In soviet-russia Communist Druglord Spies, all get paid the same, and have universal health care. Also the drugs have state sanctioned prices, none of this capitialist pig profiteering in the drug trade!
Up here in Canada there is a real scandal about the F35 aircraft and the costs associated with it and Canada seemingly going ahead no matter what.
One political pundit bluntly stated (I was astonished), that the need for the F35 is just a rationalization. Likely the US went to its allies, and said we would like you help in controlling and containing China's growth and ambitions over the next 20-30 years. However they cannot actually SAY that politically, so countries that are apart of this group are just trying to come up with fake rationalizations as to why they need this state of the art next generation stealth fighter.
Because realistically looking at the conflicts we have been involved with in the last 20 years, at which point were we every facing comparable technology. Have we even had a jet shot down that wasn't attributable to just overly complex systems, maintenance, or age? I mean even the US, in all the wars they have been involved with since the 90's were they ever in a situation where the opposing force had any kind of air superiority?
Anyway I just thought it a bit scary, that someone was looking at this transaction and seeing perhaps conversations looking at the long term future.
Also you have to remember that a lot of these weapon systems were not exactly reliable or pin point accuracy.
So while yes, if you get a big enough boom, and aim it at a sufficiently large city, odds are you will hit it. However a lot can go wrong between the red button, and actually detonation. It might not fire. It might not navigate to the correct place. It might not detonate. Also if either side has any missile defense it might knock it down. This is a sort of fight that you get exactly one chance. So in those instances you likely target with 2 or 3 depending on the importance of the city.
Also as mentioned, a BIG part of the plan was to disable all or most of the opposing enemies missiles. This meant targeting ships groups, installations, bases, and plenty of stuff that are much harder to hit. Some were probably designated to be just big EMP communications knock out detail. Now target several to all those things.
Then you have the subterfuge on both sides, hiding bases, fake silos, mobile launch platforms. Hey, its probably a fake installation, but it could be real, and targeting NY, are you willing to risk it? Better target them all anyway. For everyone you get you could potentially save millions.
Likely the only thing not targeted would be subs, though certainly their ports and navel bases would be. Anyway after awhile I can see how it would add up. Insane yes, but I can understand the madness.
Years ago I went to the Bahamas for spring break with 2 friends. Our first day there we decided to go to McDonalds for lunch (OK we were young poor college students). Rather than actually find a location, we just assumed they were everywhere and just started walking in a direction down the road. Anyway eventually we got out of the tourist areas, and into obviously poorer and poorer areas. We started passing what looked to be like burned out hulks of cars on front lawns (which were probably just striped and rusting). In any case 3 young white dudes without much world experience started to get a bit nervous. As we are walking we come across one of these destroyed cars, on a front yard, with 4 or 5 locals (blacks) sitting on it, drinking 40's of beer. As they see us they start calling to us (likely as they can tell we are out of the tourist element) "Hey Mon, hows it going? Watcha doin' around here?" Anyway we simply respond that we were looking for Mcdonalds. They laugh, give us directions, and away we went, off to Mcdonalds.
So I guess what I am trying to say is that there are a lot of cultural and media stereotypes, many of which may be overstated for one reason or another. In our case it was just a few guys enjoying a beer, who helped out a couple of clueless tourists.
Mark Z: "I'll BUY your Instagram iPhone app for a MILLION dollars!" Dramatic pause with pinky finger to side of mouth... Instagram: laughter. Second in command at FB with a eye patch: Whispering (a million dollars isn't actually a lot of money in 2012) Mark Z: "I'll BUY your Instagram iPhone app for a BILLION dollars!" Dramatic pause with pinky finger to side of mouth... Instagram: GASP!
Does ANY drone have a range of 2000nm? I doubt it, which makes it all a bit implausible anyway. I suppose you could make a little drone aircraft carrier (heck make that automated also)... Of course then you would have to make autonomous destroyers and subs to defend it...:) Of course you would need some autonomous satellites to control the whole thing... SkyNet wasn't built in a day!
