I honestly think sic isn't needed there and I believe most news organizations are phasing it out in general.
I think it's better to assume that quotes are correctly quoted in the first place and to only use sic in instances where you specifically want to point out that the quote is mangling grammar or spelling in order to convey a specific impression to the reader.
I almost feel like you can replace 'transparency' with 'propaganda' in US government press and it'll read the same. It's not transparency if you get to pick and choose what you release.
They're even adding a new 'transparency official'. Might as well read propaganda officer at this point.
I think that's why this guy made Soylent but I don't think it has been around long enough (or used widely enough) to know if it's healthy long term or not.
If you read the site's blog or the creator's person blog you'll see that they've put a lot of research in but that's not enough for me to risk it.
I suspect the problem is that gun safes and gun locks are better and more reliable.
Anything that's 'smart' and portable probably uses a battery and batteries die. In the event that one actually needs a gun (which should be rather rare) you don't want to find out the battery is dead.
Now, a biometric/rfid/"smart" gun case or gun lock might be an improvement over traditional key locks. Maybe.
It was fairly obvious from context that I agreed that retina scanners are not needed. Don't use that to distract from the fact that you asserted that it was not a problem at all unless kids are "stupid".
There are ways that technology could fix such problems and make lives easier. Just not this technology.
I actually remember having quite a bit of anxiety about this as a kid. The buses weren't always parked in the same order and sometimes it could be really hard to see the numbers and there's a huge rush to get everyone on the buses and for buses to start leaving and you don't want to get left behind. Also, buses broke down and so the number could get changed and you may not have heard it announced over the intercom system for various reasons.
I think maybe one time I got on the wrong bus because I was in a conversation with a friend and we walked to the same place the bus usually was and didn't notice that there was a different bus there and we got on the wrong one (but with a little running we were fine). Of course, I didn't need something to beep at me to tell me that I was on the wrong bus. It was fairly obvious that the driver was different and that the wrong kids were in the seats.
I was also top of my class in a gifted program so I don't think it was an intelligence issue. There is a reason children are called children and not adults.
Egypt Revolution 1.0 was taken over by the military as well. Both times the military promptly handed over the reigns (or at least that's what was in the news, I dunno if that's how things actually worked on the ground but I suspect it was). The main difference that I noted was that in 1.0 the police largely clashed with the populace but in 2.0 the police said they would stay out of it because they don't like the Muslim Brotherhood either.
But, yeah, I feel really bad for the Egyptians. They already went through all of this turmoil two years ago. They deserve some stability already.
Bullshit. It was objectively standard for chemical weapons to be considered weapons of mass destruction way before Bush ever used the term. For example: 1972 UN Treaty http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/sea_bed/text 1998 CNN article http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html Or a billion other examples that are easy to find if you search any news or legislative archive.
And I used the government code web search for California, Louisiana, and Massachusetts to look up your state law claim. Only Louisiana had any law with a reference to "mass destruction" and that was most definitely not about simple explosives. So for a typical West Coast, East Coast, and Southern State there is no mention of Weapon of Mass Destruction and certainly not in the ridiculous manner of the federal law that says that a potato gun is a WMD ("any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title"->"expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter").
It's so broad that they had to specifically mention that shotguns are not WMDs! Absurd.
The ~/Library comment makes me think you're running Steam on a Mac, which is fine, but not the majority of users and obviously not the OS the GP was talking about. On Windows check out SteamService.exe (aka the Steam Client Service), it should be in your services list.
Most Steam users also have Steam installations that are older than the ability (before late 2012) to install games to different directories (excluding using symlinks/junction points/whatever) so games are installed into the default steam directory which is usually in a location that requires admin access to edit and a lot of games don't play nice with that.
Just because it's what has worked so far for "nature" doesn't mean that it's the best way or the way that we have to do things.
Ideally we'd figure out what bacteria are in dirt that we need to expose some kids to for healthy immune system development and we'd use that knowledge to more directly influence immune system development. "Nature" can't do that but luckily we might just be rational conscious entities with that potential.
