Or so those who live at low latitude like to think. It's far more complex than that, with seasons being far more extreme for many people who did quite well with midnight sun and winter nights.
Humans (and lifeforms in general) are good at adapting. It's a survival trait, and those who cannot adapt well are generally awarded with extinction, unless they find an unchanging niche. That those who have a hard time adapting face more problems is to be expected. If they can't adapt, they need to relocate to where they fit in, or face that they're going to be losers compared to others who can adapt or move.
That's like saying: "I would need to lose maybe 10 pounds, and this qualifies me to decide that morbidly obese people should just stop eating junk food and get in shape instead of bitching about hormones and requesting bypass surgery."
The uncomfortable truth, you mean?
Having a hormonal abnormalities is no excuse if you still jam copious amounts of chips and cupcakes down your gullet and pretend that a salad with croutons, cheese and 500 kcal worth of dressing is "healthy".
Back on topic, people want excuses. Little Frederick isn't doing bad at school because he's dumb, oh no, he has mild autism and his circadian rhythms don't align! Anything to avoid facing the truth: he's plain stupid and lazy, and his parents suck at being parents.
If I was a security guard and people came in and stole a lot of stuff I would be fired. Who's getting fired here?
Probably sysadmins who repeatedly said that they had bad security and that changes were needed. Certainly not management who overrode their concerns because corporate security scanning software said everything was fine.
How do they even have 150M accounts? Do 2% of people on Earth have MyFitnessPal accounts?
Some probably have more than one account (forgot and created a new one, or wanted to start over fresh), but that number doesn't seem all that high.
Mostly Americans too, I wager. These days, many health insurance companies and employees offer "incentives"[*] where you have to have a step tracker hooked up to their system. They often add support for catching data from some the more popular fitness tracking sites like Strava and MyFitnessPal. But Strava is really mostly for runners, so the average insurance paying American Joe and Jill are more likely to have a MyFitnessPal account.
[*]: I.e. increasing the premiums for everybody, and then give "rewards" for those who participate to get them back to the normal price. This is designed to skirt regulation that prohibits discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. Alice with rheumatism and Bob with a bum knee won't ever walk 10,000 steps a day, so in effect, they end up paying more than young Charlie.
Also, LAME was always better at the bitrates that quality audiophiles care about.
No, it wasn't. In the early days, lame was all about VBR, which no audiophile would touch with a conductor's pole. VBR sounds shitty, because of the quality changes being so readily detectible. A change back and forth between good quality and very good quality is more perceptible than a track that stays at mediocre quality. For 320 kbps, Fraunhofer had the upper hand, especially for encoding quality (you can tell whether an old MP3 uses FH or lame based on whether high hats sound like being stricken by a bag full of broken glass). For the other end of the spectrum, the very lowest bitrates in mono, Fraunhofer created smaller files, which was important to some, especially for things like 12 hour long audiobooks.
The one thing lame excelled at in the early years was VBR, which was ok for the pop music crowd who wanted to fit more songs in limited space and didn't really are about sound quality, just loudness. It wasn't like you could make a Nickelback or Oasis album sound much worse, quality wise, than it already did.
Non sequitur. If Ecuador just wanted to show Assange the door, they wouldn't have just granted him citizenship.
They didn't just do that; they followed it up with a request to the UK to grant their new citizen diplomatic status so he could leave the embassy. It was denied, but nice try.
The problem with this narrative is that Ecuador just granted Assange citizenship. Not the kind of thing you'd do if you're just trying to evict someone.
Oh, I don't know about that. It could help getting him out of the embassy, and was followed up with a request to the UK to grant Assange diplomatic status as an Ecuadorian citizen (it was denied). In short, it looks very much like an intent to get Assange out of the embassy.
Guantanamo is a military prison, so to end up there, you must somehow get detained by our military. This isn't a discussion on if you agree with it or not, simply a statement on how you end up there. Since our military is not currently involved in combat operations within the UK, Assanage would not end up there.
This would be nice if it were true. However, several of the Guantanamo Bay detainees were arrested in countries where the US didn't have military combat operations, and brought to Afghanistan for bounty. Adel Noori is perhaps the most famous case.
At least if he is incarcerated he will finally have one hour outdoors every day.
