I loved that video, and it confirms all the suspicions I ever had about the lying media, but it’s totally off topic here. It should be a posted article in its own right.
So what is it that makes this one particular game so much more addictive than all the other games? Is it being distributed by French-Canadian wheelchair terrorists, or something?
When Silicon Valley got its start, the high developer/engineer salaries it created allowed nerds to mate and marry for the first time. With the bidding up of California housing, the same forces are now preventing them from having children.
But I have a security idea: when the system detects a possible robbery, it will blare The Star-Spangled Banner over the sound system. As the gang takes a knee, the store attendant can invoke 911.
It's not a traditional landline, but the kind served through our cable modem, that we get included in our cable package. I have always wanted to just unplug the damn thing, but my wife is reluctant to use her cell for incoming calls because she doesn't like carrying it close to her all the time (If only women had pockets!)
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. It's all about how the world is actually not coming to an end, supported by a slew of the sort of hard data you never get from "declinists."
Wolfe was, overall, my favorite author of all time. Back To Blood, which dissects Miami culture, is his most underrated novel. Read it, and you will understand why. It hit too many nerves.
Works of fiction are scenarios. If you never 'run' such scenarios to pre-experience what might happen if, being surprised by what reality can throw at you is the REAL waste of time.
i think i enjoyed them more from a cultural reference point.
My take also. As described at the start of the trilogy, China went through its anti-science paroxysm during the Cultural Revolution. The US and Europe are undergoing it right now.
Based on recent history... big law enforcement action and nobody saying anything... at least 50/50 chance that it involves the militant wing of the religion/worldview that must not be named.
The problem with 3D Touch is there is no inherent feedback for which of the three degrees of force the user is applying. Most of the old people in my client base opt to have this feature turned off. Long press, on the other hand, is a lot easier for people to deal with.
An effort to pass legislation like this does not mean that automated cars will hit the road immediately. Silicon Vally knows that the slowest part of any technology to develop is the regulatory environment around it.
" build an entirely separate network of highway dedicated to what autonomous car need,...."
Let's call this the Interstate Highway System. A logical first step in public deployment of autonomous vehicles is to enable automatic mode on this contained environment and at the same time in low-speed residential neighborhoods with simple traffic movements. As the technology gets ironed out, we can then grow deployment into more complex traffic situations.
Let me guess: you're one of those people who set fire to the hipster coffee shop that just opened in your inner-city neighborhood? That's why the people who used to care about your city, and about reviving bad neighborhoods through gentrification, are moving to Arizona.
They don't particularly care about Democrat vs Republican. What shocks people on that level is the possibility that the ties their lawyers and lobbyists have with Washington would be endangered by election of an outsider candidate.
Fortunately for them, Trump's flailing around is not affecting these relationships as much as they feared. It's as though an approaching hurricane had turned back out to sea.
"...speculated that the evacuation could be due to some kind of threat made against the facility or its staff."
My guess: somebody from Hawaii was vacationing in the area, found out that the observatory existed, and complained to the Feds that it "was an insult to her ancestors."
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I loved that video, and it confirms all the suspicions I ever had about the lying media, but it’s totally off topic here. It should be a posted article in its own right.
So what is it that makes this one particular game so much more addictive than all the other games? Is it being distributed by French-Canadian wheelchair terrorists, or something?
When Silicon Valley got its start, the high developer/engineer salaries it created allowed nerds to mate and marry for the first time. With the bidding up of California housing, the same forces are now preventing them from having children.
Enjoy your future of lawyers and politicians.
Now pull the other one.
But I have a security idea: when the system detects a possible robbery, it will blare The Star-Spangled Banner over the sound system. As the gang takes a knee, the store attendant can invoke 911.
You still have a land line.
It's not a traditional landline, but the kind served through our cable modem, that we get included in our cable package. I have always wanted to just unplug the damn thing, but my wife is reluctant to use her cell for incoming calls because she doesn't like carrying it close to her all the time (If only women had pockets!)
On our landline, we get an average of one non-spam call per week.
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. It's all about how the world is actually not coming to an end, supported by a slew of the sort of hard data you never get from "declinists."
Wolfe was, overall, my favorite author of all time. Back To Blood, which dissects Miami culture, is his most underrated novel. Read it, and you will understand why. It hit too many nerves.
Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement.
These are the American equivalents of Lucky Jim.
I found Sapiens interesting until he got to Jared Diamond's total bullshit hypothesis on agriculture. He lost me after that.
I second this one.
I find fiction to be a waste of my time...
Works of fiction are scenarios. If you never 'run' such scenarios to pre-experience what might happen if, being surprised by what reality can throw at you is the REAL waste of time.
i think i enjoyed them more from a cultural reference point.
My take also. As described at the start of the trilogy, China went through its anti-science paroxysm during the Cultural Revolution. The US and Europe are undergoing it right now.
Based on recent history ... big law enforcement action and nobody saying anything ... at least 50/50 chance that it involves the militant wing of the religion/worldview that must not be named.
I don't think it's the religion you have in mind. More likely to be this one:
https://deepgreenresistance.or...
“Reasonable safety regulations” are not what that post was calling for.
We want our tangling wires!
Watch for home builders to start offering Faraday walls. Much cheaper to build this in than to retrofit.
For me it's one less wire to have to untangle. Bravo for Bluetooth.
The problem with 3D Touch is there is no inherent feedback for which of the three degrees of force the user is applying. Most of the old people in my client base opt to have this feature turned off. Long press, on the other hand, is a lot easier for people to deal with.
An effort to pass legislation like this does not mean that automated cars will hit the road immediately. Silicon Vally knows that the slowest part of any technology to develop is the regulatory environment around it.
" build an entirely separate network of highway dedicated to what autonomous car need, ...."
Let's call this the Interstate Highway System. A logical first step in public deployment of autonomous vehicles is to enable automatic mode on this contained environment and at the same time in low-speed residential neighborhoods with simple traffic movements. As the technology gets ironed out, we can then grow deployment into more complex traffic situations.
Let me guess: you're one of those people who set fire to the hipster coffee shop that just opened in your inner-city neighborhood? That's why the people who used to care about your city, and about reviving bad neighborhoods through gentrification, are moving to Arizona.
They don't particularly care about Democrat vs Republican. What shocks people on that level is the possibility that the ties their lawyers and lobbyists have with Washington would be endangered by election of an outsider candidate.
Fortunately for them, Trump's flailing around is not affecting these relationships as much as they feared. It's as though an approaching hurricane had turned back out to sea.
"...speculated that the evacuation could be due to some kind of threat made against the facility or its staff."
My guess: somebody from Hawaii was vacationing in the area, found out that the observatory existed, and complained to the Feds that it "was an insult to her ancestors."