We can afford to keep the "weak" alive as a species and I posit that it's better overall for community emotional, moral, and intellectual health.
I put nature in quotes because it's an idea that we made up and does not necessarily reflect reality (but it might).
The Kindle had (shitty) pdf support the same month as the Nook launched, though I'm sure the Nook competition is what pushed Amazon to add it.
DRM is not really an issue with a Kindle (or a Nook) because with Calibre you can automatically strip DRM from files and convert from any format to any format. It is trivial to buy from non-DRM sources and read those books on a Nook or Kindle.
Amazon once removed copies of books that it sold that it didn't have the right to sell and promptly said they wouldn't ever do it again. They also once canceled a woman's account (which may have wiped her device) due the kindle being resold or something. I don't really remember. I just remember that people made enough of a stink that they gave her back her account.
What really bothers me about Amazon is that their Kindles phone home with data about the books you read/location data/etc. Well, unless you keep your antenna off or manually kill that process.
And B&N helped kill all of my local bookstores before Amazon was even a thing. As long as authors get paid to keep writing books I don't even care anymore.
I run lynx/links/etc in a chroot jail, you insensitive clod!
In my experience most of the major browser exploits attack vulnerable plugins (flash, java, acrobat/pdf viewer, etc) or abuse scripting. If you restrict or disable said plugins and javascript then I'd say you're pretty darn safe. Granted, most "web 2.0" websites work like shit without javascript enabled but some stuff still works. For the more sane of us there are things like NoScript.
It's kind of hard for plain text and images to do bad things though I suppose it's been done before.
For many years I only ran Noscript and tried to resist running ABP because I'm sympathetic towards ad supported websites, having once run one myself.
Then when I came across justin.tv/twitch.tv I ran into flash ads that were LOUD and did not obey their flash player mute settings and left a permanent small graphic over the video even after the ad was done. That was too large of an insult for me and I immediately installed ABP. Occasionally I whitelist small websites that have "We see you have ABP and we're begging for revenue" messages but generally the rest of the ad-supported web is going to pay until they get their act together as an industry and regulate themselves.
Couldn't they make a script where they plug in a new nexus 7 and it roots and images a device based off of the initial working device and they're good to go?
That leaves 2 months of sunk costs working on the initial setup (what they claim in the video) and handling packaging/billing/shipping/tax.
First of all, this is neat. I've used usb host mode on my HP Touchpad to run a wireless adapter for kismet before just to see if I could. But mostly I don't think this is for consumers or enthusiasts .
Let's say $300 for the most expensive nexus 7 and they're selling this for $800.
Maybe $100 for all of the other extra hardware (very generous as the wifi adapter is $15-20, etc)
That means you're paying $400, half of the device, for them to: compile a custom kernel for android (turn on packet injection), install an ubuntu chroot, install most of the packages from apt, and build a couple of them from source. They're using an ubuntu chroot so no need for android custom gui apps.
$400 is a pretty hefty convenience cost but I guess I could see where for business purposes that would make sense for some people.
5 positions with 200+ resumes and you can't look at each resume?
I can read a 1000 page hardcover in three days without pushing it. Granted, a page in a book requires less time than a resume needs but I'm pretty sure I could at least look at each resume within a reasonable time frame.
Sure, resumes are probably a lot more boring to read but that's why it's called work.
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I honestly think sic isn't needed there and I believe most news organizations are phasing it out in general.
I think it's better to assume that quotes are correctly quoted in the first place and to only use sic in instances where you specifically want to point out that the quote is mangling grammar or spelling in order to convey a specific impression to the reader.
Didn't the various organized crime organizations do a bunch of car bombings (and other stuff) in the 60s and 70s? And obviously other periods too.
I remember reading about Cleveland being called the car bomb capital of America at one point.
I almost feel like you can replace 'transparency' with 'propaganda' in US government press and it'll read the same.
It's not transparency if you get to pick and choose what you release.
They're even adding a new 'transparency official'. Might as well read propaganda officer at this point.
