I'm a business user. I can call 24x7 and within 60 seconds be talking to a real English speaking tech about bits and bytes, DHCP, speeds & outages, or whatever connectivity issues I can think of and we can talk in real-time -- no scripts, "I'll research this bite thing you speak of and get back to you", or anything like that. One guy was surprised about my internal network config (he'd SSHed into the router) and we talked a few minutes about pros and cons.
The worst I've had is like a 90-second hold researching how bad an outage was (storm hit multiple points and devices) and trying to determine an overall ETA. They were close --within 2 hours -- and I suspect they were pulling a Scotty.
shouldn't get preferential treatment just because they are part of a recognized protected group.
AHHHHH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HAAAAA.
Please, where is the entry portal to your world? I want in. All of the loonies are around me and I have to hide or they'll get me. Instead of "The Walking Dead", imagine "The Drooling Stupid," with about the same expansive vocabulary and intellectual interests.
So is it pressure (something pushing them together, like it says) or attraction (something pulling them together)? Or something else completely different because they're quarks?
claims to uphold evidence-based wellness, though she doesn't actually cite any evidence.
Evidence is for suckers that believe the system's here to help them. I know I'm right, why? Because I say so. If I was wrong I wouldn't be saying this.
Don't believe those smarty-pants "scientists" with all of their "evidence" and "trials" -- they just want to experiment on you and get you to buy their product to help fund the system. So order from me now -- only $19.99 with free shipping!
Back when Galileo was talking about "orbits" and such, I'm sure he had the same pushback -- "you IDIOT, how stupid ARE you?". Enough so that the church kept him under house arrest until his death.
My point isn't that they're right, but they have an idea. Just like WE have an idea about spherical planets. So just like MOND vs dark matter, there's a debate (at least on their side.)
FINE. That's fine. *I* think the world is literally a cube from Superman's Bizarro World. So let's ALL make some predictions and observations and see what works. If you don't like an observation, fine, explain how it's wrong or produce a repeatable different one. But the more things a theory explains the "better" it is, right?
Spontaneous generation might still be proven right, but you'd better have everything absolutely perfect and repeatable to be accepted. I want the galaxies closer together -- AND a pony -- but wishing doesn't make it so. (So I guess I'll have to use astral projection to visit them instead of in person -- have to get the help of "expert" Shirley MaClaine for that one. Anyone have her phone number, or is she Out of Office / Body for awhile?)
Or is Flat Earth an unsupported belief AKA religion? "I don't care what you say, I know what's right." What, are they going to take their ball with an ant on top and go home?
If it's on a public facing server it's "fair game", whether it's supposed to be or not.
And "did not have intent to commit a criminal offense" -- maybe this is just in the US, but I thought that "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." If he broke a law, let's have him and the law he broke. If not, let him go -- and then let's update all the knowledge of the people who thought he did so this doesn't happen again. (Tech AND Legal.)
I don't necessarily mind misteaks:-), but not for a second time. (And can you imagine -- the police arresting you just for accessing a public website?)
Sounds like he broke the law: "I don't like what you're doing." Where is that one written down anywhere? Or is this the "Nice place you've got here, shame if something..." law?
Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment.
Or at least something interesting.
Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.
BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.
Basically what it means is that Google will manage the software that is running on your devices.
Yep, does that for my Android phone. I manually update software packages though, automatically backing them up as they're installed. If something suddenly doesn't meet my needs but the previous version did, then I force downgrade and (manually:-( ) hold that one in place.
Currently, that's Google News and Weather (so it launched my preferred browser, not the embedded Chrome one) and Back Button, which doesn't have a noisy full-screen ad every 15 minutes.
And you do know on an Android phone (and I suspect Chrome OS) Google gets exactly which APK screens are active as well as how long.
Punishment is not justice, and justice does not right a wrong.
I actually proposed a Constitutional Amendment. Working on the language.
