The problem they might encounter with the skeptics is explaining why the missing rock seems to be so uniform all over the globe. Surely the glaciers would be thinner at the equator? The missing rock should not go as far back at the equator as the topical zones, I would think.
I finally visited England this past August, first time I've ever been out of North America (unless you include Jamaica), and I've been an anglophile for a long time. It was fantastic. I had no idea however that the tower was going to be *totally* covered in scaffolding when I got there, so yeah, the disappointment is real. Sure, you got the Tower, Tower bridge, the wibbly-wobbly bridge, St. Pauls, Trafalgar Square, and a number of other landmarks, but that is the one that really seems to say, "London", the rest of the Parliament buildings notwithstanding. And no, a snapchat filter won't cut it. I can use that for another reason to go back in so many years though!
This isn't just about scientific method or research publication; taken as a larger whole for language in general, it shows that context is king, and the half truth can be more misleading than an outright lie. Language is easy to manipulate.
My story is a little different; my dad put my mom in a nursing home after he could no longer care for her due to his own advanced age (eventually he joined her in the nursing home). He really tried though. I had a tiny one floor, one bathroom, hobble (still do) with no room, nor money to accommodate them, and while my siblings fared much better, they didn't either. I did visit every week, for 10 years, seeing her turn into a living zombie, unable to speak or acknowledge us for the last eight. That was horrible. I'd so much rather be dead. Family didn't fight over money though. Mostly we saw us getting screwed by the lawyers who were handling affairs. They took $100 grand out of the estate in just one year alone for selling the house and liquefying some assets. I finally stepped in as Guardian of the Property at a point where the law firms were going to switch over, and had to get bonded and approved by the court. I think we would have lost everything to them if I hadn't done that. Ugly times.
This looks like the most promising treatment yet, and he missed this by just a few scant years, after donated heavily to Alzheimer's research before dying (or rather, deciding to die before becoming a mental vegetable).
Okay, it's "Weboob", not, "We Love Boobs". This is totally overstretching it with the PC. And how non-juvenile do "Google", "Bing", "Yahoo", "Hadoop" and other IT corporations or services sound? It's all about the silly juvenile words!
They are unwilling to accept the outcome of a lawful election that got Trump into the White House
Who told you that? They're a liar, and you're an idiot. No one is challenging the outcome of the election. Although, since you mention it, there have been multiple signs of every kind of election meddling on the part of the Republicans. Vote fraud, voter fraud, Russian collusion... It's like they went down a list of possibles.
Too bad all of your examples are bullshit. Bullshit like that is typical religious reich "trying to help". Help themselves.
What do you call the "Resist" movement then? "Not my president!" ; "Impeach Trump!" (on what grounds??) "He lost the popular vote, he shouldn't have won!" You Leftists have absolutely denied the legitimate outcome of the election, from wanting to scuttle the electoral college itself to working feverishly with the baseless "Russian Collusion" story that Clinton, FusionGPS, and her cronies cooked up to de-legitimatize the election results. All Mueller has really found indicates that some Russians paid for some ads and that Flynn and Manafort lied about things they either didn't need to or didn't have a bearing on or relation to the election itself, despite some ridiculous amounts of exaggeration from media pundits.
Voter "fraud" is much heavier on the Democrat side, with videos surfacing of people proudly claiming to vote multiple times under pseudonames, of dead people still conveniently registered to vote, but most of all, the bullshit excuses and refusal to allow VoterID laws that would actually reduce voter fraud drastically. If you were really against voter fraud, you'd require ID. It's NOT too expensive for people to get, anyone who's already registered to vote already has some form of ID on them; those that aren't either don't care to vote, or can easily get an ID when they register.
Exactly. What emboldened Osama Bin Laden to declare the US a "paper tiger" and start planning more and more egregious attacks against our soil and citizens, right up to 9-11? We gave off an aura of weakness, a gutted military, of being all talk and no walk. Our intelligence community was hamstrung as well. People become so complacent and forgetful so fast. It's almost the same logic as saying, "Why did I pay for all this insurance, I never got into an accident".. but worse, because insurance doesn't actually even prevent an accident, where proactive military routing of terrorists groups can and does prevent and interrupt large scale terrorist attacks. Some happen anyway, but nothing is 100% effective. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It's easy for Jack Ma to say his piece, as China sits tight and the US and allies (and even Russia) do all the running around in the Mideast taking out ISIS and Al Qaeda and their various incarnations. He'll learn, eventually; terrorism is growing in China now too.
