I hardly think that a few unproductive ghost cities are going to be worse than a country that spends 16 to 20% of its budget on unproductive military toys. No wonder your economy is so bad when you spend so much on gold plated toilet seats.
I wouldn't worry. The Chinese may be a one party state, but they don't allow the stupid peasants to elect the leader. In many respects they already have the moral high ground over the USA. It would not be surprising if they replaced NASA and used the information to their own advantage. Just wait and see, this is going to be the century of China now that the USA has failed with the election of a member of the 1%.
Indeed, and the loss of the moral high ground to the Chinese and the prospect of world wide vitriolic hatred for America might have had something to do with his conversion. He may be a lout and a bully but there is no sign that he is actually a moron, in fact quite the opposite his feral cunning in getting elected and dumping various fellow travelers is blatantly on show. The alt-right have just been told where to get off in no uncertain terms, he doesn't need them anymore. He means to be President for Donny Trump and nothing is going to get in the way of his personal success.
It is a handy way of finding troublemakers, especially if you have 400k potential ones to look after - the ones that do not post are obviously a risk so keep on posting those cat videos
Facebook is the new Television - opiate of the masses. The article is right that unthinking usage of either is a sign of stupidity. However HR may be looking to hire idiots, they are at least easy to control.
Sadly I think you are right. Trump will achieve little for American workers at a high cost. However it is still true that he most likely got elected because he said he would do something to protect American workers and the Democrats failed to say anything. It is of course tiresome to hear another super privileged rich person telling us that the smelly scummy dirty foreign people are getting too many high value jobs. It might be more interesting if one of these super privileged rich people suggested that they should pay their workforce more money instead of snorting it all up their own gaping nostrils.
It is rather simple to explain why the navy will be equipped with pop guns rather than missiles. The 2% spent on defense is spent at the behest of politicians, and as we all know politicians spend defense money on pork barrel first and defense second. This explains why Billions of pounds are earmarked to be spent on nuclear missiles and submarines which will never deter likely opponents and will never be used because the only people they can be used against are innocent populations. The idea that the 2% British defense spending is used to equip the armed forces that have to actually fight wars is laughable. Currently the British contribution to the war on ISIS is being prosecuted with aeroplanes which are so old that half of them are on the ground unable to fly because they have been cannibalized to provide spare parts to keep the others in the air. Saying this is obviously not fashionable but it is beginning to become a bit of a running joke that the operational British armed forces are badly equipped and I think that the people in the armed forces deserve better. This is not a peculiarly British problem, the aircraft carrier in the Russian task force that recently arrived off Syria was supposedly accompanied by a tug because of engine reliability problems. I am not in the least surprised that Trump got elected on the slogan "lets make America great again" as the world appears to run in a distinctly not great way.
It is rather amusing to reflect that it is low IQ people who have swallowed the propaganda in the cheap newspapers about Islamic terrorists who are likely to be the first to be fucked by the widespread use of internet surveillance data by random state agencies and private companies. The dragnet will catch anyone: mouthing off with hate speech, using live streaming video services (twitch) without a BBC license, Living with a partner whilst claiming benefits pretending to be single, transferring a vehicle to a family member without renewing the road tax, caught speeding from cell phone gps data, looking at banned pictures, tax fraud, higher insurance costs, difficulty in borrowing money, refusal to provide health care by health providers.
These morons have no idea what opening up all internet data to random fine collecting agencies is going to do. Serves them right really.
I have one but I have not looked at it since last November. I might take a look next year but the news that I might have been declared dead on it is not incentive enough to take a look now. See I have concluded that intrusive advertising is against my religion, so that kind of nixes Facebook. It is extremely fortunate that the fixed advertisement story on Slashdot is not intrusive which is why I am still here. As it is also not an advertisement for the "only new vehicle which will not kill my children" but for something vaguely technical, it does not feel intrusive, merely annoying, so well done to the new owners of the site.
This launch is also to characterize the x-ray pulsar data as the signals cannot be studied from within the shielding atmosphere. It is unlikely that there is enough data currently to make the position calculation reliable.
If Trump throws away progress on carbon reduction his legacy will be to be remembered as outdoing the Nazi's in murdering people through the resulting climate change. Populist leaders with bad ideas have a history of doing very bad things. Sadly the USA is about to become the most despised and hated country on the planet.
