" If licenses weren't numbered, the proliferation of taxis would render city streets unnavigable. "
Gee, if loaves of bread were not serially numbered and limited in supply by the Bread Commission, bakers would produce an infinite amount of it, clogging every city street with baked grains.
Mann is somewhat of an outlier, but I don't see Gleick and Hansen pushing to strip dissenters of their credentials and their jobs. I also don't see them writing off every proposed solution and insisting that only a Stone Age existence will satisfy the climate god.
Ah yes, the problem of lame science fair projects.
No, it's not because our kids are not as intelligent as they used to be. It's because chemistry sets no longer contain actual chemicals, and the nuclear kits kids used to be able to experiment with back in the Fifties are longer available at all. Your bright child will now be channeled into law school, to play his/her rightful part in the dismantling of Western civilization.
Handwaves ("dark matter") and faddism exist in many disciplines, but what the article focuses on is biomedicine. Perhaps it's time to supplement those crappy, glacier-slow double blind medical studies with something that makes better use of the incredible data processing resources available to us in the new century. Let's develop a supercomputer model of human biology detailed enough that we can test large numbers of pharma possibilities against it. This would enable us to zero in on cures a lot faster and respond to epidemiological emergencies like the Ebola crisis in a more timely manner.
But note that the climate screamers and shamers are not the scientists themselves but political activists acting on what they think are the scientists' findings.
The left decided that a species that wouldn't accept Marxism is a species that doesn't deserve to exist at all, so not only are they pulling for any any apocalypse that could eliminate H. sapiens from the sacred Environment, but they automatically come out against any solution that may be suggested for such an apocalypse.
No, I prefer to think we're seeing a peaceful instance of Dyson sphere construction. Years from now this object will show up on the patrol scans as a vanilla-looking cool red giant.
"Get some Huawei developers work on this, and they'll reduce this patch to 64 bytes." And the hardened, high-capacity espionage backdoor channel to the PLA will serve mankind well should a solar flare takes out our primary communications channel with Curiosity.
Fear in female culture is as big a problem as aggression in male culture. Both the fear and the aggression may have their roots in primordial gender roles ("Protect the cubs!" "Defend the cave entrance!"), but if modern civilization is going to advance we need to grow culture in ways that counteract both these effects.
"Sadly, they published in Nature. So I can view the paper for $5 or download as PDF for $32'
OR...you could borrow someone's university library card and download the paper illegally. Then wait for the federal government to charge you with treason, genocide and child molestation. But this time instead of being a weenie and killing yourself, get onto social media, trumpet the ridiculousness of the charges, and make monkeys of the prosecution just in time for election season. Profit!
UNLESS...all of the pictures are of school sports events, where there is no expectation of privacy.
This is why I think that intellectual property needs to be recast as an individual right of the actual creator of work, as specified in Art. 1 Section 8. Copyrights and patents should not be any more fungible than your right to free speech is. Shadowy "rights holders" with legal teams have no business owning IP created by others. You want to make money off IP, then maintain a contractual relationship with the creator.
I'm sure that a multiplicity of manufacturers have intersting ideas for simplifying the interface. Let's see those ideas, if any, tried out. So far, we're just seeing Samsung and LG and Sony make the interface worse. Meanwhile, Apple has a history of bringing interface simplicity to problems that everybody else thought were impossibly hard. If they can simplify the TV interface - just the hardware interface part of the problem - everybody else will whine, "Why didn't we think of that!" while accusing Apple of being a monopoly.
To become an actual monopoly, Apply would have to solve the content access problem by buying Hollywood and replacing the whole mess with something that works like the iTunes Store. But there's no need for a monopoly. Apple could prove its point by buying a large enough vertical chunk of the TV content industry that users will demand the same interface simplicity from the non-Apple sector.
