"UI" problems have been implicated in the crash of at least one Airbus airliners. The yoke had no feedback mechanism so the actions of the pilot are felt at the copilot's yoke. Hence the pilot and copilot could be taking opposite actions and not know it.
Boeing took the opposite approach - everything you do at one yoke is replicated on the other.
Personally, I like cars with manual controls. By touch you can tell how the heat is set, etc., without taking your eyes off the road. And if you do look, the settings are immediately obvious from the position of the controls.
They might as well be if this is ever implemented. When a regime decides to flout a treaty, the do it behind military controlled fences staffed by people under threat of death.
Arms control required positive verification and free access. It always fails when one party is actively tring to avoid inspection: see North Korea prior to their nuke tests.
When Adams wrote that, a lot of public records were still maintained on paper. That alone provided a huge natural barrier to intrusive searches, despite the fact that the information was technically public. Placing all this information online in a publicly searchable database creates the biggest invasion of privacy in history, yet the legal basis has not changed.
This kind of "app", although technically legal, really does nothing but expose voters to the potential for abuse or even violence. If I wanted my party affiliation known I would post signs supporting my favorite candidates.
Bands of roving thugs using these apps to break windows of all registered republicans, democrats, whatever, is unacceptable. And really, what else could it possibly be good for?
The immortality you describe assumes the necessity of a body to preserve consciousness, as opposed to an immortality in which the consciousness continues in some manner without a physical manifestation.
Advances in medicine and cybernetics could theoretically extend human life indefinitely, however it would clearly be the province of the super rich and powerful owing to the likely high cost of achieving such a state.
It's obvious that such people would use their extended lifetimes to permanently cement their grasp on wealth and power. Imagine an immortal Stalin with his boot on the neck of most of eastern Europe and Asia, forever.
In such a scenario it would be the obvious duty of all mere mortals to kill such people immediately.
You know, it isn't popular to say that the US does a good job at anything these days. Maybe it's even true, but the fact is we do a better job at running the internet than anyone else would or could.
Imagine an internet with China in control? The only possible outcome there is less freedom.
Fuck the UN. The US has guaranteed security for so much of the world for so long they think it's always been that way and that it happened all by itself as the result of good wishes.
The basic problem is how to store energy for when generation lags. This is the most expensive aspect of the so called green power systems and remains the knottiest problem.
Throw up all the solar panels you want but you still have to have capacity to run things after dark. Efficient storage is the stumbling block, not generation.
The root of all the trouble is the fact that we no longer seem to understand that the private sector has to lead. Government funds come from taxes and if you crush the private sector through taxation and regulation tax revenue dives. (Google "Laffer curve" if you need an explanation), You can spend all the tax money you want on research but if you kill the private sector you lose both revenue AND a huge alternate source of innovation that costs the taxpayer nothing.
The funeral shouldn't be for science but for the private sector.
And that is the heart of the problem. "Global warming" has become so politically charged that it is impossible for any climate scientist to publish contradicting data.
All because al gore wanted a way to make money by taxing your air.
When we started outsourcing jobs we also outsourced expertise. The US used to have a colossal pool of engineers, scientists and skilled workers. All that went overseas to china who, incidentally, understand this transfer of expertise and it's strategic importance.
We are left with a nation of unskilled workers, managers and clerks.
This. The falling sky proponents love to pretend that it's all a done deal yet the entire model fails to adequately account for previous warm periods, nor the fact that CO2 is merely plant food. (photosynthesis, how does it work?)
Even if you accept the premises that 1) the climate is warming and 2) that human produced CO2 is to blame, taking the entire thing a step farther to say that we can effectively mitigate the problem by radical geoengineering means is a step way beyond credibility. That we SHOULD do such a thing is absurd in the extreme.
The law of unintended consequences patiently waits.
That's just part of the process of the market adjusting to demand. Supply and demand affects any market, anywhere. The effect might take some time, even decades but it will have an effect. It doesn't matter what the market is - education is one of many examples. The recent housing bubble/collapse was a direct result of cheap money being made available through fanny may and other federal programs designed to make housing more affordable. The market reacted, prices exploded and when the bubble finally burst the people that got hurt disproportionately were the very ones the federal programs were designed to help - low income families.