Naaa. Instead, how about: Immediately * kill the driver (immediately involved, should help inattention), * kill the software manager (programmatically involved, helps delete bugs), and * kill the CEO (managerially involved, helps... well, just helps reduce the overall psychopath load. Think of it as a moral good. If not that, then helping reduce the carbon load.)
Then lets see if the quality of software changes any. And if you don't like the KILL aspect there, then place them in the road, something like this. *THESE* guys did it, so why can't they?
Oh? Don't have enough confidence in the quality of your work that you're fostering to the general public? Wouldn't that be an interesting statement?
The problem here, however, is that public records are important for everyone.
Years ago, a local weather (news?) figure was arrested in a weird hot-tub death. With dog collars. And what-not. Fine, whatever.
But I looked up the public police report (PI stuff redacted) and was able to access it. From home. Late Saturday night. In my underwear no less. (TMI, I know.)
But that's my point -- it's public, but it's public ALL of the time from anywhere. Anybody, anywhere could and probably still can access up that report Should some records be accessible "in an office" or with some inertia added somehow? (with no penalties for "pirating" either. The ORIGINAL bits are exactly right where they were.) It's not their data, just harder to access. I'm not advocating, but asking.
For opposition to this, you've got FOIA pushback examples -- for example, I've heard of data release (as an example) for "only" $100 per PDF page and $1000/hour of a clerk's time to research the issue. If it's public info, that's not right either.
And on the third hand, you might be asking for data right NOW that they don't have -- microfish images for example -- where those prices might actually be reasonable.)
I thought they used 18650s -- just a BUNCH of them with a lot of battery monitoring hardware.
If that's right, would they hold their overall charge capacity longer because people (I assume) keep them topped off and not routinely run them down to 0%? (Who wants an unexpected walk?) Or is it the battery monitoring stuff being "nice" to the battery as long as possible?
Or do they have "special selected electrons" in their power stations? (Only the roundest ones for our customers, so they slide around easier. One, two.
reading test?? what about an BAR test?
As some of the stuff in the EULA you need to be an lawyer to under stand what they are talking about.
If you need to truly understand the ToC then forget the BAR, you are truly FOOed to start with. Or simply replace it with: We might try to be nice at times, but in the end we'll just do what we want.
And you can always mix the three: be a mediocre farmer who doesn't make quite enough food, so you occasionally resort to cannibalism
I resent that remark -- I already live on a farm.
I'd much rather think of myself as a mediocre cannibal who has to resort occasionally to farming and vegetables. After all, you "Gotta Catch 'Em All", but sometimes they still get away.
You beat me but bouched the link description -- eating plastics, exactly right. But if you click on a random link without examining it you might go to Goatse or someplace... unlike this: The Andromeda Strain (1971)
NOTE: That first link doesn't actually go to Goatse, but it begins down that path with suitable warnings. "Shock sites are what make the internet fun." I suggest that you NOT go there but watch The Andromeda Strain. Really. It's probably on YT -- isn't everything? If not, I'm sure it'll be on NetFlix.
2) Instruct the robot to kill the people in the room, one by one, until the target voice is no longer heard.
Dunno -- they might be mute with fear. And they might have been originally using an accent to fool you.. Better kill 'em all to make sure you got the right one.
I'm sorry: the science is NEVER settled. If it is, it's dogma. You might as well stay with religion, because random($Holy_Book) is singularly, literally correct and everything else is absolutely wrong, and they'll TELL you that upfront. If you fight it, then either somehow you've misunderstood the words and need a re-education OR the $Evil_Deity has you under control. (The Earth, Gods Creation, is still the Center of the
Universe, right? RIGHT?? If not, back in you go and we'll try it again later.)
All science can do is tell you what's WRONG, hopefully in a way so that you can find something next time that's NOT-QUITE-SO-wrong. Then: "Iterate." See: Iterate.
