This "task force" reminds me a lot of Dick Cheney setting US energy policy in closed-door meetings with oil industry execs. Prepare to be sold out again, America.
Yeah it's weird, it's almost like the explanation is inconsistent, false, and/or propaganda of some kind. Chinese hackers this, Chinese hackers that. This "story" is the one that switched me over to Skepticism Land.
Kind of a good point. Especially since they already have one rover in a museum in DC. If they want to put a stop to the idea that they're a senile agency whose best years are behind them, not obsessing over their own history is a good place to start.
Shoot, if I had known about this I wouldn't have spent my last mod point elsewhere. I like the "dream big" gumption. Although seemingly in contradiction, I also like the fact that it's not really a dream anymore. High-speed rail is an existing technology deployed elsewhere to great success (i.e. at this point, "just good ol' ordinary plain old high speed rail"), and not some idea pulled out of Elon Musk's ass like the Hyperloop, which really is still a dream. Hyperloop could still happen mind you, but high-speed rail has actually been demonstrated in Japan, China, Europe and even little bits of the US Northeast Corridor.
Something else - people who complain about the up-front expense are totally ignoring the huge expenses being racked-up right now -- the costs of keeping all those private automobiles on the road, keeping said road paved, policed etc. Or the costs of time & energy involved in air travel, including the waiting around like a dunce and including the energy costs of needless acquisition of vertical altitude... I mean whose destination is at 30,000 feet? Nobody; you go to 30,000 feet because that's where planes fly, and then you come back down to the ground, where you're headed.
ATTENTION, it is of ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL importance that NO ONE make a joke on this MOST DEADLY SERIOUS of issues. If you can't discuss this HORRIFIC RISK to my PRECIOUS PRECIOUS LIFE with all the seriousness of a HUMORLESS ASSHOLE about whose OPINION nobody CARES, well then.
Although to be fair, freaking has been known to cause an earthquake or two in MY house. OH BITCH NO I DIDN'T!!!
...Links Public Oversight of Said Police State to All Kinds of Bad Stuff"
Also see: "Abusive Advertisers Link Doom, End Of World, to use of Ad Blockers"
Social integration as a neuro-protective influence was of interest to me since A) I'm getting old, and B) I can't fucking stand people except my wife, and even her sometimes...
"People with the highest level of social integration had less than half the decline in their cognitive function of the least socially active subjects." But here's the thing, that study's assessment of so-called cognitive function was wildly extrapolated from "a simple word-recall test." It seems unsurprising that doing the social ramble and making smalltalk with everyone like a chatty fuck [using words] will make you better at [a simple word-recall test]. Kind of like how "...playing the math puzzle KenKen will obviously make you better at KenKen. But does the effect transfer to another task you haven’t practiced, like a crossword puzzle?"
The article isn't about whether and when to call 9-1-1 and doesn't seem to be trying to dig up a conspiracy about it. So, clickbait strikes again.
The article is more about the big picture, the common practice by employers of externalizing every cost they can get away with, which now and for the past 20-30 years includes having a workforce of humans. They will not take care of you. And there is a caste system. At Intel the badges are green, at Amazon, white, at Google red or yellow, at Microsoft, orange. Nobody is less surprised than I. But just because it's old news doesn't make it any less sleazy for them to make society (either as a whole or in the form of their individual employees... sorry, contractors) pay for their costs of doing business.
"For employers, the appeal of this system is obvious. It allows companies to meet demand while keeping their permanent workforce at a minimum, along with all the costs that go with it -- payroll taxes, benefits, workers' compensation costs and certain legal liabilities." That says it all.
systems behave differently when observed
==> (implies) humans control objective reality with their minds
==> as a human controller of reality you are responsible for what happens
==> if you're poor it's your own fault
==> Republican or Tory
Good one. Well since my personal pet peeve is Slashdot's advertising for The (goddamned motherfucking) Martian, I'll rewrite these for that:
Fukushima Thryoid Cancer Concerns Remarkably Similar to Those Depicted in The Martian
Author of The Martian Debunks Samsung PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second
Could DARPA Image Doctoring Program Be Used To Fake Mars Landing?
Oracle Fixes Java Vulnerability, Unlike Anything That Happens in The Martian
Should Japan Build Nuclear Power Plants on Mars Since They're Doing So Fucking Well With Them On Earth?
