Are the men driving faster than legally possible? Or are the females driving slower than they legally should?
Do the men have more accidents and expose Uber to more liability? Do the men have more accidents than average male drivers?
Are the women driving so slowly that they are having more accidents and exposing uber to more liability? Do the women have more accidents than average female drivers?
Strong A.I. could be an extinction level event for humans. I think limits on available power will slow it down enough for us to have time to react. But there's a significant chance for a failure of friendliness combined with superhuman intelligence and superman manipulativeness. And people researching strong A.I. don't appear to be taking sufficient safeguards to me.
I feel it captures the autocratic democratic aspects of the books.
I don't find the book or the movie to be fascist.
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
There was not a dictatorial leader (skymarshal could be replaced at any time). There was not severe economic and social regimentation. There may have been (but we didn't see it) forcible suppression of opposition. It was more "oblivious suppression of opposition as softheads".
(and it wasn't corporatism or socialism as there were private businesses and wealthy people but they didn't run the government)
It did put humans above bugs (not pushed so much in the books) but we did that during world war 2 as well. It's hard to get humans to murder enemies. Step one is to dehumanize the enemy.
Yes but consider that the government Heinlein advances has both aspects of autocracy and democracy.
It really doesn't fit in anyone bucket very well.
Other's have called it elitism or meritocracy but that doesn't apply as even the disabled who spent part of their lives serving society got the right to vote.
Really it's government of the "anti-self centered". Anyone who is too selfish or greedy doesn't get a say in running society.
It is probably unrealistic in the real world (because money would corrupt things) but it's hard to say for sure.
If you prefer- it's a limited democracy where a large body of citizens have no right to vote or self govern. It's more like an ancient greek democracy than a modern democracy. And it isn't at all like early american democracy where the standard was property holding white men.
I feel it captures the autocratic democratic aspects of the books.
I don't find the book or the movie to be fascist.
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
There was not a dictatorial leader (skymarshal could be replaced at any time). There was not severe economic and social regimentation. There may have been (but we didn't see it) forcible suppression of opposition. It was more "oblivious suppression of opposition as softheads".
(and it wasn't corporatism or socialism as there were private businesses and wealthy people but they didn't run the government)
It did put humans above bugs (not pushed so much in the books) but we did that during world war 2 as well. It's hard to get humans to murder enemies. Step one is to dehumanize the enemy.
I agree, it was more an odd autocratic democracy than fascism. There were private corporations and private wealth- they just didn't have any political power. Meanwhile there were millions of citizens who did have political power who did not have wealth or own big corporations.
Flogging was a legal punishment in the u.s. as late as 1972.
Flogging isn't a conservative or liberal issue in my opinion. When I was a boy, very strong spanking was still a permitted punishment in junior high school.
Corporal punishment is more of an anacronism/holdover from medieval times. It's also an outcome of needing to discourage behavior but being unable to afford to take people out of production for days, weeks, months, or years. Corporal punishment is a lot cheaper than putting someone in jail. If a productive member of society commits a crime, you give them corporal punishment for less than a half hour and then send them back to their duties. In the case of flogging, their productivity may be lowered for a short while but you aren't storing them and paying someone to watch them being stored. And when you couldn't afford to do that, you simply killed them.
We can afford to be nicer in modern society but... still... it has lead to over incarceration where we put people in jail for years and destroy their ability to live normally for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, I think of flogging as not even being on the same axis as conservative and liberal.
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Anything that makes the consumer of entertainment feel cool, powerful, and special is going to be popular. Hence the power armor, the loader in Aliens, the visceral response to chain guns, and so on. It gives us a chance to feel superhuman and most of us like that.
I was young enough that I never thought of the power armor as savage.
Hollywood's has a minor issue with liberal vs conservative topics but it has major issues with director and producer egos wanting to piss all over any property to put their "mark" on it.
Fact is the book was feel good fascism but I liked the concept of service earns citizenship and the fact being rich didn't give you citizenship (as it would in the real world).
Benevolent dictators are often more efficient than democracies and even democracies can turn nasty very quickly.
I thought the movie was a fairly faithful adaption with multiple scenes lifted straight from the book and played straight.
