I actually considered this too when I took some Navy electronics training. My biggest concern was the heat dissipation. For the exciter in the EA6B, we had a dedicated oil cooling system and it was HEAVY. Of course, more energy was being poured into that, a full jet engine's worth, than 350kw, but still, heat is an issue.
Do you truly believe that no art would be produced, nor science or technology developed, without the promise of ongoing economic reward for your work?
Of course not. It is also obvious that without some sort of expected return, some of the spectacles (e.g. Infinity War) that have been created would not have been. This black and white thinking needs to be used for contrasts to gain understanding of the limits, it is not useful as the sole process in making a decision.
With kids in this kind of situation, there's no way their parents are buying books when they can't even feed them and put a roof over their heads.
When the decision makers all have security from the mundane details of life, the mundane details tend to not have any importance and are seen to be illusory.
What this means is that just because there was one kid, somewhere in rural America, that lived in a couch surfing world, the world is not falling apart and more important things need to be dealt with, like reducing taxes on what gives the decision makers their security in the first place.
Men and women are not the same. Both genders are "people", but there are interests and motivations that are different between the genderds. That being said, there is no reason to expect a 50/50 distribution of genders in any particular activity.
Remove any active discrimination and let the cards fall where they may. The line of thinking that says that things must be 50/50 or they are unfair is only applied to areas where people might possibly see an advantage. This is unethical and discriminatory... the EXACT opposite of what all this bullshit is about.
The truth of your statement is not surprising. What actualy *IS* surprising is that people STILL engage in this behavior. Right in front of god and everyone. Seriously. What. The. Fuck.
Every single person who does this, constantly, on Slashdot, should just give a mea culpa and shut up.
What is funnier is that they think others either can not see their idiocy or don't care about their idiocy because they get reinforcement from their group.
The critical components in a nuclear missile do not stay in an appropriate state for creating a nuclear explosion indefinitely. Without maintenance of the type that is noticeable, any current nukes will be worthless in 20 years or less.
Has anyone else noticed that the people that are touting the ills of AI are the same ones that are using AI to take your money?
I would reword that.
Has anyone else noticed that the people who work with AI directly have some concerns but the media blows it into full blown apocalypse which trivializes the concerns being raised?
It is almost like the slide is being greased before we are pushed down.
I will, however, point out that every time I see a statement like this, I remember there is one woman who has been investigated pretty much constantly for over a quarter of a century by the most nasty and mean legislators and political operatives using over $100M of taxpayer money to do so. A media network including Fox News, all right wing radio, and several print publications are fully dedicated to to defaming her. There has been no such thing as a crackpot theory or accusation that was too extreme to investigate. After all this she has not been indicted or convicted of one single crime.
It is amazing at what being a wealthy insider can do for investigations.
The "article" is dismissive of this upgrade in resolution, the same as for 4k.
What the fuck people?!
I do not care if my eye can not distinguish individual pixels. I actually WANT that to be a feature. I have a 4k monitor for my computer and it is WAY better than 1080p. Ok. Nobody has eyes that can see the difference right?
So let me tell you a quick little story: A friend was bringing over his cat while he was going out of town for a bit. He walked in the door of my apartment and IMMEDIATELY commented on my computer monitor. He was roughly 10 meters away from the monitor and he already knew something was different about it. He couldn't tell what was different, but he wanted my monitor immediately. From 10 meters away. Where no difference can be seen. Right?
I do not watch "tv". I don't care if there is ANY content at 4k or 8k. I want my monitors to have the highest resolution possible. I will buy an 8k monitor as soon as reasonably possible.
If y'all are happy with fuzzy crap, be my guest, but please stop whining about "progress".
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
The motor only produced 20hp because manufacturing tolerances were loose and the method of apportioning gasoline was inconsistent. For the same "price", we can make a motor spit out 200hp.
No environment controls? Not necessarily a non-starter for everyone. I have owned a few cars where those controls were essentially dead.
No electronics? EFI is not THAT expensive, perhaps even cheaper than carburetors.
