"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg
This applies to Tyson's comments, and all other theories about who/what/why we are. All we know is "THAT" we are (Wittgenstein).
No, this is a BAD deal. ATT has resisted - using legal threats - MANY municipal and rural efforts to put in their own broadband. I had regular DSL,then they called me and said that I had to take Uverse. I did some research and found that they were LEGALLY required to put in dry loop DSL. I had that for a year and then they told me they were going to phase it out and I had to take Uverse, for a LOT more. ATT is a thieving corporation - to the point where the company colludes to cheat and steal. They are just as bad as the banking sector. If I had a real alternative I would take it in a heartbeat!
Truer words were never spoken. Just wait until the IoT takes hold, along with distributed AIA (Advanced Artificial Intelligence) all distributed via the Internet. The Internet has turned out be largely a "top-down" broadcasting service controlled by large ISP, large content creators, etc. Of course, they let us have our blogs and our Instagrams and our pathetic little selfie opportunities for fame like Facebook, Pinterest, etc, but the Internet is FAR FAR FAR from the liberating force that it was predicted to be at its outset.
This wasn't always the case; initially, the vig players- i.e. content creators, telecommunications providers, etc. resistedthe Internet, until they discovered human being's penchant for taking control of inter-communications. THAT is when commercial enterprise powers got interested; they have now found endless ways to control the Internet and leverage our wired human propensity for communication for profit.
Ted Nelson's early ideas about the promise of the Internet
Ted Nelson:
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/...
Hopefully these hackers will be found. In addition, the hospital needs to hire some serious security experts; this never should have happened in the first place.
All drivers over 60 should be re-tested in a simulator every 5 years. Over 75,every two years. If you fail, the license goes bye-bye. This would be trivial to accomplish.
btw, about 30% of ALL drivers have poor night vision-young and old!
The LAST thing I want is Facebook acting as a platform for ANY of my essential communications. They have repeatedly lied - over and over - about privacy. No way!
Here's an excerpt from one of the reviews,on Amazon:
"The author asserts that it is not morally wrong and that the conversation should be around the concept of - do you have enough (sufficiency) vs do you have the same as someone else (equality)."
This is a short book: highly recommended, along with Piketty.
Florida was stolen by Jeb Bush enabling his AG, Katherine Harris, to disallow any voter who had a name similar to any convicted felon. FIFTY_THOUSAND voters - mostly minorities who vote Dem - were kept from voting. Bush won by 500 votes.
The ACA was compromised because Obama - instead of CRUSHING the private insurers when he had the votes - agreed to keep them in the system and negotiate terms with them in secret. We need a single payer system, like all other developed economies. Yes, that means higher taxes. Either we take care of one another, or we don't. If we want to maintain a "winner-takes-all" meme in America, where everything is rated in dollars,then we are finished as a culture, long term.
Bulk beans,rice, pasta, cheap cuts of frozen fish or meat (and DON'T pile it on the plate! - a piece the size of your palm will suffice); bulk grains,bake you own bread, bulk greens and canned greens. 2 people should be able to live on that for a moth. buy milk in bulk and make your own yogurt. Look for fruit no sale;stew it and add to bread, yogurt, etc. Bulk eggs.
"Drinks"? WATER,from the tap. You want something sweet? Bake muffins or a cake.
Lunch? Fruit and nuts - bulk nuts and raisins.
What is the possibility of mouth bacteria evolving to mouth super-bacteria? Bacteria are very adaptive creatures, and we continue to find out with many baterial diseases that were once wiped out, only tocome back stronger and meaner than before. Look at the FAIL in anti-bacterial soap - same thing.
Libel and slander laws will be useful for prosecuting the dolts that start "rating" people on Peeple. I would also think that many Plaintiffs will include Peeple's principals and investors inn those lawsuits. That will keep their burn rate real hot!
Epidemiological research shows that most who survive a first suicide attempt to not re-attempt suicide; this research also shows that the easy availability of guns make that first attempt FAR more deadly than by other methods. Thus, the sheer easy availability of guns makes for more successful (if you want to call it that) first suicide attempts. If some percentage of those first time gun suicide attempts had not had access to a gun they would have had a better chance of survival and (according to the research) gone on to survive long term.
This has become a regular event in America. We can lay a lot of responsibility for this at the feet of the terrorist NRA and the corrupt legislators they pay off, with both these latter groups little more a bunch of bootlickers to the gun manufacturers.
There are more than 300 MILLION guns in this crazy nation - so many that *anyone* who wants to get a gun can get one, one way or another.
America is FOURTH in death by gun, after Thailand, Nigeria and Colombia; that's the company we keep. We have more murders by gun than any developed (and many undeveloped) nations. It's a national disgrace. More people have died by gunshot in America than were killed in all our wars!
The NRA *actively* lobbies to defeat laws that will keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill persons, and on and on. It's a national disgrace.
