These actions seem to be yet another thing that run contrary to his rhetoric. I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word.
Why is this about Trump? What do you think the leader of the United States should do when confronted with a chemical weapons attack?
If you answered that question honestly to yourself, then tell me, should anything a candidate promised during a campaign have any affect on what the leader of the United States should have done in this situation?
After answering those questions to yourself, look at your remark above and consider whether it was a useful comment or just sour grapes. Remember, the only person you are answering to is yourself.
Except the universe is not expanding. For some reason, people seem to think that there is "one time" for the entire universe. As If the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Laughable on its face. It appears as if nobody has internalized the Theory of Relativity. There are "areas" of the universe where 13.7 billion years have not been "experienced" and there are areas of the universe where 13.7 trillion (yes, not billion) years have been "experienced".
Simple proof: GPS Satellites experience 42 microseconds (roughly) more time passing, per day (day/night), than the same clocks on the surface of the planet. Over the 4 billion years that the planet has been in existence, that 42 microsecond difference adds up to significant amounts of time.
It's just an argument that deniers make up to justify their selfishness and so they don't have to change a single thing about their lifestyle or lift a single fucking finger to help the planet, which in their arrogance and ego they think they are entitled to do with as they please because they're "human", like they somehow earned that status themselves.
Pray tell, what do you expect the average human to do? They already live as close to "work" as they can afford. Nobody likes to spend time sitting in traffic. Even if all average individuals lowered their lifestyle to walking to work (16 miles each way!), not use refrigerators (one of the most wasteful ways we use energy), etc, the overall impact would be close to zero.
Manufacturing, industry, and transportation are the lion's share of CO2 emissions. Long story short, it is the governments of the planet that might have any chance at dealing with this. Every time I have voted, the results are opposite of what I voted for.
So go ahead and sneer at me for being lazy, self-indulgent, and greedy. If it makes you feel better beating on the average individual, then go for it. It will not matter but will engender bad feelings. Good job making the world unpleasant on top of being fucked climatically. Good luck on fixing it.:)
Do you have any evidence that Google has been pulling in people to fill lower positions? Disney absolutely abused the system, but everything I have seen either personally or in statistics says that companies like Apple and Google have been using the system to pull in high-talent people, and they paying the accordingly.
No. They pull high-talent people and pay them peanuts compared to the wages such a job would normally pay. This helps to depress the wages of Americans. This is all old news.
Fuck the recalcitrant mother fuckers. Up against the wall bitches! Your arrogance and greed will be richly rewarded.
So 24 hours after the Fukushima disaster I send out my team to a nearby shoreline we've been studying and we find that algae species X is 10x prevalent than any other time we've measured, and within a week the levels are back to normal.... Under this new law the EPA might be forced to ignore the results of that research.
As it should. Who is to say your measurements were correct? Who is to say you are not falsifying your data? Who is to say your instruments were not malfunctioning?
Sure, the EPA *might* want to keep a record of a one-off as a lead in to a full investigation of a follow-on disaster, but to set policy or create regulation based on a non-reproducible incident? Sheer insanity.
It's telling the EPA that it has to ignore the majority of the scientific research.
Scientific research that is imprisoned or shackled is not useful (to the public) scientific research and should not be used for public policies. Research all you want, but until you are willing to share the results of that research with the public, it should not be used to guide government policy.
Normally, you are a reasonably intelligent person who appears to want good things to happen. Something weird is going on here though:
You are arguing to allow secrets to guide public policy. I am unsure how they did such a mindfuck on you to where you are arguing against what you normally argue for. Perhaps it is the implied threat that your goals will not be achieved if you support this bill?
Regardless, take a step back for a moment and reexamine what is being proposed here. This is actually a good thing, even if it could enable some bad things. All data that guides public policies should only use publicly available data. To insist otherwise is to allow private corporations to guide policy based on studies that can not be examined for errors or plain old falsified data.
I'm pretty sure chlorine trifluoride is more effective at killing germs.
