Automation and increased productivity hasn't yet made most the population wake up and realize the serious problem. Sorry friend, that ship has not sailed as far as the masses.
If you want to help, you can try to inform everybody you know so we have less clueless people out there. Once enough of the population realizes then solutions could be possible assuming the public is not still engineered to serve our current masters. It's far more likely the ruling elite drives more of the population down while distracting us and using wars and man-made disasters (such as global warming) to cull the population in something that makes one think of "The Time Machine" isn't such far fetch fantasy.
Ignoring the billions it takes to add lanes to highways, road wear, accidents/insurance, pollution... Don't forget about the TIME people lose and the economic damage caused by having massive gridlock.
Sure public transit is not profitable! Being part of the transit system which includes roads and bridges, it shouldn't make a profit and for one to expect it to even break even is just simply pathetic. Infrastructure is an overhead cost for civilization. DO NOT GET TRICKED into debating deck chair positions on the titanic.
Bolivia has plenty of chickens. This is a tiny amount for them; furthermore, just about anybody can afford to buy some chicks and start on their own. If he wanted to help the poor with chickens he'd provide education on raising them and maybe some chicken feed... It's incredibly ignorant to think that giving any group of people on earth free chickens is going to greatly benefit them.
Next we'll hear about Gates giving poor Hindus cows or drilling water wells in the Amazon or providing winter coats to north Africans or high-tech toilets...(anybody remember that one?)
If it must be food related, get people willing to eat insects like grasshoppers and show the how to raise those...
Branding things as liberal and conservative is a big game in itself because of the identity psychology involved; where people who believe themselves to be a member/consumer of the brand will actually bend themselves into all sorts of hypocrisies in order to maintain their belief.
Everybody wants to believe their brand is the righteous one; their tribe is number 1! It sure is a lot easier than betraying your tribe and switching....especially when there is no tribe and evolved background behavior pattern is not so obvious.
For example, global warming is an issue that was purposely and successfully marketed as an identity issue; forcing conservatives to flip flop from sane positions or be forced to have to question their identity. The best example of this comes from Australia, where a fossil fuel industry campaign admitted to modeling what was done in the USA with great success. Their example is powerful because of the massive turn around they caused on a pretty well established position in a nation seeing early consequences.
Some of us work for other reasons besides money. Money isn't the sole motivator. For dull labor jobs money does work as a motivator but for those people wanting more than a lousy $10-20k per year base income it will work... until robots replace all that.
Studies show that a lot of people are more strongly motivated by other things and it is likely MORE than 10% of the population. Many people would work part time at something reasonable and some people are obsessed with their work or addicted to work who would continue regardless.
It is basically a simple communism and capitalism hybrid. The way it works and sounds is not simple. You can privatize more of the welfare system with direct payment and the private purchase of what used to be state welfare services. Increased savings or more likely increased waste would occur (depending on how well administered-- it really comes down to management and the type of system does not matter much.) It sounds more socialistic than privatization of public services (so it appeals to the "left") but it can easily swing in either direction as well as heavily depending on where you draw the division. The devil is in the details; more so on something with a hybrid of the ideology propaganda.
It would work in millions of variations... or fail in just as many.
1) A basic income is not winning the lottery. Most people want much more than cheap food, shelter, and some clothes. Decent healthy food isn't cheap for starters... People will work for extras just as they try to get an education or a promotion to get more. DEMAND drives the economy and SUPPLY sets the price - more people will have purchasing power which will help the economy while limited supply for the increased demand will raise prices and in turn motivate people to earn more money.... it is not that far from how things work already. Many people wrongly complained about minimum wage ruining everything and it made things better; this is similar but addresses the lack of livable wage jobs. A.I. will eventually drive the point home to the public.
2) sig: Good honest politicians are extremely rare and must be kept as long as they are viable (and alive. see FDR.) They do not all turn bad-- most are bad to begin with and merely haven't been caught for the sort of things they did from the start.
Just about everybody who has been in college can remember professors who while knowing their subject were absolutely horrible teachers. College is supposed to be where the student teaches themselves and uses the expert for guidance. This is why college requires ZERO education experience and provides ZERO education training for professors. Children and teenagers in public schools are a TOTALLY different situation from that of even a public college.
