Make drastic changes to rules all at once
Not subtle, sounds many alarms and protests all over, not likely to be successful at enacting your agenda. Make small, subtle changes over a longer period of time, that seemingly have little if any direct effect
It's called 'playing the long game'.
This is just Step #1 in a process of deregulating power plant emissions. Thankfully, there are enough intelligent people around who can think far enough ahead to see the implications.
TDS in action
Ah, I see: A Trump supporter, no doubt.
So, Trump Supporter, how much of your investment portfolio is in the Energy Industry? Follow the money..
So you're 100% not allowing anyone to have any users personal data, ever, except with with their explicit, written permission? No? That's what I thought. Take back your privacy and KILL FACEBOOK.
Little did I know, all those years ago, that the Craftsman mechanics' tools I bought, simply because I wanted high-quality tools, would become collectors' items.
My concern would be making the mistake of relying on 'security via obscurity', using the fact that they use a proprietary communication protocol and calling it 'good enough'. Considering the value of the 'objects' being tracked I'd hope they'd go the extra mile to be sure no 3rd parties could gain access to their network.
Regardless of whether it's intentional or incidental, that's what all health care, functionally-speaking, engages in, and it's bullshit.
Worse: you can't even call a health insurance company and ask them "Is such-and-such covered by my plan?". I tried this once (I take allergy shots); I was told (I kid you not) "You're not authorized to know that". Really? I'm paying you bastards and you won't even tell me if something specific is covered? Seriously?
If you take your car to a shop to get some major work done on it, by law they have to provide you with a written estimate, which gives you the opportunity to approve it before the work is done; any additional charges of substance that might come up have to be further approved by the customer. Now, I'm not saying that when you're unconscious and hauled into the Emergency Room in an ambulance and are dying that you have much choice, or that when you're under anasthesia on an operating table and literally are splayed open that they're going to bring you around to explain how fucked-up you are and how much more it's going to cost you so you can sign off on it, but those are extreme examples. I'm talking about the day-to-day, more garden-variety stuff, even if it's still about you continuing to live. I also acknowledge that the typical doctors' office is a very busy place, but I still say we need a system by which they can give you something concrete you can approve of or not, be able to discuss, and make modifications to. As an example there's a doctors' office I go to where annually they need to do some testing on me to monitor a chronic condition; some of the testing is really more for 'supplemental data' for them and not necessary unless there's something more extreme going on with me than what's typical. Knowing this I can tell them I don't want those things done because I know I'll end up paying for them out of pocket. They don't argue with me. The point here is that there are many things that a doctors' office will want to do during a visit that aren't necessary but that they want the data from anyway. You should have the opportunity to know what those cost and be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to them. Similar with hospital stays; you should know what everything costs and be able to say 'no' to non-essentials, especially if they're expensive, and especially if you're going to have to pay for them out-of-pocket because your shitty insurance company decides they're not going to pay for them -- and for that matter, you should be able to know specifically what your insurance company is and is not going to pay for, before it's a done deal and you have no choice. No more of this 'bait and switch' from insurance companies.
Have they properly secured these tracking devices so that the poachers can't hack into the system and find their prey easily? Or is this going to be another iteration of typical 'IoT' crap, where nobody even bothered to use basic encryption or passwords more complicated than 'password123'?
There is a difference between 'capitalism with a social conscience' and 'profit above all else'. What we have right now is way too much of the latter. This must change. IDGAF what some AC like you says either, I believe I am right, and I also believe I am FAR from alone in this.
There is no way to measure the experience of consciousness really.
Sure. Just like there was no way humans could control and harness fire, tame and breed horses and dogs, farm instead of hunt-and-gather, travel faster than a horse could carry you without exploding (e.g. steam trains), discover the secret of flight, generate and harness electricity, create non-fire-based forms of lighting, build computing machines, fly to another celestial body (e.g. the Moon) and return to Earth safely, harness nuclear power, build tiny wireless communications devices, and so on, and so on, and so on, so let's just give up trying since some people say 'it's impossible!'. Just because we can't figure out what creates the phenomenon we refer to as 'consciousness' today does not mean that tomorrow or next week or next year or next decade someone will figure the puzzle out. Knowing something can be done is at least 50% of the way to being able to replicate it; because a biological brain can produce 'consciousness', 'cognition', and so on, means that it's possible for us to figure out how those things work, but it just may not be today. Naysayers like you, with little imagination, not withstanding. I find your point to be irrelevant and therefore invalid.