Dead is dead. I am pretty sure that any living thing bombarded with gamma rays, x-rays, and infrared radiation will be just as dead as if it were exposed to chlorine trifluoride.
Not sure why the OP is claiming that CO2 is not a pollutant though. Any material/chemical/molecule/whatever that is undesired is a pollutant. Furthermore, you are 100% correct that CO2 is affecting the amount of heat being held within our planet, which is undesired.
Rep Lamarr is deeply anti science, and if he's put this forward as a good thing then you should bee deeply suspicious of it because it's not designed to promote science, it's designed to suppress scientific results that he personally wishes were otherwise.
It does not matter WHY this bill is being presented, it should be examined on it merits, or lack thereof.
For myself, setting policy and such based on information that is not freely examinable (not a word? Why not?) by anyone is ludicrous. "Trust us" is not ever the proper response to a query concerning public policy.
Byte me. Public regulations and policies should not be driven by "hidden" information. If renewable energy can't provide open information about why it is more desirable, then renewable energy is not something we should pursue.
"Hey, force the taxpayer to pay for this "renewable energy" product."
"Why?"
"We could tell you, but then we would have to kill you."
It's not on the driver when a witless fuckstick walks out into traffic when they wouldn't have right of way.
In many countries it is. Coincidentally those countries are also the ones with the lowest death rate for pedestrians and cyclists.
Also coincidentally, those countries have the highest rate of innocent people convicted of murder because fucksticks forced (the laws of physics be a harsh mistress) someone else to murder them.
See? It all balances out in the end. Not just one life ruined from stupidity anymore. We all share in the results of their stupidity.
Well, the reason this is about Trump is because he has created what is clearly a set of unachievable expectations.
Trump is a distraction. He is not supreme ruler, others are driving all of this. He is just the clown that distracts you from their actions. It leaves you and others like you bickering about partisan bullshit.
The idea here (in the long run), is that Drives and "memory" become the same space. Instant on, fast access to Nonvolatile RAM, and RAM becomes equivalent to 4 tier processor cache.
This idea terrifies me. Currently, a reboot fixes everything but hardware issues. Once this goes live, only reinstalling from scratch will fix things.
Inefficiencies are a sign of incorrect modelling. Inefficiencies are a sign of slack coding standards. Inefficiencies are a sign of not knowing exactly what the code is actually doing.
Ultimately, these all lead to errors, and when compounded across multiple running programs, will have effects that are neither predicted nor likely to be desirable.
Your model is good:
Is it slowing down the users? Are we getting hammered by the electricity bill? Is the machine getting tired?
However, it lets dirty code slide into use as long as you can say, "It is slowing down the users, but they will never notice and besides, our electricity bill is not rising too much."
Like the real Donald (Knuth) said: "premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming".
The keyword here being "premature". Do not take it to mean optimization should never be done or even that optimization is unimportant. It is merely stating that getting optimization done before you have everything fully modeled out is a waste of time (for various reasons).
Who really cares if I can get a loop to run in 800ns instead of 1500ns, when the real bottleneck is a complex SQL query 11 lines up that joins 11 tables together and takes 3 full seconds to run?
To misquote a not-quite-famous Congress critter: A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, eventually we are talking about real time (minutes).
You do not exist in a vacuum. You think your application is the only one but I have hundreds of "applications", written by people just like you, who thought that the real bottleneck is elsewhere so why worry about this particular bottleneck?
This attitude is why I can notice the delay in a particular window opening up or why I see "hiccups" in the smoothness of my screensaver.
I am sure that numerous studies were performed to say that the user will never notice and that these "minor" delays do not affect anything... but these studies are wrong. I notice.
(Granted, you seem to be addressing a server application where the application truly is the only application that matters, but my point about unnecessary wasting of CPU cycles still stands. Should you go to the extremes that ancient assembly language hackers used to go through to make something not possible into possible? No. Each programmer should be trying to be as efficient with CPU time as possible.)
All you are arguing for is that the default view be simple. None of what you are saying necessarily implies that functionality be removed, despite you wording it that way.