Anybody with experience in education should be able to inform you if you ask what the biggest issues are for education of the immature... FYI, knowledge of the subject is not on the list! I bet you that many USA readers here will remember a time in school when they had a guest speaker who wasn't treated respectfully or a substitute teacher who was unable to get the lesson completed (it is to the point that I rarely had a teacher tell the substitute teacher continue their plans unabridged. Yes, I realize from experience one can't always just hand it off so easily.)
A motivated child acting mature enough for a little bit of time will learn ON THEIR OWN, as I suspect many/. readers know from their own childhood interests. Plenty of science and research on education has been done and continues to be done. Some are applying this wisdom but the USA is not. It IS political and it's not actually the unions or lazy old teachers. I also know some of what actually goes on in that area as well. I personally know somebody in political system who is among a group who's goal is to ruin public education for the long term goal of completely recreating it along their ideals. Why ruin it? It is simple, people love public education so it has to be more than just attacked, it has to be made less lovable.
MOST LIKELY, he noticed just like I did, that googling his name puts UFO ranked higher. So he is trying to influence his google ranking to have recent UFO related results attached to his name rather than Panama.
I remember Bill Clinton's Chief of staff over a decade ago talking about how he looked into UFOs early into Bill's years in office and Bill told him to see if he could find anything. In the interview I remember him saying he found nothing but also felt like he was getting the run around by the system. This is either still a thing for him or it is a tactic being employed again.
Haven't you seen any movies? As soon as a major player says those words, construction workers at Chernobyl 2 will start to die in horrific ways...
Seriously, it could be a money pit with most typical technology breaking down or producing errors when exposed to radiation. It could be extremely costly to support even a solar plant. The waste could be improperly stored (possibly due to the same sort of systematic incompetence) resulting in a bigger mess -- but that is why they are thinking that would be a good location, isn't it?
Life could be a really complex search algorithm we just can't begin to comprehend. Life could be a non-linear approximation of 42...
Not much has changed in AI, the fundamentals on these new systems are still the same as before. The difference is we have more computing power (and CS work hours) to put into problems we thought were more amazingly complex than they were. It's likely that Go is actually as difficult as we thought it was so our progress on this search problem is not a result of a huge leap but merely a realization by some of us that the problem wasn't as big as we thought. It is akin to rating password security simply by the number of combinations and ignoring randomization: your 8 letter password might seem complex enough but in actuality it is weak because you picked a word from the dictionary. The prediction of your decision (randomness) aspect is a critical aspect.
What I'm trying to say is that the massive branching factor of Go in terms decision trees is like having long password length (like 56 letters long vs chess being 8) but the INTUITION of good decisions is akin to approaching a true random unpredictable password and it is NOT as difficult as we thought it was! Therefore, human professional intuition is not as miraculous or brilliant as previously thought. That is what this "leap" in Go is demonstrating. This is development humbling and/or frightful and should make one ponder our human hubris.
A CEO arguably needs some talent (although most seem to lack any talent and just follow their MBA training) a university president doesn't require any talent. It's all admin BS and most places largely run themselves. A college president does not come up with new products, or significantly changes the direction of the organization.
You have the right to say anything. This is an unalienable right; it is not given to you by any authority. Authorities can oppress you but they can not take away your human rights... You simply choose to not exercise your rights due to your fear of the authorities.
Yelling Fire is not the crime - you are free to do that and it should be legal if your rights are being respected. The crime is in causing a panic which harms people; which can be done by other methods (like by setting off the fire alarm.) It is also a crime to falsely report a fire (done by yelling, alarm, 911, etc.) You can say stuff at the airport too and they can choose to strip search you and detain you at their own discretion as well... The speech itself shouldn't be the crime.
People who can not control their own emotions always resort to trying to control other people. Profanities exist because of the power YOU give them over yourself. Grow a pair and take some responsibility over your emotions. WIMPS can not handle being offended or intimidated - the younger generations seem to be progressing towards becoming hypersensitive.
Game Theory should be the real topic to keep this for the nerds.
We need more examples of how fucked up an unrealistic Game Theory is in modeling human nature. It works for modeling how mental cases handle situations... which in this case is most the GOP candidates; it's especially fitting in that they themselves tend to view the world in that unrealistic model even if they have no clue about the math involved.
