The accurate comparison would be with currencies. It's not every day that we find child porn on bank ledgers, banknotes, cheques, transfer slips, etc..
Yeah, but electric/hybrid trucks would be just too quiet for macho men. Where's the satisfying, neighbour-waking, pet-startling roar of a great big internal combustion engine? And road-ragers would just look silly climbing out of a big truck with a nearly silent engine. 'Murica wants Canyonero f-series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
RSS is my primary source of new, analyses, and opinions. I find blogs and websites that consistently publish well-written, reliable, well-researched content that I'm interested in and find their RSS feed URL. I then add it to my personal list of feeds in my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird) so I can check up on new articles when I've finished doing my emails. The only other places I look for news are/. and Twitter, where I only follow people who consistently find and/or write "good" articles.
Keeping up to date on my fields of interest would be more time-consuming, haphazard, and difficult without RSS.
Remember when Target and Sears (retail) went under? There are a lot of businesses in the US and Canada that are crippled by debt accrued from buyouts and takeovers. They borrow huge sums of money to buy smaller companies and competitors in order to grow their businesses in already saturated markets. Many of these bought out companies are comparably as profitable as they have been in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if massive media conglomerates like iHeartMedia consist of radio stations that are still bringing in plenty of revenue but it's all going to the conglomerate to service the debts, sucking the life out of them.
Wikipedia and Youtube are conspiring! They've been influence by foreign actors, especially Russian ones, and they go right to the top: Jimmy Wales is a self-proclaimed Objectivist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., a Russian created ideological dogma! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... We need a public investigation and a media circus led by narcissists immediately!
I'm with Nietzsche on this one: He posited that the disabled are like a societal inoculation against becoming too hard-nosed, losing compassion, empathy, etc., in our fellow human beings. The disabled help us to become more humane and improve the whole of society for everyone. (Nietzsche was a stretcher bearer during the Franco-Prussian war and so witnessed, first-hand, the opposite of compassion and empathy).
The thing about journalism is that it's about building personal relationships with people who know other people, all of whom may tip you off to some good stories. It's also good to ask experts directly because they can give you interesting insights and nuance to potential stories or point you in directions you hadn't thought of. Those phone calls and emails for fact checking and listening for real expert opinions present you as a journalist with integrity and who is likely to be a "good" journalist to approach with a potential story. So no, just checking public announcements and news feeds doesn't get you very far in journalism: anyone can do that so you're competing with every other low-grade journalist with little integrity.
This sounds like it's more based on scifi than science. They do know that Transcendence, with Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp, wasn't a documentary, don't they?
How long would it take a journalist, editor, or dedicated fact checker in a news office to make that phone call or send that email before going to press and soiling themselves in public with embarrassingly wrong reporting? That what they say is true is the entire basis of their credibility as journalists. It's as if media outlets don't care anymore.
The content of Youtube and its regulation/filtering/censorship, like most of US mainstream media, reflects mainstream US culture. To outside observers, the USA has a very wide gap between espoused values (free speech, equality, etc.) and practised values (political prisoners, overt systemic racism, etc.). The sooner mainstream US culture comes out of denial and faces its problems, the better: It has the potential to be a great democracy and shining beacon of humane values and civil society to the rest of the world.
So Sandvine are a bunch of scumbags who sell surveillance and malware tech to oppressive regimes that endangers journalists, political activists, and anyone associated with them, eh?
So now that the cat's officially out of the bag, are all these calls for backdoors and special access by the FBI simply PR? I wonder how many years they've sat on this, without telling anyone, and without helping law enforcement solve crimes? It would seem that the FBI has lost sight of its primary objective, i.e. public safety.
Nice idea, but Trump draws a lot of attention and that's what Twitter's advertisers want. Maybe ban advertising? No, seriously, wouldn't life be so much better without ads constantly telling us how inadequate we are?
