The conflicts they face are typically rooted in a clash of cultures and resolved more by conciliation and self-sacrifice than by swordplay or space battles.
Sound's boring. Sure all them SJWs love it through.
The interesting thing is that although she (especially later in her life) espoused Social Justice causes, her actual books were not one-sided polemics, but books about people doing their best in times of crisis.
The part about her work being "rooted in a clash of cultures" is grounded in the fact that her father was a well-respected anthropologist-- conflicting cultures was a subject she actually knew, and as a result she avoided the boring boring stereotypes of idealizing other cultures-- there aren't any perfect societies in her work. I will also note that--very unusual for science fiction writers--she wrote about scientists very well. (You'd think science fiction writers would write about scientists, but for the most part they don't. They write about the heroic engineer a lot, but people doing actual science is strangely absent in science fiction, and usually stereotyped when it does happen. With a few noteworthy exceptions, of course.)
I remember that Ged was explicitly described as brown-skinned in the second book, The Tombs of Atuan. Was his skin color given in A Wizard of Earthsea? I can't recall it being mentioned at all one way or another.
Find plenty of ET aliens there. How can you spot them?
1) Bad hair.
2) Inability to provide a direct answer any question posed. (e.g. "Mitch, wanna go to lunch?" Ans: "Blah blah blah.. for 10 minutes..")
3) Inability to come to an agreement with anyone on anything.
Those are the humans.
The aliens would be the ones who have perfect hair, always answer questions right on the point, and have an inhuman ability to come to agreement with others of their kind.
Real humans don't have perfect hair. And-- humans, managing to agree on anything without arguing? Doesn't happen.
Except that the actual answer is this: we don't know.
We don't know how life started. Not knowing how life started, we don't know how likely life is to have started elsewhere, or how similar it would be to us.
Without data, it's not science, it's speculation. It's a lot of fun to speculate, granted. But it's still speculation.
Anybody have any links on defeating face recognition systems
yup, a small bit of tape....put over the camera.
Does not help, of course: unless you never go out in public, there are thousands of cameras you don't control.
My suggestion: find somebody who sort of looks like you. Take a lot of photos of them. Sign up for all the social media sites and post the photos of that other person as your profile picture, and send them to all the social media sites and tag them as you, while simultaneously untagging all the photos that actually ARE photos of you.
Meanwhile, set up a social media site under somebody else's name, and fill that social media site with photos tagged as you.
I believe that the original anonymous coward's post was intended as deadpan irony, Mr. Anonymous Coward. I admit it's often hard to tell on/.
In any case, the "huge spike in violent crime and terror attacks in Europe" has to be interpreted as meaning that Europe is beginning to get almost as violent as the United States, but actually not getting there, it's still less violent by about a factor of four.
In the long term you'll want to hit replacement rate, neither growing nor shrinking. Looks like Japan has slightly overshot and is coming back down slightly.
We only need to look to Sweden to see what happens when illegal aliens (commonly, and wrongly, referred to as "refugees" by some) are allowed to violate the borders of a civilized Western nation.=Sweden has seen a huge increase in grenade attacks, of all things, since the start of the illegal alien disaster around 2014. During 2015 and 2016 there was a grenade attack almost every week!
...and nevertheless, Sweden's murder rate, grenades and all, is less than a quarter the rate of America. The answer seems to be that despite all the refugees, if you're afraid of crime, you should flee America to go to the much safer Sweden.
Oh, and the rate of crime in Sweden hasn't changed over the last 20 years. Apparently the "illegal alien disaster" of refugees actually isn't the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why don't they go to Siberia if heat is really their reason for migration?
Well, mostly crop failures are the reason for migration. Heat is the reason for crop failure, but it's the crop failures that are the reason people are forced to leave.
Would be useful if this were given some numerical context. How do the numbers of refugees due to climate compare to the numbers of refugees due to war and due to oppressive governments?