This is just the BEGINNING. It illustrates that this is an actionable strategy in the works; not some empty brainstorming. It also means that this is a demo of the concept and if it works even slightly will be applied more broadly. Remember, the military is ok with buying really expensive things that don't even work at all for a few years or even that well after some of the kinks are worked out.
Imagining a next gen carrier being a floating factory of drone fighters where they no longer need to maintain and store the fighters is likely something that has already been thought up. ( nowhere in the pipeline, except that projects like this are the foundation of things like that.)
Historically, in the USA the news was subsidized by the government to the tune of about 3% of the GDP (if I recall correctly, it was almost half of what we spend on Social Security today) and that wasn't cut off until Lincoln ( due to the civil war. )
The primary argument for public libraries and public schooling was that citizens of a democracy must be competent enough to operate it. Same goes for the press. All three are still not enough to maintain competent citizenry.
Today, Americans are almost totally incompetent and it is not because of their failure to maintain the system which sustains their democracy it is simply a sign of their incompetence. All democracies ALWAYS fail from within, it's a cycle of life - much like Ben Franklin stated when he ended the constitutional convention.
The relatively SHORT life of the USA is likely a result of it's great success. It wasn't earned success either, much of it was luck; perhaps if it was earned it would have been better prepared? (World Wars enriched the US greatly, post civil war corruption and lack of organized labor made it a better place at the time of the industrial revolution, vast territory for expansion and resource exploitation.)
Unlike most issue groups, the NRA is 2-in-1 in that it is both a corporate lobbyist organization AND an citizen activist organization.
They have tons of money, corporate influence in addition to a huge membership of many gullible suckers.
People think the oil industry is powerful--- just imagine if they created a "Motorists of America" front group to get boots on the ground protesting industry positions under false characterizations like the NRA routinely does.
Just like Pelosi and every other time a politician said similar things, it's an indication of how most negotiated deals work. One doesn't need experience to understand this just a basic grasp of how things work in the real world.
In the case of Pelosi, anybody who passed US government 101 should grasp how much sense her statement actually makes. Same goes for "I was for it before I was against it" which also sounds bad out of context or with ignorance.
Analogy: Love the 1st movie but hate the movie trilogy.
Mozilla is FOOLISH to decide things based on passive polling of their users WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DECLINE THE USAGE MONITORING FEATURES. I know they have no idea how I use firefox because I turned it off.... Simply because nobody prints anymore does not mean removing the print feature completely is a wise move. I will not be surprised if they repeat this .
The main problem with tab groups was that they failed to make them GLOBAL and tied them down to the window only. No sync support or ability to put groups into windows etc. these are basic things that would make them more usable and easier to integrate the feature so users discover it. The feature was not complete - they refused to finish it and put in some more work before giving up on it. One should have been able to put all windows into tabs groups and get an overview of all the windows using the tab group view they had. Users could close windows and retain all the tabs in a group for that window-- restoring it later on. one could ask when closing and/or simply maintain a history section of the tab group view where old windows could be promoted from history to tab groups.
ADVANCED USERS decide and promote software - they keep screwing us over.
The "325,000" was referring to large amount of US code and possibly the poster was also thinking about the legal system being based around past court rulings. There are legal systems which do not place so much faith legal presidence. Such systems are much less foobar'ed due to activist judges.
The Supreme Court is BS. They do not decide truth or reality; within our flawed system they do have too much say-- but they are not the final word.... until a more corrupt Supreme Court makes up some BS to throw out an amendment and the citizens relinquish even more of their power to the bureaucracy, "the people" get the final word. They are old LAWYERS (they need not be lawyers...but we seem to think they must be.) Truth has nothing to do with the law; it's not science. If you want to pursue truth and reality you'd not put lawyers and politicians in charge of everything nearly all the time.
"The people" When you read the constitution and the amendments, it's clear that it was a well thought out legal document-- written before jargon made law an exclusive realm of professional lawyers. When they use "the people" they are talking about everybody as a group, not individuals. The 1st amendment just before that one was worded stronger; they clearly could have phrased it with similar strength had that been their intent. Guns are clearly not on the same level of speech (besides they use "arms" which includes nukes.) It is really beside Jefferson's point which the poster was making: we are wasting too much time splitting hairs over some phrasing that is vague enough to be taken too many directions (that said, the Supreme Court interpretation of it is BS just like Citizens United or Separate but Equal.)
