There are people that have intrinsic imbalances in their brain chemistry. The could have just won the lottery and fallen in love with a beautiful, kind woman and adopted a puppy and still be contemplating suicide. Their mental health is compromised and they are clinically depressed no mater what reality should indicate their mood to be. Those people definitely need medication, and medication often lets them function as productive members of society.
Risk of death from anti-depressants: Up a few percent over your entire lifespan
Risk of death from suicide: 100% the second you do it
I hope this BS doesn't discourage people struggling with depression from seeking help... If it does, those deaths are squarely on the people that ran this study.
Yet another reason to stop using Google in any form. I know it is difficult at first, but it gets easier with time. Google has demonstrated they are evil to a sociopathic degree over the last few years, and now that we all know, it is time to clone the good parts and cut the head off of the snake as it were. Let Google wither and die after treating their customers like shit and other businesses can feed off whatever is left. Without customers, Google just like any other business goes belly up.
Unfortunately, you seem to be confused. The data that they mined from your backup will persist forever, but the useful bits that you needed to actually restore your phone are what get deleted...
That is not an implausible theory, but it relies on the response sequence that you cite. In reality, events do not happen in a vacuum.
OTOH, the banks and lenders (or the federal government by regulation) could enable better safeguards to validate identity other than SSN (which was never intended to be a universal ID) and require all lenders of any amount greater than $50 to validate and document the identity in person of the borrower using two IDs at least one of which is a photo ID, 2 factor authentication (call the cell number of record on the account to verify identity) and for good measure get a full facial photo and thumb print of the borrower on record as part of the required transaction documents for documentation and comparison to those on file. Ban all anonymous mail and online based credit applications of any kind (a notary public could be used to validate identity in legitimate cases). Require all documents be validated prior to extending credit.
For any victims of identity theft, a single FBI form should be all that is required to report ID theft, at which point all businesses who extended stolen credit are SOL and have no recourse unless they can prove criminal fraud in court first.
99% of identity theft dries up permanently in a couple of weeks, banks and lenders absorb a 2% increase to their cost of doing business, and the general population has one less thing to worry about...
The best way to put the fear of god in these companies is to name every company that sent them credit reporting information. Go after their real customers to the tune of $1000 per identity stolen from Equifax, an identity (and credit info) provided by one of Equifax' co-conspirators. When their customers who provided Equifax this information are named in the legal suit are facing millions of dollars in damages, you can bet your ass that Equifax pipleine of customers and credit reporting information will evaporate, and then Experian and Trans Union will both get a lot more serious about data security.
Macro-Evolution (AKA Evolution): the theory that a single bacterium became every plant and animal on the planet: never once observed in the lab (banana becoming a dog) under normal or artificial, optimal conditions. Every word you have ever heard about one kind of animal becoming another kind is rank speculation pulled out of some professors ass. Every mutation ever created scientifically either deletes something or takes information already there and moves it somewhere else, it never creates a new feature that wasn't in the DNA to begin with, and that is what is required for Evolution to work... The nature of DNA and how it works specifically contradict evolution. Creationism says that each kind of animal (dog/wolf/coyote/etc.) was created with the genetic diversity to express different genes depending on their living conditions. This is backed up both with our knowledge of DNA and observations about kinds of animals.
The theory of Evolution was posited prior to the discovery of DNA. It is a garbage theory not supported by reality, observation or science, but people choke it down and defend it zealously because the only other alternative that makes any sense is special creation, and that means there is a God, and a heaven and a hell and a reckoning for their actions. So they swallow the junk science.
The origin of life (AKA Organic Evolution, still part of the evolutionary theory) has been lumped into the Evolution section of every high school biology textbook as well as every Bio 101 textbook, and they all still claim life from non life occurring in the natural world with no intelligent intervention, even though there is no evidence and no duplication that has ever been achieved of this event. In science, we can make one in a trillion (or more) events happen every day (take a look at your computer or smartphone, most of what goes on in there never happens in nature, or is vanishingly rare). If we can't duplicate it with guided intelligence, let alone random chance, it is very likely the explanation (Organic Evolution through random chance and natural phenomena) is wrong.
State run schools in the US on the whole are an abject failure, both compared to schools in the US historically and compared to schools around the globe. The only honest question is how to fix them.
