IT support, sysadmins, etc. The higher posts are about right, its management again undermining a profession - IT workers can be mechanics or even janitors if they are lucky; otherwise, it'll migrate towards McDonalds (and favor vertical lock-in solutions that dumb down the job.) Sorry, but that profession will be lucky to get on par with plumbers. BTW, janitors can do quite well... plumbers somehow have kept their trade up.
Programmers and "higher level" IT workers are more difficult to attack and undermine at this time - its a different game but don't think its not under assault by the MBAs as well. Bringing in foreign workers claiming the native work force is too small is not an act of desperation as the lobbyists assert its an attempt to drive down wages for that level of IT work.
Tobacco stalled more than just the 25+ years of pseudo debate; people were questioning it long before that but it didn't get anywhere until far later and then it had to be "debated" for decades.
We can't stop subsidizing coal or oil or even regulate the industries involved despite plenty of deaths and disasters before this one. YES I think somebody is pro-mercury and is active on it! Simply because we don't know does not mean it does not exist; hell, if they do their job well we don't hear for YEARS that they are funding misinformation.
I have PROOF: http://fishscam.com/ but I don't know the who or why behind it; its not being done for free by a nutcase.
I've been to lectures by scientists who were bashed down by industry before they ever got any traction; even having hecklers hired to smear them when speaking at public places! Mess with the wrong PR firm and things don't get off the ground. For example, raisins have pesticides INSIDE them and little is publicly known or done about it despite clear concrete proof (perhaps they are now fixing this before it gets real attention -now a decade later.) Just try to talk about how dumping sewage on farms is bad-- before all those e-coli outbreaks...actually, its still a problem! DDT was banned so then we imported the foods where it was legal...
The regulatory system is broken along with the health care "system" and the media sucks, I'm not inclined to believe much.
I only know that the vaccine thing was about having too much exposure too fast; the reasonable solution is to spread the things out over time to avoid such concerns. I've not heard of good backing for or against mercury and autism.
Well, current science has its limits and future science has more; until computers take over the thinking and even then there is a lot that can't be solved (BTW, some things can just be proven impossible to solve and others are impossible to prove impossible...)
They run a gambling machine and yet THEY can't gamble on it working properly?? I say they pay the 11 million because their machine said the person won that much it is their risk as part of their business. Its not like they run an unpredictable business like almost every other business out there--- that is, they have less risk than everybody else, there is a reason the house always wins and its not chance. Real business actually has some risks involved so I don't see why a sure-thing like a casino can't handle a little risk... Naturally, the result will be gambling hardware that is more solid than the military or banks...
Science has a hard time with situations involving multiple variables; well, its a complexity problem not just of the experiments themselves but also the humans trying to grasp this stuff. There are limits and its not binary, there is some sort of curve involved as far as the human abilities aspect; the complexity of testing is in the realm of combinatorics and statistics.
Mercury in vaccines may be harmless; however, we have higher levels of exposure from everywhere else so it just adds a little to what is there already. It may not be worth fussing over but it is something we have control over personally. We can't personally get the coal plants pumping it into our water supplies to stop so easily. Where I live we are now down to a few fish per month from any lakes in the state to keep the mercury levels down to a "healthy" level.
I think we have an increase in autistic children; its not a diagnostic trend like aspergers - if you've seen these kids, they existed before under other labels; no slipping by the cracks like ADD or Aspergers. So people are understandably looking for changes that could cause a rise in it; its difficult to find an easy connection; we didn't accept smoking and lung cancer for a century and that one is "easy."
Autistic kids don't eat like the other kids. The other kids are normal, the autistic one needs to get the same old special stuff or they will not eat anything and become malnourished. We have 1 in the family. I think the study would need to feed the controls the same stuff as the autistic kids their are pair up with; I'm also curious if gender pairing matters at this age.
His 1st state of the union speech he identified a few billion of wasted farm money to cut from the budget. I thought it was naive move that only a city politician would make. It died so fast and so hard it never was mentioned ever again; either it was bargained or dropped. I've never heard it come up again so it didn't gain anything to bargain with the last time. You can forget about fixing this until Monsanto has a BP like disaster that destroys a huge amount of land or kills a few thousand people THEN obama can squeak bye some tiny fix-- just watch this Oil lobby keep most their welfare despite BP... now that Obama is after their welfare money with (more) public support.
Senators of worthless states have too much power since the filibuster became the most successful DoS attack on democracy a few generations ago. These punks blackmail the whole country all the time to get such pork and it costs far more than the few cases often cited as justification for the filibuster. (not saying it has to die, but it would be far better if it did die than if left around; we are currently on the worst side of two extremes.)
