"Americans want to be left alone" has to be the most ahistorical take on the twentieth century that I have ever read (and I have seen a few over the last two years). For a group of people that wanted to be left alone, US citizens were more than happy to fuel a century of military expansion that has left them with a base on every continent (and that's just counting the facilities above a certain plant value, the US has so much property in other countries that it doesn't know exactly what it has), so many arms and armaments that the surplus production has to be sold to the domestic policing forces, an unsustainable deficit created by not a little military spending, and an economy built on elements of the military industrial complex. Just in case we want to continue the fiction that the citizens aren't in on this, let us not forget that the quickest way to sour the electorate was (and still is) to suggest that a politician was/is weak on military spending. So yes, the US citizens just want to be left alone...in the sense that they would like everyone else in the world to either understand that the US is in charge or lay down and die.
Behold the logic of Empire. It has always been this way; it takes different forms through time but the logic is always the same. And one day, when the sun has set on this Empire, the next set of assholes will be so very worse.
No, of course not. Just like the US didn't provide arms and aid to the Shah of Iran or help create SAVAK. Or that time the US didn't provide arms and assistance to a young, up and coming ruler in a neighboring country after all that stuff the US didn't do in Iran went a little pear-shaped. Or like that time the US didn't help a plucky band of freedom fighters in Afghanistan stop their country from pursuing terrible evils (like female education and suffrage). Nope, there definitely never was a time during the latter half of the twentieth century that the United States ever aided and abetted some of the worst, most monstrous assholes and governments across the globe. And I'm definitely sure that since these new technologies are being offered by military defense contractors (or their owned subsidiaries) that there will be no similar patterns of sales and transfers that we definitely did not see in the twentieth century. The United States is nothing but Freedom, Apple Pie, and valiant protection of Human Rights both at home and abroad. The only things we export are Truth, Justice, the American Way, and Coca-Cola.
If that man has ever deigned to gaze upon a demand-curve (or any other form of graphed data) and actually understood it, then I am bear in the woods who is also the Pope.
Wasn't their test site already "dismantled" by a massive tunnel collapse?
It is actually a little annoying that while the scientific and anti-proliferation communities/groups have been discussing what has happened to the testing site, you may only find a bare hint of that discussion in the regular news. But, as one commentator here has pointed out, if we all just close our eyes and pretend that the DPRK didn't shift an entire mountain on accident and create a potentially massive environmental disaster in its backyard, then it might help facilitate the peace process. Face gets saved, and actions of desperate necessity become grande gestures of peace. All the important people can get Nobel Peace prizes and feel good about themselves.
Welcome to Diplomacy 101, where you don't have to feel good about what you did as long as the results are acceptable.
Oof, that's a good one. One reply here says the person who was driving and I tend to agree. Although it's not the same, the use of force with military drones ultimately has to pass through the approval of a Human operator. I would think that the Human operator in an autonomous vehicle would equally be ultimately responsible for failing to override fatal decisions made by an autonomous vehicle. That said, if the operator attempted to override the vehicle and the fatal incident occurred anyway, then I would say that traditional law would place the blame on the manufacturer/programmer.
As it was long said and attributed (with questionable veracity) to PT Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute." The problem is that increasing technological sophistication and socio-economic complexity have forced us to recalculate the sucker creation rate to something like one sucker generated every 10.5 seconds. Give or take a second due to server load balance issues.
Yeah that's...that's how they innovate now. The writing has been on the wall ever since they were willing to make their flagship laptop line "pretty" by removing all the ports except one for their proprietary connector (and charging you a hefty fee if you wanted more than just one of those). And installing a touch bar (though the competition has full touch screens) while leaving the internals underpowered (though I am given to understand that was partially Intel's fault as far as the processors go). Also the keyboards are apparently crap now? That seems to be a subjective complaint, but I hear it a lot. At any rate, I expect in a few years Apple will just be an upscale, fashionable electronics boutique, and everyone will be mildly surprised any time it's mentioned that Apple once made some pretty good computers.
There was one expedition to the area decades ago by Miskatonic University, but it was disastrous. There were no survivors of the original expedition; the only two men who returned were from the rescue team dispatched by the University. They came back ranting about shifting eyes in the darkness and kept repeating a nonsense sound: "tekeli-li." There have been no other attempts made to explore that place afterwards. Even if the rumors of a great and terrible city, ancient beyond all measure, are true, we only have the word of two men barely clinging to their sanity after being exposed to one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
No, there is nothing to be gained by exploring the Transantarctic range. There is nothing but madness in those mountains.
