- China quickly approves rapid construction of tallest building in the world. - Government complaint mechanism upholds removal of clock on British web site. - British government averages 8x the cost of new laptops per year to maintain old ones.
Those of you who study history know old empires become sclerotic and new, vigorous ones form on the outskirts. Then that becomes old and a newer one still forms. Well, that would be the US from 200-50 years ago. Now the US is sclerotic and faltering, and a newer empire is rapidly rising on its outskirts, unhindered with freeflowing trade.
You, Britain and Europe, are two empire cores removed now.
Sclerosis is a function of government overeating, like any biological body, and not of resource lack, disease, lead pipes, or any of a hundred other idiotic reasons that lousy historians have adopted over the centuries, deliberately putting on blinders that ignore politics.
It is politics that hinders trade routes. Or helps them.
The process takes centuries, but the pattern is the same.
Currently it's taking more time in the US to fight a legal battle to deepen a harbor by 5 feet (and almost as much money) to accomodate new "super-Panama" cargo ships than it took to build the original Panama Canal.
The sclerosis doesn't care why -- at the center, always always always, is failure to keep the trade routes open. Figuratively and literally.
You are comparing what? These tweets making Arabs feeling bad about their 1967 assbeating when they ganged up on both sides of Israel, so Jews should be made to feel bad getting an assbeating in World War II because they were ganging up controlling everything in Europe?
I'm trying to figure out WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY HERE.
It's been pointed out support for Israel among fundamentalist Christians is not driven from a love of freedom but rather the desire to see Biblical prophecy fulfilled wherein the Jewish people have a homeland and nation.
This is an incredibly cynical position because that then portends the coming end of the world.
Hmmmmm. We're not at war with Eurasia. It's with East Asia. It's kinda the same.
We're not at war with Al Quaeda. We're at war with Iraq. It's kinda the same. Well, that's all over now. Thank god Obama was just elected. Wait, it's 2013, wtf.
Well, hockey sticks and the other stuff should be fine. Actually small knives would be, too.
Prior to 9/11, the policy for a skyjacking was sit tight and wait for ransom demands, or to fly some idiot to Cuba.
That morning it changed forever. Passengers will revolt. Pilots will bounce people around in the cabin. Threats to kill people will correctly go unheeded and the cockpit door will stay closed. Even flights with insufficient other passengers still won't lose control.
So...so what about small knives and X-acto box cutters? Such a takeover will never work again.
They should enforce truth in advertising: "Warning. We deliberately slow down Skype and YouTube to make their product seem worse compared to ours. Do you want to sign up with us?"
Is everyone missing the bigger point? Ok, maybe it's a smaller point. If they cracked his hard drive, what is the useless encryption software he used? Or did they scan his virtual page file or hibernation file for words in RAM and try lists of those? Is the decryption process also blabby that writes temp files to a normal, unencrypted other HDD. (say, C drive) which does its work then erases the file, leaving unallocated but still data-filled blocks on the unencrypted drive?
A good observation. To rephrase the issue, old drugs that work well work well and are still used becaise nothing better exists. Meanwhile the 99 out of 100 that don't work as well as new stuff are left on the ash heap of history. See also buggy whips, carpet beaters, ice boxes,...
This. Once it goes into the police cloud, it cannot be deleted without court order or review by high-level officials, with permanently-recorded trail of deletion, along with who.
The Supreme Court already ruled government needed warrants to use IR detectors on houses. One presumes the inevitable case would result in the same thing.
I'm not sure what "democratizing 3D printing" means.
Does he mean free people in a free society seeing a potential mass and low-cost market addressing the issue because, the society being free, one doesn't need permission of government to pursue one's interests?
If you need further feels as to how it works, imagine a normal windmill building, but with a long drive cable coming out of it, attached to the vehicle. Obviously it could drive the vehicle as fast as they wanted, limited by blade size.
In more garage mechanic terms, imagine a windmill attached to a post in cement. As the wind blows by, the wind may be 30 mph but the edge of the propeller could be well over 100. This is because of the angle of the blade, which must spin very fast in order to get out of the way of the 30 mph wind. It's the same principle used in a tacking sailboat. Putting that tangent of the angle vs. a force to work for you, squirting it like a watermelon seed.
Now pull the post out of the cement, hook it to wheels, and away you go!
The basic idea is that it's the same basic idea as tacking -- the blade/sail being hit by the wind is at an angle. I didn't even bother reading all the math mumbo jumbo.
They use a propeller to drive the wheels. The propeller acts like a sail on a vessel tacking back and forth. Just like tacking, blowing across the wind, can drive you faster than the wind, so too here does the propeller effectively act like tacking, but it's hooked to the wheels (or boat propeller).
That's the beautiful part about a freedom-based constitution. "Congress shall pass no law" is inviolate, no matter how long the stream of words used, by power hungry interlopers, in attempts to seize power.
Slashdot Mirror
The three most recent Slashdot stories in a row:
- China quickly approves rapid construction of tallest building in the world.
- Government complaint mechanism upholds removal of clock on British web site.
- British government averages 8x the cost of new laptops per year to maintain old ones.
Those of you who study history know old empires become sclerotic and new, vigorous ones form on the outskirts. Then that becomes old and a newer one still forms. Well, that would be the US from 200-50 years ago. Now the US is sclerotic and faltering, and a newer empire is rapidly rising on its outskirts, unhindered with freeflowing trade.
You, Britain and Europe, are two empire cores removed now.
