Every day you touch dozens or hundreds of things containing chips designed in VHDL, and you've never heard of it. Well, maybe you have, but no one else has.
Science has never been about consensus. Science is about truth, about reality. Science is about testing an idea by comparing it to nature, and about having the honesty to accept what nature has to say, even when you don't like the answer.
Consensus is the domain of Scidolatry. The paradigm shift is usually nothing more than the demographic wave. The people that have calcified around the previous consensus gradually die off, and the next generation gets to look at the data fresh, without a lifetime of work, of reputation, of ego on the line.
For those unfamiliar with these new words, scientistry is what people in lab coats do, like dentistry is what dentists do. Scidolatry is the worship of the opinions of people that wear lab coats. Consensus is what the guy you are talking to right now thinks, occasionally supported by a theoretical or imaginary horde of lab-coat-wearers. Science is a method for deciding which ideas are good and which are bad, which usually involves a lot of hard work, humility, honesty and integrity, and occasionally a bit of scientistry.
Culture (here) is what kept scientistry closely coupled to science, and away from scidolatry. Culture (or the values that travel with it) is the thing that, until recently, kept people from doing things like altering temperature data to match their expectations.
Feynman talked about this fairly often, most notably in Cargo Cult Science. The problem seems to be most common in soft sciences, such as the rat running example he gives from psychology. See also his commentary on science education in Brazil.
The Brazil report appears to be unrelated, but hear me out.
Brazil's problem was cultural. Their textbooks included all of the right information, but it wasn't presented as things that the student could learn about the real world, just as facts to be memorized. Scientists without the culture of science will make lousy experiments because they don't understand what they want to do or why, or how or why they need to keep themselves honest.
The culture of physics in the US was very good, but they were unable to export that culture to Brazil when they tried.
In the same way, other branches of science were unable to duplicate the physics culture. The rat runners in the example given didn't understand what they were trying to do, so they didn't pay attention to Young's work, which would have helped keep them honest.
Crichton's Aliens Cause Global Warming lecture was given nearly 30 years after Feynman's Cargo Cult Science, and it shows a creeping degeneration of the culture of science.
I go a step further, and say that the decline of the science culture has been part of a general cultural decline. There has been no great art or literature or music in decades.
The good news is that people are waking up. The internet is connecting people to each other, to science, and to culture. We are pissed about the decline of the past century, the decline that we've allowed, or at least failed to prevent, and are steeling our resolve to do the hard work to restore our greatness.
Articles like this show the stirring of the cultural revival. Keep them coming, please.
Who owns your car? Who does it serve? Who does it obey?
We lost the war for our pocket and portable computers (cell phones and tablet). We lost the war for our TVs, movie players, DVRs, etc. We lost the war for the computers that are already in our cars.
Most disturbing, we are in the process of losing the war for our desktop computers, the very heart of general purpose computing as an individual right.
If we want to own our cars, we need to stop losing control of our computers, pronto.
In 1789 "press" meant a movable type device that printed a single sheet, at most a few times a minute. I wonder, how far from that can you go and still claim the 1st amendment applies?
A typewriter? An electronic fax machine? A computer? A cell phone? A global inter-network?
So there are limits to protected "presses", ill defined as they are. But If we finally had to update the 1st amendment due to rising tech, things could get interesting.
If the 1st Amendment is a civil right, what purpose do presses serve the citizen? If self expression, and since there are many more ways to express one's thoughts and feelings today than in 1789, should we amend the 1st to emphasize the goal of self expression rather than allow it to advocate presses as a means to an end that's ill served by the tech advance of ever broader expression systems - telephone and internet?
Given the huge difference between an 18th century press and modern communications, and the indifference of regulators to respond to that difference, it seems likely that the escalation of presses protected by the 1st amendment is going to cross a line, and soon.
Nothing says "I have a valid opinion worth listening to!" quite like lumping cholesterol in with "harmful substances".
Just kidding. Cholesterol is the very foundation that all animal life is built on. It is the chemical that allows us to be complex multicellular organisms that aren't made of plant cells.
You may also have missed some other recent memos. Arterial plaque appears to be caused by inflammation, and cholesterol accumulation in the damaged areas appears to be part of your body's repair efforts.
