MONEY is the winning argument every time. If you lose, you didn't spend enough MONEY. Scientology has money and possibly many believers are lawyers... but more likely the lawyers simply believe in MONEY (as most lawyers do.)
"I was the man who made the Secret Service the blah blah blah computer security blah blah blah I brought jobs to X..." Translation: Appoint me to that position! Vote for me! (not that voters are smart enough to recognize actual accomplishments - you can just invent them now.)
Multiple departments are trying to get a part of the action in future computer related enforcement-- its not just about funding which in some cases makes them money for having more responsibilities; its more about promotion within the system... It can also help later when they jump ship to be a lobbyist or work in the private sector. Greed/profit is not a direct factor but the competition motives are still there; sadly actual competence is less important-- too good and you get into political trouble; too bad and you "need to spend time with the family" with a high paying consulting gig for some politically connected wealthy prick.
ICE is a great example of this going too far; although, that may be for some legal/political abuse of the system and not because ICE wants to expand in that area.
The really bad thing with technology is they come steal ALL your technology which can hold the information they are looking for and you never get it back (maybe after years - probably never without paying a lawyer.) Having other information existing on these devices means you lose your digital life just for being investigated (not even formally charged.)
This seems to be "unreasonable searches and seizures" of the 4th. Too bad unreasonable hasn't been updated to modern times. They can copy your data in an afternoon and give it all back to you later.
As far as this guy; without actual permission he is in trouble. Watch the video, especially the end part and ask yourself if any store manager would allow something like that to be done-- looks like a virus or a buggy computer and it stops the customer from trying what they want in addition to possibly negative impact of his experiment.
Died of old age? Millions of americans haven't died for their rights. WW2 and the civil war didn't even come close.
Perhaps you were thinking of the millions America has actually killed to build and maintain its empire? Or the greater numbers of indirect killings? The two recent wars this last decade killed over a million; unsurprisingly, we don't keep count... and with poor records its difficult to prove it all (yet the number proven is still really high and the estimates have been over a million for many years now.)
LOL! makes me think... it isn't the nuclear power that kills you, its the cancer!
There is no real nuclear industry. Its a massive corporate welfare program that doesn't even produce that many jobs. Decades of justifiable repression and regulation have weakened their influence over the political process.
Also, they have a big big image problem. Safe for 30 years in-between disasters that cause problems that last for a millennium is REALLY hard for even a good P.R. firm to sell to the public. The IAEA is the biggest thing they've had and apparently it can't stop the germans-- FYI, the IAEA isn't just for regulation and safety its purpose is ALSO to promote nuclear power. So their big win over other industries is they got their industry promotion organization merged with the regulatory body!
Germany is better positioned and advanced than anybody else on this issue; you don't understand where germany is coming from. They are in a STRONG position to kill off nuclear and coal as well as make a big dent in oil, largely because of decades of forward thinking and a more functional political system--- where the conservatives are not insane or complete sell outs hiding behind a false ideology. (not to say there is no corruption.) Germany has been creating a green economy so there are bigger economic interests involved; its not just idealism they have real money pushing things in a good direction. The solar industry will become a big powerful lobby in the future; it just needed to get a jump start all these years AND it never got what nuclear had...
Germany is upgrading their grid as well; they will be able to transport power long distances cheaply -- there is sun or wind somewhere... the more distributed the system the more it will level out which lowers the need for a baseload generation plant.
A witch wasn't a witch because there is no such thing (don't mention that silly religion like they actually have real witches.) A crooked bastard is something that exists and does so openly today with trite rationalizations as a defense -- not that they didn't do the stuff but that it is not a big deal go back and watch your TV...
The post wasn't talking of burning then (something that involved murder) but beating the snot out of them.
Those people are easy to spot and even if beaten in error; they will live and likely have plenty of money for healthcare. That being said, if this had any impact at all on the others it would be to make them less blatant or create more convincing excuses for their actions.
It is true that within budget cutting they are being stupid (political) about it and probably more interesting in the number of programs they can claim they killed because that makes a nice talking point.
The REALITY is that all this spending could continue at this level if we funded it. We have less economy to produce the revenue and that is a HUGE reason for the recent shortfalls -- its not merely wasteful spending (which is a big factor) but the other HUGE issue is going largely ignored. The banksters caused this economic mess which blew a ton of money besides the bailout they also received (and have since payed back although it caused a lot of inflation but that is another issue.) The military complex and the recent wars for oil also have big financial interests (yup, the banksters again.) Then we have the foolish bush tax cuts which were trickle down all over again with slightly different wording and cost about the same as the wars (so we have double the debt instead.) Today we are still hearing the 30 year old trickle down BS but wrapped in terms of job creation by trickle down (which is the same thing as before but talking about jobs instead of prosperity. So, we've come down a peg in that JOBS are what we want now when in the 80s we wanted more prosperity.)
