Putin might have let the toothpaste out of the tube with the nerve agent poisonings. It wouldn't take much for some disgruntled Russians to make him go bye-bye using the same stuff. He's got to be a bit nervous about that, tyrants are always fearful of the ruled, and now the ruled know a very potent weapon exists.
I tend to take the term "corruption" a bit more broadly. Corruption = cheating. Cheating isn't easy to qualify or quantify, but the term still has meaning. Cheating is screwing your co-worker out of something s/he wants out of spite or because it helps you. Cheating is companies willfully polluting the environment when they know they are doing it. Cheating is gerrymandering voting districts.
And "the fish rots from the head"...to which I would add "cheating flows downhill within an organization."
That's where you have Comcast as your ISP, but it doesn't work well, and you cannot get past the bots to get a repair person out to fix their problem. If they did send someone, they'd have to swear you to secrecy so you don't tell the neighbors how you managed it. Too big of a risk, better that you remain screwed in a loop and remit their well-deserved payment every month.
Bingo! I talked to one of these nutters once, and that was before I read the Popular Mechanics book on 9/11 (they used real scientists and engineers rather than some guys on the internet). This fellow spouted about how the fire wasn't hot enough to melt steel. My response was that it didn't need to be hot enough to melt steel, it only needed to be hot enough to weaken steel...and that steel was under a load. It was as though I said nothing, he couldn't get his head around the fact that the fire wasn't hot enough to melt steel, hence it couldn't have brought down the buildings.
I think the problem is worse that you indicated. I bought the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders merely because I kept running into people who...uh...orbited around different planets than the Earth. I needed a way to understand the issues with these people. There are cases where you can say, "Yup, needs meds.". Good luck getting them to take the meds. There are many borderline disorders where meds will help but good luck getting those people on meds as well.
The biggest problem though is that most people with disorders do not just have one...think of a smorgasbord...a little of this, a little of that...and they'll take advice from the Swedish Chef before they take any from you or a medical professional...bork, bork, bork.
I know this is hard to believe, but that court in East Texas that hears patent cases and this Chinese court are actually the same court. It's a secret agreement they do not want you to know about...now you know!
Gee, I "power up" when I must transmit information to others. Receiving I can generally be in partial sleep at my desk but then "power up" to receive the )&(*^% information from that fellow that won't leave me alone. I've been doing this all my life that I can recall. I'm just glad this behavior wasn't obvious to anybody else...with a pulse.
Unless the global warming alarm is well-placed. You seem willing to bet the future of the planet on a view that over 95% of climate scientists say is wrong. Errmmm...what have you got on your side to counter the scientists...other than you do not wish to believe them?
Gov. Lacky: Wang, there's a new game called RAP, could you please look into it?
Wang: (dutifully does his duty) Boss Lacky, RAP is will lead impressionable youngsters into untold acts of perfidy.
BL: Yes, but is there anything wrong with it?
Wang: Dunno, I thought perfidy was fairly wrong.
BL: Small potatoes, Wang...by the way, what does RAP stand for, some sort of rap karaoke game, figures the Japanese would be behind it?
Wang: Nope, it stands for Rage Against the Party.
BL: Wang, please issue a new edict, "Due to the immoral values promoted by the game RAP, it will be taken off the market and anyone caught playing it will submit to some gentle re-integration into proper society." And Wang, make sure the cattle prods are set to Bowel Evacuating High.
sheesh, do you really think China won't find a way to spirit her out of the country even with travel bands and no passport? What do you take the Chinese government for? Honorable civil servants who follow rule of law instead of the merry band of cut-throat power addicts who view the world as something to be cowed and owned into submission?
I'm not saying that arrest was fair, but China has a history of stealing people too. Forgetting the individuals they''ve stolen, they have also stolen Tibet, and are busing stealing UigherLand I forget what that province is called). The latter constitutes stealing because they are resettling it with Han Chinese, just like they are doing in Tibet. Taiwan is next on the agenda because the fearless leaders of the Chinese Communist Party do actually fear (1) having no legitimacy to govern, (2) a land of free Chinese, (3) that Taiwan might infect the mainland with Democracy and make the Communist Party look like a band of ignorant leeches.
