Actually, this is just confirmation that carbon credits BETWEEN COUNTRIES is a bad idea, which has pretty much been proven to be true decades ago.l
This is not anything against carbon credits WITHIN a single government - as long as you can't trade them to those outside the government.
That idea continues to be a good one.
Note, states count as government if the carbon credits can be traded across state lines and the other state does not follow the same rules.
To my knowledge, every single abuse has come about from people outside the governing agency to inside or vice versa. Basically you can't trade a limit with someone that is not affected by those limits.
The reason for specialized language is to ensure precision among insiders. You don't want a cancer surgeon to remove the 'wrong' arm bone because someone wrote 'arm bone' on the instructions, rather than 'ulna'. Similarly, businessmen use specialized languages, such as 'enterprise' to include both businesses, government agencies, charities, and sub-divisions of same. They want to make sure the salesmen does not ignore certain sales opportunities simply because they used a non-inclusive term.
The problems occur when you use those specific terms with NON-insiders.
A doctor should simply say arm bone, or at least "ulna - a bone in your arm", when talking to a patient.
Similarly, a competent businessman will strip out the specialized terms when talking to specific people. If you are selling software to a business, do NOT say 'enterprise', say business.
The only reason insiders use insider terms with outsiders are:
To hide something - a lie, incompetence, overcharges, etc.
Because they themselves don't understand the term and are reading from a script.
They are REALLY BAD AT COMMUNICATING.
For example, When I talk to my father, I don't talk about object oriented programming, I talk about re-useable software parts.
Just one issue - why is it so slow. Simple law of supply and demand. When the supply is small (relative to demand), you keep the price high. When the supply goes up, the price drops.
This device could catch on - but only if it includes at least one killer-app snap on. It's not going to take off if you sell it bare bones with no overlay.
But if they include something interesting, like a music overlay - with software designed for it, or a gaming overlay, then I could see it take off big time.
A cop should be able to stop a car for absolutely nothing. They need that ability for public safety - there could be any number of reasons why they have to it, from a chemical spil. (undetectable to the car), to a riot.
But they should under no circumstance be able to redirect it to a new location without physically entering the vehicle. That is not reasonable behavior, an un-neccessary security risk that can be abused by non-police.
Do any of your local stores let you go into their place of business and put a large red sticker that says "Staff Pick" on something that isn't actually a staff pick?
No?
Then you missed half the point of this article - that they only discourage people rather than forbid them from falsely claiming something is a Staff Pick.
The other half is that this is NOT a small local business, it is a very large corporation, and large corporations rarely leave things as loose as local stores do.
Kickstarter is not one of countless organizations that do this, they may very well be the single LARGEST organization that does it, and we expect more from the big guys than the little guys.
Or do you go up to a small kid selling lemonade on the side of the road and ask if they have a license to sell drinks?
Yes he married an 18 year old, that he met at 17. But let's be honest here, 99% of men in the world lust after 18 year old girls. Just as 99% of women lust after men with big...."Q" scores. (fame). Doohan had a huge Q score.
The point of the law is not to shame people for almost breaking it, but instead to convince them to abide by it. James Doohan abided by the law. Leave the great man alone.
Oh, I see, this has a special, vibration sensitive electrical switch that you tune to your voice. So when your voice and only your voice says "Computer" (in a thick, fake Scottish accent in memory of the WWII hero James Doohan), will trigger a mechanical switch that lets electricity flow into your computer.
What? That's not what's going on? You mean the PC is always on in sleep mode, listening to everything thing you say and analyzing it for the words "Computer on", which will take it out of sleep mode? Assuming of course someone hasn't hacked it to record audio (and maybe video) all the time, because sleep mode is NOT the same as off.
Yes, blame the victim because they violated our society's moral code, rather than an actual law.
Look, if you cheat on your wife, that's NOT OUR BUSINESS.
