the fact that people don't get that, and continue to be self abusive in their voting pattern (i.e. vote republican),
The trouble is that there really isn't much difference between Democrat or Republican. Sure they talk different, but Obama for example might as well have been Republican.
Of course you mean illegally exposed the security practices of your government.
Isn't that exactly like complaining that a criminal was "illegally" investigated, because the criminal in question has a personal rule that he shouldn't be investigated?
It's been my experience that those terms have a much more sinister meaning in real life that they appear on the surface. "Collaborative learning," "project-based learning," any kind of focus on groups or group projects, and so on are often a teaching buzzwords for "Put all the kids in a group so the smart kids can carry the dumb kids and then on paper it looks like everyone is doing well."
Did any of the jocks/gangsta/ignorant and proud of it kids give you any trouble while you were busy earning them all an A? I wonder if carefully designing the educational system in this manner might allow those assholes to gain a respect for their intellectual superiors -- which could actually provide a great improvement in education.
For example, declare tracking an individual or an individual's property by any automated system, whether government or privately owned, generally illegal. Likewise, storing such records should be generally illegal. Make a few exceptions such as when there is a warrant, or if the individual requests it (where such request must be at the very least "check this checkbox to confirm you want to be tracked, data will be stored for n days", not "click here to agree to wall of text").
Otherwise: all cameras will use image recognition to log where you've been, all cars will be tracked via license plate readers and onboard GPS, all cell phone owners will be tracked and their location logged for years, all purchases (cash or credit card) will be tracked and logged. And all this data will be sold, and God help you if the government doesn't like you.
You're misinterpreting Zuckerberg's use of "universal". When taken in context, what Mr Zuckerberg meant by "universal" is "anyone who advertising companies would pay me money for information about".
Maybe we should stop raising children to think that everything is fun.
Maybe we should start teaching children to beware of any superstimulus. We've designed foods that are tastier than found in nature -- but we've dissociated food's tastiness from its healthiness. We've designed entertainment to be fun, addictive, etc -- but it is a dead end, boredom now leads to the rut instead of away from it. We've sabotaged almost every drive we have, soon sexbots will complete the job. This is what we're doing, only one level removed.
Science is a combination of work and fun. It used to be done only by people who had enough money to do anything they wanted, the reward was satisfaction of discovering something and fame. Now people put in that sort of work to "level up" their character or unlock/discover rare "equipment" or "achievements", sure it's less work, but the reward is dissociated from real world value.
I would still blame the test labs for not doing their jobs which would have been actually testing the thing's performance, rather than trusting the vehicle performs like in their rather unrealistic lab setting.
The test labs did their jobs perfectly. It's not their fault the standardized tests they were required to do were faulty. To be honest, it wouldn't even surprise me if the pollution laws were faulty (eg must pass faulty test), and VW technically legally in the right. "Technically legally in the right" includes if they can successfully cast the blame on a small group of underlings.
Of course, VW are still rotten cheaters for exploiting the test like this.
Lucky we found this out before we passed the TPP of "corporations can sue the government if they don't like its laws".
Thing is, high entropy electromagnetic communications would be indistinguishable from noise -- and even if it weren't, it would be hard to compete with the ridiculously powerful noise of their star. Since entropy is approximately the same thing as information, we should expect to see nothing but noise even if we got a perfect noise-free replica of their communication. It'll only get worse -- higher entropy and higher directionality -- as the technological level improves.
Only way we're finding aliens is if they're also doing a SETI program and use radio waves to do so.
Chernobyl is not why I get a big helping of mercury with my tuna -- that was normal operations for non-nuclear plants. Chemical plants have more, and deadlier, disasters than nuclear plants (Bhopal disaster, 16,000 dead, 550,000 injured). Hydroelectric also has more, and deadlier, disasters than nuclear (eg Banqiao Dam, 250,000 dead).
Here is Google's official description of the feature: "If you don't want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can browse the web in incognito mode."
What if I don't want Google to save a record of what I visit and download?
If this were really made for hunting victims trapped under debris, why did they make it look like a cockroach?
It make sense, of course. If it were shaped like a robot and had big bold letters spelling out "RESCUE", people would be terrified. I mean, they're trapped under debris and then they're faced with a killer robot. But by making the robot look like a part of nature, they can help soothe the victims like a gentle caress from Mother Earth. All that is remains is to solve the problem causing sudden mechanical failure shortly after finding a victim.
No president has ever cut taxes or raised them. That's the responsibility of Congress.
The President can either sign a bill into law, ignore it, or veto it. Since it takes 50* Senate votes (assuming the Vice President is around for the tie-breaker, and is allied with the President) and sufficient House votes to pass a bill if the President approves, but 67 Senate and 2/3s House votes to pass if he vetoes, the President can be worth 17 senators and several representatives.
* Of course, if there's filibustering it takes 60 votes instead.
“[Unfriending this colleague] evinces a lack of emotional maturity and is indicative of unreasonable behaviour,” the tribunal ruled.
So unfriending someone is among the list of things which can constitute bullying, even though by itself it wouldn't be.
Though personally, I think it's a good idea to unfriend every litigious crybaby who wants to look at my Facebook account to see if I said something she didn't like. A little Bird told me so.
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the fact that people don't get that, and continue to be self abusive in their voting pattern (i.e. vote republican),
The trouble is that there really isn't much difference between Democrat or Republican. Sure they talk different, but Obama for example might as well have been Republican.
Of course you mean illegally exposed the security practices of your government.
Isn't that exactly like complaining that a criminal was "illegally" investigated, because the criminal in question has a personal rule that he shouldn't be investigated?