Here's the thing I keep pointing out: we do not even begin to understand how a human brain produces the phenomena of 'conscious thought', 'consciousness', or 'self-awareness', so how in blazes can be build and program machines that can do that? Rhetorical question; we can't. The best we can do right now is very, very limited mimicking, appearances more than anything else, of 'thinking', but it's not even close. We need better instrumentation in order to better observe the inner workings of a human brain before we'll have any chance at all of understanding the mechanics of these things, because it's not like you can take a brain apart and understand how it really works, it's too dynamic for that. They keep trying to bypass billions of years of evolution on this planet, expecting the same results in just a handful of years. I really don't believe that's going to work.
Cheap to produce, resistant to damage (i.e. still usable even when damaged unlike an e-book reader), durable, and best of all, once it's printed, no one can 'edit' it, and no one can remove it from 'The Cloud' like has been done with e-books.
Normally I discount anything an AC says unless it's clearly true correct and brilliant -- and in this case you're one of the above. This so-called 'article' smacks of paid avertising being sneaked in as 'news'.
Well then you agree with what I've said numerous times before: what we have now is 'capitalism out of control', a perversion of what it's supposed to be.
Let's get this straight right now, buddy: Are you actually saying that leaving Syria right now, when ISIS/Daesh senior command hasn't been tracked down and eliminated, is a good idea? Because if you are then you're sadly mistaken.
Oh and comparing what happened with another POTUS in the past isn't carte blanche for this son of a bitch to do whatever he wants, so don't bother trotting that bullshit out to me again. Trump has turned the U.S. into a complete mockery of itself. You cannot refute this.
...growing economy
Yeah sure he's FUCKING UP the economy with his bull-in-a-china-shop tarriffs and other stupid decisions, and trying to screw with the fed rather than let them do their job ergo worst DJI for xmas eve in the history of the DJI. ..no new wars
Ill-advised (by every miltary adviser and diplomatic adviser there is) decision to pull out of Syria, making all our allies wonder what the fuck we're doing, making them question ever trusting the U.S. for anything, and very likely giving new life to ISIS/Daesh.
Trump is ruining everything he touches. He needs to GO. ASAP.
No wonder you're on my enemies list around here, you're clearly either a Trump supporter, utterly clueless, or both. Get lost, and please don't vote anymore.
What we need to do is weed out the myopians and greedy fucks and prevent them from being involved in anything important anymore. At this point I don't even care if we have to bring back Monsieur Guillotine to get the job done.
We could change things so that isn't the case anymore, it would be easier than you think except for one little detail: getting everyone on board with the idea. The rest is just details. We could still have capitalism and democracy without every gods-be-damned thing being about 'profit'.
Yeah sure thing buddy. We'll just hang around here until we run out of resources and have to start eating ourselves. Great plan. We need to get the hell off this planet.
Here's the trick to dealing with that Flat Earth crowd: learning to distinguish between the ones who go along with it because it's funny, and the ones who actually believe it. The former you just chuckle along with; the latter, you earmark as having failed the basic intelligence test, and treat them accordingly thereafter.
"President of the Free World', my ASS. He's the Village Idiot, who somehow managed to get elected. He's just a seat-warmer for the next actual POTUS. In the meantime we seem to be powerless to prevent him from completely ruining everything he touches. One can hope he comes down with glioblastoma and has to be removed, or in one of his frequent hissy-fit temper-tantrums, has a stroke and drops dead.
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Not subtle, sounds many alarms and protests all over, not likely to be successful at enacting your agenda.
Make small, subtle changes over a longer period of time, that seemingly have little if any direct effect
It's called 'playing the long game'.
