We are far from the point where the issue is dead and it's just empty complaining. Even then, some degree of problems will always exist as long as humans are unable to evolve; sub-cultures form new tribes all the time and tribal behavior never evolved out of our DNA. Nerds have their own group and while they tend to be nicer to outsiders they can be tribal too-- and gender has little to do with it (other than they are usually happy to find a female nerd... the culture doesn't promote them, so they are rare... plus it may be the traits that define the culture actually are slanted toward the males who founded it. ) Anyhow tribal issues will result in false positives in the world of P.C.
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Ballmer too old to throw chairs or do his famious Monkey Dance. A wise move; for Ballmer.
Microsoft on the other hand could use more Ballmer; I'm going to miss being a spectator to their slow demise.
With proper oversight I am not worried... if everybody must have them as well. My robo car is not going to spot some idiot on their cell driving in the next lane and avoid them as well as I do. Take away all the people who can't drive responsibly or lost the capacity (elderly) and that would make me feel much safer. At least a defect would result in investigations and lawsuits to create a permanent solution; idiot drivers have no fault insurance and a slim chance of changing their ways (tickets don't help.)
Isn't New Zealand still #1 as they've been for decades? or in the top 2 spot anyhow.
5-7 times the average income for a house? that isn't so bad. $46k in the USA x 5 = $230k
Electric cars are long overdue... largely delayed due to the cheapo gas in the USA - the largest consumer of cars. 15% sales tax is a bit much... must discourage over consumption... but shifting it to income wouldn't be that popular either... it would be less regressive. Here I was thinking NZ was some left wing Utopia or something; guess not.
One of the few posts addressing TFA; instead of typical rants on fat. Lab animals are usually fed pet food of some sort which is heavily processed stuff.
Processed food is not the same as natural food; we add and subtract things ignorantly as if it doesn't matter, forgetting that every decade a new fad hits as to what elements are good or bad to add/remove from our diets.
There are natural herbs without side effects but when the "active" ingredient is extracted and made into a concentrated pill it then affects many people differently. Because something in the natural form was missing from the processed one, but that was arrogantly and ignorantly excluded. Sometimes I wonder just how many science proponents actually understand science.
I didn't say I never watched TV or that I didn't rarely see something these days.
I doubt TV today is any different than before except even more harmful from what I hear or sample of reality TV which pollutes "news" and discussion more than TV did in the past. Haven't you noticed? People talk more about TV now than before from what I've observed.
Everybody with a brain said the terrorism laws were going to be ABUSED. This is just another example of abuse of those powers. There should be legal grounds to retaliate against such blatant abuses - clearly the reporter is not a terrorist in any way.
Romney and the GOP were living in the bubble they paid to create for their sucker fan base. Their "experts" were telling them what they wanted to hear-- that is for the customers not for the management. They were shocked at the results because their BAD DATA was divorced from reality. They bashed competent people like Nate Silver as being biased -- like they do with their conspiracy theories about all the climate scientists. If it doesn't please them, it just can't be reality! A few people like Rove, I don't think were drinking the coolaid, they just made mistakes as to the effectiveness of their scheming (to put it nicely; far more like cheating) and the other side changed tactics (they didn't notice. they should have. when you stop black people from voting and then they mail-vote or go early or replace the loss of Acorn with other groups... killing Acorn should have been delayed, it was replaced by the time the election came around.)
As far as playing the system to subvert democracy, they continue to invest heavily in that - far far more than the other side does. It's not racism, it is just an easy way to ID the groups they want to steal rights away from. If unemployed people were as easy to predict, they'd have made it harder for them to vote (they have subgroups they do that to already.) Sure the Dems would probably do the same things if they were so desperate; but they've nearly always benefited by HUGE margins with high turn out. Almost no incentive. If we could control the weather, it would be a huge battle for who controlled if rained on election days. Gone are the GOP believers in democracy, it is a war mentality in their party now; where there are no rules or ideals that are more important than winning the WAR. It doesn't take much investigation to see how the fanatics have taken over and even their terminology is war like. They put the opposition into the nearly the same target of hate as the Taliban. Speaking reason around them is akin to saying the world was spherical in a church 500 years ago. It's no wonder old republicans have no party.