This really just sounds like cheapo software testing, where they simulate the environment rather than using real testing... Of course you are now testing two variables, your software and the simulation, and any bug now has a chance of being either one, rather than just your software. Seems likes like shortcut to me.
It does make me smile a bit about the possible failure scenarios, as this is basically navigation software with terrain identification. "Well sir, we sent it out and it never came back..." Realistically these things would all use GPS, and have flotation devices, so really this is just about the expense of playing fetch.
OK, so you have these drones that fly in the sky (re-purposed military drone perhaps?), and now you propose to give them AI? Why not just start the machine revolution right now?
So rather than use these things in "real life", you are going to simulate debris, in a simulated ocean, on a simulated earth? Don't forget to at least put the women in red in there as well...
You are also assuming the court system works the same up here, and it doesn't. In the US you might be able to sue anyone for millions for some slight, in Canada the laws are a bit different. For one, most would likely get thrown out for being facetious, and the ones that don't would not have the "damages" that are handed out in the US.
Also, I am not certain (IANAL etc...), but the hate laws in Canada are a Criminal Offenses, not a Civil one. So if any of those afore mentioned groups think a hate crime has been committed, they would approach the police who would likely take it to a Crown Prosecutor, who would make an assessment of if they thought it was a hate crime or if there was a chance of winning in any court. Then they might proceed with a criminal case against someone.
This is not group suing the bejesus out of someone for millions. This is not something you get sued money for, this is something you go to jail or perhaps community service for (depending on severity I suppose, I have no idea what the actual punishments are, there hasn't been all that many hate crimes to my knowlege).
I think right there you can see the difference in perspective between law in Canada and the US.
Well if you are talking about decline, they haven't had a new album in years and years. I do not count the TRON soundtrack.
If the came out with a new album I would buy it in a heartbeat. Likely would all of their fans. That alone would likely bolster their "music industry" like U2 in Ireland.
That said, when I read the title, I was more thinking "french speaking" not of french citizenship. Music that is not instrumental or in English, but in French, has by definition a limited audience. There isn't all that many french speaking people in the world (by comparison to everything else). Also, though I have no data to back it up, it might be interesting to compare the 4% loss, to what the decline is in actual french speaking people, maybe that has simply dipped 4% overall in the world. That would be the simplest answer. I know here in Canada, Quebec is constantly at war trying to protect its language from being swallowed up by English etc...
Heh, yeah I had one of those "X2" "backback" parallel CD-ROM drives as well through work. I always loved how all those parallel devices came with pass through cables, so you could just keep attaching stuff indefinitely...
Yeah I have no idea why it took so long, possibly I did something wrong. Your setup sounds about the same. Perhaps mine was an older slower zip drive (it was one of the first)... The only reason I say that, is that I don't think Win95 or any other varieties of Linux other than DSL would fit on mine which had a max capacity of 50MB.
Now that I think about it, I think the laptops hard drive was also so small that even DSL was much too large for it. It probably only had a 20MB hard dive in the thing, which would have made it necessary to try the zip drive thing at all if I wanted to use it as a linux machine. I think that necessity is what gave me the idea. Had a useless piece of hardware sitting around that I thought might be useful for something if I could get Linux on it. Turns out I was wrong... Still useless...:)
I beat that score by a large margin. Years ago I took an old 386 Laptop that ran at 25Mhz, I don't recall how much ram it had, but I am going to go with "not much", and booted DSL (Damn Small Linux) in just over 21 hours. Which is over 10x as slow as the one in the article! So technically I think I had the "slowest Linux computer".
Why did it boot so slow? Well it was also the reason I used DSL, because it was less than 50MB, and I could fit it on a Zip drive. Attached via a parallel cable. It did work, and it did eventually boot, however I had to leave it over night (I thought it would eventually just crash), but it worked its way through. Also on a fun note, when typing and executing commands it was like telneting to the moon, there was like a 4-5 second delay between typing any command hitting execute, and any sort of result. I really just wanted to see if it was possible to install and run an OS on a zip drive connected via a parallel port. The answer is yes, but not very well.
