Yeah that is my nightmare scenario right there: comics market declining and these companies deciding to focus on cranking out more godawful superhero crap for the silver screen.
betting that its core business strengths could ultimately improve people's health -- or at least make health care more efficient
For a lot of tech companies, core strengths primarily include raping customers for their data. And then apply "AI" to turn that data into "insights" that they can sell to other companies keen on raping those customers some more. Sounds like a great fit for health care.
Maybe that's a bit cynical. But medical data is something to be particularly careful with, and a lot of these tech companies don't exactly have a great track record of respecting privacy.
What I'm doing is not blaming the officer for believing in that half of a second the person was about to open fire, nor blame the officer for not waiting the tenth of a second or less to hear and see someone get shot or not.
You should blame the officer for that. He shot an innocent civilian who is now dead because cops think their safety comes first. It shouldn't. Reacting to an obviously armed guy clearly in the progress of doing something criminal is not at all the same thing as reacting to a civilian in a situation that is not at all clear, where it isn't even certain whether the guy is armed or not. In that case cops should take due care, take cover, and give the guy all benefit of the doubt. That does mean that the guy might get off a shot (with a rather low likelilood of hitting anything), putting the cops at risk. Well, that's what they are getting paid for.
Swat guys will not ring the door before taking sufficient cover, or else they are doing it wrong. And if they have decent cover, they have absolutely no business being on a hair trigger, shooting when they think the guy might be reaching for a gun.
Also: police work isn't even in the top 10 of most dangerous professions, so there's not that much call in general to shoot first before assessing the situation when dealing with a CIVILIAN (not a "perp", not a criminal, bt a suspect at best). Or perhaps being a cop in the USA isn't all that dangerous because they are so trigger happy. Don't get me wrong, being a cop is a difficult job and I have a lot of respect for the people who put themselves on the line every day. But being a cop, putting yourself on the line means just that: you take risks in order to protect the populace. If you are dealing with a member of the public, their safety comes first, not yours. Be careful but keep the damn gun holstered until there is a reason to draw it... like they do in normal countries.
Just get your own domain and create throwaway addresses that you rotate on a regular basis. As a bonus, you don't have to change your actual email address if you switch providers or if your online email service provider goes under. Been doing that since '97.
Wasn't that the guy who did hold them up for ransom... to the tune of $10 or so (the renewal fee), and with the condition that Gates himself signed the check?
So Youtube misses out on revenue they need to run their service. And you can make that right by getting a Youtube Red subscription, which allows you to download videos (to some degree) and remove the ads. Except that "YouTube Red isn’t available in Netherlands". Cry me a fucking river, Google.
Biomass burning is a carbon emitter but it's pretty much all recently captured carbon, instead of fossil fuels which releases carbon that was locked up millions of years ago. Burning biomass can be considered carbon-neutral if you regrow whatever it is you burned,
Maybe not so much net neutrality (although we need that too), but more of a case to start treating ISPs like utilities, with strict rules on how and why your service may be suspended.
That might be an important factor. My parents (a few years too old to be truly called boomers) both had university degrees and held pretty good jobs, but until I was 10 or so we lived in a pretty modest house, my mum would often be busy evenings adjusting clothes for me and my brothers, or making clothing for herself. My dad made a bunch of furniture himself. We always got nice toys, but some of those he made himself instead of buying them. We got secondhand bikes, and my dad drove secondhand cars. Back then having 1 holiday trip a year was the norm; if you went both skiing and someplace sunny, you were *rich*. We had pretty cheap holidays: going camping, or visiting my grandparents in Spain (which by the way was awesome). One time my grandma kicked in some cash and we were able to afford a skiing trip too, a rare treat. And none of this was exceptional; most kids in our neighborhood grew up in similar circumstances.
So my parents saved... and they were finally able to afford that huge home in a great neighborhood (and put us through college). Nowadays such thrift seems unbelievable; most people spend money without a thought.
After those 8 years, it seems people were not so much pissed at Obama but rather somewhat desillusioned. The crap economy didn't help (even if that wasn't exactly the president's fault). So people were ready for change, especially in getting some new blood and new politics into the White House. The Democrats proffered a candidate who for many people was the very embodiment of old, inbred and elitist politics. The Republicans had their bull in a china shop. In a country looking for a new broom, this was a choice between the devil you know and the devil you don't know.
Seems it's past time for that. At least Russian trolls have to work in the open. I'm much more worried about the amount of unseen influence FB, Google and Twitter can exert on public opinion simply by manipulating ranking in search results and timelines.
I think you're right... there is some foreign propaganda, but how much influence has it really had on recent elections? It's interesting how loudly people decry Russian interference in our affairs, yet don't seem to want to know how far that influence extends.
