You can only cite a winning counter example to a universal argument. I was citing MY area, where the system still works; I was not giving you something so easy. Your citation doesn't prove anything to anybody with a brain.
Phone lines: I mentioned state law forces them to share their monopoly lines with competing corps. That is more regulation that could be "more strict" with cable corps. Furthermore, the FCC used to be more strict and lack of management of OUR AIRWAVES has killed off the little media we had; now its junk. When ATnT and comcast morph internet into cable TV and cell phone business models you will not be so happy (competition my ass, they are exploiting OUR resources to avoid market forces.)
Monopoly: Wrong. I often wonder if we can't just replace humans someday because literal minded rigid thinking is so popular. It is NOT EXCLUSIVE if there is no exclusion. It is a public resource so it belongs to everybody (its inclusive!) It has EVERYTHING to do with representation!!! If it does not represent you then it is exclusive and therefore can be a form of monopoly. (don't get literal again and say we must have 100% consensus for actual representation.)
My 10 cities, the state, and the federal government helped PAY FOR the phones and internet we have. Actually, comcast in my state bought into more debt with the takeover than they could afford to pay off like the few franchises we had before that! They squeeze out what they can, build more debt and then resell it to the next one; each progressively worse. Comcast is the 1st to have done at all well, largely because they cut overhead moving 2 fibre with the help of government funding.
Actually, I have routinely pushed for a our 10 cities to become a backbone fibre provider and subsidize cheap access to any corporation. (naturally, I'd form my own tiny ISP and compete in my neighborhood.) Too many stick to current conventions (I cant see public libraries being invented in these times...) Cooperatives are also not well understood in these parts. (Yet we get a chunk of out power and food from farmer co-ops.)
I wonder when Blackwater manages to get the public behind privatizing the military, police, and fire... I bet they can make those look incompetent with a long term ad campaign. Its hard to imagine the WATER is at issue now-- ownership of the WATER!?
It is a BAD example of government OVER regulation! In most cases, its a LACK of stronger regulation that is the problem! Many cities would love 2 cable companies and probably give them incentives!
Public resources are owned by government which has a "monopoly" on them. The error I often see is that some think government is a form of corporation; it can not have any monopoly because it represents all citizens (government corruption is off topic; its OUR fault if we become corporatist, etc.)
In my area the local governments created a NGO with a board appointed by the cities it serves and it manages the public lands in regard to communications use by private orgs. This board isn't great; however, it is generally the best thing we can do in our area. Problem is the cable and phone companies are too powerful for our 10 cities and nobody will MOVE IN to compete without massive government welfare (which the existing monopolies initially HAD.) Every legal fight is a loss for us and even if the 10 cities directly used their relatively "vast" funds it quite likely would still loose in the end (they just lobby the state when at risk.)
Government could run fibre and make a NGO to manage ISPs sharing the line and could run that line non-profit or even at a loss; unlike the PHONE corp which is required by law to share its lines and does a poor job of it for obvious reasons. This is next logical step since a few fibre lines over public land is nearly the same monopoly situation and consumers would have to subsidize the waste of many extra lines (we already subsidized all the phone/cable/water/gas lines...)
My downtown roads are a mess; why? because corps keep changing around their lines running under the roads and get permits to dig it all up. Yes, I agree that the city needs to force them to all do their changes together at a more REGULATED time. But if we extend that to non-profit shared services under our roads... like we have for water...
Fluid dynamics is something we will never know for any sizable system. We may never figure out quantum physics or solve the traveling salesman problem any faster either. We can do a lot with what we currently; furthermore, even without 100% expert consensus we manage with much of our science.
The OTHER STRONG and proven cases of massive environmental damage (see parent) only make the case for human warming causes much stronger. Plus what happened to all this cold-war stuff about nuclear war leading to nuclear winters and radiation spreading around the globe etc?? We can nuke the planet do massive damage (when it benefits the arms race) but we can't cause minor temp changes (when it harms the power industry?)
You'd think China's Olympics would have illustrated something; or 911 showing a measurable temp change just from 3 days of no jets flying (some more jet ban tests would help to confirm it.) Then there are the global dimming studies some of which have STRONG SOLID evidence of man's impact (global dimming / cooling actually totally compliments global warming.)
Evidence only grows; and its hopeful, because the more at fault we are the more power we have to overcome the trends. (Anybody else sick of these global warming defeatists?? Yeah, lets give up and fan the flames to make it worse..)
If it stinks, its chemistry. If it is slimy, it is biology. If it doesn't work like it should, it is physics.
I'm familiar with the paper. He ball parks cpu to human simulation and I seem to remember somebody else placing it around 2032.
The big issue often ignored is the neuron networks are NETWORKS more than anything else and you can have as many transistors as you like but if you can not handle ball park interconnects (10**14?) with most moving data in parallel it will be a very slow simulation. The brain is massively PARALLEL so it can handle running as slow as it does.
CPU evolution greatly impacts estimates and that is hard to do just within it's own realm. After multimedia is less of a driving force (merging CPU, DSP, GPU were predictable 10 years ago,) I suspect AI applications will start to pick up enough to drive the market once some better software exists.
The needs are so unlike everything else I don't see most the advances being of much benefit unless AI becomes a big enough area on its own.
The Star-Tribune SUCKS. Can't trust them. I've lived in Twin Cities.
My sources (in MN) say that that most the buckets were gray water and a few were because there was no bathroom (the place was over crowded.) Not to mention there is no crime for pissing in a bucket.
In addition, the Star Trib spends time on the anarchist group when most the raids were OTHER groups that were not anarchist and the paper didn't explain that and left it for the reader to mis-characterize all the other people involved in the raids when most of them were peaceful people gathering on private property.
They were NOT civil to reporters in all situations. Plus in some cases the people they held were the people asserting their constitutional rights. (there no warrants in most cases.)
