I hear all the time about how government protects people from corporations, and that's why we have to keep giving government more and more power. Holy shit, you mean they actually don't?
The AC above reminds me of the one time that Steve Jobs had a presentation that included a coffin on the stage. What he had in the coffin was Mac OS 9.
At Apple, they are aware of, but they don't concentrate on the competition. They focus on the product and the customers, and what others are doing is way down on the list of things to care about.
Adding general-purpose cores for video processing is barking up the wrong tree.
If your goal is to have a real-time HD video codec in a portable device, you really don't want to run that code on an ARM. What you want is dedicated hardware to perform the DCT, motion detection, and Golumb encoding.
When Montana threw in the towel and started enforcing speed limits, their highway fatalities doubled. Now, it's probably better to abandon the speed limits altogether than to sell speeding passes, but I'd say the guy's heart is in the right place.
Careful with the broad brush, there. I've met MBAs who were well-trained to run a business, and I've met others who just got their ticket punched from a "name brand" school who were somewhat worse than useless.
Why don't you take a moment to study a handful of societies
Why don't you take a brief hiatus from being a pompous, moralizing prick, and absorb the fact that I am far more familiar than you are with world history, and that's why I understand the futility of trying to legislate away anything that you don't like.
I understand of course why CL did this, it's a business after all, and they make their money from the real estate and job ads. It's not worth it to spend their shareholders' money litigating to defend themselves from a pack of rabid ambitious politicians.
I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes work because they enjoy being prostitutes.
So what? If they do it voluntarily, it's nobody's business but theirs and their customers'. The problems associated with prostitution are a consequence of trying to prohibit it, just like the War on Drugs.
Try being sexually harassed and discriminated against as a white male. Good luck with that - I hope you enjoy having your ass grabbed
If someone grabs your ass and you don't like it, tell them never to do it again. You only need to tell them once, because if it happens again, you're entirely justified in slapping them upside the head and saying "I told you not to do that. Try it again, and it will cost you some blood." The blood it costs can be financial or biological, your choice.
>I tried googling around to find what was behind the toucscreen technology of the iPAD but could not find enough info...and you probably won't. It's a trade secret.
Laughter isn't a rebuttal. Walter Block's arguments for private roads are comprehensive, and you've failed to show any example of a mistake on his part.
PZ is no idiot, but he does have a tendency to lash out at those who are, and occasionally also at those who aren't. I used to post on his blog fairly often, until it degenerated into a far-left echo chamber when he couldn't be bothered to require civility from his commenters. I also wouldn't describe him as being one of those high school pricks that you mention, although he certainly does tolerate and cheer on the ones who frequent his blog.
Kurzweil may or may not be right about the feasibility of AI, but it's a field he's worked in for decades, and one in which PZ has only tangential familiarity.
Nice try, but it does not follow that because some activity (like building roads) is done by government today, that it was always so, or that there is no other way for it to happen. Read and learn: A Future of Private Roads and Highways
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Oh, I'm sure that local Republicans would do the same thing if they were in the democrat's shoes here. Follow the money.
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I hear all the time about how government protects people from corporations, and that's why we have to keep giving government more and more power. Holy shit, you mean they actually don't?
-jcr
not focused on competitors at all those guys.. nooo.
Apple has about 34 thousand employees. How many of them do you think have anything at all to do with advertising?
-jcr
The AC above reminds me of the one time that Steve Jobs had a presentation that included a coffin on the stage. What he had in the coffin was Mac OS 9.
At Apple, they are aware of, but they don't concentrate on the competition. They focus on the product and the customers, and what others are doing is way down on the list of things to care about.
-jcr
Adding general-purpose cores for video processing is barking up the wrong tree.
If your goal is to have a real-time HD video codec in a portable device, you really don't want to run that code on an ARM. What you want is dedicated hardware to perform the DCT, motion detection, and Golumb encoding.
-jcr
It's government that caps the liability for oil spills and nuclear accidents. Want to try to tell me how that helps public safety?
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it will also make them look much worse on traffic accident statistics vs. other states.