The poster; like Jefferson, is making the point that the document is not holy writ. It should be altered more rather than playing crazy word games with what is a fairly clear for such a SHORT document-- revisions would help clarify as long as they were terse and didn't blow up into craziness like the US Code has. The whole point of judges and juries was to INTERPRET and APPLY human intelligence to specific situations rather than try to program all possible scenarios on paper. Past arguments can be relevant but one shouldn't be wasting too much mental energy trying to morph them into different situations when people can just THINK out the new problem. (not like we don't have contradicting legal decisions despite our belief in legal presidence.) More thinking is required and less dependence upon paper "thought".
2 centuries is nothing. there are older democracies and many older governments. A good document will "stand the test of time" but time also... "time changes all things" so if the document is so good, it would heavily influence future revisions. If the system is broken then the new versions would reflect the corruption; keep in mind that corruption will not be stopped by some static document (it takes ACTIVE humans constantly fighting corruption - you can't stand still or let down your guard.)
If you can not find volunteers to count ballots, then your democracy is already dead.
If you can not have a fair process for the voting system, then your democracy is dangerously dysfunctional, if not totally doomed.
If your voting system is like the USA, you are stuck in the past and need to become a modern civilization (see http://www.cgpgrey.com/politic...)
If you can not reasonably predict outcomes from exit polls you are heavily propagandized to the point where mathematics, science, and education have too little influence.... your democracy is going to fail.
If you think Nate Silver is a genius for simply being competent in a corrupted profession then your part of the problem.
Cult members have a difficult time leaving too and they usually have a way out.
Dogs can break free of their electric fence too... or when the fence is off they can do so easily... yet both situations work quite well at keeping the dog policing it self.
Modern Psychology is powerful enough to get many people to enslave themselves. It's not perfect, but it only needs to work well enough on enough people. Once caught up in such a situation, it has to be difficult to escape - and since it requires a deeper understanding to really grasp, outsiders will be clueless in their judgements of the victims.
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Automation and increased productivity hasn't yet made most the population wake up and realize the serious problem. Sorry friend, that ship has not sailed as far as the masses.
If you want to help, you can try to inform everybody you know so we have less clueless people out there. Once enough of the population realizes then solutions could be possible assuming the public is not still engineered to serve our current masters. It's far more likely the ruling elite drives more of the population down while distracting us and using wars and man-made disasters (such as global warming) to cull the population in something that makes one think of "The Time Machine" isn't such far fetch fantasy.
Ignoring the billions it takes to add lanes to highways, road wear, accidents/insurance, pollution... Don't forget about the TIME people lose and the economic damage caused by having massive gridlock.
Sure public transit is not profitable!
Being part of the transit system which includes roads and bridges, it shouldn't make a profit and for one to expect it to even break even is just simply pathetic. Infrastructure is an overhead cost for civilization. DO NOT GET TRICKED into debating deck chair positions on the titanic.
BP payed more... but not much more for doing far more damage!
Wasn't their settlement about $20 billion?
Bolivia has plenty of chickens. This is a tiny amount for them; furthermore, just about anybody can afford to buy some chicks and start on their own. If he wanted to help the poor with chickens he'd provide education on raising them and maybe some chicken feed... It's incredibly ignorant to think that giving any group of people on earth free chickens is going to greatly benefit them.
Next we'll hear about Gates giving poor Hindus cows or drilling water wells in the Amazon or providing winter coats to north Africans or high-tech toilets...(anybody remember that one?)
If it must be food related, get people willing to eat insects like grasshoppers and show the how to raise those...
Branding things as liberal and conservative is a big game in itself because of the identity psychology involved; where people who believe themselves to be a member/consumer of the brand will actually bend themselves into all sorts of hypocrisies in order to maintain their belief.
Everybody wants to believe their brand is the righteous one; their tribe is number 1! It sure is a lot easier than betraying your tribe and switching....especially when there is no tribe and evolved background behavior pattern is not so obvious.
For example, global warming is an issue that was purposely and successfully marketed as an identity issue; forcing conservatives to flip flop from sane positions or be forced to have to question their identity. The best example of this comes from Australia, where a fossil fuel industry campaign admitted to modeling what was done in the USA with great success. Their example is powerful because of the massive turn around they caused on a pretty well established position in a nation seeing early consequences.
