Protecting everybody ? You mean protecting american interests. I dont see any mentions of american soldiers intervening in any african conflicts, except of course in northeast africa where oil has been found...
Sweden is more likely to follow the rules of EU commissions.
Exactly. As for what hes accused of, think of it this way : Having protected casual sex is not such a big thing. Having casual sex without a condom is. The fact that Assange is the kind of guy that would run and hide in an Ecuadorian embassy is why Interpol are involved in the first place. Assange has put pride in the fact that he has no fixed address and that he is "on the run", that in itself would make any prosecutor in any country reach for an international warrant.
Assange is a guy who, along with a few other people, had this great idea of leveraging the Streisand effect into a tool for revealing things governments do not want publicly known. Public outrage at things that governments didnt want known ensued and Assanges ego eventually reached critical mass and imploded into a singularity. As with all singularitys one cannot see the singularity itself, but the accretion disc made up from paranoia, bullshit and general delusions of personal grandure is quite visible even at astronomical distances.
Or, most criminals actually have some morals/smarts. Its a big step from robbing someones house to killing every potential witness. Comitting crimes does not automatically make you a homicidal maniac, guns or no guns.
OTOH, if Microsoft was openly working against Android phones and for instance obstructing their use they would have the antitrust people up their ass really quick. Repeat offenders tend to go to the top of the suspect list.
Yes. Everyone in Sweden is assigned to one of these camps when they turn four and spend the next sixteen years there. Thats why Sweden is such a model nation. Oh, and we read from "Das Kapital" and the "Communist Manifesto" every morning to properly indoctrinate our citizens.
Nope. Money is a human construct, a way to keep score. Might as well use bits of rock. Gold only has real value as an industrial raw material. I fully expect that within my lifetime some enterpreneurial people will be mining gold in space and then the value of gold will drop like the proverbial rock all the way down the gravity well.
For many years gold prices, like diamonds, was kept artificially high by limiting production. One big asteroid towed to earth orbit (provided that it is of the right composition) would wipe out the gold markets.
Im all for a beer based currency!
Sold well? Who bought it ? I hardly know anyone anymore who owns a Nokia phone, just eighteen months ago half my friends had one, hell I had a N900 myself. I had high hopes for the N900, sadly Nokia didnt...
Im a teacher and IT IS a useful tool just like many other things. As several intelligent people in this thread has pointed out, the most important factor for learning is the teacher and the way the students work is organised. Feedback and feedforward, formative assessment and engaged and enthusiastic teachers are the best way of improving learning. Computers are a good tool both for me as a teacher and for my students. Im not a fan of the 1-1 projects that pop up everywhere, a computer is in my experience best used as a collaborative tool where two to four students use it for writing, making presentations and doing research. I work with kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade (9-11 years old here in Sweden). Its not the technology in itself, but what you do with it that has an impact.
Start with "Enders Game" and you will be hooked. Orson Scott Card is a good writer, "Enders Game", "Speaker for the dead" and "Xenocide" are great SciFi.
Seconded. Peter Watts writes strange stuff full of ideas. Its believable and thoroughly disturbing.It reads like a mix of William Gibsons early stuff, a biology primer and Richard Morgans Takeshi Kovacs books.
In my experience theres ways of making things run smoother IT-wise. Im a teacher at a school with about 45 staff. We have our IT-support outsourced to a company through the local council and we have a very stable system. Things work just fine most of the time but getting something changed is a glacial process. There is little flexibility and most of our software is the same as five years ago.
Five years ago though things were not as smooth. We had a generally high incidence of support tickets, there was a lot of frustration and anger directed at the IT people. A large portion of the support tickets were simple things attributable to user error or lack of information. So, my boss and I decided to try and do something to fix this. Today almost all support tickets are placed by me. If someone has a problem they tell me and I check it out first. Im pretty knowledgable about IT and able to tell when its something I can fix and when its something I need to pass on. The benefits of this is that if the issue comes from user error, a loose connector, broken mouse or keyboard or something like that it gets fixed at once and I teach the user how to avoid this in the future. I hardly ever have to reinsert loose connectors these days. I spend maybe an hour a week on average dealing with IT stuff and thats less than before when everyone made their own calls. It also means that when I place a ticket I include screenshots if possible, the machine ID, an error report thats relatively verbose and how fast it needs to be fixed.