Beat me to it. That was my concern; he plans to add well over 12,000 satellites to an already overcrowded orbital environment (not sure if LEO, MEO, or GEO though) If China were to pull a stunt like they did in 2007, where they tested destroying a satellite but which resulted in thousands of dangerous pieces of high velocity debris, he could see billions of investment $$ smashed to bits in short order.
I see we have a neo-liberal mod out modding everything down as troll here. Don't have to bring race into though as I've seen plenty of webcams where the thieves are white. This one was. It's not trolling, it's historically accurate. Most civilian recourse against any kind of home invading criminal is treated as vigilantism and is often viewed more harshly than the original crime, by bleeding hearts judges. You can't booby trap your own property. And there are a lot of messed up people out there who think it's no big deal if this guy gets his packages stolen because he's so well off and "privileged", they see some twisted kind of Robin Hood metaphor in it. I guarantee if someone does something like this again, and there is now a high likelihood there will be copycats, they will eventually be charged with a crime of some sort. I'd put money on it.
the electoral college is designed to dampen the effects of Democracy in order to protect the power of a landed owning ruling class.
Just what?? That's the stupidest thing I've heard yet today. How about you stop with the "everyone I disagree with is a Russian Troll" tripe. If anyone sounds like a Russian troll, it's you, because you don't even understand the fundamental principles the founders set up to constitutionally handle our elections.
Right now, the economy is doing pretty well overall, despite some recent Wall St. jitters, but certainly better than it was 10 years ago. Unemployment is the lowest it's been for decades. Scammers thrive in any environment. Sometimes people are just too happy to come across any deal that's basically too good to be true. There's always that "better deal" right around the corner.
Pretty much the same here, but I also created a special contact ("Spammers") that I add all the spam numbers into, and assigned it a silent ringtone (easy enough to make yourself); later I also started blocking that contact list as well when I saw I could do that. Admittedly it's not a terribly effective strategy because they rotate random numbers all the time, but at least in the past I'd knew it worked because I'd see that I had missed a call from "Spammers" (before I added the block) and they can never reuse a number to bug me.
Former 38 year NASA engineer arrested for hate crime for planning an assault on a poor, needy underprivileged victim that just couldn't afford gifts for their own kids (ignore the booze, drugs, and cigarettes they bought).
It's not really a perfect equivalence though.. at least the employer is still telling you the relationship is severed. Imagine driving to the office one day and the building is abandoned, just totally empty. They moved overnight (somehow) and no one told you.;)
Reminds me when I was a tech, a coworker and I were farting around with a modded Doom wad that had a "weed" based theme, pot leaf textures all over the walls, and the Pinky Demon would run around yelling "F__k You!" instead of growling. Just single player mode, not a deathmatch or anything. The coworker and I were laughing our heads off until we noticed the boss standing right behind us with a sour face. Ah well.
I think Doom is partly what got me really interested in computers, and Quake got me into networking; I was a tech servicing consumer electronics before that (VCRs mostly) but I got bit hard by the computer bug in '94. I had a TI-99 in the early '80s, but it just didn't hold my interest; DOS/Win3.11 were so different. Much of the appeal of the id games for me was the ability to bring down the console or use the conf files to tweak graphic and network settings, and experiment with the changes, seeing the effects firsthand. Then, there was the advent of the Internet. Those were magical days.
After the debt hit 21 trillion, at this point, what's another trillion? We're eventually headed for 3rd world status anyway, with forced globalization, terrorism, and encroaching socialism. That, and the reliance on digitalization for everything. All we need then is a good solar flare (MCE) to knock out the grid for a few months, and modern society collapses. Mad Max anyone?
You're not getting it. Memedroid is an app, but even if it had access to my browsing history, I didn't browse to this hoodie. There was no "Browse history" to speak of. It was simply a picture of one as part of a meme on this app. As I stated, no URLs, links, or mentions by exact product name were referenced.
There is a free version of the app, but I use the paid ad-less version (it was only like $2 or $3 and got rid of the ads). It could still be that the developers just pass everything along to people like Facebook and other 3rd parties, regardless.. I'd rather that, frankly, to having my screen monitored 24/7 regardless of what app I'm using just because I've installed FB on the tablet. (And I only use it on the tablet very rarely). Monitoring me to try and sell me crap is one level; it's a little creepy but otherwise harmless; what I'm really concerned about is, when (not if) the government decides to join the party.