In my state, all we hear is cut spending etc; and its largely fueled by those who want it permanent; completely unaware that they want to be like Alabama or Mississippi and those states suck; you don't get to the top by being cheap (or wasting too much; although CA does pretty good so far considering their huge mess that continues to pile up... which comes full circle because CA's system is caused by a filibuster like situation!)
Furthermore, the biggest thing slowing the recovery during the great depression was lazy states cutting services and using the new deal to balance their budgets not put anybody to work; now we are repeating the mistakes again. FYI: look at the debt to GDP for WW2; also, government debt is good for buffering hard times but we've been exploiting it for far too long.... that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used for when its actually a good thing, like restoring the economy. Don't get into Fed arguments and currency with me, I'm aware of that mess - seriously do you people think if FDR couldn't touch the Fed who caused the great depression ANYBODY can touch them today??
cheap plastic barrels + some water (to get enough weight) and roll them forward - if its down hill, even easier! the "robot" can be some form of remote control car that rolls a few at a time... that is if you want to be fancy about it.
It is not analogous to rape. I won't make any related commentary because the topic has too much emotion; hence your anon status in posting it.
The main reason it is not the same is because the rapist is not HIRED by the victim and then told to accomplish something without regard to the consequences.
How many times have you heard people pay lip service to "green" but be hypocrites in there own little ways? Take that and multiply it by the collective and you get what we have; its not a far jump conceptually to that of voting-- where your vote does count (in honest elections) but is a drop in the bucket compared to the results. It adds up and manifests into real results, good or bad.
The big time drug money gets laundered and invested as well as played with by the bankers who love the extra billions to work with. The IRS sees part of these huge actions already so dealing with the smaller stuff is not worth the political costs involved.
ALL USA power corps get huge massive government welfare that has historically been many times larger than alternatives. It has not been a fair playing field, where alternatives must not only compete with the collection of free energy (created by nature over millions of years) but ALSO the government subsidies and they need much more R&D being literally 100+ years behind the conventional fuel R&D.
Part of the problem is that it is difficult to monetize the additional costs of poor fuel choices and too many shallow and selfish Americans (which in the last few generations is practically our defining trait) do not care and elect people who easily fool them by thinly veiled tax games (and wars, and 3rd world exploitation) to keep costs down.
GOVERNMENT reflects the populace. That is how it works. When you bash American government, you bash the American people who are totally responsible for it. I find that most miss this reality because its a product of masses of people and not doing what they personally want all the time -- eg; this is an example of the shallow minded lack of thought that goes on. The culture encourages this dysfunction which means it will spiral downward to some floor which will likely heavily be influenced by the effectiveness of the media to report to the people what is being done in their name.
The MOB BOSS who makes vague orders and doesn't want to know how they are implemented but harshly judges those who do not deliver is a lot like how a representative democracy works! Public corp CEOs function similarly-- increase share price but don't get caught and don't tell us!
CANADA requires a relief well be drilled AT THE SAME TIME. Their people still have a functioning government. I expected naive Americans to be upset when Obama didn't quietly clean up all their messes yesterday; he is not the naive one, the populace is. Furthermore, its like people thought he was a dictator superman (the super hero thing even became a cynical joke;) forgetting only the corrupt have "power" because they are going WITH the flow of the current system. A true reformer has little power and arguably can only go 1 step forward and 2 backward in our collective fubar.
Welcome to reality. I'll think there is hope when I'm not modded down for speaking unpleasant truths.
Hubble was not designed for robot maintenance in mind. If we went towards robotics over silly humans our robotics would have advanced quicker than it has and the impact on the whole culture of space technology would be such that Hubble would have unintentionally been altered to be more serviceable. Again, the robotics would have been further than they are today had the money and brain power focused upon that.
The Olympics is FAR FAR more important than advancements in robotics technology! What do you think is funding those next gen performance enhancement drugs? Or those great new shoes... that make me feel like I can play better? Think of all those consumers who eat Wheaties instead of lesser foods because of the Olympians on the box! Plus we just knocked Canada into another 30+ year debt so they are even less ahead of the USA than they already are...;-) Furthermore, they didn't put that money into technologies that would replace the need for all that tar extraction they are doing up there! Why think when you can just pollute?
Stalin and Hitler were not all that far to the left/right but they were both about the same level of authoritarian. go look them up on the chart. Its not a left/right false dialemma its a 2D system not a 1D spectrum; the best model is 2D and we only hurt ourselves trying to cram a 1D line into a 2D plane without losing a great deal of IMPORTANT information.