The not so good part is that it still takes at least two weeks to get software installed, often a month, and that our IT people still havent learned to call me before coming out so I can sort out access to the wiring closets and so on. The funny part is that their infrastructure people are usually better at this than the support guys. Most of the tickets I place now are attributable to stuff IT has done without telling me, like messing around with the printers, "upgrading" the email servers so that noone can log in and so on. Frustrating, to say the least.
And you find nothing wrong with government agencies tracking visitors to sites THEY consider terrorist ? It been shown quite clearly that in most parts of the world its a quite convenient excuse for surveillance. Just break out the big fat rubber stamp labeled "Terrorist leanings" and use it on your political enemies or assorted dissidents. The US showed the world how to do it and the rest followed suit. Good work!
The brain isnt a monolithic structure, it has many different parts that are tied together by the brainstem. Its very possible that we eventually can start making decent copies of these parts and construct a brainstem analog to tie them together. The interesting thing is that they have an artificial neuron, the rest as they say is engineering.
SpaceX has shown a profit for most of its existence and has a long list of orders for its rockets. If NASA got its head out of its ass, or more correctly if your congress and senate wasnt so fixated on pork barrel contracts, there would be a proper space programme in no time at the same cost or lower.
The wear and tear on the body is such that even if you can increase the lifespan to a theoretical 150 years you wouldnt be very healthy for the last 90 or so years. You also need something that adresses the wear on the body. Our hearts arent made for 150 years of use and we build up various plaques and toxins in our bodies as time goes by. Even if we all lived under controlled and ideal circumstances the last seven decades would be pretty much seven decades of being eighty.
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Just watch some Star Trek TNG episodes and see everyone use thin and flat touchscreen computing devices with rounded corners.
Protecting everybody ? You mean protecting american interests. I dont see any mentions of american soldiers intervening in any african conflicts, except of course in northeast africa where oil has been found...
Sweden is more likely to follow the rules of EU commissions.
Exactly. As for what hes accused of, think of it this way : Having protected casual sex is not such a big thing. Having casual sex without a condom is. The fact that Assange is the kind of guy that would run and hide in an Ecuadorian embassy is why Interpol are involved in the first place. Assange has put pride in the fact that he has no fixed address and that he is "on the run", that in itself would make any prosecutor in any country reach for an international warrant.
Assange is a guy who, along with a few other people, had this great idea of leveraging the Streisand effect into a tool for revealing things governments do not want publicly known. Public outrage at things that governments didnt want known ensued and Assanges ego eventually reached critical mass and imploded into a singularity. As with all singularitys one cannot see the singularity itself, but the accretion disc made up from paranoia, bullshit and general delusions of personal grandure is quite visible even at astronomical distances.
Or, most criminals actually have some morals/smarts. Its a big step from robbing someones house to killing every potential witness. Comitting crimes does not automatically make you a homicidal maniac, guns or no guns.
OTOH, if Microsoft was openly working against Android phones and for instance obstructing their use they would have the antitrust people up their ass really quick. Repeat offenders tend to go to the top of the suspect list.
Amen, brother.
It obviously did since youre capable of trolling the internets with impunity...
Yes. Everyone in Sweden is assigned to one of these camps when they turn four and spend the next sixteen years there. Thats why Sweden is such a model nation. Oh, and we read from "Das Kapital" and the "Communist Manifesto" every morning to properly indoctrinate our citizens.
Nope. Money is a human construct, a way to keep score. Might as well use bits of rock. Gold only has real value as an industrial raw material. I fully expect that within my lifetime some enterpreneurial people will be mining gold in space and then the value of gold will drop like the proverbial rock all the way down the gravity well.
For many years gold prices, like diamonds, was kept artificially high by limiting production. One big asteroid towed to earth orbit (provided that it is of the right composition) would wipe out the gold markets. Im all for a beer based currency!
In any capitalist system money always equals truth.
Yes, in Sweden the smallest coin is 1 SEK these days, equivalent to about 15 cents. Exactly what can you buy for less than 15 cents ?
