I do not think that diverting attention to Apple is the answer.
Uncontrolled data collection about citizens seems to be a problem, it might be nothing, but it might as well erode slowly into a police state - face recognition, voice recognition, even recent study on mood recognition. The general public does not realize the power of big data, and how much they reveal about themselves by in their mind insignificant activities.
Convenience is a powerful tool, we carry with us willingly position trackers, microphones, cameras, sometimes bio-data trackers with not much control on whether they are off or on.
With evolving political landscape, where media earn salaries mostly from ads, who will watch the watchers?
Clearly there's a 1st Amendment issue here, but only fascists want free speech now, right?
An interesting issue, however from the article she was charged not for her speech but for managing money of an organization, which intent was to meddle with US elections.
It was inevitable given our current exodus from an Ice Age and in addition...
Quite the opposite, we're suppose to go into a mini ice-age right now, and the average temperature trend instead of going down is going up.
... the "scientists" modifying older records...
Measuring temperature is one of the simplest measurement there is, you can do it by yourself if you really wanted to know.
"Average" global temperature means taking measurements (temperature) across the globe at various points several times per day and then calculating the average.
These measurement have been done by countless number of people in many (sometimes not very friendly) countries, later exchanged between the scientific organizations (yes, scientists mostly exchange data - even when they governments do not like each other much), so there are multiple copies of the measurements across decades stored in many countries across the globe.
Additionally scientist in many countries (unlike in the US) are payed fix salaries based on teaching students, having guaranteed time for research, they criticize each other a lot - as this peer criticism is the very foundation of the scientific methodology. I am yet to hear about a scientist supporting some faked data from a competitive laboratory not to mention country. Your suggestion is preposterous and I hope you will realize it and revise your sources.
Contrary to common believes, Earth climate is a complicated system, and despite that everybody can see the sky and feel the wind, not everybody is a specialist in forecasting the weather - it requires data and computational power, not to mention knowledge. My question, if some friendly radio host started to advise you in your very specialty based on some brief readings online - what would you think about it?
If the world was truly in some kind of runaway global warming dealie, this would be the WARMEST year on record....
No, it doesn't. As the answer to another "AC", to understand difference between long term and short term changes draw a sinusoidal curve at e.g. 45 degrees angle. Then look at the global average temperatures plot available online, compare it with CO2 levels.
As a bonus you can learn something about how the data are acquired, and how scientists forecast weather in short term and long term, also other things. Take yourself out of your comfort place and when questioning - first question yourself.
So, if it is the FOURTH warmest... does that mean it is getting cooler now?
No, it doesn't. From the article: January-September period for years 2015,2016,2017 and 2018 are four the warmest since data started to be recorded (1880).
2018 was not the warmest of the four, to better understand it draw a sinusoidal line at lets say 45 degree angle, you will see the difference between long term trend and short term fluctuations.
Not really, as far as I know the engine performs by itself, dancing to the music and singing written songs - it's not pre-choreographed and not pre-recorded.
Not only this, there are digitally created characters, who have holographic performances attracting huge crowds of fans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I like it, the future repairman instead of filling holes will be trimming overgrown structures.
Also it might make combustion engines mandatory in the future.
They can write something, which does not make it true, to make something valid one has to provide some evidence. Are you telling me that disagreement about Star Wars is going to impact US society? Why would they spend resources on such a meaningless activity?
you would think that with all the video and images they show of europa, this wouldn't be a "might" or "scientists think". is everything nasa shows bullshit?
No, just it's worth to read descriptions under the images, they say if it's an artist impression or an actual photo.
For now humankind landed on (except Earth): Moon, Venus, Mars, asteroid Ryugu, asteroid Itokawa, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Saturn moon Titan, there were a few impactors, which I did not count, so any other pictures are taken from orbit sometimes just by flying by with a great speed, which makes any detail surface features not visible.
So any images of exoplanets, black holes or any surface except the mentioned above are artists impressions. There is a project though to take an image of a black hole's event horizon.
