kind of pissants who would steal lunch money and give wedgies in the locker room at school. Losers who are only winners in their own minds.
You should be feeling sorry for these kinds of people. Cop/mallcop big-man-small-dick syndrome should be classified as a disease, and its sufferers should be pitied rather than be despised.
That said, as an avid photographer myself, I'd like to see a bit of clarity on what my rights and obligation are when I'm out taking pictures; lest I run into an officious pindick looking to ruin my day.
On initial reading, I thought I was reading something about Neo-Tech (an Scientology-like offshoot of Objectivism), which would be decidedly more serious and sinister than the fairly harmless fanboyism discussed heretofore. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet on this story.
Fred Nile, is that you?
None of this stuff surprises me. There's lots of crazy religious whackjobs and woo-peddlers from Queensland, and besides wheat, coal and bauxite, Christian, right-wing and New Age crap is one of our biggest exports.
Having grown up in regional Queensland, I can testify first hand that this place is, as some wag once said, like Alambama with better beaches.
The place has a deep right-wing authoritarian streak going way back, and it periodically resurfaces in the form of the "Liberal National Party", a rabble of right-wing redneck farmers who occasionally scrape together enough votes to get into power and screw everything up. Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (USians, think Huey Long), was the closest thing to a dictator this country has ever seen, and presided over a thuggish and thoroughly corrupt ostensibly-Christian police state which followed around and harassed its enemies. I have friends who had Special Branch files a foot thick... which the Joh government conveniently had shredded Stasi-style when they were kicked out for being outrageously corrupt.
That kind of parochialism and petty right-wing nastiness breeds a xenophobic and superstitious outlook that hasn't changed a bit as long as I've been alive. Rural south east Queensland is a hotbed of cult activity, and our Christian fundamentalists are reknowned the world over; several of the world's biggest IDers and Creationists come fresh from beautiful and sunny Queensland to spread their vile ideas around the world. We also have export-grade racists and idiots like Pauline Hanson, who left Australia recently for London (without even a hint of irony) because there are "too many Asians" in Australia. We also have a lot of New Age silliness, and it tends to cluster in places like the New South Wales border. They're mostly harmless, apart from their embrace of dangerous silliness like the anti-vaccination movement, which has caused communities to lose herd immunity, and children to die from diseases thought eradicated 50 years ago.
Outside of the fairly vibrant and fast-growing south east corner, Queensland is a Mecca for all sorts of stupid, vile and ugly people, many who purport to call themselves Christian.
read the title of the story as: "Adobe Flounders On Flash and Internet Standards"
Happens all the time. Mainland Chinese have a huge thing about "face" and prestige, but evidently, it doesn't extend to not lying and stealing compuslively to make yourself look better. Their little brains don't understand that you lose a LOT of face when everyone sees you as a liar and thief.
They will find a way around a general crackdown on money mules. A lot of the east Europeans running these massive crime operations have MBAs and PhDs, and are untouchable because of political connections. They are certainly not stupid. Still, nice try.
Anyway, why leave a crackdown on money mules so late? The FBI aren't stupid either -- what advantage is there to not busting mules?
Karma's a bitch, hey Monsanto?
We could start, by throwing the book at money mules. Anybody who's busted gets 5 years in the slammer for fraud, and paraded on the 6 o'clock news.
The failure to vigorously prosecute money mules is the big elephant in the room at the moment.
Sadly, mud sticks.
The denialists know this.
The big problems concern engineering -- how to turn a piece of very expensive scientific equipment into a cost-effective and reliable power station. The challenges are huge, and not just for inertially-confined fusion, but magnetically confined fusion as well.
I'm 30 and I'm not even sure I'll be alive to see a working fusion power plant.
Fine, they're certainly within their rights, but on the other hand, it comes across as extremely petty and childish.
If they want to behave like 7 year old children, that's their perogative. But then they have to accept the consequences of the negative feelings they generate.
They can be as right as they want, but that'll do absolutely no good if they handle the situation poorly and antagonise their users. Being right isn't a license to behave like a tool.
*Dons tin foil hat*
In the meantime folks, please get your sex-ed and medical advice from a DOCTOR, and not your local crank. These people spend a decade in college for a reason.
That would be tantamount, in the CCP's eyes, to a declaration of war. Then you would REALLY see their true colours.
The libertoons whinging about ID cards have no idea what they're talking about.
This lot fail to see that most non-Anglo countries have mandatory cards, and it doesn't bother anybody. The idea that an ID card and a record in a database somewhere means getting analprobed constantly by police officers in ski masks is riscible.
Big countries just as advanced, free and democratic as the English-speaking world (perhaps more so), like France and Spain have got them. Why not make life easier for government agencies trying to enforce the law, prevent fraud, and prevent illegal immigration?
Since it's owned by News Corporation, it'd be fair to say that it draws from the Murdoch family's deep well of moral squalor. So selling user data to the highest bidder, in addition to attacking Murdoch's ideological enemies, is being just true to form for these people.
I can't say I'm surprised.
I suppose it would result in an endless Third World zerg rush on Europe. I'm sure that'll go down well.
Remember that highway networks were traditionally built to move armies around quickly.
Perhaps the issue here is that most normal people despise "urban" culture, and the thoroughly unoriginal kids who ape black American criminals in their tastes of dress and music. It doesn't help that affinity for "urban" culture, is a cultural shibboleth -- given that the underclasses gravitate towards junk culture (and junk food), it's easy to discriminate against them by pushing urban culture out of public spaces.
I've seen all sorts of devices designed to move these kind of people on. Pink lights in subways. Classical music. The notorious "mosquito" (high-pitched sound generators that only teenagers can hear). Barry Manilow.
FWIW, I'm broadly in favour of just playing lots of Barry Manilow rather than classical music... same advantages, none of the drawbacks.
No idea why I'm matching wits with CCP 50-cent trolls anyway.
Apologies to anybody else reading this :(
It certainly doesn't belong to you murdering Chinese communists either.
LOL at gutless chinky AC.
You're a long way from home mate.
... for pressuring the disgusting and odious Chinese government. The Chinese are big on 'face', and maybe -- just maybe -- they can be shamed into adopting international standards of decent behaviour.
Ideally, what China really needs is a Hungarian-style transition to civilized, responsible democratic government, although I suppose piecemeal reform could rate a (distant) second place.
Politics is Murdoch's bread and butter. As far as political interference goes, that old traitor Rupert (and I call him a traitor, because he renounced his Australian citizenship for commercial reasons) would sell his mother for a Mars Bar, and would say and do anything to advance his own interests.
This sneak-attack on the BBC's online news operation will go down in history as one of the nastiest, shittiest commercial and political power plays in history. This is a classic case of the evils of allowing people like Rupert Murdoch to become as powerful as he has -- he has effectively kneecapped one of the world's greatest news organisations, so he can force people to pay for his filthy, biased low-grade garbage (optimistically called "news").
Murdoch is threatening to turn the world into a supersized version of the US; with few large independent voices, and a news market dominated by undemocratic, fascistic shit like FOX News. And with a for-profit, partisan, low-quality mass media that shills for its corporate masters, rather than doing its job, we are talking about a basic and dire threat to our society.
The Murdochs are a walking disaster area for our democracy, and not enough is being done to challenge them and their minions. Old Rupert himself is a very old man, and undoubtedly his appointment with Old Nick is imminent; however that's not to say that his sons won't follow in his footsteps.