Air bags I will give you.
Radial tires are not much more expensive to produce than the old style tires since we have modern ways of manufacturing them.
Electric starter? An aftermarket starter is $200. This is a non-issue.
Power seats? Power windows? Unnecessary.
Lifespan was purposefully cut short, mostly by GM, in a bid to get more money. That is why I *still* will not buy any American vehicles.
So airbags and electronic fuel injection bring the cost from $4286 to $20k? That doesn't sound right.
Fuck American auto manufacturers. Greedy bastards. I hope they all burn in hell. The Europeans are pretty greedy too, but at least they deliver some satisfaction. Buy Asian cars to get value for your money.
It becomes like playing a game of Civilization V. Do you care that your archer unit was just wiped out by a tank unit? Of course not, it was just being a sentry and it was left over from the Bronze Age. Do you care when you nuke a city? Of course not. You just nuke because it is convenient.
One way or another, they are going to pay. Either they will pay Americans for defense (not a bad idea, they are the best in the world at it currently) or they can field their own military. While there are problems with outsourcing your defense needs, it *is* vastly cheaper and the outcomes are more guaranteed if they employ the world leader in military might instead of trying to "roll their own".
[Emphasis mine] Hands not on the wheel, a clear day with plenty of warnings to pay attention it's like he purposely wanted to crash.
Almost as if he knew the autopilot would fuck up there and thought the great safety of the car would keep him from dying and keep him alive enough to sue for multimillions. Almost.
Remember this comment for when he leaves the embassy. He will end up in a nasty prison whether or not it is on American soil. I am guessing Egyptian soil or some poor Eastern European country. He will be tortured, possibly to death.
I say all this as a disinterested outside observer. I don't care about him or about why America wants his ass to rot. I would be willing to bet 90% of all future money earned by me that his future is tied with what America wants.
This is all fairly straightforward to me and I am actively working on proving it.
Long story short, mass causes the existence of spacetime. The further from a mass you get, the faster time flows (look at GPS satellite corrections for proof).
Time moving faster explains the galactic rotation curve directly "Time is moving faster therefore the apparent speed of the outer edge of the disc moves faster than it should in respect to a non-relative observer."
BAM! Dark Matter is relegated to explaining other unanswerable phenomena.
By only acknowledging the achievements and making no comment on the negative behaviour, once that behaviour has been brought to your attention, then in silence you support that behaviour.
Well, the simple way to fix this is for every award that is given out to anybody, attach this disclaimer:
"We understand that nobody is a saint and even behavior that is socially acceptable now may not be in the future, so with that in mind, while we honor this individual for their notably good behaviour, we simultaneously castigate any and all unacceptable behaviour they may have engaged in during their lifetime."
Or, you could just not give awards out ever because nobody is perfect and we wouldn't want to encourage any salacious behaviour.
In a sane society, the award would be given and the person who exhibited the poor behaviour would either attend psychological retraining or suffer criminal penalties.
The only time it is acceptable to withdraw an award is when the award is granted through fraudulent means... like if Nolan Bushnell actually had not done any of the things the award was for.
Essentially, what you and many others seem to be arguing for is that nothing positive can ever be recognized/rewarded if the recipient of said award had ever done anything bad at any point in time of their life.
Let's assume Mr. Bushnell had received a speeding ticket once in his life. "Had this award not been rescinded, then the GDC would, at best, be ignoring the problem and at worst would be tacitly supporting the behaviour."
I am betting that your brain will get hung up on how trivial the crime is so let's make it easier for you.
Let's assume that Mr. Bushnell had killed 6 million people. Would Time magazine be encouraging the killing of 6 million people by having him as their "Man of the Year"?
Never mind. Just fuck you and your stupid insane bullshit. I literally DESPISE the thought processes that YOU are engaging in. Have a nice day.
