Nearly every crime involves transportation and communication.
Exactly. (I'm feeling too old this AM to type "This":-) ) I was going to respond that nearly every crime involved breathing. So why is it that so many people over 30 (and I'm waaay over 30) seem incapable of learning new shit? Maybe I'm a serious outlier, like most of us on/. , but I live for the opportunity to learn and adjust.
Here we have a Perfect Storm wherein the Republicans combine their total allegiance to corporations (and the resultant $$) with their incredible stupidity. That coined saying, "any sufficiently massive stupidity is indistinguishable from evil," comes into play too.
Meanwhile, where's all those TeaBagger Repubs? They should be screaming "no Big Government interference with our personal R/C video tools!"
Clearly the only choice is to name the larger moon "Colbert." Since some trekkie will think that naming the other one "Stewart" means Jean-Luc, maybe name it Tosh.0 instead.
As warfare comes to resemble Battlebots, as we employ more robot on robot violence, and offense and defense comes to be ruled by machines, we'll eventually reach the point of "Who the heck cares?" Because as cynical as it sounds, if you can't kill people, what the hell is the point of war?
I dunno... Battlebots was a pretty popular show. So is the World Cup (football); and I expect a robot-version of the World Cup would be up there as well.
Show me a biometric test that can't be spoofed for 10% the cost of the test hardware. Go ahead, I dare ya. Fake retinas and fake fingerprints took, what, a couple weeks to show up after their respective scanners went into production? Why should any other sort of bio-scanner/detector be any different?
OK, step back. Take a deep breath. The pope is sort-of oughtta be elected on the basis of what the Catholic god (or maybe Jesus, it ain't clear) tells the cardinals is the right choice. So how the fuck could a vote that's determined by the Almighty(s) possibly be rigged by mere mortals?
Being able to lure drone strikes into the same crowds gives the terrorists the opportunity to kill and maime hundreds while pinning the USA as the direct aggressor, rather than just being powerless to stop it. Of course, the war has dragged on long enough that now nobody cares anymore when a single terrorist is killed and 20 innocent children along with him.
Those aren't "innocent children," they're "pre-terrorists." (you insensitive clod)
Remember their great sketch about finding the man hiding in the field? 'specially the part with the narrator blowing up one bush--no go -- blow up the next one -- no go -- blow up the last one -- got him!
Yeah, it's not like terrorists ever killed 3000 people and levelled a couple of skyscrapers by flying planes into them is it?
Still? sheesh and damn. Haven't you noticed that death-by-plane-crash-into-building stopped being a feasible method after the first 3 such events? Plane #4 was stopped (albeit with loss of life) by onboard civilians. The next umpty-million commercial flights had locked doors and flight crew that knew better than ever to give up control. Stop thinking that some terrorist is magically going to do it again. Better yet, stop thinking that a series of ever more expensive and ever more intrusive Maginot Lines of *Agencies is going to help.
A 9/11 happening each year would be a 20% increase in the homocide rate. Air travel would plummet.
Comparing individual homicides with terrorist bombings is a completely false equivalency. As to air traffic: if if plummeted, so much the better as far as i'm concerned. People travel far more than necessary (Mr. Business Meeting Manager, I'm talking to you), and air travel is by far the least energy-efficient. As to your other points: first of all, if anyone in the Cheney-Rumsfeld administration had the slightest bit of brains, they'd not only have suspended stock trading (which would not have affected the 98% in the least), but would have reversed every short sale in transportation (air travel in particular) companies. They let terrorist groups make zillions off the 9/11 attack that way. As to collaterals such as damage cleanup and 'psych trauma,' well, the cleanup effort cost the equivalent of a couple days worth of the Iraq invasion, and most of the psych stuff was deliberately amplified and extended by our own lovely government. If we'd had a president who said, "Damn, we lost some good people. But fuck those terrorists. We aren't going to change and we aren't going to give in," (and specifically NOT created several Ministries of Fear such as DHS and TSA) the whole country would have settled down in a few months.
Even back then, there were times when radio silence was required. Funny as it sounds, pilots occasionally used hand signals (assuming they were in visual range, of course)
Quite true, which is why, sort of as a corollary, nobody's going to accept a laser-tagging method of asteroid claims. If you're not sitting right there, in front of your Conestoga, w/ your Winchester loaded and ready, you ain't gonna be able to defend your claim. And no jumping the starting gun, you damn Okies!
I prefer to believe (:-) ) that most of us in Massachusetts and NH and VT are so happy we don't even bother with something as pitiful as Twitter in the first place. Maybe Hawaii has the happiest twits (or do I have to call them tweeters?). That doesn't mean the GenPop is happiest.
