A physically present cop can beat you up, arrest you, and even kill you. I'd say that worse potential for abuse than the anonymous rudeness that can occur over the speaker system, however unpleasant that might be.
I'm not clear on what the "powers" a camera operator has. It seems to be little more than the those of a disembodied spirit. He can see what is happening, and also say words. Unless there is some law in place mandating that people obey these voices, I don't see what "power" they have, to abuse or not.
If there is such a law, things are more interesting. It seems that law is the interesting part in this, in that case, more than the cameras themselves.
These speaker equipped cameras don't do anything that a police officer at the scene couldn't do, and in fact do quite a bit less. So if you consider posting the cameras there unethical, it seems you must be opposed to having a patrolling police force at all. And that's a pretty extreme position.
If you consider having a police force good, the size of it becomes a question of economics. You could hire a cop to stand at each street corner 24/7, but the cost would not be anywhere near the benefit, so you accept a certain level of violent crime that you can't afford to address. But with this technology, the cost goes down by several orders of magnitude, and now that service level is economical.
I'm open to the idea that this level of surveillance becomes something qualitatively different and evil than the occasional patrolling cop. But I have yet to see any arguments for that here.
It's just sad how the irresponsible portrayal of the Sun God in Mel Gibson's irresponsible and exploitative movie has endangered these astronauts, the planet's finest.
Personally I'm very careful before I claim any chicken-and-egg paradoxes as absolutely true.
I would make the uninformed guess that orphaned dolphins would have a tougher time than parented ones, but would not face a 100% death rate. Then the survivors can teach their kids their hard earned lessons
Only for the fact that beads and trinkets (cell phones, MP3 players, etc...) don't really help people in a capitalist economy.
In reality, the arrival of cell phones is a major factor in the current third world rise out of poverty. The ability to make a few calls to check current crop prices, rather than have to sell to that one guy for whatever he feels like paying, can quite literally be the difference between life and death.
I would guess they can't afford decent food, housing or health care even though they are "richer" by your estimation. And by decent food, we're talking about fresh produce, meat, poultry, sea food and staples like rice, whole wheat flour, etc...
In reality, for the price of an MP3 player, you can buy more than enough rice to feed you for a year.
More importantly, I really doubt Putin has the time and interest to order individual assasinations. He has much more important issues to deal with than such micro management.
...but then I got involved in extreme programming (XP).
In that world you go to great lengths to achieve a workplace layout where people can constantly overhear each other all day, to promote communication. Since you're always pair programming and talking anyway, it really works well.
But it is a whole different way of programming. The "lone ranger" programming style where you have to focus like a laser for 30 minutes before being able to form the first line of code is viewed with big suspicion in XP. If the code is that complex, the chances that anyone else will be able to read and maintain it is very slim, so in practical terms that code is worthless if it ever needs to be changed. And useful code always needs to be changed.
Things like this can have an effect just as "brand awareness". If you're a daytrader, and you get a bunch of emails about stock WTVR, later that day when you look around the stocks, WTVR will pop out from the rest as you recognize it, and you're more likely to trade in it that you would otherwise have been.
A small effect, but send out a few billion mails, and it will add up.
So there doesn't even have to be a single person who actually believes the spam for it to have an effect.
The perhaps difficult fact to face here is that campaigns go negative because the voters react to it. The day voters will start voting for candidates with a positive message, campaigns will turn positive very quickly.
In a democracy, you ultimately have to blame the voters for what's wrong...
The first two are correct, but the third line should be
Less Demand = Fish Catching Decreases
Unfortunately, less fishing does not have to mean that population increases, only that is decreases less. That is no guarantee that catches reach sustainable levels, and it seems quite unlikely given the example of the levels in todays equilibrium.
If there was private ownership of meaningful parts of the ocean, the profit motive would ensure that only sustainable amounts be taken. I hear Iceland and New Zealand have systems like that. That will make those two nations very much money as the rest of the oceans run dry.
I've heard this argument for as long as there has been iTunes. And it's of course true that there is some non zero degradation.
But is there any objective information on how much worse the sound gets? Does it matter at all in practice? For normal people playing normal music on normal equipment? The few times I've done it, the results have sounded just fine whan casually listening.
A slightly bigger question is if there even is an objective way of measuring sound quality?
