I thought both posts were informative, but a rocket can carry a lot more sand grains than bullets. As for the energy, here is what a fleck of paint did to the shuttle's four inch thick windscreen, they know it was paint because it was still embedded (three inched deep) in the hardened glass when they landed.
They are mapping social networks, the content of the messages is relatively unimportant, as they have said themselves on a number of occasions it the metadata they want. From a military POV knowing who talks to who is far more useful than knowing what they are saying. Software can reliably extract and document these networks from enormous data sets, it's these networks that the spooks are trying to find.
The FBI used similar (manual) techniques to disrupt civil rights groups in the 60's and 70's. It's really just basic common-sense taken to the extreme, if you are fighting an organised enemy then the first thing you will want is the enemies org chart. As we have seen with Gen. McCarthy, J.E Hoover, the Stasi, etc, the problem begins when the state perceives the citizenry as the enemy.
The one minor flaw in your theory is that the "cash cows" are with those who have "been hung out to dry". The real problem is the flood of illegitimate take down requests caused by the fact there is no penalty for a "bad faith" applicant who is determined to drown their victims in paperwork.
I drove taxis 25yrs ago, we had computerised dispatch back then (with a dispatcher entering the data), all of them now have their own app where the user fills out their own details. The taxi dispatchers are there to answer the phones, the dispatch company is usually owned and operated as a co-op between the individual taxi owners. AFAIK Uber doesn't offer the "human on a phone" option, it's web form or nothing.
Since there are thousands of taxi owners paying for a few drones in a call center it is an insignificant part of the cost of running a taxi. By far the biggest cost of running a cab is maintenance, fuel, insurance, and the interest you pay on the loan you took out for the "medallion".
If hipsters want to change the law into a race to the bottom for owner-operators, then the first thing they must do is buy back those medallions at a fair price. People have worked their entire lives to pay for a single medallion, a bunch of parasites who believe the law doesn't apply to them are rapidly making them worthless.
That only works in the center of certain large cities (eg: NYC), everywhere else more taxi's are dispatched than flagged down, except for Fri/Sat night shift, I know this because I drove one for 3yrs. Suburban work is mostly shuffling old people around and trips to the airport. IMO Uber are parasitic rent seekers, they are an old fashioned limo company "on a computer" and should be regulated as one. Whether you agree with the current law or not, the authorities should not have allowed Uber to continue to profit by ignoring it.
Well said, We need to stop letting the enemy define this war as "us vs Islam" and make it crystal clear that it is "us vs death cults".
Catholics in England were not ostracized when the IRA were blowing people up, Christians in the US were not attacked in the street by strangers because of the behaviour of the KKK. ISIS are religious extremists whose victims are mainly other muslims. Muslims are our allies against ISIS in the same way Christians were our allies against the IRA and KKK. The refugees pouring out of ISIS territory collectively know more about ISIS operations than the Pentagon, they have lost everything to ISIS, we are at a crossroad, we can welcome them as "citizens the free world", or we can allow ISIS to kill the brave, enslave the weak, and indoctrinate the youth.
The 35 million refugees represent the "human intel" that the west has so dismally failed to cultivate in the arab world. Why are we treating our most valuable allies as a liability? - These are the very people who want to (and can) help us dismantle ISIS from the ground up, yet western social media is littered with calls to close our borders and push our natural allies back into enemy territory "where they belong".
ISIS territory is unstable and surrounded by a standing army of 5 million muslims who want them dead. They desperately needs the rest of the Islamic world on board before they have a hope in hell of achieving their stated aim of a global caliphate. Sadly, at least a third of my FB friends cannot contain the xenophobic instincts that we all have. They are doing exactly what the enemy's strategy predicted they would do, spreading anti-muslim propaganda that seeks to divide the world into "rednecks vs muslims".
Sure, I wish them luck, but why does the pentagon have to rely on a loosely organised group of pimply teenagers to disrupt ISIS propaganda?
What happened to the all powerful NSA / CIA I am always hearing about on slashdot? Don't they have nightly backups of the entire internet? Have ISIS admins somehow closed the NSA's infamous backdoors? Why are the spooks who broke Iran's centrifuges with social engineering and sophisticated malware suddenly incapable of hacking a garden variety web site?
no older players were actually studied, just kids and young adults
The wife and I are regular WoT players and both in our 50's. We basically ignore chat and just play the game. The wife has been playing for a few years, she used to get rattled by trolls until I explained they're just bored kids in their pyjamas waiting for mum to send them to bed.