My apologies. I thought I was speaking with someone of at least average human intelligence. I will reword my original message so that you may understand it:
You said:
They don't go and see their primary care provider when they first develop that ache in their side, because they don't really have $100 to spare...and then that ache turns out to be something serious, and costs a shit-load more to treat because it's progressed.
And a rewording (for your diminutive intellect) of what I said is:
They will not go to their care provider because their care provider has already told them 99 times that whatever problem the patient thinks they are experiencing is all in their head and nothing to worry about... until it becomes a full blown problem.
Is that a little easier for your thought processes to digest?
I do not actually mean to be insulting. I fully understand that there are people with varying cognitive abilities. I am just frustrated at trying to communicate while the average person just doesn't seem to operate at any cognitive level that modern society needs. I feel like my original message, delivered through anecdote, was perfectly clear... but apparently, that is a level of abstraction too high for you to grasp and it frustrated me. Have a nice day and don't forget to wear your helmet.
They don't affect his achievements. But maybe if humans collectively stop glorifying, rewarding and celebrating known shitheads for their shithead behavior...
No one's glorifying, rewarding, or celebrating his shithead behavior here. Hell, I'm sure most of us never even heard of any of this.
But now you have heard of it. And you can't glorify his achievements from that era without glorifying that shithead behaviour.
The message you are sending is that if you EVER exhibited behavior that might be considered "bad", then NOTHING you have ever done that is considered "good" should be honored.
I am okay with that. That means nobody should ever be honored and nothing good should ever be rewarded. Nobody is perfect.
They don't go and see their primary care provider when they first develop that ache in their side, because they don't really have $100 to spare...and then that ache turns out to be something serious, and costs a shit-load more to treat because it's progressed.
On the other hand, my experience has been that doctors have no fucking idea what that mysterious pain is and can only diagnose it once it has become something serious.
My skin is currently eating itself (has been for 3 years now, likely bacteria) and the doctors/dermatologists just shrug and hand me steroid cream. Bear in mind, this is only a current problem. Don't talk to me about past issues that were apparently WAY beyond what medical science could discover (but were eventually found to be simple once it became terrible).
The medical industry has some very good points. A friend of mine got shot in the leg and they saved his life and gave him appropriate care to get everything back to normal... but again, a gunshot wound is VERY easy to identify. If it wasn't for the obvious solutions like this, I would declare the entire medical industry a bunch of lazy and dumb parasites.
Hop in a Ford Focus Sport or a Golf GTi and tell me it isn't fun.
If you liked the sport edition, try the SVT edition. I was doing 90 (not entirely certain, the engine was close to redline and I only had a moment to look at the speedo) in 3rd gear before I even knew it. Surprised the hell out of me. I am unsure if they still make an SVT model though. Sorry.
Spoken like someone who has not sat behind the wheel of a P95D. Try that, then tell me how much fun ICE cars are to drive.
I am not the person you were replying to; however, I have driven a P95D. The torque is orgasmic but everything else about the car is kind of... meh.
I have an E55 AMG that I have driven at the track all day. It is not really a track car, but I did manage to get the lowest time of any street legal car on that track (including some Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Porsches.)
The P95D would have had a better time at the 1/4 mile, but I doubt I could have thrown it around the track quite as fast (or fun) as I did with an E55. And certainly NOT all day (remember to rotate your front tires throughout the day kids!).
And if he doesn't like that he's free to come out, get prosecuted for skipping bail, serve his time and get deported.
See? You missed two words which mean a LOT. Here is the quote again, but "fixed": And if he doesn't like that he's free to come out, get prosecuted for skipping bail, serve his time and get deported to America.
It changes the equations a LOT. Regardless of how I feel about any of this, it is clear that he is trying to avoid getting sent to Guantanamo Bay and the UK is going to ensure that he ends up in Guantanamo Bay.
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I actually considered this too when I took some Navy electronics training. My biggest concern was the heat dissipation. For the exciter in the EA6B, we had a dedicated oil cooling system and it was HEAVY. Of course, more energy was being poured into that, a full jet engine's worth, than 350kw, but still, heat is an issue.