If we knew sooner how bad it really was, decision makers, experts and the public would consider bigger measures much sooner, such as the Russian nuke option:
Does it really help that much if the vendor gives you early access to security issues? Its not like they discover them all and probably 3rd parties are a large source of insight into their problems.
ONE vendor won't be that great; and MS hasn't done well for a long time. Outside the vendors is probably more useful information and the organized criminals and governments probably know of more than the vendor does. The problem is the vendor is not told or fails to listen etc. Linux on the otherhand is not limited by be a specific vendor...
Just because we label something a crime does not mean that the punishment should be a fine/penalty. The court doesn't have to be so dim witted; well I guess this court does given the horrible things they have done already.
The solution is so simple: It is a crime committed by a mentally ill person. Insanity pleas should not be considered the weak way out. Somebody who messes with children is mentally SICK IN THE HEAD. You do not let out a mental case until they are no longer a harm to others; there is no fine, no time penalty set; they get out if they are sane or they NEVER get out if they are nuts. Punishment is irrelevant. QED
In other words, when you are found crazy; not just plea crazy - the punishment phase should be replaced with treatment if convicted. (or possibly prescribed anyhow; lowering the burden for the prosecution... the extents of this are debatable or if an extreme position is needed because abuses could be deemed grievous enough; such as the presumption of innocence for example.) What is possibly "cruel" and certainly is "unusual" is punishing a mental case for a limited time period.
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EVIL - take your religion and shove it. It has no place establishing itself upon us. You can't convince me that a pedophile is SANE but is just EVIL. Why don't you just send them to Satan or remove their demons or thetans?
Errors - we have plenty of errors in the brainless system today where policies tend to rule over actual thinking, as if we can't trust humans to decide and must write procedures to decide because a procedure is better than a human brain? We far far too often use freak errors to change the system when we should accept the inevitable error rates (within reason - it is unreasonable to say "never" or have "zero" tolerance policies.)
Abuse: Yes, you could say the state labels opposition as crazy (literally instead of metaphorically) and arrests everybody (who'd have to commit a crime 1st.) Sure, they could and have done worse just using what already existed at the time. One can't discount something simply because government might abuse it someday; government improperly governed can do just about anything; that is a red herring. Big difference between a padded room for a few and massive re-education camps.
Broken system. Tell me something new. Doesn't mean I can't talk common sense solutions and better frameworks; we didn't get to this level of "civilization" by limiting ourselves.
Its that because of a few bad teachers and some kids that get past the system we have to revamp the system so it takes out every bit of common sense and thought possible using things like a 1 size fits all standardized test and force teachers to only focus upon that.
Furthermore, most people don't realize that a stock market mentality is being applied to these standards where the school has to do better than previous years or be punished for poor performance. Infinite growth is not sustainable in business (we are still learning this) and definitely is not in education. Some kids will perform poorly, PERIOD. Not all types can be reached (yet) and not all parents are equal for that matter either... Obviously, some textbooks and likely some texas standardized tests will not be equal, fair, or possibly even correct. I can't wait for the kid who fails some future texas exam question on creationism!
The religion aspect is even more nutty; its not FAITH if you do not have any choice; no establishment of religion allows for faith to exist legitimately. Jesus himself turned down being a political leader / king as well as arguably being violent when he kicked out the money changers from the temple. The word mammon also comes from him; although, I've not found a Christian yet who knows the term. The early Christians WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CHARGE INTEREST! This is actually where the jewish banker thing came from because they were allowed to do so; that is, until mammon overcame Christian dogma.
Would this make any sense if the control motor which is a variable electric motor had to input equal torque? Then you may as well go all electric.
My guess from looking it over a bit seems to be that he is aware of the load on the control shaft. I'm thinking the ratio on the control shaft gear is such that the control is a lower ratio than the drive shaft. Therefore, his control load would be near the ratio of the 1st gear set; but I think in reverse he would have a problem??
So a large enough planet gear ratio would make his control load low enough to beat an automatic - and in fully locked mode the control could literally latch itself with a clutch or something so at its peak rpm it could use no power. (Toyota problems come to mind... a frozen control shaft forcing max output...)
Doesn't sound like regenerative braking would gain much here or am I missing something?
IF the iPad is the future; the future will NOT be iPads all over, it will an evolution of the concepts that made it so big that will change everything and people will point back to the source of that to the iPad; or for the technology, back to the Newton, PC Tablet, and iPhone - but mostly back to the iPad.
Expect heavy bitching to create competitors and nudge apple into other directions. The ubuntu like app stores will continue to be popular - and the list will continue to be filtered to a select few to cut down on the bloat of crap software. Apple is protecting their experience by acting as a gateway now and it has proven effective; but at some point it could change.
The 1st mac changed the world forever. It wasn't the 1st on all of it, they payed xerox for secrets that the public didn't know about. The computers today are quite different but they are BASED upon that early mac.
The iPad could very well be the future of laptop computing for MOST of the world of the future and while the tablet PC was 1st (or arguably the Newton) and the others didn't win over the public; like the iPod came in late in the game; as well as the iPhone.
I will not buy an iPad. Its not good enough or open enough for me yet.
The FBI has far better things to put their time into with these smart criminals who destroy nations and wreak economies for profit... Recent events should have changed their focus away from petty stuff like some people who figure something they don't understand is going on but need the money in the BAD ECONOMY and are more temped than ever to not really question if they are doing anything that bad.
Again, the little guys will get nailed for minor stuff while the big ones go around almost with immunity to either repeat or inspire others... helping CREATE these little people as a result.
Its like going after the addicts instead of the dealers / suppliers.
Used games are the NORM even back when there were LED handheld units with only 1 game. A whole industry sprung up and now rivals the movie industry in a world full of used and shared games.
Now they bitch about how they are being robbed of income!? Greedy pricks are just trying to put spin on it like it was a new development and you suckers fall for it. Next thing we know book publishers will get people going against libraries for robbing them of book sales and how its hurting the market and we need to migrate to electronic books... (where sharing is not allowed.)
The rules are rigged and the game is rigged! BEWARE of any buzzwords that the political parties frequently SHARE - it means those are the best polled phrases to win you over the quickest from a broad political spectrum. It does not speak to the truth of the statement only that it is highly effective of robbing your thought by evoking emotions and conditioned beliefs they wish to exploit.
Legal terrorism is the game and the ones with the most "gunmen" tend to win the battle or by the threat; it is a "civilized" version of the wild west out there. Your odds are about as bad as your rifle is against the hired gunmen except now you have less options in the fight. We can do much better when opposing government; so I must concede that we've made a tiny bit of progress overall.
The lawyers have been destroying law for profit and promotion for a long time. The society has been going along with it as well, being sold on shallow reasoning and marketing slogans. Zero Tolerance is popular today; it should be laughably stupid (because it is.) So, then we regress into that mentality not necessarily due to actual support by politicians or the public but because that is the bill of goods people are sold under a brand name slogan (and lacking depth;) then later, it comes back as pressure for the politician to actually compromise and give people symbolic follow through while neither side really actually wants it. This is especially true when political enemies try to undermine or hijack symbols for their own use so even effective implementations (or lack there of) must be symbolically attacked. Again, not for the good of society or principle but for the GAME - and naturally, delivered behind a poker face.
The GAMING / HACKING of the society is ultimately to blame; the lack of applied of common sense is how foolishness slips bye and this finds its way increasingly into the legal system (which does partially reflect society) so we have judges and lawyers who go by the letter of the law allowing simplistic hacks that they can see but are unable to act against due to false principals emerging as a result of societal rot.
Mine in the midwest do great. Perhaps your reps are not doing a good enough job for you? Its collectively YOUR fault when YOUR government doesn't serve you well.
Perhaps our roads do not have the land issues or heavy loads yours do (we used to get the worst weather on our roads.) We lack mass transit or many trains so we have plenty of trucks wearing our roads out... which don't pay back the wear they cause on the roads.
All things being equal, you might have heavier loads on your highways. I haven't noticed a bad federal highway yet; you may be unrealistically picky... Having not seen other places... I will say that americans have long taken infrastructure for granted and have shirked their responsibility for a long time (why do you think accountability is such a popular word? The guilty often yell the loudest.)
So-- lets have Comcast run the roads and power grid! They've done so much to keep us happy we don't mind that we have no methods to hold them accountable!
I would side with people if they not INCORRECT. Apple or Jobs has little say in MPEG-LA or the broken patent system. If anything this is Jobs leaking out some rumors he is privy to - and if it was his own employee mistakenly leaking this rumor (and unplanned) that employee would be GONE.
MPEG-LA won't punish Apple for this like Apple does to their partners who leak information - but if the tables were turned...
