Ya, the closest I come was obviously a night terror because it was a classic night terror of waking up and not being able to move, and because it was the same thing described to me by a friend a few nights before in his experience that I had been dwelling on. Another friend saw a UFO as in a hovering object about a yard long that he said the best way to describe it was a flourescent light with rounded ends and the top half was silver. He said it floated about 30 feet away in a tree, moved around a bit, oriented itself to point towards him, then reoriented and few away. I know it was during the day time and he was awake because I was there when it happened. I remember him looking up and staring off into the distance but didn't think anything about it till his brother told us all about it. His brother also says he knows when his brother is lying or not and he thinks he is telling the truth this time, and didn't even want to tell us, the other kids who were there because we'd thin he was crazy. Sit down in a group and probably half have some some supernatural or UFO story that happened to them. Many are long and drawn out and not even a single instance that might be explained by turning on a light. I don't doubt that people are actually seeing something, probably have been throughout history, and it might be common enough to build a common base behind it. If given that the typical tunnel of light and hearing relatives near death experience actually happens, that alone could form a great deal of the basis of religion. Probably doesn't take more than a few people for that to happen to and be convinced that something else exists.
I read TFA. It has a list of the top 40 passwords. Seeing how two of those passwords are "myspace" and "homelesspa" (which was apparently a default password for a bot making fake MySpace accounts from what I can google in a few minutes), I'd say a sizable amount if not all are from a MySpace database leak. Over one million accounts just between those two passwords and they aren't even in the top ten. Not sure how the bell curve on bad passwords reads in telling us what percentage the myspace group would be if 1 million of the 13th and 28th most common passwords out of 1.4 billion of the total database.
People want to believe in something amazing and inexplicable, if for no other reason than it gives them hope: reality is just too boring and depressing. Religion is failing us, the stories and legends sound increasingly unlikely and unreal as time and education advances, so something else is filling the void. UFOs for those looking for the unworldy, scandals for those looking for the carnal, social media for those who like a good fight.
Funny you should bring up religion. There is actually a lot of current thought that these are actually the same phenomenon. Historical sightings of angels, saints, and miracles often have the same descriptions that more modern UFO sightings have: disks and sphere flying through the sky, often described as moving in a tumbling or skipping motion, bright lights, and even abductions with transport to another place or missing time. From there, you get into different camps as to what is going on. Either people of old mistook aliens visitations for angelic beings, or mistaking supernatural creatures as aliens. If you look up "aliester crowley lam" you'll get a picture of the spirit he is said to have contacted though magic ritual in 1918 and you'll see a pretty classic alien grey type figure with large head and almond eyes. Then you have others that say that this is just a bit of human psychology and people are seeing things but just adding in their own interpretations to them that match their current belief system. Then their are those who suggest the choice is not one of actually being visited by something or delusions, but options for anything in between.
It's basically a bad knockoff of the old Steve Jackson game, Illuminati.
You have obviously never played either Card Against Humanity or the old Steve Jackson game (either one), Illuminati. Makes me wonder if you just didn't forget to log out and post as the usual shit posting AC.
Now, let's see what happens over the next year or so. And yes, a us presidents actions normally take 6-12 months to take hold. And since trump has not pass a single item that really impacted the economy, this remains Obama's.
Well, the one win Trump has going for him is the bully pulpit. Last I heard, illegal immigration had pretty much stopped. Not because there was a wall or anything tangible but because Trump is pounding the issue. Likewise, Trump hasn't done much for business but sit there and say how much he likes business. Thing is that this gives business confidence and they'll act on that as like the stock market, it's not rational. Still, there's not much going on that seems all that different than what has gone on before. Still, captain of the ship gets the credit or blame no matter if they had anything to do with its fortune or failure.
