...cause my geekcore genre is the mad shizizzle. My geekcore rhymes are fresh and fly, 'cause they're written by a Lisp-powered strong AI. And my DJ skills are so off the hook, they be askin' me to write the O'Reilly book. Y'all test my songs while they're still in beta, and don't be no RPG playa hata. If all y'all hear me, wave your hands and say: G to tha E to tha E to tha K.
The United States has the most people in prison of any country in the world--including China, Russia, and the third-world countries we like to lambaste as having no respect for law.
Perhaps the difference here is that the U.S. can literally afford to imprison a significant chunk of its population while some of the more citizen-hostile countries can't.
I have enough trouble with my regular DVDs getting hosed. I imagine this would only make the process of data retreival even more delicate. Can the data be stored more robustly if some storage capacity is given up?
Oo! Oo! Could this be done with software, even if the manufacturer decides to go with one nonrobust terabyte?
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Actually the conservative christian and the liberal buddhist will get along MUCH better than the conservative christian and the liberal christian. Or even the conservative christian who believes differently about some minor point of dogma.
The buddhist is safely far enough away that you can disconnect and ignore them. The person who believes almost the same is much more maddening to those who believe there is only one true way.
I shall destroy the Earthlings' puny world in three of their Earth days, on midnight of their pathetic planet's Greenwich Mean Time, on the day they snivelingly refer to as... what was it again? Oh, yes... New Year's Day.
Does "Infidel New Year" strike anyone else as a possible bad translation? It doesn't seem like something a person from a non-Western culture would be likely to say among themselves.
If I were Big Brother, I'd send each piece of mail past an extremely bright lamp, such as a projector lamp, and photograph it from the other side. Reading it would basically be text recognition, but with the added twist that the text to be parsed is overlaid in thirds, with the mailing address superimposed on top. Reading every letter might be beyond the power of even the best text recognition software running on the fastest computers, but the images could be saved until text recognition *is* powerful enough to do that.
Conclusion: Although the system in TFA does none of this, it still wouldn't hurt to assume that snail mail is *not* secure.
They have Morality, which is different. Shame prevents you from being evil. Morality allows you to be as evil as you like, as long as you feel really bad about it.
As much as I distrust the current administration, I think it's probably best for everyone if the U.S. keeps control of the internet, and this is why:
A Dutch forum-friend of mine once remarked that if the principles of The Enlightenment are Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, that the United States puts the weight on Liberty while Europe puts more weight on Equality. (No one, he says, seems to care about Fraternity.)
The United States reveres the freedom of speech much more than European countries, who tend to crack down on unpopular speech that disturbs the peace (or the "Equality") such as Germany's crackdown on anything, pro or con, having to do with Nazis. So far, we've kept the internet in more or less a state of social anarchy. And this is during our current *conservative* phase. Europe might be better at social welfare for this reason, (and that's nothing to sneeze at,) but it's also a reason why internet administration is better left to the generally libertarian United States.
Hopefully the "pendulum" analogy of American politics will hold true, and we'll eventually go back to revering social freedoms in general. Or if it spirals downward, I suppose you guys could always create a European splinternet.
The Bush Jr. administration has already expressed interest in a Mars mission, and nuclear pulse propulsion might greatly simplify that project. The first step in achieving that capability is breaking the various treaties which prohibit the detonation of nuclear weapons in space.
Perhaps Bush finds it easier to sell the treaty breakage as a security measure than to sell it as a first step towards Mars.
After browsing through some of the pictures posted, I would hope extraterrestrial life would be more hesitant to exterminate us -- if not for anything else than curiosity.
Lord Emperor, the Imperial Armada has exterminated the last of the hydrogen-band spammers. At last we can enjoy a reliable communication infrastruc... wait a minute, WTF is this coming from ZZ9 Plural Z-Alpha!?
Science is naturally polarized. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon the public perception that authority is always right. In the era of Karl Rove, science is anti-Republican.
I've just redesigned a corporate site to use CSS-only positioning, and was able to make it render properly on every browser in reasonably current use. It uses lots of Javascripts, but they all degrade elegantly. In theory, the entire structure could be changed arbitrarily using only a different stylesheet.
If I were creating a stylesheet for mobile devices, I'd tell certain classes of images (the ones I knew would be large) not to render, (perhaps you could instruct it to use the ALT text instead,) use smaller, higher-contrast background graphics for each element, stack the side-by-side columns on top of each other, and perhaps unhide an name-anchor navigation system that's hidden on the regular stylesheet.
If you really wanted to spend a lot of time, you could make each and every image a background image, then switch to smaller versions using the mobile stylesheet.
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If it does, then we are behaving appropriately.
If it doesn't, then we never had a choice anyway.
...cause my geekcore genre is the mad shizizzle. My geekcore rhymes are fresh and fly, 'cause they're written by a Lisp-powered strong AI. And my DJ skills are so off the hook, they be askin' me to write the O'Reilly book. Y'all test my songs while they're still in beta, and don't be no RPG playa hata. If all y'all hear me, wave your hands and say: G to tha E to tha E to tha K.
The United States has the most people in prison of any country in the world--including China, Russia, and the third-world countries we like to lambaste as having no respect for law.