Even though "Alphabet" is the name of Google's parent it is still a good concept even when dealing with other companies. If you understood the alphabet you would know that N comes after M.
Good to know. I was about to finally upgrade my Utopic Unicorn-- old but classic-- but now you have explained it to me, I understand that Aardvark would be a giant step back
If you aren't going to bother trying to catch them, and thus don't care about the violation, why bother having the law?
The purpose of the law is to stop illegal immigration by people coming in with a legal visa and then staying. The ones who leave are not staying.
And how do you prosecute others who do the same thing when you've already said you don't care about some who do it?
This question makes no sense. Saying "we don't choose to spend a billion dollars on a system to catch people who are leaving anyway" does not in any way make a statement "we can't prosecute people who don't leave."
I just want the names to make sense. I'm not sure if my OS-X "Namibian Tiger" is supposed to be updated to "Mount Rushmore" or vice versa, and I'm not sure if either one is compatible with Hasta-la-vista. And I've completely given up trying to understand whether my red hat is a fedora or not, or whether peppermint comes before chocolate chip, or after.
Unless you work in the public sector, in which case you can retire with a lifetime pension in your 40's.
You actually get paid longer to not work than you did to work.
I believe you're thinking of the military, which has a retirement system that allows people to retire as early as 37. https://www.military.com/benef...
For the ordinary (non military) civil service, you're not eligible for full retirement until age 62.
The only reason we care whether somebody overstays their visa is because this is a way people illegally immigrate into the U.S.: by legally entering, but then not leaving.
If somebody who overstayed their visa leaves, the fact that they are leaving is good proof that they are not illegally immigrating into the U.S..
Slashdot Mirror
Sound's boring. Sure all them SJWs love it through.
The interesting thing is that although she (especially later in her life) espoused Social Justice causes, her actual books were not one-sided polemics, but books about people doing their best in times of crisis.
The part about her work being "rooted in a clash of cultures" is grounded in the fact that her father was a well-respected anthropologist-- conflicting cultures was a subject she actually knew, and as a result she avoided the boring boring stereotypes of idealizing other cultures-- there aren't any perfect societies in her work. I will also note that--very unusual for science fiction writers--she wrote about scientists very well. (You'd think science fiction writers would write about scientists, but for the most part they don't. They write about the heroic engineer a lot, but people doing actual science is strangely absent in science fiction, and usually stereotyped when it does happen. With a few noteworthy exceptions, of course.)
I remember that Ged was explicitly described as brown-skinned in the second book, The Tombs of Atuan. Was his skin color given in A Wizard of Earthsea? I can't recall it being mentioned at all one way or another.
Find plenty of ET aliens there. How can you spot them? 1) Bad hair. 2) Inability to provide a direct answer any question posed. (e.g. "Mitch, wanna go to lunch?" Ans: "Blah blah blah.. for 10 minutes..") 3) Inability to come to an agreement with anyone on anything.
Those are the humans.
The aliens would be the ones who have perfect hair, always answer questions right on the point, and have an inhuman ability to come to agreement with others of their kind.
Real humans don't have perfect hair. And-- humans, managing to agree on anything without arguing? Doesn't happen.
We don't know how life started. Not knowing how life started, we don't know how likely life is to have started elsewhere, or how similar it would be to us.
Without data, it's not science, it's speculation. It's a lot of fun to speculate, granted. But it's still speculation.
It is a science without an identifiable subject. Since there is, so far, nothing to study, it would be fair to say that nobody can be studying it.
Anybody have any links on defeating face recognition systems
yup, a small bit of tape. ...put over the camera.
Does not help, of course: unless you never go out in public, there are thousands of cameras you don't control.
My suggestion: find somebody who sort of looks like you. Take a lot of photos of them. Sign up for all the social media sites and post the photos of that other person as your profile picture, and send them to all the social media sites and tag them as you, while simultaneously untagging all the photos that actually ARE photos of you.