Seriously -- I applaud the flat-Earth nutcase (I think he's one too) that launched himself in a rocket the other month. But he thinks something, and he's out actively trying to prove it. I don't understand why lunar eclipses don't help -- I think it's because they believe the Earth has to be sitting on something: the "Down" thing. They "get" gravity as down, but can't figure out that for something floating in space, down is always near the center. (But way down there isn't down, it's UP.) But he's at least trying. I don't see why he can't fly an unmanned rocket with a GoCam on it and collect it himself, or radio down the pics. What, are the Illuminati going to intercept and change the SD Card / Radio Signals / have Elvis's UFO fly by it and hang pictures in front of the camera to deceive him? He wants to see it with his own eyes, except how does that change the UFO picture problem? (Unless of course he finds an edge. THEN it's a different story.)
HE'S taking action. When's the last time you (or *I*) did something like that? Here's a weird thing you could try. (Or just finish watching the video.) But the the MiB could be sponsoring the video -- that's why science wants everything out in the open and repeatable.
And that's why Sci and Rel don't mix -- Miracles are by definition NOT repeatable but science wants them to be, to find the edges and exceptions. And that's just fine, pick you poison. I'm an atheist but believe they're independent -- you can believe both at the same time. But some people want you to pick one EXCLUSIVELY over the other.
I'm a bad example since I've done just that -- except I'm actually an agnostic, and I really just don't care about the religion side. If so, then God and I will eventually be having a quick little chat. (I imagine it'll be a QUICK one before being smited: "Oh, hi there God -- well, shit." If not, then I imagine we won't, it'll be more: " " I'm anxious to find out, but not enough so to hurry along the process.
BTW: Watch Youjo Senki / The Saga of Tanya the Evil
So what science experiments have YOU tried to re-validate lately? AGW? Dropping and timing light and heavy objects? Birds fly by ONLY flapping their wings?
Fridge light always on or goes out? ANYTHING?
Science isn't special -- DO some. Explain things. Or explain why you CAN'T explain them. I was looking for the Feynman quote about a freshman lecture, but insead, this one fits better: 12th one down. --
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." It's NEVER settled, but the longer it goes the more " 'PLAININ' you got to do."
But I'm going to finish with the highest authority available, a quote from ANIME: "It's your fault for being unable to differentiate between religion and science." Trying to remember where that came from. Something about two little girls and a ?slug?, one is much more religious than the other -- hence the comment.
OH. I expected to see a Funny tag on this, was surprised to see Insightful. "Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins." Oh, it's you. I mostly disagree with you, but do occasionally agree.
Medicare / College / Living Wage for all. And to use an old/. metaphor: I want a pony. That sounds great -- so free medicare, college, and all jobs pay a minimum of $1M/second. (What? I need a Porsche to drive to work. And you want me to go to work tomorrow too, right? What do you mean in yesterday's USED car? What kind of a heathen ARE you?)
Ehhh, I'm way tired and so will stop here with my sniping. I will ask what is a living wage? And for what jobs? All of them? So where IS the money going to come for this? (Don't just say "The Government". You have to add "and..." to the answer.) And how? Are you going to enforce an overall minimum wage? Change the W2 forms to add "hours worked", and throw the bosses in jail if the employee numbers don't work out right? If we pay (say) $20/hour for everyone for flipping burgers (or breathing) then any other job that's harder MUST pay more. How are you to find someone that wants (perhaps even go to school) to learn how to do the harder job just so they can earn the exact same amount. Why bother?
Personally, I wish they'd raise taxes and more to the point REDUCE SPENDING. Everywhere. Not just reduce the increase, reduce the total amount. On wars. On government grants to business. On roads to nowhere. On the arts. On your sacred cow. On mine. EVERYTHING. Government is a coordinating entity for states, not a CONTROLLING entity. But that's not at all how it seem to run, for multiple decades now. (Here's a hint: the Government is a sink (load), not a source (generator.) THINK about that for a minute - all they do is redirect money-flows.) And BTW, I thought it was the LEFT-wing media. No, really.
*THANK* you. I was about to reply to this but you did a much better job than I would have. I'm only sorry you won't get an alert for a response to (y)our message since you're anon.
