Been through this with Peruvian Intis, Ecuadorian Sucres, and Bolivian Pesos. Homes and cars in all three countries are bought and sold with dollars, rice and shoes are bought with local currency (although Ecuador has officially changed to USD, they have had to create their own coins for fractional-dollar exchanges).
Bit of a contradiction there, "more openness and less secrecy" and "absolute right to privacy". I think it was Scott McNealy who said, "Privacy is dead, get over it." Much as I may dislike the guy, I think he's right.
I'm wondering about the routing of the business information they're accessing, and how much of that is going to "friendly" executives at CitiCorp, T-Mobile, Cisco, Facebook and the like. Also about the private financial activities of various high-profile individuals, not just within the government but people like the Kochs, Waltons, and Fords.
This fantasy that 'if two people know a secret that one will talk' has always struck me as absurd. How long did literally THOUSANDS of people work at Area 51 before anyone not associated with the Skunk Works even know it existed? How many THOUSANDS of people worked on the Blackbird and stealth aircraft projects without details leaking even to our allies until those aircraft flew? How many SCORES of journalists knew that the supposed attack on the Maine was not Spanish stupidity and wrote stories to that effect anyway, and then kept quiet about it for decades afterwards? How many SCORES of people were involved in the planning, presentation, approval, and ultimate rejection by Kennedy of Project Northwoods? How may HUNDREDS of journalists were members of Project Mockingbird for decades and still to this day deny the (well-documented) project ever existed?
Real conspiracies exist out in the real world, some of them eventually come to light and most of them never do.
This can't be by accident, "tricked by raw data" isn't even a possibility. This is essentially the same technology that access control systems us. The bit structure is laid out in a particular way, and if any portion of it is incorrect the read is rejected. On a typical 26-bit access control card (don't know what the structure of these ones are) the bits 0-7 are the Facility Code. The firmware on the reader scans them, says "This card belongs in our system" and passes bits 8-25 to the controller, which decides whether or not to allow access. If the Facility Code doesn't match the read is rejected before getting any further and the reader firmware sends an appropriate message to the controller.
This sound to me very much like someone has re-used code from some other project and left in the part that says, "If Facility Code 99 is detected grant access".
So pretty clearly you've never worked with the technology. It's a long, long way from being ready for prime time. It works under very limited circumstances. Consistent lighting, correct placement in the frame (such as walking through a doorway), and everyone facing at the correct angle. Think that's even vaguely achievable at a bus entrance?
Horseshit. You can pay cash on any bus, and I've heard of the Orca system being down once. And what are you babbling about "a paper dollar bill fed to a poorly maintained scanner"? Bills and coins go past the driver, so even if the bill is unreadable the driver can press the button and approve the fare. I take it you don't actually ride Sound Transit.
It's unnecessary and unprovable. You can believe that god made the rain fall out of the cloud this morning if you want, but don't call it science. That's the issue here, calling this foolishness 'science' when it very clearly isn't.
In the late '70s the idea of hospice arrived in our town in northern Michigan, and most of the population (and almost all the doctors) were appalled. That stupid Dylan Thomas poem 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' was actually used in the newspaper as a reason why dying people were supposed to eke out the last moments of misery on life support. Fortunately they were not chased out of town and were there when my grandmother needed them a few years later. Later, in the '80s, family members frequently contested in court the DNRs and Living Wills of their relatives. There's a reason why Dr. Kevorkian was from Michigan, the mindset there was so profoundly against relieving misery of the terminally ill and forcibly extending their lives (and suffering) as long as possible.
you might want to look up who they are and their qualifications.
Lord Monckton??? Seriously? I think he's eminently qualified to be considered a fringe whack job. Yikes.
If you were to spend a moment and think about the process of modeling you'll quickly realize why they focus the models on CO2; it's the primary variable, most other inputs are fairly stable. More modern models are now including variations in other inputs, such as methane and solar output, since they're confident in the basic functionality of their models and more computing horsepower is becoming available. They have taken the models and successfully applied them to Venus, Mars and Titan, they fit the observations pretty well. The opponents of AGW have yet to create a single model where increases in atmospheric CO2 do **NOT** create atmospheric warming. Not one. Not even a static one.
All the employees, except for the executives who can see it coming and cash out early. Enron, anyone? The California and Texas teachers' retirement funds, forcibly privatized earlier, took enormous hits.
Ah, pining for the Age of Chivalry, where if you lusted after your neighbor's territory you sent your mercenaries to slaughter his peasants so there was no one to bring in the harvest and his mercenaries would defect when he couldn't pay them. People's ignorance of history is quite remarkable.
Bertrand Russell said something on that order, and then added something like, "The best candidate for the position is someone who doesn't WANT the job."
Well, she's the richest woman on the planet and pays no taxes, and has the British government pick up the tab for much of the maintenance on a lot of her property, so she must have some value. Can't for the life of me figure out what, though.
