I truly hope you're wrong - because if we burn all available fossil fuels then there is a very real possibility that we won't just be looking at high sea levels and global tropics and deserts, we'll be looking at a full on runaway greenhouse effect such as devastated Venus..
We're not likely to push things that far. Long before we get to that point, we'll either be extinct, or have collapsed our civilization by that point from climate change effects.
"Us" is all the people who have to live in a world where a fraction of the population uses violence and coercive power to get what they want and are looking forward to a post-state society.
Post state? Now that's truly laughable. Past coinage had sone inherent value from being bits of precious or semi-precious metal. Bitcoin couldn't even EXIST outside of a state society network and the infrastructure it maintains.
It would be interesting if the whole thing is a big sting operation. Anybody who places an order for one gets a FBI file.
It wouldn't have to be a sting operation. Since the US is monitoring the entire frigging Internet, including who reads this piece of drivel I'm writing, they can simply just flag any requests made to a site they label as "suspect". Which might still include Steve Jackson's Cyberpunk RPG game for all we know.
At the time it was taken for granted that a person was a white christian male.
White Christian Protestant Male.
It was considered a rather important distinction at the time, given the heavy anti-Catholic bias of the English settlers.
it simply reserved such matters to the States, per the 10th Amendment.
I'm not sure how 'not forbidding' is different than 'allowing'. Regardless, slavery wasn't handled just through the 10th amendment. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 specifies that slaves (i.e. people who are neither free nor indianans) count as 0.6 people for determining the number of congressional representatives from a state. Because of that, I'd say that the constitution condoned slavery.
That was known as the Virginia clause as implementing it gave the state the lions share of representation and is the key reason that the first few Presidents were all Virginians. The part that gave everyone two Senators per state regardless of size was the New Jersey clause.
Except all you did was get Glenn Beck on his own damn TV show where he can spout more shill pseudo-conservative horseshit and have more ignorant people believe the absolutely fake things he says that he doesn't actually believe.
Truth of the matter is instead of being one of the Fox News poster boys for the national Tea Party movement, Glen Beck is essentially exiled to the equivalent of Medialand Flatbush in a show that's suited to the small inbred cicle of core devotees that hang on his every word and crocodile tear. If you don't think that this is a major fall from being a leading comentator on a national network, you really don't have any sense of perspective.
If you were looking for a textbook demonstration of misogyny, look no further than the post above.
Domestic abuse? You call being assualted, beaten up, raped, and occasionally murdered by your boyfriend or husband, winning? Especially when many of these crimes are never reported? Yeah that's some victory there mate. It may be news to you but women DO take leadership positions. And men like you call them "bossy" for daring to step onto the male preserve. Child support? that's a convenient way to ignore the vast number of deadbeat dads who leave both mother and child on their own. Alimony delinquency is not a trivial problem in this country when men excercise the option to leave their responsibilities at the state line. And you feel upset because of the dinner tab you picked up?
And yes we DO here rants like yours all the time.
I know all about the special treatment these women want. Like not being catcalled by every undersexed boy. Like not being assumed that they can't game as well as anyone else in a sport that doesn't involve upper body strength. Like perhaps being represented by gamer figures who would look anorexic next to Barbie.
This isn't new. ANYTIME there has been some form of progressive movement of any form in Human civilization, there has been the knee jerk, circle the wagons response to it. This isn't any different.
The entire concept of the Internet as a "fifth estate" or a forum for open debate has been severely discredited by recent events. If video gamers are unable to discuss or dispute that "Gamers are dead", or that games are not misogynist on the internet, then what can be discussed or disputed?
I'm not sure where you have been the past few decades. The concept of the Internet as a "Fifth Estate" was a fantasy that was immediately given it's first doses of reality when the Internet became something other than a researcher's toy being paid for by Defense Department money. The colonisation period is long over and now it's an economic resource. and in the Internet world it's about ads and clicks. It's why Intel dropped it's support of Gamesutra, and it's why idiots are bending their Iphone 6's hoping Youtube will pay then enough from the clicks they get to generate a net profit.
4chan is like any other private venue. It has it's own house rules on what can or can't be discussed and it will change them arbitrarily depending on what will give it more clicks. If you want to make sense of any decision these days, follow the money.
The so-called "Social Justice Warrior" is a term invented in the same kind of circle the wagons mentality that Fox News uses to claim that Jon Stewart and the Left are engaged in a war on Christmas while that holiday gobbles up a bigger chunk of the calendar every year.
