I mean granted, they both start with the letter E, but other than that they are completely different concepts. Even this lunkhead at NYT should've been able to grasp the difference.
Yes Trump administration sought to reduce the fuel-efficiency requirements. Yes the oil industry lobbied hard for it, more fuel used by people = more money for them. But this is a fuel EFFICIENCY issue. Not emissions. Emission means air pollution. You can have an inefficient car that gets very low miles per gallon, and yet have a very clean tailpipe that does not contribute to smog.
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area. You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
Then grow some balls, learn from the French and go out there and break something. Bring all your buddies. Burn some shit down. Go torch a couple of Apple stores. They will get the message quick and retreat. Note how quickly Macron folded and gave up his fossil fuel Climate Tax once a couple hundred thousand Frenchies took to the streets.
Problem with you red state "conservatives" is that all you do is sit on you fat asses drinking beer and watching NASCAR. You don't actually *do* anything when action is needed. Only whine and gripe on your keyboard and talk radio.
BTW I'm completely serious, if you get even 10,000 angry marchers I'll bet you Apple leaves town in a hurry.
We're still leading the world in flying car research papers and cold fusion research papers. So when it comes to spending money on futuristic shit that will never actually happen in real life, America is still #1!
Google Buzz, Google Wave. I remember those from reading about em on Slashdot when they were first launched by Google. They were both social networking "Facebook killers", if I recall correctly.
But hate speech must be stopped. There is no room in a civilised society for hate speech. Anyone creating, promoting, or liking hate speech must be blocked from the enlightened Web of the Future.
It's programmers at Google who made the changes. TFT makes it sound like Google Translate became sentient, then became woke (in the social justice sense), and came to the conclusion, all on its own, that defaulting to masculine gender is sexist/misogynist/bad.
Lie "detectors" always have been, are today, and will always be snake oil.
Not true. They work and they are useful... if the subject being interrogated believes they work.
It's almost like the placebo effect, except that placebo effectiveness is around 20 percent, whereas lie detector effectiveness is over 50 percent (and sometimes approaches 80 percent). Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert comics) explained this on his blog. He is a trained hypnotist and studies mental persuasion.
Yes you can easily beat any polygraph if you receive training. But how many people in the general population actually get such training? And btw it's not enough to hear or read about how polygraphs don't work, you actually have to have some first-hand experience on how they operate... you need to see for yourself that you can manipulate the readings by doing various things (thinking different thoughts, feeling discomfort and pain by deliberately doing things like stepping on a nail hidden in your shoe, etc)
Case in point: when you join a spy agency, they don't just tell you that polygraphs aren't scientific and they don't work, so don't worry about it. They give you actual live training on how to beat it. Because just tellling you about it isn't enough.
Free linux distros isn't communism, it's volunteer work. Like how if you volunteer to tutor a neighborhood kid in math for free, because you feel like doing something decent.
Communism Linux would be, if the state forcefully took possession of Red Hat and SuSe and all other money-generating Linux-related entities, and redistributed the funds to everyone involved.
Switzerland seems to be one of those rare oddball countries where the government actually works for the benefit of its citizens. Not the benefit of some other countries' citizens, or for the benefit of whoever gave out the most bribes to the politicians.
Utterly shocking if you're from place with a corrupt government like the United States or the EU.
Now before you liberals all go into rapture, note that the Swiss government will kick out illegal immigrants because they have determined (correctly) that having too many illegal immigrants does not benefit Swiss citizens.
AI researchers finally admit that human intelligence cannot be duplicated by machines?
Currently there's a fundamental assumption that awareness of self (and thus intelligence) is the result of the right mix of brain chemistry and electrical impulses, and therefore a silicon-based machine can be just as good as a carbon-based meat machine. But what if this assumption is.... wrong?
Now don't start ranting at me about the nonexistence of Jeebus and Yaweh, yeah I get it, you hate them. But many (probably majority) of you are liberals, and liberals love yoga and buddhism. Every liberal I've met say they admire them. Some of them even practice yoga and buddhist meditation. But you guys are doing just the shallowest, superficial things in yoga and buddhism while missing the most basic and fundamental concept -- you are an immortal spirit that's only inhabiting a physical body. Past lives. Reincarnation. Endless cycle of birth and death. The whole point of buddhism, yoga, hinduism, mysticism, metaphysics, *everything*..... is to break out of this cycle by achieving spiritual enlightenment.
