Sci-Am did not have editorial control of Biology Online. I have no idea what you think a partner website is, but I assure you it doesn't mean someone can use one site to start a public brawl about some private insult the happened somewhere else.
Your own links prove exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Sci-Am is not being inconsistent. Its perfectly consistent.
They've removed the petulant blog post, and they have ceased their partnership with Biology Online.
You seem to suggest they have some sort of editorial control of the emails sent out by their partners, and therefore they are culpable for the email BO sent. Are you delusional, or did you just post that screed without thinking?
But there was no management involved. No one to complain to. Am-Si had no way to police the issue. No control at all.
She got a nastygram from a website. She had her own platform to pontificate on the matter.
Why take it to some third party site and cause an flame war to ensue there? Its like taking your family squabbles into Starbucks or starting a shouting match in a Restaurant. When they throw you out, how is any part of that THEIR fault?
In any case, it's kind of hard to get worked up about someone insulting someone else on the internet.
Agreed. But it wasn't even an internet insult. The insult happened in Email, presumably as private as the NSA will allow it to be. No one knew about it besides the recipient and someone claiming to represent the blog site.
Reprehensible as it was, It would have ended there, and probably should have. Her reputation was not enhanced by dragging it into the public.
She had her own blog, The Urban Scientist, on which she could have answered this if she really felt the need to take a private matter public, but to drag that into someone else's forum was inexcusable.
Sci-Am is not the platform to settle scores for private insults. Taking it there merely damages Sci-AM, an innocent bystander.
What they should care about is if the radiation is at a dangerous level.
Then you say
Anything that is on the same magnitude as background radiation is pretty much safe.
So you've fallen into the same trap that you seem to deplore. Radiation near the background level puts things in perspective without having to quote specific numbers.
On the other hand, I suspect its as likely to be host-dated Ass Covering as anything else. When they start looking back that far, the finger of blame will fall on the CIA, because everyone from then on forward will point to the CIA, and say we relied on them.
Meanwhile, the CIA's own former employees have Awarded Snowden with a Sam Adams "Integrity in Intelligence" award, indicating more than a little dissatisfaction with the methods of the Agency among some of the people who know it best.
essentially a two-door Chevrolet Volt with a handsome exterior and a leather-lined cabin.
Exactly.
Comparing it to the Tesla S is patently ridiculous.
16.5 kWh lithium-ion battery pack in the Volt finds its way underneath the creased sheet metal of the ELR, as well as its 1.4-liter gasoline-powered range-extending engine. That allows the Caddy to motor along on electric power alone for up to 35 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in to juice up the pack and keep the ELR going for a claimed range of 300 miles.
Claimed range of 300 miles is when you run out of gas. You get 35 miles on battery. Its Volt technology in a much heavier car.
So what do you suggest? Your comments seem to imply that you think that there shouldn't be any intelligence gathering at all.
I suggest our government not spy on us at all. Is that clear enough for you?
If they did what they supposed to do, they would be limiting their collection to calls to and from foreign countries, not recording every time you call for a Pizza. But they have proven they can't be given an inch, or they will take a mile.
We did not create this government to read our mail, listen to our phone calls, or even record who calls who and when and for how long. If you think that's what keeps you safe, maybe you should read up on the Boston Marathon.
There are a number of solar-powered homes in my area, which isn't a particularly warm climate (Colorado).
There are a lot of houses with solar collectors. There probably isn't one house anywhere in the state that is Solar Powered. Check for a power meter or power lines running to the house before you make (or believe) ridiculous claims.
Well, the "bottle" in this case requires "three radio antennas spaced about a meter apart and pointed at a wall and A desk full wires and circuits to generate and interpret the radio waves.".
So keep an eye out for those things appearing in your home, and be forewarned that suddenly appearing antennas and a large amount of circuitry might indicate someone wants to know exactly when you are in front of the TV. When its small enough to be built into the TV, you might not notice it, but a camera would be more effective.
In the meantime, ignore that black police van parked across the street which can read your actual location in real time using your heat signature.
Taking a look in an open garage, is not the same thing as breaking in "just to take a look". The same could be said for the front door of your house or apartment, or the door at the top of the basement stairs. You open that occasionally for public view too.