Do you truly believe that no art would be produced, nor science or technology developed, without the promise of ongoing economic reward for your work?
Of course not. It is also obvious that without some sort of expected return, some of the spectacles (e.g. Infinity War) that have been created would not have been. This black and white thinking needs to be used for contrasts to gain understanding of the limits, it is not useful as the sole process in making a decision.
That's the issue - so much money is going to things beyond education.
Yeah. Administration.
With kids in this kind of situation, there's no way their parents are buying books when they can't even feed them and put a roof over their heads.
When the decision makers all have security from the mundane details of life, the mundane details tend to not have any importance and are seen to be illusory.
What this means is that just because there was one kid, somewhere in rural America, that lived in a couch surfing world, the world is not falling apart and more important things need to be dealt with, like reducing taxes on what gives the decision makers their security in the first place.
Men and women are not the same. Both genders are "people", but there are interests and motivations that are different between the genderds. That being said, there is no reason to expect a 50/50 distribution of genders in any particular activity.
Remove any active discrimination and let the cards fall where they may. The line of thinking that says that things must be 50/50 or they are unfair is only applied to areas where people might possibly see an advantage. This is unethical and discriminatory... the EXACT opposite of what all this bullshit is about.
Just stop.
The truth of your statement is not surprising. What actualy *IS* surprising is that people STILL engage in this behavior. Right in front of god and everyone. Seriously. What. The. Fuck.
Every single person who does this, constantly, on Slashdot, should just give a mea culpa and shut up.
What is funnier is that they think others either can not see their idiocy or don't care about their idiocy because they get reinforcement from their group.
The critical components in a nuclear missile do not stay in an appropriate state for creating a nuclear explosion indefinitely. Without maintenance of the type that is noticeable, any current nukes will be worthless in 20 years or less.
Has anyone else noticed that the people that are touting the ills of AI are the same ones that are using AI to take your money?
I would reword that.
Has anyone else noticed that the people who work with AI directly have some concerns but the media blows it into full blown apocalypse which trivializes the concerns being raised?
It is almost like the slide is being greased before we are pushed down.
I will, however, point out that every time I see a statement like this, I remember there is one woman who has been investigated pretty much constantly for over a quarter of a century by the most nasty and mean legislators and political operatives using over $100M of taxpayer money to do so. A media network including Fox News, all right wing radio, and several print publications are fully dedicated to to defaming her. There has been no such thing as a crackpot theory or accusation that was too extreme to investigate. After all this she has not been indicted or convicted of one single crime.
It is amazing at what being a wealthy insider can do for investigations.
Thanks to a bought and sold congress and Mickey Mouse that expiration date is infinity minus one.
No. Lawrence Lessig tried that argument in front of the Supreme Court and it did not fly. It is only like 170 years or so. Only. *sigh*
The "article" is dismissive of this upgrade in resolution, the same as for 4k.
What the fuck people?!
I do not care if my eye can not distinguish individual pixels. I actually WANT that to be a feature. I have a 4k monitor for my computer and it is WAY better than 1080p. Ok. Nobody has eyes that can see the difference right?
So let me tell you a quick little story: A friend was bringing over his cat while he was going out of town for a bit. He walked in the door of my apartment and IMMEDIATELY commented on my computer monitor. He was roughly 10 meters away from the monitor and he already knew something was different about it. He couldn't tell what was different, but he wanted my monitor immediately. From 10 meters away. Where no difference can be seen. Right?
I do not watch "tv". I don't care if there is ANY content at 4k or 8k. I want my monitors to have the highest resolution possible. I will buy an 8k monitor as soon as reasonably possible.
If y'all are happy with fuzzy crap, be my guest, but please stop whining about "progress".
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
The motor only produced 20hp because manufacturing tolerances were loose and the method of apportioning gasoline was inconsistent. For the same "price", we can make a motor spit out 200hp.
No environment controls? Not necessarily a non-starter for everyone. I have owned a few cars where those controls were essentially dead.