The Mexican Americans are not pleased with the illegal ones due to the jobs and resources they lose/share
That's just human nature. People who have jumped thru all the legal hoops think everyone else should do the same, regardless of the purpose of those hoops. It doesn't matter if the hoops are irrationally based on a lottery, they jumped the hoops and having done so they will feel superior to those who walked around, the more insane the hoops the more superior they feel.
As for "stealing jobs" - that is an illogical but common attitude. More than any other nation, US economic and military might was built on the backs of immigrants (both free and forced).
This has been a problem since before humans were humans, humans and most other primates are highly territorial, they naturally form tribes with a hierarchical social structure. It's possible our invention of civilization will eventually change that but it hasn't happened yet, however it has dramatically changed the size of our tribes from a few hundred to hundreds of millions and those who attempt to swap tribes are likely to survive the ordeal, the behaviour of our species is moving away from the standard primate model, it now behaves like a cross between human tribalism and a technologically advanced termite mound.
At the end of the day the fighting is always about resources but we justify and rationalise it with our natural xenophobia. This is the way "nature intended", it is in the wetware toolbox we were given at birth. Peaceful co-existence in a land of plenty is what we all want, ironically our xenophobic tendencies mean we are more than willing to wipe out other tribes to get it.
Ex-taxi driver here (late 80's). The oldest taxi I ever drove was 5yrs old and had 1.2 million kilometers on the clock, even the door hinges on the passenger side had been replaced more than once. The average 24/7 cab in Melbourne racks up about 1000 km/day, (if you have more than one cab) the cheapest way to keep them on the road is to buy a late model sedan at a government auction that has ~100K on the clock, and have your own workshop and mechanic. A new car warranty is virtually pointless, if you buy a new car with a 100,000km warranty, the warranty will expire in the first 6 months. If you don't have a workshop and mechanic then you will be paying close to retail prices to maintain it.Of course with 1M+ km on the clock, the resale/salvage value is virtually nil.
Leasing it for $500/mth including tyres and maintenance would be a bargain if it was $AU in Australia. However the idea is not new, open any newspaper to the "help wanted" section and you will see dozens of adverts attempting to sell/lease three ton courier trucks with a "guaranteed income".
Office boys don't know much about hard work. When I was a young bloke I worked the fishing boats in Bass Straight (the notorious stretch of water that separates Tasmania from mainland Australia). Pay was ok if the weather allowed you to get three trips into two weeks, but working conditions were brutal, 70+ hours straight with a 30min break every 5hrs, it was not unusual to have visual and auditory hallucinations toward the end of the trip due to lack of sleep.
That was 1980-81, long before I got a decent education, I now work for as a "senior software engineer" for a Japanese multi-national, 40hr week, 3 out of 5 days working from home, lots of autonomy, six figure pay pack, and a great deal of institutional respect for old farts with decades of experience.
Even if I wanted to go back to fishing boats my aged body would be unable to handle the conditions.
Not just unions, law enforcement agencies also lobby for their slice of the $10B/pa taxpayer pie known as "the war on drugs". The fact that a public service institution can "lobby" the government is bizarre, their sole purpose is to implement policy not dictate it.
From what we know the universe should be teeming with life, so where is everybody?
This is the question Drake was actually asking with the "Drake equation". It's not a huge stretch to imagine species that develop fossil fuel technology self destruct in a very short time (geologically speaking). A fate not that different from fermenting yeast in a sealed container.
The trick is that they are only useful for testing out how things work under a given energy imbalance or energy conditions. They are NOT useful for hindcasting energy imbalance
The source for the quoted nonsense above is WUWT, one of many denier/front sites funded by the (untaxed) anti-science lobbyists at the .
The fact is that hindcasting is how climate models are tested, how else would anyone test it? You can find the code for several important models here and run it yourself for the price of a decent server.
Not only can we model the evolution of Earth's past climate and routinely hindcast the last 500yrs with high levels of "model skill", we can also model the evolution of climate on other planets, in particular Mars and Venus. Here's a reliable and independent source that talks about hindcasting climate for testing purposes.
Note also that the uncertainty you quote is about cloud cover, the other common cherry pick used in this kind of FUD is the uncertainty surrounding the behaviour of ice. These two KNOWN uncertainties are discussed in great detail in the report you linked to. They are responsible for what scientists call "error bars". The WG1 report is however the best summary of the current state of climate science that anyone has to offer. If you want to debunk climate science that is the primary document to attack, it is the embodiment of the so called "consensus", good luck in your studies.
