This is right up there with Cheneys "working group" and the "Halliburton Clause" making the fluids used for fracking "proprietary" and not beholden to the Clean Water act.
"Deprived of the ability to omit or retouch the truth, under penalty of being caught by an army of inquisitorial eyeglasses, society would feel nearly uninhabitable. The permanent confrontation with a verifiable truth will turn us into overly cautious, calculating, and suspicious people. The apparent truth of what we are and say will be derived not from personal perceptions, particular intuitions and social judgments, but from complex calculations made by algorithms and computations based on the way we use our voice, turn our nose to the right, or incline our mouth to the left.
It will be a mechanical and mechanized truth.
We run the serious risk of losing, little by little, our spontaneous humanity, appearing more and more like the predetermined algorithms that observe and judge us."
Fan and her co-authors ran two forecasts for the weather system that passed over the Sichuan basin during the peak of the floods: one with the thick blanket of smoke that covered the region and one with the kind of clean air that existed 40 years ago, before the Chinese economic boom. In the clean air model, moist air at Earth’s surface was heated by the daytime sun, became buoyant, and rose to great heights, triggering a convective cycle that led to storm clouds and mild daytime rainfall. But in the dirty air model, the dark veil over the plain soaked up much of the sun’s warmth high in the atmosphere, while simultaneously cooling the streets and fields below. This altered thermal structure stabilized the daytime atmosphere and suppressed rainfall.
But as night fell, the moist air mass moved northward toward the Longmen Mountains, which tower some 2000 meters above the basin. The weather system that had been building energy over the plains for 12 hours was driven upward as it collided with the range’s steep contours, triggering the postponed convection. A day’s worth of rainfall from the plains was focused into a few hours over a handful of mountain valleys.
I only drink coffee anymore, not the rest of those drinks Starbucks has, which as you pointed out are disgustingly chock full of sugar. Occasionally I will stop into a Starbucks to have coffee, though I usually go to local coffee places.
Besides their(usually) good customer service and clean spaces, the one glaring consistency is how bad Starbucks coffee is. It tastes like drinking water ran through a smoldering campfire. It requires large additions of cream and sugar to make it palatable, so in the end, you end up with a sugar drink anyway.
When I go to almost any other coffee place, their coffee is usually much better tasting than Starbucks and doesn't require anything but a little cream.
From this map you can see how widespread the $$$ is, and that there are so many congressional districts in the US benefitting from this program, to cancel or make changes to it now would be political suicide for the scumbag congressmen who initiated it.
60 Minutes did a decent job on the F-35 a while back, where the vibe from the Marine general, after being asked if he was going to get the F-35 operational in time was like that of one of Hitlers generals saying he would stop the Soviets after the disaster at Kursk...
Also, take a look at how many countries are already "in the pipe" on ordering for these. A lot.
The US and its allies better hope that when China finally decides to make their own high end fighter jets(which are currently based on Russian-made Sukhoi jets), based on all they have learned after waltzing into the US DOD databases, that it is as much of a CF as the F-35 is.
Yes, that would be a brilliant coup of common sense, but alas, marketing dipshits world wide will be rewarded yet again by mandating idiotic default settings of no security on IoT devices, inviting an avalanche of security issues as more of these devices are connected to the internet.
I imagine that age old and universally uniform combination of fear and greed were the prime motivators of their unwillingness to speak of those Russian cyber-criminals.
Bush gets a congressional authorization for his war, even goes to the UN. Obama just does whatever they hell he wants in Libya.
Wow, did you really just compare the Iraq War to what Obama did in Libya? Really?
Get a historical clue before you post here or face your ignorance being exposed.
Yes, that day will come. However the outcome from that event won't be what you may think.
If we take 9/11 as a template of idiotic reactions to terrorist events, here will be the likely outcome:
1. The true perp, the decision makers(marketing management, etc; not coders) who enable cars to be the toys of hackers, will avoid any blame. They will be swiftly whisked off to team building sessions in Aspen, Cancun or Jackson Hole, where they will be presented with awards for their forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.