Some of us work for other reasons besides money. Money isn't the sole motivator. For dull labor jobs money does work as a motivator but for those people wanting more than a lousy $10-20k per year base income it will work... until robots replace all that.
Studies show that a lot of people are more strongly motivated by other things and it is likely MORE than 10% of the population. Many people would work part time at something reasonable and some people are obsessed with their work or addicted to work who would continue regardless.
It is basically a simple communism and capitalism hybrid. The way it works and sounds is not simple. You can privatize more of the welfare system with direct payment and the private purchase of what used to be state welfare services. Increased savings or more likely increased waste would occur (depending on how well administered-- it really comes down to management and the type of system does not matter much.) It sounds more socialistic than privatization of public services (so it appeals to the "left") but it can easily swing in either direction as well as heavily depending on where you draw the division. The devil is in the details; more so on something with a hybrid of the ideology propaganda.
It would work in millions of variations... or fail in just as many.
1) A basic income is not winning the lottery. Most people want much more than cheap food, shelter, and some clothes. Decent healthy food isn't cheap for starters... People will work for extras just as they try to get an education or a promotion to get more. DEMAND drives the economy and SUPPLY sets the price - more people will have purchasing power which will help the economy while limited supply for the increased demand will raise prices and in turn motivate people to earn more money.... it is not that far from how things work already. Many people wrongly complained about minimum wage ruining everything and it made things better; this is similar but addresses the lack of livable wage jobs. A.I. will eventually drive the point home to the public.
2) sig: Good honest politicians are extremely rare and must be kept as long as they are viable (and alive. see FDR.) They do not all turn bad-- most are bad to begin with and merely haven't been caught for the sort of things they did from the start.
Just about everybody who has been in college can remember professors who while knowing their subject were absolutely horrible teachers. College is supposed to be where the student teaches themselves and uses the expert for guidance. This is why college requires ZERO education experience and provides ZERO education training for professors. Children and teenagers in public schools are a TOTALLY different situation from that of even a public college.
Anybody with experience in education should be able to inform you if you ask what the biggest issues are for education of the immature... FYI, knowledge of the subject is not on the list! I bet you that many USA readers here will remember a time in school when they had a guest speaker who wasn't treated respectfully or a substitute teacher who was unable to get the lesson completed (it is to the point that I rarely had a teacher tell the substitute teacher continue their plans unabridged. Yes, I realize from experience one can't always just hand it off so easily.)
A motivated child acting mature enough for a little bit of time will learn ON THEIR OWN, as I suspect many /. readers know from their own childhood interests.
Plenty of science and research on education has been done and continues to be done. Some are applying this wisdom but the USA is not. It IS political and it's not actually the unions or lazy old teachers. I also know some of what actually goes on in that area as well. I personally know somebody in political system who is among a group who's goal is to ruin public education for the long term goal of completely recreating it along their ideals. Why ruin it? It is simple, people love public education so it has to be more than just attacked, it has to be made less lovable.
MOST LIKELY, he noticed just like I did, that googling his name puts UFO ranked higher. So he is trying to influence his google ranking to have recent UFO related results attached to his name rather than Panama.
I remember Bill Clinton's Chief of staff over a decade ago talking about how he looked into UFOs early into Bill's years in office and Bill told him to see if he could find anything. In the interview I remember him saying he found nothing but also felt like he was getting the run around by the system. This is either still a thing for him or it is a tactic being employed again.
Haven't you seen any movies? As soon as a major player says those words, construction workers at Chernobyl 2 will start to die in horrific ways...
Seriously, it could be a money pit with most typical technology breaking down or producing errors when exposed to radiation. It could be extremely costly to support even a solar plant. The waste could be improperly stored (possibly due to the same sort of systematic incompetence) resulting in a bigger mess -- but that is why they are thinking that would be a good location, isn't it?
Life could be a really complex search algorithm we just can't begin to comprehend. Life could be a non-linear approximation of 42...
Not much has changed in AI, the fundamentals on these new systems are still the same as before. The difference is we have more computing power (and CS work hours) to put into problems we thought were more amazingly complex than they were. It's likely that Go is actually as difficult as we thought it was so our progress on this search problem is not a result of a huge leap but merely a realization by some of us that the problem wasn't as big as we thought. It is akin to rating password security simply by the number of combinations and ignoring randomization: your 8 letter password might seem complex enough but in actuality it is weak because you picked a word from the dictionary. The prediction of your decision (randomness) aspect is a critical aspect.
