"Myles Allen, a climate expert at the University of Oxford, believes scientists can blame individual natural disasters on climate change."
So now "believes" is a scientific term?
Apparently, for many the answer is yes if the person speaking has been elevated to Climate Sainthood or, as in this case, is an official Climate Apostle, with all the proper degrees from 'proper' schools, and the correct political views.
How does an example of total economic failure represent a loss of individuality among its citizens?
Try openly having an "individual" opinion or political view in Venezuela. Try having an "individual" business, newspaper/media outlet, or radio/TV network.
Don't worry, I'm sure that those alleged "death squads" are nothing but Capitalist propaganda. You'll be perfectly safe!
Milgram and others have repeatedly demonstrated that putting a small group of people in a position of absolute authority over another group always ends with abuse, cruelty, and more. Power concentrated is bad, period. However, when government is where power concentrates that's the worst, as government has a monopoly on the use of deadly force.
Socialism, communism, fascism, and other authoritarian forms of government fail for that precise reason; basic human psychology. Socialism and communism are anti-science in their basic principles and tenets by ignoring these facts.
If you start with a completely fabricated premise like "We had to become Nazis to prevent Nazis!" then sure, Germany looks bad.
This of course is not what is happening at all.
Not literally, no, they're not waving swastikas around and praising Hitler. As far as a "fabricated premise" that's a matter of individual perspective.
They are using the methods and tactics of Nazis and other similar authoritarian regimes by placing subjective legal restrictions on speech.
For the record, I dont think laws like this German one are the best way to fight intolerance. I'm just putting this out there because I dislike your mad, arms flailing, the sky is falling, rhetoric.
Ah, you dislike being confronted bluntly with unpleasant realities.
Sorry. Maybe you can get the Germans to ban my speech, too.
They are learning from the mistakes of the past, and are doing their damnest so these horrors never happen again.
"We had to become Nazis to prevent Nazis!"
German leaders have become corrupt totalitarians (again). Yes, they learned from the Nazis. I just don't think the lessons they came away with are the same ones that everyone else came away with and assumed everyone shared.
That looks like a good place to start, sure. It says that 2 revolutions per minute generally produces too low Coriolis forces to be significant, and that a 30-second period would need a 224m radius to produce 1g. That's pretty substantial, but not a mile (1609m). For an orbital period of 15s, which might not produce significant Coriolis forces (the article says that 2 rpm is generally considered safe, but humans have adapted to 23rpm), the radius would be 56m, which seems much more reasonable.
Thanks, AC, for the Wiki link.
What you describe here pretty much outlines major characteristics for different classes of future manned space vessels and orbital stations.
Smaller diameter centrifugal ships/stations would be for shorter trips and occupancy durations, and the larger diameter types for longer trips and longer occupancy durations.
Scratch the surface even a teensy tiny bit and you find that every computing platform: Windows, MacOS, and Linux - they're all in a total state of disrepair.
Yeah, it's almost as if writing a bug-free modern, general-use computer operating system wasn't trivial! I mean, it's just a glorified abacus FFS, right? Maybe MS should ask the Chinese for help...oh wait...
Many filmmakers get started making small short films. If they have not yet published a film, are they not a filmmaker? Seems like any definition of "filmmaker" would unfairly exclude some people.
Of course, and that's exactly what they want: "Law for Thee but Not for Me!"
Seeing as the general political demographics for film makers tend to skew heavily Left, this mindset is not surprising, especially when it is about who gets to create and distribute content that can influence/inform/persuade people politically and ideologically. The Left does not tolerate diversity of opinion when it comes to political, social, or ideological topics, one need only look to recent events at the Berkeley campus in California to see it in violent action.
one that will give billions of dollars in cash to some of the company's earliest investors and employees
And people say that crime doesn't pay.
Yeah, Uber should get government to enshrine their business model into law like the taxi companies and the labor unions did.
