Subjects get so complex and so specialized there HAS to be limits to how many giants a human can climb and still have time enough to become a giant themselves. Abstraction helps to greatly extend this range; the people behind abstractions/simplifications may not be considered giants because they do not produce progress themselves but just facilitate others so they can extend their reach into the unknown.
There does not appear to be that many 'giant' scientific figures anymore despite the exponential scientific growth. Maybe it is just an appearance and there are more; but are there more proportionally to the number scientists?
How many big leaps in knowledge have been made in the old fields like physics for example? If the decline does not exist now, won't it exist at some point??
A cartoon for kids; the Flitnstones of the future helped promote robots and bring up issues to vast numbers of children in the west.
Jetson's job: To press a button and turn on the computer everyday.
Sometimes Jetson helps the computer make a decision, but one never gets the impression the computer actually needs his help; its like it is humoring him.
Jobs in that future world have been reduced to repair, office politics (including corporate espionage,) meaningless filler positions (like those created for a relative.) People consume but don't really produce anything.
Q: Don't the robots do work that americans will not do? You know, like the illegals do now? So then... do we have illegal automation problems coming our way? (I realize that part of the immigrant debate is a false dilemma.)
Its shades of gray; not much difference between them just how and when you are screwed. False dilemma.
There are better things that are cheaper than both coal, oil, and nukes. (That is, if you put reasonable costs on the environment as well as the government welfare which never gets mentioned.)
Nuke power has never been cost effective. I have yet to hear from a credible source that any nuke plant made a profit when you included all the government overhead costs within 20-30 years. (Solar cost of return is about 20 years and after that you don't have to pay for fuel or waste or much regulation.) Smart grid management and power storage plants are possible TODAY at reasonable pricing. (How about giving those some of that free money?) I am not against nuclear power for its danger but its practicality.
I have a few friends who keep sending me impossible over unity machines etc. A few of them involved primitive flywheels. Initially when I saw "flywheel" I thought that was the BS you were referring to (that is, until you posted the link with support information; which I did read.)
I would expect magnetic bearings to be used; and it looked like they might pump out plenty of air pressure... (although keeping something at 0ATM is not an easy or cheap task so I wonder about their operating costs as well as the construction of their units... explains why they resemble air tanks...) I didn't notice if the magnetic bearings drew power and if so how much?
There is a cost/benefit ratio determined by the power loss of the flywheel over time (ignoring the relatively small motor/generator losses which might add up to 10-20%) I'm IMPRESSED to hear that they can effectively store power for a month! That does make them extremely useful...
Thank you for the flywheel information. Will be interesting to see if develop and compete. It seems somewhat elegant; although the low pressure thing seems troublesome.
Only specific implementations in hardware are becoming widespread. Costly and less practical implementations have been around for a long time; before that people were designing the stuff without hardware. They can own an implementation but not the concepts which have been around for a long time; in which case, there are alternatives--- Sony has already developed an alternative screen to the Apple owned touch screen in the iPhone.
Given the SAD mess the system is in today I'm surprised Apple didn't try to own the concept of a portable device with touch screen input conceptually. They might have gotten that as well.
NOTE: There are pressures to mess up the USA patent system worse by switching to a 1st file system instead of the 1st invented principle we have today. If we reform the system NOW we risk them making it worse, better clean up government some more... Imagine if prior work didn't have as much or any impact!
Flywheels have limited applications and can not scale (time.) Flywheels involve lots of mass and by their very nature/purpose are bad in applications where you move the wheel because of the same physics that make it useful. Flywheels are like a TINY energy buffer; the longer you store power in them the more energy you lose due to friction (bearings and air friction.) The best expensive bearings in the world will wear out and will consume considerable amounts of power themselves. What I see from your link looks like they are using the flywheels to dampen really short spikes in the grid (as I said its a tiny buffer.)
Locomotives have been "hybrid" for a long long time. They are electric but lack power storage so they get the power stored in gas and until somebody can come up with something with a similar power density to gas will stay that way. Which is ok because they clobber trucks which have taken over too much of the train business. Short spikes in power are probably not something that happens on trains; they tend to just run as constant as they can. Didn't somebody come out recently with a car where the regenerative brakes went into a capacitor? (which is less massive than a flywheel)
Glad to see somebody looking into stuff. Germany has been working on smarter management of alternative power so while there is no wind in one part of the country there is likely sun in another part. By smart placement and smart switching they can mostly meet demand. Gaps can be filled by other methods such as storage so no nukes, coal are required. They will have switching delays where the flywheels might be useful. Capacitors would kill flywheels if the cost ever comes down.
