So how would you go about turning a large number of blankets into smallpox infected blankets given only a small number of smallpox patients? How do you do it without those with the responsibility of caring for those smallpox patients complaining to your superiors or the local Church (which was a pretty damn powerful social force in those times)? I can't see it happening in large numbers. Apply some thought and see if you can find way to turn that wish of Amherst etc into a widespread reality.
Simple. Donate it to the food bank and the volunteers throw out the damaged containers when they are getting the containers out of the cartons. The rest is justification for the risk averse to not have the balls to do the right thing.
Apparently you have to look at one with the fault on it. Apparently it extends that far and the landfill practices in Chicago are similar to those that caused many problems in San Francisco in 1906. I'm just relaying a view from a geologist turned travel writer, Simon Winchester, from his book "The Crack at the Edge of the World" which is mainly about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, but ranges over the subjects of earthquakes and the North American plate in general. Hopefully the New Madrid earthquake is something very rare but it should be something to keep in mind for new construction in the area that was affected.
You've lied about the contents of that report. It appears that you are the sort of person that needs to be dragged by the collar to your own piss on the floor, your nose rubbed in it, but then you still go and piss on the floor again the next day. We both know that your "Climatologists were warning of an impending ice age" is revisionist bullshit based on a hack that wanted to sell magazines yet you keep on bringing it up over and over. What is your motivation for this revisionism? Is it following the party line in the hope that some day you may get rewarded with the post of Commisar or do you get paid as some sort of "social media" worker? This everyone over 40 was stupid enough to believe in a flat Earth style revisionist bullshit is incredibly annoying and is the tactic that was used in Stalinist USSR to discredit those that brought up historical examples.
Good luck at your promotion with the Party comrade.
Yes, that was inconsistent with the character but sadly the real world got in the way and a producer decided she had to be written out for daring to ask to be paid as much as male actors with less lines. Ivanova was supposed to end up running B5 and the Loxley character was brought in to fill the gap without changing the plot much.
Ivanova defers to the Minbari dominated Interstellar Alliance at the expense of Earth
At the expense of a corrupt Earth government and effectively for the people of Earth. Don't go all "my country right or wrong" on me about a series where the Nightwatch story was about when the state is being run in a perverse way.
Get off your arse and vote instead of leaving it to those who treat politics as a game for the rich and you may get to live there without having to move.
However your strawman of an inflexible regulation is the opposite of how such things are intended to work. They are supposed to be an aid to a functioning society instead of an impediment to society or a barrier of entry to new players. You'd do well to remember such overstatement is often a tactic of those who use "small government" as code for "not enough oversight to catch me accepting bribes".
In this universe
Politically partisan, ignorant and insulting I see. It may work the way you suggest where you live because the people you are cheering for appoint horse judges and drinking buddies to make it that way and then blame the effects of incompetence and nepotism on the very idea of a regulatory framework. Take a look at other places where political parties are not recently descended from gangsters and you'll see your "in this universe" as the worthless pile of shit excusing corruption that it is.
Very wrong, but for good reasons. Once JMS worked out how good some of the actors he had for secondary roles were he gave them much more to do. The three ambassadors were played by more experienced and capable actors than the rest of the recurring cast for example.
In this case it appears that one major factor was that his girlfriend was threatened and he seemed to think that suicide would take the pressure off her. Due to the fuss generated over his suicide he was correct and the threats of legal action against his girlfriend stopped. Are you starting to see what sort of people were involved here? If they were petty criminals instead of lawyers or their agents acting like petty criminals they would probably be doing time for their actions.
That's not an argument against regulations, it's merely an argument against putting horse judges and drinking buddies instead of professionals in charge of drafting, revising and enforcing regulations.
Unlike you I can cite Scientific American to back up what I've written with an actual link: http://www.scientificamerican.... Note the mention of President Johnson there. If that's not enough try google and you will find many others.
Funny how something that got so little attention and was mostly dismissed as bullshit back in the day is now being pushed by opportunists with an agenda as being more than a weird fringe view. Another annoying trick is deliberately getting mixed up with discussions about nuclear winter, I'll bet that was the next step. And after being such an opportunistic revisionist you dare to call me a liar? What a disgusting piece of work you are. I hope you are getting promoted in the Party for pushing this rubbish. By showing you are able to leave morals behind are you hoping you will make it to Commissar?
Yes but you can still potentially do a lot with composite materials fabricated from metal powder. I made a wear resistant but still highly conductive copper plus alumina mix from powder a bit over twenty years ago. Hmm - laser plus sub micron titanium powder - better get some argon or something to squirt in to keep the oxygen out or you have a bomb. Not a show stopper but just an example of what to think about.