I really think you are being somewhat oblivious to the difficulties. Take self sustaining for example. Yes, only for the time it takes for the trip and back, that's a given. Still there are things like seals that won't leak out the atmosphere in that time period. The ISS can't do it. Things like rotation are simple in theory but like all of these things are just that, theory. We've stil ahven't even built a proof of concept of a long term space habitat and there are lots of things that can happen. We don't want to find critical stress fractures in the structure that the CAD analysis didn't tell us about three months after launch. Plus, can't have just a safe room because even besides solar flares, ever present cosmic radiation will pretty much do a whammy on humans over that time period. Then there are also perchlorates, plus landing issues, fuel issues as it seems to be a thing that they're going to try and create fule from Mars' atmosphere, but that's never been tried. SO, anyway you look at it, it's not happening any time soon. I'd give it at least three decades if a Mars mission had the political will and funding similar to the Apollo program. Musk as said that such a mission will be on the scale of 200-600 billion dollars in cost. If anything, he is usually over optimistic, so anyway you look at it, if it was going to happen, it will be seen a long way out in a long project decades ahead of time. Nobody is going to spring a Mars mission out of their ass in just a few years.
it's possible that all iron-based weapons and tools of the Bronze Age were forged using metal salvaged from meteorites.
You don't say! "Before we could make X on our own, we used whatever X was lying around"?
The entire point of the article is that evidence is showing that the time when we could make our own is now moved from what history had previously assumed to a much later date.
Yes, pretty cool, but we've known about meteorite iron for quite some time. Long enough for it to be a thing in D&D. I think there are even some large meteors around that were still being "mined" for iron until fairly recently when they were instead protected. I think the take away with this study is that ALL bronze age iron came from meteorites. Previously, it seems that it was thought that iron smelting was known in the bronze age but not really used until it absolutely had to be due to disrupted trade routes because bronze was still the superior metal. Instead, it's looking like there was only bronze smelting until the trade routes for tin were disrupted, and then people developed iron smelting which is quote a deviation from how we understood the timeline earlier.
I wonder how much people just don't think about how much things cost. $2.50 is a sufficiently small amount that it's not worth keeping track of. $2.50 a couple of times a day feels psychologically like it's still in the noise. Over $1,200 per year feels a lot more, but it's not until you do the calculation that you realise how much you're spending. If at that price it still does seem worth it, great, but it might not be the best way of translating $1,200 into an improvement in your quality of living.
Unless somebody is budgeting their money to begin with, it doesn't matter because that $2.50/day will just evaporate into other things, just like I'm sure Mr. O'Leary's money does. He might save $2.50 on coffee, but probably loses it on something else he likes that other people do without. If they are budgeting their money, then they know what they are spending on, or at least how much they are spending, and are good with that.
Perhaps. But it is not a falsifiable hypothesis. We don't know, and we don't know if there will ever be a way to know.
I think it is. Last I read, the math of how we currently understand things indicates that a black hole spinning fast enough (a Super Extreme Kerr Object ) would provide a naked singularity that would be observable in some manner (eg gravitational lensing). Many physicists dislike the idea of naked singluarities, and at this level we might not even be sure we have the math correct. However, if we found a black hole/object that had those qualities, it certianly would answer many of those questions or at least give us new questions that would be better on target.
It's digital fucking tulips - something that has little or no actual value, but an over-inflating price just because people think they can buy it at any price and sell it on for more...and as long as they're not the ones holding onto the worthless shit when the bubble inevitably bursts, that's totally OK.
Interesting. Tulips aren't exactly worthless. People do want them and they server a purpose. This got me thinking about it's relation to other things, like games. What if there was something like software that was tied to a block chain wallet like a game. You're a company that makes a game, sells a game, have it tied to a blockchain wallet (forgive me a bit as I'm not totally familiar with the tech), in effect making it a real thing as it can't be replicated in a usable form. It could be sold and transferred from one wallet to another and between people like a physical object. Seems if bitcoin hasn't been hacked yet, then this sort of DRM might not be so hackable but still maintain the right of first seller for the owner. However, seems there still must be a central repository of wallet info to make this all work and isn't completely independent of a 3rd party.
Incidentally, "ethics" in the commercial space these days means "how can we manage to not get caught and still get rich".
As described by my ethics people where I work, ethics literally means following company policy. If you are following written company policy, then it's ethical, and if not, it isn't. Whether it's legal or moral has no bearing on if it's ethical.
Hawkins is nearing his end and he knows it. This is tainting his views and makes him see death around each corner.
More than likely it's just a neural net becoming rigid in it's ways and erroring to an extreme because it has gotten harder to process and integrate data beyond what it already knows.
It seems like everyone is buying into the Bitcoin hype these days.
