Yeah, those Easter Islanders couldn't have done anything to stop the loss of all those trees now, could they? How stupid can you be? You use a perfect example of Anthropomorphic Environment Change as an example that the current changes can't be happening due to people. Unless I missed the sarcasm in your post or something. You are aware that the trees were all cut down . . . by people . ..?
The depressing thought is that if your efforts actually help that gives the deniers ever more evidence that they were correct. I am thinking of all the people that say the Y2K preparing was a waste of time because the world didn't end and planes didn't fall out of the sky. Many people spent a long time preventing that stuff from happening, but the fact that they succeeded means that they wasted their time?! I did experience a Y2K event so I see that it wasn't just all smoke and mirrors. (Minor event - bar lost power and registers never booted back up. Cash transactions for the rest of the night.) On the other hand, looking at the ozone hole and how that healed after we stopped using CFCs shows that we can make a difference and protect the environment that we rely on.
If the government started going around stabbing everyone on the street with forks, then I would say a ban on the government using forks would be called for! Wouldn't you? Or do you think the government should be able to do anything it would like to do as long as it says it should be able to do it?
It is very true that trying to match a face from a real world camera (security camera or otherwise) is difficult. You end up with way too many possible matches. If you have standardized mug shots with good lighting it still gives you too many matches. The only place it works ok is when you want to compare the person attempting to get through the security door with the id stored in the system. On a one to one match it is 95% accurate. But when you try to match that to the millions of people in the mug shot database you still end up with thousands of people.
The way to make it more accurate for street cameras is to build a model of each persons' face using many images from different angles and lighting sources. This can drive your accuracy up. The horrible thing is there are many facebook users that are helping to create this database of facial models. And you don't even have to have a facebook account to have someone who knows you start tagging you face in all the pictures that people put into the system. So rather than create a new system to do this, they should just tap into facebook's system and use it. Not that I want them to do this mind you. I think it is just more illegal overreach of an out of control government.
There was a good report on this on NPR a few weeks ago if you want to read or hear about it in more detail.
If there are ways to reproduce the good taste, then why don't they do that with the non-alcoholic beer and wine? And veggie burgers taste just like real beef too, right? I don't think it is as easy as you think it is.
Unless the murder for hire is used for politicians. I think that should be legalized. Oh, and murder for hire for people that work for illegal organizations like the NSA too.
That's because it's not really prohibited. You just need to get your Pot stamp to be allowed to buy or use Pot. The fact that the stamps are not made is not the governments fault.
I realize this is no longer the case, but it is how he marijuana prohibition started out. They just started out regulating it with tax stamps that were impossible to get. They like to find ways to skirt the law to their own desires. Nevermind the fact that skirting the law is called breaking it if we do it. It's basically the same thing the NSA and the FISA courts have been doing lately.
I think that keeping the name Dread Pirate Roberts is very appropriate to the movie it came from.
Dread Pirate Roberts:
Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'
You are mostly right about how the people reacted after 9/11. But don't forget, the legislation was drafted well before the event took place. The 9/11 attack was only the rallying cry that allowed them to get the votes needed to pass that legislation into law. People are indeed scared and panicky, but other people too advantage of the situation to grab power for themselves.
During my visit to France I found the waiters in Paris to be perfectly civil. The only place we found a rude waiter was in the middle of the country when we were staying at one of those chateaus somewhere. And she wasn't rude to use directly, but my wife could understand some of the French she spoke after taking our order. The funniest part is she was complaining about the English coming over the channel while we were actually Americans. The only other case was our fault for ordering a pastry inside and then sitting at an outdoor table. I think they have different tax rates for to-go vs take out. But overall I would say they were just as friendly in France as I experience in America, if not more so.
We had the same kind of stove to heat our house in northern Illinois when I was young. One negative aspect to the double-barrel wood stove was the smell of smoke in our clothes. Maybe it was just our and it wasn't made as well or something, but people would always be commenting on how they smelled bacon wherever we went.
Yes, I'm sure that is a big part of it. The low teacher to student ratio can't hurt either as you can easily tailor your lesson to how your child learns best and not move on until they got it. In a class room you have to move on or every body else will be held up. The converse would also be true, where you can move past a section they understand without explaining it over and over for the slow dim-wits in the class and end up making the smart ones bored. Sometimes you might even drop a subject for a few weeks and come back to it later. These things are not done in public school.
I did read an article about public schools "flipping" the class around and having great success at it. Basically they would video record the lesson for the kids to watch at home and they would do the homework in class while the teacher would spend some time with each student making sure they got it. Not sure if that will spread or take off, but the current teach to the test method seems to be failing in my mind.