Gaming isn't just a boys club any more. Unfortunately a certain, vocal, and reactionary segment of the population are doing their best to prove that AS and DQ are right.
Except that the people who had guns then could just as easily kill with guns then as now -- there is no change in that. Their reasoning is that at any point a Democracy can devolve into a dictatorship as soon as the new popularly elected leader decides to use secret police to defend his power -- as has been proven in many countries over the last few hundred years. At that point neither passive reason nor a foolable ballot box will succeed in defeating the armed secret police -- only an armed responsible citizenry can do that. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and get wise.
I'll make sure to hop into my time machine and tell Gandhi that his whole unarmed rebellion and civil disobedience has no chance in getting rid of the British. The people who seem to fear the government and it's armies overlook one very important fact. Where in hell do those armies come from? They come from the citizenry of this country. If the government were to order it's soldiers to conduct wholesale infringement of it's populace, against those soldier's own families and relatives, and friends, how far do you think it would get when the soldiers themselves rebel? It's not like it hasn't happened before.
But in the mind of libertarian nutball Cody Wilson
Instead of calling people names, why don't you and yours simply campaign to abolish the Second Amendment altogether? If we read the First the same way we are told to read the Second, our freedom of speech too would be limited to "petitioning the government" — and only for "redress of grievances". Oh, and only after a "cool-down" period.
"Assault firearms" my foot — you can't even carry a freaking sword or brass-knuckles in many parts of the country nowadays. If only the British kept those blades away from Patrick Henry and his "nutball" cohorts!
Get it through your thick paranoid skulls... Regulation IS NOT CONFISCATION.
I don't mind using my RAM. When I quit using an application however, it should be releasing ALL of the resources that it uses. the only reason not to is crappy programming either in the OS, the App, or both. Bad memory management leads to bad performance.
You're not dealing with the Android market which has a crap ton of people still clinging to Android 2.3 or earlier. New version adoption rate on IOS is the highest for any platform. And every phone that apple sells now runs on 7.0 or better.
Your choice then... to be good on the platforms you write for, or evenly craptastic for everyone.
Cross platform equals lowest common denominator. If you want to put out apps that people will call good... do the extra mile and code for that platform.
Apple has no way of automatically installing music on your devices with your permission.
That is a 100% correct statement. If you haven't turned on automatically download music purchases (i.e. permission), nothing installed on anyone device.
Apparently there were a vocal group of folks having a hissy fit at suddenly finding a U2 album on their iPods after the last keynote.
That just means Apple has to come up with new reasons to obsolete the current-2 versions of devices running their iOS. Which won't be a problem. They're good at that.
IOS 8 is going to be pushed as far back as the iPhone 4S. Now go ahead, wrap that up in your canard, and smoke it.
On the other hand I also wonder why in almost 40 years nobody has yet tried repeating the labeled-release experiment on Viking which tested positive per the pre-mission criteria for signs of life.
That's not exactly the way it turned out. The test got some major initial results when it was applied than nothing. The results from Viking fit the parameters of a very reactive and toxic surface, not for the presence of life, either archival or extent.
"Certainly that was true of the A7 SoC, the world's first 64-bit smartphone processor."
What's the point of a 64bit processor with 1 GB of RAM?
If nothing else, it lays the groundwork for future phones with more memory as well as ensuring that the I6 phones will be running the same OS as the iphone 7 and possibly 8.
I'd never buy an iPhone, sorry, I don't like the idea of being locked into the Apple way... but I've seen little mention of how the camera compares to current flagship Android phones
I'll take the Apple way over the Malware Range that passes for an app ecosystem in Droid land. It's either that or apps that don't free memory when they're not working. At idle, my Samsung Galaxy is still using 75 percent of it's built in RAM. And that's AFTER running the garbage collection application.
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I truly hope you're wrong - because if we burn all available fossil fuels then there is a very real possibility that we won't just be looking at high sea levels and global tropics and deserts, we'll be looking at a full on runaway greenhouse effect such as devastated Venus. .
We're not likely to push things that far. Long before we get to that point, we'll either be extinct, or have collapsed our civilization by that point from climate change effects.
"Us" is all the people who have to live in a world where a fraction of the population uses violence and coercive power to get what they want and are looking forward to a post-state society.
