More importantly, why is a member of Congress more important that I am? So it is bad to spy on me but REALLY BAD to spy on someone just because they are elected? Fucking elitism at its finest.
Because he has more power and influence. That's what important means.
Actual question from the letter: "Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials? ‘Spying’ would include gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business.”
"Yes, Bernie. You're being treated like a criminal too, because terrorism."
It depends on how you can do the most good. I don't think running did his message any good. He would be in a better position to talk about how he loves his country and how this is for the good of it if he were in his country and not overseas where people have to wonder what/how much he gave to the Russians and the Chinese that may not have hit the presses.
OBTW, this is the same logic that produces kooky behavior to protect from mass killings. Yea, mass shootings are real, but the odds of your kid getting involved in one are about the same as winning the lottery, being eaten by a shark or hit by lightning. Not high enough to really worry about or change school policy, but we do anyway "just in case". The odds are way higher that your kid will get hit by a car or come down with cancer.
Nonsense on the cancer. Gun violence kills twice as many kids than cancer. But most of it doesn't occur in schools or in any mass incidents.
To put some other things in perspective * It is almost 2 times more likely that your kid will shoot himself than that somebody else will shoot him. * If he's murdered, it will most likely be by someone he knows.
I suspect that there are not niches for this. The maximum opacity you can achieve is going to be very low, so while you can vaguely see an image (or see one moderately well with a completely dark background an no ambient light), it's still going to fully suck as a display technology.
"With this attempt at refining the technology, the image is created inside a layer of dry fog which is composed of ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture."
In the near future, it could be as simple as take a pill, interview an analyst about your most disturbing memories and be free of them. The trick is not to recall anything you don't want to forget before the pill wears off.
But that's about license-to-distribute. Google denied them the right to distribute Google apps because they're proprietary applications, while the rest of Cyanogenmod is Android Open Source (or possibly a few apps might be CyanogenMod-proprietary).
Google separately provides a way for users to download a zip containing Google Apps, not as a nice thing for CyanogenMod users, but because they want you to run Google apps on your phone so they don't want to put high barriers to getting the official, latest Google apps on there.
Maybe some day Google will see some advantage to only allowing Google Apps to be distributed by manufacturers or only by carriers or something like that, but that day is not yet.
Why model the power train. Why not instead ship cars with a system designed to learn the characteristics of your power train? It needs to be adaptive anyway to deal with variables like vehicle loading, towing, altitude and wind.
California is such a large state that it ends up having being ruled by the whims of the people of LA. Everything from gun laws, to environmental regulations, to labor laws... or put another way the only reason it's a blue state is because of LA. The number of counties hat end up being 'red counties' is fairly substantial. But they usually get overruled by their opposition.
Of course IS how representative democracy works... but at the level of population containing with wildly different political ideologues as you have in California you start to have a good example of 'the tyranny of the majority'.
Except for the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th....
Most people think we're not intelligent because we can't talk. But that's because our mouths and vocal cords don't give us the admirable control that people have, and until recently even writing was impossible because every time I pick up a pen, I find myself compulsively chewing it to pieces, which gets ink on the carpet; for some reason my human packmates say that is "Bad! Bad! Very Bad!" And computer keyboards are difficult too because we only have short little toes and no opposable thumbs.
But we hear what you're saying and sometimes it hurts.
There are alphas like that and they should be fined, repeatedly. But you may not understand our situation.
Our barking is to indicate a warning to our packmates or to scare off a threat (or occasionally to intimidate a squirrel). We don't bark much when our alphas are home to hear us because our alphas quickly reassure us that they don't need us to help frighten off the threat. Once our packmates acknowledge the situation, we know we have done our job and can go back to more productive activities.
However, some things are too scary to stop barking, and one simply must keep barking until it has gone away.
This needs to become part of law and driving instructions. Fiddling with any kind of touch screen when in a driving lane needs to be against the law.
I have a suggestion, instead of creating a new law to cover each new gadget that someone invents, why don't we invent a single category, like say, "distracted driving" and actually enforce it?
And if you don't want people using the features the manufacturer is putting in the car, maybe we could have some laws targeting the manufacturer... or how about we reduce corporate liability shields to the point where the manufacturer begins to worry that their products are killing people?
Because then you'll have people showing up court asking the officer who pulled them over to prove their mental state.
Yes, I'm also for making some car features illegal. Some of them are so fucking stupid that they should be required to be recalled and removed at the manufacturer's expense. But the biggest problem is the people behind the wheel paying more attention to their devices than what's happening on the road.