I do agree that the religious wackos are quite prevalent in the homeschool meet-up groups. I mean wackos as the ones that aren't just church attending people but the ones that choose homeschool so that they can indoctrinate their kids and make sure they believe the world is only 6000 years old and flat. And by prevalent I mean I see more of them than I do in my normal daily life, not that there are over 50% or anything. I have also noticed that many of the parents start out interested in homeschooling, but then they feel the pressure to get their kid into preschool so they don't get left behind and end up in the public school system anyway. But I have also seen some where the kids were taken out of public school at a later age and did much better. Especially if there are any behaviour or learning issues. You can't beat 1 to 1 or even 1 to a few teacher student ratio.
Well, that is true. They could do that. I wouldn't imagine that would go any further that the one generation though. The next one to come out, Xbox 4, would need an updated OS, and MS isn't likely to do that for free. Plus, they would be in the business of selling Windows and Office and not much else. It seems strange that they would not want to milk those for all they could.
Yes, but Microsoft does not have to pay patent fees to itself. Plus, once it is sold off, each Xbox will need to buy a copy of Windows Xbox or whatever they call it to run on the hardware. Another company would have a huge negative against them even starting off. Perhaps Steam would buy it and put their Linux Steam box on there instead. Already have the hardware in the works, now they would have the branding to go along with it. My opinion is doing that would actually hurt their image. I am much more excited about the Steam Box than I am about the next Xbox.
That's just it. When the politicians are forbidden from having armed guards, then their law proposals can be debated. Until then, they deserve to be shot by their own guard every time they try to make guns illegal.
That would not be a replace the use of CAPTCHA, as even making an account usually requires verification of human interaction. If a bot can make a million accounts and add descriptions to the images, then they can spew spam or whatever they are doing with the bot accounts.
If it was spinning so fast you could not see the spiralling, then you would not have separate tails either. They would all blend together into one big blurred tail. I think it is electrical arc machining due to difference in voltage potential in the object and it's location in space. Electric Universe theory keeps popping up everytime I see these new discoveries in space.
I especially loved the article linked from that one about the "X" shaped asteroid. They say it must have been a collision with an oddly shaped object, like how a brick makes an oddly shaped splash. Which I have never seen! Splashes in water are always round no matter the shape of the object. And let's pretend they are correct, and the shape makes a difference. Then that destroys their explanation of impact craters always being round no matter the direction of impact because the force is so powerful it explodes into a round shape anyway. But when it's a 18,000 KPH projectile hitting an asteroid in space, then our rules about explosion shape does not apply anymore?! Who are they trying to kid with this crap! Or is it a cover-up for alien technology and they can't actually admit the truth?
So to pass emissions tests they just collect the soot only to send it out into the air at a later time. Seem about right even if it is pretty messed up!
Homeschooling by idiotic parents is tantamount to child abuse. OK, that describes most home schooling.
Right!!! Because sending your kid to schools like these is sooo much better!! You are aware that homeschooled kids that have neither parent with a college degree still rank in the 95th percentile. And if at least one of the parents has a college degree it is 98th percentile. Plus they aren't taught just how to take the next standardized test that is coming up with no focus on understanding anything.
In the free market, there would be a company that would create a clean river for swimming in and they would charge you money to access that river. See, it's simple. The natural resources all get destroyed and we end up having to spend money to buy new ones from "job creaters"! It's very similar to the "Perri-Air" from Space Balls.
Wow! In googling to ensure I spelled "Perri-Air" correctly I came across an article about a company in China that is selling cans of fresh air. I guess the real world ends up at least as strange as fiction. Does this mean Idiocracy will also come true someday?!
Yep, that's was I came to say. If you remove the target, then you will not have the shooting. Perhaps it wouldn't be everybody's target, but in this case the TSA people were the target. If you go and make the TSA even more powerful and oppressive you will just end up with more people targeting that very group. So yeah, get rid of the TSA and you get rid of the target for the shooting.
So, you make them type your email address in so they can send you their Vcard? And what do you do, recite the email verbally and hope they got the letters, numbers, and formatting just right that it gets to you correctly. It would seem easier to just hand them a business card so they could be sure they spelled it correctly!
It sounds like the side scroller dude didn't know much about OpenGL then. It supports putting 2D images on the screen. Anything from full 2D game like Super Mario, to playing 2D animated sprites in a 3D world (3D modeled ship explodes with 2D fireball). I suppose if you selected a poorly made 3D engine that did not implement all the features of your 3D api, then that will give you problems.
