Some of it is mistakenly (or perhaps not mistakenly) referred to as “citizen journalism,” though perhaps, as citizens are not generally trained as journalists, and aren’t held to standards of any kind for rigor or integrity, and are only judged by whether something is riviting or capable of “going viral,” it should be called “shitizen journalism”. Some of it is journalism but imagining that sort of thing to be real journalism is like imagining the length of rope you replaced your fanbelt with to be a competent permanent replacement, instead of just something that might, maybe, manage to get you home.
Can you draw a distinction between this and what Jim Acosta does? Because, other than having a court ordered pass to roam the halls of the White House, I don't see any.
I'm going to disagree with the people saying that spinning disks don't give you a warning of imminent death. A bad spindle will start whirring, and steadily get louder, and my experience has been that most drives go that way. Hence, the old trick of sticking the drive in a freezer to get a few minutes more life out of it (because, you didn't keep your backups updated....again.:-(
This is a phenomena that should always be kept in mind when switching from mechanical to electronic systems. The electronic are usually MORE reliable, in the sense that they are less likely to go belly up, but WHEN they do, they won't give you any warning. I could arguably make my home-built airplane MORE reliable and feature rich by replacing the flight controls with a fly by wire system. But, one day a gate in one of the processors will fry itself, and the whole system will quit working at once. Woe unto me if I'm at altitude at that point. The mechanical system will require more maintenance, but it will slowly wear out over time, controls will get sloppy, and exhibit more play. That is the system telling me, "I'm getting kinda tired here. I'm getting old, y'all. Replace me. Screw it. I quit." It gives warnings to the operator that knows what to listen for.
I don't know about that. It's about to snow this weekend, and the stores are packed with generators. People are already paying over $600 for a generator that will keep their fridge going and maybe a few lights (or their TV). I've never bought one, but know several people who have, and once it sits for the 6mos to a year before it is needed the next time, it rusts out and won't start. And that is even if you've kept gas around to put in it.
I like the idea of a small battery bank for that reason if no other.
a tricycle does not have this ability, being orders of magnitude wider than a bicycle
Has there been a recent, unpublished definition of what constitutes "orders of magnitude"? It used to be multiples of 10, but this usage implies that the meaning is now "a little less than x2".
Neither was Papadopolous. But, Obama's FBI got him to talk to some Russians so that they could spy on everyone in the Trump campaign. See how that works?
The question is, "When did people start paying attention?"
The media started paying attention when they found out that average people could communicate to an audience whose size rivaled theirs. They took notice when an average "Joe the Plumber" could expose and then decompose their narrative and spin. The media started paying attention when their power was threatened.
Funny that they were doing the entirely stupid and irresponsible things for years, but they didn't get any attention for it until the Cambridge Analytics "scandal". As soon as the media found out Facebook data was used by the orange man and not just the black man, they went insane...and the insanity hasn't stopped.
The problem was that the Russians didn't care which way it swirled, and used a random back and forth motion. The media in America only wants it to swirl to the left.
The FISA court can only issue a warrant against an american when that american is communicating with foreign sources
Nice point...that is useless, because there is a "Two Hop Rule". The get a warrant against me, because I visited Prague earlier this year.
Now they can survey you, because I'm communicating with you here.
Now they can survey EVERYONE in your company, because you communicate with them.
The 2-Hop Rule completely immasculates the FISA warrant restrictions. A graph of who 2-hops from me gets to probably covers half the worlds population (including Kevin Bacon).
Fascism = corporations own the government. Socialism = government own the corporations. For the poor and the middle class they look the same, for the rich and powerful it affects the address to put on the bribe.
FTFY. The people getting paid are exactly the same. Only the address of their offices changes.
When will Americans realize the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about what they want?
Probably when the rest of the world stops coming to us with their begger cups extended? America pays more to defend countries of the EU than the countries of the EU. America pays most of the bills for the UN, and most of the "peace keeping" forces of the UN turn out to be Americans.
