Do Americans know that "jaywalking" is one of the reasons everyone else on the World things the US is a bit mental?
Sorry, I tried to phrase that in a way that didn't sound insulting, but there isn't one. It's a bizarre law. It's an odd freedom-restricting law you'd expect to come from North Korea or something.
Jay walking laws are about keeping people safe, just like fines for not wearing a seat belt. People who wear seat belts are more likely to survive crashes. People who cross in designated places are less likely to get hit by cars, Unfortunately the occurrence of fatal car crashes or pedestrian jay walkers getting hit is so low that people believe it won't happen to them. Failure to wear a seat belt in my state runs an $80 ticket - to be paid by the person w/o a seat belt (it used to be the driver). $80 fine is high enough that people buckle up most of the time. Jay walking also carries a ticket and fine, but I can't remember how much. Funny how people obey these two laws more out of trying to avoid a fine than for their physical safety.
Theirs was not a great love affair. It was regular and habitual rape. A slave can't give consent because a slave isn't free to reject. We don't allow prison inmates to "consent" to sexual relations with prison guards for the same reason.
LK
We are so far removed from that time period we can't say for certain it was rape. We don't know if she consented, consented because of her station as a slave, or said "no" but Jefferson told a different story. We have DNA evidence that Jefferson (or a close male relative) and Sally share common descendants.
I do not approve of slavery. I have traced my genealogy back to the early 1700s and none of my direct ancestors had slaves. A few ancestors were indentured servants themselves, but gained their freedom once they worked off their debt.
How is a low-level data transmission technology in any way related to specific high-level application "features"?
Will the standard comittee "i.p." the technology, and only license it to manufacturers that make devices with screens and cameras, and force usage of only specific software on them that only supports downloading videos while watching them (and afterwards forgetting where it downloaded them) (aka "streamin"), if the user is spied on too??
That sounds more than silly.
How would a 5G tower even check that? Or care...
The whole thing is batshit insane. Full locked section of thmental hostpital level!
I wish I had mod points! 5G is just a connection standard. In theory 5G connection speeds might be enough to support a new video technology with big brother watching video of you, but at this point it's all FUD
This can be solved by reprocessing spent fuel, and by going to breeder reactors. But governments don't want to do that because of fear of nuclear terrorism.
They fear terrorism more than global warming?
Things which are approaching sooner are a higher priority. What do I care about 10 years in the future if I'm uncertain about next year? This is the problem of the lower middle class in America - the cost of living is so high that they don't have money left over to save for retirement. Terrorist attacks are happening nearly every year, while measurable effects of climate change are decades out. Add previous misstatements about climate change in the past and people get tired of "scientists" calling wolf.
For what it's worth, I would like to see one or two new nuclear plants in the US on a yearly basis. By building so slowly we give ourselves time to learn and improve designs without having to retrofit a bunch of older plants. Also, it means that we will only need to retrofit one or two plants per year when these plants get older. We do need a long-term solution for spent fuel storage. I don't like the idea of spent fuel cells traveling by train thousands of miles.
See, my 2002 car gets 55mpg on long runs; 45 on short. But his numbers start with "say your old car gets 30mpg". What heap of shit gets 30mpg?
Based on family size, I need a larger vehicle for when we all go together. Based on where I live and work, I need a vehicle with a certain range. Because of my economic situation I cannot afford one vehicle for work and another for family use. I ended up with a van which uses gets approximately 25-30 mpg and has a 450 mile range per tank of gas. Once a year or so we do a 1000+ mile road trip (each way), but on a near-weekly basis we do a 100-200 mile (each way) roadtrip. Everyone's situation is different so do your own comparisons. Based on my numbers, a single van getting 30mpg would be better than taking 2 cars getting 50mpg.
Having driven both, I like electric cars. The technology is finally right up there equal to, and in many ways superior to, internal combustion cars.
The solution is relatively obvious; manufacture electric cars using energy from solar arrays or other renewable sources. The cost of solar arrays has dropped so much in the last decade that this is practical now; it does mean you'll want to site car manufacturing plants (and more notably, battery manufacturing plants) in locations with abundant solar energy, but that seems doable-- stay out of Seattle, go for Las Vegas. Wait, that's where Tesla's battery plant is sited.