It's like watching a primitive tribesman opening a car door and putting on the seat belt and then getting out and closing the door over and over again, and thinking that's the whole point of a car.
not just the internet, this whole computer thing seems pretty insecure.
Almost seems like the eggheads who designed and created these things did it that way on purpose, so there'd always be a strong demand in the future for people who understand this stuff.
Agreed. I like motorsports and I like speed records, but I could never get excited about those things... it's just a rocket with wheels. Not a car.
SR-70 Blackbird has wheels, it can roll on the ground very well, but I wouldn't call it a car. A car is propelled by drive wheels. If your vehicle is jet propelled and the wheels don't do anything except get dragged along, it's not a car.
idk... sounds fishy to me. If someone says "Dude, your car's gas tank has a hole in it", do you go search your email and financial records to see it it's true? Why not go to your fucking car and examine the gas tank and see if there's a hole?
Email searches, datacenter records, financial records, shipment records.
Why are you looking at emails and financial records? They're alleging that China hacked you by physically inserting a spy chip on your server motherboards. What makes you think your emails will have any evidence of this?
HGTV has inspired a fad in housing where everyone wants to see everything in their house from the kitchen. You HAVE to be able to see everything inside the house from the kitchen, or your house is DATED. So they knock down interior walls and spend big bucks adding support structures to make the house one gigantic room.
I'm just waiting for some idiot on HGTV to take it a step further and put all the bathrooms in the same gigantic uni-room as the rest of the house. Walls are bad!
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I mean granted, they both start with the letter E, but other than that they are completely different concepts. Even this lunkhead at NYT should've been able to grasp the difference.
Yes Trump administration sought to reduce the fuel-efficiency requirements. Yes the oil industry lobbied hard for it, more fuel used by people = more money for them. But this is a fuel EFFICIENCY issue. Not emissions. Emission means air pollution. You can have an inefficient car that gets very low miles per gallon, and yet have a very clean tailpipe that does not contribute to smog.
nice looking views from space
https://twitter.com/virgingala...
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area. You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
Then grow some balls, learn from the French and go out there and break something. Bring all your buddies. Burn some shit down. Go torch a couple of Apple stores. They will get the message quick and retreat. Note how quickly Macron folded and gave up his fossil fuel Climate Tax once a couple hundred thousand Frenchies took to the streets.
Problem with you red state "conservatives" is that all you do is sit on you fat asses drinking beer and watching NASCAR. You don't actually *do* anything when action is needed. Only whine and gripe on your keyboard and talk radio.
BTW I'm completely serious, if you get even 10,000 angry marchers I'll bet you Apple leaves town in a hurry.
We're still leading the world in flying car research papers and cold fusion research papers. So when it comes to spending money on futuristic shit that will never actually happen in real life, America is still #1!
Google Buzz, Google Wave. I remember those from reading about em on Slashdot when they were first launched by Google. They were both social networking "Facebook killers", if I recall correctly.
weren't they also social messaging something or another? What happened to those?
But hate speech must be stopped. There is no room in a civilised society for hate speech. Anyone creating, promoting, or liking hate speech must be blocked from the enlightened Web of the Future.
It's programmers at Google who made the changes. TFT makes it sound like Google Translate became sentient, then became woke (in the social justice sense), and came to the conclusion, all on its own, that defaulting to masculine gender is sexist/misogynist/bad.
Lie "detectors" always have been, are today, and will always be snake oil.
Not true. They work and they are useful... if the subject being interrogated believes they work.
It's almost like the placebo effect, except that placebo effectiveness is around 20 percent, whereas lie detector effectiveness is over 50 percent (and sometimes approaches 80 percent). Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert comics) explained this on his blog. He is a trained hypnotist and studies mental persuasion.
Yes you can easily beat any polygraph if you receive training. But how many people in the general population actually get such training? And btw it's not enough to hear or read about how polygraphs don't work, you actually have to have some first-hand experience on how they operate... you need to see for yourself that you can manipulate the readings by doing various things (thinking different thoughts, feeling discomfort and pain by deliberately doing things like stepping on a nail hidden in your shoe, etc)
Case in point: when you join a spy agency, they don't just tell you that polygraphs aren't scientific and they don't work, so don't worry about it. They give you actual live training on how to beat it. Because just tellling you about it isn't enough.
