Thousands of people die from overdoses every year. Of course it is the doctor's and patients who are ultimately responsible, but congress and the lobbyists have made it much too easy for people to get much more oxycontin than they need. Ask Rush Limbaugh, he knows.
Yeah, like I said, we are going to need new laws, not new "free trade" agreements. The criminal corporate overlords need to be taxed into submission, broken up into smaller companies and regulated until they scream Uncle!
We are going to need new laws or a constitutional amendment to prevent companies from screwing over citizens to make a profit. These companies, like the Oxycontin maker, know their product is deadly and addictive, and they fight every day to prevent pot from becoming legal. They don't care how many lives are ruined as long as the money keeps flowing.
The major issue for me now is that if Clinton gets back in the WH, after all the crap she has pulled, the DNC will say to themselves “we can do anything we want, as long as the Republican is a big bogeyman”. Don’t get me started on her and Bill killing Glass-Steagall and helping set up the 2008 crash.
I realize many Democrats will hold their nose and vote for Clinton, but I just can’t. It feels like rewarding them for egregiously bad behavior. Then if Clinton starts the cold war back up with Russia as a way to justify the 1 trillion dollar nuclear arsenal upgrade, and starts a bunch of new regime change wars, I would feel like I helped enable that by voting for her. So I am voting my conscience and going with Jill Stein. At least then I won’t feel like I enabled more Clinton disasters. If Trump wins, that is the DNC’s fault, not mine.
Also, Clinton only won when independents were kept out of the voting. Clinton's political machine and the DNC had control over the primaries all the way down to the precinct level. They could pull strings everywhere. Like Bernie said, it is going to take a political revolution in this country to take it back from our criminal corporate overlords.
I should add that there may be lots of opposition to the TPP on both sides of the Pacific, but I haven't heard as much about complaints from the Pacific member states as I have from Europe about TTIP.
There is massive public opposition to the TTP and TTIP on both sides of the Atlantic. When people learn what is in it, they invariably don't like it (unless they run a large multinational corporation, like Disney). It still may pass, but I wouldn't bet on it at this point. Even Clinton, the most corporate owned presidential candidate in history, has been forced to say it is a bad deal for the people. Of course, her surrogates at the DNC platform convention have refused repeatedly to formally denounce the TTP, so that says something about what Clinton would do once back in the White House again. Still, it is going to be a big stain on any politician's record who votes for it. There has never been this level of organized opposition to a trade deal. This time, now that there has been 20 years to assess NAFTA and CAFTA, many of the offending politicians may be voted out of office in the next election.
Yeah, MS thinks that phone toys and desktop power systems (gaming, non-linear editing, content creation) are somehow exactly the same, and therefore need a similar toy interface meant for a 4 inch screen. Not sure why they are thinking that one size fits all, when it clearly doesn't. They are focusing on toys, not serious computers, and that means that serious computer users are not going to make the switch. On top of that, their heavy handed tactics in trying to force WX onto every computer through updates has backfired, and now everyone has automatic updates turned off (unless they are stuck with WX where you can't control updates).
One thing they did manage to do is to make GWX Control Panel one of the more popular downloads in the world.
4 years is a long time, and considering that Windows 7 still has about 50% market share, Microsoft has some serious work to do to convince businesses and home users to switch to a service that does not offer significant advantages to Windows 7 users, and has lots of downsides. None of the features added to Windows 10 are of any interest to me at this point. Even Direct X 10 isn't a draw yet. I have 6 machines running windows 7 and none will be upgraded until Windows 10 offers me more control, rather than less. I don't want a service, I want a functioning OS. I am using Windows on computers, not phones, and I don't need it on phones. Microsoft has hundreds of millions of Windows 7 users to convince, and they are doing an exceptionally poor job of convincing them based on "features" (like forced updates).
It is going to be a tough sell to get the other half of Windows users to switch when the new, service based OS has so much baggage.
No, capitalism sucks worse than just about all other options especially when it turns to kleptocracy and oligarchy. Unregulated capitalism under neoliberal stewardship will eventually collapse under the weight of its own corruption and squandering of resources to make a fast buck. The only question is how long will it take before it implodes. Capitalism needs strong regulation and high taxes to prevent it from killing itself with over indulgence. But that ill never happen under neoliberal rule, where markets are God, and workers are peasants (aka human resources).
That is the problem with capitalism and making everything contingent on being marketable. I wonder if corporations have so thoroughly brainwashed people that now people cannot conceive of doing anything that isn't mass marketable, you know, like sending people to the moon. Of course now, rich people will now be our saviors, and they will build the rockets and send rich people who can afford 20 million dollar tickets to the moon. Sad that everyone thinks in terms of marketability and profit, rather than cooperation and shared goals.