The Canonical website wasn't very clear on this, so can someone comment: given that I have an Android tablet w/ a stack of GooglePlay apps, what happens if I install UbuntuTablet on my hardware? Can I log into GooglePlay & get my apps and credentials (what's paid for and so on) back?
I suppose I really should be asking what will happen if I try to put Ubuntu on my actual tablet-- Onda, A10 based:-( .
Wow. IIRC, I made a comment on 'usenet' back in 1988 or so suggesting that people who claim they are happy with their Down's child just as they are and would not want some special (theoretical) cure are just plain selfish and foolish. I got flamed,as one might imagine. And here we are, 25 years later, and there's a whole websited community claiming the right to refuse treatment for major physical fuckups? I can understand a person going through a careful tradeoff of surgical (or medical) risk/ benefit analysis, and then choosing to remain damaged. I can't understand saying "oh, we're just different." You're not different. You're damaged. And while personally I'd far rather our society provided all the support you need instead of, say, 2 more aircraft carrier battle groups, I don't think you get to demand unilaterally that you get massive support if there's a lower cost medical treatment available.
To reiterate: all images are pseudo-3D. This stuff is stereoscopic, and all it does is provide a ridiculous amount of front-back magnification. Why would anyone want "3D" content on the 'net anyway? Oh, right, because stupid.
Somehow I don't see anything other than perhaps online games hooked into goggles to provide an "immersive experience" making sensible (!!) use of this tech.
Great tool for positive reinforcement in our congress critters. Still, science fiction teaches us it is always better to stimulate the pain receptors!
(a) you don't read a wide-enough variety of SciFi . (b) Congresscritters are quite good enough at handling positive reinforcement -- in the form of $$. But so far as I can tell, they disdain water in favor of alcohol at all times.
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Nearly every crime involves transportation and communication.
Exactly. (I'm feeling too old this AM to type "This" :-) ) I was going to respond that nearly every crime involved breathing. /. , but I live for the opportunity to learn and adjust.
So why is it that so many people over 30 (and I'm waaay over 30) seem incapable of learning new shit? Maybe I'm a serious outlier, like most of us on
"Un-cheap" is not a word. TFS should say "not cheap". Can we please have some minimal editing for language in future?
Apparently whoever currently controls the present has un-realitized 1984 from the timestream.
Here we have a Perfect Storm wherein the Republicans combine their total allegiance to corporations (and the resultant $$) with their incredible stupidity. That coined saying, "any sufficiently massive stupidity is indistinguishable from evil," comes into play too.
Meanwhile, where's all those TeaBagger Repubs? They should be screaming "no Big Government interference with our personal R/C video tools!"
Clearly the only choice is to name the larger moon "Colbert."
Since some trekkie will think that naming the other one "Stewart" means Jean-Luc, maybe name it Tosh.0 instead.
At least, if Mars has policemen, he'll want to know about this.
Poo on buying the medal: they should release the CAD data so we all can download and print our very own 3D copy.
At least we know definitively that the trigger song isn't Margaritaville. That would have been a disaster.
Until 1945, the trigger song was "Deutchland Uber Alles." Now it's "Aegukga"
As warfare comes to resemble Battlebots, as we employ more robot on robot violence, and offense and defense comes to be ruled by machines, we'll eventually reach the point of "Who the heck cares?" Because as cynical as it sounds, if you can't kill people, what the hell is the point of war?
I dunno ... Battlebots was a pretty popular show. So is the World Cup (football); and I expect a robot-version of the World Cup would be up there as well.
Show me a biometric test that can't be spoofed for 10% the cost of the test hardware. Go ahead, I dare ya.
Fake retinas and fake fingerprints took, what, a couple weeks to show up after their respective scanners went into production? Why should any other sort of bio-scanner/detector be any different?
Harrumph. In that case, what's the point in choosing one anyway?
BTW, your link claims the pope is not infallible. That may come as a shock to some Catholics </snark>
Hey, Chu and Coble: Fuck you and the horse you rod in on.
All that needs to be said.
OK, step back. Take a deep breath. The pope is sort-of oughtta be elected on the basis of what the Catholic god (or maybe Jesus, it ain't clear) tells the cardinals is the right choice. So how the fuck could a vote that's determined by the Almighty(s) possibly be rigged by mere mortals?
Being able to lure drone strikes into the same crowds gives the terrorists the opportunity to kill and maime hundreds while pinning the USA as the direct aggressor, rather than just being powerless to stop it. Of course, the war has dragged on long enough that now nobody cares anymore when a single terrorist is killed and 20 innocent children along with him.