I can't find it to link it, but a couple of days ago, I was reading an article (on BBC?) that was saying that more than half of the new money flowing into bitcoin was from Europe. The US was only spending about one third as much as Europe on bitcoin recently.
A contract is a contract, agreement + promise.. You don't get to back out of those, not without a major reputation hit for failing to keep your word and major legal consequences, anyways.
I doubt there would be "major legal consequences." Cancelling a pilot's planned vacation probably isn't going to ruin their life.
And that sort of logic is why they have union to begin with. Contrary to what people think, money issues rarely cause employees to want to unionize. Bad management however is what does it. Management thinking that the only thing workers should ask when they say "jump" is "how high" and other abuse really gets people's hackles up. Tell people their family vacation is cancelled because of some management fuck up for which they must pay for, and all your ex-military Rush Limbaugh listening conservatives will be screaming to unionize so there are rules that management must adhere to. That's how it was at my work anyway.
Because having to switch between keyboard and mouse kills productivity. Of course, everything is where it's supposed to be, so I don't have to memorize where it is. I can still navigate to it and open it with a mouse quicker than typing and selecting. It's one of the things that I really hate about Win10, no easy to navigate by mouse hierarchy making me use the much less efficient search functions.
Mandatory overtime is legal in America, and is fairly common, so I don't see what the big deal is here. 11 hours of work isn't going to kill anyone, and the majority likely appreciated the extra pay.
Breach of contract most likely. Because of the scrutiny that Apple's labor practices get, I bet they have it in their contract with Foxconn to not pull stuff like this because it would be bad publicity. Theoretically, Foxconn has a similar contract with the factory. Now that these breach of contracts have been revealed, Apple is forced to see those contracts upheld or the breach punished or face bad PR (resulting in lost sales) for something they didn't even want to happen.
And the same goes for "Tiny Houses". They are trailers people.... Ridiculously heavy and expensive trailers
Rebranding run amok.
Yep, what is old is new again. They're not always trailers and are essentially late 1800's New England cottages. Most of which have been eradicated along with other low rent living conditions during the 20th century through zoning and city codes. Plenty of people decide they don't need that much space and opt for smaller, cheaper. Plenty of people buy their land, have their little cottage and are happy with it. The business conditions, especially in SV these days, are preferential to this because it seems nobody expects their first, second, or even fifth job to be a career. It seems to be about resume padding, job hopping, and working up till they can get the career they want where they want, so temporary housing like the article talks about or small trailers that can be moved work for that process.
So you are going to go with the "no true Scotsman argument".
Sorry you need to come to grips with the fact that progressives are either stupid enough to believe their own nonsense, or cynical enough to inflict it on others. The progressive "agenda" is nothing but a bunch of pandering to groups whose actual needs are in direct conflict.
Or you're going to have to just deal with that when you try and divide everything into one of two groups that are supposed to diametrically opposed to each other, that you're usually going to fail. The world is complex and doesn't work cleanly like that.
Hell, there are multiple definitions for things like "liberal" or "conservative" that differ by context and even then not everybody is on the same page about them let alone all features associated with them.
"hundreds of years ago they were tiny and almost flavorless. Apples were the size of today's plums."
Not so in this 1600's engraving of Isaac Newton. Nor in even older paintings. Even its wild progenitor,Malus sieversii is of similar size to modern apples.
American apples typically were smaller and sour. These are the apples that made Johnny Appleseed famous and they were mostly used for making apple cider, not eating. With prohibition, those apple trees got cut down and with supermarkets, the larger apples for eating became more popular.
That's not really an issue until you get a large concentration of people.
Rural communities are dispersed enough to avoid that kind of thing.
Sewage and water treatment plants are necessities of urban living.
Only since the outhouse building projects of the depression's WPA. Before that open sewage and disease were major problems to the health of rural Americans.