Hey! Maybe they can use some of that SB money to buy back some of those politicians to pass laws to make Uber the only legal ride service!
Ain't cronyism grand? It's a game anyone* can play!
Even better, the larger government grows, the more and the more-juicy the opportunities become for cronyism! Win-win! (Well, except for the citizens. They get shafted and left holding the bag.)
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*If you have the wealth, connections, and the requisite lack of moral restraint or any sense of right & wrong.
That's the bitch with having a relatively free and open society based on a representative republic model such as the US.
The only way it does not devolve into an authoritarian oligarchy or mob rule is for the citizens to take responsibility, educate themselves on the issues outside of the populist megaphones, and actually care enough to actively participate in their own governance.
If we won't govern us someone else *will*, and it's guaranteed that none of us will like the result!
Except closed source from say Microsoft is no better than from a Russian company.
That depends on your perspective and nationality to some extent.
As a US citizen, I would trust Russian software more than US-produced software if I'm more concerned with securing my data and communications against the US government's domestic spying than I am the FSB actually caring anything at all about me individually. I'm far, far more likely to be personally harmed by and have far, far more to fear from the US government than the Russians or anyone else, for that matter.
Having been born in the '50s and witnessed a lot of recent history firsthand, I don't think the current political fashion trend over the last few decades of basically giving the feds more money and powers to "fix" things whenever there's any problem...real or perceived...is going so well.
The Rule of Law has most definitely suffered to the point that it is now in ICU on life support. Unless people wake up, and real soon, the prognosis is fucking horrifying and bloody.
First ambassador killed since 1979. And the President and Secretary of State immediately blamed a Youtube video and arrested the maker [dailywire.com]. Only to have to turn back later and admit it wasn't the video and that they had plenty of warning about the impending attack [msnbc.com]. Essentially the President lied about the cause of the death of a US Ambassador in an effort to cover up their willful ignoring of information about the impending attack which caused the death of the Ambassador.
And the reason they tried to deny, deflect, and outright lie is that Amb. Stevens was sent there by HRC & BHO on a secret arms deal negotiation to illegally supply weapons to factions within Syria which turned out to be ISIS. They wanted as little attention as possible, that's why they issued stand-down orders to US assets in the region. BHO & HRC chose to sacrifice those men and blame it on a youtube video as a means of trying to cover up their criminal actions.
...One of the most divisive Presidents in US history famous for his identity politics and class-warfare and attacks on political/ideological opponents using agencies of the Federal government like the IRS.
I have not seen many articulating why title 2 is proper.
They need ISPs under Title-II laws & regulations making the transmission of "hate-speech" and "obscenity" a crime in order to shut down violent, white-supremacist, misogynist, Jew-hating Nazis like Ben Shapiro and Rabbi Daniel Lapin./s
Is the point of cash only to exclude the unbanked?
Do the unbanked in the area skew by race?
Possibly, but it certainly skews by demographic. How will the illegal drug dealer sell his drugs on the street? How will streetwalkers do business? Hell, how do you give a grandkid $5 when they aren't even old enough for a phone/bank account/card?
I'm "Not Sure" (wait, that's not..OW!) I want the answer.
I'm sure we'll be better off without the ability to spend money without government tracking, analysis, taxation, and prosecution.
After all, what do you have to hide from Big Brother, Citizen? All personal, social, and financial interactions are tracked and analyzed...for your protection, of course.
Whatever you do, please call your "plant based" beef "Soylent Beef". That brand name has some marvelous associative name-recognition positives in the marketing data.
FTFY
One must learn to always view these things first as a marketing/branding campaign, as that's typically how they are eventually perceived, if not viewed that way right from the beginning.
It seems insane, true. Keep in mind, however, that we are descendants of Golgafrincham hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, and marketing executives. "We'll have to burn down all the forests to prevent inflation."
Placing ISPs under Title II also places rgem under CALEA compliance laws and regulations. There are also hate-speech (stupid term for a stupid concept) and obscenity laws as well under Title II.
