It's just a statistic I heard somewhere. There are about 800,000 arrests per year, (say) 75yr life expectancy, gives 60 million, that's 60 million too many. A conviction for dope can fuck up your life, if you are not sent to to prison for life on possesion of 2oz, you can still lose your farm, house, or they can take your kids.
Your correct, the total enforcement figure is $10 billion for the US, lost tax revenue from prohibition is estimated at $40 billion (prisons are a large chunk of it), the 18 second figure is correct (ref: mpp.org). I have no idea where I got $100b total or the $10b DEA thing from, perhaps that's a world wide total or maybe I was stoned when I read it.
"Honestly, what's the justification for this nonsense?"
"War on drugs" ring any bells? - it's a euphemisim for oppression.
High ranking police all over the planet have built beuracratic kingdoms around the idiotic idea of declaring war on a social problem. In the US where this moronic idea came from it costs $100 billion/year to police just pot alone, yes $100 BILLION every YEAR just to stop people smoking pot. $10 billion of that goes directly to the DEA who LOBBY legislatures to keep the status quo. One american is arrested and has their life ruined every 18 seconds just for smoking pot. UK, Australia, etc, are no different.
You need to read something else besides slashdot reporting greatly exagerated news of our demise. This bunch of pricks are the same as the last bunch of pricks when it comes to mandatory filters; all talk to impress a couple of independent senators. There has never been, nor will there ever be, an Australian "great firewall". The closest thing we have is "the great rabbit fence" but even that leaked rabbits all over the place.
Feynmam credited his dad for the way he thought about the universe, he talks about his childhood quite a bit in the many interviews available on youtube. My favorite childhood science guy was Julius Sumner Miller, he had a wonderful habit of asking questions and then leaving them unanswered.
"On the other hand, museums in the UK do prohibit photography"
When in London a couple of years back I visited two museams, I tried to take a photo in the maratime museam and a gaurd appeared from nowhere to tell me it was prohibited.
In the much more spectacular and famous Britsh museam they couldn't care less if you took snaps of the rosetta stone, egyptian mummies, greek statues, or any of their other wonders. They had various staff at certain displays that allowed you to handle stone age tools and other non-fragile items. The gift shop at the british museam was jam packed with people buying photos in the form of postcards, calendars, etc.
"It's not a hardware breakthrough that'll create a true AI - it's an algorithm breakthrough that's required."
On the contray, I think you need a algorithmic breakthrough to understand the brain but you don't need a new algorithim to create a brain. Humans have built and used many things well before they had a theoretical basis for how they worked, for example people were using levers to build pyramids long before archimedes came and gave us the "lever algorithim".
Thanks for the excellent debunking. I have very little to do with the mechanics of networks but I do remeber "netflow routing", IIRC there was quite a debate back in the 90's about packet vs flow management and flow lost. From a naive point of view, I could never see how adding an extra lookup table would make things more efficient.
"Even Pentagon officials admit that the "charity" spent the majority of its money feeding hungry people, teaching poor people, and helping sick people. Only a small portion of it was skimmed by a few terrorist sympathizers who infiltrated the charity."
I agree the threat has been blown out of all proportion, 65yrs in jail for charity work is nothing short of barbaric.
"What effect (if any) will pumping this warm water down and cool water up have..."
One possibility: If the mixing warms the water at the bottom it may be enough to release methane from methane hydrates deposited in the ocean bed. On the down side this will make global warming worse, on the upside the mass of bubbles will sink Bill's fleet of ships.
"Anyone who questions the validity of a theory should be heard"
Rubbish, if you don't question the validity of the question then we end up teaching creation science and every other crackpot theory in schools because some institute with absolutely no scientific standing has questioned evolutionary theory, heliocentric theory, germ theory, or some other theory that they don't like. When this happens it is no longer science, it's mearly uninformed opinion.
Your post is typical of a significant minority of slashdotters who are being mislead by a looby group that make the MAFIAA look like amatures, the urban ledgends you are repeating in your post were created by the heartland institute who are associated with the CEI and other anti-science front groups via the Cooler heads coalition.
Their associated web sites are too numerous to list but two of them that are quoted with depressing regularity on slashdot are icecap (owned and operated by HI) and WUWT, (Watts is a regular attraction at the HI's "climate confrences").
Unfortuately there a lot of aussie rednecks who listen to Mike Munroe, Andrew Bolt, Miranda Devine and Alan Jones, politicians can't fight that level of bullshit without killing the free press in the process.
"What's the best way to combat this sort of misinformation?"
Slashdot Mirror
About 800,000 arrests per year or to put it another way about one person in four using an average life span of 75yrs.
It's just a statistic I heard somewhere. There are about 800,000 arrests per year, (say) 75yr life expectancy, gives 60 million, that's 60 million too many. A conviction for dope can fuck up your life, if you are not sent to to prison for life on possesion of 2oz, you can still lose your farm, house, or they can take your kids.
Your correct, the total enforcement figure is $10 billion for the US, lost tax revenue from prohibition is estimated at $40 billion (prisons are a large chunk of it), the 18 second figure is correct (ref: mpp.org). I have no idea where I got $100b total or the $10b DEA thing from, perhaps that's a world wide total or maybe I was stoned when I read it.