2. The proxy perp, who actually drives the cars to the left, will be swiftly arrested, convicted and jailed, and become a scapegoat for those receiving awards for forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.
3. Users and "car owners" will be the real losers here. Even more restrictive rules and engineering will be placed on modern cars, whereby the bank you got your car loan through will be able to deduct funds directly from your bank account if any number of intellectual property violations are committed such as humming the Star Spangled Banner on the way to a 4th of July picnic. Any modifications, however subtle(including but not limited to "support our troops bumper stickers"), to the vehicle will be met with a swift kick in the ass from your local dealer, and more funds being deducted from your account. More "security" measures will be implemented, as per a Congressional Oversight Committee, that will, in essence, hogtie users/drivers even more and allow even more vectors for attack by hackers in Bulgaria, Boston and Beijing, but you already knew all that...
I assume the driving of labor "coming from below" and "knocking higher up the food chain" along with more and more labor from anywhere in the world will increasingly drive down labor costs(wages).
Would that mean that those in IT will have to work harder for less, with more competition?
The real questions(expertly avoided in the media) are these:
How will society "deal with"(manage) the millions of unemployed as these changes wrought by robots and expert systems happen?
How will "the market" deal with millions of consumers that no longer have the income to maintain the consumer spending driven economy?
How will governments(especially in the First World) maintain control when millions of their citizens are idle, with little or no prospects for employment and little or no disposable income.
Sure, we can assume the solutions such as a minimum income could alleviate such problems, but in a country like the USofA, with a polarized political scene, will anything like that ever happen?
So the other day I had to erase a ton of old voice mails on a phone in a part of the company where that particular phone/extension/did is hardly ever used.
I logged into the voice mail to discover that it had been receiving tons of phone spam. Somehow this outside number had been listed in the phone spammers database and there were loads of different phone spam/scams on there. At first I listed to a few, then I just deleted and went to the next message.
It took me about 15 minutes to delete all the messages in the inbox.
"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict..."
I remember an interview he gave discussing playing Saruman. He said he was a huge fan of Tolkien and re-read the trilogy yearly. Wow, and I wait about every five years to do it...
I've been using Mint for about six months now and I think it is the best Linux desktop I've tried.
Forgive me now as I tell you I have no idea whether I'm using Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon or Raspberry Pie.
It is the gui that came with the default install, and I like it.
However, recently I've seen problems popping up, two specifically:
1. When using Google Maps in Chromium it usually brings my system to a complete halt. This is a recent problem, so I'm assuming some update is the cause, either with Chromium or Mint. When this lockup happens the only thing I am able to do is switch to a console and reboot.
2. When the Software Update runs in the background it slows things down tremendously. I can either update, or close the updater. If I leave it open without updating the system stays extremely slow. Like the Chromium problem, this just started in the last month or so. Before that everything was. Nothing new has been installed, except for the normal updates of course.
I'm hoping over the course of time another update or some such will correct these problems.
This kind of pinko-commie-"feel-good"-new-agey-yoga-euro-"we support diversity"-SJW-enviro-whacko-unAmerican-antiFreedom-"GrEEN"-"compost-lovin"-"prius-Drivin"-Obama-votin-quiche-eatin-Kale-growin Bullshit will never fly in this here YouNitedStates of Merkica!
No seree! We loves em airports loud as F#$K!
We want that noise, that white noise, blasting into our every fiber, shredding any semblance of calm, any remote chance at a quiet backyard bbq without the sound of Jim coming back from his business trip to El Paso.
Slashdot Mirror
This is right up there with Cheneys "working group" and the "Halliburton Clause" making the fluids used for fracking "proprietary" and not beholden to the Clean Water act.
"Deprived of the ability to omit or retouch the truth, under penalty of being caught by an army of inquisitorial eyeglasses, society would feel nearly uninhabitable. The permanent confrontation with a verifiable truth will turn us into overly cautious, calculating, and suspicious people. The apparent truth of what we are and say will be derived not from personal perceptions, particular intuitions and social judgments, but from complex calculations made by algorithms and computations based on the way we use our voice, turn our nose to the right, or incline our mouth to the left.
