I don't know about all the rest, but I must disagree with the idea of "Spanish" as an official language. They have a right of self-determination, if that right is they can either learn English and start on a path of citizenship or return to Mexico. Besides the fact they Mexicans are not a majority in any US state, we have English as a national language for a huge number of reasons...even to make it an official "secondary language" would require a huge amount of money to modify millions of roadsigns, governmental paperwork, hiring bi-lingual people at every government office, and destroy the unity of the States. For over 200 years everyone who comes to the US learned English, why should they be special? They lost the Mexican-US war, their government agreed on the borders, just because we have a porous southern border doesn't mean we should modify out laws.
Chenobyl would still be functioning just fine if their management hadn't have forced them to run "emergency drills" by actually causing real-life overloads and not informing workers what was going on...they basically blew themselves up. Japan's reactor would also still be fine if it hadn't been in the path of the tsunami. So the root cause isn't the same...one was from human stupidity, the other was from a natural disaster. I do root cause analysis at my job, be very careful of the built-in bias that everyone has and how it affects analysis!
I completely agree, and have often echoed the same thing about ILEC's and the "local plant" situation. Really, the layer 1 should be ran by the municipality itself, and leave layer 2 and up for "competition" Then we could have a specific part of our "bill" be only for infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, so all customers in an area pay into the same cost center that is then used for upgrades. Cities could then also to bonds for fiber, and the "content delivery" companies would actually want more bandwidth because then their making their profit off of actually deilvery itself, not by refusing to do upgrades and just pocketing the money that was supposed to do it.
I'm glad they didn't flat-out tell about the nanites from day 1. The reason they "keep changing" is because they too are evolving. If someone was dead long enough, they probably would stay dea . The nanites can repair physical damage, defib the heart, I'll bet all the people it "brought back" weren't brain-dead yet. And since they obviously have repairing capabilities, the nanites are probably also maintaining the electrical grid, since they need it to survive.
One of the few ways to "defeat" the nanites would to go around disabling power-plants past the point of them repairing them. Eventually, you might be able to destroy enough that the nanites can't survive any longer...but the real "shot" is for Aaron to somehow re-program them and put them back under "human" control.
That seems to be a hallmark of Abram's shows...they always try to "fill in" the little details, even things that seem just like background props often are small clues to the stories. In Revolution, each sword of the Monroe Militia had a unique serial number even...something the watchers of the show will never see BUT it does add realism from the actor's POV and thus makes them more believable.
Revolution is an amazing show...still looking for Mile's sword online...another JJ show to watch is Almost Human, Someone decided to put Total Recall 2070, Blade Runner, Total Recall (the original movie), and several other motif's right from PKD into a great show that is both quite funny and very interesting...every show has some little shout-out in it, from the midget in the "fat chick exoskeleton" (looking much like Arnold's 'mask' in TR) to the slow techno-jazz that could be right off of Blade Runner's score...
I've got some moronic friends (around 20 years old) who keep calling themselves anarchists, but they have yet to attempt to assassinate a government official. I keep telling them their not really "hardcore" until they at least TRY to take out some gov dupe, but all they want to do is do drugs and rant at coffee houses.
it's called "bias", go watch BBC.Horizon.2014.How.You.Really.Make.Decisions. They do several experiments showing how the first "data" about a new topic you receive influences all further decisions, even if they don't match up with reality. In fact, they even have an intelligence data-analyst simulation about a cyber-attack that all but one analyst (a raw trainee) totally blew it due to how the scenario presented the data.
so it was some other CIA that was gathering weapons in Libya to send to Syria, and the CIA didn't have "The Annex" that got attacked in Benghazi? That whole shitpile was totally the CIA's fault...they used the confusion of the changing CIA Directors to covertly set up this weapon-moving system over there, and finally they got infiltrated and attacked. I also doubt either Obama or Clinton had any idea of the operation...although Clinton is Head of the State Department and is supposed to be liable for their fuck-ups even if she had no idea about it.
