Ok, help my layman ass out here. IIRC, according to Einstein, acceleration and gravity aren't just similar phenomena, but are the exact same phenomena, and, since you are always travelling at c through the combined spacetime continuum, which gravity warps, the gravitational pull is you actually accelerating through this warped spacetime.
That seems way too freaking cool to fail at some umpteenth decimal.
I have no problem with AT&T or Comcast charging Netflix and YouTube for higher bandwidth, as long as when you sign up with them, they clearly, in blinking lights on the top of their contract, state:
"We deliberately throttle Netflix and YouTube so they look shitty to you, unless they pay us money."
What's of more concern isn't "official" monitoring, though that is bad. It's unofficial monitoring by agents (it just takes one among hundreds) of particular political figures, who then report back to other politicians.
When you just have a soft process to follow, little more than "you should get around to filling out the form" suggestions, abuse is automatic.
I will make my usual chime in and suggest, shockingly, that the FDA costs more lives than it saves by delaying for years treatments, which could kill, by inaction, hundreds of thousands in the case of a cancer or heart treatment. Set against the downside of stuff getting to market too soon, and then pulled after a few hundred or thousand incidents.
But those few hundred are much more camera-ready for grandstanding politicians than millions who would die anyway. "I stand here next to the bodies of 100,000 heart disease people who died this year because that weight loss drug was delayed." for some reason gets no purchase where a single CNN sob story of someone with a mixed up drug gets Congress launched into action.
BlueStar helps patients with Type II Diabetes by suggesting in real-time when to test and how to regulate their blood-sugar levels by, for example, altering their medication or food intake.
"ding ding ding, it's time to stop eating so god damned much, your blood sugar is out of control again"
"ding ding ding, GPS proximity warning! Get the fuck away from that Chinese buffet. You will need 6x your max doctor's prescribed daily dose again."
> For its part, General Mills says, It's not about safety,' and will continue to use GMOs in other food products.
Correct. It's not about safety. It's about giving customers what they want, which is the result of scientifically illiterate scare tactics by talking heads making a career of it.
It's all one stupid cluster fuck anyway. Science keeps developing ways to make food even cheaper, and government keeps deliberately forcing the price up to help farmers.
I think you mean politicians and government working as politicians intend. Most businesspeople would be happy stripping Congress of the power to hand out rent seeking laws.
"There should be separation of economics and state, just as with church and state, and for exactly the same reason."
Also, I find it disturbing this is portrayed as if forbidding access when nobody is forbidding access to anything. Or that somehow "modern sensibilities" authorize overriding the first amendment.
They don't for free speech and they shouldn't for religion. "Congress shall pass no law" is wording carefully crafted to forbid obfuscated, pleading violations as well as brutish ones.
"The Ministry of Defense is set to introduce "draconian" new powers to tighten security and limit access to US airbases in Britain implicated in mass surveillance and drone strikes, The Independent can reveal....
Also among the offenses, which can result in an individual being 'taken into custody without warrant,' is a failure to pick up dog waste
I'm not really sure where people are supposed to go when it's time to leave these countries.
Ya, get rid of the ugly, round-cornered green rectangles, and instead use nice crisp, proper ones, just like a 7th grader in a novice programming class might.
Come on, do you really want stuff like this?
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The books On The Road, Atlas Shrugged,..., and The Cat in the Hat, the films The Incredible Shrinking Man
"Hurry!" Dagny Taggart moaned. "Before he gets any smaller!"
The strange cat in the hat grabbed the incredible shrinking man, who struggled mightily, but, being the size of a Barbie doll, could put up little resistance. "I'm gay, don't do this to me!"
"Tough shit, little man! I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.” He took him and and slowly eased him feet first up ins
GOD DAMN IT, this stuff is not public domain. Nevermind.
As part of becomming CMM 3, we had to uabe code reviews. We paid a shitload for some asshole who wrote a book to come in and teach us.
"Do your review before you even make sure it will compile!" he swore. My skeptic bullshit detector went off -- transparently he was trying to amp bug find statistics to make the process look good.
But nevermind -- he got his giant check, the ignorantly savage management had a cover story of doing a good job, and we ate a shit sandwich.
We never did find any real bugs in the several years more I was there, though we did find many coding standard violations. My colleagues had grave difficulty understanding those violations were not actually bugs -- they were to reduce the chance of bugs, but none found were ever actually a bug in effect.
Snake oil & the supposed intellectual in their own field.
"Say hello to the new foreignpolicy.com! Here's a big fuckin' yellow overlay that's fucking jamming itself in your fucking face on your phone, fucking auto-shifting the fucking close box offscreen so you can't press it because our programmers are worthless, worthless sacks of shit who need to die like pigs porkfrying in Hell."
And at least 30 years ago, I read of a guy who was studying classic paintings to see if he could discern anything in the reflections in painted eyes. Wold be even lower "res", but perhaps a careful artist did so without realizing it. Have no idea if anything came of it.
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So...are acceleration and gravity the same phenomenon under relativity?
"Based on your history, who do you think is sexier, JLaw, Tay Tay, or Bailey Jay?"
"Where's the goddam opt out button on this thing?"
Ok, help my layman ass out here. IIRC, according to Einstein, acceleration and gravity aren't just similar phenomena, but are the exact same phenomena, and, since you are always travelling at c through the combined spacetime continuum, which gravity warps, the gravitational pull is you actually accelerating through this warped spacetime.