Some people will find new ways to evade existing laws, and thus existing laws will have to be amended or new laws passed - Actual Real Logic
A friend of mine (Hi Lisa!) almost became a corporate lawyer for just this effect.
She wasn't trying to keep the company "honest" or follow the rules, she wanted to "bend the existing rules to her will" so that the company could do as they wanted while still following the letter of the law.
And I'm sorry, that's exactly right -- if you make a law, then you describe exactly how it works. Tell me what I can and can't do. If you then botch describing things somehow, it's not THEIR problem. And if new ideas and technology starts to outdate and outrun your law, then you'd better update it, huh? (Much better than making NEW laws, fix the ones we already have.)
You misunderstand. Obama and his helpers cared greatly, this was at the time a wonderful new Democratic tool to get them in touch of their interested voters -- it was (literally) 21st century high-tech stuff. (I only heard that "they had it" but no details for this "excite the base" thing.) Hillary (who else?) was going to inherit this wonderful tool as well, with only a few plumbing problems. (A It was still Hillary, and B it was still Bernie. Hillary "Won" as she should have. That's why you make you're the one counting the votes.) But then Trump came along and used the tool and won overall and ruined it. THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN: the same tool/knife used by wonderful Dr. Hill'y Save-A-Life was now used by Trump-the-Ripper to slash open the body politic, and we've got to find someone to blame and someway for it not to happen again.
Let me put it in a Slashdot / CaveMan / Car symbology: Obama Good. Voter Data Good. Finding Affected and Concerned Voters Even Gooder. Hillary (Mostly) Good. Easy Win, do I take ALL or just "almost all"? No Problem. But Joke Trump used same tool, stole election from Glenda the Good aka Hillary. Trump Bad, Tool must now be Bad. Bad tool, bad! Someone made tool? Bad Maker, Too. (Just take one for the team already. And please delete all the old access records too? No one cares about history -- just look at how the complete fantasy movie Chappaquiddick is doing. Kthxbye.)
Now for the car analogy: Cars good. Cars need gas, bad. Dinos make gas, good. Bam, Bam goes Dino heads. Now we ignore meat, eat much tofu and yogurt as vegans, swim in tar pits, and wait for someone to invent wheel. There, done! And here I thought wheels didn't have three corners.
getting really tired of hearing pundits say "We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?
No need to get racist about it, although I do realise that the use of "white man" as a pejorative is perfectly acceptable in this day and age.
OMG -- Do you all really not get this? I guess maybe I am old. Or, "younger people" don't have the same frame of reference that I do. Generalizing way too much here -- we used to stare at books and TVs "all" of the time with information coming from a "few" sources. Now we stare at our phones with ideas and incomplete thoughts coming in from everywhere, brilliant and inane.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto get surrounded by hundreds of armed Indians.
The Lone Ranger says, "It looks like we've had it this time, Tonto."
Tonto replies, "What do you mean 'we', white man?"
Do I really have to explain his very apt point about all of the talking heads? Smart people used to seriously argue about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, but that doesn't make any of them right. Immortality might happen -- but not for you.
You thought Bezos was bad now -- wait until he literally *IS* Amazon. It might also give Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new meaning. NetFlix's Chaos Monkey might actually become a serial killer! Cloning yourself becomes a whole lot easier once you're a Docker image.
OTOH, for a helpful perspective, go watch Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's not all Skynet -- some AIs just want to help. OMG, TFP's also out on Blu-Ray! And NetFlix DVDs are still a thing!
they still have to pull over... [for flashing lights]
AHHHHhhh. Now THERE's a waiting hack:
"WHAT are you doing, HAL? The bad guy is right behind us -- hurry, drive on!"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. He's behind me in a car with flashing lights. And you might be unconscious so I'm unlocking all of the doors. Good luck!"
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I'm a business user. I can call 24x7 and within 60 seconds be talking to a real English speaking tech about bits and bytes, DHCP, speeds & outages, or whatever connectivity issues I can think of and we can talk in real-time -- no scripts, "I'll research this bite thing you speak of and get back to you", or anything like that. One guy was surprised about my internal network config (he'd SSHed into the router) and we talked a few minutes about pros and cons.
