I don't know about the States, but here in Canada long-time customers were given a grandfathered period without increases, but mine was recently increased. Mind you, there is a lot of new programs available now; all the Star Trek series in particular, so as I busily rewatch TOS and DS9, not to mention other series like Hell On Wheels and X Files, I figure the price is worth it. Besides, compared to the absolute shit that is other streaming services in Canada (Shomi's Android app is just a gawdawful unstable piece of shit), Netflix still gives the best overall user experience.
So far as I understand it, at the moment the only real competitor for a quantum theory of gravity is quantum loop gravity, which has its own significant issues. This really is Smolin being disgruntled and trying to argue in the press what he has not been able to argue within the field itself. When scientists try to win their fights in the popular press, I'd say their motives automatically become suspect.
No, they're are postulates that even their strongest adherents admit cannot be tested at the moment, and may not ultimately be true. The authors confuse researchers tendency to argue in favor of theories with researchers overestimating the evidence.
The problem, as always, is people judging science by press releases, documentaries and the utter idiocy and ignorance of most scientific journalism.
Within physics itself, you know, the actual community of physicists, string theory is seen as an interesting model, but one that as of yet simply cannot be stated even in the most tenuous terms as an actual description of reality. That being said, string theory and other related theories have contributed a considerable amount to the mathematical toolkit available to physicists, so that even if they are ultimately discarded, they will have had their use.
I think someone should to go the Telcos and say "We want our money back, with interest, within fifteen minutes, or we start seizing assets and jailing executives and Boards."
Well, this is about 20 years ago now, but I administered a bookkeeping office in the early 90s that was using a Cobol-based accounting system. Actually it was a rather good accounting system that actually handled departmental accounting properly.
There's lots of junk developed on lots of platforms; Java, PHP,.NET, C/C++, Visual Basic 6 and all the VB for Apps legacy cruft automating everything from Microsoft Access forms to Word documents.
This sort of thing backfired on Germany before. After all, one Adolf Hitler was employed by the German security services to infiltrate a certain of far right extremists, and the rest, shall we say, was history.
Perhaps any private key stores in the hands of ISPs or other Russian services may end up in the Russian government's hands. But what about all the self-signed communications, or communications signed by keys external to Russia?
One wonders whether this is just an attempt at a bluff, as in "We'll find your secret communications, Comrade!" or whether Putin and his advisers are is ignorant of the underlying mathematics and technology as so many governments in the West are? On the face of it, whoever wrote this law has absolutely no fucking idea how encryption works on the Internet.
Nazis most certainly were populists, or at least posed as populists. Hitler didn't win power by proclaiming he was going to kill all the Jews or invading the rest of Europe, he got in because he promised to make Germany great again, to go after all the elements of German society that made it weak, and make everyone who he viewed as Germany's enemies pay for what they had done. While Mein Kampf had some pretty strong hints as to what he was thinking in the long-term, it wasn't until he had successfully remilitarized the Rhineland that he felt Germany could take on Europe, and it wasn't until he had abandoned all other means of getting rid of the Jews that the Final Solution was floated.
So yes, Trump is a lot like Hitler, in some respects at least. The populism, the finding of easy targets to scapegoat for all the ills, the rhetoric about how he will make his nation great and restore its glory. He's walked a few steps down the road of Hitler, the only real difference being that whatever else Hitler was, Hitler was capable of actual long-term thinking, planning, and political acumen. Trump appears to possess no such capabilities. What he does have in common with Hitler is the ability to say the unsayable and convince his followers that the unsayable is only unsayable because the enemies of the people don't want it said.
Either Trump is a Nazi, or possibly the most idiotic presidential candidate from one of the main parties ever to be found. Sometimes I confess I start to buy into the notion that he's a Democrat plant sent in to destroy the GOP.
Hillary Clinton is hardly the first Secretary of State to use back channels for communications and intelligence. Her method had some serious security issues, to be sure, and she's been rightly vilified for that, but to imagine that Secretaries of State since the office was instituted haven't used various means of varying degrees of (il)legality is absurdly naive.
