Where do you live? It's more of a problem in the cities. But it's always been a problem in the cities. Billy Crystal had a bit over 15 years ago about going to Times Square to see movies because it was more entertaining, with people shouting at the screen. It made Demolition Man even better, IMO.
At Silence of the Lambs (yes, a million years ago), there was quite a bit of talking, and lots of weed smoked a few rows in front of me. But then, it was Center City Philadelphia.
But cellphones, Jesus Christ, everywhere, including at the modern dance performances at U Penn, at plays and the Orchestra in town. People texting, lot of old people reading their programs by cellphone light, etc.
"But that doesn't mean future phones can't go toe-to-toe against anything else on the market, provided Mozilla and its partners provide solid support and marketing."
So they produced something that sucks, but if they improve what they do, they can produce something in the future that doesn't suck? Why doesn't Microsoft get this kind of encouragement any time they put, oh, almost anything on the market? They could improve their sucky products with hypothetical future efforts too!
People talk big (you're Exhibit A), but they are still mostly decent in Boston. There will be no riots.
But really, you're just trolling with this stuff, right? You can't believe they'll go on a rampage of violence against people and property destruction, can you? Perhaps you just hang out with a bad slice of the people; I was there two weeks after the bombing, with people who live and work in the city, and I saw sadness and somber reflection. No urge to violence, no shaking of fists and demands for that asshole's blood.
No. No. Nope. Not the "they hate us for our freedom!" thing again.
They mostly began hating us for redrawing the boundaries of their countries after WWI, and more recently for occupying their countries with standing armies. Let's try to keep an eye on actual cause and effect.
Because when it comes to principles of morality and humane foreign policy, it's the quantity that counts, not the quality of the actions. We can easily give another couple million to the flames for, oh, any reason at all, and as you point out, we're still not as bad as Hitler.
Bad idea. If we taught statistics properly in school, people would start driving more carefully, stop insisting that the government take their freedoms to protect them from terrorists, not arm themselves "for home protection," and never play the lottery.
GP used "gerrymander" because of the author's vague feeling that gerrymandering is a bad thing that bad people do. It's not even close to applicable, it's just a lazy way to say, "this is something of which I disapprove".
People who choose words almost at random because of how they feel about them are also likely to make other mistakes, such as writing "decimate" when they mean "devastate".
Sigh, okay, flame me, mod me down for continuing to speak standard English. I've been dealing with that since high school.
He didn't point out that it was terrible, except for calling it crap, a generic term. He did say that "nobody should even be eating" it, similar to the sentiments expressed by Bloomberg about many things, just before he tries to make it a law. The comparison was apt.
Oh, and it was a throwaway joke, but thanks for overanalyzing it.
Ah, okay, I misread your post. In that case, following their rules, the NSA would *still* have to apply their algorithm to each individual, but they could falsely identify up to 49% of the American users as foreign. They would then claim that their surveillance of 92% of FB users met the letter of the law.
I believe the newer designs are safer, but the rub is that any reactor will still be operated by the same model of humans that brought us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Can you honestly tell me that any new reactor will be built and operated by companies that have any different set of priorities than the ones that currently run nuclear plants? Keep it cheap, repay the investors, keep the profits coming in, whatever it takes.I would like to see dozens of new reactors in the U.S., but as long as the clueless and the greedy continue to own the techs who build and operate them, we're going to see more "accidents".
I thought the whole point behind newer designs like the thorium reactor is that they fail safe - they are inherently safe so even if you do nothing to an overheating reactor, it will moderate on its own.
Here's a quote from an article on the plant; "One reason the bluff was lowered was so that the base of the reactors could be constructed on solid bedrock to mitigate the threat posed by earthquakes. Another reason was the lowered height would keep the running costs of the seawater pumps low."
They lowered the height of the plant because they wanted to save money - regardless of the design, this is the kind of decision that will be made by people who are looking to profits and not safety. You CANNOT engineer out the risks attributable to the profit motive, and I wish we could recognize that."
I believe the newer designs are safer, but the rub is that any reactor will still be operated by the same model of humans that brought us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Can you honestly tell me that any new reactor will be built and operated by companies that have any different set of priorities than the ones that currently run nuclear plants? Keep it cheap, repay the investors, keep the profits coming in, whatever it takes.I would like to see dozens of new reactors in the U.S., but as long as the clueless and the greedy continue to own the techs who build and operate them, we're going to see more "accidents".
As I said in my post, I was assuming the parent's ratio was correct. The gist of my post was that the ratio of users assumed to be foreign would be much higher than the 16% the parent mentioned, and *not* to represent the demographics of FB. I don't use it, and don't care about how many people do.
You just drove off the road because you were distracted by the bunny in the field...
I think you're building a fairy castle of conspiracy when the truth is much simpler. Familiarity breeds contempt and laziness. Got a lot of data that needs minding? Lot's of dull tasks required to record, back up and catalog all the secret shit you're mining? Minions are the answer! It's not that the underlings are disposable; just the opposite. They are *vital* to the task at hand, because the important people can't be spared to do the boring stuff.