I am sure Crocodile Dundee wreaked my TV watching ability of the Australian accent, as it always seems comedic to me now (he was that good of an actor perhaps).
So I can only see Fantasy/Science Fiction and Australian accent if the plot somehow involves barbequing shrimp or saving babies from wild dogs...
Also that red guy on Dragonball Z from Space Australia, Awesome.
Not everyone that eats junk food is fat. Not everyone that is fat gets diabetes. Some people have a genetic disposition to it. There are many causes. Being fat, or obese is a significant indicator, but I wouldn't say it is the "cause" of it.
You could say the same thing about climate change. Human CO2 emissions I am sure are not helping matters much, however to trivialize such a complex system to say FACT: Human CO2 Emissions are causing climate change, might be a bit much.
Or not. I'm inclined to believe we should be trying to reduce our pollution regardless one way or another.
Anyway I wish more people would think critically with a healthy dose of skepticism rather than blindly accepting whatever is shoveled at them as "truth" or "gospal". Not that I am saying that is what is happening in this instance, only that many just seem to be parroting rhetoric (on both sides of the argument).
It is a 4 digit numerical password, not exactly advanced cryptanalysis there. On top of that, most people that choose passwords, usually choose something stupid.
We found an iPhone at a cabin we rented for a stag party a few years ago. The previous girl left her whole wallet. The guy who broke it, only had to try exactly twice, and probably took less than a minute, and no fancy software was involved.
Try # 1: 1234 nope Opened wallet, and looked at drivers licence. Mused aloud, lets see how dumb this chick is: Try #2: Birthday (can't remember was either day/month, or month/day, either way got it first shot) yup.
We did mail it and all the contents of her stuff back to her however.
So you actually believe the Conservative's argument that is was all the doing of a 23 year old intern who somehow got a hold of the secure voters database, and then orchestrated on a national level hundreds of thousands of robo-calls through 3rd party services.
That kid is talented.
When he gets out of jail someone should hire him, talk about resourceful!
We have the same laws in Canada. Freedom of speech doesn't give you a carte blanche. You can be racist all you like, however if you start to try and promote hate and racism, then you can get into trouble with the law. I would imagine it is a pretty complex one, so I can't tell you exactly what is or isn't allowed, but he was also judged by a jury of peers.
Also usually universities and schools usually have a "code of conduct" which if you breach, can end with being expelled from that institution. Likely this is an example of such. Typically places of higher learning do not want to be associated with that sort of nonsense. It is probably considered uneducated to many.
Anyway you can yell and scream about freedom of speech, but you can still get arrested with disturbing the peace.
Lobbyists make up numbers to justify positions, this is not new people. You can probably apply this to just about any lobbyist anywhere, at anytime. Politicians may or may not look closely at the numbers depending on if they plan on supporting whatever it being put in front of them or not. If they ever have to flipflop on that decision they just blame it on being misled by the lobby.
The REAL question is why do politicians make the decisions they do to support one lobby over another? The numbers? Doubtful, unless the politician is a real moron. Bribe, or "future considerations", etc... is more probable than that. There is also blind ideology as well, which usually involves believing in something based on faith, or ideal, and is not too overly concerned with "facts", or "truth".
Anyway the "numbers" are just a justification of a position (but the position is likely not based on those numbers).
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In soviet-russia Communist Druglord Spies, all get paid the same, and have universal health care. Also the drugs have state sanctioned prices, none of this capitialist pig profiteering in the drug trade!
Up here in Canada there is a real scandal about the F35 aircraft and the costs associated with it and Canada seemingly going ahead no matter what.
