...short-lived? It's a pretty hostile environment and small mistakes, e.g. miscalculating energy, air, water, or food consumption, as well as unforeseeable events will lead to certain death for many. It'll be a harsh, cruel, unforgiving, and lonely environment to try and make your home in. Any estimates on how much it'll cost per kilo to transport people, equipment, and supplies to Mars?
I think we all know the real reason that Trump is trying to kill off the ISS: He's a Nazi spy working for the 4th Reich who are waiting on the dark side of the moon for their chance to invade and the ISS is our best line of defence! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Used to be in the music business. Saw a few contracts. They all had draconian, far-reaching non-disparagement clauses in them. The non-disparagement clauses weren't the worst things about the contracts. Looks like Google is just copying the music industry.
Yes, those poor Germans, Swedes, Finns, Danish, Norwegians, Dutch, etc. living under oppressive regimes, with high crime, poverty, terrible healthcare, and under-performing education. Oh, and what about their slow, expensive telecoms and internet services? How on earth do they bear it?
...have always been a lot more socialist than they'd like to admit. Once you remove the labels and just ask about principles and policies directly, most Americans exhibit quite strong socialist tendencies. This is one of many reasons why worker-owned and community-based businesses, which are inherently democratic, have always been popular and are getting more so as the government increasingly fails to protect its citizens from predatory corporations.
Your comments are (all too common) expressions of fundamental attribution error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Put people in a different environment and under different circumstances and see how much their behaviour and outlooks on life change. You know, like that Syrian Arab Muslim refugee, Steve Jobs.
Trump is an extreme example of a bullsh**ter and the media, whatever their political leaning, are left with the dilemma of Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
All things considered, we seem to have chosen the better of two candidates.
I'm inclined to agree with you on that one. Hilary Clinton was a competent, hawkish psychopath with the knowledge, skills, and connections to do some real harm in the world, e.g. ramping up military conflict within and between countries, e.g. Libya and Syria, whereas Trump is incompetent and severely limited from doing much harm by his narcissistic personality disorder. The worst Trump is managing to do is to encourage the alt-right to be more active, aggressive, vocal, and violent at home (which is terrible for non-whites but, in the grand scheme of things, not comparable to what Clinton has already done) and losing all credibility for diplomacy overseas, e.g. reneging on the Iranian nuclear deal and calling some countries sh**holes. Who's going to trust anything that comes from the White House anymore?
Tunisia is currently experiencing a popular uprising (again) and violent repression of protesters (again) based on similar economic motivations to Iran but you don't hear the hawks in Washington calling for regime change there. Why is that?
Most people stop growing at around 40 years old. Do we then say that 40+ year-olds show few signs on life? The PC market has reached saturation and has stopped growing, which doesn't mean it's dead or dying. They're still selling huge numbers of PCs.
...is that these corporations are allowed to push advertising to children. Either ban advertising to children outright, i.e. They're not yet responsible enough to make informed decisions and can be easily manipulated, or allow all children to vote in local and general elections: Paw Patrol party forms a new coalition government with the My Little Pony Party, anyone?
Easy, have a secure, trusted, i.e. people can identify and authenticate themselves, system for messaging and polling so that voters can ask questions and put forward their views on issues and policies that they care about. It should also keep track of which politician has claimed to support which issues and how well s/he has followed through when elected, i.e. How well did s/he do what s/he said s/he was going to do? It's up to the politicians to listen and respond, or not, and then come election day, the voters can decide on who they'll vote for. It's not a system for voting per se (keep good old fashioned publicly transparent and difficult to cheat paper ballots and human counting), just a way to hear and be heard for everyone involved in the democratic process. Rather than voting for slick ad campaigns and charming, PR-managed political candidates, voters can look at real data and who's a bullshitter and who walks the walk.
Can't be worse than relying on Fox News and MSNBC to find out about parties and candidates, can it?
And the FBI doesn't see weakened, back-doored, or no encryption as a threat to national security? Just think, Russia or North Korea could interfere with US elections!
But your computer will still not know that the CoffeeShop SSID that they're connecting to was the one the shop set up, though, will they?
Yes, this. Public Wifi needs something like unique domain names with signed certificates from an independent authority so that people know what they're connecting to and can be warned if it's insecure and therefore unsafe.
Yes, this will prevent open-air sniffing of your packets.
Hey babe, you can sniff my packets anytime;)
But seriously, yes, going on public WiFi without a VPN is like having casual sex without condoms: Sooner or later, you're gonna get infected with something nasty.
Do you think this will be as successful as the Facebook phone? I mean, it's got a screen on it and you can use it to talk to your friends, you know, those hundreds of "friends" that you've never met?
Wasn't bitcoin always one big cluster due to the fact it eventually takes the power output of nuclear plants just to mine new coins. An activity which consumes vast physical resources for no tangible benefit, which makes the interest rates of the banking system look very reasonable in comparison. I am sure that the fact that it consumes vast resources and stressing infrastructure on something with no tangible value to society is a part of the reason China is taking it off line. A lot of hype over a fundamentally broken model, that is really not a currency anyway, but a wildly fluctuating and unstable mess, any real currency that acted this way would be a laughing stock.