That seems way too freaking cool to fail at some umpteenth decimal.
I have no problem with AT&T or Comcast charging Netflix and YouTube for higher bandwidth, as long as when you sign up with them, they clearly, in blinking lights on the top of their contract, state:
"We deliberately throttle Netflix and YouTube so they look shitty to you, unless they pay us money."
Better to light a lamp than curse the darkness.
What's of more concern isn't "official" monitoring, though that is bad. It's unofficial monitoring by agents (it just takes one among hundreds) of particular political figures, who then report back to other politicians.
When you just have a soft process to follow, little more than "you should get around to filling out the form" suggestions, abuse is automatic.
I will make my usual chime in and suggest, shockingly, that the FDA costs more lives than it saves by delaying for years treatments, which could kill, by inaction, hundreds of thousands in the case of a cancer or heart treatment. Set against the downside of stuff getting to market too soon, and then pulled after a few hundred or thousand incidents.
But those few hundred are much more camera-ready for grandstanding politicians than millions who would die anyway. "I stand here next to the bodies of 100,000 heart disease people who died this year because that weight loss drug was delayed." for some reason gets no purchase where a single CNN sob story of someone with a mixed up drug gets Congress launched into action.
Pointless ones at that:
"ding ding ding, it's time to stop eating so god damned much, your blood sugar is out of control again"
"ding ding ding, GPS proximity warning! Get the fuck away from that Chinese buffet. You will need 6x your max doctor's prescribed daily dose again."
> For its part, General Mills says, It's not about safety,' and will continue to use GMOs in other food products.
Correct. It's not about safety. It's about giving customers what they want, which is the result of scientifically illiterate scare tactics by talking heads making a career of it.
It's all one stupid cluster fuck anyway. Science keeps developing ways to make food even cheaper, and government keeps deliberately forcing the price up to help farmers.
> "Ars Technica asks, 'How does a non-technical manager add value to a team of self-motivated software developers?'
By mating with females, they ensure the propagation of the species.
And ABC is working to become Hulu faster than Hulu can do nothing.
Also: Oh no! ABC is hiding all those favorite shows I watch like, ummm, like. Ummmm. Uhhhhhmmm.
I think you mean politicians and government working as politicians intend. Most businesspeople would be happy stripping Congress of the power to hand out rent seeking laws.
"There should be separation of economics and state, just as with church and state, and for exactly the same reason."
You can store your shiney new Coinyewest coins in your new virtual KimKardashianKoinslot.
News for Nerds =/= News for Everyone
Also, I find it disturbing this is portrayed as if forbidding access when nobody is forbidding access to anything. Or that somehow "modern sensibilities" authorize overriding the first amendment.
They don't for free speech and they shouldn't for religion. "Congress shall pass no law" is wording carefully crafted to forbid obfuscated, pleading violations as well as brutish ones.
News for nerds -- as if politics isn't bad enough, of what need have nerds for things which keep women from getting pregnant?
Or a Liveleak one.
I'm not really sure where people are supposed to go when it's time to leave these countries.
Ya, get rid of the ugly, round-cornered green rectangles, and instead use nice crisp, proper ones, just like a 7th grader in a novice programming class might.
Design a product, gentlemen. Quit screwing with stuff for the sake of screwing with it.
"Hurry!" Dagny Taggart moaned. "Before he gets any smaller!"
The strange cat in the hat grabbed the incredible shrinking man, who struggled mightily, but, being the size of a Barbie doll, could put up little resistance. "I'm gay, don't do this to me!"
"Tough shit, little man! I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.” He took him and and slowly eased him feet first up ins
GOD DAMN IT, this stuff is not public domain. Nevermind.
As part of becomming CMM 3, we had to uabe code reviews. We paid a shitload for some asshole who wrote a book to come in and teach us.
"Do your review before you even make sure it will compile!" he swore. My skeptic bullshit detector went off -- transparently he was trying to amp bug find statistics to make the process look good.
But nevermind -- he got his giant check, the ignorantly savage management had a cover story of doing a good job, and we ate a shit sandwich.
We never did find any real bugs in the several years more I was there, though we did find many coding standard violations. My colleagues had grave difficulty understanding those violations were not actually bugs -- they were to reduce the chance of bugs, but none found were ever actually a bug in effect.
Snake oil & the supposed intellectual in their own field.
"Hey goddammit! Those porn traps just had fake penises crazy glued on 'em! >:-( "
From the linked article:
"Say hello to the new foreignpolicy.com! Here's a big fuckin' yellow overlay that's fucking jamming itself in your fucking face on your phone, fucking auto-shifting the fucking close box offscreen so you can't press it because our programmers are worthless, worthless sacks of shit who need to die like pigs porkfrying in Hell."
And I can't get up!
I do believe that was the joke the OP was getting at :)
"Just remember: use pro-vo-lone-ay on the stone-ay."
And at least 30 years ago, I read of a guy who was studying classic paintings to see if he could discern anything in the reflections in painted eyes. Wold be even lower "res", but perhaps a careful artist did so without realizing it. Have no idea if anything came of it.
The Mark Twain article reproduces a 100 year old NTY microfiche where somebody corrected a spelling incorrectly.
Don't call me a spelling Nazi because it was 25 years before that.