The camera thing IS making headway in Baltimore. Also note the following: "Officer I am not consenting to a search at this time, as is my right" as opposed to "FUCK YOU PIG get outta my face you racist cracker shithead". Only one of these is going to impress a judge or jury later on;)
Advice I got from a cop: Most cops are great guys and a few are psychopaths with guns. The best place to fight it out is in court where they won't be able to shoot you and get away with it;)
I think this is the OS version of "I loved that band when they played in Jimmy's basement, but now they have a van and go to clubs. Total loser sellout band now, no cool person would go see them". YMMV and all, but I am loving Mint. It does stuff I want without spending all day fsking with it.
Like we all said, you want anarchy. If I sell you a car and refuse to hand it over, you will call the police and they will eventually use violence if I refuse to give you a car or your money back. There is *no such thing* as government or law if no one is willing to enforce it. So...you all spank yourselves silly imagining your alternative-universe libertarian self being rich and powerful and taking on all comers.
I live on solar power on my boat sometimes. I get 4-6 good hours out of it. The panels did pay for themselves by saving me a lot of generator fuel. I ended up running a slight defecit and needed to run the engine about every 4 days instread of once a day.
Libertarians *sort of* want laws and government. What they don't want is enough government to actually have a chance in hell of enforcing said laws. I think their idea of heaven would be like a 19th century territory where the US Marshall might come around a few time a year, but otherwise if you had the guns and the guts you could just go do what you wanted to and shoot anyone that didn't like it and didn't have enough hired guns to hurt you.
I think you are describing exactly the situation that led my forebears to leave England for the colonies that would become the USA. In the 17th century in England you got what the landed gentry allowed you to get. Sure there were some middle class merchants and such, but to a large extant the way up was owned by the aristrocrats and they weren't sharing it out.
If Ms. X is being paid by opponents of Uber, that is NEWS. If Ms. X likes purple vibrators, besides for her boyfriend learning what to get her for Christmas, WHO CARES! Trying to find dirt on a reporters personal life is vastly different than exposing a reporter being paid by your competitors.
Reporter: Your taxi company is violating the law by ignoring rule number 7a.1
Uber: I saw you looking at porn
Many of us in the IT industry got "recruited" half to death back in the day. I got more calls about jobs that did not actually exist. I started out every call with "Is this an ACTUAL JOB and who/what/where details please or I am hanging up". I can see the value of a GOOD headhunter/agent/recruiter, but the space is filled with hacks that just throw everything against the wall to see if anything sticks.
I maintained a laser link once. The tree in front of it grew high enough to block it, so we hired a tree trimmer. He managed to knock the laser off the roof somehow.
I am a MCP. You can pass the test and not know ONE THING about actually using a computer if you have good memorization skills and get one of the test prep guides. Even if you do know what you are doing, the memorization way is better because the common sense answer is not always the correct answer. At least when I took the test you had to parse the sentences to figure out WTF they were even ASKING and then keep in mind the MicsoSpeak. I think "cost effective network" was always 10BaseT back in the day.
Here is the deal. My techniclly marginal-at-best bosses CANNOT sort out competing ideas. Everything turns into a 3rd grade popularity contest with bonus points to anyone who can "cloud" or "virtulize". The bosses are not sure what it means, but they know they like it.
I went to flight school in Florida. Number 1 thing I loved about Flordia - by FAR - was I was one hour from the Bahamas! LOVED IT:) What I didn't like was every kind of nut, psycho killer, dirt bag, crack dealer, and every other kind of riff-raff seemed to migrate there. I very narrowly avoided the "Palm Bay Shoot Out" if you remember that.
I pay extra because I teach people to fly. I would pay more for flying experimental aircraft and I assume more again for spacecraft. Issue is I can look up the fatality per 100,000 hours for production aircraft, but not for experimental aircraft and REALLY not for rarely flown new spacecraft. Right now the fatality per 100,000 hours for Virgin Galactic is about the same as parachuting into an active volcano if you extrapolate it out. In contrast, the airplanes I teach in are about 1 fatality per 100,000 hours.
Also only some types of vultures have good noses. The other ones will watch the good-nose species and follow them if they see them head off for something smelly.
Perhaps by the loosest definition. If I find a good coffee shop on 4th street on Monday and go back on Tues-Friday is that operant conditioning? I guess I have Skinner boxes and rats getting shocked in my mind whenever I hear the term.
