You say that as if the "US government" is a homogenous group with common goals. I'd really like that to be the case, but there is ample evidence that there are many factions that practically carry out a cold war. The controversies over "unmasking" should suffice as an example.
Does that mean the searches are ok and don't deserve notice as long as the President, who has no possible way to oversee the choices of who gets searched, uses discretion?
I personally believe that DHS should search through every single phone that comes through the border, with agents mocking all the selfies an vacation pics, while rubbing themselves when there are pics of hot chics. Maybe then, Americans would finally wake up to how unprofessional, un-Constitutional, and utterly disgusting warrantless searches are.
But, please consider that when power concentrates, such as when those rich kids get special consideration, that power will seek to modify the regulations. In that way, you may hope that the regulations will seek to fill the gap, but they will very often seek with serendipity to preserve or even increase the gap. A regulation to "protect the public", often does little more than keep someone from starting a business. A $200 fee to purchase a "business license" (which does what, exactly?), is a mere nuisance to a monied interest, but is a brick wall to a homeless man seeking to sell his handmade artwork.
And what happened to the NASA archivist that blew the whistle on the climatologist throwing out the ocean temperature data collected by bouys in preference for the data collected by cargo ship intake readings (which tend to be higher and less accurate)?
I'm still wondering why ANY data would be thrown out, considering how cheap storage currently is.
And recognizing the insignificance of the minor change you're relying upon but believed by many to have been manipulated, 0.7C, is less than 0.5% change in the system entropy is lost on the cultist.
It means there was an even stronger one in the recent past. And there were 5 others that were not that far off. I'd say her notion was spot on.
Besides, this is not necessarily the second most powerful on record. Power is not just measured by highest sustained wind speed. How large is the hurricane? What is the pressure drop?
Wind energy increases at the square of the speed. 10% is vague, but lets call it from 165mph to 185mph leading to a 25.7% increase in energy. Average of ocean water is around 17C, or 190K. Going from 190K to 190.7k, for an energy increase of 0.3%. Three tenths of a change in the input, will result in a nearly 30% increase in the output? Outstanding claims require outstanding explanations.
they are dumping more and more water when they do strike. This is why Texas was so devastated.
Please stop with the either uninformed or misleading bullshit. Texas was so devastated because the storm got stalled. A high pressure area blocked what would have been a normal progression north and then northeast. We have seen multiple storms in the past that followed the same pattern, with comparable results. Texas was not "so devastated". Houston was. And, that is a very important point to remember. Houston got what would have been spread across the entire state under more normal circumstances.
For something this critical, I would want the AI to explain itself. If an "expert" tells me that I need to that I need to take a pill for my cholesterol (intentionally choosing something rather minor), I will first ask her why this medicine and how does it work. I will expect to get a cogent explanation before paying for the drug. If I'm being asked to pay thousands of dollars for a cancer treatment, I'd expect someone to explain how the medicine works, and show me how it has been successful in other cases.
There are AI solutions that will show how they arrived at a recommendation. Intel has some AI that uses the feature as a selling point. Why would anyone just say, "Hmm? The computer says to give 'em hypocholoroacetiminophin. Wonder why? Where's my needle.", without getting an explanation?
And yet, when Trump gives a press conference calling for people to calm down and calling out the violence on both sides, he gets such vehement outrage that CEO leave advisory boards, because, well obviously those marching to retain a statue are all bad. Because, NAZI.
Create a TV show. Make it good. Give it an ongoing plot that spans seasons. Create tension and drama and make sure it builds to a resolution everyone wants to experience. Not just know how it ends, EXPERIENCE it.
Then DON'T resolve it in a movie. Instead, raise more questions in the movie than the TV series did.
A joke about the 60's "rebellion" culture was that everyone decided to be different "together". The current crop running Hollywood are driven by SJWs that believe they are challenging social norms. Woe be unto the SJW that has defeated all their enemies.
Watched the series "100" on Netflix. The main character (a bobble-headed teen, that somehow ended up ordering everybody around) was conflicted between several male interests. Then, all of a sudden, she was kissing women. That wasn't enough, so they portrayed her going down on a different woman.
I'm not complaining about the scene, though they could have extended it a bit. I'm complaining about the stupidity of depicting the adults with guns letting the young-uns run things, and a woman being straight one day and gay the next.
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You say that as if the "US government" is a homogenous group with common goals. I'd really like that to be the case, but there is ample evidence that there are many factions that practically carry out a cold war. The controversies over "unmasking" should suffice as an example.
"sense of discretion"?
Does that mean the searches are ok and don't deserve notice as long as the President, who has no possible way to oversee the choices of who gets searched, uses discretion?
I personally believe that DHS should search through every single phone that comes through the border, with agents mocking all the selfies an vacation pics, while rubbing themselves when there are pics of hot chics. Maybe then, Americans would finally wake up to how unprofessional, un-Constitutional, and utterly disgusting warrantless searches are.