If Apple can come up with a solution to this, it will own the nation's living rooms no matter how much its approach may cost. As it stands now every TV set has its own complex remote, which controls the receiver itself and selects your chosen device inputs into it. Each DVD player, PVR, game console and streaming box you attach to the set has its own remote, with its own different control interface that you have to mentally readapt to whenever you use the TV remote to select that device as the input. In addition to these and worst of all is the remote that controls your cable box, with its F-35 cockpit array of function buttons that cover every feature that any cable provider using the box might want to support. Each cable company allows some subset of these functions, leaving your cable remote with a number of "forbidden" buttons that if pressed accidentally will send your entertainment system into a region of hyperspace that only the cable company CSR can retrieve you from.
Then there is the content mess. No cable company online guide system works well enough for you to easily figure out what time CSI: Ramadi is on for your location, especially if you are not in a Major Urban Market. The Internet TV guides will get you the right night of the week eventually, but does it know you're on Arizona time, or is it an hour off this time of year? And since you're edging into cord cutting you're aware that you can stream last Wednesday's missed episode from the network site, if you're lucky enough that its Verify Your Provider logon actually includes your cable company in the list of five that it accepts. So you thought you had a right to view the program because it's over-the-air or on your cable tier?
Apple, do whatever it takes to bring some sanity to this interface, hopefully before the next time my mother accidentally lays a book down on her cable remote and loses contact with all her favorites for a week.
If you are arrested, like the Texas bikers, you have rights. Your property can be frozen, or impounded as evidence, but it can't be forfeited except as a consequence of the eventual judgement. The problem in our legal system is that if there is no arrest, police can seize the property and explicitly use it for their own purposes, so long as they send you on your way.
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" If licenses weren't numbered, the proliferation of taxis would render city streets unnavigable. "
Gee, if loaves of bread were not serially numbered and limited in supply by the Bread Commission, bakers would produce an infinite amount of it, clogging every city street with baked grains.
Mann is somewhat of an outlier, but I don't see Gleick and Hansen pushing to strip dissenters of their credentials and their jobs. I also don't see them writing off every proposed solution and insisting that only a Stone Age existence will satisfy the climate god.
Ah yes, the problem of lame science fair projects.
No, it's not because our kids are not as intelligent as they used to be. It's because chemistry sets no longer contain actual chemicals, and the nuclear kits kids used to be able to experiment with back in the Fifties are longer available at all. Your bright child will now be channeled into law school, to play his/her rightful part in the dismantling of Western civilization.
Handwaves ("dark matter") and faddism exist in many disciplines, but what the article focuses on is biomedicine. Perhaps it's time to supplement those crappy, glacier-slow double blind medical studies with something that makes better use of the incredible data processing resources available to us in the new century. Let's develop a supercomputer model of human biology detailed enough that we can test large numbers of pharma possibilities against it. This would enable us to zero in on cures a lot faster and respond to epidemiological emergencies like the Ebola crisis in a more timely manner.
Can we hope for a Moore's law in medicine?
"Your post hurts Michael Mann's feelings..."
There's no need to mod it down. Mann will sue your ass off, an innovation he has personally added to the scientific method.
But note that the climate screamers and shamers are not the scientists themselves but political activists acting on what they think are the scientists' findings.
The left decided that a species that wouldn't accept Marxism is a species that doesn't deserve to exist at all, so not only are they pulling for any any apocalypse that could eliminate H. sapiens from the sacred Environment, but they automatically come out against any solution that may be suggested for such an apocalypse.
Unless it was a pressure cooker running Linux.
No, I prefer to think we're seeing a peaceful instance of Dyson sphere construction. Years from now this object will show up on the patrol scans as a vanilla-looking cool red giant.
"Get some Huawei developers work on this, and they'll reduce this patch to 64 bytes."
And the hardened, high-capacity espionage backdoor channel to the PLA will serve mankind well should a solar flare takes out our primary communications channel with Curiosity.
Fear in female culture is as big a problem as aggression in male culture. Both the fear and the aggression may have their roots in primordial gender roles ("Protect the cubs!" "Defend the cave entrance!"), but if modern civilization is going to advance we need to grow culture in ways that counteract both these effects.
