My favorite is saying something properly and then coughing, gagging, etc and see what pops up in response. sometimes it can't figure it out but sometimes a fart will dial your work for you.
You do realize china has built entire cities that sit unused and falling apart. China regularly fails to understand people and builds infrastructure first and then tries to find people to use it.
you do realize there are hundreds of small easy to carry solar generators that can top off AA's, cell phones, radios right?
It is possible to physically disconnect from the Power Grid while staying connected to the Net. it takes research and planning at the moment and you won't be connected 24 7 but hey your face book status doesn't need 15 minute updates you of taking a shit.
Exactly why is it that startups have greater R&D and innovation? because they lack stodgy upper management that slows down most innovation.
Why do most startups fail? because they lack experience to properly capitalize on those innovations.
If businesses were honest with themselves they would look at the total dollars spent on just management and trim the excess fat from the upper layers.
I Have always found it amusing that a business would fire thousands of people to save a couple of million, instead of firing one or two upper managers to save the same amount. All Upper Management really does is deal with the personal issues of the lower employees(Herding cats is easier than herding programmers).
Having been in a middle management position I spent most of my time dealing with people who got degrees but failed kindergarten. They never learned how to talk to others to deal with their issues, they never learned to not say anything when they don't have anything nice to say, and They never really learned that blaming the wrong person just because you don't like them doesn't solve anything.
If what your saying was true, then why did gore and bush each take the wrong side in the scandal?
Truly independent investigators counted the results in both Gore's method and Bush's Method.
The result was the Gore's method would have given Bush a clear victory and Bush's method would have given it to Gore.
So stop basing your false realties on lies. If The Democrats were trying to rig the election why did they pick a method that would guarantee they would lose? Oh right your an idiot.
While I agree with you in concept. I would point out in 4 years no random photos of celebrities, hot women, etc found their way onto the internet.
I was fully expecting for the TSA have to denouce some photos and fire a few people by now for actually having leaked some photos.
Of course that doesn't mean the ability doesn't exist just means that those with access are keeping their mouths shut and are behaving. not impossible but I do find it unlikely.
The newton murders the son killed the mother and then stole her guns. He could have easily stolen the equipment to make smart guns work.
Basically in order to truly make a safe smart gun you Need an implantable NFC chip. Then have the gun look for that chip. But even that is tough and crackable. (Kill person put gun in their hands dry fire it while recording play back recording to fire)
what's happens when your crater causing nudge furthers changes the rotation?you literally have to plan for the final rotation change after the kinetic crater impact.
much simpler send up more than one nuke. Pepper the asteroid with them one after another after another.
We have thousands why skimp. More is always better.
But if we fired off two or three hundred nukes we can claim those as part of the disarming campaign, test them in live fire conditions, increase the exposure of space travel to people, and watch a bunch of real big light shows.
My complaint was simpler. Hot swap monitors in 2003.
in 2003 I could unplug a monitor from my powerbook G4, and plug in a different monitor with a different resolution without causing anything other than window resizing things(and even that was done mostly automatically)
I tried that with linux in 2010 and not only did it crash out X11 but the automatic tool that was supposed to do it wouldn't restart. I didn't want to manually rerwrite x.conf every time I wanted to plugin in a different monitor(something I was doing several times a day).
To this day I miss aspects of transparent network windows. remote desktop/VNC just are not the same. However they are fast/ stable compared to X over anything but a local 100mbit lan.
I truly wish someone would rewrite X from the ground up with some new ideas on how to do the network transparency.
I would be willing to bet that if you started telling people you were recording them that you would quickly find your self in the creepy category. Depending on the crowd and location it wouldn't surprise me to find out if you get the crap beaten out of you too.
More along the lines of wearable google centric real time yelp.
I don't like google glass of one reason. I hate advertisers why would I want ads transmitted to me just because I walked by a store?
Oh that isn't a feature of glass yet? just wait it will come right along with the face recognition.
Glass doesn't solve much. Most people don't need a heads up display. It will be heavily dependent on your limited mobile bandwidth. At least when people hold up their cell phone you can tell when they are recording you. With Google glass you won't be able to tell at a glance.
exactly however then the politicians will have to be at least a little bit more honest. Not a lot just a little. white lies and hypocritical positions will be laid bare and that will scare more conservatives thus advancing society.
