"The internet has already grown to be available to and affordable by about 50% of the world population," writes Larry Press (formerly of IBM), who's now an information systems professor at California State University.
It's more effective than domestic propaganda, because it elected someone the mainstream media didn't want.
I'm not sure I buy into that argument -- even assuming the Roooosians wanted Donald Trump, and made a serious attempt to propagandize their way to the outcome they wanted.
If you're going to adopt that kind of reasoning, why not assume they propagandized for the primaries, too? That way, no matter who won -- Kang or Kodos -- they'd have one they liked.
Time to check for definitions. Does a geosynchronous orbit count as a low-earth orbit?
I almost posted that it certainly doesn't, that LEO is much lower. But I thought I might be wrong, and then I would be have just flagrantly displayed ignorance in public.
Now to find out if it was a good thing I checked my facts before posting that, or if someone else flagrantly displayed ignorance in public.
Article I, Section 1. "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
So the big question (for silly people like me): How is an Executive Branch agency writing laws (under another name) that the Congress might consider overriding?
Not that it really matters, in post-constitutional America.
Jobs "disappear" because it takes fewer people to manufacture those things that people want.
One snarky sumbitch said that anyone who isn't a subsistence farmer is "technologically unemployed". Increased productivity has that effect, whether it be in agriculture or manufacturing: it takes fewer people to make the stuff. Believe it or not, this is a good thing, though during the transition it can be kinda rough on some of those in the industries where technological advances occur. Farrier was a poor career choice as automobiles replaced horses. And so on.
As it became possible to produce more than enough food to feed one's family, the "technologically unemployed" people moved into fields (pun intended) other than subsistence agriculture.
I'd fill in more of the blanks, but I've already paid too much attention to a post by AC.
Since Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can't be regulated or controlled by the government in any official capacity, they could damage the country's brittle economy even further.
If a competing currency can "damage" an economy, it's already damaged. The competition just makes the damage more conspicuous, by allowing people additional choices, choices they sometimes choose to take.
Remember the Soviet Union and East Germany? The people running their governments tried to quash competing currencies, too.
If you and two muggers vote on who gets your wallet, majority rules. But the transfer of the wallet is hardly voluntary, unless these are the kind of muggers who take "no" for an answer.
What does "hack the 2016 presidential election" mean? I'm not seeing it in the article. Maybe the WaPo article has it.
Is it any different from what journalists with a political preference do?
Also, how long does it take for the FBI/NSA/CIA to create a fake document? Not that we've seen any document. At least I haven't. Maybe someone else here has.
Some try, and can't even get a good understanding of the facts, before publicly embarrassing themselves by expressing ridiculous conclusions and opinions.
And some might even understand it well enough to know that what they're saying, good or bad, is not supported by facts. But that doesn't stop them.
Which is somewhat like something I dreamed about doing, until reality interfered: a supplement to the contract provided by those I deal with. Don't sign? I don't use your credit card or rental car or ISP services or whatever. (That's the point where reality intruded. They'd never go for it.)
Terms:
You will take reasonable steps to safeguard data about me, my use of your product(s) and/or service(s), and all other information you gather related to me in the course of our relationship.
You protect it from copying, destruction, modification, etc. by:
persons not authorized by you to access your computer systems.
governments. Exception: you may provide copies of specific information to a government, but only in response to a search warrant or subpoena from that government for the specific information revealed, and only that information. You must notify me of that search warrant or subpoena within 48 hours of your receipt of the demand for information. You must resist complying with any such demand if it is insufficiently specific or otherwise inappropriate, using every legal means at your disposal.
employees, contractors, and other persons granted access to your computer systems, in excess of the authority required to perform their work.
You will require all persons granted access to your computer systems to first acknowledge that requirement to safeguard that data is a condition of their employment, contract, or other relationship with you.
Failure to safeguard this information will results in penalties paid to me, according to the following schedule:
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Just like practical fusion power, popular desktop Linux is almost here.
And unlike practical fusion power, it's less than a year off, not a couple of decades away.
Golly! It looks like my sarcasm indicator -- Golly! -- didn't work this time.
"The internet has already grown to be available to and affordable by about 50% of the world population," writes Larry Press (formerly of IBM), who's now an information systems professor at California State University.
FTFY.
Maybe it's dyslexic, and can't tell the difference between small nudes and small dunes.
It's more effective than domestic propaganda, because it elected someone the mainstream media didn't want.
I'm not sure I buy into that argument -- even assuming the Roooosians wanted Donald Trump, and made a serious attempt to propagandize their way to the outcome they wanted.