You have cause and effect reversed. You are going to eat more if you are gaining weight. We understand this relationship correctly when children are growing, when women are pregnant, and when we breed some cattle to be thin and produce milk while others are bred to be heavy so we can harvest more meat off of them.
In evolutionary terms, we eat when we are hungry. We certainly are not the offspring of organisms that failed to observe this simple rule. Those organisms are dead, and if they had any offspring, the offspring are dead too.
And don't forget that people tend to gain or lose weight after poop transplants, tending usually towards the donor's BMI.
There is more, if you care to go do some research. Science is poking holes in the "fat people are lazy and/or stupid" myth almost daily now.
The real problem with training requirements is that we've seen how it works out in practice. We know from long and painful experience that it is far easier to defend the line before the first toe crosses than to try to shove the whole creeping body back.
I encourage people to get at least basic training before they buy their first gun, and to get real training (far in excess of the mandatory minimum here) before they think about carrying it on them. But any call to make those legal requirements will always be met with same full political opposition as any other gun grabbing scheme.
Read your own post again. You step quickly and easily from "we're not even talking about 'outlawing' guns." to "it will take awhile to drain the swamp of easy guns". I think it is pretty clear that your goal with the call for training is to "drain the swamp" of people that take the 2nd amendment personally, making them a political minority, and thus easier to stomp on later.
Perhaps that isn't a calculated move on your part. It is entirely possible that you are merely a useful idiot. (That is a technical term, by the way, and not a personal insult. Google it.)
Lately the supreme court has been on a tear, with ruling after ruling indicating that the 2nd really means what it obviously and clearly says it means. Do you see Chicago, NYC and Washington, D.C. meekly submitting? Hell no. Now it is technically legal to get licensed in those cities, but the process is as onerous as possible in an attempt to circumvent the rulings. You are calling for the rest of the nation to get closer to our murder capitals, while the supreme court is calling for them to get more like the rest of the nation.
And this is why the NRA is a political organization. They can't accomplish any of their other goals if they lose the political fight.
Oh, and the notion of draining the swamp of guns is a bit silly. 3D printers, desktop mills, hobby lathes, etc are rapidly making it much easier to build your own guns at home. That genie seems unlikely to go back into the bottle any time soon.
The 3/5ths thing was for census purposes only. It gave the southern states more representation in congress than they would have had otherwise. The south would not have joined the union without that security (plus the promise in Article V).
After Snowden opened our eyes, we didn't take to the streets with torches and pitchforks. Our complacency was heard loud and clear, and now it is open season on our privacy.
With regards to unconditional surrender (I have been informed of your 18 July message*), we are unable to consent to it under any circumstances whatsoever. Even if the war drags on and it becomes clear it will take much more bloodshed, the entire country as one man will pit itself against the enemy in accordance with the Imperial Will so long as the enemy demands unconditional surrender...
Togo concluded by saying that he had read a long message of 20 July from Sato, but that the decision he was communicating had been made by the Cabinet and that Sato should proceed accordingly.
There weren't 80,000 civilians in either of those cities. I'll quote, and then link to, an extensively documented discussion on the topic:
To start with, the lions share of the population (basically everyone between roughly fifteen and forty-five) were conscripted. Furthermore, even those not falling under this classification were trained to attack soldiers with anything they can get their hands on. Even small children were taught to strap bombs on themselves and roll under tanks. This is why I insisted at the outset on the distinction between "combatants" and "non-combatants" and thus be properly viewed as unlawful combatants and not "civilians" in the proper sense of the latter term.
Just in case this was a serious question, I'll answer it.
Generally, the sale of body parts is prohibited to reduce the incentive to create more of them. It is pretty much the same logic that bans child pornography, without exceptions.
Most of the people commenting on the internet are either strongly opposed to abortion, or are strongly in favor and are somewhat unlikely to shift from that position. These videos are shifting just about everyone else to the right, which is why there is an all-out assault on the videos. Switch to -1 and see which opinions are being suppressed here, and which are being promoted. Turn on the TV news and see the talking heads claim that multi-hour videos with no cuts have been edited or faked.