She really means that the unwashed masses have to "educated" to shut up and accept it, which will take large amount of scare stories and perhaps some *cough* carefully engineered incidents to bring home the point that the function of government is to spy and watch over all aspects of society. For "It Takes a Village" Clinton to use the term "Adult Conversation" should fool no one.
The story, is without a single suggestion from either the British authorities or Clinton, that the spying should be reined in. Rather, everyone seems to suggest simply placed under more "political oversight" is the answer. But Politicians are the LAST people we would trust with oversight. They are the ones that got us into this mess.
And, at least in the US, the Judiciary can't be trusted either. We have judges who took oaths to defend the Constitution, approving whole sale monitoring of phone metadata of every person in the US,yet again.
Why should judges, entrusted to protect us, be above the law? Why can't they be prosecuted or sued?
Is there anyone surprised by Clinton making obscure coded statements about a spying program that she would redouble? This is a very corrupt woman, who is politically ruthless. She left her minions twisting in the wind in Egypt, and if she gains a position from which she perceives the rest of us a "her children" she will assuredly not do a single thing to remove her parental control.
Exactly, realists are the coal mine canaries of society: "but also amplifies a person's real-time perception of events". Maybe instead of calling people who point out negative aspect of grandiose plans Debbie Downers, and nabobs of negatively, it would make more sense to realize that when there are a significant number of people saying "hold on there", that just possibly society is getting ahead of itself and rushing head long down yet another repetitive boondoggle that has failed before.
The number of solar powered houses throughout the developed world has soared since this program was started eleven years ago. And it is only because of effective programs such as this that these money saving and environment sparing technologies have entered main stream home building.
Jeeze, do you work for those guys or what?
The number of homes having a modest amount of solar collection (of one form or another) which is almost universally insufficient to supply the needs of the home, while being prohibitively expensive at the same time has grown.
Don't get me wrong, that's not half bad, but it certainly doesn't qualify as solar powered.
Unless you are on the first floor and can walk across a courtyard a ring is really a long building looped so the ends connect.
With a linear building of length L, the max distance between two offices is L. For a circular building, it is L/2.
Which is why the GP mentioned a cube, rather than a liner building. Even multiple linear shorter buildings side by side with sky bridges over interior open space would more efficient.
This is also why Buildings tend to grow taller, because in addition to needing less land, elevators are faster than walking.
It is called design over function, I pity the commuter employee already. This follows the pattern though, remember that ridiculous yacht design Jobs planned?
The lack of phone-money in America has nothing whatsoever to do with customers being "stubborn". It is because of the fragmentation of the American cellular system, and the lack of cooperation among the vendors. Once they finally agree on a standard, phone-money will be adopted by consumers in America just as quickly as anywhere else.
Its fragmented in every country, except where it is state run.
The thing is, the carriers have VETOED NFC payments. Why they get a say, I have no idea, If we had any integrity in Washington, the carriers would be out of the decision loop by a simple written order by the FTC or the DOJ. The one carrier that allows it is Sprint (IINM). Every other carrier refused to even allow Google Wallet to be installed.
The carriers should NOT have a say. Its just data. Encrypted data. Its TCP/IP. Just like web pages, it doesn't require standardization of the cellular system to transmit encrypted data. Carriers have business dictating a standard.
If the carriers want to be regulated like banks, we should honor their wishes. Until then, they should get the hell out of the way.
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So what if it's a partner.
Do you think Sci-Am had approval authority over Biology Online's emails?
They are no longer a partner, and her petulant complaint is gone too. Sounds like good parenting to me.
What would your mother do if you and your sibling brought some petty bickering to her dinner table?
Send you both to your rooms?
Done and done.
Was is the operative word.
Sci-Am did not have editorial control of Biology Online.
I have no idea what you think a partner website is, but I assure you it doesn't mean someone can use one site to start a public brawl about some private insult the happened somewhere else.
Perhaps you can post a link to something in the SA TOS that suggests its a place to redress petty personal grievances, of which SA had no part?
Can't find it? Thought not.
In fact I suspect you will find just the opposite.
Your own links prove exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Sci-Am is not being inconsistent. Its perfectly consistent.