Plus if you have been following, there were reports of the FBI trying to get students to be informants for them... One student spoke out about it months ago; one wonders what kind of characters volunteer for it-- and how trustworthy they are if they hate these protesters to begin with and that is why the agreed to be a voluntary government spy.
Remember Jefferson made a statement about how the constitution should be altered NOT set in stone.
It has been amended, ignored, and falsely interpreted not just out of the flaw in others but also because it has flaws. (If it were perfect and should be set in stone; people wouldn't know it was perfect or perfectly execute it.)
The federalist papers are not bad but they are NOT set in stone and they certainly are NOT anywhere near the level of the constitution or bill of rights they are written by a minority of founders and have a bias from the 'crowd' that founded the nation.
Most people DIE for nothing; It is not logical to take a position simply because a bunch of people and maybe a few respected ones where in the bunch. Its an appeal to emotion plain and simple.
You said you didn't need any government etc. I brought up the basics to make a point; you admit you depend upon government to some degree. However, you seem to think that you have some amazing ability to quantify the value of the services provided directly and indirectly to YOU. its all about YOU and literal thinking. The police and fire indirectly impact you by keeping fire and crime from spreading over to you; in addition to keeping prices lower because those direct costs to others comeback to you in the market, insurance etc. Then there are universities and other government funded orgs that create/invent things that are even less obvious/literal for people like you to make a connection to. These things are NOT easily quantified; and having' worked in local gov I can tell you that THEY EXPLOIT that quantification problem. (especially when they grant private monopolies because of this free market religion...)
I like jefferson a lot, but I don't agree with everything he says. The context in which that statement was made is also not the same as today-- and I'm sure given his wisdom in opposition of banking he wouldn't wholly apply that statement to bankers. Plus, corporations are NOT people (they are now, but not then) he could do his thing but exempt it from corps...
I suppose YOU think the homeless should pay the same amount as a massive land owner? because you don't like % taxes and want a fixed $ amount??? The people with the least can't afford as much and it hurts them more to kick them when they are down.-- this adds to bad economy, crime etc. The argument for property taxes is that those with more land may use more gov services; which is a poor argument (except for fire.) I'm personally against property taxes which ARE used to discriminate; in addition, people much more NOW than in the past view property as an investment instead of a homestead. This has caused an increase in big-brother laws telling you how to cut your grass etc because it could lower your neighbor's property value. (along with stuff about black people/minorities which was cleverly put into keeping prop taxes high; in MY northern suburb we recently had a battle over some land where a few fools slipped out their true motives... although not overt racism it was association of a race with an economic "class" that was unwanted in the city. My city wouldn't even allow a White Castle because of the "class" of people associated with it. Being around city gov a while only made it even easier to see this sort of stuff.)
So you don't think public schools or libraries or universities are a worth while return? just police, fire, roads? mass transit? Majority representation will beat you there-- eventually privatized versions prove the public ones are better for LESS money. Public healthcare has been proven on most points as well. Public insurance can just be deduced as a math problem to prove it is better. Yes, corruption is a problem; but I've seen how monopoly profit costs more and delivers LESS than corruption and with the corruption people get FIRED but monopoly abuse has no recourse until it goes much further. (not again an absolute rule but I've never seen a local city ever do worse for any length of time; I have however seen intention
I've done it-- they really just bug the top 1% and now because too many people are going to higher levels they decided a cap that keeps them able to handle the gradual increase in use from everybody.
400GB isn't easy, but if you rsync backup stuff that changes a lot during the month plus do some p2p and get a few linux dvds or something. You can reach these levels legitimately but I've only done it once. (I do suspect a neighbor kid on my wifi which is open... but I know I can do easily 200GB in a busy month with rsync etc.)
Chavez along with any leaders that do not do what the USA wants have been always attacked; more so since the birth of the USA economic empire.
The USA's list of "rogue" nations is the SAME as those who oppose the IMF and World Bank. Those organizations benefit the USA at the expense of everybody else; well, they used to-- now they are beginning to turn against the USA.
The USA couldn't kick out Chavez (they tried twice) but that doesn't mean the CIA isn't pulling new tricks (see history of CIA in the Americas; or the history of terrorism by the CIA.) These are truths not allowed to be heard in the USA and much of the public can't handle the truth- even when former CIA agents come out.
Chavez is doing miracle work for his exploited banana republic. The amount of progress his nation has made against the odds is simply amazing. I don't think there is a world leader near his caliber in power today. No he is not perfect, just the best at this point in time.
Officials must have all their documents archived; however, given how easy it is to fake electronic evidence (I did computer forensics) I take anything without digital signatures with a grain of salt. Laws need to be passed so everything is digitally signed, just like using expensive paper with an official letterhead.
Yes, I know Rove etc. wouldn't sign something and play stupid about his PGP not working... would lose his private keys, etc. And naturally, playing stupid (even at multiple layers) is a 100% pardon for these crooks. Honest politicians (2-3 people?) get nailed on their single mistakes (unless perhaps they then become dishonest...)
Not realistic anytime soon. Better off with stuff that likely will get done sooner and cheaper with less losses. Lithium batteries are horrible for this application; they ONLY have portability and density going for them neither of which matter for grid storage.
probably has about the same error rate or parts that confuse you.
I was going to post the long reply but then I thought by the end I've got you pegged and it won't do you any good even if I mess with you in some parts (like bashing the constitution or federalist papers which you think are holy documents set in stone.)
I will say that again you got me wrong; although, if it makes you feel better I misunderstood you on the christian thing. I don't retract the christian comment, because its a perspective thing and you are so literal minded about so much stuff. (my reply had many points where I tried to point out how its not literal.)
I'll leave you with 1 line (for fun on my part, it clearly won't help you:)
Yah... I'm sure you pushed yourself out of your mother, slapped yourself, started breathing, and then ripped off the umbilical cord. I'm sure you are eaten up inside when you use the internet out there in your bunker;-) (internet came from government and running lines out to your bunker was forced by government.)
You don't worry about unchecked crime from those cops you do not think are needed or spreading fires because you are in your armed bunker right?
Look up the the term 'wisdom of the crowd'. There are many arguments about the wisdom of the masses given certain conditions; group estimations being a strong point.
That being said, there are ALSO many ways to manipulate the crowd possibly just as many as there are to manipulate an individual (techniques differ at both scales.)
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You say elected officials are just managers. They are PART manager! The VOTERS are the BOSS. Let idiot or corrupt managers go unfired and... The manager does the boss's bidding so they keep their job.
Being insubordinate is part of most jobs; its results that often matter more in the end (for a competent boss.) One argument for having a term is to counter the problems of the crowd; mobs are stupid but they are short lived. Not to mention that detail work can't be done by the masses; general policies and job evaluation is something they CAN do (with help from the auditors & evaluators etc. from the 4th branch of government...)
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You should read the part about AMENDMENTS; which BTW, >10 have been written from public movements (and some stupid ones like prohibition.)
The people have the power in this government. The republic only guards against a majority not a SUPER MAJORITY or a lasting one. It takes REAL RARE courage to defend the republic especially in extremely bad times. I like FDR. An amendment was the proper (but slow) process that should have been followed, no argument there.
Public schools BTW, are funded by states; but quite addicted to supplemental funding... Not all schools are; nor are all libraries (which are Ben Franklin's creation BTW.) The solution clearly is to change the funding structure; although, you still have issues with poor states.
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You are so off. I didn't think it was written that badly, the error must be largely yours.
The mission statement for the USA doesn't say government not for the people but to only defend and enforce the law. Its vague and totally can include government services the people want. It is a vehicle for the people to drive how they see fit. (again, its MOST the people if you forgot the last section.)
The USA is supposedly a christian nation; or at least claims it... I've been raised catholic and learned how far out other sub-groups and denominations are from each other-- they have maybe a paragraph in common and that is it! If like I said, this is such a christian nation you would think those people combined with others would use government as a vehicle to help others; instead the vocal "christians" are the most violent etc. aside from wanting their version of a christian law (which is just fine if you have a lasting super majority.) The USA design is transferrable.
Oh, I am NOT a christian. BTW, I have no religion or associated group either. You imagined it. You should rethink my position (if your intellectually honest, you will..) you confusing the posts? I see quoted commentary that isn't from me in there-- an error on your part perhaps?
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Those that benefit the most owe the most to their benefactors. I repeat it. You owe society, you owe your parents, you owe your teachers, police, etc... it goes on and on. "On the back of giants," etc. You may (as in might-- before you jump the gun again) be an ungrateful prick but the rest of us do not have to allow you to rise higher in our society to the point where you gain power to likely do us and the society harm (being a prick.) OR Instead you could object to the concept that government should be of the people, run by the people and for the people. That is another matter, in which case I would say you don't apply the founders general concepts entirely. I suppose then you would be ok with another organization that mimic's the government in nearly every way (believing in this system of government enough to apply it to another organization) except that some people could opt-out (the pricks.) If you are one of these types, then you are ready to think about mirrored systems th
Dark smoke like the towers had is indication of lack of oxygen and therefore poor burning. It wasn't burning that well or as hot as possible and the kind of smoke proves the point.
WTC 7 could have had ideal burning conditions which would have minimized the amount of smoke.
I know experts in relevant fields too afraid to go on record with any commentary; the event had unique conditions never seen before and legitimately raises a great deal of questions and problems on that grounds alone-- but the political atmosphere IS limiting open critical analysis by experts (in addition to government not releasing useful information. This report isn't that useful if you are able to do the work yourself; especially if you don't want to get involved in the mess that even a picky correction would bring you.)
THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS TO DO THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS with limitations on majority rule (its a republic.) This government no longer serves its purpose; in large part due to the people not taking the responsibility to run it and the officials not living in fear of the public they (should) serve.
A nation with a majority of Christians should do a lot about the welfare of the poor. Not the church running government, but the manifestation of those values in a majority. (Christian is actually a very vague label; but helping the poor took up much of the book)
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The system formed by the people and their government allows the upward mobility that some greatly benefit from. Those that benefit the most owe the most to their benefactors.
The wealthy often and now days almost always owe a LARGE part of their wealth to the government. Its not legitimate money they made 100% honestly by themselves (Walmart and its investors for example.)
It is pure bullshit that these people are all self-made and way too many of these "self-made" people eat their own BS. Rural areas are full of these types who's communities are nearly all welfare subsidized by state/federal government who get the money from the city folk they think are so helpless.
The USA has a history of HIGH taxes (even 90%) on the wealthy and only until recent times has that been eroded to such extremes. One of the main reasons is that money DOES equate to power and influence this DIRECTLY undermines this form of government. Its about preserving the republic to knock down the wealthy; inequality can exist but there are limitations... Corporations now allow non-citizen entities to leverage near legal citizenship with the benefits of being not human and insanely wealthy. Corps are the dominant institution in the WORLD today as a result. Today's corps were NOT allowed to exist in the past, it started around the 1860s I believe.
The Emperor's New Clothes. Americans know the story but clearly not the moral of it.
Its the same pattern of character attacking anybody who sees the truth. In real life it is not so blatant as a children's story; however, it is embarrassingly close.
Class warfare has been waged in the USA for a long long time and the only people who are allowed to accuse others of "class warfare" without consequences are those who are perpetuating it themselves.
Oh and the tactic of blaming others for your yet-to-be-discovered actions works surprisingly well when combined with this. If you do it with 1 or more collaborators nobody will ever suspect you (and if they do, employ a character attack like saying they are paranoid; plus if you play stupid nobody will think you capable of something so "complex" as collaboration.)
Javascript and the DOM API are by different organizations! DOM could use work and better support but javascript is fine.
Javascript can add some minor changes but nothing major like class definitions and strict typing are required nor should they be desired.
Javascript is a SCRIPTING LANGUAGE!
Javascript doesn't need to evolve into JAVA, we already HAVE JAVA!
Somebody make DOM for JAVA applets before they screw up Javascript!
How about better integration of JAVA applets into webpages? If you want major desktop application development on a website you can use the #1 programming language with its tons of bloated features and slow compilation (and tiny executable foot print) that is ALREADY powering massive desktop and web applications.
Actually, in 2000 there WERE computer voting machines in some areas in FL. If you think about it, you should recall that there was a short lived story about voting machines showing thousands more votes than people that had to be "repaired" to get the 'correct' result; but the hanging chads took most the news.
Actually, the other big news items didn't make it at the time either.
There are HOURS of news of value to 'someone else' but in the less than 22min for news we hear about their customer's (or their) press releases. To the point where they will grab fake news reports created by corps! Even the local news will repeat items from the national that are unimportant.
Besides in the case of film, one of the top ad lines is bandwagon about how everbody is seeing it etc. A tricky and more credible method is to get the news to 'report' it.
I meant properties in an instance of Object that are used instead of the inherited properties; which is how it should work everywhere at this point (but like I said I am not wanting to test everything when I just learned avoid the issue all this time.)
note: ECMAScript 2 was the last one I read. I just assumed they'd add function and regexp to the JSON (so it wouldn't be exactly JSON; however, RegExp in JSON would be nice.)
Console Object: No, implementations would not have to support Console, just be required to ignore the use of it. Detailed specifics of debug output do not need to be specified; just the JS interface to Console.
Classes and inheritance:
JS functions well enough without class trees and heavy type conversion. I don't want a typeless Java. (How about just integrating java instead of creating an Objective-C skewed Java?)
JS is not a compiled language. Without seriously complex client side optimization it will SLOW DOWN. We don't want the kind of overhead that makes javac so darn fast.. Not to mention code bulk will increase as well. There are reasonable methods to get OOP like abilities in JS now (and wonderful scoping abilities.)
HASH/Object:
Well, I've run into fun times with violations and collisions with property names over the years. Props like 'constructor' being accessed; which is an Object property. Creating properties is not much use if you can't access them consistently. I escaped stuff, I admit I've not followed the browser issues on this matter for years.
I suggested Hash simply off the top of my head because there are real problems with Object.
Now, if they can resolve this problem in the spec and implementations without a Hash I'm all for it. Off the top of my head (again:)
How about assignment actually replaces the built-in properties on Object? It normally works this way, but built-in stuff (like Object) wasn't 100% '1st class' (or it wasn't years ago... not sure I'll bother to test it again for some time.)
OK. I didn't read revision 3. toString() is not useful IMHO; JSON would be more intuitive in that it would output source code like strings- serialized. Add serialize() if toString is so important to keep (who uses it??)
Property Monitoring: It is not a big speed issue. Mozilla ALREADY adds something very similar to property monitoring. see "__defineGetter"
Console Object: Javascript exists outside of DOM more so every year. Built in testing (+ unit testing) + debug options (assert, log...) would make it EASIER to javascript between APIs. Furthermore, the implementations can optimize out the Console object if they have debugging features disabled (possible in the 1st pass of parsing if done right.)
Mozilla Additions:
ECMAScript 4 I thought was adding the Mozilla additions but I wasn't going to look until it completed and now ECMAScript 4 is dead. (If they ever add class definitions I'll puke.)
Hash Support: Javascript & JSON have typical variable naming limitations; something like this: [_\$A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]+ in addition, Object has properties that are essentially reserved.
Javascript/JSON objects currently serve as fast and easy hash tables except hash keys are restricted which can cause troubles (mozilla allows violations in most situations.) Built-in hash tables are extremely useful; my suggestion was to simply hack Object down into a Hash to make implementation easy. Yes, I realize this approach means Hash would be a 2nd root object in terms of OOP. Too many OOP religious zealots out there to see this making it... I don't think one could add Functions at this point in time if they were not already built-in.
1) They NEED to release a long list of test cases that can be run against implementations.
2) How about having toString() output JSON? (at least specify exactly what it should output.)
If anything new:
Access methods for Object():
Allows a function to monitor read/write/exec of an object's properties (EXTREMELY useful for client side patching of implementation bugs.)
A Console object loosely modeled after FireBug with a focus on unit testing. Implementation optional; but no errors if its used.
Perl level RegExp (look ahead)
A few of the Mozilla additions
Hash: an Object without ANY properties, any methods would be 'Class methods' not object methods.
ANIMATION? The last 3 films were ANIMATED CGI with some blue screen humans placed in them to sucker you people. I can spot CGI, the muppets were less jarring!
Who really cares-- if it was a good film nobody would care; those who complain would still probably wait hours in line to get the special edition DVD.
Its not the animation that makes it suck.
People identify better with toons than human characters; if they are worth identifying with (and properly abstracted.) Toons require a leap but these pseudo real CGI things jump between the real and the UNCANNY VALLEY. Does it condition the public to be worse at discerning the real from the fake?
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You can only cite a winning counter example to a universal argument. I was citing MY area, where the system still works; I was not giving you something so easy. Your citation doesn't prove anything to anybody with a brain.
Phone lines:
I mentioned state law forces them to share their monopoly lines with competing corps. That is more regulation that could be "more strict" with cable corps. Furthermore, the FCC used to be more strict and lack of management of OUR AIRWAVES has killed off the little media we had; now its junk. When ATnT and comcast morph internet into cable TV and cell phone business models you will not be so happy (competition my ass, they are exploiting OUR resources to avoid market forces.)
Monopoly:
Wrong. I often wonder if we can't just replace humans someday because literal minded rigid thinking is so popular.
It is NOT EXCLUSIVE if there is no exclusion. It is a public resource so it belongs to everybody (its inclusive!) It has EVERYTHING to do with representation!!! If it does not represent you then it is exclusive and therefore can be a form of monopoly. (don't get literal again and say we must have 100% consensus for actual representation.)
My 10 cities, the state, and the federal government helped PAY FOR the phones and internet we have. Actually, comcast in my state bought into more debt with the takeover than they could afford to pay off like the few franchises we had before that! They squeeze out what they can, build more debt and then resell it to the next one; each progressively worse. Comcast is the 1st to have done at all well, largely because they cut overhead moving 2 fibre with the help of government funding.
Actually, I have routinely pushed for a our 10 cities to become a backbone fibre provider and subsidize cheap access to any corporation. (naturally, I'd form my own tiny ISP and compete in my neighborhood.) Too many stick to current conventions (I cant see public libraries being invented in these times...) Cooperatives are also not well understood in these parts. (Yet we get a chunk of out power and food from farmer co-ops.)
I wonder when Blackwater manages to get the public behind privatizing the military, police, and fire... I bet they can make those look incompetent with a long term ad campaign. Its hard to imagine the WATER is at issue now-- ownership of the WATER!?
It is a BAD example of government OVER regulation! In most cases, its a LACK of stronger regulation that is the problem! Many cities would love 2 cable companies and probably give them incentives!
Public resources are owned by government which has a "monopoly" on them. The error I often see is that some think government is a form of corporation; it can not have any monopoly because it represents all citizens (government corruption is off topic; its OUR fault if we become corporatist, etc.)
In my area the local governments created a NGO with a board appointed by the cities it serves and it manages the public lands in regard to communications use by private orgs. This board isn't great; however, it is generally the best thing we can do in our area. Problem is the cable and phone companies are too powerful for our 10 cities and nobody will MOVE IN to compete without massive government welfare (which the existing monopolies initially HAD.) Every legal fight is a loss for us and even if the 10 cities directly used their relatively "vast" funds it quite likely would still loose in the end (they just lobby the state when at risk.)
Government could run fibre and make a NGO to manage ISPs sharing the line and could run that line non-profit or even at a loss; unlike the PHONE corp which is required by law to share its lines and does a poor job of it for obvious reasons. This is next logical step since a few fibre lines over public land is nearly the same monopoly situation and consumers would have to subsidize the waste of many extra lines (we already subsidized all the phone/cable/water/gas lines...)
My downtown roads are a mess; why? because corps keep changing around their lines running under the roads and get permits to dig it all up. Yes, I agree that the city needs to force them to all do their changes together at a more REGULATED time. But if we extend that to non-profit shared services under our roads... like we have for water...
Fluid dynamics is something we will never know for any sizable system. We may never figure out quantum physics or solve the traveling salesman problem any faster either. We can do a lot with what we currently; furthermore, even without 100% expert consensus we manage with much of our science.
The OTHER STRONG and proven cases of massive environmental damage (see parent) only make the case for human warming causes much stronger. Plus what happened to all this cold-war stuff about nuclear war leading to nuclear winters and radiation spreading around the globe etc?? We can nuke the planet do massive damage (when it benefits the arms race) but we can't cause minor temp changes (when it harms the power industry?)
You'd think China's Olympics would have illustrated something; or 911 showing a measurable temp change just from 3 days of no jets flying (some more jet ban tests would help to confirm it.) Then there are the global dimming studies some of which have STRONG SOLID evidence of man's impact (global dimming / cooling actually totally compliments global warming.)
Evidence only grows; and its hopeful, because the more at fault we are the more power we have to overcome the trends. (Anybody else sick of these global warming defeatists?? Yeah, lets give up and fan the flames to make it worse..)
If it stinks, its chemistry. If it is slimy, it is biology. If it doesn't work like it should, it is physics.
I'm familiar with the paper. He ball parks cpu to human simulation and I seem to remember somebody else placing it around 2032.
The big issue often ignored is the neuron networks are NETWORKS more than anything else and you can have as many transistors as you like but if you can not handle ball park interconnects (10**14?) with most moving data in parallel it will be a very slow simulation. The brain is massively PARALLEL so it can handle running as slow as it does.
CPU evolution greatly impacts estimates and that is hard to do just within it's own realm. After multimedia is less of a driving force (merging CPU, DSP, GPU were predictable 10 years ago,) I suspect AI applications will start to pick up enough to drive the market once some better software exists.
The needs are so unlike everything else I don't see most the advances being of much benefit unless AI becomes a big enough area on its own.
The Star-Tribune SUCKS. Can't trust them. I've lived in Twin Cities.
My sources (in MN) say that that most the buckets were gray water and a few were because there was no bathroom (the place was over crowded.) Not to mention there is no crime for pissing in a bucket.
In addition, the Star Trib spends time on the anarchist group when most the raids were OTHER groups that were not anarchist and the paper didn't explain that and left it for the reader to mis-characterize all the other people involved in the raids when most of them were peaceful people gathering on private property.
They were NOT civil to reporters in all situations. Plus in some cases the people they held were the people asserting their constitutional rights. (there no warrants in most cases.)
Plus if you have been following, there were reports of the FBI trying to get students to be informants for them... One student spoke out about it months ago; one wonders what kind of characters volunteer for it-- and how trustworthy they are if they hate these protesters to begin with and that is why the agreed to be a voluntary government spy.
here is another link
http://www.twincities.com/ci_10346122?source=most_viewed
Remember Jefferson made a statement about how the constitution should be altered NOT set in stone.
It has been amended, ignored, and falsely interpreted not just out of the flaw in others but also because it has flaws. (If it were perfect and should be set in stone; people wouldn't know it was perfect or perfectly execute it.)
The federalist papers are not bad but they are NOT set in stone and they certainly are NOT anywhere near the level of the constitution or bill of rights they are written by a minority of founders and have a bias from the 'crowd' that founded the nation.
Most people DIE for nothing; It is not logical to take a position simply because a bunch of people and maybe a few respected ones where in the bunch. Its an appeal to emotion plain and simple.
You said you didn't need any government etc. I brought up the basics to make a point; you admit you depend upon government to some degree. However, you seem to think that you have some amazing ability to quantify the value of the services provided directly and indirectly to YOU. its all about YOU and literal thinking. The police and fire indirectly impact you by keeping fire and crime from spreading over to you; in addition to keeping prices lower because those direct costs to others comeback to you in the market, insurance etc. Then there are universities and other government funded orgs that create/invent things that are even less obvious/literal for people like you to make a connection to. These things are NOT easily quantified; and having' worked in local gov I can tell you that THEY EXPLOIT that quantification problem. (especially when they grant private monopolies because of this free market religion...)
I like jefferson a lot, but I don't agree with everything he says. The context in which that statement was made is also not the same as today-- and I'm sure given his wisdom in opposition of banking he wouldn't wholly apply that statement to bankers. Plus, corporations are NOT people (they are now, but not then) he could do his thing but exempt it from corps...
I suppose YOU think the homeless should pay the same amount as a massive land owner? because you don't like % taxes and want a fixed $ amount??? The people with the least can't afford as much and it hurts them more to kick them when they are down.-- this adds to bad economy, crime etc.
The argument for property taxes is that those with more land may use more gov services; which is a poor argument (except for fire.) I'm personally against property taxes which ARE used to discriminate; in addition, people much more NOW than in the past view property as an investment instead of a homestead. This has caused an increase in big-brother laws telling you how to cut your grass etc because it could lower your neighbor's property value. (along with stuff about black people/minorities which was cleverly put into keeping prop taxes high; in MY northern suburb we recently had a battle over some land where a few fools slipped out their true motives... although not overt racism it was association of a race with an economic "class" that was unwanted in the city. My city wouldn't even allow a White Castle because of the "class" of people associated with it. Being around city gov a while only made it even easier to see this sort of stuff.)
So you don't think public schools or libraries or universities are a worth while return? just police, fire, roads? mass transit? Majority representation will beat you there-- eventually privatized versions prove the public ones are better for LESS money. Public healthcare has been proven on most points as well. Public insurance can just be deduced as a math problem to prove it is better. Yes, corruption is a problem; but I've seen how monopoly profit costs more and delivers LESS than corruption and with the corruption people get FIRED but monopoly abuse has no recourse until it goes much further. (not again an absolute rule but I've never seen a local city ever do worse for any length of time; I have however seen intention
I've done it-- they really just bug the top 1% and now because too many people are going to higher levels they decided a cap that keeps them able to handle the gradual increase in use from everybody.
400GB isn't easy, but if you rsync backup stuff that changes a lot during the month plus do some p2p and get a few linux dvds or something. You can reach these levels legitimately but I've only done it once. (I do suspect a neighbor kid on my wifi which is open... but I know I can do easily 200GB in a busy month with rsync etc.)
Chavez along with any leaders that do not do what the USA wants have been always attacked; more so since the birth of the USA economic empire.
The USA's list of "rogue" nations is the SAME as those who oppose the IMF and World Bank. Those organizations benefit the USA at the expense of everybody else; well, they used to-- now they are beginning to turn against the USA.
The USA couldn't kick out Chavez (they tried twice) but that doesn't mean the CIA isn't pulling new tricks (see history of CIA in the Americas; or the history of terrorism by the CIA.) These are truths not allowed to be heard in the USA and much of the public can't handle the truth- even when former CIA agents come out.
Chavez is doing miracle work for his exploited banana republic. The amount of progress his nation has made against the odds is simply amazing. I don't think there is a world leader near his caliber in power today. No he is not perfect, just the best at this point in time.
Officials must have all their documents archived; however, given how easy it is to fake electronic evidence (I did computer forensics) I take anything without digital signatures with a grain of salt. Laws need to be passed so everything is digitally signed, just like using expensive paper with an official letterhead.
Yes, I know Rove etc. wouldn't sign something and play stupid about his PGP not working... would lose his private keys, etc. And naturally, playing stupid (even at multiple layers) is a 100% pardon for these crooks. Honest politicians (2-3 people?) get nailed on their single mistakes (unless perhaps they then become dishonest...)
Mod parent as funny. it has to be a joke.
right?
Not realistic anytime soon. Better off with stuff that likely will get done sooner and cheaper with less losses. Lithium batteries are horrible for this application; they ONLY have portability and density going for them neither of which matter for grid storage.
Kinetic storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
Gravity storage (cheapest; high loss)
Pump water up hill; hydro power down.
Flow batteries (large, reasonably priced; I've heard that they have 90% ones already.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
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Most of all we need a modern grid that doesn't lose so much power; not a hacked one that can handle some spikes.
ULTRA HIGH VOLTAGE pulsed DC. DC doesn't have the problems it did when Edison tried to do it. Its a big switch that would be difficult but has great benefits.
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:ZslU4X6qcCQJ:www.ptd.siemens.de/artikel0707_low.pdf+ULTRA+HIGH+VOLTAGE+pulsed+DC+power+grid&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
I wrote another reply while watching TV.
probably has about the same error rate or parts that confuse you.
I was going to post the long reply but then I thought by the end I've got you pegged and it won't do you any good even if I mess with you in some parts (like bashing the constitution or federalist papers which you think are holy documents set in stone.)
I will say that again you got me wrong; although, if it makes you feel better I misunderstood you on the christian thing. I don't retract the christian comment, because its a perspective thing and you are so literal minded about so much stuff. (my reply had many points where I tried to point out how its not literal.)
I'll leave you with 1 line (for fun on my part, it clearly won't help you:)
Yah... I'm sure you pushed yourself out of your mother, slapped yourself, started breathing, and then ripped off the umbilical cord. I'm sure you are eaten up inside when you use the internet out there in your bunker ;-)
(internet came from government and running lines out to your bunker was forced by government.)
You don't worry about unchecked crime from those cops you do not think are needed or spreading fires because you are in your armed bunker right?
Look up the the term 'wisdom of the crowd'.
There are many arguments about the wisdom of the masses given certain conditions; group estimations being a strong point.
That being said, there are ALSO many ways to manipulate the crowd possibly just as many as there are to manipulate an individual (techniques differ at both scales.)
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You say elected officials are just managers. They are PART manager! The VOTERS are the BOSS. Let idiot or corrupt managers go unfired and...
The manager does the boss's bidding so they keep their job.
Being insubordinate is part of most jobs; its results that often matter more in the end (for a competent boss.) One argument for having a term is to counter the problems of the crowd; mobs are stupid but they are short lived. Not to mention that detail work can't be done by the masses; general policies and job evaluation is something they CAN do (with help from the auditors & evaluators etc. from the 4th branch of government...)
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You should read the part about AMENDMENTS; which BTW, >10 have been written from public movements (and some stupid ones like prohibition.)
The people have the power in this government. The republic only guards against a majority not a SUPER MAJORITY or a lasting one. It takes REAL RARE courage to defend the republic especially in extremely bad times. I like FDR. An amendment was the proper (but slow) process that should have been followed, no argument there.
Public schools BTW, are funded by states; but quite addicted to supplemental funding... Not all schools are; nor are all libraries (which are Ben Franklin's creation BTW.) The solution clearly is to change the funding structure; although, you still have issues with poor states.
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You are so off. I didn't think it was written that badly, the error must be largely yours.
The mission statement for the USA doesn't say government not for the people but to only defend and enforce the law. Its vague and totally can include government services the people want. It is a vehicle for the people to drive how they see fit. (again, its MOST the people if you forgot the last section.)
The USA is supposedly a christian nation; or at least claims it... I've been raised catholic and learned how far out other sub-groups and denominations are from each other-- they have maybe a paragraph in common and that is it! If like I said, this is such a christian nation you would think those people combined with others would use government as a vehicle to help others; instead the vocal "christians" are the most violent etc. aside from wanting their version of a christian law (which is just fine if you have a lasting super majority.) The USA design is transferrable.
Oh, I am NOT a christian. BTW, I have no religion or associated group either. You imagined it. You should rethink my position (if your intellectually honest, you will..) you confusing the posts? I see quoted commentary that isn't from me in there-- an error on your part perhaps?
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Those that benefit the most owe the most to their benefactors.
I repeat it. You owe society, you owe your parents, you owe your teachers, police, etc... it goes on and on. "On the back of giants," etc.
You may (as in might-- before you jump the gun again) be an ungrateful prick but the rest of us do not have to allow you to rise higher in our society to the point where you gain power to likely do us and the society harm (being a prick.)
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Instead you could object to the concept that government should be of the people, run by the people and for the people. That is another matter, in which case I would say you don't apply the founders general concepts entirely. I suppose then you would be ok with another organization that mimic's the government in nearly every way (believing in this system of government enough to apply it to another organization) except that some people could opt-out (the pricks.) If you are one of these types, then you are ready to think about mirrored systems th
Dark smoke like the towers had is indication of lack of oxygen and therefore poor burning. It wasn't burning that well or as hot as possible and the kind of smoke proves the point.
WTC 7 could have had ideal burning conditions which would have minimized the amount of smoke.
I know experts in relevant fields too afraid to go on record with any commentary; the event had unique conditions never seen before and legitimately raises a great deal of questions and problems on that grounds alone-- but the political atmosphere IS limiting open critical analysis by experts (in addition to government not releasing useful information. This report isn't that useful if you are able to do the work yourself; especially if you don't want to get involved in the mess that even a picky correction would bring you.)
THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS TO DO THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS with limitations on majority rule (its a republic.) This government no longer serves its purpose; in large part due to the people not taking the responsibility to run it and the officials not living in fear of the public they (should) serve.
A nation with a majority of Christians should do a lot about the welfare of the poor. Not the church running government, but the manifestation of those values in a majority. (Christian is actually a very vague label; but helping the poor took up much of the book)
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The system formed by the people and their government allows the upward mobility that some greatly benefit from. Those that benefit the most owe the most to their benefactors.
The wealthy often and now days almost always owe a LARGE part of their wealth to the government. Its not legitimate money they made 100% honestly by themselves (Walmart and its investors for example.)
It is pure bullshit that these people are all self-made and way too many of these "self-made" people eat their own BS. Rural areas are full of these types who's communities are nearly all welfare subsidized by state/federal government who get the money from the city folk they think are so helpless.
The USA has a history of HIGH taxes (even 90%) on the wealthy and only until recent times has that been eroded to such extremes. One of the main reasons is that money DOES equate to power and influence this DIRECTLY undermines this form of government. Its about preserving the republic to knock down the wealthy; inequality can exist but there are limitations... Corporations now allow non-citizen entities to leverage near legal citizenship with the benefits of being not human and insanely wealthy. Corps are the dominant institution in the WORLD today as a result. Today's corps were NOT allowed to exist in the past, it started around the 1860s I believe.
The Emperor's New Clothes.
Americans know the story but clearly not the moral of it.
Its the same pattern of character attacking anybody who sees the truth. In real life it is not so blatant as a children's story; however, it is embarrassingly close.
Class warfare has been waged in the USA for a long long time and the only people who are allowed to accuse others of "class warfare" without consequences are those who are perpetuating it themselves.
Oh and the tactic of blaming others for your yet-to-be-discovered actions works surprisingly well when combined with this. If you do it with 1 or more collaborators nobody will ever suspect you (and if they do, employ a character attack like saying they are paranoid; plus if you play stupid nobody will think you capable of something so "complex" as collaboration.)