There's already the "zip guns" made from bits of untraceable hardware so I see this 3D printing of guns as something that has been deliberately blown up from a non-issue to a deliberate challenge to bring on regulation and hobble the 3D printing environment. The thing that especially makes me think of that is that the example printed gun is made from a material that is less strong than many types of wood and even less suitable for gun construction. Either that or it's just attention seeking or more "OMG terrorist" phobia.
where we see that Pickard only got to be captain because of the risks he took
I liked how Babylon5 took that idea as well. A well balanced "soldier" type that just happened to use a nuke to solve a military problem was mistaken for a "warrior" type by some stay at home wannabe warrior hawks and put in charge of a peace mission they really wanted to mess up. I think part of the message there is that the military is supposed to be about more than following stupid political orders blindly and blowing shit up.
I'd say don't bother seeing it. You've picked up all that's worth knowing about it from the comments here and nailed a likely possibility behind it already.
Greg Egan played with the concept nicely in the novel "Diaspora". Some characters encountered aliens. The characters themselves were digital simulations of human intelligence. They cloned a copy of themselves to altered to understand and communicate with the aliens, then another that could understand their copy, and so on until they had a chain that could communicate ideas from the original intelligences that encountered the aliens to the aliens. That's how he had his AI translation work (although the AI's were all descended from human intelligences and were all effectively people).
No it's because the writer of the week had a chip on their shoulder about machine translation. If it had that mode of failure then it would have cropped up before. The plot point IMHO is about the artificial intelligence in the translator not being a "real" intelligence - using a new arbitrary limit to add a new story that doesn't otherwise work in the setting. See also adding a cuddly and friendly borg to the crew.
Stepping back a bit it's probably just a writer having a dig at the idea of machine translation. In Star Wars (and one excuse when it comes up in Dr Who) they can get away with it because it's a concious entity that knows a lot of stuff about the other languages and cultures doing the translation. Something like C3PO could translate the Tamarian's language by reasoning out the metaphors but apparently the Trek AI is not supposed to be a full artificial person so cannot.
Even in the early 1960s the author Desmond Bagley had a poke at machine translation with "hydraulic ram" coming back as "water sheep".
Claudia Christian filled that role as the attractive young woman on a show that they didn't know what to do with in Babylon5 to start with - but then writers starting giving her Ivanova character stuff to do, the character became defined and it worked out well. In a show where continuity is not important and history resets just about every episode you end up with a cardboard cutout decoration that stays that way.
She suffered from a power level, and indeed just about everything about her, swinging from one extreme to the other depending upon the writer of the week. Next up I'd say the writers didn't quite know what to do about Wesley which resulted in some annoying "Wesley saves the day" episodes.
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So how would you go about turning a large number of blankets into smallpox infected blankets given only a small number of smallpox patients? How do you do it without those with the responsibility of caring for those smallpox patients complaining to your superiors or the local Church (which was a pretty damn powerful social force in those times)?
I can't see it happening in large numbers. Apply some thought and see if you can find way to turn that wish of Amherst etc into a widespread reality.
Simple. Donate it to the food bank and the volunteers throw out the damaged containers when they are getting the containers out of the cartons.
The rest is justification for the risk averse to not have the balls to do the right thing.
Apparently you have to look at one with the fault on it.
Apparently it extends that far and the landfill practices in Chicago are similar to those that caused many problems in San Francisco in 1906. I'm just relaying a view from a geologist turned travel writer, Simon Winchester, from his book "The Crack at the Edge of the World" which is mainly about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, but ranges over the subjects of earthquakes and the North American plate in general.
Hopefully the New Madrid earthquake is something very rare but it should be something to keep in mind for new construction in the area that was affected.
You've lied about the contents of that report.
It appears that you are the sort of person that needs to be dragged by the collar to your own piss on the floor, your nose rubbed in it, but then you still go and piss on the floor again the next day. We both know that your "Climatologists were warning of an impending ice age" is revisionist bullshit based on a hack that wanted to sell magazines yet you keep on bringing it up over and over.
What is your motivation for this revisionism? Is it following the party line in the hope that some day you may get rewarded with the post of Commisar or do you get paid as some sort of "social media" worker? This everyone over 40 was stupid enough to believe in a flat Earth style revisionist bullshit is incredibly annoying and is the tactic that was used in Stalinist USSR to discredit those that brought up historical examples.
Good luck at your promotion with the Party comrade.
Yes, that was inconsistent with the character but sadly the real world got in the way and a producer decided she had to be written out for daring to ask to be paid as much as male actors with less lines. Ivanova was supposed to end up running B5 and the Loxley character was brought in to fill the gap without changing the plot much.
At the expense of a corrupt Earth government and effectively for the people of Earth. Don't go all "my country right or wrong" on me about a series where the Nightwatch story was about when the state is being run in a perverse way.
Get off your arse and vote instead of leaving it to those who treat politics as a game for the rich and you may get to live there without having to move.
You'd do well to remember such overstatement is often a tactic of those who use "small government" as code for "not enough oversight to catch me accepting bribes".