This is just Step #1 in a process of deregulating power plant emissions. Thankfully, there are enough intelligent people around who can think far enough ahead to see the implications.
TDS in action
Ah, I see: A Trump supporter, no doubt.
So, Trump Supporter, how much of your investment portfolio is in the Energy Industry?
Follow the money..
So you're 100% not allowing anyone to have any users personal data, ever, except with with their explicit, written permission? No? That's what I thought.
Take back your privacy and KILL FACEBOOK.
In the future, denizens of New York City will refer to this as "The Incident", and some will deny that it ever happened.
Little did I know, all those years ago, that the Craftsman mechanics' tools I bought, simply because I wanted high-quality tools, would become collectors' items.
Stop giving them ideas, damnit.
My concern would be making the mistake of relying on 'security via obscurity', using the fact that they use a proprietary communication protocol and calling it 'good enough'. Considering the value of the 'objects' being tracked I'd hope they'd go the extra mile to be sure no 3rd parties could gain access to their network.
Regardless of whether it's intentional or incidental, that's what all health care, functionally-speaking, engages in, and it's bullshit.
Worse: you can't even call a health insurance company and ask them "Is such-and-such covered by my plan?". I tried this once (I take allergy shots); I was told (I kid you not) "You're not authorized to know that". Really? I'm paying you bastards and you won't even tell me if something specific is covered? Seriously?
If you take your car to a shop to get some major work done on it, by law they have to provide you with a written estimate, which gives you the opportunity to approve it before the work is done; any additional charges of substance that might come up have to be further approved by the customer. Now, I'm not saying that when you're unconscious and hauled into the Emergency Room in an ambulance and are dying that you have much choice, or that when you're under anasthesia on an operating table and literally are splayed open that they're going to bring you around to explain how fucked-up you are and how much more it's going to cost you so you can sign off on it, but those are extreme examples. I'm talking about the day-to-day, more garden-variety stuff, even if it's still about you continuing to live. I also acknowledge that the typical doctors' office is a very busy place, but I still say we need a system by which they can give you something concrete you can approve of or not, be able to discuss, and make modifications to. As an example there's a doctors' office I go to where annually they need to do some testing on me to monitor a chronic condition; some of the testing is really more for 'supplemental data' for them and not necessary unless there's something more extreme going on with me than what's typical. Knowing this I can tell them I don't want those things done because I know I'll end up paying for them out of pocket. They don't argue with me. The point here is that there are many things that a doctors' office will want to do during a visit that aren't necessary but that they want the data from anyway. You should have the opportunity to know what those cost and be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to them. Similar with hospital stays; you should know what everything costs and be able to say 'no' to non-essentials, especially if they're expensive, and especially if you're going to have to pay for them out-of-pocket because your shitty insurance company decides they're not going to pay for them -- and for that matter, you should be able to know specifically what your insurance company is and is not going to pay for, before it's a done deal and you have no choice. No more of this 'bait and switch' from insurance companies.
Have they properly secured these tracking devices so that the poachers can't hack into the system and find their prey easily? Or is this going to be another iteration of typical 'IoT' crap, where nobody even bothered to use basic encryption or passwords more complicated than 'password123'?
There is a difference between 'capitalism with a social conscience' and 'profit above all else'. What we have right now is way too much of the latter. This must change. IDGAF what some AC like you says either, I believe I am right, and I also believe I am FAR from alone in this.
There is no way to measure the experience of consciousness really.
Sure. Just like there was no way humans could control and harness fire, tame and breed horses and dogs, farm instead of hunt-and-gather, travel faster than a horse could carry you without exploding (e.g. steam trains), discover the secret of flight, generate and harness electricity, create non-fire-based forms of lighting, build computing machines, fly to another celestial body (e.g. the Moon) and return to Earth safely, harness nuclear power, build tiny wireless communications devices, and so on, and so on, and so on, so let's just give up trying since some people say 'it's impossible!'. Just because we can't figure out what creates the phenomenon we refer to as 'consciousness' today does not mean that tomorrow or next week or next year or next decade someone will figure the puzzle out. Knowing something can be done is at least 50% of the way to being able to replicate it; because a biological brain can produce 'consciousness', 'cognition', and so on, means that it's possible for us to figure out how those things work, but it just may not be today. Naysayers like you, with little imagination, not withstanding. I find your point to be irrelevant and therefore invalid.