Well..the first line in my post was "they're always watching, listening".. and what I meant by "actively" running was that the app was not launched.. I know that it runs in the background to supposedly deliver messages and notifications, but listens as well.
The thing I found really, really creepy here though is that it identified this hoodie strictly by an image of it on a different app (that I paid for and is not supposed to use ads); I did not write about the hoodie, mention it by name, or see a link to it in the comments. Which suggests that FB is eavesdropping on everything you see on your screen (as well as listening with the mic) and, I have to assume, going so far as to using AI to identify mere pictures of marketable items displayed on screen, at any time, and matching it with a database. That's an intolerable affront.
Everyone's watching, listening, and logging all the time. It's creepy. The weirdest example to date: Just this Saturday, I came across a meme on the Memedroid app on my tablet, about a nerdy hoodie that looks like knight's armor. Some comments were pro, some con. I moved on to the next meme. An hour later, I went downstairs, on my PC, check in on Facebook.. guess what an ad for shows up. That hoodie.. that I had never seen before that meme, and certainly never searched for.. anywhere, ever. WTF? I have FB installed on the tablet but it wasn't actively running. That shit is spooky. Neither that meme nor in the comments for it was a link, it was just a picture of the stupid thing, and a joke. AI ? I cannot bring myself to believe that was pure coincidence. It's one example of many, but just the most egregious.
Still, these are relatively new technologies and could use the helping hand; solar is not as efficient as it should/could be yet. IMO we should be weaning ourselves (cautiously) from fossil fuels because no matter how you look at it, regardless of whether AGW factors in or not, as there are the aspects of pollution, the painful dependence on the middle east, and definitely the fact that FFs are a finite resource that will some day simply run out. More than enough reasons to convince anyone. Effective alternatives are not a choice, ultimately, but a necessity, even if we still have 100 + years of fuel left. Personally, I think it's a bad move. Like any other President, Trump gets some right, gets some wrong.
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The problem they might encounter with the skeptics is explaining why the missing rock seems to be so uniform all over the globe. Surely the glaciers would be thinner at the equator? The missing rock should not go as far back at the equator as the topical zones, I would think.
I finally visited England this past August, first time I've ever been out of North America (unless you include Jamaica), and I've been an anglophile for a long time. It was fantastic.
I had no idea however that the tower was going to be *totally* covered in scaffolding when I got there, so yeah, the disappointment is real.
Sure, you got the Tower, Tower bridge, the wibbly-wobbly bridge, St. Pauls, Trafalgar Square, and a number of other landmarks, but that is the one that really seems to say, "London", the rest of the Parliament buildings notwithstanding. And no, a snapchat filter won't cut it.
I can use that for another reason to go back in so many years though!
This isn't just about scientific method or research publication; taken as a larger whole for language in general, it shows that context is king, and the half truth can be more misleading than an outright lie.
Language is easy to manipulate.
My story is a little different; my dad put my mom in a nursing home after he could no longer care for her due to his own advanced age (eventually he joined her in the nursing home). He really tried though. I had a tiny one floor, one bathroom, hobble (still do) with no room, nor money to accommodate them, and while my siblings fared much better, they didn't either. I did visit every week, for 10 years, seeing her turn into a living zombie, unable to speak or acknowledge us for the last eight. That was horrible. I'd so much rather be dead.
Family didn't fight over money though.
Mostly we saw us getting screwed by the lawyers who were handling affairs. They took $100 grand out of the estate in just one year alone for selling the house and liquefying some assets. I finally stepped in as Guardian of the Property at a point where the law firms were going to switch over, and had to get bonded and approved by the court. I think we would have lost everything to them if I hadn't done that. Ugly times.
This looks like the most promising treatment yet, and he missed this by just a few scant years, after donated heavily to Alzheimer's research before dying (or rather, deciding to die before becoming a mental vegetable).
Okay, it's "Weboob", not, "We Love Boobs". This is totally overstretching it with the PC.
And how non-juvenile do "Google", "Bing", "Yahoo", "Hadoop" and other IT corporations or services sound?
It's all about the silly juvenile words!