Ok, that may be so in Italy, but here in Sweden Nokias arent exactly in demand. Iphones and Androids are what people buy these days.
Sold well? Who bought it ? I hardly know anyone anymore who owns a Nokia phone, just eighteen months ago half my friends had one, hell I had a N900 myself. I had high hopes for the N900, sadly Nokia didnt...
Im a teacher and IT IS a useful tool just like many other things. As several intelligent people in this thread has pointed out, the most important factor for learning is the teacher and the way the students work is organised. Feedback and feedforward, formative assessment and engaged and enthusiastic teachers are the best way of improving learning. Computers are a good tool both for me as a teacher and for my students. Im not a fan of the 1-1 projects that pop up everywhere, a computer is in my experience best used as a collaborative tool where two to four students use it for writing, making presentations and doing research. I work with kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade (9-11 years old here in Sweden). Its not the technology in itself, but what you do with it that has an impact.
Start with "Enders Game" and you will be hooked. Orson Scott Card is a good writer, "Enders Game", "Speaker for the dead" and "Xenocide" are great SciFi.
Seconded. Peter Watts writes strange stuff full of ideas. Its believable and thoroughly disturbing.It reads like a mix of William Gibsons early stuff, a biology primer and Richard Morgans Takeshi Kovacs books.
In my experience theres ways of making things run smoother IT-wise. Im a teacher at a school with about 45 staff. We have our IT-support outsourced to a company through the local council and we have a very stable system. Things work just fine most of the time but getting something changed is a glacial process. There is little flexibility and most of our software is the same as five years ago.
Five years ago though things were not as smooth. We had a generally high incidence of support tickets, there was a lot of frustration and anger directed at the IT people. A large portion of the support tickets were simple things attributable to user error or lack of information. So, my boss and I decided to try and do something to fix this. Today almost all support tickets are placed by me. If someone has a problem they tell me and I check it out first. Im pretty knowledgable about IT and able to tell when its something I can fix and when its something I need to pass on. The benefits of this is that if the issue comes from user error, a loose connector, broken mouse or keyboard or something like that it gets fixed at once and I teach the user how to avoid this in the future. I hardly ever have to reinsert loose connectors these days. I spend maybe an hour a week on average dealing with IT stuff and thats less than before when everyone made their own calls. It also means that when I place a ticket I include screenshots if possible, the machine ID, an error report thats relatively verbose and how fast it needs to be fixed.
The not so good part is that it still takes at least two weeks to get software installed, often a month, and that our IT people still havent learned to call me before coming out so I can sort out access to the wiring closets and so on. The funny part is that their infrastructure people are usually better at this than the support guys. Most of the tickets I place now are attributable to stuff IT has done without telling me, like messing around with the printers, "upgrading" the email servers so that noone can log in and so on. Frustrating, to say the least.
And you find nothing wrong with government agencies tracking visitors to sites THEY consider terrorist ? It been shown quite clearly that in most parts of the world its a quite convenient excuse for surveillance. Just break out the big fat rubber stamp labeled "Terrorist leanings" and use it on your political enemies or assorted dissidents. The US showed the world how to do it and the rest followed suit. Good work!
You forgot bombing Iran. Its their turn next, you know.
The brain isnt a monolithic structure, it has many different parts that are tied together by the brainstem. Its very possible that we eventually can start making decent copies of these parts and construct a brainstem analog to tie them together. The interesting thing is that they have an artificial neuron, the rest as they say is engineering.
Secure doesnt equate useful.
SpaceX has shown a profit for most of its existence and has a long list of orders for its rockets. If NASA got its head out of its ass, or more correctly if your congress and senate wasnt so fixated on pork barrel contracts, there would be a proper space programme in no time at the same cost or lower.
The wear and tear on the body is such that even if you can increase the lifespan to a theoretical 150 years you wouldnt be very healthy for the last 90 or so years. You also need something that adresses the wear on the body. Our hearts arent made for 150 years of use and we build up various plaques and toxins in our bodies as time goes by. Even if we all lived under controlled and ideal circumstances the last seven decades would be pretty much seven decades of being eighty.