If you want to be so damn independent, please, be quick about and fuck off.
Are you guys seriously arguing that the Trump administration is not corrupt enough, but you masters of choice are? You seriously want leaders that are adept at being corrupt?
I have never once changed the brake fluid in any vehicle I have ever owned. The Dodge truck went over 210K miles over 14 years I owned it, and is still being driven by my brother.
For every computer that must interact with humans, there is a limiting factor....the human.
This happened to desktops. They got so fast that the biggest slice of CPU time went to waiting on me, the memory was big enough to hold anything I could conceivably ever want to work with, and I couldn't take enough pictures to fill the hard drive.
So people moved to laptops, because they were becoming just as powerful but portable. Then they became just as powerful, and the point of buying a new one went away.
So people moved to phones, which were more portable. I can't think of any app I have that doesn't spend more time waiting on me than I does processing. There is no point of adding more megapixels to camera, and it stores more pictures than I can be bothered to cycle through. Other than a broken phone (and, I bought a Kyocera this time to avoid that scenario) what is the point of spending $1k on another one that will just spend MORE time waiting on me?
We just had a parent in the news for naming her child ABCDE. I could never had predicted that particular "bad choice", but I can very easily see people having children modified for their own selfish attention seeking.
We just had a woman in the news upset that people found the ridiculous name she gave her daughter, ABCDE, ridiculous.
I think there would need to be some ethical fences around the technology. Otherwise, how long will it be before some celebrity is sporting a baby with webbed hands?
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Can you draw the distinction between this and what is aired on CNN, MSNBC and Fox?
Everyone gets their news from the news sources.
Um... no.
Some of it is mistakenly (or perhaps not mistakenly) referred to as “citizen journalism,” though perhaps, as citizens are not generally trained as journalists, and aren’t held to standards of any kind for rigor or integrity, and are only judged by whether something is riviting or capable of “going viral,” it should be called “shitizen journalism”. Some of it is journalism but imagining that sort of thing to be real journalism is like imagining the length of rope you replaced your fanbelt with to be a competent permanent replacement, instead of just something that might, maybe, manage to get you home.
Can you draw a distinction between this and what Jim Acosta does? Because, other than having a court ordered pass to roam the halls of the White House, I don't see any.
I'm going to disagree with the people saying that spinning disks don't give you a warning of imminent death. A bad spindle will start whirring, and steadily get louder, and my experience has been that most drives go that way. Hence, the old trick of sticking the drive in a freezer to get a few minutes more life out of it (because, you didn't keep your backups updated....again. :-(
This is a phenomena that should always be kept in mind when switching from mechanical to electronic systems. The electronic are usually MORE reliable, in the sense that they are less likely to go belly up, but WHEN they do, they won't give you any warning. I could arguably make my home-built airplane MORE reliable and feature rich by replacing the flight controls with a fly by wire system. But, one day a gate in one of the processors will fry itself, and the whole system will quit working at once. Woe unto me if I'm at altitude at that point. The mechanical system will require more maintenance, but it will slowly wear out over time, controls will get sloppy, and exhibit more play. That is the system telling me, "I'm getting kinda tired here. I'm getting old, y'all. Replace me. Screw it. I quit." It gives warnings to the operator that knows what to listen for.
So, the article does have a point. . . sort of.
I don't know about that. It's about to snow this weekend, and the stores are packed with generators. People are already paying over $600 for a generator that will keep their fridge going and maybe a few lights (or their TV). I've never bought one, but know several people who have, and once it sits for the 6mos to a year before it is needed the next time, it rusts out and won't start. And that is even if you've kept gas around to put in it.
I like the idea of a small battery bank for that reason if no other.
Forcing corporations to enforce sexist policies of having a woman on their board of directors.
Forestalling the birth of the electric car industry by demanding manufacturers sell a certain number.
Requiring solar panels on homes.
I'm sorry. You said just one, didn't you.