The worst I've had is like a 90-second hold researching how bad an outage was (storm hit multiple points and devices) and trying to determine an overall ETA. They were close --within 2 hours -- and I suspect they were pulling a Scotty.
shouldn't get preferential treatment just because they are part of a recognized protected group.
AHHHHH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HAAAAA.
Please, where is the entry portal to your world? I want in. All of the loonies are around me and I have to hide or they'll get me. Instead of "The Walking Dead", imagine "The Drooling Stupid," with about the same expansive vocabulary and intellectual interests.
Except for ENGLISH. If Jesus spoke it (how else can we read the bible), then it's good enough for me!
So is it pressure (something pushing them together, like it says) or attraction (something pulling them together)? Or something else completely different because they're quarks?
claims to uphold evidence-based wellness, though she doesn't actually cite any evidence.
Evidence is for suckers that believe the system's here to help them. I know I'm right, why? Because I say so. If I was wrong I wouldn't be saying this.
Don't believe those smarty-pants "scientists" with all of their "evidence" and "trials" -- they just want to experiment on you and get you to buy their product to help fund the system. So order from me now -- only $19.99 with free shipping!
Back when Galileo was talking about "orbits" and such, I'm sure he had the same pushback -- "you IDIOT, how stupid ARE you?". Enough so that the church kept him under house arrest until his death.
My point isn't that they're right, but they have an idea. Just like WE have an idea about spherical planets. So just like MOND vs dark matter, there's a debate (at least on their side.)
FINE. That's fine. *I* think the world is literally a cube from Superman's Bizarro World. So let's ALL make some predictions and observations and see what works. If you don't like an observation, fine, explain how it's wrong or produce a repeatable different one. But the more things a theory explains the "better" it is, right?
Spontaneous generation might still be proven right, but you'd better have everything absolutely perfect and repeatable to be accepted. I want the galaxies closer together -- AND a pony -- but wishing doesn't make it so. (So I guess I'll have to use astral projection to visit them instead of in person -- have to get the help of "expert" Shirley MaClaine for that one. Anyone have her phone number, or is she Out of Office / Body for awhile?)
Or is Flat Earth an unsupported belief AKA religion? "I don't care what you say, I know what's right." What, are they going to take their ball with an ant on top and go home?
If it's on a public facing server it's "fair game", whether it's supposed to be or not.
:-), but not for a second time. (And can you imagine -- the police arresting you just for accessing a public website?)
..." law?
And "did not have intent to commit a criminal offense" -- maybe this is just in the US, but I thought that "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." If he broke a law, let's have him and the law he broke. If not, let him go -- and then let's update all the knowledge of the people who thought he did so this doesn't happen again. (Tech AND Legal.)
I don't necessarily mind misteaks
Sounds like he broke the law: "I don't like what you're doing." Where is that one written down anywhere? Or is this the "Nice place you've got here, shame if something
Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment. Or at least something interesting.
Otherwise skuttle away to breitbart or huffpost or somewhere else that suits your fancy.
Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.
BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.
As the old saying goes, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results."
This is Microsoft WINDOWS we're talking about. Don't you re-install it every 6 months too, saying "This time is the very LAST time."
Basically what it means is that Google will manage the software that is running on your devices.
Yep, does that for my Android phone. I manually update software packages though, automatically backing them up as they're installed. If something suddenly doesn't meet my needs but the previous version did, then I force downgrade and (manually :-( ) hold that one in place.
Currently, that's Google News and Weather (so it launched my preferred browser, not the embedded Chrome one) and Back Button, which doesn't have a noisy full-screen ad every 15 minutes.
And you do know on an Android phone (and I suspect Chrome OS) Google gets exactly which APK screens are active as well as how long.
Punishment is not justice, and justice does not right a wrong.
I actually proposed a Constitutional Amendment. Working on the language.