There is a case to be made that mobile users are a different segment of the market to desktop users. It is no longer true that the mobile users are all teenagers with low IQ and no money, but it may still be the case that the desktop users are more likely to have money.
The whole idea that 'slide to unlock' is a significant feature worthy of a patent makes me laugh. If that is all that distinguishes the famous Apple from some other brand I wouldn't buy Apple shares if I were you.
The wealthy always indulge themselves in expensive crackpotism, be it mediums, shamans, monkey glands, witchcraft, Tulip bulbs, south sea bubbles, crime etc. Basically they are both bored and suffering from a surfeit of self importance that enables them to search for bollocks and to declare it to be the "answer". This sort of nonsense used to be the hobby of royalty so it is at least encouraging that there is enough wealth around for business people to be exhibiting the same fashionable behavior. It is also possible for any technically educated person to follow the latest research into the resolution of the disconnect between quantum mechanics and gravity, the issue of whether time is a dimension and the mechanics of reality. So we are potentially a step beyond our ancestors even if the wealthy are still obsessed with tittle-tattle.
On the quiet it is not unlikely that the wealthy are also investing in genetic research, head transplants and other medical life extension investigations that are not at all crackpot, just mainly unsavory. But we will not be told about them of course.
Although it would be convenient for someone out for fun or an enemy of Israel to attack a target that Israel could be blamed for. I think we should wait for some forensics before blaming anyone.
The comments are as nothing before the grand daddy of all. Check out the comments for the one and only original. https://www.amazon.com/Passion... Though it lacks the more unhappy trolls.
Android usage terms and conditions probably need updating to allow changes which are necessary to ensure product safety. It has been shown that Note 7 devices with a white power icon may be unsafe whilst replacements with the green icon are safe to use. The ball is in Googles court.
Talking of Vanity Fair am I alone in finding it significant that it is a publication that largely concentrates on entertaining copy on celebrities and lifestyle issues which has recently repeatedly published fairly hard core investigative journalism. How come the so called heavyweight "broadsheet" publications sound like echo chambers for various vested business interests these days and could not publish a challenging piece of investigative journalism to save their lives?
Great job Vanity Fair! you are now on my must read list.
Well useful or not I found it quite profound. I had never seen the stars in our galaxy dance around us before in a simulation. Go look how far back and far forward in time you have to move before our familiar constellations zip apart across the sky. Now that is something else and it blew my mind.
Actually I think it is a sign of the times. Nothing new has been done since the 60's generation wrote the aspirational playbook. So why shouldn't they become immortal? They grew up in a world made grey by a world war and they wanted something better. Sadly the following generations mostly just want to breed and watch action adventure movies made by the man. The occasional spark of inspiration like Firefly is soon replaced by tedious soaps with soft porn and violence like Game of Thrones.
We are close to peak compute as Moores law will be finished in a couple more shrinks. The next step will be in the software and the architecture and improvements will likely be linear not geometric as they have been since the invention of the integrated circuit. Fortunately it seems that the complexity of current computing systems is close to the number in biological brains so it may be enough. Carbon nanotubes may give one more generation of geometric shrink after the last silicon one but quantum physics - particularly the Heisenberg uncertainty principle mean that the route ends there. No doubt this will be taken advantage of over time but electronics will be largely done and dusted in about ten years. If I was a teenager looking for the most exciting career these days I would choose Genetics and not Electronics as the next bright future. I cannot wait for genetically modified humans to start winning the Olympics!
I am glad that you think experts have nothing to say on the subject of the impossibility of travel between stars. Because I am not an expert and I am utterly convinced by the physics and the psychology of humanity that we will never travel between stars. You are about to elect a president who is so stupid he wants to build a wall against the Mexicans and make them pay for it. What makes you think that any civilization that ugly and stupid is going to avoid war and sinking back into the stone age after the first nuclear strike? Interstellar travel my arse, we will be lucky if we get back to using metal tools after the crash we are currently heading for. There won't be any coal to get industrialization going next time, good luck with steam engines powered by wood.