Teachers unions have been claiming for 30 years (at least) that the schools need more money and that will fix the problem. The US now pays 28% above average for first world countries to educate children: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/c... and US students still score well below average for first world countries.
Put another way, the US spends on average around $12,000 per student per year for elementary school. In a class of 30 students, that is $360,000 for 180 days of instruction or roughly 9 months. Assuming a single teacher per classroom, each teacher is bringing in $2000 PER DAY or $250 PER HOUR. Any business would be glad to have that kind of income, and only an idiot would be unable to make ends meet with it. The only way to explain the constant complaint of insufficient funds by teachers unions is gross incompetence. For those of you who will complain about the other overhead costs, the average rental price for 1000sf (33x33 classroom) of commercial retail space is $7 PER DAY. The bottom line is schools get plenty of money, and are, in general, grossly mismanaged.
Many conservatives, myself included, have been calling for school vouchers for years to use the tool of well regulated competition to both improve the quality of education and dramatically improve the efficiency. It is mind blowing that people rely on regulated competition to provide them with safe, economical food to eat, safe, economical cars to drive, safe, economical homes to live in, but when it comes to the failing school system, we must have socialized state run schools because those have been doing so well...
The problem with state run schools is that they are state run, they have 6 or more layers of bureaucracy and stupidity with zero accountability for teachers or administration. Until that changes, we will never substantially improve education. Schools aren't failing to teach because of the curriculum, they are failing to teach because there is no competition to keep quality high and prices low.
We already require accreditation for private schools, and all rich parents who aren't complete failures as parents send their kids to private schools because they want their kids to succeed. Why should only rich kids have a leg up on society, it is completely antithetical to core US culture, and yet it continues because the teachers union has deceived the liberals and has the politicians by the short hairs.
We will always need humans to supervise the robots, deal with unexpected situations that the robots can't figure out, etc. We can pay to train and pay those humans more since the work done is significantly larger than what they could do alone.
And there are a lot of other areas that Amazon can do better at, like quality control and developing stable, consistent products. Importing tons of cheap Chinese items may have expanded Amazon's listings dramatically, but it has also resulted in buyers being unsure of the product in many cases (especially for more niche items that don't have many or any reviews).
Beyond that, the economy is not a zero sum game. Under Trump it is now growing at 3%, which is typical of the US economy (post WW2 average is 2.9% growth rate) https://s3.amazonaws.com/media... in 8 years the economy will have grown roughly 25%. Someone has to make up that growth, and since birth rates aren't what they used to be, robotics is a good way to further leverage and grow the economy without an equivalent growth in the work force.
Giving comprehension credit to people on slashdot is something I stopped doing a long time ago, especially to people with acute Trump derangement syndrome.
"If your definition of "not Europe or the United States" is China, then yes. When you have to go out and work to interpret things in a particular way to find offense, it should be time to re-evaluate your life. But, then, if you're that kind of person, introspection is probably not your strong suit."
Professional societies are typically run by volunteers with few if any paid positions, very often in the case of science and academia so you can put that activity on your CV... not sure where you are seeing money, not that it is inherently a problem. I am assuming you get money to do your job properly and that works out OK?
Feel free to show that evolution does not rely on spontaneous generation (life from non life). Here is a hint: it does. Feel free to reference any experiments that demonstrated the creation of a new kind of creature in the lab: here is a hint, they were all failures. The hard science is on my side, your disbelief does not change reality.
The best solution is to have a professional society that elects boards to review submissions for official taxonomical names. If it is true that there are just a few bad actors, they can be blacklisted and their names circulated to the media at large, preventing them from claiming the right to name a new "discovery" that they are attempting to hijack from another researcher or group. The society could also publish clear rules about naming and who has the right to name. Once it is clearly delineated, violators can be rightly blacklisted from ever making official, new names.
I suspect, though it is not spelled out in the article that this is likely not much of a problem in the US or Europe, but in other regions of the world where there is less funding and more pressure on scientists to produce results, and less penalty for stealing other people's research.
1. Government is a necessary evil. Seeing as we had to save your sorry European asses when the German, and later Russian governments got out of control and murdered millions of people, that assertion has a lot of validity. In the US the government fears the people, which is also known as freedom, what you guys have over there is not even close. You exist at the pleasure of your governments.