Why is this even a news story?
Then things have to change. We can't keep going the way we are.
Here's the thing I keep pointing out: we do not even begin to understand how a human brain produces the phenomena of 'conscious thought', 'consciousness', or 'self-awareness', so how in blazes can be build and program machines that can do that? Rhetorical question; we can't. The best we can do right now is very, very limited mimicking, appearances more than anything else, of 'thinking', but it's not even close. We need better instrumentation in order to better observe the inner workings of a human brain before we'll have any chance at all of understanding the mechanics of these things, because it's not like you can take a brain apart and understand how it really works, it's too dynamic for that. They keep trying to bypass billions of years of evolution on this planet, expecting the same results in just a handful of years. I really don't believe that's going to work.
Cheap to produce, resistant to damage (i.e. still usable even when damaged unlike an e-book reader), durable, and best of all, once it's printed, no one can 'edit' it, and no one can remove it from 'The Cloud' like has been done with e-books.
Normally I discount anything an AC says unless it's clearly true correct and brilliant -- and in this case you're one of the above. This so-called 'article' smacks of paid avertising being sneaked in as 'news'.
Well then you agree with what I've said numerous times before: what we have now is 'capitalism out of control', a perversion of what it's supposed to be.
Let's get this straight right now, buddy: Are you actually saying that leaving Syria right now, when ISIS/Daesh senior command hasn't been tracked down and eliminated, is a good idea? Because if you are then you're sadly mistaken.
Oh and comparing what happened with another POTUS in the past isn't carte blanche for this son of a bitch to do whatever he wants, so don't bother trotting that bullshit out to me again. Trump has turned the U.S. into a complete mockery of itself. You cannot refute this.
Good thing you're not making decisions for the rest of our species, then we'd for sure be doomed.
...growing economy
..no new wars
Yeah sure he's FUCKING UP the economy with his bull-in-a-china-shop tarriffs and other stupid decisions, and trying to screw with the fed rather than let them do their job ergo worst DJI for xmas eve in the history of the DJI.
Ill-advised (by every miltary adviser and diplomatic adviser there is) decision to pull out of Syria, making all our allies wonder what the fuck we're doing, making them question ever trusting the U.S. for anything, and very likely giving new life to ISIS/Daesh.
Trump is ruining everything he touches. He needs to GO. ASAP.
No wonder you're on my enemies list around here, you're clearly either a Trump supporter, utterly clueless, or both. Get lost, and please don't vote anymore.
What we need to do is weed out the myopians and greedy fucks and prevent them from being involved in anything important anymore. At this point I don't even care if we have to bring back Monsieur Guillotine to get the job done.
We could change things so that isn't the case anymore, it would be easier than you think except for one little detail: getting everyone on board with the idea. The rest is just details. We could still have capitalism and democracy without every gods-be-damned thing being about 'profit'.
Yeah sure thing buddy. We'll just hang around here until we run out of resources and have to start eating ourselves. Great plan. We need to get the hell off this planet.
Here's the trick to dealing with that Flat Earth crowd: learning to distinguish between the ones who go along with it because it's funny, and the ones who actually believe it. The former you just chuckle along with; the latter, you earmark as having failed the basic intelligence test, and treat them accordingly thereafter.
"President of the Free World', my ASS. He's the Village Idiot, who somehow managed to get elected. He's just a seat-warmer for the next actual POTUS. In the meantime we seem to be powerless to prevent him from completely ruining everything he touches. One can hope he comes down with glioblastoma and has to be removed, or in one of his frequent hissy-fit temper-tantrums, has a stroke and drops dead.
"People realised that we lived on this fragile planet and that we needed to take care of it."
Never forget!