The conservatives were more afraid of people losing jobs and their big money friends failing than actually being capitalists and letting those companies fail massively. personally I would rather have let them fail, by now we would be coming out of the real recession, instead of dragging along like we are. If you don't believe me look at the actual reports, at best 1-2% growth, with occasional slip to 0. Meanwhile wall street is moving along like it never happened and is shown the economy is growing at 10-15% annually.
I see your problem you think the president of the USA is actually a useful position. The president of the USA is actually the least powerful, least effective job in the USA.
The president doesn't make laws congress does, the president doesn't decide which laws are fair or balanced the judicial system does. The president doesn't even decide details of policy only vague generalities.
The president( i don't care which ones you like they all fall into this) can't make decisions. he can only choose between choices others make for him. he has three basic tools Force(military or civilian), Legal(lawyers), or Diplomatic(Negotations, etc) However he can't use force for anything but quick attacks or else congress must intervene. He can use legal but lawyers aren't useful for much. Diplomatic only works when the other party actually is willing to change.(that's why you can't negotiate with palenstine/isreal or the tea party, neither side can look at things from anyone else's view)
There is a reason why Presidents go into office looking healthy and come out Physically healthy but looking like they went through a meet grinder. Because they get all the blame, very little of the credit, and can actually change very little.
The president controls the price of oil about as much I do. The president controls the budget of the country about as much I do.
If your curious look up what the president is actually allowed to do in most cases all he can do is advise someone else to look into the problem and report back. Take the IRS scandal. I would be willing to bet the president knew about it a while ago. however he couldn't actually change the policies or punish people because congress ultimately controls those positions.
This true of every president they can at best suggest. whether or not they get listened to is another story.
I tried doing that with Fluorescents and realized it gave me headaches.
While I love daylight and during the day open windows as much as possible, At night I prefer 27k to 35k lighting.
Of course I am typing this on my laptop with a single 27k led on and 3 lit candles listening to music and drinking scotch. so I might be on the eccentric side(if only i was rich)
Science is always weird. 100 years ago atom weren' known exist. electricity was some wierd etheral vapor. besides atoms and laws of motion and thermodynamics only cover somethings. we kept noticing funny results at the edge cases. The farther down we go the funnier the results get.
Eventually we will find out that all this quantum stuff actually makes sense and the funny properties are the results of us using planets the size of mars to figure out where the earth is. (relatively speaking).
Up to the st Lawrence and it can dock in Chicago. That would actually be shorter and faster than the Mississippi As the river and locks would slow things down out on the great lakes themselves they can get up to full speed.
You do realize that people earning less than $100,000 annual spend 90% or more of their income.
If the rich can get buy only spending 50% of their income then they aren't spending their fair share either.
The richer you are the less of your income you actually spend. sure you may own 5 cars and three large houses. but once the big money items are done you have a hard time spending the rest.
Better yet anyone earning less than $100,000 pays no taxes. Anyone earning between $100,000 and $500,000 pay 15% flat tax, anyone earning over $500,000 pays 25% flat tax. No donations, no discounts, no tax breaks.
You see the 90% of the population that suddenly has an extra roughly $15,000 (*300 million people) they will save some of it, but most of their tax money saved WILL be spent on goods and services every year. That is $45 billion that will be spent on the real economy instead of wall street's obviously inflated one.
Of course the other 10% will be supporting the rest of us, but since they WON'T spend their money anyways it might as well get put to good use.
Here is the trick no one earning over a million dollars annually is actually paying the 35% tax rate. The ones who get screwed are the ones earning more than $250,000 annually but less than a Million.
Ideally the thing to do is to tax investments that last less than an hour at 50%. Right now if you look at wall street the country is experiencing double digit growth. As wall street is supposed to be based on the fundamentals of the companies. it becomes surprising that the companies in question are experiencing at best moderate growth of 1-3%. The rest is the HFT and day trading that bankers love. It does add some liquidity to the market but HFT
Lastly the rich The top 10% of the country controls 75% of the wealth that means they should be paying for 75% of the tax bills but in reality are only paying 50%.
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My favorite is saying something properly and then coughing, gagging, etc and see what pops up in response. sometimes it can't figure it out but sometimes a fart will dial your work for you.
You do realize china has built entire cities that sit unused and falling apart. China regularly fails to understand people and builds infrastructure first and then tries to find people to use it.
you do realize there are hundreds of small easy to carry solar generators that can top off AA's, cell phones, radios right?
It is possible to physically disconnect from the Power Grid while staying connected to the Net. it takes research and planning at the moment and you won't be connected 24 7 but hey your face book status doesn't need 15 minute updates you of taking a shit.