That they are refining tech they bought from Pakistan is a fair point. Especially considering, as the person below you commented, that this is still the boosted fission device they tested previously. But I do cop to forgetting that Pakistan did a deal with them years ago.
Now that's a fair catch. The reports I saw were (breathlessly) exclaiming/suggesting that the thermonuclear-level of detonation had been reached, as opposed to their original boosted fission device
That the DPRK has performed five or six weapons tests over the period of a decade, and now have a functional fission-fusion trigger device, small enough to be fitted onto their MRBM and ICBM rockets. Not a single accident at one of their facilities; no incidents involving radiation leaks (at least any that were detectable); not one instance where they dialed the device too high resulting in an incident similar to the Castle Bravo detonation on Bikini Atoll. Just five or six tests and then boom, perfect.
There is no great wisdom in debating whether a madman brandishing a pistol has bothered to load the weapon. But this whole business just seems odd.
And there I was worried for a second!...Little weird though that Verizon is included in this statement despite their announced intention to install software on their line of android phones for this exact purpose.
Oh well, it's probably nothing. I'm sure these corporate entities spent millions of dollars lobbying for this exact policy outcome purely for funsies.
I'm also almost certain that this isn't a case of deliberate semantics. Where they'll sell everything else but not your "browsing history."
One of the main comments I keep seeing in the discussion related to this issue (aside from arguments over which political party to blame) is that the obvious solution to this problem is to use a VPN (and why haven't you been using one in the first place). But is there any reason why a VPN provider would be obligated to enforce a privacy regulation that an ISP is not? Or, said another way: What is to stop your VPN provider from selling your data to a third-party like an ISP? If this is some basic facet of VPNs then I apologize for asking a basic question, but the only experience I've had with VPNs are university and corporate based, so this kind of question never really came up.
Would someone please inform Ms. Wu that while there may be many people who are interested in what she has to say, that does not give her license to go speculating far outside her field of speciality (which I'm fairly certain consists solely of electronic entertainments)....Actually on second thought, that's probably exactly why she'd fit right in with Congress. Get her on the House Science committee with Lamar Smith; I'm sure they'd get along famously.
On how long for this technology to be declared illegal for civilian ownership in the United States (and of course the PRC, but the bet is for States-side)?
Because the data will no longer be collected, and any climate scientists who object will get it in the neck.
Everything is fine citizens. Go back to what you were doing.
Of all the reasons to want to close a movie review aggregator, the reviews for Suicide Squad are the greatest sin the site has committed? Do these people even understand how an aggregator works? This can't be "real," this is an obvious Internet prank. This is just bad comedy.
It's an interesting explanation, but the problem with the signal being of extraterrestrial (as in alien) still applies with it being a result of natural phenomenon: There was no repeat. The SETI procedure is take the dish off the signal and try to require. If these comets were moving through the vicinity it would have been possible to reacquire the signal, or at least find some trace of it in that area of the sky.
I'm not saying that the hypothesis shouldn't be tested, but even if these comets are the source of the signal it is a bit strange that they emitted such a powerful signal once...and made no other indicators afterwards.
Now, an important point that everyone else has already said but should be repeated: When you're writing the abstract for an article, be sure to include the major highlights of the article. That includes proposals, findings, etc. It's the exact opposite of the "Spoilers" system.
I've had to construct and run a few computer models over the years, and when the result that gets spat out tells me that my one verifiable empirical truth is in fact false I just chuck the model. It's wrong for one reason or another (bad data, poor assumptions, etc.). How does a bad model make the news? That's like me constructing a model that says capitalism doesn't work, and running to the press with my "startling economic revelation that undoes decades of economic thought!" You get laughed out of your professional organization for doing stuff like that.
This is a bit of a nomenclature/semantics problem. Culturally, all non-conventional weapons are regarded as "nukes" due to the fact that the entirety of the non-conventional arsenal is composed of thermonuclear devices (i.e. hydrogen bombs aka fission-fusion trigger devices). What the North Koreans detonated was an atomic bomb (possibly with a hydrogen component, but not truly a fission-fusion trigger device and therefore not a thermonuclear weapon). And from what the seismic data indicate, it was smaller than the device used on Hiroshima (and/or Nagasaki).