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IT support, sysadmins, etc. The higher posts are about right, its management again undermining a profession - IT workers can be mechanics or even janitors if they are lucky; otherwise, it'll migrate towards McDonalds (and favor vertical lock-in solutions that dumb down the job.) Sorry, but that profession will be lucky to get on par with plumbers. BTW, janitors can do quite well... plumbers somehow have kept their trade up.
Programmers and "higher level" IT workers are more difficult to attack and undermine at this time - its a different game but don't think its not under assault by the MBAs as well. Bringing in foreign workers claiming the native work force is too small is not an act of desperation as the lobbyists assert its an attempt to drive down wages for that level of IT work.
Tobacco stalled more than just the 25+ years of pseudo debate; people were questioning it long before that but it didn't get anywhere until far later and then it had to be "debated" for decades.
We can't stop subsidizing coal or oil or even regulate the industries involved despite plenty of deaths and disasters before this one. YES I think somebody is pro-mercury and is active on it! Simply because we don't know does not mean it does not exist; hell, if they do their job well we don't hear for YEARS that they are funding misinformation.
I have PROOF: http://fishscam.com/ but I don't know the who or why behind it; its not being done for free by a nutcase.
I've been to lectures by scientists who were bashed down by industry before they ever got any traction; even having hecklers hired to smear them when speaking at public places! Mess with the wrong PR firm and things don't get off the ground. For example, raisins have pesticides INSIDE them and little is publicly known or done about it despite clear concrete proof (perhaps they are now fixing this before it gets real attention -now a decade later.) Just try to talk about how dumping sewage on farms is bad-- before all those e-coli outbreaks...actually, its still a problem! DDT was banned so then we imported the foods where it was legal...
The regulatory system is broken along with the health care "system" and the media sucks, I'm not inclined to believe much.
I only know that the vaccine thing was about having too much exposure too fast; the reasonable solution is to spread the things out over time to avoid such concerns. I've not heard of good backing for or against mercury and autism.
Well, current science has its limits and future science has more; until computers take over the thinking and even then there is a lot that can't be solved (BTW, some things can just be proven impossible to solve and others are impossible to prove impossible...)
They run a gambling machine and yet THEY can't gamble on it working properly?? I say they pay the 11 million because their machine said the person won that much it is their risk as part of their business. Its not like they run an unpredictable business like almost every other business out there--- that is, they have less risk than everybody else, there is a reason the house always wins and its not chance. Real business actually has some risks involved so I don't see why a sure-thing like a casino can't handle a little risk... Naturally, the result will be gambling hardware that is more solid than the military or banks...
Science has a hard time with situations involving multiple variables; well, its a complexity problem not just of the experiments themselves but also the humans trying to grasp this stuff. There are limits and its not binary, there is some sort of curve involved as far as the human abilities aspect; the complexity of testing is in the realm of combinatorics and statistics.
Mercury in vaccines may be harmless; however, we have higher levels of exposure from everywhere else so it just adds a little to what is there already. It may not be worth fussing over but it is something we have control over personally. We can't personally get the coal plants pumping it into our water supplies to stop so easily. Where I live we are now down to a few fish per month from any lakes in the state to keep the mercury levels down to a "healthy" level.
I think we have an increase in autistic children; its not a diagnostic trend like aspergers - if you've seen these kids, they existed before under other labels; no slipping by the cracks like ADD or Aspergers. So people are understandably looking for changes that could cause a rise in it; its difficult to find an easy connection; we didn't accept smoking and lung cancer for a century and that one is "easy."
Autistic kids don't eat like the other kids. The other kids are normal, the autistic one needs to get the same old special stuff or they will not eat anything and become malnourished. We have 1 in the family. I think the study would need to feed the controls the same stuff as the autistic kids their are pair up with; I'm also curious if gender pairing matters at this age.
His 1st state of the union speech he identified a few billion of wasted farm money to cut from the budget. I thought it was naive move that only a city politician would make. It died so fast and so hard it never was mentioned ever again; either it was bargained or dropped. I've never heard it come up again so it didn't gain anything to bargain with the last time. You can forget about fixing this until Monsanto has a BP like disaster that destroys a huge amount of land or kills a few thousand people THEN obama can squeak bye some tiny fix-- just watch this Oil lobby keep most their welfare despite BP... now that Obama is after their welfare money with (more) public support.
Senators of worthless states have too much power since the filibuster became the most successful DoS attack on democracy a few generations ago. These punks blackmail the whole country all the time to get such pork and it costs far more than the few cases often cited as justification for the filibuster. (not saying it has to die, but it would be far better if it did die than if left around; we are currently on the worst side of two extremes.)