Yeah, now they'll do it on their own terms,
Umm, perhaps you missed who wrote the original NN regulations you want back? (hint: it wasn't ISPs or the government...who's left? hmm...anyway, I'm sure they must be honest, benevolent, and fair)
Basically put, Title II regulates ISPs as common carriers, requires more restrictions on what they can do, and is focused on customer rights over corporate rights.
Placing ISPs under Title II also places rgem under CALEA compliance laws and regulations. There are also hate-speech (stupid term for a stupid concept) and obscenity laws as well under Title II.
Would this not play right into the hands of those who want 'backdoors' and those who want to control/restrict speech/content?
Sorry, but I don't trust any "pinky-swear, we won't try to use those oh-so-tempting Title II CALEA, hate-speech, or obscenity laws and regulations against our political opponents" promises. They're politicians. Moving their lips.
The fewer tentacles government sticks into the internet, the less we'll all end up feeling like the victims in a hentai tentacle-porn animation.
Of course, right overhead is a rare optimistic case. Worst case would be satellite on horizon, there your round trip would be at least 130 ms (assuming at least 300 km orbit). By satellite standards pretty good and serviceable for most non-gaming situations.
The idea is to use a large constellation of small, relatively cheap mini/micro-sats in a very low orbit, possibly as low as 120-150 miles/200-250 km that are economical enough between satellite cost and launch costs that they can be regularly replaced as their orbits decay.
With that design a single ground station would 'see' at least 3 or more sats at any given time. Shorter distance also means lower transmitter power required from the device on the ground, *and* in the sat, making it smaller/cheaper as well. At just a couple hundred km and with multiple signal paths available to prevent lost/dropped packets, etc, on top of that, suddenly it starts to become a much more viable-seeming arrangement for a lot more people.
Sure, it's not going to equal a fiber connection or even regular cable broadband, but it could be one possible solution to providing ad-supported/free and/or low-cost/subsidized internet for those who currently cannot afford it or who have few or no other alternatives for whatever reason (geography, etc).
Video surveillance of a wide area around the US Capitol Washington, D.C. area would likely be considered very valuable to foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations.
It would enable the gathering of a great deal of intelligence. See who is having little 'walk & talks' with whom (possibly reconstructing what was said in some instances), track and determine patrol schedules of police and plain-clothes security service personnel, determine patterns of movement/travel for VIPs, and more.
What!? I guess the comment above is from the lunatic fringe.
Why? Because he accurately points out that implementing NN by classifying ISPs under Title II puts them under CALEA compliance laws, the same as all other telecoms under Title II?
Why do you feel that ISPs *must* be placed under Title II when it is not necessary for implementing NN, and that anyone who disagrees is the "lunatic fringe"? Is it not sufficient that Congress pass laws implementing NN without placing ISPs under Title II and CALEA compliance requirements (and a bunch of obscenity and 'hate speech' laws under Title II as well)?
I don't want to support the economy of countries that have repressive governments.
Well, *all* governments are "repressive"/oppressive.
That is literally the only tool in government's toolkit.
Force. Violence & imprisonment, and the threat of them.
Every single thing government does either more or less directly employs force and imprisonment or uses the threat of potentially employing them to compel compliance.
Milgram and others teach us that any time you place a relatively small group of people in a position to exert power over others including employing the use of force, bad things will happen. That's why government should always be the solution of very last resort.
Slashdot Mirror
"Myles Allen, a climate expert at the University of Oxford, believes scientists can blame individual natural disasters on climate change."
So now "believes" is a scientific term?
Apparently, for many the answer is yes if the person speaking has been elevated to Climate Sainthood or, as in this case, is an official Climate Apostle, with all the proper degrees from 'proper' schools, and the correct political views.
Strat
How does an example of total economic failure represent a loss of individuality among its citizens?