I think that's why this guy made Soylent but I don't think it has been around long enough (or used widely enough) to know if it's healthy long term or not. If you read the site's blog or the creator's person blog you'll see that they've put a lot of research in but that's not enough for me to risk it.
What happens when you kill someone because you see it as acceptable that you're just a "very bad driver"?
I would work on that. You owe it to the local population (and yourself) to drive safely.
I'm fairly certain that you can make it mechanically impossible for this to happen in a needle jabbing machine.
And a human could have a seizure or something and jab the needle all the way through your arm.
To be honest, I trust well debugged and tested programming more than I trust people.
I, for one, welcome our future robotic overlords.
I suspect the problem is that gun safes and gun locks are better and more reliable.
Anything that's 'smart' and portable probably uses a battery and batteries die.
In the event that one actually needs a gun (which should be rather rare) you don't want to find out the battery is dead.
Now, a biometric/rfid/"smart" gun case or gun lock might be an improvement over traditional key locks. Maybe.
It was fairly obvious from context that I agreed that retina scanners are not needed.
Don't use that to distract from the fact that you asserted that it was not a problem at all unless kids are "stupid".
There are ways that technology could fix such problems and make lives easier. Just not this technology.
I actually remember having quite a bit of anxiety about this as a kid. The buses weren't always parked in the same order and sometimes it could be really hard to see the numbers and there's a huge rush to get everyone on the buses and for buses to start leaving and you don't want to get left behind. Also, buses broke down and so the number could get changed and you may not have heard it announced over the intercom system for various reasons.
I think maybe one time I got on the wrong bus because I was in a conversation with a friend and we walked to the same place the bus usually was and didn't notice that there was a different bus there and we got on the wrong one (but with a little running we were fine).
Of course, I didn't need something to beep at me to tell me that I was on the wrong bus. It was fairly obvious that the driver was different and that the wrong kids were in the seats.
I was also top of my class in a gifted program so I don't think it was an intelligence issue. There is a reason children are called children and not adults.
Egypt Revolution 1.0 was taken over by the military as well. Both times the military promptly handed over the reigns (or at least that's what was in the news, I dunno if that's how things actually worked on the ground but I suspect it was).
The main difference that I noted was that in 1.0 the police largely clashed with the populace but in 2.0 the police said they would stay out of it because they don't like the Muslim Brotherhood either.
But, yeah, I feel really bad for the Egyptians. They already went through all of this turmoil two years ago.
They deserve some stability already.
Bullshit. It was objectively standard for chemical weapons to be considered weapons of mass destruction way before Bush ever used the term.
For example:
1972 UN Treaty http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/sea_bed/text
1998 CNN article http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html
Or a billion other examples that are easy to find if you search any news or legislative archive.
And I used the government code web search for California, Louisiana, and Massachusetts to look up your state law claim. Only Louisiana had any law with a reference to "mass destruction" and that was most definitely not about simple explosives.
So for a typical West Coast, East Coast, and Southern State there is no mention of Weapon of Mass Destruction and certainly not in the ridiculous manner of the federal law that says that a potato gun is a WMD ("any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title"->"expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter").
It's so broad that they had to specifically mention that shotguns are not WMDs! Absurd.
The high cost? You do remember the PS3, right? That launched at $500 to $600 and that was in 2006 dollars and at a significant loss for Sony.
The Xbox One messes up on a lot of fronts but I can't really see people arguing the launch cost as extreme compared to historical console values.
Actually, any statistician I talk to always intends "median" when they say average.
When they want mean they say mean. This was a big surprise to me because in grade school it was the opposite.
We can definitely say that the United States' current methods and laws are not working.
We have the largest prison population in the world (and the largest per capita). For the supposed land of the free I think that says volumes.
The ~/Library comment makes me think you're running Steam on a Mac, which is fine, but not the majority of users and obviously not the OS the GP was talking about.
On Windows check out SteamService.exe (aka the Steam Client Service), it should be in your services list.