It would only be valid if both sides agreed to the transaction and signed it cryptographically.
All it does it confirm that the document hasn't changed since it was signed, the validity of the document is determined by property law. You can do the same thing by giving a copy of the document to an independent party for safe keeping. It's a complex solution to a simple problem of trust, and a waste of electricity to boot.
Yep and that philanthropy survives today as the Nobel prize, the money for the prizes comes from his estate, it's held in perpetuity in a trust fund, profits from the fund are given away as prizes.
The entire planet witnessed what happened in Iraq when the US military sacked the Iraqi public service from the police chief and mayor all the way down to garbage collectors, cops, firemen, etc. Then stood by as the looters and vandals pulled their own society apart. Why are so many Americans keen to repeat that mistake in their own country? Expose serious wrongdoing by all means possible, but IMO your purge/corrupt suggestion is just random vandalism.
Actually it might not be a 100% failure, perhaps there is something interesting in their research, even knowing something about what doesn't work can be useful. I'm assuming the navy are interested in the idea from an engineering POV. We know very little about building machines on the scale of real insects. Still lots to learn from real dragonflies, such as why don't their wings fall off after a few seconds?. - I hear the navy is willing to pay $1M to find out.
Something about "squaring the circle" and an argument between Christians and ancient Greeks, it's been around for centuries. Oddly general relativity dictates a circle drawn around a deep gravity well will significantly reduce the value of Pi, the value for Earth's gravity well makes the circumference of a circular orbit around it about an inch less than expected using Pi.
See, outside of the UK you don't need to be a member of parliament to get a seat in the government, get used to it, it works fine.
If they are not elected, how can they have a "seat in government", a "seat" is a geographical area where an election is held to find a representative. Washington DC is the only place I can think of in the west where taxpayers are denied a vote, ie: they don't get a "seat".
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I thought both posts were informative, but a rocket can carry a lot more sand grains than bullets. As for the energy, here is what a fleck of paint did to the shuttle's four inch thick windscreen, they know it was paint because it was still embedded (three inched deep) in the hardened glass when they landed.
They are mapping social networks, the content of the messages is relatively unimportant, as they have said themselves on a number of occasions it the metadata they want. From a military POV knowing who talks to who is far more useful than knowing what they are saying. Software can reliably extract and document these networks from enormous data sets, it's these networks that the spooks are trying to find.
The FBI used similar (manual) techniques to disrupt civil rights groups in the 60's and 70's. It's really just basic common-sense taken to the extreme, if you are fighting an organised enemy then the first thing you will want is the enemies org chart. As we have seen with Gen. McCarthy, J.E Hoover, the Stasi, etc, the problem begins when the state perceives the citizenry as the enemy.
The one minor flaw in your theory is that the "cash cows" are with those who have "been hung out to dry". The real problem is the flood of illegitimate take down requests caused by the fact there is no penalty for a "bad faith" applicant who is determined to drown their victims in paperwork.
I drove taxis 25yrs ago, we had computerised dispatch back then (with a dispatcher entering the data), all of them now have their own app where the user fills out their own details. The taxi dispatchers are there to answer the phones, the dispatch company is usually owned and operated as a co-op between the individual taxi owners. AFAIK Uber doesn't offer the "human on a phone" option, it's web form or nothing.
Since there are thousands of taxi owners paying for a few drones in a call center it is an insignificant part of the cost of running a taxi. By far the biggest cost of running a cab is maintenance, fuel, insurance, and the interest you pay on the loan you took out for the "medallion".
If hipsters want to change the law into a race to the bottom for owner-operators, then the first thing they must do is buy back those medallions at a fair price. People have worked their entire lives to pay for a single medallion, a bunch of parasites who believe the law doesn't apply to them are rapidly making them worthless.
That only works in the center of certain large cities (eg: NYC), everywhere else more taxi's are dispatched than flagged down, except for Fri/Sat night shift, I know this because I drove one for 3yrs. Suburban work is mostly shuffling old people around and trips to the airport. IMO Uber are parasitic rent seekers, they are an old fashioned limo company "on a computer" and should be regulated as one. Whether you agree with the current law or not, the authorities should not have allowed Uber to continue to profit by ignoring it.