The BIG BIG problem is filling gaps in supply from alternative power sources which are longer in duration than what flywheels are good for; which would be one reason people don't pay as much attention.
One obvious method that is simple and cheap and probably beats out everything else as far as power/cost is pumping water to higher ground; essentially a man made mini hydro electric dam. Flow batteries do around 80% and those are starting to get picked up by some wind farms as a method of storage; they don't lose power over time like a flywheel or the expensive hi-tech batteries.
Back in my day teens picked on you IN PERSON especially if you were the type who knew what a modem was. Adults were largely BLIND to all but the extreme situations where it was in the open or one could show evidence; naturally, if a male was successful in catching the bully more than a few times the whole group would shun that male for being weak.
Now things are so bad that teens are not expected to be capable of doing anything and as a result (see Pygmalion) the teens are coming out less capable. It is unfathomable for me to see this as a serious issue; especially when the 1st thing I saw teens doing when 1st in a chat room was to childishly insult people for fun (like initially destroying stuff in a SIM game.) A teen who can not handle online attacks (personal or otherwise) surely can not handle the in person experiences. Teens have always been committing suicide; I'm sure "non-cyber" increased stresses contribute MORE.
I would not be surprised if the parents grasping to blame others for their teens SELF-DETERMINED actions were not the major contributing factor to their child's dysfunction. (Note: not a universal statement.)
Anybody notice frequent use of Cyber____ by technology ignorant people?
NiMH could be used in many applications TODAY including cars because of their high price to power density ratio. They are popular for digital cameras for the same reason.
Chevron (an oil company) and before that GM (famous for repressing good things) bought patents related to large NiMH batteries which is why we are stuck with just NiMH camera batteries. That patent should die in 2015 hopefully; although, perhaps something else will reach get to that low cost by that time.
By definition, a conspiracy involving two gigantic corporations. Sure engineering problems exist but its not black and white, there are powerful forces conspiring as well as individuals working to prohibit new technology and research. In fact, a good PR campaign can get them a small army of individuals acting on their behalf from multiple angles (for example, a campaign against patent reforms, or promoting their candidate.)
Being NICE is making the problems known; its nice icing on the cake to have them bend to your opinions on etiquette.
If a VOLUNTEER gets a kick out of finding bugs when you don't like it, that floats their boat and that is what matters. The GOAL is better code. This is the sort of off-topic office politics that weakens projects, etc.
Take it like a student - they have to do work and be criticized when the thing is completed.
Coal never includes pollution costs, the many mining costs and the massive government subsidies for mining, burning, and for building new plants.
Nuclear have waste issues and the better "new" plants are largely unproven. The biggest problem with it is that NOBODY has ever been profitable; it takes tons of government funding and needed safety regulation. The waste management is another long term cost issue that is rarely addressed.
I think we should stop funding old power so alternative power at least has a level playing field! Simple government rate setting and even some incentive programs could be funded by taking out the handouts for coal, nukes, oil, and bio-fuel. Fixed energy rate plans like Germany has would promote a distributed diverse grid and make it a safe investment.
Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, and Wave power are realistic alternatives and promote a distributed grid. Flow Batteries are the best grid load balancer we currently have and its entirely realistic to rely upon it instead of nuclear plants and probably has a lower net cost to us tax payers. The OTHERS had funding to get started...
Solar is over 30% now, which IS highly efficient. Coal and Oil are stored solar energy; their cost to power ratio is better because of the "free" accumulated power over vast spans of time. Direct harvesting can't compete with cheap long term naturally accumulated power. Its somewhat of a red herring to bash alternatives on "efficiency."
They don't even try to hide it; I'm sure they have a play-dumb response to this one too. As long as they seem nice or have charisma it just doesn't matter how stupid or evil politicians are; substance doesn't matter anymore.
