So, why can't we just query them for their contents?
(I'm an AI researcher by day.)
It's a very good idea, and something that many researchers have thought about. The problem is that it's very difficult to do, and so far no one's been able to figure out a good way to do it.
The cerebral cortex is composed of "columns", where each column is about the thickness of a human hair. If you could peel the cortex off and lay it flat, it would be about as thick as a business card. To all appearances, the cortex is composed of identical columns, with some slight variations for I/O columns and such.
Each column contains roughly 100 neurons in a handful of types. Any individual neuron makes between 2000 and 15000 connections with other neurons, and some neurons in a column make connections with neurons in other columns.
So you have 100 cells in a column the thickness of a human hair and length which is the thickness of a business card.
It's difficult to make a wire thin enough to contact one neuron, it's impossible to manoeuvre such a wire to get it in place to touch one neuron, it has to have insulation everywhere except the tip to avoid signals from other neurons, and the very faint signals have to be amplified close to the source to avoid noise.
It's just about impossible to map the connections between neurons because there are so many of them and the connections are much *much* smaller than the nerves themselves. Also, you have to do this without killing the nerve, and killing other nerves you have to go through to get the connections.
And this has to be done while the organism is living, and keeping it living while drilling into the head cavity is a trick in itself (and dealing with the resulting pain, blood loss, &c.). You can get some information from non-mammals (such as sea worms), but then none of those have a mammalian cortex to study.
Every once in awhile I read about new techniques using fiber optics and related technologies, but there's still the issue of routing the sensor (whatever it may be) to the neurons in a way that doesn't chop through other nerves.
One technology I read about has a pad with tiny needles laid down on the cortex. The needles can be made using chip fabrication technology, and you can have amplifiers on the chip at the base of the needles... but this still can only be applied to the *surface* of the cortex, and only connects to those nerves which are physically at the top of the column, and not the ones inside.
All in all, it's an extremely difficult problem that no one's figured out yet.
You have no right to a internet connection or access to facebook while in an armed standoff with the police, especially when they were serving an entirely valid warrant..
Erm... I don't believe that's correct.
Unless I'm mistaken, you have *every* right unless it's specifically forbidden by law.
Or has that changed? Admittedly, it's been a long time since civics class...
A long time ago, a man named Randy Weaver barricaded himself in his remote Northern Idaho cabin against federal agents, who wanted him to infiltrate the Aryan Nations. Weaver had refused, fearing that the Aryan Nations knew he was not a white supremacist and would kill him.
The siege was widely reported in the news media at the time. Police of all stripe described Mr. Weaver as a white supremacist, racist, and all sorts of other names. In reality, Mr. Weaver was opposed to white supremacy and its movement.
During the siege, a helicopter carrying a large object was seen flying towards the cabin. But here's the actual quote from the time:
Mr. Gritz said that he and a local real estate agent were in the area near the cabin. They saw a helicopter approach with a large object hanging from the helicopter -- like one of the fire-fighting helicopters.
Both men were out in the open and Mr. Gritz was sure that they were spotted by the men aboard the helicopter. The helicopter changed direction and left the area.
Mr. Gritz suggested that just possibly the Weaver cabin was about to have a fire -- I can spectulate how it would have been reported -- "White supremacist kills wife, children, and self with arsenal of napalm bombs and flamethrowers! Federal agents look on in horror, wait for rest of arsenal to explode."
I personally remember Mr. Gritz being interviewed at the time on camera by someone famous (perhaps it was Morely Safer), and my memory of his verbal account matches the one quoted above.
I'm uncomfortable with this "turn off all social media" sort of action, because it also turns off the victim's ability to call for help, give their side of the story, and perhaps prevent law enforcement from telling a one-sided narrative.
We've recently seen how law enforcement's version of events don't track with video camera footage of events.
I'm very much in favor of keeping all channels of information open.
It keeps both sides honest.
(*) Weaver was later awarded 3.1 million dollars for the death of his son and wife, and the government admitted no guilt in the matter.
Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews?
Yes I do. And the Pulitzer-Prize-winning site Politifact confirms the extent of his habitual lying.
Here's politifact dilligently checking Jeff Sessions' comment "there are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year,".
[politifact:] The number of immigrants illegally in the country is staying the same or getting smaller. We rate Sessions’ statement False.