Yes, this. At least one government has the sense to override "the markets", invisible hand, or whatever unsupported fantasy theory neoliberal economists are pushing on our economic systems. Better to have a small exit now than a massive crash that brings dependent economies to the brink. It's always the rest of us, not the speculators, who end up having to pay to clean up the mess.
It'd be nice if this spells the end of encryption-based commodities ever seriously being considered as currencies.
News reporting continually develops and evolves to attract new readership and hold onto existing ones. Since the algorithm compares against past news and past writing styles, evolving news styles will fall foul of the algorithm. If this kind of algorithm is used by search engines and other important ranking systems, news agencies will run the risk of being down-ranked for innovative writing. If writing stagnates, the algorithms may become more conservative and, in addition, developers may try to tweak them in order to make them more 'accurate.' This risks further narrowing what journalists can write without risking down-ranking, and so on.
BTW, I'm only talking about real news written by investigative journalists. Fox News and others will probably adapt by developing its own algorithms to generate its 'news' in order to get higher rankings.
And isn't it interesting how the White House and US media have so little to say about violent political repression in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (Look them up here: https://www.hrw.org/ ), or the US tactical support for the Saudi bombing campaigns that target civilians (a war crime) in Yemen?
The White House is asking nicely because Langley has spent a lot of time and money instigating this latest round of protests, after the Green Revolution one that fell flat. It looks like this latest CIA attempt will probably fall flat too.
And what about US law makers who regularly propagate fake news, fictions, and denialism? You know those idiots who say things like women who are raped don't get pregnant or that the science on climate change isn't settled. An irresponsible and poorly informed leadership isn't going to help cultivate a responsible and informed citizenry. Then there's Fox News...
No, it isn't. I've never been asked by a doctor or hospital staff about insurance. It's a given, not attached to any employer, status, residence, etc.. National Insurance contributions automatically come out of everyone's salary/pay cheque and the amount is based on ability to pay but everyone gets the same coverage, regardless. In the UK, you can opt for private health insurance but you get essentially the same doctors and nurses, with the same training, for ephemeral procedures/treatments, and if you actually need serious medical attention, you're transferred to the NHS anyway.
The biggest drawback is that some doctors may be reluctant to take on patients who may be disproportionately expensive to treat over the longer term. If you need medical attention, it's always available at hospitals, also regardless of employment status, residence, etc.. It's just plain stupid to refuse citizens necessary medical treatment because it costs the govt. more in the longer term.
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...short-lived? It's a pretty hostile environment and small mistakes, e.g. miscalculating energy, air, water, or food consumption, as well as unforeseeable events will lead to certain death for many. It'll be a harsh, cruel, unforgiving, and lonely environment to try and make your home in. Any estimates on how much it'll cost per kilo to transport people, equipment, and supplies to Mars?
I think we all know the real reason that Trump is trying to kill off the ISS: He's a Nazi spy working for the 4th Reich who are waiting on the dark side of the moon for their chance to invade and the ISS is our best line of defence! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Used to be in the music business. Saw a few contracts. They all had draconian, far-reaching non-disparagement clauses in them. The non-disparagement clauses weren't the worst things about the contracts. Looks like Google is just copying the music industry.
Are you also against government-enforced neoliberal capitalism?
Yes, those poor Germans, Swedes, Finns, Danish, Norwegians, Dutch, etc. living under oppressive regimes, with high crime, poverty, terrible healthcare, and under-performing education. Oh, and what about their slow, expensive telecoms and internet services? How on earth do they bear it?
...have always been a lot more socialist than they'd like to admit. Once you remove the labels and just ask about principles and policies directly, most Americans exhibit quite strong socialist tendencies. This is one of many reasons why worker-owned and community-based businesses, which are inherently democratic, have always been popular and are getting more so as the government increasingly fails to protect its citizens from predatory corporations.
I wonder how many trekkies came in their pants when they read this?
You forgot to put those comments in [ irony ] tags.
Your comments are (all too common) expressions of fundamental attribution error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Put people in a different environment and under different circumstances and see how much their behaviour and outlooks on life change. You know, like that Syrian Arab Muslim refugee, Steve Jobs.
Trump is an extreme example of a bullsh**ter and the media, whatever their political leaning, are left with the dilemma of Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
All things considered, we seem to have chosen the better of two candidates.
I'm inclined to agree with you on that one. Hilary Clinton was a competent, hawkish psychopath with the knowledge, skills, and connections to do some real harm in the world, e.g. ramping up military conflict within and between countries, e.g. Libya and Syria, whereas Trump is incompetent and severely limited from doing much harm by his narcissistic personality disorder. The worst Trump is managing to do is to encourage the alt-right to be more active, aggressive, vocal, and violent at home (which is terrible for non-whites but, in the grand scheme of things, not comparable to what Clinton has already done) and losing all credibility for diplomacy overseas, e.g. reneging on the Iranian nuclear deal and calling some countries sh**holes. Who's going to trust anything that comes from the White House anymore?
Tunisia is currently experiencing a popular uprising (again) and violent repression of protesters (again) based on similar economic motivations to Iran but you don't hear the hawks in Washington calling for regime change there. Why is that?
