Ok, not so funny... but it is a building made to observe things far away. Did the intern aim the telescope into an open window?
That was a huge reported police reaction for some kiddie pictures; BTW, some adults have gotten into trouble for innocent nude pictures of their children. It's bad enough that people actually 2nd guess taking what used to be cliche baby photos.
It's more likely they think the found a child porno server. It's probably an insecure server that stockpiled millions of photos and the staff has no idea; maybe somebody on staff was involved which would make it look like a big target. Huge amounts of photos with a great internet connection? Somewhat remote location that people don't pay attention to?
They can float their cell towers if they wish; but the LAND belongs to us and the wires going over OUR LAND is ours and they have to do anything we want to demand for use of it... or simply not use it... given how much profits there are to be had, it is unlikely that fees will not deter them except in extreme cases.
I was working with some profs on setting up a large research project preparing grant proposals (we already had 1 big funding source) to create an open source cheap farming robot to do organic farming.
We had many practical ideas to begin with; many of which I still do not see being used out there... when the smart phone came out years later it seemed like it would have been perfect timing. Other university projects (especially MIT ones) were embarrassingly bad so we would have had something... we still would.
Why did it stop? Because I killed it, we discussed this exact topic on how this would the destroy 3rd world faster than anybody could adapt to it. We guessed that other gardening and farming robot projects were just gimmicks for educational student projects with no practical applications because they too had similar concerns.
Farming robots can be made cheaply and hardware to control them gets cheaper and easier to access every year - only the software holds us back and once done...
You don't have to completely replace the humans, just make the weakest a little weaker for a damaging period of time. It also doesn't have to be super cheap-- just enough to drive the market down so substance farmers are not able to make anything extra to live on after feeding themselves and that has been done temporarily to economies where a nation dumps excess food into another market; or well, how donated clothing and kill whole economies as their fragile sweat shops go broke when they have months or years of super cheap clothes given to them... or NGOs and their contractors displacing the local rebuilding labor force...
No, I'm not giving away any of our good ideas as examples. Somebody else can do that; hopefully LATER after more people wake up to the impending problems. BTW, these issues have been around since the industrial revolution and largely ignored because the big problems were externalized for other people to deal with the transition (and saying everybody has to become educated out of their old jobs and blaming them for not making that transition is naive. As if we even have the same number of necessary jobs existing in the 1st place... we don't.) What is going to happen is that people won't be so ignorant and as able to close their eyes because of how fast this is coming to everybody... plus the fact we have too many people and not enough jobs to invent based upon an economy of infinite growth that has reached peak resources already.
Trump was NOT a middle finger. Aside from the immature childish behavior of an FU vote (which is fitting given Trump's a man-child;) a middle finger is a huge understatement. Voting for Trump in protest is like a teenage girl running away out of spite with the 1st man who hits on her and ending up gang raped and thrown in some ditch. Yeah, that sure showed them...
Or the cattle/sheep escaping from their farmer for using and looking down on them; escaping to the butcher who reminds them of a pig so he must be one of them...
Every election game is rigged on multiple levels; with the "undecided" idiots in the middle swaying it either way... and on a bigger level the 2 choices are filtered so the established elite are untouchable.
DN: Honestly, I've not been to DN for years now. It is too depressing and I listened to it daily since 2000. If the news was competent, they'd all be like that and the masses would have risen up and fixed things. It's proof at just how dangerously powerful the news is when it no longer exists.
There is no proof Autistics and Asperger's are connected. Just because the USA DSM lumped one on the end of the other because of similarities doesn't mean much other than greatly increased funding...
I read a paper showing zero statistical link on genetic Autism; however, it showed a significant link for Aspergers which warranted further research. It came out not long before the DSM change.
As far as social norms... the normal majority dictates what is right by their might of being the majority. The majority is simply flat out wrong to demand everybody cater to their fragile egos; you can control yourself, you can't control everybody else.
If you want to really be P.C. you'll be tolerant and understanding of others with different behaviors - but that involves WORK on yourself; much easier to just blame others. Baby Boomers (the me generation) - Gen X - Millennials seem to all have many blame problems.
any significant others? this would be good generic cover for personal issues. maybe a midlife crisis of some sort?
Probably SJWs getting to him, his employer, or a major resource (like a government) that are pushing this. As the next generation majority is catered to the rest of us will be forced to conform to their norms... like the old racists had to adapt (despite one of their own coming to power they are still losing.) Yes, sometimes it's good; other times it is not.
