Contrary to popular opinion, third party can be the strongest vote you ever cast--except that the point isn't to win an election, but to influence the next one...
In theory, yes. But there are many factors that reduce that impact, among them: 1) entrenched two party organization, 2) polarized electorate, (ensuring that a 3rd party will either be tiny or formed of incompatible political groups) 3) media manipulation (seen in the fact that Ron Paul is doing better than many Republican candidates, yet is being ignored or mocked by the media) and 4) short attention span / rejection of the past.
In the Senate, ONE SENATOR can block the passage of a bill. It's just set up that way. So, yes, in the Senate there were "parliamentary maneuvers," something Republicans (and a compliant press) would have been howling about before the 2006 elections. (Remember judicial nominations?)
And for all of you saying "the Democrats went along" and "they're the same as Republicans," thanks a whole hell of a lot. Your attitudes will get the Republicans re-elected. (Especially if you're apathetic and stay home on election day.) In the current political landscape they no doubt must go along or risk being tarred and feathered on terrorism.
Did we have this crap before 2001? NO. End of story.
'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'
How many times have I heard this on an AI related project? "Once this is done..." is a fantasy, especially when they already describe it as a "trick" and a "challenge." From TFA:
The trick will be to make the analytics software work in a useful way. "The challenge is going to be teaching computers to recognize the suspicious behavior," said Smith.
Challenge, indeed. I'll believe it when I see it.
Scratch that. I'll believe it when the system sees it.
Maybe it time people stopped mumbling the mindless incantation that "everything changed after 9/11" and using it as an excuse to abdicate their responsibilities and justify not upholding the law.
d00d, upholding the law is sooooo pre-9/11. Everything changed, you know. And, by "everything" I mean EVERYTHING.
Our current legal environment suggests that this will end up being used to break up unpopular demonstrations or groupings even more casually than tear gas...
I'll one up you there: secretly use it to turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot.
"The crowd became agitated. Several demonstrators started acting violently. We deemed it necessary to use force to subdue the near riot behavior."
Perhaps the most alarming prospect is that such machines would make efficient torture instruments.
They are quick, clean, cheap, easy to use and, most importantly, leave no marks. What would happen if they fell into the hands of unscrupulous nations where torture is not unknown?
Let's imagine each client uploads 5kb/sec of action data to the server. If there were 1000 players in the battle doing this simultaneously then each client would need to download 999*5kb/sec of data to say updated in the battle.
Methinks you fail at writing comprehension. My assertion is that each client need not download all information that every other client uploads. Your statement asserts that every client would need to do that. Though I'm sure you'll find some way to wiggle out of that, or deny that you really meant something you didn't say. Don't bother. I'm done with ye. Declare victory and go home.
Let's imagine each client uploads 5kb/sec of action data to the server. If there were 1000 players in the battle doing this simultaneously then each client would need to download 999*5kb/sec of data to say updated in the battle.
Not at all. The information transferred between players is not a completely connected graph. For instance, if I'm looking away from player A there's no need to update player A's visual information.
This is similar to the real world. If I'm a mile away from an explosion in a battle I don't get as much information from it as someone 100 yards away. (And, of course, one yard away I get too much information...) At one mile I might know general direction from the sound of the blast, but not much else. In other words, the server would have to determine what portion of the 5kb/sec of action data from each player is uploaded to me. That's the complex part.
In defense of libertarians: the nice thing about business is that they go out of business (i.e. bankruptcy) whereas governments are much harder to get rid off...
The problem is that inefficient businesses are continually created, wasting investor money and worker productivity. What difference does it make if the wastage is done by thousands of failing companies or one monolithic government?
"Bureaucrats can't see past their own red taped noses!"
It's not confined to just government, folks. Business has it's fair share of inefficiency and stupidity. My favorite example of this was when I had a long contract at a Fortune 500 company away from home. They paid for an apartment for me to live in, but I saw no reason why I should expense my meals, even though it was allowed. My reasoning was, "I'm going to eat whether I'm here or at home. Why should they pay for it." This saved the company a few thousand dollars over six months. At one point, though, I wanted to expense something odd: boarding my cat for the weekend while I traveled. My reasoning was, "I have no friends here who would take care of the cat, unlike at home, so the company should pay." The refused, saying it wasn't justifiable, even though it was only $50 or so. After that I expensed all of my meals.:)
To add insult to injury, the entire 3 year long project I was involved in was shelved and started over soon after that, wasting around $60 million. This wasn't the first (or last) time I saw a business waste millions of dollars. I think of these things any time a libertarian says, "Business can do things more efficiently!"
How much information can you convey using just your larynx?
Well, how much information do you really need to drive a wheelchair?
Rotate left Rotate right forward stop current action
Not much. I'm sure there are four discernible signals to the larynx, probably more. Just a quick guess, but you could probably detect the following sequences of long/short "uh" sounds:
short short (uh uh) short long (uh uuuuh) long short (uuuuh uh) long long (uuuuh uuuuh)
For a short time in college I was on a research team looking into this kind of stuff. (Way back in '93, this was) The electrical impulses that are meant for your vocal chords, but are suppressed because you don't want to (or can't) speak are called "covert oral behavior." Anyway, even back then, we were working on training up neural networks to translate the signals into words/phonemes. I'm sure the technology has come a long way since then.
Right around 9/11 and the whole Gitmo thing I started thinking, "I'll bet covert oral behavior detection is being used to interrogate prisoners." The thing is, the signals "leak" down your nerves when you only think words, but don't say them. The trick is being able to interpret them and translate them to words. Not easy by any stretch, but once successful it would be the closest thing to ESP around.