Executive Summary: Yes, it's a largish bomb, but don't go building a fallout shelter.
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"Americans want to be left alone" has to be the most ahistorical take on the twentieth century that I have ever read (and I have seen a few over the last two years). For a group of people that wanted to be left alone, US citizens were more than happy to fuel a century of military expansion that has left them with a base on every continent (and that's just counting the facilities above a certain plant value, the US has so much property in other countries that it doesn't know exactly what it has), so many arms and armaments that the surplus production has to be sold to the domestic policing forces, an unsustainable deficit created by not a little military spending, and an economy built on elements of the military industrial complex. Just in case we want to continue the fiction that the citizens aren't in on this, let us not forget that the quickest way to sour the electorate was (and still is) to suggest that a politician was/is weak on military spending. So yes, the US citizens just want to be left alone...in the sense that they would like everyone else in the world to either understand that the US is in charge or lay down and die.
Behold the logic of Empire. It has always been this way; it takes different forms through time but the logic is always the same. And one day, when the sun has set on this Empire, the next set of assholes will be so very worse.
No, of course not. Just like the US didn't provide arms and aid to the Shah of Iran or help create SAVAK. Or that time the US didn't provide arms and assistance to a young, up and coming ruler in a neighboring country after all that stuff the US didn't do in Iran went a little pear-shaped. Or like that time the US didn't help a plucky band of freedom fighters in Afghanistan stop their country from pursuing terrible evils (like female education and suffrage). Nope, there definitely never was a time during the latter half of the twentieth century that the United States ever aided and abetted some of the worst, most monstrous assholes and governments across the globe. And I'm definitely sure that since these new technologies are being offered by military defense contractors (or their owned subsidiaries) that there will be no similar patterns of sales and transfers that we definitely did not see in the twentieth century. The United States is nothing but Freedom, Apple Pie, and valiant protection of Human Rights both at home and abroad. The only things we export are Truth, Justice, the American Way, and Coca-Cola.
If that man has ever deigned to gaze upon a demand-curve (or any other form of graphed data) and actually understood it, then I am bear in the woods who is also the Pope.
Wasn't their test site already "dismantled" by a massive tunnel collapse?
It is actually a little annoying that while the scientific and anti-proliferation communities/groups have been discussing what has happened to the testing site, you may only find a bare hint of that discussion in the regular news. But, as one commentator here has pointed out, if we all just close our eyes and pretend that the DPRK didn't shift an entire mountain on accident and create a potentially massive environmental disaster in its backyard, then it might help facilitate the peace process. Face gets saved, and actions of desperate necessity become grande gestures of peace. All the important people can get Nobel Peace prizes and feel good about themselves.
Welcome to Diplomacy 101, where you don't have to feel good about what you did as long as the results are acceptable.
Oof, that's a good one. One reply here says the person who was driving and I tend to agree. Although it's not the same, the use of force with military drones ultimately has to pass through the approval of a Human operator. I would think that the Human operator in an autonomous vehicle would equally be ultimately responsible for failing to override fatal decisions made by an autonomous vehicle. That said, if the operator attempted to override the vehicle and the fatal incident occurred anyway, then I would say that traditional law would place the blame on the manufacturer/programmer.
It begins....
As it was long said and attributed (with questionable veracity) to PT Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute." The problem is that increasing technological sophistication and socio-economic complexity have forced us to recalculate the sucker creation rate to something like one sucker generated every 10.5 seconds. Give or take a second due to server load balance issues.
Seriously? No way, no way that actually happened. That story is just all kinds of sad if it's true.
Yeah that's...that's how they innovate now. The writing has been on the wall ever since they were willing to make their flagship laptop line "pretty" by removing all the ports except one for their proprietary connector (and charging you a hefty fee if you wanted more than just one of those). And installing a touch bar (though the competition has full touch screens) while leaving the internals underpowered (though I am given to understand that was partially Intel's fault as far as the processors go). Also the keyboards are apparently crap now? That seems to be a subjective complaint, but I hear it a lot. At any rate, I expect in a few years Apple will just be an upscale, fashionable electronics boutique, and everyone will be mildly surprised any time it's mentioned that Apple once made some pretty good computers.