Free linux distros isn't communism, it's volunteer work. Like how if you volunteer to tutor a neighborhood kid in math for free, because you feel like doing something decent.
Communism Linux would be, if the state forcefully took possession of Red Hat and SuSe and all other money-generating Linux-related entities, and redistributed the funds to everyone involved.
aside from being another new buzzword to learn, that is
Given that china still owns a significant amount of our debt, we're surely in trouble.
That could actually be worse for them than it is for us.
There's a saying: if I owe you a thousand dollars, I have a problem. If I owe you a trillion dollars, *you* have a problem.
Canadian Technology! (raises fist with blackberry in hand)
You can get all the tritium you need by capturing Spider-man alive and giving him to Harry Osbourne.
Switzerland seems to be one of those rare oddball countries where the government actually works for the benefit of its citizens. Not the benefit of some other countries' citizens, or for the benefit of whoever gave out the most bribes to the politicians.
Utterly shocking if you're from place with a corrupt government like the United States or the EU.
Now before you liberals all go into rapture, note that the Swiss government will kick out illegal immigrants because they have determined (correctly) that having too many illegal immigrants does not benefit Swiss citizens.
Um.... fuck Netflix. AND fuck Disney. Just use piratebay. Let these greedy corporate scum die already.
AI researchers finally admit that human intelligence cannot be duplicated by machines?
Currently there's a fundamental assumption that awareness of self (and thus intelligence) is the result of the right mix of brain chemistry and electrical impulses, and therefore a silicon-based machine can be just as good as a carbon-based meat machine. But what if this assumption is.... wrong?
Now don't start ranting at me about the nonexistence of Jeebus and Yaweh, yeah I get it, you hate them. But many (probably majority) of you are liberals, and liberals love yoga and buddhism. Every liberal I've met say they admire them. Some of them even practice yoga and buddhist meditation. But you guys are doing just the shallowest, superficial things in yoga and buddhism while missing the most basic and fundamental concept -- you are an immortal spirit that's only inhabiting a physical body. Past lives. Reincarnation. Endless cycle of birth and death. The whole point of buddhism, yoga, hinduism, mysticism, metaphysics, *everything*..... is to break out of this cycle by achieving spiritual enlightenment.
It's like watching a primitive tribesman opening a car door and putting on the seat belt and then getting out and closing the door over and over again, and thinking that's the whole point of a car.
not just the internet, this whole computer thing seems pretty insecure.
Almost seems like the eggheads who designed and created these things did it that way on purpose, so there'd always be a strong demand in the future for people who understand this stuff.
It's okay, Steiner will counterattack and repel the Russians from the Berlin perimeter.
Mein Fuhrer...
Mein Fuhrer, Steiner was not able to find enough men to mount a counterattack.
Everybody leave this room now, except Yodel Krebs and Bugdorf.
Agreed. I like motorsports and I like speed records, but I could never get excited about those things... it's just a rocket with wheels. Not a car.
SR-70 Blackbird has wheels, it can roll on the ground very well, but I wouldn't call it a car. A car is propelled by drive wheels. If your vehicle is jet propelled and the wheels don't do anything except get dragged along, it's not a car.
Elon is correct, it was pulled because of too much confusion. The autopilot kept getting too confused by white colored objects and pedestrians.
idk... sounds fishy to me. If someone says "Dude, your car's gas tank has a hole in it", do you go search your email and financial records to see it it's true? Why not go to your fucking car and examine the gas tank and see if there's a hole?
Email searches, datacenter records, financial records, shipment records.
Why are you looking at emails and financial records? They're alleging that China hacked you by physically inserting a spy chip on your server motherboards. What makes you think your emails will have any evidence of this?
you're doing the parenting thing wrong.
Steve Jobs himself wouldn't let his own kids anywhere near an iPhone or an iPad.
HGTV has inspired a fad in housing where everyone wants to see everything in their house from the kitchen. You HAVE to be able to see everything inside the house from the kitchen, or your house is DATED. So they knock down interior walls and spend big bucks adding support structures to make the house one gigantic room.
I'm just waiting for some idiot on HGTV to take it a step further and put all the bathrooms in the same gigantic uni-room as the rest of the house. Walls are bad!