Exactly why is it that startups have greater R&D and innovation? because they lack stodgy upper management that slows down most innovation.
Why do most startups fail? because they lack experience to properly capitalize on those innovations.
If businesses were honest with themselves they would look at the total dollars spent on just management and trim the excess fat from the upper layers.
I Have always found it amusing that a business would fire thousands of people to save a couple of million, instead of firing one or two upper managers to save the same amount. All Upper Management really does is deal with the personal issues of the lower employees(Herding cats is easier than herding programmers).
Having been in a middle management position I spent most of my time dealing with people who got degrees but failed kindergarten. They never learned how to talk to others to deal with their issues, they never learned to not say anything when they don't have anything nice to say, and They never really learned that blaming the wrong person just because you don't like them doesn't solve anything.
If what your saying was true, then why did gore and bush each take the wrong side in the scandal?
Truly independent investigators counted the results in both Gore's method and Bush's Method.
The result was the Gore's method would have given Bush a clear victory and Bush's method would have given it to Gore.
So stop basing your false realties on lies. If The Democrats were trying to rig the election why did they pick a method that would guarantee they would lose? Oh right your an idiot.
While I agree with you in concept. I would point out in 4 years no random photos of celebrities, hot women, etc found their way onto the internet.
I was fully expecting for the TSA have to denouce some photos and fire a few people by now for actually having leaked some photos.
Of course that doesn't mean the ability doesn't exist just means that those with access are keeping their mouths shut and are behaving. not impossible but I do find it unlikely.
The newton murders the son killed the mother and then stole her guns. He could have easily stolen the equipment to make smart guns work.
Basically in order to truly make a safe smart gun you Need an implantable NFC chip. Then have the gun look for that chip.
But even that is tough and crackable. (Kill person put gun in their hands dry fire it while recording play back recording to fire)
Or cleavers. Just recently a man walked up to a guy on the street and started hacking away at him. Not even rolling cameras slowed him down
what's happens when your crater causing nudge furthers changes the rotation?you literally have to plan for the final rotation change after the kinetic crater impact.
much simpler send up more than one nuke. Pepper the asteroid with them one after another after another.
We have thousands why skimp. More is always better.
But if we fired off two or three hundred nukes we can claim those as part of the disarming campaign, test them in live fire conditions, increase the exposure of space travel to people, and watch a bunch of real big light shows.
that is like 5 wins.
My complaint was simpler. Hot swap monitors in 2003.
in 2003 I could unplug a monitor from my powerbook G4, and plug in a different monitor with a different resolution without causing anything other than window resizing things(and even that was done mostly automatically)
I tried that with linux in 2010 and not only did it crash out X11 but the automatic tool that was supposed to do it wouldn't restart. I didn't want to manually rerwrite x.conf every time I wanted to plugin in a different monitor(something I was doing several times a day).
To this day I miss aspects of transparent network windows. remote desktop/VNC just are not the same. However they are fast/ stable compared to X over anything but a local 100mbit lan.
I truly wish someone would rewrite X from the ground up with some new ideas on how to do the network transparency.
I would be willing to bet that if you started telling people you were recording them that you would quickly find your self in the creepy category. Depending on the crowd and location it wouldn't surprise me to find out if you get the crap beaten out of you too.
More along the lines of wearable google centric real time yelp.
I don't like google glass of one reason. I hate advertisers why would I want ads transmitted to me just because I walked by a store?
Oh that isn't a feature of glass yet? just wait it will come right along with the face recognition.
Glass doesn't solve much. Most people don't need a heads up display. It will be heavily dependent on your limited mobile bandwidth. At least when people hold up their cell phone you can tell when they are recording you. With Google glass you won't be able to tell at a glance.
What a recharging idea. Companies working together to build a single standard as opposed to fighting each other over basic designs.
exactly however then the politicians will have to be at least a little bit more honest. Not a lot just a little. white lies and hypocritical positions will be laid bare and that will scare more conservatives thus advancing society.
Fear.
The conservatives were more afraid of people losing jobs and their big money friends failing than actually being capitalists and letting those companies fail massively. personally I would rather have let them fail, by now we would be coming out of the real recession, instead of dragging along like we are. If you don't believe me look at the actual reports, at best 1-2% growth, with occasional slip to 0. Meanwhile wall street is moving along like it never happened and is shown the economy is growing at 10-15% annually.