Another thing people forget is Obama put the military into the budget. Bush did not have it in the budget (100% pure debt.) This makes the numbers much higher under Obama than Bush because it is finally part of the "math". As far as the economy getting better-- as too much money is robbed from the actual economy the ability to rebuild it becomes diminished. Oddly, even republicans are bitching about fixing the economy -- as if they concede the government plays a major role but without them flatly admitting it.
What is going on and will continue to go on until the collapse in about a decade is an auctioning off of as much of our assets as possible. There isn't much a small group can do about it, it will take collective action and that won't happen until the masses can't ignore it and learn a little bit.... at that time it will be too late to regain what was lost. The comeback after the fall is going to be long and hard -- don't think it'll ever get back to the 90s because that is impossible. If we didn't go astray all this time we'd still peak because the world is catching up and a big part of our "edge" was having them behind us (which is where our incentive to screw the world came from; the public doesn't like that so we didn't overtly do it.)
It is quite likely our collateral for our huge debt is medicare and social security so those two will gutted in an emergency foreclosure... like the greeks are dealing with (loosely like that.) will we have riots when they gut it? i don't think so.
We get distracted. hate union workers because they get too much or government workers... who just don't fall down as quickly as the rest do and that is why they are still at older levels of compensation and benefits; its not that they are getting too much (they are getting less actually) its that everybody on the outside is getting MUCH LESS. I remember the autoworker hate, they had many old clever contracts which adjusted for inflation and kept health benefits-- if the economy actually prospered they'd be at the same relative position 40 years ago but instead everybody else came down. Immigrants are another very human scapegoat in such situations. Its served quite well since the 80s and it continues - blame them... (not to ignore the real impacts they do have but it doesn't match the hype.)
We are rapidly approaching a "world is flat" stupidity level on global warming skeptics. Skepticism is not always justified or acceptable -- "prove it to me" is not something we need to do for every lazy moron who can't or will not learn enough to understand the answers; their ignorance becomes a virtue to their anti-science position-- if they don't understand then you are trying to fool them and if they will not make a real effort (or are too stupid) then you will never get them out of that position. The whole thing is merely a defensive tactic to protect their ego/emotions like a childish game of saying "Why?" until the other person gets annoyed. (BTW, even science can't hold up for long against an incessant "WHY" tactic; which is infinite in scope.)
I say "anti-science" because this level of skepticism is merely a game masking a belief that the majority of experts who take a great deal of time and education mean nothing compared with a few individual's ignorant beliefs and often admitted lack of experience (often they only have just a few choice talking points.)
Sure, there are cases when the majority of experts are wrong; but it is rare and in science it is extremely rare and for the individual to not be a trained expert and come out on top of the majority of experts -- probably never happened in the last century. Then you hear the real fools claim that its a conspiracy and scientists with proper training are suspect because they were brainwashed-- when anybody who has been educated in science is not likely to make such a claim (unless the "experts" are defined and endorsed by a cult or something.)
I have talked with people who have emotional issues with college educated and "elite" experts who were unable to succeed in their own education; they likely have been burned in their past by people who were smarter than them so they take general positions on such matters which is understandable; however, when it rises to such stupid levels there is more going on than their insecurities surfacing-- they are being fooled and manipulated (again by smarter people) and they don't see it possibly because its leveraging their related deeper problems along those lines; could be they can't "get it" because its that is too complex for them, but more likely it is even more unpleasant and painful to be tricked in such a way (because it requires admitting even more than just losing their position.)
We shame people who can't read. they'd lie rather than admit they can't read. math isn't the same, but it should be. Scientific consensus should be similar-- they use science in their lives that has less confidence behind it but because their belief (and even identity/ego) is involved they ignore the hypocrisy and get unreasonable. Now expert disagreement is fine--- or the whole group being wrong that is also fine because they do the best they can with what they've got (and its a whole lot more than what the non experts / non scientists have.)
Well, that is my working theory of the situation. I study some foxtard "friends" as a hobby ("friends" because I can't trust such gullible zealots especially when they know I'm on "the other side".)
