The facts are no matter how you want to spin them there was a pro-russian President in power (who was crook but that isn't relevant to the larger Geo-political action).
The president being a crook is very relevant to how a rebellion against said president came to be.
'We' decided to fan the flames and cause the guy to be deposed
Or, alternatively, he simply got too greedy.
Everything that happens in the world isn't part of some big player's plot. It's entirely possible corrupt assholes manage to push their victims too far all on their own.
But Putin's grandstanding is likely more about restoring key pieces of the old Soviet Empire and regaining a foothold in the Middle East, not in confronting the Americans head on.
Putin's grandstanding is about making russians see the entire world as their enemies, so they'll turn to a "strong" leader - specifically him - as their saviour. It's hardly a new trick, and it'll end up in a catastrophic miscalculation sooner or later.
Be nice, even if nobody is watching. Looters should be shot.
Fact of life: someone, somewhere thinks you're a looter. Maybe that someone is your ex. Maybe it's someone you turned down. Maybe it's a terrorist sitting in a cave and hating your freedom. One way or another, someone does.
So, if you are for shooting looters, don't complain when other people shoot at you, or destroy something you liked. You helped put guns in their hands. You are the reason we can't have a nice civilization.
If we ever want a genetic legacy outside of this solar system short of inventing warp drive, which is highly unlikely, our best bet is to seed the universe with organics based on Terran DNA by firing huge numbers of small capsules at "Goldilocks" planets.
Do we? Our biology is adapted to one particular environment, and is far from perfect even there. Our relation to it is also becoming increasingly abstract; for example, communicating through this website effectively reduces people to a bunch of ideas.
So, given this, wouldn't it make more sense to focus efforts on completing the process - figuring out AI and mind uploading and downloading - and then simply send sapient probe ships to colonize nearby systems? That way, we aren't limited to Goldilocks planets, or planets in general - a future megacity might well be a space station housing nothing organic, just computer bank after computing bank, floating in interplanetary void, powered by sunlight and handling most of its traffick via antenna.
It just shouldn't be turned on by default without prompting the user, though. Nobody likes surprises like that, especially if you're on a metered data plan like most of us are.
Unless, of course, Apple's plan is to make metered connections cause enough problems to go away, and turn iWhatevers into dumb terminals that depend on Apple servers for everything - and are consequently cheap to manufacture - to get a guaranteed monthly cut.
The only reason these people have jobs is because it's just barely cheaper to hire humans than to replace them with robots. Crank up minimum wage to $15 and they won't have a job at all.
The only reason these people have jobs is because they need money to survive, and a job is a way to get it. If a job doesn't pay enough to live on without aid, and cannot be made profitable enough to do so, then what's the point of keeping a human working it? Other than saving Amazon the cost of the robot, of course.
I, for one, much rather subsidize a human than a company.
In medical circles where it matters, patient's level of consciousness is defined in terms of how responsive to external stimuli they are. By extrapolation it would seem fair to say that a subatomic particle does, in fact, possess a very simple consciousness since it's capable of both observing its environment (by absorbing particles), sending messages (by emitting particles) and storing information (by changing its state as a result of these events).
I like this view because it removes an artificial divide: consciousness is not something that magically appears, but something that builds up from basic capabilities inherent in anything that exist, becoming more complex with more complex systems, currently culminating (AFAIK) in humans.
Sounds to me like you found an effect triggered by the laser over a certain intensity, as, the way I read it, under that intensity everything works just great, even if you enter a staring contest.
True, but less light intensity also means you can't see as well.
You can't observe a system without interacting with it, which will disturb it. The more accurate measurements you make the stronger the effect becomes. If the system is small enough, the disturbances caused by measuring one property means other, linked property gets randomized. And this is true even when the observer is another, interacting subatomic particle. The end result is the Uncertainty Principle and quantum mechanics
You should have posted this anonymous so it was obvious.
Anonymous posts are easy to ignore. But politics is serious business because the consequences can be quite devastating. So having one side of the political spectrum go ever further in their attempt to appeal to the worst elements of human nature, while the other desperately pretends everything's fine, is not a good thing.
In other news bleeding heart liberals cry out for the poor citizens of Pompeii while taking the opportunity to bash the wealthy's island paradise.
God the left can be so moronic.
The left cares about people. The right cares about hierarchy. The left are the Jedi: holier-than-thou philosopher king wannabes who nenetheless are all about building a civilization which even the weakest can live with. The right are the Sith: snobs who will do anything to concentrate power either into their own or their master's hands and view cruelty and callousness as something to be carefully cultivated in order to overcome the "weakness" of compassion.