Perhaps the difference here is that the U.S. can literally afford to imprison a significant chunk of its population while some of the more citizen-hostile countries can't.
Any parent will tell you that no caddy or jewel case will protect a DVD from every destructive element in its environment.
I have enough trouble with my regular DVDs getting hosed. I imagine this would only make the process of data retreival even more delicate. Can the data be stored more robustly if some storage capacity is given up?
Oo! Oo! Could this be done with software, even if the manufacturer decides to go with one nonrobust terabyte?
Actually the conservative christian and the liberal buddhist will get along MUCH better than the conservative christian and the liberal christian. Or even the conservative christian who believes differently about some minor point of dogma.
The buddhist is safely far enough away that you can disconnect and ignore them. The person who believes almost the same is much more maddening to those who believe there is only one true way.
See Wikipedia's entry on The Uncanny Valley.
I shall destroy the Earthlings' puny world in three of their Earth days, on midnight of their pathetic planet's Greenwich Mean Time, on the day they snivelingly refer to as... what was it again? Oh, yes... New Year's Day.
Does "Infidel New Year" strike anyone else as a possible bad translation? It doesn't seem like something a person from a non-Western culture would be likely to say among themselves.
...and extend it...
If I were Big Brother, I'd send each piece of mail past an extremely bright lamp, such as a projector lamp, and photograph it from the other side. Reading it would basically be text recognition, but with the added twist that the text to be parsed is overlaid in thirds, with the mailing address superimposed on top. Reading every letter might be beyond the power of even the best text recognition software running on the fastest computers, but the images could be saved until text recognition *is* powerful enough to do that.
Conclusion: Although the system in TFA does none of this, it still wouldn't hurt to assume that snail mail is *not* secure.
Laws don't always correct things
Sure, they do. They correct the perception that congressmen don't do anything to deserve their paychecks.
I mean seriously, have Republicans no shame?
They have Morality, which is different. Shame prevents you from being evil. Morality allows you to be as evil as you like, as long as you feel really bad about it.
As much as I distrust the current administration, I think it's probably best for everyone if the U.S. keeps control of the internet, and this is why:
A Dutch forum-friend of mine once remarked that if the principles of The Enlightenment are Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, that the United States puts the weight on Liberty while Europe puts more weight on Equality. (No one, he says, seems to care about Fraternity.)
The United States reveres the freedom of speech much more than European countries, who tend to crack down on unpopular speech that disturbs the peace (or the "Equality") such as Germany's crackdown on anything, pro or con, having to do with Nazis. So far, we've kept the internet in more or less a state of social anarchy. And this is during our current *conservative* phase. Europe might be better at social welfare for this reason, (and that's nothing to sneeze at,) but it's also a reason why internet administration is better left to the generally libertarian United States.
Hopefully the "pendulum" analogy of American politics will hold true, and we'll eventually go back to revering social freedoms in general. Or if it spirals downward, I suppose you guys could always create a European splinternet.
This guy clearly needs some hot coffee
No, that lawsuit has already been done. We'll need some other way to keep him occupied.
The Bush Jr. administration has already expressed interest in a Mars mission, and nuclear pulse propulsion might greatly simplify that project. The first step in achieving that capability is breaking the various treaties which prohibit the detonation of nuclear weapons in space.
Perhaps Bush finds it easier to sell the treaty breakage as a security measure than to sell it as a first step towards Mars.
A: Politicians don't bother to comb their hair over their horns.
Sex, marriage, etc, the whole point of it all is reproduction of the species, aka children.
I'm sure your wife's genes would agree. But as for your wife, well, you were probably right to post this anonymously.
...which is nothing to panic about, because by then our Apollo program will have devised a way to move the starving masses to Mars.
You can always rely on good old progress.
After browsing through some of the pictures posted, I would hope extraterrestrial life would be more hesitant to exterminate us -- if not for anything else than curiosity.
Lord Emperor, the Imperial Armada has exterminated the last of the hydrogen-band spammers. At last we can enjoy a reliable communication infrastruc... wait a minute, WTF is this coming from ZZ9 Plural Z-Alpha!?
...on nations that are dissatisfied with U.S. interference.
:slices through a tin can:
More accurately: Kids use surprising ingenuity in achieving their stupid objectives.
She stomps mushrooms, shoots fireballs, and has demolished at least a dozen of my nice barrels with a massively oversized hammer.
Science is naturally polarized. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon the public perception that authority is always right. In the era of Karl Rove, science is anti-Republican.
I've just redesigned a corporate site to use CSS-only positioning, and was able to make it render properly on every browser in reasonably current use. It uses lots of Javascripts, but they all degrade elegantly. In theory, the entire structure could be changed arbitrarily using only a different stylesheet.
If I were creating a stylesheet for mobile devices, I'd tell certain classes of images (the ones I knew would be large) not to render, (perhaps you could instruct it to use the ALT text instead,) use smaller, higher-contrast background graphics for each element, stack the side-by-side columns on top of each other, and perhaps unhide an name-anchor navigation system that's hidden on the regular stylesheet.
If you really wanted to spend a lot of time, you could make each and every image a background image, then switch to smaller versions using the mobile stylesheet.
They're rolling out this top-level domain to generate publicity for Mobi's new album.