A lot of people that nominally support abortion and nominally support using the corpses for research still find it ghastly that doctors are crushing the heads of tiny humans specifically to harvest human organs. It appears that a lot of the support in the middle was predicated on sterile, humane abortions being the norm. But the truth is leaking out now, and the nation has to decide if we really want "In Moloch We Trust" on our coins.
P.S. Virtually all abortion advocates in certain age ranges used to call Vietnam vets "baby killers". The internet is busy digging up as much of that old footage as can be found, as we speak.
And what do you think the hydroelectric plant was doing with that power before the data center showed up? Dumping it in the ocean?
Of course not. It was going to homes and industries. Every watt of smug power that Google uses for their datacenters is a watt of hydrocarbon or nuclear generated power next door.
A datacenter with 10,000 servers may be more efficient because of scale than 10,000 homes with one server each. But if you are on grid power, each watt that you use comes from a combination of coal, nuclear and smug sources, in the ratio of your grid and the grids your grid is tied to.
Just because your local power utility company is willing to sell you the fiction that you are exclusively on one source or another doesn't make it so.
A pidgin is a type of language that develops in places where two or more groups lacking a common language interact. How you'd make one out of clay is not clear to me.
No shortages of goods yet, other than ammo, but most of the others are here. And five year plans wouldn't make sense here anyway because we have no one to catch up to.
The state is deeply embedded into all economic activity already. Pick a type of business at random and go see what permissions you need to seem before you can start, and what rules you must follow while operating.
Nearly all education is collectivized, as is nearly all medicine now. Your insurance may not be under Obamacare yet, but every doctor and clinic you go to has warped their practice and administration to comply with Obamacare and Medicare mandates.
The NSA knows everwhere you go and everyone you talk to. If they notice you, they can expand that to knowing what you talk about, secretly. They have dirt on everyone worth the effort. Parallel construction is an abomination against justice. Your local police are equipped and trained like soldiers.
People are routinely pushed out of work, even out of companies they founded, and out of polite society for saying things opposed to the party line. Someone out there tries to maintain a list, but it is hard to keep up now. Brendan Eich, Tim Hunt, James Watson, Donald Sterling. Martin O'Malley was just forced to supplicate himself publicly for failing to stick to the party script. Reporters are climbing over one another for a chance to demonize Trump for daring to utter hatefacts in public.
Just because we haven't yet reached the stage where we plunge ourselves into another dark age by slaughtering millions of productive and otherwise undesirables people (google: Kulak) doesn't mean that we aren't far down the road that leads there. Check the manifesto and see how many of the 10 planks are in place and which are in progress now.
Almost every AR-15 is "readily convertible" in the normal meaning of that term. Legally, "readily convertible" means the auto sear axis has already been drilled.
(I'm ignoring other conversion devices, like the lightning link and the DIAS, which are generally considered to be machine guns themselves, even in the absence of a host rifle.)
You literally drill one hole in your AR lower and it becomes a NFA gun, and you are guilty of a federal felony. You don't need to mill anything, you don't need to possess an auto-sear, you don't even need to possess any other parts, not even critical parts like the upper receiver, barrel, or hammer.
In the past, some manufacturers, out of an excess of caution, sold lowers with trigger group pockets lacking room for the auto-sear, bolt carriers neutered so they wouldn't be able to trip the sear, hammers without the second hook, selectors milled without the slot that allows the sear to catch, etc.
All of that is gone now. You buy an AR-15, and half the parts are probably surplus / production overruns that are exactly identical to the parts that go into a M4. Or you build your own and the lower parts kit might just be a surplus military M4 kit and include all the parts needed for full auto.
Because it is clear now that the hole, and only the hole, is the difference between a legal civilian AR-15 and a felony.
I'm not sure that there was any software involved here. I don't know if he's published any of the details, and if he has, I haven't read any of it. Without knowing anything else, my guess is that it was attached to a spare servo channel on his RC rig. That's how I would do it if I could afford another expensive hobby.
Hopefully his circuit requires positive reset and fire signals, meaning that it would only reset after going full-low and only fire after going full-high, so that a neutral signal (loss of radio reception) wouldn't cause either action.
Benchrest shooters use mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems to activate triggers all the time. As do gunsmiths when accurately zeroing a scope, or when test firing a gun of unknown safety.