If you're going to adopt that kind of reasoning, why not assume they propagandized for the primaries, too? That way, no matter who won -- Kang or Kodos -- they'd have one they liked.
Some potentially-helpful definitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit#Geostationary_orbit
Time to check for definitions. Does a geosynchronous orbit count as a low-earth orbit?
I almost posted that it certainly doesn't, that LEO is much lower. But I thought I might be wrong, and then I would be have just flagrantly displayed ignorance in public.
Now to find out if it was a good thing I checked my facts before posting that, or if someone else flagrantly displayed ignorance in public.
Article I, Section 1. "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
So the big question (for silly people like me): How is an Executive Branch agency writing laws (under another name) that the Congress might consider overriding?
Not that it really matters, in post-constitutional America.
Jobs "disappear" because it takes fewer people to manufacture those things that people want.
One snarky sumbitch said that anyone who isn't a subsistence farmer is "technologically unemployed". Increased productivity has that effect, whether it be in agriculture or manufacturing: it takes fewer people to make the stuff. Believe it or not, this is a good thing, though during the transition it can be kinda rough on some of those in the industries where technological advances occur. Farrier was a poor career choice as automobiles replaced horses. And so on.
As it became possible to produce more than enough food to feed one's family, the "technologically unemployed" people moved into fields (pun intended) other than subsistence agriculture.
I'd fill in more of the blanks, but I've already paid too much attention to a post by AC.
Wouldn't buying a competitor's product be a gentler Fuck You than that?
And more effective for the patient, as well?
How is a currency "backed by the power of a government", exactly? Where does the power come into the picture?
I know how I and some others would answer that question, but I'd love to read yours.
Golly! And UPS and FedEx charge more for speedy delivery and for larger packages and for heavier ones.
We need Parcel Post Neutrality!
From the summary:
Since Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can't be regulated or controlled by the government in any official capacity, they could damage the country's brittle economy even further.
If a competing currency can "damage" an economy, it's already damaged. The competition just makes the damage more conspicuous, by allowing people additional choices, choices they sometimes choose to take.
Remember the Soviet Union and East Germany? The people running their governments tried to quash competing currencies, too.
Golly. What's the common denominator, here?
How about an alert you get when the police are endangering people?
Just wondering.
No.
If you and two muggers vote on who gets your wallet, majority rules. But the transfer of the wallet is hardly voluntary, unless these are the kind of muggers who take "no" for an answer.
I'm not sure it's technically socialism, if it's voluntary. Depends on the definition chosen, and I don't argue definitions.
But it's definitely libertarianism.
There's room for (voluntary) socialism in a libertarian society. Or even a partially libertarian society that allows such libertarian institutions.
Allows them so far, anyway.
What does "hack the 2016 presidential election" mean? I'm not seeing it in the article. Maybe the WaPo article has it.
Is it any different from what journalists with a political preference do?
Also, how long does it take for the FBI/NSA/CIA to create a fake document? Not that we've seen any document. At least I haven't. Maybe someone else here has.
From underneath my tinfoil hat.
Now I support Net Neutrality, because there's a rhyming chant.
No need to think it through any more.
Thanks, chant composers! You provided a great time-saver!
Mind-changer time-saver!
Golly! Now I'm a sophisticated public policy analyst, too!
As economists attempt to make sense of Bitcoin
Some try, and succeed.
Some try, and can't even get a good understanding of the facts, before publicly embarrassing themselves by expressing ridiculous conclusions and opinions.
And some might even understand it well enough to know that what they're saying, good or bad, is not supported by facts. But that doesn't stop them.
anti-media
That is not, nor has it ever been - nor will it ever be - an insult. Perhaps think before you type?
Perhaps think of considering it might be sarcasm? Or was your comment sarcasm, and I cluelessly mistook it for cluelessness?
Oh, let's not go any further down that rabbit-hole.
Dell has a program that will (allegedly) disable it in computers that have already been sold. Free.
Why not buy a Dell and then disable it with the free program?
Because by then, the damage may already have been done, perhaps.
A possibly helpful link: https://downloadcenter.intel.c...
The Nobel Prize recipients in recent decades have been an uneven bunch, at least the ones for Peace and Economics.
Don't know about his prize-winning work in economics, but clearly he's having rather wide of that mark now.
It's a little harder to screw up the ones for the hard sciences.
Which is somewhat like something I dreamed about doing, until reality interfered: a supplement to the contract provided by those I deal with. Don't sign? I don't use your credit card or rental car or ISP services or whatever. (That's the point where reality intruded. They'd never go for it.)
Terms: