Or, actually allow sponsorship of content creators instead of randomly allocating advertisements. Better targeting of demographics for sales and you don't end up with advertisements for Viagra on top of rants against big pharma or the like.
One person I've noted that has really jumped on the corporate sponsor bandwagon is the musician Lindsey Stirling. Corporate sponsors funding really high dollar world class music videos are making for the creation of superlative content.
The late 1980s and early 1990s was a time of huge scare campaigns over pain medications and the rise of Oxycontin becoming a drug problem. Suddenly, it was almost impossible to get a prescription for pain medication. People in a cast with a broken leg were given Tylenol for the pain. In some states they were flagging physicians for a review board if they wrote more than six prescriptions for pain killers a month. By the end of their time slice, 2013, some sanity had come back into the attitudes on pain medications.
Regrettably, the scare tactics of the cited article is trying to bring back the bugaboo of prescription pain killers. Shoot, today many employers refuse to allow workers to work if they are taking Tramodol. Tramodol is a synthetic developed to have the pain relief for arthritis like codeine while being unable to get high and without the side effects of drowsiness codeine causes. But, being an "opiate agonizer" has that nasty opiate word in it and you are considered unsafe to work while taking such a prescription.
Opiates feel nice to many. After surgery or extreme trauma nothing works as well as the opiates for pain relief. Opiates can be abused. Opiates come from a plant you can grow and there is a gigantic black market for them. But you bloody well can't equate getting a prescription for opiates after a broken leg, surgery, tooth removal, etc. with becoming dependent on a chemical high and ending up a heroine addict.
One bit of hilarity is getting a copyright take down notice for a document you wrote yourself because a large publication quoted you and now claims copyright on the quote.
Put title or author into Google Get returns for 8 pirate download sites and 4 sales sites. Click on sales site. Get inundated with adverts to the point you can't read the listing of books. Click on another sales site Get to the fourth web page trying to register to use the side and get disgusted Click on another sales site. See that they want over $20 for a digital version of the book you are interested in. Click on the last sales site. Have the shopping cart bomb three times while trying to purchase. Go to the first pirate site, download, be reading within a minute.
At least this experience is becoming less frequent with Amazon carrying so many authors in eBook only format. And, the publishing houses getting off the idiot paradigm that an eBook should cost the same as a library grade hard cover.
FDA is less pertinent to a discussion of food than is the USDA. FDA approves food additives but USDA is who actually tests the food supply and monitors compliance. i.e. Every chicken approved for human consumption is visually inspected and sniffed by a USDA certified veterinarian.
You do realize you are making a huge argument for repealing the 16th amendment? The Federal government shouldn't have the right to directly raid your wallet then ransom your money back to the states to coerce compliance with regulations the populace opposes.
The federal debt is a HUGE issue. It drives continuous inflation of the currency so any savings you have is continuously devalued. All the while, the Federal Reserve tries to convince people a low rate of continuous inflation is GOOD for the country.
Sorry Bubba Fed but a 6% inflation rate when all but the top 1% can't leverage more than a 4% return on savings has repercussions that destroy the middle class and destroy retirement savings.
So you object to: Eliminating funding for a program that has been languishing mostly unused for a decade - Energy Star Eliminating funding for portions of a program that duplicate what the WHO already does - NIH tracking of epidemiology concerns OUTSIDE the U.S. Eliminating subsidies to multi million dollar businesses that have proven to be profitable - Elon Musk and Tesla Motors Eliminating Superfund line items that have been successful and no longer are needed - Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes Superfund cleanup projects Eliminating funding via Dept of Commerce for programs already funded through NOAA - studies on pesticides that are also done by USDA
Eliminating duplication of effort between federal bureaus is long overdue. And, hopefully, it will lead to the elimination of conflicting federal regulations where if you follow EPA you violate USDA and vice versa. And elimination of U.S. programs that duplicate the same programs done by international organizations such as the WHO and IAEA only make sense. Yep, it will eliminate a few butt on desk chair jobs that really produce nothing for the country.
It's coming around again. There have been so many studies of sociopathy (Yeah, the term from the studies that started in the 1980s and not the current DSM) that you could walpaper the whole Smithsonian.
Most of them have some similar conclusions... couple sociopathic traits with low intelligence and you have serial criminals. Couple sociopathic traits with high intelligence; you have a CEO.
Good take on the basic premise of epidemiology, "A little bit of risk to the individual is acceptable if the security of much larger populations is attained." I think it was 1 in 10,000 show some kind of reaction to the influenza vaccine but if you obtain over 90% vaccine saturation in a population you have no flu epidemic that year and significant reduction in death rate to young children and elderly.