What matters is that the gun not fire more than once per human action.
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No comparison. VHDL.
Every day you touch dozens or hundreds of things containing chips designed in VHDL, and you've never heard of it. Well, maybe you have, but no one else has.
Science has never been about consensus. Science is about truth, about reality. Science is about testing an idea by comparing it to nature, and about having the honesty to accept what nature has to say, even when you don't like the answer.
Consensus is the domain of Scidolatry. The paradigm shift is usually nothing more than the demographic wave. The people that have calcified around the previous consensus gradually die off, and the next generation gets to look at the data fresh, without a lifetime of work, of reputation, of ego on the line.
For those unfamiliar with these new words, scientistry is what people in lab coats do, like dentistry is what dentists do. Scidolatry is the worship of the opinions of people that wear lab coats. Consensus is what the guy you are talking to right now thinks, occasionally supported by a theoretical or imaginary horde of lab-coat-wearers. Science is a method for deciding which ideas are good and which are bad, which usually involves a lot of hard work, humility, honesty and integrity, and occasionally a bit of scientistry.
Culture (here) is what kept scientistry closely coupled to science, and away from scidolatry. Culture (or the values that travel with it) is the thing that, until recently, kept people from doing things like altering temperature data to match their expectations.
Feynman talked about this fairly often, most notably in Cargo Cult Science. The problem seems to be most common in soft sciences, such as the rat running example he gives from psychology. See also his commentary on science education in Brazil.
The Brazil report appears to be unrelated, but hear me out.
Brazil's problem was cultural. Their textbooks included all of the right information, but it wasn't presented as things that the student could learn about the real world, just as facts to be memorized. Scientists without the culture of science will make lousy experiments because they don't understand what they want to do or why, or how or why they need to keep themselves honest.
The culture of physics in the US was very good, but they were unable to export that culture to Brazil when they tried.
In the same way, other branches of science were unable to duplicate the physics culture. The rat runners in the example given didn't understand what they were trying to do, so they didn't pay attention to Young's work, which would have helped keep them honest.
Crichton's Aliens Cause Global Warming lecture was given nearly 30 years after Feynman's Cargo Cult Science, and it shows a creeping degeneration of the culture of science.
I go a step further, and say that the decline of the science culture has been part of a general cultural decline. There has been no great art or literature or music in decades.
The good news is that people are waking up. The internet is connecting people to each other, to science, and to culture. We are pissed about the decline of the past century, the decline that we've allowed, or at least failed to prevent, and are steeling our resolve to do the hard work to restore our greatness.
Articles like this show the stirring of the cultural revival. Keep them coming, please.
Cobra effect
Who owns your car? Who does it serve? Who does it obey?
We lost the war for our pocket and portable computers (cell phones and tablet). We lost the war for our TVs, movie players, DVRs, etc. We lost the war for the computers that are already in our cars.
Most disturbing, we are in the process of losing the war for our desktop computers, the very heart of general purpose computing as an individual right.
If we want to own our cars, we need to stop losing control of our computers, pronto.
In 1789 "press" meant a movable type device that printed a single sheet, at most a few times a minute. I wonder, how far from that can you go and still claim the 1st amendment applies?
A typewriter?
An electronic fax machine?
A computer? A cell phone? A global inter-network?
So there are limits to protected "presses", ill defined as they are. But If we finally had to update the 1st amendment due to rising tech, things could get interesting.
If the 1st Amendment is a civil right, what purpose do presses serve the citizen? If self expression, and since there are many more ways to express one's thoughts and feelings today than in 1789, should we amend the 1st to emphasize the goal of self expression rather than allow it to advocate presses as a means to an end that's ill served by the tech advance of ever broader expression systems - telephone and internet?
Given the huge difference between an 18th century press and modern communications, and the indifference of regulators to respond to that difference, it seems likely that the escalation of presses protected by the 1st amendment is going to cross a line, and soon.
Nothing says "I have a valid opinion worth listening to!" quite like lumping cholesterol in with "harmful substances".
Just kidding. Cholesterol is the very foundation that all animal life is built on. It is the chemical that allows us to be complex multicellular organisms that aren't made of plant cells.