What is not ethical is amazon for avoiding paying sales tax; if they do business in the state (some of their associates do) then that is subject to sales tax. This is not an issue of taxes which contrary to what too many people think - TAXES MUST BE PAYED BY SOMEBODY and every cheater is raising your taxes.
CA can control any commerce in their state; in this case, they can't mess with the mail order catalogs from out of state but when they catalog for local businesses which resides INSIDE THEIR STATE, Amazon is providing tax evasion services (or money laundering) and CA has every right try to do something about it. I agree it is misguided to go directly after Amazon; however, it would not surprise me if CA finds some federal grounds to cause some trouble.
What SHOULD be done is a tax on shipping insurance for inbound shipping. Shipping companies reside inside the state so they can be taxed. Then amazon would probably insure themselves but there would be a minimum tax at least. Naturally, B2B freight would be exempt.
States continue to see their revenue decline as sales tax income goes down while LOCAL business makes less to tax because they are losing business to online stores from out of state (or out of country) who get an unfair advantage of being tax free. Let them have their benefit of not running a store but they should not get out of competing in a BALANCED marketplace.
I won't get into the green issues of buying local. There are plenty of economic reasons to buy local.
I for one would like to use it as a defense should I ever get into trouble.
I'm pissed they are calling us Autistic when its far from proven and the two are separated in the DSM. There may be no actual connection between the two. I have autistic relatives and there are more traits they have from their parents than in common with me.
AS a former user, I can say that it is a truly massive software suite. It is well made and addresses so many niches in the field that they are bound to upset people different amounts in each niche. Apple has also been working on a complete rewrite of the massive quicktime library that does much of the heavy lifting; probably to make it do more of it and doing this while porting the whole app over and redesigning it as well. Some features are bound to get put off until later and they likely wanted to make some money and/or didn't want to patch the old version's growing incompatibilities; so rather than get everything ported and revised they chucked or delayed features.
Some things are big mistakes and possibly with enough complaints they will be resolved. Somehow I doubt EDL support would be chucked. delayed or buggy perhaps? Could be that they intend to sell Final Cut Pro Studio as the new "pro" and this one is the "express" version of Final Cut Pro. That is what I expected -- since express lacks many features they can make a better express on the path of rewriting the full product.
Actually, I'd like to know what all these 60Hz waves are doing for my health... now that we need to upgrade for the future we should use modern science to transition us from century old technology.
DC power didn't win due to the lack of proper support technology; it exists now so DC power is better. We should migrate to it... government would have to do this but then government is better suited to run the power grid so why not have them take it over? Let the users "ride" on it... like the roads are shared by people and business. Then the power corps just feed into the grid and the users pay a tax (users pay already: upkeep + monopoly profit + political corruption money... there is no competition for the free market zealots in the grid "market".) Naturally, this creates a fair market for power generation over what we have now where they are forced to pay me for my power output but only at the lowest rates possible (the excuse being that they provide the grid... which they also get subsidized for...)
Back to DC power: Losses are due to VOLTAGE not AC/DC; however, AC has additional losses. This is why DC is used for long distances; something which is important if you are dynamically switching power sources to sunny or windy areas... DC also doesn't have phase problems; it is much easier and CHEAPER for citizens to hook up their solar to the grid without the phasing mess which adds cost, complexity and more points of failure. Pulsed high voltage DC is also something to look into.
DC to AC converters at local areas would keep the old end users the same. Line noise should be lower and easier to filter out so electronics should last longer. Yes, inside the household DC has problems over AC; although some of us would be ok with 48V DC (the highest they allow by code) not sure I'd want pulsed DC in the house but that may beat AC as well. if pulsed DC helps with safety then I'd be fine with 400V since the copper wires could be much smaller/cheaper/greener. 120V conducts over flesh its the AC that lets you pull away.)
I would think signals over DC would be easier to deal with than over our old AC grid so its possible we could piggyback data over a new grid.
Yes, its human behavior right from my study of psychology which is why I'm so close to the truth (on the shoulders of giants...)
The reason Americans are to blame is because it is their responsibility. Drugs can make anybody do stupid things but that does not excuse responsibility for one's actions. Playing dumb (instead of just admitting laziness and being shallow) is no excuse from responsibility.
Neglecting CIVICS, history, and the philosophical underpinnings is what leads to this. Yes, a great deal of money has been put in to undermine competent democracy for generations. Just like Lord Voldemort, we have not put much effort into protecting the Horcruxes of our democracy... (I don't own a TV but even I am being impacted by the Harry Potter campaign and just think about it, a movie spends nothing compared to what goes into our politics.)