Actually, stay away from Las Vegas. Las Vegas is in the middle of a desert. They have to import water for their current needs, so a big manufacturing plant there isn't going to help.
There is phenol-free thermal paper. Don't know if that helps much or just has different bad ingredients, plus it costs more.
I don't know what about thermal paper makes it ineligible for recycling; I was just told "thermal paper" from the recycling company.
Most recyclers also don't accept the plastic bags the store gives you. Seems that just might be a bigger concern at this point. In-store recycling of these bags is more of a publicity campaign to make the problem appear solved.
Plastic bags are classified as "plastic film". Plastic films can be recycled in some facilities, but not others. Where I live, they don't accept it for street pickup because their facility uses a conveyor belt and bags would be carried off by the wind.
What's the problem? If wasted paper is your complaint - these customer directed ad+coupon are much better than the useless weekly junk mail pamphlets that just get tossed by almost everyone.
Want a short receipt? Cut the coupons off, there, short receipt. First world problems.
The problem is that thermal printed receipts can't be recycled.
You'll notice that in cases where the person dying is not the person drinking, it often is illegal.
Methinks something got lost in translation. The 5% of deaths caused by alcohol include people who were not drinking, but killed as the result of someone else drinking. An easy example would be people when someone drunk crashes into them. Because of this potential harm to others we are justified in regulating alcohol (eg. set minimum drinking age, maximum BAC for driving). Regulate doesn't mean outright ban, but please don't put myself, my family, or my friends at risk due to your decisions.
The other half of the joke is that async I/O was the big new feature of a recent C# version, which means it will be the hot new thing in Java in another couple of years.
Java NIO (Non-blocking I/O) was introduced in Java 4 (2002).
Non-blocking I/O and asynchronous I/O are not the same.
Java IO's various streams are blocking. That means, that when a thread invokes a read() or write(), that thread is blocked until there is some data to read, or the data is fully written. The thread can do nothing else in the meantime.
Java NIO's non-blocking mode enables a thread to request reading data from a channel, and only get what is currently available, or nothing at all, if no data is currently available. Rather than remain blocked until data becomes available for reading, the thread can go on with something else.
The same is true for non-blocking writing. A thread can request that some data be written to a channel, but not wait for it to be fully written. The thread can then go on and do something else in the mean time.
What threads spend their idle time on when not blocked in IO calls, is usually performing IO on other channels in the meantime. That is, a single thread can now manage multiple channels of input and output.
Hey, I know. We should use asychhronous techniques! At both the circuit and the architecture level. (P.S. This is sarcasm, which students of Digital Logic and Computer Engineering may find amusing.)
The other half of the joke is that async I/O was the big new feature of a recent C# version, which means it will be the hot new thing in Java in another couple of years.
Java NIO (Non-blocking I/O) was introduced in Java 4 (2002).
CAPTCHAs are actually training for AI image and pattern recognition software. So I anticipate that soon there will be bots that can solve them as easily as we can.
Google used image CAPTCHAs to help digitize books; I wouldn't be surprised if other companies were using the same sort of technology to improve OCR for nefarious purposes.
CAPTCHA is just a test to distinguish between bots and humans. CAPTCHA does not need to be images of swirled words. It sounds like Cloudfare has developed a CAPTCHA which isn't even visible to the end user (yeah!).
This seems pretty nonsensical to me. The entire point of advertising is to reach those groups most likely to respond to your product.
Except that for certain kinds of things, it is illegal to exclude certain groups.
You can't legally have a job ad or a listing for an apartment which say "men only" or "no black people". That is straight up against the law.
The law isn't as black and white as that for jobs. The Polynesian Cultural Center legally only highers performers which appear to be from the different Polynesian races - skin tone and hair color / texture are part of the job requirement (tourists don't travel thousands of miles to see a blonde guy from Boise, Idaho climbing the coconut tree without a ladder).
Also, apartments can be limited to just single women or just single men.
What Facebook has been doing is enabling certain kinds of targeted advertising which broke the law.
So, no, this isn't nonsensical, this is forcing Facebook to comply with a 50+ year old law which specifically precludes this kind of stuff.
Sorry, get over it and deal with it. You want to have your "whiny-white-men-only incel club", go ahead. But that doesn't mean it's legal for Facebook to sell you ad terms which enforce that.