Most Steam users also have Steam installations that are older than the ability (before late 2012) to install games to different directories (excluding using symlinks/junction points/whatever) so games are installed into the default steam directory which is usually in a location that requires admin access to edit and a lot of games don't play nice with that.
The Government is not in the money making business. Comparing taxpayers to bank shareholders is dumb in this instance.
The return on investment in this case is (potentially) getting a new successful industry at very little cost to the tax payer.
Just because it's what has worked so far for "nature" doesn't mean that it's the best way or the way that we have to do things.
Ideally we'd figure out what bacteria are in dirt that we need to expose some kids to for healthy immune system development and we'd use that knowledge to more directly influence immune system development. "Nature" can't do that but luckily we might just be rational conscious entities with that potential.
We can afford to keep the "weak" alive as a species and I posit that it's better overall for community emotional, moral, and intellectual health.
I put nature in quotes because it's an idea that we made up and does not necessarily reflect reality (but it might).
The Kindle had (shitty) pdf support the same month as the Nook launched, though I'm sure the Nook competition is what pushed Amazon to add it.
DRM is not really an issue with a Kindle (or a Nook) because with Calibre you can automatically strip DRM from files and convert from any format to any format.
It is trivial to buy from non-DRM sources and read those books on a Nook or Kindle.
Amazon once removed copies of books that it sold that it didn't have the right to sell and promptly said they wouldn't ever do it again.
They also once canceled a woman's account (which may have wiped her device) due the kindle being resold or something. I don't really remember. I just remember that people made enough of a stink that they gave her back her account.
What really bothers me about Amazon is that their Kindles phone home with data about the books you read/location data/etc. Well, unless you keep your antenna off or manually kill that process.
And B&N helped kill all of my local bookstores before Amazon was even a thing. As long as authors get paid to keep writing books I don't even care anymore.
I run lynx/links/etc in a chroot jail, you insensitive clod!
In my experience most of the major browser exploits attack vulnerable plugins (flash, java, acrobat/pdf viewer, etc) or abuse scripting.
If you restrict or disable said plugins and javascript then I'd say you're pretty darn safe.
Granted, most "web 2.0" websites work like shit without javascript enabled but some stuff still works. For the more sane of us there are things like NoScript.
It's kind of hard for plain text and images to do bad things though I suppose it's been done before.
For many years I only ran Noscript and tried to resist running ABP because I'm sympathetic towards ad supported websites, having once run one myself.
Then when I came across justin.tv/twitch.tv I ran into flash ads that were LOUD and did not obey their flash player mute settings and left a permanent small graphic over the video even after the ad was done.
That was too large of an insult for me and I immediately installed ABP.
Occasionally I whitelist small websites that have "We see you have ABP and we're begging for revenue" messages but generally the rest of the ad-supported web is going to pay until they get their act together as an industry and regulate themselves.
Couldn't they make a script where they plug in a new nexus 7 and it roots and images a device based off of the initial working device and they're good to go?
That leaves 2 months of sunk costs working on the initial setup (what they claim in the video) and handling packaging/billing/shipping/tax.
First of all, this is neat. I've used usb host mode on my HP Touchpad to run a wireless adapter for kismet before just to see if I could.
But mostly I don't think this is for consumers or enthusiasts .
Let's say $300 for the most expensive nexus 7 and they're selling this for $800.
Maybe $100 for all of the other extra hardware (very generous as the wifi adapter is $15-20, etc)
That means you're paying $400, half of the device, for them to: compile a custom kernel for android (turn on packet injection), install an ubuntu chroot, install most of the packages from apt, and build a couple of them from source.
They're using an ubuntu chroot so no need for android custom gui apps.
$400 is a pretty hefty convenience cost but I guess I could see where for business purposes that would make sense for some people.
5 positions with 200+ resumes and you can't look at each resume?
I can read a 1000 page hardcover in three days without pushing it. Granted, a page in a book requires less time than a resume needs but I'm pretty sure I could at least look at each resume within a reasonable time frame.
Sure, resumes are probably a lot more boring to read but that's why it's called work.
The funny thing is that a kindle can actually be cheaper than a textbook now.