Yeah, but even though the Democrats were The Party of Evil in around the time of Jackson and the Civil War they changed over to be The Party Of Good at some ill defined point in the 20th century. Then the Republicans saw a gap in the market and switched over from being the Party of Good to the Party of Evil.
At least that's what Democrats would have you believe. When they're not telling you that what America needs is fewer people who share your race, gender, sexuality and political beliefs.
I'd say those places are even more like prostitution. Particularly Hollywood, given the recent revelations about women being forced to sleep with people like Weinstein to get a job.
Actually what was even more striking about Hollywood is that presumably a lot of people knew about Weinstein's sexual degeneracy but you still had staunch feminists like Streep calling him 'God' ('Old Testament I guess') and 'The Punisher'
That's actually kind of arguable. OG Marxism said that people's primary identity was from class rather than race or gender.
Modern Identity politics says the opposite. So it doesn't matter if Mummy and Daddy paid for you to get a useless Ivy League degree after a well funded gap year, so long as you are part of, or at least claim to be part, of an oppressed group - non white, non male or non straight - you're part of the new proletariat. Conversely a working class straight white man is a part of the evil oppressor class because of his gender, sexuality and race.
I.e. modern identity politics is almost the inverse of OG Marxism. Long may it continue...
* You work very odd hours. * You are paid a lot of money to keep your client happy. * You are paid well but your pimp gets most of the money. * You spend a majority of your time in a hotel room. * You charge by the hour but your time can be extended for the right price. * You are not proud of what you do. * Creating fantasies for your clients is rewarded. * It's difficult to have a family. * You have no job satisfaction. * If a client beats you up, the pimp just sends you to another client. * You are embarrassed to tell people what you do for a living. * People ask you what you do and you can't explain it. * Your family hardly recognizes you at reunions (at least the reunions you attend). * Your friends have distanced themselves from you and you're left hanging with only other professionals. * Your client pays for your hotel room plus your hourly rate. * Your client always wants to know how much you charge and what they get for the money. * Your pimp drives nice cars like Mercedes or BMWs. * Your pimp encourages drinking and you become addicted to drugs to ease the pain of it all. * You know the pimp is charging more than you are worth but if the client is foolish enough to pay it's not your problem. * When you leave to go see a client, you look great, but return looking like hell (compare your appearance on Monday A.M. to Friday P.M.). * You are rated on your performance in an excruciating ordeal. * Even though you get paid the big bucks, it's the client who walks away smiling. * The client always thinks your cut of your billing rate is higher than it actually is, and in turn, expects miracles from you. * When you deduct your take from your billing rate, you constantly wonder if you could get a better deal with another pimp. * Everyday you wake up and tell yourself you're not going to be doing this stuff for the rest of your life.
Bateman: Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston, had four number one singles on it? Did you know that, Christie? Elizabeth: [laughing] You actually listen to Whitney Houston? You own a Whitney Houston CD? More than one? Bateman: [ignoring her] It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since, Elizabeth, it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.
and we how that levels aren't going up and down radically over centuries
Assuming that 'how' is a typo for 'know', no we don't. If global warming actually is serious it would be easier to transition away from carbon over much less than a century.
Is it serious now? Not really. January 2018 was 0.26 degrees C warmer than the average for 1979 to 2018. 0.26 degrees C is not a large number.
Actually regardless of global warming I think we'll see a transition away from carbon intensive fuels. E.g. the UK and US have both seen their carbon emissions drop as they move from coal to gas for power generation.
The UK's carbon dioxide emissions have fallen to their lowest level since the 19th century as coal use continues to plummet, analysis suggests.
Emissions of the major greenhouse gas fell almost 6 per cent year-on-year in 2016, after the use of coal for electricity more than halved to record lows, according to the Carbon Brief website, which reports on climate science and energy policy.
The assessment suggests carbon emissions in 2016 were around 381 million tonnes, putting the UK's carbon pollution at its lowest level - apart from during coal mining disputes in the 1920s - since 1894.
Carbon emissions in 2016 are around 36 per cent below the reference year of 1990, against which legal targets to cut climate pollution are measured.
Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions decreased by 89 million metric tons (MMmt), from 5,259 MMmt in 2015 to 5,170 MMmt in 2016. Although real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.5% over that period, other factors contributing to energy-related CO2 emissions more than offset the growth in GDP, leading to a 1.7% decline in energy-related CO2.
These factors include the following:
* A decline in the carbon intensity of the energy supply (CO2/British thermal units [Btu]) of 1.7% * A 1.4% decline in energy intensity (Btu/GDP)
Combining these two factors, the overall carbon intensity of the economy (CO2/GDP) declined by 3.1%.
