"Me, too." I see exactly zero correlation between age and use of phone/laptop during meetings. Part of it is boredom, and part of it is people's belief that they're too important to pay attention to the meeting itself. -- but I do agree that there are way too many meetings in my company.
Err, in order to do anything about it the perps would have to stop and get out of the car. That gives police an opportunity to catch them.
Not exactly difficult logic.
Speaking of JamesBondGadgets, remember his rotating license plate thingy? Ok, so now the crooks just need a large backplate on their car w/ remote disconnect. The GPS payload (to avoid the word "bullet") attaches, they free the plate, and off they go!
Butchering is gross. I wouldn't mind snapping its neck and hading it off to someone else to butcher, though. Being grossed out by something doesn't constitute a moral imperative. I'm pretty grossed out by a woman's period but I still have sex with them.
There are soooo many ways that could go,all of them pretty bad. Which is grosser: sex with a menstruating woman or sex with a butchered carcass? Almost makes one wish for a calmer, cleaner goatse.
The basic answer and explanation is that the answer depends on your frame of reference. There's nothing in special (or general) relativity that stops the distance between A and B, as observed by a static spot X from increasing at 1.8*c. A and B don't see that; and more important, no information is transmittable from A to B (in any reference frame) faster than 1*c .
Also, it reminds me of the final scene in Surrogates, where all people suddenly go outside to see the world again. It is a nice idea, though. One is allowed to dream of a better future.
Wow... Somebody who actually watched Surrogates...
Not necessarily. I suspect his surrogate watched it and gave him the Cliff^H^H^H^HSparkNotes version.
I invoke Godwin's Law. As horrible as some of the stuff our government does is, there is no mass incarceration or genocide period yet end of story.
FTFY.
BTW, there's significant evidence that other nations had a reasonable inkling of what was going on -- read some of the history books on IBM's explicit involvement in tagging and rounding up Jews. Not that Jews were particularly welcome in the USA either back then.
Need to charge your cellphone? Tie the USB ground lead to a manhole cover, tie the other lead to a nail and pound it into the quarterpanel of the nearest Volvo (oops, wrong voltage:-) )
Well, we can't trust that copy/paste hasn't been back-doored.
You laugh, but remember that story a few months back about photocopiers which swapped in the wrong digit for 'fuzzy' regions of the original text? (they were doing a best-guess match to other sections of the image)
I think your comparison is flawed. If you were reading a paper book hundreds of times a day (to say nothing of deleting and rewriting the pages), it would wear out far sooner than the hard drive. If you take a hard drive, write once, and place in a nice environmentally compatible locker, then read parts of it every few months, it'll last a longer time.
but I don't think I'd want my doctor working from a "fuzzy logic" MRI if I had (God forbid) a BRAIN TUMOR or something...
Then I got bad news for you: NMR imaging and CAT imaging depend on algorithms with names like "Maximimum A Priori Likelihood Estimation." They *all* depend on making the best bet as to what the reconstructed image should be. It just turns out (thanks to that thing called mathematical statistics) that the correct solution is overwhelmingly positive. "Fuzzy Logic" does not mean what I think you think it means, i.e. "some random drunk posting to/."
You completely whooshed the point. Yes, you personally should be legally responsible for your libelous posts. The open, unmoderated forum you posted in should not.
Not to mention a small overlooked story from one of the business magazines this week: top-end car manufacturers, from Acura to Mercedes to Cadillac, are already pouring as many sensors & automatic safety control systems into their cars as they can. Arguing that consumers won't buy automatic cars is therefore claiming that these manufacturers don't know their target audience, a highly unlikely situation.
They've simply defined "corruption" as "Speaking out against the government." As experienced coders, you should all be familiar with this type of "operator overload":-(
You can argue 1% vs. 99% until we are blue in the face, but the fact is, what built America was a strong slave class.
FTFY See also "sweat shop." I'd say it's rather a wide-open question just how much stronger the USA got in the unionized era (which really is the 'strong middle class era') vs. any time period before that.
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They were all word problems where the wording was sometimes ambiguous. 2+2=4, but how many apples is 2 oranges plus 2 bananas?
The answer to which, of course, is "one duck."
"Me, too." I see exactly zero correlation between age and use of phone/laptop during meetings. Part of it is boredom, and part of it is people's belief that they're too important to pay attention to the meeting itself. -- but I do agree that there are way too many meetings in my company.
Burning coal in todays' crowded world is like a skyscraper with an outhouse.
OTOH, if a skyscraper replaced all its toilets w/ outhouses, it'd have its own source of biomass for conversion to electricity!
Actually,People who start sentences with the word "actually" are usually towering assholes.
BTFY :-) ("broke...")
Err, in order to do anything about it the perps would have to stop and get out of the car. That gives police an opportunity to catch them.
Not exactly difficult logic.