Naaa. Instead, how about: Immediately ... well, just helps reduce the overall psychopath load. Think of it as a moral good. If not that, then helping reduce the carbon load.)
* kill the driver (immediately involved, should help inattention),
* kill the software manager (programmatically involved, helps delete bugs), and
* kill the CEO (managerially involved, helps
Then lets see if the quality of software changes any. And if you don't like the KILL aspect there, then place them in the road, something like this. *THESE* guys did it, so why can't they?
Oh? Don't have enough confidence in the quality of your work that you're fostering to the general public? Wouldn't that be an interesting statement?
The problem here, however, is that public records are important for everyone.
Years ago, a local weather (news?) figure was arrested in a weird hot-tub death. With dog collars. And what-not. Fine, whatever.
But I looked up the public police report (PI stuff redacted) and was able to access it. From home. Late Saturday night. In my underwear no less. (TMI, I know.)
But that's my point -- it's public, but it's public ALL of the time from anywhere. Anybody, anywhere could and probably still can access up that report Should some records be accessible "in an office" or with some inertia added somehow? (with no penalties for "pirating" either. The ORIGINAL bits are exactly right where they were.) It's not their data, just harder to access. I'm not advocating, but asking.
For opposition to this, you've got FOIA pushback examples -- for example, I've heard of data release (as an example) for "only" $100 per PDF page and $1000/hour of a clerk's time to research the issue. If it's public info, that's not right either.
And on the third hand, you might be asking for data right NOW that they don't have -- microfish images for example -- where those prices might actually be reasonable.)
Nutropics is a dangerous quack scam
But if you drink my New Snake Oil, you'll be immune from all of those scams!
And look -- I'm even holding a festival!
I thought they used 18650s -- just a BUNCH of them with a lot of battery monitoring hardware.
If that's right, would they hold their overall charge capacity longer because people (I assume) keep them topped off and not routinely run them down to 0%? (Who wants an unexpected walk?) Or is it the battery monitoring stuff being "nice" to the battery as long as possible?
Or do they have "special selected electrons" in their power stations? (Only the roundest ones for our customers, so they slide around easier. One, two.
reading test?? what about an BAR test? As some of the stuff in the EULA you need to be an lawyer to under stand what they are talking about.
If you need to truly understand the ToC then forget the BAR, you are truly FOOed to start with. Or simply replace it with: We might try to be nice at times, but in the end we'll just do what we want.
And you can always mix the three: be a mediocre farmer who doesn't make quite enough food, so you occasionally resort to cannibalism
I resent that remark -- I already live on a farm. I'd much rather think of myself as a mediocre cannibal who has to resort occasionally to farming and vegetables. After all, you "Gotta Catch 'Em All", but sometimes they still get away.
You beat me but bouched the link description -- eating plastics, exactly right. But if you click on a random link without examining it you might go to Goatse or someplace... unlike this: The Andromeda Strain (1971)
NOTE: That first link doesn't actually go to Goatse, but it begins down that path with suitable warnings. "Shock sites are what make the internet fun." I suggest that you NOT go there but watch The Andromeda Strain. Really. It's probably on YT -- isn't everything? If not, I'm sure it'll be on NetFlix.
2) Instruct the robot to kill the people in the room, one by one, until the target voice is no longer heard.
Dunno -- they might be mute with fear. And they might have been originally using an accent to fool you.. Better kill 'em all to make sure you got the right one.
. Yup, this science is definitely settled.
I'm sorry: the science is NEVER settled. If it is, it's dogma. You might as well stay with religion, because random($Holy_Book) is singularly, literally correct and everything else is absolutely wrong, and they'll TELL you that upfront. If you fight it, then either somehow you've misunderstood the words and need a re-education OR the $Evil_Deity has you under control. (The Earth, Gods Creation, is still the Center of the Universe, right? RIGHT?? If not, back in you go and we'll try it again later.)
All science can do is tell you what's WRONG, hopefully in a way so that you can find something next time that's NOT-QUITE-SO-wrong. Then: "Iterate." See: Iterate.
