Heh, I'm aware of that, but since that's a sure way to have yourself labelled as a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, I stick to the general principle this crowd would agree with. If one genuinely researches the level of collusion and influence trafficking in the high spheres of government, finances and academia, one can very much see what you refer to as the NWO. Anyone else just shrugs it off as delusional, it's a lot less work and spares you the obligation to try and do something about it.
Keep in mind that the Wii (at least at launch) was the only console not selling at a loss. I don't think Nintendo looses any money when you only buy the console. They don't make as much as they'd like, obviously, but they certainly aren't loosing money.
Government wants more power. Terrorism provides government with more power. Do you honestly think they've got any intention to stop it? The shift towards home-grown terrorism is a godsend. It means gaining more power over your actual citizenry rather than that of some hell hole in the middle east. It's a beautiful, self-sustaining engine: The more you oppress, the more terrorism you get, the more you are justified to oppress... It runs on death and misery.
I think their main concern right now is the people using the Internet to point out their failures. Those are the 'radical terrorists' that truly scare politicians. Typically the real (violent) terrorists are pretty good from a politicians perspective: they're the ultimate excuse provider for any drastic control measure the government wouldn't have gotten away with otherwise.
Most of the people here calling Janet Napolitano and the government at large on their bullshit are the real threat in their mind, the ones making a rational case of just how wrong they are. A government with genuine concern towards terrorism typically attempts to limit its media exposure, as the US did in the 60s and 70s. Nowadays, terrorism is very useful politically, any little accident has a 'could it be terrorists? news at 5' angle added to it.
Terrorism is part of any system that has political inequalities (so pretty much any political system). Any control method used to stamp it is much more likely to fuel it in the long run, it makes the controlling force seen as the oppressor, which is the key element in any terrorist cause. If there genuinely is a brewing home-grown terrorism in the US, I'd suggest that it might have something to do with the government starting to oppress its own people. Not really out of malicious intent, but merely out of stupidity incompetence. That is on a systemic level, not individual... The people at the top live in a reality distortion field that would make Steve Jobs jealous, and the people at the bottom, good intentioned as they may be, are simply not in a capacity to do good.
Pay a very close attention to how the reality you refer to is generated. Your reality is a product of the information you are given.
My FTFY would have 'reality' replaced by 'government'. But I'll grant you that government is increasingly responsible for our perception of reality anyway. It is responsible for our schooling and it writes our laws... Culture is a mere byproduct of failures and successes at those two things.
You make very valid points. But to me that means a wakeup call for open source distribution, not open source software per say. You can reasonably trust open source code to be free of this sort of stuff. If you want to make sure it doesn't get compromised on its way to you, you need a distro that does its job of making sure the software it distributes hasn't been compromised along the way. The many eyes argument holds as far as the source is concerned. I don't think a 'many eyes' argument can be made as far as distribution goes.
What this points out is a need for such a mechanism to extend further down the path from software writers to software users. If that need becomes important enough, some entity will take care of it.
The waste is entirely manageable? So you've found a method to reduce physically hot, and radioactive hot materials to safe standards within... say, 100 years? Oh no... OK, so you've found a way to store these materials that doesn't expose the environment, people, or significant sections of aquifer to the lethal materials? Oh... you want to put it in tanks and cool those tanks with AC units for the next 5,000 years or so. Gotcha, Technical perspective absorbed.
He might not have, but apparently, the French have. I'm no expert in the matter, but this is definitely not a bad step forward if it's got any truth to it.
I agree with the statement but I'm not entirely sure 'democracy' is the right word here. If 51% (or 99%) of people agreed with these measures, they'd still be wrong in my opinion.
Ah but this is the beauty. With enough samples, you can use genome analysis to figure out which of us are genetically predisposed to crime and do preemptive arrests and executions!
Most people born in the US after 1970 have a blood sample taken at birth. These are filed somewhere and if not in a database already, pretty easy to put in one. Too late to protest them having your DNA, the key point here is that DNA being associated with your behaviour.
What's worse, they take all those pixels and waste them on 20 pixel wide window borders and giant glossy buttons. I'm fine with accommodating the visually impaired, but I usually want more resolution so I can fit more *useful information* on a screen. I'm glad I switched to linux a long time ago, else I'd be a very sad person these days without at least some level of control on my GUI.
Anyone tried to change the system/menu font size on a mac yet?
I don't think the gaps are that big a deal, cars have them and who cares about that?
In a car, the combined movement of your head and binocular vision allows you to see what's behind that gap at relatively short distance. That won't work on a display unless you have head-tracking.
I can see a potential use: Ford getting their act together on SYNC. Microsoft wouldn't want google showing them the right way to do things again, would they?
From what I understood, nothing, the input will stop if you're holding it strongly enough though. What you are thinking about in terms of principle is closer to the CVT in a Prius.
The way I understood it (could be wrong), the Prius drive is only one half of what this guy came up with. The clever bit is the other half. The Prius transmission would not work well without significant torque input/output(electric breaking) on the electric side. The way this works, there is almost no load on the ratio selection element, the only input it needs is enough to create a difference in speed.
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You could use the Discovery Versus Development Analysis (DVDA) strategy and apply it to that.
Heh, I'm aware of that, but since that's a sure way to have yourself labelled as a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, I stick to the general principle this crowd would agree with. If one genuinely researches the level of collusion and influence trafficking in the high spheres of government, finances and academia, one can very much see what you refer to as the NWO. Anyone else just shrugs it off as delusional, it's a lot less work and spares you the obligation to try and do something about it.