Wizards are restrictive hand holding... but probably fine for simple things or dangerous things... What you are looking for is MODES; which it sounds like you kind of found.
Easier to do on a webpage since each "page" lends itself to being it's own mode and the metaphor is there but well hidden. In an app, you don't see them that often these days they've largely been forgotten but also many apps are too simple to be forced into that situation. Plus the trend is now to copy old children's software. Some high end software lets you reconfigure the UI and save presets to switch between; which becomes another variation of modes (but one which most users never use effectively or lacks enough customization to be worth it.)
They can already get away with blatant lying and fool 51% of voters. We are seeing just how extreme 1 side can go with it already.
Profound affects on everybody's lives are already happening. It's so fast that the majority are aware of the shift; but as it becomes the new normal it'll be hardly any different over time than the gradual slide we've had since WW2; when weaponized psychology became widespread.
It'll probably take another horrific shameful war before "Lying Press" becomes a taboo phrase in this culture like it did in Germany. They know what that helped create; people here do not-- hell, we named our unified federal police Fatherland Security - some neo-nazi must feel great having slipped that one bye everybody.
The people objecting to Master/Slave terms probably don't have a proper understanding of Parent/Child as they've been raised by friends who at the same time isolate them from the real world like a control freak. Therefore, they don't have a proper healthy grasp of Parent Child in order to have the metaphor work
Not news. But now social media has popular opinions of CHILDREN dictating policies as if this was new information. WTF are the parents doing? It isn't parenting if they are backing up their kids on whatever popular whims.
I say this as someone who had major anxiety and I really don't like heights... it was far easier to jump out of an air plane the 1st time than it was to give a report. Suck it up you punks. Seriously.
This is a man who DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK hard at all. He not only works but his work IS HIS LIFE; the obsessive kind of worker that no normal person can compete with because they have a life.
So you dismiss a man who works hard completely by his own choice when he is free to do jack shit. Not only that he picks arguably the hardest job of all. Being an elected public servant who is honest and actually does what they think is best for the public despite the voters not thinking longer term is NOT easy. Those types never quit to become lobbyists they find another way to make a difference. Yes those types can be righteously annoying as hell sometimes but they are not corrupt evil pricks and are motivated by selflessness. The ones who can CHANGE based upon reason are not so common either. But simply because some people think nuclear power is the greatest thing ever and his disagreement is not a good enough reason to oppose him. It's a reason to convince him because these types are powerful allies.
Somebody who needs money or works to survive is supposed to be a great leader? All that gives you is some perspective which you are greatly overvaluing.
Mostly, I find such attacks are by insecure people trying to bring somebody down because they themselves only work because they are forced to do what they do; probably they'd be doing jack shit if they could, they resent people who work just as hard due to more ideal motives. They don't have the chance to prove their character in that way; maybe they feel they wouldn't match up?
We all are WAITING for other people to shut up so we can say what WE want to say. We talk at everybody wanting them to listen to us (and maybe settling for them just hearing us) but we try to hide our impatience while we wait for the next chance to talk some more. THINK about it. How often are you waiting for them to finish talking or jumping to summations of what they are expressing getting board having to wait for the next paragraph to come... or thinking about what you are going to say next as they trigger ideas of how you'll say it?
The culture and the technology promotes modern behaviors that are so normal that most people are completely unaware; it began in the culture before cell phones existed. Technology has catered to these behaviors and amplified them. Our shortened attention spans for example have been significantly amplified; just as our natural sugar high is now exploited with an over use of sugars... in every food.
Texting kills real conversation; it promotes the self centered side reality of our existence encouraging selfishness in this area; possibly extending into other areas. It feeds the natural urges like the chemicals do but it does not satisfy like the real thing is meant to so we are left feeling constantly hungry. Slow things down, and THINK about the life passing you bye while you frantically try to do more and more as if you have limited time. The Irony...
Can somebody tell me why a radio signal detector couldn't unlock the car initially by just range extending it to the parking lot without the owner knowing??
What happens if while driving the car the key is thrown out of the window? (or the range extender stops?)
Gov Brown is an excellent administrator; if not the best in the USA in the last 50 years. You may not agree with his opinions but he has an exceptionally good understanding of how government can work. He is politically way too far ahead of his voters and that is his biggest problem... proven by his 1st term as gov decades ahead of his voters who thought he was a bit nuts-- but now have caught up to him. He LISTENS to science and reason and applies them and does not get stuck down to a position like a normal person.