Verderhoven may have thought he was being clever, but his "over the top" propaganda was pretty similar to democratic nation's propaganda during war time. Democratic nations also censored like hell during World War 2.
I dislike star wars for it's extreme feminism as the next man (can't see giving them a dime much less a dollar more)
but demore was off.
He was quoting averages when talking about exceptional groups of women.
He was misogynist.
But more importantly, his actions embarrassed the fuck out of Google and forced the CEO to cut his vacation short and return home to deal with the shitstorm Demore created.
As is the $106 billion dollar fossil fuel industry (2016 revenues) who spent 94 million dollars lobbying last year and who made $108 million dollars in political campaign contributions (a record high) in 2016.
That's $200 million a year from an industry opposed to electric cars, solar power, and so on.
Under the at-will presumption, a California employer, absent an agreement or statutory or public policy exception to the contrary, may terminate an employee for any reason at any time.
Don't like anti-union, anti-labor "at will" laws? There are things you can do about that.
And verification that Demore forced the CEO to cut short vacation. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/0... Creating a shitstorm that forces the CEO to cut their vacation short is generally solid grounds to be fired.
The ironic thing is that most of the men defending demore are probably conservatives, libertarians, and anti-unionists (yes, I know fairly redundant list) who support 'at will' laws.
We just don't understand all their use cases. Sometimes their autonomous systems cause them to behave erratically and run into other objects without warning.
We'll all be better off when humans are kept off the streets.
Good post but... Melting Greenland would raise sea level 20'. Source: simple google question.
If *all* the ice in antarctica melted, it would raise sea level by 200'. But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C. So it's unlikely that it would all melt while the earth was still inhabitable. http://www.antarcticglaciers.o...
"It is possible that this could collapse rapidly and raise sea levels by 3.2 m, possibly within 500 years. "
Much more likely problems include rainbelts moving hundreds of miles which would cause arable land to be infertile and rain to fall on new areas that would take thousands of years to become good farmland, increased range of tropical diseases (we are already seeing this).
The methane hasn't transitioned during warmer periods in the past. If it *did* transition, it's close to an extinction level event for humans.
We have a total budget of about 830 gigatons of carbon emissions by 2100 to avoid a 2.0C increase. That's about 10 gigatons per year.
We currently are emitting 37 gigatons of carbon *per* year.
Good news: That's down from 50 gigatons *per* year in 2004. Bad News: We are going in the hole over 25 gigatons *per* year.
We already are past the 1.0C increase carbon budget. At current rates we blow thru the 1.5C increase budget before 2025. Every year we emit more than 10 gigatons per year, means we need to be even further under 10 gigatons for the rest of this century.
And no one has a plan to actually remove the carbon yet. 90% of the models don't even consider that yet.
I'm old. I'll be dead. But anyone who's 20 today has a very good chance of living in really miserable times.
Good News: You might adapt. Bad News: There's other bad stuff around metals like chromium, manganese, and so on that hits hard in 2050. You have to invent replacements for all of them by 2050 or your costs will skyrocket. Further Bad news: We used more chromium in 2014 than we did from 1901 to 2000 combined.
Actually, I'm still seeing ads on tiny channels. It looks like they run the ads but don't pay the content creators. On longer videos, I'm seeing two ads and the second ad is just dropped in at random- mid sentence.
Slashdot Mirror
The mileage is interesting.
Are the men driving faster than legally possible?
Or are the females driving slower than they legally should?
Do the men have more accidents and expose Uber to more liability?
Do the men have more accidents than average male drivers?
Are the women driving so slowly that they are having more accidents and exposing uber to more liability?
Do the women have more accidents than average female drivers?
http://www.vetta.org/documents...
which leads to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a form of A.I.
It's not strong A.I.
Strong A.I. could be an extinction level event for humans. I think limits on available power will slow it down enough for us to have time to react. But there's a significant chance for a failure of friendliness combined with superhuman intelligence and superman manipulativeness. And people researching strong A.I. don't appear to be taking sufficient safeguards to me.
I feel it captures the autocratic democratic aspects of the books.
I don't find the book or the movie to be fascist.