Keep in mind that the Wii (at least at launch) was the only console not selling at a loss. I don't think Nintendo looses any money when you only buy the console. They don't make as much as they'd like, obviously, but they certainly aren't loosing money.
On a more serious note, what percentage of people are "interesting" enough to have worthwhile tweets?
They don't always drink beer, but when they do, they prefer Dos Equis.
Government wants more power. Terrorism provides government with more power. Do you honestly think they've got any intention to stop it? The shift towards home-grown terrorism is a godsend. It means gaining more power over your actual citizenry rather than that of some hell hole in the middle east. It's a beautiful, self-sustaining engine: The more you oppress, the more terrorism you get, the more you are justified to oppress... It runs on death and misery.
I think their main concern right now is the people using the Internet to point out their failures. Those are the 'radical terrorists' that truly scare politicians. Typically the real (violent) terrorists are pretty good from a politicians perspective: they're the ultimate excuse provider for any drastic control measure the government wouldn't have gotten away with otherwise.
Most of the people here calling Janet Napolitano and the government at large on their bullshit are the real threat in their mind, the ones making a rational case of just how wrong they are. A government with genuine concern towards terrorism typically attempts to limit its media exposure, as the US did in the 60s and 70s. Nowadays, terrorism is very useful politically, any little accident has a 'could it be terrorists? news at 5' angle added to it.
Terrorism is part of any system that has political inequalities (so pretty much any political system). Any control method used to stamp it is much more likely to fuel it in the long run, it makes the controlling force seen as the oppressor, which is the key element in any terrorist cause. If there genuinely is a brewing home-grown terrorism in the US, I'd suggest that it might have something to do with the government starting to oppress its own people. Not really out of malicious intent, but merely out of stupidity incompetence. That is on a systemic level, not individual... The people at the top live in a reality distortion field that would make Steve Jobs jealous, and the people at the bottom, good intentioned as they may be, are simply not in a capacity to do good.
Pay a very close attention to how the reality you refer to is generated. Your reality is a product of the information you are given.
My FTFY would have 'reality' replaced by 'government'. But I'll grant you that government is increasingly responsible for our perception of reality anyway. It is responsible for our schooling and it writes our laws... Culture is a mere byproduct of failures and successes at those two things.
You make very valid points. But to me that means a wakeup call for open source distribution, not open source software per say. You can reasonably trust open source code to be free of this sort of stuff. If you want to make sure it doesn't get compromised on its way to you, you need a distro that does its job of making sure the software it distributes hasn't been compromised along the way. The many eyes argument holds as far as the source is concerned. I don't think a 'many eyes' argument can be made as far as distribution goes.
What this points out is a need for such a mechanism to extend further down the path from software writers to software users. If that need becomes important enough, some entity will take care of it.
The waste is entirely manageable? So you've found a method to reduce physically hot, and radioactive hot materials to safe standards within... say, 100 years? Oh no... OK, so you've found a way to store these materials that doesn't expose the environment, people, or significant sections of aquifer to the lethal materials? Oh... you want to put it in tanks and cool those tanks with AC units for the next 5,000 years or so. Gotcha, Technical perspective absorbed.
He might not have, but apparently, the French have. I'm no expert in the matter, but this is definitely not a bad step forward if it's got any truth to it.
I was saving my mod points for posts like this one and they were taken away too soon :P
I think the very broad 'national security' excuse has taken care of cases where FOIA is inconvenient.
Plus you actually have recourse against the government.
Tried getting off a no-fly list lately?
I agree with the statement but I'm not entirely sure 'democracy' is the right word here. If 51% (or 99%) of people agreed with these measures, they'd still be wrong in my opinion.
Ah but this is the beauty. With enough samples, you can use genome analysis to figure out which of us are genetically predisposed to crime and do preemptive arrests and executions!
Most people born in the US after 1970 have a blood sample taken at birth. These are filed somewhere and if not in a database already, pretty easy to put in one. Too late to protest them having your DNA, the key point here is that DNA being associated with your behaviour.
What's worse, they take all those pixels and waste them on 20 pixel wide window borders and giant glossy buttons. I'm fine with accommodating the visually impaired, but I usually want more resolution so I can fit more *useful information* on a screen. I'm glad I switched to linux a long time ago, else I'd be a very sad person these days without at least some level of control on my GUI.
Anyone tried to change the system/menu font size on a mac yet?
I don't think the gaps are that big a deal, cars have them and who cares about that?
In a car, the combined movement of your head and binocular vision allows you to see what's behind that gap at relatively short distance. That won't work on a display unless you have head-tracking.
There's always something you can do 'about it', first of which is making sure everybody knows 'about it'. That's how mobilization starts.
I can see a potential use: Ford getting their act together on SYNC. Microsoft wouldn't want google showing them the right way to do things again, would they?
So can your arm if you use a hydrolic jack as your transmission. Your mileage may vary... Well, no, it'll be about 80% the length of that jack ;)
A moderately good servomotor would be more than a match for that challenge.
From what I understood, nothing, the input will stop if you're holding it strongly enough though. What you are thinking about in terms of principle is closer to the CVT in a Prius.
The way I understood it (could be wrong), the Prius drive is only one half of what this guy came up with. The clever bit is the other half. The Prius transmission would not work well without significant torque input/output(electric breaking) on the electric side. The way this works, there is almost no load on the ratio selection element, the only input it needs is enough to create a difference in speed.
Well, it's nice to see that competition in a market can drive prices down. Now the trick is to prevent them from forming a cartel.
It's like floating on a raft in an ocean of giant whirlpools.