If dudes sitting in lawn chairs can chart the paths of satellites in the sky, then any competent hostile power can easily do the same.
Lets face it, satellites are giant sitting ducks. If we get into a shooting war with a powerful nation the first thing to go will be all the satellites.
The potential danger is nano TiO2. Nano sized particles can cross biological membranes, that's reason enough to study their health effects before permeating our world with them.
Moka grind is slightly larger than espresso, ask the store you buy from to grind somewhere around 15% less fine than for espresso. Of course, their interpretation of that may be off but experiment till you get the right grind its important. Get a burr grinder and do it yourself if your crazy like me.
Moka rocks its very true, only professional grade lever espresso machines beat it imho.
You have already gone out of your way to be mature and helpful, if they refuse your offer you have no more obligation. There is no need to go out of your way to make someone accept kindness from you.
New plan: bring some "brownies" to work and enjoy your new paperweight status!
The movie companies lost money due to torrentspy's activities, but what is the basis for such a monstrous monetary judgement? Magic eight ball? Numbers out of a hat? How on earth did the movie companies prove this level of loss? Gotta love hollywood accounting, astounding how movies can make nothing and everything at the same time.
I recognize the fact that there are times in which the violation of privacy and the suspension of certain rights are necessary for security reasons. However, I have never heard a valid reason as to how judicial oversight and transparency interferes with this. In what way does due process hinder investigations? Is it a time efficiency thing? No problem, lets streamline the process and allocate more resources to quicken it. Will it clue in those being investigated? No problem, we could have clauses which delay but never prevent full disclosure.
Why does does this kind of request NEED to be secret? The only conclusion I can draw is that it must be secret because it is illegal.
Not everyone who commits a crime or act of aggression is a fucking terrorist. Just cause you use the internet to carry out a malicious act does not make you a "CYBER TERRORIST". If I drive my car down the road like an asshole it doesn't make me a vehicular terrorist.
This language has been used to promote an endless conflict used to justify indefinite wartime power. Makes me feel we are just as programmed as many of the chinese.
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I would have felt mightily pissed to sit through 20 minutes of "3rd reserve gaffer to the animal trainer's assistant coffee-wench I know film credits have funny names but they do represent real people who have put in massive time and effort into their work. The fact that it takes so goddamn long just to scroll through the names of the amount of people involved should give
you some idea of the scope of effort and time needed to create just two hours of screen time. I'm not saying you have to sit through the credits but there's no need to piss on peoples screen creds.
I understand that the market (and by extension politicians) salivate at the thought of so many new consumers, but how long are we going to let this utterly flagrant counterfeiting continue? There are no profits to be made if China makes and sells our own damned products to us.
Although it true that our ability to image the brain is now allowing us to detect "thought" in the brain, it really needs to be pointed out that this is very in the lab sort of stuff.
It doesn't just involve sticking you in a tube and viola a little readout comes out telling you what you were thinking. It requires finicky, multi-million dollar, difficult to interpret equipment. First have to baseline a persons normal brain function then after detailed analysis by crazy smart cognitive neuroscientists we can sort of glean very simple conclusions. Are you adding or subtracting from a number (not found out in real time btw)? Looking up or down? Which, incidentally, I can also determine by looking at your eyes. Basically the stuff here and in other imaging studies is cognitive childsplay in comparison to the "reading of someones thoughts" people seem think is around the corner.
We are so far off from that state of technology that ethics really aren't an issue, yet. It is kind of interesting to me that ethical concerns are beginning to become a concern in research of cognitive neuroscience, but needless worry is premature.
This is like people starting to fear the atomic bomb right after discovering uranium.
The vast majority of people don't respond to subtlety or detail, they respond to soundbytes. People in power know this, so the veracity of the information is largely irrelevant to whether or not they decide to use it.
How do you get votes? Scare people into thinking their children are inches away from sexual molestation, tell them you have the solution; and viola, they vote for you! The state of American politics is just as much the fault of the sheep being fooled by this kind of crap as it is the shepherds feeding it to them. The truth is there to be found, but nobody cares to look.