Well said, We need to stop letting the enemy define this war as "us vs Islam" and make it crystal clear that it is "us vs death cults".
Catholics in England were not ostracized when the IRA were blowing people up, Christians in the US were not attacked in the street by strangers because of the behaviour of the KKK. ISIS are religious extremists whose victims are mainly other muslims. Muslims are our allies against ISIS in the same way Christians were our allies against the IRA and KKK. The refugees pouring out of ISIS territory collectively know more about ISIS operations than the Pentagon, they have lost everything to ISIS, we are at a crossroad, we can welcome them as "citizens the free world", or we can allow ISIS to kill the brave, enslave the weak, and indoctrinate the youth.
The 35 million refugees represent the "human intel" that the west has so dismally failed to cultivate in the arab world. Why are we treating our most valuable allies as a liability? - These are the very people who want to (and can) help us dismantle ISIS from the ground up, yet western social media is littered with calls to close our borders and push our natural allies back into enemy territory "where they belong".
ISIS territory is unstable and surrounded by a standing army of 5 million muslims who want them dead. They desperately needs the rest of the Islamic world on board before they have a hope in hell of achieving their stated aim of a global caliphate. Sadly, at least a third of my FB friends cannot contain the xenophobic instincts that we all have. They are doing exactly what the enemy's strategy predicted they would do, spreading anti-muslim propaganda that seeks to divide the world into "rednecks vs muslims".
Sure, I wish them luck, but why does the pentagon have to rely on a loosely organised group of pimply teenagers to disrupt ISIS propaganda?
What happened to the all powerful NSA / CIA I am always hearing about on slashdot? Don't they have nightly backups of the entire internet? Have ISIS admins somehow closed the NSA's infamous backdoors? Why are the spooks who broke Iran's centrifuges with social engineering and sophisticated malware suddenly incapable of hacking a garden variety web site?
Here's the same quote in a beat poem
no older players were actually studied, just kids and young adults
The wife and I are regular WoT players and both in our 50's. We basically ignore chat and just play the game. The wife has been playing for a few years, she used to get rattled by trolls until I explained they're just bored kids in their pyjamas waiting for mum to send them to bed.
The Mexican Americans are not pleased with the illegal ones due to the jobs and resources they lose/share
That's just human nature. People who have jumped thru all the legal hoops think everyone else should do the same, regardless of the purpose of those hoops. It doesn't matter if the hoops are irrationally based on a lottery, they jumped the hoops and having done so they will feel superior to those who walked around, the more insane the hoops the more superior they feel.
As for "stealing jobs" - that is an illogical but common attitude. More than any other nation, US economic and military might was built on the backs of immigrants (both free and forced).
This has been a problem since before humans were humans, humans and most other primates are highly territorial, they naturally form tribes with a hierarchical social structure. It's possible our invention of civilization will eventually change that but it hasn't happened yet, however it has dramatically changed the size of our tribes from a few hundred to hundreds of millions and those who attempt to swap tribes are likely to survive the ordeal, the behaviour of our species is moving away from the standard primate model, it now behaves like a cross between human tribalism and a technologically advanced termite mound.
At the end of the day the fighting is always about resources but we justify and rationalise it with our natural xenophobia. This is the way "nature intended", it is in the wetware toolbox we were given at birth. Peaceful co-existence in a land of plenty is what we all want, ironically our xenophobic tendencies mean we are more than willing to wipe out other tribes to get it.
Ex-taxi driver here (late 80's). The oldest taxi I ever drove was 5yrs old and had 1.2 million kilometers on the clock, even the door hinges on the passenger side had been replaced more than once. The average 24/7 cab in Melbourne racks up about 1000 km/day, (if you have more than one cab) the cheapest way to keep them on the road is to buy a late model sedan at a government auction that has ~100K on the clock, and have your own workshop and mechanic. A new car warranty is virtually pointless, if you buy a new car with a 100,000km warranty, the warranty will expire in the first 6 months. If you don't have a workshop and mechanic then you will be paying close to retail prices to maintain it.Of course with 1M+ km on the clock, the resale/salvage value is virtually nil.
Leasing it for $500/mth including tyres and maintenance would be a bargain if it was $AU in Australia. However the idea is not new, open any newspaper to the "help wanted" section and you will see dozens of adverts attempting to sell/lease three ton courier trucks with a "guaranteed income".
