Not really much science in those fictional stories.
When I think of SciFi, I think of stories where science plays the dominate role, like space travel, advance techonology, and of course, shit with science in it.
By your definition most SF wouldn't be SF then. In fact very little SF would be SF because most of the "science" in Science Fiction is inaccurate and thus not actually science. 1984 and Brave New World do in fact both include plenty of science, in the background. Pervasive surveillance, socio-political engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, artificial birth - it's all there. I would assume you never actually read either book.
Um, Tim Cook isn't that keen on patent lawsuits and most of the ones currently making headlines started under Steve Jobs and his total thermonuclear war on Android.
All you have to do is look at Amazon's Mechanical Turk to see the scam in operation. It works mostly like this:
1. Bot head writes a piece of automated software
2. Bot head hires gullible people on Mechanical Turk (or other job boards like craigs list) promising them thousands of dollars a month just to do semi-automated actions. But they don't get checks, they get Amazon gift cards to side-step tax reporting.
3. Bot head owns various sites that the ads run on, and is either paying people to plagarize content from other sites to contextualize high paying ads, or paying people to run their bot software to click on the ads.
It's not too different from high-speed algrorithmic trading in the stock market.
What you're describing is not what's happening on Facebook, but rather the million and one miscellaneous websites that pop up on search full of identical articles and Google adwords. They don't even have to be plagiarizing anything as they can pay a small amount for access to a wealth of ready-made articles, that get posted regularly so it look like a normal site, even if they're posting real estate articles originally written in 2006. The Mechanical Turk has nothing to do with it. It's nothing like high-speed algorithmic trading. Not remotely.
What you've done is thrown a bunch of random theories into a tick list and then pulled a conclusion out of your... we'll say tinfoil hat.
If you were running Noscript and Facebook was white-listed, when you were on Facebook you'd be running JS, therefore you would not appear to not be running JS. Because you'd be running JS. Because Facebook was white-listed. What am I missing?
...repair a broken heart, tame a wild spirit, forgive their nemesis, build a cabin, fight a whale, milk an otter, trip an elephant, shame a newspaper, lose a habit, wear it down, in a fashionable sense?
But the Tea Party in the US is a puppet to the corporations they claim they don't want running the country. On paper I'm behind the idea that Government should be reined in, but you don't do it by giving corporations more power - and that's been the only major success of the movement so far.
From a world perspective the Tea Party movements tend to be conservative in outlook - God-fearing, libertarian, self-sufficient, the sort of mountain man type that'd turn up on your doorstep clutching an Indian scalp, except in this case it used to belong to a foreign call centre worker. The anti-corporate, anti-big government movements, in Europe at least, are diametrically opposed to the US Tea Party on virtually every point of their manifesto. They're socialist (I'm a free market anarchist myself, but even I can see that decrying socialism when you're a cog in your society is arguing against your own self-interest. Seeing regular USians spew spittle and froth when they talk about "socialism" is a testament to the corporate propaganda machine), largely irreligious and happy to be wrapped in a blanket of government safety nets and entitlement.
The common man and woman in the Western world knows something is wrong with the system, but you're never going to convince them that they've been willing dupes in an international confidence trick. They're hurting now because the brakes are on the economy and they want things back the way they were. But their old lifestyles were built upon cheap barely regulated debt. All that debt owed by Governments, and by extension the people, was play money used to puff up economies around the world. The dirt from that massive hole of debt had to land somewhere and for the most part it ended up making the bankers (note, not banks) and corporations filthy rich. What the people are really objecting to is being dragged back to the level they were before the house of cards was built. They want to live like there are no repercussions and that isn't going to happen.
Not to be trite, but I just started watching the Aaron Sorkin vehicle "Newsroom". By being set just a couple of years in the past it has the smug ability to analyse news events that happened back then with the clarity of time past and dust settled. It's quite the most engaging intermediate study of US media, corporate and political shenanigans that it's ever been my pleasure to watch.
The Megaupload case is a blip in the grand scheme of things and it won't really catch the collective imagination on its own. Nor is any mainstream media outlet about to trumpet the rights of someone like Kim Dotcom, who they've identified as wilfully stealing their lunch. It now appears the real story isn't about the alleged copyright infringement, it's about the steps US government bodies will go to to protect the interests of their donors.
However, as a European I can hardly let you off the hook when talking about putting up with poor governance. Corruption is endemic in European countries with a decent climate (Berlusconi much?), and becomes positively Borgian the further East you venture.