2. I would be happy to debate Creationism vs. evolution any time. You believe in spontaneous generation, a theory disproved several hundred years ago (rain fell on the rocks, made rock soup, and the soup came alive and then turned into a dog). Furthermore, evolution has never been observed in a lab and is directly contradicted by every scientific experiment ever performed over the last 100 years (nearly all of which were designed to prove that evolution was possible). Evolution is also contradicted by the existence and characteristics of DNA, the blueprints used to fabricate all known life on the planet. OTOH, I believe in an extra-dimensional being that in our dimension exhibits the characteristics of God and who has been documented and observed by literally millions of people over the last 4000 years, but somehow I am the irrational one.
But yes, please continue to think yourself superior for believing in non-science for the express purpose of excluding an extra-dimensional being simply because you don't like the consequences of having a creator God who demands that you live like he tells you to (even though if everyone did live in that way, it would create utopia on earth, what with everyone loving each-other like they love themselves).
This was always marketing looking for a way to monetize a subscription as opposed to trying to bring the product that best met the need of the customer to market. There is nothing that anyone can do to save this company. If they still had a few million dollars, they could fire everyone except a few engineers and maybe make a $40 hand press to squeeze their juice packs, but the bottom line is that there are already a number of juicers on the market that can use fruit and vegetables available at any grocery store to give you top quality juice. Oh yeah, and there are a number of companies that sell all kinds of fruit and vegetable juices.
First off, the executives that sold their stocks while withholding negative information should have that money confiscated and be prosecuted for insider trading (seeing as how they were holding back negative news on purpose to profit.) The retiree pension fund should not take the hit that those assholes created in the first place...
Yet another example of the dire need for legal accountability at the federal level of companies that hold private, personal information. The three credit reporting agencies don't give a shit if your identity is stolen, either from them or from someone else, and they clearly didn't care enough to encrypt the information stolen in this breach, and all those people who are going to have to waste hundreds of hours filing police reports, fighting fraudulent credit cards taken out in their name and fraudulent loans are SOL.
It is long past time that we have a federal law holding the companies that lose private, personal data accountable to the tune of actual time lost at the billable rate for the person's profession and a fine paid to the individual harmed of not less than $1000. Once your identity has been stolen, a simple phone call or online form should permanently flag your identity and require all companies accessing your credit for a transaction must use two factor authentication to get validation of your identity.
Nintendo will very likely win on appeal, because as you say, use patents are supposed to be limited to their original scope (in this case a wearable fall detector) which is not what the Wii and Wii U are. Hopefully they can also get the patent invalidated and take every penny this patent troll of a company has...
On a related note, we also seriously need tort reform in the US. We need to have a system where judges who make consistently overturned decisions either directly or by false jury instruction (detected by algorithm or by recommendation of the overturning court) are put on trial by a jury. If the jury finds that the judge is making decisions outside of the plain language of the law, they need to be kicked off the bench permanently. The 9th circuit court of appeals and the district court of west Texas both need a thorough cleaning, based on a long history of misbehavior.
Sorry if you couldn't understand the word. A 3rd grade understanding of phonics should have availed you of the meaning.
The only person not thinking here is clearly you, since I have laid out a series of, logical, fact based positions, and all you have come back with is a typo and a series of ad hominems (yes, I can use a spell check too).
... follow the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Or, you know, actually read the post I made. It was not an award for personal hygiene, it was a lifetime achievement award for helping the African American community. But yeah, I am sure David Duke has one of those on his wall too and Democratic Senator Robert Bird as well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Talk about complete ignorance fostered by laziness at the most basic level. To not even try to read my post or follow the link is pretty bad.
I am not a huge fan of the friend/foe feature, but I do find it useful to preferentially upmod people who I friend when they make good points so I can see their posts, even when they are downmodded by the alt-left sock puppet brigade, and the foes list is useful to me to keep track of people who are irrational or use personal attacks. If you had made your case, you would have remained neutral, but you didn't, you went straight for the ad hominem.
