And what happens when you challenge someone on their hyperbole? They don't back down and say "dude, I was exagerating." They keep trolling by trying to defend the sentiment behind it. Can you show me a study or survey indicating that people are actually in favour of prison rape?
Because doctors in the U.S. are intimidated by the DEA into not prescribing full strength pain meds. A couple years ago there was a story here about a doctor who was charged with selling morphine to junkies, just because he wasn't, in their opinion, sufficiently strict in vetting his patients to weed out the fakers.
Criminal is fleeing the country on a false passport, setting up a new online pharmacy in direct violation of the judge's orders, and trying to arrange a hit on a witness in order to intimidate the witness.
For all its size, the population of BC is massively concentrated on Vancouver Island, the lower mainland (i.e., Vancouver and surrounding municipalities), and 10-20 other significantly large population centers in the mountains that are along major highways. Most of the land in BC is uninhabited or uninhabitable by more than a trickle of people. 70 locations is more than sufficient for an initial rollout, at least to catch the overwhelming majority of ewaste to actually recycle.
At a rough guess, 20-30 locations will handle 80% of the population in virtue of its concentration.
The shell would have to be exploded by the laser within a couple hundred yards of the laser to do any damage to anyone; even then it would only be suboptimally effective. If the shell is still a kilometer up, the gas would disperse in the atmosphere and cause minimal problems at worst, none if everyone is in MOPS gear.
In defense of Microsoft's decision to do this (assuming you present a fair characterization of the issue), I have to say that the vast majority of software vendors for the Windows platform have given them good cause. Just today I had to continually reboot into the system recovery console of a Windows XP installation because my employer's mandated software was causing a stop on boot.
I've studied and done multi-threaded programming and have an appreciation for its difficulties. My constant software experience on Windows does not give me confidence that the average software vendor has the abilities to not fuck up my system worse than they already do.
Humans generally read best when the line of text they're reading is no longer than 12-14 words, which on average works out to around 80 characters. Longer lines cause the eye to frequently fail to stay on the correct line, losing the text and having to find it again. Since, generally, code should be readable, a guideline of 80 characters fits in well with the general human practice.
Now that we have wiz-bang GUIs with high res monitors, we don't code with a plain text editor, we use an IDE that offers different features in panels that take up screen real estate. Write a line of code that spans a 2048x1600 screen, and you prevent me from nicely subdividing my IDE's workspace into code editor, project explorer, console output, etc. Sticking to lines ~80 characters long allows me to run an editor down the left side, and have several workspace panels on the right for convenience.
Try again. You're still not getting why the introduction of an omnipotent, omnipresent, yet unmeasurable and ultimately untestable entity into a naturalistic theory is a methodological flaw.
RTFA. SOE is only the distributor; Flying Labs retains all creative control and IP, and operates the servers themselves. This is a fundamentally different deal than all the other crap SOE hosts.
So you'd prefer that the legislators get it wrong than the courts get it right? And it isn't the courts pushing a particular policy, it's the courts doing what they do: judging the evidence of an issue that came before them without submitting to a powerful pressure group.
Yes, there's an element of "I like the outcome so it doesn't matter" here. On your side there seems to be a feeling of "the courts did it, therefore it's bad."
By the way, you get Kuhn wrong. Kuhn did not prove that acceptance of the dominant paradigm is equivalent to faith. Faith and scientific belief are qualitatively different. Faithful belief is fundamentally unconditional, while scientific/rational belief is fundamentally conditional. All Kuhn did was demonstrate that the conditional acceptance of the dominant paradigm is beyond question for the purposes of doing "normal science"--that is, science that is premised upon the (conditional) correctness of the current paradigm.
The fact that both are theories does not make them equally plausible scientifically. I'd rather my kids studied the best theory science can offer, not the minority view that's propped up by 'scientific' propoganda institutes with overtly religious funding.
as when evolution is the topic. Quadruple the normal response, and halve the intelligence of the average post, and you get an evolution thread (including those supporting, those denying, and those off on their pet hobbyhorses).
Seriously, for a community that prides itself on its geek cred, the illiteracy and overall ignorance in these threads is horrifying.
The government isn't declaring that Intelligent Design isn't science. The courts are recognizing that the disproportionate volume of ID theory is due to active politicking by Christian organizations, not its relative stature within the scientific community. In other words, the courts are giving public policy weight to the collective judgement of the scientific community, which is as it should be.
A friend in university went to France for the summer to work for a French manufacturer. Once there, he was informed that his job was to gain employment at a competitor and steal marketing and product development material. Being a future lawyer, he ignored the ethically problematic aspects of the work, but with due mind for the legal consequences of getting caught, took the job(s), performed admirably, and collected two paycheques all summer.
So when the French are worried about economic espionage, we probably all should be.
At 100,000 feet, I would imagine that flying a pre-programmed route is perfectly viable--no birds, mountains, dust-storms around. If the software can control flying itself, it can surely autopilot across Russia or China.
The software guiding cruise missiles does nap-of-the-earth flight with only constant GPS references.
You obviously haven't configured your grey market Tivo, your MythTV install, or simply a browser bookmark for yourself to take advantage of the remarkable free service they've been offering all this time. They're definitely not an email harverster site.