A fundamental concept of the US design is dividing powers and limiting the concentration of power. Its behind just about every design decision when 'programming' the system. One of the failings of succeeding generations is in allowing unreasonable concentrations of power. Today its not only the wealthy who have unwarranted power but The Corporation is now the dominant institution in the peoples' life (and it is not a democratic one.)
The basic process of falling into despotism is the same for democracies and Ben Franklin described our demise at the end of the constitutional convention. (We just edit out the negative end part of the speech, if we even learn anything at all about that history.)
when most people do not need the 12MP photos they take now; cam makers can offer this or similar features based upon the micro camera feature to sell greater MP sensors for images that are no larger than 12MP. Initially, I'd imagine they'd want a work around for when they do not want to use this feature so they can sell you a 18MP camera but the new mode outputs "small" images which are still plenty large for sharing online.
Even my computer illiterate mother knows not to upgrade to major software versions because of what that means EVERYWHERE ELSE (except chrome.) Point updates are mostly bug fixes and nothing jarring that will confuse her.
Mozilla needs to realize its not just computer people and IT who hate this, it will be confusing to normal users as well. We go from the silly 2 decimal system to a whole number system; can't we go to something in between. minor updates just use 1 decimal, skip the double number mess and put major changes that may confuse users off for whole version names.
I haven't even started using 4 myself because I was waiting for 4.1 and the add-ons to catch up and now we have 5 and people complaining all over about upgrade troubles with it. Bumpy transition but it won't get a whole lot better...
nope. Americans are suckered by propaganda; its all about emotions and not about facts and results. Just like global warming, for too many citizens its about their personal identity as a conservative or whatever and they can't be what they want/believe they are (and what is best) if they hold opposition positions-- its like the issues were made part of the definition of what they are... and they have been and it has been done under their nose--- instead of having them define their group they wish to belong to they define themselves to fit within the group. Ironic they are also such individualists...
I have a 68 truck; seat belts didn't exist yet--- because they weren't required and they were too costly to add to cars! it took a big liberal conspiracy to get seat belts... dam commies trying to save lives with government overhead...;-)
EVERY file format added to browsers creates a larger attack surface. Remember the JPEG security issues in the 90s??
OpenGL is not a file format but it is a similar problem; arguably bigger and far more difficult to patch because of its size, scope and long time focus on SPEED over everything else. It is going to be a bigger problem than webfonts, canvas and any other outside technology being integrated.
Putting OpenGL on the web is like putting NFS on the WAN and it will take a lot of work before it will be "safe" and I think that somehow it may be a long time before the drivers are forced to change; you can only do so much with a bridge API to protect the backend.
This issue is complex. It is not a cell life simulator or even a simple equation. We are not going to see cells fading out quickly- we will not see people starving to death because we are in the advantaged areas and for our "survival" we will need to take from the poor so we don't go down. We also justify it irrationally - its in psychological studies - people will "think" the lotto winner is some how better than the loser because it fits into their just world delusion. The bad reasoning is even more likely when it involves justifying your own unfair advantages.
Humans are far far more wasteful and unorganized. Its not merely a matter of resources, environment and physical space to move a little -- as it would be for something simple like ants (where one could toss out insignificant factors to simplify the problem... and its still not simple.)
People who claim we have enough of everything but merely need to get it to the people are being extremely naive. If only humans didn't act.... human... If only reality didn't make food spoil or transport cost resources.... If only we could give away basic resources for free... If only we had utopia.... and unlimited resources so selfish people can have as much as they want and try to get as much as their greed addiction asks (its an addiction cycle; you never have as much as you'd like if you are hooked. Even if you are not, some will have to try more just to find out if more can be had; being content isn't enough you COULD be more content...)
It does not matter if we produce 100x the food the world needs, it may as well not exist because its not being utilized and our economics and politics prevent it above all the REALITIES impeding maximum utilization.
Our pollution and resource use is already screwing up the planet there is so much going on-- you'd think people would start to THINK a little when the scale of our existence now has PLANET size impacts.
I won't pay $5 for their tools when I can use free ones that don't lock me in. I'm totally ok if they make you pay for iOS app tools because I am not interested but to build for a unix based OS they should bundle free dev tools. I never used xcode much anyhow; I was locked into a dead IDE before so I will use netbeans or something next time I use an IDE... although with all the scripting out there big IDE tools and compilers are something I've not had to use hardly at all for the last decade.
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MONEY is the winning argument every time. If you lose, you didn't spend enough MONEY.
Scientology has money and possibly many believers are lawyers... but more likely the lawyers simply believe in MONEY (as most lawyers do.)