That's because when Canada does design a ship it costs 100 times that of any other nation.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/02/pol-milewski-shipbuilding-design-mystery.html
The design of a ship is costing canada $250 million, when similar vessels designed in Norway were designed for $20 million and built for $80 million
So go ahead and buy the UK and USA scraps it is cheaper.
I see your problem you think the president of the USA is actually a useful position. The president of the USA is actually the least powerful, least effective job in the USA.
The president doesn't make laws congress does, the president doesn't decide which laws are fair or balanced the judicial system does. The president doesn't even decide details of policy only vague generalities.
The president( i don't care which ones you like they all fall into this) can't make decisions. he can only choose between choices others make for him. he has three basic tools Force(military or civilian), Legal(lawyers), or Diplomatic(Negotations, etc) However he can't use force for anything but quick attacks or else congress must intervene. He can use legal but lawyers aren't useful for much. Diplomatic only works when the other party actually is willing to change.(that's why you can't negotiate with palenstine/isreal or the tea party, neither side can look at things from anyone else's view)
There is a reason why Presidents go into office looking healthy and come out Physically healthy but looking like they went through a meet grinder. Because they get all the blame, very little of the credit, and can actually change very little.
The president controls the price of oil about as much I do. The president controls the budget of the country about as much I do.
If your curious look up what the president is actually allowed to do in most cases all he can do is advise someone else to look into the problem and report back. Take the IRS scandal. I would be willing to bet the president knew about it a while ago. however he couldn't actually change the policies or punish people because congress ultimately controls those positions.
This true of every president they can at best suggest. whether or not they get listened to is another story.
I tried doing that with Fluorescents and realized it gave me headaches.
While I love daylight and during the day open windows as much as possible, At night I prefer 27k to 35k lighting.
Of course I am typing this on my laptop with a single 27k led on and 3 lit candles listening to music and drinking scotch. so I might be on the eccentric side(if only i was rich)
Since the one of the main talking point about android is the ability to side install apps.
Of course how can you be sure any app you install is genuine? Unless you write, compile and install it yourself and even that isn't 100% trustworthy.
So define ignorance when the professional have a hard time and the average person isn't smart enough to know what compiling is let alone do it.
Science is always weird. 100 years ago atom weren' known exist. electricity was some wierd etheral vapor. besides atoms and laws of motion and thermodynamics only cover somethings. we kept noticing funny results at the edge cases. The farther down we go the funnier the results get.
Eventually we will find out that all this quantum stuff actually makes sense and the funny properties are the results of us using planets the size of mars to figure out where the earth is. (relatively speaking).
Up to the st Lawrence and it can dock in Chicago. That would actually be shorter and faster than the Mississippi As the river and locks would slow things down out on the great lakes themselves they can get up to full speed.
Um at 3,200 miles I bet it goes by ship up the St Lawrence around the channels and locks and docks in Chicago.
That would br roughly that for range. and takes a lot of the traffic out .
You do realize that people earning less than $100,000 annual spend 90% or more of their income.
If the rich can get buy only spending 50% of their income then they aren't spending their fair share either.
The richer you are the less of your income you actually spend. sure you may own 5 cars and three large houses. but once the big money items are done you have a hard time spending the rest.
Better yet anyone earning less than $100,000 pays no taxes. Anyone earning between $100,000 and $500,000 pay 15% flat tax, anyone earning over $500,000 pays 25% flat tax. No donations, no discounts, no tax breaks.
You see the 90% of the population that suddenly has an extra roughly $15,000 (*300 million people) they will save some of it, but most of their tax money saved WILL be spent on goods and services every year. That is $45 billion that will be spent on the real economy instead of wall street's obviously inflated one.
Of course the other 10% will be supporting the rest of us, but since they WON'T spend their money anyways it might as well get put to good use.
Here is the trick no one earning over a million dollars annually is actually paying the 35% tax rate. The ones who get screwed are the ones earning more than $250,000 annually but less than a Million.
Ideally the thing to do is to tax investments that last less than an hour at 50%. Right now if you look at wall street the country is experiencing double digit growth. As wall street is supposed to be based on the fundamentals of the companies. it becomes surprising that the companies in question are experiencing at best moderate growth of 1-3%. The rest is the HFT and day trading that bankers love. It does add some liquidity to the market but HFT
Lastly the rich The top 10% of the country controls 75% of the wealth that means they should be paying for 75% of the tax bills but in reality are only paying 50%.