He has as much outdoor time as he wants right now, as long as it's on the embassy grounds. I.e. the balcony he's used several times, the rooftop and the small trench between the street fence and the building. And nobody forces him to stay either.
What are you talking about? The opensource implementations of MP3 and H264 quickly outpaced every commercial implementation,
Really? I used the commercial Fraunhofer MP3 implementation for almost a decade, because the open source Lame was both more resource hungry and gave more artefacts. That's not my definition of "quickly".
The current Ecuadorian government inherited Assange, and it's no secret that they don't agree with his staying at the embassy. It's not the first time they have cut his access, and overall, making it undesirable for him to stay and get him to leave on his own there is likely the overall strategy, avoiding any backlash from actually tossing him out.
The real answer is "None of the Above" but put a gun to my head and the answer is clearly Apple. Why? I trust their profit motive the most. Apple just wants to sell me more Apple products and actually has a not completely terrible record with regard to privacy. All the others want to sell data about me to third parties of unknown reliability. Amazon would be the next option, again because of their profit motive which is to sell me physical and digital stuff. Google and Facebook I don't trust at all. They are advertising companies start to finish and I have no interest in cooperating with that.
I'd take any Chinese company over Apple. The reason is that you can be fairly certain that they eavesdrop, but that it's the Chinese government that controls it. And they have no interest in private individuals who don't know anything that might benefit them, and certainly won't hand data over to bad apples in US law enforcement or US political factions. With Apple or any US based company, that's not a given.
Because these devices provide value for some users and not everyone sees targeted advertising as an invasion of their privacy. If the mic doesn't bother somebody and they really want to be able to say, "Alexa play light jazz," that's not my decision to make for them.
I think the key here is that users have to be able to make informed consent. Not just accept a shrink wrap disclaimer that doesn't really inform them about the full implications in order to get instant gratification. Informed consent would imply the user not only knowing what data the company say they collect right now, but what the capabilities are, and how the data can be used for other purposes than playing light jazz. Including what the implications of a data breach could be.
If a user isn't capable of making informed consent, perhaps the user shouldn't be presented with the decision at all.
to ensure that they make the right trade-offs regarding user data
There are things you just shouldn't have any authority to decide on trade-offs for, and especially trade-offs on the behalf of others.
I think this highlights why the US needs data protection regulations like the EU and other European countries have, where personal data is owned by the user, and not the company that collects it, and where companies who create databases of user data beyond what's needed for a transaction have to provide a justification and obtain a permit. Giving them a carte blanche and letting them decide for themselves what "trade-offs" they want to play is stupid.
Obviously you didn't read the actual thread. We're talking about foreigners coming to the US and studying, racking up debt and leaving.
Obviously, you didn't see that I started the actual discussion about the possibility of avoiding student loans by emigrating. Go another step up than what you bothered to do.
You still have to apply for a B1 Visa when visiting the US for business reasons.
Not if you emigrate to a country that allows dual citizenship, which the US also does. Then you travel to the US as a US citizen, no visum required, I should think? If you renounce your citizenship, you may get problems obtaining a visum anyhow.
But taking out debt without ever intending to pay it is known as fraud.
People may have the best of intentions when taking out a loan. In which case they're only defaulting, which is not something that normally warrants a criminal arrest or extradition.
I was thinking about those emigrating, not those not immigrating. People who emigrate sometimes find that economical obligations they have in their old country no longer are enforceable. Outstanding fines and taxes are sometimes covered by agreements between countries, but things like student loans are unlikely to be.
'Never' is a long time. Kind of difficult if you get a job at a company and they need to send you on a business trip to the US. Or even a business trip that transits the US.
Not paying your student loan isn't under the criminal code, so cops won't run to a judge to get an arrest warrant if you show up.
They do not givr a crap about EU rules. Yes they are probably bugged by China, but China does not give a crap about me either.
That makes China slightly better - the government where you are tend to give a bigger crap, and not just about you but sometimes directly on you. China may at most be amused at what you do, but your local government can actually use that data against you or those you network with.
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So the driver didn't have their hands on the wheel? Sounds like evolution in action...
There was only one driver, whose gender is known. "His" is the word you're looking for.
They were scheduled by the sun.
Or so those who live at low latitude like to think. It's far more complex than that, with seasons being far more extreme for many people who did quite well with midnight sun and winter nights.