The proper way to handle this situation is to make the default view simple so your dumb parents (your description, not mine) can use the "application" but make sure the functionality that intelligent people need is still accessible, possibly through an "Advanced View" button.
Are you saying your parents would be forced to click on an "Advanced View" button and use that as the default? Are you saying that the possibility that they might accidentally click on "Advanced View" and never click the "Basic View" button is so high that functionality MUST be removed from everyone?
Hm. Removing functionality is almost always a bad thing and the excuses you are giving are pathetic at best.
The science is pretty solid: the average temperature of the world is getting warmer, we know what it causing it, and there will be effects, some of which will be negative.
Meh. Blowing away mod points for this but statements like this is what keeps keeps the deniers in business.
No. We do NOT know what is causing it. If we did, we could model it accurately.
What we do know for certain is that CO2 keeps heat trapped in the atmosphere. We are adding LOTS of CO2 to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is part of a chaotic and finely balanced system. CO2 is adding heat to that system (so we do actually know some of what is causing the heating).
In summary: We know that we are altering a system and by how much. We are unsure of other factors, some are even still unknown (how does the ocean absorb heat, distribute it, and eventually release it). Regardless of the unknowns, the facts that we do know indicate that our current practices are affecting the heat status of the planet.
Is heating of the planet a problem? That is not for Science to say. Science deals with facts and theory, not judgements. My personal opinion in all of this is that we need to be concerned about our "waste" products to ensure that the planet (the only place we can currently live) remains a livable location.
That makes the e-mail poison fruit. The fact that they we taken by a foreign power makes the whole event into a attack on our country. You are apologizing for the FSB attacking our core mission as a country for your own simplistic tribalism. That makes you a domestic enemy of the constitution.
Interesting way of spinning things.
The emails were not "taken by a foreign power", they were given away by insiders. The fact that a foreign power attempted to use them to their advantage is... well, let's just say that it is unsurprising.
I am unsure what you are going on about as far as "core mission" goes; however, your accusation of tribalism and then accusing the OP of being a domestic enemy... it is just an amazing example of hypocrisy.
Long story short, I have mod points and wanted to mod you down (something I rarely do) but figured offering you a reflection would be more valuable.
If I listen to the computer, I can't remember shit. If a passenger looks at the map and does essentially the same function, I can remember everything fine and well.
You implicitly trust the computer. When a human tells you, your brain does not blindly trust and tries to figure out if what the person is saying is true.
Computers never lie... unless programmed to do so.
Progressives want bigger gov't-backed safety nets and education opportunities, and conservatives believe that the private sector will make everyone's boat float higher if the gov't gets out of the way such that they don't need a safety net.
(Not directed at you personally)
Just give me my fucking money. I get it, you are the big bad brigands who took over civilization and will take your share before anyone else gets their share; however, if you do not leave anyone else a share, they will kill you.
Social safety nets and such are utter bullshit. You take my resources (as is proper, you are the brigand after all), and then, instead of giving any of it back, you promise that you will hold on to it for me just in case I have any troubles. Fuck you. You have never helped me. You never will. Give me my fucking money.
This is going to sound misogynist but it is merely a statement of fact: I have personally never met a female who was even passingly competent at Security.
I have been in this industry for roughly 20 years. I have seen lots of females in and around this industry. I have met a few females who were excellent sysadmins. I have never seen a female who was even mediocre in Security, much less competent or skilled.
I am unsure why this is. I am certain I will get skewered for even guessing... and guessing is silly anyways. Your move, women. Explain to everyone why this is.
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These actions seem to be yet another thing that run contrary to his rhetoric. I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word.
Why is this about Trump? What do you think the leader of the United States should do when confronted with a chemical weapons attack?
If you answered that question honestly to yourself, then tell me, should anything a candidate promised during a campaign have any affect on what the leader of the United States should have done in this situation?
After answering those questions to yourself, look at your remark above and consider whether it was a useful comment or just sour grapes. Remember, the only person you are answering to is yourself.