And then there's the Anonymous Cowards who think shitposting on Slashdot makes them Vader or at least a stormtrooper rather than yet another nameless Extended Universe extra.
My companies, for example, rely on VPN and encryption for all inter-office data traffic, and if EU starts to de-prioritize VPN and/or encrypted traffic many business communication will be hit
That's okay. You simply make "unthrottled encrypted traffick" a feature offered for business-class connections. Private persons don't have secrets unless they're terrorists.
No we don't. We get worked up about them because they go on for so long.
No, we don't. We get worked up about nuclear power incidents because nuclear power became collateral damage in anti- nuclear weapons efforts. It's fallout from Hiroshima and the Cold War which was unfortunately internalized by the enviromental movement as an axiom of its value system.
Chernobyl, Fukushima are all disasters that are still occurring and will continue to affect the human race in ways we still don't fully comprehend long after everyone here is dead.
Chernobyl and Fukushima affect the human race through their cultural, not physical, effects. The events themselves were and their aftermatches are localized to a small area.
Why don't you have several months' worth of savings saved up, like everyone should?
I do. But I'm likely to live several decades.
Why should the government be required to bail you out of your poor decisions? (Yes, even if you lose your job through no fault of your own, NOT having savings is a fault of your own.)
Not having savings sufficient to cover the rest of my natural lifespan for most of my life is a result of the economy I live in, and specifically its tendency to concentrate income to the top, which means wages tend towards bare minimum needed to survive. Even if you save everything except that, it would still take half your lifespan to establish sufficient savings to live on (assuming you were working from birth and earning twice the BMNFS, both of which are unrealistic assumptions). Furthermore, saving up means reducing consumption, which causes economy to slow and enter a bear market, so it's a bad tactic both from the society's and individual's point of view.
Economy implies interaction, and that means every problem will become everyone's problem. The only question is to what extent. I care much more about not having to suffer for your mistakes than making sure you will. And paying taxes to fund a government that'll step in and bail out your stupid ass is the most efficient way I know of to do minimize your stupidity's effects on me.
Why can't you go to charities or family members, where people are willing to help you out of their own benevolence, instead of stealing it from everyone?
Because people aren't benevolent enough for charity to suffice. Furthermore, charity establishes a power relationship between the giver and the receiver, which serves to further enhance the power of money - and consequently weaken other forms of power, such as democracy. That is not in my best interests, even if I don't currently need charity myself.
I much prefer to live in a society where everyone is entitled to the basics of life (whatever those might be in a particular place and time - I include a computer and Internet connection in modern societies) rather than one where those with money wield power - of life and death in extreme cases - over everyone else.
Entanglement IS communication, in the proper sense of the word. You cannot use it to send a message, but entanglement without hidden variables implies that information is exchanged between particles.
No, it doesn't. Any point in spacetime where entanglement can be detected is causally connected to the source of entangled particles through each particle's trajectory. This means information is not being transmitted from particle to particle but from the point of entanglement to the point of detection through multiple routes which interfere.
The problem arises from assuming unphysical observers who aren't themselves subject to quantum mechanics and can thus measure definite values. Observers who are will not measure a value but a quantum state - that is, the observer's quantum state will become correlated to the particle's. The first observation event doesn't reveal any information about the system, it simply reveals the gauge difference between the observer and a particular point in the system (or, equivalently, make the observer a part of the system).
Of course, the price of this is letting go of classical state entirely, except as an useful approximation in many circumstances, and accepting that you, yourself, are in a quantum state.
the dams from which we get most of our power are rated to handle jÃkulhlaup... but when you look at the size of jÃkulhlaup they're rated for they're nothing, like 10k m/s or so.
Nothing? I'd be pretty damn impressed with a dam that can handle a flood moving at orbital velocity.
If you think that law enforcement anywhere else behaves different, you are delusional. The US has been busy catching up with Europe, but we aren't quite there yet.
Europe is a continent and includes countries with varying attitudes from Sweden to Russia. Which, as it happens, incarcerates a lesser (450 vs. 698 per 100,000) fraction of its citizens than US does. In fact, in this race the US is second only to Seychelles.
I dunno if you're a police state, but you sure as hell are a jail state.
Who decides if the animation is a cute, innocent looking being, or a deformed troll?
Your advertisers, of course. Just imagine the propaganda possibilities, not just by framing a single incident but by showing which classes of people exist, and how do they associate, at the background of every video.