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And what happens when you challenge someone on their hyperbole? They don't back down and say "dude, I was exagerating." They keep trolling by trying to defend the sentiment behind it. Can you show me a study or survey indicating that people are actually in favour of prison rape?
Don't confuse hyperbole about justice being meted out with a reflective acceptance of rape inside prisons.
Because doctors in the U.S. are intimidated by the DEA into not prescribing full strength pain meds. A couple years ago there was a story here about a doctor who was charged with selling morphine to junkies, just because he wasn't, in their opinion, sufficiently strict in vetting his patients to weed out the fakers.
Criminal is fleeing the country on a false passport, setting up a new online pharmacy in direct violation of the judge's orders, and trying to arrange a hit on a witness in order to intimidate the witness.
For all its size, the population of BC is massively concentrated on Vancouver Island, the lower mainland (i.e., Vancouver and surrounding municipalities), and 10-20 other significantly large population centers in the mountains that are along major highways. Most of the land in BC is uninhabited or uninhabitable by more than a trickle of people. 70 locations is more than sufficient for an initial rollout, at least to catch the overwhelming majority of ewaste to actually recycle.
At a rough guess, 20-30 locations will handle 80% of the population in virtue of its concentration.
The shell would have to be exploded by the laser within a couple hundred yards of the laser to do any damage to anyone; even then it would only be suboptimally effective. If the shell is still a kilometer up, the gas would disperse in the atmosphere and cause minimal problems at worst, none if everyone is in MOPS gear.
Good luck convincing your artillery commanders to give 90% of their ammo carrying capacity and destructive force to chaff shells.
In defense of Microsoft's decision to do this (assuming you present a fair characterization of the issue), I have to say that the vast majority of software vendors for the Windows platform have given them good cause. Just today I had to continually reboot into the system recovery console of a Windows XP installation because my employer's mandated software was causing a stop on boot.
I've studied and done multi-threaded programming and have an appreciation for its difficulties. My constant software experience on Windows does not give me confidence that the average software vendor has the abilities to not fuck up my system worse than they already do.
Not these days, they're not :)
How do I set my proxy to block all web pages that have 'tanstaafl' in them?
Bare metal? Luxury! Sheer luxury!
Since I ditched Java I've been coding by arranging large stones in binary patterns.
Try again. You're still not getting why the introduction of an omnipotent, omnipresent, yet unmeasurable and ultimately untestable entity into a naturalistic theory is a methodological flaw.
Come back when you understand that this is science's strength, not its weakness.
Fortunately for Flying Labs, and unfortunately for your commendably principled stand, few consumers are as ethically considerate.
RTFA. SOE is only the distributor; Flying Labs retains all creative control and IP, and operates the servers themselves. This is a fundamentally different deal than all the other crap SOE hosts.
So you'd prefer that the legislators get it wrong than the courts get it right? And it isn't the courts pushing a particular policy, it's the courts doing what they do: judging the evidence of an issue that came before them without submitting to a powerful pressure group.
Yes, there's an element of "I like the outcome so it doesn't matter" here. On your side there seems to be a feeling of "the courts did it, therefore it's bad."
By the way, you get Kuhn wrong. Kuhn did not prove that acceptance of the dominant paradigm is equivalent to faith. Faith and scientific belief are qualitatively different. Faithful belief is fundamentally unconditional, while scientific/rational belief is fundamentally conditional. All Kuhn did was demonstrate that the conditional acceptance of the dominant paradigm is beyond question for the purposes of doing "normal science"--that is, science that is premised upon the (conditional) correctness of the current paradigm.
The fact that both are theories does not make them equally plausible scientifically. I'd rather my kids studied the best theory science can offer, not the minority view that's propped up by 'scientific' propoganda institutes with overtly religious funding.
as when evolution is the topic. Quadruple the normal response, and halve the intelligence of the average post, and you get an evolution thread (including those supporting, those denying, and those off on their pet hobbyhorses).
Seriously, for a community that prides itself on its geek cred, the illiteracy and overall ignorance in these threads is horrifying.
So until a black hole is created from scratch in a lab, you're just going to handwave them away with "meh! They don't know yet?"
The government isn't declaring that Intelligent Design isn't science. The courts are recognizing that the disproportionate volume of ID theory is due to active politicking by Christian organizations, not its relative stature within the scientific community. In other words, the courts are giving public policy weight to the collective judgement of the scientific community, which is as it should be.
A friend in university went to France for the summer to work for a French manufacturer. Once there, he was informed that his job was to gain employment at a competitor and steal marketing and product development material. Being a future lawyer, he ignored the ethically problematic aspects of the work, but with due mind for the legal consequences of getting caught, took the job(s), performed admirably, and collected two paycheques all summer.
So when the French are worried about economic espionage, we probably all should be.
At 100,000 feet, I would imagine that flying a pre-programmed route is perfectly viable--no birds, mountains, dust-storms around. If the software can control flying itself, it can surely autopilot across Russia or China.
The software guiding cruise missiles does nap-of-the-earth flight with only constant GPS references.
You obviously haven't configured your grey market Tivo, your MythTV install, or simply a browser bookmark for yourself to take advantage of the remarkable free service they've been offering all this time. They're definitely not an email harverster site.