The medical billing is far too complex for the average person. ICD-9, -10, and a myriad of other codes that people suddenly had to "understand" would cause great confusion.
there is probably some obscure case law somewhere, some trade agreement, that would mess this up to. The entrenched automakers have been selling in the US for as long as they existed, Ford already destroyed the "first" car cartel when he first started and just entrenched himself from there.
and if you buy a $32,000 computer from HP...they too will probably "send someone to your door" to fix it, or your datacenter or office...and I wish we had some incentive towards smaller grocery stores, I've actually gone to every "big" store in my area only to find almost the exact same selection, and food isn't something I really want to order over the Internet.
In Tulsa, OK, our construction dump trucks drive in the left (fast) lane all the time on the highway, doing 50-60 in a 65 and throwing rocks everywhere. They never get out of the way, and often form a blockage with 2-3 truck spread out in all three lanes, none of them near the speed limit...then when I try to speed up to get around the blockage, I get the ticket...
I just disabled the wireless and put my ATnT "modem" in bridge mode, so it doesn't do DNS. And the router doesn't do DHCP anyway, that's what the domain controller on the rack is for!
per Fox news not only is this connected, but Freescale execs KNEW about it and encouraged it, even to the point of making sure everyone on the plane was wearing the company-required "highly explosive" jackets, that have an 80% chance of combustion if more than three of them come within 30 feet of each other.
I see 3d printers and pre-built assembly pods building what we need before we actually send the colonists. I really think though our best bet for colonizing is inside the Trench...we could seal off part of it, one of the branches, and start terraforming..
We will see a spike in human evolution once we have children on Mars too. Should prove interesting, less gravity, different radiation levels, different food, even different bacteria. Taller, skinner, different skin color...each new generation will be further from the "Baseline" until eventually it becomes it's own species, unable to reproduce with Earthers.
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I don't know about all the rest, but I must disagree with the idea of "Spanish" as an official language. They have a right of self-determination, if that right is they can either learn English and start on a path of citizenship or return to Mexico. Besides the fact they Mexicans are not a majority in any US state, we have English as a national language for a huge number of reasons...even to make it an official "secondary language" would require a huge amount of money to modify millions of roadsigns, governmental paperwork, hiring bi-lingual people at every government office, and destroy the unity of the States. For over 200 years everyone who comes to the US learned English, why should they be special? They lost the Mexican-US war, their government agreed on the borders, just because we have a porous southern border doesn't mean we should modify out laws.
yeah, it IS microsoft after all...I'd bet a bunch of it is just "junk" data to fill up all that space...
I've found trackballs work far better than a mouse for FPS...and less space needed too!
sounds like a great science fair experiment from the Venture School for Gifted Geniuses lol...only one way to find out, let's go start some fires!
Chenobyl would still be functioning just fine if their management hadn't have forced them to run "emergency drills" by actually causing real-life overloads and not informing workers what was going on...they basically blew themselves up. Japan's reactor would also still be fine if it hadn't been in the path of the tsunami. So the root cause isn't the same...one was from human stupidity, the other was from a natural disaster. I do root cause analysis at my job, be very careful of the built-in bias that everyone has and how it affects analysis!
I completely agree, and have often echoed the same thing about ILEC's and the "local plant" situation. Really, the layer 1 should be ran by the municipality itself, and leave layer 2 and up for "competition" Then we could have a specific part of our "bill" be only for infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, so all customers in an area pay into the same cost center that is then used for upgrades. Cities could then also to bonds for fiber, and the "content delivery" companies would actually want more bandwidth because then their making their profit off of actually deilvery itself, not by refusing to do upgrades and just pocketing the money that was supposed to do it.
they pulled out WS ProPing util? LOL
I'm glad they didn't flat-out tell about the nanites from day 1. The reason they "keep changing" is because they too are evolving. If someone was dead long enough, they probably would stay dea . The nanites can repair physical damage, defib the heart, I'll bet all the people it "brought back" weren't brain-dead yet. And since they obviously have repairing capabilities, the nanites are probably also maintaining the electrical grid, since they need it to survive.