They've removed the petulant blog post, and they have ceased their partnership with Biology Online.
You seem to suggest they have some sort of editorial control of the emails sent out by their partners, and therefore they are culpable for the email BO sent.
Are you delusional, or did you just post that screed without thinking?
But there was no management involved. No one to complain to.
Am-Si had no way to police the issue. No control at all.
She got a nastygram from a website.
She had her own platform to pontificate on the matter.
Why take it to some third party site and cause an flame war to ensue there?
Its like taking your family squabbles into Starbucks or starting a shouting match in a Restaurant.
When they throw you out, how is any part of that THEIR fault?
It just goes to show: It doesn't always pay to contract everything out to the private sector...
Nor does it pay to code it till it's designed, and debug it till it's tested.
In any case, it's kind of hard to get worked up about someone insulting someone else on the internet.
Agreed.
But it wasn't even an internet insult. The insult happened in Email, presumably as private as the NSA will allow it to be.
No one knew about it besides the recipient and someone claiming to represent the blog site.
Reprehensible as it was, It would have ended there, and probably should have.
Her reputation was not enhanced by dragging it into the public.
She had her own blog, The Urban Scientist, on which she could have answered this if she really
felt the need to take a private matter public, but to drag that into someone else's forum was
inexcusable.
Sci-Am is not the platform to settle scores for private insults. Taking it there merely damages Sci-AM,
an innocent bystander.
First you say:
What they should care about is if the radiation is at a dangerous level.
Then you say
Anything that is on the same magnitude as background radiation is pretty much safe.
So you've fallen into the same trap that you seem to deplore. Radiation near the background level puts things
in perspective without having to quote specific numbers.
DOH, post-dated, not host dated.
On the other hand, I suspect its as likely to be host-dated Ass Covering as anything else.
When they start looking back that far, the finger of blame will fall on the CIA, because everyone from then on forward will point to the CIA, and say we relied on them.
Meanwhile, the CIA's own former employees have Awarded Snowden with a Sam Adams "Integrity in Intelligence" award, indicating more than a little dissatisfaction with the methods of the Agency among some of the people who know it best.
Nope. Per TFA:
essentially a two-door Chevrolet Volt with a handsome exterior and a leather-lined cabin.
Exactly.
Comparing it to the Tesla S is patently ridiculous.
16.5 kWh lithium-ion battery pack in the Volt finds its way underneath the creased sheet metal of the ELR, as well as its 1.4-liter gasoline-powered range-extending engine. That allows the Caddy to motor along on electric power alone for up to 35 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in to juice up the pack and keep the ELR going for a claimed range of 300 miles.
Claimed range of 300 miles is when you run out of gas.
You get 35 miles on battery.
Its Volt technology in a much heavier car.
Comparing that to real world Tesla range makes for pretty depressing reading.
So what do you suggest? Your comments seem to imply that you think that there shouldn't be any intelligence gathering at all.
I suggest our government not spy on us at all. Is that clear enough for you?
If they did what they supposed to do, they would be limiting their collection to calls to and from foreign countries, not recording every time you call for a Pizza.
But they have proven they can't be given an inch, or they will take a mile.
We did not create this government to read our mail, listen to our phone calls, or even record who calls who and when and for how long.
If you think that's what keeps you safe, maybe you should read up on the Boston Marathon.
There are a number of solar-powered homes in my area, which isn't a particularly warm climate (Colorado).
There are a lot of houses with solar collectors. There probably isn't one house anywhere in the state that is Solar Powered.
Check for a power meter or power lines running to the house before you make (or believe) ridiculous claims.
Well, the "bottle" in this case requires "three radio antennas spaced about a meter apart and pointed at a wall and A desk full wires and circuits to generate and interpret the radio waves.".
So keep an eye out for those things appearing in your home, and be forewarned that suddenly appearing antennas and a large amount of circuitry might indicate someone wants to know exactly when you are in front of the TV. When its small enough to be built into the TV, you might not notice it, but a camera would be more effective.
In the meantime, ignore that black police van parked across the street which can read your actual location in real time using your heat signature.
Taking a look in an open garage, is not the same thing as breaking in "just to take a look".