They are unwilling to accept the outcome of a lawful election that got Trump into the White House
Who told you that? They're a liar, and you're an idiot. No one is challenging the outcome of the election. Although, since you mention it, there have been multiple signs of every kind of election meddling on the part of the Republicans. Vote fraud, voter fraud, Russian collusion... It's like they went down a list of possibles.
Too bad all of your examples are bullshit. Bullshit like that is typical religious reich "trying to help". Help themselves.
What do you call the "Resist" movement then?
"Not my president!" ; "Impeach Trump!" (on what grounds??) "He lost the popular vote, he shouldn't have won!"
You Leftists have absolutely denied the legitimate outcome of the election, from wanting to scuttle the electoral college itself to working feverishly with the baseless "Russian Collusion" story that Clinton, FusionGPS, and her cronies cooked up to de-legitimatize the election results.
All Mueller has really found indicates that some Russians paid for some ads and that Flynn and Manafort lied about things they either didn't need to or didn't have a bearing on or relation to the election itself, despite some ridiculous amounts of exaggeration from media pundits.
Voter "fraud" is much heavier on the Democrat side, with videos surfacing of people proudly claiming to vote multiple times under pseudonames, of dead people still conveniently registered to vote, but most of all, the bullshit excuses and refusal to allow VoterID laws that would actually reduce voter fraud drastically. If you were really against voter fraud, you'd require ID. It's NOT too expensive for people to get, anyone who's already registered to vote already has some form of ID on them; those that aren't either don't care to vote, or can easily get an ID when they register.
Exactly. What emboldened Osama Bin Laden to declare the US a "paper tiger" and start planning more and more egregious attacks against our soil and citizens, right up to 9-11? We gave off an aura of weakness, a gutted military, of being all talk and no walk. Our intelligence community was hamstrung as well.
People become so complacent and forgetful so fast.
It's almost the same logic as saying, "Why did I pay for all this insurance, I never got into an accident".. but worse, because insurance doesn't actually even prevent an accident, where proactive military routing of terrorists groups can and does prevent and interrupt large scale terrorist attacks. Some happen anyway, but nothing is 100% effective.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It's easy for Jack Ma to say his piece, as China sits tight and the US and allies (and even Russia) do all the running around in the Mideast taking out ISIS and Al Qaeda and their various incarnations. He'll learn, eventually; terrorism is growing in China now too.
Beat me to it. That was my concern; he plans to add well over 12,000 satellites to an already overcrowded orbital environment (not sure if LEO, MEO, or GEO though)
If China were to pull a stunt like they did in 2007, where they tested destroying a satellite but which resulted in thousands of dangerous pieces of high velocity debris, he could see billions of investment $$ smashed to bits in short order.
Wear did he go?
I see we have a neo-liberal mod out modding everything down as troll here. Don't have to bring race into though as I've seen plenty of webcams where the thieves are white. This one was.
It's not trolling, it's historically accurate. Most civilian recourse against any kind of home invading criminal is treated as vigilantism and is often viewed more harshly than the original crime, by bleeding hearts judges. You can't booby trap your own property. And there are a lot of messed up people out there who think it's no big deal if this guy gets his packages stolen because he's so well off and "privileged", they see some twisted kind of Robin Hood metaphor in it.
I guarantee if someone does something like this again, and there is now a high likelihood there will be copycats, they will eventually be charged with a crime of some sort. I'd put money on it.
the electoral college is designed to dampen the effects of Democracy in order to protect the power of a landed owning ruling class.
Just what?? That's the stupidest thing I've heard yet today.
How about you stop with the "everyone I disagree with is a Russian Troll" tripe. If anyone sounds like a Russian troll, it's you, because you don't even understand the fundamental principles the founders set up to constitutionally handle our elections.
Right now, the economy is doing pretty well overall, despite some recent Wall St. jitters, but certainly better than it was 10 years ago. Unemployment is the lowest it's been for decades. Scammers thrive in any environment. Sometimes people are just too happy to come across any deal that's basically too good to be true. There's always that "better deal" right around the corner.
Pretty much the same here, but I also created a special contact ("Spammers") that I add all the spam numbers into, and assigned it a silent ringtone (easy enough to make yourself); later I also started blocking that contact list as well when I saw I could do that.
Admittedly it's not a terribly effective strategy because they rotate random numbers all the time, but at least in the past I'd knew it worked because I'd see that I had missed a call from "Spammers" (before I added the block) and they can never reuse a number to bug me.