The Republicans need someone to blame for the fact that they chose a self-aggrandizing Nazi as their Presidential candidate. They got so used to blaming the Clintons 20 years ago, why not continue now?
No, it won't, because it's not likely to end up being a closely contested election. Trump is a fucking retard who can't even fundraise properly. Clinton's election machine so outguns Trump's that it's almost like Trump is a third party candidate, and with the GOP now pretty iffy on fully backing him, his goose is as good as cooked. Their aren't enough Mexican-hating white men out there to save Trump.
Open source can be just as insanely irritating. There's nothing like getting some great open source daemon up and running, except for one niggling thing, spending a couple of hours searching the web and three or four mailman forums dedicated to the topic, trying out five or six things, three of which don't work, and three of which create configuration errors because you're either a version behind or a version too far. Finally, in frustration, you subscribe to the mailing list only to learn that you've subscribed to the developer list, where you're promptly told by the Gods of that particular Olympus to stop bothering them with configuration issues. So you go back, find the user list, subscribe to that, where you post a message, get no response, go look at the archives, find that there's a flame war going on about the usability of this project to some other similar project. So you post a second time, and this time someone responds, "Why are you using version 0.9.3.51a, that was just such a totally bogus version that a previous contributor, SnogRag52 before he forked the project, pushed through a bunch of untested revisions, so download 0.9.3.52b, you idiot!"
The reason blue collar workers are in trouble is because of China, and now India. The immigrants, illegal or legal, are not stealing jobs, they're doing jobs no one else wants to do. Meanwhile the likes of Trump speak of a fantasy, a naive reimagining of life in a major industrialized country that is already, like so many industrial nations, well into the post-industrial phase.
No doubt about it. Star Trek's keepers are turning their backs on the fans. It was the fans that kept it going during the dark days of the 1970s and the period after Enterprise's cancellation. Their reward for that is to be kicked in the teeth by a bunch of lawyers and accountants.
Well, it really is too fucking bad, but I'm questioning whether I'll ever buy a ticket or DVD now.
Half the episodes of most well regarded TV shows anywhere are bad. The Brits can produce somewhat better results, because they don't have to produce 20-22 scripts per season. About the only show that I can think of that really had a majority of good to great episodes is Breaking Bad, where I only remember one actually crappy episode.
TOS's quality control up to the third season was rather good for TV. Yes, there were some stinkers. There are episodes I just cannot ever imagine myself watching. But there are other episodes, like Doomsday machine, City on the Edge of Tomorrow, and the Changeling which are not just great TV, but fantastic SF, and really do held up incredibly well.
And, so far as I'm concerned, Star Trek Continues is the true heir of TOS. Excellent scripts, better acting than you'll find in the reboots. They just work so damned well, and it's unfortunate it looks like that kind of project is dead in the water now.
But he really doesn't. His claims as to his acumen are largely nonsense, it's becoming clear that his claims of wealth have been heavily exagerated, in part to build up an undeserved reputation as a wheeler dealer. I guess that means he gets what he wants, much like any snake oil dealer will con the gullible into parting with their cash in return for empty promises.
Hillary's a shitty candidate, but she'll make a better president. It really is that simple. A vote for Trump is a vote for a con man who, as even you admit, basically says anything to get a vote. Worse, a vote for Trump is simply rewarding the man who is guaranteeing the GOP's agonies go forward. They need to excise themselves of the kinds of people who vote for Trump, because that's a fading demographic. The GOP has known that for years, which is why they put some much effort on the ground to build support among Latino voters, which Trump has literally destroyed to gain louder cheers.
Don't you understand. To Trump's loyal followers, what Trump does is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. His actions, his behavior, his history, they have no bearing on his fitness and suitability. All that counts is that he hates Mexicans and Muslims, and will do some vague things that will somehow make everything better.
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I don't know about the States, but here in Canada long-time customers were given a grandfathered period without increases, but mine was recently increased. Mind you, there is a lot of new programs available now; all the Star Trek series in particular, so as I busily rewatch TOS and DS9, not to mention other series like Hell On Wheels and X Files, I figure the price is worth it. Besides, compared to the absolute shit that is other streaming services in Canada (Shomi's Android app is just a gawdawful unstable piece of shit), Netflix still gives the best overall user experience.