...from the manufacturers' websites. Many electronics companies now sell their goods directly, online thereby cutting out middle-men like Amazon. An added bonus is that the manufacturers often include the cost of post and packaging and returns in the price. I've recently bought stuff online from Apple, Sennheiser, and Bose, and have been very happy with their delivery times and returns policies.
Why do we want primary and secondary pupils to learn how to write software? Software engineers make up just 2.54% of the USA labour force. There's more than double the number of traditional engineers and those are typically higher paid, have better benefits, and enjoy more stable employment, many more in permanent contract positions.
Also, software engineering is highly specialised and narrow and therefore doesn't transfer well, i.e. getting good at coding doesn't make you good at anything else. The principles and practices of traditional engineering are more transferable and therefore more useful to the vast majority of pupils who may study it but never go on to become engineers. Why don't we have an engineering.org campaign, I wonder?
Or to take it further, the single most predictive thing for educational, professional, and social success is literacy. The current average level of literacy for students at university graduation in the USA is B1 (CEFR), which is an intermediate level, far lower than the minimum for overseas students to enter undergraduate studies in the USA. How about a literacy.org campaign?
40% of people in the USA live below the official poverty line and so things like access to text books, libraries (reading for pleasure correlates strongly with academic success), food (you can't study very well on an empty stomach), racial and social stigmatism (some people are told that they can go to college/university while others are led to believe that they can't or it's just not for them), etc., all have dramatic effects on educational outcomes. When you control for poverty, i.e. look at the pupils who aren't living below the poverty line, USA schools are among the better performing in the world.
Ever since "A Nation at Risk" http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED22600... was published by the Reagan administration in 1983, neoliberals in the USA from both the Republican and Democratic parties have been hard at work with cutting funding to schools, degrading working and studying conditions for teachers and pupils, and mounting media campaigns to vilify its teachers to in order to disestablish public education and pave the way for privatisation (e.g. charter schools and voucher systems). It's a testament to how well-trained, resourceful, and hard-working the vast majority of teachers are in the USA that public education is doing as well as it is under the circumstances.
In short, the answer to the USA's educational woes isn't to abandon public education, on the contrary, it's to stop degrading it, fund it properly, and bring it into line with the rest of the developed world. Just think what could be possible if the USA had education systems comparable to those of Canada, South Korea, or Japan?
Back on the topic of poverty and inequality, you can't educate people out of poverty. Education alone just can't do that. The USA needs to support its public education systems and in addition address poverty and inequality. To put it another way, what's the point in studying hard at school if there are no good jobs for you at the end of it?
[ all bold caps* ]...tells me that when I think out loud all the time, it can be distressing to those around me and that I should be more considerate, especially in confined spaces, like elevators, washrooms, and aircraft. That way, I won't get any more restraining orders. [/all bold caps ]
*/. wouldn't let me post this comment in its original all bold caps form. Spoilsports!:(
So really you can shoot a film on any camera or smartphone under the same conditions, i.e. rigs, stabilisers, etc. ($30,000+), and a professional crew to operate it all. So it's possible to swap out the iPhone and put in an LG, Samsung, or a Red 8K video camera ($80,000+). And what did they do for the sound recording? In many ways, sound is more critical to getting the story across than the video image. I wonder if they used the iPhone's built in mic?
For the average person who'd like to make home movies, though, this isn't representative of the typical results that can be expected if you buy an iPhone. An entry-level DSLR on a tripod with a shoe-mounted stereo shotgun mic will get better results for around the same price and will be easier to get higher quality results from. The only advantage that filming with a smartphone has is that you've always got it available for those unexpected moments (but not rigs, stabilisers, crew, etc.).
