I guess if you're in a bar, you can tell the owner/manager to get rid of the person with the camera. If they don't then you can just leave. The owner/manager of the bar can make their decision if it's more in their business interests to allow of disallow Google Glass. There's almost always better solutions than violence.
Again, like I said. People shouldn't resort to assault and battery.
But they shouldn't have to simply "accept" this either.
Seriously. We're already living in a panopticon society, being recorded by the government and private business almost 24x7. Now we have a bunch of people OPENLY wearing cameras on their heads, recording our every moment in public too, whether we want it or not. I can understand a certain modicum of hostility. Granted, nobody should EVER be PHYSICALLY attacked. But the people behind Google Glass, as well as the users of the product need to understand that this product is going to be pushing people's buttons.
That third dimension also adds two NEW vectors that have to be constantly monitored. Remember, it's not as if only you and a potential obstacle are going to be the only things in the sky.
I don't trust automobiles enough to give up control of them when they only have to deal with two dimensions of travel. Adding a third dimension of travel is pretty much right outta there.
You could say it adds yet another "dimension" to my distrust.
The problem with the VAST level-spread is that, even with millions of players, low levels in WoW are a lonely wasteland most of the time for new players.
While I tend to solo-play in MMOs fairly often, I occasionally get a hankering for some group-based ass-kickery. So, if I wanted to play with my friends, I could either invest however many hours essentially soloing a character to catch up, or I could drop $60 and have rough equivalency. They'll still probably outclass me as they have a better handle on their powers having leveled up and gotten used to them, as well as better classes of gear. But, at least I'd be in the ballpark.
Wow. NONE of you actually read the post I replied to.
Taking space elevators to their logical conclusion though would see them being the bases of super towers that reach into space. The cables end up being the foundation supports of the tower.
I was specifically talking about a tower, as opposed to merely a cable-based elevator.
Yeah, if you want a materials strength nightmare, forget about the elevator cable. Think about a foundation strong enough to withstand the pressures of a 100-200 mile high tower pressing down. Now think about whether the bedrock UNDERNEATH that foundation is going to be able to support that... Now think about the earthquakes that much pressure on the Earth's crust and mantle are going to set off (and hopefully the foundation is resilient enough to handle THAT too!
You got a problem with living in such an awesome place chummer?
My two troll friends here would like to have a "business meeting" with you to discuss some "strategy". Just ignore the hammers in their hands (and stop trying to cover your knees).
Basically it's "Uncle Ray is afraid of death. He's also agnostic/atheist. So he doesn't really draw any comfort from religious mythology surrounding death. So all this stuff he's imagining is basically him creating his own stories to stave off his fear of death."
When the ghostwriter has created a legitimate outlet that could save the free world, then he can whine a little. Until then, he and everyone else should just shut the f*** up.
Or, howsabout he be allowed his say like everyone else? Wikileaks, as has been noted, has been about destroying censorship. and informing people. What you just proposed is the very definition of censorship. Congrats on graduating Hypocrisy 101!
We ALL have flaws - at least Assange makes up for them by BEING AWESOME.
Why is pointing out someone's flaws all that problematic. Assange is a self-obsessed douchebag. There's millions of them running around the planet nowadays.
Basically articles like this inform people. So that if they're dealing with said douchebags, they don't go into the exchange blind, and expecting the person to act like a rational person.
Basically the inertia of massive infrastructure across a large, non-homogeneously settled area. The insane costs and regulatory nightmare of laying new infrastructure. Oh yeah, and the greed and apathy of the few major providers, standing atop their government authorized monopolies.
How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?
Uh. Simple! Don't buy cars where the default is "drive by wire". Plain and simple. In the event of a catastrophic failure like this, you want the HUMAN in control of the vehicle. Period.
So they basically went for a "feel good" solution with ZERO teeth that's only purpose is to duplicate functionality in the patent challenge space already fulfilled by other, better run sites that DON'T have to deal with government bullshit and won't fold the second a sufficiently large donation is made?
Yup. That's pretty much OhBlahBlah's entire presidency in microcosm there.
Played City of Heroes till shutdown (still angry at NCSoft). Barely playing Champions Online. Cryptic and its various owners have pretty much screwed the pooch there. Kickstarted City of Titans. But probably won't really see anything for 3 years there. Keeping my expectations there realistic.
