How this will probably get implemented is that the students have to write an essay about their future plans. Anything that is written legibly and doesn't say "I wan b a dope dilla" will get a passing grade.
The people who are most oppressed by unregulated capitalism are also the least able to relocate.
Me, I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm giving this country another couple years. If it continues failing to provide me with the employment opportunities and medical care I need, I'll be looking at immigrating to Norway or Finland, where I have family. But most people don't have immediate family there, which would make the process much harder - or impossible.
I still have a Photobucket account. The site has been getting more terrible every year for the past 10 years... that adds up to a whole lot of terrible. It's gotten to the point where I can't even access the site in Firefox even when whitelisting everything in Noscript. I have to open up Internet Explorer to get it to load. The next time I bother doing that, it will be to grab all the pictures from ~2006 that I have saved on it. I haven't bothered with it quite yet, because it sounds like a pain in the ass. I also don't expect access to them to get any easier, ever.
Photobucket's entire userbase falls under the category of "legacy" now. I don't imagine the site has seen any growth in a long, long time. It doesn't surprise me one bit that they are making cash grabs. Whoever owns the site knows it is dead, and they're just pumping as much cash from the stragglers as they can before they eventually pull the plug.
The system is failing more and more people each passing year. Racism is still a thing, but it won't do to focus just on that and not the bigger picture. If you look at, for example, the Black Lives Matter protests - obviously, race can play a factor in police misconduct. But the police state problem extends way beyond that. Fixating on the racial aspect of it makes police accountability a more divisive issue than it needs to be. It gives certain white people license to disregard the problem of police brutality altogether. It shifts the focus from abuse of power, to race.
If law enforcement doesn't already have back-end access to this data, they will soon. I imagine the information gets even more detailed and accurate once you aggregate data from all the tracking companies (Apple, Facebook, Google) together. Not to mention the NSA's own databases.
You could easily imagine a system being developed to track not just currently-happening riots, but the likelihood a riot will happen in the near future. Which area it's likely to happen in. Who is likely to participate.
Of course, charging people in open court with pre-crime probably won't fly. And a predictive system like this is always going to be a game of probabilities, it might not have the "resolution" to predict individual actions. What you can do is systematically target groups of people for surveillance or manipulation. Not that we aren't already doing that, but now it's more effective. And who the data tells us to watch might end up being somebody different than they watch today.
I haven't seen many people do that, but I suppose it's possible. More likely, the obesity has to do with large amounts of solid carbs, what your mom called "people-food". Also note that a lot of the dog food out there is closer nutritionally to "people-food" than what dogs would naturally eat.
It's probably in the lower half of nutrition/health/biology articles here when ranked by interestingness, but not totally useless. The interesting thing for me to consider with this data is that the normalization of obesity is probably crossing over from the human realm into our pets as well. The pets dying early won't have an appreciable economic effect, but it can be indicative of our attitudes toward human weight, which absolutely have an effect.
I wouldn't say the governments of China and especially India work for their citizens generally. Those governments work for themselves and for a selection of industries within their borders. So, much the same as the United States. Focusing on industry can, incidentally, provide benefits for the citizenry as well - at least in the stage of development that India is in. (That strategy loses steam as industry becomes decoupled from the citizenry through automation.)
Of course, cultivating industry also has to be done competently for it to benefit the citizens. In India, the garment factories are so poorly constructed that they sometimes collapse, killing the workers inside. In China, working conditions are so terrible that Foxconn employees commit suicide en masse. Pollution controls are so bad that spending a day in Beijing is the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes.
Regarding the H-1Bs, I am for reforming it 100%. I know some here would label me a Trumpkin for saying that, but my support for it actually comes from a leftist perspective. The faucet of cheap foreign labor allows corporations here to accrue excess capital at the expense of the citizenry. That is why the H-1B program doesn't constitute competent industry-building.
Most of the new White House is using encrypted, extra-governmental messaging services as well. There is a lawsuit making its way through the courts about it now. Something about preserving records.
You can see it in terms of an arms race. The endgame with the digital arms race may be "nobody can read anything"... which beats the hell out of "mutually assured destruction", which is where the military arms race gets us. I say, let's take the information arms race all the way to the bitter end.
I have the same Phenom, with an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe board. The BIOS has an option for "C1E support", which sounds similar to your "CPU parking" - turning it on makes the system fail to boot. I don't remember exactly where the failure happens, but it's before GRUB can bring up the boot menu.