The White House admitted to THREE water boardings; which means that probably a few hundred occurred. Lies and silly word games are the norm. They are STILL playing games with what is torture!
They are purposely diminishing the issue buy making it sound like much ado about nothing; trying to make the opposition appear as extremists (face it, the general population doesn't care if they mess up a few "bad" suspects.)
Same trick worked on prison torture, where it was just 1 prison of a few bad eggs stacking naked men. They even likened it to frat party behavior. The US media didn't show the tapes of the really bad stuff, didn't mention the other prisons, maybe only mentioned 1 time about child rape. All we saw was some lady pointing at blurry men. Almost no mention of women and children. No mention of contractor or expert involvement. Democracy Now had to fight just to cover the American Psychological Association's own public meetings over their objections to members contributing to torture.
Investigate all you want, it won't make much difference; it will NOT be televised unless its really horrible and even then it will be downplayed. Similar to how they treated Ron Paul or Dennis kuSpinach - but worse.
There are good lawsuits and the threat of lawsuit also does good. Many worthwhile lawsuits are forfeit or lost because the good guys are out gunned. Tort reform in recent years has been more about protecting powerful and corrupt lobbyists paying for "reform" (if not writing the "reforms" themselves.)
PLEASE look beyond talking points, our medical costs are not the result of lawsuits; the real reason the system is failing apart is irresponsible lazy citizens who can't look out for their own interests (which is one way to evaluate those who are elected...)
Lawyers are not bad people it is just the bad ones that make the other 5% look bad.
Extremist positions you may not be aware of: Free Speech "Self Evident Truths" Being law abiding Against child molestation No killing Turning the other cheek Opposition of Iraq War Telling the Truth Logic & Math Anti World Government, etc Truth as a basis for proper reasoning Hard Science (ex: evolution, gravity, etc.) Honor Self Sacrifice All (universal statements) are (extreme) Self Defensive action
"Reality *always* lies in the middle ground." is an extreme position.
That is not to say that hypocrisies are not common for humans regardless of what positions they adopt. Just because you have the position doesn't make it any less extreme.
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"A nutcase is somebody who feels that their opinions should be everybody else's facts." You can't sell everybody but the next best thing is to impose opinions upon them; using government is just one method.
The threat of exploitation (with consequences) is what MOTIVATES developers to fix it. Security by obscurity is not just common due to ignorance its also cheap and easy. Lack of threat, causes exploits to go unfixed until it is convenient (months, major releases, never...)
Open source by its nature will make exploits more public; Telling an open source development team tends to be a public process or at least open enough that a hacker could join up if the forum, bug db, or maillog searches don't provide enough information.
People without some form of empowerment (fake or real) will force them to take more drastic actions like voting, volunteering, funding, protesting, violence, insurgency, self-sacrifice, family sacrifice etc. This also extends to all forms of power, including tools such as free speech, gunpowder, guns etc.
You are comparing a society with high levels of empowerment (or widespread appearance of it) where only a few issues are out of control of nutcases (like abortion.) Also these societies heavily discourage extremism of almost any kind (even the good kinds) in part because the populations are made passive by tons of false solutions to their needs as well as creating new problems for people to worry about. Have you considered what makes a "nutcase?" Is it just person with a position without any empowerment? (well, thats simplified but I think is gist of it.)
Take away the factors that make the Christian nuts "lame" and they wouldn't be any better. That abortion clinic shooter without a gun would use bombs and without enough conflicting emotions would self-sacrifice. The US military promotes strong friendships, guilt, and shame in order to exploit them to get self-sacrifice - you hear many oppose the war but go back to help their friends. In this society it is ok to kill huge numbers of people to safe your buddies/family even if your buddies are in the wrong place for the wrong reasons; that is clearly UNCHRISTIAN. Rather than go to jail for a while for refusing to fight, they go and get seriously injured or killed. Some people could reasonably view that as nutty.
Many things done by research science come in handy when at 1st they seem to be a waste of time.
The problems are not in the science; it is the engineers, businessmen, politicians who apply science in horrible ways. The knowledge will come by some indirect method if you prohibit the direct methods.
You should go to blackboxvoting.org and read about how those nice scanners that spit the flawed ballots back out ALSO HAVE AN OFF SWITCH for the checking feature. So, you can flip the switch off for areas where you want to lose votes.
There are many reasonable solutions that CAN be taken to congress but there is no chance in hell of them making past the heavily corrupt process, just like campaign reform (many just ignore the laws they do have and only a few in recent years were caught and those that did are generally treated well even if the full extent of the crime is disclosed.)
Government by and for the corporations. The corps have hacked out most the democracy from the system. At least now more people are joining the minority who has been in real world all this time.
I'm sure/. will cause tons of feedback; however, you should contact the working group about your concerns directly if you care about them. I have with the previous versions; although, my influence largely ended up in revisions of the wording.
One battle I'd like to see fought: Using the OBJECT tag to support text/html file includes. Old browser support for it could be done using browser plug-ins for that MIME type. The intent for this (which I keep promoting with no success) is so you can develop a webpage in a frames-like fashion but have the client side combine it into a single HTML document (ideally having it extract only BODY on the includes.) The difference seems minor but it is HUGE and is how frames should have been handled in the 1st place!
You put your images, css, javascript, etc into external files (if you have any sense) and include them why not be able to include HTML files into your pages as well? Many people use PHP, JSON, AJAX, etc. just to change a section of a page much the same way frames let you do much easier (in general.) I've seen "AJAX" frameworks implemented as if it was a replacement for frames. Frames were a failure but saved so much work and bandwidth they refuse to die. Instead of trying to kill frames each standard, it should be reborn into something sensible and consistent with HTML:
EXTERNAL HTML file includes
Frankly I don't care what tag... just save me the bandwidth and labor of the frame work around! (which BTW, the current solutions increase server load and are less accessible than frames.) Security is no excuse (its a laughable one at that.)
Right now the only serious privacy protection in the USA is in regards to medical records. Using something like this would give away enough information to not only identify certain kinds of medical problems but it could also be used to profile for potential medical problems.
Laws will be written to address this; likely after years of abuse. Naturally, when its illegal then it will completely stop and no employer will ever think of downloading the chinese made plug-in from the internet to break these laws...
Another place of concern is if this information becomes accessible, so employers can look up your score-- like they can with your credit score. Pirate bay like websites could get serious funding doing these sort of things from outside the country.
The medical problems at least will only exist in the USA, where employment and your health are connected to the bottom line (and don't think for a second that health costs are not deciding factors)
Typically, Apple maintains the similar product margins so there is likely a valid reason for the price. In addition, Apple often releases at competitive or even great pricing (see the flash HD) and maintains that price while the industry continually moves downward in price.
I think it was designed to be far cheaper but was held up on components and manufacturing somewhere; otherwise, Apple is aiming for higher margins (not that the missing parts cost all that much to include.) I don't know what they are thinking leaving out Firewire; USB 2 is a joke replacement.
This is not an injection molded frame like a macbook it is metal and needs some precision to fit together nicely; in addition to the custom CPU package, possible custom bridge, GPU package, "green" LCD, newer keyboard, etc. Possibly Apple will break past patterns and have price drops and or simply not upgrade and let it fall into a sub-note book price range.
Keeping high margins will make this the next Mac G4 Cube (remember that flop? it did cost to make those.)
Note: I'm not interested in one. No DIMM, no firewire is nuts! Otherwise it perfectly fits my portable needs.
A teen crime shouldn't be thought of any different than that of a mentally retarded person; their mental limitations are heavily influential upon how you deal with the problem. It should be clear to somebody who deals with teens or has them that they are not smaller adults who are just ignorant, they are stupid in ways that make them fundamentally different than adults (for the most part, even then acting to the contrary not any different than primates mimicking behaviors...these being the smartest primates.)
Someday God will punish FL schools that did not ban evolution by bringing a great flood and only those 12 anti-science schools will be saved. Those 12 will be prepared with giant boats that shall also contain pairs of all local animals. (Saving the animals in case of biblical flood is ok; otherwise, man is free to drive them all to extinction.)
Global warming is blasphemy, god changes the weather to punish the non-believers! Besides, science is wrong on evolution and global warming has even less support so it has to be a lie as well!;-)
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Subjects get so complex and so specialized there HAS to be limits to how many giants a human can climb and still have time enough to become a giant themselves. Abstraction helps to greatly extend this range; the people behind abstractions/simplifications may not be considered giants because they do not produce progress themselves but just facilitate others so they can extend their reach into the unknown.
