They don't run Oxford University like Fox News or CNN, neither. You can try hard to pretend Oxford University can be rebutted with an idiom, but that's just proving their point once again isn't it? You can't major in idioms, idiot.
You wouldn't know that to read the list of new words "they added to the Oxford English dictionary" every year.
You now love states' rights and hate the feds' interstate commerce clause, or now love the feds' interstate commerce clause and hate states' rights, depending on your position on net neutrality, as opposed to how you felt about them when you got up this morning.
Some jobs like public safety shouldn't get a second chance. They had ONE job, and failed on multiple levels - the whole department should be replaced and internal policies evaluated.
The test didn't fail. It did what it was supposed to do: reveal problems. Skipping possible lies,
1. Picking up the phone then realizing it was an alert and putting it on speakerphone loses the initial 3 "drill drill drill" or whatever it was. 2. If they sent out an ostensibly real alert then realized it was fake, they shouldn't have to dig through layers of officials for half an hour to reach someone authorized to cancel a "real" alert. 3. Why isn't the drill issuer sitting there watching ready to put a kibosh on it if it went wrong?
The rest, such as during shift change, is fine as that could actually happen. "Drill not a dril!" is not so useful unless if you're testing if you need a W.O.P.R. to launch nuclear missiles.
The 4th Amendment was created largely to stop those in power from using the power of investigtion from harming political opponents.
It's odd, therefore, that a president who is claiming harm in such a manner, and the party who support him, recently renewed the law grotesquely violating 4th Amendment protections.
"The vast majority of people work on farms! What do you mean in 100 years only 2% of the people will work on farms anymor? Who's gonna pay to retrain them??? The tractor makers, that's who! To hell with plummeting food prices making starvation largely a thing of the past!"
It's always been the case science fiction is dystopia-heavy. Warning stories about the implication of technology are its bread and butter.
A lot of the early science fiction stories, before it was even a genre, were this. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, the Metropolis movie, 1984, dealt with threating tech, or used it to reveal future bad implications.
It's said horror stories often reflect the currently new scary thing, going back to electricity and Frankenstein, through Metropolis (studied, timed, engineered movements of workers as part of an assemy line, big at the turn of the last century), atom bombs and radiation, 1970s environmental fears of running out of oil or room for trash, 2000s global warming.
Conversely Democrats hate states experimenting with policies and love gigantic command and control from Washington.
They are all soulless bastards applyng situational ethics, where you tout a principle as long as, and only as long as, it supports your position.
The FCC rule at least has a mild leg to stand on regarding regulation of interstate trade, where the feds are explicitely granted the power to stop states from interfering with such trade.
On the flip side, it is wrong for the government to stretch a 1970s law out of all proportion to extend regulatory control, for a massive arena not envisioned by the lawmakers back then. This is a power grab by the executive branch.
Of course, nobody cares about power grabs when it is a grab for power one likes, like net neutrality, but hate it when it is for what one doesn't like, like net neutrality.
Seriously, are we out of real scientific problems to study?
This is a real problem, but so difficult no progress has been made.
I'm with Crick & Koch -- skip the psudo-philosophical ramblings of physics and move to study the NCCs, the Neural Correlates of Consciousness.
This is the brain's activity "while consciousness is happening". Once that is done, we might have an inkling of what we are actually looking for in physics.
The natural order is the hunter-gatherer, who only works a few hours a day. However that can only support a few tens of millions of people on the Earth.
You need farming, which requires security from non-producers or the effort doesn't get made.
Forget all other definitions of civilization you've read, by hacks all. Civilization is the thwarting of the hunter-gatherer impulse so humanity can be secure in longer-term efforts.
In one passage in Time Enough for Love, two anonymous guards in masks discuss having sex. The tall one asks the short one if she is a boy or a girl. She replies, "Does it matter?" "No." And off they go.
It turns out the short one is a boy. And the tall one a girl. This when Hollywood was virulently anti-gay. Like America.
Now America was very conservative, of course. But to suggest Heinlein was a ringleader in that rather than forging new territory in freedom across many realms, shows how profoundly and cartoonishly ignorant the director was.
The automation of highway robber-like behavior continues apace.
It's bad enough much human interaction amounts to throwing money at people until they go away, the bulk of "Hell is other people", but now we have to throw money at robots until they go away, laying the takings at the feet of their masters?
The government cannot break up a company because it doesn't like their message or news. That violates the 1st Amendment.
It is certainly of interest to investigate the industrial scale government-sponsored astroturfing of lies, and to try to call it out and even stop said governments. But you cannot punish a company (or any person or group of people) for struggling with this.
The problem to be solved is adults making a business model out of children gambling.
Heaving crap at them the 99% of the time they don't win the big prize doesn't make it not gambling any more than winning a dollar or another ticket does in a scratch off.
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They don't run Oxford University like Fox News or CNN, neither. You can try hard to pretend Oxford University can be rebutted with an idiom, but that's just proving their point once again isn't it? You can't major in idioms, idiot.
You wouldn't know that to read the list of new words "they added to the Oxford English dictionary" every year.
Scary! God willing, I will never touch the electrical force, knock on wood.
Warning! Shift! Shift! Shift!
You now love states' rights and hate the feds' interstate commerce clause, or now love the feds' interstate commerce clause and hate states' rights, depending on your position on net neutrality, as opposed to how you felt about them when you got up this morning.
[Insert sarc mark here]
Some jobs like public safety shouldn't get a second chance. They had ONE job, and failed on multiple levels - the whole department should be replaced and internal policies evaluated.