You don't get the right to vilify and laugh and insult someone because they betrayed someone else.
Worst of all, I have never seen a case where someone cheated on a virtuous spouse. Every single case of cheating I have ever heard of or seen among my friends was one shallow shmuck marrying a clear and obvious player and then getting upset that the player played.
My sister married her law professor - after he divorced his 2nd wife (yes, she slept with him before he was divorced). Surprise surprise, he cheated on her also. What happened to her is pretty much exactly like what happens most of the time.
I really hope that the majority of the agents laughed at this stupidity.
We have access to literally MILLIONS of attempts at propaganda - both from the US and from outside agencies.
It's not that hard to recognize propaganda and his work is not it. You have to target your intended audience pretty highly and anyone not in the target audience can easily see through it for garbage.
Otherwise, it's not propaganda, it's truth that you disagree with. So you call it propaganda and pretend it is based on lies.
The reason for this is simple - the only way to convince someone that a lie is 'true', is if the lie is aimed directly at their own personal belief structure. You can't convince a liberal that there is a secret conspiracy in the US Government to 'invade texas' without a TON of proof, but you can convince certain conservatives with radio broadcast and an internet web page.
Similarly, you can't convince a Republican that the Pro-life movement is designed to keep women barefoot and pregnant (rather than to stop abortion), but you can convince certain liberals with an article and a news report.
As such, any real attempt at Propaganda is obvious to anyone not targeted by it, and it's ridiculous to believe that an author could engage in 'secret' propaganda.
Someone if finally protecting our most vulnerable citizens - the politicians that make the law.
Our long nightmare of people being punished for things they actually said is over!.
Thank you Twitter.
Now, we can finally get back to using twitter to mob-shame some poor guy that was overheard making a joke about pedophilia that some moron thought was almost heard clearly from 100 ft away on a crowded train station.
Then how did this conspiracy succeed?
Look, I love Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. If you ignore the conservative political stupidity he puts in, it's a great set of novels.
But he has managed to destroy the Hugos.
There were a bunch of people that did not win awards. They falsely believed there was a conspiracy against them. To "prove" this, they initiated their own conspiracy, which they claimed was a 'counter conspiracy'.
But if you compare the results of this year's vote, to votes of previous years, you can easily see that this year is the only year where there was an organized attempt to get certain people elected. Categories that they did not care about were ignored, there was no disagreement at all among the conspirators, while their was no unified pattern of votes in previous years. In previous years there was real competition - rather than an agreement for all of one category of voters to focus on a single, predetermined winner.
So the analysis of their attempt to game the system proves that they were in fact WRONG, and previous awards were fair voting, rather than a conspiracy as they paranoidly claimed.
But it's not entirely fair to blame the conspirators. They simply abused a system that was not designed to handle intentional abuse.
Frankly, the main problem is that people simply don't care enough about the Hugo's to cheat - until now. So now we have to upgrade the voting system to account for a-holes trying to game the system.
I would even go so far as to point out that traditionally, the legal system has treated tasers as they do guns, especially the ones that fire darts (some use gunpowder to launch the darts.)
The right to bear arms must include any weapon, otherwise we are just asking for future technology to negate our constitutional rights.
Just as the right to free speech also applies to TV, Radio and the internet, the right to bear arms includes all reasonable weapons designed to replace guns.
I am all in favor of the Right to Be Forgotten. But this is just plain wrong.
The whole idea of the right to be forgotten is NOT to remove the information, but instead to make it a bit harder to get to. That way when some shmuck posts a photo of his ex girlfriend, it won't be the very first thing that pops up on a search of her name.
But it still should let people find the information eventually, after a significant search - such as looking for lists of things 'forgotten'.
It is impossible - without forever modifying the internet in major BAD ways to totally prevent information from getting out, but it can be made more difficult.
There is NO VALID REASON to de-link sites that list right to be forgotten information. It does not materially help those the law is intended to help, instead it simply makes life harder for Google.
