Russian leader Vladimir Putin was killed in a freak accident today while crossing the street next to the Kremlin. A fully autonomous prototype Tesla sedan had veered out of control and was speeding through central Moscow side streets at freeway speeds, and it tragically ran over Putin and several of his bodyguards. A defiant Elon Musk issued the following statement: "Our vehicle had nothing to do with this incident. We've analyzed the black box data, and this car was miles away at the airport at the time of the accident."
If you want "change", you need to know what kind of change. Some changes would be good, some would be worse than the status quo.
The problem with Trump is that he's fighting the last war. Much of the public is afraid because their lively-hoods are in peril. Trump says it's because of immigrants and government corruption. That's no longer the case; it's actually because technology and automation will be putting most jobs on the entire planet in jeopardy within the next few decades.
Trump's proposed solutions would not solve anything, and they're aiming at issues that this country has already successfully dealt with since the 18th century: We've always been a nation with "unsavory" immigration and corrupt politicians, and somehow we've muddled through and even thrived. The actual root cause of the current public angst is an elephant in the room that NO politicians are talking about, even ones from the fringe parites.
So while the status quo isn't ideal, it's better than Trump's disruptive ham-handed proposals which would solve nothing. (And it doesn't help that he's an unhinged megalomaniac on top of it all.)
Some salesmen convinced management to install the new "AtomikRodz" smart controllers into the reactors. They monitor power demand levels, and over time they learn to automatically adjust power output in advance, cutting down on personnel costs. Even better, the associated app allows operators to manually adjust the control rods with their phones from anywhere in the world. No need to run down to the station just to fiddle with power output.
Unfortunately, as with most IoT gear, this product was riddled with security holes.
I don't care. I'm just trying to give them advice on how not to get killed. Setting up a tempting camp with their fishing buddies is not going to help them.
The only survivalists that I think have a chance in that environment are the ones who have prepared hidden spider holes and can exist almost invisibly. If they can hold out there, more power to them.
If you need to fend for yourselves, that means there's no effective government.
But by definition, somebody is going to have the government's weapons. They're not going to be sitting unused in empty army bases.
I don't think that you were actually planning to do the same, because you had chosen an innefective defensive strategy from the start. You'd be a day late and a dollar short.
You people are laughable. The winners in that environment would be modeled on a mixture if Genghis Kahn, ISIS and Mexican drug gangs.
"Camps" like yours would be nothing but prey for mobile terrorists. If you didn't agree to hand over your loot, you'd quickly meet the same fate as the Waco cult.
No advanced preparation will be required to dominate a post-apocalyptic landscape, only a willingness to be inhumanly ruthless. Everything else, including weapons and fuel to smoke out opponents, can be looted in real time.
It turns out that when you're facing east, north is actually on your right. Why did it take so long for people to discover such a fundamental global sign error?
You don't think that if there happened to be a radar malfunction at NORAD while he's up in the wee hours of the night posting enraged tweets, that he might not be in the right frame of mind to rationally analyze whether or not we're actually under a nuclear attack?
I don't know about everyone else, but I find it *immensely* helpful to write debugging statements without indentation. This makes it so that they stand out from the normal statements among which the debugging statements are inserted. This is the reason I won't even consider using Python.
Just stick "# XXX" comments around your debug code. Many editors automatically highlight XXX so prominently that it's just as easy to spot as unindented code.
Now, all you Python-indentation-style lovers, consider how you would code this kind of Go initializer:
arr:= [][]int{{1,2,3},{4,5,6}} (This declares the variable 'arr' as a slice of slices of ints and initializes the variable.)
You mean, like: arr = [[1,2,3][4,5,6]] What's the problem?
About 5 years ago, my Brother laser printer said it was low, so I taped over the window. A couple of years later, I did get off my lazy ass and ordered a new cartridge so that I wouldn't interrupt my workflow. However, the original cartridge that came with the printer still hasn't run out. I have no idea when and if I'll ever need to install the new cartridge.
As you can guess, I don't do very much printing. However, the "low toner" light probably started blinking after printing only about 1/4 of the total number of pages I've gotten out of it so far.