Post state? Now that's truly laughable. Past coinage had sone inherent value from being bits of precious or semi-precious metal. Bitcoin couldn't even EXIST outside of a state society network and the infrastructure it maintains.
It would be interesting if the whole thing is a big sting operation. Anybody who places an order for one gets a FBI file.
It wouldn't have to be a sting operation. Since the US is monitoring the entire frigging Internet, including who reads this piece of drivel I'm writing, they can simply just flag any requests made to a site they label as "suspect". Which might still include Steve Jackson's Cyberpunk RPG game for all we know.
Do you somehow find yourself aggrieved by not being able to carry a sword with you? Is it ruining your cyberpunk look or something?
Or are you just looking for things to kvetch about?
I should think there's very little call for walking around with a sword.
Yeah, what a whiner! Complaining cuz police are gunning down citizens for no reason...
So you want to bring a sword to a gun fight?
At the time it was taken for granted that a person was a white christian male.
White Christian Protestant Male. It was considered a rather important distinction at the time, given the heavy anti-Catholic bias of the English settlers.
it simply reserved such matters to the States, per the 10th Amendment.
I'm not sure how 'not forbidding' is different than 'allowing'. Regardless, slavery wasn't handled just through the 10th amendment. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 specifies that slaves (i.e. people who are neither free nor indianans) count as 0.6 people for determining the number of congressional representatives from a state. Because of that, I'd say that the constitution condoned slavery.
That was known as the Virginia clause as implementing it gave the state the lions share of representation and is the key reason that the first few Presidents were all Virginians. The part that gave everyone two Senators per state regardless of size was the New Jersey clause.
On a sidenote, this is yet another problem that Bitcoin will solve for us.
Of course, I mean the problem that bank accounts and income streams can be garnished.
So many men are going benefit from the ability to hold their savings and earn income in a currency which no judge can remotely confiscate.
Who's Us? The Legion of Deadbeat Dads?
Except all you did was get Glenn Beck on his own damn TV show where he can spout more shill pseudo-conservative horseshit and have more ignorant people believe the absolutely fake things he says that he doesn't actually believe.
Truth of the matter is instead of being one of the Fox News poster boys for the national Tea Party movement, Glen Beck is essentially exiled to the equivalent of Medialand Flatbush in a show that's suited to the small inbred cicle of core devotees that hang on his every word and crocodile tear. If you don't think that this is a major fall from being a leading comentator on a national network, you really don't have any sense of perspective.
If you were looking for a textbook demonstration of misogyny, look no further than the post above. Domestic abuse? You call being assualted, beaten up, raped, and occasionally murdered by your boyfriend or husband, winning? Especially when many of these crimes are never reported? Yeah that's some victory there mate. It may be news to you but women DO take leadership positions. And men like you call them "bossy" for daring to step onto the male preserve. Child support? that's a convenient way to ignore the vast number of deadbeat dads who leave both mother and child on their own. Alimony delinquency is not a trivial problem in this country when men excercise the option to leave their responsibilities at the state line. And you feel upset because of the dinner tab you picked up? And yes we DO here rants like yours all the time.
I know all about the special treatment these women want. Like not being catcalled by every undersexed boy. Like not being assumed that they can't game as well as anyone else in a sport that doesn't involve upper body strength. Like perhaps being represented by gamer figures who would look anorexic next to Barbie.
This isn't new. ANYTIME there has been some form of progressive movement of any form in Human civilization, there has been the knee jerk, circle the wagons response to it. This isn't any different.
The entire concept of the Internet as a "fifth estate" or a forum for open debate has been severely discredited by recent events. If video gamers are unable to discuss or dispute that "Gamers are dead", or that games are not misogynist on the internet, then what can be discussed or disputed?
I'm not sure where you have been the past few decades. The concept of the Internet as a "Fifth Estate" was a fantasy that was immediately given it's first doses of reality when the Internet became something other than a researcher's toy being paid for by Defense Department money. The colonisation period is long over and now it's an economic resource. and in the Internet world it's about ads and clicks. It's why Intel dropped it's support of Gamesutra, and it's why idiots are bending their Iphone 6's hoping Youtube will pay then enough from the clicks they get to generate a net profit. 4chan is like any other private venue. It has it's own house rules on what can or can't be discussed and it will change them arbitrarily depending on what will give it more clicks. If you want to make sense of any decision these days, follow the money.