Humans (and lifeforms in general) are good at adapting. It's a survival trait, and those who cannot adapt well are generally awarded with extinction, unless they find an unchanging niche.
That those who have a hard time adapting face more problems is to be expected. If they can't adapt, they need to relocate to where they fit in, or face that they're going to be losers compared to others who can adapt or move.
That's like saying: "I would need to lose maybe 10 pounds, and this qualifies me to decide that morbidly obese people should just stop eating junk food and get in shape instead of bitching about hormones and requesting bypass surgery."
The uncomfortable truth, you mean?
Having a hormonal abnormalities is no excuse if you still jam copious amounts of chips and cupcakes down your gullet and pretend that a salad with croutons, cheese and 500 kcal worth of dressing is "healthy".
Back on topic, people want excuses. Little Frederick isn't doing bad at school because he's dumb, oh no, he has mild autism and his circadian rhythms don't align! Anything to avoid facing the truth: he's plain stupid and lazy, and his parents suck at being parents.
Society is evolving. For the most part, men no longer drag women by their hair to fuck them next to piles of animal bones in cold, humid caves,
Right, the space heater and dehumidifier in the basement is a real boon!
If I was a security guard and people came in and stole a lot of stuff I would be fired. Who's getting fired here?
Probably sysadmins who repeatedly said that they had bad security and that changes were needed. Certainly not management who overrode their concerns because corporate security scanning software said everything was fine.
How do they even have 150M accounts? Do 2% of people on Earth have MyFitnessPal accounts?
Some probably have more than one account (forgot and created a new one, or wanted to start over fresh), but that number doesn't seem all that high.
Mostly Americans too, I wager. These days, many health insurance companies and employees offer "incentives"[*] where you have to have a step tracker hooked up to their system. They often add support for catching data from some the more popular fitness tracking sites like Strava and MyFitnessPal. But Strava is really mostly for runners, so the average insurance paying American Joe and Jill are more likely to have a MyFitnessPal account.
[*]: I.e. increasing the premiums for everybody, and then give "rewards" for those who participate to get them back to the normal price. This is designed to skirt regulation that prohibits discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. Alice with rheumatism and Bob with a bum knee won't ever walk 10,000 steps a day, so in effect, they end up paying more than young Charlie.
Also, LAME was always better at the bitrates that quality audiophiles care about.
No, it wasn't. In the early days, lame was all about VBR, which no audiophile would touch with a conductor's pole. VBR sounds shitty, because of the quality changes being so readily detectible. A change back and forth between good quality and very good quality is more perceptible than a track that stays at mediocre quality.
For 320 kbps, Fraunhofer had the upper hand, especially for encoding quality (you can tell whether an old MP3 uses FH or lame based on whether high hats sound like being stricken by a bag full of broken glass).
For the other end of the spectrum, the very lowest bitrates in mono, Fraunhofer created smaller files, which was important to some, especially for things like 12 hour long audiobooks.
The one thing lame excelled at in the early years was VBR, which was ok for the pop music crowd who wanted to fit more songs in limited space and didn't really are about sound quality, just loudness. It wasn't like you could make a Nickelback or Oasis album sound much worse, quality wise, than it already did.
Non sequitur. If Ecuador just wanted to show Assange the door, they wouldn't have just granted him citizenship.
They didn't just do that; they followed it up with a request to the UK to grant their new citizen diplomatic status so he could leave the embassy.
It was denied, but nice try.
The problem with this narrative is that Ecuador just granted Assange citizenship. Not the kind of thing you'd do if you're just trying to evict someone.
Oh, I don't know about that. It could help getting him out of the embassy, and was followed up with a request to the UK to grant Assange diplomatic status as an Ecuadorian citizen (it was denied).
In short, it looks very much like an intent to get Assange out of the embassy.
Guantanamo is a military prison, so to end up there, you must somehow get detained by our military. This isn't a discussion on if you agree with it or not, simply a statement on how you end up there. Since our military is not currently involved in combat operations within the UK, Assanage would not end up there.
This would be nice if it were true. However, several of the Guantanamo Bay detainees were arrested in countries where the US didn't have military combat operations, and brought to Afghanistan for bounty. Adel Noori is perhaps the most famous case.
At least if he is incarcerated he will finally have one hour outdoors every day.
