"You say "Unlike the US" but that sounds an awful lot like what happened after 9/11."
It WILL be just like what happened after 9/11, but with Russian rules of engagement. They won't hesitate to do something like drop three fuel/air bombs on Raqqa, decapitating ISIS instantly.
"It's true that the USSR/Russia have great mathematicians and engineers but its also true that many of their mass-produced items (including cars, tanks, planes, warships, and submarines) left a lot to be desired."
Which has what, exactly, to do with a European Airbus: French airframe, British engines?
Remove artificial legal barriers to streaming, and all the mineable viewer information you want becomes available by just observing what we click on and how long we stay with each show and each episode. We are starting to see interactive features in ads, which means that recognition of this is seeping through even the skulls of studio execs.
As Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching.
As we see here, it could be just an attitude problem. Enjoy your future as a (gamer | cat lady).
All humans subconsciously look for "compatible breeding stock" in selecting a mate. We want to get our DNA out into the great Darwinian marketplace, and to do so we employ various strategies.
"So a model gets discarded because it won't work. Nothing to see here."
Fortunately, this model is in a discipline which has not gone political. We can make changes to it without holding any Maoist show trials where researchers get called "deniers."
"plus super long commutes in major metro areas make life quite difficult"
It might take you two hours to commute in from Choshi or Saitama, but you are spending that time on a train. You can do other things, even if your line is so crowded that the other thing is folding a newspaper to the size of a postage stamp and holding it over the heads of a standing crowd.
At least the Japanese have an excuse. The kanji writing system made word processing systems more expensive and difficult to implement than in any other society. In our society, the fax machine hangs on in lines of business where documents have to be signed by hand. Though public key signing has been available for a generation, law evolves at tectonic speed.
"When a machine is made that does the work of a hundred men and requires only one to be operated, 99 men are out of a job."
Wrong again. ONE man is out of a job in my example. But because the machine replacing the man can do the work of so many more rock-breakers, a whole range of new applications - highrise buildings, dams, canals - opens up that did not exist in that previous world of one man breaking rocks. If that one unemployed rock-breaker takes the initiative to retrain as an operator of the new machine, he becomes part of a new future that did not exist before.
"Markets exist because men with guns enforce their rules."
Marketplace are the most ancient structures known to archaeology. Barter was one of the first activities that people conducted in small groups, which means that you're right in the very limited sense that trade requires at least as much civilization, enforced by basic rules of fairness adopted by both sides of a transaction, as is necessary for two people to meet and do business without immediately killing each other. These rules were enforced by the potential for mutually assured destruction of two people with spears.
Right to be forgotten was designed to apply to companies whose explicit charter is to gather specified kinds of information about individuals, like credit history, so that their financial clients can be informed about those individuals. Companies that do this job well, which gather more detail, are rewarded with more business from banks as their operations become recognized as standards. Right-to-be-forgotten laws were written to limit the applicability of the standard in the interest of fairness for all. It's like setting a standard for what goes into your medical record.
Now Google comes along, with its auto-indexing of everything that happens to be online. It's not targeting any particular demographic, and certainly not any specific individual. It's just giving users, who are not a paying clientele themselves, view information that appears online. Applying right to be forgotten to search engines is censoring a library catalogue.
Obviously you're a Green. Their default response to anything new is to react in the same reflexive the way mainline churches do to changes in social mores.
Technology IS people, dumbass. We do science because we are curious about that is going on in the natural world, and then whenever the science uncovers something we can apply to making our lives easier, someone will try it.
In your full-employment economy, there are a certain number of people whose job it is to break up one-ton rocks into pieces small enough to haul away from a construction site so a house can be built. It takes you a week to bust and haul each rock. When some engineer invents a machine to do this job, your role in life is not to crawl off in a corner and die. It's to learn how to operate the machine. When the machine for hauling away one-ton rocks gets scaled up to haul away ten- and one-hundred ton rocks, you can be part of the team that builds high-rises, not just houses. Then you're working on the Panama Canal.
Develop field hospitals, bunkhouses, feeding centers, rescue bases, and other disaster handling gear designed as modules all in the standard 2TEU long freight container size. Store them in unused corners of military bases around the country. Make retainer arrangements with a well-distributed number of long-haul truckers such that when disaster occurs truckers who happen to be properly situated at the time will drive to a designated base, exchange their current load for a specified FEMA module, and haul it to the disaster zone. Meanwhile, their regular trailer is waiting at the pickup base under military protection for the duration.