EDIT: I am well aware that ONE animal inventing a way to trick one other animal is not what the bats do.They have evolved to compete in this way across their species, not just as a one-off experiment. That said, the idea that animals use whatever they have to trick others out of their food is incredibly common and seen by anyone dealing with groups of them.
I have to say bullshit to this "operant conditioning" crap that makes it seems like all animals are unfeeling robots that just simulate thought and emotion. Horse A is smarter than the average and knows how to open his latch. Maybe the FIRST time he let another horse out was just screwing around, but as soon as he learned horse B would take off and run around leaving his food unguarded, he was all over that plan!
Bat A finds a bug and switches to a higher PRF to home in for the kill. Bat B hears this and heads over there, also switching to a higher PRF for close in work. It may have been an unintended consequence at first, but bat A loses lock with the second bat coming in on high PRF. This is a successful hunting strategy because you can do less work and let bat A find the bug and you just home in for the kill. Add a ton of evolution and.........here we are. Before the literal minded get their panties all twisted up, I KNOW the bats are not literally planning this out like a cold war sonar operator and I KNOW that the sonar term for PRF is PRR, but I spent many years as a radar tech so I go with what I know;)
They DO catch rabies and it kills them. They also apparently catch Ebola, but it is not fatal to them. I think pretty much every disease out there is mild in some species, severe in others, and non existant in yet others. This is not really new or unique to bats.
It is interesting that they use their sonar, but the idea that like-species animals compete and trick each other for food in only novel to someone who has never taken care of any animals ever. I know of a horse that would nose the latch open on the other horse's stalls. They would be like FREE AT LAST and run around while this smarter horse ate their food.
In other news, for human operated or natural radar/sonar, you switch to shorter more frequent pulses to get better bearing and distance information when close to a target. Some bat somewhere was bright enough to figure out when he heard another bat do that there was food over there and fast forward hundreds of thousands of years worth of smarter better fed bats being more successful......well here we are writing about them.
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The camera thing IS making headway in Baltimore. Also note the following: "Officer I am not consenting to a search at this time, as is my right" as opposed to "FUCK YOU PIG get outta my face you racist cracker shithead". Only one of these is going to impress a judge or jury later on ;)
Advice I got from a cop: Most cops are great guys and a few are psychopaths with guns. The best place to fight it out is in court where they won't be able to shoot you and get away with it ;)
I think this is the OS version of "I loved that band when they played in Jimmy's basement, but now they have a van and go to clubs. Total loser sellout band now, no cool person would go see them". YMMV and all, but I am loving Mint. It does stuff I want without spending all day fsking with it.
Like we all said, you want anarchy. If I sell you a car and refuse to hand it over, you will call the police and they will eventually use violence if I refuse to give you a car or your money back. There is *no such thing* as government or law if no one is willing to enforce it. So...you all spank yourselves silly imagining your alternative-universe libertarian self being rich and powerful and taking on all comers.
I live on solar power on my boat sometimes. I get 4-6 good hours out of it. The panels did pay for themselves by saving me a lot of generator fuel. I ended up running a slight defecit and needed to run the engine about every 4 days instread of once a day.
Libertarians *sort of* want laws and government. What they don't want is enough government to actually have a chance in hell of enforcing said laws. I think their idea of heaven would be like a 19th century territory where the US Marshall might come around a few time a year, but otherwise if you had the guns and the guts you could just go do what you wanted to and shoot anyone that didn't like it and didn't have enough hired guns to hurt you.
I think you are describing exactly the situation that led my forebears to leave England for the colonies that would become the USA. In the 17th century in England you got what the landed gentry allowed you to get. Sure there were some middle class merchants and such, but to a large extant the way up was owned by the aristrocrats and they weren't sharing it out.
If Ms. X is being paid by opponents of Uber, that is NEWS. If Ms. X likes purple vibrators, besides for her boyfriend learning what to get her for Christmas, WHO CARES! Trying to find dirt on a reporters personal life is vastly different than exposing a reporter being paid by your competitors. Reporter: Your taxi company is violating the law by ignoring rule number 7a.1 Uber: I saw you looking at porn
Many of us in the IT industry got "recruited" half to death back in the day. I got more calls about jobs that did not actually exist. I started out every call with "Is this an ACTUAL JOB and who/what/where details please or I am hanging up". I can see the value of a GOOD headhunter/agent/recruiter, but the space is filled with hacks that just throw everything against the wall to see if anything sticks.