Let's go see what Wikipedia says about illegal immigration:
[DHS, from Wikipedia] Numbers of new illegal immigrants per year crossing the border illegally are not directly countable, and are estimated from the number who are caught trying. For FY 2015, DHS reported 337,117 apprehensions. [3] Using an estimated catch rate of 33%, the number crossing without detection would be 510,000 per year (337,000 / 0.67).
So, he's basically citing DHS numbers and being conservative, yet Politifact determined it was "false".
Additionally, note that the previous paragraph is not in the current version of the Wikipedia article, it was removed *after* Sessions' speech!
I took the trouble to look at the edit history right after the speech (wondering myself how many illegals come into this country each year), and noted that the page had not been substantially edited in over a month, and that paragraph had been there for quite a long time.
So I don't really see Politifact as a neutral observer any more.
I mean, they didn't even *bother* to look at Wikipedia pages that are available when they write their results!
What other things do they get wrong, and do they have a hidden agenda?
No insults. It is the truth. Trump is a fool and you are a bigger fool for following him. He doesn't give a shit about you. He thinks you are a fool too, but a useful one.
You keep using that word - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Apparently the Clinton foundation took in tons of donation money in return for letting the Russians get access to advanced technology.
From that article:
“The Clintons, they get their donations and speaking fees in the millions of dollars. The Russians get access to advanced US technology. The tech companies [that participated in the reset, including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft] get special access to the Russian market and workforce.
“But the American people get nothing. In fact, we get a rival — Russia — with enhanced technological capabilities. At best, that makes them a tougher competitor [in legitimate commerce],” Schweizer said.
“At worst, they get a more robust military, with technologies that we helped develop, and that can be sold to our enemies.”
Wait until the RNC completely collapses after the disaster Trump has brought to the party. Now he is saying that the election is going to be rigged. This casts doubt on the entire electoral process in the US. What a scumbag. He needs to quit to save himself from further embarrassment.
I dunno, looking at the way the DNC violated FEC rules in order to beat Sanders, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they paid to rig the elections.
Remember those Trump protestors? The ones starting fights at Trump rallies? DNC paid staffers.
Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews? Mostly made up.
The Democrats are spewing a deluge of lies and misdirection at Trump, because it's all they got. Trump beats Hillary on pretty-much every political position, and the voters know it.
Keep with the insults, we need the public to get tired of this and see it for what it really is: the last ditch efforts of a morally bankrupt campaign.
(Here's a good one that was top news yesterday: Trump having a conversation with the devil. Republicans should totally start throwing insults back at Clinton, because that's what the election is all about!)
The Canadian-German TV series "Lexx" had that as well in the first episode, but in that case the perverted meme was perverted even more when the harvested organs were not used for implants but fed to an organic machine. Dick Cheney kind of reminds me of the villain running the ATF in a parallel Earth near the end of the series, played by Malcolm McDowell.
Lexx got even worse with the concept.
One episode had a scientist who had burned out his liver and kidneys, and would seek out other people and *use* their organs. His body had tubes ending in large-bore syringes, and he would insert the syringes into other peoples' bodies and use their liver and kidneys for a few hours to filter his own body's by-products.
*That* was one helluva creepy, disturbing, and totally creative new type of villain.
Zev at one point called him a "monster". He responded: "Monster? No. I'm a parasite."
Nothing is a deal breaker for Trump fans. Trump could rape the father of one of his supporters and the supporter would cheer. Or at least blame Hillary.
Job security will be the overriding issue for this election. Clinton wants to expand globalism and give citizenship to illegals, adding 17 million new job seekers, while Trump wants to move the illegals out of the country and renegotiate some of the global agreements.
Let me put it in terms you might understand.
Ruk: THAT was the equation. EXISTENCE!... SURVIVAL... must cancel out... programming!
You underestimate the impressive levels of cognitive dissonance practiced by Trump supporters. . . (watch them rant against this post with their one free hand. ..)
The biggest issue in this election will be job security. Some 75 million US households (about half of all the workforce) cannot cover a surprise $400 expense, and 76% of all Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
On one side we have Clinton, who wants to expand US globalization and also give citizenship to illegal aliens, which will dump 17 million new job seekers into the market overnight.
On the other side we have Trump, who wants to move the illegals out of the country and prevent them from coming back, and renegotiate some of our globai agreements.