With Ray's force development speed by the end of the third installment she will have resurrected everybody, recreated Alderaan, wiped out all the bad and made the galaxy a paradise, when asked "How'd you do it?", she will answer "I don't know". ;-)
Agree, the whole article sounds bogus, like people have never argued about Star Wars vs Star Trek, Atari vs Commodore, Amiga vs PC, etc. Unless Russia has some kind of AI, which picks any topic automatically and trolls it just for the sake of doing so I'd say it's another "modern" style PR.
With regard to new SW, a good movie for me is always about characters, story and created world integrity, it's all gone, at best they are infantile.
4. The opposite case, for objects coming from deep space into the Solar system, or into galaxies, their acceleration is increasing so they should gain inertial mass by MiHsC and slow down anomalously, just like an inverted Pioneer anomaly, and of the same size (it will appear as though there’s unseen mass at the outer edge of the system).
It's interesting because just recently I read about detected anomaly in Oumuamua trajectory, which for now was attributed to not observed out-gassing, i.e. out-gassing, which was not seen, but had to happen - not sure though whether the effect would match the one predicted by QI (article didn't provide details about the anomaly).
Swildensj, an employee at a small cloud computing startup, reportedly "spent $6,000 of his own money to launch a formal challenge to 936,"
The USPTO found that some claims replicated technology described in an earlier patent from lidar vendor Velodyne,...
Shouldn't it be the job of the patent office to check new patent applications against existing patents or publications, like... when applied and not when challenged?
Great, more bandwidth for my fridge. And once they run out of repositioning fuel there'll be 75 more pieces of space junk in orbit.
People partially have already commented, just as anonymous so here is my summary:
1. Satellites: nowadays technology allows for LEO (low Earth orbit) deployment of clusters of communication satellites, where there is still some drag from air molecules, which results in orbit decay, e.g. ISS has to boost its orbit regularly (also such orbits allow for low latency communication), additionally nowadays satellites are required to have either deorbiting capability or moving to so called "graveyard" orbits, where, even when decommissioned do not pose thread to other space assets.
2. Internet for everybody: maybe you live in an urban area, so having high bandwidth internet is nothing special, but there are rural places or undeveloped countries, where building infrastructure for high bandwidth internet is too expensive and many people do not have it, so having a global internet access is not only good for people, who do not have it, but also for humanity as a whole in case of any disasters or for automatic science data collectors. An example: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - not only we would've known where, but maybe even people could've been saved. Another example (less drastic) is Event Horizon Telescope, people take airplanes to carry TBs of data on hard-drives - in this case a proper bandwidth would be required.
I'm seriously considering traveling as freight next time. I'd have way more room and pay less.
I mean, if I get stacked like a sardine in a can with no room for my legs or my arms, I can as well call a spade a spade.
You know things can get even worse, you might be told that the seat you paid for was assigned to a higher priority customer, and better don't argue about your rights, they will not bother knocking teeth out to prove you're wrong, and the CEO will say "what's the fuss about, we asked politely 3 times first".
Yes, however there is also abundance of uranium and ready facilities to prepare uranium based fuel.
In detail, thorium is prevalent on land whilst uranium in oceans (estimated more in total than thorium) additionally considering existing infrastructure and equipment to mine/process and prepare power plant ready fuel rods and all the paperwork related to build a new power plant it is simply cheaper to build something close to existing solutions then to push for a novelty. Some government studies and research would be needed to brake the impasse.
An interesting design is the Traveling Wave Reactor being researched by TerraPower, they suppose to build a prototype in China.
Electric Vehicle Tax Credit is not a giveaway, works the same like mortgage interests tax credit - you do not pay part of the taxes you owe to the government if you:
- bought a house with mortgage and pay interests for it
- bought an electric vehicle
One does not get money, just pays less taxes in both cases.
US tax code has many items one can deduct either before (from income) or after (from own taxes), electric vehicle credit is one of many. I understand you might not like it - sent letters to your representatives about abolishing any tax deductions and accept the democratic principles US is based on, where not only your voice counts.
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I do not think that diverting attention to Apple is the answer.
Uncontrolled data collection about citizens seems to be a problem, it might be nothing, but it might as well erode slowly into a police state - face recognition, voice recognition, even recent study on mood recognition. The general public does not realize the power of big data, and how much they reveal about themselves by in their mind insignificant activities.