In my state, all we hear is cut spending etc; and its largely fueled by those who want it permanent; completely unaware that they want to be like Alabama or Mississippi and those states suck; you don't get to the top by being cheap (or wasting too much; although CA does pretty good so far considering their huge mess that continues to pile up... which comes full circle because CA's system is caused by a filibuster like situation!)
Furthermore, the biggest thing slowing the recovery during the great depression was lazy states cutting services and using the new deal to balance their budgets not put anybody to work; now we are repeating the mistakes again. FYI: look at the debt to GDP for WW2; also, government debt is good for buffering hard times but we've been exploiting it for far too long.... that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used for when its actually a good thing, like restoring the economy. Don't get into Fed arguments and currency with me, I'm aware of that mess - seriously do you people think if FDR couldn't touch the Fed who caused the great depression ANYBODY can touch them today??
HBO's "The Wire" is the best so far but its deeper than that and focuses on a bigger problem.
cheap plastic barrels + some water (to get enough weight) and roll them forward - if its down hill, even easier!
the "robot" can be some form of remote control car that rolls a few at a time... that is if you want to be fancy about it.
Oil to grid electricity negligible - we have bigger problems.
It is not analogous to rape. I won't make any related commentary because the topic has too much emotion; hence your anon status in posting it.
The main reason it is not the same is because the rapist is not HIRED by the victim and then told to accomplish something without regard to the consequences.
How many times have you heard people pay lip service to "green" but be hypocrites in there own little ways? Take that and multiply it by the collective and you get what we have; its not a far jump conceptually to that of voting-- where your vote does count (in honest elections) but is a drop in the bucket compared to the results. It adds up and manifests into real results, good or bad.
The big time drug money gets laundered and invested as well as played with by the bankers who love the extra billions to work with. The IRS sees part of these huge actions already so dealing with the smaller stuff is not worth the political costs involved.
Electricity is NOT oil powered.
ALL USA power corps get huge massive government welfare that has historically been many times larger than alternatives. It has not been a fair playing field, where alternatives must not only compete with the collection of free energy (created by nature over millions of years) but ALSO the government subsidies and they need much more R&D being literally 100+ years behind the conventional fuel R&D.
Part of the problem is that it is difficult to monetize the additional costs of poor fuel choices and too many shallow and selfish Americans (which in the last few generations is practically our defining trait) do not care and elect people who easily fool them by thinly veiled tax games (and wars, and 3rd world exploitation) to keep costs down.
GOVERNMENT reflects the populace. That is how it works. When you bash American government, you bash the American people who are totally responsible for it. I find that most miss this reality because its a product of masses of people and not doing what they personally want all the time -- eg; this is an example of the shallow minded lack of thought that goes on. The culture encourages this dysfunction which means it will spiral downward to some floor which will likely heavily be influenced by the effectiveness of the media to report to the people what is being done in their name.
The MOB BOSS who makes vague orders and doesn't want to know how they are implemented but harshly judges those who do not deliver is a lot like how a representative democracy works! Public corp CEOs function similarly-- increase share price but don't get caught and don't tell us!
CANADA requires a relief well be drilled AT THE SAME TIME. Their people still have a functioning government. I expected naive Americans to be upset when Obama didn't quietly clean up all their messes yesterday; he is not the naive one, the populace is. Furthermore, its like people thought he was a dictator superman (the super hero thing even became a cynical joke;) forgetting only the corrupt have "power" because they are going WITH the flow of the current system. A true reformer has little power and arguably can only go 1 step forward and 2 backward in our collective fubar.
Welcome to reality. I'll think there is hope when I'm not modded down for speaking unpleasant truths.
Hubble was not designed for robot maintenance in mind. If we went towards robotics over silly humans our robotics would have advanced quicker than it has and the impact on the whole culture of space technology would be such that Hubble would have unintentionally been altered to be more serviceable. Again, the robotics would have been further than they are today had the money and brain power focused upon that.
The Olympics is FAR FAR more important than advancements in robotics technology! What do you think is funding those next gen performance enhancement drugs? Or those great new shoes ... that make me feel like I can play better? Think of all those consumers who eat Wheaties instead of lesser foods because of the Olympians on the box! Plus we just knocked Canada into another 30+ year debt so they are even less ahead of the USA than they already are... ;-) Furthermore, they didn't put that money into technologies that would replace the need for all that tar extraction they are doing up there! Why think when you can just pollute?