If you can't do something yourself, you outsource the job to another company.
Yes, it is a full time job to manage a comment section - but there are huge economies of scale here. The odds of there being a mob on two different comment sections at the same time are minute. One company can manage comments for 10 different online publications almost as easily as it can manage 2 online publications.
Even more so if you use the same login, as Facebook has been pushing.
I disagree that "to create an ecosystem that is entirely self sufficient and stable is beyond our capabilities. "
Mainly because you left out a requirement. Insert "....stable and capable of supporting higher life forms, including humans. is beyond our capabilities."
I absolutely believe we can create an ecosystem that is self sufficient and stable as long without supporting any complex mammalian life forms.
Wow - what a great set of insults. Too bad they completely failed to respond to the actual issues I raised. For example, I show you how Texas is attempting to do something illegal against college students and you pretend that I think that is racist. Of course you make no attempt to deny that what they are doing is illegal, instead you make fun of me because you thought I was claiming racism in that case. Are you really stupid enough to think a crime is still acceptable unless I prove it is racist crime?
I also love how you did not understand a simple comparison. Let me explain. Massachusett's Voter ID law lets you vote if you don't have a Voter ID - even if just provisionally.
Texas's Voter ID law does not let you vote at all - if you don't have the ID.
You might do better if you go back and re-read everything I wrote.
Unless of course you are just a troll paid to insult intelligent people (or worse, doing it for fun)
Oh and finally, your huge attempt to pretend this is all about race basically proves that no you do not care about anything EXCEPT racism. You yourself implied that you think the "lazy/stupid/poor" should not be able to vote.
Which happens to be the most Un-american of ideas. The Supreme Court found that when some piece of shit tries to prevent the 'lazy/stupid/poor" from voting, it is racist. SCOTUS found in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, that attempts to weed out the "lazy/stupid/poor" were violations of the 14th Amendment of the United States of America. In other words, yes, the very things you are claiming are not racist, the Supreme Court of the US declared to be racist
It's not the asking to see a photo id - it is the specific methods of photo ID that is racist.
Massachusetts for example has a wonderful photo ID law - if you don't have one, then you vote provisionally and can prove your Identity later to have your vote counted if their is a run-off.
But the 'voter id laws' of states like Texas a) don't let you vote at all, b) make it illegal to use state funded college ID or an out-of-state Driver License to prove your identity even if you happen to be a College Student living in Texas for 9 months of a year - and therefore have the legal right to vote, c) make it very difficult to prove your ID and COSTLY in both time and energy.
It's not the concept of a voter ID law that sucks, it is the intentional attempt to create a system designed to stop liberals from voting. Using a false claim that you are just trying to stop non-existent fraud does not explain why they pull crap like this.
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This is not anything against carbon credits WITHIN a single government - as long as you can't trade them to those outside the government.
That idea continues to be a good one.
Note, states count as government if the carbon credits can be traded across state lines and the other state does not follow the same rules.
To my knowledge, every single abuse has come about from people outside the governing agency to inside or vice versa. Basically you can't trade a limit with someone that is not affected by those limits.
The problems occur when you use those specific terms with NON-insiders.
A doctor should simply say arm bone, or at least "ulna - a bone in your arm", when talking to a patient.
Similarly, a competent businessman will strip out the specialized terms when talking to specific people. If you are selling software to a business, do NOT say 'enterprise', say business.
The only reason insiders use insider terms with outsiders are:
To hide something - a lie, incompetence, overcharges, etc.
Because they themselves don't understand the term and are reading from a script.
They are REALLY BAD AT COMMUNICATING.
For example, When I talk to my father, I don't talk about object oriented programming, I talk about re-useable software parts.
Just one issue - why is it so slow. Simple law of supply and demand. When the supply is small (relative to demand), you keep the price high. When the supply goes up, the price drops.