One political pundit bluntly stated (I was astonished), that the need for the F35 is just a rationalization. Likely the US went to its allies, and said we would like you help in controlling and containing China's growth and ambitions over the next 20-30 years. However they cannot actually SAY that politically, so countries that are apart of this group are just trying to come up with fake rationalizations as to why they need this state of the art next generation stealth fighter.
Because realistically looking at the conflicts we have been involved with in the last 20 years, at which point were we every facing comparable technology. Have we even had a jet shot down that wasn't attributable to just overly complex systems, maintenance, or age? I mean even the US, in all the wars they have been involved with since the 90's were they ever in a situation where the opposing force had any kind of air superiority?
Anyway I just thought it a bit scary, that someone was looking at this transaction and seeing perhaps conversations looking at the long term future.
Also you have to remember that a lot of these weapon systems were not exactly reliable or pin point accuracy.
So while yes, if you get a big enough boom, and aim it at a sufficiently large city, odds are you will hit it. However a lot can go wrong between the red button, and actually detonation. It might not fire. It might not navigate to the correct place. It might not detonate. Also if either side has any missile defense it might knock it down. This is a sort of fight that you get exactly one chance. So in those instances you likely target with 2 or 3 depending on the importance of the city.
Also as mentioned, a BIG part of the plan was to disable all or most of the opposing enemies missiles. This meant targeting ships groups, installations, bases, and plenty of stuff that are much harder to hit. Some were probably designated to be just big EMP communications knock out detail. Now target several to all those things.
Then you have the subterfuge on both sides, hiding bases, fake silos, mobile launch platforms. Hey, its probably a fake installation, but it could be real, and targeting NY, are you willing to risk it? Better target them all anyway. For everyone you get you could potentially save millions.
Likely the only thing not targeted would be subs, though certainly their ports and navel bases would be. Anyway after awhile I can see how it would add up. Insane yes, but I can understand the madness.
Years ago I went to the Bahamas for spring break with 2 friends. Our first day there we decided to go to McDonalds for lunch (OK we were young poor college students). Rather than actually find a location, we just assumed they were everywhere and just started walking in a direction down the road. Anyway eventually we got out of the tourist areas, and into obviously poorer and poorer areas. We started passing what looked to be like burned out hulks of cars on front lawns (which were probably just striped and rusting). In any case 3 young white dudes without much world experience started to get a bit nervous. As we are walking we come across one of these destroyed cars, on a front yard, with 4 or 5 locals (blacks) sitting on it, drinking 40's of beer. As they see us they start calling to us (likely as they can tell we are out of the tourist element) "Hey Mon, hows it going? Watcha doin' around here?" Anyway we simply respond that we were looking for Mcdonalds. They laugh, give us directions, and away we went, off to Mcdonalds.
So I guess what I am trying to say is that there are a lot of cultural and media stereotypes, many of which may be overstated for one reason or another. In our case it was just a few guys enjoying a beer, who helped out a couple of clueless tourists.
Mark Z: "I'll BUY your Instagram iPhone app for a MILLION dollars!"
Dramatic pause with pinky finger to side of mouth...
Instagram: laughter.
Second in command at FB with a eye patch: Whispering (a million dollars isn't actually a lot of money in 2012)
Mark Z: "I'll BUY your Instagram iPhone app for a BILLION dollars!"
Dramatic pause with pinky finger to side of mouth...
Instagram: GASP!
Just let me adjust my tinfoil hat to match the current satellite position.
They may have closed the "scientific research" facility, that just means that it is now fully operational battle station!
ITS A TRAP!
Are you using that as an example of a simulated movie?
If you are, it wasn't a very good simulation. I know I didn't find it believable as a movie anyway... :)
Does ANY drone have a range of 2000nm? I doubt it, which makes it all a bit implausible anyway. I suppose you could make a little drone aircraft carrier (heck make that automated also)... Of course then you would have to make autonomous destroyers and subs to defend it... :) Of course you would need some autonomous satellites to control the whole thing... SkyNet wasn't built in a day!