I maintained a laser link once. The tree in front of it grew high enough to block it, so we hired a tree trimmer. He managed to knock the laser off the roof somehow.
I am a MCP. You can pass the test and not know ONE THING about actually using a computer if you have good memorization skills and get one of the test prep guides. Even if you do know what you are doing, the memorization way is better because the common sense answer is not always the correct answer. At least when I took the test you had to parse the sentences to figure out WTF they were even ASKING and then keep in mind the MicsoSpeak. I think "cost effective network" was always 10BaseT back in the day.
Here is the deal. My techniclly marginal-at-best bosses CANNOT sort out competing ideas. Everything turns into a 3rd grade popularity contest with bonus points to anyone who can "cloud" or "virtulize". The bosses are not sure what it means, but they know they like it.
I am a commercial pilot. I can usually tell you what species of bird I almost hit. I *KNOW* the difference between living things and drones.
FYI, not everone at the Post Office delivers mail. In other news, not all Delta employees are pilots and not all NASCAR employees are drivers.
I went to flight school in Florida. Number 1 thing I loved about Flordia - by FAR - was I was one hour from the Bahamas! LOVED IT :) What I didn't like was every kind of nut, psycho killer, dirt bag, crack dealer, and every other kind of riff-raff seemed to migrate there. I very narrowly avoided the "Palm Bay Shoot Out" if you remember that.
I pay extra because I teach people to fly. I would pay more for flying experimental aircraft and I assume more again for spacecraft. Issue is I can look up the fatality per 100,000 hours for production aircraft, but not for experimental aircraft and REALLY not for rarely flown new spacecraft. Right now the fatality per 100,000 hours for Virgin Galactic is about the same as parachuting into an active volcano if you extrapolate it out. In contrast, the airplanes I teach in are about 1 fatality per 100,000 hours.
If space travel were as dangerous as long distance sailing in the 1400s no one would go.
Also only some types of vultures have good noses. The other ones will watch the good-nose species and follow them if they see them head off for something smelly.
Perhaps by the loosest definition. If I find a good coffee shop on 4th street on Monday and go back on Tues-Friday is that operant conditioning? I guess I have Skinner boxes and rats getting shocked in my mind whenever I hear the term.
I don't think ionic means what you think it means unless the bats got some ozone generators off of Amazon to clean the cave odors up.
EDIT: I am well aware that ONE animal inventing a way to trick one other animal is not what the bats do.They have evolved to compete in this way across their species, not just as a one-off experiment. That said, the idea that animals use whatever they have to trick others out of their food is incredibly common and seen by anyone dealing with groups of them.
I have to say bullshit to this "operant conditioning" crap that makes it seems like all animals are unfeeling robots that just simulate thought and emotion. Horse A is smarter than the average and knows how to open his latch. Maybe the FIRST time he let another horse out was just screwing around, but as soon as he learned horse B would take off and run around leaving his food unguarded, he was all over that plan!
Bat A finds a bug and switches to a higher PRF to home in for the kill. Bat B hears this and heads over there, also switching to a higher PRF for close in work. It may have been an unintended consequence at first, but bat A loses lock with the second bat coming in on high PRF. This is a successful hunting strategy because you can do less work and let bat A find the bug and you just home in for the kill. Add a ton of evolution and .........here we are. Before the literal minded get their panties all twisted up, I KNOW the bats are not literally planning this out like a cold war sonar operator and I KNOW that the sonar term for PRF is PRR, but I spent many years as a radar tech so I go with what I know ;)
They DO catch rabies and it kills them. They also apparently catch Ebola, but it is not fatal to them. I think pretty much every disease out there is mild in some species, severe in others, and non existant in yet others. This is not really new or unique to bats.
It is interesting that they use their sonar, but the idea that like-species animals compete and trick each other for food in only novel to someone who has never taken care of any animals ever. I know of a horse that would nose the latch open on the other horse's stalls. They would be like FREE AT LAST and run around while this smarter horse ate their food. In other news, for human operated or natural radar/sonar, you switch to shorter more frequent pulses to get better bearing and distance information when close to a target. Some bat somewhere was bright enough to figure out when he heard another bat do that there was food over there and fast forward hundreds of thousands of years worth of smarter better fed bats being more successful......well here we are writing about them.