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There are people that have intrinsic imbalances in their brain chemistry. The could have just won the lottery and fallen in love with a beautiful, kind woman and adopted a puppy and still be contemplating suicide. Their mental health is compromised and they are clinically depressed no mater what reality should indicate their mood to be. Those people definitely need medication, and medication often lets them function as productive members of society.
Risk of death from anti-depressants: Up a few percent over your entire lifespan
Risk of death from suicide: 100% the second you do it
I hope this BS doesn't discourage people struggling with depression from seeking help... If it does, those deaths are squarely on the people that ran this study.
Yet another reason to stop using Google in any form. I know it is difficult at first, but it gets easier with time. Google has demonstrated they are evil to a sociopathic degree over the last few years, and now that we all know, it is time to clone the good parts and cut the head off of the snake as it were. Let Google wither and die after treating their customers like shit and other businesses can feed off whatever is left. Without customers, Google just like any other business goes belly up.
Unfortunately, you seem to be confused. The data that they mined from your backup will persist forever, but the useful bits that you needed to actually restore your phone are what get deleted...
That is not an implausible theory, but it relies on the response sequence that you cite. In reality, events do not happen in a vacuum.
OTOH, the banks and lenders (or the federal government by regulation) could enable better safeguards to validate identity other than SSN (which was never intended to be a universal ID) and require all lenders of any amount greater than $50 to validate and document the identity in person of the borrower using two IDs at least one of which is a photo ID, 2 factor authentication (call the cell number of record on the account to verify identity) and for good measure get a full facial photo and thumb print of the borrower on record as part of the required transaction documents for documentation and comparison to those on file. Ban all anonymous mail and online based credit applications of any kind (a notary public could be used to validate identity in legitimate cases). Require all documents be validated prior to extending credit.
For any victims of identity theft, a single FBI form should be all that is required to report ID theft, at which point all businesses who extended stolen credit are SOL and have no recourse unless they can prove criminal fraud in court first.
99% of identity theft dries up permanently in a couple of weeks, banks and lenders absorb a 2% increase to their cost of doing business, and the general population has one less thing to worry about...
Well said
The best way to put the fear of god in these companies is to name every company that sent them credit reporting information. Go after their real customers to the tune of $1000 per identity stolen from Equifax, an identity (and credit info) provided by one of Equifax' co-conspirators. When their customers who provided Equifax this information are named in the legal suit are facing millions of dollars in damages, you can bet your ass that Equifax pipleine of customers and credit reporting information will evaporate, and then Experian and Trans Union will both get a lot more serious about data security.
Macro-Evolution (AKA Evolution): the theory that a single bacterium became every plant and animal on the planet: never once observed in the lab (banana becoming a dog) under normal or artificial, optimal conditions. Every word you have ever heard about one kind of animal becoming another kind is rank speculation pulled out of some professors ass. Every mutation ever created scientifically either deletes something or takes information already there and moves it somewhere else, it never creates a new feature that wasn't in the DNA to begin with, and that is what is required for Evolution to work... The nature of DNA and how it works specifically contradict evolution. Creationism says that each kind of animal (dog/wolf/coyote/etc.) was created with the genetic diversity to express different genes depending on their living conditions. This is backed up both with our knowledge of DNA and observations about kinds of animals.
The theory of Evolution was posited prior to the discovery of DNA. It is a garbage theory not supported by reality, observation or science, but people choke it down and defend it zealously because the only other alternative that makes any sense is special creation, and that means there is a God, and a heaven and a hell and a reckoning for their actions. So they swallow the junk science.
The origin of life (AKA Organic Evolution, still part of the evolutionary theory) has been lumped into the Evolution section of every high school biology textbook as well as every Bio 101 textbook, and they all still claim life from non life occurring in the natural world with no intelligent intervention, even though there is no evidence and no duplication that has ever been achieved of this event. In science, we can make one in a trillion (or more) events happen every day (take a look at your computer or smartphone, most of what goes on in there never happens in nature, or is vanishingly rare). If we can't duplicate it with guided intelligence, let alone random chance, it is very likely the explanation (Organic Evolution through random chance and natural phenomena) is wrong.
State run schools in the US on the whole are an abject failure, both compared to schools in the US historically and compared to schools around the globe. The only honest question is how to fix them.
Teachers unions have been claiming for 30 years (at least) that the schools need more money and that will fix the problem. The US now pays 28% above average for first world countries to educate children: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/c... and US students still score well below average for first world countries.