Yep, all them models of quantum mechanics we use to build computer chips? Complete bollocks. Those models we use to build bridges and skyscrapers to figure out the loads and stress, utter garbage since they are always falling down...hmmmm...not yet, you say? Given enough time, they will and show your model theory is correct. You should tell the scientists about this, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
She was the only one who would take the job. Remember that Trump destroys everything he touches....almost, he didn't destroy Nikki Haley but she was such flack that would have been overkill.
Thank you for that well-reasoned screed on how we don't need to do anything about the problem we've created for ourselves and future generations. We should have a monument erected to chisel your words in granite: To future generations: piss off, we don't care about you.
You are ignoring another Uncertainty Principle, that is the amount of money that can be squeezed out of funding agencies by getting their bloomers in a twist over quantum: Big Bad Quantum is coming, be very afraid, very scared, and very willing to allow us to save you for a small sum, although it might seem vast from your point of view....we here at Quantum Uncertainty Enterprises assure you it is not.
Yep, this is the answer. We'll install SneakerNet along side our Electron Challenged Networks to distribute the one-time pads. Oh, and no sneaky allowing your one-time pads escape into the wild, keep them close to your body.
Hossenfelder's book is good, Lee Smolin's are better. After reading his first, I found hers to be repeating the same argument except less professionally. And she didn't even have the courage to site him seeing as his arguments predate hers by years, although at the end she does mention Lee couldn't talk her out of writing the book. My guess is he felt it would be bad for her career seeing as she doesn't have nearly the physics chops he has.
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Putin might have let the toothpaste out of the tube with the nerve agent poisonings. It wouldn't take much for some disgruntled Russians to make him go bye-bye using the same stuff. He's got to be a bit nervous about that, tyrants are always fearful of the ruled, and now the ruled know a very potent weapon exists.
I tend to take the term "corruption" a bit more broadly. Corruption = cheating. Cheating isn't easy to qualify or quantify, but the term still has meaning. Cheating is screwing your co-worker out of something s/he wants out of spite or because it helps you. Cheating is companies willfully polluting the environment when they know they are doing it. Cheating is gerrymandering voting districts.
And "the fish rots from the head"...to which I would add "cheating flows downhill within an organization."
That's where you have Comcast as your ISP, but it doesn't work well, and you cannot get past the bots to get a repair person out to fix their problem. If they did send someone, they'd have to swear you to secrecy so you don't tell the neighbors how you managed it. Too big of a risk, better that you remain screwed in a loop and remit their well-deserved payment every month.
Bingo! I talked to one of these nutters once, and that was before I read the Popular Mechanics book on 9/11 (they used real scientists and engineers rather than some guys on the internet). This fellow spouted about how the fire wasn't hot enough to melt steel. My response was that it didn't need to be hot enough to melt steel, it only needed to be hot enough to weaken steel...and that steel was under a load. It was as though I said nothing, he couldn't get his head around the fact that the fire wasn't hot enough to melt steel, hence it couldn't have brought down the buildings.
I think the problem is worse that you indicated. I bought the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders merely because I kept running into people who...uh...orbited around different planets than the Earth. I needed a way to understand the issues with these people. There are cases where you can say, "Yup, needs meds.". Good luck getting them to take the meds. There are many borderline disorders where meds will help but good luck getting those people on meds as well.
The biggest problem though is that most people with disorders do not just have one...think of a smorgasbord...a little of this, a little of that...and they'll take advice from the Swedish Chef before they take any from you or a medical professional...bork, bork, bork.
Mexicans leaving Mexico for the U.S. has dried up. Think Central America, and do please try to keep up.
I know this is hard to believe, but that court in East Texas that hears patent cases and this Chinese court are actually the same court. It's a secret agreement they do not want you to know about...now you know!
Gee, I "power up" when I must transmit information to others. Receiving I can generally be in partial sleep at my desk but then "power up" to receive the )&(*^% information from that fellow that won't leave me alone. I've been doing this all my life that I can recall. I'm just glad this behavior wasn't obvious to anybody else...with a pulse.