Stepping into a mine field here, but that's what I was wondering. This appears to be a proposal to remove carbon, rather than reduce adding carbon - that's fine, but is it sustainable? And is the carbon sequestered at the bottom of the ocean more or less "locked up" than it would be in trees or tar or oil?
You know those inscrutable aliens in sci-fi films that have indecipherable glyphs on the sides of their spaceships: They're Chinese.
Actually, someone found a stone tablet, somewhere near Siberia. They carbon dated it, and it supposed to be like more than 5 millions year old
On that stone tablet were carvings that looks very much like some ancient Chinese characters
I had the link once, but unfortunately I lost it (hard disk crashed).
I tried to search for it, to no avail.
Skittery dinosaur tracks could look like Chinese characters to the sort of person that can see Jesus in a slice of toast. Although, these days believing in dinosaurs and Jesus at the same time seems to be verboten, even though we managed it quite peaceably for almost two centuries after the scientific classification of dinosaurs.
Maybe someone should start writing a new stuxnet variant targetting China's space program?
Sure, but the job of writing it would probably get out-sourced to India. Ya know, the other developing country with an ambitious space programme.
There will be a lot of comments about the Chinese only managing to do what the US did half a century ago, but the point is they're doing it while the Western world has abandoned those ambitions.
Have you any examples of democratic decision making? Our Western political systems aren't democratic in the historical sense that the people can each vote on important issues, as the ancient Greeks did (though even then it was a limited proportion of the population), as opposed to voting for politicians to represent/ignore them.
Even at a Government level, voting is rarely a democratic choice and much more likely to follow a party whip.
... you don't lose it, essentially. If the worm is mainly a string of muscle and the muscles aren't being used, then they last longer? What this makes me wonder is, if you exercise is there a trade-off between the waste your body accumulates from "muscle sweat" (can you tell I'm not a biologist? I'm not any kind of -ist. I only arrived here because I thought it was for sexy stories about people called "Dot". Like "Dot Cotton" and... and... look it was an ill-conceived idea from the start but I'm here now.) and the cardiovascular benefits? For instance, body-builders who like to tear up their muscles may be hurting their longevity.
Interesting "Link"! Dammit, can't get my head away from Japanese RPGs. But seriously, that's a thought-provoking article on distributed information - not what the FA was asking about, but cool if you have a treasure map to secure.
...it's that your valuable information should be transcribed onto a special medallion, which is then quartered with each quarter piece buried in a deadly dungeon in a far flung corner of the land. That's what passed for "Cloud" storage in my day. (yes yes I know.)
Don't cut them off - do like the hotels do and take them to a splash screen asking for their credit card numbers so they can pay if they want to continue to use the internet on a service that is costing money to run and which they can't connect to normally because of their own wilful ignorance on security.
The penny dropped for me while reading your post and I suddenly understood what CajunArson was trying to say - and he makes a fair point that the summary makes it look like Texas Republicans are objecting to children being taught to think when really, in his opinion, they're opposing the indoctrination of children. Now, had CajunArson said he was "in favour of teaching children to think, BUT that's not what was being proposed, this was..." then he would have established himself as pro-thinking, instead of anti-HOTS. And for someone for whom the use of language is important, he might try to make his point more clearly without resorting to bullying attacks on people who disagree with him - the use of words which I'm sure he is perfectly able to justify to himself. Which is ironic.
Let me save you some trouble, go look here for some thirty buck wonders. I have no idea how much better a $3k hearing aid is than a $30 one, but it probably isn't a hundred times better.
I'm not talking about the giant creatures from Doug McClure movies, but... well, yes those as well... life is a funny thing. It generates sports and anomalies. I applaud this little guy, but he is no more a representative of the human race than that giant crab, from any Doug McClure flick, is a crustacean spokesperson. Society was progressed in leaps and bounds. Nowadays? If he avoids getting papped to death, he may achieve obscurity in research. Like most scientists.
46% is a minority of the population. The not particularly important minority. Oh, if you think this matters when it comes to elections, think again. When a man casts a vote that could go to either a Republican or a Democrat, only the lizard people win...
If they're worried about the high proportion of gun crime they shouldn't be taking away people's means to defend themselves, they should be teaching the populace more effective ways to murder people with their bare hands. This is political correctness gone mad.
Somebody is responsible for me feeling annoyed right now, but who do I blame? Slashdot for posting the story, Emanuel for being an idiot, or.. it's me, isn't it?
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Not really much science in those fictional stories.
When I think of SciFi, I think of stories where science plays the dominate role, like space travel, advance techonology, and of course, shit with science in it.