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Yeah, those Easter Islanders couldn't have done anything to stop the loss of all those trees now, could they? How stupid can you be? You use a perfect example of Anthropomorphic Environment Change as an example that the current changes can't be happening due to people. Unless I missed the sarcasm in your post or something. You are aware that the trees were all cut down . . . by people . . .?
The depressing thought is that if your efforts actually help that gives the deniers ever more evidence that they were correct. I am thinking of all the people that say the Y2K preparing was a waste of time because the world didn't end and planes didn't fall out of the sky. Many people spent a long time preventing that stuff from happening, but the fact that they succeeded means that they wasted their time?! I did experience a Y2K event so I see that it wasn't just all smoke and mirrors. (Minor event - bar lost power and registers never booted back up. Cash transactions for the rest of the night.) On the other hand, looking at the ozone hole and how that healed after we stopped using CFCs shows that we can make a difference and protect the environment that we rely on.
If the government started going around stabbing everyone on the street with forks, then I would say a ban on the government using forks would be called for! Wouldn't you? Or do you think the government should be able to do anything it would like to do as long as it says it should be able to do it?
It is very true that trying to match a face from a real world camera (security camera or otherwise) is difficult. You end up with way too many possible matches. If you have standardized mug shots with good lighting it still gives you too many matches. The only place it works ok is when you want to compare the person attempting to get through the security door with the id stored in the system. On a one to one match it is 95% accurate. But when you try to match that to the millions of people in the mug shot database you still end up with thousands of people.
The way to make it more accurate for street cameras is to build a model of each persons' face using many images from different angles and lighting sources. This can drive your accuracy up. The horrible thing is there are many facebook users that are helping to create this database of facial models. And you don't even have to have a facebook account to have someone who knows you start tagging you face in all the pictures that people put into the system. So rather than create a new system to do this, they should just tap into facebook's system and use it. Not that I want them to do this mind you. I think it is just more illegal overreach of an out of control government.
There was a good report on this on NPR a few weeks ago if you want to read or hear about it in more detail.
If there are ways to reproduce the good taste, then why don't they do that with the non-alcoholic beer and wine? And veggie burgers taste just like real beef too, right? I don't think it is as easy as you think it is.
Unless the murder for hire is used for politicians. I think that should be legalized. Oh, and murder for hire for people that work for illegal organizations like the NSA too.
That's because it's not really prohibited. You just need to get your Pot stamp to be allowed to buy or use Pot. The fact that the stamps are not made is not the governments fault.
I realize this is no longer the case, but it is how he marijuana prohibition started out. They just started out regulating it with tax stamps that were impossible to get. They like to find ways to skirt the law to their own desires. Nevermind the fact that skirting the law is called breaking it if we do it. It's basically the same thing the NSA and the FISA courts have been doing lately.
I think that keeping the name Dread Pirate Roberts is very appropriate to the movie it came from.
Dread Pirate Roberts:
Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'
You are mostly right about how the people reacted after 9/11. But don't forget, the legislation was drafted well before the event took place. The 9/11 attack was only the rallying cry that allowed them to get the votes needed to pass that legislation into law. People are indeed scared and panicky, but other people too advantage of the situation to grab power for themselves.
During my visit to France I found the waiters in Paris to be perfectly civil. The only place we found a rude waiter was in the middle of the country when we were staying at one of those chateaus somewhere. And she wasn't rude to use directly, but my wife could understand some of the French she spoke after taking our order. The funniest part is she was complaining about the English coming over the channel while we were actually Americans. The only other case was our fault for ordering a pastry inside and then sitting at an outdoor table. I think they have different tax rates for to-go vs take out. But overall I would say they were just as friendly in France as I experience in America, if not more so.
We had the same kind of stove to heat our house in northern Illinois when I was young. One negative aspect to the double-barrel wood stove was the smell of smoke in our clothes. Maybe it was just our and it wasn't made as well or something, but people would always be commenting on how they smelled bacon wherever we went.
Yes, I'm sure that is a big part of it. The low teacher to student ratio can't hurt either as you can easily tailor your lesson to how your child learns best and not move on until they got it. In a class room you have to move on or every body else will be held up. The converse would also be true, where you can move past a section they understand without explaining it over and over for the slow dim-wits in the class and end up making the smart ones bored. Sometimes you might even drop a subject for a few weeks and come back to it later. These things are not done in public school.
I did read an article about public schools "flipping" the class around and having great success at it. Basically they would video record the lesson for the kids to watch at home and they would do the homework in class while the teacher would spend some time with each student making sure they got it. Not sure if that will spread or take off, but the current teach to the test method seems to be failing in my mind.