As far as long term planning, that is done often; it might be news to YOU. It is not done enough with most politicians not thinking past an election cycle and many US administrators also not thinking even shorter term.
As far as tying them to policies and laws; they go forever unless stated otherwise - which is just fine because the system has ways to repeal them if necessary (otherwise lacking peaceful change violent change does it. ) FYI, the constitution allows for amendments. If you are SERIOUS about making something important CHANGE you entrench it as much as possible so future people have to deal with it.
Global Warming is physical reality no matter what you name it or believe; doesn't matter, it WILL happen. Using LAW to make the crisis real in the near future is artificial but a great administrator works AHEAD of a disaster instead of merely reacting to disasters which were foreseen. This such common sense that most administrators are amazingly good at BS excuses of about them being unprepared or unaware of disasters.
It's going to be much harder if you wait. Necessity is the mother of invention. Hell, look at all the progress major wars produce. This is bigger than WW1, WW2... but it's slow moving and subtle with decades long attacks.
1) Oversimplification: It's not a like in the details to make a fair comparison. You can simplify every action movie into "good guy kills bad people" and say they are all the same. You can not measure the impact Al Gore has trying to herd the cats; you can measure the impact of this plastic sifting. Getting whole countries to wake up earlier is immeasurable. let alone the donor impact easily offsetting jet fuel which Gore has bought CO2 offsets all by himself (for decades now... leading into fallacy 2:)
2) red herrings: Gore's CO2 use and not living like a cave man as a source to claim hypocrisy. Not the only smear; but it doesn't matter if he eats babies for breakfast because it's irrelevant, off topic illogical propaganda you fell for to the point of spreading it out for free. You should at least try to figure out how to get paid by big oil if you are going to work for them.
Feel Good nothings: On huge problems every move is a drop in the bucket... or a drop in the ocean in this case. Inaction because of the lack of positive feedback available for every solution becomes a huge problem. People need instant feedback and want complete solutions they can grasp (aka the improbable.)
This is a legitimate concern which can be used (and often is) as a weapon against any progress by opposing parties. The reason I say this is a red herring is not because there are not REAL issues with weak or bad ideas and then the likely hood of con men exploiting those ideas but because when it gets to be an unreasonable distraction you then take away from the real rational discussion. Smearing the supporters of a poor idea is a cynical easy to tangent to fall into. Not that it shouldn't be questioned and looked into for actual evidence... but it's largely unnecessary if one just evaluates the proposals with a clear mind. Hence, my reason to bring it up.
This device may serve a useful secondary purpose; because clearly, it isn't practical for it's primary purpose.
Motivation is NOT relevant; even if 99% of them are 1 motive the definition covers 100% who are raising alarms more than normal which is why they are called an alarmist. For practical purposes, your definition may be fine for YOUR experience but other people have different experiences or may be more specific and technically correct in their use of certain terms than you are.
Even the badly motivated alarmists can serve SOME good as long as people don't let their emotions overtake their reasoning.... which is a HUGE problem for everybody but Vulkan wannabes. That is why appeal to fear is so popular; and commonplace at every level in the USA. If you are in control of your mind then these tactics are ineffective but can still serve a practical purpose beyond STUPID things like alien invasions, safety warnings on US products, etc.
Alarmists serve an EXTREMELY important role in society and we shouldn't encourage the fools who always dismiss them!
Smart people get motivated by an impending crisis and by thinking ahead (possibly even long term thinking) they find solutions to a future necessity. When the crisis has been averted the fools all spew hot air and probably are not even grateful to those who solved the problem.
NOTE: Humans can't always solve every problem in time; and some problems will prove to be beyond human mental capacity.
Means nothing. This is like a security guard at the bank saying they run a tight ship and will never be robbed. Then that whole bank bailout mess happens... or the bank gets caught laundering or they are caught doing fake loans and false fees etc...
Just because your looking in 1 place for 1 kind of threat doesn't mean that is all there is or that it is safe. An organized attack would be a different game... and do you watch... can you verify the machines were completely untouched since last use? Who does IT on them?