So, somewhat similar to the scenario you spin, but the circumstances and motivations are more mundane. Here's an example; the training manager who reports to me needs to get a lot of modules published in the enterprise repository. The head of HR and her lieutenant are the only ones allowed to load modules into such a vital system, so they have to do all that loading for my training manager. Only, that's *boring* and takes away from the time they spent doing each others' hair, or however they spend their days. Within two weeks, my training manager magically gets full admin privileges to the enterprise training system.
Now, imagine you are an administrator in a government spook organization, and imagine that you are an idiot... but I repeat myself.
Not really. If they collected Facebook data, they would have to apply their bullshit algorithm to each individual. If you're correct that 16% of Facebook users are not Americans, then they would come up with something like 49% false-foreign results on the remaining 84%, which are Americans, or about 42%.
That means their actual percentage of supposed foreigners in Facebook would be something like 58%, which casts a net over many millions of American citizens.
And *that* is not only "technically" legal, under the current law it would be "fully legal", and legally defensible.
But fucking retarded. They've gone too far.
In this case I think that is a very good question. If they put up a reward for a tenth of what they've paid on guarding him, send posters round the area, then he would not get far if he got out. Its not like he's a Muslim terrorist who will exit in a burka and plant bombs when he gets out.
So you'd sic a spontaneous mob of amateur bounty hunters on him, eh? No way that could end badly.
If I knew the U.S. was over in the corner dry washing its hands over the prospect of yanking me into the U.S. for a grand jury inquisition and then to throw me into a lightless cell the rest of my life, I'd make do with an embassy's hospitality as well.
Since you apparently only learned to read yesterday, I'll just suggest you google HFT and the big houses' access to market data a few milliseconds earlier than the rest of the world, and let you educate yourself.
You probably don't think much. Ever.
I'd like to see HFT banned, or taxed, or slowed down in some way, just because the big traders use it and their millisecond advantage over the non-insiders to steal a small percentage on each trade. They amass billions by siphoning it away from the majority of people in the market, and in return give us nothing of social value.
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Where do you live? It's more of a problem in the cities. But it's always been a problem in the cities. Billy Crystal had a bit over 15 years ago about going to Times Square to see movies because it was more entertaining, with people shouting at the screen. It made Demolition Man even better, IMO.
At Silence of the Lambs (yes, a million years ago), there was quite a bit of talking, and lots of weed smoked a few rows in front of me. But then, it was Center City Philadelphia.
But cellphones, Jesus Christ, everywhere, including at the modern dance performances at U Penn, at plays and the Orchestra in town. People texting, lot of old people reading their programs by cellphone light, etc.
"But that doesn't mean future phones can't go toe-to-toe against anything else on the market, provided Mozilla and its partners provide solid support and marketing."
So they produced something that sucks, but if they improve what they do, they can produce something in the future that doesn't suck? Why doesn't Microsoft get this kind of encouragement any time they put, oh, almost anything on the market? They could improve their sucky products with hypothetical future efforts too!
People talk big (you're Exhibit A), but they are still mostly decent in Boston. There will be no riots.
But really, you're just trolling with this stuff, right? You can't believe they'll go on a rampage of violence against people and property destruction, can you? Perhaps you just hang out with a bad slice of the people; I was there two weeks after the bombing, with people who live and work in the city, and I saw sadness and somber reflection. No urge to violence, no shaking of fists and demands for that asshole's blood.
I didn't post any statistics, I referred to activities in which people engage. You can infer some things I think about those activities, but no more.
I have no idea what you may believe, because your post was just a non sequitur, and I don't assume facts not presented.
Whoosh!
No. No. Nope. Not the "they hate us for our freedom!" thing again.
They mostly began hating us for redrawing the boundaries of their countries after WWI, and more recently for occupying their countries with standing armies. Let's try to keep an eye on actual cause and effect.
Exactly, thank you for explaining it so well.
Because when it comes to principles of morality and humane foreign policy, it's the quantity that counts, not the quality of the actions. We can easily give another couple million to the flames for, oh, any reason at all, and as you point out, we're still not as bad as Hitler.
Seriously? You really think Bostonians will riot if this guy is sent to prison for the rest of his life? That's not even remotely credible.
Have you ever lived in Boston? I have. The people are not all upper crust Brahmins, but they're not savages either.
"...the feminazis..."
Rush, is that you?
Bad idea. If we taught statistics properly in school, people would start driving more carefully, stop insisting that the government take their freedoms to protect them from terrorists, not arm themselves "for home protection," and never play the lottery.
GP used "gerrymander" because of the author's vague feeling that gerrymandering is a bad thing that bad people do. It's not even close to applicable, it's just a lazy way to say, "this is something of which I disapprove".
People who choose words almost at random because of how they feel about them are also likely to make other mistakes, such as writing "decimate" when they mean "devastate".