I think Facebook introduced these discriminatory options for the opposite goal: companies want more minorities. Replace the term whiny-white-men-only with bold-latina-only and see how many red flags that raises.
It seems fairly just on its face but say I have a product that is an oil for people with African phenotype hair. It would be crazy for me to be sued for targeting African Americans. What if I wanted sales people for my product? Shouldn't I be able to publish an ad that targets African Americans that will actually be able to successfully market it for me? A white chick with straight blonde hair probably isn't going to be my best salesperson.
I believe that certain allowances are made. It's ok to discriminate if that particular characteristic is paramount to the job. As an example, I grew up in Hawaii. The Polynesian Cultural Center can discriminate based on perceived race for performers (people don't fly thousands of miles and spend lots of money to see white blondes doing the Samoan slap dance, for example), but race cannot be a factor in hiring tour guides (but spoken languages can). I said perceived race because my sister (natural blonde) dyed her hair and danced the Tahitian hula for years.
Methinks you have your stories crossed. Cinderella was a de facto slave to her evil step mother and step sisters. Snow White shared a cottage with 7 Dwarfs (at least Disney numbers them as 7). I know this as the father of two toddlers.
4K is really sweet for programming and browsing and having multiple windows in general.
I find it nice for home movie watching too. Yes you generally can see the difference between 1080p and 4K in many cases because the limit of your ability to perceive resolution is greater than the resolution of 1080p. I have both 4K and 1080p versions of The Martian and on my 65inch TV I can see there is a difference between the two from my couch 12-15 feet away. I have to get close to see all the detail of 4K but I can tell there is a difference from further away. Details pop out enough to be noticeable.
If you want to argue that the difference between 1080p and 4K for general home movie watching is strongly into diminishing returns I would certainly concede the point in most use cases. 4K is better but it's not even close to the improvement from the old SD to 1080p. You really have to be pixel peeping to notice in many cases.
You are not seeing the difference between 1080p and 4K per se, but rather technical details of the video codec. 4K discs generally have HDR (high dynamic range) , WCG (wide color gamut)., and 10 bits per color band (BD is 8 bit). HDR deals with contrast: brighter brights, darker darks, increased contrast. These things make a huge difference, even if you can't discern individual pixels.
Search for: Orange skin, fake blonde hair covering a bald head, wanted for treason, collusion, tax fraud, wire fraud and stupidity.
found in under microsecond.
Nice!
Only Mr. Trump is not currently under arrest for any crime. Many of his detractors accuse him of treason, collusion, tax fraud, and wire fraud, but look at the facts. For better worse stupidity is not against the law.
I'm not racist and I don't see the problem with this. If someone robs a bank and is described as dark skinned should one then be forbidden to include that as a search criteria? Should people that are obviously not fitting the profile of the suspect still be harassed as you can't enter some type of information into the system?
Criticize racial biases all you want but don't go around bullshitting.
This can be a problem if it's generalized. Let's say that 77% of illegal immigrants in the US are from Latin America (71% from Mexico or Central America; 6% from South America). Does that mean that Latinos should face more scrutiny? NO because that is racial profiling, and most Latinos in the US are here legally. The difference between this scenario and what IBM is doing is paramount: IBM is helping to look for individual suspects whereas the other is just a drag net.
I could wish on you unemployment and having to take any job you can get, thereby destroying our "let them try to get a better paying job" mantra that lolbertarians love to float around.
I have compassion though, so instead I'm just going to say your ideas and suggestions are noted, and are fucking heartless.
I'm not a Libertarian, but agree with some of their principles. I have been unemployed and based on unemployment insurance structure if I turned down an offer (no matter how ridiculous) it would mean going 2 weeks without getting a government check. Three times I told a company I wasn't interested before they could make an offer. I did end up accepting an offer that was lower than our verbal agreement during the interview. While working that job I put out feelers and got a higher paying job within a month. Take any job you can get and continue to look for a better job off to the side. You study and increase your skill set while doing an honest days work. I spent a total of 3 weeks between jobs, meaning I got 1 check. My dad taught me that the best way to help the poor is to not become poor yourself (eg. don't thin our existing resources by making yourself a recipient, too) THEN donate all you can afford to reputable charities. This does not mean don't donate anything if your not rich, just make sure you have the basic necessities for yourself and your family.
