What's wrong with speed cameras? They ensure everyone complies with the law. The camera part is only to identify your car and plate.. if they could use RFID or any other system, they would. The law has not changed with the addition of enforcement devices. That's not big brother at all man.
That's a fun idea. It probably can't be an instant snapshot, that's for sure. But if you can map and watch every neuron and (oh god) synapse, seems like it should be possible. I'm sure some neuron structures/quirks can only be copied via observation.
As far as running that? fffft, who knows. FPGA seems a likely candidate if you can convert the neuron/synapse map over. But a software model would accomplish the same thing... probably just a whole lot slower.
I've noticed something similar about words in print. If someone reads something in a book, it is taken as fact.. why else would it be in a book? When i was younger, Michael Chrichton books did that to me. Now i see it happening to other people.
I think a front-line is drawn between two people exchanging fire. If you are in a FOB, LogBase, TCP, or other established point.. you are no longer at the front-line. You are definitely in the vicinity, yes, but on it? no.
Ok, i think of it like this.. ammo goes to the front where it is fired at the enemy. If you are passing ammo forward, you are in the rear. If you are holding ammo in prep for a fight, you are near the front. If you are expending ammo and being supplied more (double points for re-supply while shooting) then you are AT the front.
Warning shots, practice fire, and test firing type ammo expendature doesn't count. You can be bombed in the rear, that doesn't reopen it to the front. A front means direct confrontation with the enemy who is trying to take the dirt you are standing on.
A redneck isn't a lazy or ignorant white guy. Most farmers are rednecks.. it comes from the farmer tan look.. you have a red neck from working outdoors. You can say most rednecks aren't educated though.. because obviously they would have a hard time getting as much sun from inside a college classroom.
IMO, redneck isn't racially charged. It's as bad as calling someone a soft cityboy.
No security guards in my bars.. that sounds pretty crappy. I've seen guards at concerts and big events... or bouncers at a club. But never a bar. Maybe the bars in your country are different than mine? Small, dimly lit area, bar + bar stools, some booths for talking/eating, lots of booze.
Mona Lisa probably has a lot more eyeball time than the Space shuttle, you've got to be right about that. I don't know why though, it's possible time is a factor? or there is some mystery to it? There must be an Art History major who is cringing reading this : /
People of the future might look at today's shuttle the way we feel about the apollo capsule. But i don't think engineering should be preserved just because it is expensive.. but because it enabled us to do great things (and hopefully doesn't look too bad either). Rarely is Engineering considered Art.. we can rebuild something with the plans.. the Mona Lisa probably isn't easily reproducible and any would be an immitation of the original artist.. eh, i don't know.. maybe engineering is the same. Could we rebuild apollo?
I'm totally with you on the 500 years, the world will be a completely different place. People will probably go to space and find dead satellites to do research on to better learn the true historical facts.
Have you seen it in person? i have.. nothing against art but it didn't do anything for me. I'd rather see a retired spacecraft.
My first impression of the Mona Lisa.. wow, it's small. Then, hmmm, it's ok. Next! The sculptures nearby DID keep my interest though. To each their own, i guess.
I think there are a lot of religous hold ups over porn. And i hate to say it but my experiences with religious people lately has been that they want to appear right, not necessarily be right. So while they loudly denouce porn in daylight, their monitors flicker with sins at night.
This has been my personal experience lately, don't take this as a jab at all religious peoples and faiths.
I get what you're saying but this is different. Once you buy a phone you are somewhat committed to using only that. Unless you can drop it off and pickup a different phone in the time it takes to drive to another store.
When you go shopping.. you can stop by walmart, then the adult toys store, then your fav book store on the way home. You aren't committed to only purchase from one store. Walmart controls what they sell to you and not what you can buy.. you can get to other stores. The iphone is like buying a car that will ONLY take you to walmart and you can't stop by the train hobby store on the way.
I believe you. The first time i saw an israeli and US flag chalked on the ground in front of a Mosque, i walked up and asked the citizens coming out about it.. they were evasive and not forth coming. I did get a nice guy to explain to me that walking on the flags is an insult. So i walked on them and said, i am not insulted. He explained to me that the US supports israel and that is why they are together. I then asked him, I am supporting your country, why isn't your flag with mine? He thought this was very funny.
In my mind, if you smoke.. you just ticked the "I don't want lung coverage" option on your health program. Just like if you drink heavy, you just signed a statement saying "I opt out of a replacement liver should mine prematurely fail."