Convenience is a powerful tool, we carry with us willingly position trackers, microphones, cameras, sometimes bio-data trackers with not much control on whether they are off or on.
With evolving political landscape, where media earn salaries mostly from ads, who will watch the watchers?
Clearly there's a 1st Amendment issue here, but only fascists want free speech now, right?
An interesting issue, however from the article she was charged not for her speech but for managing money of an organization, which intent was to meddle with US elections.
It was inevitable given our current exodus from an Ice Age and in addition ...
Quite the opposite, we're suppose to go into a mini ice-age right now, and the average temperature trend instead of going down is going up.
Measuring temperature is one of the simplest measurement there is, you can do it by yourself if you really wanted to know.
"Average" global temperature means taking measurements (temperature) across the globe at various points several times per day and then calculating the average.
These measurement have been done by countless number of people in many (sometimes not very friendly) countries, later exchanged between the scientific organizations (yes, scientists mostly exchange data - even when they governments do not like each other much), so there are multiple copies of the measurements across decades stored in many countries across the globe.
Additionally scientist in many countries (unlike in the US) are payed fix salaries based on teaching students, having guaranteed time for research, they criticize each other a lot - as this peer criticism is the very foundation of the scientific methodology. I am yet to hear about a scientist supporting some faked data from a competitive laboratory not to mention country. Your suggestion is preposterous and I hope you will realize it and revise your sources.
Contrary to common believes, Earth climate is a complicated system, and despite that everybody can see the sky and feel the wind, not everybody is a specialist in forecasting the weather - it requires data and computational power, not to mention knowledge. My question, if some friendly radio host started to advise you in your very specialty based on some brief readings online - what would you think about it?
If the world was truly in some kind of runaway global warming dealie, this would be the WARMEST year on record. ...
No, it doesn't. As the answer to another "AC", to understand difference between long term and short term changes draw a sinusoidal curve at e.g. 45 degrees angle. Then look at the global average temperatures plot available online, compare it with CO2 levels.
As a bonus you can learn something about how the data are acquired, and how scientists forecast weather in short term and long term, also other things. Take yourself out of your comfort place and when questioning - first question yourself.
So, if it is the FOURTH warmest... does that mean it is getting cooler now?
No, it doesn't. From the article: January-September period for years 2015,2016,2017 and 2018 are four the warmest since data started to be recorded (1880).
2018 was not the warmest of the four, to better understand it draw a sinusoidal line at lets say 45 degree angle, you will see the difference between long term trend and short term fluctuations.
Not really, as far as I know the engine performs by itself, dancing to the music and singing written songs - it's not pre-choreographed and not pre-recorded.
This is what happens when you put a true entrapeneur, ...
How does it go with the $779 bln budged deficit in 2018 - being competitive does not exclude being broke.
Not only this, there are digitally created characters, who have holographic performances attracting huge crowds of fans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So any images of exoplanets, black holes or any surface except the mentioned above are artists impressions.
Well, technically, due to how physics work, it will never be possible to make an image ...
Of course, yet there are "images" online, hence mentioned.
Agree, Google used to be a good place to find information about something, now it's a good place to find companies selling the very "something".
I like it, the future repairman instead of filling holes will be trimming overgrown structures.
Also it might make combustion engines mandatory in the future.
That was better, at least funny.
Lol, omg, even if all the crap the Marxists ...
Does this contempt and calling names suppose to make your arguments stronger or is it just filling in the lack of substance?
They can write something, which does not make it true, to make something valid one has to provide some evidence. Are you telling me that disagreement about Star Wars is going to impact US society? Why would they spend resources on such a meaningless activity?
you would think that with all the video and images they show of europa, this wouldn't be a "might" or "scientists think". is everything nasa shows bullshit?
No, just it's worth to read descriptions under the images, they say if it's an artist impression or an actual photo.
For now humankind landed on (except Earth): Moon, Venus, Mars, asteroid Ryugu, asteroid Itokawa, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Saturn moon Titan, there were a few impactors, which I did not count, so any other pictures are taken from orbit sometimes just by flying by with a great speed, which makes any detail surface features not visible.
So any images of exoplanets, black holes or any surface except the mentioned above are artists impressions. There is a project though to take an image of a black hole's event horizon.