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Ya, the closest I come was obviously a night terror because it was a classic night terror of waking up and not being able to move, and because it was the same thing described to me by a friend a few nights before in his experience that I had been dwelling on. Another friend saw a UFO as in a hovering object about a yard long that he said the best way to describe it was a flourescent light with rounded ends and the top half was silver. He said it floated about 30 feet away in a tree, moved around a bit, oriented itself to point towards him, then reoriented and few away. I know it was during the day time and he was awake because I was there when it happened. I remember him looking up and staring off into the distance but didn't think anything about it till his brother told us all about it. His brother also says he knows when his brother is lying or not and he thinks he is telling the truth this time, and didn't even want to tell us, the other kids who were there because we'd thin he was crazy. Sit down in a group and probably half have some some supernatural or UFO story that happened to them. Many are long and drawn out and not even a single instance that might be explained by turning on a light. I don't doubt that people are actually seeing something, probably have been throughout history, and it might be common enough to build a common base behind it. If given that the typical tunnel of light and hearing relatives near death experience actually happens, that alone could form a great deal of the basis of religion. Probably doesn't take more than a few people for that to happen to and be convinced that something else exists.
I read TFA. It has a list of the top 40 passwords. Seeing how two of those passwords are "myspace" and "homelesspa" (which was apparently a default password for a bot making fake MySpace accounts from what I can google in a few minutes), I'd say a sizable amount if not all are from a MySpace database leak. Over one million accounts just between those two passwords and they aren't even in the top ten. Not sure how the bell curve on bad passwords reads in telling us what percentage the myspace group would be if 1 million of the 13th and 28th most common passwords out of 1.4 billion of the total database.
People want to believe in something amazing and inexplicable, if for no other reason than it gives them hope: reality is just too boring and depressing. Religion is failing us, the stories and legends sound increasingly unlikely and unreal as time and education advances, so something else is filling the void. UFOs for those looking for the unworldy, scandals for those looking for the carnal, social media for those who like a good fight.
Funny you should bring up religion. There is actually a lot of current thought that these are actually the same phenomenon. Historical sightings of angels, saints, and miracles often have the same descriptions that more modern UFO sightings have: disks and sphere flying through the sky, often described as moving in a tumbling or skipping motion, bright lights, and even abductions with transport to another place or missing time. From there, you get into different camps as to what is going on. Either people of old mistook aliens visitations for angelic beings, or mistaking supernatural creatures as aliens. If you look up "aliester crowley lam" you'll get a picture of the spirit he is said to have contacted though magic ritual in 1918 and you'll see a pretty classic alien grey type figure with large head and almond eyes. Then you have others that say that this is just a bit of human psychology and people are seeing things but just adding in their own interpretations to them that match their current belief system. Then their are those who suggest the choice is not one of actually being visited by something or delusions, but options for anything in between.
1% of 600 Billion (US military budget) is 6 Billion. Not sure how that is 3 times NASAs $17Billion budget. Public school education?
It's an AC post that you're replying to, so probably the Russian Public School system.
It's basically a bad knockoff of the old Steve Jackson game, Illuminati.
You have obviously never played either Card Against Humanity or the old Steve Jackson game (either one), Illuminati. Makes me wonder if you just didn't forget to log out and post as the usual shit posting AC.
Now, let's see what happens over the next year or so. And yes, a us presidents actions normally take 6-12 months to take hold. And since trump has not pass a single item that really impacted the economy, this remains Obama's.
Well, the one win Trump has going for him is the bully pulpit. Last I heard, illegal immigration had pretty much stopped. Not because there was a wall or anything tangible but because Trump is pounding the issue. Likewise, Trump hasn't done much for business but sit there and say how much he likes business. Thing is that this gives business confidence and they'll act on that as like the stock market, it's not rational. Still, there's not much going on that seems all that different than what has gone on before. Still, captain of the ship gets the credit or blame no matter if they had anything to do with its fortune or failure.
I really think you are being somewhat oblivious to the difficulties. Take self sustaining for example. Yes, only for the time it takes for the trip and back, that's a given. Still there are things like seals that won't leak out the atmosphere in that time period. The ISS can't do it. Things like rotation are simple in theory but like all of these things are just that, theory. We've stil ahven't even built a proof of concept of a long term space habitat and there are lots of things that can happen. We don't want to find critical stress fractures in the structure that the CAD analysis didn't tell us about three months after launch. Plus, can't have just a safe room because even besides solar flares, ever present cosmic radiation will pretty much do a whammy on humans over that time period. Then there are also perchlorates, plus landing issues, fuel issues as it seems to be a thing that they're going to try and create fule from Mars' atmosphere, but that's never been tried. SO, anyway you look at it, it's not happening any time soon. I'd give it at least three decades if a Mars mission had the political will and funding similar to the Apollo program. Musk as said that such a mission will be on the scale of 200-600 billion dollars in cost. If anything, he is usually over optimistic, so anyway you look at it, if it was going to happen, it will be seen a long way out in a long project decades ahead of time. Nobody is going to spring a Mars mission out of their ass in just a few years.
it's possible that all iron-based weapons and tools of the Bronze Age were forged using metal salvaged from meteorites.