There does not appear to be that many 'giant' scientific figures anymore despite the exponential scientific growth. Maybe it is just an appearance and there are more; but are there more proportionally to the number scientists?
How many big leaps in knowledge have been made in the old fields like physics for example? If the decline does not exist now, won't it exist at some point??
A cartoon for kids; the Flitnstones of the future helped promote robots and bring up issues to vast numbers of children in the west.
Jetson's job: To press a button and turn on the computer everyday.
Sometimes Jetson helps the computer make a decision, but one never gets the impression the computer actually needs his help; its like it is humoring him.
Jobs in that future world have been reduced to repair, office politics (including corporate espionage,) meaningless filler positions (like those created for a relative.) People consume but don't really produce anything.
Q: Don't the robots do work that americans will not do? You know, like the illegals do now? So then... do we have illegal automation problems coming our way?
(I realize that part of the immigrant debate is a false dilemma.)
Its shades of gray; not much difference between them just how and when you are screwed.
False dilemma.
There are better things that are cheaper than both coal, oil, and nukes. (That is, if you put reasonable costs on the environment as well as the government welfare which never gets mentioned.)
Nuke power has never been cost effective. I have yet to hear from a credible source that any nuke plant made a profit when you included all the government overhead costs within 20-30 years. (Solar cost of return is about 20 years and after that you don't have to pay for fuel or waste or much regulation.) Smart grid management and power storage plants are possible TODAY at reasonable pricing. (How about giving those some of that free money?) I am not against nuclear power for its danger but its practicality.
I have a few friends who keep sending me impossible over unity machines etc. A few of them involved primitive flywheels. Initially when I saw "flywheel" I thought that was the BS you were referring to (that is, until you posted the link with support information; which I did read.)
I would expect magnetic bearings to be used; and it looked like they might pump out plenty of air pressure... (although keeping something at 0ATM is not an easy or cheap task so I wonder about their operating costs as well as the construction of their units... explains why they resemble air tanks...) I didn't notice if the magnetic bearings drew power and if so how much?
There is a cost/benefit ratio determined by the power loss of the flywheel over time (ignoring the relatively small motor/generator losses which might add up to 10-20%) I'm IMPRESSED to hear that they can effectively store power for a month! That does make them extremely useful...
Thank you for the flywheel information. Will be interesting to see if develop and compete. It seems somewhat elegant; although the low pressure thing seems troublesome.
Only specific implementations in hardware are becoming widespread. Costly and less practical implementations have been around for a long time; before that people were designing the stuff without hardware. They can own an implementation but not the concepts which have been around for a long time; in which case, there are alternatives--- Sony has already developed an alternative screen to the Apple owned touch screen in the iPhone.
Given the SAD mess the system is in today I'm surprised Apple didn't try to own the concept of a portable device with touch screen input conceptually. They might have gotten that as well.
NOTE: There are pressures to mess up the USA patent system worse by switching to a 1st file system instead of the 1st invented principle we have today. If we reform the system NOW we risk them making it worse, better clean up government some more...
Imagine if prior work didn't have as much or any impact!
Flywheels have limited applications and can not scale (time.) Flywheels involve lots of mass and by their very nature/purpose are bad in applications where you move the wheel because of the same physics that make it useful. Flywheels are like a TINY energy buffer; the longer you store power in them the more energy you lose due to friction (bearings and air friction.) The best expensive bearings in the world will wear out and will consume considerable amounts of power themselves. What I see from your link looks like they are using the flywheels to dampen really short spikes in the grid (as I said its a tiny buffer.) Locomotives have been "hybrid" for a long long time. They are electric but lack power storage so they get the power stored in gas and until somebody can come up with something with a similar power density to gas will stay that way. Which is ok because they clobber trucks which have taken over too much of the train business. Short spikes in power are probably not something that happens on trains; they tend to just run as constant as they can. Didn't somebody come out recently with a car where the regenerative brakes went into a capacitor? (which is less massive than a flywheel) Glad to see somebody looking into stuff. Germany has been working on smarter management of alternative power so while there is no wind in one part of the country there is likely sun in another part. By smart placement and smart switching they can mostly meet demand. Gaps can be filled by other methods such as storage so no nukes, coal are required. They will have switching delays where the flywheels might be useful. Capacitors would kill flywheels if the cost ever comes down. The BIG BIG problem is filling gaps in supply from alternative power sources which are longer in duration than what flywheels are good for; which would be one reason people don't pay as much attention. One obvious method that is simple and cheap and probably beats out everything else as far as power/cost is pumping water to higher ground; essentially a man made mini hydro electric dam. Flow batteries do around 80% and those are starting to get picked up by some wind farms as a method of storage; they don't lose power over time like a flywheel or the expensive hi-tech batteries.
