Yes both sides are guilty of massive use of situational ethics, finding value in a principle if it supports a predetermined political position, and abhoring it if it does not.
See also the swap between sides on the protracted use of a special prosecutor. Republicans now find it a waste, instead of dragging it on and on, as they did under Clinton. And the reverse, where Democrats decried the waste of $50 million (in a budget of trillions) but now have no problem with it.
Here, some now want states to be able to override the golden child of power growth, interstate trade regulation. Guess who is on opposite sides now?
There is an enormous push by the tobacco industry to take over vaping via regulation to hinder competition. If they can press into service "useful idiots", i.e. moral busybodies, all the better.
See also taxi services trying to tie up Uber and Lyft.
I'm ready for my downmod, busybodies^H^H^H^H^H^H Mr. Demille!
1. Oh no, anonymous trolls! 2. Ok, require real names. 3. Many don't like that, especially in an era of zero tolerance social get you fired lemming ostracism. 4. Many move to anonymous fora. 5. State-sponsored trolls flood said fora convincing people of misleading ideas or outright lies.
It isn't an issue of free speech so much as not knowing who is manipulating you.
Hence "Hillary wants to literally start a war with Russia!" gets pushed by Russian state actors over and over, to cause the failure of a candidate who will continue to apply sanctions to their leadership because of lack of democracy and a free press there, and a disturbingly Nazi Germany-like invasion of a sovereign country to "protect" the Russians living there.
This continued pressure would be favored by most Americans, especially those who lived through the Cold War or earlier.
We don't need to ease sanctions on such a country's leaders so they will open up development to the West in a tit for tat.
And even that is a drop in the bucket compared to slowing the general unlawful behavior of a population. With police who don't care, thefts would increase.
And Republicans oppose it because it means 2 more Democratic senators...which is why Democrats support it. All other arguments are window dressing to their goals of power.
In this case, California splitting means 2 more Republican senators. Hence Republicans will support it and Democrats oppose.
Bouncing virtual molecules around in a weather simulation will eat those 256 bits, or digits, in less time than you can blink, and give different results with the 256th bit different in one molecule's position or momentum.
Every time you multiply two floats you lose a digit of precision. It's a little more complicated but that is the essence.
The butterfly effect was discovered with weather simulations. They saved their initial data and ran it again the next day -- and got a different result, which is impossible.
Turns out they only saved the initial conditions to 5 digits and not the entire float, or what passed for it in the 1970s.
Lo and behold! The downstream numbers, far from returning to the same value, diverged wildly. And no matter how small the difference, it always diverged.
Up until then, scientists had believed small differences would get absorbed away in larger trends. Here was evidence the big trends were completely dependent on initial conditions to the smallest detail.
That's why one stray photon would screw up time travel -- any difference whatsoever would cause the weather to be different in about a month and soon different sperm are meeting different eggs, and the entire next generation is different.
So any time you do more than a trivial number of float multiplies, you are in a whole different world. This is ok if you are looking for statistical averages over many, but miserable if you want to rely on any particular calculation.
I recall reading an earlier study that showed leaders had problems leading people whose IQs were 30 points or more lower.
There's an interesting Mensa article called The Outsiders that suggests extreme IQs, having no functional comtemporaries around them signicantly different from caring baboons, are effectively feral humans raising themselves, at least as far as intellectual development goes.
Pork barrel buys votes on the spending of trillions for the price of a few million per district, which amounts to ten thousandths of a penny on the wasteful dollar.
"It's ok, only government can get at it, who will misuse it to keep themselves in power, not somebody scary like companies that wanna sell you Depends!"
You just need a list of rectangular hulls for viewer and objects. Some (map) compile time later, you are done. It is similar to the vis programs for walls currently.
Then the server just looks up where you are and where person is and send info on whether, and where, to draw them.
This is neither prohibitive in ram or runtime cpu. Searching for containment of point in a few hundred or thousand solid rectangles (don't need fine granularity) is almost instantaneous nowadays.
The latter is almost instantaneous. On a really cold night a few weeks ago I couldn't get my car started, nor could AAA. How to go pick up my takeout food? He suggest Uber (taxi company had a wait of 10 people ahead of me.)
A minute to install, a few more to enter my name, address, and CC info, then enter destination and push a button. Wtf, ETA of Uber driver 6 minutes???
Standard taxies and the politicians who protect them can go drive off a cliff.
I distinctly remember a row a few years back where people panicked Congress might not renew a ban on states taxing Internet commerce. Then they renewed it.
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Yes both sides are guilty of massive use of situational ethics, finding value in a principle if it supports a predetermined political position, and abhoring it if it does not.
See also the swap between sides on the protracted use of a special prosecutor. Republicans now find it a waste, instead of dragging it on and on, as they did under Clinton. And the reverse, where Democrats decried the waste of $50 million (in a budget of trillions) but now have no problem with it.
Here, some now want states to be able to override the golden child of power growth, interstate trade regulation. Guess who is on opposite sides now?
They even Me Too'd Me Too from Microsoft!
What about all the crap about taking sceeenshots and sending them back to MS, and keystroke logging too?
There is an enormous push by the tobacco industry to take over vaping via regulation to hinder competition. If they can press into service "useful idiots", i.e. moral busybodies, all the better.