If you think any other issue is more important, then by all means vote for her.
But if you have concerns over job uncertainty, then Trump's the way to go.
That's not cognitive dissonance, it's called "prioritizing".
"Cuomo said that people on the sex offender registry are now banned from "downloading, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any internet enabled gaming activities, including Pokemon Go."
Yeah, I don't think that's legal on the face of it unless it's part of the offender's court order, and I don't think a Governor has the power to do that in any case.
The obvious one, pointed out, is possible cancellation of noise you really need to hear instead of ignore, like something collapsing, someone calling you, etc. (especially when walking the site instead of at the desk)
I have a set of high-end Bose noise-cancelling headphones that I use occasionally.
They're made for airplane pilots, so they to cancel loud noises and noise in certain frequency ranges, but don't cancel the ranges of human speech. Talking while driving is pretty clear - the phones cancel out all the engine and road noise. (Which makes them less useful to me, because I wanted them to cancel *all* noise in the environment - to get some sleep at Burning Man.)
I don't know about construction specifically, but you can still hear all ambient noise through the phones - it's just attenuated.
Not that you should use these in construction, but the cancellation is not that bad or complete.
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Audio Peril Sensitive Headphones have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They work by completely tuning out at the first sign of danger, thus preventing you from hearing anything that might alarm you.
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They work by turning completely dark at the first sign of danger, thus preventing you from seeing anything that might alarm you. This does, however, mean that you see absolutely nothing, including where you're going.
I didn't previously respond to your post because I want to encourage you and posters like you. Don't get discouraged when other people jump on what you wrote.
You raise a valid point, and it should be discussed. I'd like to see you get an account and repost this, and any other rational points you want to make, so that we can discuss these issues.
Clinton will come up again as a topic, let's take this up at that time.
For now, I unreservedly admit that your post is good and you've completed the challenge.
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
That's an interesting point.
I think the Russians did the country an enormous favour by bringing the actions of the Democratic party to light. It's like Snowden outing all the illegal activity of the intelligence organizations.
I'd be completely OK if they, or some other country, did the same thing to the Republicans. It would only shine a light on the corruption, and help bring us to a more fair political process.
And we also have to consider recent events. Our own Federal Election Commission won't investigate massive money laundering that effectively neutralized Sanders campaign funds, or working directly against the Sanders campaign.
Also, the GCHQ was hacking around the Arab Spring, and the US deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran and put the Shah in power.
We can't blame Russia for doing what every other country is doing, and that we are doing as well.
The Democrats would have every right to be upset except that they were involved in massive wrongdoing!
America is a liberal country - Love it or leave it.
Point 1: America is 38% conservative and 24% Liberal. (source).
Point 2: "Love it or leave it" is effectively "shut up and sit down". It calls for a suppression of free speech typical of tyrannical, abusive dictatorship. Turkey can say "love it or leave it" with some justification. America cannot.
That criminal witch is untouchable [...]
Insults are the domain of the Democrats, have some couth. Republicans don't generally use insult as a substitute for rational thinking, that's a Democratic play.
We could easily build stories about Hillary being Marie Antoinette ("let them eat cake"), or Lucrecia Borgia (for all Clinton's opponents who have died under mysterious circumstances), or even Lilith ("Mother of demons"). Some of them would even have a rational basis. It would be a counterpoint to Trump being Hilter, Stalin, or Cthulhu.
But we don't, because we believe the head rules the heart. We have smart people here at Slashdot, we don't have to descend to common name calling.
"Heart rules the head", IOW emotional thinking, is what Democrats do.
We don't *need* to spout lies or insults.
Don't descend to their level.
(And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)
Someone commented about how much Elon Musk is worshipped on this site, so I took a moment (a few days ago) to look up some stats.
Look at the bullet points for Jeff Bezos:
In 1994, he launched Amazon as an online book retailer. A lifelong Star Trek fan, Bezos launched Blue Origin spaceflight and aerospace firm in 2000, and more than a decade later, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper in 2013.
Thiel co-founded PayPal [...]. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site [...] Thiel serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co-founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co-founder and chairman of Valar Ventures.
Looking at Peter Thiel's wikipedia page, he gives relatively small sums to charity: a hundred thousand here, a half mil there. He started a small AI company and throws money at anti-aging research. Example: Thiel pledged $500,000 to the new Seasteading Institute.