Maybe not.
When Montana threw in the towel and started enforcing speed limits, their highway fatalities doubled. Now, it's probably better to abandon the speed limits altogether than to sell speeding passes, but I'd say the guy's heart is in the right place.
-jcr
Careful with the broad brush, there. I've met MBAs who were well-trained to run a business, and I've met others who just got their ticket punched from a "name brand" school who were somewhat worse than useless.
-jcr
Why don't you take a moment to study a handful of societies
Why don't you take a brief hiatus from being a pompous, moralizing prick, and absorb the fact that I am far more familiar than you are with world history, and that's why I understand the futility of trying to legislate away anything that you don't like.
-jcr
Prostitution control is about as effective as drug control and gun control.
That depends on your definition of "effect". Like the War on Drugs, the prohibition of prostitution is beneficial to politicians and bureaucrats.
-jcr
I understand of course why CL did this, it's a business after all, and they make their money from the real estate and job ads. It's not worth it to spend their shareholders' money litigating to defend themselves from a pack of rabid ambitious politicians.
-jcr
I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes work because they enjoy being prostitutes.
So what? If they do it voluntarily, it's nobody's business but theirs and their customers'. The problems associated with prostitution are a consequence of trying to prohibit it, just like the War on Drugs.
-jcr
it is the leaving alone of companies such as BP that worries me.
If you believe that government protects you from corporate malfeasance, I have a bridge to sell you.
-jcr
Try being sexually harassed and discriminated against as a white male. Good luck with that - I hope you enjoy having your ass grabbed
If someone grabs your ass and you don't like it, tell them never to do it again. You only need to tell them once, because if it happens again, you're entirely justified in slapping them upside the head and saying "I told you not to do that. Try it again, and it will cost you some blood." The blood it costs can be financial or biological, your choice.
-jcr
>I tried googling around to find what was behind the toucscreen technology of the iPAD but could not find enough info. ..and you probably won't. It's a trade secret.
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I can't read and learn as you asked originally
I'm not going to spoon-feed you, since you're obviously enjoying wallowing in your ignorance.
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Laughable
Laughter isn't a rebuttal. Walter Block's arguments for private roads are comprehensive, and you've failed to show any example of a mistake on his part.
-jcr
PZ is no idiot, but he does have a tendency to lash out at those who are, and occasionally also at those who aren't. I used to post on his blog fairly often, until it degenerated into a far-left echo chamber when he couldn't be bothered to require civility from his commenters. I also wouldn't describe him as being one of those high school pricks that you mention, although he certainly does tolerate and cheer on the ones who frequent his blog.
Kurzweil may or may not be right about the feasibility of AI, but it's a field he's worked in for decades, and one in which PZ has only tangential familiarity.
-jcr
It's funny, you seem to imply that because you have a low ID, your style of post is somehow "more correct" than mine,
I made no such claim. You're the one with the psychological problem that's making you bitch about something that's not your decision to make.
"I've been here longer, so I'm right, and you're wrong, newb" seems to be the gist of your rebuttal.
Rebuttal? What's to rebut? You bitch about something I do, I decline to conform to your demands. No rebuttal needed.
All I'm saying is it irritates the fuck out of me
Grow up and cope, sunshine.
-jcr
Nice try, but it does not follow that because some activity (like building roads) is done by government today, that it was always so, or that there is no other way for it to happen. Read and learn: A Future of Private Roads and Highways
-jcr
It wouldn't take stolen money to make it happen.
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It certainly sounds like an interesting field. I guess you're building on Norman Borlaug's work?
-jcr
Having a population where the great majority can read is a huge change from a century ago,
No, it's not. Most Americans could already read before schooling became mandatory.
-jcr
Twenty+ years of actual experience did more than enough effective teaching.
As I would expect. BTW, congratulations on your success; I hope you're enjoying your career as much as I'm enjoying mine.
-jcr
This likely would not be the case without government mandated schooling.
Nope. Our national literacy rate was better before the Puritans got their wish of herding everyone into conformity factories.
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