Nowhere did I say the issue was one-dimensional. That was you, putting words into my mouth and trying to skew the scope of the issue and maximize argument potential while minimally helpful in working towards a working, palatable solution.
Yes, the climate IS changing. Anyone denying that the climate is changing pretty much has blinders on. NO, we're NOT going to render the planet uninhabitable tomorrow. Acting like we're going to wake up at the end of this month and it's going to be 150 in the shade and only get hotter is unwarranted. Yes, we, as a species, need to live cleaner in a multitude of ways. Yeah, humans have been pretty frickin' nasty to the environment in the last thousand or so years, and in the last 2-300 years especially. NO, we should NOT simply dump millions/billions into trying whatever harebrained "band-aid" idea happens to float into the public consciousness today without extensive study. We need to KNOW that any massive changes we try to impose are going to work how we want and NOT further damage the environment. Yes, there are going to be changes in how people live. It's inevitable. But not ending human civilization in a heat crisis is probably worth it (depends on how I'm feeling about humanity on a given day). NO, we should NOT be reverting to living in caves, eating grass and rooting for grubs. And we really need to start shooting dickheads who scream about how horrible others are to the environment, yet are first class environmental nightmares themselves.
Yet, when a specific locality talks about an unusually warm spot of weather, we have people screaming "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
The problem is, there's too damn much noise at BOTH edges of the issue and it's completely drowning out the center. There's been WAY too much alarmist bullshit injected into the discussion, and it simply distorts said discussion away from the facts of the matter.
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I guess if you're in a bar, you can tell the owner/manager to get rid of the person with the camera. If they don't then you can just leave. The owner/manager of the bar can make their decision if it's more in their business interests to allow of disallow Google Glass. There's almost always better solutions than violence.
Again, like I said. People shouldn't resort to assault and battery.
But they shouldn't have to simply "accept" this either.
Seriously. We're already living in a panopticon society, being recorded by the government and private business almost 24x7.
Now we have a bunch of people OPENLY wearing cameras on their heads, recording our every moment in public too, whether we want it or not.
I can understand a certain modicum of hostility. Granted, nobody should EVER be PHYSICALLY attacked. But the people behind Google Glass, as well as the users of the product need to understand that this product is going to be pushing people's buttons.
I've never trusted it.
Ditto.
That third dimension also adds two NEW vectors that have to be constantly monitored.
Remember, it's not as if only you and a potential obstacle are going to be the only things in the sky.
Howsabout this.
I don't trust automobiles enough to give up control of them when they only have to deal with two dimensions of travel.
Adding a third dimension of travel is pretty much right outta there.
You could say it adds yet another "dimension" to my distrust.
The problem with the VAST level-spread is that, even with millions of players, low levels in WoW are a lonely wasteland most of the time for new players.
While I tend to solo-play in MMOs fairly often, I occasionally get a hankering for some group-based ass-kickery. So, if I wanted to play with my friends, I could either invest however many hours essentially soloing a character to catch up, or I could drop $60 and have rough equivalency. They'll still probably outclass me as they have a better handle on their powers having leveled up and gotten used to them, as well as better classes of gear. But, at least I'd be in the ballpark.
Howsabout FUCK NO!
Wow. NONE of you actually read the post I replied to.
Taking space elevators to their logical conclusion though would see them being the bases of super towers that reach into space. The cables end up being the foundation supports of the tower.
I was specifically talking about a tower, as opposed to merely a cable-based elevator.
Yeah, if you want a materials strength nightmare, forget about the elevator cable.
Think about a foundation strong enough to withstand the pressures of a 100-200 mile high tower pressing down.
Now think about whether the bedrock UNDERNEATH that foundation is going to be able to support that...
Now think about the earthquakes that much pressure on the Earth's crust and mantle are going to set off (and hopefully the foundation is resilient enough to handle THAT too!
Oh wait! Lemme get my unobtainium!
The only thing that'll survive our universe?
Taxes.
You got a problem with living in such an awesome place chummer?
My two troll friends here would like to have a "business meeting" with you to discuss some "strategy".
Just ignore the hammers in their hands (and stop trying to cover your knees).
Bah. There's only two things the dead have to fear. Decay and necrophilia.