You may also have missed some other recent memos. Arterial plaque appears to be caused by inflammation, and cholesterol accumulation in the damaged areas appears to be part of your body's repair efforts.
You have cause and effect reversed. You are going to eat more if you are gaining weight. We understand this relationship correctly when children are growing, when women are pregnant, and when we breed some cattle to be thin and produce milk while others are bred to be heavy so we can harvest more meat off of them.
In evolutionary terms, we eat when we are hungry. We certainly are not the offspring of organisms that failed to observe this simple rule. Those organisms are dead, and if they had any offspring, the offspring are dead too.
And don't forget that people tend to gain or lose weight after poop transplants, tending usually towards the donor's BMI.
There is more, if you care to go do some research. Science is poking holes in the "fat people are lazy and/or stupid" myth almost daily now.
"optimizing for streaming and sharing" == bufferbloat ?
It isn't a lie, it is a definition.
The real problem with training requirements is that we've seen how it works out in practice. We know from long and painful experience that it is far easier to defend the line before the first toe crosses than to try to shove the whole creeping body back.
I encourage people to get at least basic training before they buy their first gun, and to get real training (far in excess of the mandatory minimum here) before they think about carrying it on them. But any call to make those legal requirements will always be met with same full political opposition as any other gun grabbing scheme.
Read your own post again. You step quickly and easily from "we're not even talking about 'outlawing' guns." to "it will take awhile to drain the swamp of easy guns". I think it is pretty clear that your goal with the call for training is to "drain the swamp" of people that take the 2nd amendment personally, making them a political minority, and thus easier to stomp on later.
Perhaps that isn't a calculated move on your part. It is entirely possible that you are merely a useful idiot. (That is a technical term, by the way, and not a personal insult. Google it.)
Lately the supreme court has been on a tear, with ruling after ruling indicating that the 2nd really means what it obviously and clearly says it means. Do you see Chicago, NYC and Washington, D.C. meekly submitting? Hell no. Now it is technically legal to get licensed in those cities, but the process is as onerous as possible in an attempt to circumvent the rulings. You are calling for the rest of the nation to get closer to our murder capitals, while the supreme court is calling for them to get more like the rest of the nation.
And this is why the NRA is a political organization. They can't accomplish any of their other goals if they lose the political fight.
Oh, and the notion of draining the swamp of guns is a bit silly. 3D printers, desktop mills, hobby lathes, etc are rapidly making it much easier to build your own guns at home. That genie seems unlikely to go back into the bottle any time soon.
The 3/5ths thing was for census purposes only. It gave the southern states more representation in congress than they would have had otherwise. The south would not have joined the union without that security (plus the promise in Article V).
Or HIPPA.
Or CJIS.
Or IRS 1075.
Or...
After Snowden opened our eyes, we didn't take to the streets with torches and pitchforks. Our complacency was heard loud and clear, and now it is open season on our privacy.
Double False. Japan was trying very hard to avoid having to surrender.
http://rerum-novarum.blogspot....
There weren't 80,000 civilians in either of those cities. I'll quote, and then link to, an extensively documented discussion on the topic:
http://rerum-novarum.blogspot....
http://rerum-novarum.blogspot....
Just in case this was a serious question, I'll answer it.
Generally, the sale of body parts is prohibited to reduce the incentive to create more of them. It is pretty much the same logic that bans child pornography, without exceptions.
Most of the people commenting on the internet are either strongly opposed to abortion, or are strongly in favor and are somewhat unlikely to shift from that position. These videos are shifting just about everyone else to the right, which is why there is an all-out assault on the videos. Switch to -1 and see which opinions are being suppressed here, and which are being promoted. Turn on the TV news and see the talking heads claim that multi-hour videos with no cuts have been edited or faked.
A lot of people that nominally support abortion and nominally support using the corpses for research still find it ghastly that doctors are crushing the heads of tiny humans specifically to harvest human organs. It appears that a lot of the support in the middle was predicated on sterile, humane abortions being the norm. But the truth is leaking out now, and the nation has to decide if we really want "In Moloch We Trust" on our coins.
P.S. Virtually all abortion advocates in certain age ranges used to call Vietnam vets "baby killers". The internet is busy digging up as much of that old footage as can be found, as we speak.