The test didn't fail. It did what it was supposed to do: reveal problems. Skipping possible lies,
1. Picking up the phone then realizing it was an alert and putting it on speakerphone loses the initial 3 "drill drill drill" or whatever it was.
2. If they sent out an ostensibly real alert then realized it was fake, they shouldn't have to dig through layers of officials for half an hour to reach someone authorized to cancel a "real" alert.
3. Why isn't the drill issuer sitting there watching ready to put a kibosh on it if it went wrong?
The rest, such as during shift change, is fine as that could actually happen. "Drill not a dril!" is not so useful unless if you're testing if you need a W.O.P.R. to launch nuclear missiles.
The 4th Amendment was created largely to stop those in power from using the power of investigtion from harming political opponents.
It's odd, therefore, that a president who is claiming harm in such a manner, and the party who support him, recently renewed the law grotesquely violating 4th Amendment protections.
"The vast majority of people work on farms! What do you mean in 100 years only 2% of the people will work on farms anymor? Who's gonna pay to retrain them??? The tractor makers, that's who! To hell with plummeting food prices making starvation largely a thing of the past!"
Or handicap-like expectant mother parking spots, just to be nice?
Here, however, they pretend to offer additional services (e.g. "My boner is extra hard for your picture!") and not just a different price.
I guess a young person could sign up for senior plus service, but the reverse is not true, and that's the discriminatiin under CA law.
If only you has paid attention the first time...
It's always been the case science fiction is dystopia-heavy. Warning stories about the implication of technology are its bread and butter.
A lot of the early science fiction stories, before it was even a genre, were this. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, the Metropolis movie, 1984, dealt with threating tech, or used it to reveal future bad implications.
It's said horror stories often reflect the currently new scary thing, going back to electricity and Frankenstein, through Metropolis (studied, timed, engineered movements of workers as part of an assemy line, big at the turn of the last century), atom bombs and radiation, 1970s environmental fears of running out of oil or room for trash, 2000s global warming.
What is next? Rogue AI continues apace.
That's the Lazarus Long method (of Robert Heinlein fame) of breaking the light barrier -- get right up next to it then give 'er the gun!
So no problem, censorship-wise. Only problem is number of apps they can sell in the reduced 18+ market?
"Quark's Holodeck Adventures" on Skinimax.
"And you should upgrade to Windows 11 right away to continue getting security updates after Windows 10 becomes unsupported!"
Now this is a stress test of the new feature!
Which is the worse outcome? Falsely declaring a real emergency, or delaying a real emergency notice when minutes count?
Don't let the boy who cried wolf's wolf's tail wag the dog.
Conversely Democrats hate states experimenting with policies and love gigantic command and control from Washington.
They are all soulless bastards applyng situational ethics, where you tout a principle as long as, and only as long as, it supports your position.
The FCC rule at least has a mild leg to stand on regarding regulation of interstate trade, where the feds are explicitely granted the power to stop states from interfering with such trade.
On the flip side, it is wrong for the government to stretch a 1970s law out of all proportion to extend regulatory control, for a massive arena not envisioned by the lawmakers back then. This is a power grab by the executive branch.
Of course, nobody cares about power grabs when it is a grab for power one likes, like net neutrality, but hate it when it is for what one doesn't like, like net neutrality.
Or vice-versa.
Here is a better link without the inane commentary.
Seriously, are we out of real scientific problems to study?
This is a real problem, but so difficult no progress has been made.
I'm with Crick & Koch -- skip the psudo-philosophical ramblings of physics and move to study the NCCs, the Neural Correlates of Consciousness.
This is the brain's activity "while consciousness is happening". Once that is done, we might have an inkling of what we are actually looking for in physics.
The natural order is the hunter-gatherer, who only works a few hours a day. However that can only support a few tens of millions of people on the Earth.
You need farming, which requires security from non-producers or the effort doesn't get made.
Forget all other definitions of civilization you've read, by hacks all. Civilization is the thwarting of the hunter-gatherer impulse so humanity can be secure in longer-term efforts.
In one passage in Time Enough for Love, two anonymous guards in masks discuss having sex. The tall one asks the short one if she is a boy or a girl. She replies, "Does it matter?" "No." And off they go.
It turns out the short one is a boy. And the tall one a girl. This when Hollywood was virulently anti-gay. Like America.
Now America was very conservative, of course. But to suggest Heinlein was a ringleader in that rather than forging new territory in freedom across many realms, shows how profoundly and cartoonishly ignorant the director was.
"Voting against their interests", like not killing babies.
That is not my position, but this false leftist tirade about what "their interests are" is laughable.
The automation of highway robber-like behavior continues apace.
It's bad enough much human interaction amounts to throwing money at people until they go away, the bulk of "Hell is other people", but now we have to throw money at robots until they go away, laying the takings at the feet of their masters?
The government cannot break up a company because it doesn't like their message or news. That violates the 1st Amendment.
It is certainly of interest to investigate the industrial scale government-sponsored astroturfing of lies, and to try to call it out and even stop said governments. But you cannot punish a company (or any person or group of people) for struggling with this.
Go live under Putin if you like hi...
Oh, wait. You ready are living there, collecting a check for posting this drivel.
The problem to be solved is adults making a business model out of children gambling.
Heaving crap at them the 99% of the time they don't win the big prize doesn't make it not gambling any more than winning a dollar or another ticket does in a scratch off.
Way to go, you ballless wonders! Instead of doing your job -- passing a law to make it illegal, you punt to someone else. Why are you there again?
Oh right. So you can hide and say "I didn't do it!" if it blows up in your face.
I guess you will defer your motion to allow a commission to explore the validity of your accusations, Senator.