This whole episode does reinforce the decision I made before buying the laser printer: I will never, ever buy another inkjet printer as long as I live. Those cartridges seem to dry up, clog and die even if I don't use them. I got sick of spending $30 on a set of cartridges, only to get a hundred pages out of them before they became useless from age. At least laser printer toner seems to have an almost unlimited lifespan.
They probably could convince their customers to pay $799 for a phone comprised of "100% Dark Matter". The users wouldn't be able to detect it or interact with it in any way, but they would be satisfied knowing that they have the most gossamer phone available.
You correctly figured out that the precondition for a true "free market" is not feasible. So the cable companies and other utilities will remain regulated.
If a cable company puts some wire down, they ought to be able to do whatever they want with it as it does not interfere with other devices.
Before we implement your corporate utopia, first we need to rescind all property easements.
Then the cable companies can negotiate with each individual land owner to determine an appropriate agreed rental fee for allowing those wires in each parcel of property. If they can't come to an agreement with any particular owner, they can make deals with other land owners and re-route their cables.
Once all of that is complete, then they can completely deregulate cable.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin was killed in a freak accident today while crossing the street next to the Kremlin. A fully autonomous prototype Tesla sedan had veered out of control and was speeding through central Moscow side streets at freeway speeds, and it tragically ran over Putin and several of his bodyguards. A defiant Elon Musk issued the following statement: "Our vehicle had nothing to do with this incident. We've analyzed the black box data, and this car was miles away at the airport at the time of the accident."
I"m sorry, but your little rant doesn't seem to have anything whatsoever to do with what I said. Did you mean to post it elsewhere?
Why don't you try an argument from reason, based on some specific examples.
Maybe first, your favorite presidential candidate should do those things.
If you want "change", you need to know what kind of change. Some changes would be good, some would be worse than the status quo.
The problem with Trump is that he's fighting the last war. Much of the public is afraid because their lively-hoods are in peril. Trump says it's because of immigrants and government corruption. That's no longer the case; it's actually because technology and automation will be putting most jobs on the entire planet in jeopardy within the next few decades.
Trump's proposed solutions would not solve anything, and they're aiming at issues that this country has already successfully dealt with since the 18th century: We've always been a nation with "unsavory" immigration and corrupt politicians, and somehow we've muddled through and even thrived. The actual root cause of the current public angst is an elephant in the room that NO politicians are talking about, even ones from the fringe parites.
So while the status quo isn't ideal, it's better than Trump's disruptive ham-handed proposals which would solve nothing. (And it doesn't help that he's an unhinged megalomaniac on top of it all.)
It was the reactor core.
Some salesmen convinced management to install the new "AtomikRodz" smart controllers into the reactors. They monitor power demand levels, and over time they learn to automatically adjust power output in advance, cutting down on personnel costs. Even better, the associated app allows operators to manually adjust the control rods with their phones from anywhere in the world. No need to run down to the station just to fiddle with power output.
Unfortunately, as with most IoT gear, this product was riddled with security holes.
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria
That reminds me of a very prophetic point made by some Middle East expert I saw on a news program during the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War:
"I don't know what they expect the outcome of this is going to be. There are no George Washingtons in Iraq."
Well, that certainly turned out to be the case.
The same undoubtedly applies to Syria. The set of "right groups to back in Syria" is empty.
I don't care. I'm just trying to give them advice on how not to get killed. Setting up a tempting camp with their fishing buddies is not going to help them.
The only survivalists that I think have a chance in that environment are the ones who have prepared hidden spider holes and can exist almost invisibly. If they can hold out there, more power to them.
Yes.
If the National Guard were able to hold on to their weapons, then none of this prepper stuff would be necessary in the first place.
You'd be burned alive in your bunker holding onto you damned shotgun.
If you need to fend for yourselves, that means there's no effective government.
But by definition, somebody is going to have the government's weapons. They're not going to be sitting unused in empty army bases.