The same could be said for the front door of your house or apartment, or the door at the top of the basement stairs. You open that occasionally for public view too.
How many if by suitcase?
I don't think that's what she meant. I read no promise to do better in that statement at all.
Oh, I assure you, it was a promise to "do better". Not a promise to do less.
It was a promise to sit you down like a school child and tell you what the rules are.
She really means that the unwashed masses have to "educated" to shut up and accept it, which will take large amount of scare stories and perhaps some *cough* carefully engineered incidents to bring home the point that the function of government is to spy and watch over all aspects of society. For "It Takes a Village" Clinton to use the term "Adult Conversation" should fool no one.
The story, is without a single suggestion from either the British authorities or Clinton, that the spying should be reined in. Rather, everyone seems to suggest simply placed under more "political oversight" is the answer. But Politicians are the LAST people we would trust with oversight. They are the ones that got us into this mess.
And, at least in the US, the Judiciary can't be trusted either. We have judges who took oaths to defend the Constitution, approving whole sale monitoring of phone metadata of every person in the US,yet again.
Why should judges, entrusted to protect us, be above the law? Why can't they be prosecuted or sued?
Is there anyone surprised by Clinton making obscure coded statements about a spying program that she would redouble? This is a very corrupt woman, who is politically ruthless. She left her minions twisting in the wind in Egypt, and if she gains a position from which she perceives the rest of us a "her children" she will assuredly not do a single thing to remove her parental control.
How about you reading the thread before jumping in?
The GP said
The number of solar powered houses throughout the developed world has soared since this program was started eleven years ago.
Which is hogwash unless you think ONE demonstration home in a warm climate constitutes "soaring".
Move that house to Minnesota and live in it for a year then come back here and get up on your hind legs amd lecture us on the wonders of bubble wrap.
They'll go away.
Exactly, realists are the coal mine canaries of society: "but also amplifies a person's real-time perception of events".
Maybe instead of calling people who point out negative aspect of grandiose plans Debbie Downers, and nabobs of negatively, it would make more sense to realize that when there are a significant number of people saying "hold on there", that just possibly society is getting ahead of itself and rushing head long down yet another repetitive boondoggle that has failed before.
The number of solar powered houses throughout the developed world has soared since this program was started eleven years ago. And it is only because of effective programs such as this that these money saving and environment sparing technologies have entered main stream home building.
Jeeze, do you work for those guys or what?
The number of homes having a modest amount of solar collection (of one form or another) which is almost universally
insufficient to supply the needs of the home, while being prohibitively expensive at the same time has grown.
Don't get me wrong, that's not half bad, but it certainly doesn't qualify as solar powered.
Unless you are on the first floor and can walk across a courtyard a ring is really a long building looped so the ends connect.
With a linear building of length L, the max distance between two offices is L. For a circular building, it is L/2.
Which is why the GP mentioned a cube, rather than a liner building.
Even multiple linear shorter buildings side by side with sky bridges over interior open space would
more efficient.
This is also why Buildings tend to grow taller, because in addition to needing less land,
elevators are faster than walking.
It is called design over function, I pity the commuter employee already. This follows the pattern though, remember that ridiculous yacht design Jobs planned?
Yup, the Jon Ive approach to office space.
My thoughts exactly. The company mind-set personified.
I wonder if they will have unicorns in their internal garden?
The lack of phone-money in America has nothing whatsoever to do with customers being "stubborn". It is because of the fragmentation of the American cellular system, and the lack of cooperation among the vendors. Once they finally agree on a standard, phone-money will be adopted by consumers in America just as quickly as anywhere else.
Its fragmented in every country, except where it is state run.
The thing is, the carriers have VETOED NFC payments. Why they get a say, I have no idea, If we had any integrity in Washington, the carriers would be out of the decision loop by a simple written order by the FTC or the DOJ. The one carrier that allows it is Sprint (IINM). Every other carrier refused to even allow Google Wallet to be installed.
The carriers should NOT have a say. Its just data. Encrypted data. Its TCP/IP. Just like web pages, it doesn't require standardization of the cellular system to transmit encrypted data. Carriers have business dictating a standard.
If the carriers want to be regulated like banks, we should honor their wishes. Until then, they should get the hell out of the way.