As long as female culture remains the culture of fear (anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, anti-vax) it is women who will see STEM as being a man's world.
"Sadly, they published in Nature. So I can view the paper for $5 or download as PDF for $32'
OR...you could borrow someone's university library card and download the paper illegally. Then wait for the federal government to charge you with treason, genocide and child molestation. But this time instead of being a weenie and killing yourself, get onto social media, trumpet the ridiculousness of the charges, and make monkeys of the prosecution just in time for election season. Profit!
" It's the drooling morons that we have running the country."
Pay no attention to the drooling morons who are preventing large carbon-free energy sources from coming on line.
Because first of all, we don't what the risk actually is until we deploy a system for detecting NEOs.
The same premise applies to plane crashes and nuclear meltdowns.
"How can it be called a Shuttle if it's only going to be used once?"
It's a scaled prototype, Sheldon.
White people riot at the ballot box.
Because Martinique represents a major country, in the same way that Hawaii does, it participates in the mainland's police capabilities.
This perpetrator was a recent immigrant from Guyana, so you don't get to use the Slavery Excuse (tm) that always gets dragged out in cases like this.
UNLESS...all of the pictures are of school sports events, where there is no expectation of privacy.
This is why I think that intellectual property needs to be recast as an individual right of the actual creator of work, as specified in Art. 1 Section 8. Copyrights and patents should not be any more fungible than your right to free speech is. Shadowy "rights holders" with legal teams have no business owning IP created by others. You want to make money off IP, then maintain a contractual relationship with the creator.
People are already doing this with breasts, even for fully functional ones.
I'm sure that a multiplicity of manufacturers have intersting ideas for simplifying the interface. Let's see those ideas, if any, tried out. So far, we're just seeing Samsung and LG and Sony make the interface worse. Meanwhile, Apple has a history of bringing interface simplicity to problems that everybody else thought were impossibly hard. If they can simplify the TV interface - just the hardware interface part of the problem - everybody else will whine, "Why didn't we think of that!" while accusing Apple of being a monopoly.
To become an actual monopoly, Apply would have to solve the content access problem by buying Hollywood and replacing the whole mess with something that works like the iTunes Store. But there's no need for a monopoly. Apple could prove its point by buying a large enough vertical chunk of the TV content industry that users will demand the same interface simplicity from the non-Apple sector.
If Apple can come up with a solution to this, it will own the nation's living rooms no matter how much its approach may cost. As it stands now every TV set has its own complex remote, which controls the receiver itself and selects your chosen device inputs into it. Each DVD player, PVR, game console and streaming box you attach to the set has its own remote, with its own different control interface that you have to mentally readapt to whenever you use the TV remote to select that device as the input. In addition to these and worst of all is the remote that controls your cable box, with its F-35 cockpit array of function buttons that cover every feature that any cable provider using the box might want to support. Each cable company allows some subset of these functions, leaving your cable remote with a number of "forbidden" buttons that if pressed accidentally will send your entertainment system into a region of hyperspace that only the cable company CSR can retrieve you from.
Then there is the content mess. No cable company online guide system works well enough for you to easily figure out what time CSI: Ramadi is on for your location, especially if you are not in a Major Urban Market. The Internet TV guides will get you the right night of the week eventually, but does it know you're on Arizona time, or is it an hour off this time of year? And since you're edging into cord cutting you're aware that you can stream last Wednesday's missed episode from the network site, if you're lucky enough that its Verify Your Provider logon actually includes your cable company in the list of five that it accepts. So you thought you had a right to view the program because it's over-the-air or on your cable tier?
Apple, do whatever it takes to bring some sanity to this interface, hopefully before the next time my mother accidentally lays a book down on her cable remote and loses contact with all her favorites for a week.
If you are arrested, like the Texas bikers, you have rights. Your property can be frozen, or impounded as evidence, but it can't be forfeited except as a consequence of the eventual judgement. The problem in our legal system is that if there is no arrest, police can seize the property and explicitly use it for their own purposes, so long as they send you on your way.