It all depends of how we define innovation and progress. Perhaps this highlights the fact that the current system, which is geared towards making the maximum profit and giving the maximum power to a tiny number of individuals, privileged from birth, is more likely the main issue when we're concerned about losing our jobs and/or the vast majority of our jobs becoming more precarious, low-skilled, and low-waged. Rather than our concerns being about robot overlords, AI machines taking over control, etc., what we should really be concerned about is our human overlords, who've already take control and who we feel we have to go to, cap in hand, whenever they have the opportunity to get rid of more employees so that they can make even more profit. After all, the vast majority of jobs lost in the USA in the last few decades were due to trade agreements like NAFTA. Our human overlords have plenty of ways to serve themselves, regardless of how many people suffer how much, and AI is just the latest in a long line of "innovations" that enable them to do it. Dammit, they'll stoop to indentured servitude and even outright slavery if they can get away with it.
The phrase, "shot on an iPhone" is enough to keep me away from it on the big screen. If hand-held filming styles, e.g. "found footage" movies, make you feel a little queezy after a while, just imagine what watching 90 - 180 minutes of hand-held iPhone footage feels like.
Taking Earth as a sphere, its volume is 4/3 pi 3960^3 cubic miles.
A 1 foot rise in sea level, assuming 100% of the planet was covered by ocean, would yield a volume of 4/3 pi 3960.75^3 cubic miles.
4/3 pi 3960.75^3 - 4/3 pi 3960^3 = 4/3 pi (3960.75^3 - 3960^3) = 147823591.42729045764684076422549 cubic miles. Multiply by 70% for the amount of surface the oceans cover and you get 103476513.99910332035278853495784 cubic miles.
Over 100 million cubic miles of additional sea water would be required to raise the level of the oceans a mere 12 inches.
This ignores the additional surface area rising oceans would cover, and thus underestimates the volume of water necessary to raise the oceans a single foot.
All of Antarctica contains between 6 and 7 million cubic miles of ice. If it all melted today, we'd get less than an inch of sea level rise.
F*^king amateurs who think they know better than published, peer-reviewed climate scientists are a waste of space.
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The accurate comparison would be with currencies. It's not every day that we find child porn on bank ledgers, banknotes, cheques, transfer slips, etc..
Yeah, but electric/hybrid trucks would be just too quiet for macho men. Where's the satisfying, neighbour-waking, pet-startling roar of a great big internal combustion engine? And road-ragers would just look silly climbing out of a big truck with a nearly silent engine. 'Murica wants Canyonero f-series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ah so it's like our US no fly list for "terrorists", or rather people with names similar to aliases used by terrorists (including inactive ones)
Wish I had mod points to mod this up.
...but we're not sorry for being creepy stalkers.
RSS is my primary source of new, analyses, and opinions. I find blogs and websites that consistently publish well-written, reliable, well-researched content that I'm interested in and find their RSS feed URL. I then add it to my personal list of feeds in my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird) so I can check up on new articles when I've finished doing my emails. The only other places I look for news are /. and Twitter, where I only follow people who consistently find and/or write "good" articles.
Keeping up to date on my fields of interest would be more time-consuming, haphazard, and difficult without RSS.
Remember when Target and Sears (retail) went under? There are a lot of businesses in the US and Canada that are crippled by debt accrued from buyouts and takeovers. They borrow huge sums of money to buy smaller companies and competitors in order to grow their businesses in already saturated markets. Many of these bought out companies are comparably as profitable as they have been in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if massive media conglomerates like iHeartMedia consist of radio stations that are still bringing in plenty of revenue but it's all going to the conglomerate to service the debts, sucking the life out of them.
Wikipedia and Youtube are conspiring! They've been influence by foreign actors, especially Russian ones, and they go right to the top: Jimmy Wales is a self-proclaimed Objectivist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., a Russian created ideological dogma! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... We need a public investigation and a media circus led by narcissists immediately!
I'm with Nietzsche on this one: He posited that the disabled are like a societal inoculation against becoming too hard-nosed, losing compassion, empathy, etc., in our fellow human beings. The disabled help us to become more humane and improve the whole of society for everyone. (Nietzsche was a stretcher bearer during the Franco-Prussian war and so witnessed, first-hand, the opposite of compassion and empathy).