I read a similar study if not the same one. If I recall, one of the main reasons for the increased distraction is there is a need to always fill all silences in phone conversations handsfree or not. Think about it, how often is there a large pause in a phone conversation? Never basically. Normal conversation with a present person is less taxing on us socially, and thus less distracting.
A late amendment to the PRO-IP would give the RIAA permission to "hold you upside down and shake out every last penny" on suspicion of copywrite infringement. Not satisfied with this development, RIAA is now pushing for a further amendment permitting cavity searches as well.
engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature This is NOT about creating new forms of life, which would require knowledge of the genomic consequences of this kind of alteration. This process is dimly understood even with natural base pairs, so the notion that protein encoding using artificial base pairs could control protein synthesis practically is really jumping the gun here. Sure, maybe in decades/centuries, but not in the foreseeable future.
In the near future, Romesberg expects the new base pairs will be used to synthesize DNA with novel and unnatural properties. These might include highly specific primers for DNA amplification; tags for materials, such as explosives, that could be detected without risk of contamination from natural DNA; and building novel DNA-based nanomaterials. The practical application of this is to expand the possible avenues of manipulating the properties of DNA.
The "economic stimulus" bill also contains provisions to funnel money to banks. The banks apparently deliberately created the mortgage finance crisis doing so was profitable, and because banks were sure that the U.S. government would pass a bill to lessen the losses. I somehow doubt the notion that the banks intentionally decided to lose billions of dollars. Maybe they exposed themselves to more risk knowing they would be bailed out if things went south, but thats not deliberate. If they could have prevented the sub prime crisis they would have, out of self interest. They may be corrupt or evil, but they like their money.
Please don't lump all psychology together. There is a very large difference between the psychodynamic approach to psychology and the more modern approaches such as cognitive neuroscience. New tools in brain imaging are finally giving us the tools needed to start unraveling the human mind. We've started to progress beyond the psuedo-philosophical past because we now have data to support our arguments. Considering we all have a brain (well, I doubt it with some people sometimes...) it's probably a good thing to have a better understanding of it. Sure we don't have neat equations to describe our field, but hey, even basic engineering started somewhere. The brain is a hell of a lot more complex than a bridge so it's going to take a while.
The ability to simply perceive a 3-D world is less useful to a robot than it may seem. Raw sensory data doesn't provide any means to plan action. The real task is how to make sense of the data that is coming in. Having data is useless unless you can interpret it.
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If dudes sitting in lawn chairs can chart the paths of satellites in the sky, then any competent hostile power can easily do the same. Lets face it, satellites are giant sitting ducks. If we get into a shooting war with a powerful nation the first thing to go will be all the satellites.
It does not, however, increase your sensitivity to humor.
The potential danger is nano TiO2. Nano sized particles can cross biological membranes, that's reason enough to study their health effects before permeating our world with them.
Moka grind is slightly larger than espresso, ask the store you buy from to grind somewhere around 15% less fine than for espresso. Of course, their interpretation of that may be off but experiment till you get the right grind its important. Get a burr grinder and do it yourself if your crazy like me. Moka rocks its very true, only professional grade lever espresso machines beat it imho.
And I was going to buy that ivory backscratcher...
Candidate for head of executive branch in favor of giant executive power grab, shocking!
Corporations commit egregious tax and accounting fraud and little to nothing happens. Once again the big thieves hang the little thieves...
You have already gone out of your way to be mature and helpful, if they refuse your offer you have no more obligation. There is no need to go out of your way to make someone accept kindness from you. New plan: bring some "brownies" to work and enjoy your new paperweight status!
You just outlawed every search engine!
Nah, they'll just take away some of their thetan points.
The movie companies lost money due to torrentspy's activities, but what is the basis for such a monstrous monetary judgement? Magic eight ball? Numbers out of a hat? How on earth did the movie companies prove this level of loss? Gotta love hollywood accounting, astounding how movies can make nothing and everything at the same time.