You don't say! "Before we could make X on our own, we used whatever X was lying around"?
The entire point of the article is that evidence is showing that the time when we could make our own is now moved from what history had previously assumed to a much later date.
So where did we get the iron? Meteorites.
Pretty cool.
Yes, pretty cool, but we've known about meteorite iron for quite some time. Long enough for it to be a thing in D&D. I think there are even some large meteors around that were still being "mined" for iron until fairly recently when they were instead protected. I think the take away with this study is that ALL bronze age iron came from meteorites. Previously, it seems that it was thought that iron smelting was known in the bronze age but not really used until it absolutely had to be due to disrupted trade routes because bronze was still the superior metal. Instead, it's looking like there was only bronze smelting until the trade routes for tin were disrupted, and then people developed iron smelting which is quote a deviation from how we understood the timeline earlier.
$850 added to an investment account each year for 50 years with interest is: $387,956.
Yep but in 50 years, that $390,000 will be worth about $85,000 in today's money due to inflation.
And for that $85k in today's buying power, you just need to spend half a century stumbling around in a sleepy daze.
I wonder how much people just don't think about how much things cost. $2.50 is a sufficiently small amount that it's not worth keeping track of. $2.50 a couple of times a day feels psychologically like it's still in the noise. Over $1,200 per year feels a lot more, but it's not until you do the calculation that you realise how much you're spending. If at that price it still does seem worth it, great, but it might not be the best way of translating $1,200 into an improvement in your quality of living.
Unless somebody is budgeting their money to begin with, it doesn't matter because that $2.50/day will just evaporate into other things, just like I'm sure Mr. O'Leary's money does. He might save $2.50 on coffee, but probably loses it on something else he likes that other people do without. If they are budgeting their money, then they know what they are spending on, or at least how much they are spending, and are good with that.
Is there a "singularity inside a blackhole"?
Perhaps. But it is not a falsifiable hypothesis. We don't know, and we don't know if there will ever be a way to know.
I think it is. Last I read, the math of how we currently understand things indicates that a black hole spinning fast enough (a Super Extreme Kerr Object ) would provide a naked singularity that would be observable in some manner (eg gravitational lensing). Many physicists dislike the idea of naked singluarities, and at this level we might not even be sure we have the math correct. However, if we found a black hole/object that had those qualities, it certianly would answer many of those questions or at least give us new questions that would be better on target.
It's digital fucking tulips - something that has little or no actual value, but an over-inflating price just because people think they can buy it at any price and sell it on for more...and as long as they're not the ones holding onto the worthless shit when the bubble inevitably bursts, that's totally OK.
Interesting. Tulips aren't exactly worthless. People do want them and they server a purpose. This got me thinking about it's relation to other things, like games. What if there was something like software that was tied to a block chain wallet like a game. You're a company that makes a game, sells a game, have it tied to a blockchain wallet (forgive me a bit as I'm not totally familiar with the tech), in effect making it a real thing as it can't be replicated in a usable form. It could be sold and transferred from one wallet to another and between people like a physical object. Seems if bitcoin hasn't been hacked yet, then this sort of DRM might not be so hackable but still maintain the right of first seller for the owner. However, seems there still must be a central repository of wallet info to make this all work and isn't completely independent of a 3rd party.
Incidentally, "ethics" in the commercial space these days means "how can we manage to not get caught and still get rich".
As described by my ethics people where I work, ethics literally means following company policy. If you are following written company policy, then it's ethical, and if not, it isn't. Whether it's legal or moral has no bearing on if it's ethical.
Hawkins is nearing his end and he knows it. This is tainting his views and makes him see death around each corner.