They're working on that, but the system seems to have trouble with the variety of types of items. Think about the necessity of adapting to handle an iPad, a DVD, a dead-tree bookshelf, and a stuffed platypus all on the same order. For some things robotic systems work well, for others they don't. It will probably be a couple more years before they can roll the robots out on a large scale.
We've had ours since 1996 and don't have much problem. Part of it is because when telemarketers do call we tell them to add our number to their Do Not Call List. When they sell their call list the DNCList goes along with it. When non-profit or political survey/fundraiser groups call I tell them to put our number on their DNCL. Of course they say, "We're not required to have a DNCL," at which point I say, "If I were to cuss you out or use racial slurs you would put us on a list to not be called again, right? Put us on that list."
With the few telemarketers and scam artists that we do get I play the Telemarketer Game (I was going to provide a link to the game at antitelemarketer.com but the site no longer exists. Bummer.) I kept one fellow on the phone for 23 minutes AFTER I had already made clear that I knew more about his subject than he did and had absolutely no intention of buying their service. They won't call again, nor will the guys whose supervisors I managed to talk to.
That's what people in disaster-prone areas need to have, because the cell phone network is generally overwhelmed just with a bad rush hour. We have wind storms, flooding, earthquakes, and volcanoes in our area, so yeah, our land line isn't going away any time soon.
In the case of the Inca, the electors **were** the central authority, the not-formalized group of military/religious/engineers who formed the central core of the Inca's advisers chose from among the dozens or scores of children the prior ruler had left behind. Unfortunately the Tahuantinsuyo had grown beyond the communication system's ability to adequately coordinate.
That's so much a problem with monarchy as with primogeniture. The Inca chose a ruler from among the sons of the prior Inca, but rarely was it the first son. The Spanish barbarians considered most of the Inca rulers through history as "usurpers" because of this. This worked quite well until the Empire got large enough that the military leaders at the north end of the Tahuantinsuyo chose Atahualpa while the civil leaders in Cusco chose Huascar. Even then it might have worked (Atahualpa's forces captured and killed Huascar), but the plagues brought by the Europeans cut collapsed the population.
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I'll stay with property, they're not making any more of that (except in Hawai'i).
Been through this with Peruvian Intis, Ecuadorian Sucres, and Bolivian Pesos. Homes and cars in all three countries are bought and sold with dollars, rice and shoes are bought with local currency (although Ecuador has officially changed to USD, they have had to create their own coins for fractional-dollar exchanges).
Bit of a contradiction there, "more openness and less secrecy" and "absolute right to privacy". I think it was Scott McNealy who said, "Privacy is dead, get over it." Much as I may dislike the guy, I think he's right.
I'm wondering about the routing of the business information they're accessing, and how much of that is going to "friendly" executives at CitiCorp, T-Mobile, Cisco, Facebook and the like. Also about the private financial activities of various high-profile individuals, not just within the government but people like the Kochs, Waltons, and Fords.
Or current personnel (i.e. Ollie North)
This fantasy that 'if two people know a secret that one will talk' has always struck me as absurd. How long did literally THOUSANDS of people work at Area 51 before anyone not associated with the Skunk Works even know it existed? How many THOUSANDS of people worked on the Blackbird and stealth aircraft projects without details leaking even to our allies until those aircraft flew? How many SCORES of journalists knew that the supposed attack on the Maine was not Spanish stupidity and wrote stories to that effect anyway, and then kept quiet about it for decades afterwards? How many SCORES of people were involved in the planning, presentation, approval, and ultimate rejection by Kennedy of Project Northwoods? How may HUNDREDS of journalists were members of Project Mockingbird for decades and still to this day deny the (well-documented) project ever existed?
Real conspiracies exist out in the real world, some of them eventually come to light and most of them never do.
This can't be by accident, "tricked by raw data" isn't even a possibility. This is essentially the same technology that access control systems us. The bit structure is laid out in a particular way, and if any portion of it is incorrect the read is rejected. On a typical 26-bit access control card (don't know what the structure of these ones are) the bits 0-7 are the Facility Code. The firmware on the reader scans them, says "This card belongs in our system" and passes bits 8-25 to the controller, which decides whether or not to allow access. If the Facility Code doesn't match the read is rejected before getting any further and the reader firmware sends an appropriate message to the controller.
This sound to me very much like someone has re-used code from some other project and left in the part that says, "If Facility Code 99 is detected grant access".
Bullshit. What is your problem that you have to make shit up?
This appears to be the same AC as above with an unknown grudge against Sound Transit. Essentially nothing that they say is true.
So pretty clearly you've never worked with the technology. It's a long, long way from being ready for prime time. It works under very limited circumstances. Consistent lighting, correct placement in the frame (such as walking through a doorway), and everyone facing at the correct angle. Think that's even vaguely achievable at a bus entrance?