Perhaps in the future, eating out will be so economically untenable that only the ultra-wealthy will do it, and most people will prepare their own food. So, sorta like it was for all of human history until just recently. The horror...
We've been terraforming Earth for a while already. The problem is, it's being done in a completely disorganized way and will probably end up making things worse.
Mostly, Whole Foods shoppers are worried about things like celiac disease (that they don't have). Also, as many Greenpeace Vegans they have, there are just as many Trumpkin Paleo guys.
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How this will probably get implemented is that the students have to write an essay about their future plans. Anything that is written legibly and doesn't say "I wan b a dope dilla" will get a passing grade.
The people who are most oppressed by unregulated capitalism are also the least able to relocate.
Me, I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm giving this country another couple years. If it continues failing to provide me with the employment opportunities and medical care I need, I'll be looking at immigrating to Norway or Finland, where I have family. But most people don't have immediate family there, which would make the process much harder - or impossible.
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I still have a Photobucket account. The site has been getting more terrible every year for the past 10 years... that adds up to a whole lot of terrible. It's gotten to the point where I can't even access the site in Firefox even when whitelisting everything in Noscript. I have to open up Internet Explorer to get it to load. The next time I bother doing that, it will be to grab all the pictures from ~2006 that I have saved on it. I haven't bothered with it quite yet, because it sounds like a pain in the ass. I also don't expect access to them to get any easier, ever.
Photobucket's entire userbase falls under the category of "legacy" now. I don't imagine the site has seen any growth in a long, long time. It doesn't surprise me one bit that they are making cash grabs. Whoever owns the site knows it is dead, and they're just pumping as much cash from the stragglers as they can before they eventually pull the plug.
So when I want to kill somebody, I just need to type out my defense on Facebook beforehand. Good to know.
The system is failing more and more people each passing year. Racism is still a thing, but it won't do to focus just on that and not the bigger picture. If you look at, for example, the Black Lives Matter protests - obviously, race can play a factor in police misconduct. But the police state problem extends way beyond that. Fixating on the racial aspect of it makes police accountability a more divisive issue than it needs to be. It gives certain white people license to disregard the problem of police brutality altogether. It shifts the focus from abuse of power, to race.
If law enforcement doesn't already have back-end access to this data, they will soon. I imagine the information gets even more detailed and accurate once you aggregate data from all the tracking companies (Apple, Facebook, Google) together. Not to mention the NSA's own databases.
You could easily imagine a system being developed to track not just currently-happening riots, but the likelihood a riot will happen in the near future. Which area it's likely to happen in. Who is likely to participate.
Of course, charging people in open court with pre-crime probably won't fly. And a predictive system like this is always going to be a game of probabilities, it might not have the "resolution" to predict individual actions. What you can do is systematically target groups of people for surveillance or manipulation. Not that we aren't already doing that, but now it's more effective. And who the data tells us to watch might end up being somebody different than they watch today.
I haven't seen many people do that, but I suppose it's possible. More likely, the obesity has to do with large amounts of solid carbs, what your mom called "people-food". Also note that a lot of the dog food out there is closer nutritionally to "people-food" than what dogs would naturally eat.
It's probably in the lower half of nutrition/health/biology articles here when ranked by interestingness, but not totally useless. The interesting thing for me to consider with this data is that the normalization of obesity is probably crossing over from the human realm into our pets as well. The pets dying early won't have an appreciable economic effect, but it can be indicative of our attitudes toward human weight, which absolutely have an effect.
That's an almost fourfold increase, it sounds more like you're minimizing.
If only we had some sturdy Super Nintendo emulators... wait, we've had that for 20 years.
I wouldn't say the governments of China and especially India work for their citizens generally. Those governments work for themselves and for a selection of industries within their borders. So, much the same as the United States. Focusing on industry can, incidentally, provide benefits for the citizenry as well - at least in the stage of development that India is in. (That strategy loses steam as industry becomes decoupled from the citizenry through automation.)
Of course, cultivating industry also has to be done competently for it to benefit the citizens. In India, the garment factories are so poorly constructed that they sometimes collapse, killing the workers inside. In China, working conditions are so terrible that Foxconn employees commit suicide en masse. Pollution controls are so bad that spending a day in Beijing is the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes.
Regarding the H-1Bs, I am for reforming it 100%. I know some here would label me a Trumpkin for saying that, but my support for it actually comes from a leftist perspective. The faucet of cheap foreign labor allows corporations here to accrue excess capital at the expense of the citizenry. That is why the H-1B program doesn't constitute competent industry-building.
I preferred Barnes & