Part of the problem is evidence by the fact that some people think just letting people vote makes it a democracy.
Democracy is like economics, great in theory, but impossible in practice. You don't have fully informed actors making the best decisions. You have half educated actors making decisions based on irrational behaviors.
Democracy is about more than choice. It is about good information and good decision making by the electorate. Our democracies are failing because we have forgotten these tenets. We supply bad information and support bad decision making. So we get bad democracy.
> I'm pretty sure that streaming a movie on Netflix doesn't mean that you now *own* a copy of that movie, or have any right to dictate what the studio does with it.
Stream a movie means that many many copies of the movie get created in all sorts of decoded formats. I agree I can't dictate to the studio what to do with it. But if the movie is being streamed then there must be open data of all sorts all over the place. If they make the movie available for streaming then by that process alone they are granting that the open data will exist and I assert that within my rights I can do what I want with the data that is available.
The problem is that they are trying to assert rights they don't have through restrictions on my own hardware. It is their choice to stream the data. Once they decide to stream the data then they have given me implicit permission to create data streams that are required to display the data.
> Who says so? You? Isn't it kinda ironic that you try to tell others how to use the internet while being mad when they try to do the same?
I don't say so. I say by the process of the medium it must be unlocked. If I am going to display something by processing "data" then I have to have all the information needed to decode and display it. The system must be unlocked by the nature of the process. The only way to "lock" it is to hide data that exists on my hardware from myself. That means you have to make my hardware and my data not be mine. That is where the idea of "locked" is broken. It means my stuff must not be mine and I am sorry it does not work that way. My stuff, my data. They can take their "locks" somewhere else.
As all digital information is encoded in some form often many many times over, a digital "lock" is mostly an oxymoron. Digital "locks" are simply an additional encoding step that you have not yet been informed of the decoding method for.
They keep their locked down content to themselves.
And the internet is for unlocked content.
Either they play by the rules of the playing field or they go elsewhere. They should stop trying to break the internet and go somewhere else where they can be happy.
Not need to be even biologial. Use the mass equivalent of the 1km asteroid but all as dust. It will all burn up in the atmosphere dumping the 1/2mv^2 kinetic energy as heat. Insta-boiled planet.
If your "base" or "ship" is located it is going to be targeted. Targeted things will die in a swarm of smart munitions that shoot mass and high energy and at the same time do mecho-kamakazi dives.
The way to survive is to not be found. So stand off a long long way. Shed heat out of system, put a cloak on yourself from an insystem perspective. Send in your drones to locate the enemy and destroy them. Do not enter any area unless you are sure it is safe.
At the least you will be blanketed by a massive set of drones to find and destroy any drones near you. And locate and destroy any main/mother ship if it is detected.
The data that all provides must collect will be available through online means at all time. IE police will be able to browse it easily. If a predator can get to that information they will have a gold mine. A record of all activity done by a childs phone or computer.
So they are not making kids safer they are opening one giant hole.
actually it should be upside down class rooms. Watch the Kahn Academy at home, or video of other really really good teacher to get the lessons. Then come to class and do "homework" problem solving with a lot more one on one time.
With the down pricing of tablets and the move to open text books. Class rooms will have cheap tablet based text books in less than 5 years. One tablet will cost less than 3 text books. The choice will be easy. Tablets will be wifi connected, not wired.
This means any such wired policy and expense will have less than a 5 year life time. Lots of expense for little long term benefit. I doubt they can see the future.
Some people make a lot of money from ads. The net was here and functioning perfectly with lots of people. Then the advertisers showed up to make money. The people making money want to scare people into thinking it will all go away if they lose the money making machine. It will work just fine.
The net was meant to be a collaborative medium. It was not meant to fuel profit into someones pocket as a distribution system. The net will function just fine if it is not leveraged into a money making distribution system.
The new study used a pair of satellites, called Grace, which measure tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational pull. When ice is lost, the gravitational pull weakens and is detected by the orbiting spacecraft.
Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said: "The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia, which is not significantly different from zero." --
So what they were measuring was mass loss. Not exactly ice loss.
But in general ice/water moves a lot faster than rock. Still rock ways more than water. So they assumed all changes or not were ice/water. What if the moutains got a bit taller as the ice was removed? That would seem to balance out the loss of ice.
Hmm, "The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year " I sure hope they at least subtract out that known growth rate. 1cm of rock over the entire mountain range is a lot of mass.
Anyone have the actual article did they subtrace mass increases due to mountain growth? And how did they calculate mountain growth. These things can go from positive to negative really quickly with a small change fudge factors like this.
Those get spooked by loud noises, and are subject to SPCA and other organization complaints. bigdog does not spook, and can be abandoned in theatre if damaged.
Also I wait the landborne armed drone implementation, aka ED-209
You don't need a big field. You need a high gain directional antenna. Preferably one made by beam forming that could be steered to sweep a room. High gain directional beam formed steerable antennas and control hardware are mass produced and small enough to go in handheld devices.
An 802.11n basestation is an example of a steerable beam forming device that could suit the purpose.