Office boys don't know much about hard work. When I was a young bloke I worked the fishing boats in Bass Straight (the notorious stretch of water that separates Tasmania from mainland Australia). Pay was ok if the weather allowed you to get three trips into two weeks, but working conditions were brutal, 70+ hours straight with a 30min break every 5hrs, it was not unusual to have visual and auditory hallucinations toward the end of the trip due to lack of sleep.
That was 1980-81, long before I got a decent education, I now work for as a "senior software engineer" for a Japanese multi-national, 40hr week, 3 out of 5 days working from home, lots of autonomy, six figure pay pack, and a great deal of institutional respect for old farts with decades of experience.
Even if I wanted to go back to fishing boats my aged body would be unable to handle the conditions.
Not just unions, law enforcement agencies also lobby for their slice of the $10B/pa taxpayer pie known as "the war on drugs". The fact that a public service institution can "lobby" the government is bizarre, their sole purpose is to implement policy not dictate it.
From what we know the universe should be teeming with life, so where is everybody?
This is the question Drake was actually asking with the "Drake equation". It's not a huge stretch to imagine species that develop fossil fuel technology self destruct in a very short time (geologically speaking). A fate not that different from fermenting yeast in a sealed container.
...but it does make it more likely.
Why? - Google "Frank Luntz climate memo", I'm sick to death of debunking that red-herring for useful idiots and astroturfers..
Yep, 80% reduction in Arctic sea ice volume in my lifetime, just like the US National Academies of Science said it would in 1958.
The trick is that they are only useful for testing out how things work under a given energy imbalance or energy conditions. They are NOT useful for hindcasting energy imbalance
The source for the quoted nonsense above is WUWT, one of many denier/front sites funded by the (untaxed) anti-science lobbyists at the .
The fact is that hindcasting is how climate models are tested, how else would anyone test it? You can find the code for several important models here and run it yourself for the price of a decent server.
Not only can we model the evolution of Earth's past climate and routinely hindcast the last 500yrs with high levels of "model skill", we can also model the evolution of climate on other planets, in particular Mars and Venus. Here's a reliable and independent source that talks about hindcasting climate for testing purposes.
Note also that the uncertainty you quote is about cloud cover, the other common cherry pick used in this kind of FUD is the uncertainty surrounding the behaviour of ice. These two KNOWN uncertainties are discussed in great detail in the report you linked to. They are responsible for what scientists call "error bars". The WG1 report is however the best summary of the current state of climate science that anyone has to offer. If you want to debunk climate science that is the primary document to attack, it is the embodiment of the so called "consensus", good luck in your studies.
It would only be valid if both sides agreed to the transaction and signed it cryptographically.
All it does it confirm that the document hasn't changed since it was signed, the validity of the document is determined by property law. You can do the same thing by giving a copy of the document to an independent party for safe keeping. It's a complex solution to a simple problem of trust, and a waste of electricity to boot.
Yep and that philanthropy survives today as the Nobel prize, the money for the prizes comes from his estate, it's held in perpetuity in a trust fund, profits from the fund are given away as prizes.
Purge the whole database or corrupt all the data
The entire planet witnessed what happened in Iraq when the US military sacked the Iraqi public service from the police chief and mayor all the way down to garbage collectors, cops, firemen, etc. Then stood by as the looters and vandals pulled their own society apart. Why are so many Americans keen to repeat that mistake in their own country? Expose serious wrongdoing by all means possible, but IMO your purge/corrupt suggestion is just random vandalism.
Actually it might not be a 100% failure, perhaps there is something interesting in their research, even knowing something about what doesn't work can be useful. I'm assuming the navy are interested in the idea from an engineering POV. We know very little about building machines on the scale of real insects. Still lots to learn from real dragonflies, such as why don't their wings fall off after a few seconds?. - I hear the navy is willing to pay $1M to find out.
There may even have been a religious angle
Something about "squaring the circle" and an argument between Christians and ancient Greeks, it's been around for centuries. Oddly general relativity dictates a circle drawn around a deep gravity well will significantly reduce the value of Pi, the value for Earth's gravity well makes the circumference of a circular orbit around it about an inch less than expected using Pi.
See, outside of the UK you don't need to be a member of parliament to get a seat in the government, get used to it, it works fine.
If they are not elected, how can they have a "seat in government", a "seat" is a geographical area where an election is held to find a representative. Washington DC is the only place I can think of in the west where taxpayers are denied a vote, ie: they don't get a "seat".