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I hardly think that a few unproductive ghost cities are going to be worse than a country that spends 16 to 20% of its budget on unproductive military toys. No wonder your economy is so bad when you spend so much on gold plated toilet seats.
I wouldn't worry. The Chinese may be a one party state, but they don't allow the stupid peasants to elect the leader. In many respects they already have the moral high ground over the USA. It would not be surprising if they replaced NASA and used the information to their own advantage. Just wait and see, this is going to be the century of China now that the USA has failed with the election of a member of the 1%.
Indeed, and the loss of the moral high ground to the Chinese and the prospect of world wide vitriolic hatred for America might have had something to do with his conversion. He may be a lout and a bully but there is no sign that he is actually a moron, in fact quite the opposite his feral cunning in getting elected and dumping various fellow travelers is blatantly on show. The alt-right have just been told where to get off in no uncertain terms, he doesn't need them anymore. He means to be President for Donny Trump and nothing is going to get in the way of his personal success.
It is a handy way of finding troublemakers, especially if you have 400k potential ones to look after - the ones that do not post are obviously a risk so keep on posting those cat videos
Facebook is the new Television - opiate of the masses. The article is right that unthinking usage of either is a sign of stupidity. However HR may be looking to hire idiots, they are at least easy to control.
Sadly I think you are right. Trump will achieve little for American workers at a high cost. However it is still true that he most likely got elected because he said he would do something to protect American workers and the Democrats failed to say anything. It is of course tiresome to hear another super privileged rich person telling us that the smelly scummy dirty foreign people are getting too many high value jobs. It might be more interesting if one of these super privileged rich people suggested that they should pay their workforce more money instead of snorting it all up their own gaping nostrils.
It is rather simple to explain why the navy will be equipped with pop guns rather than missiles. The 2% spent on defense is spent at the behest of politicians, and as we all know politicians spend defense money on pork barrel first and defense second. This explains why Billions of pounds are earmarked to be spent on nuclear missiles and submarines which will never deter likely opponents and will never be used because the only people they can be used against are innocent populations. The idea that the 2% British defense spending is used to equip the armed forces that have to actually fight wars is laughable. Currently the British contribution to the war on ISIS is being prosecuted with aeroplanes which are so old that half of them are on the ground unable to fly because they have been cannibalized to provide spare parts to keep the others in the air. Saying this is obviously not fashionable but it is beginning to become a bit of a running joke that the operational British armed forces are badly equipped and I think that the people in the armed forces deserve better. This is not a peculiarly British problem, the aircraft carrier in the Russian task force that recently arrived off Syria was supposedly accompanied by a tug because of engine reliability problems. I am not in the least surprised that Trump got elected on the slogan "lets make America great again" as the world appears to run in a distinctly not great way.
It is rather amusing to reflect that it is low IQ people who have swallowed the propaganda in the cheap newspapers about Islamic terrorists who are likely to be the first to be fucked by the widespread use of internet surveillance data by random state agencies and private companies. The dragnet will catch anyone: mouthing off with hate speech, using live streaming video services (twitch) without a BBC license, Living with a partner whilst claiming benefits pretending to be single, transferring a vehicle to a family member without renewing the road tax, caught speeding from cell phone gps data, looking at banned pictures, tax fraud, higher insurance costs, difficulty in borrowing money, refusal to provide health care by health providers.
These morons have no idea what opening up all internet data to random fine collecting agencies is going to do. Serves them right really.
I have one but I have not looked at it since last November. I might take a look next year but the news that I might have been declared dead on it is not incentive enough to take a look now. See I have concluded that intrusive advertising is against my religion, so that kind of nixes Facebook. It is extremely fortunate that the fixed advertisement story on Slashdot is not intrusive which is why I am still here. As it is also not an advertisement for the "only new vehicle which will not kill my children" but for something vaguely technical, it does not feel intrusive, merely annoying, so well done to the new owners of the site.
This launch is also to characterize the x-ray pulsar data as the signals cannot be studied from within the shielding atmosphere. It is unlikely that there is enough data currently to make the position calculation reliable.
If Trump throws away progress on carbon reduction his legacy will be to be remembered as outdoing the Nazi's in murdering people through the resulting climate change. Populist leaders with bad ideas have a history of doing very bad things. Sadly the USA is about to become the most despised and hated country on the planet.