This article reminds me of one of the factors that aggravated the removal of steel industries and automotive industries from the United States' we didn't get bombed out in WWII.
Timeline 1960s... The Japanese and European automotive industries and steel industries were going full blast using automated techniques designed and installed in the 1950s. Meanwhile in the U.S. labor unions were on strike fighting tooth and nail to retain the labor intensive 1930s vintage technology and block automated systems totally.
Being first doesn't mean you are the best. The U.S. was the first in codifying many standards (ANSI). But, in the modern world one of the biggest handicaps in marketing U.S. made hard goods is that they DO NOT comply with International Standards Organization (ISO) standards. Heck, U.S. goods often don't even use the same fasteners that the rest of the world uses.
The U.S. doesn't need to be part of some "One World Government" but, dang it, we need to be using the same rule book as the rest of the planet if we want to compete. Acting as if our local tribal customs are some universal requirement is just going to leave U.S. industries farther and farther in the dust.
Faux Vegans may love it. Faux Vegans... the ones that try to foist off some sort of moral high horse on those around them but keep repeating "it tastes just like meat" when referring to their lunch. Are you still vegan if you eat vat grown pork?
Vat grown meat has been a staple of science fiction for decades. If talking of a small closed ecology such as a generational space craft; something like that would be needed.
I'd try it. I'm a big proponent of gamma sterilized food ever since my sub was one of the test platforms for room temperature stored meat back in the 80s. The question will end up being texture. Are we talking vat grown Spam or are we talking a cultured ribeye steak? I have a feeling it will be something like surimi and formed into a variety of faux forms so we can try to fool ourselves we aren't eating playdoh playmaker formed food.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. 3.14 is an approximation of Pi to three significant figures. A closer approximation is 3.14159265359 Pi is an "irrational number" which never has a final concrete value. You just get as close as you need to for the accuracy of what you are trying to do. I remember using Pi out to 13 decimal places in undergraduate physics class.... Picking on the sloppy wording in the article.
Liability with the Robot Manufacturer if the equipment can auto-start after being locked out by the method recommended by the manufacturer. Often such accidents happen if the equipment is run with safety interlocks broken or disabled.
I gave up on password managers years ago. The issue is transportability when you have to access sites via multiple terminals. Especially when having to use corporate terminals where installing a password manager is blocked for security. The best I've come up with to deal with multiple company assigned random generated passwords is a file on a cloud server with strong encryption. I can access my password list from anywhere that allows web browsing if I have to look up a little used password. Not the optimum but the best I've found that gets the job done.
The way the bill is worded; it sounds like a politicians attempt to codify an engineer's take that "base load calculations should be made with controllable consistent generation mechanisms".
Wind and solar are geographically limited and intermittent sources of electrical power. I would not expect them to be included in "base load" calculations which justify a continued area monopoly to a public utilities commission. Nothing wrong with Wyoming wanting to require a utility company to certify 95% of their capacity is actually there when required. And nothing to say that when a solar or wind farm is actually producing they can idle a base load plant to save some bucks. Only that they have to have RELIABLE 95% load capability.
I bought a digitizing cassette player so I can convert music never released in digital form to digital for transportability. Cassettes were always a way to play music on the move and not high fidelity. I understand the audiophile appeal of vinyl. Cassettes are a head shaking bow to low fidelity portable music that should be left in the 70s and 80s. Anyone interested in my cassettes left over from the 70s and 80s?
Nitrous Oxide emissions from diesel engines that under hot summer conditions can lower the pH of rainwater to slightly acidic conditions as opposed to internal combustion engines that exhaust carcinogenic petroleum fractions are are less of an environmental hazard to people and the environment.
The main reason that passenger car diesel engines create more NOX gasses than commercial trucks has little to do with catalytic exhaust treatment and more to do with how the engines are driven. Diesel is most efficient as constant rpm and when most of the run time is long haul constant speed; you get fewer emissions. For short distance errands; a diesel often does not come up to proper operating temperature before it is shut down and loses efficiency. The thing about diesel emissions is that they can be visible whereas the very nasty emissions from a gasoline engine are not. Even though diesel emissions are less toxic than gasoline engine emissions; they are perceived as a greater problem than they are.
If you want a zero carbon footprint; bio-diesel is 100% non fossil. Zero carbon footprint for climate effect.
You sure it wasn't Hilary Clinton acting like an ignorant git over the Crimea issue that had him disliking her? The record shows enough reasons for anyone disliking Hilary Clinton with her many decades long history of questionable, shady, self serving behavior.