Is my view ok? If not, i will join you.. but that might be a bad thing. If i see an overweight person in line at McD's i'll feel compelled to smack the sack of burgers out of his hands and yell at them.
Thanks for the explaination. It makes me laugh a little to think about spreading the restitution/retribution across the company or several people in it anyways.
I'm picturing a 100k$ fine that must be paid from employee pockets based on a breakdown of wage divided by total profit over a fixed period (like 1 year or so). Wage should also include all bonuses and cash values of benefits and perks (like shares, vacation, personal jet). The finacial burden would be very top heavy in most of today's big business. Jail time could also land management in timeout for long periods of time. Unless the payscale was evened out a little.
cost per employee = Fine*(wage/profit) A fast food employee would have to pay around $250 for a 100k$ fine.. assuming they make above minimum wage and the store is making ~3k$/h. That would actually hurt a lot.
It's not the stack they are talking about, it's the radio's transmission power. It may turn out the ipad radio doesn't exceed their limit, that has yet to be seen.
About Israel, you should checkout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel Israel isn't fighting Arabs, but islamic militants. Take for example the Druze, they are Arabs who self-identify as Israeli and are accepted by Israel into all areas of government, including the army. Here's a tidbit: "Currently, a Druze MK, Majalli Wahabi of the centrist Kadima, as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, is next in line to the acting presidency" That's an Arab guy... interesting, eh?
But it doesn't jive with your statement... not the racial part anyways. You could change it to "currently deciding whether to involuntarily relocate a sizable chunk of non-israeli population living on land annexed during a war?" I'm pretty sure Israel extended citizenship to everyone in the territory but that doesn't mean they have to accept it. If they aren't citizens, what should the host country do? Ignore them? What if they keep blowing up your stuff?
I have never lived in Israel and get my information from the news and wikipedia. I do have an open mind, please correct me if i'm mistaken.
That makes perfect sense to me. I've been running scenerios in my mind and as long as an individual(s) led the corporation to do harm, it's a good thing. I can see ambiguous situations though where many people are collectively guilty through a chain of events that led unknowingly to harm. In that situation the collective/corporation is to blame for the damage and not the individuals. But maybe not, i don't know.. maybe it always points to an individual. Does intent to harm matter at all?
Does the free market encompass marketplace wrongdoing? The free market shouldn't have anything to do with laws.. but i can see how government laws could interfere with the market. If people were responsible for the actions of their company we would have a lot more whistleblowers to dangers i think.
My knowledge is based almost purely on science fiction but couldn't a ram-scoop type ship reach close to lightspeed? One G acceleration for a year is 0.75c, right? That is an old theoretical interstellar spaceship design. There are several other interesting ideas such as creating artificial gravity in front of the ship.. so the ship essentially falls farward.
Why do you say Interstellar travel is impractical? If you could travel to a point say 10 LY away at 0.75c, that's just under 13.5 years earth time (discounting the year of accel at each end, but you can add that in if you want). Sounds like a long time but don't forget time is different for those on the ship.. less time has passed for them.
You say communication is wildly impractical too? Slow, yes. But not long ago man, had to walk messages from one point to another.. a process that could take weeks, months, and possibly years. A scenerio where we can send messages to an alien life wouldn't be for direct conversation but for huge imformation exchanges. You cannot believe that the whole of humanity cannot come up with a format to teach a foreign mind to decode and read a message from earth. There are many constants in the universe to use as reference points. Would you really just say "well, it's not worth doing because it'll take 20 years to get an answer". We already do things that take years to give answers.. look at large science projects like the LHC and space probes. If you think about all the answers that took lifetimes to cultivate you'll see that the wait is worth it.
I think that we are the first or among the first civilizations that can leave their planet (though we can't stay gone for long, atm). If we can ever escape Earth's gravity permanently, i hope we leave colonies of humanity where ever the galaxy can support us. In a matter of time those islands of humanity will become aliens. We already have a huge variety of languages, beliefs, and foods. If evolution presures were different, we could become shaped different and have even larger cultural, language, and technology divides. Yes, i read lots of sci-fi : )
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What's wrong with speed cameras? They ensure everyone complies with the law. The camera part is only to identify your car and plate.. if they could use RFID or any other system, they would. The law has not changed with the addition of enforcement devices. That's not big brother at all man.
isn't almost everything in GIMP a plugin? I don't have gimp on this machine to look, but why isn't this plugin shipped with GIMP?
That's a fun idea. It probably can't be an instant snapshot, that's for sure. But if you can map and watch every neuron and (oh god) synapse, seems like it should be possible. I'm sure some neuron structures/quirks can only be copied via observation.