I don't think that you were actually planning to do the same, because you had chosen an innefective defensive strategy from the start. You'd be a day late and a dollar short.
Your fire would handily be suppressed by 50-cal machine guns mounted on pickup trucks.
Meantime, you could dodge the incoming 55-gallon drums of gasoline.
You people are laughable. The winners in that environment would be modeled on a mixture if Genghis Kahn, ISIS and Mexican drug gangs.
"Camps" like yours would be nothing but prey for mobile terrorists. If you didn't agree to hand over your loot, you'd quickly meet the same fate as the Waco cult.
No advanced preparation will be required to dominate a post-apocalyptic landscape, only a willingness to be inhumanly ruthless. Everything else, including weapons and fuel to smoke out opponents, can be looted in real time.
It turns out that when you're facing east, north is actually on your right. Why did it take so long for people to discover such a fundamental global sign error?
You don't think that if there happened to be a radar malfunction at NORAD while he's up in the wee hours of the night posting enraged tweets, that he might not be in the right frame of mind to rationally analyze whether or not we're actually under a nuclear attack?
I don't need the MSM to know that he's a frothing-at-the-mouth madman. It's patently obvious just looking at his behavior.
The story of Yahoo!'s downfall can be repeated on a much grander scale, if we elect a woman simply because she is a woman .
Even if that were the case, it's still 100X better than electing a dangerous demagogue simply because he's a dangerous demagogue .
But they weren't preventing people from bringing the devices onto their property.
Instead, they were sublicensing the spectrum that the devices were using.
Didn't they already try this in the US but got shot down by the FAA
It wasn't the FAA; It was some guy in Kentucky.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find it *immensely* helpful to write debugging statements without indentation. This makes it so that they stand out from the normal statements among which the debugging statements are inserted. This is the reason I won't even consider using Python.
Just stick "# XXX" comments around your debug code. Many editors automatically highlight XXX so prominently that it's just as easy to spot as unindented code.
Now, all you Python-indentation-style lovers, consider how you would code this kind of Go initializer: := [][]int{{1,2,3},{4,5,6}}
arr
(This declares the variable 'arr' as a slice of slices of ints and initializes the variable.)
You mean, like:
arr = [[1,2,3][4,5,6]]
What's the problem?
About 5 years ago, my Brother laser printer said it was low, so I taped over the window. A couple of years later, I did get off my lazy ass and ordered a new cartridge so that I wouldn't interrupt my workflow. However, the original cartridge that came with the printer still hasn't run out. I have no idea when and if I'll ever need to install the new cartridge.
As you can guess, I don't do very much printing. However, the "low toner" light probably started blinking after printing only about 1/4 of the total number of pages I've gotten out of it so far.
This whole episode does reinforce the decision I made before buying the laser printer: I will never, ever buy another inkjet printer as long as I live. Those cartridges seem to dry up, clog and die even if I don't use them. I got sick of spending $30 on a set of cartridges, only to get a hundred pages out of them before they became useless from age. At least laser printer toner seems to have an almost unlimited lifespan.
They probably could convince their customers to pay $799 for a phone comprised of "100% Dark Matter". The users wouldn't be able to detect it or interact with it in any way, but they would be satisfied knowing that they have the most gossamer phone available.
I don't know about that... It seems to me that in the pre-reboot series they could overcome any technical limitation simply by reversing the polarity.
You correctly figured out that the precondition for a true "free market" is not feasible. So the cable companies and other utilities will remain regulated.
If a cable company puts some wire down, they ought to be able to do whatever they want with it as it does not interfere with other devices.
Before we implement your corporate utopia, first we need to rescind all property easements.
Then the cable companies can negotiate with each individual land owner to determine an appropriate agreed rental fee for allowing those wires in each parcel of property. If they can't come to an agreement with any particular owner, they can make deals with other land owners and re-route their cables.
Once all of that is complete, then they can completely deregulate cable.
Courage!....
Cowardly Lion: You can say that again.
I don't think Apple is using a funny "Courage!", the way the Cowardly Lion would.
I think this case is more of a strange "Courage!", like Dan Rather signing off.