It sounds like Samsung is trying to copy what Motorola did with the Atrix back in 2011. Wonderful smart phone with a keyboard/screen containing external battery that allowed it to be used as a laptop computer.
Natural gas is still fossil fuel and increases the carbon loading in the atmosphere.
Coal is the cheapest fossil fuel way to make electrical power. But, hydroelectric is much cheaper. And nuclear is the second cheapest.
Most natural gas used for electric power became gas turbine systems in the 1990s which is great for peak loading but very very inefficient compared to base load steam turbine designs.
Since solar cells don't create more power over a service lifetime than it takes to manufacture them; solar cannot be cheaper in a total system point of view until they come up with a method of manufacture that does not require high temperature annealing.
Faux Science for faux issues seems to be the basis of the top article. If solar were not so heavily subsidized; no one would be bothering.
The EU prefers the totalitarian way to handle fake news making laws for charges and government fines for disseminating "fake" stories. A big question with that is who has the burden of proof? Does the author of a personal blog that posts something that the government doesn't like have a burden to PROVE in court he told things accurately or does the government have the burden to prove that posting individual knowingly and maliciously posted a "fake" story? Regrettable, Euro style liberal governments seem to go for the totalitarian solution and make the burden of proof the responsibility of the accused.
The U.S. seems to go a different direction in what to do about "fake" news. Many are in favor of removing the exception to the libel and slander laws for news outlets allowing criminal and civil charges against a news provider that disseminates "fake" news. As it is today; a "journalist" can claim any hokey story is "from a reliable source" no matter the lack of veracity in the story and be exempted from prosecution from libel or slander. News publications would benefit from a return to the days when a news publisher could be held accountable for the veracity of their stories and the damage they cause with faked, spin doctored, mid-informed, and outright editing to fit a false narrative.
Pizzagate? A parody of malicious reporting that tries to show multiple coincidences indicate heinous intentions. The original tongue in cheek Daily Onion like parody was humorous but the hilarity went exponential when news outlets started taking it seriously and even the mainstream news that realized it was parody played it up that people actually believed it.... then some actually did start believing it. It is as if the Weekly World News became a prime-time national news network with that story.
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Or, actually allow sponsorship of content creators instead of randomly allocating advertisements. Better targeting of demographics for sales and you don't end up with advertisements for Viagra on top of rants against big pharma or the like.
One person I've noted that has really jumped on the corporate sponsor bandwagon is the musician Lindsey Stirling. Corporate sponsors funding really high dollar world class music videos are making for the creation of superlative content.
The late 1980s and early 1990s was a time of huge scare campaigns over pain medications and the rise of Oxycontin becoming a drug problem. Suddenly, it was almost impossible to get a prescription for pain medication. People in a cast with a broken leg were given Tylenol for the pain. In some states they were flagging physicians for a review board if they wrote more than six prescriptions for pain killers a month. By the end of their time slice, 2013, some sanity had come back into the attitudes on pain medications.
Regrettably, the scare tactics of the cited article is trying to bring back the bugaboo of prescription pain killers. Shoot, today many employers refuse to allow workers to work if they are taking Tramodol. Tramodol is a synthetic developed to have the pain relief for arthritis like codeine while being unable to get high and without the side effects of drowsiness codeine causes. But, being an "opiate agonizer" has that nasty opiate word in it and you are considered unsafe to work while taking such a prescription.
Opiates feel nice to many. After surgery or extreme trauma nothing works as well as the opiates for pain relief. Opiates can be abused. Opiates come from a plant you can grow and there is a gigantic black market for them. But you bloody well can't equate getting a prescription for opiates after a broken leg, surgery, tooth removal, etc. with becoming dependent on a chemical high and ending up a heroine addict.
One bit of hilarity is getting a copyright take down notice for a document you wrote yourself because a large publication quoted you and now claims copyright on the quote.
The experience....
Hear about a new book.....
Put title or author into Google
Get returns for 8 pirate download sites and 4 sales sites.
Click on sales site.
Get inundated with adverts to the point you can't read the listing of books.
Click on another sales site
Get to the fourth web page trying to register to use the side and get disgusted
Click on another sales site.
See that they want over $20 for a digital version of the book you are interested in.
Click on the last sales site.
Have the shopping cart bomb three times while trying to purchase.
Go to the first pirate site, download, be reading within a minute.
At least this experience is becoming less frequent with Amazon carrying so many authors in eBook only format. And, the publishing houses getting off the idiot paradigm that an eBook should cost the same as a library grade hard cover.