Didn't we fight a big war in the 1860s to end the ownership of humans by other humans?
Wow. What kind of fucked up bible are you reading that makes you think that Jesus would support abortion?
Can't wait to see this applied to the abortion video TROs.
And what do you think the hydroelectric plant was doing with that power before the data center showed up? Dumping it in the ocean?
Of course not. It was going to homes and industries. Every watt of smug power that Google uses for their datacenters is a watt of hydrocarbon or nuclear generated power next door.
A datacenter with 10,000 servers may be more efficient because of scale than 10,000 homes with one server each. But if you are on grid power, each watt that you use comes from a combination of coal, nuclear and smug sources, in the ratio of your grid and the grids your grid is tied to.
Just because your local power utility company is willing to sell you the fiction that you are exclusively on one source or another doesn't make it so.
Trap shooters break clay pigeons.
A pidgin is a type of language that develops in places where two or more groups lacking a common language interact. How you'd make one out of clay is not clear to me.
No shortages of goods yet, other than ammo, but most of the others are here. And five year plans wouldn't make sense here anyway because we have no one to catch up to.
The state is deeply embedded into all economic activity already. Pick a type of business at random and go see what permissions you need to seem before you can start, and what rules you must follow while operating.
Nearly all education is collectivized, as is nearly all medicine now. Your insurance may not be under Obamacare yet, but every doctor and clinic you go to has warped their practice and administration to comply with Obamacare and Medicare mandates.
The NSA knows everwhere you go and everyone you talk to. If they notice you, they can expand that to knowing what you talk about, secretly. They have dirt on everyone worth the effort. Parallel construction is an abomination against justice. Your local police are equipped and trained like soldiers.
People are routinely pushed out of work, even out of companies they founded, and out of polite society for saying things opposed to the party line. Someone out there tries to maintain a list, but it is hard to keep up now. Brendan Eich, Tim Hunt, James Watson, Donald Sterling. Martin O'Malley was just forced to supplicate himself publicly for failing to stick to the party script. Reporters are climbing over one another for a chance to demonize Trump for daring to utter hatefacts in public.
Just because we haven't yet reached the stage where we plunge ourselves into another dark age by slaughtering millions of productive and otherwise undesirables people (google: Kulak) doesn't mean that we aren't far down the road that leads there. Check the manifesto and see how many of the 10 planks are in place and which are in progress now.
Sorry, no.
Almost every AR-15 is "readily convertible" in the normal meaning of that term. Legally, "readily convertible" means the auto sear axis has already been drilled.
(I'm ignoring other conversion devices, like the lightning link and the DIAS, which are generally considered to be machine guns themselves, even in the absence of a host rifle.)
You literally drill one hole in your AR lower and it becomes a NFA gun, and you are guilty of a federal felony. You don't need to mill anything, you don't need to possess an auto-sear, you don't even need to possess any other parts, not even critical parts like the upper receiver, barrel, or hammer.
In the past, some manufacturers, out of an excess of caution, sold lowers with trigger group pockets lacking room for the auto-sear, bolt carriers neutered so they wouldn't be able to trip the sear, hammers without the second hook, selectors milled without the slot that allows the sear to catch, etc.
All of that is gone now. You buy an AR-15, and half the parts are probably surplus / production overruns that are exactly identical to the parts that go into a M4. Or you build your own and the lower parts kit might just be a surplus military M4 kit and include all the parts needed for full auto.
Because it is clear now that the hole, and only the hole, is the difference between a legal civilian AR-15 and a felony.
I'm not sure that there was any software involved here. I don't know if he's published any of the details, and if he has, I haven't read any of it. Without knowing anything else, my guess is that it was attached to a spare servo channel on his RC rig. That's how I would do it if I could afford another expensive hobby.
Hopefully his circuit requires positive reset and fire signals, meaning that it would only reset after going full-low and only fire after going full-high, so that a neutral signal (loss of radio reception) wouldn't cause either action.
They did. Haven't you been paying attention?
No.
Benchrest shooters use mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems to activate triggers all the time. As do gunsmiths when accurately zeroing a scope, or when test firing a gun of unknown safety.
What matters is that the gun not fire more than once per human action.