But if they include something interesting, like a music overlay - with software designed for it, or a gaming overlay, then I could see it take off big time.
The water itself DID light on fire, and the water from the tap was tested and found the gas. So you can't call that 'falsehood #1'.
The Colorado Dept said that the falsehood was 'fracking caused the gas in the water.', not the water could light on fire.
Whether the state of Colorado is correct is another matter, but you yourself are stating your own claim so badly that it looks you are the one lying.
But they should under no circumstance be able to redirect it to a new location without physically entering the vehicle. That is not reasonable behavior, an un-neccessary security risk that can be abused by non-police.
No?
Then you missed half the point of this article - that they only discourage people rather than forbid them from falsely claiming something is a Staff Pick.
The other half is that this is NOT a small local business, it is a very large corporation, and large corporations rarely leave things as loose as local stores do.
Kickstarter is not one of countless organizations that do this, they may very well be the single LARGEST organization that does it, and we expect more from the big guys than the little guys.
Or do you go up to a small kid selling lemonade on the side of the road and ask if they have a license to sell drinks?
The point of the law is not to shame people for almost breaking it, but instead to convince them to abide by it. James Doohan abided by the law. Leave the great man alone.
What? That's not what's going on? You mean the PC is always on in sleep mode, listening to everything thing you say and analyzing it for the words "Computer on", which will take it out of sleep mode? Assuming of course someone hasn't hacked it to record audio (and maybe video) all the time, because sleep mode is NOT the same as off.
Look, if you cheat on your wife, that's NOT OUR BUSINESS.
You don't get the right to vilify and laugh and insult someone because they betrayed someone else.
Worst of all, I have never seen a case where someone cheated on a virtuous spouse. Every single case of cheating I have ever heard of or seen among my friends was one shallow shmuck marrying a clear and obvious player and then getting upset that the player played.
My sister married her law professor - after he divorced his 2nd wife (yes, she slept with him before he was divorced). Surprise surprise, he cheated on her also. What happened to her is pretty much exactly like what happens most of the time.
We have access to literally MILLIONS of attempts at propaganda - both from the US and from outside agencies.
It's not that hard to recognize propaganda and his work is not it. You have to target your intended audience pretty highly and anyone not in the target audience can easily see through it for garbage.
Otherwise, it's not propaganda, it's truth that you disagree with. So you call it propaganda and pretend it is based on lies.
The reason for this is simple - the only way to convince someone that a lie is 'true', is if the lie is aimed directly at their own personal belief structure. You can't convince a liberal that there is a secret conspiracy in the US Government to 'invade texas' without a TON of proof, but you can convince certain conservatives with radio broadcast and an internet web page.
Similarly, you can't convince a Republican that the Pro-life movement is designed to keep women barefoot and pregnant (rather than to stop abortion), but you can convince certain liberals with an article and a news report.
As such, any real attempt at Propaganda is obvious to anyone not targeted by it, and it's ridiculous to believe that an author could engage in 'secret' propaganda.
Our long nightmare of people being punished for things they actually said is over!.
Thank you Twitter.
Now, we can finally get back to using twitter to mob-shame some poor guy that was overheard making a joke about pedophilia that some moron thought was almost heard clearly from 100 ft away on a crowded train station.
1) You are off topic.
2) You are being a troll - pushing your personal political view into a topic that has nothing to do with it.
3) This is exactly the kind of thing Putin pays people to do to his political enemies, as admitted by the Russian courts.
So no, we are not going listen to some dickish troll about what we should read before moderating you down.
Then how did this conspiracy succeed? Look, I love Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. If you ignore the conservative political stupidity he puts in, it's a great set of novels. But he has managed to destroy the Hugos.
But if you compare the results of this year's vote, to votes of previous years, you can easily see that this year is the only year where there was an organized attempt to get certain people elected. Categories that they did not care about were ignored, there was no disagreement at all among the conspirators, while their was no unified pattern of votes in previous years. In previous years there was real competition - rather than an agreement for all of one category of voters to focus on a single, predetermined winner.