The so-called "Social Justice Warrior" is a term invented in the same kind of circle the wagons mentality that Fox News uses to claim that Jon Stewart and the Left are engaged in a war on Christmas while that holiday gobbles up a bigger chunk of the calendar every year. Gaming isn't just a boys club any more. Unfortunately a certain, vocal, and reactionary segment of the population are doing their best to prove that AS and DQ are right.
Gamers is an industry term. The iPhone candy crush crowd doesn't meet the criteria of "Gamer".
Hey, no hating on that cute old lady on the Geico commercial! She swings a pretty mean hammer!
Except that the people who had guns then could just as easily kill with guns then as now -- there is no change in that. Their reasoning is that at any point a Democracy can devolve into a dictatorship as soon as the new popularly elected leader decides to use secret police to defend his power -- as has been proven in many countries over the last few hundred years. At that point neither passive reason nor a foolable ballot box will succeed in defeating the armed secret police -- only an armed responsible citizenry can do that. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and get wise.
I'll make sure to hop into my time machine and tell Gandhi that his whole unarmed rebellion and civil disobedience has no chance in getting rid of the British. The people who seem to fear the government and it's armies overlook one very important fact. Where in hell do those armies come from? They come from the citizenry of this country. If the government were to order it's soldiers to conduct wholesale infringement of it's populace, against those soldier's own families and relatives, and friends, how far do you think it would get when the soldiers themselves rebel? It's not like it hasn't happened before.
Instead of calling people names, why don't you and yours simply campaign to abolish the Second Amendment altogether? If we read the First the same way we are told to read the Second, our freedom of speech too would be limited to "petitioning the government" — and only for "redress of grievances". Oh, and only after a "cool-down" period.
"Assault firearms" my foot — you can't even carry a freaking sword or brass-knuckles in many parts of the country nowadays. If only the British kept those blades away from Patrick Henry and his "nutball" cohorts!
Get it through your thick paranoid skulls... Regulation IS NOT CONFISCATION.
put a computer on it and power it with solar panels, and track its voyage, should be interesting
Or just use radar??? a lot cheaper and just as accurate.
That would be ideal as my secret hideout...
Too late! we all know about it, already Dr. No!
I don't mind using my RAM. When I quit using an application however, it should be releasing ALL of the resources that it uses. the only reason not to is crappy programming either in the OS, the App, or both. Bad memory management leads to bad performance.
can only deploy to ios7 or newer with swift
You're not dealing with the Android market which has a crap ton of people still clinging to Android 2.3 or earlier. New version adoption rate on IOS is the highest for any platform. And every phone that apple sells now runs on 7.0 or better.
Adobe flex. Cross platform, works on everything.
Your choice then... to be good on the platforms you write for, or evenly craptastic for everyone. Cross platform equals lowest common denominator. If you want to put out apps that people will call good... do the extra mile and code for that platform.
Apple has no way of automatically installing music on your devices with your permission.
That is a 100% correct statement. If you haven't turned on automatically download music purchases (i.e. permission), nothing installed on anyone device.
Apparently there were a vocal group of folks having a hissy fit at suddenly finding a U2 album on their iPods after the last keynote.
That just means Apple has to come up with new reasons to obsolete the current-2 versions of devices running their iOS. Which won't be a problem. They're good at that.
IOS 8 is going to be pushed as far back as the iPhone 4S. Now go ahead, wrap that up in your canard, and smoke it.
On the other hand I also wonder why in almost 40 years nobody has yet tried repeating the labeled-release experiment on Viking which tested positive per the pre-mission criteria for signs of life.
That's not exactly the way it turned out. The test got some major initial results when it was applied than nothing. The results from Viking fit the parameters of a very reactive and toxic surface, not for the presence of life, either archival or extent.
"Certainly that was true of the A7 SoC, the world's first 64-bit smartphone processor."
What's the point of a 64bit processor with 1 GB of RAM?
If nothing else, it lays the groundwork for future phones with more memory as well as ensuring that the I6 phones will be running the same OS as the iphone 7 and possibly 8.
I'd never buy an iPhone, sorry, I don't like the idea of being locked into the Apple way... but I've seen little mention of how the camera compares to current flagship Android phones
I'll take the Apple way over the Malware Range that passes for an app ecosystem in Droid land. It's either that or apps that don't free memory when they're not working. At idle, my Samsung Galaxy is still using 75 percent of it's built in RAM. And that's AFTER running the garbage collection application.