Maybe because the Russians are a convenient scapegoat for whatever is wrong with politics. Or they are a great excuse to curb free speech: our minister of the interior is adamant that 'something' needs to be done to combat trolls, by which she means not just the Russian ones but any troll spreading 'fake news'. She cites Russian influence in our own country but when pressed for examples could name only one single (and insignificant) website... When people - even the ones who should know better - talk about fake news, often as not they seem to mean "stuff we don't want to hear"
With something as volatile and devoid of underlying value as cryptocurrency, I doubt this is a smart strategy. With a bit of bad luck you'll trigger a 'bank run' i.e. massive panic selling. After that it is unlikely that there will be sa strong recovery, and your remaining coins will be worth bugger all.
More thrust (or prolonged thrust, which requires additional fuel / reaction mass to be sent up) gets you to Mars faster. Not a big deal for regularly scheduled supply flights, but very important for the ship carrying the actual meatbags.
I don't know if that's really such a bad thing. Kids like playing with toys and characters they see on TV, which is fine if the toys themselves stimulate their creativity or imagination...like Lego. And kids seem to like these shows even if they don't care for the toys; my nephews and nieces loved the Lego Ninja cartoons but they never asked for them on their christmas lists, they always wanted Lego from the 'generic' or Technic range or other toys. The shows that I've seen don't push the toys onto kids either, it's ok kiddie programming as long as you don't fill their day with it.
There was a recent study about sticking something at Mars' L1 point to deflect the solar wind around the planet. Not easy to do but not impossible either at our current technical level.
Security problems, or trust problems? Who's to say that the owners of the exchange didn't make off with the coins themselves? It's awfully tempting, isn't it? You don't all that many resources to start an exchange, you can suck in new clients with some promotion or discount, and when there's enough money in the bank, you arrange to have some of it "stolen". Not all of it, like these guys you make sure people get back most of their money so they won't look too closely, but you still declare bankrupcy and fold, because you weren't all that interested in actually running an exchange. And no one will be the wiser.
Not to mention a gigantic waste of power. BTC processing is already consuming more power than Ireland, and energy per transaction is around 250kWh. CO2 emission per transaction is about the same as a 1000km trip by car. Think about how nicely that is going to scale up.
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Yeah that is my nightmare scenario right there: comics market declining and these companies deciding to focus on cranking out more godawful superhero crap for the silver screen.
betting that its core business strengths could ultimately improve people's health -- or at least make health care more efficient
For a lot of tech companies, core strengths primarily include raping customers for their data. And then apply "AI" to turn that data into "insights" that they can sell to other companies keen on raping those customers some more. Sounds like a great fit for health care.
Maybe that's a bit cynical. But medical data is something to be particularly careful with, and a lot of these tech companies don't exactly have a great track record of respecting privacy.
What I'm doing is not blaming the officer for believing in that half of a second the person was about to open fire, nor blame the officer for not waiting the tenth of a second or less to hear and see someone get shot or not.
You should blame the officer for that. He shot an innocent civilian who is now dead because cops think their safety comes first. It shouldn't. Reacting to an obviously armed guy clearly in the progress of doing something criminal is not at all the same thing as reacting to a civilian in a situation that is not at all clear, where it isn't even certain whether the guy is armed or not. In that case cops should take due care, take cover, and give the guy all benefit of the doubt. That does mean that the guy might get off a shot (with a rather low likelilood of hitting anything), putting the cops at risk. Well, that's what they are getting paid for.
Swat guys will not ring the door before taking sufficient cover, or else they are doing it wrong. And if they have decent cover, they have absolutely no business being on a hair trigger, shooting when they think the guy might be reaching for a gun.
Also: police work isn't even in the top 10 of most dangerous professions, so there's not that much call in general to shoot first before assessing the situation when dealing with a CIVILIAN (not a "perp", not a criminal, bt a suspect at best). Or perhaps being a cop in the USA isn't all that dangerous because they are so trigger happy. Don't get me wrong, being a cop is a difficult job and I have a lot of respect for the people who put themselves on the line every day. But being a cop, putting yourself on the line means just that: you take risks in order to protect the populace. If you are dealing with a member of the public, their safety comes first, not yours. Be careful but keep the damn gun holstered until there is a reason to draw it... like they do in normal countries.
Just get your own domain and create throwaway addresses that you rotate on a regular basis. As a bonus, you don't have to change your actual email address if you switch providers or if your online email service provider goes under. Been doing that since '97.
Wasn't that the guy who did hold them up for ransom... to the tune of $10 or so (the renewal fee), and with the condition that Gates himself signed the check?
Seems like any definition of "filmmaker" would unfairly exclude some people.
That's the whole point.