By your definition most SF wouldn't be SF then. In fact very little SF would be SF because most of the "science" in Science Fiction is inaccurate and thus not actually science. 1984 and Brave New World do in fact both include plenty of science, in the background. Pervasive surveillance, socio-political engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, artificial birth - it's all there. I would assume you never actually read either book.
Um, Tim Cook isn't that keen on patent lawsuits and most of the ones currently making headlines started under Steve Jobs and his total thermonuclear war on Android.
All you have to do is look at Amazon's Mechanical Turk to see the scam in operation. It works mostly like this:
1. Bot head writes a piece of automated software
2. Bot head hires gullible people on Mechanical Turk (or other job boards like craigs list) promising them thousands of dollars a month just to do semi-automated actions. But they don't get checks, they get Amazon gift cards to side-step tax reporting.
3. Bot head owns various sites that the ads run on, and is either paying people to plagarize content from other sites to contextualize high paying ads, or paying people to run their bot software to click on the ads.
It's not too different from high-speed algrorithmic trading in the stock market.
What you're describing is not what's happening on Facebook, but rather the million and one miscellaneous websites that pop up on search full of identical articles and Google adwords. They don't even have to be plagiarizing anything as they can pay a small amount for access to a wealth of ready-made articles, that get posted regularly so it look like a normal site, even if they're posting real estate articles originally written in 2006. The Mechanical Turk has nothing to do with it. It's nothing like high-speed algorithmic trading. Not remotely.
What you've done is thrown a bunch of random theories into a tick list and then pulled a conclusion out of your... we'll say tinfoil hat.
If you were running Noscript and Facebook was white-listed, when you were on Facebook you'd be running JS, therefore you would not appear to not be running JS. Because you'd be running JS. Because Facebook was white-listed. What am I missing?
...repair a broken heart, tame a wild spirit, forgive their nemesis, build a cabin, fight a whale, milk an otter, trip an elephant, shame a newspaper, lose a habit, wear it down, in a fashionable sense?
Probably not. But let's keep trying.
But the Tea Party in the US is a puppet to the corporations they claim they don't want running the country. On paper I'm behind the idea that Government should be reined in, but you don't do it by giving corporations more power - and that's been the only major success of the movement so far.
From a world perspective the Tea Party movements tend to be conservative in outlook - God-fearing, libertarian, self-sufficient, the sort of mountain man type that'd turn up on your doorstep clutching an Indian scalp, except in this case it used to belong to a foreign call centre worker. The anti-corporate, anti-big government movements, in Europe at least, are diametrically opposed to the US Tea Party on virtually every point of their manifesto. They're socialist (I'm a free market anarchist myself, but even I can see that decrying socialism when you're a cog in your society is arguing against your own self-interest. Seeing regular USians spew spittle and froth when they talk about "socialism" is a testament to the corporate propaganda machine), largely irreligious and happy to be wrapped in a blanket of government safety nets and entitlement.
The common man and woman in the Western world knows something is wrong with the system, but you're never going to convince them that they've been willing dupes in an international confidence trick. They're hurting now because the brakes are on the economy and they want things back the way they were. But their old lifestyles were built upon cheap barely regulated debt. All that debt owed by Governments, and by extension the people, was play money used to puff up economies around the world. The dirt from that massive hole of debt had to land somewhere and for the most part it ended up making the bankers (note, not banks) and corporations filthy rich. What the people are really objecting to is being dragged back to the level they were before the house of cards was built. They want to live like there are no repercussions and that isn't going to happen.
Not to be trite, but I just started watching the Aaron Sorkin vehicle "Newsroom". By being set just a couple of years in the past it has the smug ability to analyse news events that happened back then with the clarity of time past and dust settled. It's quite the most engaging intermediate study of US media, corporate and political shenanigans that it's ever been my pleasure to watch.
The Megaupload case is a blip in the grand scheme of things and it won't really catch the collective imagination on its own. Nor is any mainstream media outlet about to trumpet the rights of someone like Kim Dotcom, who they've identified as wilfully stealing their lunch. It now appears the real story isn't about the alleged copyright infringement, it's about the steps US government bodies will go to to protect the interests of their donors.
However, as a European I can hardly let you off the hook when talking about putting up with poor governance. Corruption is endemic in European countries with a decent climate (Berlusconi much?), and becomes positively Borgian the further East you venture.
I had made "mistakes" like Zuckerberg.
All kill more kids every year than magnets. Personally I don't want any of them banned, just pointing out the stupidity.