Try openly having an "individual" opinion or political view in Venezuela. Try having an "individual" business, newspaper/media outlet, or radio/TV network.
Don't worry, I'm sure that those alleged "death squads" are nothing but Capitalist propaganda. You'll be perfectly safe!
Milgram and others have repeatedly demonstrated that putting a small group of people in a position of absolute authority over another group always ends with abuse, cruelty, and more. Power concentrated is bad, period. However, when government is where power concentrates that's the worst, as government has a monopoly on the use of deadly force.
Socialism, communism, fascism, and other authoritarian forms of government fail for that precise reason; basic human psychology. Socialism and communism are anti-science in their basic principles and tenets by ignoring these facts.
Strat
Viva Venezuela!
[drops mic]
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If you start with a completely fabricated premise like "We had to become Nazis to prevent Nazis!" then sure, Germany looks bad.
This of course is not what is happening at all.
Not literally, no, they're not waving swastikas around and praising Hitler. As far as a "fabricated premise" that's a matter of individual perspective.
They are using the methods and tactics of Nazis and other similar authoritarian regimes by placing subjective legal restrictions on speech.
For the record, I dont think laws like this German one are the best way to fight intolerance. I'm just putting this out there because I dislike your mad, arms flailing, the sky is falling, rhetoric.
Ah, you dislike being confronted bluntly with unpleasant realities.
Sorry. Maybe you can get the Germans to ban my speech, too.
Life is rough. Get a helmet.
Strat
They are learning from the mistakes of the past, and are doing their damnest so these horrors never happen again.
"We had to become Nazis to prevent Nazis!"
German leaders have become corrupt totalitarians (again). Yes, they learned from the Nazis. I just don't think the lessons they came away with are the same ones that everyone else came away with and assumed everyone shared.
Strat
That looks like a good place to start, sure. It says that 2 revolutions per minute generally produces too low Coriolis forces to be significant, and that a 30-second period would need a 224m radius to produce 1g. That's pretty substantial, but not a mile (1609m). For an orbital period of 15s, which might not produce significant Coriolis forces (the article says that 2 rpm is generally considered safe, but humans have adapted to 23rpm), the radius would be 56m, which seems much more reasonable.
Thanks, AC, for the Wiki link.
What you describe here pretty much outlines major characteristics for different classes of future manned space vessels and orbital stations.
Smaller diameter centrifugal ships/stations would be for shorter trips and occupancy durations, and the larger diameter types for longer trips and longer occupancy durations.
Class I Centrifugal Vessel/Station = Under 200m
Class II Centrifugal Vessel/Station = Over 200m
Anyone care to CC Elon on this? :)
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As an interesting side note;
...one need only look to recent events at the Berkeley campus in California to see it in violent action.
It's only taken roughly 40 years for riots at Berkeley to completely switch from being pro free speech to being anti free speech.
Strange days, indeed.
Strat
The habitat would have to be truly enormous, on the order of d = 1 mile or more, before these forces become low enough to not be an issue.
Is there any data you could link to backing up this assertion? Not being snarky, but [citation needed].
Strat
Scratch the surface even a teensy tiny bit and you find that every computing platform: Windows, MacOS, and Linux - they're all in a total state of disrepair.
Yeah, it's almost as if writing a bug-free modern, general-use computer operating system wasn't trivial! I mean, it's just a glorified abacus FFS, right? Maybe MS should ask the Chinese for help...oh wait...
Strat
Many filmmakers get started making small short films. If they have not yet published a film, are they not a filmmaker? Seems like any definition of "filmmaker" would unfairly exclude some people.
Of course, and that's exactly what they want: "Law for Thee but Not for Me!"
Seeing as the general political demographics for film makers tend to skew heavily Left, this mindset is not surprising, especially when it is about who gets to create and distribute content that can influence/inform/persuade people politically and ideologically. The Left does not tolerate diversity of opinion when it comes to political, social, or ideological topics, one need only look to recent events at the Berkeley campus in California to see it in violent action.