And why is the test of worthiness for a medical procedure whether it can be "mass marketed"? What neoliberal thinking. How about if it is cheap, and effective, maybe then it doesn't matter if it is not "mass marketable"? I find it fascinating that people don't care about solutions to problems if they think they won't make lots of money.
Crispr/Cas is a very interesting gene editing technology that looks like it is going to replace current methods. But as with all existing methods, getting it to edit exactly what you want, the way you want, is a bit tricky. But it works well enough that it is being used on a wide scale basis to make gene knockout animals and cell lines.
I didn't offer a definition of anything. Obviously, you didn't read through the thread to see how many off topic and unrelated political comments there were on an article about CO2 levels in the atmosphere. And saying that discussions of atmospheric CO2 levels and ocean acidification are "Alarmism" makes you sound quite silly.
The first post nailed it. Just take a look through the comments to see how incapable the/. crowd is at having a reasonable, intelligent discussion anymore. Off topic instantly, into political chest pounding immediately. Nothing about how burning fossil fuels is responsible for the constant rise in CO2 and the subsequent impacts on the biosphere and polar ice. Coral bleaching is reaching levels never seen before due to ocean acidification, which will get much worse as the CO2 level continues to rise. I understand it is the job of the corporate shills here to "muddy the waters" and manufacture doubt and insult everyone, but I just wish everyone else would stop taking the bait, and don't even respond to them anymore, no matter how obnoxious they are.
Corporations need to pay much higher taxes. It is a crime that working people have to pay them, and corporations can get away with offshoring and you know it. It is the primary organized crime in the world and it is an international syndicate. You know it, and the corporations know it. Police raided Mossack Fonseca in Panama today, and it is hopefully the start of an international crackdown on tax evasion by corporations and rich hypocrites. I can't evade taxes, and unless you are a large corporation, you can't either. It is time for corporations to do their patriotic duty and pay their fair share. Our crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating social safety net are testaments to their greed and malfeasance.
First off, reduce the number of laws that pertain to non-violent and victim-less crimes. That would include drug laws, which should be health issues, not legal issues. How many laws are on the books? Obviously too many, and a significant percentage are for behaviors that don't affect society or other citizens. Meanwhile, other activities that severely hurt society are not even against the law (e.g., off-shoring billions of dollars to avoid taxes, increasing the tax burden on everyone else). Further, we have a for-profit prison system that needs to fill beds to make a profit. Right there you clearly have a conflict of interest. So you could also get rid of all for-profit prisons. The are a number of changes that could be made that would reduce the number of people charged, while appling the law much more evenly across society.
And prosecutorial discretion is and has been abused since long before the Constitution was written. Just because it is SOP doesn't make it good. When laws are very, very irregularly enforced, it makes a mockery of the judicial system itself. Of course there should be some leeway, but that doesn't mean that rich and powerful people should get off while poor and working people get hit with the maximum sentence. It also doesn't mean that corporate CEOs should only be fined, while small, non-violent offenders get years in jail, for example for a small drug charge. Laws have always been unevenly enforced to the detriment or regular people, and the benefit of the wealthy. We even see very uneven application of the law with regard to leaking so-called classified information, for example David Patraeus vs. Jeffrey Sterling. When laws are applied that unevenly, it is clear the law is being used as a targeted weapon, rather than a rule applied to all of society.
Brains are biological. Your brain is an organ in your body like your liver is. It requires nutrients, oxygen and a good blood supply. Brains don't use algorithms, computers do. I have been a publishing neuroscientist since the 1980s and I am unequivocally telling you that we don't know how the brain works. Prove me wrong. Get on PubMed and bring up the articles that declare that humans know how the brain works. We haven't got a clue because we don't even know why life is so different from inanimate matter. You really need to take at least a few courses in biology before you talk about it or you risk exhibiting the Dunning Kruger effect.
I hope you devote your life to proving me wrong, and I hope you succeed, because it would be great. It would also be nice if I could teleport to the South Pacific for a quick vacation.
I don't see how that is creating an artificial brain, it is just creating an artificial game playing machine. I find it interesting that you think you can make an artificial version of something without knowing anything about how the original works. That is a fascinating concept.
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Did I mention.... No! By the way, is this the only thing MS sells now that doesn't have anything to do with Windows 10?
They can't charge more or people won't buy their crap. Someone else will undercut them.