He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity, co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal. As of June 2016, he has an estimated net worth of US$12.7 billion, making him the 83rd wealthiest person in the world.[20]
Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multiplanetary" by setting up a human colony on Mars.
He has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.
Forcing countries like Japan and South Korea to build nuclear weapons because his resolve to continue US's longstanding defense of its allies is not going to make a better world.
Then say that.
Printing lies and insults doesn't make your case, but it to be the only thing the Democrats can do.
Policing the world so he can prove how much of a big shot he is. Expect more of the same when he gets elected. Nothing but a third world dictator bully.
You do realize that's the opposite of what he wants to do, right?
He wants the US to spend less time, effort, and money patrolling the world, and wants other countries to take up the slack.
But go ahead and throw insults. It is, after all, the only thing Democrats do.
The Superdelegates were for Hillary, but we probably would have had a situation where Bernie got the popular majority but Hillary got the nomination, if the DNC had played neutral.
Don't lose track of the big issue.
You make some good points, there's lots of insightful analysis that can be done, but the big issue is...
Despite any analysis, he *might* have won the nomination. That $61 million extra given to Hillary by the Democrats is a lot of money, and represents good-faith donations of hard-earned cash gone to waste.
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So, why can't we just query them for their contents?
(I'm an AI researcher by day.)
It's a very good idea, and something that many researchers have thought about. The problem is that it's very difficult to do, and so far no one's been able to figure out a good way to do it.
The cerebral cortex is composed of "columns", where each column is about the thickness of a human hair. If you could peel the cortex off and lay it flat, it would be about as thick as a business card. To all appearances, the cortex is composed of identical columns, with some slight variations for I/O columns and such.
Each column contains roughly 100 neurons in a handful of types. Any individual neuron makes between 2000 and 15000 connections with other neurons, and some neurons in a column make connections with neurons in other columns.
So you have 100 cells in a column the thickness of a human hair and length which is the thickness of a business card.
It's difficult to make a wire thin enough to contact one neuron, it's impossible to manoeuvre such a wire to get it in place to touch one neuron, it has to have insulation everywhere except the tip to avoid signals from other neurons, and the very faint signals have to be amplified close to the source to avoid noise.
It's just about impossible to map the connections between neurons because there are so many of them and the connections are much *much* smaller than the nerves themselves. Also, you have to do this without killing the nerve, and killing other nerves you have to go through to get the connections.
And this has to be done while the organism is living, and keeping it living while drilling into the head cavity is a trick in itself (and dealing with the resulting pain, blood loss, &c.). You can get some information from non-mammals (such as sea worms), but then none of those have a mammalian cortex to study.
Every once in awhile I read about new techniques using fiber optics and related technologies, but there's still the issue of routing the sensor (whatever it may be) to the neurons in a way that doesn't chop through other nerves.
One technology I read about has a pad with tiny needles laid down on the cortex. The needles can be made using chip fabrication technology, and you can have amplifiers on the chip at the base of the needles... but this still can only be applied to the *surface* of the cortex, and only connects to those nerves which are physically at the top of the column, and not the ones inside.
All in all, it's an extremely difficult problem that no one's figured out yet.
You have no right to a internet connection or access to facebook while in an armed standoff with the police, especially when they were serving an entirely valid warrant..
Erm... I don't believe that's correct.
Unless I'm mistaken, you have *every* right unless it's specifically forbidden by law.
Or has that changed? Admittedly, it's been a long time since civics class...
A long time ago, a man named Randy Weaver barricaded himself in his remote Northern Idaho cabin against federal agents, who wanted him to infiltrate the Aryan Nations. Weaver had refused, fearing that the Aryan Nations knew he was not a white supremacist and would kill him.
The siege was widely reported in the news media at the time. Police of all stripe described Mr. Weaver as a white supremacist, racist, and all sorts of other names. In reality, Mr. Weaver was opposed to white supremacy and its movement.
During the siege, a helicopter carrying a large object was seen flying towards the cabin. But here's the actual quote from the time:
Mr. Gritz said that he and a local real estate agent were in the area near the cabin. They saw a helicopter approach with a large object hanging from the helicopter -- like one of the fire-fighting helicopters.