Stalin and Hitler were not all that far to the left/right but they were both about the same level of authoritarian. go look them up on the chart. Its not a left/right false dialemma its a 2D system not a 1D spectrum; the best model is 2D and we only hurt ourselves trying to cram a 1D line into a 2D plane without losing a great deal of IMPORTANT information.
If we knew sooner how bad it really was, decision makers, experts and the public would consider bigger measures much sooner, such as the Russian nuke option:
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Does it really help that much if the vendor gives you early access to security issues? Its not like they discover them all and probably 3rd parties are a large source of insight into their problems.
ONE vendor won't be that great; and MS hasn't done well for a long time. Outside the vendors is probably more useful information and the organized criminals and governments probably know of more than the vendor does. The problem is the vendor is not told or fails to listen etc. Linux on the otherhand is not limited by be a specific vendor...
Just because we label something a crime does not mean that the punishment should be a fine/penalty. The court doesn't have to be so dim witted; well I guess this court does given the horrible things they have done already.
The solution is so simple: It is a crime committed by a mentally ill person. Insanity pleas should not be considered the weak way out. Somebody who messes with children is mentally SICK IN THE HEAD. You do not let out a mental case until they are no longer a harm to others; there is no fine, no time penalty set; they get out if they are sane or they NEVER get out if they are nuts. Punishment is irrelevant.
QED
In other words, when you are found crazy; not just plea crazy - the punishment phase should be replaced with treatment if convicted. (or possibly prescribed anyhow; lowering the burden for the prosecution... the extents of this are debatable or if an extreme position is needed because abuses could be deemed grievous enough; such as the presumption of innocence for example.) What is possibly "cruel" and certainly is "unusual" is punishing a mental case for a limited time period.
Side Issues:
EVIL - take your religion and shove it. It has no place establishing itself upon us. You can't convince me that a pedophile is SANE but is just EVIL. Why don't you just send them to Satan or remove their demons or thetans?
Errors - we have plenty of errors in the brainless system today where policies tend to rule over actual thinking, as if we can't trust humans to decide and must write procedures to decide because a procedure is better than a human brain? We far far too often use freak errors to change the system when we should accept the inevitable error rates (within reason - it is unreasonable to say "never" or have "zero" tolerance policies.)
Abuse: Yes, you could say the state labels opposition as crazy (literally instead of metaphorically) and arrests everybody (who'd have to commit a crime 1st.) Sure, they could and have done worse just using what already existed at the time. One can't discount something simply because government might abuse it someday; government improperly governed can do just about anything; that is a red herring. Big difference between a padded room for a few and massive re-education camps.
Broken system. Tell me something new. Doesn't mean I can't talk common sense solutions and better frameworks; we didn't get to this level of "civilization" by limiting ourselves.
Its that because of a few bad teachers and some kids that get past the system we have to revamp the system so it takes out every bit of common sense and thought possible using things like a 1 size fits all standardized test and force teachers to only focus upon that.
Furthermore, most people don't realize that a stock market mentality is being applied to these standards where the school has to do better than previous years or be punished for poor performance. Infinite growth is not sustainable in business (we are still learning this) and definitely is not in education. Some kids will perform poorly, PERIOD. Not all types can be reached (yet) and not all parents are equal for that matter either... Obviously, some textbooks and likely some texas standardized tests will not be equal, fair, or possibly even correct. I can't wait for the kid who fails some future texas exam question on creationism!
The religion aspect is even more nutty; its not FAITH if you do not have any choice; no establishment of religion allows for faith to exist legitimately. Jesus himself turned down being a political leader / king as well as arguably being violent when he kicked out the money changers from the temple. The word mammon also comes from him; although, I've not found a Christian yet who knows the term. The early Christians WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CHARGE INTEREST! This is actually where the jewish banker thing came from because they were allowed to do so; that is, until mammon overcame Christian dogma.
Would this make any sense if the control motor which is a variable electric motor had to input equal torque? Then you may as well go all electric.
My guess from looking it over a bit seems to be that he is aware of the load on the control shaft. I'm thinking the ratio on the control shaft gear is such that the control is a lower ratio than the drive shaft. Therefore, his control load would be near the ratio of the 1st gear set; but I think in reverse he would have a problem??
So a large enough planet gear ratio would make his control load low enough to beat an automatic - and in fully locked mode the control could literally latch itself with a clutch or something so at its peak rpm it could use no power. (Toyota problems come to mind... a frozen control shaft forcing max output...)
Doesn't sound like regenerative braking would gain much here or am I missing something?