Thousands of people die from overdoses every year. Of course it is the doctor's and patients who are ultimately responsible, but congress and the lobbyists have made it much too easy for people to get much more oxycontin than they need. Ask Rush Limbaugh, he knows.
Yeah, like I said, we are going to need new laws, not new "free trade" agreements. The criminal corporate overlords need to be taxed into submission, broken up into smaller companies and regulated until they scream Uncle!
We are going to need new laws or a constitutional amendment to prevent companies from screwing over citizens to make a profit. These companies, like the Oxycontin maker, know their product is deadly and addictive, and they fight every day to prevent pot from becoming legal. They don't care how many lives are ruined as long as the money keeps flowing.
The major issue for me now is that if Clinton gets back in the WH, after all the crap she has pulled, the DNC will say to themselves “we can do anything we want, as long as the Republican is a big bogeyman”. Don’t get me started on her and Bill killing Glass-Steagall and helping set up the 2008 crash.
I realize many Democrats will hold their nose and vote for Clinton, but I just can’t. It feels like rewarding them for egregiously bad behavior. Then if Clinton starts the cold war back up with Russia as a way to justify the 1 trillion dollar nuclear arsenal upgrade, and starts a bunch of new regime change wars, I would feel like I helped enable that by voting for her. So I am voting my conscience and going with Jill Stein. At least then I won’t feel like I enabled more Clinton disasters. If Trump wins, that is the DNC’s fault, not mine.
The Corporate Overlords want Clinton. Resistance if futile. Anyone who votes for Clinton is enabling more of the same, ad infinitum.
Yeah, right. That was as fair as it gets, right? The DNC was helping Bernie the whole way, right? Yeah right.
Also, Clinton only won when independents were kept out of the voting. Clinton's political machine and the DNC had control over the primaries all the way down to the precinct level. They could pull strings everywhere. Like Bernie said, it is going to take a political revolution in this country to take it back from our criminal corporate overlords.
I should add that there may be lots of opposition to the TPP on both sides of the Pacific, but I haven't heard as much about complaints from the Pacific member states as I have from Europe about TTIP.
There is massive public opposition to the TTP and TTIP on both sides of the Atlantic. When people learn what is in it, they invariably don't like it (unless they run a large multinational corporation, like Disney). It still may pass, but I wouldn't bet on it at this point. Even Clinton, the most corporate owned presidential candidate in history, has been forced to say it is a bad deal for the people. Of course, her surrogates at the DNC platform convention have refused repeatedly to formally denounce the TTP, so that says something about what Clinton would do once back in the White House again. Still, it is going to be a big stain on any politician's record who votes for it. There has never been this level of organized opposition to a trade deal. This time, now that there has been 20 years to assess NAFTA and CAFTA, many of the offending politicians may be voted out of office in the next election.
Yeah, MS thinks that phone toys and desktop power systems (gaming, non-linear editing, content creation) are somehow exactly the same, and therefore need a similar toy interface meant for a 4 inch screen. Not sure why they are thinking that one size fits all, when it clearly doesn't. They are focusing on toys, not serious computers, and that means that serious computer users are not going to make the switch. On top of that, their heavy handed tactics in trying to force WX onto every computer through updates has backfired, and now everyone has automatic updates turned off (unless they are stuck with WX where you can't control updates).
One thing they did manage to do is to make GWX Control Panel one of the more popular downloads in the world.
4 years is a long time, and considering that Windows 7 still has about 50% market share, Microsoft has some serious work to do to convince businesses and home users to switch to a service that does not offer significant advantages to Windows 7 users, and has lots of downsides. None of the features added to Windows 10 are of any interest to me at this point. Even Direct X 10 isn't a draw yet. I have 6 machines running windows 7 and none will be upgraded until Windows 10 offers me more control, rather than less. I don't want a service, I want a functioning OS. I am using Windows on computers, not phones, and I don't need it on phones. Microsoft has hundreds of millions of Windows 7 users to convince, and they are doing an exceptionally poor job of convincing them based on "features" (like forced updates).
It is going to be a tough sell to get the other half of Windows users to switch when the new, service based OS has so much baggage.
No, capitalism sucks worse than just about all other options especially when it turns to kleptocracy and oligarchy. Unregulated capitalism under neoliberal stewardship will eventually collapse under the weight of its own corruption and squandering of resources to make a fast buck. The only question is how long will it take before it implodes. Capitalism needs strong regulation and high taxes to prevent it from killing itself with over indulgence. But that ill never happen under neoliberal rule, where markets are God, and workers are peasants (aka human resources).