What I'm trying to say is that the massive branching factor of Go in terms decision trees is like having long password length (like 56 letters long vs chess being 8) but the INTUITION of good decisions is akin to approaching a true random unpredictable password and it is NOT as difficult as we thought it was! Therefore, human professional intuition is not as miraculous or brilliant as previously thought. That is what this "leap" in Go is demonstrating. This is development humbling and/or frightful and should make one ponder our human hubris.
A CEO arguably needs some talent (although most seem to lack any talent and just follow their MBA training) a university president doesn't require any talent. It's all admin BS and most places largely run themselves. A college president does not come up with new products, or significantly changes the direction of the organization.
You have the right to say anything. This is an unalienable right; it is not given to you by any authority. Authorities can oppress you but they can not take away your human rights... You simply choose to not exercise your rights due to your fear of the authorities.
Yelling Fire is not the crime - you are free to do that and it should be legal if your rights are being respected. The crime is in causing a panic which harms people; which can be done by other methods (like by setting off the fire alarm.) It is also a crime to falsely report a fire (done by yelling, alarm, 911, etc.) You can say stuff at the airport too and they can choose to strip search you and detain you at their own discretion as well... The speech itself shouldn't be the crime.
People who can not control their own emotions always resort to trying to control other people. Profanities exist because of the power YOU give them over yourself. Grow a pair and take some responsibility over your emotions. WIMPS can not handle being offended or intimidated - the younger generations seem to be progressing towards becoming hypersensitive.
Game Theory should be the real topic to keep this for the nerds.
We need more examples of how fucked up an unrealistic Game Theory is in modeling human nature. It works for modeling how mental cases handle situations... which in this case is most the GOP candidates; it's especially fitting in that they themselves tend to view the world in that unrealistic model even if they have no clue about the math involved.
This is just the BEGINNING. It illustrates that this is an actionable strategy in the works; not some empty brainstorming. It also means that this is a demo of the concept and if it works even slightly will be applied more broadly. Remember, the military is ok with buying really expensive things that don't even work at all for a few years or even that well after some of the kinks are worked out.
Imagining a next gen carrier being a floating factory of drone fighters where they no longer need to maintain and store the fighters is likely something that has already been thought up. ( nowhere in the pipeline, except that projects like this are the foundation of things like that.)
Historically, in the USA the news was subsidized by the government to the tune of about 3% of the GDP (if I recall correctly, it was almost half of what we spend on Social Security today) and that wasn't cut off until Lincoln ( due to the civil war. )
The primary argument for public libraries and public schooling was that citizens of a democracy must be competent enough to operate it. Same goes for the press. All three are still not enough to maintain competent citizenry.
Today, Americans are almost totally incompetent and it is not because of their failure to maintain the system which sustains their democracy it is simply a sign of their incompetence. All democracies ALWAYS fail from within, it's a cycle of life - much like Ben Franklin stated when he ended the constitutional convention.
The relatively SHORT life of the USA is likely a result of it's great success. It wasn't earned success either, much of it was luck; perhaps if it was earned it would have been better prepared? (World Wars enriched the US greatly, post civil war corruption and lack of organized labor made it a better place at the time of the industrial revolution, vast territory for expansion and resource exploitation.)
Unlike most issue groups, the NRA is 2-in-1 in that it is both a corporate lobbyist organization AND an citizen activist organization.
They have tons of money, corporate influence in addition to a huge membership of many gullible suckers.
People think the oil industry is powerful--- just imagine if they created a "Motorists of America" front group to get boots on the ground protesting industry positions under false characterizations like the NRA routinely does.
Last time I worked in the TV biz it was 22 minutes of program for a 30 min show. I don't recall what a 60min show was.
Just like Pelosi and every other time a politician said similar things, it's an indication of how most negotiated deals work. One doesn't need experience to understand this just a basic grasp of how things work in the real world.
In the case of Pelosi, anybody who passed US government 101 should grasp how much sense her statement actually makes. Same goes for "I was for it before I was against it" which also sounds bad out of context or with ignorance.