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
There was not a dictatorial leader (skymarshal could be replaced at any time). There was not severe economic and social regimentation. There may have been (but we didn't see it) forcible suppression of opposition. It was more "oblivious suppression of opposition as softheads".
(and it wasn't corporatism or socialism as there were private businesses and wealthy people but they didn't run the government)
It did put humans above bugs (not pushed so much in the books) but we did that during world war 2 as well. It's hard to get humans to murder enemies. Step one is to dehumanize the enemy.
Yes but consider that the government Heinlein advances has both aspects of autocracy and democracy.
It really doesn't fit in anyone bucket very well.
Other's have called it elitism or meritocracy but that doesn't apply as even the disabled who spent part of their lives serving society got the right to vote.
Really it's government of the "anti-self centered". Anyone who is too selfish or greedy doesn't get a say in running society.
It is probably unrealistic in the real world (because money would corrupt things) but it's hard to say for sure.
If you prefer- it's a limited democracy where a large body of citizens have no right to vote or self govern. It's more like an ancient greek democracy than a modern democracy. And it isn't at all like early american democracy where the standard was property holding white men.
I feel it captures the autocratic democratic aspects of the books.
I don't find the book or the movie to be fascist.
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
There was not a dictatorial leader (skymarshal could be replaced at any time). There was not severe economic and social regimentation. There may have been (but we didn't see it) forcible suppression of opposition. It was more "oblivious suppression of opposition as softheads".
(and it wasn't corporatism or socialism as there were private businesses and wealthy people but they didn't run the government)
It did put humans above bugs (not pushed so much in the books) but we did that during world war 2 as well. It's hard to get humans to murder enemies. Step one is to dehumanize the enemy.
In the book, you don't have to perform military service tho it is of obvious benefit during the bug war.
The point is showing you put the good of society above your own for a few years ( I can't remember if it is 2 years or 4 years or some other amount).
It's like needing to join the military, or the peace core, or Vista in order to gain the right to vote.
The people who duck service are the least qualified to put the long term good of society ahead of their own good.
I agree, it was more an odd autocratic democracy than fascism. There were private corporations and private wealth- they just didn't have any political power. Meanwhile there were millions of citizens who did have political power who did not have wealth or own big corporations.
Flogging was a legal punishment in the u.s. as late as 1972.
Flogging isn't a conservative or liberal issue in my opinion. When I was a boy, very strong spanking was still a permitted punishment in junior high school.
Corporal punishment is more of an anacronism/holdover from medieval times. It's also an outcome of needing to discourage behavior but being unable to afford to take people out of production for days, weeks, months, or years. Corporal punishment is a lot cheaper than putting someone in jail. If a productive member of society commits a crime, you give them corporal punishment for less than a half hour and then send them back to their duties. In the case of flogging, their productivity may be lowered for a short while but you aren't storing them and paying someone to watch them being stored. And when you couldn't afford to do that, you simply killed them.
We can afford to be nicer in modern society but... still... it has lead to over incarceration where we put people in jail for years and destroy their ability to live normally for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, I think of flogging as not even being on the same axis as conservative and liberal.
---
Anything that makes the consumer of entertainment feel cool, powerful, and special is going to be popular. Hence the power armor, the loader in Aliens, the visceral response to chain guns, and so on. It gives us a chance to feel superhuman and most of us like that.
I was young enough that I never thought of the power armor as savage.
Hollywood's has a minor issue with liberal vs conservative topics but it has major issues with director and producer egos wanting to piss all over any property to put their "mark" on it.
Fact is the book was feel good fascism but I liked the concept of service earns citizenship and the fact being rich didn't give you citizenship (as it would in the real world).
Benevolent dictators are often more efficient than democracies and even democracies can turn nasty very quickly.
I thought the movie was a fairly faithful adaption with multiple scenes lifted straight from the book and played straight.
Verderhoven may have thought he was being clever, but his "over the top" propaganda was pretty similar to democratic nation's propaganda during war time. Democratic nations also censored like hell during World War 2.
Because there are multiple scenes completely faithful to the book.
I thought Starship Troopers was a better adaption than many hollywood adaptions.
The propaganda reels were funny but the characters in the universe were serious and respected.
I can't really say they were successful but war is hell. I particularly liked Radick. Ironside did a good job with him.