Speaking of JamesBondGadgets, remember his rotating license plate thingy? Ok, so now the crooks just need a large backplate on their car w/ remote disconnect. The GPS payload (to avoid the word "bullet") attaches, they free the plate, and off they go!
Jokes aside, what the general populace would like to know is: are those imperial years or rebel alliance years?
FTFY (evil grin)
Butchering is gross. I wouldn't mind snapping its neck and hading it off to someone else to butcher, though.
Being grossed out by something doesn't constitute a moral imperative. I'm pretty grossed out by a woman's period but I still have sex with them.
There are soooo many ways that could go,all of them pretty bad. Which is grosser: sex with a menstruating woman or sex with a butchered carcass?
Almost makes one wish for a calmer, cleaner goatse.
The basic answer and explanation is that the answer depends on your frame of reference. There's nothing in special (or general) relativity that stops the distance between A and B, as observed by a static spot X from increasing at 1.8*c. A and B don't see that; and more important, no information is transmittable from A to B (in any reference frame) faster than 1*c .
As long as they're both in salt water.
As long as we're arguing about encryption, shouldn't that be "salt[ed] hash" ? //rimshot
Put Schneier in a ring with Bruce Wayne, Bruce Willis, and Bruce Lee. See who survives.
Also, it reminds me of the final scene in Surrogates, where all people suddenly go outside to see the world again. It is a nice idea, though. One is allowed to dream of a better future.
Wow... Somebody who actually watched Surrogates...
Not necessarily. I suspect his surrogate watched it and gave him the Cliff^H^H^H^HSparkNotes version.
I invoke Godwin's Law. As horrible as some of the stuff our government does is, there is no mass incarceration or genocide period yet end of story.
FTFY.
BTW, there's significant evidence that other nations had a reasonable inkling of what was going on -- read some of the history books on IBM's explicit involvement in tagging and rounding up Jews. Not that Jews were particularly welcome in the USA either back then.
For chrissake, there has never been a day since the birth of humankind where journalism has been impartial
Yeah, some "top ten list" of rules inscribed on tablets comes to mind //rim shot
Fine, I'll join the dumb comments parade.
"The whole car body is batteries."
"Shocking!"
Need to charge your cellphone? Tie the USB ground lead to a manhole cover, tie the other lead to a nail and pound it into the quarterpanel of the nearest Volvo (oops, wrong voltage :-) )
Well, we can't trust that copy/paste hasn't been back-doored.
You laugh, but remember that story a few months back about photocopiers which swapped in the wrong digit for 'fuzzy' regions of the original text? (they were doing a best-guess match to other sections of the image)
I think your comparison is flawed. If you were reading a paper book hundreds of times a day (to say nothing of deleting and rewriting the pages), it would wear out far sooner than the hard drive.
If you take a hard drive, write once, and place in a nice environmentally compatible locker, then read parts of it every few months, it'll last a longer time.
but I don't think I'd want my doctor working from a "fuzzy logic" MRI if I had (God forbid) a BRAIN TUMOR or something...
Then I got bad news for you: NMR imaging and CAT imaging depend on algorithms with names like "Maximimum A Priori Likelihood Estimation." They *all* depend on making the best bet as to what the reconstructed image should be. It just turns out (thanks to that thing called mathematical statistics) that the correct solution is overwhelmingly positive. "Fuzzy Logic" does not mean what I think you think it means, i.e. "some random drunk posting to /."
You completely whooshed the point. Yes, you personally should be legally responsible for your libelous posts. The open, unmoderated forum you posted in should not.
Psychiatrists prescribe medicine, not psychologists.
Well, that's good. I can't see going to CVS and saying, "I've got a scrip here for one psychologist. Is it ready for pickup yet?"
This post brought to you by the Missing Comma Corporation. "Let's eat [,] Grandpa."
Not to mention a small overlooked story from one of the business magazines this week: top-end car manufacturers, from Acura to Mercedes to Cadillac, are already pouring as many sensors & automatic safety control systems into their cars as they can. Arguing that consumers won't buy automatic cars is therefore claiming that these manufacturers don't know their target audience, a highly unlikely situation.
They've simply defined "corruption" as "Speaking out against the government." As experienced coders, you should all be familiar with this type of "operator overload" :-(
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What next, the five year old girl gets flown to the capitol to cook a batch of meth in the bathtub?
You obviously haven't taken the tour of the white house.
Well, *that* explains why White House tours were cancelled last year.
I'm over at https://www.nsa.4q2/ and they've got all the info, with cool tracking overlays, too!
You can argue 1% vs. 99% until we are blue in the face, but the fact is, what built America was a strong slave class.
FTFY
See also "sweat shop." I'd say it's rather a wide-open question just how much stronger the USA got in the unionized era (which really is the 'strong middle class era') vs. any time period before that.