Stepping into a mine field here, but that's what I was wondering. This appears to be a proposal to remove carbon, rather than reduce adding carbon - that's fine, but is it sustainable? And is the carbon sequestered at the bottom of the ocean more or less "locked up" than it would be in trees or tar or oil?
You know those inscrutable aliens in sci-fi films that have indecipherable glyphs on the sides of their spaceships: They're Chinese.
Actually, someone found a stone tablet, somewhere near Siberia. They carbon dated it, and it supposed to be like more than 5 millions year old
On that stone tablet were carvings that looks very much like some ancient Chinese characters
I had the link once, but unfortunately I lost it (hard disk crashed).
I tried to search for it, to no avail.
Skittery dinosaur tracks could look like Chinese characters to the sort of person that can see Jesus in a slice of toast. Although, these days believing in dinosaurs and Jesus at the same time seems to be verboten, even though we managed it quite peaceably for almost two centuries after the scientific classification of dinosaurs.
Maybe someone should start writing a new stuxnet variant targetting China's space program?
Sure, but the job of writing it would probably get out-sourced to India. Ya know, the other developing country with an ambitious space programme.
There will be a lot of comments about the Chinese only managing to do what the US did half a century ago, but the point is they're doing it while the Western world has abandoned those ambitions.
Have you any examples of democratic decision making? Our Western political systems aren't democratic in the historical sense that the people can each vote on important issues, as the ancient Greeks did (though even then it was a limited proportion of the population), as opposed to voting for politicians to represent/ignore them.
Even at a Government level, voting is rarely a democratic choice and much more likely to follow a party whip.
And agree with it?
... you don't lose it, essentially. If the worm is mainly a string of muscle and the muscles aren't being used, then they last longer? What this makes me wonder is, if you exercise is there a trade-off between the waste your body accumulates from "muscle sweat" (can you tell I'm not a biologist? I'm not any kind of -ist. I only arrived here because I thought it was for sexy stories about people called "Dot". Like "Dot Cotton" and... and... look it was an ill-conceived idea from the start but I'm here now.) and the cardiovascular benefits? For instance, body-builders who like to tear up their muscles may be hurting their longevity.
Interesting "Link"! Dammit, can't get my head away from Japanese RPGs. But seriously, that's a thought-provoking article on distributed information - not what the FA was asking about, but cool if you have a treasure map to secure.
...it's that your valuable information should be transcribed onto a special medallion, which is then quartered with each quarter piece buried in a deadly dungeon in a far flung corner of the land. That's what passed for "Cloud" storage in my day. (yes yes I know.)
Don't cut them off - do like the hotels do and take them to a splash screen asking for their credit card numbers so they can pay if they want to continue to use the internet on a service that is costing money to run and which they can't connect to normally because of their own wilful ignorance on security.
The penny dropped for me while reading your post and I suddenly understood what CajunArson was trying to say - and he makes a fair point that the summary makes it look like Texas Republicans are objecting to children being taught to think when really, in his opinion, they're opposing the indoctrination of children. Now, had CajunArson said he was "in favour of teaching children to think, BUT that's not what was being proposed, this was..." then he would have established himself as pro-thinking, instead of anti-HOTS. And for someone for whom the use of language is important, he might try to make his point more clearly without resorting to bullying attacks on people who disagree with him - the use of words which I'm sure he is perfectly able to justify to himself. Which is ironic.
Hate to do this, but this is probably the better list, because it's sorted by number of reviews.
Let me save you some trouble, go look here for some thirty buck wonders. I have no idea how much better a $3k hearing aid is than a $30 one, but it probably isn't a hundred times better.
I'm not talking about the giant creatures from Doug McClure movies, but... well, yes those as well... life is a funny thing. It generates sports and anomalies. I applaud this little guy, but he is no more a representative of the human race than that giant crab, from any Doug McClure flick, is a crustacean spokesperson. Society was progressed in leaps and bounds. Nowadays? If he avoids getting papped to death, he may achieve obscurity in research. Like most scientists.
46% is a minority of the population. The not particularly important minority. Oh, if you think this matters when it comes to elections, think again. When a man casts a vote that could go to either a Republican or a Democrat, only the lizard people win...
If they're worried about the high proportion of gun crime they shouldn't be taking away people's means to defend themselves, they should be teaching the populace more effective ways to murder people with their bare hands. This is political correctness gone mad.
Somebody is responsible for me feeling annoyed right now, but who do I blame? Slashdot for posting the story, Emanuel for being an idiot, or.. it's me, isn't it?