No electronics? EFI is not THAT expensive, perhaps even cheaper than carburetors.
Air bags I will give you.
Radial tires are not much more expensive to produce than the old style tires since we have modern ways of manufacturing them.
Electric starter? An aftermarket starter is $200. This is a non-issue.
Power seats? Power windows? Unnecessary.
Lifespan was purposefully cut short, mostly by GM, in a bid to get more money. That is why I *still* will not buy any American vehicles.
So airbags and electronic fuel injection bring the cost from $4286 to $20k? That doesn't sound right.
Fuck American auto manufacturers. Greedy bastards. I hope they all burn in hell. The Europeans are pretty greedy too, but at least they deliver some satisfaction. Buy Asian cars to get value for your money.
It becomes like playing a game of Civilization V. Do you care that your archer unit was just wiped out by a tank unit? Of course not, it was just being a sentry and it was left over from the Bronze Age. Do you care when you nuke a city? Of course not. You just nuke because it is convenient.
THAT is the real danger.
Now let's get them to pay for the privilege.
One way or another, they are going to pay. Either they will pay Americans for defense (not a bad idea, they are the best in the world at it currently) or they can field their own military. While there are problems with outsourcing your defense needs, it *is* vastly cheaper and the outcomes are more guaranteed if they employ the world leader in military might instead of trying to "roll their own".
[Emphasis mine] Hands not on the wheel, a clear day with plenty of warnings to pay attention it's like he purposely wanted to crash.
Almost as if he knew the autopilot would fuck up there and thought the great safety of the car would keep him from dying and keep him alive enough to sue for multimillions. Almost.
Almost.
Because the lumps for skipping bail is not what he fears. He fears American retribution and America WILL extract it from him sooner or later.
Remember this comment for when he leaves the embassy. He will end up in a nasty prison whether or not it is on American soil. I am guessing Egyptian soil or some poor Eastern European country. He will be tortured, possibly to death.
I say all this as a disinterested outside observer. I don't care about him or about why America wants his ass to rot. I would be willing to bet 90% of all future money earned by me that his future is tied with what America wants.
This is all fairly straightforward to me and I am actively working on proving it.
Long story short, mass causes the existence of spacetime. The further from a mass you get, the faster time flows (look at GPS satellite corrections for proof).
Time moving faster explains the galactic rotation curve directly "Time is moving faster therefore the apparent speed of the outer edge of the disc moves faster than it should in respect to a non-relative observer."
BAM! Dark Matter is relegated to explaining other unanswerable phenomena.
By only acknowledging the achievements and making no comment on the negative behaviour, once that behaviour has been brought to your attention, then in silence you support that behaviour.
Well, the simple way to fix this is for every award that is given out to anybody, attach this disclaimer:
"We understand that nobody is a saint and even behavior that is socially acceptable now may not be in the future, so with that in mind, while we honor this individual for their notably good behaviour, we simultaneously castigate any and all unacceptable behaviour they may have engaged in during their lifetime."
Or, you could just not give awards out ever because nobody is perfect and we wouldn't want to encourage any salacious behaviour.
In a sane society, the award would be given and the person who exhibited the poor behaviour would either attend psychological retraining or suffer criminal penalties.
The only time it is acceptable to withdraw an award is when the award is granted through fraudulent means... like if Nolan Bushnell actually had not done any of the things the award was for.
Essentially, what you and many others seem to be arguing for is that nothing positive can ever be recognized/rewarded if the recipient of said award had ever done anything bad at any point in time of their life.
Let's assume Mr. Bushnell had received a speeding ticket once in his life. "Had this award not been rescinded, then the GDC would, at best, be ignoring the problem and at worst would be tacitly supporting the behaviour."
I am betting that your brain will get hung up on how trivial the crime is so let's make it easier for you.
Let's assume that Mr. Bushnell had killed 6 million people. Would Time magazine be encouraging the killing of 6 million people by having him as their "Man of the Year"?