FDA is less pertinent to a discussion of food than is the USDA. FDA approves food additives but USDA is who actually tests the food supply and monitors compliance. i.e. Every chicken approved for human consumption is visually inspected and sniffed by a USDA certified veterinarian.
You do realize you are making a huge argument for repealing the 16th amendment?
The Federal government shouldn't have the right to directly raid your wallet then ransom your money back to the states to coerce compliance with regulations the populace opposes.
The federal debt is a HUGE issue. It drives continuous inflation of the currency so any savings you have is continuously devalued. All the while, the Federal Reserve tries to convince people a low rate of continuous inflation is GOOD for the country.
Sorry Bubba Fed but a 6% inflation rate when all but the top 1% can't leverage more than a 4% return on savings has repercussions that destroy the middle class and destroy retirement savings.
So you object to:
Eliminating funding for a program that has been languishing mostly unused for a decade - Energy Star
Eliminating funding for portions of a program that duplicate what the WHO already does - NIH tracking of epidemiology concerns OUTSIDE the U.S.
Eliminating subsidies to multi million dollar businesses that have proven to be profitable - Elon Musk and Tesla Motors
Eliminating Superfund line items that have been successful and no longer are needed - Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes Superfund cleanup projects
Eliminating funding via Dept of Commerce for programs already funded through NOAA - studies on pesticides that are also done by USDA
Eliminating duplication of effort between federal bureaus is long overdue. And, hopefully, it will lead to the elimination of conflicting federal regulations where if you follow EPA you violate USDA and vice versa. And elimination of U.S. programs that duplicate the same programs done by international organizations such as the WHO and IAEA only make sense. Yep, it will eliminate a few butt on desk chair jobs that really produce nothing for the country.
It's coming around again. There have been so many studies of sociopathy (Yeah, the term from the studies that started in the 1980s and not the current DSM) that you could walpaper the whole Smithsonian.
Most of them have some similar conclusions... couple sociopathic traits with low intelligence and you have serial criminals. Couple sociopathic traits with high intelligence; you have a CEO.
Good take on the basic premise of epidemiology, "A little bit of risk to the individual is acceptable if the security of much larger populations is attained." I think it was 1 in 10,000 show some kind of reaction to the influenza vaccine but if you obtain over 90% vaccine saturation in a population you have no flu epidemic that year and significant reduction in death rate to young children and elderly.
This article reminds me of one of the factors that aggravated the removal of steel industries and automotive industries from the United States' we didn't get bombed out in WWII.
Timeline 1960s... The Japanese and European automotive industries and steel industries were going full blast using automated techniques designed and installed in the 1950s. Meanwhile in the U.S. labor unions were on strike fighting tooth and nail to retain the labor intensive 1930s vintage technology and block automated systems totally.
Being first doesn't mean you are the best. The U.S. was the first in codifying many standards (ANSI). But, in the modern world one of the biggest handicaps in marketing U.S. made hard goods is that they DO NOT comply with International Standards Organization (ISO) standards. Heck, U.S. goods often don't even use the same fasteners that the rest of the world uses.
The U.S. doesn't need to be part of some "One World Government" but, dang it, we need to be using the same rule book as the rest of the planet if we want to compete. Acting as if our local tribal customs are some universal requirement is just going to leave U.S. industries farther and farther in the dust.
Faux Vegans may love it. Faux Vegans... the ones that try to foist off some sort of moral high horse on those around them but keep repeating "it tastes just like meat" when referring to their lunch. Are you still vegan if you eat vat grown pork?
Vat grown meat has been a staple of science fiction for decades. If talking of a small closed ecology such as a generational space craft; something like that would be needed.
I'd try it. I'm a big proponent of gamma sterilized food ever since my sub was one of the test platforms for room temperature stored meat back in the 80s. The question will end up being texture. Are we talking vat grown Spam or are we talking a cultured ribeye steak? I have a feeling it will be something like surimi and formed into a variety of faux forms so we can try to fool ourselves we aren't eating playdoh playmaker formed food.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. 3.14 is an approximation of Pi to three significant figures. A closer approximation is 3.14159265359 ... Picking on the sloppy wording in the article.
Pi is an "irrational number" which never has a final concrete value. You just get as close as you need to for the accuracy of what you are trying to do. I remember using Pi out to 13 decimal places in undergraduate physics class.
Liability with the Robot Manufacturer if the equipment can auto-start after being locked out by the method recommended by the manufacturer. Often such accidents happen if the equipment is run with safety interlocks broken or disabled.
Somehow this thread gives me a good title for a humorous scifi short story.
I gave up on password managers years ago. The issue is transportability when you have to access sites via multiple terminals. Especially when having to use corporate terminals where installing a password manager is blocked for security.