Back in my day teens picked on you IN PERSON especially if you were the type who knew what a modem was. Adults were largely BLIND to all but the extreme situations where it was in the open or one could show evidence; naturally, if a male was successful in catching the bully more than a few times the whole group would shun that male for being weak.
Now things are so bad that teens are not expected to be capable of doing anything and as a result (see Pygmalion) the teens are coming out less capable. It is unfathomable for me to see this as a serious issue; especially when the 1st thing I saw teens doing when 1st in a chat room was to childishly insult people for fun (like initially destroying stuff in a SIM game.) A teen who can not handle online attacks (personal or otherwise) surely can not handle the in person experiences. Teens have always been committing suicide; I'm sure "non-cyber" increased stresses contribute MORE.
I would not be surprised if the parents grasping to blame others for their teens SELF-DETERMINED actions were not the major contributing factor to their child's dysfunction. (Note: not a universal statement.)
Anybody notice frequent use of Cyber____ by technology ignorant people?
I meant: low price for the power density.
NiMH could be used in many applications TODAY including cars because of their high price to power density ratio. They are popular for digital cameras for the same reason.
Chevron (an oil company) and before that GM (famous for repressing good things) bought patents related to large NiMH batteries which is why we are stuck with just NiMH camera batteries. That patent should die in 2015 hopefully; although, perhaps something else will reach get to that low cost by that time.
By definition, a conspiracy involving two gigantic corporations. Sure engineering problems exist but its not black and white, there are powerful forces conspiring as well as individuals working to prohibit new technology and research. In fact, a good PR campaign can get them a small army of individuals acting on their behalf from multiple angles (for example, a campaign against patent reforms, or promoting their candidate.)
Being NICE is making the problems known; its nice icing on the cake to have them bend to your opinions on etiquette.
If a VOLUNTEER gets a kick out of finding bugs when you don't like it, that floats their boat and that is what matters. The GOAL is better code.
This is the sort of off-topic office politics that weakens projects, etc.
Take it like a student - they have to do work and be criticized when the thing is completed.
Coal never includes pollution costs, the many mining costs and the massive government subsidies for mining, burning, and for building new plants.
Nuclear have waste issues and the better "new" plants are largely unproven. The biggest problem with it is that NOBODY has ever been profitable; it takes tons of government funding and needed safety regulation. The waste management is another long term cost issue that is rarely addressed.
I think we should stop funding old power so alternative power at least has a level playing field! Simple government rate setting and even some incentive programs could be funded by taking out the handouts for coal, nukes, oil, and bio-fuel. Fixed energy rate plans like Germany has would promote a distributed diverse grid and make it a safe investment.
Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, and Wave power are realistic alternatives and promote a distributed grid. Flow Batteries are the best grid load balancer we currently have and its entirely realistic to rely upon it instead of nuclear plants and probably has a lower net cost to us tax payers. The OTHERS had funding to get started...
Solar is over 30% now, which IS highly efficient. Coal and Oil are stored solar energy; their cost to power ratio is better because of the "free" accumulated power over vast spans of time.
Direct harvesting can't compete with cheap long term naturally accumulated power. Its somewhat of a red herring to bash alternatives on "efficiency."
In 2006 with legal troubles and the Dems poised to get investigation powers Cheney's office hired a document shredding service:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601030_shredding_truck_was_heading_to_cheneys/
They don't even try to hide it; I'm sure they have a play-dumb response to this one too. As long as they seem nice or have charisma it just doesn't matter how stupid or evil politicians are; substance doesn't matter anymore.