First Amendment meet frivolous lawsuit. Frivolous lawsuit meet the dumpster.
So far as I understand it, at the moment the only real competitor for a quantum theory of gravity is quantum loop gravity, which has its own significant issues. This really is Smolin being disgruntled and trying to argue in the press what he has not been able to argue within the field itself. When scientists try to win their fights in the popular press, I'd say their motives automatically become suspect.
No, they're are postulates that even their strongest adherents admit cannot be tested at the moment, and may not ultimately be true. The authors confuse researchers tendency to argue in favor of theories with researchers overestimating the evidence.
The problem, as always, is people judging science by press releases, documentaries and the utter idiocy and ignorance of most scientific journalism.
Within physics itself, you know, the actual community of physicists, string theory is seen as an interesting model, but one that as of yet simply cannot be stated even in the most tenuous terms as an actual description of reality. That being said, string theory and other related theories have contributed a considerable amount to the mathematical toolkit available to physicists, so that even if they are ultimately discarded, they will have had their use.
I think someone should to go the Telcos and say "We want our money back, with interest, within fifteen minutes, or we start seizing assets and jailing executives and Boards."
Eugenics is wrong because it presupposes, without evidence in.many cases, what a desirable or undesirable trait.
I've certainly scammed less people out of money on "university" and "real estate" ventures.
Well, this is about 20 years ago now, but I administered a bookkeeping office in the early 90s that was using a Cobol-based accounting system. Actually it was a rather good accounting system that actually handled departmental accounting properly.
There's lots of junk developed on lots of platforms; Java, PHP, .NET, C/C++, Visual Basic 6 and all the VB for Apps legacy cruft automating everything from Microsoft Access forms to Word documents.
Why exactly would you pick on Java?
This sort of thing backfired on Germany before. After all, one Adolf Hitler was employed by the German security services to infiltrate a certain of far right extremists, and the rest, shall we say, was history.
Perhaps any private key stores in the hands of ISPs or other Russian services may end up in the Russian government's hands. But what about all the self-signed communications, or communications signed by keys external to Russia?
One wonders whether this is just an attempt at a bluff, as in "We'll find your secret communications, Comrade!" or whether Putin and his advisers are is ignorant of the underlying mathematics and technology as so many governments in the West are? On the face of it, whoever wrote this law has absolutely no fucking idea how encryption works on the Internet.
Is there any level of stupidity that will finally convince the man is a simpering retard?
Nazis most certainly were populists, or at least posed as populists. Hitler didn't win power by proclaiming he was going to kill all the Jews or invading the rest of Europe, he got in because he promised to make Germany great again, to go after all the elements of German society that made it weak, and make everyone who he viewed as Germany's enemies pay for what they had done. While Mein Kampf had some pretty strong hints as to what he was thinking in the long-term, it wasn't until he had successfully remilitarized the Rhineland that he felt Germany could take on Europe, and it wasn't until he had abandoned all other means of getting rid of the Jews that the Final Solution was floated.
So yes, Trump is a lot like Hitler, in some respects at least. The populism, the finding of easy targets to scapegoat for all the ills, the rhetoric about how he will make his nation great and restore its glory. He's walked a few steps down the road of Hitler, the only real difference being that whatever else Hitler was, Hitler was capable of actual long-term thinking, planning, and political acumen. Trump appears to possess no such capabilities. What he does have in common with Hitler is the ability to say the unsayable and convince his followers that the unsayable is only unsayable because the enemies of the people don't want it said.
And the Star of David? Mere coincidence...
Either Trump is a Nazi, or possibly the most idiotic presidential candidate from one of the main parties ever to be found. Sometimes I confess I start to buy into the notion that he's a Democrat plant sent in to destroy the GOP.
Hillary Clinton is hardly the first Secretary of State to use back channels for communications and intelligence. Her method had some serious security issues, to be sure, and she's been rightly vilified for that, but to imagine that Secretaries of State since the office was instituted haven't used various means of varying degrees of (il)legality is absurdly naive.