Former 38 year NASA engineer arrested for hate crime for planning an assault on a poor, needy underprivileged victim that just couldn't afford gifts for their own kids (ignore the booze, drugs, and cigarettes they bought).
It's not really a perfect equivalence though.. at least the employer is still telling you the relationship is severed. ;)
Imagine driving to the office one day and the building is abandoned, just totally empty. They moved overnight (somehow) and no one told you.
Reminds me when I was a tech, a coworker and I were farting around with a modded Doom wad that had a "weed" based theme, pot leaf textures all over the walls, and the Pinky Demon would run around yelling "F__k You!" instead of growling. Just single player mode, not a deathmatch or anything. The coworker and I were laughing our heads off until we noticed the boss standing right behind us with a sour face. Ah well.
Also, Barney Doom. That was great.
The 3dfx Voodoo cards, they were a game changer.. literally.
I think Doom is partly what got me really interested in computers, and Quake got me into networking; I was a tech servicing consumer electronics before that (VCRs mostly) but I got bit hard by the computer bug in '94. I had a TI-99 in the early '80s, but it just didn't hold my interest; DOS/Win3.11 were so different.
Much of the appeal of the id games for me was the ability to bring down the console or use the conf files to tweak graphic and network settings, and experiment with the changes, seeing the effects firsthand. Then, there was the advent of the Internet.
Those were magical days.
After the debt hit 21 trillion, at this point, what's another trillion? We're eventually headed for 3rd world status anyway, with forced globalization, terrorism, and encroaching socialism. That, and the reliance on digitalization for everything. All we need then is a good solar flare (MCE) to knock out the grid for a few months, and modern society collapses. Mad Max anyone?
You're not getting it. Memedroid is an app, but even if it had access to my browsing history, I didn't browse to this hoodie. There was no "Browse history" to speak of. It was simply a picture of one as part of a meme on this app. As I stated, no URLs, links, or mentions by exact product name were referenced.
There is a free version of the app, but I use the paid ad-less version (it was only like $2 or $3 and got rid of the ads).
It could still be that the developers just pass everything along to people like Facebook and other 3rd parties, regardless.. I'd rather that, frankly, to having my screen monitored 24/7 regardless of what app I'm using just because I've installed FB on the tablet. (And I only use it on the tablet very rarely).
Monitoring me to try and sell me crap is one level; it's a little creepy but otherwise harmless; what I'm really concerned about is, when (not if) the government decides to join the party.
Well..the first line in my post was "they're always watching, listening".. and what I meant by "actively" running was that the app was not launched.. I know that it runs in the background to supposedly deliver messages and notifications, but listens as well.
The thing I found really, really creepy here though is that it identified this hoodie strictly by an image of it on a different app (that I paid for and is not supposed to use ads); I did not write about the hoodie, mention it by name, or see a link to it in the comments.
Which suggests that FB is eavesdropping on everything you see on your screen (as well as listening with the mic) and, I have to assume, going so far as to using AI to identify mere pictures of marketable items displayed on screen, at any time, and matching it with a database.
That's an intolerable affront.
Everyone's watching, listening, and logging all the time. It's creepy. .. anywhere, ever.
The weirdest example to date: Just this Saturday, I came across a meme on the Memedroid app on my tablet, about a nerdy hoodie that looks like knight's armor. Some comments were pro, some con. I moved on to the next meme.
An hour later, I went downstairs, on my PC, check in on Facebook.. guess what an ad for shows up. That hoodie.. that I had never seen before that meme, and certainly never searched for
WTF? I have FB installed on the tablet but it wasn't actively running. That shit is spooky. Neither that meme nor in the comments for it was a link, it was just a picture of the stupid thing, and a joke. AI ?
I cannot bring myself to believe that was pure coincidence. It's one example of many, but just the most egregious.
Still, these are relatively new technologies and could use the helping hand; solar is not as efficient as it should/could be yet. IMO we should be weaning ourselves (cautiously) from fossil fuels because no matter how you look at it, regardless of whether AGW factors in or not, as there are the aspects of pollution, the painful dependence on the middle east, and definitely the fact that FFs are a finite resource that will some day simply run out. More than enough reasons to convince anyone. Effective alternatives are not a choice, ultimately, but a necessity, even if we still have 100 + years of fuel left.
Personally, I think it's a bad move. Like any other President, Trump gets some right, gets some wrong.