Most people stop growing at around 40 years old. Do we then say that 40+ year-olds show few signs on life? The PC market has reached saturation and has stopped growing, which doesn't mean it's dead or dying. They're still selling huge numbers of PCs.
...is that these corporations are allowed to push advertising to children. Either ban advertising to children outright, i.e. They're not yet responsible enough to make informed decisions and can be easily manipulated, or allow all children to vote in local and general elections: Paw Patrol party forms a new coalition government with the My Little Pony Party, anyone?
Easy, have a secure, trusted, i.e. people can identify and authenticate themselves, system for messaging and polling so that voters can ask questions and put forward their views on issues and policies that they care about. It should also keep track of which politician has claimed to support which issues and how well s/he has followed through when elected, i.e. How well did s/he do what s/he said s/he was going to do? It's up to the politicians to listen and respond, or not, and then come election day, the voters can decide on who they'll vote for. It's not a system for voting per se (keep good old fashioned publicly transparent and difficult to cheat paper ballots and human counting), just a way to hear and be heard for everyone involved in the democratic process. Rather than voting for slick ad campaigns and charming, PR-managed political candidates, voters can look at real data and who's a bullshitter and who walks the walk.
Can't be worse than relying on Fox News and MSNBC to find out about parties and candidates, can it?
And the FBI doesn't see weakened, back-doored, or no encryption as a threat to national security? Just think, Russia or North Korea could interfere with US elections!
But your computer will still not know that the CoffeeShop SSID that they're connecting to was the one the shop set up, though, will they?
Yes, this. Public Wifi needs something like unique domain names with signed certificates from an independent authority so that people know what they're connecting to and can be warned if it's insecure and therefore unsafe.
Yes, this will prevent open-air sniffing of your packets.
Hey babe, you can sniff my packets anytime ;)
But seriously, yes, going on public WiFi without a VPN is like having casual sex without condoms: Sooner or later, you're gonna get infected with something nasty.
Do you think this will be as successful as the Facebook phone? I mean, it's got a screen on it and you can use it to talk to your friends, you know, those hundreds of "friends" that you've never met?
Wasn't bitcoin always one big cluster due to the fact it eventually takes the power output of nuclear plants just to mine new coins. An activity which consumes vast physical resources for no tangible benefit, which makes the interest rates of the banking system look very reasonable in comparison. I am sure that the fact that it consumes vast resources and stressing infrastructure on something with no tangible value to society is a part of the reason China is taking it off line. A lot of hype over a fundamentally broken model, that is really not a currency anyway, but a wildly fluctuating and unstable mess, any real currency that acted this way would be a laughing stock.
Yes, this. At least one government has the sense to override "the markets", invisible hand, or whatever unsupported fantasy theory neoliberal economists are pushing on our economic systems. Better to have a small exit now than a massive crash that brings dependent economies to the brink. It's always the rest of us, not the speculators, who end up having to pay to clean up the mess.
It'd be nice if this spells the end of encryption-based commodities ever seriously being considered as currencies.
Well isn't that just doubleplusgood?
News reporting continually develops and evolves to attract new readership and hold onto existing ones. Since the algorithm compares against past news and past writing styles, evolving news styles will fall foul of the algorithm. If this kind of algorithm is used by search engines and other important ranking systems, news agencies will run the risk of being down-ranked for innovative writing. If writing stagnates, the algorithms may become more conservative and, in addition, developers may try to tweak them in order to make them more 'accurate.' This risks further narrowing what journalists can write without risking down-ranking, and so on.
BTW, I'm only talking about real news written by investigative journalists. Fox News and others will probably adapt by developing its own algorithms to generate its 'news' in order to get higher rankings.
And isn't it interesting how the White House and US media have so little to say about violent political repression in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (Look them up here: https://www.hrw.org/ ), or the US tactical support for the Saudi bombing campaigns that target civilians (a war crime) in Yemen?
The White House is asking nicely because Langley has spent a lot of time and money instigating this latest round of protests, after the Green Revolution one that fell flat. It looks like this latest CIA attempt will probably fall flat too.
And what about US law makers who regularly propagate fake news, fictions, and denialism? You know those idiots who say things like women who are raped don't get pregnant or that the science on climate change isn't settled. An irresponsible and poorly informed leadership isn't going to help cultivate a responsible and informed citizenry. Then there's Fox News...
No, it isn't. I've never been asked by a doctor or hospital staff about insurance. It's a given, not attached to any employer, status, residence, etc.. National Insurance contributions automatically come out of everyone's salary/pay cheque and the amount is based on ability to pay but everyone gets the same coverage, regardless. In the UK, you can opt for private health insurance but you get essentially the same doctors and nurses, with the same training, for ephemeral procedures/treatments, and if you actually need serious medical attention, you're transferred to the NHS anyway.
The biggest drawback is that some doctors may be reluctant to take on patients who may be disproportionately expensive to treat over the longer term. If you need medical attention, it's always available at hospitals, also regardless of employment status, residence, etc.. It's just plain stupid to refuse citizens necessary medical treatment because it costs the govt. more in the longer term.