Both men were out in the open and Mr. Gritz was sure that they were spotted by the men aboard the helicopter. The helicopter changed direction and left the area.
Mr. Gritz suggested that just possibly the Weaver cabin was about to have a fire -- I can spectulate how it would have been reported -- "White supremacist kills wife, children, and self with arsenal of napalm bombs and flamethrowers! Federal agents look on in horror, wait for rest of arsenal to explode."
I personally remember Mr. Gritz being interviewed at the time on camera by someone famous (perhaps it was Morely Safer), and my memory of his verbal account matches the one quoted above.
I'm uncomfortable with this "turn off all social media" sort of action, because it also turns off the victim's ability to call for help, give their side of the story, and perhaps prevent law enforcement from telling a one-sided narrative.
We've recently seen how law enforcement's version of events don't track with video camera footage of events.
I'm very much in favor of keeping all channels of information open.
It keeps both sides honest.
(*) Weaver was later awarded 3.1 million dollars for the death of his son and wife, and the government admitted no guilt in the matter.
Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews?
So, yes, I do remember his extensive bad-mouthing of many people over the past 9 months or so. Thanks for asking.
You're remembering the press reports, not what he actually said.
Dog down to the truth - you'll get there eventually.
Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews?
Yes I do. And the Pulitzer-Prize-winning site Politifact confirms the extent of his habitual lying.
Here's politifact dilligently checking Jeff Sessions' comment "there are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year,".
[politifact:] The number of immigrants illegally in the country is staying the same or getting smaller. We rate Sessions’ statement False.
Let's go see what Wikipedia says about illegal immigration:
[DHS, from Wikipedia] Numbers of new illegal immigrants per year crossing the border illegally are not directly countable, and are estimated from the number who are caught trying. For FY 2015, DHS reported 337,117 apprehensions. [3] Using an estimated catch rate of 33%, the number crossing without detection would be 510,000 per year (337,000 / 0.67).
So, he's basically citing DHS numbers and being conservative, yet Politifact determined it was "false".
Additionally, note that the previous paragraph is not in the current version of the Wikipedia article, it was removed *after* Sessions' speech!
I took the trouble to look at the edit history right after the speech (wondering myself how many illegals come into this country each year), and noted that the page had not been substantially edited in over a month, and that paragraph had been there for quite a long time.
So I don't really see Politifact as a neutral observer any more.
I mean, they didn't even *bother* to look at Wikipedia pages that are available when they write their results!
What other things do they get wrong, and do they have a hidden agenda?
No insults. It is the truth. Trump is a fool and you are a bigger fool for following him. He doesn't give a shit about you. He thinks you are a fool too, but a useful one.
You keep using that word - I do not think it means what you think it means.
And this just came in.
Apparently the Clinton foundation took in tons of donation money in return for letting the Russians get access to advanced technology.
From that article:
“The Clintons, they get their donations and speaking fees in the millions of dollars. The Russians get access to advanced US technology. The tech companies [that participated in the reset, including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft] get special access to the Russian market and workforce.
“But the American people get nothing. In fact, we get a rival — Russia — with enhanced technological capabilities. At best, that makes them a tougher competitor [in legitimate commerce],” Schweizer said.
“At worst, they get a more robust military, with technologies that we helped develop, and that can be sold to our enemies.”
Sad.
Wait until the RNC completely collapses after the disaster Trump has brought to the party. Now he is saying that the election is going to be rigged. This casts doubt on the entire electoral process in the US. What a scumbag. He needs to quit to save himself from further embarrassment.
I dunno, looking at the way the DNC violated FEC rules in order to beat Sanders, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they paid to rig the elections.
Remember those Trump protestors? The ones starting fights at Trump rallies? DNC paid staffers.
Remember Trump making his hats in China? Complete and total fabrication.
Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews? Mostly made up.
The Democrats are spewing a deluge of lies and misdirection at Trump, because it's all they got. Trump beats Hillary on pretty-much every political position, and the voters know it.
Keep with the insults, we need the public to get tired of this and see it for what it really is: the last ditch efforts of a morally bankrupt campaign.
(Here's a good one that was top news yesterday: Trump having a conversation with the devil. Republicans should totally start throwing insults back at Clinton, because that's what the election is all about!)
The Canadian-German TV series "Lexx" had that as well in the first episode, but in that case the perverted meme was perverted even more when the harvested organs were not used for implants but fed to an organic machine.