Meanwhile, set up a social media site under somebody else's name, and fill that social media site with photos tagged as you.
Yep! And if Portal won't give me the ability to teleport-- I refuse to use it!
In any case, the "huge spike in violent crime and terror attacks in Europe" has to be interpreted as meaning that Europe is beginning to get almost as violent as the United States, but actually not getting there, it's still less violent by about a factor of four.
Profit taking, I'm sure. That's what often happens when a stock rises quickly; the people who got in earlier sell out to cement their profit.
https://countrydigest.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Population-of-Japan-chart.gif
Have you seen the Daily Mail song?
We only need to look to Sweden to see what happens when illegal aliens (commonly, and wrongly, referred to as "refugees" by some) are allowed to violate the borders of a civilized Western nation.=Sweden has seen a huge increase in grenade attacks, of all things, since the start of the illegal alien disaster around 2014. During 2015 and 2016 there was a grenade attack almost every week!
...and nevertheless, Sweden's murder rate, grenades and all, is less than a quarter the rate of America. The answer seems to be that despite all the refugees, if you're afraid of crime, you should flee America to go to the much safer Sweden.
Oh, and the rate of crime in Sweden hasn't changed over the last 20 years. Apparently the "illegal alien disaster" of refugees actually isn't the problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why don't they go to Siberia if heat is really their reason for migration?
Well, mostly crop failures are the reason for migration. Heat is the reason for crop failure, but it's the crop failures that are the reason people are forced to leave.
How much crops does Siberia grow?
Would be useful if this were given some numerical context. How do the numbers of refugees due to climate compare to the numbers of refugees due to war and due to oppressive governments?
Even though "Alphabet" is the name of Google's parent it is still a good concept even when dealing with other companies. If you understood the alphabet you would know that N comes after M.
Good to know. I was about to finally upgrade my Utopic Unicorn-- old but classic-- but now you have explained it to me, I understand that Aardvark would be a giant step back
Which is nothing new.
What are they doing while they "overstay their visa"?
For the most part: spending money.
If you aren't going to bother trying to catch them, and thus don't care about the violation, why bother having the law?
The purpose of the law is to stop illegal immigration by people coming in with a legal visa and then staying. The ones who leave are not staying.
And how do you prosecute others who do the same thing when you've already said you don't care about some who do it?
This question makes no sense. Saying "we don't choose to spend a billion dollars on a system to catch people who are leaving anyway" does not in any way make a statement "we can't prosecute people who don't leave."
I just want the names to make sense. I'm not sure if my OS-X "Namibian Tiger" is supposed to be updated to "Mount Rushmore" or vice versa, and I'm not sure if either one is compatible with Hasta-la-vista. And I've completely given up trying to understand whether my red hat is a fedora or not, or whether peppermint comes before chocolate chip, or after.
His mission is "above partisanship" because, simply put, his "mission" is to make heaps and gobs of money by any and every means possible.
But if they're going to set up a billion dollar program to catch criminals, I'd say they should catch the ones that are worth the bother to catch.
Unless you work in the public sector, in which case you can retire with a lifetime pension in your 40's. You actually get paid longer to not work than you did to work.
I believe you're thinking of the military, which has a retirement system that allows people to retire as early as 37. https://www.military.com/benef...
For the ordinary (non military) civil service, you're not eligible for full retirement until age 62.
This is the fun part of Slashdot. Dumb fuckers who don't know what they are talking about giving advice like they know what they are talking about.
There is a technical term for such people: "anonymous cowards".
Like you.
...Someone may have a grudge and the ability to pull the firing trigger...
Yes, but if they have a grudge and the ability to pull the firing trigger, you're already toast.
The only reason we care whether somebody overstays their visa is because this is a way people illegally immigrate into the U.S.: by legally entering, but then not leaving.
If somebody who overstayed their visa leaves, the fact that they are leaving is good proof that they are not illegally immigrating into the U.S..
These aren't the ones we want to catch.