Except the universe is not expanding. For some reason, people seem to think that there is "one time" for the entire universe. As If the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Laughable on its face. It appears as if nobody has internalized the Theory of Relativity. There are "areas" of the universe where 13.7 billion years have not been "experienced" and there are areas of the universe where 13.7 trillion (yes, not billion) years have been "experienced".
Simple proof: GPS Satellites experience 42 microseconds (roughly) more time passing, per day (day/night), than the same clocks on the surface of the planet. Over the 4 billion years that the planet has been in existence, that 42 microsecond difference adds up to significant amounts of time.
Further evidence: Galaxy rotation and Dark Matter
It's just an argument that deniers make up to justify their selfishness and so they don't have to change a single thing about their lifestyle or lift a single fucking finger to help the planet, which in their arrogance and ego they think they are entitled to do with as they please because they're "human", like they somehow earned that status themselves.
Pray tell, what do you expect the average human to do? They already live as close to "work" as they can afford. Nobody likes to spend time sitting in traffic. Even if all average individuals lowered their lifestyle to walking to work (16 miles each way!), not use refrigerators (one of the most wasteful ways we use energy), etc, the overall impact would be close to zero.
Manufacturing, industry, and transportation are the lion's share of CO2 emissions. Long story short, it is the governments of the planet that might have any chance at dealing with this. Every time I have voted, the results are opposite of what I voted for.
So go ahead and sneer at me for being lazy, self-indulgent, and greedy. If it makes you feel better beating on the average individual, then go for it. It will not matter but will engender bad feelings. Good job making the world unpleasant on top of being fucked climatically. Good luck on fixing it. :)
Should I grab the popcorn now?
Do you have any evidence that Google has been pulling in people to fill lower positions? Disney absolutely abused the system, but everything I have seen either personally or in statistics says that companies like Apple and Google have been using the system to pull in high-talent people, and they paying the accordingly.
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
No. They pull high-talent people and pay them peanuts compared to the wages such a job would normally pay. This helps to depress the wages of Americans. This is all old news.
Fuck the recalcitrant mother fuckers. Up against the wall bitches! Your arrogance and greed will be richly rewarded.
So 24 hours after the Fukushima disaster I send out my team to a nearby shoreline we've been studying and we find that algae species X is 10x prevalent than any other time we've measured, and within a week the levels are back to normal. ...
Under this new law the EPA might be forced to ignore the results of that research.
As it should. Who is to say your measurements were correct? Who is to say you are not falsifying your data? Who is to say your instruments were not malfunctioning?
Sure, the EPA *might* want to keep a record of a one-off as a lead in to a full investigation of a follow-on disaster, but to set policy or create regulation based on a non-reproducible incident? Sheer insanity.
It's telling the EPA that it has to ignore the majority of the scientific research.
Scientific research that is imprisoned or shackled is not useful (to the public) scientific research and should not be used for public policies. Research all you want, but until you are willing to share the results of that research with the public, it should not be used to guide government policy.
Rei,
Normally, you are a reasonably intelligent person who appears to want good things to happen. Something weird is going on here though:
You are arguing to allow secrets to guide public policy. I am unsure how they did such a mindfuck on you to where you are arguing against what you normally argue for. Perhaps it is the implied threat that your goals will not be achieved if you support this bill?
Regardless, take a step back for a moment and reexamine what is being proposed here. This is actually a good thing, even if it could enable some bad things. All data that guides public policies should only use publicly available data. To insist otherwise is to allow private corporations to guide policy based on studies that can not be examined for errors or plain old falsified data.
and sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I'm pretty sure chlorine trifluoride is more effective at killing germs.
Dead is dead. I am pretty sure that any living thing bombarded with gamma rays, x-rays, and infrared radiation will be just as dead as if it were exposed to chlorine trifluoride.
Not sure why the OP is claiming that CO2 is not a pollutant though. Any material/chemical/molecule/whatever that is undesired is a pollutant. Furthermore, you are 100% correct that CO2 is affecting the amount of heat being held within our planet, which is undesired.