What about totals at the county? I know my county had a ton of issues until I raised them - we had paper but the totals at the county were running on a personal office laptop with insecure internet access and without recounts nobody would notice. It's the 2nd biggest county so there were enough to flip every state race within 8 points. Some old FTP server sent it out to TV but hack that and you'd be into the crap Access DB powering the thing... running on Windoze 98 too. Fixed now; but that is the kind of stuff that went on with a secure PAPER optical scan system.
It will still be harder to move between jobs without a degree; you'll be more likely to put up with them than quit. The bulk of coding will be made simple enough that it is more accessible to more people. The CS majors will do the big picture planning and optimize the horribly slow parts. AI will be a library where most of it will just more like training a pet... again with a few experts handling the tough bits and trying to make better tools so lower skilled people can access it.
JAVA was really all about corporate savings; not making better software or making life better for nerds. Same trends will continue... if enough CS people are willing to give away the magic tricks that make them magicians. (Sure, just like a DIY person watching you tube to do their plumbing they will not do good work over all, but it'll be good enough for many.)
Reputation always existed. HOW you do the ratings system matters - you put a # on it and make it centralized and how you calculate it are the BIG factors. Relative ranking by different people is more realistic. People with your biases also like/hate ____... Truth may be concrete but people's opinions, IQ, ignorance are all relative. Rating somebody who's 100% honest but believes in GOD as less trustworthy because when it comes metaphysics they are irrationally think gay people bring natural disasters... might make sense to YOU but think of your non-mainstream positions on GMO or whatever corporate/gov backed false narrative of the time period. Later you could be proven correct; however, your score will not be adjusted...
Your crazy racist uncle who goes on senile rants all the time already has a poor reputation. If you are a Foxtard, your reputation for common sense is already gone among most the planet. If you are educated, informed and point out lies etc, you have a bad reputation among other groups as being a deep state conspirator or communist or whatever.
WE SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY RATING SYSTEM. It's a necessity. Credit ratings for example. How you do this is a huge problem. It is needed more than before; in the information age you do not need to censor anything; which draws attention, simply bury and smear it -- nobody has the time... or seems to remember when they do dig into something to verify the reliable sources.
RFID bracelets and watches and smart watches should have been a thing long ago. Medical ones exist but they lack RFID. This is an ACTUAL PRACTICAL USE for the watch or wrist band.
Hell, rings with RFID data in them should be the next big thing. wedding rings with wedding photos in them and pointless crap like that... but then everybody must think "Why would I wear anything with data in it because I'm attached to my phone anyway."
Those people too lazy to pull out the phone now just look at their wrist...
Yuppies won't adopt it unless it's in a smart device. But the rest of us would like a dumb watch again if it could contain practical ID and KEY information. I would love to give up my wallet and keychain. Water proof, no battery (solar powered watch) I'd probably never take the thing off... yes it would be like a chip... but I have the FREEDOM to remove it myself. Plus there are STILL risks for those things.
I think the point being made is that the guy had true freedom for a short period to do what he wanted to do. Freedom has MANY problems. As a commentary on the society, there are multiple ways one could interpret the posting.
It says something about our society that sad people like that think they can do such things; after all, they are free from consequences once they no longer fear death. Imagine what many people would do if there were no consequence? If you had the power of god... what would you do? Most people would end up doing some really bad stuff after a while... arguably it would only be a matter of time. I see it as more of a human issue than society; but differences in society will only impact the odds of such things happening.
The point can be made without solid data. Besides this stuff never being definitive, you'd need years and 1000s of dead people before you could get strong data supporting this interpretation.
I don't know how you adjust the numbers this year vs last year to compensate for the heat wave. The best I can think of is to try to identify how many drown due to a negligent parent. That is a hard number to gather because nobody wants to admit it; even to themselves! After that you have to find out if they will admit the phone was involved.
One thing you CAN do is look at trends of increased negligence of parents and increased ignorance about swimming which they do address; that info likely came from the organization of life guards -- who unlike professional associations doesn't have much incentive to scare people into having more life guards. I've witnessed modern parents addicted to their own entertainment who quickly try to get their children also addicted to it; they not only fail to interact properly with their peers, but their own children as well. Oh and don't hint at it because the delicate snowflakes can't handle the idea. (I'm a great parent, I gave my kid an expensive phone, netflix, nike shoes... I leave them off to good places.)
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Ok, not so funny... but it is a building made to observe things far away.
Did the intern aim the telescope into an open window?