I mean, ideally setting a living minimum wage would be ideal; but this particular bill might be more palatable to the right. The concern that people would get fired is probably overblown. For one thing it'd probably be a protected clause like how you can't fire someone because of their race or ethnicity. Second if people need benefits they're going to claim them regardless; people need to eat and have a home. Thirdly chances are the government isn't going to be so granular as to tell big corporations which employees are claiming benefits, they just get a tax bill for the totals.
As an independent who leans right, this bill seems like too much government interference; I doubt Libertarians would like it much more. We have minimum wage; companies can pay more than this but can't pay less. Publicly traded companies have a responsibility to their share holders to increase the value of their stock. This can be controlled in part by paying employees as little as possible while still retaining enough employees to get the work done. There is debate over what the minimum wage should be and arguments for the idea of a living wage. If people can't support their family on their current wage, let them try get a better paying job if there's one to be had.
The article starts out zoomed in on the connected 48 states. Zoom out to see Hawaii and Alaska. Hawaii has a giant red dot -- you may not be going far on a small island, but getting there is apparently slow.
I grew up on Oahu. Oahu has the Koolau Mountains in the middle of the island and Kamehameha Highway slows to 25 mph in most villages. It can take an hour driving from Laie to Honolulu; The Bus (the actual name of the bus company!) takes longer. Thankfully, my job was a 10 minute WALK from my home those days.
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
" And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?"
Which part of the above sentence from the original post is confusing you?
Haruchai , None of it confused me. lgw posted that the Royal Society was founded in Newton's day, to which you cited the foundations of the scientific method being significantly before Newton was born. I was simply pointing out that you didn't address Igw's point. Please read the thread again. As for the origin of the word scientist in English, dictionary.com places its origins between 1825 and 1835 - again within Igw's claim that the term scientist wasn't around for a couple centuries after Newton's days.
You do know that the Royal Society was created in Newton's day, right? And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?.
The foundations of the scientific method were laid by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) influenced by Copernicus (1473-1543) and Galileo.(1564-642).
Newton was born in 1642
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
How much of that ice is on land and how much is already floating?
The numbers I quoted were for the volume of the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet which are both sitting on land. Admittedly a small portion of each is grounded below sea level but it's a relatively small percentage of the total. One cubic km of ice will melt to a slightly smaller volume of water but again it's a relatively small percentage. I was just trying to get a ballpark figure.
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Do Americans know that "jaywalking" is one of the reasons everyone else on the World things the US is a bit mental?
Sorry, I tried to phrase that in a way that didn't sound insulting, but there isn't one. It's a bizarre law. It's an odd freedom-restricting law you'd expect to come from North Korea or something.
Jay walking laws are about keeping people safe, just like fines for not wearing a seat belt. People who wear seat belts are more likely to survive crashes. People who cross in designated places are less likely to get hit by cars, Unfortunately the occurrence of fatal car crashes or pedestrian jay walkers getting hit is so low that people believe it won't happen to them. Failure to wear a seat belt in my state runs an $80 ticket - to be paid by the person w/o a seat belt (it used to be the driver). $80 fine is high enough that people buckle up most of the time. Jay walking also carries a ticket and fine, but I can't remember how much. Funny how people obey these two laws more out of trying to avoid a fine than for their physical safety.
Theirs was not a great love affair. It was regular and habitual rape. A slave can't give consent because a slave isn't free to reject. We don't allow prison inmates to "consent" to sexual relations with prison guards for the same reason.
LK
We are so far removed from that time period we can't say for certain it was rape. We don't know if she consented, consented because of her station as a slave, or said "no" but Jefferson told a different story. We have DNA evidence that Jefferson (or a close male relative) and Sally share common descendants.
I do not approve of slavery. I have traced my genealogy back to the early 1700s and none of my direct ancestors had slaves. A few ancestors were indentured servants themselves, but gained their freedom once they worked off their debt.
How is a low-level data transmission technology in any way related to specific high-level application "features"?
Will the standard comittee "i.p." the technology, and only license it to manufacturers that make devices with screens and cameras, and force usage of only specific software on them that only supports downloading videos while watching them (and afterwards forgetting where it downloaded them) (aka "streamin"), if the user is spied on too??
That sounds more than silly.
How would a 5G tower even check that? Or care...
The whole thing is batshit insane. Full locked section of thmental hostpital level!