IF the iPad is the future; the future will NOT be iPads all over, it will an evolution of the concepts that made it so big that will change everything and people will point back to the source of that to the iPad; or for the technology, back to the Newton, PC Tablet, and iPhone - but mostly back to the iPad.
Expect heavy bitching to create competitors and nudge apple into other directions. The ubuntu like app stores will continue to be popular - and the list will continue to be filtered to a select few to cut down on the bloat of crap software. Apple is protecting their experience by acting as a gateway now and it has proven effective; but at some point it could change.
The 1st mac changed the world forever. It wasn't the 1st on all of it, they payed xerox for secrets that the public didn't know about. The computers today are quite different but they are BASED upon that early mac.
The iPad could very well be the future of laptop computing for MOST of the world of the future and while the tablet PC was 1st (or arguably the Newton) and the others didn't win over the public; like the iPod came in late in the game; as well as the iPhone.
I will not buy an iPad. Its not good enough or open enough for me yet.
The FBI has far better things to put their time into with these smart criminals who destroy nations and wreak economies for profit... Recent events should have changed their focus away from petty stuff like some people who figure something they don't understand is going on but need the money in the BAD ECONOMY and are more temped than ever to not really question if they are doing anything that bad.
Again, the little guys will get nailed for minor stuff while the big ones go around almost with immunity to either repeat or inspire others... helping CREATE these little people as a result.
Its like going after the addicts instead of the dealers / suppliers.
Used games are the NORM even back when there were LED handheld units with only 1 game. A whole industry sprung up and now rivals the movie industry in a world full of used and shared games.
Now they bitch about how they are being robbed of income!? Greedy pricks are just trying to put spin on it like it was a new development and you suckers fall for it. Next thing we know book publishers will get people going against libraries for robbing them of book sales and how its hurting the market and we need to migrate to electronic books... (where sharing is not allowed.)
The rules are rigged and the game is rigged! BEWARE of any buzzwords that the political parties frequently SHARE - it means those are the best polled phrases to win you over the quickest from a broad political spectrum. It does not speak to the truth of the statement only that it is highly effective of robbing your thought by evoking emotions and conditioned beliefs they wish to exploit.
Legal terrorism is the game and the ones with the most "gunmen" tend to win the battle or by the threat; it is a "civilized" version of the wild west out there. Your odds are about as bad as your rifle is against the hired gunmen except now you have less options in the fight. We can do much better when opposing government; so I must concede that we've made a tiny bit of progress overall.
The lawyers have been destroying law for profit and promotion for a long time. The society has been going along with it as well, being sold on shallow reasoning and marketing slogans. Zero Tolerance is popular today; it should be laughably stupid (because it is.) So, then we regress into that mentality not necessarily due to actual support by politicians or the public but because that is the bill of goods people are sold under a brand name slogan (and lacking depth;) then later, it comes back as pressure for the politician to actually compromise and give people symbolic follow through while neither side really actually wants it. This is especially true when political enemies try to undermine or hijack symbols for their own use so even effective implementations (or lack there of) must be symbolically attacked. Again, not for the good of society or principle but for the GAME - and naturally, delivered behind a poker face.
The GAMING / HACKING of the society is ultimately to blame; the lack of applied of common sense is how foolishness slips bye and this finds its way increasingly into the legal system (which does partially reflect society) so we have judges and lawyers who go by the letter of the law allowing simplistic hacks that they can see but are unable to act against due to false principals emerging as a result of societal rot.
Mine in the midwest do great. Perhaps your reps are not doing a good enough job for you? Its collectively YOUR fault when YOUR government doesn't serve you well.
Perhaps our roads do not have the land issues or heavy loads yours do (we used to get the worst weather on our roads.) We lack mass transit or many trains so we have plenty of trucks wearing our roads out... which don't pay back the wear they cause on the roads.
All things being equal, you might have heavier loads on your highways. I haven't noticed a bad federal highway yet; you may be unrealistically picky... Having not seen other places... I will say that americans have long taken infrastructure for granted and have shirked their responsibility for a long time (why do you think accountability is such a popular word? The guilty often yell the loudest.)
So-- lets have Comcast run the roads and power grid! They've done so much to keep us happy we don't mind that we have no methods to hold them accountable!
I would side with people if they not INCORRECT. Apple or Jobs has little say in MPEG-LA or the broken patent system. If anything this is Jobs leaking out some rumors he is privy to - and if it was his own employee mistakenly leaking this rumor (and unplanned) that employee would be GONE.
MPEG-LA won't punish Apple for this like Apple does to their partners who leak information - but if the tables were turned...