Rep Lamarr is deeply anti science, and if he's put this forward as a good thing then you should bee deeply suspicious of it because it's not designed to promote science, it's designed to suppress scientific results that he personally wishes were otherwise.
It does not matter WHY this bill is being presented, it should be examined on it merits, or lack thereof.
For myself, setting policy and such based on information that is not freely examinable (not a word? Why not?) by anyone is ludicrous. "Trust us" is not ever the proper response to a query concerning public policy.
This is a clear anti-renewable energy move.
Byte me. Public regulations and policies should not be driven by "hidden" information. If renewable energy can't provide open information about why it is more desirable, then renewable energy is not something we should pursue.
"Hey, force the taxpayer to pay for this "renewable energy" product."
"Why?"
"We could tell you, but then we would have to kill you."
"Say what?"
It's not on the driver when a witless fuckstick walks out into traffic when they wouldn't have right of way.
In many countries it is. Coincidentally those countries are also the ones with the lowest death rate for pedestrians and cyclists.
Also coincidentally, those countries have the highest rate of innocent people convicted of murder because fucksticks forced (the laws of physics be a harsh mistress) someone else to murder them.
See? It all balances out in the end. Not just one life ruined from stupidity anymore. We all share in the results of their stupidity.
Here is a complete, exhaustive list of the things I DO care about:
1. His voting record
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Well, the reason this is about Trump is because he has created what is clearly a set of unachievable expectations.
Trump is a distraction. He is not supreme ruler, others are driving all of this. He is just the clown that distracts you from their actions. It leaves you and others like you bickering about partisan bullshit.
This is the future that the 99% will live in: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sing...
Some are already there.
The idea here (in the long run), is that Drives and "memory" become the same space. Instant on, fast access to Nonvolatile RAM, and RAM becomes equivalent to 4 tier processor cache.
This idea terrifies me. Currently, a reboot fixes everything but hardware issues. Once this goes live, only reinstalling from scratch will fix things.
Inefficiencies are a sign of incorrect modelling.
Inefficiencies are a sign of slack coding standards.
Inefficiencies are a sign of not knowing exactly what the code is actually doing.
Ultimately, these all lead to errors, and when compounded across multiple running programs, will have effects that are neither predicted nor likely to be desirable.
Your model is good:
Is it slowing down the users?
Are we getting hammered by the electricity bill?
Is the machine getting tired?
However, it lets dirty code slide into use as long as you can say, "It is slowing down the users, but they will never notice and besides, our electricity bill is not rising too much."
Like the real Donald (Knuth) said: "premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming".
The keyword here being "premature". Do not take it to mean optimization should never be done or even that optimization is unimportant. It is merely stating that getting optimization done before you have everything fully modeled out is a waste of time (for various reasons).
Who really cares if I can get a loop to run in 800ns instead of 1500ns, when the real bottleneck is a complex SQL query 11 lines up that joins 11 tables together and takes 3 full seconds to run?
To misquote a not-quite-famous Congress critter: A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, eventually we are talking about real time (minutes).
You do not exist in a vacuum. You think your application is the only one but I have hundreds of "applications", written by people just like you, who thought that the real bottleneck is elsewhere so why worry about this particular bottleneck?
This attitude is why I can notice the delay in a particular window opening up or why I see "hiccups" in the smoothness of my screensaver.
I am sure that numerous studies were performed to say that the user will never notice and that these "minor" delays do not affect anything... but these studies are wrong. I notice.
(Granted, you seem to be addressing a server application where the application truly is the only application that matters, but my point about unnecessary wasting of CPU cycles still stands. Should you go to the extremes that ancient assembly language hackers used to go through to make something not possible into possible? No. Each programmer should be trying to be as efficient with CPU time as possible.)
All you are arguing for is that the default view be simple. None of what you are saying necessarily implies that functionality be removed, despite you wording it that way.
The proper way to handle this situation is to make the default view simple so your dumb parents (your description, not mine) can use the "application" but make sure the functionality that intelligent people need is still accessible, possibly through an "Advanced View" button.