I wish I had mod points! 5G is just a connection standard. In theory 5G connection speeds might be enough to support a new video technology with big brother watching video of you, but at this point it's all FUD
This can be solved by reprocessing spent fuel, and by going to breeder reactors. But governments don't want to do that because of fear of nuclear terrorism.
They fear terrorism more than global warming?
Things which are approaching sooner are a higher priority. What do I care about 10 years in the future if I'm uncertain about next year? This is the problem of the lower middle class in America - the cost of living is so high that they don't have money left over to save for retirement. Terrorist attacks are happening nearly every year, while measurable effects of climate change are decades out. Add previous misstatements about climate change in the past and people get tired of "scientists" calling wolf.
For what it's worth, I would like to see one or two new nuclear plants in the US on a yearly basis. By building so slowly we give ourselves time to learn and improve designs without having to retrofit a bunch of older plants. Also, it means that we will only need to retrofit one or two plants per year when these plants get older. We do need a long-term solution for spent fuel storage. I don't like the idea of spent fuel cells traveling by train thousands of miles.
"This site https://www.greencarreports.co... [greencarreports.com] says not, but it depends on how you analyze the numbers."
See, my 2002 car gets 55mpg on long runs; 45 on short. But his numbers start with "say your old car gets 30mpg". What heap of shit gets 30mpg?
Based on family size, I need a larger vehicle for when we all go together. Based on where I live and work, I need a vehicle with a certain range. Because of my economic situation I cannot afford one vehicle for work and another for family use. I ended up with a van which uses gets approximately 25-30 mpg and has a 450 mile range per tank of gas. Once a year or so we do a 1000+ mile road trip (each way), but on a near-weekly basis we do a 100-200 mile (each way) roadtrip. Everyone's situation is different so do your own comparisons. Based on my numbers, a single van getting 30mpg would be better than taking 2 cars getting 50mpg.
Having driven both, I like electric cars. The technology is finally right up there equal to, and in many ways superior to, internal combustion cars.
The solution is relatively obvious; manufacture electric cars using energy from solar arrays or other renewable sources. The cost of solar arrays has dropped so much in the last decade that this is practical now; it does mean you'll want to site car manufacturing plants (and more notably, battery manufacturing plants) in locations with abundant solar energy, but that seems doable-- stay out of Seattle, go for Las Vegas. Wait, that's where Tesla's battery plant is sited.
Actually, stay away from Las Vegas. Las Vegas is in the middle of a desert. They have to import water for their current needs, so a big manufacturing plant there isn't going to help.
There is phenol-free thermal paper. Don't know if that helps much or just has different bad ingredients, plus it costs more.
I don't know what about thermal paper makes it ineligible for recycling; I was just told "thermal paper" from the recycling company.
Most recyclers also don't accept the plastic bags the store gives you. Seems that just might be a bigger concern at this point. In-store recycling of these bags is more of a publicity campaign to make the problem appear solved.
Plastic bags are classified as "plastic film". Plastic films can be recycled in some facilities, but not others. Where I live, they don't accept it for street pickup because their facility uses a conveyor belt and bags would be carried off by the wind.
What's the problem? If wasted paper is your complaint - these customer directed ad+coupon are much better than the useless weekly junk mail pamphlets that just get tossed by almost everyone.
Want a short receipt? Cut the coupons off, there, short receipt. First world problems.
The problem is that thermal printed receipts can't be recycled.
You'll notice that in cases where the person dying is not the person drinking, it often is illegal.
Methinks something got lost in translation. The 5% of deaths caused by alcohol include people who were not drinking, but killed as the result of someone else drinking. An easy example would be people when someone drunk crashes into them. Because of this potential harm to others we are justified in regulating alcohol (eg. set minimum drinking age, maximum BAC for driving). Regulate doesn't mean outright ban, but please don't put myself, my family, or my friends at risk due to your decisions.
The other half of the joke is that async I/O was the big new feature of a recent C# version, which means it will be the hot new thing in Java in another couple of years.
Java NIO (Non-blocking I/O) was introduced in Java 4 (2002).
Non-blocking I/O and asynchronous I/O are not the same.
http://www.programmr.com/blogs...
Java NIO also introduces Non-blocking IO
Hey, I know. We should use asychhronous techniques! At both the circuit and the architecture level. (P.S. This is sarcasm, which students of Digital Logic and Computer Engineering may find amusing.)