Sclerosis is a function of government overeating, like any biological body, and not of resource lack, disease, lead pipes, or any of a hundred other idiotic reasons that lousy historians have adopted over the centuries, deliberately putting on blinders that ignore politics.
It is politics that hinders trade routes. Or helps them.
The process takes centuries, but the pattern is the same.
Currently it's taking more time in the US to fight a legal battle to deepen a harbor by 5 feet (and almost as much money) to accomodate new "super-Panama" cargo ships than it took to build the original Panama Canal.
The sclerosis doesn't care why -- at the center, always always always, is failure to keep the trade routes open. Figuratively and literally.
You are comparing what? These tweets making Arabs feeling bad about their 1967 assbeating when they ganged up on both sides of Israel, so Jews should be made to feel bad getting an assbeating in World War II because they were ganging up controlling everything in Europe?
I'm trying to figure out WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY HERE.
It's been pointed out support for Israel among fundamentalist Christians is not driven from a love of freedom but rather the desire to see Biblical prophecy fulfilled wherein the Jewish people have a homeland and nation.
This is an incredibly cynical position because that then portends the coming end of the world.
Don't worry about it.
Hmmmmm. We're not at war with Eurasia. It's with East Asia. It's kinda the same.
We're not at war with Al Quaeda. We're at war with Iraq. It's kinda the same. Well, that's all over now. Thank god Obama was just elected. Wait, it's 2013, wtf.
> now they are nazis
Oh come on! Is creating a Twitter account so you can read these "tweets" really that hard?
1. Encode data in beam.
2. Manipulate beam in funky ways so data is removed.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Well, hockey sticks and the other stuff should be fine. Actually small knives would be, too.
Prior to 9/11, the policy for a skyjacking was sit tight and wait for ransom demands, or to fly some idiot to Cuba.
That morning it changed forever. Passengers will revolt. Pilots will bounce people around in the cabin. Threats to kill people will correctly go unheeded and the cockpit door will stay closed. Even flights with insufficient other passengers still won't lose control.
So...so what about small knives and X-acto box cutters? Such a takeover will never work again.
They should enforce truth in advertising: "Warning. We deliberately slow down Skype and YouTube to make their product seem worse compared to ours. Do you want to sign up with us?"
Is everyone missing the bigger point? Ok, maybe it's a smaller point. If they cracked his hard drive, what is the useless encryption software he used? Or did they scan his virtual page file or hibernation file for words in RAM and try lists of those? Is the decryption process also blabby that writes temp files to a normal, unencrypted other HDD. (say, C drive) which does its work then erases the file, leaving unallocated but still data-filled blocks on the unencrypted drive?
> I am an epileptologist
You study things that are around butterflies?
Then complain to your doctor, or the people at fancy institutions that make guidelines. They do the prescribing.
A good observation. To rephrase the issue, old drugs that work well work well and are still used becaise nothing better exists. Meanwhile the 99 out of 100 that don't work as well as new stuff are left on the ash heap of history. See also buggy whips, carpet beaters, ice boxes, ...
> a report in Wired of an American woman at a "renowned academic institution"
>
> can turn on a computer’s microphone and webcam
TOIDH
They have more impetus due to a rash of fraudulent lawsuits.
This. Once it goes into the police cloud, it cannot be deleted without court order or review by high-level officials, with permanently-recorded trail of deletion, along with who.
The Supreme Court already ruled government needed warrants to use IR detectors on houses. One presumes the inevitable case would result in the same thing.
The empire that keeps trade routes open prospers.
The empire that lords over its own people falters, and a new core of empire forms on its outskirts.
Retracting empire doesn't care if it's age-old dictatorship and corruption, or if it's gigatons of well-meaning regulation. Set that down in stone.
If it's a typical melee attack it wouldn't even make the ticket guy notice.
I'm not sure what "democratizing 3D printing" means.
Does he mean free people in a free society seeing a potential mass and low-cost market addressing the issue because, the society being free, one doesn't need permission of government to pursue one's interests?
The only way flying cars for people will work is with massive computerized control, which is being built into ground cars, too. Best get on with it.
Of course, this one being military grade could probably shut it off anyway, if it had it.
If you need further feels as to how it works, imagine a normal windmill building, but with a long drive cable coming out of it, attached to the vehicle. Obviously it could drive the vehicle as fast as they wanted, limited by blade size.
Now pick it up and put it on the vehicle.
In more garage mechanic terms, imagine a windmill attached to a post in cement. As the wind blows by, the wind may be 30 mph but the edge of the propeller could be well over 100. This is because of the angle of the blade, which must spin very fast in order to get out of the way of the 30 mph wind. It's the same principle used in a tacking sailboat. Putting that tangent of the angle vs. a force to work for you, squirting it like a watermelon seed.
Now pull the post out of the cement, hook it to wheels, and away you go!
The basic idea is that it's the same basic idea as tacking -- the blade/sail being hit by the wind is at an angle. I didn't even bother reading all the math mumbo jumbo.
Too long.
They use a propeller to drive the wheels. The propeller acts like a sail on a vessel tacking back and forth. Just like tacking, blowing across the wind, can drive you faster than the wind, so too here does the propeller effectively act like tacking, but it's hooked to the wheels (or boat propeller).
That's the beautiful part about a freedom-based constitution. "Congress shall pass no law" is inviolate, no matter how long the stream of words used, by power hungry interlopers, in attempts to seize power.
Why is it called "microlensing" anyway? The lens is bigger than everything all himans have done through all human history put together.
It should be called humungiddy lensing.