> Think about nature. Think about how many active volcanoes there are on the planet. > Now try and convince me that we humans are somehow MORE of a factor than nature when it comes to CO2 emissions
-- volcanoes emit 200 million tons a year. - the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes.
Care to reverse you position ?
Look at the facts. Human CO2 is more than 100x that of volcanic CO2. Humans are a very significant impact on the atmospheric composition.
> aren't worth the substantial costs. To their interests.
A 10' rise in sea level will eliminate most of London, NY, ShangHai, Paris,..... That has substantial cost. It is just a not right now cost and not a cost to the interests of the "scientists".
As a species that will face incredible food supply pressure (watch that arable land disappear under the sea and under displaced populations) and incredible territorial pressures it really is in our best interests to start doing something ASAP.
"exhaled at high concentrations by each of us" is wrong.
The air that enters a person's lungs is 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen, 1% argon and less than 1% CO2. The air that leaves a person's lungs during exhalation contains 14% oxygen and 4.4% carbon dioxide.
> These people in theory, are breathing harding, hence making more CO2... only one solution...
You are correct. The cows we factory farm have a measurable impact on methane emissions. Methane is much worse than CO2. Population crash due to self pollution and death or exhaustion of resources is an often observed trait. If we don't take control, it will just happen.
Termite mounds can die from self heating if they are not properly ventilated. To much population is bad.
> You are SERIOUSLY saying that a gallon of fuel goes right into the air? Incredible!
Where else does it go then ? It does not stick to the car in any way. The amount of energy extracted in the engine is minuscule compared to the mass. E=MC^2. Calculate the energy in 1lb of matter.
1gram of matter has enough energy to power a light bulb for 300 years.
Quote -- The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has long been understood to be not only antagonistic to the facts of climate science, but hostile. But in a remarkable example of their unabashed bias, on Friday they published an opinion piece that not only repeats many of the flawed and misleading arguments about climate science, but purports to be of special significance because it was signed by 16 “scientists.” --
Think about how much a can of fuel weighs. Think how many of those you put into your car in a year. Think how many cars are out there. How many trucks delivering food. All that weight, all that fuel goes into the air and converts oxygen into CO2 as it goes. That is a lot of mass of CO2 that is being added to the air that was not 100 years.
We know stuff we dump in the environment comes back to us. Lead, Ozone, Mercury, these are chemicals we have dumped into the air in the past and found they were affecting us. So we know our outputs can affect the global condition.
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Part of the problem is evidence by the fact that some people think just letting people vote makes it a democracy.
Democracy is like economics, great in theory, but impossible in practice. You don't have fully informed actors making the best decisions. You have half educated actors making decisions based on irrational behaviors.
Democracy is about more than choice. It is about good information and good decision making by the electorate. Our democracies are failing because we have forgotten these tenets. We supply bad information and support bad decision making. So we get bad democracy.
Sony should email people their virtual property.
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The education system needs to require results not just apply time and expect education to happen due to exposure.
> I'm pretty sure that streaming a movie on Netflix doesn't mean that you now *own* a copy of that movie, or have any right to dictate what the studio does with it.
Stream a movie means that many many copies of the movie get created in all sorts of decoded formats. I agree I can't dictate to the studio what to do with it. But if the movie is being streamed then there must be open data of all sorts all over the place. If they make the movie available for streaming then by that process alone they are granting that the open data will exist and I assert that within my rights I can do what I want with the data that is available.
The problem is that they are trying to assert rights they don't have through restrictions on my own hardware. It is their choice to stream the data. Once they decide to stream the data then they have given me implicit permission to create data streams that are required to display the data.
> Who says so? You? Isn't it kinda ironic that you try to tell others how to use the internet while being mad when they try to do the same?
I don't say so. I say by the process of the medium it must be unlocked. If I am going to display something by processing "data" then I have to have all the information needed to decode and display it. The system must be unlocked by the nature of the process. The only way to "lock" it is to hide data that exists on my hardware from myself. That means you have to make my hardware and my data not be mine. That is where the idea of "locked" is broken. It means my stuff must not be mine and I am sorry it does not work that way. My stuff, my data. They can take their "locks" somewhere else.
As all digital information is encoded in some form often many many times over, a digital "lock" is mostly an oxymoron.
Digital "locks" are simply an additional encoding step that you have not yet been informed of the decoding method for.
They keep their locked down content to themselves.
And the internet is for unlocked content.
Either they play by the rules of the playing field or they go elsewhere.
They should stop trying to break the internet and go somewhere else where they can be happy.
browser pluggable executable objects --
Yeah that always sounds like a good idea.
*sigh*
I thought the whole idea of HTML5 was to get open framework where no unknown code was needed so we could get away from these monsters.
Not need to be even biologial. Use the mass equivalent of the 1km asteroid but all as dust. It will all burn up in the atmosphere dumping the 1/2mv^2 kinetic energy as heat. Insta-boiled planet.
If your "base" or "ship" is located it is going to be targeted. Targeted things will die in a swarm of smart munitions that shoot mass and high energy and at the same time do mecho-kamakazi dives.
The way to survive is to not be found. So stand off a long long way. Shed heat out of system, put a cloak on yourself from an insystem perspective. Send in your drones to locate the enemy and destroy them. Do not enter any area unless you are sure it is safe.