Hindsight is 20/20. They can't predict which counties accurately enough and if they do... they change the nature of the situation - it's like time travel, by attempting to change things they impact the future as it develops. It is a complex dynamic situation with a lot of interconnections. Just changing some words in a speech to please one area could cause you to lose many more...
Romney was a bar of soap. He doesn't deserve much blame; they could have sold us another moron like Bush and done about as well.
You just gave multiple entirely separate issues which only overlap in their impact.
Medical insurance tied to employers along with HMOs (via Nixon) have made this a big mess but it is true that the insurance "industry" are the biggest problem (it is more of a scam than an industry, they produce nothing of use for the 30+% overhead cost.)
How about conducing some actual scientific studies and adding to mankind's understanding of the brain and learning instead of patents for baseless education tools.
I bet that such a device HARMS CHILDREN. If you can't read and imagine you are mentally crippled... Not just in school but especially in the so-called "real world." If you are entertained by fairly thoughtless disjointed animations distracting your reading then you have a really low IQ or you are a CS intrigued by complexity of replacing a team of disney animators with a spam filter AI.
You do realize that the head of the Senate is from Nevada right?
Yucca Mountain has had every possible hurdle placed in it's way to gum up the project- all that is left is for officials fighting NIMBY forces to start having accidents... Different stall tactics are tried by everybody who gets into this mess. It's a politically toxic issue.
As for Obama, he isn't simple to follow. He says one thing and then does something "pragmatic" to get along with as many of the powerful forces as possible - it is as if the 2 year long healthcare battle took away his spine completely. Ever since he hasn't really gone up against the system - which likes to go almost nowhere new. Remember, nobody anywhere wanted healthcare to change...except the public and Obama. What we got wasn't so great - but it isn't that bad either - given that nobody has done jack since Nixon fucked it all up says a lot... and it was during probably the most corrupt dysfunctional time in the nation's history. Don't know why people expect so much when they encourage this farce democracy to continue. I don't know the motives, but forcing this legal battle which should have been obviously a loser seems to eliminate more stalling.
Frankly if they need compensation, they should withhold publishing new episodes until a threshold of donations are met. new business model. advertisers can buy time too...
I have a hard time believing some show with millions of viewers is having advertisers pay $2 per episode for EACH viewer... especially when most television is reruns.
As far as them making a living; I don't care. There is too much entertainment, the people are stuck in the Colosseum unable to do anything about the fall of their society. I don't own a TV, don't go to the movies and wish people would get sick of the lame CG and complete fantasy worlds (even the gritty realism is total fantasy.)
I never felt they were that bad... The videos i almost never watch- that stuff isn't so good. The written propaganda I never felt that bad about because it's almost like they want you to know it... I feel insulted by Fox News because they seem serious about their propaganda while RT doesn't. When the truth aligns with them, or they don't care, they do a pretty good job-- and now I know why-- they have the staff and in the USA most "news" sources are just filling up space/time because they have no resources or their own.
When reality isn't aligned to their agenda, then they employ propaganda - and from what I've read so far it's not as moronic as what Fox News does.
RT is loads better than Fox News. Of course when it comes to reporting on the west, they don't need to try -- the west is screwing itself; they can just report honestly. I frankly have been surprised they got into topics with the USA that Russia has trouble with - you'd think they wouldn't want to bring up the whole topic... which was how old propaganda worked... It seems that PR people have learned how to work so well with hypocrisy they don't avoid it anymore.
Just don't get stuck into the trap of aiming for the middle simply because both sides have a bias. Then you are no better than the Americans.... who continually shift beyond Mussolini's Fascism without realizing it.
The big disappointment when I read about the 1st "design patterns", other than liking the idea of encouraging generic and somewhat uniform descriptions of solutions, I found many of them were solutions to problems created by JAVA and other restricted thinking.
See Fast Food Nation; the parts about industrialization and how it took expertise and eliminated it in favor of simple mechanistic low wage zero talent jobs.
I used to bicycle daily to work and my brushes with death were a combination of cell phones or women with kids.
