If certain sources are to be believed, the entire American public school system was the nefarious brainchild of 19th Century "billionaires", conceived as a means of mass-producing humans conditioned to be ideal top-to-bottom factory workers. If that conspiratorial tale is true, then Bill Gates meddling in the school system to achieve goals that benefit the tech industry would just be more of the same, wouldn't it?
Doesn't anyone recall the Thinkpad(?) model that had the pull-out secondary LCD display? It wasn't full size, but still useful. I think there was one other mfr. that tried to copy the idea as well.
Yeah, whether intentional or not, Bush did manage to be more "transparent" himself than Obama seems to be managing. That doesn't say much for the bureaucracy he managed, of course. I have more respect for Clinton since he left office than when he was in it, partly because I've learned more about what actually took place and why; I was ambivalent about him in office and didn't hate nor despise him for philandering so much as I despised him for being disingenuous and deceitful about it. (All men who desire power/wealth/influence desire it to advance their sexual prospects, whether they are conscious of that instinctive fact or not.) Assuming he felt any remorse for that deceit, he's certainly made an effort since then to serve the common good in ways he couldn't even do when in office. I don't know if Bush is attempting the same or not, but he'd have a LOT more atoning to do.
Exactly how do you know that? The same way you know to avoid *ever* voting for a candidate that works against the public good? Yeah, you're quite the authority on everything, aren't you?
That's a moronic refrain, and you're a jackass for repeating it. The real truth of the matter is that we get what we DON'T vote for... meaning it's the intentions and behavior of which we AREN'T told before the election that we actually get in the end.
The problem, of course, is that we have virtually no useful criteria whatsoever to identify the unethical self-interested bastards before they take office. Even mr1911, who smugly implies that he's never ever voted for a rotten candidate himself, has no freaking clue how to consistently pick the ethical winners.
I lived on the West Coast, so I guess that's why I had access to them. It would have been my parents buying it, not me. Apparently it flopped because they discovered that the "kindness of strangers" is a myth? People were probably tossing them in the garbage. Can you imagine the reaction of a New Yorker to one of those?
Anyone else remember "Obi" or "Obii" from perhaps the Seventies? The idea was something like a note in a bottle, with an expectation of return. This sounds like a game-ified version of the Obi. Since IIRC the Obi was about the shape and size of an egg, the form factors aren't all that incompatible.
I don't really see the draw here. If nothing else, ONLY ONE person gets to see your awesome high score at a time (the current player). Since a huge part of gaming is to best others' scores and have "everyone" know you're the champ, how smug are you gonna feel knowing that only one person at a time is ever gonna know what a l33t g4m3r you are?
For example, you could listen for the number, duration, and frequency of brakes being applied hard at intersections as a predictor of accidents. That would allow you to redesign the intersection to improve safety; even if no accidents have occurred."
That's not policing. Police departments are the enforcement arm of the judiciary, so they're not going to be redesigning intersections, nor are they even going to be recommending that as a solution. They're going to do, and only do, what they were tasked to do, which is enforcing codified law.
Which means, in this instance, they'll use that data to justify installing a traffic camera or speed trap etc. at that location. Then they'll issue citations and collect fines to support their department and justify their demands for expansion of the police force.
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If certain sources are to be believed, the entire American public school system was the nefarious brainchild of 19th Century "billionaires", conceived as a means of mass-producing humans conditioned to be ideal top-to-bottom factory workers. If that conspiratorial tale is true, then Bill Gates meddling in the school system to achieve goals that benefit the tech industry would just be more of the same, wouldn't it?
In Soviet Russia, Trololo is embarrassed for you.
In Soviet Russia, you embarrass Trololo.
Yeah, a squad of mini-rovers coordinated with a mesh network. Maybe we could get people to root for that team instead of the useless ones in the NFL?
I see that it has a laser. I hope that laser is beefy enough to let it make like a land shark and defend itself if the Martians stumbleupon it.
What's he gotta do with it? Is he embarrassingly parallel, too?
In Wikipedia's defense, it's at the least more authoritative than The Bible, even though the latter is [i]embarrassingly trusted[/i] by more people.
So can I run Java in my virtual XP and... WHOA! Infinite mirrors trick!
Doesn't anyone recall the Thinkpad(?) model that had the pull-out secondary LCD display? It wasn't full size, but still useful. I think there was one other mfr. that tried to copy the idea as well.
All this talk about mooning has me wistful for my wild youth.
Yeah, whether intentional or not, Bush did manage to be more "transparent" himself than Obama seems to be managing. That doesn't say much for the bureaucracy he managed, of course. I have more respect for Clinton since he left office than when he was in it, partly because I've learned more about what actually took place and why; I was ambivalent about him in office and didn't hate nor despise him for philandering so much as I despised him for being disingenuous and deceitful about it. (All men who desire power/wealth/influence desire it to advance their sexual prospects, whether they are conscious of that instinctive fact or not.) Assuming he felt any remorse for that deceit, he's certainly made an effort since then to serve the common good in ways he couldn't even do when in office. I don't know if Bush is attempting the same or not, but he'd have a LOT more atoning to do.
Exactly how do you know that? The same way you know to avoid *ever* voting for a candidate that works against the public good? Yeah, you're quite the authority on everything, aren't you?
That's a moronic refrain, and you're a jackass for repeating it. The real truth of the matter is that we get what we DON'T vote for... meaning it's the intentions and behavior of which we AREN'T told before the election that we actually get in the end.
The problem, of course, is that we have virtually no useful criteria whatsoever to identify the unethical self-interested bastards before they take office. Even mr1911, who smugly implies that he's never ever voted for a rotten candidate himself, has no freaking clue how to consistently pick the ethical winners.
Well I guess you must be pretty durn special. Yer momma be proud, I bet.
I lived on the West Coast, so I guess that's why I had access to them. It would have been my parents buying it, not me. Apparently it flopped because they discovered that the "kindness of strangers" is a myth? People were probably tossing them in the garbage. Can you imagine the reaction of a New Yorker to one of those?
Yes, that's the critter.
Anyone else remember "Obi" or "Obii" from perhaps the Seventies? The idea was something like a note in a bottle, with an expectation of return. This sounds like a game-ified version of the Obi. Since IIRC the Obi was about the shape and size of an egg, the form factors aren't all that incompatible.
I don't really see the draw here. If nothing else, ONLY ONE person gets to see your awesome high score at a time (the current player). Since a huge part of gaming is to best others' scores and have "everyone" know you're the champ, how smug are you gonna feel knowing that only one person at a time is ever gonna know what a l33t g4m3r you are?
You, Sir, are twisted in the right direction.
Okay, fine... then it will create a new generation of autistic people and make people write funny!
A phone made from mercury might actually be the first phone truly capable of causing cancer. Did you really have to give them the idea?
A *LOT*... now.
I call mine macaroni, thankyaverymuch.
Scholl's wants to know: are you jellin'?
So my project to kidnap and torture lawyers with waterboarding and sexual humilation for five years won't get your vote of approval, either?
That's not policing. Police departments are the enforcement arm of the judiciary, so they're not going to be redesigning intersections, nor are they even going to be recommending that as a solution. They're going to do, and only do, what they were tasked to do, which is enforcing codified law.
Which means, in this instance, they'll use that data to justify installing a traffic camera or speed trap etc. at that location. Then they'll issue citations and collect fines to support their department and justify their demands for expansion of the police force.