Put another way, the US spends on average around $12,000 per student per year for elementary school. In a class of 30 students, that is $360,000 for 180 days of instruction or roughly 9 months. Assuming a single teacher per classroom, each teacher is bringing in $2000 PER DAY or $250 PER HOUR. Any business would be glad to have that kind of income, and only an idiot would be unable to make ends meet with it. The only way to explain the constant complaint of insufficient funds by teachers unions is gross incompetence. For those of you who will complain about the other overhead costs, the average rental price for 1000sf (33x33 classroom) of commercial retail space is $7 PER DAY. The bottom line is schools get plenty of money, and are, in general, grossly mismanaged.
Many conservatives, myself included, have been calling for school vouchers for years to use the tool of well regulated competition to both improve the quality of education and dramatically improve the efficiency. It is mind blowing that people rely on regulated competition to provide them with safe, economical food to eat, safe, economical cars to drive, safe, economical homes to live in, but when it comes to the failing school system, we must have socialized state run schools because those have been doing so well...
The problem with state run schools is that they are state run, they have 6 or more layers of bureaucracy and stupidity with zero accountability for teachers or administration. Until that changes, we will never substantially improve education. Schools aren't failing to teach because of the curriculum, they are failing to teach because there is no competition to keep quality high and prices low.
We already require accreditation for private schools, and all rich parents who aren't complete failures as parents send their kids to private schools because they want their kids to succeed. Why should only rich kids have a leg up on society, it is completely antithetical to core US culture, and yet it continues because the teachers union has deceived the liberals and has the politicians by the short hairs.
We will always need humans to supervise the robots, deal with unexpected situations that the robots can't figure out, etc. We can pay to train and pay those humans more since the work done is significantly larger than what they could do alone.
And there are a lot of other areas that Amazon can do better at, like quality control and developing stable, consistent products. Importing tons of cheap Chinese items may have expanded Amazon's listings dramatically, but it has also resulted in buyers being unsure of the product in many cases (especially for more niche items that don't have many or any reviews).
Beyond that, the economy is not a zero sum game. Under Trump it is now growing at 3%, which is typical of the US economy (post WW2 average is 2.9% growth rate) https://s3.amazonaws.com/media... in 8 years the economy will have grown roughly 25%. Someone has to make up that growth, and since birth rates aren't what they used to be, robotics is a good way to further leverage and grow the economy without an equivalent growth in the work force.
Giving comprehension credit to people on slashdot is something I stopped doing a long time ago, especially to people with acute Trump derangement syndrome.
And yet I am still waiting for a real argument from the person who so far can only manage to call names...
If my argument is so weak, it should be easy to take it apart.
AC put it pretty well:
"If your definition of "not Europe or the United States" is China, then yes. When you have to go out and work to interpret things in a particular way to find offense, it should be time to re-evaluate your life. But, then, if you're that kind of person, introspection is probably not your strong suit."
Professional societies are typically run by volunteers with few if any paid positions, very often in the case of science and academia so you can put that activity on your CV... not sure where you are seeing money, not that it is inherently a problem. I am assuming you get money to do your job properly and that works out OK?
2. Your logical failure is both eloquent and spectacular.
Feel free to show that evolution does not rely on spontaneous generation (life from non life). Here is a hint: it does. Feel free to reference any experiments that demonstrated the creation of a new kind of creature in the lab: here is a hint, they were all failures. The hard science is on my side, your disbelief does not change reality.
The best solution is to have a professional society that elects boards to review submissions for official taxonomical names. If it is true that there are just a few bad actors, they can be blacklisted and their names circulated to the media at large, preventing them from claiming the right to name a new "discovery" that they are attempting to hijack from another researcher or group. The society could also publish clear rules about naming and who has the right to name. Once it is clearly delineated, violators can be rightly blacklisted from ever making official, new names.
I suspect, though it is not spelled out in the article that this is likely not much of a problem in the US or Europe, but in other regions of the world where there is less funding and more pressure on scientists to produce results, and less penalty for stealing other people's research.
Wait, didn't IBM just lay off like 70,000 employees? How do they still have $240M just laying around to throw at outside research?