Put it this way. Say your system has 100 features, and your "polish" level is such that the average user can understand half of them. Effectively it has 50 features. To reach 70 available features you can either improve the polish to 70%, or implement 40 new features.
And I claim that for the vast majoriy of software, doing the actual "polish" work is much more bang for the buck.
The main attratcion of Macs is that they're utilitarian. They're practical and easy to use. You get things done quickly, easily and enjoyably (if that's a word).
They're also made to be neat looking. And that's nice too, but quite secondary.
In the case of the box, the attractions are that it's very easy to carry, very easy to open up and well organized inside. Not that much it seems, but it makes them vastly superior to any PC case I've seen.
I've heard for over 20 years that "soon" there won't be a need for programmers, since you will just be able to make applications by putting components together.
This appeals to managers, since having programmers around is a pain. They're expensive, unreliable and act weird.
It will of course never work in reality. Anything interesting enough to be worth doing will be hard enough to get right that you need an actual programmer for it. And programmers have been putting components together almost since the dawn of programming, it's just that some people don't know that.
You know how newly modernizing third world countries skipped all the legacy technology and went straight to state of the art phone networks in the last 5-10 years, while older rich countries kept adding incrementally to their old systems?
The US has a very old democracy. It started way over 200 years ago, and the traditions are from that era. By 1770's standards, their current electoral system is a miracle of fairness and accuracy.
But by the standards of European countries who only fully accepted democracy in the last 100 years, and instituted modern state of the art systems when they did, it's a bizarre medieval mess.
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A physically present cop can beat you up, arrest you, and even kill you. I'd say that worse potential for abuse than the anonymous rudeness that can occur over the speaker system, however unpleasant that might be.
I'm not clear on what the "powers" a camera operator has. It seems to be little more than the those of a disembodied spirit. He can see what is happening, and also say words. Unless there is some law in place mandating that people obey these voices, I don't see what "power" they have, to abuse or not.
If there is such a law, things are more interesting. It seems that law is the interesting part in this, in that case, more than the cameras themselves.
Let's think about this.
These speaker equipped cameras don't do anything that a police officer at the scene couldn't do, and in fact do quite a bit less. So if you consider posting the cameras there unethical, it seems you must be opposed to having a patrolling police force at all. And that's a pretty extreme position.
If you consider having a police force good, the size of it becomes a question of economics. You could hire a cop to stand at each street corner 24/7, but the cost would not be anywhere near the benefit, so you accept a certain level of violent crime that you can't afford to address. But with this technology, the cost goes down by several orders of magnitude, and now that service level is economical.
I'm open to the idea that this level of surveillance becomes something qualitatively different and evil than the occasional patrolling cop. But I have yet to see any arguments for that here.
OK, you're exempt. That's a family heirloom, not a tacky expression of real or pretended wealth.
What you wear says a lot about who you are.
And wearing a Rolex is the only thing I can think of that trumps driving a Jaguar for saying "I'm very rich and very stupid".
It's just sad how the irresponsible portrayal of the Sun God in Mel Gibson's irresponsible and exploitative movie has endangered these astronauts, the planet's finest.
Personally I'm very careful before I claim any chicken-and-egg paradoxes as absolutely true.
I would make the uninformed guess that orphaned dolphins would have a tougher time than parented ones, but would not face a 100% death rate. Then the survivors can teach their kids their hard earned lessons
Only for the fact that beads and trinkets (cell phones, MP3 players, etc...) don't really help people in a capitalist economy.
In reality, the arrival of cell phones is a major factor in the current third world rise out of poverty. The ability to make a few calls to check current crop prices, rather than have to sell to that one guy for whatever he feels like paying, can quite literally be the difference between life and death.
I would guess they can't afford decent food, housing or health care even though they are "richer" by your estimation. And by decent food, we're talking about fresh produce, meat, poultry, sea food and staples like rice, whole wheat flour, etc...
In reality, for the price of an MP3 player, you can buy more than enough rice to feed you for a year.
More importantly, I really doubt Putin has the time and interest to order individual assasinations. He has much more important issues to deal with than such micro management.
He didn't get it taken away.
You can live real well with that kind of money in China, so I don't think he has many regrets.
...but then I got involved in extreme programming (XP).