Only 8% of the Universe's Habitable Worlds Are Mars, Says Matt Damon
"It's a tough pill to swallow that makes YouTube look like a bully."
I know huh? Good thing YouTube and Google are totally not bullies though, otherwise acting exactly like one might be mistaken for being one.
What if car-making, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if car-making...perhaps...means a little bit more?
It's weird, it's almost like making a car is hard, especially one with a new kind of power source. Like maybe the existing auto industry weren't just sitting on their hands being old and uncool? Maybe they actually have a couple advantages compared to the noobs. Like a few decades of cumulative trial-and-error / design iteration / test data / customer feedback perhaps. Or an existing, intricately interconnected global industrial infrastructure & supply chain.
Now OK granted, they lack Musk's massive government subsidy for "renewable" energy (i.e. burning coal to power the electric grid), because they still mostly depend on petroleum. But I'll bet they get subsidies of their own, since they're a huge and mature industry and are well-connected politically. So that one's a tie.
What else? Well Musk sure has "gumption" by golly, totally gonna "change" and "disrupt" a bunch of stuff, fuckyeah! Big Auto, not so much, mainly because they are frankly standing there holding a firehose of money and don't want to risk doing anything that might slow the flow. So advantage to Musk in the gumption department. Somebody give him a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, pat him on the head and give him some fucking Legos to play with so he doesn't break anything.
...that there's no universal principle or rule that's always true? Could it be that the best thing to do in a given moment, is to do the best thing in the given moment?
naaaaahhh....
Slashdot Mirror
This "task force" reminds me a lot of Dick Cheney setting US energy policy in closed-door meetings with oil industry execs. Prepare to be sold out again, America.
Yeah it's weird, it's almost like the explanation is inconsistent, false, and/or propaganda of some kind. Chinese hackers this, Chinese hackers that. This "story" is the one that switched me over to Skepticism Land.
meets definition of emotional responder flipping out.
Kind of a good point. Especially since they already have one rover in a museum in DC. If they want to put a stop to the idea that they're a senile agency whose best years are behind them, not obsessing over their own history is a good place to start.
...is sure giving Florida Man a run for his money lately!
"Gee I wonder what this Slashdot comment thread will look like...."
Shoot, if I had known about this I wouldn't have spent my last mod point elsewhere. I like the "dream big" gumption. Although seemingly in contradiction, I also like the fact that it's not really a dream anymore. High-speed rail is an existing technology deployed elsewhere to great success (i.e. at this point, "just good ol' ordinary plain old high speed rail"), and not some idea pulled out of Elon Musk's ass like the Hyperloop, which really is still a dream. Hyperloop could still happen mind you, but high-speed rail has actually been demonstrated in Japan, China, Europe and even little bits of the US Northeast Corridor.
Something else - people who complain about the up-front expense are totally ignoring the huge expenses being racked-up right now -- the costs of keeping all those private automobiles on the road, keeping said road paved, policed etc. Or the costs of time & energy involved in air travel, including the waiting around like a dunce and including the energy costs of needless acquisition of vertical altitude... I mean whose destination is at 30,000 feet? Nobody; you go to 30,000 feet because that's where planes fly, and then you come back down to the ground, where you're headed.
J'aime bien les Trains de Grand Vitesse!
ATTENTION, it is of ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL importance that NO ONE make a joke on this MOST DEADLY SERIOUS of issues. If you can't discuss this HORRIFIC RISK to my PRECIOUS PRECIOUS LIFE with all the seriousness of a HUMORLESS ASSHOLE about whose OPINION nobody CARES, well then.
Although to be fair, freaking has been known to cause an earthquake or two in MY house. OH BITCH NO I DIDN'T!!!
I will check it out... the price is right!
...Links Public Oversight of Said Police State to All Kinds of Bad Stuff" Also see: "Abusive Advertisers Link Doom, End Of World, to use of Ad Blockers"
Social integration as a neuro-protective influence was of interest to me since A) I'm getting old, and B) I can't fucking stand people except my wife, and even her sometimes...
