Why not just add a globe (or a screen for using Google Earth) to every classroom? Then discuss how it's impossible to display an unwrapped sphere on a flat surface without distorting the shapes of the continents?
Besides being educational, it would probably been cheaper too.
Barak Obama isn't crazy. And he isn't really careless -- not about the things that matter to him. He's manipulative. His supporters understand this, and don't mind when he is factually wrong because they understand he is a bullshit artist. They just think he's their bullshit artist.
The difference between bullshit and a conventional lie is that the bullshitter doesn't lie to deceive, he lies to produce an effect. Bullshitting is often safer and more effective than lying because a lie disproven is neutralized, but disproving bullshit is a waste of time because nobody is meant to believe it.
Replace the name in your rant with Hillary, McCain, or whoever. It would still perfectly apply.
Trump does not lie any more than the rest of our government does, or our last 3 presidents have. Your special suspicion of Trump's remarks are therefore not credible either.
FLASHBACK: This was the same President Obama that was caught by his own DoJ having illegally seized the phone records of 20+ lines, including of journalists' personal cell-phones, AP news lines, and a phone used by reporters covering the House of Representatives. Forgot that one, didn't ya?
So please do tell me how the US Intelligence Services, or President Barak Obama, have ANY more credibility on this issue than President Donald Trump.
I'm waiting...
The accusation is quite plausible, even likely given the players. And the only thing that's actually been denied is Obama's personal ordering of the supposed wiretap. Nobody to my knowledge has denied that the tap actually happened.
It's not that most Trump supporters actually liked Trump. There were almost no signs out for him in my conservative neighborhood. But in a contest between a demonstrably evil candidate, and a chaotic one, the nation decided to roll the dice and go with chaos. Because at least an agent of chaos can do good as well as evil.
You act as if Hillary's only flaw was her illegal email server. Ignoring, of course, the reason that she had that illegal server. So that she could (and did) solicit "donations" to her foundation from foreign countries while Secretary of State. Including taking "donations" from Russia that just so happened to coincide with the sale of US uranium to them. There's also her stated policy positions on Russia (no-fly zone in Syria) that would have sparked off WWIII. There's also her widely known temper (going back to her husband's presidency), and her serious lack of judgement during stressful situations (such as marching into the white house to yell at Obama). SHE was the one I didn't want near the nuclear football.
They do allow for good old-fashioned passwords (of any length). The biometrics just make it so you don't have to enter it more than once a day. Or after restarting (hint hint for those at airport security).
It smacks of Enron and numerous other dot-com scams from the early 00's. Read their website. No solid info about anything. Fake SFX videos that imply they're creating free-standing projected holograms that don't require special glasses (but they do). Mundane details described in overly flowery language to make them seem like more of a big deal than they are, etc. It's 99.9% emotional appeal. It's not a "lens", it's a "custom made photonic control device that controls the mind's perception processor". They must be spending 2/3rds of their investors' money on marketing instead of engineering.
What they're actually going through the motions of making is an augmented reality display that's very similar to Microsoft's Holo-lens. That's it. That's all it is. You put it on your head, and it blends graphics into your surroundings using a camera-generated depth map – which is all a "light field" is. A normal digital picture that also records the distance from the camera for each pixel. The final image is projected into your eyes through a lens tilted at 45.
The Holo-Lens is out now, and you can play odd demos on it all day long. Magic Leap might be X% better looking with their current backpack-mounted test rigs, but by the time they actually release anything, Microsoft will have made its third version of the Holo-Lens and made Magic Leap irrelevant. In a tech space that's counting on VR/AR actually taking off this time instead of crashing and burning again. I'm not holding my breath.
They've tried using fiber optic cameras in the past. They still showed a lot of image degradation. Sometimes so much that you couldn't make out what you were seeing.
You do realize that Glen A. Larson is a Mormon, right? The religion in classic BSG is just warmed-over Mormonism mixed in with a bit of Egyptian imagery.
It only explored that metaphor (brilliantly) for half a season.