As far as running that? fffft, who knows. FPGA seems a likely candidate if you can convert the neuron/synapse map over. But a software model would accomplish the same thing... probably just a whole lot slower.
I think this is the best answer. But if the cops are called before you can get a meeting, you could be forced into Childs' situation.
For me, i love to download and test drive open source stuff. I remove 90% of it, but sometimes you run into some really great apps.
Good god man, my FF never goes over 100mb, even with lots of tabs open. It averages at 70mb and i'm sure you can configure it to be even more minimal.
It's possible your build is bad. Are you using something stable and tested by your distro?
Give this place a shot man: http://www.onguardonline.gov/
We use http://iase.disa.mil/eta/index.html#onlinetraining and have to maintain the certs yearly.
I've noticed something similar about words in print. If someone reads something in a book, it is taken as fact.. why else would it be in a book? When i was younger, Michael Chrichton books did that to me. Now i see it happening to other people.
Maybe as humans we are too trusting of our tools?
I think a front-line is drawn between two people exchanging fire. If you are in a FOB, LogBase, TCP, or other established point.. you are no longer at the front-line. You are definitely in the vicinity, yes, but on it? no.
Ok, i think of it like this.. ammo goes to the front where it is fired at the enemy. If you are passing ammo forward, you are in the rear. If you are holding ammo in prep for a fight, you are near the front. If you are expending ammo and being supplied more (double points for re-supply while shooting) then you are AT the front.
Warning shots, practice fire, and test firing type ammo expendature doesn't count. You can be bombed in the rear, that doesn't reopen it to the front. A front means direct confrontation with the enemy who is trying to take the dirt you are standing on.
All, imo.
You mean "Loose Tweets Sinks Fleets" like in this poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctabu/3657942692/
A redneck isn't a lazy or ignorant white guy. Most farmers are rednecks.. it comes from the farmer tan look.. you have a red neck from working outdoors. You can say most rednecks aren't educated though.. because obviously they would have a hard time getting as much sun from inside a college classroom.
IMO, redneck isn't racially charged. It's as bad as calling someone a soft cityboy.
No security guards in my bars.. that sounds pretty crappy. I've seen guards at concerts and big events... or bouncers at a club. But never a bar. Maybe the bars in your country are different than mine? Small, dimly lit area, bar + bar stools, some booths for talking/eating, lots of booze.
Mona Lisa probably has a lot more eyeball time than the Space shuttle, you've got to be right about that. I don't know why though, it's possible time is a factor? or there is some mystery to it? There must be an Art History major who is cringing reading this : /
People of the future might look at today's shuttle the way we feel about the apollo capsule. But i don't think engineering should be preserved just because it is expensive.. but because it enabled us to do great things (and hopefully doesn't look too bad either). Rarely is Engineering considered Art.. we can rebuild something with the plans.. the Mona Lisa probably isn't easily reproducible and any would be an immitation of the original artist.. eh, i don't know.. maybe engineering is the same. Could we rebuild apollo?
I'm totally with you on the 500 years, the world will be a completely different place. People will probably go to space and find dead satellites to do research on to better learn the true historical facts.
Wasn't the shuttle also valuable because it could capture whole satellites and perform repairs?
Have you seen it in person? i have.. nothing against art but it didn't do anything for me. I'd rather see a retired spacecraft.
My first impression of the Mona Lisa.. wow, it's small. Then, hmmm, it's ok. Next! The sculptures nearby DID keep my interest though. To each their own, i guess.
I think there are a lot of religous hold ups over porn. And i hate to say it but my experiences with religious people lately has been that they want to appear right, not necessarily be right. So while they loudly denouce porn in daylight, their monitors flicker with sins at night.
This has been my personal experience lately, don't take this as a jab at all religious peoples and faiths.
You can get the Nexus One for AT&T now. yay!
I get what you're saying but this is different. Once you buy a phone you are somewhat committed to using only that. Unless you can drop it off and pickup a different phone in the time it takes to drive to another store.
When you go shopping.. you can stop by walmart, then the adult toys store, then your fav book store on the way home. You aren't committed to only purchase from one store. Walmart controls what they sell to you and not what you can buy.. you can get to other stores. The iphone is like buying a car that will ONLY take you to walmart and you can't stop by the train hobby store on the way.
I believe you. The first time i saw an israeli and US flag chalked on the ground in front of a Mosque, i walked up and asked the citizens coming out about it.. they were evasive and not forth coming. I did get a nice guy to explain to me that walking on the flags is an insult. So i walked on them and said, i am not insulted. He explained to me that the US supports israel and that is why they are together. I then asked him, I am supporting your country, why isn't your flag with mine? He thought this was very funny.