Strat
Yeah, Uber should get government to enshrine their business model into law like the taxi companies and the labor unions did.
Hey! Maybe they can use some of that SB money to buy back some of those politicians to pass laws to make Uber the only legal ride service!
Ain't cronyism grand? It's a game anyone* can play!
Even better, the larger government grows, the more and the more-juicy the opportunities become for cronyism! Win-win! (Well, except for the citizens. They get shafted and left holding the bag.)
Strat
*If you have the wealth, connections, and the requisite lack of moral restraint or any sense of right & wrong.
Who helps the US?
Got a mirror handy?
That's the bitch with having a relatively free and open society based on a representative republic model such as the US.
The only way it does not devolve into an authoritarian oligarchy or mob rule is for the citizens to take responsibility, educate themselves on the issues outside of the populist megaphones, and actually care enough to actively participate in their own governance.
If we won't govern us someone else *will*, and it's guaranteed that none of us will like the result!
Strat
Except closed source from say Microsoft is no better than from a Russian company.
That depends on your perspective and nationality to some extent.
As a US citizen, I would trust Russian software more than US-produced software if I'm more concerned with securing my data and communications against the US government's domestic spying than I am the FSB actually caring anything at all about me individually. I'm far, far more likely to be personally harmed by and have far, far more to fear from the US government than the Russians or anyone else, for that matter.
Having been born in the '50s and witnessed a lot of recent history firsthand, I don't think the current political fashion trend over the last few decades of basically giving the feds more money and powers to "fix" things whenever there's any problem...real or perceived...is going so well.
The Rule of Law has most definitely suffered to the point that it is now in ICU on life support. Unless people wake up, and real soon, the prognosis is fucking horrifying and bloody.
Tick-Tock
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Stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi.
Stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi, Nazi and I'll stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi Nazi, Nazi!
It's Nazis all the way down.
https://youtu.be/HPXHRX8Q2hs
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First ambassador killed since 1979. And the President and Secretary of State immediately blamed a Youtube video and arrested the maker [dailywire.com]. Only to have to turn back later and admit it wasn't the video and that they had plenty of warning about the impending attack [msnbc.com]. Essentially the President lied about the cause of the death of a US Ambassador in an effort to cover up their willful ignoring of information about the impending attack which caused the death of the Ambassador.
And the reason they tried to deny, deflect, and outright lie is that Amb. Stevens was sent there by HRC & BHO on a secret arms deal negotiation to illegally supply weapons to factions within Syria which turned out to be ISIS. They wanted as little attention as possible, that's why they issued stand-down orders to US assets in the region. BHO & HRC chose to sacrifice those men and blame it on a youtube video as a means of trying to cover up their criminal actions.
Strat
...One of the most divisive Presidents in US history famous for his identity politics and class-warfare and attacks on political/ideological opponents using agencies of the Federal government like the IRS.
Strat
I have not seen many articulating why title 2 is proper.
They need ISPs under Title-II laws & regulations making the transmission of "hate-speech" and "obscenity" a crime in order to shut down violent, white-supremacist, misogynist, Jew-hating Nazis like Ben Shapiro and Rabbi Daniel Lapin. /s
Strat
This is more likely the test case.
Is the point of cash only to exclude the unbanked?
Do the unbanked in the area skew by race?
Possibly, but it certainly skews by demographic. How will the illegal drug dealer sell his drugs on the street? How will streetwalkers do business? Hell, how do you give a grandkid $5 when they aren't even old enough for a phone/bank account/card?
I'm "Not Sure" (wait, that's not..OW!) I want the answer.
I'm sure we'll be better off without the ability to spend money without government tracking, analysis, taxation, and prosecution.
After all, what do you have to hide from Big Brother, Citizen? All personal, social, and financial interactions are tracked and analyzed...for your protection, of course.