Pilot: Crap Season 1: Good Season 2: Really Good New Caprica Terrorism Metaphor (first half of season 3): Great Rest of the Series: Total Crap
Evidently there was no grand plan. Moore just made it up as he went along. Aside from one all-too-short stroke of genius, he completely flubbed the last half of the series. Which turned into "Days of Our Battlestar" over a Starbuck/Apollo love story that I didn't care one bit about. Apollo: Space Lawyer? Even worse.
How is Trump limiting your freedom of speech? He's done nothing to muzzle the press, he just yells back at them, using his own right to express an opinion of their truthfulness. If you're in his administration, and he's stopped you from tweeting over the inauguration crowd size fiasco, then welcome to what would be expected in ANY private sector company. Being "right" doesn't mean that you get to disparage your boss in public. That's the kind of BS that gets regular folks fired.
As for freedom of movement... that's only limited at our borders (as it should be). There are no internal checkpoints from which you can be kicked into a concentration camp for not having your "papers" on you. As you would have in the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
And as for "Immigration", the current laws have only been in place since the 1960's, and it's arguable that America was a much stronger nation economically and socially before that. When coming here meant a quarantine and health check that might see you put back onto the boat. Now we're afraid to quarantine health workers returning from disease infested countries. Requiring us to have a CDC to track outbreaks instead of the much simpler solution of doing health checks and quarantines at the border, so that the outbreaks never happen in the first place.
Mexico, by the way, has a wall on its southern border, and much stricter immigration laws than we do. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
San Francisco actually has tons of parks, both large and small, all across the city. So green space isn't a problem. But I wouldn't let my kids play in them unsupervised, because of the homelessness, crime, and drug problems in the city. Back when I lived there, you had to be careful about things like needles being left in the grass. I never saw more than one or two kids out unsupervised the entire time I lived there.
"They can't admit that we're in the worst economy for young people since the Depression. They can't get jobs that pay enough for food and housing, let alone a wife and kids."
I once knew a guy with a senior job within Industrial Light & Magic. He could barely afford, with both he and his wife working, a run-down fixer-upper in the Sunset District, and ONE kid. That was back in the tech bubble. Add to that San Francisco's open hostility towards excellence of any kind in their failure of a public school system, and you're pretty much forced to use private schools.
So I didn't see a future there at all beyond age 30. I moved back to the MidWest, got a job for 30% less salary that gave me twice the take-home pay, and met a wonderful woman who had moved out of the SF area for the same reasons I did. We now have 3 kids (plus animals), and a huge house (with fiber-optic service) next to a large lake in a great neighborhood. With a school system that ranks in the top-10 for the country. Oh, and our local Frys actually has really good, helpful employees!
"I'm genuinely curious as to how it damages / inconveniences / hurts you to just call her a her?"
Because it corrupts the meaning of language, and assists the government in deflecting our attention away from what Manning went to prison for in the first place.
I am probably not alone in believing that Manning was psychologically manipulated, while in permanent solitary confinement (think on that a bit), into "requesting" gender reassignment by his captors; in order to deflect attention away from the actual information that he'd made available to the public. Which is exactly what has happened.
Without looking it up... Can you remember five things that Manning leaked? One thing? America doesn't remember him as the guy who bravely told us the truth. Now she's either seen as "that transexual traitor", or as a heroic lightning rod for those who put a higher priority on identity politics than in the hard truths that Manning revealed. After all, why were his captors so quick to grant her hormone and surgery requests? Where else in our prison system are any such requests granted, much less in just 5 days?
If Snowden had been captured, what unpopular quirk of his personality, or deeply hidden desire, would have been teased out in interrogations, percolated to the front of his mind in solitary, and used to marginalize HIS actions in the minds of the American public?
Bingo. In the Bay Area I saw senior guys working for great companies, who could only afford a tiny house or apartment (with the wife working too), and one kid.
Loved my Bay Area tech jobs, but it's impossible to have a real life there. Left the Bay and headed back to the Midwest for more pay, a huge house, and 3 kids. All of which is doable on one income.
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No, they're describing World of Tanks.
Google Maps = flat map
Google Earth = Virtual Globe
Try not to get them confused.
Why not just add a globe (or a screen for using Google Earth) to every classroom? Then discuss how it's impossible to display an unwrapped sphere on a flat surface without distorting the shapes of the continents?