The best I've come up with to deal with multiple company assigned random generated passwords is a file on a cloud server with strong encryption. I can access my password list from anywhere that allows web browsing if I have to look up a little used password.
Not the optimum but the best I've found that gets the job done.
The way the bill is worded; it sounds like a politicians attempt to codify an engineer's take that "base load calculations should be made with controllable consistent generation mechanisms".
Wind and solar are geographically limited and intermittent sources of electrical power. I would not expect them to be included in "base load" calculations which justify a continued area monopoly to a public utilities commission. Nothing wrong with Wyoming wanting to require a utility company to certify 95% of their capacity is actually there when required. And nothing to say that when a solar or wind farm is actually producing they can idle a base load plant to save some bucks. Only that they have to have RELIABLE 95% load capability.
I bought a digitizing cassette player so I can convert music never released in digital form to digital for transportability. Cassettes were always a way to play music on the move and not high fidelity. I understand the audiophile appeal of vinyl. Cassettes are a head shaking bow to low fidelity portable music that should be left in the 70s and 80s. Anyone interested in my cassettes left over from the 70s and 80s?
Nitrous Oxide emissions from diesel engines that under hot summer conditions can lower the pH of rainwater to slightly acidic conditions as opposed to internal combustion engines that exhaust carcinogenic petroleum fractions are are less of an environmental hazard to people and the environment.
The main reason that passenger car diesel engines create more NOX gasses than commercial trucks has little to do with catalytic exhaust treatment and more to do with how the engines are driven. Diesel is most efficient as constant rpm and when most of the run time is long haul constant speed; you get fewer emissions. For short distance errands; a diesel often does not come up to proper operating temperature before it is shut down and loses efficiency. The thing about diesel emissions is that they can be visible whereas the very nasty emissions from a gasoline engine are not. Even though diesel emissions are less toxic than gasoline engine emissions; they are perceived as a greater problem than they are.
If you want a zero carbon footprint; bio-diesel is 100% non fossil. Zero carbon footprint for climate effect.
"14% of all new cancers are lung cancers. 90% of lung cancer is due to smoking. Stop smoking."
Citation needed.... 90%? Really? Pull the other one, it has bells on.
You sure it wasn't Hilary Clinton acting like an ignorant git over the Crimea issue that had him disliking her? The record shows enough reasons for anyone disliking Hilary Clinton with her many decades long history of questionable, shady, self serving behavior.
It sounds like Samsung is trying to copy what Motorola did with the Atrix back in 2011. Wonderful smart phone with a keyboard/screen containing external battery that allowed it to be used as a laptop computer.
Natural gas is still fossil fuel and increases the carbon loading in the atmosphere.
Coal is the cheapest fossil fuel way to make electrical power. But, hydroelectric is much cheaper. And nuclear is the second cheapest.
Most natural gas used for electric power became gas turbine systems in the 1990s which is great for peak loading but very very inefficient compared to base load steam turbine designs.
Since solar cells don't create more power over a service lifetime than it takes to manufacture them; solar cannot be cheaper in a total system point of view until they come up with a method of manufacture that does not require high temperature annealing.
Faux Science for faux issues seems to be the basis of the top article. If solar were not so heavily subsidized; no one would be bothering.
The EU prefers the totalitarian way to handle fake news making laws for charges and government fines for disseminating "fake" stories. A big question with that is who has the burden of proof? Does the author of a personal blog that posts something that the government doesn't like have a burden to PROVE in court he told things accurately or does the government have the burden to prove that posting individual knowingly and maliciously posted a "fake" story? Regrettable, Euro style liberal governments seem to go for the totalitarian solution and make the burden of proof the responsibility of the accused.
The U.S. seems to go a different direction in what to do about "fake" news. Many are in favor of removing the exception to the libel and slander laws for news outlets allowing criminal and civil charges against a news provider that disseminates "fake" news. As it is today; a "journalist" can claim any hokey story is "from a reliable source" no matter the lack of veracity in the story and be exempted from prosecution from libel or slander. News publications would benefit from a return to the days when a news publisher could be held accountable for the veracity of their stories and the damage they cause with faked, spin doctored, mid-informed, and outright editing to fit a false narrative.
Pizzagate? A parody of malicious reporting that tries to show multiple coincidences indicate heinous intentions. The original tongue in cheek Daily Onion like parody was humorous but the hilarity went exponential when news outlets started taking it seriously and even the mainstream news that realized it was parody played it up that people actually believed it.... then some actually did start believing it. It is as if the Weekly World News became a prime-time national news network with that story.