There was one expedition to the area decades ago by Miskatonic University, but it was disastrous. There were no survivors of the original expedition; the only two men who returned were from the rescue team dispatched by the University. They came back ranting about shifting eyes in the darkness and kept repeating a nonsense sound: "tekeli-li." There have been no other attempts made to explore that place afterwards. Even if the rumors of a great and terrible city, ancient beyond all measure, are true, we only have the word of two men barely clinging to their sanity after being exposed to one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
No, there is nothing to be gained by exploring the Transantarctic range. There is nothing but madness in those mountains.
That they are refining tech they bought from Pakistan is a fair point. Especially considering, as the person below you commented, that this is still the boosted fission device they tested previously. But I do cop to forgetting that Pakistan did a deal with them years ago.
Now that's a fair catch. The reports I saw were (breathlessly) exclaiming/suggesting that the thermonuclear-level of detonation had been reached, as opposed to their original boosted fission device
There is no great wisdom in debating whether a madman brandishing a pistol has bothered to load the weapon. But this whole business just seems odd.
And there I was worried for a second! ...Little weird though that Verizon is included in this statement despite their announced intention to install software on their line of android phones for this exact purpose.
Oh well, it's probably nothing. I'm sure these corporate entities spent millions of dollars lobbying for this exact policy outcome purely for funsies.
I'm also almost certain that this isn't a case of deliberate semantics. Where they'll sell everything else but not your "browsing history."
You know if you purchased the internet history of the politicians and then showed it to them (or everyone), they might see this issue differently.
Sadly I believe there are Federal laws in place to prevent exactly that sort of action. Shocking I know....
One of the main comments I keep seeing in the discussion related to this issue (aside from arguments over which political party to blame) is that the obvious solution to this problem is to use a VPN (and why haven't you been using one in the first place). But is there any reason why a VPN provider would be obligated to enforce a privacy regulation that an ISP is not? Or, said another way: What is to stop your VPN provider from selling your data to a third-party like an ISP? If this is some basic facet of VPNs then I apologize for asking a basic question, but the only experience I've had with VPNs are university and corporate based, so this kind of question never really came up.
"Mr. President we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
Would someone please inform Ms. Wu that while there may be many people who are interested in what she has to say, that does not give her license to go speculating far outside her field of speciality (which I'm fairly certain consists solely of electronic entertainments). ...Actually on second thought, that's probably exactly why she'd fit right in with Congress. Get her on the House Science committee with Lamar Smith; I'm sure they'd get along famously.
On how long for this technology to be declared illegal for civilian ownership in the United States (and of course the PRC, but the bet is for States-side)?
Because the data will no longer be collected, and any climate scientists who object will get it in the neck. Everything is fine citizens. Go back to what you were doing.
Of all the reasons to want to close a movie review aggregator, the reviews for Suicide Squad are the greatest sin the site has committed? Do these people even understand how an aggregator works? This can't be "real," this is an obvious Internet prank. This is just bad comedy.
It's an interesting explanation, but the problem with the signal being of extraterrestrial (as in alien) still applies with it being a result of natural phenomenon: There was no repeat. The SETI procedure is take the dish off the signal and try to require. If these comets were moving through the vicinity it would have been possible to reacquire the signal, or at least find some trace of it in that area of the sky.
I'm not saying that the hypothesis shouldn't be tested, but even if these comets are the source of the signal it is a bit strange that they emitted such a powerful signal once...and made no other indicators afterwards.
Now, an important point that everyone else has already said but should be repeated: When you're writing the abstract for an article, be sure to include the major highlights of the article. That includes proposals, findings, etc. It's the exact opposite of the "Spoilers" system.
I've had to construct and run a few computer models over the years, and when the result that gets spat out tells me that my one verifiable empirical truth is in fact false I just chuck the model. It's wrong for one reason or another (bad data, poor assumptions, etc.). How does a bad model make the news? That's like me constructing a model that says capitalism doesn't work, and running to the press with my "startling economic revelation that undoes decades of economic thought!" You get laughed out of your professional organization for doing stuff like that.
Executive Summary: Yes, it's a largish bomb, but don't go building a fallout shelter.