[ sarcasm ] Yay, this means there'll be more opportunities for entrepreneurial spirited Americans to invest in creating economic activity in:
[ / sarcasm ]
The thing about journalism is that it's about building personal relationships with people who know other people, all of whom may tip you off to some good stories. It's also good to ask experts directly because they can give you interesting insights and nuance to potential stories or point you in directions you hadn't thought of. Those phone calls and emails for fact checking and listening for real expert opinions present you as a journalist with integrity and who is likely to be a "good" journalist to approach with a potential story. So no, just checking public announcements and news feeds doesn't get you very far in journalism: anyone can do that so you're competing with every other low-grade journalist with little integrity.
This sounds like it's more based on scifi than science. They do know that Transcendence, with Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp, wasn't a documentary, don't they?
How long would it take a journalist, editor, or dedicated fact checker in a news office to make that phone call or send that email before going to press and soiling themselves in public with embarrassingly wrong reporting? That what they say is true is the entire basis of their credibility as journalists. It's as if media outlets don't care anymore.
The content of Youtube and its regulation/filtering/censorship, like most of US mainstream media, reflects mainstream US culture. To outside observers, the USA has a very wide gap between espoused values (free speech, equality, etc.) and practised values (political prisoners, overt systemic racism, etc.). The sooner mainstream US culture comes out of denial and faces its problems, the better: It has the potential to be a great democracy and shining beacon of humane values and civil society to the rest of the world.
Hey Apple, somebody already fixed that problem for you for only $8.99: https://www.amazon.ca/Mosiso-K... You can wash it up in your kitchen sink too :)
So Sandvine are a bunch of scumbags who sell surveillance and malware tech to oppressive regimes that endangers journalists, political activists, and anyone associated with them, eh?
So now that the cat's officially out of the bag, are all these calls for backdoors and special access by the FBI simply PR? I wonder how many years they've sat on this, without telling anyone, and without helping law enforcement solve crimes? It would seem that the FBI has lost sight of its primary objective, i.e. public safety.
Nice idea, but Trump draws a lot of attention and that's what Twitter's advertisers want. Maybe ban advertising? No, seriously, wouldn't life be so much better without ads constantly telling us how inadequate we are?
...from the manufacturers' websites. Many electronics companies now sell their goods directly, online thereby cutting out middle-men like Amazon. An added bonus is that the manufacturers often include the cost of post and packaging and returns in the price. I've recently bought stuff online from Apple, Sennheiser, and Bose, and have been very happy with their delivery times and returns policies.
Why do we want primary and secondary pupils to learn how to write software? Software engineers make up just 2.54% of the USA labour force. There's more than double the number of traditional engineers and those are typically higher paid, have better benefits, and enjoy more stable employment, many more in permanent contract positions.
Also, software engineering is highly specialised and narrow and therefore doesn't transfer well, i.e. getting good at coding doesn't make you good at anything else. The principles and practices of traditional engineering are more transferable and therefore more useful to the vast majority of pupils who may study it but never go on to become engineers. Why don't we have an engineering.org campaign, I wonder?
Or to take it further, the single most predictive thing for educational, professional, and social success is literacy. The current average level of literacy for students at university graduation in the USA is B1 (CEFR), which is an intermediate level, far lower than the minimum for overseas students to enter undergraduate studies in the USA. How about a literacy.org campaign?
40% of people in the USA live below the official poverty line and so things like access to text books, libraries (reading for pleasure correlates strongly with academic success), food (you can't study very well on an empty stomach), racial and social stigmatism (some people are told that they can go to college/university while others are led to believe that they can't or it's just not for them), etc., all have dramatic effects on educational outcomes. When you control for poverty, i.e. look at the pupils who aren't living below the poverty line, USA schools are among the better performing in the world.
Ever since "A Nation at Risk" http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED22600... was published by the Reagan administration in 1983, neoliberals in the USA from both the Republican and Democratic parties have been hard at work with cutting funding to schools, degrading working and studying conditions for teachers and pupils, and mounting media campaigns to vilify its teachers to in order to disestablish public education and pave the way for privatisation (e.g. charter schools and voucher systems). It's a testament to how well-trained, resourceful, and hard-working the vast majority of teachers are in the USA that public education is doing as well as it is under the circumstances.