BS "study" is merely some statistics extracted from database information paid for by some cell phone lover or corporation to counter ACTUAL SCIENCE. Anybody who studies cognitive psychology will tell you that just about everything distracts you from driving your best. Including talking to other people - except then you have other people watching the road and you can use both hands to drive.
Hardly anybody has stopped despite the law being years old now. I still SEE people texting while driving. Nothing has changed as far as what I've observed. Anecdotal evidence sure, but pulling out some stats like that isn't much better - I'm a random sample and the "study" is just cherry picking by setting thresholds.
Not that TV or movies have ever been more beneficial to society than damaging, but the direction has been DOWNWARD for decades and one can only guess at what point it will degrade into "Ow My Balls!" (not that it hasn't already come close with a few shows already.)
The BBC needs to fix some the Americanization influence harming their programming and be less commercially influenced as well. If Dr. Who was in the USA, they'd have ruined the show within a few seasons; not capable of going even 1/3 as long. Ratings down? put in more sex. Watch next week when the Doctor installs Windows XP and saves the world! (sponsored by Microsoft.) Doctor gets a new sonic screw driver.. the iSonic... made out of an iPhone (sponsored by Apple.)
The US government hasn't had proper statistics or data collection forever. We the people haven't done our jobs as we've allows self-serving politicians distort the data and stats we use to judge them. Canada based their unemployment using taxes - the best source possible. We've never done it correctly and continually tweaked it to raise the stats.
You can't get real unemployment numbers without IRS data. Even then the number is overly simplistic. Underemployment hardly gets mentioned - if we need a single number it should combine both... But then underemployment isn't fairly calculated either; along with minimum wage and many other things.
Emulation does not exclusively mean software simulation of hardware (ya know, that word existed before computers.)
Not CPU emulation you twit. Past designs of Nintendo show they will put identical chips into the system that will go unused except when emulating old hardware; then they will configure the system's hardware to function like the old device. It is a simple safe way to prevent problems from software written to the hardware.
US mainstream news is horrible; it does not matter which story or what "bias" you can find in the whole farce. FOX uses truth when it benefits their propaganda's agenda otherwise they filter, distort, or lie. The others probably had other agendas besides defending the NRA - I won't bother to speculate as to their motives (besides just ratings) because the whole thing is distraction from real issues.
As far as I was concerned the issue was simple- Zimmerman talked big and thought he could dish it out but was a coward who couldn't handle being on the receiving end. Every coward who can't handle an ass whooping is going to preemptively murder -- with great profits to those who bet on the cowardice of the younger generations.
They are so paranoid about compatibility because of their history of designing things around fixed hardware to get the most out of it (including saving time NOT testing software for such changes.)
Nintendo could simply create an OPTION to run Wii games in full emulation mode or enhanced mode - and let the user set the option; default to the safe option. Later, with enough feedback online (a simple forum or poll online) could allow them to update their software with a list of safe games to run in enhanced mode.
OR they could continue to think like the music and movie industry and expect people to buy replacements... then NOT release HD versions of their old games-- Nintendo rarely ever remakes anything, just a few zelda games and the rest is all emulated.
"NEVER" could be absolute. If you can't be 100% sure they will not repeat you could lock them away from society for life. One could attempt to fund cures and consider acceptable failure rates in those cures; however, in that topic society doesn't (at least openly) have any acceptable failure rate for pedophile cures. This is why political officials will never openly support 99% effective release programs.
"NEVER" could mean they never have to be treated. They could simply be placed into a gated community or some big-brother like monitoring scheme (which isn't jail or being institutionalized but it is not full freedom.) Their lives do not have to be horrible; it's like punishing a retard for their low IQ. We just don't vilify low IQs (but we could, you inherit your cultural attitudes.)
The real issue is this SICK attitude our culture of punishment and vilifying people who are mentally handicapped in some way; it can even be biological making it rather obvious, but we still treat them as "evil". Punishing a lion for biting off your arm is just foolish. Let them be and keep away. I'm not against treatments, but I'm far more conservative about trusting them - and if they are not mistreated (being caged) then the lack of "cures" is a smaller problem.