More than likely it's just a neural net becoming rigid in it's ways and erroring to an extreme because it has gotten harder to process and integrate data beyond what it already knows.
He said this in a robotic voice...
It's almost like he's trying to tell us something because he knows something we don't.
It seems like everyone is buying into the Bitcoin hype these days.
I can't find it to link it, but a couple of days ago, I was reading an article (on BBC?) that was saying that more than half of the new money flowing into bitcoin was from Europe. The US was only spending about one third as much as Europe on bitcoin recently.
A contract is a contract, agreement + promise.. You don't get to back out of those, not without a major reputation hit for failing to keep your word and major legal consequences, anyways.
I doubt there would be "major legal consequences." Cancelling a pilot's planned vacation probably isn't going to ruin their life.
And that sort of logic is why they have union to begin with. Contrary to what people think, money issues rarely cause employees to want to unionize. Bad management however is what does it. Management thinking that the only thing workers should ask when they say "jump" is "how high" and other abuse really gets people's hackles up. Tell people their family vacation is cancelled because of some management fuck up for which they must pay for, and all your ex-military Rush Limbaugh listening conservatives will be screaming to unionize so there are rules that management must adhere to. That's how it was at my work anyway.
That's your prerogative, to be certain, but why?
Because having to switch between keyboard and mouse kills productivity. Of course, everything is where it's supposed to be, so I don't have to memorize where it is. I can still navigate to it and open it with a mouse quicker than typing and selecting. It's one of the things that I really hate about Win10, no easy to navigate by mouse hierarchy making me use the much less efficient search functions.
You think 11 hours of work every day for three months is not going to kill anyone?
Sounds like a light grad student load.
Mandatory overtime is legal in America, and is fairly common, so I don't see what the big deal is here. 11 hours of work isn't going to kill anyone, and the majority likely appreciated the extra pay.
Breach of contract most likely. Because of the scrutiny that Apple's labor practices get, I bet they have it in their contract with Foxconn to not pull stuff like this because it would be bad publicity. Theoretically, Foxconn has a similar contract with the factory. Now that these breach of contracts have been revealed, Apple is forced to see those contracts upheld or the breach punished or face bad PR (resulting in lost sales) for something they didn't even want to happen.
And the same goes for "Tiny Houses". They are trailers people.... Ridiculously heavy and expensive trailers
Rebranding run amok.
Yep, what is old is new again. They're not always trailers and are essentially late 1800's New England cottages. Most of which have been eradicated along with other low rent living conditions during the 20th century through zoning and city codes. Plenty of people decide they don't need that much space and opt for smaller, cheaper. Plenty of people buy their land, have their little cottage and are happy with it. The business conditions, especially in SV these days, are preferential to this because it seems nobody expects their first, second, or even fifth job to be a career. It seems to be about resume padding, job hopping, and working up till they can get the career they want where they want, so temporary housing like the article talks about or small trailers that can be moved work for that process.
So you are going to go with the "no true Scotsman argument".
Sorry you need to come to grips with the fact that progressives are either stupid enough to believe their own nonsense, or cynical enough to inflict it on others. The progressive "agenda" is nothing but a bunch of pandering to groups whose actual needs are in direct conflict.
Or you're going to have to just deal with that when you try and divide everything into one of two groups that are supposed to diametrically opposed to each other, that you're usually going to fail. The world is complex and doesn't work cleanly like that. Hell, there are multiple definitions for things like "liberal" or "conservative" that differ by context and even then not everybody is on the same page about them let alone all features associated with them.
"hundreds of years ago they were tiny and almost flavorless. Apples were the size of today's plums." Not so in this 1600's engraving of Isaac Newton. Nor in even older paintings. Even its wild progenitor, Malus sieversii is of similar size to modern apples.
American apples typically were smaller and sour. These are the apples that made Johnny Appleseed famous and they were mostly used for making apple cider, not eating. With prohibition, those apple trees got cut down and with supermarkets, the larger apples for eating became more popular.
That's not really an issue until you get a large concentration of people.
Rural communities are dispersed enough to avoid that kind of thing.
Sewage and water treatment plants are necessities of urban living.
Only since the outhouse building projects of the depression's WPA. Before that open sewage and disease were major problems to the health of rural Americans.