So the analysis of their attempt to game the system proves that they were in fact WRONG, and previous awards were fair voting, rather than a conspiracy as they paranoidly claimed.
But it's not entirely fair to blame the conspirators. They simply abused a system that was not designed to handle intentional abuse.
Frankly, the main problem is that people simply don't care enough about the Hugo's to cheat - until now. So now we have to upgrade the voting system to account for a-holes trying to game the system.
I would even go so far as to point out that traditionally, the legal system has treated tasers as they do guns, especially the ones that fire darts (some use gunpowder to launch the darts.)
The right to bear arms must include any weapon, otherwise we are just asking for future technology to negate our constitutional rights.
Just as the right to free speech also applies to TV, Radio and the internet, the right to bear arms includes all reasonable weapons designed to replace guns.
Wrong kind of cleaning. The kidney takes care of most of that stuff. Spleen is more about the immune system clean up.
The chef gives explicit permission to move the food around when they put a fork, knife, spoon, or chopsticks next to it.
The whole idea of the right to be forgotten is NOT to remove the information, but instead to make it a bit harder to get to. That way when some shmuck posts a photo of his ex girlfriend, it won't be the very first thing that pops up on a search of her name.
But it still should let people find the information eventually, after a significant search - such as looking for lists of things 'forgotten'.
It is impossible - without forever modifying the internet in major BAD ways to totally prevent information from getting out, but it can be made more difficult.
There is NO VALID REASON to de-link sites that list right to be forgotten information. It does not materially help those the law is intended to help, instead it simply makes life harder for Google.
I can see it now, actual pirates stealing full boatloads of servers.
Yes, it is a full time job to manage a comment section - but there are huge economies of scale here. The odds of there being a mob on two different comment sections at the same time are minute. One company can manage comments for 10 different online publications almost as easily as it can manage 2 online publications.
Even more so if you use the same login, as Facebook has been pushing.
Every single person that attended their events should join a class action law suit.
Mainly because you left out a requirement. Insert "....stable and capable of supporting higher life forms, including humans. is beyond our capabilities."
I absolutely believe we can create an ecosystem that is self sufficient and stable as long without supporting any complex mammalian life forms.
I also love how you did not understand a simple comparison. Let me explain. Massachusett's Voter ID law lets you vote if you don't have a Voter ID - even if just provisionally.
Texas's Voter ID law does not let you vote at all - if you don't have the ID.
You might do better if you go back and re-read everything I wrote.
Unless of course you are just a troll paid to insult intelligent people (or worse, doing it for fun)
Oh and finally, your huge attempt to pretend this is all about race basically proves that no you do not care about anything EXCEPT racism. You yourself implied that you think the "lazy/stupid/poor" should not be able to vote.
Which happens to be the most Un-american of ideas. The Supreme Court found that when some piece of shit tries to prevent the 'lazy/stupid/poor" from voting, it is racist. SCOTUS found in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, that attempts to weed out the "lazy/stupid/poor" were violations of the 14th Amendment of the United States of America. In other words, yes, the very things you are claiming are not racist, the Supreme Court of the US declared to be racist
Massachusetts for example has a wonderful photo ID law - if you don't have one, then you vote provisionally and can prove your Identity later to have your vote counted if their is a run-off.
But the 'voter id laws' of states like Texas a) don't let you vote at all, b) make it illegal to use state funded college ID or an out-of-state Driver License to prove your identity even if you happen to be a College Student living in Texas for 9 months of a year - and therefore have the legal right to vote, c) make it very difficult to prove your ID and COSTLY in both time and energy.
It's not the concept of a voter ID law that sucks, it is the intentional attempt to create a system designed to stop liberals from voting. Using a false claim that you are just trying to stop non-existent fraud does not explain why they pull crap like this.