What about the rights of the 100's of thousands of people that have been murdered by gun in America - what about them?
What doesn't Uber understand about municipal codes? Yes, taxi service sucks, but just because I think I want to get to work faster doesn't mean I can break the speed limit. We have laws for a reason; if Uber wants to compete,it has to compete according to the LAW. If it wants to change the law, the ballot is where that should happen. After all, Uber is lining the pockets of politicians now, anyway - to let them help Uber break the law. It's absurd.
This is all part of tech's desire to drive tech wages down. Lets assume that in 15 years that 90% of high school graduates know how to code. What will that do to the tech labor pool? It will drive wages down.
In the meantime, MSFT (founded by Bill Gates, who stole tech) and Mark Zuckerberg (who has been prolific as a liar) use FWD.US and lobby money to increase the H1B labor pool.
Bottom line: this is all about driving business costs DOWN!
Of course, he owns stock and this will definitely serve him well, but it's a brave thing to do. This is what is known as true LEADERSHIP, a quality that becomes more scarce by the minute i the tech industry.
FWD.US is a conspiracy created by Mark Zuckerberg to help drive down IT wages in America.
I have no problem with talented immigrants, but American corporations are LYING about the need for those H1B immigrants due to so-called "shortages" of STEM workers in America, and in the offing they are displacing QUALIFIED American workers with those immigrants (in clear violation of the law). Here are some FACTS to counter Zuckerberg's SPIN around his company's (and others, like MSFT, Cisco, Facebook, Google, etc.) cynical attempt to drive down wages. Just look at the recent policy decision to permit H1B spouses to seek work permits in May, 2015 something; that's 150,000 new workers (most of them professionals - and many with IT skills) into an already challenged IT economy. FWD.US is part of a legal conspiracy to drive down tech wages, under cover of the lie that America does not have sufficient STEM talent. Zuckerberg is shilling for his pals, and working against the American IT worker.
FACTS:
One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem
http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...
Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.
http://economyincrisis.org/con...
Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg This applies to Tyson's comments, and all other theories about who/what/why we are. All we know is "THAT" we are (Wittgenstein).
No, this is a BAD deal. ATT has resisted - using legal threats - MANY municipal and rural efforts to put in their own broadband. I had regular DSL,then they called me and said that I had to take Uverse. I did some research and found that they were LEGALLY required to put in dry loop DSL. I had that for a year and then they told me they were going to phase it out and I had to take Uverse, for a LOT more. ATT is a thieving corporation - to the point where the company colludes to cheat and steal. They are just as bad as the banking sector. If I had a real alternative I would take it in a heartbeat!
Truer words were never spoken. Just wait until the IoT takes hold, along with distributed AIA (Advanced Artificial Intelligence) all distributed via the Internet. The Internet has turned out be largely a "top-down" broadcasting service controlled by large ISP, large content creators, etc. Of course, they let us have our blogs and our Instagrams and our pathetic little selfie opportunities for fame like Facebook, Pinterest, etc, but the Internet is FAR FAR FAR from the liberating force that it was predicted to be at its outset.
This wasn't always the case; initially, the vig players- i.e. content creators, telecommunications providers, etc. resistedthe Internet, until they discovered human being's penchant for taking control of inter-communications. THAT is when commercial enterprise powers got interested; they have now found endless ways to control the Internet and leverage our wired human propensity for communication for profit.
ESPECIALLY if you are a younger person, .go read Vanevar Bush's essay "As We May Think"
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...
or,
Ted Nelson's early ideas about the promise of the Internet Ted Nelson: "The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/...
Why doesn't IBM clarify this? How many who "left" were over 40 years old - pushed out because of age? IBM is toast!
Hopefully these hackers will be found. In addition, the hospital needs to hire some serious security experts; this never should have happened in the first place.
Look at their success ratios!
And why isn't the NFL picking up the tab? Same with any large sporting event. Owners need to start contributing instead of taking a free ride.
All drivers over 60 should be re-tested in a simulator every 5 years. Over 75,every two years. If you fail, the license goes bye-bye. This would be trivial to accomplish. btw, about 30% of ALL drivers have poor night vision-young and old!
The LAST thing I want is Facebook acting as a platform for ANY of my essential communications. They have repeatedly lied - over and over - about privacy. No way!
Highly recommended as a supplement to Piketty: http://www.amazon.com/Inequali...
Here's an excerpt from one of the reviews,on Amazon: "The author asserts that it is not morally wrong and that the conversation should be around the concept of - do you have enough (sufficiency) vs do you have the same as someone else (equality)."
This is a short book: highly recommended, along with Piketty.
So how is it different than email - ultimately? Twitter is irrelevant!
Florida was stolen by Jeb Bush enabling his AG, Katherine Harris, to disallow any voter who had a name similar to any convicted felon. FIFTY_THOUSAND voters - mostly minorities who vote Dem - were kept from voting. Bush won by 500 votes.