"I was the man who made the Secret Service the blah blah blah computer security blah blah blah I brought jobs to X..."
Translation: Appoint me to that position! Vote for me! (not that voters are smart enough to recognize actual accomplishments - you can just invent them now.)
Multiple departments are trying to get a part of the action in future computer related enforcement-- its not just about funding which in some cases makes them money for having more responsibilities; its more about promotion within the system... It can also help later when they jump ship to be a lobbyist or work in the private sector. Greed/profit is not a direct factor but the competition motives are still there; sadly actual competence is less important-- too good and you get into political trouble; too bad and you "need to spend time with the family" with a high paying consulting gig for some politically connected wealthy prick.
ICE is a great example of this going too far; although, that may be for some legal/political abuse of the system and not because ICE wants to expand in that area.
The really bad thing with technology is they come steal ALL your technology which can hold the information they are looking for and you never get it back (maybe after years - probably never without paying a lawyer.) Having other information existing on these devices means you lose your digital life just for being investigated (not even formally charged.)
This seems to be "unreasonable searches and seizures" of the 4th. Too bad unreasonable hasn't been updated to modern times. They can copy your data in an afternoon and give it all back to you later.
As far as this guy; without actual permission he is in trouble. Watch the video, especially the end part and ask yourself if any store manager would allow something like that to be done-- looks like a virus or a buggy computer and it stops the customer from trying what they want in addition to possibly negative impact of his experiment.
99% of the lawyers give the rest of us a bad name.
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Died of old age?
Millions of americans haven't died for their rights. WW2 and the civil war didn't even come close.
Perhaps you were thinking of the millions America has actually killed to build and maintain its empire? Or the greater numbers of indirect killings? The two recent wars this last decade killed over a million; unsurprisingly, we don't keep count... and with poor records its difficult to prove it all (yet the number proven is still really high and the estimates have been over a million for many years now.)
LOL! makes me think... it isn't the nuclear power that kills you, its the cancer!
There is no real nuclear industry. Its a massive corporate welfare program that doesn't even produce that many jobs. Decades of justifiable repression and regulation have weakened their influence over the political process.
Also, they have a big big image problem. Safe for 30 years in-between disasters that cause problems that last for a millennium is REALLY hard for even a good P.R. firm to sell to the public. The IAEA is the biggest thing they've had and apparently it can't stop the germans-- FYI, the IAEA isn't just for regulation and safety its purpose is ALSO to promote nuclear power. So their big win over other industries is they got their industry promotion organization merged with the regulatory body!
Germany is better positioned and advanced than anybody else on this issue; you don't understand where germany is coming from. They are in a STRONG position to kill off nuclear and coal as well as make a big dent in oil, largely because of decades of forward thinking and a more functional political system--- where the conservatives are not insane or complete sell outs hiding behind a false ideology. (not to say there is no corruption.) Germany has been creating a green economy so there are bigger economic interests involved; its not just idealism they have real money pushing things in a good direction. The solar industry will become a big powerful lobby in the future; it just needed to get a jump start all these years AND it never got what nuclear had...
Germany is upgrading their grid as well; they will be able to transport power long distances cheaply -- there is sun or wind somewhere... the more distributed the system the more it will level out which lowers the need for a baseload generation plant.
Bill knows even less about energy than computers.
A witch wasn't a witch because there is no such thing (don't mention that silly religion like they actually have real witches.) A crooked bastard is something that exists and does so openly today with trite rationalizations as a defense -- not that they didn't do the stuff but that it is not a big deal go back and watch your TV...
The post wasn't talking of burning then (something that involved murder) but beating the snot out of them.
Those people are easy to spot and even if beaten in error; they will live and likely have plenty of money for healthcare. That being said, if this had any impact at all on the others it would be to make them less blatant or create more convincing excuses for their actions.
It is true that within budget cutting they are being stupid (political) about it and probably more interesting in the number of programs they can claim they killed because that makes a nice talking point.
The REALITY is that all this spending could continue at this level if we funded it. We have less economy to produce the revenue and that is a HUGE reason for the recent shortfalls -- its not merely wasteful spending (which is a big factor) but the other HUGE issue is going largely ignored. The banksters caused this economic mess which blew a ton of money besides the bailout they also received (and have since payed back although it caused a lot of inflation but that is another issue.) The military complex and the recent wars for oil also have big financial interests (yup, the banksters again.) Then we have the foolish bush tax cuts which were trickle down all over again with slightly different wording and cost about the same as the wars (so we have double the debt instead.) Today we are still hearing the 30 year old trickle down BS but wrapped in terms of job creation by trickle down (which is the same thing as before but talking about jobs instead of prosperity. So, we've come down a peg in that JOBS are what we want now when in the 80s we wanted more prosperity.)
Another thing people forget is Obama put the military into the budget. Bush did not have it in the budget (100% pure debt.) This makes the numbers much higher under Obama than Bush because it is finally part of the "math". As far as the economy getting better-- as too much money is robbed from the actual economy the ability to rebuild it becomes diminished. Oddly, even republicans are bitching about fixing the economy -- as if they concede the government plays a major role but without them flatly admitting it.
What is going on and will continue to go on until the collapse in about a decade is an auctioning off of as much of our assets as possible. There isn't much a small group can do about it, it will take collective action and that won't happen until the masses can't ignore it and learn a little bit.... at that time it will be too late to regain what was lost. The comeback after the fall is going to be long and hard -- don't think it'll ever get back to the 90s because that is impossible. If we didn't go astray all this time we'd still peak because the world is catching up and a big part of our "edge" was having them behind us (which is where our incentive to screw the world came from; the public doesn't like that so we didn't overtly do it.)
It is quite likely our collateral for our huge debt is medicare and social security so those two will gutted in an emergency foreclosure... like the greeks are dealing with (loosely like that.) will we have riots when they gut it? i don't think so.
We get distracted. hate union workers because they get too much or government workers... who just don't fall down as quickly as the rest do and that is why they are still at older levels of compensation and benefits; its not that they are getting too much (they are getting less actually) its that everybody on the outside is getting MUCH LESS. I remember the autoworker hate, they had many old clever contracts which adjusted for inflation and kept health benefits-- if the economy actually prospered they'd be at the same relative position 40 years ago but instead everybody else came down. Immigrants are another very human scapegoat in such situations. Its served quite well since the 80s and it continues - blame them... (not to ignore the real impacts they do have but it doesn't match the hype.)
I wish I had mod points.
See Mammon a Jesus coined term for this problem. I only invoke him out of an interest in truly sad irony.
wish i had points
The specifics are new but global dimming is not new. NOVA did a whole show on it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/
We are rapidly approaching a "world is flat" stupidity level on global warming skeptics. Skepticism is not always justified or acceptable -- "prove it to me" is not something we need to do for every lazy moron who can't or will not learn enough to understand the answers; their ignorance becomes a virtue to their anti-science position-- if they don't understand then you are trying to fool them and if they will not make a real effort (or are too stupid) then you will never get them out of that position. The whole thing is merely a defensive tactic to protect their ego/emotions like a childish game of saying "Why?" until the other person gets annoyed. (BTW, even science can't hold up for long against an incessant "WHY" tactic; which is infinite in scope.)
I say "anti-science" because this level of skepticism is merely a game masking a belief that the majority of experts who take a great deal of time and education mean nothing compared with a few individual's ignorant beliefs and often admitted lack of experience (often they only have just a few choice talking points.)
Sure, there are cases when the majority of experts are wrong; but it is rare and in science it is extremely rare and for the individual to not be a trained expert and come out on top of the majority of experts -- probably never happened in the last century. Then you hear the real fools claim that its a conspiracy and scientists with proper training are suspect because they were brainwashed-- when anybody who has been educated in science is not likely to make such a claim (unless the "experts" are defined and endorsed by a cult or something.)
I have talked with people who have emotional issues with college educated and "elite" experts who were unable to succeed in their own education; they likely have been burned in their past by people who were smarter than them so they take general positions on such matters which is understandable; however, when it rises to such stupid levels there is more going on than their insecurities surfacing-- they are being fooled and manipulated (again by smarter people) and they don't see it possibly because its leveraging their related deeper problems along those lines; could be they can't "get it" because its that is too complex for them, but more likely it is even more unpleasant and painful to be tricked in such a way (because it requires admitting even more than just losing their position.)
We shame people who can't read. they'd lie rather than admit they can't read. math isn't the same, but it should be. Scientific consensus should be similar-- they use science in their lives that has less confidence behind it but because their belief (and even identity/ego) is involved they ignore the hypocrisy and get unreasonable. Now expert disagreement is fine--- or the whole group being wrong that is also fine because they do the best they can with what they've got (and its a whole lot more than what the non experts / non scientists have.)
Well, that is my working theory of the situation. I study some foxtard "friends" as a hobby ("friends" because I can't trust such gullible zealots especially when they know I'm on "the other side".)