That was a huge reported police reaction for some kiddie pictures; BTW, some adults have gotten into trouble for innocent nude pictures of their children. It's bad enough that people actually 2nd guess taking what used to be cliche baby photos.
It's more likely they think the found a child porno server. It's probably an insecure server that stockpiled millions of photos and the staff has no idea; maybe somebody on staff was involved which would make it look like a big target. Huge amounts of photos with a great internet connection? Somewhat remote location that people don't pay attention to?
They can float their cell towers if they wish; but the LAND belongs to us and the wires going over OUR LAND is ours and they have to do anything we want to demand for use of it... or simply not use it... given how much profits there are to be had, it is unlikely that fees will not deter them except in extreme cases.
I was working with some profs on setting up a large research project preparing grant proposals (we already had 1 big funding source) to create an open source cheap farming robot to do organic farming.
We had many practical ideas to begin with; many of which I still do not see being used out there... when the smart phone came out years later it seemed like it would have been perfect timing. Other university projects (especially MIT ones) were embarrassingly bad so we would have had something... we still would.
Why did it stop? Because I killed it, we discussed this exact topic on how this would the destroy 3rd world faster than anybody could adapt to it. We guessed that other gardening and farming robot projects were just gimmicks for educational student projects with no practical applications because they too had similar concerns.
Farming robots can be made cheaply and hardware to control them gets cheaper and easier to access every year - only the software holds us back and once done...
You don't have to completely replace the humans, just make the weakest a little weaker for a damaging period of time. It also doesn't have to be super cheap-- just enough to drive the market down so substance farmers are not able to make anything extra to live on after feeding themselves and that has been done temporarily to economies where a nation dumps excess food into another market; or well, how donated clothing and kill whole economies as their fragile sweat shops go broke when they have months or years of super cheap clothes given to them... or NGOs and their contractors displacing the local rebuilding labor force...
No, I'm not giving away any of our good ideas as examples. Somebody else can do that; hopefully LATER after more people wake up to the impending problems. BTW, these issues have been around since the industrial revolution and largely ignored because the big problems were externalized for other people to deal with the transition (and saying everybody has to become educated out of their old jobs and blaming them for not making that transition is naive. As if we even have the same number of necessary jobs existing in the 1st place... we don't.) What is going to happen is that people won't be so ignorant and as able to close their eyes because of how fast this is coming to everybody... plus the fact we have too many people and not enough jobs to invent based upon an economy of infinite growth that has reached peak resources already.
Trump was NOT a middle finger. Aside from the immature childish behavior of an FU vote (which is fitting given Trump's a man-child;) a middle finger is a huge understatement. Voting for Trump in protest is like a teenage girl running away out of spite with the 1st man who hits on her and ending up gang raped and thrown in some ditch. Yeah, that sure showed them...
Or the cattle/sheep escaping from their farmer for using and looking down on them; escaping to the butcher who reminds them of a pig so he must be one of them...
Every election game is rigged on multiple levels; with the "undecided" idiots in the middle swaying it either way... and on a bigger level the 2 choices are filtered so the established elite are untouchable.
DN: Honestly, I've not been to DN for years now. It is too depressing and I listened to it daily since 2000. If the news was competent, they'd all be like that and the masses would have risen up and fixed things. It's proof at just how dangerously powerful the news is when it no longer exists.
There is no proof Autistics and Asperger's are connected. Just because the USA DSM lumped one on the end of the other because of similarities doesn't mean much other than greatly increased funding...
I read a paper showing zero statistical link on genetic Autism; however, it showed a significant link for Aspergers which warranted further research. It came out not long before the DSM change.
As far as social norms... the normal majority dictates what is right by their might of being the majority. The majority is simply flat out wrong to demand everybody cater to their fragile egos; you can control yourself, you can't control everybody else.
If you want to really be P.C. you'll be tolerant and understanding of others with different behaviors - but that involves WORK on yourself; much easier to just blame others. Baby Boomers (the me generation) - Gen X - Millennials seem to all have many blame problems.
any significant others? this would be good generic cover for personal issues. maybe a midlife crisis of some sort?
Probably SJWs getting to him, his employer, or a major resource (like a government) that are pushing this. As the next generation majority is catered to the rest of us will be forced to conform to their norms... like the old racists had to adapt (despite one of their own coming to power they are still losing.) Yes, sometimes it's good; other times it is not.
To be fair, I only watched about 1 show worth over a some bits of shows because I couldn't stand watching it.