Maybe, but i think that's the wrong fix.
In my mind, if you smoke.. you just ticked the "I don't want lung coverage" option on your health program. Just like if you drink heavy, you just signed a statement saying "I opt out of a replacement liver should mine prematurely fail."
Is my view ok? If not, i will join you.. but that might be a bad thing. If i see an overweight person in line at McD's i'll feel compelled to smack the sack of burgers out of his hands and yell at them.
Thanks for the explaination. It makes me laugh a little to think about spreading the restitution/retribution across the company or several people in it anyways.
I'm picturing a 100k$ fine that must be paid from employee pockets based on a breakdown of wage divided by total profit over a fixed period (like 1 year or so). Wage should also include all bonuses and cash values of benefits and perks (like shares, vacation, personal jet). The finacial burden would be very top heavy in most of today's big business. Jail time could also land management in timeout for long periods of time. Unless the payscale was evened out a little.
cost per employee = Fine*(wage/profit)
A fast food employee would have to pay around $250 for a 100k$ fine.. assuming they make above minimum wage and the store is making ~3k$/h. That would actually hurt a lot.
It's not the stack they are talking about, it's the radio's transmission power. It may turn out the ipad radio doesn't exceed their limit, that has yet to be seen.
About Israel, you should checkout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
Israel isn't fighting Arabs, but islamic militants. Take for example the Druze, they are Arabs who self-identify as Israeli and are accepted by Israel into all areas of government, including the army. Here's a tidbit: "Currently, a Druze MK, Majalli Wahabi of the centrist Kadima, as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, is next in line to the acting presidency" That's an Arab guy... interesting, eh?
But it doesn't jive with your statement... not the racial part anyways. You could change it to "currently deciding whether to involuntarily relocate a sizable chunk of non-israeli population living on land annexed during a war?" I'm pretty sure Israel extended citizenship to everyone in the territory but that doesn't mean they have to accept it. If they aren't citizens, what should the host country do? Ignore them? What if they keep blowing up your stuff?
I have never lived in Israel and get my information from the news and wikipedia. I do have an open mind, please correct me if i'm mistaken.
That makes perfect sense to me. I've been running scenerios in my mind and as long as an individual(s) led the corporation to do harm, it's a good thing. I can see ambiguous situations though where many people are collectively guilty through a chain of events that led unknowingly to harm. In that situation the collective/corporation is to blame for the damage and not the individuals. But maybe not, i don't know.. maybe it always points to an individual. Does intent to harm matter at all?
Does the free market encompass marketplace wrongdoing? The free market shouldn't have anything to do with laws.. but i can see how government laws could interfere with the market. If people were responsible for the actions of their company we would have a lot more whistleblowers to dangers i think.
My knowledge is based almost purely on science fiction but couldn't a ram-scoop type ship reach close to lightspeed? One G acceleration for a year is 0.75c, right? That is an old theoretical interstellar spaceship design. There are several other interesting ideas such as creating artificial gravity in front of the ship.. so the ship essentially falls farward.
Why do you say Interstellar travel is impractical? If you could travel to a point say 10 LY away at 0.75c, that's just under 13.5 years earth time (discounting the year of accel at each end, but you can add that in if you want). Sounds like a long time but don't forget time is different for those on the ship.. less time has passed for them.
You say communication is wildly impractical too? Slow, yes. But not long ago man, had to walk messages from one point to another.. a process that could take weeks, months, and possibly years. A scenerio where we can send messages to an alien life wouldn't be for direct conversation but for huge imformation exchanges. You cannot believe that the whole of humanity cannot come up with a format to teach a foreign mind to decode and read a message from earth. There are many constants in the universe to use as reference points. Would you really just say "well, it's not worth doing because it'll take 20 years to get an answer". We already do things that take years to give answers.. look at large science projects like the LHC and space probes. If you think about all the answers that took lifetimes to cultivate you'll see that the wait is worth it.
I think that we are the first or among the first civilizations that can leave their planet (though we can't stay gone for long, atm). If we can ever escape Earth's gravity permanently, i hope we leave colonies of humanity where ever the galaxy can support us. In a matter of time those islands of humanity will become aliens. We already have a huge variety of languages, beliefs, and foods. If evolution presures were different, we could become shaped different and have even larger cultural, language, and technology divides. Yes, i read lots of sci-fi : )