The student loan fiasco is just another case where the feds pump money into a market and the market distorts. Bachelor's degrees are now roughly equivalent in esteem as were high school diplomas fifty years ago. They're far more expensive to obtain in terms of percentage of income than they used to be.
For the same reason they have such certainty about the things they think they "know". The whole global warming debate is a fascinating study of human psychology.
" A well educated electorate, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be abridged".
Now apply the cheap parlor tricks the anti-gunners use to parse that against private ownership of guns and see what you get.
The idea of communism killed far more people in the twentieth century than anything else except disease and old age. And they usually start by banning guns.
The really amazing thing is how they banned guns in the UK and it had no effect whatsoever on gun crime, in fact gun crime continues to rise.
They aren't really a military threat to anyone, at least not as a conventional military. It's doubtful they could produce reliable engines for this helicopter - even the chinese seem to have trouble with this.
Who knows what they'll do when they finally make a nuke, but that's another issue.
The main threat is their export of radical islamic revolution. This is a sideshow. Heck it might just be a dog and pony show and all they did was refurb an existing one.
"Papers, please! Pick up that can, citizen. You may not pass checkpoint until you pass government check!"
Amazing how many people are eager to throw themselves into the the arms of a totalitarian government. "No expectation of privacy" has morphed into "constant recording of activities".
"A well educated electorate, being necessary for the maintenance of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed".
Anyone who doesn't support registration and banning of books is a violent extremist bent on destroying our society. "Educated" clearly means believing what the State tells you is the truth.
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All good points, except there is really no reason why capable android phones can't come down in price enough to be competitive in that market.
"UI" problems have been implicated in the crash of at least one Airbus airliners. The yoke had no feedback mechanism so the actions of the pilot are felt at the copilot's yoke. Hence the pilot and copilot could be taking opposite actions and not know it.
Boeing took the opposite approach - everything you do at one yoke is replicated on the other.
Personally, I like cars with manual controls. By touch you can tell how the heat is set, etc., without taking your eyes off the road. And if you do look, the settings are immediately obvious from the position of the controls.
Menu systems are idiotic in cars.
They might as well be if this is ever implemented. When a regime decides to flout a treaty, the do it behind military controlled fences staffed by people under threat of death.
Arms control required positive verification and free access. It always fails when one party is actively tring to avoid inspection: see North Korea prior to their nuke tests.
When Adams wrote that, a lot of public records were still maintained on paper. That alone provided a huge natural barrier to intrusive searches, despite the fact that the information was technically public. Placing all this information online in a publicly searchable database creates the biggest invasion of privacy in history, yet the legal basis has not changed.
This kind of "app", although technically legal, really does nothing but expose voters to the potential for abuse or even violence. If I wanted my party affiliation known I would post signs supporting my favorite candidates.
Bands of roving thugs using these apps to break windows of all registered republicans, democrats, whatever, is unacceptable. And really, what else could it possibly be good for?
The immortality you describe assumes the necessity of a body to preserve consciousness, as opposed to an immortality in which the consciousness continues in some manner without a physical manifestation.
Advances in medicine and cybernetics could theoretically extend human life indefinitely, however it would clearly be the province of the super rich and powerful owing to the likely high cost of achieving such a state.
It's obvious that such people would use their extended lifetimes to permanently cement their grasp on wealth and power. Imagine an immortal Stalin with his boot on the neck of most of eastern Europe and Asia, forever.
In such a scenario it would be the obvious duty of all mere mortals to kill such people immediately.
I wonder if he completely ignored demographics - 1970 was a year the baby boomer hit their twenties. Do we have a similar demographic trend occurring?
And Plato can't be wrong?
You know, it isn't popular to say that the US does a good job at anything these days. Maybe it's even true, but the fact is we do a better job at running the internet than anyone else would or could.
Imagine an internet with China in control? The only possible outcome there is less freedom.
Fuck the UN. The US has guaranteed security for so much of the world for so long they think it's always been that way and that it happened all by itself as the result of good wishes.
The basic problem is how to store energy for when generation lags. This is the most expensive aspect of the so called green power systems and remains the knottiest problem.