Wizards are restrictive hand holding... but probably fine for simple things or dangerous things...
What you are looking for is MODES; which it sounds like you kind of found.
Easier to do on a webpage since each "page" lends itself to being it's own mode and the metaphor is there but well hidden. In an app, you don't see them that often these days they've largely been forgotten but also many apps are too simple to be forced into that situation. Plus the trend is now to copy old children's software. Some high end software lets you reconfigure the UI and save presets to switch between; which becomes another variation of modes (but one which most users never use effectively or lacks enough customization to be worth it.)
They can already get away with blatant lying and fool 51% of voters. We are seeing just how extreme 1 side can go with it already.
Profound affects on everybody's lives are already happening. It's so fast that the majority are aware of the shift; but as it becomes the new normal it'll be hardly any different over time than the gradual slide we've had since WW2; when weaponized psychology became widespread.
It'll probably take another horrific shameful war before "Lying Press" becomes a taboo phrase in this culture like it did in Germany. They know what that helped create; people here do not-- hell, we named our unified federal police Fatherland Security - some neo-nazi must feel great having slipped that one bye everybody.
The people objecting to Master/Slave terms probably don't have a proper understanding of Parent/Child as they've been raised by friends who at the same time isolate them from the real world like a control freak. Therefore, they don't have a proper healthy grasp of Parent Child in order to have the metaphor work
Not news. But now social media has popular opinions of CHILDREN dictating policies as if this was new information. WTF are the parents doing? It isn't parenting if they are backing up their kids on whatever popular whims.
I say this as someone who had major anxiety and I really don't like heights... it was far easier to jump out of an air plane the 1st time than it was to give a report. Suck it up you punks. Seriously.
WTF is an honest job?!
This is a man who DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK hard at all. He not only works but his work IS HIS LIFE; the obsessive kind of worker that no normal person can compete with because they have a life.
So you dismiss a man who works hard completely by his own choice when he is free to do jack shit. Not only that he picks arguably the hardest job of all. Being an elected public servant who is honest and actually does what they think is best for the public despite the voters not thinking longer term is NOT easy. Those types never quit to become lobbyists they find another way to make a difference. Yes those types can be righteously annoying as hell sometimes but they are not corrupt evil pricks and are motivated by selflessness. The ones who can CHANGE based upon reason are not so common either. But simply because some people think nuclear power is the greatest thing ever and his disagreement is not a good enough reason to oppose him. It's a reason to convince him because these types are powerful allies.
Somebody who needs money or works to survive is supposed to be a great leader? All that gives you is some perspective which you are greatly overvaluing.
Mostly, I find such attacks are by insecure people trying to bring somebody down because they themselves only work because they are forced to do what they do; probably they'd be doing jack shit if they could, they resent people who work just as hard due to more ideal motives. They don't have the chance to prove their character in that way; maybe they feel they wouldn't match up?
We all are WAITING for other people to shut up so we can say what WE want to say. We talk at everybody wanting them to listen to us (and maybe settling for them just hearing us) but we try to hide our impatience while we wait for the next chance to talk some more. THINK about it. How often are you waiting for them to finish talking or jumping to summations of what they are expressing getting board having to wait for the next paragraph to come... or thinking about what you are going to say next as they trigger ideas of how you'll say it?
The culture and the technology promotes modern behaviors that are so normal that most people are completely unaware; it began in the culture before cell phones existed. Technology has catered to these behaviors and amplified them. Our shortened attention spans for example have been significantly amplified; just as our natural sugar high is now exploited with an over use of sugars... in every food.
Texting kills real conversation; it promotes the self centered side reality of our existence encouraging selfishness in this area; possibly extending into other areas. It feeds the natural urges like the chemicals do but it does not satisfy like the real thing is meant to so we are left feeling constantly hungry. Slow things down, and THINK about the life passing you bye while you frantically try to do more and more as if you have limited time. The Irony...
Can somebody tell me why a radio signal detector couldn't unlock the car initially by just range extending it to the parking lot without the owner knowing??
What happens if while driving the car the key is thrown out of the window? (or the range extender stops?)
Gov Brown is an excellent administrator; if not the best in the USA in the last 50 years. You may not agree with his opinions but he has an exceptionally good understanding of how government can work. He is politically way too far ahead of his voters and that is his biggest problem... proven by his 1st term as gov decades ahead of his voters who thought he was a bit nuts-- but now have caught up to him. He LISTENS to science and reason and applies them and does not get stuck down to a position like a normal person.