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Women don't get equal pay for equal work and the supreme court even did a "separate but equal" style ruling on the matter. RECENT HISTORY:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009
We are far from the point where the issue is dead and it's just empty complaining. Even then, some degree of problems will always exist as long as humans are unable to evolve; sub-cultures form new tribes all the time and tribal behavior never evolved out of our DNA. Nerds have their own group and while they tend to be nicer to outsiders they can be tribal too-- and gender has little to do with it (other than they are usually happy to find a female nerd... the culture doesn't promote them, so they are rare... plus it may be the traits that define the culture actually are slanted toward the males who founded it. ) Anyhow tribal issues will result in false positives in the world of P.C.
Ballmer too old to throw chairs or do his famious Monkey Dance. A wise move; for Ballmer.
Microsoft on the other hand could use more Ballmer; I'm going to miss being a spectator to their slow demise.
With proper oversight I am not worried... if everybody must have them as well. My robo car is not going to spot some idiot on their cell driving in the next lane and avoid them as well as I do. Take away all the people who can't drive responsibly or lost the capacity (elderly) and that would make me feel much safer. At least a defect would result in investigations and lawsuits to create a permanent solution; idiot drivers have no fault insurance and a slim chance of changing their ways (tickets don't help.)
Risk of jail? Worth it; it's for the good of mankind.
Risk of being so messed up I want to change genders? ah... somebody else can leak it.
To illustrate how Dentists are NOT scientists.... tooth mechanics who get respect.
Isn't New Zealand still #1 as they've been for decades? or in the top 2 spot anyhow.
5-7 times the average income for a house? that isn't so bad.
$46k in the USA x 5 = $230k
Electric cars are long overdue... largely delayed due to the cheapo gas in the USA - the largest consumer of cars. 15% sales tax is a bit much... must discourage over consumption... but shifting it to income wouldn't be that popular either... it would be less regressive. Here I was thinking NZ was some left wing Utopia or something; guess not.
One of the few posts addressing TFA; instead of typical rants on fat. Lab animals are usually fed pet food of some sort which is heavily processed stuff.
Processed food is not the same as natural food; we add and subtract things ignorantly as if it doesn't matter, forgetting that every decade a new fad hits as to what elements are good or bad to add/remove from our diets.
There are natural herbs without side effects but when the "active" ingredient is extracted and made into a concentrated pill it then affects many people differently. Because something in the natural form was missing from the processed one, but that was arrogantly and ignorantly excluded. Sometimes I wonder just how many science proponents actually understand science.
I didn't say I never watched TV or that I didn't rarely see something these days.
I doubt TV today is any different than before except even more harmful from what I hear or sample of reality TV which pollutes "news" and discussion more than TV did in the past. Haven't you noticed? People talk more about TV now than before from what I've observed.
Everybody with a brain said the terrorism laws were going to be ABUSED. This is just another example of abuse of those powers. There should be legal grounds to retaliate against such blatant abuses - clearly the reporter is not a terrorist in any way.
Romney and the GOP were living in the bubble they paid to create for their sucker fan base. Their "experts" were telling them what they wanted to hear-- that is for the customers not for the management. They were shocked at the results because their BAD DATA was divorced from reality. They bashed competent people like Nate Silver as being biased -- like they do with their conspiracy theories about all the climate scientists. If it doesn't please them, it just can't be reality! A few people like Rove, I don't think were drinking the coolaid, they just made mistakes as to the effectiveness of their scheming (to put it nicely; far more like cheating) and the other side changed tactics (they didn't notice. they should have. when you stop black people from voting and then they mail-vote or go early or replace the loss of Acorn with other groups... killing Acorn should have been delayed, it was replaced by the time the election came around.)
As far as playing the system to subvert democracy, they continue to invest heavily in that - far far more than the other side does. It's not racism, it is just an easy way to ID the groups they want to steal rights away from. If unemployed people were as easy to predict, they'd have made it harder for them to vote (they have subgroups they do that to already.) Sure the Dems would probably do the same things if they were so desperate; but they've nearly always benefited by HUGE margins with high turn out. Almost no incentive. If we could control the weather, it would be a huge battle for who controlled if rained on election days. Gone are the GOP believers in democracy, it is a war mentality in their party now; where there are no rules or ideals that are more important than winning the WAR. It doesn't take much investigation to see how the fanatics have taken over and even their terminology is war like. They put the opposition into the nearly the same target of hate as the Taliban. Speaking reason around them is akin to saying the world was spherical in a church 500 years ago. It's no wonder old republicans have no party.