Are you saying your parents would be forced to click on an "Advanced View" button and use that as the default? Are you saying that the possibility that they might accidentally click on "Advanced View" and never click the "Basic View" button is so high that functionality MUST be removed from everyone?
Hm. Removing functionality is almost always a bad thing and the excuses you are giving are pathetic at best.
The story says the engineers found it was used rarely, citing that as the reason for removal.
This bothers me. Is Chrome sending "telemetry"? I do not recall agreeing to send telemetry to Google.
What about Chromium? Who would Chromium be sending the data to? If it is sending data by default, why?
The science is pretty solid: the average temperature of the world is getting warmer, we know what it causing it, and there will be effects, some of which will be negative.
Meh. Blowing away mod points for this but statements like this is what keeps keeps the deniers in business.
No. We do NOT know what is causing it. If we did, we could model it accurately.
What we do know for certain is that CO2 keeps heat trapped in the atmosphere. We are adding LOTS of CO2 to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is part of a chaotic and finely balanced system. CO2 is adding heat to that system (so we do actually know some of what is causing the heating).
In summary: We know that we are altering a system and by how much. We are unsure of other factors, some are even still unknown (how does the ocean absorb heat, distribute it, and eventually release it). Regardless of the unknowns, the facts that we do know indicate that our current practices are affecting the heat status of the planet.
Is heating of the planet a problem? That is not for Science to say. Science deals with facts and theory, not judgements. My personal opinion in all of this is that we need to be concerned about our "waste" products to ensure that the planet (the only place we can currently live) remains a livable location.
That makes the e-mail poison fruit. The fact that they we taken by a foreign power makes the whole event into a attack on our country. You are apologizing for the FSB attacking our core mission as a country for your own simplistic tribalism. That makes you a domestic enemy of the constitution.
Interesting way of spinning things.
The emails were not "taken by a foreign power", they were given away by insiders. The fact that a foreign power attempted to use them to their advantage is... well, let's just say that it is unsurprising.
I am unsure what you are going on about as far as "core mission" goes; however, your accusation of tribalism and then accusing the OP of being a domestic enemy... it is just an amazing example of hypocrisy.
Long story short, I have mod points and wanted to mod you down (something I rarely do) but figured offering you a reflection would be more valuable.
If I listen to the computer, I can't remember shit. If a passenger looks at the map and does essentially the same function, I can remember everything fine and well.
You implicitly trust the computer. When a human tells you, your brain does not blindly trust and tries to figure out if what the person is saying is true.
Computers never lie... unless programmed to do so.
Progressives want bigger gov't-backed safety nets and education opportunities, and conservatives believe that the private sector will make everyone's boat float higher if the gov't gets out of the way such that they don't need a safety net.
(Not directed at you personally)
Just give me my fucking money. I get it, you are the big bad brigands who took over civilization and will take your share before anyone else gets their share; however, if you do not leave anyone else a share, they will kill you.
Social safety nets and such are utter bullshit. You take my resources (as is proper, you are the brigand after all), and then, instead of giving any of it back, you promise that you will hold on to it for me just in case I have any troubles. Fuck you. You have never helped me. You never will. Give me my fucking money.
Water is only an infinite resource if you also assume energy (to decontaminate and desalinate) is also an infinite resource (it isn't).
Hm. The sun evaporates the water, thus removing the impurities. The evaporated water then condenses and falls back down to the Earth.
You are correct that the sun is not infinite, but in relation to humans and their timescales, it is effectively infinite.
This is going to sound misogynist but it is merely a statement of fact: I have personally never met a female who was even passingly competent at Security.
I have been in this industry for roughly 20 years. I have seen lots of females in and around this industry. I have met a few females who were excellent sysadmins. I have never seen a female who was even mediocre in Security, much less competent or skilled.
I am unsure why this is. I am certain I will get skewered for even guessing... and guessing is silly anyways. Your move, women. Explain to everyone why this is.