It's been my experience that those terms have a much more sinister meaning in real life that they appear on the surface. "Collaborative learning," "project-based learning," any kind of focus on groups or group projects, and so on are often a teaching buzzwords for "Put all the kids in a group so the smart kids can carry the dumb kids and then on paper it looks like everyone is doing well."
Did any of the jocks/gangsta/ignorant and proud of it kids give you any trouble while you were busy earning them all an A? I wonder if carefully designing the educational system in this manner might allow those assholes to gain a respect for their intellectual superiors -- which could actually provide a great improvement in education.
Would you rather buy a G5 phone Made in the USA(TM) or Made in China? I wonder how long it takes to destroy one's reputation.
I understood that the opt out Google offered was for showing of targeted ads, not for the tracking. Am I wrong?
For example, declare tracking an individual or an individual's property by any automated system, whether government or privately owned, generally illegal. Likewise, storing such records should be generally illegal. Make a few exceptions such as when there is a warrant, or if the individual requests it (where such request must be at the very least "check this checkbox to confirm you want to be tracked, data will be stored for n days", not "click here to agree to wall of text").
Otherwise: all cameras will use image recognition to log where you've been, all cars will be tracked via license plate readers and onboard GPS, all cell phone owners will be tracked and their location logged for years, all purchases (cash or credit card) will be tracked and logged. And all this data will be sold, and God help you if the government doesn't like you.
FlyHelicopters: "Altruism is not a solution to the Tragedy of the Commons"
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You're misinterpreting Zuckerberg's use of "universal". When taken in context, what Mr Zuckerberg meant by "universal" is "anyone who advertising companies would pay me money for information about".
It's not corruption if it's an improvement.
(he said in a politics thread)
Maybe we should stop raising children to think that everything is fun.
Maybe we should start teaching children to beware of any superstimulus. We've designed foods that are tastier than found in nature -- but we've dissociated food's tastiness from its healthiness. We've designed entertainment to be fun, addictive, etc -- but it is a dead end, boredom now leads to the rut instead of away from it. We've sabotaged almost every drive we have, soon sexbots will complete the job. This is what we're doing, only one level removed.
Science is a combination of work and fun. It used to be done only by people who had enough money to do anything they wanted, the reward was satisfaction of discovering something and fame. Now people put in that sort of work to "level up" their character or unlock/discover rare "equipment" or "achievements", sure it's less work, but the reward is dissociated from real world value.
Well, if you have 6 Muslims per square meter surely one of them will suicide bomb the others and help clear the area. /troll
I hate to be a Godwin Nazi, but the German system of government/politics has nothing to do with a corporation cheating on American laws for profit.
I would still blame the test labs for not doing their jobs which would have been actually testing the thing's performance, rather than trusting the vehicle performs like in their rather unrealistic lab setting.
The test labs did their jobs perfectly. It's not their fault the standardized tests they were required to do were faulty. To be honest, it wouldn't even surprise me if the pollution laws were faulty (eg must pass faulty test), and VW technically legally in the right. "Technically legally in the right" includes if they can successfully cast the blame on a small group of underlings.
Of course, VW are still rotten cheaters for exploiting the test like this.
Lucky we found this out before we passed the TPP of "corporations can sue the government if they don't like its laws".
Thing is, high entropy electromagnetic communications would be indistinguishable from noise -- and even if it weren't, it would be hard to compete with the ridiculously powerful noise of their star. Since entropy is approximately the same thing as information, we should expect to see nothing but noise even if we got a perfect noise-free replica of their communication. It'll only get worse -- higher entropy and higher directionality -- as the technological level improves.
Only way we're finding aliens is if they're also doing a SETI program and use radio waves to do so.
Sufficiently advanced compression could be indistinguishable from encryption (esp. if have a standard table to draw from).
Check out this super cute goat picture.
Chernobyl is not why I get a big helping of mercury with my tuna -- that was normal operations for non-nuclear plants. Chemical plants have more, and deadlier, disasters than nuclear plants (Bhopal disaster, 16,000 dead, 550,000 injured). Hydroelectric also has more, and deadlier, disasters than nuclear (eg Banqiao Dam, 250,000 dead).
Here is Google's official description of the feature: "If you don't want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can browse the web in incognito mode."
What if I don't want Google to save a record of what I visit and download?
If this were really made for hunting victims trapped under debris, why did they make it look like a cockroach?
It make sense, of course. If it were shaped like a robot and had big bold letters spelling out "RESCUE", people would be terrified. I mean, they're trapped under debris and then they're faced with a killer robot. But by making the robot look like a part of nature, they can help soothe the victims like a gentle caress from Mother Earth. All that is remains is to solve the problem causing sudden mechanical failure shortly after finding a victim.
No president has ever cut taxes or raised them. That's the responsibility of Congress.
The President can either sign a bill into law, ignore it, or veto it. Since it takes 50* Senate votes (assuming the Vice President is around for the tie-breaker, and is allied with the President) and sufficient House votes to pass a bill if the President approves, but 67 Senate and 2/3s House votes to pass if he vetoes, the President can be worth 17 senators and several representatives.
* Of course, if there's filibustering it takes 60 votes instead.
“[Unfriending this colleague] evinces a lack of emotional maturity and is indicative of unreasonable behaviour,” the tribunal ruled.
So unfriending someone is among the list of things which can constitute bullying, even though by itself it wouldn't be.
Though personally, I think it's a good idea to unfriend every litigious crybaby who wants to look at my Facebook account to see if I said something she didn't like. A little Bird told me so.
They agreed to say they won't conduct economic espionage against each other.
Maybe "lead companies like Volkswagen" is a reference to their stock prices.
Getting more thrust out of the same amount of fuel makes a big difference.
Old news, we've been doing it for ages. It's called "arrested for resisting arrest".