Hindsight is 20/20. They can't predict which counties accurately enough and if they do... they change the nature of the situation - it's like time travel, by attempting to change things they impact the future as it develops. It is a complex dynamic situation with a lot of interconnections. Just changing some words in a speech to please one area could cause you to lose many more...
Romney was a bar of soap. He doesn't deserve much blame; they could have sold us another moron like Bush and done about as well.
You just gave multiple entirely separate issues which only overlap in their impact.
Medical insurance tied to employers along with HMOs (via Nixon) have made this a big mess but it is true that the insurance "industry" are the biggest problem (it is more of a scam than an industry, they produce nothing of use for the 30+% overhead cost.)
How about conducing some actual scientific studies and adding to mankind's understanding of the brain and learning instead of patents for baseless education tools.
I bet that such a device HARMS CHILDREN. If you can't read and imagine you are mentally crippled... Not just in school but especially in the so-called "real world." If you are entertained by fairly thoughtless disjointed animations distracting your reading then you have a really low IQ or you are a CS intrigued by complexity of replacing a team of disney animators with a spam filter AI.
You do realize that the head of the Senate is from Nevada right?
Yucca Mountain has had every possible hurdle placed in it's way to gum up the project- all that is left is for officials fighting NIMBY forces to start having accidents... Different stall tactics are tried by everybody who gets into this mess. It's a politically toxic issue.
As for Obama, he isn't simple to follow. He says one thing and then does something "pragmatic" to get along with as many of the powerful forces as possible - it is as if the 2 year long healthcare battle took away his spine completely. Ever since he hasn't really gone up against the system - which likes to go almost nowhere new. Remember, nobody anywhere wanted healthcare to change...except the public and Obama. What we got wasn't so great - but it isn't that bad either - given that nobody has done jack since Nixon fucked it all up says a lot... and it was during probably the most corrupt dysfunctional time in the nation's history. Don't know why people expect so much when they encourage this farce democracy to continue. I don't know the motives, but forcing this legal battle which should have been obviously a loser seems to eliminate more stalling.
Frankly if they need compensation, they should withhold publishing new episodes until a threshold of donations are met. new business model. advertisers can buy time too...
I have a hard time believing some show with millions of viewers is having advertisers pay $2 per episode for EACH viewer... especially when most television is reruns.
As far as them making a living; I don't care. There is too much entertainment, the people are stuck in the Colosseum unable to do anything about the fall of their society. I don't own a TV, don't go to the movies and wish people would get sick of the lame CG and complete fantasy worlds (even the gritty realism is total fantasy.)
I never felt they were that bad... The videos i almost never watch- that stuff isn't so good. The written propaganda I never felt that bad about because it's almost like they want you to know it... I feel insulted by Fox News because they seem serious about their propaganda while RT doesn't. When the truth aligns with them, or they don't care, they do a pretty good job-- and now I know why-- they have the staff and in the USA most "news" sources are just filling up space/time because they have no resources or their own.
When reality isn't aligned to their agenda, then they employ propaganda - and from what I've read so far it's not as moronic as what Fox News does.
RT is loads better than Fox News. Of course when it comes to reporting on the west, they don't need to try -- the west is screwing itself; they can just report honestly. I frankly have been surprised they got into topics with the USA that Russia has trouble with - you'd think they wouldn't want to bring up the whole topic... which was how old propaganda worked... It seems that PR people have learned how to work so well with hypocrisy they don't avoid it anymore.
Just don't get stuck into the trap of aiming for the middle simply because both sides have a bias. Then you are no better than the Americans.... who continually shift beyond Mussolini's Fascism without realizing it.
The big disappointment when I read about the 1st "design patterns", other than liking the idea of encouraging generic and somewhat uniform descriptions of solutions, I found many of them were solutions to problems created by JAVA and other restricted thinking.
See Fast Food Nation; the parts about industrialization and how it took expertise and eliminated it in favor of simple mechanistic low wage zero talent jobs.