Besides being educational, it would probably been cheaper too.
Barak Obama isn't crazy. And he isn't really careless -- not about the things that matter to him. He's manipulative. His supporters understand this, and don't mind when he is factually wrong because they understand he is a bullshit artist. They just think he's their bullshit artist.
The difference between bullshit and a conventional lie is that the bullshitter doesn't lie to deceive, he lies to produce an effect. Bullshitting is often safer and more effective than lying because a lie disproven is neutralized, but disproving bullshit is a waste of time because nobody is meant to believe it.
Replace the name in your rant with Hillary, McCain, or whoever. It would still perfectly apply.
Trump does not lie any more than the rest of our government does, or our last 3 presidents have. Your special suspicion of Trump's remarks are therefore not credible either.
FLASHBACK: This was the same President Obama that was caught by his own DoJ having illegally seized the phone records of 20+ lines, including of journalists' personal cell-phones, AP news lines, and a phone used by reporters covering the House of Representatives. Forgot that one, didn't ya?
https://www.wired.com/2013/05/...
http://www.politifact.com/pund...
So please do tell me how the US Intelligence Services, or President Barak Obama, have ANY more credibility on this issue than President Donald Trump.
I'm waiting...
The accusation is quite plausible, even likely given the players. And the only thing that's actually been denied is Obama's personal ordering of the supposed wiretap. Nobody to my knowledge has denied that the tap actually happened.
It's not that most Trump supporters actually liked Trump. There were almost no signs out for him in my conservative neighborhood. But in a contest between a demonstrably evil candidate, and a chaotic one, the nation decided to roll the dice and go with chaos. Because at least an agent of chaos can do good as well as evil.
You act as if Hillary's only flaw was her illegal email server. Ignoring, of course, the reason that she had that illegal server. So that she could (and did) solicit "donations" to her foundation from foreign countries while Secretary of State. Including taking "donations" from Russia that just so happened to coincide with the sale of US uranium to them. There's also her stated policy positions on Russia (no-fly zone in Syria) that would have sparked off WWIII. There's also her widely known temper (going back to her husband's presidency), and her serious lack of judgement during stressful situations (such as marching into the white house to yell at Obama). SHE was the one I didn't want near the nuclear football.
They do allow for good old-fashioned passwords (of any length). The biometrics just make it so you don't have to enter it more than once a day. Or after restarting (hint hint for those at airport security).
Microsoft's HoloLens can be both garbage, and way ahead of Magic Leap (since you can actually buy one). The two state are not exclusive to each other.
It smacks of Enron and numerous other dot-com scams from the early 00's. Read their website. No solid info about anything. Fake SFX videos that imply they're creating free-standing projected holograms that don't require special glasses (but they do). Mundane details described in overly flowery language to make them seem like more of a big deal than they are, etc. It's 99.9% emotional appeal. It's not a "lens", it's a "custom made photonic control device that controls the mind's perception processor". They must be spending 2/3rds of their investors' money on marketing instead of engineering.
What they're actually going through the motions of making is an augmented reality display that's very similar to Microsoft's Holo-lens. That's it. That's all it is. You put it on your head, and it blends graphics into your surroundings using a camera-generated depth map – which is all a "light field" is. A normal digital picture that also records the distance from the camera for each pixel. The final image is projected into your eyes through a lens tilted at 45.
The Holo-Lens is out now, and you can play odd demos on it all day long. Magic Leap might be X% better looking with their current backpack-mounted test rigs, but by the time they actually release anything, Microsoft will have made its third version of the Holo-Lens and made Magic Leap irrelevant. In a tech space that's counting on VR/AR actually taking off this time instead of crashing and burning again. I'm not holding my breath.
They've tried using fiber optic cameras in the past. They still showed a lot of image degradation. Sometimes so much that you couldn't make out what you were seeing.
How is Trump limiting your freedom of speech?
He hasn't. But then, like most people, I'm not an American.
Nice dodge.
But do tell me how Trump is limiting the freedom of speech for Americans. That was your argument after all. Now back it up.
You do realize that Glen A. Larson is a Mormon, right? The religion in classic BSG is just warmed-over Mormonism mixed in with a bit of Egyptian imagery.