Those aren't "innocent children," they're "pre-terrorists." (you insensitive clod)
Remember their great sketch about finding the man hiding in the field? 'specially the part with the narrator blowing up one bush--no go -- blow up the next one -- no go -- blow up the last one -- got him!
Yeah, it's not like terrorists ever killed 3000 people and levelled a couple of skyscrapers by flying planes into them is it?
Still? sheesh and damn.
Haven't you noticed that death-by-plane-crash-into-building stopped being a feasible method after the first 3 such events? Plane #4 was stopped (albeit with loss of life) by onboard civilians. The next umpty-million commercial flights had locked doors and flight crew that knew better than ever to give up control. Stop thinking that some terrorist is magically going to do it again. Better yet, stop thinking that a series of ever more expensive and ever more intrusive Maginot Lines of *Agencies is going to help.
A 9/11 happening each year would be a 20% increase in the homocide rate. Air travel would plummet.
Comparing individual homicides with terrorist bombings is a completely false equivalency. As to air traffic: if if plummeted, so much the better as far as i'm concerned. People travel far more than necessary (Mr. Business Meeting Manager, I'm talking to you), and air travel is by far the least energy-efficient.
As to your other points: first of all, if anyone in the Cheney-Rumsfeld administration had the slightest bit of brains, they'd not only have suspended stock trading (which would not have affected the 98% in the least), but would have reversed every short sale in transportation (air travel in particular) companies. They let terrorist groups make zillions off the 9/11 attack that way. As to collaterals such as damage cleanup and 'psych trauma,' well, the cleanup effort cost the equivalent of a couple days worth of the Iraq invasion, and most of the psych stuff was deliberately amplified and extended by our own lovely government. If we'd had a president who said, "Damn, we lost some good people. But fuck those terrorists. We aren't going to change and we aren't going to give in," (and specifically NOT created several Ministries of Fear such as DHS and TSA) the whole country would have settled down in a few months.
Even back then, there were times when radio silence was required. Funny as it sounds, pilots occasionally used hand signals (assuming they were in visual range, of course)
Maybe the first time on /. this year, the word "loose" was properly used. This could make me loose my mind ... ooops, winning streak is over.
Quite true, which is why, sort of as a corollary, nobody's going to accept a laser-tagging method of asteroid claims. If you're not sitting right there, in front of your Conestoga, w/ your Winchester loaded and ready, you ain't gonna be able to defend your claim. And no jumping the starting gun, you damn Okies!
I prefer to believe ( :-) ) that most of us in Massachusetts and NH and VT are so happy we don't even bother with something as pitiful as Twitter in the first place.
Maybe Hawaii has the happiest twits (or do I have to call them tweeters?). That doesn't mean the GenPop is happiest.
I guess the "sensible" thing to do, then, is put UbuntuTablet on an SD card, boot from there, and see how GooglePlay and AmazonStore work out.
The Canonical website wasn't very clear on this, so can someone comment: given that I have an Android tablet w/ a stack of GooglePlay apps, what happens if I install UbuntuTablet on my hardware? Can I log into GooglePlay & get my apps and credentials (what's paid for and so on) back?
I suppose I really should be asking what will happen if I try to put Ubuntu on my actual tablet-- Onda, A10 based :-( .
Wow. IIRC, I made a comment on 'usenet' back in 1988 or so suggesting that people who claim they are happy with their Down's child just as they are and would not want some special (theoretical) cure are just plain selfish and foolish. I got flamed,as one might imagine. And here we are, 25 years later, and there's a whole websited community claiming the right to refuse treatment for major physical fuckups? I can understand a person going through a careful tradeoff of surgical (or medical) risk/ benefit analysis, and then choosing to remain damaged. I can't understand saying "oh, we're just different." You're not different. You're damaged. And while personally I'd far rather our society provided all the support you need instead of, say, 2 more aircraft carrier battle groups, I don't think you get to demand unilaterally that you get massive support if there's a lower cost medical treatment available.
To reiterate: all images are pseudo-3D. This stuff is stereoscopic, and all it does is provide a ridiculous amount of front-back magnification. Why would anyone want "3D" content on the 'net anyway? Oh, right, because stupid.
Somehow I don't see anything other than perhaps online games hooked into goggles to provide an "immersive experience" making sensible (!!) use of this tech.
Great tool for positive reinforcement in our congress critters. Still, science fiction teaches us it is always better to stimulate the pain receptors!
(a) you don't read a wide-enough variety of SciFi .
(b) Congresscritters are quite good enough at handling positive reinforcement -- in the form of $$. But so far as I can tell, they disdain water in favor of alcohol at all times.