Never mind. Just fuck you and your stupid insane bullshit. I literally DESPISE the thought processes that YOU are engaging in. Have a nice day.
Well, bully for your personal experience.
My apologies. I thought I was speaking with someone of at least average human intelligence. I will reword my original message so that you may understand it:
You said:
They don't go and see their primary care provider when they first develop that ache in their side, because they don't really have $100 to spare...and then that ache turns out to be something serious, and costs a shit-load more to treat because it's progressed.
And a rewording (for your diminutive intellect) of what I said is:
They will not go to their care provider because their care provider has already told them 99 times that whatever problem the patient thinks they are experiencing is all in their head and nothing to worry about... until it becomes a full blown problem.
Is that a little easier for your thought processes to digest?
I do not actually mean to be insulting. I fully understand that there are people with varying cognitive abilities. I am just frustrated at trying to communicate while the average person just doesn't seem to operate at any cognitive level that modern society needs. I feel like my original message, delivered through anecdote, was perfectly clear... but apparently, that is a level of abstraction too high for you to grasp and it frustrated me. Have a nice day and don't forget to wear your helmet.
They don't affect his achievements. But maybe if humans collectively stop glorifying, rewarding and celebrating known shitheads for their shithead behavior...
No one's glorifying, rewarding, or celebrating his shithead behavior here. Hell, I'm sure most of us never even heard of any of this.
But now you have heard of it. And you can't glorify his achievements from that era without glorifying that shithead behaviour.
The message you are sending is that if you EVER exhibited behavior that might be considered "bad", then NOTHING you have ever done that is considered "good" should be honored.
I am okay with that. That means nobody should ever be honored and nothing good should ever be rewarded. Nobody is perfect.
Do you like the world you are helping to create?
They don't go and see their primary care provider when they first develop that ache in their side, because they don't really have $100 to spare...and then that ache turns out to be something serious, and costs a shit-load more to treat because it's progressed.
On the other hand, my experience has been that doctors have no fucking idea what that mysterious pain is and can only diagnose it once it has become something serious.
My skin is currently eating itself (has been for 3 years now, likely bacteria) and the doctors/dermatologists just shrug and hand me steroid cream. Bear in mind, this is only a current problem. Don't talk to me about past issues that were apparently WAY beyond what medical science could discover (but were eventually found to be simple once it became terrible).
The medical industry has some very good points. A friend of mine got shot in the leg and they saved his life and gave him appropriate care to get everything back to normal... but again, a gunshot wound is VERY easy to identify. If it wasn't for the obvious solutions like this, I would declare the entire medical industry a bunch of lazy and dumb parasites.
Hop in a Ford Focus Sport or a Golf GTi and tell me it isn't fun.
If you liked the sport edition, try the SVT edition. I was doing 90 (not entirely certain, the engine was close to redline and I only had a moment to look at the speedo) in 3rd gear before I even knew it. Surprised the hell out of me. I am unsure if they still make an SVT model though. Sorry.
Spoken like someone who has not sat behind the wheel of a P95D. Try that, then tell me how much fun ICE cars are to drive.
I am not the person you were replying to; however, I have driven a P95D. The torque is orgasmic but everything else about the car is kind of... meh.
I have an E55 AMG that I have driven at the track all day. It is not really a track car, but I did manage to get the lowest time of any street legal car on that track (including some Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Porsches.)
The P95D would have had a better time at the 1/4 mile, but I doubt I could have thrown it around the track quite as fast (or fun) as I did with an E55. And certainly NOT all day (remember to rotate your front tires throughout the day kids!).
And if he doesn't like that he's free to come out, get prosecuted for skipping bail, serve his time and get deported.
See? You missed two words which mean a LOT. Here is the quote again, but "fixed": And if he doesn't like that he's free to come out, get prosecuted for skipping bail, serve his time and get deported to America.
It changes the equations a LOT. Regardless of how I feel about any of this, it is clear that he is trying to avoid getting sent to Guantanamo Bay and the UK is going to ensure that he ends up in Guantanamo Bay.