Emissions have declined in 6 out of the past 10 years, and energyârelated CO2 emissions in 2016 were 823 MMmt (14%) below 2005 levels.
Of course it's worth pointing out that environmentalists have opposed fracking. Are global emissions going to go into decline anytime soon? Probably not, because of China. But in the US, UK and developed world they're already falling. And over centuries it's pretty much certain that new technologies - nuclear and renewable - will produce energy is less carbon intensive ways. In fact as the UK and US example shows it's already possible to produce energy in less carbon intensive ways.
I think this is anti-FUD by Uber; why, I'm not sure.
If the consensus view is that Uber will render human drivers obsolete and truck drivers unemployed then the odds are that various interest groups will organise and lobby to get regulatory changes to drive them out of business.
So Uber have spent what to them is pocket change to fund studies showing more Uber robotrucks means more jobs of truck drivers. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant to them. However I bet if you ever see an Uber spokesperson asked about 'What will happen to truck drivers? Won't they all lose their jobs?" they'll of course reference this study.
And if you pay people to do a study which assumes that 'dock to dock' runs are infeasible due to the state of AI but Uber trucks driving to transport hubs increase the amount of parcels delivered, it seems logical to assume that there'd need to be human truck drivers doing the last mile delivery to and from the transport hubs.
Of course it's far from clear that assumption is true. Tesla and Google both seem pretty confident that you can have self driving cars which do go dock to dock. If they can do it, there's no reason Uber can't.
However for PR reasons the've paid for some astroturf research based on the assumption that isn't possible because it comes up with the result that the future is bright for truck drivers.
I guess all it shows is that if you have a pile of cash you can hire some pretty smart PR people.
Woosh yourself. People use the Mauna Loa value as a proxy for the average level over earth because the records go back to 1958 and have very high resolution.
My point wasn't about the values at one point, it was that you don't have high resolution records for the distant past - they're not even accurate to one year. So you wouldn't be able to spot a change like the one that happened in the last 56 years. I doubt you could even get records accurate to 50 years for more than a few thousand years ago. So you've really got no idea if the 86 ppmv rise over the last 56 years is unprecedented or not.
Nonsense. They say the Battle of Waterloo was 'won on the playing-fields of Eton'. A bit of physical aggression is entirely natural in citizens of a world power.
To be quite honest I'd be up for arming the football players. Or enhancing them with cybernetic cannons. According to my calculations the 21st century will be 27.2% bloodier than the 20th.
At the very least we need to legalise steroid use.
" And because Adobe programmers were very sinful God revealed a zero day on a Friday and did say 'Only 5 days from public disclosure to a patch... Wouldn't wanna force y'all to work weekends, fucking jokers'. An lo! Adobe engineers trying to sneak out of work at 4:50pm were caught by God in his 'Lumbergh' form and asked to work at the weekend "
How do you know the present rate of change of CO2 is unprecedented. The Keeling Curve shows that CO2 levels at Mauna Loa have risen from 315 ppmv in 1958 to 401 ppmv in 2014. I.e. an increase of 86 ppmv over 56 years or 1.5 ppmv per year.
The problem with claiming that it is 'unprecedented' is that things like ice core measurements don't have enough resolution to be able to see CO2 measurements accurate to one year.
Geological processes in the past may well have put CO2 into the atmosphere at a faster rate than human fossil fuel usage in the 20th and 21st centuries.
We need to get back to the normal conditions on Earth - nice and warm and full of charismatic megafauna like the Cretaceous period. Ban hybrids I say, and impose federal maximum miles per rating for cars. Otherwise we might end up in an ice age!
Slashdot Mirror
My BTC holdings are now below where they were purchased, and frankly I can't pay back the loan I used if this doesn't turn around.
Buy on the dip dude. Remortgage your house and buy more! Don't miss out on the coming historic gains.
Leading Internet economists believe the tulip market cap will hit $2 brazillion by 2020.
Yeah, but even though the Democrats were The Party of Evil in around the time of Jackson and the Civil War they changed over to be The Party Of Good at some ill defined point in the 20th century. Then the Republicans saw a gap in the market and switched over from being the Party of Good to the Party of Evil.
At least that's what Democrats would have you believe. When they're not telling you that what America needs is fewer people who share your race, gender, sexuality and political beliefs.
I think leftist identity politics are a good thing because of the reaction they produce.
The Ribbon made me switch to Open Office. Though these days I use Libre Office because it seems like it's more stable on a Mac.