Unless the global warming alarm is well-placed. You seem willing to bet the future of the planet on a view that over 95% of climate scientists say is wrong. Errmmm...what have you got on your side to counter the scientists...other than you do not wish to believe them?
Gov. Lacky: Wang, there's a new game called RAP, could you please look into it?
Wang: (dutifully does his duty) Boss Lacky, RAP is will lead impressionable youngsters into untold acts of perfidy.
BL: Yes, but is there anything wrong with it?
Wang: Dunno, I thought perfidy was fairly wrong.
BL: Small potatoes, Wang...by the way, what does RAP stand for, some sort of rap karaoke game, figures the Japanese would be behind it?
Wang: Nope, it stands for Rage Against the Party.
BL: Wang, please issue a new edict, "Due to the immoral values promoted by the game RAP, it will be taken off the market and anyone caught playing it will submit to some gentle re-integration into proper society." And Wang, make sure the cattle prods are set to Bowel Evacuating High.
Not entirely, China makes the equipment that makes the internet.
The 80's were went China was recovering from that serial fuckup Mao. Now it looks like the current god-king is going down that same road.
sheesh, do you really think China won't find a way to spirit her out of the country even with travel bands and no passport? What do you take the Chinese government for? Honorable civil servants who follow rule of law instead of the merry band of cut-throat power addicts who view the world as something to be cowed and owned into submission?
I'm not saying that arrest was fair, but China has a history of stealing people too. Forgetting the individuals they''ve stolen, they have also stolen Tibet, and are busing stealing UigherLand I forget what that province is called). The latter constitutes stealing because they are resettling it with Han Chinese, just like they are doing in Tibet. Taiwan is next on the agenda because the fearless leaders of the Chinese Communist Party do actually fear (1) having no legitimacy to govern, (2) a land of free Chinese, (3) that Taiwan might infect the mainland with Democracy and make the Communist Party look like a band of ignorant leeches.
Ah the Russia Investigation where upon the Big Question is: What did the President know and when did he stop knowing it?
Why would you think that? You wouldn't be Mike Pence would you? Kill'em all, let G-d sort'em out.
Yep, all them models of quantum mechanics we use to build computer chips? Complete bollocks. Those models we use to build bridges and skyscrapers to figure out the loads and stress, utter garbage since they are always falling down...hmmmm...not yet, you say? Given enough time, they will and show your model theory is correct. You should tell the scientists about this, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
She was the only one who would take the job. Remember that Trump destroys everything he touches....almost, he didn't destroy Nikki Haley but she was such flack that would have been overkill.
Chinese laws? Bwahahahahaha...yes, their legal system is a paradigm of virtue. Can I freshen up that drink a bit for you, Comrade?
C'mon MS, leave OSX out of it, go screw with the other platforms.
In the robot's defense, the people probably looked to it like bears. It was only trying to protect itself.
Thank you for that well-reasoned screed on how we don't need to do anything about the problem we've created for ourselves and future generations. We should have a monument erected to chisel your words in granite: To future generations: piss off, we don't care about you.
You are ignoring another Uncertainty Principle, that is the amount of money that can be squeezed out of funding agencies by getting their bloomers in a twist over quantum: Big Bad Quantum is coming, be very afraid, very scared, and very willing to allow us to save you for a small sum, although it might seem vast from your point of view....we here at Quantum Uncertainty Enterprises assure you it is not.
Yep, this is the answer. We'll install SneakerNet along side our Electron Challenged Networks to distribute the one-time pads. Oh, and no sneaky allowing your one-time pads escape into the wild, keep them close to your body.
Hossenfelder's book is good, Lee Smolin's are better. After reading his first, I found hers to be repeating the same argument except less professionally. And she didn't even have the courage to site him seeing as his arguments predate hers by years, although at the end she does mention Lee couldn't talk her out of writing the book. My guess is he felt it would be bad for her career seeing as she doesn't have nearly the physics chops he has.