I recognize the fact that there are times in which the violation of privacy and the suspension of certain rights are necessary for security reasons. However, I have never heard a valid reason as to how judicial oversight and transparency interferes with this. In what way does due process hinder investigations? Is it a time efficiency thing? No problem, lets streamline the process and allocate more resources to quicken it. Will it clue in those being investigated? No problem, we could have clauses which delay but never prevent full disclosure. Why does does this kind of request NEED to be secret? The only conclusion I can draw is that it must be secret because it is illegal.
Not everyone who commits a crime or act of aggression is a fucking terrorist. Just cause you use the internet to carry out a malicious act does not make you a "CYBER TERRORIST". If I drive my car down the road like an asshole it doesn't make me a vehicular terrorist. This language has been used to promote an endless conflict used to justify indefinite wartime power. Makes me feel we are just as programmed as many of the chinese.
I understand that the market (and by extension politicians) salivate at the thought of so many new consumers, but how long are we going to let this utterly flagrant counterfeiting continue? There are no profits to be made if China makes and sells our own damned products to us.
Guess that means i'll have to buy the white album again
Although it true that our ability to image the brain is now allowing us to detect "thought" in the brain, it really needs to be pointed out that this is very in the lab sort of stuff. It doesn't just involve sticking you in a tube and viola a little readout comes out telling you what you were thinking. It requires finicky, multi-million dollar, difficult to interpret equipment. First have to baseline a persons normal brain function then after detailed analysis by crazy smart cognitive neuroscientists we can sort of glean very simple conclusions. Are you adding or subtracting from a number (not found out in real time btw)? Looking up or down? Which, incidentally, I can also determine by looking at your eyes. Basically the stuff here and in other imaging studies is cognitive childsplay in comparison to the "reading of someones thoughts" people seem think is around the corner. We are so far off from that state of technology that ethics really aren't an issue, yet. It is kind of interesting to me that ethical concerns are beginning to become a concern in research of cognitive neuroscience, but needless worry is premature. This is like people starting to fear the atomic bomb right after discovering uranium.
The vast majority of people don't respond to subtlety or detail, they respond to soundbytes. People in power know this, so the veracity of the information is largely irrelevant to whether or not they decide to use it.
How do you get votes? Scare people into thinking their children are inches away from sexual molestation, tell them you have the solution; and viola, they vote for you! The state of American politics is just as much the fault of the sheep being fooled by this kind of crap as it is the shepherds feeding it to them. The truth is there to be found, but nobody cares to look.
I read a similar study if not the same one. If I recall, one of the main reasons for the increased distraction is there is a need to always fill all silences in phone conversations handsfree or not. Think about it, how often is there a large pause in a phone conversation? Never basically. Normal conversation with a present person is less taxing on us socially, and thus less distracting.
A late amendment to the PRO-IP would give the RIAA permission to "hold you upside down and shake out every last penny" on suspicion of copywrite infringement. Not satisfied with this development, RIAA is now pushing for a further amendment permitting cavity searches as well.
No congressperson has read the bill either!
Please don't lump all psychology together. There is a very large difference between the psychodynamic approach to psychology and the more modern approaches such as cognitive neuroscience. New tools in brain imaging are finally giving us the tools needed to start unraveling the human mind. We've started to progress beyond the psuedo-philosophical past because we now have data to support our arguments. Considering we all have a brain (well, I doubt it with some people sometimes...) it's probably a good thing to have a better understanding of it. Sure we don't have neat equations to describe our field, but hey, even basic engineering started somewhere. The brain is a hell of a lot more complex than a bridge so it's going to take a while.
The ability to simply perceive a 3-D world is less useful to a robot than it may seem. Raw sensory data doesn't provide any means to plan action. The real task is how to make sense of the data that is coming in. Having data is useless unless you can interpret it.