The White House admitted to THREE water boardings; which means that probably a few hundred occurred. Lies and silly word games are the norm. They are STILL playing games with what is torture!
They are purposely diminishing the issue buy making it sound like much ado about nothing; trying to make the opposition appear as extremists (face it, the general population doesn't care if they mess up a few "bad" suspects.)
Same trick worked on prison torture, where it was just 1 prison of a few bad eggs stacking naked men. They even likened it to frat party behavior. The US media didn't show the tapes of the really bad stuff, didn't mention the other prisons, maybe only mentioned 1 time about child rape. All we saw was some lady pointing at blurry men. Almost no mention of women and children. No mention of contractor or expert involvement. Democracy Now had to fight just to cover the American Psychological Association's own public meetings over their objections to members contributing to torture.
Investigate all you want, it won't make much difference; it will NOT be televised unless its really horrible and even then it will be downplayed. Similar to how they treated Ron Paul or Dennis kuSpinach - but worse.
There are good lawsuits and the threat of lawsuit also does good. Many worthwhile lawsuits are forfeit or lost because the good guys are out gunned. Tort reform in recent years has been more about protecting powerful and corrupt lobbyists paying for "reform" (if not writing the "reforms" themselves.)
PLEASE look beyond talking points, our medical costs are not the result of lawsuits; the real reason the system is failing apart is irresponsible lazy citizens who can't look out for their own interests (which is one way to evaluate those who are elected...)
Lawyers are not bad people it is just the bad ones that make the other 5% look bad.
"There is no good form of extremism"
Extremist positions you may not be aware of:
Free Speech
"Self Evident Truths"
Being law abiding
Against child molestation
No killing
Turning the other cheek
Opposition of Iraq War
Telling the Truth
Logic & Math
Anti World Government, etc
Truth as a basis for proper reasoning
Hard Science (ex: evolution, gravity, etc.)
Honor
Self Sacrifice
All (universal statements) are (extreme)
Self Defensive action
"Reality *always* lies in the middle ground." is an extreme position.
That is not to say that hypocrisies are not common for humans regardless of what positions they adopt. Just because you have the position doesn't make it any less extreme.
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"A nutcase is somebody who feels that their opinions should be everybody else's facts." You can't sell everybody but the next best thing is to impose opinions upon them; using government is just one method.
The threat of exploitation (with consequences) is what MOTIVATES developers to fix it. Security by obscurity is not just common due to ignorance its also cheap and easy. Lack of threat, causes exploits to go unfixed until it is convenient (months, major releases, never...)
Open source by its nature will make exploits more public; Telling an open source development team tends to be a public process or at least open enough that a hacker could join up if the forum, bug db, or maillog searches don't provide enough information.
People without some form of empowerment (fake or real) will force them to take more drastic actions like voting, volunteering, funding, protesting, violence, insurgency, self-sacrifice, family sacrifice etc. This also extends to all forms of power, including tools such as free speech, gunpowder, guns etc.
You are comparing a society with high levels of empowerment (or widespread appearance of it) where only a few issues are out of control of nutcases (like abortion.) Also these societies heavily discourage extremism of almost any kind (even the good kinds) in part because the populations are made passive by tons of false solutions to their needs as well as creating new problems for people to worry about. Have you considered what makes a "nutcase?" Is it just person with a position without any empowerment? (well, thats simplified but I think is gist of it.)
Take away the factors that make the Christian nuts "lame" and they wouldn't be any better. That abortion clinic shooter without a gun would use bombs and without enough conflicting emotions would self-sacrifice. The US military promotes strong friendships, guilt, and shame in order to exploit them to get self-sacrifice - you hear many oppose the war but go back to help their friends. In this society it is ok to kill huge numbers of people to safe your buddies/family even if your buddies are in the wrong place for the wrong reasons; that is clearly UNCHRISTIAN. Rather than go to jail for a while for refusing to fight, they go and get seriously injured or killed. Some people could reasonably view that as nutty.
I'm merely trying to promote thought.
Many things done by research science come in handy when at 1st they seem to be a waste of time.
The problems are not in the science; it is the engineers, businessmen, politicians who apply science in horrible ways. The knowledge will come by some indirect method if you prohibit the direct methods.