That is the problem with capitalism and making everything contingent on being marketable. I wonder if corporations have so thoroughly brainwashed people that now people cannot conceive of doing anything that isn't mass marketable, you know, like sending people to the moon. Of course now, rich people will now be our saviors, and they will build the rockets and send rich people who can afford 20 million dollar tickets to the moon. Sad that everyone thinks in terms of marketability and profit, rather than cooperation and shared goals.
And why is the test of worthiness for a medical procedure whether it can be "mass marketed"? What neoliberal thinking. How about if it is cheap, and effective, maybe then it doesn't matter if it is not "mass marketable"? I find it fascinating that people don't care about solutions to problems if they think they won't make lots of money.
Crispr/Cas is a very interesting gene editing technology that looks like it is going to replace current methods. But as with all existing methods, getting it to edit exactly what you want, the way you want, is a bit tricky. But it works well enough that it is being used on a wide scale basis to make gene knockout animals and cell lines.
I didn't offer a definition of anything. Obviously, you didn't read through the thread to see how many off topic and unrelated political comments there were on an article about CO2 levels in the atmosphere. And saying that discussions of atmospheric CO2 levels and ocean acidification are "Alarmism" makes you sound quite silly.
The first post nailed it. Just take a look through the comments to see how incapable the /. crowd is at having a reasonable, intelligent discussion anymore. Off topic instantly, into political chest pounding immediately. Nothing about how burning fossil fuels is responsible for the constant rise in CO2 and the subsequent impacts on the biosphere and polar ice. Coral bleaching is reaching levels never seen before due to ocean acidification, which will get much worse as the CO2 level continues to rise. I understand it is the job of the corporate shills here to "muddy the waters" and manufacture doubt and insult everyone, but I just wish everyone else would stop taking the bait, and don't even respond to them anymore, no matter how obnoxious they are.
Corporations need to pay much higher taxes. It is a crime that working people have to pay them, and corporations can get away with offshoring and you know it. It is the primary organized crime in the world and it is an international syndicate. You know it, and the corporations know it. Police raided Mossack Fonseca in Panama today, and it is hopefully the start of an international crackdown on tax evasion by corporations and rich hypocrites. I can't evade taxes, and unless you are a large corporation, you can't either. It is time for corporations to do their patriotic duty and pay their fair share. Our crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating social safety net are testaments to their greed and malfeasance.
First off, reduce the number of laws that pertain to non-violent and victim-less crimes. That would include drug laws, which should be health issues, not legal issues. How many laws are on the books? Obviously too many, and a significant percentage are for behaviors that don't affect society or other citizens. Meanwhile, other activities that severely hurt society are not even against the law (e.g., off-shoring billions of dollars to avoid taxes, increasing the tax burden on everyone else). Further, we have a for-profit prison system that needs to fill beds to make a profit. Right there you clearly have a conflict of interest. So you could also get rid of all for-profit prisons. The are a number of changes that could be made that would reduce the number of people charged, while appling the law much more evenly across society.
And prosecutorial discretion is and has been abused since long before the Constitution was written. Just because it is SOP doesn't make it good. When laws are very, very irregularly enforced, it makes a mockery of the judicial system itself. Of course there should be some leeway, but that doesn't mean that rich and powerful people should get off while poor and working people get hit with the maximum sentence. It also doesn't mean that corporate CEOs should only be fined, while small, non-violent offenders get years in jail, for example for a small drug charge. Laws have always been unevenly enforced to the detriment or regular people, and the benefit of the wealthy. We even see very uneven application of the law with regard to leaking so-called classified information, for example David Patraeus vs. Jeffrey Sterling. When laws are applied that unevenly, it is clear the law is being used as a targeted weapon, rather than a rule applied to all of society.
Hillary and The Truth haven't been getting along for years, their differences are irreconcilable.
Brains are biological. Your brain is an organ in your body like your liver is. It requires nutrients, oxygen and a good blood supply. Brains don't use algorithms, computers do. I have been a publishing neuroscientist since the 1980s and I am unequivocally telling you that we don't know how the brain works. Prove me wrong. Get on PubMed and bring up the articles that declare that humans know how the brain works. We haven't got a clue because we don't even know why life is so different from inanimate matter. You really need to take at least a few courses in biology before you talk about it or you risk exhibiting the Dunning Kruger effect.
I hope you devote your life to proving me wrong, and I hope you succeed, because it would be great. It would also be nice if I could teleport to the South Pacific for a quick vacation.
Well then you should have an artificial brain completed shortly, right?
I don't see how that is creating an artificial brain, it is just creating an artificial game playing machine. I find it interesting that you think you can make an artificial version of something without knowing anything about how the original works. That is a fascinating concept.