He has as much outdoor time as he wants right now, as long as it's on the embassy grounds. I.e. the balcony he's used several times, the rooftop and the small trench between the street fence and the building.
And nobody forces him to stay either.
What are you talking about? The opensource implementations of MP3 and H264 quickly outpaced every commercial implementation,
Really? I used the commercial Fraunhofer MP3 implementation for almost a decade, because the open source Lame was both more resource hungry and gave more artefacts. That's not my definition of "quickly".
The current Ecuadorian government inherited Assange, and it's no secret that they don't agree with his staying at the embassy. It's not the first time they have cut his access, and overall, making it undesirable for him to stay and get him to leave on his own there is likely the overall strategy, avoiding any backlash from actually tossing him out.
The real answer is "None of the Above" but put a gun to my head and the answer is clearly Apple. Why? I trust their profit motive the most. Apple just wants to sell me more Apple products and actually has a not completely terrible record with regard to privacy. All the others want to sell data about me to third parties of unknown reliability. Amazon would be the next option, again because of their profit motive which is to sell me physical and digital stuff. Google and Facebook I don't trust at all. They are advertising companies start to finish and I have no interest in cooperating with that.
I'd take any Chinese company over Apple. The reason is that you can be fairly certain that they eavesdrop, but that it's the Chinese government that controls it. And they have no interest in private individuals who don't know anything that might benefit them, and certainly won't hand data over to bad apples in US law enforcement or US political factions.
With Apple or any US based company, that's not a given.
Because these devices provide value for some users and not everyone sees targeted advertising as an invasion of their privacy. If the mic doesn't bother somebody and they really want to be able to say, "Alexa play light jazz," that's not my decision to make for them.
I think the key here is that users have to be able to make informed consent. Not just accept a shrink wrap disclaimer that doesn't really inform them about the full implications in order to get instant gratification.
Informed consent would imply the user not only knowing what data the company say they collect right now, but what the capabilities are, and how the data can be used for other purposes than playing light jazz. Including what the implications of a data breach could be.
If a user isn't capable of making informed consent, perhaps the user shouldn't be presented with the decision at all.
Their conference is on the 1st of may.
Deliberately, to ensure that non-Americans like EU officials won't attend?
That would be a great poll idea, wouldn't it?
You're missing the last option.
In this case, I'd actually trust Cowboyneal listening in my living room more than any of the above.
to ensure that they make the right trade-offs regarding user data
There are things you just shouldn't have any authority to decide on trade-offs for, and especially trade-offs on the behalf of others.
I think this highlights why the US needs data protection regulations like the EU and other European countries have, where personal data is owned by the user, and not the company that collects it, and where companies who create databases of user data beyond what's needed for a transaction have to provide a justification and obtain a permit.
Giving them a carte blanche and letting them decide for themselves what "trade-offs" they want to play is stupid.
Obviously you didn't read the actual thread. We're talking about foreigners coming to the US and studying, racking up debt and leaving.
Obviously, you didn't see that I started the actual discussion about the possibility of avoiding student loans by emigrating. Go another step up than what you bothered to do.
You still have to apply for a B1 Visa when visiting the US for business reasons.
Not if you emigrate to a country that allows dual citizenship, which the US also does. Then you travel to the US as a US citizen, no visum required, I should think?
If you renounce your citizenship, you may get problems obtaining a visum anyhow.
But taking out debt without ever intending to pay it is known as fraud.
People may have the best of intentions when taking out a loan. In which case they're only defaulting, which is not something that normally warrants a criminal arrest or extradition.
I was thinking about those emigrating, not those not immigrating.
People who emigrate sometimes find that economical obligations they have in their old country no longer are enforceable. Outstanding fines and taxes are sometimes covered by agreements between countries, but things like student loans are unlikely to be.
'Never' is a long time. Kind of difficult if you get a job at a company and they need to send you on a business trip to the US. Or even a business trip that transits the US.
Not paying your student loan isn't under the criminal code, so cops won't run to a judge to get an arrest warrant if you show up.
The only way to get out of paying a student loan is to die.
This is not true. Emigrating usually works too.
They do not givr a crap about EU rules. Yes they are probably bugged by China, but China does not give a crap about me either.
That makes China slightly better - the government where you are tend to give a bigger crap, and not just about you but sometimes directly on you. China may at most be amused at what you do, but your local government can actually use that data against you or those you network with.