Great story.
There is a case to be made that mobile users are a different segment of the market to desktop users. It is no longer true that the mobile users are all teenagers with low IQ and no money, but it may still be the case that the desktop users are more likely to have money.
The whole idea that 'slide to unlock' is a significant feature worthy of a patent makes me laugh. If that is all that distinguishes the famous Apple from some other brand I wouldn't buy Apple shares if I were you.
The wealthy always indulge themselves in expensive crackpotism, be it mediums, shamans, monkey glands, witchcraft, Tulip bulbs, south sea bubbles, crime etc. Basically they are both bored and suffering from a surfeit of self importance that enables them to search for bollocks and to declare it to be the "answer". This sort of nonsense used to be the hobby of royalty so it is at least encouraging that there is enough wealth around for business people to be exhibiting the same fashionable behavior. It is also possible for any technically educated person to follow the latest research into the resolution of the disconnect between quantum mechanics and gravity, the issue of whether time is a dimension and the mechanics of reality. So we are potentially a step beyond our ancestors even if the wealthy are still obsessed with tittle-tattle.
On the quiet it is not unlikely that the wealthy are also investing in genetic research, head transplants and other medical life extension investigations that are not at all crackpot, just mainly unsavory. But we will not be told about them of course.
Although it would be convenient for someone out for fun or an enemy of Israel to attack a target that Israel could be blamed for. I think we should wait for some forensics before blaming anyone.
No joy in the UIK either, the site does not respond.
The comments are as nothing before the grand daddy of all. Check out the comments for the one and only original. https://www.amazon.com/Passion... Though it lacks the more unhappy trolls.
Android usage terms and conditions probably need updating to allow changes which are necessary to ensure product safety. It has been shown that Note 7 devices with a white power icon may be unsafe whilst replacements with the green icon are safe to use. The ball is in Googles court.
Talking of Vanity Fair am I alone in finding it significant that it is a publication that largely concentrates on entertaining copy on celebrities and lifestyle issues which has recently repeatedly published fairly hard core investigative journalism. How come the so called heavyweight "broadsheet" publications sound like echo chambers for various vested business interests these days and could not publish a challenging piece of investigative journalism to save their lives?
Great job Vanity Fair! you are now on my must read list.
Well useful or not I found it quite profound. I had never seen the stars in our galaxy dance around us before in a simulation. Go look how far back and far forward in time you have to move before our familiar constellations zip apart across the sky. Now that is something else and it blew my mind.
Why buy a smartphone with GPS, there are plenty of feature phones with no GPS. Then you can use a Garmin or any other dedicated GPS.
Actually I think it is a sign of the times. Nothing new has been done since the 60's generation wrote the aspirational playbook. So why shouldn't they become immortal? They grew up in a world made grey by a world war and they wanted something better. Sadly the following generations mostly just want to breed and watch action adventure movies made by the man. The occasional spark of inspiration like Firefly is soon replaced by tedious soaps with soft porn and violence like Game of Thrones.
We are close to peak compute as Moores law will be finished in a couple more shrinks. The next step will be in the software and the architecture and improvements will likely be linear not geometric as they have been since the invention of the integrated circuit. Fortunately it seems that the complexity of current computing systems is close to the number in biological brains so it may be enough. Carbon nanotubes may give one more generation of geometric shrink after the last silicon one but quantum physics - particularly the Heisenberg uncertainty principle mean that the route ends there. No doubt this will be taken advantage of over time but electronics will be largely done and dusted in about ten years. If I was a teenager looking for the most exciting career these days I would choose Genetics and not Electronics as the next bright future. I cannot wait for genetically modified humans to start winning the Olympics!
I am glad that you think experts have nothing to say on the subject of the impossibility of travel between stars. Because I am not an expert and I am utterly convinced by the physics and the psychology of humanity that we will never travel between stars. You are about to elect a president who is so stupid he wants to build a wall against the Mexicans and make them pay for it. What makes you think that any civilization that ugly and stupid is going to avoid war and sinking back into the stone age after the first nuclear strike? Interstellar travel my arse, we will be lucky if we get back to using metal tools after the crash we are currently heading for. There won't be any coal to get industrialization going next time, good luck with steam engines powered by wood.