"Honestly, what's the justification for this nonsense?"
"War on drugs" ring any bells? - it's a euphemisim for oppression.
High ranking police all over the planet have built beuracratic kingdoms around the idiotic idea of declaring war on a social problem. In the US where this moronic idea came from it costs $100 billion/year to police just pot alone, yes $100 BILLION every YEAR just to stop people smoking pot. $10 billion of that goes directly to the DEA who LOBBY legislatures to keep the status quo. One american is arrested and has their life ruined every 18 seconds just for smoking pot. UK, Australia, etc, are no different.
You need to read something else besides slashdot reporting greatly exagerated news of our demise. This bunch of pricks are the same as the last bunch of pricks when it comes to mandatory filters; all talk to impress a couple of independent senators. There has never been, nor will there ever be, an Australian "great firewall". The closest thing we have is "the great rabbit fence" but even that leaked rabbits all over the place.
"Greenhouse gas reduction"
I doubt it...
Before: Coal - Power Plant - CO2 in atmosphere.
After: Coal - Power Plant - CO2 - Algae - Fuel - Combustion - CO2 in atmosphere.
The man has extrodinary claims, all he needs now is the extrodinary evidence.
Feynmam credited his dad for the way he thought about the universe, he talks about his childhood quite a bit in the many interviews available on youtube. My favorite childhood science guy was Julius Sumner Miller, he had a wonderful habit of asking questions and then leaving them unanswered.
"On the other hand, museums in the UK do prohibit photography"
When in London a couple of years back I visited two museams, I tried to take a photo in the maratime museam and a gaurd appeared from nowhere to tell me it was prohibited.
In the much more spectacular and famous Britsh museam they couldn't care less if you took snaps of the rosetta stone, egyptian mummies, greek statues, or any of their other wonders. They had various staff at certain displays that allowed you to handle stone age tools and other non-fragile items. The gift shop at the british museam was jam packed with people buying photos in the form of postcards, calendars, etc.
"It's not a hardware breakthrough that'll create a true AI - it's an algorithm breakthrough that's required."
On the contray, I think you need a algorithmic breakthrough to understand the brain but you don't need a new algorithim to create a brain. Humans have built and used many things well before they had a theoretical basis for how they worked, for example people were using levers to build pyramids long before archimedes came and gave us the "lever algorithim".
Yes so extrodinary that for decades after the war it was used by the US/UK to spy on enemies and allies.
Thanks for the excellent debunking. I have very little to do with the mechanics of networks but I do remeber "netflow routing", IIRC there was quite a debate back in the 90's about packet vs flow management and flow lost. From a naive point of view, I could never see how adding an extra lookup table would make things more efficient.
"Even Pentagon officials admit that the "charity" spent the majority of its money feeding hungry people, teaching poor people, and helping sick people. Only a small portion of it was skimmed by a few terrorist sympathizers who infiltrated the charity."
I agree the threat has been blown out of all proportion, 65yrs in jail for charity work is nothing short of barbaric.
Or another way of looking at it; wiping the HDD will make them independent of the botnet.
"What effect (if any) will pumping this warm water down and cool water up have..."
One possibility: If the mixing warms the water at the bottom it may be enough to release methane from methane hydrates deposited in the ocean bed. On the down side this will make global warming worse, on the upside the mass of bubbles will sink Bill's fleet of ships.
The attacks started on the 4th July weekend.
At my age sex is hard work. With this invention you can sit her on top and let the machine do the work, when your done just let go.
Phew, for a second there I thought I had over slept through to August.
"Anyone who questions the validity of a theory should be heard"
Rubbish, if you don't question the validity of the question then we end up teaching creation science and every other crackpot theory in schools because some institute with absolutely no scientific standing has questioned evolutionary theory, heliocentric theory, germ theory, or some other theory that they don't like. When this happens it is no longer science, it's mearly uninformed opinion.
...is generated by the transitor but the compressor needed to keep it at 1.4 Kelvin will keep your basement nice and warm.
"Oh look: now they check FBIs intel on LinkedIn to see if they got it right."
Aleynikov (pronounced Aley-nick-off) stole the code and Tyler Durden was all over the story a week ago.
My eldsest son ran his own BBS in the 80's but I prefer the new fangled online search to find information these days.
OTOH I love nostalgia; the older I get the better I was.
"Its too late, the invasion has begun!"
That was '72, the goodies came to our rescue and defeated big bunny's transistorized carrots in '73.
Your post is typical of a significant minority of slashdotters who are being mislead by a looby group that make the MAFIAA look like amatures, the urban ledgends you are repeating in your post were created by the heartland institute who are associated with the CEI and other anti-science front groups via the Cooler heads coalition.
Their associated web sites are too numerous to list but two of them that are quoted with depressing regularity on slashdot are icecap (owned and operated by HI) and WUWT, (Watts is a regular attraction at the HI's "climate confrences").
Unfortuately there a lot of aussie rednecks who listen to Mike Munroe, Andrew Bolt, Miranda Devine and Alan Jones, politicians can't fight that level of bullshit without killing the free press in the process.
"What's the best way to combat this sort of misinformation?"
Ridicule.