The Youtube of tomorrow will sell advertising space not just before and between videos, but also in the censor bars.
Good job someone is developing laser weapons then, to shoot down the railgun projectiles.
"Shoot it down" how? It's a thrown rod. It has no engines, wings or electronics. What are you going to do - flash-vaporize several kilograms of iron in a second with a laser small enough to be ship-mounted from miles away? Congratulations on having a death ray; but why are you playing tag with the US navy rather than building a Star Destroyer?
I think the overlord class sees money as a zero-sum game where they win if they get the most.
No, it's simply what their class does. Money is to our aristocracy what codpieces were to earlier times: it was important to have one, but if you somehow lost it, you just got another.
You win by being made a peer. After that, though fortunes wax and wane losing is practically impossible.
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But apparently repeating propaganda slogans about how well off you are works too, at least for a while longer. Just like in the old Soviet Union.
The facts are no matter how you want to spin them there was a pro-russian President in power (who was crook but that isn't relevant to the larger Geo-political action).
The president being a crook is very relevant to how a rebellion against said president came to be.
Or, alternatively, he simply got too greedy.
Everything that happens in the world isn't part of some big player's plot. It's entirely possible corrupt assholes manage to push their victims too far all on their own.
Putin's grandstanding is about making russians see the entire world as their enemies, so they'll turn to a "strong" leader - specifically him - as their saviour. It's hardly a new trick, and it'll end up in a catastrophic miscalculation sooner or later.
Fact of life: someone, somewhere thinks you're a looter. Maybe that someone is your ex. Maybe it's someone you turned down. Maybe it's a terrorist sitting in a cave and hating your freedom. One way or another, someone does.
So, if you are for shooting looters, don't complain when other people shoot at you, or destroy something you liked. You helped put guns in their hands. You are the reason we can't have a nice civilization.
Also, shooting people isn't very nice.
Do we? Our biology is adapted to one particular environment, and is far from perfect even there. Our relation to it is also becoming increasingly abstract; for example, communicating through this website effectively reduces people to a bunch of ideas.
So, given this, wouldn't it make more sense to focus efforts on completing the process - figuring out AI and mind uploading and downloading - and then simply send sapient probe ships to colonize nearby systems? That way, we aren't limited to Goldilocks planets, or planets in general - a future megacity might well be a space station housing nothing organic, just computer bank after computing bank, floating in interplanetary void, powered by sunlight and handling most of its traffick via antenna.
Unless, of course, Apple's plan is to make metered connections cause enough problems to go away, and turn iWhatevers into dumb terminals that depend on Apple servers for everything - and are consequently cheap to manufacture - to get a guaranteed monthly cut.
The only reason these people have jobs is because they need money to survive, and a job is a way to get it. If a job doesn't pay enough to live on without aid, and cannot be made profitable enough to do so, then what's the point of keeping a human working it? Other than saving Amazon the cost of the robot, of course.
I, for one, much rather subsidize a human than a company.
In medical circles where it matters, patient's level of consciousness is defined in terms of how responsive to external stimuli they are. By extrapolation it would seem fair to say that a subatomic particle does, in fact, possess a very simple consciousness since it's capable of both observing its environment (by absorbing particles), sending messages (by emitting particles) and storing information (by changing its state as a result of these events).
I like this view because it removes an artificial divide: consciousness is not something that magically appears, but something that builds up from basic capabilities inherent in anything that exist, becoming more complex with more complex systems, currently culminating (AFAIK) in humans.
True, but less light intensity also means you can't see as well.
You can't observe a system without interacting with it, which will disturb it. The more accurate measurements you make the stronger the effect becomes. If the system is small enough, the disturbances caused by measuring one property means other, linked property gets randomized. And this is true even when the observer is another, interacting subatomic particle. The end result is the Uncertainty Principle and quantum mechanics
Anonymous posts are easy to ignore. But politics is serious business because the consequences can be quite devastating. So having one side of the political spectrum go ever further in their attempt to appeal to the worst elements of human nature, while the other desperately pretends everything's fine, is not a good thing.
Thus giving an attacker a handy way to simultaneously brute-force every account on the site. That's a horrible idea.
The left cares about people. The right cares about hierarchy. The left are the Jedi: holier-than-thou philosopher king wannabes who nenetheless are all about building a civilization which even the weakest can live with. The right are the Sith: snobs who will do anything to concentrate power either into their own or their master's hands and view cruelty and callousness as something to be carefully cultivated in order to overcome the "weakness" of compassion.