I was MASSIVELY bummed out when I read it this morning.
Gonna miss his deadpan affect. It just made all the insane things going on around him (or happening to him) even funnier.
Basically it's "Uncle Ray is afraid of death. He's also agnostic/atheist. So he doesn't really draw any comfort from religious mythology surrounding death. So all this stuff he's imagining is basically him creating his own stories to stave off his fear of death."
"arse"
An alternative spelling of "ass" (or vice-versa).
Basically she's saying that he's a groper.
When the ghostwriter has created a legitimate outlet that could save the free world, then he can whine a little. Until then, he and everyone else should just shut the f*** up.
Or, howsabout he be allowed his say like everyone else? Wikileaks, as has been noted, has been about destroying censorship. and informing people.
What you just proposed is the very definition of censorship.
Congrats on graduating Hypocrisy 101!
We ALL have flaws - at least Assange makes up for them by BEING AWESOME.
Why is pointing out someone's flaws all that problematic. Assange is a self-obsessed douchebag. There's millions of them running around the planet nowadays.
Basically articles like this inform people. So that if they're dealing with said douchebags, they don't go into the exchange blind, and expecting the person to act like a rational person.
Basically the inertia of massive infrastructure across a large, non-homogeneously settled area.
The insane costs and regulatory nightmare of laying new infrastructure.
Oh yeah, and the greed and apathy of the few major providers, standing atop their government authorized monopolies.
While I'm sure Marvel is okay and all, I don't want to play as "Spiderman-12,432,927".
I want to play my OWN hero with my own build-out and setup.
Basically Marvel Heroes is the antithesis of CoH and pretty much holds zero appeal to me.
How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?
Uh. Simple! Don't buy cars where the default is "drive by wire". Plain and simple. In the event of a catastrophic failure like this, you want the HUMAN in control of the vehicle. Period.
So they basically went for a "feel good" solution with ZERO teeth that's only purpose is to duplicate functionality in the patent challenge space already fulfilled by other, better run sites that DON'T have to deal with government bullshit and won't fold the second a sufficiently large donation is made?
Yup. That's pretty much OhBlahBlah's entire presidency in microcosm there.
Can someone just fly a bomb into every TSA HQ and end this idiocy already?
Played City of Heroes till shutdown (still angry at NCSoft).
Barely playing Champions Online. Cryptic and its various owners have pretty much screwed the pooch there.
Kickstarted City of Titans. But probably won't really see anything for 3 years there. Keeping my expectations there realistic.
The main problem is, too many people are playing at "Little Dutch Boy".
And no, this problem is NOT as simple as 2+2=4. I'm sorry, it just isn't. Anyone trying to make it out as that simple is misleading you.
It's a heavily multi-faceted problem with no "one true way" as a given solution for just about any of said facets.
Nowhere did I say the issue was one-dimensional.
That was you, putting words into my mouth and trying to skew the scope of the issue and maximize argument potential while minimally helpful in working towards a working, palatable solution.
Yes, the climate IS changing. Anyone denying that the climate is changing pretty much has blinders on.
NO, we're NOT going to render the planet uninhabitable tomorrow. Acting like we're going to wake up at the end of this month and it's going to be 150 in the shade and only get hotter is unwarranted.
Yes, we, as a species, need to live cleaner in a multitude of ways. Yeah, humans have been pretty frickin' nasty to the environment in the last thousand or so years, and in the last 2-300 years especially.
NO, we should NOT simply dump millions/billions into trying whatever harebrained "band-aid" idea happens to float into the public consciousness today without extensive study. We need to KNOW that any massive changes we try to impose are going to work how we want and NOT further damage the environment.
Yes, there are going to be changes in how people live. It's inevitable. But not ending human civilization in a heat crisis is probably worth it (depends on how I'm feeling about humanity on a given day).
NO, we should NOT be reverting to living in caves, eating grass and rooting for grubs. And we really need to start shooting dickheads who scream about how horrible others are to the environment, yet are first class environmental nightmares themselves.
Yet, when a specific locality talks about an unusually warm spot of weather, we have people screaming "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
The problem is, there's too damn much noise at BOTH edges of the issue and it's completely drowning out the center.
There's been WAY too much alarmist bullshit injected into the discussion, and it simply distorts said discussion away from the facts of the matter.