Analogy: Love the 1st movie but hate the movie trilogy.
Mozilla is FOOLISH to decide things based on passive polling of their users WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DECLINE THE USAGE MONITORING FEATURES. I know they have no idea how I use firefox because I turned it off.... Simply because nobody prints anymore does not mean removing the print feature completely is a wise move. I will not be surprised if they repeat this .
The main problem with tab groups was that they failed to make them GLOBAL and tied them down to the window only. No sync support or ability to put groups into windows etc. these are basic things that would make them more usable and easier to integrate the feature so users discover it. The feature was not complete - they refused to finish it and put in some more work before giving up on it. One should have been able to put all windows into tabs groups and get an overview of all the windows using the tab group view they had. Users could close windows and retain all the tabs in a group for that window-- restoring it later on. one could ask when closing and/or simply maintain a history section of the tab group view where old windows could be promoted from history to tab groups.
ADVANCED USERS decide and promote software - they keep screwing us over.
Give him points for reminding people how well government propagandists stay on message as well as a terrorist organization.
moderate it: priceless
The "325,000" was referring to large amount of US code and possibly the poster was also thinking about the legal system being based around past court rulings. There are legal systems which do not place so much faith legal presidence. Such systems are much less foobar'ed due to activist judges.
The Supreme Court is BS. They do not decide truth or reality; within our flawed system they do have too much say-- but they are not the final word.... until a more corrupt Supreme Court makes up some BS to throw out an amendment and the citizens relinquish even more of their power to the bureaucracy, "the people" get the final word. They are old LAWYERS (they need not be lawyers...but we seem to think they must be.) Truth has nothing to do with the law; it's not science. If you want to pursue truth and reality you'd not put lawyers and politicians in charge of everything nearly all the time.
"The people"
When you read the constitution and the amendments, it's clear that it was a well thought out legal document-- written before jargon made law an exclusive realm of professional lawyers.
When they use "the people" they are talking about everybody as a group, not individuals. The 1st amendment just before that one was worded stronger; they clearly could have phrased it with similar strength had that been their intent. Guns are clearly not on the same level of speech (besides they use "arms" which includes nukes.) It is really beside Jefferson's point which the poster was making: we are wasting too much time splitting hairs over some phrasing that is vague enough to be taken too many directions (that said, the Supreme Court interpretation of it is BS just like Citizens United or Separate but Equal.)
The poster; like Jefferson, is making the point that the document is not holy writ. It should be altered more rather than playing crazy word games with what is a fairly clear for such a SHORT document-- revisions would help clarify as long as they were terse and didn't blow up into craziness like the US Code has. The whole point of judges and juries was to INTERPRET and APPLY human intelligence to specific situations rather than try to program all possible scenarios on paper. Past arguments can be relevant but one shouldn't be wasting too much mental energy trying to morph them into different situations when people can just THINK out the new problem. (not like we don't have contradicting legal decisions despite our belief in legal presidence.) More thinking is required and less dependence upon paper "thought".
2 centuries is nothing. there are older democracies and many older governments. A good document will "stand the test of time" but time also... "time changes all things" so if the document is so good, it would heavily influence future revisions. If the system is broken then the new versions would reflect the corruption; keep in mind that corruption will not be stopped by some static document (it takes ACTIVE humans constantly fighting corruption - you can't stand still or let down your guard.)
If you can not find volunteers to count ballots, then your democracy is already dead.
If you can not have a fair process for the voting system, then your democracy is dangerously dysfunctional, if not totally doomed.
If your voting system is like the USA, you are stuck in the past and need to become a modern civilization (see http://www.cgpgrey.com/politic...)
If you can not reasonably predict outcomes from exit polls you are heavily propagandized to the point where mathematics, science, and education have too little influence.... your democracy is going to fail.
If you think Nate Silver is a genius for simply being competent in a corrupted profession then your part of the problem.
Cult members have a difficult time leaving too and they usually have a way out.
Dogs can break free of their electric fence too... or when the fence is off they can do so easily... yet both situations work quite well at keeping the dog policing it self.
Modern Psychology is powerful enough to get many people to enslave themselves. It's not perfect, but it only needs to work well enough on enough people. Once caught up in such a situation, it has to be difficult to escape - and since it requires a deeper understanding to really grasp, outsiders will be clueless in their judgements of the victims.