In short, the answer to the USA's educational woes isn't to abandon public education, on the contrary, it's to stop degrading it, fund it properly, and bring it into line with the rest of the developed world. Just think what could be possible if the USA had education systems comparable to those of Canada, South Korea, or Japan?
Back on the topic of poverty and inequality, you can't educate people out of poverty. Education alone just can't do that. The USA needs to support its public education systems and in addition address poverty and inequality. To put it another way, what's the point in studying hard at school if there are no good jobs for you at the end of it?
[ all bold caps* ]...tells me that when I think out loud all the time, it can be distressing to those around me and that I should be more considerate, especially in confined spaces, like elevators, washrooms, and aircraft. That way, I won't get any more restraining orders. [ /all bold caps ]
* /. wouldn't let me post this comment in its original all bold caps form. Spoilsports! :(
So really you can shoot a film on any camera or smartphone under the same conditions, i.e. rigs, stabilisers, etc. ($30,000+), and a professional crew to operate it all. So it's possible to swap out the iPhone and put in an LG, Samsung, or a Red 8K video camera ($80,000+). And what did they do for the sound recording? In many ways, sound is more critical to getting the story across than the video image. I wonder if they used the iPhone's built in mic?
For the average person who'd like to make home movies, though, this isn't representative of the typical results that can be expected if you buy an iPhone. An entry-level DSLR on a tripod with a shoe-mounted stereo shotgun mic will get better results for around the same price and will be easier to get higher quality results from. The only advantage that filming with a smartphone has is that you've always got it available for those unexpected moments (but not rigs, stabilisers, crew, etc.).
It all depends of how we define innovation and progress. Perhaps this highlights the fact that the current system, which is geared towards making the maximum profit and giving the maximum power to a tiny number of individuals, privileged from birth, is more likely the main issue when we're concerned about losing our jobs and/or the vast majority of our jobs becoming more precarious, low-skilled, and low-waged. Rather than our concerns being about robot overlords, AI machines taking over control, etc., what we should really be concerned about is our human overlords, who've already take control and who we feel we have to go to, cap in hand, whenever they have the opportunity to get rid of more employees so that they can make even more profit. After all, the vast majority of jobs lost in the USA in the last few decades were due to trade agreements like NAFTA. Our human overlords have plenty of ways to serve themselves, regardless of how many people suffer how much, and AI is just the latest in a long line of "innovations" that enable them to do it. Dammit, they'll stoop to indentured servitude and even outright slavery if they can get away with it.
The phrase, "shot on an iPhone" is enough to keep me away from it on the big screen. If hand-held filming styles, e.g. "found footage" movies, make you feel a little queezy after a while, just imagine what watching 90 - 180 minutes of hand-held iPhone footage feels like.
Earth has a radius of about 3960 miles.
Taking Earth as a sphere, its volume is 4/3 pi 3960^3 cubic miles. A 1 foot rise in sea level, assuming 100% of the planet was covered by ocean, would yield a volume of 4/3 pi 3960.75^3 cubic miles.
4/3 pi 3960.75^3 - 4/3 pi 3960^3 = 4/3 pi (3960.75^3 - 3960^3) = 147823591.42729045764684076422549 cubic miles. Multiply by 70% for the amount of surface the oceans cover and you get 103476513.99910332035278853495784 cubic miles.
Over 100 million cubic miles of additional sea water would be required to raise the level of the oceans a mere 12 inches. This ignores the additional surface area rising oceans would cover, and thus underestimates the volume of water necessary to raise the oceans a single foot.
All of Antarctica contains between 6 and 7 million cubic miles of ice. If it all melted today, we'd get less than an inch of sea level rise.
F*^king amateurs who think they know better than published, peer-reviewed climate scientists are a waste of space.