It only explored that metaphor (brilliantly) for half a season.
Pilot: Crap
Season 1: Good
Season 2: Really Good
New Caprica Terrorism Metaphor (first half of season 3): Great
Rest of the Series: Total Crap
Evidently there was no grand plan. Moore just made it up as he went along. Aside from one all-too-short stroke of genius, he completely flubbed the last half of the series. Which turned into "Days of Our Battlestar" over a Starbuck/Apollo love story that I didn't care one bit about. Apollo: Space Lawyer? Even worse.
How is Trump limiting your freedom of speech? He's done nothing to muzzle the press, he just yells back at them, using his own right to express an opinion of their truthfulness. If you're in his administration, and he's stopped you from tweeting over the inauguration crowd size fiasco, then welcome to what would be expected in ANY private sector company. Being "right" doesn't mean that you get to disparage your boss in public. That's the kind of BS that gets regular folks fired.
As for freedom of movement... that's only limited at our borders (as it should be). There are no internal checkpoints from which you can be kicked into a concentration camp for not having your "papers" on you. As you would have in the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
And as for "Immigration", the current laws have only been in place since the 1960's, and it's arguable that America was a much stronger nation economically and socially before that. When coming here meant a quarantine and health check that might see you put back onto the boat. Now we're afraid to quarantine health workers returning from disease infested countries. Requiring us to have a CDC to track outbreaks instead of the much simpler solution of doing health checks and quarantines at the border, so that the outbreaks never happen in the first place.
Mexico, by the way, has a wall on its southern border, and much stricter immigration laws than we do. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
San Francisco actually has tons of parks, both large and small, all across the city. So green space isn't a problem. But I wouldn't let my kids play in them unsupervised, because of the homelessness, crime, and drug problems in the city. Back when I lived there, you had to be careful about things like needles being left in the grass. I never saw more than one or two kids out unsupervised the entire time I lived there.
"They can't admit that we're in the worst economy for young people since the Depression. They can't get jobs that pay enough for food and housing, let alone a wife and kids."
I once knew a guy with a senior job within Industrial Light & Magic. He could barely afford, with both he and his wife working, a run-down fixer-upper in the Sunset District, and ONE kid. That was back in the tech bubble. Add to that San Francisco's open hostility towards excellence of any kind in their failure of a public school system, and you're pretty much forced to use private schools.
So I didn't see a future there at all beyond age 30. I moved back to the MidWest, got a job for 30% less salary that gave me twice the take-home pay, and met a wonderful woman who had moved out of the SF area for the same reasons I did. We now have 3 kids (plus animals), and a huge house (with fiber-optic service) next to a large lake in a great neighborhood. With a school system that ranks in the top-10 for the country. Oh, and our local Frys actually has really good, helpful employees!
"I'm genuinely curious as to how it damages / inconveniences / hurts you to just call her a her?" Because it corrupts the meaning of language, and assists the government in deflecting our attention away from what Manning went to prison for in the first place. I am probably not alone in believing that Manning was psychologically manipulated, while in permanent solitary confinement (think on that a bit), into "requesting" gender reassignment by his captors; in order to deflect attention away from the actual information that he'd made available to the public. Which is exactly what has happened. Without looking it up... Can you remember five things that Manning leaked? One thing? America doesn't remember him as the guy who bravely told us the truth. Now she's either seen as "that transexual traitor", or as a heroic lightning rod for those who put a higher priority on identity politics than in the hard truths that Manning revealed. After all, why were his captors so quick to grant her hormone and surgery requests? Where else in our prison system are any such requests granted, much less in just 5 days? If Snowden had been captured, what unpopular quirk of his personality, or deeply hidden desire, would have been teased out in interrogations, percolated to the front of his mind in solitary, and used to marginalize HIS actions in the minds of the American public?
Bingo. In the Bay Area I saw senior guys working for great companies, who could only afford a tiny house or apartment (with the wife working too), and one kid. Loved my Bay Area tech jobs, but it's impossible to have a real life there. Left the Bay and headed back to the Midwest for more pay, a huge house, and 3 kids. All of which is doable on one income.