It will be a mechanical and mechanized truth.
We run the serious risk of losing, little by little, our spontaneous humanity, appearing more and more like the predetermined algorithms that observe and judge us."
By not being able to think one thing and say another, our identity will become monochromatic.
A Rush song?
Fan and her co-authors ran two forecasts for the weather system that passed over the Sichuan basin during the peak of the floods: one with the thick blanket of smoke that covered the region and one with the kind of clean air that existed 40 years ago, before the Chinese economic boom. In the clean air model, moist air at Earth’s surface was heated by the daytime sun, became buoyant, and rose to great heights, triggering a convective cycle that led to storm clouds and mild daytime rainfall. But in the dirty air model, the dark veil over the plain soaked up much of the sun’s warmth high in the atmosphere, while simultaneously cooling the streets and fields below. This altered thermal structure stabilized the daytime atmosphere and suppressed rainfall. But as night fell, the moist air mass moved northward toward the Longmen Mountains, which tower some 2000 meters above the basin. The weather system that had been building energy over the plains for 12 hours was driven upward as it collided with the range’s steep contours, triggering the postponed convection. A day’s worth of rainfall from the plains was focused into a few hours over a handful of mountain valleys.
We got a week go go...
I only drink coffee anymore, not the rest of those drinks Starbucks has, which as you pointed out are disgustingly chock full of sugar. Occasionally I will stop into a Starbucks to have coffee, though I usually go to local coffee places.
Besides their(usually) good customer service and clean spaces, the one glaring consistency is how bad Starbucks coffee is. It tastes like drinking water ran through a smoldering campfire. It requires large additions of cream and sugar to make it palatable, so in the end, you end up with a sugar drink anyway.
When I go to almost any other coffee place, their coffee is usually much better tasting than Starbucks and doesn't require anything but a little cream.
I think the maternity leave period duration is because of their location: Spain(Europe...)
This graphic shows the breakdown by country
As we can see, Americans prefer a social darwinism form of maternity leave.
Someone may have already posted this...
From this map you can see how widespread the $$$ is, and that there are so many congressional districts in the US benefitting from this program, to cancel or make changes to it now would be political suicide for the scumbag congressmen who initiated it.
60 Minutes did a decent job on the F-35 a while back, where the vibe from the Marine general, after being asked if he was going to get the F-35 operational in time was like that of one of Hitlers generals saying he would stop the Soviets after the disaster at Kursk...
Also, take a look at how many countries are already "in the pipe" on ordering for these. A lot.
The US and its allies better hope that when China finally decides to make their own high end fighter jets(which are currently based on Russian-made Sukhoi jets), based on all they have learned after waltzing into the US DOD databases, that it is as much of a CF as the F-35 is.
things with internet optional.
Yes, that would be a brilliant coup of common sense, but alas, marketing dipshits world wide will be rewarded yet again by mandating idiotic default settings of no security on IoT devices, inviting an avalanche of security issues as more of these devices are connected to the internet.
Downfall is one of the best WWII films ever made.
I imagine that age old and universally uniform combination of fear and greed were the prime motivators of their unwillingness to speak of those Russian cyber-criminals.
And don't forget the re-emergence of Moab versus Telluride.
I haven't had cable/sat(television) for six years. I've gone strictly NF since and I love it. I get to choose what/when/where I watch.
And... wait for it...
There are no ads.
Imagine states scrambling to set Exchanges, vet software/platforms, etc;
The media coverage would have skewered the Republicans over a hot flame.
This decision actually helps the Republicans in 2016. The SCOTUS gave them a pass.
The people who would lose their insurance are more likely to be white, employed, from the South and high school graduates.
Bush gets a congressional authorization for his war, even goes to the UN. Obama just does whatever they hell he wants in Libya.
Wow, did you really just compare the Iraq War to what Obama did in Libya? Really?
Get a historical clue before you post here or face your ignorance being exposed.
Yes, that day will come. However the outcome from that event won't be what you may think.