I find it funny that the guys at Hot Air can't bring themselves to admit that a liberal website, salon.com, are the brave ones hosting the comic strip. Most of the comments are about how the political left is bending over backwards to appease radical islam.
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Stalin once studied to be a priest.
In theory, yes. But there are many factors that reduce that impact, among them: 1) entrenched two party organization, 2) polarized electorate, (ensuring that a 3rd party will either be tiny or formed of incompatible political groups) 3) media manipulation (seen in the fact that Ron Paul is doing better than many Republican candidates, yet is being ignored or mocked by the media) and 4) short attention span / rejection of the past.
In the Senate, ONE SENATOR can block the passage of a bill. It's just set up that way. So, yes, in the Senate there were "parliamentary maneuvers," something Republicans (and a compliant press) would have been howling about before the 2006 elections. (Remember judicial nominations?)
And for all of you saying "the Democrats went along" and "they're the same as Republicans," thanks a whole hell of a lot. Your attitudes will get the Republicans re-elected. (Especially if you're apathetic and stay home on election day.) In the current political landscape they no doubt must go along or risk being tarred and feathered on terrorism.
Did we have this crap before 2001? NO. End of story.
You're kidding, right?
There, fixed that for you.
Yes. It's "the community continues to have an adolescent attitude towards ESR."
How many times have I heard this on an AI related project? "Once this is done..." is a fantasy, especially when they already describe it as a "trick" and a "challenge." From TFA:
Challenge, indeed. I'll believe it when I see it.
Scratch that. I'll believe it when the system sees it.
d00d, upholding the law is sooooo pre-9/11. Everything changed, you know. And, by "everything" I mean EVERYTHING.
Thank god it's not number 23!
The point of posting anonymously is that you don't identify yourself...
I'll one up you there: secretly use it to turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot.
"The crowd became agitated. Several demonstrators started acting violently. We deemed it necessary to use force to subdue the near riot behavior."
It seems to me that they were created in one.
Methinks you fail at writing comprehension.
My assertion is that each client need not download all information that every other client uploads. Your statement asserts that every client would need to do that. Though I'm sure you'll find some way to wiggle out of that, or deny that you really meant something you didn't say. Don't bother. I'm done with ye. Declare victory and go home.
All information about a player's actions do not need to be sent to all other players in the game. You plainly don't understand that concept.
Not at all. The information transferred between players is not a completely connected graph. For instance, if I'm looking away from player A there's no need to update player A's visual information.
This is similar to the real world. If I'm a mile away from an explosion in a battle I don't get as much information from it as someone 100 yards away. (And, of course, one yard away I get too much information...) At one mile I might know general direction from the sound of the blast, but not much else. In other words, the server would have to determine what portion of the 5kb/sec of action data from each player is uploaded to me. That's the complex part.
Microsoft/Vader: Sun/Obi-Wan never told you what happened to Netscape/your father.
Google/Luke: He did. He told me you embraced and extended / killed him.
Microsoft/Vader: No, Google/Luke. I am your father!
Google/Luke: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The problem is that inefficient businesses are continually created, wasting investor money and worker productivity. What difference does it make if the wastage is done by thousands of failing companies or one monolithic government?
I can hear it now:
:)
"When you join government, you get st00pid!"
"Bureaucrats can't see past their own red taped noses!"
It's not confined to just government, folks. Business has it's fair share of inefficiency and stupidity. My favorite example of this was when I had a long contract at a Fortune 500 company away from home. They paid for an apartment for me to live in, but I saw no reason why I should expense my meals, even though it was allowed. My reasoning was, "I'm going to eat whether I'm here or at home. Why should they pay for it." This saved the company a few thousand dollars over six months. At one point, though, I wanted to expense something odd: boarding my cat for the weekend while I traveled. My reasoning was, "I have no friends here who would take care of the cat, unlike at home, so the company should pay." The refused, saying it wasn't justifiable, even though it was only $50 or so. After that I expensed all of my meals.
To add insult to injury, the entire 3 year long project I was involved in was shelved and started over soon after that, wasting around $60 million. This wasn't the first (or last) time I saw a business waste millions of dollars. I think of these things any time a libertarian says, "Business can do things more efficiently!"
No furking shyte. Wish I had mod points.
Ya, realized that after posting.
Well, how much information do you really need to drive a wheelchair?
Rotate left
Rotate right
forward
stop current action
Not much. I'm sure there are four discernible signals to the larynx, probably more. Just a quick guess, but you could probably detect the following sequences of long/short "uh" sounds:
short short (uh uh)
short long (uh uuuuh)
long short (uuuuh uh)
long long (uuuuh uuuuh)
There's four signals.
For a short time in college I was on a research team looking into this kind of stuff. (Way back in '93, this was) The electrical impulses that are meant for your vocal chords, but are suppressed because you don't want to (or can't) speak are called "covert oral behavior." Anyway, even back then, we were working on training up neural networks to translate the signals into words/phonemes. I'm sure the technology has come a long way since then.
Right around 9/11 and the whole Gitmo thing I started thinking, "I'll bet covert oral behavior detection is being used to interrogate prisoners." The thing is, the signals "leak" down your nerves when you only think words, but don't say them. The trick is being able to interpret them and translate them to words. Not easy by any stretch, but once successful it would be the closest thing to ESP around.
The irony is I found out about Home because you complained about the astroturfing and got modded up.
I find it funny that the guys at Hot Air can't bring themselves to admit that a liberal website, salon.com, are the brave ones hosting the comic strip. Most of the comments are about how the political left is bending over backwards to appease radical islam.
Ain't cognitive dissonance a bitch?
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