For overseas needs, using the standard container size would allow modules to be carried by ship and rail anywhere in the world.
We have three providers, one of which is the very same CenturyLink telephone company DSL cited in this article. Like all DSL, it plugs away reliably over the installed telephone copper, but the speed each user gets depends on his distance from the telco switch. Speed falls off rapidly from the 10 MHz maximum at the switch to unusably slow three wire miles away, and given the funky routing of telephone wire, that might be two blocks from the switch as the raven flies.
The best service comes from the TV cable company. Those who are on its limited number of service thoroughfares enjoy 80 MHz, albeit with a chintzy monthly cap that prevents most users from making much use of the bandwidth. For every other house in our large, spread-out area, scattered through a maze of hills and canyons, is a commercial wireless ISP that operates just like the one described in the article. A central signal received on fiber is radiated to homes that get free service in exchange for hosting large relay antennas, which in turn fan out to surrounding individual users.
And of the three alternatives, the WISP is the one that everybody hates. It's dog slow for all users, and all those relay links are subject to an incredible variety of interruptions. Raccoons and termites chew through feed lines. The summer monsoon and the winter snow breaks dishes. Trees grow into the relay beams at unexpected points, constantly having to be trimmed back. And wealthy owners of large houses in the boonies (there's an 8,200 square footer on my street) don't expect dialup-grade Internet service in a home they have paid so much for. Everyone who gets stuck with the WISP lusts for cable service
HP is splitting as "HP Inc." and "Hewlett-Packard Enterprise".
Each shareholder gets one share of HP Inc and one share of HPE for each original share, but to maintain his investment each shareholder is required to buy one additional HPE share each month at current market, or his whole investment becomes worthless.
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"Let's hope there is a fifth dimensional being because none of this will happen with current leadership."
Of course. It would take little people who are good at math, fearless about engineering and have a track record of long-term thinking. Oh, wait -
"...it's a lot faster if you just make a bunch of buildings. "
Which could be partly earth-sheltered to reduce radiation.
...Which the Democrat kids can then mug them for. So the same income redistribution takes place with either party.
" All it takes is synthesis of one chromosone to render half of humanity redundant. Perhaps in the end the worst parts of species will be breed out?"
This can't be allowed to happen because the Earth would run out of cat food.
Is there anything that can be done about the increase number of robocalls I'm getting on my cellphone? I thought that was already illegal.
"You say "Unlike the US" but that sounds an awful lot like what happened after 9/11."
It WILL be just like what happened after 9/11, but with Russian rules of engagement. They won't hesitate to do something like drop three fuel/air bombs on Raqqa, decapitating ISIS instantly.
"It's true that the USSR/Russia have great mathematicians and engineers but its also true that many of their mass-produced items (including cars, tanks, planes, warships, and submarines) left a lot to be desired."
Which has what, exactly, to do with a European Airbus: French airframe, British engines?
The good news is that if the Russians do their job, your part of the world will soon be without Internet service. Happy seventh century!
Remove artificial legal barriers to streaming, and all the mineable viewer information you want becomes available by just observing what we click on and how long we stay with each show and each episode. We are starting to see interactive features in ads, which means that recognition of this is seeping through even the skulls of studio execs.
As Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching.
As we see here, it could be just an attitude problem. Enjoy your future as a (gamer | cat lady).
All humans subconsciously look for "compatible breeding stock" in selecting a mate. We want to get our DNA out into the great Darwinian marketplace, and to do so we employ various strategies.
The flaw in your scenario is that it would require liberals to use technology.
"So a model gets discarded because it won't work. Nothing to see here."
Fortunately, this model is in a discipline which has not gone political. We can make changes to it without holding any Maoist show trials where researchers get called "deniers."
"There are just as many aspie women as men."
So why do aspie men have so much trouble finding them?
"plus super long commutes in major metro areas make life quite difficult"
It might take you two hours to commute in from Choshi or Saitama, but you are spending that time on a train. You can do other things, even if your line is so crowded that the other thing is folding a newspaper to the size of a postage stamp and holding it over the heads of a standing crowd.
At least the Japanese have an excuse. The kanji writing system made word processing systems more expensive and difficult to implement than in any other society. In our society, the fax machine hangs on in lines of business where documents have to be signed by hand. Though public key signing has been available for a generation, law evolves at tectonic speed.
"When a machine is made that does the work of a hundred men and requires only one to be operated, 99 men are out of a job."