At the least you will be blanketed by a massive set of drones to find and destroy any drones near you. And locate and destroy any main/mother ship if it is detected.
The data that all provides must collect will be available through online means at all time. IE police will be able to browse it easily.
If a predator can get to that information they will have a gold mine. A record of all activity done by a childs phone or computer.
So they are not making kids safer they are opening one giant hole.
actually it should be upside down class rooms. Watch the Kahn Academy at home, or video of other really really good teacher to get the lessons.
Then come to class and do "homework" problem solving with a lot more one on one time.
With the down pricing of tablets and the move to open text books. Class rooms will have cheap tablet based text books in less than 5 years. One tablet will cost less than 3 text books. The choice will be easy. Tablets will be wifi connected, not wired.
This means any such wired policy and expense will have less than a 5 year life time. Lots of expense for little long term benefit. I doubt they can see the future.
- make them leave their cell phones in their cars
Some people make a lot of money from ads. The net was here and functioning perfectly with lots of people. Then the advertisers showed up to make money. The people making money want to scare people into thinking it will all go away if they lose the money making machine. It will work just fine.
The net was meant to be a collaborative medium. It was not meant to fuel profit into someones pocket as a distribution system. The net will function just fine if it is not leveraged into a money making distribution system.
The new study used a pair of satellites, called Grace, which measure tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational pull. When ice is lost, the gravitational pull weakens and is detected by the orbiting spacecraft.
Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said: "The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia, which is not significantly different from zero."
--
So what they were measuring was mass loss. Not exactly ice loss.
But in general ice/water moves a lot faster than rock. Still rock ways more than water. So they assumed all changes or not were ice/water.
What if the moutains got a bit taller as the ice was removed? That would seem to balance out the loss of ice.
Hmm, "The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year "
I sure hope they at least subtract out that known growth rate. 1cm of rock over the entire mountain range is a lot of mass.
Anyone have the actual article did they subtrace mass increases due to mountain growth? And how did they calculate mountain growth. These things can go from positive to negative really quickly with a small change fudge factors like this.
Those get spooked by loud noises, and are subject to SPCA and other organization complaints.
bigdog does not spook, and can be abandoned in theatre if damaged.
Also I wait the landborne armed drone implementation, aka ED-209
File take down notices and get the web sites black listed.
You don't need a big field. You need a high gain directional antenna. Preferably one made by beam forming that could be steered to sweep a room.
High gain directional beam formed steerable antennas and control hardware are mass produced and small enough to go in handheld devices.
An 802.11n basestation is an example of a steerable beam forming device that could suit the purpose.
> Think about nature. Think about how many active volcanoes there are on the planet.
> Now try and convince me that we humans are somehow MORE of a factor than nature when it comes to CO2 emissions
-- volcanoes emit 200 million tons a year.
- the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes.
Care to reverse you position ?
Look at the facts. Human CO2 is more than 100x that of volcanic CO2.
Humans are a very significant impact on the atmospheric composition.
> aren't worth the substantial costs.
To their interests.
A 10' rise in sea level will eliminate most of London, NY, ShangHai, Paris, ..... That has substantial cost. It is just a not right now cost and not a cost to the interests of the "scientists".
As a species that will face incredible food supply pressure (watch that arable land disappear under the sea and under displaced populations) and incredible territorial pressures it really is in our best interests to start doing something ASAP.
"exhaled at high concentrations by each of us" is wrong.
The air that enters a person's lungs is 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen, 1% argon and less than 1% CO2.
The air that leaves a person's lungs during exhalation contains 14% oxygen and 4.4% carbon dioxide.
since when is 4% high concentration ?
The article is trying to hard.
> These people in theory, are breathing harding, hence making more CO2... only one solution...
You are correct. The cows we factory farm have a measurable impact on methane emissions. Methane is much worse than CO2.
Population crash due to self pollution and death or exhaustion of resources is an often observed trait. If we don't take control, it will just happen.
Termite mounds can die from self heating if they are not properly ventilated. To much population is bad.
> You are SERIOUSLY saying that a gallon of fuel goes right into the air? Incredible!
Where else does it go then ? It does not stick to the car in any way.
The amount of energy extracted in the engine is minuscule compared to the mass. E=MC^2. Calculate the energy in 1lb of matter.
1gram of matter has enough energy to power a light bulb for 300 years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal/
Quote --
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has long been understood to be not only antagonistic to the facts of climate science, but hostile. But in a remarkable example of their unabashed bias, on Friday they published an opinion piece that not only repeats many of the flawed and misleading arguments about climate science, but purports to be of special significance because it was signed by 16 “scientists.”
--
Think about how much a can of fuel weighs. Think how many of those you put into your car in a year. Think how many cars are out there. How many trucks delivering food. All that weight, all that fuel goes into the air and converts oxygen into CO2 as it goes. That is a lot of mass of CO2 that is being added to the air that was not 100 years.
We know stuff we dump in the environment comes back to us. Lead, Ozone, Mercury, these are chemicals we have dumped into the air in the past and found they were affecting us. So we know our outputs can affect the global condition.