In that world you go to great lengths to achieve a workplace layout where people can constantly overhear each other all day, to promote communication. Since you're always pair programming and talking anyway, it really works well.
But it is a whole different way of programming. The "lone ranger" programming style where you have to focus like a laser for 30 minutes before being able to form the first line of code is viewed with big suspicion in XP. If the code is that complex, the chances that anyone else will be able to read and maintain it is very slim, so in practical terms that code is worthless if it ever needs to be changed. And useful code always needs to be changed.
Things like this can have an effect just as "brand awareness". If you're a daytrader, and you get a bunch of emails about stock WTVR, later that day when you look around the stocks, WTVR will pop out from the rest as you recognize it, and you're more likely to trade in it that you would otherwise have been.
A small effect, but send out a few billion mails, and it will add up.
So there doesn't even have to be a single person who actually believes the spam for it to have an effect.
AMD's role in spurring interest in low-cost PCs for developing nations can't be overlooked."
I'm overlooking it right now, buddy!
I looked into this race, and as it turns out, you're right about the candidates different styles, and as one might expect, while Durrett earned your respect, Hopson earned the seat.
The perhaps difficult fact to face here is that campaigns go negative because the voters react to it. The day voters will start voting for candidates with a positive message, campaigns will turn positive very quickly.
In a democracy, you ultimately have to blame the voters for what's wrong...
The first two are correct, but the third line should be
Less Demand = Fish Catching Decreases
Unfortunately, less fishing does not have to mean that population increases, only that is decreases less. That is no guarantee that catches reach sustainable levels, and it seems quite unlikely given the example of the levels in todays equilibrium.
If there was private ownership of meaningful parts of the ocean, the profit motive would ensure that only sustainable amounts be taken. I hear Iceland and New Zealand have systems like that. That will make those two nations very much money as the rest of the oceans run dry.
Google hires plenty of 40+ people, such as myself.
We do try to avoid the bitter whiners though.
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
The male humans look far too much like roided up linebackers.
I've heard this argument for as long as there has been iTunes. And it's of course true that there is some non zero degradation.
But is there any objective information on how much worse the sound gets? Does it matter at all in practice? For normal people playing normal music on normal equipment? The few times I've done it, the results have sounded just fine whan casually listening.
A slightly bigger question is if there even is an objective way of measuring sound quality?
Put it this way. Say your system has 100 features, and your "polish" level is such that the average user can understand half of them. Effectively it has 50 features. To reach 70 available features you can either improve the polish to 70%, or implement 40 new features.
And I claim that for the vast majoriy of software, doing the actual "polish" work is much more bang for the buck.
So BMI isn't perfect. But it's clearly better than pure weight numbers, since it's adjusted for height.
Do you have an alternative easily computed number you think better measures obesity?
Or do you just think we should not try to measure it?
A journalist can tell you facts.
A comedian can tell you truths.
The site is Slashdotted by American nerds hoping to see naked Swedes.
Say what you will about youtube, they do have rock solid servers.
The main attratcion of Macs is that they're utilitarian. They're practical and easy to use. You get things done quickly, easily and enjoyably (if that's a word).
They're also made to be neat looking. And that's nice too, but quite secondary.
In the case of the box, the attractions are that it's very easy to carry, very easy to open up and well organized inside. Not that much it seems, but it makes them vastly superior to any PC case I've seen.
I've heard for over 20 years that "soon" there won't be a need for programmers, since you will just be able to make applications by putting components together.
This appeals to managers, since having programmers around is a pain. They're expensive, unreliable and act weird.
It will of course never work in reality. Anything interesting enough to be worth doing will be hard enough to get right that you need an actual programmer for it. And programmers have been putting components together almost since the dawn of programming, it's just that some people don't know that.
You know how newly modernizing third world countries skipped all the legacy technology and went straight to state of the art phone networks in the last 5-10 years, while older rich countries kept adding incrementally to their old systems?
The US has a very old democracy. It started way over 200 years ago, and the traditions are from that era. By 1770's standards, their current electoral system is a miracle of fairness and accuracy.
But by the standards of European countries who only fully accepted democracy in the last 100 years, and instituted modern state of the art systems when they did, it's a bizarre medieval mess.
Hope that helped!