And then there's the Anonymous Cowards who think shitposting on Slashdot makes them Vader or at least a stormtrooper rather than yet another nameless Extended Universe extra.
That's okay. You simply make "unthrottled encrypted traffick" a feature offered for business-class connections. Private persons don't have secrets unless they're terrorists.
No, we don't. We get worked up about nuclear power incidents because nuclear power became collateral damage in anti- nuclear weapons efforts. It's fallout from Hiroshima and the Cold War which was unfortunately internalized by the enviromental movement as an axiom of its value system.
Chernobyl and Fukushima affect the human race through their cultural, not physical, effects. The events themselves were and their aftermatches are localized to a small area.
I do. But I'm likely to live several decades.
Not having savings sufficient to cover the rest of my natural lifespan for most of my life is a result of the economy I live in, and specifically its tendency to concentrate income to the top, which means wages tend towards bare minimum needed to survive. Even if you save everything except that, it would still take half your lifespan to establish sufficient savings to live on (assuming you were working from birth and earning twice the BMNFS, both of which are unrealistic assumptions). Furthermore, saving up means reducing consumption, which causes economy to slow and enter a bear market, so it's a bad tactic both from the society's and individual's point of view.
Economy implies interaction, and that means every problem will become everyone's problem. The only question is to what extent. I care much more about not having to suffer for your mistakes than making sure you will. And paying taxes to fund a government that'll step in and bail out your stupid ass is the most efficient way I know of to do minimize your stupidity's effects on me.
Because people aren't benevolent enough for charity to suffice. Furthermore, charity establishes a power relationship between the giver and the receiver, which serves to further enhance the power of money - and consequently weaken other forms of power, such as democracy. That is not in my best interests, even if I don't currently need charity myself.
I much prefer to live in a society where everyone is entitled to the basics of life (whatever those might be in a particular place and time - I include a computer and Internet connection in modern societies) rather than one where those with money wield power - of life and death in extreme cases - over everyone else.
No, it doesn't. Any point in spacetime where entanglement can be detected is causally connected to the source of entangled particles through each particle's trajectory. This means information is not being transmitted from particle to particle but from the point of entanglement to the point of detection through multiple routes which interfere.
The problem arises from assuming unphysical observers who aren't themselves subject to quantum mechanics and can thus measure definite values. Observers who are will not measure a value but a quantum state - that is, the observer's quantum state will become correlated to the particle's. The first observation event doesn't reveal any information about the system, it simply reveals the gauge difference between the observer and a particular point in the system (or, equivalently, make the observer a part of the system).
Of course, the price of this is letting go of classical state entirely, except as an useful approximation in many circumstances, and accepting that you, yourself, are in a quantum state.
Well, don't keep us in excitement but emit your theory.
According to CIA and IMF, France's public debt as percentage of GDP hovers around US's. So no, there doesn't actually seem to be consequences besides not having to put up with a noisy industrial facility in a residential neighborhood.
Or it could be that demanding businesses be good neighbors is not actually anti-business but perfectly reasonable. Who knows.
Nothing? I'd be pretty damn impressed with a dam that can handle a flood moving at orbital velocity.
Europe is a continent and includes countries with varying attitudes from Sweden to Russia. Which, as it happens, incarcerates a lesser (450 vs. 698 per 100,000) fraction of its citizens than US does. In fact, in this race the US is second only to Seychelles.
I dunno if you're a police state, but you sure as hell are a jail state.
Your advertisers, of course. Just imagine the propaganda possibilities, not just by framing a single incident but by showing which classes of people exist, and how do they associate, at the background of every video.
The Youtube of tomorrow will sell advertising space not just before and between videos, but also in the censor bars.
"Shoot it down" how? It's a thrown rod. It has no engines, wings or electronics. What are you going to do - flash-vaporize several kilograms of iron in a second with a laser small enough to be ship-mounted from miles away? Congratulations on having a death ray; but why are you playing tag with the US navy rather than building a Star Destroyer?
If McAfee's positions are based on logic, why do you try to to associate them with an argument from intimidation?
No, they're going to sue you for damages for negligence, using the contract to keep the legal process going long enough to force you into bankruptcy.
No, it's simply what their class does. Money is to our aristocracy what codpieces were to earlier times: it was important to have one, but if you somehow lost it, you just got another.
You win by being made a peer. After that, though fortunes wax and wane losing is practically impossible.