And here I thought the old Marx question was, "You wanna buy a duck?"
Or is that Elmer Fudd?
I dislike star wars for it's extreme feminism as the next man (can't see giving them a dime much less a dollar more)
but demore was off.
He was quoting averages when talking about exceptional groups of women.
He was misogynist.
But more importantly, his actions embarrassed the fuck out of Google and forced the CEO to cut his vacation short and return home to deal with the shitstorm Demore created.
That's a firing offense in my book.
actually, we had much worse problems 20-40 years ago.
And the cause wasn't really home child raising skills as much as lead in gasoline and paint.
After we removed the lead in gasoline and paint, a lot of criminal problems went away.
As is the $106 billion dollar fossil fuel industry (2016 revenues) who spent 94 million dollars lobbying last year and who made $108 million dollars in political campaign contributions (a record high) in 2016.
That's $200 million a year from an industry opposed to electric cars, solar power, and so on.
Under the at-will presumption, a California employer, absent an agreement or statutory or public policy exception to the contrary, may terminate an employee for any reason at any time.
Don't like anti-union, anti-labor "at will" laws? There are things you can do about that.
More here at CNBC- a decidedly non-liberal site.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/0...
And verification that Demore forced the CEO to cut short vacation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/0...
Creating a shitstorm that forces the CEO to cut their vacation short is generally solid grounds to be fired.
Oh good catch.
The ironic thing is that most of the men defending demore are probably conservatives, libertarians, and anti-unionists (yes, I know fairly redundant list) who support 'at will' laws.
The memo embarrassed the company. Employees shouldn't embarrass their companies.
An employee who does it once, will probably do it again.
yes but in norway the government will be pushing for electric. Reviews will be logical and spritely.
In the u.s. the government is pushing against electric. Reviews will be illogical and mired in red tape.
We just don't understand all their use cases. Sometimes their autonomous systems cause them to behave erratically and run into other objects without warning.
We'll all be better off when humans are kept off the streets.
Good post but...
Melting Greenland would raise sea level 20'.
Source: simple google question.
If *all* the ice in antarctica melted, it would raise sea level by 200'.
But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C. So it's unlikely that it would all melt while the earth was still inhabitable.
http://www.antarcticglaciers.o...
"It is possible that this could collapse rapidly and raise sea levels by 3.2 m, possibly within 500 years. "
Much more likely problems include rainbelts moving hundreds of miles which would cause arable land to be infertile and rain to fall on new areas that would take thousands of years to become good farmland, increased range of tropical diseases (we are already seeing this).
The methane hasn't transitioned during warmer periods in the past. If it *did* transition, it's close to an extinction level event for humans.
It's one point to attack/corrupt/infiltrate.
So I'm leery of using a password manager.
Instead I have really long algorithmic passwords.
We have a total budget of about 830 gigatons of carbon emissions by 2100 to avoid a 2.0C increase.
That's about 10 gigatons per year.
We currently are emitting 37 gigatons of carbon *per* year.
Good news: That's down from 50 gigatons *per* year in 2004.
Bad News: We are going in the hole over 25 gigatons *per* year.
We already are past the 1.0C increase carbon budget.
At current rates we blow thru the 1.5C increase budget before 2025.
Every year we emit more than 10 gigatons per year, means we need to be even further under 10 gigatons for the rest of this century.
And no one has a plan to actually remove the carbon yet. 90% of the models don't even consider that yet.
I'm old. I'll be dead. But anyone who's 20 today has a very good chance of living in really miserable times.
Good News: You might adapt.
Bad News: There's other bad stuff around metals like chromium, manganese, and so on that hits hard in 2050. You have to invent replacements for all of them by 2050 or your costs will skyrocket.
Further Bad news: We used more chromium in 2014 than we did from 1901 to 2000 combined.
Actually, I'm still seeing ads on tiny channels. It looks like they run the ads but don't pay the content creators.
On longer videos, I'm seeing two ads and the second ad is just dropped in at random- mid sentence.
I'm still seeing ads on tiny channels. Sometimes two ads for longer videos.
While a valid point, it doesn't address why Apple would refuse to carry an app like this.