I'd be interested to know how you define "fair".
But, please consider that when power concentrates, such as when those rich kids get special consideration, that power will seek to modify the regulations. In that way, you may hope that the regulations will seek to fill the gap, but they will very often seek with serendipity to preserve or even increase the gap. A regulation to "protect the public", often does little more than keep someone from starting a business. A $200 fee to purchase a "business license" (which does what, exactly?), is a mere nuisance to a monied interest, but is a brick wall to a homeless man seeking to sell his handmade artwork.
And dirty assholes at that.
Are you saying they could get an accurate windspeed measurement using their airspeed indicators and triangulating ADF stations?
There is no way an airplane flying through a storm could get an accurate reading of the windspeeds.
And what happened to the NASA archivist that blew the whistle on the climatologist throwing out the ocean temperature data collected by bouys in preference for the data collected by cargo ship intake readings (which tend to be higher and less accurate)?
I'm still wondering why ANY data would be thrown out, considering how cheap storage currently is.
And recognizing the insignificance of the minor change you're relying upon but believed by many to have been manipulated, 0.7C, is less than 0.5% change in the system entropy is lost on the cultist.
Going from 190K to 190.7k is, in fact, trivial.
Oh! I get it now. It was just the media lying then.
So, who is it blowing the climate warming hysteria at us now?
It means there was an even stronger one in the recent past. And there were 5 others that were not that far off. I'd say her notion was spot on.
Besides, this is not necessarily the second most powerful on record. Power is not just measured by highest sustained wind speed. How large is the hurricane? What is the pressure drop?
Wind energy increases at the square of the speed. 10% is vague, but lets call it from 165mph to 185mph leading to a 25.7% increase in energy. Average of ocean water is around 17C, or 190K. Going from 190K to 190.7k, for an energy increase of 0.3%. Three tenths of a change in the input, will result in a nearly 30% increase in the output? Outstanding claims require outstanding explanations.
believe that illegal immigrants commit felonies
Illegal. Felony.
Really. You can't make this shit up.
Like predicting how much more energetic a storm will be by increasing the energy by less than 0.2%?
Most of them. They just don't usually do it in one place.
they are dumping more and more water when they do strike. This is why Texas was so devastated.
Please stop with the either uninformed or misleading bullshit. Texas was so devastated because the storm got stalled. A high pressure area blocked what would have been a normal progression north and then northeast. We have seen multiple storms in the past that followed the same pattern, with comparable results. Texas was not "so devastated". Houston was. And, that is a very important point to remember. Houston got what would have been spread across the entire state under more normal circumstances.
For something this critical, I would want the AI to explain itself. If an "expert" tells me that I need to that I need to take a pill for my cholesterol (intentionally choosing something rather minor), I will first ask her why this medicine and how does it work. I will expect to get a cogent explanation before paying for the drug. If I'm being asked to pay thousands of dollars for a cancer treatment, I'd expect someone to explain how the medicine works, and show me how it has been successful in other cases.
There are AI solutions that will show how they arrived at a recommendation. Intel has some AI that uses the feature as a selling point. Why would anyone just say, "Hmm? The computer says to give 'em hypocholoroacetiminophin. Wonder why? Where's my needle.", without getting an explanation?
Just another lie from the political party claiming to believe in "science". Also, women only make 75% of what men make for the same work.
And yet, when Trump gives a press conference calling for people to calm down and calling out the violence on both sides, he gets such vehement outrage that CEO leave advisory boards, because, well obviously those marching to retain a statue are all bad. Because, NAZI.
Or do like they did with X-Files.
Create a TV show. Make it good. Give it an ongoing plot that spans seasons. Create tension and drama and make sure it builds to a resolution everyone wants to experience. Not just know how it ends, EXPERIENCE it.
Then DON'T resolve it in a movie. Instead, raise more questions in the movie than the TV series did.
Then you can watch the TV series die completely.
Depends. Is Steve Austin's mother named Mary, too?
A joke about the 60's "rebellion" culture was that everyone decided to be different "together". The current crop running Hollywood are driven by SJWs that believe they are challenging social norms. Woe be unto the SJW that has defeated all their enemies.
And, it's not just movies.
Watched the series "100" on Netflix. The main character (a bobble-headed teen, that somehow ended up ordering everybody around) was conflicted between several male interests. Then, all of a sudden, she was kissing women. That wasn't enough, so they portrayed her going down on a different woman.
I'm not complaining about the scene, though they could have extended it a bit. I'm complaining about the stupidity of depicting the adults with guns letting the young-uns run things, and a woman being straight one day and gay the next.
I'm waiting for them to tell us how Spiderman came about again.
Competence being compared to a failed stint as a senator and a fault stint as Secretary of State. . . go figure.