...get rid of plastic straws...
a tricycle does not have this ability, being orders of magnitude wider than a bicycle
Has there been a recent, unpublished definition of what constitutes "orders of magnitude"? It used to be multiples of 10, but this usage implies that the meaning is now "a little less than x2".
Neither was Papadopolous. But, Obama's FBI got him to talk to some Russians so that they could spy on everyone in the Trump campaign. See how that works?
The question is, "When did people start paying attention?"
The media started paying attention when they found out that average people could communicate to an audience whose size rivaled theirs. They took notice when an average "Joe the Plumber" could expose and then decompose their narrative and spin. The media started paying attention when their power was threatened.
At that point, Facebook had to go.
What happened to:
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6)Profit
Funny that they were doing the entirely stupid and irresponsible things for years, but they didn't get any attention for it until the Cambridge Analytics "scandal". As soon as the media found out Facebook data was used by the orange man and not just the black man, they went insane...and the insanity hasn't stopped.
Haha! Doing that. Changed jobs. Roll the 401K over. Check is in the mail during the dip.
The problem was that the Russians didn't care which way it swirled, and used a random back and forth motion. The media in America only wants it to swirl to the left.
Whether he's negative or not, when he pushes it away, it will come back to him.
The FISA court can only issue a warrant against an american when that american is communicating with foreign sources
Nice point...that is useless, because there is a "Two Hop Rule". The get a warrant against me, because I visited Prague earlier this year.
Now they can survey you, because I'm communicating with you here.
Now they can survey EVERYONE in your company, because you communicate with them.
The 2-Hop Rule completely immasculates the FISA warrant restrictions. A graph of who 2-hops from me gets to probably covers half the worlds population (including Kevin Bacon).
Fascism = corporations own the government. Socialism = government own the corporations. For the poor and the middle class they look the same, for the rich and powerful it affects the address to put on the bribe.
FTFY. The people getting paid are exactly the same. Only the address of their offices changes.
When will Americans realize the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about what they want?
Probably when the rest of the world stops coming to us with their begger cups extended? America pays more to defend countries of the EU than the countries of the EU. America pays most of the bills for the UN, and most of the "peace keeping" forces of the UN turn out to be Americans.
If you want to be so damn independent, please, be quick about and fuck off.
And a merry Christmas to you and yours.
Are you guys seriously arguing that the Trump administration is not corrupt enough, but you masters of choice are? You seriously want leaders that are adept at being corrupt?
I need a drink.
I have never once changed the brake fluid in any vehicle I have ever owned. The Dodge truck went over 210K miles over 14 years I owned it, and is still being driven by my brother.
As I said earlier, the plural of anecdote is not data,
And you can keep saying it as much as you like. It will be a stupid statement every time, because data is nothing BUT multiple anecdotes.
We can't plant enough windmills either.
For every computer that must interact with humans, there is a limiting factor....the human.
This happened to desktops. They got so fast that the biggest slice of CPU time went to waiting on me, the memory was big enough to hold anything I could conceivably ever want to work with, and I couldn't take enough pictures to fill the hard drive.
So people moved to laptops, because they were becoming just as powerful but portable. Then they became just as powerful, and the point of buying a new one went away.
So people moved to phones, which were more portable. I can't think of any app I have that doesn't spend more time waiting on me than I does processing. There is no point of adding more megapixels to camera, and it stores more pictures than I can be bothered to cycle through. Other than a broken phone (and, I bought a Kyocera this time to avoid that scenario) what is the point of spending $1k on another one that will just spend MORE time waiting on me?
You mean like the ones they carry on "The Expanse"?
We just had a parent in the news for naming her child ABCDE. I could never had predicted that particular "bad choice", but I can very easily see people having children modified for their own selfish attention seeking.
To add another ingredient to this conversation:
We just had a woman in the news upset that people found the ridiculous name she gave her daughter, ABCDE, ridiculous.
I think there would need to be some ethical fences around the technology. Otherwise, how long will it be before some celebrity is sporting a baby with webbed hands?