As far as long term planning, that is done often; it might be news to YOU. It is not done enough with most politicians not thinking past an election cycle and many US administrators also not thinking even shorter term.
As far as tying them to policies and laws; they go forever unless stated otherwise - which is just fine because the system has ways to repeal them if necessary (otherwise lacking peaceful change violent change does it. ) FYI, the constitution allows for amendments. If you are SERIOUS about making something important CHANGE you entrench it as much as possible so future people have to deal with it.
Global Warming is physical reality no matter what you name it or believe; doesn't matter, it WILL happen. Using LAW to make the crisis real in the near future is artificial but a great administrator works AHEAD of a disaster instead of merely reacting to disasters which were foreseen. This such common sense that most administrators are amazingly good at BS excuses of about them being unprepared or unaware of disasters.
It's going to be much harder if you wait. Necessity is the mother of invention. Hell, look at all the progress major wars produce. This is bigger than WW1, WW2... but it's slow moving and subtle with decades long attacks.
1) Oversimplification: It's not a like in the details to make a fair comparison. You can simplify every action movie into "good guy kills bad people" and say they are all the same. You can not measure the impact Al Gore has trying to herd the cats; you can measure the impact of this plastic sifting. Getting whole countries to wake up earlier is immeasurable. let alone the donor impact easily offsetting jet fuel which Gore has bought CO2 offsets all by himself (for decades now... leading into fallacy 2:)
2) red herrings:
Gore's CO2 use and not living like a cave man as a source to claim hypocrisy. Not the only smear; but it doesn't matter if he eats babies for breakfast because it's irrelevant, off topic illogical propaganda you fell for to the point of spreading it out for free. You should at least try to figure out how to get paid by big oil if you are going to work for them.
Feel Good nothings: On huge problems every move is a drop in the bucket... or a drop in the ocean in this case. Inaction because of the lack of positive feedback available for every solution becomes a huge problem. People need instant feedback and want complete solutions they can grasp (aka the improbable.)
This is a legitimate concern which can be used (and often is) as a weapon against any progress by opposing parties. The reason I say this is a red herring is not because there are not REAL issues with weak or bad ideas and then the likely hood of con men exploiting those ideas but because when it gets to be an unreasonable distraction you then take away from the real rational discussion. Smearing the supporters of a poor idea is a cynical easy to tangent to fall into. Not that it shouldn't be questioned and looked into for actual evidence... but it's largely unnecessary if one just evaluates the proposals with a clear mind. Hence, my reason to bring it up.
This device may serve a useful secondary purpose; because clearly, it isn't practical for it's primary purpose.
Motivation is NOT relevant; even if 99% of them are 1 motive the definition covers 100% who are raising alarms more than normal which is why they are called an alarmist. For practical purposes, your definition may be fine for YOUR experience but other people have different experiences or may be more specific and technically correct in their use of certain terms than you are.
Even the badly motivated alarmists can serve SOME good as long as people don't let their emotions overtake their reasoning.... which is a HUGE problem for everybody but Vulkan wannabes. That is why appeal to fear is so popular; and commonplace at every level in the USA. If you are in control of your mind then these tactics are ineffective but can still serve a practical purpose beyond STUPID things like alien invasions, safety warnings on US products, etc.
Alarmists serve an EXTREMELY important role in society and we shouldn't encourage the fools who always dismiss them!
Smart people get motivated by an impending crisis and by thinking ahead (possibly even long term thinking) they find solutions to a future necessity. When the crisis has been averted the fools all spew hot air and probably are not even grateful to those who solved the problem.
NOTE: Humans can't always solve every problem in time; and some problems will prove to be beyond human mental capacity.
Means nothing. This is like a security guard at the bank saying they run a tight ship and will never be robbed. Then that whole bank bailout mess happens... or the bank gets caught laundering or they are caught doing fake loans and false fees etc...
Just because your looking in 1 place for 1 kind of threat doesn't mean that is all there is or that it is safe. An organized attack would be a different game... and do you watch... can you verify the machines were completely untouched since last use? Who does IT on them?