This really just sounds like cheapo software testing, where they simulate the environment rather than using real testing... Of course you are now testing two variables, your software and the simulation, and any bug now has a chance of being either one, rather than just your software. Seems likes like shortcut to me.
It does make me smile a bit about the possible failure scenarios, as this is basically navigation software with terrain identification. "Well sir, we sent it out and it never came back..." Realistically these things would all use GPS, and have flotation devices, so really this is just about the expense of playing fetch.
Head 'sploded....
OK, so you have these drones that fly in the sky (re-purposed military drone perhaps?), and now you propose to give them AI? Why not just start the machine revolution right now?
So rather than use these things in "real life", you are going to simulate debris, in a simulated ocean, on a simulated earth? Don't forget to at least put the women in red in there as well...
All I know is that we burned the sky...
You are also assuming the court system works the same up here, and it doesn't. In the US you might be able to sue anyone for millions for some slight, in Canada the laws are a bit different. For one, most would likely get thrown out for being facetious, and the ones that don't would not have the "damages" that are handed out in the US.
Also, I am not certain (IANAL etc...), but the hate laws in Canada are a Criminal Offenses, not a Civil one. So if any of those afore mentioned groups think a hate crime has been committed, they would approach the police who would likely take it to a Crown Prosecutor, who would make an assessment of if they thought it was a hate crime or if there was a chance of winning in any court. Then they might proceed with a criminal case against someone.
This is not group suing the bejesus out of someone for millions. This is not something you get sued money for, this is something you go to jail or perhaps community service for (depending on severity I suppose, I have no idea what the actual punishments are, there hasn't been all that many hate crimes to my knowlege).
I think right there you can see the difference in perspective between law in Canada and the US.
Well if you are talking about decline, they haven't had a new album in years and years. I do not count the TRON soundtrack.
If the came out with a new album I would buy it in a heartbeat. Likely would all of their fans. That alone would likely bolster their "music industry" like U2 in Ireland.
That said, when I read the title, I was more thinking "french speaking" not of french citizenship. Music that is not instrumental or in English, but in French, has by definition a limited audience. There isn't all that many french speaking people in the world (by comparison to everything else). Also, though I have no data to back it up, it might be interesting to compare the 4% loss, to what the decline is in actual french speaking people, maybe that has simply dipped 4% overall in the world. That would be the simplest answer. I know here in Canada, Quebec is constantly at war trying to protect its language from being swallowed up by English etc...
Heh, yeah I had one of those "X2" "backback" parallel CD-ROM drives as well through work. I always loved how all those parallel devices came with pass through cables, so you could just keep attaching stuff indefinitely...
Yeah I have no idea why it took so long, possibly I did something wrong. Your setup sounds about the same. Perhaps mine was an older slower zip drive (it was one of the first)... The only reason I say that, is that I don't think Win95 or any other varieties of Linux other than DSL would fit on mine which had a max capacity of 50MB.
Now that I think about it, I think the laptops hard drive was also so small that even DSL was much too large for it. It probably only had a 20MB hard dive in the thing, which would have made it necessary to try the zip drive thing at all if I wanted to use it as a linux machine. I think that necessity is what gave me the idea. Had a useless piece of hardware sitting around that I thought might be useful for something if I could get Linux on it. Turns out I was wrong... Still useless... :)
"slowest Linux Computer running"...
I beat that score by a large margin. Years ago I took an old 386 Laptop that ran at 25Mhz, I don't recall how much ram it had, but I am going to go with "not much", and booted DSL (Damn Small Linux) in just over 21 hours. Which is over 10x as slow as the one in the article! So technically I think I had the "slowest Linux computer".
Why did it boot so slow? Well it was also the reason I used DSL, because it was less than 50MB, and I could fit it on a Zip drive. Attached via a parallel cable. It did work, and it did eventually boot, however I had to leave it over night (I thought it would eventually just crash), but it worked its way through. Also on a fun note, when typing and executing commands it was like telneting to the moon, there was like a 4-5 second delay between typing any command hitting execute, and any sort of result. I really just wanted to see if it was possible to install and run an OS on a zip drive connected via a parallel port. The answer is yes, but not very well.