Sigh, okay, flame me, mod me down for continuing to speak standard English. I've been dealing with that since high school.
No, you don't use wine, you use Manischewitz.
He didn't point out that it was terrible, except for calling it crap, a generic term. He did say that "nobody should even be eating" it, similar to the sentiments expressed by Bloomberg about many things, just before he tries to make it a law. The comparison was apt.
Oh, and it was a throwaway joke, but thanks for overanalyzing it.
Ah, okay, I misread your post. In that case, following their rules, the NSA would *still* have to apply their algorithm to each individual, but they could falsely identify up to 49% of the American users as foreign. They would then claim that their surveillance of 92% of FB users met the letter of the law.
I believe the newer designs are safer, but the rub is that any reactor will still be operated by the same model of humans that brought us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Can you honestly tell me that any new reactor will be built and operated by companies that have any different set of priorities than the ones that currently run nuclear plants? Keep it cheap, repay the investors, keep the profits coming in, whatever it takes.I would like to see dozens of new reactors in the U.S., but as long as the clueless and the greedy continue to own the techs who build and operate them, we're going to see more "accidents".
I thought the whole point behind newer designs like the thorium reactor is that they fail safe - they are inherently safe so even if you do nothing to an overheating reactor, it will moderate on its own.
Here's a quote from an article on the plant; "One reason the bluff was lowered was so that the base of the reactors could be constructed on solid bedrock to mitigate the threat posed by earthquakes. Another reason was the lowered height would keep the running costs of the seawater pumps low."
They lowered the height of the plant because they wanted to save money - regardless of the design, this is the kind of decision that will be made by people who are looking to profits and not safety. You CANNOT engineer out the risks attributable to the profit motive, and I wish we could recognize that."
Mayor Bloomberg, is that you?
I believe the newer designs are safer, but the rub is that any reactor will still be operated by the same model of humans that brought us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Can you honestly tell me that any new reactor will be built and operated by companies that have any different set of priorities than the ones that currently run nuclear plants? Keep it cheap, repay the investors, keep the profits coming in, whatever it takes.I would like to see dozens of new reactors in the U.S., but as long as the clueless and the greedy continue to own the techs who build and operate them, we're going to see more "accidents".
As I said in my post, I was assuming the parent's ratio was correct. The gist of my post was that the ratio of users assumed to be foreign would be much higher than the 16% the parent mentioned, and *not* to represent the demographics of FB. I don't use it, and don't care about how many people do. You just drove off the road because you were distracted by the bunny in the field...
I think you're building a fairy castle of conspiracy when the truth is much simpler. Familiarity breeds contempt and laziness. Got a lot of data that needs minding? Lot's of dull tasks required to record, back up and catalog all the secret shit you're mining? Minions are the answer! It's not that the underlings are disposable; just the opposite. They are *vital* to the task at hand, because the important people can't be spared to do the boring stuff. So, somewhat similar to the scenario you spin, but the circumstances and motivations are more mundane. Here's an example; the training manager who reports to me needs to get a lot of modules published in the enterprise repository. The head of HR and her lieutenant are the only ones allowed to load modules into such a vital system, so they have to do all that loading for my training manager. Only, that's *boring* and takes away from the time they spent doing each others' hair, or however they spend their days. Within two weeks, my training manager magically gets full admin privileges to the enterprise training system. Now, imagine you are an administrator in a government spook organization, and imagine that you are an idiot... but I repeat myself.
Not really. If they collected Facebook data, they would have to apply their bullshit algorithm to each individual. If you're correct that 16% of Facebook users are not Americans, then they would come up with something like 49% false-foreign results on the remaining 84%, which are Americans, or about 42%. That means their actual percentage of supposed foreigners in Facebook would be something like 58%, which casts a net over many millions of American citizens. And *that* is not only "technically" legal, under the current law it would be "fully legal", and legally defensible. But fucking retarded. They've gone too far.
Yes, but Elbonia could elect him president, then he'd have automatic diplomatic immunity.
Why bother guarding the embassy?
In this case I think that is a very good question. If they put up a reward for a tenth of what they've paid on guarding him, send posters round the area, then he would not get far if he got out. Its not like he's a Muslim terrorist who will exit in a burka and plant bombs when he gets out.
So you'd sic a spontaneous mob of amateur bounty hunters on him, eh? No way that could end badly. If I knew the U.S. was over in the corner dry washing its hands over the prospect of yanking me into the U.S. for a grand jury inquisition and then to throw me into a lightless cell the rest of my life, I'd make do with an embassy's hospitality as well.
Since you apparently only learned to read yesterday, I'll just suggest you google HFT and the big houses' access to market data a few milliseconds earlier than the rest of the world, and let you educate yourself. You probably don't think much. Ever.
I'd like to see HFT banned, or taxed, or slowed down in some way, just because the big traders use it and their millisecond advantage over the non-insiders to steal a small percentage on each trade. They amass billions by siphoning it away from the majority of people in the market, and in return give us nothing of social value.