The Republicans need someone to blame for the fact that they chose a self-aggrandizing Nazi as their Presidential candidate. They got so used to blaming the Clintons 20 years ago, why not continue now?
No, it won't, because it's not likely to end up being a closely contested election. Trump is a fucking retard who can't even fundraise properly. Clinton's election machine so outguns Trump's that it's almost like Trump is a third party candidate, and with the GOP now pretty iffy on fully backing him, his goose is as good as cooked. Their aren't enough Mexican-hating white men out there to save Trump.
Open source can be just as insanely irritating. There's nothing like getting some great open source daemon up and running, except for one niggling thing, spending a couple of hours searching the web and three or four mailman forums dedicated to the topic, trying out five or six things, three of which don't work, and three of which create configuration errors because you're either a version behind or a version too far. Finally, in frustration, you subscribe to the mailing list only to learn that you've subscribed to the developer list, where you're promptly told by the Gods of that particular Olympus to stop bothering them with configuration issues. So you go back, find the user list, subscribe to that, where you post a message, get no response, go look at the archives, find that there's a flame war going on about the usability of this project to some other similar project. So you post a second time, and this time someone responds, "Why are you using version 0.9.3.51a, that was just such a totally bogus version that a previous contributor, SnogRag52 before he forked the project, pushed through a bunch of untested revisions, so download 0.9.3.52b, you idiot!"
"Hello, how can I help you with your problem that I have solved. Goodbye <click>."
The reason blue collar workers are in trouble is because of China, and now India. The immigrants, illegal or legal, are not stealing jobs, they're doing jobs no one else wants to do. Meanwhile the likes of Trump speak of a fantasy, a naive reimagining of life in a major industrialized country that is already, like so many industrial nations, well into the post-industrial phase.
No doubt about it. Star Trek's keepers are turning their backs on the fans. It was the fans that kept it going during the dark days of the 1970s and the period after Enterprise's cancellation. Their reward for that is to be kicked in the teeth by a bunch of lawyers and accountants.
Well, it really is too fucking bad, but I'm questioning whether I'll ever buy a ticket or DVD now.
Half the episodes of most well regarded TV shows anywhere are bad. The Brits can produce somewhat better results, because they don't have to produce 20-22 scripts per season. About the only show that I can think of that really had a majority of good to great episodes is Breaking Bad, where I only remember one actually crappy episode.
TOS's quality control up to the third season was rather good for TV. Yes, there were some stinkers. There are episodes I just cannot ever imagine myself watching. But there are other episodes, like Doomsday machine, City on the Edge of Tomorrow, and the Changeling which are not just great TV, but fantastic SF, and really do held up incredibly well.
And, so far as I'm concerned, Star Trek Continues is the true heir of TOS. Excellent scripts, better acting than you'll find in the reboots. They just work so damned well, and it's unfortunate it looks like that kind of project is dead in the water now.
But he really doesn't. His claims as to his acumen are largely nonsense, it's becoming clear that his claims of wealth have been heavily exagerated, in part to build up an undeserved reputation as a wheeler dealer. I guess that means he gets what he wants, much like any snake oil dealer will con the gullible into parting with their cash in return for empty promises.
Hillary's a shitty candidate, but she'll make a better president. It really is that simple. A vote for Trump is a vote for a con man who, as even you admit, basically says anything to get a vote. Worse, a vote for Trump is simply rewarding the man who is guaranteeing the GOP's agonies go forward. They need to excise themselves of the kinds of people who vote for Trump, because that's a fading demographic. The GOP has known that for years, which is why they put some much effort on the ground to build support among Latino voters, which Trump has literally destroyed to gain louder cheers.
Don't you understand. To Trump's loyal followers, what Trump does is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. His actions, his behavior, his history, they have no bearing on his fitness and suitability. All that counts is that he hates Mexicans and Muslims, and will do some vague things that will somehow make everything better.
It's more like "Don't do anything that shows up the absolute crap we've been producing on TV and film for the last 15 years."