Horseshit. You can pay cash on any bus, and I've heard of the Orca system being down once. And what are you babbling about "a paper dollar bill fed to a poorly maintained scanner"? Bills and coins go past the driver, so even if the bill is unreadable the driver can press the button and approve the fare. I take it you don't actually ride Sound Transit.
It's unnecessary and unprovable. You can believe that god made the rain fall out of the cloud this morning if you want, but don't call it science. That's the issue here, calling this foolishness 'science' when it very clearly isn't.
In the late '70s the idea of hospice arrived in our town in northern Michigan, and most of the population (and almost all the doctors) were appalled. That stupid Dylan Thomas poem 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' was actually used in the newspaper as a reason why dying people were supposed to eke out the last moments of misery on life support. Fortunately they were not chased out of town and were there when my grandmother needed them a few years later. Later, in the '80s, family members frequently contested in court the DNRs and Living Wills of their relatives. There's a reason why Dr. Kevorkian was from Michigan, the mindset there was so profoundly against relieving misery of the terminally ill and forcibly extending their lives (and suffering) as long as possible.
you might want to look up who they are and their qualifications.
Lord Monckton??? Seriously? I think he's eminently qualified to be considered a fringe whack job. Yikes.
If you were to spend a moment and think about the process of modeling you'll quickly realize why they focus the models on CO2; it's the primary variable, most other inputs are fairly stable. More modern models are now including variations in other inputs, such as methane and solar output, since they're confident in the basic functionality of their models and more computing horsepower is becoming available. They have taken the models and successfully applied them to Venus, Mars and Titan, they fit the observations pretty well. The opponents of AGW have yet to create a single model where increases in atmospheric CO2 do **NOT** create atmospheric warming. Not one. Not even a static one.
All the employees, except for the executives who can see it coming and cash out early. Enron, anyone? The California and Texas teachers' retirement funds, forcibly privatized earlier, took enormous hits.
Ah, pining for the Age of Chivalry, where if you lusted after your neighbor's territory you sent your mercenaries to slaughter his peasants so there was no one to bring in the harvest and his mercenaries would defect when he couldn't pay them. People's ignorance of history is quite remarkable.
but take away . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . Democracy is garbage...
So the Constitution but not the Constitution? Amusing, and more coherent than most of your posts.
Apparently enough time has passed that Jeb is thinking of running in 2016. Chelsea Clinton is getting into politics as well, I understand.
Bertrand Russell said something on that order, and then added something like, "The best candidate for the position is someone who doesn't WANT the job."
Well, she's the richest woman on the planet and pays no taxes, and has the British government pick up the tab for much of the maintenance on a lot of her property, so she must have some value. Can't for the life of me figure out what, though.
They're working on that, but the system seems to have trouble with the variety of types of items. Think about the necessity of adapting to handle an iPad, a DVD, a dead-tree bookshelf, and a stuffed platypus all on the same order. For some things robotic systems work well, for others they don't. It will probably be a couple more years before they can roll the robots out on a large scale.
We've had ours since 1996 and don't have much problem. Part of it is because when telemarketers do call we tell them to add our number to their Do Not Call List. When they sell their call list the DNCList goes along with it. When non-profit or political survey/fundraiser groups call I tell them to put our number on their DNCL. Of course they say, "We're not required to have a DNCL," at which point I say, "If I were to cuss you out or use racial slurs you would put us on a list to not be called again, right? Put us on that list."
With the few telemarketers and scam artists that we do get I play the Telemarketer Game (I was going to provide a link to the game at antitelemarketer.com but the site no longer exists. Bummer.) I kept one fellow on the phone for 23 minutes AFTER I had already made clear that I knew more about his subject than he did and had absolutely no intention of buying their service. They won't call again, nor will the guys whose supervisors I managed to talk to.
That's what people in disaster-prone areas need to have, because the cell phone network is generally overwhelmed just with a bad rush hour. We have wind storms, flooding, earthquakes, and volcanoes in our area, so yeah, our land line isn't going away any time soon.
In the case of the Inca, the electors **were** the central authority, the not-formalized group of military/religious/engineers who formed the central core of the Inca's advisers chose from among the dozens or scores of children the prior ruler had left behind. Unfortunately the Tahuantinsuyo had grown beyond the communication system's ability to adequately coordinate.
That's so much a problem with monarchy as with primogeniture. The Inca chose a ruler from among the sons of the prior Inca, but rarely was it the first son. The Spanish barbarians considered most of the Inca rulers through history as "usurpers" because of this. This worked quite well until the Empire got large enough that the military leaders at the north end of the Tahuantinsuyo chose Atahualpa while the civil leaders in Cusco chose Huascar. Even then it might have worked (Atahualpa's forces captured and killed Huascar), but the plagues brought by the Europeans cut collapsed the population.