So Youtube misses out on revenue they need to run their service. And you can make that right by getting a Youtube Red subscription, which allows you to download videos (to some degree) and remove the ads. Except that "YouTube Red isn’t available in Netherlands". Cry me a fucking river, Google.
Biomass burning is a carbon emitter but it's pretty much all recently captured carbon, instead of fossil fuels which releases carbon that was locked up millions of years ago. Burning biomass can be considered carbon-neutral if you regrow whatever it is you burned,
Maybe not so much net neutrality (although we need that too), but more of a case to start treating ISPs like utilities, with strict rules on how and why your service may be suspended.
It’s even more expensive in Linden dollars.
Sounds like you failed to learn an important life lesson your mum was trying to teach you.
Also: diabetes & obesity.
That might be an important factor. My parents (a few years too old to be truly called boomers) both had university degrees and held pretty good jobs, but until I was 10 or so we lived in a pretty modest house, my mum would often be busy evenings adjusting clothes for me and my brothers, or making clothing for herself. My dad made a bunch of furniture himself. We always got nice toys, but some of those he made himself instead of buying them. We got secondhand bikes, and my dad drove secondhand cars. Back then having 1 holiday trip a year was the norm; if you went both skiing and someplace sunny, you were *rich*. We had pretty cheap holidays: going camping, or visiting my grandparents in Spain (which by the way was awesome). One time my grandma kicked in some cash and we were able to afford a skiing trip too, a rare treat. And none of this was exceptional; most kids in our neighborhood grew up in similar circumstances.
So my parents saved... and they were finally able to afford that huge home in a great neighborhood (and put us through college). Nowadays such thrift seems unbelievable; most people spend money without a thought.
After those 8 years, it seems people were not so much pissed at Obama but rather somewhat desillusioned. The crap economy didn't help (even if that wasn't exactly the president's fault). So people were ready for change, especially in getting some new blood and new politics into the White House. The Democrats proffered a candidate who for many people was the very embodiment of old, inbred and elitist politics. The Republicans had their bull in a china shop. In a country looking for a new broom, this was a choice between the devil you know and the devil you don't know.
Seems it's past time for that. At least Russian trolls have to work in the open. I'm much more worried about the amount of unseen influence FB, Google and Twitter can exert on public opinion simply by manipulating ranking in search results and timelines.
I think you're right... there is some foreign propaganda, but how much influence has it really had on recent elections? It's interesting how loudly people decry Russian interference in our affairs, yet don't seem to want to know how far that influence extends.
Maybe because the Russians are a convenient scapegoat for whatever is wrong with politics. Or they are a great excuse to curb free speech: our minister of the interior is adamant that 'something' needs to be done to combat trolls, by which she means not just the Russian ones but any troll spreading 'fake news'. She cites Russian influence in our own country but when pressed for examples could name only one single (and insignificant) website... When people - even the ones who should know better - talk about fake news, often as not they seem to mean "stuff we don't want to hear"
With something as volatile and devoid of underlying value as cryptocurrency, I doubt this is a smart strategy. With a bit of bad luck you'll trigger a 'bank run' i.e. massive panic selling. After that it is unlikely that there will be sa strong recovery, and your remaining coins will be worth bugger all.
Maybe peeps liquidated some coins today to so some last Christmas shopping this weekend.
More thrust (or prolonged thrust, which requires additional fuel / reaction mass to be sent up) gets you to Mars faster. Not a big deal for regularly scheduled supply flights, but very important for the ship carrying the actual meatbags.
I don't know if that's really such a bad thing. Kids like playing with toys and characters they see on TV, which is fine if the toys themselves stimulate their creativity or imagination...like Lego. And kids seem to like these shows even if they don't care for the toys; my nephews and nieces loved the Lego Ninja cartoons but they never asked for them on their christmas lists, they always wanted Lego from the 'generic' or Technic range or other toys. The shows that I've seen don't push the toys onto kids either, it's ok kiddie programming as long as you don't fill their day with it.
I was going for Blockchain McBlockface
There was a recent study about sticking something at Mars' L1 point to deflect the solar wind around the planet. Not easy to do but not impossible either at our current technical level.
Security problems, or trust problems? Who's to say that the owners of the exchange didn't make off with the coins themselves? It's awfully tempting, isn't it? You don't all that many resources to start an exchange, you can suck in new clients with some promotion or discount, and when there's enough money in the bank, you arrange to have some of it "stolen". Not all of it, like these guys you make sure people get back most of their money so they won't look too closely, but you still declare bankrupcy and fold, because you weren't all that interested in actually running an exchange. And no one will be the wiser.
Not to mention a gigantic waste of power. BTC processing is already consuming more power than Ireland, and energy per transaction is around 250kWh. CO2 emission per transaction is about the same as a 1000km trip by car. Think about how nicely that is going to scale up.
No surprise. Smart execs take more risks going backwards.