With Ray's force development speed by the end of the third installment she will have resurrected everybody, recreated Alderaan, wiped out all the bad and made the galaxy a paradise, when asked "How'd you do it?", she will answer "I don't know".
;-)
Agree, the whole article sounds bogus, like people have never argued about Star Wars vs Star Trek, Atari vs Commodore, Amiga vs PC, etc. Unless Russia has some kind of AI, which picks any topic automatically and trolls it just for the sake of doing so I'd say it's another "modern" style PR.
With regard to new SW, a good movie for me is always about characters, story and created world integrity, it's all gone, at best they are infantile.
4. The opposite case, for objects coming from deep space into the Solar system, or into galaxies, their acceleration is increasing so they should gain inertial mass by MiHsC and slow down anomalously, just like an inverted Pioneer anomaly, and of the same size (it will appear as though there’s unseen mass at the outer edge of the system).
It's interesting because just recently I read about detected anomaly in Oumuamua trajectory, which for now was attributed to not observed out-gassing, i.e. out-gassing, which was not seen, but had to happen - not sure though whether the effect would match the one predicted by QI (article didn't provide details about the anomaly).
Well, actually in this case it sounds fishy, what's the purpose - a training of new cadre?
H. G. Wells "The First Men in the Moon" comes to mind with gravity field dumpers :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From the article:
Swildensj, an employee at a small cloud computing startup, reportedly "spent $6,000 of his own money to launch a formal challenge to 936,"
The USPTO found that some claims replicated technology described in an earlier patent from lidar vendor Velodyne, ...
Shouldn't it be the job of the patent office to check new patent applications against existing patents or publications, like ... when applied and not when challenged?
Great, more bandwidth for my fridge. And once they run out of repositioning fuel there'll be 75 more pieces of space junk in orbit.
People partially have already commented, just as anonymous so here is my summary:
1. Satellites: nowadays technology allows for LEO (low Earth orbit) deployment of clusters of communication satellites, where there is still some drag from air molecules, which results in orbit decay, e.g. ISS has to boost its orbit regularly (also such orbits allow for low latency communication), additionally nowadays satellites are required to have either deorbiting capability or moving to so called "graveyard" orbits, where, even when decommissioned do not pose thread to other space assets.
2. Internet for everybody: maybe you live in an urban area, so having high bandwidth internet is nothing special, but there are rural places or undeveloped countries, where building infrastructure for high bandwidth internet is too expensive and many people do not have it, so having a global internet access is not only good for people, who do not have it, but also for humanity as a whole in case of any disasters or for automatic science data collectors. An example: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - not only we would've known where, but maybe even people could've been saved. Another example (less drastic) is Event Horizon Telescope, people take airplanes to carry TBs of data on hard-drives - in this case a proper bandwidth would be required.
I'm seriously considering traveling as freight next time. I'd have way more room and pay less.
I mean, if I get stacked like a sardine in a can with no room for my legs or my arms, I can as well call a spade a spade.
You know things can get even worse, you might be told that the seat you paid for was assigned to a higher priority customer, and better don't argue about your rights, they will not bother knocking teeth out to prove you're wrong, and the CEO will say "what's the fuss about, we asked politely 3 times first".
Yes, however there is also abundance of uranium and ready facilities to prepare uranium based fuel.
In detail, thorium is prevalent on land whilst uranium in oceans (estimated more in total than thorium) additionally considering existing infrastructure and equipment to mine/process and prepare power plant ready fuel rods and all the paperwork related to build a new power plant it is simply cheaper to build something close to existing solutions then to push for a novelty. Some government studies and research would be needed to brake the impasse.
An interesting design is the Traveling Wave Reactor being researched by TerraPower, they suppose to build a prototype in China.
Electric Vehicle Tax Credit is not a giveaway, works the same like mortgage interests tax credit - you do not pay part of the taxes you owe to the government if you:
- bought a house with mortgage and pay interests for it
- bought an electric vehicle
One does not get money, just pays less taxes in both cases.
US tax code has many items one can deduct either before (from income) or after (from own taxes), electric vehicle credit is one of many. I understand you might not like it - sent letters to your representatives about abolishing any tax deductions and accept the democratic principles US is based on, where not only your voice counts.