Strat
Whatever you do, please call your "plant based" beef "Soylent Beef". That brand name has some marvelous associative name-recognition positives in the marketing data.
FTFY
One must learn to always view these things first as a marketing/branding campaign, as that's typically how they are eventually perceived, if not viewed that way right from the beginning.
It seems insane, true. Keep in mind, however, that we are descendants of Golgafrincham hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, and marketing executives. "We'll have to burn down all the forests to prevent inflation."
Strat
Umm, perhaps you missed who wrote the original NN regulations you want back? (hint: it wasn't ISPs or the government...who's left? hmm...anyway, I'm sure they must be honest, benevolent, and fair)
Strat
Basically put, Title II regulates ISPs as common carriers, requires more restrictions on what they can do, and is focused on customer rights over corporate rights.
Placing ISPs under Title II also places rgem under CALEA compliance laws and regulations. There are also hate-speech (stupid term for a stupid concept) and obscenity laws as well under Title II.
Would this not play right into the hands of those who want 'backdoors' and those who want to control/restrict speech/content?
Sorry, but I don't trust any "pinky-swear, we won't try to use those oh-so-tempting Title II CALEA, hate-speech, or obscenity laws and regulations against our political opponents" promises. They're politicians. Moving their lips.
The fewer tentacles government sticks into the internet, the less we'll all end up feeling like the victims in a hentai tentacle-porn animation.
Strat
Of course, right overhead is a rare optimistic case. Worst case would be satellite on horizon, there your round trip would be at least 130 ms (assuming at least 300 km orbit). By satellite standards pretty good and serviceable for most non-gaming situations.
The idea is to use a large constellation of small, relatively cheap mini/micro-sats in a very low orbit, possibly as low as 120-150 miles/200-250 km that are economical enough between satellite cost and launch costs that they can be regularly replaced as their orbits decay.
With that design a single ground station would 'see' at least 3 or more sats at any given time. Shorter distance also means lower transmitter power required from the device on the ground, *and* in the sat, making it smaller/cheaper as well. At just a couple hundred km and with multiple signal paths available to prevent lost/dropped packets, etc, on top of that, suddenly it starts to become a much more viable-seeming arrangement for a lot more people.
Sure, it's not going to equal a fiber connection or even regular cable broadband, but it could be one possible solution to providing ad-supported/free and/or low-cost/subsidized internet for those who currently cannot afford it or who have few or no other alternatives for whatever reason (geography, etc).
Strat
Why did they bother?
Video surveillance of a wide area around the US Capitol Washington, D.C. area would likely be considered very valuable to foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations.
It would enable the gathering of a great deal of intelligence. See who is having little 'walk & talks' with whom (possibly reconstructing what was said in some instances), track and determine patrol schedules of police and plain-clothes security service personnel, determine patterns of movement/travel for VIPs, and more.
No, they had a potential goldmine.
Strat
What!? I guess the comment above is from the lunatic fringe.
Why? Because he accurately points out that implementing NN by classifying ISPs under Title II puts them under CALEA compliance laws, the same as all other telecoms under Title II?
Why do you feel that ISPs *must* be placed under Title II when it is not necessary for implementing NN, and that anyone who disagrees is the "lunatic fringe"? Is it not sufficient that Congress pass laws implementing NN without placing ISPs under Title II and CALEA compliance requirements (and a bunch of obscenity and 'hate speech' laws under Title II as well)?
Strat
I don't want to support the economy of countries that have repressive governments.
Well, *all* governments are "repressive"/oppressive.
That is literally the only tool in government's toolkit.
Force. Violence & imprisonment, and the threat of them.
Every single thing government does either more or less directly employs force and imprisonment or uses the threat of potentially employing them to compel compliance.
Milgram and others teach us that any time you place a relatively small group of people in a position to exert power over others including employing the use of force, bad things will happen. That's why government should always be the solution of very last resort.
Strat