Throw up all the solar panels you want but you still have to have capacity to run things after dark. Efficient storage is the stumbling block, not generation.
Yes, they use wisdom teeth because they're readily available. But really all the study says is "apples are not oranges".
The root of all the trouble is the fact that we no longer seem to understand that the private sector has to lead. Government funds come from taxes and if you crush the private sector through taxation and regulation tax revenue dives. (Google "Laffer curve" if you need an explanation), You can spend all the tax money you want on research but if you kill the private sector you lose both revenue AND a huge alternate source of innovation that costs the taxpayer nothing.
The funeral shouldn't be for science but for the private sector.
And that is the heart of the problem. "Global warming" has become so politically charged that it is impossible for any climate scientist to publish contradicting data.
All because al gore wanted a way to make money by taxing your air.
Of course it was economic. The only thing that kept it running as long as it did was national pride.
Creating a sonic boom over populated areas didn't help but the basic problem is the fact that it's so damned expensive to operate.
When we started outsourcing jobs we also outsourced expertise. The US used to have a colossal pool of engineers, scientists and skilled workers. All that went overseas to china who, incidentally, understand this transfer of expertise and it's strategic importance.
We are left with a nation of unskilled workers, managers and clerks.
Because that FIOS network? Verizon didn't build that.
This. The falling sky proponents love to pretend that it's all a done deal yet the entire model fails to adequately account for previous warm periods, nor the fact that CO2 is merely plant food. (photosynthesis, how does it work?)
Even if you accept the premises that 1) the climate is warming and 2) that human produced CO2 is to blame, taking the entire thing a step farther to say that we can effectively mitigate the problem by radical geoengineering means is a step way beyond credibility. That we SHOULD do such a thing is absurd in the extreme.
The law of unintended consequences patiently waits.
The point is, facebook "likes" are as meaningless as your relationships with most of the people on your "friends" list.
That's just part of the process of the market adjusting to demand. Supply and demand affects any market, anywhere. The effect might take some time, even decades but it will have an effect. It doesn't matter what the market is - education is one of many examples. The recent housing bubble/collapse was a direct result of cheap money being made available through fanny may and other federal programs designed to make housing more affordable. The market reacted, prices exploded and when the bubble finally burst the people that got hurt disproportionately were the very ones the federal programs were designed to help - low income families.
The student loan fiasco is just another case where the feds pump money into a market and the market distorts. Bachelor's degrees are now roughly equivalent in esteem as were high school diplomas fifty years ago. They're far more expensive to obtain in terms of percentage of income than they used to be.
All part of the laws of unintended consequences.
For the same reason they have such certainty about the things they think they "know". The whole global warming debate is a fascinating study of human psychology.
" A well educated electorate, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be abridged".
Now apply the cheap parlor tricks the anti-gunners use to parse that against private ownership of guns and see what you get.
The idea of communism killed far more people in the twentieth century than anything else except disease and old age. And they usually start by banning guns.
The really amazing thing is how they banned guns in the UK and it had no effect whatsoever on gun crime, in fact gun crime continues to rise.
All excellent points.
To distill it even further, how would we make unpopular decisions? Tyranny of the masses is not an effective form of government.
They aren't really a military threat to anyone, at least not as a conventional military. It's doubtful they could produce reliable engines for this helicopter - even the chinese seem to have trouble with this.
Who knows what they'll do when they finally make a nuke, but that's another issue.
The main threat is their export of radical islamic revolution. This is a sideshow. Heck it might just be a dog and pony show and all they did was refurb an existing one.
"Papers, please! Pick up that can, citizen. You may not pass checkpoint until you pass government check!"
Amazing how many people are eager to throw themselves into the the arms of a totalitarian government. "No expectation of privacy" has morphed into "constant recording of activities".
Why would you wish him either? Most people don't have any actual personal connections to him.
The thing that makes facebook (and the internet in general) kind of silly is the artificial way it bring us closer, without actually doing so.
"A well educated electorate, being necessary for the maintenance of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed".
Anyone who doesn't support registration and banning of books is a violent extremist bent on destroying our society. "Educated" clearly means believing what the State tells you is the truth.