One of the few ways to "defeat" the nanites would to go around disabling power-plants past the point of them repairing them. Eventually, you might be able to destroy enough that the nanites can't survive any longer...but the real "shot" is for Aaron to somehow re-program them and put them back under "human" control.
That seems to be a hallmark of Abram's shows...they always try to "fill in" the little details, even things that seem just like background props often are small clues to the stories. In Revolution, each sword of the Monroe Militia had a unique serial number even...something the watchers of the show will never see BUT it does add realism from the actor's POV and thus makes them more believable.
Revolution is an amazing show...still looking for Mile's sword online...another JJ show to watch is Almost Human, Someone decided to put Total Recall 2070, Blade Runner, Total Recall (the original movie), and several other motif's right from PKD into a great show that is both quite funny and very interesting...every show has some little shout-out in it, from the midget in the "fat chick exoskeleton" (looking much like Arnold's 'mask' in TR) to the slow techno-jazz that could be right off of Blade Runner's score...
I've got some moronic friends (around 20 years old) who keep calling themselves anarchists, but they have yet to attempt to assassinate a government official. I keep telling them their not really "hardcore" until they at least TRY to take out some gov dupe, but all they want to do is do drugs and rant at coffee houses.
it's called "bias", go watch BBC.Horizon.2014.How.You.Really.Make.Decisions. They do several experiments showing how the first "data" about a new topic you receive influences all further decisions, even if they don't match up with reality. In fact, they even have an intelligence data-analyst simulation about a cyber-attack that all but one analyst (a raw trainee) totally blew it due to how the scenario presented the data.
so it was some other CIA that was gathering weapons in Libya to send to Syria, and the CIA didn't have "The Annex" that got attacked in Benghazi? That whole shitpile was totally the CIA's fault...they used the confusion of the changing CIA Directors to covertly set up this weapon-moving system over there, and finally they got infiltrated and attacked. I also doubt either Obama or Clinton had any idea of the operation...although Clinton is Head of the State Department and is supposed to be liable for their fuck-ups even if she had no idea about it.
my luck I would try a "software update via my phone" which would loose signal or connection and my car would be rendered undrivable.
The medical billing is far too complex for the average person. ICD-9, -10, and a myriad of other codes that people suddenly had to "understand" would cause great confusion.
there is probably some obscure case law somewhere, some trade agreement, that would mess this up to. The entrenched automakers have been selling in the US for as long as they existed, Ford already destroyed the "first" car cartel when he first started and just entrenched himself from there.
and if you buy a $32,000 computer from HP...they too will probably "send someone to your door" to fix it, or your datacenter or office...and I wish we had some incentive towards smaller grocery stores, I've actually gone to every "big" store in my area only to find almost the exact same selection, and food isn't something I really want to order over the Internet.
In Tulsa, OK, our construction dump trucks drive in the left (fast) lane all the time on the highway, doing 50-60 in a 65 and throwing rocks everywhere. They never get out of the way, and often form a blockage with 2-3 truck spread out in all three lanes, none of them near the speed limit...then when I try to speed up to get around the blockage, I get the ticket...
I just disabled the wireless and put my ATnT "modem" in bridge mode, so it doesn't do DNS. And the router doesn't do DHCP anyway, that's what the domain controller on the rack is for!
"how they dealt with other people" via throwing them into an operating jet turbine intake!
per Fox news not only is this connected, but Freescale execs KNEW about it and encouraged it, even to the point of making sure everyone on the plane was wearing the company-required "highly explosive" jackets, that have an 80% chance of combustion if more than three of them come within 30 feet of each other.
God fires them from the job of "living humans" when the plan crashes?
I see 3d printers and pre-built assembly pods building what we need before we actually send the colonists. I really think though our best bet for colonizing is inside the Trench...we could seal off part of it, one of the branches, and start terraforming..
We will see a spike in human evolution once we have children on Mars too. Should prove interesting, less gravity, different radiation levels, different food, even different bacteria. Taller, skinner, different skin color...each new generation will be further from the "Baseline" until eventually it becomes it's own species, unable to reproduce with Earthers.
because the cops always have the best drugs!