I used to bicycle daily to work and my brushes with death were a combination of cell phones or women with kids.
BS "study" is merely some statistics extracted from database information paid for by some cell phone lover or corporation to counter ACTUAL SCIENCE. Anybody who studies cognitive psychology will tell you that just about everything distracts you from driving your best. Including talking to other people - except then you have other people watching the road and you can use both hands to drive.
Hardly anybody has stopped despite the law being years old now. I still SEE people texting while driving. Nothing has changed as far as what I've observed. Anecdotal evidence sure, but pulling out some stats like that isn't much better - I'm a random sample and the "study" is just cherry picking by setting thresholds.
Not that TV or movies have ever been more beneficial to society than damaging, but the direction has been DOWNWARD for decades and one can only guess at what point it will degrade into "Ow My Balls!" (not that it hasn't already come close with a few shows already.)
The BBC needs to fix some the Americanization influence harming their programming and be less commercially influenced as well. If Dr. Who was in the USA, they'd have ruined the show within a few seasons; not capable of going even 1/3 as long. Ratings down? put in more sex. Watch next week when the Doctor installs Windows XP and saves the world! (sponsored by Microsoft.) Doctor gets a new sonic screw driver .. the iSonic... made out of an iPhone (sponsored by Apple.)
The US government hasn't had proper statistics or data collection forever. We the people haven't done our jobs as we've allows self-serving politicians distort the data and stats we use to judge them. Canada based their unemployment using taxes - the best source possible. We've never done it correctly and continually tweaked it to raise the stats.
You can't get real unemployment numbers without IRS data. Even then the number is overly simplistic. Underemployment hardly gets mentioned - if we need a single number it should combine both... But then underemployment isn't fairly calculated either; along with minimum wage and many other things.
Emulation does not exclusively mean software simulation of hardware (ya know, that word existed before computers.)
Not CPU emulation you twit. Past designs of Nintendo show they will put identical chips into the system that will go unused except when emulating old hardware; then they will configure the system's hardware to function like the old device. It is a simple safe way to prevent problems from software written to the hardware.
US mainstream news is horrible; it does not matter which story or what "bias" you can find in the whole farce. FOX uses truth when it benefits their propaganda's agenda otherwise they filter, distort, or lie. The others probably had other agendas besides defending the NRA - I won't bother to speculate as to their motives (besides just ratings) because the whole thing is distraction from real issues.
As far as I was concerned the issue was simple- Zimmerman talked big and thought he could dish it out but was a coward who couldn't handle being on the receiving end. Every coward who can't handle an ass whooping is going to preemptively murder -- with great profits to those who bet on the cowardice of the younger generations.
They are so paranoid about compatibility because of their history of designing things around fixed hardware to get the most out of it (including saving time NOT testing software for such changes.)
Nintendo could simply create an OPTION to run Wii games in full emulation mode or enhanced mode - and let the user set the option; default to the safe option. Later, with enough feedback online (a simple forum or poll online) could allow them to update their software with a list of safe games to run in enhanced mode.
OR they could continue to think like the music and movie industry and expect people to buy replacements... then NOT release HD versions of their old games-- Nintendo rarely ever remakes anything, just a few zelda games and the rest is all emulated.
"NEVER" could be absolute. If you can't be 100% sure they will not repeat you could lock them away from society for life. One could attempt to fund cures and consider acceptable failure rates in those cures; however, in that topic society doesn't (at least openly) have any acceptable failure rate for pedophile cures. This is why political officials will never openly support 99% effective release programs.
"NEVER" could mean they never have to be treated. They could simply be placed into a gated community or some big-brother like monitoring scheme (which isn't jail or being institutionalized but it is not full freedom.) Their lives do not have to be horrible; it's like punishing a retard for their low IQ. We just don't vilify low IQs (but we could, you inherit your cultural attitudes.)
The real issue is this SICK attitude our culture of punishment and vilifying people who are mentally handicapped in some way; it can even be biological making it rather obvious, but we still treat them as "evil". Punishing a lion for biting off your arm is just foolish. Let them be and keep away. I'm not against treatments, but I'm far more conservative about trusting them - and if they are not mistreated (being caged) then the lack of "cures" is a smaller problem.