Dick Cheney kind of reminds me of the villain running the ATF in a parallel Earth near the end of the series, played by Malcolm McDowell.
Lexx got even worse with the concept.
One episode had a scientist who had burned out his liver and kidneys, and would seek out other people and *use* their organs. His body had tubes ending in large-bore syringes, and he would insert the syringes into other peoples' bodies and use their liver and kidneys for a few hours to filter his own body's by-products.
*That* was one helluva creepy, disturbing, and totally creative new type of villain.
Zev at one point called him a "monster". He responded: "Monster? No. I'm a parasite."
Definitely shudder-worthy.
Note, Trump has all his "Make American Great Again" swag made outside the USA, along with his suits, and almost everything else.
You might want to check snopes and other sources before you post things.
It's not terribly difficult, and will prevent other from calling you out as a liar.
Okay, admittedly I'm not a doctor, so can someone answer a quick question for me?
With what conceivable mechanism would electrical stimulation of nerves help with the management of chronic diabetes?
Nothing is a deal breaker for Trump fans. Trump could rape the father of one of his supporters and the supporter would cheer. Or at least blame Hillary.
Job security will be the overriding issue for this election. Clinton wants to expand globalism and give citizenship to illegals, adding 17 million new job seekers, while Trump wants to move the illegals out of the country and renegotiate some of the global agreements.
Let me put it in terms you might understand.
Ruk: THAT was the equation. EXISTENCE!... SURVIVAL... must cancel out... programming!
(source)
You underestimate the impressive levels of cognitive dissonance practiced by Trump supporters. . . (watch them rant against this post with their one free hand. . .)
The biggest issue in this election will be job security. Some 75 million US households (about half of all the workforce) cannot cover a surprise $400 expense, and 76% of all Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
On one side we have Clinton, who wants to expand US globalization and also give citizenship to illegal aliens, which will dump 17 million new job seekers into the market overnight.
On the other side we have Trump, who wants to move the illegals out of the country and prevent them from coming back, and renegotiate some of our globai agreements.
If you think any other issue is more important, then by all means vote for her.
But if you have concerns over job uncertainty, then Trump's the way to go.
That's not cognitive dissonance, it's called "prioritizing".
You might find this article interesting.
In any event, if you think any issue is more important than illegal immigrant amnesty, feel free to vote for that other candidate.
Specifically, amnesty that will dump 17 million new job seekers into the economic market.
If you're secure in your job, and don't think you'll have trouble finding a new one if needed, then by all means vote for her.
"Cuomo said that people on the sex offender registry are now banned from "downloading, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any internet enabled gaming activities, including Pokemon Go."
Yeah, I don't think that's legal on the face of it unless it's part of the offender's court order, and I don't think a Governor has the power to do that in any case.
Ah, Summer. Your first witch hunt.
The obvious one, pointed out, is possible cancellation of noise you really need to hear instead of ignore, like something collapsing, someone calling you, etc. (especially when walking the site instead of at the desk)
I have a set of high-end Bose noise-cancelling headphones that I use occasionally.
They're made for airplane pilots, so they to cancel loud noises and noise in certain frequency ranges, but don't cancel the ranges of human speech. Talking while driving is pretty clear - the phones cancel out all the engine and road noise. (Which makes them less useful to me, because I wanted them to cancel *all* noise in the environment - to get some sleep at Burning Man.)
I don't know about construction specifically, but you can still hear all ambient noise through the phones - it's just attenuated.
Not that you should use these in construction, but the cancellation is not that bad or complete.
Peril sensitive headphones, FTW!
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Audio Peril Sensitive Headphones have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They work by completely tuning out at the first sign of danger, thus preventing you from hearing anything that might alarm you.
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They work by turning completely dark at the first sign of danger, thus preventing you from seeing anything that might alarm you. This does, however, mean that you see absolutely nothing, including where you're going.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)
I didn't previously respond to your post because I want to encourage you and posters like you. Don't get discouraged when other people jump on what you wrote.
You raise a valid point, and it should be discussed. I'd like to see you get an account and repost this, and any other rational points you want to make, so that we can discuss these issues.
Clinton will come up again as a topic, let's take this up at that time.
For now, I unreservedly admit that your post is good and you've completed the challenge.