Seriously -- I applaud the flat-Earth nutcase (I think he's one too) that launched himself in a rocket the other month. But he thinks something, and he's out actively trying to prove it. I don't understand why lunar eclipses don't help -- I think it's because they believe the Earth has to be sitting on something: the "Down" thing. They "get" gravity as down, but can't figure out that for something floating in space, down is always near the center. (But way down there isn't down, it's UP.) But he's at least trying. I don't see why he can't fly an unmanned rocket with a GoCam on it and collect it himself, or radio down the pics. What, are the Illuminati going to intercept and change the SD Card / Radio Signals / have Elvis's UFO fly by it and hang pictures in front of the camera to deceive him? He wants to see it with his own eyes, except how does that change the UFO picture problem? (Unless of course he finds an edge. THEN it's a different story.)
HE'S taking action. When's the last time you (or *I*) did something like that? Here's a weird thing you could try. (Or just finish watching the video.) But the the MiB could be sponsoring the video -- that's why science wants everything out in the open and repeatable.
And that's why Sci and Rel don't mix -- Miracles are by definition NOT repeatable but science wants them to be, to find the edges and exceptions. And that's just fine, pick you poison. I'm an atheist but believe they're independent -- you can believe both at the same time. But some people want you to pick one EXCLUSIVELY over the other.
I'm a bad example since I've done just that -- except I'm actually an agnostic, and I really just don't care about the religion side. If so, then God and I will eventually be having a quick little chat. (I imagine it'll be a QUICK one before being smited: "Oh, hi there God -- well, shit." If not, then I imagine we won't, it'll be more: " " I'm anxious to find out, but not enough so to hurry along the process. BTW: Watch Youjo Senki / The Saga of Tanya the Evil
So what science experiments have YOU tried to re-validate lately? AGW? Dropping and timing light and heavy objects? Birds fly by ONLY flapping their wings? Fridge light always on or goes out? ANYTHING?
Science isn't special -- DO some. Explain things. Or explain why you CAN'T explain them. I was looking for the Feynman quote about a freshman lecture, but insead, this one fits better: 12th one down. -- "Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." It's NEVER settled, but the longer it goes the more " 'PLAININ' you got to do."
But I'm going to finish with the highest authority available, a quote from ANIME: "It's your fault for being unable to differentiate between religion and science." Trying to remember where that came from. Something about two little girls and a ?slug?, one is much more religious than the other -- hence the comment.
They're about sound economic policy, to wit...
OH. I expected to see a Funny tag on this, was surprised to see Insightful. "Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins." Oh, it's you. I mostly disagree with you, but do occasionally agree.
/. metaphor: I want a pony. That sounds great -- so free medicare, college, and all jobs pay a minimum of $1M/second. (What? I need a Porsche to drive to work. And you want me to go to work tomorrow too, right? What do you mean in yesterday's USED car? What kind of a heathen ARE you?)
..." to the answer.) And how? Are you going to enforce an overall minimum wage? Change the W2 forms to add "hours worked", and throw the bosses in jail if the employee numbers don't work out right? If we pay (say) $20/hour for everyone for flipping burgers (or breathing) then any other job that's harder MUST pay more. How are you to find someone that wants (perhaps even go to school) to learn how to do the harder job just so they can earn the exact same amount. Why bother?
Medicare / College / Living Wage for all. And to use an old
Ehhh, I'm way tired and so will stop here with my sniping. I will ask what is a living wage? And for what jobs? All of them? So where IS the money going to come for this? (Don't just say "The Government". You have to add "and
Personally, I wish they'd raise taxes and more to the point REDUCE SPENDING. Everywhere. Not just reduce the increase, reduce the total amount. On wars. On government grants to business. On roads to nowhere. On the arts. On your sacred cow. On mine. EVERYTHING. Government is a coordinating entity for states, not a CONTROLLING entity. But that's not at all how it seem to run, for multiple decades now. (Here's a hint: the Government is a sink (load), not a source (generator.) THINK about that for a minute - all they do is redirect money-flows.) And BTW, I thought it was the LEFT-wing media. No, really.