I do agree that the religious wackos are quite prevalent in the homeschool meet-up groups. I mean wackos as the ones that aren't just church attending people but the ones that choose homeschool so that they can indoctrinate their kids and make sure they believe the world is only 6000 years old and flat. And by prevalent I mean I see more of them than I do in my normal daily life, not that there are over 50% or anything. I have also noticed that many of the parents start out interested in homeschooling, but then they feel the pressure to get their kid into preschool so they don't get left behind and end up in the public school system anyway. But I have also seen some where the kids were taken out of public school at a later age and did much better. Especially if there are any behaviour or learning issues. You can't beat 1 to 1 or even 1 to a few teacher student ratio.
Well, that is true. They could do that. I wouldn't imagine that would go any further that the one generation though. The next one to come out, Xbox 4, would need an updated OS, and MS isn't likely to do that for free. Plus, they would be in the business of selling Windows and Office and not much else. It seems strange that they would not want to milk those for all they could.
Yes, but Microsoft does not have to pay patent fees to itself. Plus, once it is sold off, each Xbox will need to buy a copy of Windows Xbox or whatever they call it to run on the hardware. Another company would have a huge negative against them even starting off. Perhaps Steam would buy it and put their Linux Steam box on there instead. Already have the hardware in the works, now they would have the branding to go along with it. My opinion is doing that would actually hurt their image. I am much more excited about the Steam Box than I am about the next Xbox.
That's just it. When the politicians are forbidden from having armed guards, then their law proposals can be debated. Until then, they deserve to be shot by their own guard every time they try to make guns illegal.
That would not be a replace the use of CAPTCHA, as even making an account usually requires verification of human interaction. If a bot can make a million accounts and add descriptions to the images, then they can spew spam or whatever they are doing with the bot accounts.
If it was spinning so fast you could not see the spiralling, then you would not have separate tails either. They would all blend together into one big blurred tail. I think it is electrical arc machining due to difference in voltage potential in the object and it's location in space. Electric Universe theory keeps popping up everytime I see these new discoveries in space.
I especially loved the article linked from that one about the "X" shaped asteroid. They say it must have been a collision with an oddly shaped object, like how a brick makes an oddly shaped splash. Which I have never seen! Splashes in water are always round no matter the shape of the object. And let's pretend they are correct, and the shape makes a difference. Then that destroys their explanation of impact craters always being round no matter the direction of impact because the force is so powerful it explodes into a round shape anyway. But when it's a 18,000 KPH projectile hitting an asteroid in space, then our rules about explosion shape does not apply anymore?! Who are they trying to kid with this crap! Or is it a cover-up for alien technology and they can't actually admit the truth?
So to pass emissions tests they just collect the soot only to send it out into the air at a later time. Seem about right even if it is pretty messed up!
Homeschooling by idiotic parents is tantamount to child abuse. OK, that describes most home schooling.
Right!!! Because sending your kid to schools like these is sooo much better!! You are aware that homeschooled kids that have neither parent with a college degree still rank in the 95th percentile. And if at least one of the parents has a college degree it is 98th percentile. Plus they aren't taught just how to take the next standardized test that is coming up with no focus on understanding anything.
In the free market, there would be a company that would create a clean river for swimming in and they would charge you money to access that river. See, it's simple. The natural resources all get destroyed and we end up having to spend money to buy new ones from "job creaters"! It's very similar to the "Perri-Air" from Space Balls.
Wow! In googling to ensure I spelled "Perri-Air" correctly I came across an article about a company in China that is selling cans of fresh air. I guess the real world ends up at least as strange as fiction. Does this mean Idiocracy will also come true someday?!
Yep, that's was I came to say. If you remove the target, then you will not have the shooting. Perhaps it wouldn't be everybody's target, but in this case the TSA people were the target. If you go and make the TSA even more powerful and oppressive you will just end up with more people targeting that very group. So yeah, get rid of the TSA and you get rid of the target for the shooting.
So, you make them type your email address in so they can send you their Vcard? And what do you do, recite the email verbally and hope they got the letters, numbers, and formatting just right that it gets to you correctly. It would seem easier to just hand them a business card so they could be sure they spelled it correctly!
You won't get anything done in an hour if I only check my email twice a day!
It sounds like the side scroller dude didn't know much about OpenGL then. It supports putting 2D images on the screen. Anything from full 2D game like Super Mario, to playing 2D animated sprites in a 3D world (3D modeled ship explodes with 2D fireball). I suppose if you selected a poorly made 3D engine that did not implement all the features of your 3D api, then that will give you problems.