The other half of the joke is that async I/O was the big new feature of a recent C# version, which means it will be the hot new thing in Java in another couple of years.
Java NIO (Non-blocking I/O) was introduced in Java 4 (2002).
CAPTCHAs are actually training for AI image and pattern recognition software. So I anticipate that soon there will be bots that can solve them as easily as we can.
Google used image CAPTCHAs to help digitize books; I wouldn't be surprised if other companies were using the same sort of technology to improve OCR for nefarious purposes.
CAPTCHA is just a test to distinguish between bots and humans. CAPTCHA does not need to be images of swirled words. It sounds like Cloudfare has developed a CAPTCHA which isn't even visible to the end user (yeah!).
Except that for certain kinds of things, it is illegal to exclude certain groups.
You can't legally have a job ad or a listing for an apartment which say "men only" or "no black people". That is straight up against the law.
The law isn't as black and white as that for jobs. The Polynesian Cultural Center legally only highers performers which appear to be from the different Polynesian races - skin tone and hair color / texture are part of the job requirement (tourists don't travel thousands of miles to see a blonde guy from Boise, Idaho climbing the coconut tree without a ladder).
Also, apartments can be limited to just single women or just single men.
What Facebook has been doing is enabling certain kinds of targeted advertising which broke the law.
So, no, this isn't nonsensical, this is forcing Facebook to comply with a 50+ year old law which specifically precludes this kind of stuff.
Sorry, get over it and deal with it. You want to have your "whiny-white-men-only incel club", go ahead. But that doesn't mean it's legal for Facebook to sell you ad terms which enforce that.
I think Facebook introduced these discriminatory options for the opposite goal: companies want more minorities. Replace the term whiny-white-men-only with bold-latina-only and see how many red flags that raises.
It seems fairly just on its face but say I have a product that is an oil for people with African phenotype hair. It would be crazy for me to be sued for targeting African Americans. What if I wanted sales people for my product? Shouldn't I be able to publish an ad that targets African Americans that will actually be able to successfully market it for me? A white chick with straight blonde hair probably isn't going to be my best salesperson.
I believe that certain allowances are made. It's ok to discriminate if that particular characteristic is paramount to the job. As an example, I grew up in Hawaii. The Polynesian Cultural Center can discriminate based on perceived race for performers (people don't fly thousands of miles and spend lots of money to see white blondes doing the Samoan slap dance, for example), but race cannot be a factor in hiring tour guides (but spoken languages can). I said perceived race because my sister (natural blonde) dyed her hair and danced the Tahitian hula for years.
How about cinderella and dwarfs ?
Methinks you have your stories crossed. Cinderella was a de facto slave to her evil step mother and step sisters. Snow White shared a cottage with 7 Dwarfs (at least Disney numbers them as 7). I know this as the father of two toddlers.
4K is really sweet for programming and browsing and having multiple windows in general.
I find it nice for home movie watching too. Yes you generally can see the difference between 1080p and 4K in many cases because the limit of your ability to perceive resolution is greater than the resolution of 1080p. I have both 4K and 1080p versions of The Martian and on my 65inch TV I can see there is a difference between the two from my couch 12-15 feet away. I have to get close to see all the detail of 4K but I can tell there is a difference from further away. Details pop out enough to be noticeable.
If you want to argue that the difference between 1080p and 4K for general home movie watching is strongly into diminishing returns I would certainly concede the point in most use cases. 4K is better but it's not even close to the improvement from the old SD to 1080p. You really have to be pixel peeping to notice in many cases.
You are not seeing the difference between 1080p and 4K per se, but rather technical details of the video codec. 4K discs generally have HDR (high dynamic range) , WCG (wide color gamut)., and 10 bits per color band (BD is 8 bit). HDR deals with contrast: brighter brights, darker darks, increased contrast. These things make a huge difference, even if you can't discern individual pixels.
Search for: Orange skin, fake blonde hair covering a bald head, wanted for treason, collusion, tax fraud, wire fraud and stupidity.
found in under microsecond. Nice!
Only Mr. Trump is not currently under arrest for any crime. Many of his detractors accuse him of treason, collusion, tax fraud, and wire fraud, but look at the facts. For better worse stupidity is not against the law.