The ACA was compromised because Obama - instead of CRUSHING the private insurers when he had the votes - agreed to keep them in the system and negotiate terms with them in secret. We need a single payer system, like all other developed economies. Yes, that means higher taxes. Either we take care of one another, or we don't. If we want to maintain a "winner-takes-all" meme in America, where everything is rated in dollars,then we are finished as a culture, long term.
Bulk beans,rice, pasta, cheap cuts of frozen fish or meat (and DON'T pile it on the plate! - a piece the size of your palm will suffice); bulk grains,bake you own bread, bulk greens and canned greens. 2 people should be able to live on that for a moth. buy milk in bulk and make your own yogurt. Look for fruit no sale;stew it and add to bread, yogurt, etc. Bulk eggs. "Drinks"? WATER,from the tap. You want something sweet? Bake muffins or a cake. Lunch? Fruit and nuts - bulk nuts and raisins.
What is the possibility of mouth bacteria evolving to mouth super-bacteria? Bacteria are very adaptive creatures, and we continue to find out with many baterial diseases that were once wiped out, only tocome back stronger and meaner than before. Look at the FAIL in anti-bacterial soap - same thing.
Libel and slander laws will be useful for prosecuting the dolts that start "rating" people on Peeple. I would also think that many Plaintiffs will include Peeple's principals and investors inn those lawsuits. That will keep their burn rate real hot!
FIRST among developed nations for gun-related homicide, and FOURTH among ALL nations for total death by gun.
But SCOTUS also said that municipalities have the right to make reasonable limits to access. Yes, do try to keep up!
Epidemiological research shows that most who survive a first suicide attempt to not re-attempt suicide; this research also shows that the easy availability of guns make that first attempt FAR more deadly than by other methods. Thus, the sheer easy availability of guns makes for more successful (if you want to call it that) first suicide attempts. If some percentage of those first time gun suicide attempts had not had access to a gun they would have had a better chance of survival and (according to the research) gone on to survive long term.
This has become a regular event in America. We can lay a lot of responsibility for this at the feet of the terrorist NRA and the corrupt legislators they pay off, with both these latter groups little more a bunch of bootlickers to the gun manufacturers. There are more than 300 MILLION guns in this crazy nation - so many that *anyone* who wants to get a gun can get one, one way or another. America is FOURTH in death by gun, after Thailand, Nigeria and Colombia; that's the company we keep. We have more murders by gun than any developed (and many undeveloped) nations. It's a national disgrace. More people have died by gunshot in America than were killed in all our wars! The NRA *actively* lobbies to defeat laws that will keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill persons, and on and on. It's a national disgrace. What about the rights of the 100's of thousands of people that have been murdered by gun in America - what about them?
What doesn't Uber understand about municipal codes? Yes, taxi service sucks, but just because I think I want to get to work faster doesn't mean I can break the speed limit. We have laws for a reason; if Uber wants to compete,it has to compete according to the LAW. If it wants to change the law, the ballot is where that should happen. After all, Uber is lining the pockets of politicians now, anyway - to let them help Uber break the law. It's absurd.
This is all part of tech's desire to drive tech wages down. Lets assume that in 15 years that 90% of high school graduates know how to code. What will that do to the tech labor pool? It will drive wages down. In the meantime, MSFT (founded by Bill Gates, who stole tech) and Mark Zuckerberg (who has been prolific as a liar) use FWD.US and lobby money to increase the H1B labor pool. Bottom line: this is all about driving business costs DOWN!
Forbid MSFT employees to take handwritten notes at work. Let's see how that works out.
Of course, he owns stock and this will definitely serve him well, but it's a brave thing to do. This is what is known as true LEADERSHIP, a quality that becomes more scarce by the minute i the tech industry.
FWD.US is a conspiracy created by Mark Zuckerberg to help drive down IT wages in America.
I have no problem with talented immigrants, but American corporations are LYING about the need for those H1B immigrants due to so-called "shortages" of STEM workers in America, and in the offing they are displacing QUALIFIED American workers with those immigrants (in clear violation of the law). Here are some FACTS to counter Zuckerberg's SPIN around his company's (and others, like MSFT, Cisco, Facebook, Google, etc.) cynical attempt to drive down wages. Just look at the recent policy decision to permit H1B spouses to seek work permits in May, 2015 something; that's 150,000 new workers (most of them professionals - and many with IT skills) into an already challenged IT economy. FWD.US is part of a legal conspiracy to drive down tech wages, under cover of the lie that America does not have sufficient STEM talent. Zuckerberg is shilling for his pals, and working against the American IT worker.
FACTS: One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...
Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...
Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...
Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...
How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...
Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...
Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...
Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
H1Bs in Sacramento http://www.news10.net/story/ne...