If we take 9/11 as a template of idiotic reactions to terrorist events, here will be the likely outcome:
1. The true perp, the decision makers(marketing management, etc; not coders) who enable cars to be the toys of hackers, will avoid any blame. They will be swiftly whisked off to team building sessions in Aspen, Cancun or Jackson Hole, where they will be presented with awards for their forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.
2. The proxy perp, who actually drives the cars to the left, will be swiftly arrested, convicted and jailed, and become a scapegoat for those receiving awards for forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.
3. Users and "car owners" will be the real losers here. Even more restrictive rules and engineering will be placed on modern cars, whereby the bank you got your car loan through will be able to deduct funds directly from your bank account if any number of intellectual property violations are committed such as humming the Star Spangled Banner on the way to a 4th of July picnic. Any modifications, however subtle(including but not limited to "support our troops bumper stickers"), to the vehicle will be met with a swift kick in the ass from your local dealer, and more funds being deducted from your account. More "security" measures will be implemented, as per a Congressional Oversight Committee, that will, in essence, hogtie users/drivers even more and allow even more vectors for attack by hackers in Bulgaria, Boston and Beijing, but you already knew all that...
If you look at Obamas position on the TPP, you can see who has the most influence over our fearless leaders.
Yes, great analysis.
I assume the driving of labor "coming from below" and "knocking higher up the food chain" along with more and more labor from anywhere in the world will increasingly drive down labor costs(wages).
Would that mean that those in IT will have to work harder for less, with more competition?
The real questions(expertly avoided in the media) are these:
How will society "deal with"(manage) the millions of unemployed as these changes wrought by robots and expert systems happen?
How will "the market" deal with millions of consumers that no longer have the income to maintain the consumer spending driven economy?
How will governments(especially in the First World) maintain control when millions of their citizens are idle, with little or no prospects for employment and little or no disposable income.
Sure, we can assume the solutions such as a minimum income could alleviate such problems, but in a country like the USofA, with a polarized political scene, will anything like that ever happen?
So the other day I had to erase a ton of old voice mails on a phone in a part of the company where that particular phone/extension/did is hardly ever used.
I logged into the voice mail to discover that it had been receiving tons of phone spam. Somehow this outside number had been listed in the phone spammers database and there were loads of different phone spam/scams on there. At first I listed to a few, then I just deleted and went to the next message.
It took me about 15 minutes to delete all the messages in the inbox.
"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict..."
I remember an interview he gave discussing playing Saruman. He said he was a huge fan of Tolkien and re-read the trilogy yearly. Wow, and I wait about every five years to do it...
and stock up on grenades!
Other smaller improvements include a working screensaver that does more than just lock the screen
And I remember seeing something in a forum where Ubuntu devs claimed screensavers were a "windoze" thing that Linux desktop didn't need...
WUT!?!
I've been using Mint for about six months now and I think it is the best Linux desktop I've tried.
Forgive me now as I tell you I have no idea whether I'm using Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon or Raspberry Pie.
It is the gui that came with the default install, and I like it.
However, recently I've seen problems popping up, two specifically:
1. When using Google Maps in Chromium it usually brings my system to a complete halt. This is a recent problem, so I'm assuming some update is the cause, either with Chromium or Mint. When this lockup happens the only thing I am able to do is switch to a console and reboot.
2. When the Software Update runs in the background it slows things down tremendously. I can either update, or close the updater. If I leave it open without updating the system stays extremely slow. Like the Chromium problem, this just started in the last month or so. Before that everything was. Nothing new has been installed, except for the normal updates of course.
I'm hoping over the course of time another update or some such will correct these problems.
This kind of
pinko-commie-"feel-good"-new-agey-yoga-euro-"we support diversity"-SJW-enviro-whacko-unAmerican-antiFreedom-"GrEEN"-"compost-lovin"-"prius-Drivin"-Obama-votin-quiche-eatin-Kale-growin Bullshit will never fly in this here YouNitedStates of Merkica!
No seree! We loves em airports loud as F#$K!
We want that noise, that white noise, blasting into our every fiber, shredding any semblance of calm, any remote chance at a quiet backyard bbq without the sound of Jim coming back from his business trip to El Paso.