I'm not racist and I don't see the problem with this. If someone robs a bank and is described as dark skinned should one then be forbidden to include that as a search criteria? Should people that are obviously not fitting the profile of the suspect still be harassed as you can't enter some type of information into the system?
Criticize racial biases all you want but don't go around bullshitting.
This can be a problem if it's generalized. Let's say that 77% of illegal immigrants in the US are from Latin America (71% from Mexico or Central America; 6% from South America). Does that mean that Latinos should face more scrutiny? NO because that is racial profiling, and most Latinos in the US are here legally. The difference between this scenario and what IBM is doing is paramount: IBM is helping to look for individual suspects whereas the other is just a drag net.
I could wish on you unemployment and having to take any job you can get, thereby destroying our "let them try to get a better paying job" mantra that lolbertarians love to float around.
I have compassion though, so instead I'm just going to say your ideas and suggestions are noted, and are fucking heartless.
I'm not a Libertarian, but agree with some of their principles. I have been unemployed and based on unemployment insurance structure if I turned down an offer (no matter how ridiculous) it would mean going 2 weeks without getting a government check. Three times I told a company I wasn't interested before they could make an offer. I did end up accepting an offer that was lower than our verbal agreement during the interview. While working that job I put out feelers and got a higher paying job within a month. Take any job you can get and continue to look for a better job off to the side. You study and increase your skill set while doing an honest days work. I spent a total of 3 weeks between jobs, meaning I got 1 check. My dad taught me that the best way to help the poor is to not become poor yourself (eg. don't thin our existing resources by making yourself a recipient, too) THEN donate all you can afford to reputable charities. This does not mean don't donate anything if your not rich, just make sure you have the basic necessities for yourself and your family.
I mean, ideally setting a living minimum wage would be ideal; but this particular bill might be more palatable to the right. The concern that people would get fired is probably overblown. For one thing it'd probably be a protected clause like how you can't fire someone because of their race or ethnicity. Second if people need benefits they're going to claim them regardless; people need to eat and have a home. Thirdly chances are the government isn't going to be so granular as to tell big corporations which employees are claiming benefits, they just get a tax bill for the totals.
As an independent who leans right, this bill seems like too much government interference; I doubt Libertarians would like it much more. We have minimum wage; companies can pay more than this but can't pay less. Publicly traded companies have a responsibility to their share holders to increase the value of their stock. This can be controlled in part by paying employees as little as possible while still retaining enough employees to get the work done. There is debate over what the minimum wage should be and arguments for the idea of a living wage. If people can't support their family on their current wage, let them try get a better paying job if there's one to be had.
The article starts out zoomed in on the connected 48 states. Zoom out to see Hawaii and Alaska. Hawaii has a giant red dot -- you may not be going far on a small island, but getting there is apparently slow.
I grew up on Oahu. Oahu has the Koolau Mountains in the middle of the island and Kamehameha Highway slows to 25 mph in most villages. It can take an hour driving from Laie to Honolulu; The Bus (the actual name of the bus company!) takes longer. Thankfully, my job was a 10 minute WALK from my home those days.
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
" And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?"
Which part of the above sentence from the original post is confusing you?
Haruchai , None of it confused me. lgw posted that the Royal Society was founded in Newton's day, to which you cited the foundations of the scientific method being significantly before Newton was born. I was simply pointing out that you didn't address Igw's point. Please read the thread again. As for the origin of the word scientist in English, dictionary.com places its origins between 1825 and 1835 - again within Igw's claim that the term scientist wasn't around for a couple centuries after Newton's days.
You do know that the Royal Society was created in Newton's day, right? And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?.
The foundations of the scientific method were laid by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) influenced by Copernicus (1473-1543) and Galileo.(1564-642). Newton was born in 1642
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
How much of that ice is on land and how much is already floating?
The numbers I quoted were for the volume of the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet which are both sitting on land. Admittedly a small portion of each is grounded below sea level but it's a relatively small percentage of the total. One cubic km of ice will melt to a slightly smaller volume of water but again it's a relatively small percentage. I was just trying to get a ballpark figure.
I found one source that says that "in general, a given volume of liquid water at room temperature will increase in volume by about 9.05% after freezing.". 9% does not seem like "a relatively small percentage" so your calculations are over inflated.