Wrong again. ONE man is out of a job in my example. But because the machine replacing the man can do the work of so many more rock-breakers, a whole range of new applications - highrise buildings, dams, canals - opens up that did not exist in that previous world of one man breaking rocks. If that one unemployed rock-breaker takes the initiative to retrain as an operator of the new machine, he becomes part of a new future that did not exist before.
"Markets exist because men with guns enforce their rules."
Marketplace are the most ancient structures known to archaeology. Barter was one of the first activities that people conducted in small groups, which means that you're right in the very limited sense that trade requires at least as much civilization, enforced by basic rules of fairness adopted by both sides of a transaction, as is necessary for two people to meet and do business without immediately killing each other. These rules were enforced by the potential for mutually assured destruction of two people with spears.
Right to be forgotten was designed to apply to companies whose explicit charter is to gather specified kinds of information about individuals, like credit history, so that their financial clients can be informed about those individuals. Companies that do this job well, which gather more detail, are rewarded with more business from banks as their operations become recognized as standards. Right-to-be-forgotten laws were written to limit the applicability of the standard in the interest of fairness for all. It's like setting a standard for what goes into your medical record.
Now Google comes along, with its auto-indexing of everything that happens to be online. It's not targeting any particular demographic, and certainly not any specific individual. It's just giving users, who are not a paying clientele themselves, view information that appears online. Applying right to be forgotten to search engines is censoring a library catalogue.
Obviously you're a Green. Their default response to anything new is to react in the same reflexive the way mainline churches do to changes in social mores.
Technology IS people, dumbass. We do science because we are curious about that is going on in the natural world, and then whenever the science uncovers something we can apply to making our lives easier, someone will try it.
In your full-employment economy, there are a certain number of people whose job it is to break up one-ton rocks into pieces small enough to haul away from a construction site so a house can be built. It takes you a week to bust and haul each rock. When some engineer invents a machine to do this job, your role in life is not to crawl off in a corner and die. It's to learn how to operate the machine. When the machine for hauling away one-ton rocks gets scaled up to haul away ten- and one-hundred ton rocks, you can be part of the team that builds high-rises, not just houses. Then you're working on the Panama Canal.
Develop field hospitals, bunkhouses, feeding centers, rescue bases, and other disaster handling gear designed as modules all in the standard 2TEU long freight container size. Store them in unused corners of military bases around the country. Make retainer arrangements with a well-distributed number of long-haul truckers such that when disaster occurs truckers who happen to be properly situated at the time will drive to a designated base, exchange their current load for a specified FEMA module, and haul it to the disaster zone. Meanwhile, their regular trailer is waiting at the pickup base under military protection for the duration.
For overseas needs, using the standard container size would allow modules to be carried by ship and rail anywhere in the world.
We have three providers, one of which is the very same CenturyLink telephone company DSL cited in this article. Like all DSL, it plugs away reliably over the installed telephone copper, but the speed each user gets depends on his distance from the telco switch. Speed falls off rapidly from the 10 MHz maximum at the switch to unusably slow three wire miles away, and given the funky routing of telephone wire, that might be two blocks from the switch as the raven flies.
The best service comes from the TV cable company. Those who are on its limited number of service thoroughfares enjoy 80 MHz, albeit with a chintzy monthly cap that prevents most users from making much use of the bandwidth. For every other house in our large, spread-out area, scattered through a maze of hills and canyons, is a commercial wireless ISP that operates just like the one described in the article. A central signal received on fiber is radiated to homes that get free service in exchange for hosting large relay antennas, which in turn fan out to surrounding individual users.
And of the three alternatives, the WISP is the one that everybody hates. It's dog slow for all users, and all those relay links are subject to an incredible variety of interruptions. Raccoons and termites chew through feed lines. The summer monsoon and the winter snow breaks dishes. Trees grow into the relay beams at unexpected points, constantly having to be trimmed back. And wealthy owners of large houses in the boonies (there's an 8,200 square footer on my street) don't expect dialup-grade Internet service in a home they have paid so much for. Everyone who gets stuck with the WISP lusts for cable service
HP is splitting as "HP Inc." and "Hewlett-Packard Enterprise".
Each shareholder gets one share of HP Inc and one share of HPE for each original share, but to maintain his investment each shareholder is required to buy one additional HPE share each month at current market, or his whole investment becomes worthless.
Downmod this, paid shill.
If you're expecting to be a highly paid minion, at least tell us who you're shilling for!
One problem: that pesky old Greek guy with the bathtub,
Arctic ice floats. Antarctic ice is on land.
"But queue the alarmists,"
When we have the alarmists all lined up, then what?