What is not ethical is amazon for avoiding paying sales tax; if they do business in the state (some of their associates do) then that is subject to sales tax. This is not an issue of taxes which contrary to what too many people think - TAXES MUST BE PAYED BY SOMEBODY and every cheater is raising your taxes.
CA can control any commerce in their state; in this case, they can't mess with the mail order catalogs from out of state but when they catalog for local businesses which resides INSIDE THEIR STATE, Amazon is providing tax evasion services (or money laundering) and CA has every right try to do something about it. I agree it is misguided to go directly after Amazon; however, it would not surprise me if CA finds some federal grounds to cause some trouble.
What SHOULD be done is a tax on shipping insurance for inbound shipping. Shipping companies reside inside the state so they can be taxed. Then amazon would probably insure themselves but there would be a minimum tax at least. Naturally, B2B freight would be exempt.
States continue to see their revenue decline as sales tax income goes down while LOCAL business makes less to tax because they are losing business to online stores from out of state (or out of country) who get an unfair advantage of being tax free. Let them have their benefit of not running a store but they should not get out of competing in a BALANCED marketplace.
I won't get into the green issues of buying local. There are plenty of economic reasons to buy local.
I for one would like to use it as a defense should I ever get into trouble.
I'm pissed they are calling us Autistic when its far from proven and the two are separated in the DSM. There may be no actual connection between the two. I have autistic relatives and there are more traits they have from their parents than in common with me.
AS a former user, I can say that it is a truly massive software suite. It is well made and addresses so many niches in the field that they are bound to upset people different amounts in each niche. Apple has also been working on a complete rewrite of the massive quicktime library that does much of the heavy lifting; probably to make it do more of it and doing this while porting the whole app over and redesigning it as well. Some features are bound to get put off until later and they likely wanted to make some money and/or didn't want to patch the old version's growing incompatibilities; so rather than get everything ported and revised they chucked or delayed features.
Some things are big mistakes and possibly with enough complaints they will be resolved. Somehow I doubt EDL support would be chucked. delayed or buggy perhaps? Could be that they intend to sell Final Cut Pro Studio as the new "pro" and this one is the "express" version of Final Cut Pro. That is what I expected -- since express lacks many features they can make a better express on the path of rewriting the full product.
Actually, I'd like to know what all these 60Hz waves are doing for my health... now that we need to upgrade for the future we should use modern science to transition us from century old technology.
DC power didn't win due to the lack of proper support technology; it exists now so DC power is better. We should migrate to it... government would have to do this but then government is better suited to run the power grid so why not have them take it over? Let the users "ride" on it... like the roads are shared by people and business. Then the power corps just feed into the grid and the users pay a tax (users pay already: upkeep + monopoly profit + political corruption money... there is no competition for the free market zealots in the grid "market".) Naturally, this creates a fair market for power generation over what we have now where they are forced to pay me for my power output but only at the lowest rates possible (the excuse being that they provide the grid... which they also get subsidized for...)
Back to DC power:
Losses are due to VOLTAGE not AC/DC; however, AC has additional losses. This is why DC is used for long distances; something which is important if you are dynamically switching power sources to sunny or windy areas... DC also doesn't have phase problems; it is much easier and CHEAPER for citizens to hook up their solar to the grid without the phasing mess which adds cost, complexity and more points of failure. Pulsed high voltage DC is also something to look into.
DC to AC converters at local areas would keep the old end users the same. Line noise should be lower and easier to filter out so electronics should last longer. Yes, inside the household DC has problems over AC; although some of us would be ok with 48V DC (the highest they allow by code) not sure I'd want pulsed DC in the house but that may beat AC as well. if pulsed DC helps with safety then I'd be fine with 400V since the copper wires could be much smaller/cheaper/greener. 120V conducts over flesh its the AC that lets you pull away.)
I would think signals over DC would be easier to deal with than over our old AC grid so its possible we could piggyback data over a new grid.
Yes, its human behavior right from my study of psychology which is why I'm so close to the truth (on the shoulders of giants...)
The reason Americans are to blame is because it is their responsibility. Drugs can make anybody do stupid things but that does not excuse responsibility for one's actions. Playing dumb (instead of just admitting laziness and being shallow) is no excuse from responsibility.
Neglecting CIVICS, history, and the philosophical underpinnings is what leads to this. Yes, a great deal of money has been put in to undermine competent democracy for generations. Just like Lord Voldemort, we have not put much effort into protecting the Horcruxes of our democracy... (I don't own a TV but even I am being impacted by the Harry Potter campaign and just think about it, a movie spends nothing compared to what goes into our politics.)