Is that as bad as looking at and poking at the screen while their car is moving? My point is if you need to mess with your phone or GPS or your whatever, get off the fucking road.
Exactly this. With a touch screen you MUST look at the device to command it. There's no alternative. With voice commands, they get triggered by conversation. (This happened to my in-laws when they were on the phone with my wife.) Or they could get triggered by audio coming over your radio. Imagine what happens when an ad for Burger King comes on the radio and they direct everybody to the nearest restaurant!
This needs to become part of law and driving instructions. Fiddling with any kind of touch screen when in a driving lane needs to be against the law.
To me, this is a big problem. There's a great deal less development of applications. There are tons of productivity projects that are years, sometimes a decade or more, out of date compared to commercial applications. Frequently they've been left in a halfassed, marginally functional state. Largely, the open source community has failed to deliver on FSF's vision of free software for the masses, unless the free software you want happens to a Linux desktop or an Android phone or some works-pretty-well-but-not-as-well-as-Microsoft office software.
The reason seems obvious: open-source programmers work on whatever they want. They want to work on what's hot so they all gravitate to current hot projects and everything else gets left by the wayside. Meanwhile commercial companies with customers who pay work on software they can sell to people who need software to make complicated tasks easy to do.
But seriously folks, how many programming languages do we need? Do we have enough already? Did we have enough already 15 years ago?
I think it will be this way for a long time. Maybe forever. What might change is that we'll see commercial software companies take more of an interest in making their programs work on Linux and FreeBSD desktops instead of or in addition to Windows and Macintosh.
Culture grows on a substrate of instinct. Certainly there's a large cultural component. I'm proposing that there may also be an instinctual component. If so, it would probably be a characteristic we share with gorillas and chimpanzees and many other primates, but not with bonobos. Bonobos seem inclined toward female leadership.
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More importantly, why is a member of Congress more important that I am? So it is bad to spy on me but REALLY BAD to spy on someone just because they are elected? Fucking elitism at its finest.
Because he has more power and influence. That's what important means.
Actual question from the letter:
"Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials? ‘Spying’ would include gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business.”
"Yes, Bernie. You're being treated like a criminal too, because terrorism."
On the other hand, if you have representative government, you can fire it, with a little help from your friends.
It depends on how you can do the most good. I don't think running did his message any good. He would be in a better position to talk about how he loves his country and how this is for the good of it if he were in his country and not overseas where people have to wonder what/how much he gave to the Russians and the Chinese that may not have hit the presses.
OBTW, this is the same logic that produces kooky behavior to protect from mass killings. Yea, mass shootings are real, but the odds of your kid getting involved in one are about the same as winning the lottery, being eaten by a shark or hit by lightning. Not high enough to really worry about or change school policy, but we do anyway "just in case". The odds are way higher that your kid will get hit by a car or come down with cancer.
Nonsense on the cancer. Gun violence kills twice as many kids than cancer. But most of it doesn't occur in schools or in any mass incidents.
To put some other things in perspective
* It is almost 2 times more likely that your kid will shoot himself than that somebody else will shoot him.
* If he's murdered, it will most likely be by someone he knows.
Because they're blurry 3D with dim, translucent output in a dark room, and the camera only captures 2 of the 3 dimensions.
I suspect that there are not niches for this. The maximum opacity you can achieve is going to be very low, so while you can vaguely see an image (or see one moderately well with a completely dark background an no ambient light), it's still going to fully suck as a display technology.
You might want to check where Houston is before you talk about Phoenix and Houston being remotely similar, other than hot.
If they can project an image into it, it's perceptible.
"With this attempt at refining the technology, the image is created inside a layer of dry fog which is composed of ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture."
Say WHAT?
When there is a method that can be used in a much more targeted fashion?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130910140941.htm
In the near future, it could be as simple as take a pill, interview an analyst about your most disturbing memories and be free of them. The trick is not to recall anything you don't want to forget before the pill wears off.
... are condemned to repeat it.
But that's about license-to-distribute. Google denied them the right to distribute Google apps because they're proprietary applications, while the rest of Cyanogenmod is Android Open Source (or possibly a few apps might be CyanogenMod-proprietary).
Google separately provides a way for users to download a zip containing Google Apps, not as a nice thing for CyanogenMod users, but because they want you to run Google apps on your phone so they don't want to put high barriers to getting the official, latest Google apps on there.
Maybe some day Google will see some advantage to only allowing Google Apps to be distributed by manufacturers or only by carriers or something like that, but that day is not yet.
Why model the power train. Why not instead ship cars with a system designed to learn the characteristics of your power train? It needs to be adaptive anyway to deal with variables like vehicle loading, towing, altitude and wind.
California is such a large state that it ends up having being ruled by the whims of the people of LA. Everything from gun laws, to environmental regulations, to labor laws... or put another way the only reason it's a blue state is because of LA. The number of counties hat end up being 'red counties' is fairly substantial. But they usually get overruled by their opposition.
Of course IS how representative democracy works... but at the level of population containing with wildly different political ideologues as you have in California you start to have a good example of 'the tyranny of the majority'.
Except for the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th....
You get the idea.
I'd say that the material itself is questionable for something designed to roll over rocks. Why not titanium?
Nobody ever asks.
Most people think we're not intelligent because we can't talk. But that's because our mouths and vocal cords don't give us the admirable control that people have, and until recently even writing was impossible because every time I pick up a pen, I find myself compulsively chewing it to pieces, which gets ink on the carpet; for some reason my human packmates say that is "Bad! Bad! Very Bad!" And computer keyboards are difficult too because we only have short little toes and no opposable thumbs.
But we hear what you're saying and sometimes it hurts.
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There are alphas like that and they should be fined, repeatedly. But you may not understand our situation.
Our barking is to indicate a warning to our packmates or to scare off a threat (or occasionally to intimidate a squirrel). We don't bark much when our alphas are home to hear us because our alphas quickly reassure us that they don't need us to help frighten off the threat. Once our packmates acknowledge the situation, we know we have done our job and can go back to more productive activities.
However, some things are too scary to stop barking, and one simply must keep barking until it has gone away.
I have a suggestion, instead of creating a new law to cover each
new gadget that someone invents, why don't we invent a single
category, like say, "distracted driving" and actually enforce it?
And if you don't want people using the features the manufacturer
is putting in the car, maybe we could have some laws targeting
the manufacturer... or how about we reduce corporate liability
shields to the point where the manufacturer begins to worry that
their products are killing people?
Because then you'll have people showing up court asking the officer who pulled them over to prove their mental state.
Yes, I'm also for making some car features illegal. Some of them are so fucking stupid that they should be required to be recalled and removed at the manufacturer's expense. But the biggest problem is the people behind the wheel paying more attention to their devices than what's happening on the road.
Is that as bad as looking at and poking at the screen while their car is moving? My point is if you need to mess with your phone or GPS or your whatever, get off the fucking road.
Exactly this. With a touch screen you MUST look at the device to command it. There's no alternative. With voice commands, they get triggered by conversation. (This happened to my in-laws when they were on the phone with my wife.) Or they could get triggered by audio coming over your radio. Imagine what happens when an ad for Burger King comes on the radio and they direct everybody to the nearest restaurant!
This needs to become part of law and driving instructions. Fiddling with any kind of touch screen when in a driving lane needs to be against the law.
To me, this is a big problem. There's a great deal less development of applications. There are tons of productivity projects that are years, sometimes a decade or more, out of date compared to commercial applications. Frequently they've been left in a halfassed, marginally functional state. Largely, the open source community has failed to deliver on FSF's vision of free software for the masses, unless the free software you want happens to a Linux desktop or an Android phone or some works-pretty-well-but-not-as-well-as-Microsoft office software.
The reason seems obvious: open-source programmers work on whatever they want. They want to work on what's hot so they all gravitate to current hot projects and everything else gets left by the wayside. Meanwhile commercial companies with customers who pay work on software they can sell to people who need software to make complicated tasks easy to do.
But seriously folks, how many programming languages do we need? Do we have enough already? Did we have enough already 15 years ago?
I think it will be this way for a long time. Maybe forever. What might change is that we'll see commercial software companies take more of an interest in making their programs work on Linux and FreeBSD desktops instead of or in addition to Windows and Macintosh.
You pretty much can't cause an ecological disaster in a place that's already too toxic for life. Err.. most life.
But it helped that everybody for 500 miles in any direction was a close cousin.
Culture grows on a substrate of instinct. Certainly there's a large cultural component. I'm proposing that there may also be an instinctual component. If so, it would probably be a characteristic we share with gorillas and chimpanzees and many other primates, but not with bonobos. Bonobos seem inclined toward female leadership.