Javascript and the DOM API are by different organizations! DOM could use work and better support but javascript is fine.
Javascript can add some minor changes but nothing major like class definitions and strict typing are required nor should they be desired.
Javascript is a SCRIPTING LANGUAGE!
Javascript doesn't need to evolve into JAVA, we already HAVE JAVA!
Somebody make DOM for JAVA applets before they screw up Javascript!
How about better integration of JAVA applets into webpages? If you want major desktop application development on a website you can use the #1 programming language with its tons of bloated features and slow compilation (and tiny executable foot print) that is ALREADY powering massive desktop and web applications.
Actually, in 2000 there WERE computer voting machines in some areas in FL. If you think about it, you should recall that there was a short lived story about voting machines showing thousands more votes than people that had to be "repaired" to get the 'correct' result; but the hanging chads took most the news.
Actually, the other big news items didn't make it at the time either.
Next time I'll try it without workarounds and see how it comes out. thanx for testing it for me.
I've been doing js since before ecma; which means i am in the habit of working around "supported" features. I don't get back to them all to test them
There are HOURS of news of value to 'someone else' but in the less than 22min for news we hear about their customer's (or their) press releases. To the point where they will grab fake news reports created by corps! Even the local news will repeat items from the national that are unimportant.
Besides in the case of film, one of the top ad lines is bandwagon about how everbody is seeing it etc. A tricky and more credible method is to get the news to 'report' it.
ITS ABOUT THE HORSERACE not about the news.
I meant properties in an instance of Object that are used instead of the inherited properties; which is how it should work everywhere at this point (but like I said I am not wanting to test everything when I just learned avoid the issue all this time.)
note: ECMAScript 2 was the last one I read.
I just assumed they'd add function and regexp to the JSON (so it wouldn't be exactly JSON; however, RegExp in JSON would be nice.)
Console Object:
No, implementations would not have to support Console, just be required to ignore the use of it. Detailed specifics of debug output do not need to be specified; just the JS interface to Console.
Classes and inheritance:
JS functions well enough without class trees and heavy type conversion. I don't want a typeless Java. (How about just integrating java instead of creating an Objective-C skewed Java?)
JS is not a compiled language. Without seriously complex client side optimization it will SLOW DOWN. We don't want the kind of overhead that makes javac so darn fast.. Not to mention code bulk will increase as well. There are reasonable methods to get OOP like abilities in JS now (and wonderful scoping abilities.)
HASH/Object:
Well, I've run into fun times with violations and collisions with property names over the years. Props like 'constructor' being accessed; which is an Object property. Creating properties is not much use if you can't access them consistently. I escaped stuff, I admit I've not followed the browser issues on this matter for years.
I suggested Hash simply off the top of my head because there are real problems with Object.
Now, if they can resolve this problem in the spec and implementations without a Hash I'm all for it. Off the top of my head (again:)
How about assignment actually replaces the built-in properties on Object? It normally works this way, but built-in stuff (like Object) wasn't 100% '1st class' (or it wasn't years ago... not sure I'll bother to test it again for some time.)
toString:
OK. I didn't read revision 3. toString() is not useful IMHO; JSON would be more intuitive in that it would output source code like strings- serialized. Add serialize() if toString is so important to keep (who uses it??)
Property Monitoring:
It is not a big speed issue. Mozilla ALREADY adds something very similar to property monitoring. see "__defineGetter"
Console Object:
Javascript exists outside of DOM more so every year. Built in testing (+ unit testing) + debug options (assert, log...) would make it EASIER to javascript between APIs. Furthermore, the implementations can optimize out the Console object if they have debugging features disabled (possible in the 1st pass of parsing if done right.)
Mozilla Additions:
ECMAScript 4 I thought was adding the Mozilla additions but I wasn't going to look until it completed and now ECMAScript 4 is dead. (If they ever add class definitions I'll puke.)
Hash Support:
Javascript & JSON have typical variable naming limitations; something like this:
[_\$A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]+
in addition, Object has properties that are essentially reserved.
Javascript/JSON objects currently serve as fast and easy hash tables except hash keys are restricted which can cause troubles (mozilla allows violations in most situations.) Built-in hash tables are extremely useful; my suggestion was to simply hack Object down into a Hash to make implementation easy. Yes, I realize this approach means Hash would be a 2nd root object in terms of OOP. Too many OOP religious zealots out there to see this making it... I don't think one could add Functions at this point in time if they were not already built-in.
People refused to install more untrustworthy MS software.
I will not infect my system with MS SlitherLight.
Bad enough I have to use flash bloatware (its going to get worse.)
Furthermore, trying to get around windows media center requirements is not worth the time.
YES! But the next revision...
1) They NEED to release a long list of test cases that can be run against implementations.
2) How about having toString() output JSON? (at least specify exactly what it should output.)
If anything new:
Access methods for Object():
Allows a function to monitor read/write/exec of an object's properties (EXTREMELY useful for client side patching of implementation bugs.)
A Console object loosely modeled after FireBug with a focus on unit testing. Implementation optional; but no errors if its used.
Perl level RegExp (look ahead)
A few of the Mozilla additions
Hash: an Object without ANY properties, any methods would be 'Class methods' not object methods.
ANIMATION? The last 3 films were ANIMATED CGI with some blue screen humans placed in them to sucker you people. I can spot CGI, the muppets were less jarring!
Who really cares-- if it was a good film nobody would care; those who complain would still probably wait hours in line to get the special edition DVD.
Its not the animation that makes it suck.
People identify better with toons than human characters; if they are worth identifying with (and properly abstracted.) Toons require a leap but these pseudo real CGI things jump between the real and the UNCANNY VALLEY.
Does it condition the public to be worse at discerning the real from the fake?