Considering that time dilation punishment would be completely solitary, this may be the most cruel way to psychologically break a person. The author should be the first to volunteer for testing.
I'm always surprised Natural Selection 2 doesn't get a lot of love. A deep space multiplayer shooter game with elements of RTS - think starcraft, where one person is in control of strategy and building placement while the rest of you get to run around as marines or zerglings. The drawbacks are that it's hardware intensive and there is a relatively steep learning curve. On the other side it's pretty cheap (~10-15 bucks if I remember correctly) and is available on Linux/OSX/Windows.
Jackson wrote that instead, he was "requesting compensation as follows: $100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account, additionally to be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Internationally) for the remainder of its existence, my Logo to be added in sponsors section next to Chevy on the bottom of your web pages. My name to read at the bottom of any photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photogrph by Max Jackson." He warned "if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action."
Source
The kid should be compensated but this is borderline extortion.
It tracks mileage, hard brakes, and driving times - nobody knows the exact formula. Progressive claims a decrease of 7 mph or more in one second is considered a hard brake. Don't bother living in a major city.
He/she should be relegated to obscurity so that we can have a healthy debate on his disclosures rather than his/her gender preference. In theory we should be able to do both but the one-dimensional 24/7 celebrity watch media will only report on the transgender aspect.
From Douglas Adams's So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish:
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."
Using a 1 strike policy for the culling 90% of a single profession within agencies we can save some serious tax dollars! According to my wikipedia research we can wave goodbye to CIA officers, analysts, translators, clerks, and support staff, NSA intelligence analysts, and a FBI special agents.
Obummer is good! Obummer is great! We surrender our souls as of this date!
You seem to be having a lot of fun bashing on Obama but you should cast your net wide. It's a concerted effort between a handful of large players in the power structure.
Look folks, China is in the #1 spot emitting ~25% of the worlds CO2, and its still a god damned developing nation (about half of the people in China are still subsistence farming.) There is no chance that reducing CO2 emissions here is going to mean anything, ever.
It's really easy to absolve yourself of any responsibility with statements like this. Perhaps looking at your country's contribution per capita would be more helpful.
There are still people actively working on studying how soot, dust, and debris affect CC but from the sounds of it, the models would be rough if particulate data was included at all.
"The distance particulates travel depends on their size, how long they can stay in the atmosphere – gravity comes into play here. For example, soot is a relatively small particulate; it can travel quite far. A fire in Canada can cause soot to travel to Greenland's ice sheet. Scientists suspect that changes to the amount and frequency of forest fires might be affecting how much soot is traveling to glaciers. [...] Similarly, with climate change, dryness is becoming more prevalent and as a result, there's more dust. One study documented increased dust transported to glaciers in the Swiss Alps, which in turn was increasing glacier melt rates." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/glacier-debris.html
But they are good at processing the current day's weather, and drawing simple patterns based on notable weather anomalies. So that's exactly what they do.
This was one of the techniques encouraged at a talk I attended a year or so ago which was aimed at getting NASA scientists to better interact with a non-scientific audience and media. If I remember correctly, the average person hears that the scientist's data/trend is statistically significant then they take that 95% confidence as being "5% chance that it's all wrong." In all probability, they won't take steps to learn why this is incorrect no matter how many times it's explained. In this case it's helpful to encourage Joe Sixpack to make a mental note of days with a record high or low. In this way he can see for himself how his local climate is shifting and in which direction.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Drive to Baltimore
2. Whip out my camera on the doughnut brigade
3. Take my beating
4. Collect $7 million
Half of your plan seems realistic
I believe this is the video
Also available on netflix as a part of Robert Reich's documentary
Sounds like a few politicians had just enough time to move some of their investments into Tesla before legalizing direct sales.
Considering that time dilation punishment would be completely solitary, this may be the most cruel way to psychologically break a person. The author should be the first to volunteer for testing.
I'm always surprised Natural Selection 2 doesn't get a lot of love. A deep space multiplayer shooter game with elements of RTS - think starcraft, where one person is in control of strategy and building placement while the rest of you get to run around as marines or zerglings. The drawbacks are that it's hardware intensive and there is a relatively steep learning curve. On the other side it's pretty cheap (~10-15 bucks if I remember correctly) and is available on Linux/OSX/Windows.
Jackson wrote that instead, he was "requesting compensation as follows: $100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account, additionally to be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Internationally) for the remainder of its existence, my Logo to be added in sponsors section next to Chevy on the bottom of your web pages. My name to read at the bottom of any photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photogrph by Max Jackson." He warned "if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action." Source
The kid should be compensated but this is borderline extortion.
Flo can take her device and shove it somewhere
It tracks mileage, hard brakes, and driving times - nobody knows the exact formula. Progressive claims a decrease of 7 mph or more in one second is considered a hard brake. Don't bother living in a major city.
He/she should be relegated to obscurity so that we can have a healthy debate on his disclosures rather than his/her gender preference. In theory we should be able to do both but the one-dimensional 24/7 celebrity watch media will only report on the transgender aspect.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."
how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
There are more than two options.
Bonus points for whoever added the entry for
Americans who spied on Americans -
NSA
Obummer is good! Obummer is great! We surrender our souls as of this date!
You seem to be having a lot of fun bashing on Obama but you should cast your net wide. It's a concerted effort between a handful of large players in the power structure.
More people in the U.S. are getting shot, but doctors have gotten better at patching them up. Improved medical care doesn't account for the entire decline in homicides but it is a major factor.
Look folks, China is in the #1 spot emitting ~25% of the worlds CO2, and its still a god damned developing nation (about half of the people in China are still subsistence farming.) There is no chance that reducing CO2 emissions here is going to mean anything, ever.
It's really easy to absolve yourself of any responsibility with statements like this. Perhaps looking at your country's contribution per capita would be more helpful.
There are still people actively working on studying how soot, dust, and debris affect CC but from the sounds of it, the models would be rough if particulate data was included at all.
"The distance particulates travel depends on their size, how long they can stay in the atmosphere – gravity comes into play here. For example, soot is a relatively small particulate; it can travel quite far. A fire in Canada can cause soot to travel to Greenland's ice sheet. Scientists suspect that changes to the amount and frequency of forest fires might be affecting how much soot is traveling to glaciers. [...] Similarly, with climate change, dryness is becoming more prevalent and as a result, there's more dust. One study documented increased dust transported to glaciers in the Swiss Alps, which in turn was increasing glacier melt rates." http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/glacier-debris.html
But they are good at processing the current day's weather, and drawing simple patterns based on notable weather anomalies. So that's exactly what they do.
This was one of the techniques encouraged at a talk I attended a year or so ago which was aimed at getting NASA scientists to better interact with a non-scientific audience and media. If I remember correctly, the average person hears that the scientist's data/trend is statistically significant then they take that 95% confidence as being "5% chance that it's all wrong." In all probability, they won't take steps to learn why this is incorrect no matter how many times it's explained. In this case it's helpful to encourage Joe Sixpack to make a mental note of days with a record high or low. In this way he can see for himself how his local climate is shifting and in which direction.