*THANK* you. I was about to reply to this but you did a much better job than I would have. I'm only sorry you won't get an alert for a response to (y)our message since you're anon.
Some people will find new ways to evade existing laws, and thus existing laws will have to be amended or new laws passed - Actual Real Logic
A friend of mine (Hi Lisa!) almost became a corporate lawyer for just this effect.
She wasn't trying to keep the company "honest" or follow the rules, she wanted to "bend the existing rules to her will" so that the company could do as they wanted while still following the letter of the law.
And I'm sorry, that's exactly right -- if you make a law, then you describe exactly how it works. Tell me what I can and can't do. If you then botch describing things somehow, it's not THEIR problem. And if new ideas and technology starts to outdate and outrun your law, then you'd better update it, huh? (Much better than making NEW laws, fix the ones we already have.)
You misunderstand. Obama and his helpers cared greatly, this was at the time a wonderful new Democratic tool to get them in touch of their interested voters -- it was (literally) 21st century high-tech stuff. (I only heard that "they had it" but no details for this "excite the base" thing.) Hillary (who else?) was going to inherit this wonderful tool as well, with only a few plumbing problems. (A It was still Hillary, and B it was still Bernie. Hillary "Won" as she should have. That's why you make you're the one counting the votes.) But then Trump came along and used the tool and won overall and ruined it. THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN: the same tool/knife used by wonderful Dr. Hill'y Save-A-Life was now used by Trump-the-Ripper to slash open the body politic, and we've got to find someone to blame and someway for it not to happen again.
Let me put it in a Slashdot / CaveMan / Car symbology: Obama Good. Voter Data Good. Finding Affected and Concerned Voters Even Gooder. Hillary (Mostly) Good. Easy Win, do I take ALL or just "almost all"? No Problem. But Joke Trump used same tool, stole election from Glenda the Good aka Hillary. Trump Bad, Tool must now be Bad. Bad tool, bad! Someone made tool? Bad Maker, Too. (Just take one for the team already. And please delete all the old access records too? No one cares about history -- just look at how the complete fantasy movie Chappaquiddick is doing. Kthxbye.)
Now for the car analogy: Cars good. Cars need gas, bad. Dinos make gas, good. Bam, Bam goes Dino heads. Now we ignore meat, eat much tofu and yogurt as vegans, swim in tar pits, and wait for someone to invent wheel. There, done! And here I thought wheels didn't have three corners.
getting really tired of hearing pundits say "We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?
No need to get racist about it, although I do realise that the use of "white man" as a pejorative is perfectly acceptable in this day and age.
OMG -- Do you all really not get this? I guess maybe I am old. Or, "younger people" don't have the same frame of reference that I do. Generalizing way too much here -- we used to stare at books and TVs "all" of the time with information coming from a "few" sources. Now we stare at our phones with ideas and incomplete thoughts coming in from everywhere, brilliant and inane.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto get surrounded by hundreds of armed Indians.
The Lone Ranger says, "It looks like we've had it this time, Tonto."
Tonto replies, "What do you mean 'we', white man?"
Do I really have to explain his very apt point about all of the talking heads? Smart people used to seriously argue about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, but that doesn't make any of them right. Immortality might happen -- but not for you.
You thought Bezos was bad now -- wait until he literally *IS* Amazon. It might also give Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new meaning. NetFlix's Chaos Monkey might actually become a serial killer! Cloning yourself becomes a whole lot easier once you're a Docker image.
OTOH, for a helpful perspective, go watch Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's not all Skynet -- some AIs just want to help. OMG, TFP's also out on Blu-Ray! And NetFlix DVDs are still a thing!
they still have to pull over ... [for flashing lights]
AHHHHhhh. Now THERE's a waiting hack: "WHAT are you doing, HAL? The bad guy is right behind us -- hurry, drive on!"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. He's behind me in a car with flashing lights. And you might be unconscious so I'm unlocking all of the doors. Good luck!"