You should go to blackboxvoting.org and read about how those nice scanners that spit the flawed ballots back out ALSO HAVE AN OFF SWITCH for the checking feature. So, you can flip the switch off for areas where you want to lose votes.
There are many reasonable solutions that CAN be taken to congress but there is no chance in hell of them making past the heavily corrupt process, just like campaign reform (many just ignore the laws they do have and only a few in recent years were caught and those that did are generally treated well even if the full extent of the crime is disclosed.)
Government by and for the corporations. The corps have hacked out most the democracy from the system. At least now more people are joining the minority who has been in real world all this time.
I'm sure /. will cause tons of feedback; however, you should contact the working group about your concerns directly if you care about them. I have with the previous versions; although, my influence largely ended up in revisions of the wording.
One battle I'd like to see fought:
Using the OBJECT tag to support text/html file includes. Old browser support for it could be done using browser plug-ins for that MIME type. The intent for this (which I keep promoting with no success) is so you can develop a webpage in a frames-like fashion but have the client side combine it into a single HTML document (ideally having it extract only BODY on the includes.) The difference seems minor but it is HUGE and is how frames should have been handled in the 1st place!
You put your images, css, javascript, etc into external files (if you have any sense) and include them why not be able to include HTML files into your pages as well? Many people use PHP, JSON, AJAX, etc. just to change a section of a page much the same way frames let you do much easier (in general.) I've seen "AJAX" frameworks implemented as if it was a replacement for frames. Frames were a failure but saved so much work and bandwidth they refuse to die. Instead of trying to kill frames each standard, it should be reborn into something sensible and consistent with HTML:
EXTERNAL HTML file includes
Frankly I don't care what tag... just save me the bandwidth and labor of the frame work around! (which BTW, the current solutions increase server load and are less accessible than frames.) Security is no excuse (its a laughable one at that.)
Right now the only serious privacy protection in the USA is in regards to medical records. Using something like this would give away enough information to not only identify certain kinds of medical problems but it could also be used to profile for potential medical problems.
Laws will be written to address this; likely after years of abuse. Naturally, when its illegal then it will completely stop and no employer will ever think of downloading the chinese made plug-in from the internet to break these laws...
Another place of concern is if this information becomes accessible, so employers can look up your score-- like they can with your credit score. Pirate bay like websites could get serious funding doing these sort of things from outside the country.
The medical problems at least will only exist in the USA, where employment and your health are connected to the bottom line (and don't think for a second that health costs are not deciding factors)
Typically, Apple maintains the similar product margins so there is likely a valid reason for the price. In addition, Apple often releases at competitive or even great pricing (see the flash HD) and maintains that price while the industry continually moves downward in price.
I think it was designed to be far cheaper but was held up on components and manufacturing somewhere; otherwise, Apple is aiming for higher margins (not that the missing parts cost all that much to include.) I don't know what they are thinking leaving out Firewire; USB 2 is a joke replacement.
This is not an injection molded frame like a macbook it is metal and needs some precision to fit together nicely; in addition to the custom CPU package, possible custom bridge, GPU package, "green" LCD, newer keyboard, etc. Possibly Apple will break past patterns and have price drops and or simply not upgrade and let it fall into a sub-note book price range.
Keeping high margins will make this the next Mac G4 Cube (remember that flop? it did cost to make those.)
Note: I'm not interested in one. No DIMM, no firewire is nuts! Otherwise it perfectly fits my portable needs.
A teen crime shouldn't be thought of any different than that of a mentally retarded person; their mental limitations are heavily influential upon how you deal with the problem. It should be clear to somebody who deals with teens or has them that they are not smaller adults who are just ignorant, they are stupid in ways that make them fundamentally different than adults (for the most part, even then acting to the contrary not any different than primates mimicking behaviors...these being the smartest primates.)
Watch PBS frontline's show on the teenage brain for more background:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
Someday God will punish FL schools that did not ban evolution by bringing a great flood and only those 12 anti-science schools will be saved. Those 12 will be prepared with giant boats that shall also contain pairs of all local animals. (Saving the animals in case of biblical flood is ok; otherwise, man is free to drive them all to extinction.)
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Global warming is blasphemy, god changes the weather to punish the non-believers! Besides, science is wrong on evolution and global warming has even less support so it has to be a lie as well!