What about totals at the county? I know my county had a ton of issues until I raised them - we had paper but the totals at the county were running on a personal office laptop with insecure internet access and without recounts nobody would notice. It's the 2nd biggest county so there were enough to flip every state race within 8 points. Some old FTP server sent it out to TV but hack that and you'd be into the crap Access DB powering the thing... running on Windoze 98 too. Fixed now; but that is the kind of stuff that went on with a secure PAPER optical scan system.
Guns don't kill people; flesh displacement kills people.
Guns don't kill people; going into shock kills people.
Guns don't kill people; organ failure kills people.
Guns don't kill people; bleeding out kills people.
It will still be harder to move between jobs without a degree; you'll be more likely to put up with them than quit. The bulk of coding will be made simple enough that it is more accessible to more people. The CS majors will do the big picture planning and optimize the horribly slow parts. AI will be a library where most of it will just more like training a pet... again with a few experts handling the tough bits and trying to make better tools so lower skilled people can access it.
JAVA was really all about corporate savings; not making better software or making life better for nerds. Same trends will continue... if enough CS people are willing to give away the magic tricks that make them magicians. (Sure, just like a DIY person watching you tube to do their plumbing they will not do good work over all, but it'll be good enough for many.)
Reputation always existed. HOW you do the ratings system matters - you put a # on it and make it centralized and how you calculate it are the BIG factors. Relative ranking by different people is more realistic. People with your biases also like/hate ____... Truth may be concrete but people's opinions, IQ, ignorance are all relative. Rating somebody who's 100% honest but believes in GOD as less trustworthy because when it comes metaphysics they are irrationally think gay people bring natural disasters... might make sense to YOU but think of your non-mainstream positions on GMO or whatever corporate/gov backed false narrative of the time period. Later you could be proven correct; however, your score will not be adjusted...
Your crazy racist uncle who goes on senile rants all the time already has a poor reputation. If you are a Foxtard, your reputation for common sense is already gone among most the planet. If you are educated, informed and point out lies etc, you have a bad reputation among other groups as being a deep state conspirator or communist or whatever.
WE SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY RATING SYSTEM. It's a necessity. Credit ratings for example. How you do this is a huge problem. It is needed more than before; in the information age you do not need to censor anything; which draws attention, simply bury and smear it -- nobody has the time... or seems to remember when they do dig into something to verify the reliable sources.
RFID bracelets and watches and smart watches should have been a thing long ago. Medical ones exist but they lack RFID. This is an ACTUAL PRACTICAL USE for the watch or wrist band.
Hell, rings with RFID data in them should be the next big thing. wedding rings with wedding photos in them and pointless crap like that... but then everybody must think "Why would I wear anything with data in it because I'm attached to my phone anyway."
Those people too lazy to pull out the phone now just look at their wrist...
Yuppies won't adopt it unless it's in a smart device. But the rest of us would like a dumb watch again if it could contain practical ID and KEY information. I would love to give up my wallet and keychain. Water proof, no battery (solar powered watch) I'd probably never take the thing off... yes it would be like a chip... but I have the FREEDOM to remove it myself. Plus there are STILL risks for those things.
I think the point being made is that the guy had true freedom for a short period to do what he wanted to do. Freedom has MANY problems. As a commentary on the society, there are multiple ways one could interpret the posting.
It says something about our society that sad people like that think they can do such things; after all, they are free from consequences once they no longer fear death. Imagine what many people would do if there were no consequence? If you had the power of god... what would you do? Most people would end up doing some really bad stuff after a while... arguably it would only be a matter of time. I see it as more of a human issue than society; but differences in society will only impact the odds of such things happening.
The point can be made without solid data. Besides this stuff never being definitive, you'd need years and 1000s of dead people before you could get strong data supporting this interpretation.
I don't know how you adjust the numbers this year vs last year to compensate for the heat wave. The best I can think of is to try to identify how many drown due to a negligent parent. That is a hard number to gather because nobody wants to admit it; even to themselves! After that you have to find out if they will admit the phone was involved.
One thing you CAN do is look at trends of increased negligence of parents and increased ignorance about swimming which they do address; that info likely came from the organization of life guards -- who unlike professional associations doesn't have much incentive to scare people into having more life guards. I've witnessed modern parents addicted to their own entertainment who quickly try to get their children also addicted to it; they not only fail to interact properly with their peers, but their own children as well. Oh and don't hint at it because the delicate snowflakes can't handle the idea. (I'm a great parent, I gave my kid an expensive phone, netflix, nike shoes... I leave them off to good places.)