A fundamental concept of the US design is dividing powers and limiting the concentration of power. Its behind just about every design decision when 'programming' the system. One of the failings of succeeding generations is in allowing unreasonable concentrations of power. Today its not only the wealthy who have unwarranted power but The Corporation is now the dominant institution in the peoples' life (and it is not a democratic one.)
The basic process of falling into despotism is the same for democracies and Ben Franklin described our demise at the end of the constitutional convention. (We just edit out the negative end part of the speech, if we even learn anything at all about that history.)
when most people do not need the 12MP photos they take now; cam makers can offer this or similar features based upon the micro camera feature to sell greater MP sensors for images that are no larger than 12MP. Initially, I'd imagine they'd want a work around for when they do not want to use this feature so they can sell you a 18MP camera but the new mode outputs "small" images which are still plenty large for sharing online.
Even my computer illiterate mother knows not to upgrade to major software versions because of what that means EVERYWHERE ELSE (except chrome.) Point updates are mostly bug fixes and nothing jarring that will confuse her.
Mozilla needs to realize its not just computer people and IT who hate this, it will be confusing to normal users as well. We go from the silly 2 decimal system to a whole number system; can't we go to something in between. minor updates just use 1 decimal, skip the double number mess and put major changes that may confuse users off for whole version names.
I haven't even started using 4 myself because I was waiting for 4.1 and the add-ons to catch up and now we have 5 and people complaining all over about upgrade troubles with it. Bumpy transition but it won't get a whole lot better...
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nope. Americans are suckered by propaganda; its all about emotions and not about facts and results. Just like global warming, for too many citizens its about their personal identity as a conservative or whatever and they can't be what they want/believe they are (and what is best) if they hold opposition positions-- its like the issues were made part of the definition of what they are... and they have been and it has been done under their nose--- instead of having them define their group they wish to belong to they define themselves to fit within the group. Ironic they are also such individualists...
I have a 68 truck; seat belts didn't exist yet--- because they weren't required and they were too costly to add to cars! it took a big liberal conspiracy to get seat belts... dam commies trying to save lives with government overhead... ;-)
EVERY file format added to browsers creates a larger attack surface. Remember the JPEG security issues in the 90s??
OpenGL is not a file format but it is a similar problem; arguably bigger and far more difficult to patch because of its size, scope and long time focus on SPEED over everything else. It is going to be a bigger problem than webfonts, canvas and any other outside technology being integrated.
Putting OpenGL on the web is like putting NFS on the WAN and it will take a lot of work before it will be "safe" and I think that somehow it may be a long time before the drivers are forced to change; you can only do so much with a bridge API to protect the backend.
This issue is complex. It is not a cell life simulator or even a simple equation. We are not going to see cells fading out quickly- we will not see people starving to death because we are in the advantaged areas and for our "survival" we will need to take from the poor so we don't go down. We also justify it irrationally - its in psychological studies - people will "think" the lotto winner is some how better than the loser because it fits into their just world delusion. The bad reasoning is even more likely when it involves justifying your own unfair advantages.
Humans are far far more wasteful and unorganized. Its not merely a matter of resources, environment and physical space to move a little -- as it would be for something simple like ants (where one could toss out insignificant factors to simplify the problem... and its still not simple.)
People who claim we have enough of everything but merely need to get it to the people are being extremely naive. If only humans didn't act.... human... If only reality didn't make food spoil or transport cost resources.... If only we could give away basic resources for free... If only we had utopia.... and unlimited resources so selfish people can have as much as they want and try to get as much as their greed addiction asks (its an addiction cycle; you never have as much as you'd like if you are hooked. Even if you are not, some will have to try more just to find out if more can be had; being content isn't enough you COULD be more content...)
It does not matter if we produce 100x the food the world needs, it may as well not exist because its not being utilized and our economics and politics prevent it above all the REALITIES impeding maximum utilization.
Our pollution and resource use is already screwing up the planet there is so much going on-- you'd think people would start to THINK a little when the scale of our existence now has PLANET size impacts.
I won't pay $5 for their tools when I can use free ones that don't lock me in. I'm totally ok if they make you pay for iOS app tools because I am not interested but to build for a unix based OS they should bundle free dev tools. I never used xcode much anyhow; I was locked into a dead IDE before so I will use netbeans or something next time I use an IDE... although with all the scripting out there big IDE tools and compilers are something I've not had to use hardly at all for the last decade.