1. Government is a necessary evil. Seeing as we had to save your sorry European asses when the German, and later Russian governments got out of control and murdered millions of people, that assertion has a lot of validity. In the US the government fears the people, which is also known as freedom, what you guys have over there is not even close. You exist at the pleasure of your governments.
2. I would be happy to debate Creationism vs. evolution any time. You believe in spontaneous generation, a theory disproved several hundred years ago (rain fell on the rocks, made rock soup, and the soup came alive and then turned into a dog). Furthermore, evolution has never been observed in a lab and is directly contradicted by every scientific experiment ever performed over the last 100 years (nearly all of which were designed to prove that evolution was possible). Evolution is also contradicted by the existence and characteristics of DNA, the blueprints used to fabricate all known life on the planet. OTOH, I believe in an extra-dimensional being that in our dimension exhibits the characteristics of God and who has been documented and observed by literally millions of people over the last 4000 years, but somehow I am the irrational one.
But yes, please continue to think yourself superior for believing in non-science for the express purpose of excluding an extra-dimensional being simply because you don't like the consequences of having a creator God who demands that you live like he tells you to (even though if everyone did live in that way, it would create utopia on earth, what with everyone loving each-other like they love themselves).
This was always marketing looking for a way to monetize a subscription as opposed to trying to bring the product that best met the need of the customer to market. There is nothing that anyone can do to save this company. If they still had a few million dollars, they could fire everyone except a few engineers and maybe make a $40 hand press to squeeze their juice packs, but the bottom line is that there are already a number of juicers on the market that can use fruit and vegetables available at any grocery store to give you top quality juice. Oh yeah, and there are a number of companies that sell all kinds of fruit and vegetable juices.
First off, the executives that sold their stocks while withholding negative information should have that money confiscated and be prosecuted for insider trading (seeing as how they were holding back negative news on purpose to profit.) The retiree pension fund should not take the hit that those assholes created in the first place...
Yet another example of the dire need for legal accountability at the federal level of companies that hold private, personal information. The three credit reporting agencies don't give a shit if your identity is stolen, either from them or from someone else, and they clearly didn't care enough to encrypt the information stolen in this breach, and all those people who are going to have to waste hundreds of hours filing police reports, fighting fraudulent credit cards taken out in their name and fraudulent loans are SOL.
It is long past time that we have a federal law holding the companies that lose private, personal data accountable to the tune of actual time lost at the billable rate for the person's profession and a fine paid to the individual harmed of not less than $1000. Once your identity has been stolen, a simple phone call or online form should permanently flag your identity and require all companies accessing your credit for a transaction must use two factor authentication to get validation of your identity.
Nintendo will very likely win on appeal, because as you say, use patents are supposed to be limited to their original scope (in this case a wearable fall detector) which is not what the Wii and Wii U are. Hopefully they can also get the patent invalidated and take every penny this patent troll of a company has...
On a related note, we also seriously need tort reform in the US. We need to have a system where judges who make consistently overturned decisions either directly or by false jury instruction (detected by algorithm or by recommendation of the overturning court) are put on trial by a jury. If the jury finds that the judge is making decisions outside of the plain language of the law, they need to be kicked off the bench permanently. The 9th circuit court of appeals and the district court of west Texas both need a thorough cleaning, based on a long history of misbehavior.
Sorry if you couldn't understand the word. A 3rd grade understanding of phonics should have availed you of the meaning.
The only person not thinking here is clearly you, since I have laid out a series of, logical, fact based positions, and all you have come back with is a typo and a series of ad hominems (yes, I can use a spell check too).
... follow the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Or, you know, actually read the post I made. It was not an award for personal hygiene, it was a lifetime achievement award for helping the African American community. But yeah, I am sure David Duke has one of those on his wall too and Democratic Senator Robert Bird as well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Talk about complete ignorance fostered by laziness at the most basic level. To not even try to read my post or follow the link is pretty bad.
I am not a huge fan of the friend/foe feature, but I do find it useful to preferentially upmod people who I friend when they make good points so I can see their posts, even when they are downmodded by the alt-left sock puppet brigade, and the foes list is useful to me to keep track of people who are irrational or use personal attacks. If you had made your case, you would have remained neutral, but you didn't, you went straight for the ad hominem.