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
That's an interesting point.
I think the Russians did the country an enormous favour by bringing the actions of the Democratic party to light. It's like Snowden outing all the illegal activity of the intelligence organizations.
I'd be completely OK if they, or some other country, did the same thing to the Republicans. It would only shine a light on the corruption, and help bring us to a more fair political process.
And we also have to consider recent events. Our own Federal Election Commission won't investigate massive money laundering that effectively neutralized Sanders campaign funds, or working directly against the Sanders campaign.
Also, the GCHQ was hacking around the Arab Spring, and the US deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran and put the Shah in power.
We can't blame Russia for doing what every other country is doing, and that we are doing as well.
The Democrats would have every right to be upset except that they were involved in massive wrongdoing!
America is a liberal country - Love it or leave it.
Point 1: America is 38% conservative and 24% Liberal. (source).
Point 2: "Love it or leave it" is effectively "shut up and sit down". It calls for a suppression of free speech typical of tyrannical, abusive dictatorship. Turkey can say "love it or leave it" with some justification. America cannot.
That criminal witch is untouchable [...]
Insults are the domain of the Democrats, have some couth. Republicans don't generally use insult as a substitute for rational thinking, that's a Democratic play.
We could easily build stories about Hillary being Marie Antoinette ("let them eat cake"), or Lucrecia Borgia (for all Clinton's opponents who have died under mysterious circumstances), or even Lilith ("Mother of demons"). Some of them would even have a rational basis. It would be a counterpoint to Trump being Hilter, Stalin, or Cthulhu.
But we don't, because we believe the head rules the heart. We have smart people here at Slashdot, we don't have to descend to common name calling.
"Heart rules the head", IOW emotional thinking, is what Democrats do.
We don't *need* to spout lies or insults.
Don't descend to their level.
(And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)
Someone commented about how much Elon Musk is worshipped on this site, so I took a moment (a few days ago) to look up some stats.
Look at the bullet points for Jeff Bezos:
In 1994, he launched Amazon as an online book retailer. A lifelong Star Trek fan, Bezos launched Blue Origin spaceflight and aerospace firm in 2000, and more than a decade later, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper in 2013.
Now look at the bullet points for Peter Thiel:
Thiel co-founded PayPal [...]. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site [...] Thiel serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co-founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co-founder and chairman of Valar Ventures.
Looking at Peter Thiel's wikipedia page, he gives relatively small sums to charity: a hundred thousand here, a half mil there. He started a small AI company and throws money at anti-aging research. Example: Thiel pledged $500,000 to the new Seasteading Institute.
Now look at the bullet points for Elon Musk:
He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity, co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal. As of June 2016, he has an estimated net worth of US$12.7 billion, making him the 83rd wealthiest person in the world.[20]
Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multiplanetary" by setting up a human colony on Mars.
He has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.
And then we have the recent Slashdot story about amazon, and it turns out that Amazon is a cruel, soul-devouring workplace.
No comment, just thought I'd point that out.
Bullet points are interesting.
Forcing countries like Japan and South Korea to build nuclear weapons because his resolve to continue US's longstanding defense of its allies is not going to make a better world.
Then say that.
Printing lies and insults doesn't make your case, but it to be the only thing the Democrats can do.
Apropos of nothing...
Just how hard is it to disable one of these $600,000 mobile golf carts?
For example, can a high powered rifle pierce any of the antennas, control electronics, or motive hardware? Would an IED be sufficient?
And having done so, what dangers might the recovery team face?
Policing the world so he can prove how much of a big shot he is. Expect more of the same when he gets elected. Nothing but a third world dictator bully.
You do realize that's the opposite of what he wants to do, right?
He wants the US to spend less time, effort, and money patrolling the world, and wants other countries to take up the slack.
But go ahead and throw insults. It is, after all, the only thing Democrats do.
The Superdelegates were for Hillary, but we probably would have had a situation where Bernie got the popular majority but Hillary got the nomination, if the DNC had played neutral.
Don't lose track of the big issue.
You make some good points, there's lots of insightful analysis that can be done, but the big issue is...
Despite any analysis, he *might* have won the nomination. That $61 million extra given to Hillary by the Democrats is a lot of money, and represents good-faith donations of hard-earned cash gone to waste.
Ultimately, Bernie never got his chance!