See also taxi services trying to tie up Uber and Lyft.
I'm ready for my downmod, busybodies^H^H^H^H^H^H Mr. Demille!
I thought Google was in favor of net neutrality. What is it to them how people access their public web browser interfaces?
Are they liars?
In a completely unrelated study, scientists calculated people spend over 23 hours a week, and this is a scientific term, "polishing the ol' bayonet."
1. Oh no, anonymous trolls!
2. Ok, require real names.
3. Many don't like that, especially in an era of zero tolerance social get you fired lemming ostracism.
4. Many move to anonymous fora.
5. State-sponsored trolls flood said fora convincing people of misleading ideas or outright lies.
It isn't an issue of free speech so much as not knowing who is manipulating you.
Hence "Hillary wants to literally start a war with Russia!" gets pushed by Russian state actors over and over, to cause the failure of a candidate who will continue to apply sanctions to their leadership because of lack of democracy and a free press there, and a disturbingly Nazi Germany-like invasion of a sovereign country to "protect" the Russians living there.
This continued pressure would be favored by most Americans, especially those who lived through the Cold War or earlier.
We don't need to ease sanctions on such a country's leaders so they will open up development to the West in a tit for tat.
And even that is a drop in the bucket compared to slowing the general unlawful behavior of a population. With police who don't care, thefts would increase.
And Republicans oppose it because it means 2 more Democratic senators...which is why Democrats support it. All other arguments are window dressing to their goals of power.
In this case, California splitting means 2 more Republican senators. Hence Republicans will support it and Democrats oppose.
Well it is pointless because subs are tracked. You will indeed know who launches it.
If it gets people to pay attention to "interval approaching size of the known universe" 20 multiplies down the road, sure.
Bouncing virtual molecules around in a weather simulation will eat those 256 bits, or digits, in less time than you can blink, and give different results with the 256th bit different in one molecule's position or momentum.
Every time you multiply two floats you lose a digit of precision. It's a little more complicated but that is the essence.
The butterfly effect was discovered with weather simulations. They saved their initial data and ran it again the next day -- and got a different result, which is impossible.
Turns out they only saved the initial conditions to 5 digits and not the entire float, or what passed for it in the 1970s.
Lo and behold! The downstream numbers, far from returning to the same value, diverged wildly. And no matter how small the difference, it always diverged.
Up until then, scientists had believed small differences would get absorbed away in larger trends. Here was evidence the big trends were completely dependent on initial conditions to the smallest detail.
That's why one stray photon would screw up time travel -- any difference whatsoever would cause the weather to be different in about a month and soon different sperm are meeting different eggs, and the entire next generation is different.
So any time you do more than a trivial number of float multiplies, you are in a whole different world. This is ok if you are looking for statistical averages over many, but miserable if you want to rely on any particular calculation.
I recall reading an earlier study that showed leaders had problems leading people whose IQs were 30 points or more lower.
There's an interesting Mensa article called The Outsiders that suggests extreme IQs, having no functional comtemporaries around them signicantly different from caring baboons, are effectively feral humans raising themselves, at least as far as intellectual development goes.
I give any president or Congress who gets little done an A. As a sarcasm, the less mucking around they do, the better.
Pork barrel buys votes on the spending of trillions for the price of a few million per district, which amounts to ten thousandths of a penny on the wasteful dollar.
What a deal!
The Democrats ran up the deficit tremendously, it's true. Thank god the Republ...
Oh, no. They are in charge of everything and will add $1 trillion to the deficit this year alone.
Nevermind.
"It's ok, only government can get at it, who will misuse it to keep themselves in power, not somebody scary like companies that wanna sell you Depends!"
You just need a list of rectangular hulls for viewer and objects. Some (map) compile time later, you are done. It is similar to the vis programs for walls currently.
Then the server just looks up where you are and where person is and send info on whether, and where, to draw them.
This is neither prohibitive in ram or runtime cpu. Searching for containment of point in a few hundred or thousand solid rectangles (don't need fine granularity) is almost instantaneous nowadays.
North Korea? Seoul politicians in South Korea made Uber illegal, then handed Uber's business model to their connected political cronies.
You don't have to make fun of dictatorships when politicians in democracy see a way to klepocracy it.
Don't worry, government suckups! Within 10 years robocars will make all peopled taxies irrelevant!
Nothing for you to do and protect for donations.
The latter is almost instantaneous. On a really cold night a few weeks ago I couldn't get my car started, nor could AAA. How to go pick up my takeout food? He suggest Uber (taxi company had a wait of 10 people ahead of me.)
A minute to install, a few more to enter my name, address, and CC info, then enter destination and push a button. Wtf, ETA of Uber driver 6 minutes???
Standard taxies and the politicians who protect them can go drive off a cliff.
Or maybe they realized there was no real harm being done, especially in the context of a free society.
Use free speech, I suppose, to adgitate against the election of someone, for whatever reason, but expect pushback.
Believe it or not, thinking people should be free is no endorsement that you should be required to blow Nancy Pelosi.
Still going to need a "Pull over and stop immediately" button just in case.
I distinctly remember a row a few years back where people panicked Congress might not renew a ban on states taxing Internet commerce. Then they renewed it.
So wht the heck is all this then?