The other amazing thing is how MS Office went from much faster than the free alternative to much slower.
So much slower than the free alternative. And has a more irritating UI. I guess in retrospect you could see we'd reached peak Microsoft.
It'd be good for turn by turn directions.
HR drones are just algorithms and clever parlor tricks.
I'd say those places are even more like prostitution. Particularly Hollywood, given the recent revelations about women being forced to sleep with people like Weinstein to get a job.
Actually what was even more striking about Hollywood is that presumably a lot of people knew about Weinstein's sexual degeneracy but you still had staunch feminists like Streep calling him 'God' ('Old Testament I guess') and 'The Punisher'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's actually kind of arguable. OG Marxism said that people's primary identity was from class rather than race or gender.
Modern Identity politics says the opposite. So it doesn't matter if Mummy and Daddy paid for you to get a useless Ivy League degree after a well funded gap year, so long as you are part of, or at least claim to be part, of an oppressed group - non white, non male or non straight - you're part of the new proletariat. Conversely a working class straight white man is a part of the evil oppressor class because of his gender, sexuality and race.
I.e. modern identity politics is almost the inverse of OG Marxism. Long may it continue...
The Open Group was founded in 1996 and was about open systems not open source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The hardest people to find are people who will work in Silicon Valley for $50,000.
If you browse at threshold -1 there's that guy who posts the affiliate links to raise pennies because he works in silly valley for $50K.
I'm an engineer and have often been called a cad.
And not just the prostitution industry
http://www.lifeisajoke.com/wor...
PROSTITUTE OR CONSULTANT?
* You work very odd hours.
* You are paid a lot of money to keep your client happy.
* You are paid well but your pimp gets most of the money.
* You spend a majority of your time in a hotel room.
* You charge by the hour but your time can be extended for the right price.
* You are not proud of what you do.
* Creating fantasies for your clients is rewarded.
* It's difficult to have a family.
* You have no job satisfaction.
* If a client beats you up, the pimp just sends you to another client.
* You are embarrassed to tell people what you do for a living.
* People ask you what you do and you can't explain it.
* Your family hardly recognizes you at reunions (at least the reunions you attend).
* Your friends have distanced themselves from you and you're left hanging with only other professionals.
* Your client pays for your hotel room plus your hourly rate.
* Your client always wants to know how much you charge and what they get for the money.
* Your pimp drives nice cars like Mercedes or BMWs.
* Your pimp encourages drinking and you become addicted to drugs to ease the pain of it all.
* You know the pimp is charging more than you are worth but if the client is foolish enough to pay it's not your problem.
* When you leave to go see a client, you look great, but return looking like hell (compare your appearance on Monday A.M. to Friday P.M.).
* You are rated on your performance in an excruciating ordeal.
* Even though you get paid the big bucks, it's the client who walks away smiling.
* The client always thinks your cut of your billing rate is higher than it actually is, and in turn, expects miracles from you.
* When you deduct your take from your billing rate, you constantly wonder if you could get a better deal with another pimp.
* Everyday you wake up and tell yourself you're not going to be doing this stuff for the rest of your life.
Bateman: Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston, had four number one singles on it? Did you know that, Christie?
Elizabeth: [laughing] You actually listen to Whitney Houston? You own a Whitney Houston CD? More than one?
Bateman: [ignoring her] It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since, Elizabeth, it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.
and we how that levels aren't going up and down radically over centuries
Assuming that 'how' is a typo for 'know', no we don't. If global warming actually is serious it would be easier to transition away from carbon over much less than a century.
Is it serious now? Not really. January 2018 was 0.26 degrees C warmer than the average for 1979 to 2018. 0.26 degrees C is not a large number.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/la...
Actually regardless of global warming I think we'll see a transition away from carbon intensive fuels. E.g. the UK and US have both seen their carbon emissions drop as they move from coal to gas for power generation.
UK
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
The UK's carbon dioxide emissions have fallen to their lowest level since the 19th century as coal use continues to plummet, analysis suggests.
Emissions of the major greenhouse gas fell almost 6 per cent year-on-year in 2016, after the use of coal for electricity more than halved to record lows, according to the Carbon Brief website, which reports on climate science and energy policy.
The assessment suggests carbon emissions in 2016 were around 381 million tonnes, putting the UK's carbon pollution at its lowest level - apart from during coal mining disputes in the 1920s - since 1894.
Carbon emissions in 2016 are around 36 per cent below the reference year of 1990, against which legal targets to cut climate pollution are measured.
US
https://www.eia.gov/environmen...
Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions decreased by 89 million metric tons (MMmt), from 5,259 MMmt in 2015 to 5,170 MMmt in 2016. Although real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.5% over that period, other factors contributing to energy-related CO2 emissions more than offset the growth in GDP, leading to a 1.7% decline in energy-related CO2.
These factors include the following:
* A decline in the carbon intensity of the energy supply (CO2/British thermal units [Btu]) of 1.7%
* A 1.4% decline in energy intensity (Btu/GDP)
Combining these two factors, the overall carbon intensity of the economy (CO2/GDP) declined by 3.1%.
Emissions have declined in 6 out of the past 10 years, and energyârelated CO2 emissions in 2016 were 823 MMmt (14%) below 2005 levels.
Of course it's worth pointing out that environmentalists have opposed fracking. Are global emissions going to go into decline anytime soon? Probably not, because of China. But in the US, UK and developed world they're already falling. And over centuries it's pretty much certain that new technologies - nuclear and renewable - will produce energy is less carbon intensive ways. In fact as the UK and US example shows it's already possible to produce energy in less carbon intensive ways.
I think this is anti-FUD by Uber; why, I'm not sure.
If the consensus view is that Uber will render human drivers obsolete and truck drivers unemployed then the odds are that various interest groups will organise and lobby to get regulatory changes to drive them out of business.
So Uber have spent what to them is pocket change to fund studies showing more Uber robotrucks means more jobs of truck drivers. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant to them. However I bet if you ever see an Uber spokesperson asked about 'What will happen to truck drivers? Won't they all lose their jobs?" they'll of course reference this study.
And if you pay people to do a study which assumes that 'dock to dock' runs are infeasible due to the state of AI but Uber trucks driving to transport hubs increase the amount of parcels delivered, it seems logical to assume that there'd need to be human truck drivers doing the last mile delivery to and from the transport hubs.
Of course it's far from clear that assumption is true. Tesla and Google both seem pretty confident that you can have self driving cars which do go dock to dock. If they can do it, there's no reason Uber can't.
However for PR reasons the've paid for some astroturf research based on the assumption that isn't possible because it comes up with the result that the future is bright for truck drivers.
I guess all it shows is that if you have a pile of cash you can hire some pretty smart PR people.
So you're saying that cancer is the oppressed proletariat of the non germ cells rebelling against the tyranny of the 1% of germ cells?
Power to the people!
Experiments show that everything causes cancer in *rats*. But that's because rats are WEAK. Humanity STRONG!
[puffs on cigar and snorts a line of asbestos]
Woosh yourself. People use the Mauna Loa value as a proxy for the average level over earth because the records go back to 1958 and have very high resolution.
My point wasn't about the values at one point, it was that you don't have high resolution records for the distant past - they're not even accurate to one year. So you wouldn't be able to spot a change like the one that happened in the last 56 years. I doubt you could even get records accurate to 50 years for more than a few thousand years ago. So you've really got no idea if the 86 ppmv rise over the last 56 years is unprecedented or not.
Nonsense. They say the Battle of Waterloo was 'won on the playing-fields of Eton'. A bit of physical aggression is entirely natural in citizens of a world power.
To be quite honest I'd be up for arming the football players. Or enhancing them with cybernetic cannons. According to my calculations the 21st century will be 27.2% bloodier than the 20th.
At the very least we need to legalise steroid use.
Hey Buddy! You're supposed to say 'wife' instead of 'main broad'. Main broads hate being called that.
Dude! We're all getting a free i7-9700K!
" And because Adobe programmers were very sinful God revealed a zero day on a Friday and did say 'Only 5 days from public disclosure to a patch... Wouldn't wanna force y'all to work weekends, fucking jokers'. An lo! Adobe engineers trying to sneak out of work at 4:50pm were caught by God in his 'Lumbergh' form and asked to work at the weekend "
How do you know the present rate of change of CO2 is unprecedented. The Keeling Curve shows that CO2 levels at Mauna Loa have risen from 315 ppmv in 1958 to 401 ppmv in 2014. I.e. an increase of 86 ppmv over 56 years or 1.5 ppmv per year.
The problem with claiming that it is 'unprecedented' is that things like ice core measurements don't have enough resolution to be able to see CO2 measurements accurate to one year.
Geological processes in the past may well have put CO2 into the atmosphere at a faster rate than human fossil fuel usage in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Peter Rabbit, Tank Killer
CO2 levels were much higher in the past
We need to get back to the normal conditions on Earth - nice and warm and full of charismatic megafauna like the Cretaceous period. Ban hybrids I say, and impose federal maximum miles per rating for cars. Otherwise we might end up in an ice age!