I am sure Crocodile Dundee wreaked my TV watching ability of the Australian accent, as it always seems comedic to me now (he was that good of an actor perhaps).
So I can only see Fantasy/Science Fiction and Australian accent if the plot somehow involves barbequing shrimp or saving babies from wild dogs...
Also that red guy on Dragonball Z from Space Australia, Awesome.
I always loved how the Empire in Star Wars were all British sounding... Evil Imperialists!
Further on your analogy...
Not everyone that eats junk food is fat. Not everyone that is fat gets diabetes. Some people have a genetic disposition to it. There are many causes. Being fat, or obese is a significant indicator, but I wouldn't say it is the "cause" of it.
You could say the same thing about climate change. Human CO2 emissions I am sure are not helping matters much, however to trivialize such a complex system to say FACT: Human CO2 Emissions are causing climate change, might be a bit much.
Or not. I'm inclined to believe we should be trying to reduce our pollution regardless one way or another.
Anyway I wish more people would think critically with a healthy dose of skepticism rather than blindly accepting whatever is shoveled at them as "truth" or "gospal". Not that I am saying that is what is happening in this instance, only that many just seem to be parroting rhetoric (on both sides of the argument).
Last I checked there was no atmosphere on the sun.
I think Vortex might be a better term.
Empirical evidence would suggest they are immortal as none of them actually age either.
It is a 4 digit numerical password, not exactly advanced cryptanalysis there. On top of that, most people that choose passwords, usually choose something stupid.
We found an iPhone at a cabin we rented for a stag party a few years ago. The previous girl left her whole wallet. The guy who broke it, only had to try exactly twice, and probably took less than a minute, and no fancy software was involved.
Try # 1: 1234
nope
Opened wallet, and looked at drivers licence. Mused aloud, lets see how dumb this chick is:
Try #2: Birthday (can't remember was either day/month, or month/day, either way got it first shot)
yup.
We did mail it and all the contents of her stuff back to her however.
So you actually believe the Conservative's argument that is was all the doing of a 23 year old intern who somehow got a hold of the secure voters database, and then orchestrated on a national level hundreds of thousands of robo-calls through 3rd party services.
That kid is talented.
When he gets out of jail someone should hire him, talk about resourceful!
I pretty much equated the last part of you last sentence to mean Xbox Live.
We have the same laws in Canada. Freedom of speech doesn't give you a carte blanche. You can be racist all you like, however if you start to try and promote hate and racism, then you can get into trouble with the law. I would imagine it is a pretty complex one, so I can't tell you exactly what is or isn't allowed, but he was also judged by a jury of peers.
Also usually universities and schools usually have a "code of conduct" which if you breach, can end with being expelled from that institution. Likely this is an example of such. Typically places of higher learning do not want to be associated with that sort of nonsense. It is probably considered uneducated to many.
Anyway you can yell and scream about freedom of speech, but you can still get arrested with disturbing the peace.
"perceivable stimulus"
As opposed to patenting something that has impreceivable...
Does stimulus that no one can observe really happen?
Lobbyists make up numbers to justify positions, this is not new people. You can probably apply this to just about any lobbyist anywhere, at anytime. Politicians may or may not look closely at the numbers depending on if they plan on supporting whatever it being put in front of them or not. If they ever have to flipflop on that decision they just blame it on being misled by the lobby.
The REAL question is why do politicians make the decisions they do to support one lobby over another? The numbers? Doubtful, unless the politician is a real moron. Bribe, or "future considerations", etc... is more probable than that. There is also blind ideology as well, which usually involves believing in something based on faith, or ideal, and is not too overly concerned with "facts", or "truth".
Anyway the "numbers" are just a justification of a position (but the position is likely not based on those numbers).