"People with the highest level of social integration had less than half the decline in their cognitive function of the least socially active subjects." But here's the thing, that study's assessment of so-called cognitive function was wildly extrapolated from "a simple word-recall test." It seems unsurprising that doing the social ramble and making smalltalk with everyone like a chatty fuck [using words] will make you better at [a simple word-recall test]. Kind of like how "...playing the math puzzle KenKen will obviously make you better at KenKen. But does the effect transfer to another task you haven’t practiced, like a crossword puzzle?"
The article isn't about whether and when to call 9-1-1 and doesn't seem to be trying to dig up a conspiracy about it. So, clickbait strikes again.
The article is more about the big picture, the common practice by employers of externalizing every cost they can get away with, which now and for the past 20-30 years includes having a workforce of humans. They will not take care of you. And there is a caste system. At Intel the badges are green, at Amazon, white, at Google red or yellow, at Microsoft, orange. Nobody is less surprised than I. But just because it's old news doesn't make it any less sleazy for them to make society (either as a whole or in the form of their individual employees... sorry, contractors) pay for their costs of doing business.
"For employers, the appeal of this system is obvious. It allows companies to meet demand while keeping their permanent workforce at a minimum, along with all the costs that go with it -- payroll taxes, benefits, workers' compensation costs and certain legal liabilities." That says it all.
systems behave differently when observed
==> (implies) humans control objective reality with their minds
==> as a human controller of reality you are responsible for what happens
==> if you're poor it's your own fault
==> Republican or Tory
You think Google knows a lot about you now... just wait until they can make the kind of "educated guesses" deep learning systems are good at.
As for Latin America, it's worth asking where they learned those questionable tactics and from whom.
Good one. Well since my personal pet peeve is Slashdot's advertising for The (goddamned motherfucking) Martian, I'll rewrite these for that:
Fukushima Thryoid Cancer Concerns Remarkably Similar to Those Depicted in The Martian
Author of The Martian Debunks Samsung PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second
Could DARPA Image Doctoring Program Be Used To Fake Mars Landing?
Oracle Fixes Java Vulnerability, Unlike Anything That Happens in The Martian
Should Japan Build Nuclear Power Plants on Mars Since They're Doing So Fucking Well With Them On Earth?
Only 8% of the Universe's Habitable Worlds Are Mars, Says Matt Damon
Radiation doesn't cause cancer now!
"It's a tough pill to swallow that makes YouTube look like a bully." I know huh? Good thing YouTube and Google are totally not bullies though, otherwise acting exactly like one might be mistaken for being one.
Guaranteed secure monthly income for us, without worrying about having to sell ads.
What if car-making, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if car-making...perhaps...means a little bit more?
It's weird, it's almost like making a car is hard, especially one with a new kind of power source. Like maybe the existing auto industry weren't just sitting on their hands being old and uncool? Maybe they actually have a couple advantages compared to the noobs. Like a few decades of cumulative trial-and-error / design iteration / test data / customer feedback perhaps. Or an existing, intricately interconnected global industrial infrastructure & supply chain.
Now OK granted, they lack Musk's massive government subsidy for "renewable" energy (i.e. burning coal to power the electric grid), because they still mostly depend on petroleum. But I'll bet they get subsidies of their own, since they're a huge and mature industry and are well-connected politically. So that one's a tie.
What else? Well Musk sure has "gumption" by golly, totally gonna "change" and "disrupt" a bunch of stuff, fuckyeah! Big Auto, not so much, mainly because they are frankly standing there holding a firehose of money and don't want to risk doing anything that might slow the flow. So advantage to Musk in the gumption department. Somebody give him a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, pat him on the head and give him some fucking Legos to play with so he doesn't break anything.
Hmm speaking of bad code... replies linked to the wrong comment. Nice.
...that there's no universal principle or rule that's always true? Could it be that the best thing to do in a given moment, is to do the best thing in the given moment? naaaaahhh....
Basically: We can't make them, so we don't have them.
Say k is the portion (from 0% to 100%) of the "pipe" that I "can have."
If I can't have the whole pipe, that's a limit: k cannot equal 100%.
Hell, if a pipe exists in the first place, that too is a limit: k cannot exceed 100%.
Mind you this is all expected by rational adults. But it's still worth noting "unlimited" was untrue from the getgo.
Now they're saying that when my monthly cumulative usage hits 23GB they will throttle speed, which is another limit.
That's 3 limits. Things with limits are not unlimited.
You have answered your own question, grasshopper.