Politically partisan, ignorant and insulting I see. It may work the way you suggest where you live because the people you are cheering for appoint horse judges and drinking buddies to make it that way and then blame the effects of incompetence and nepotism on the very idea of a regulatory framework. Take a look at other places where political parties are not recently descended from gangsters and you'll see your "in this universe" as the worthless pile of shit excusing corruption that it is.
Very wrong, but for good reasons. Once JMS worked out how good some of the actors he had for secondary roles were he gave them much more to do. The three ambassadors were played by more experienced and capable actors than the rest of the recurring cast for example.
In this case it appears that one major factor was that his girlfriend was threatened and he seemed to think that suicide would take the pressure off her. Due to the fuss generated over his suicide he was correct and the threats of legal action against his girlfriend stopped.
Are you starting to see what sort of people were involved here? If they were petty criminals instead of lawyers or their agents acting like petty criminals they would probably be doing time for their actions.
Very strong signal do that, little one don't. Simple enough?
That's not an argument against regulations, it's merely an argument against putting horse judges and drinking buddies instead of professionals in charge of drafting, revising and enforcing regulations.
Unlike you I can cite Scientific American to back up what I've written with an actual link:
http://www.scientificamerican....
Note the mention of President Johnson there. If that's not enough try google and you will find many others.
Funny how something that got so little attention and was mostly dismissed as bullshit back in the day is now being pushed by opportunists with an agenda as being more than a weird fringe view. Another annoying trick is deliberately getting mixed up with discussions about nuclear winter, I'll bet that was the next step.
And after being such an opportunistic revisionist you dare to call me a liar? What a disgusting piece of work you are. I hope you are getting promoted in the Party for pushing this rubbish. By showing you are able to leave morals behind are you hoping you will make it to Commissar?
Yes but you can still potentially do a lot with composite materials fabricated from metal powder. I made a wear resistant but still highly conductive copper plus alumina mix from powder a bit over twenty years ago.
Hmm - laser plus sub micron titanium powder - better get some argon or something to squirt in to keep the oxygen out or you have a bomb. Not a show stopper but just an example of what to think about.
There's already the "zip guns" made from bits of untraceable hardware so I see this 3D printing of guns as something that has been deliberately blown up from a non-issue to a deliberate challenge to bring on regulation and hobble the 3D printing environment.
The thing that especially makes me think of that is that the example printed gun is made from a material that is less strong than many types of wood and even less suitable for gun construction.
Either that or it's just attention seeking or more "OMG terrorist" phobia.
A single idiot journalist looking for "balance" was warning of an impending ice age.
It covered a huge area right up to Chicago.
I liked how Babylon5 took that idea as well. A well balanced "soldier" type that just happened to use a nuke to solve a military problem was mistaken for a "warrior" type by some stay at home wannabe warrior hawks and put in charge of a peace mission they really wanted to mess up. I think part of the message there is that the military is supposed to be about more than following stupid political orders blindly and blowing shit up.
Not as bad as the sentimental Tasha Yar funeral episode unless it was the same one.
I'd say don't bother seeing it. You've picked up all that's worth knowing about it from the comments here and nailed a likely possibility behind it already.
Greg Egan played with the concept nicely in the novel "Diaspora". Some characters encountered aliens. The characters themselves were digital simulations of human intelligence. They cloned a copy of themselves to altered to understand and communicate with the aliens, then another that could understand their copy, and so on until they had a chain that could communicate ideas from the original intelligences that encountered the aliens to the aliens. That's how he had his AI translation work (although the AI's were all descended from human intelligences and were all effectively people).
No it's because the writer of the week had a chip on their shoulder about machine translation.
If it had that mode of failure then it would have cropped up before. The plot point IMHO is about the artificial intelligence in the translator not being a "real" intelligence - using a new arbitrary limit to add a new story that doesn't otherwise work in the setting. See also adding a cuddly and friendly borg to the crew.
Stepping back a bit it's probably just a writer having a dig at the idea of machine translation.
In Star Wars (and one excuse when it comes up in Dr Who) they can get away with it because it's a concious entity that knows a lot of stuff about the other languages and cultures doing the translation. Something like C3PO could translate the Tamarian's language by reasoning out the metaphors but apparently the Trek AI is not supposed to be a full artificial person so cannot.
Even in the early 1960s the author Desmond Bagley had a poke at machine translation with "hydraulic ram" coming back as "water sheep".
Claudia Christian filled that role as the attractive young woman on a show that they didn't know what to do with in Babylon5 to start with - but then writers starting giving her Ivanova character stuff to do, the character became defined and it worked out well.
In a show where continuity is not important and history resets just about every episode you end up with a cardboard cutout decoration that stays that way.
She suffered from a power level, and indeed just about everything about her, swinging from one extreme to the other depending upon the writer of the week.
Next up I'd say the writers didn't quite know what to do about Wesley which resulted in some annoying "Wesley saves the day" episodes.
Please discuss these things seriously instead of expressing wishes.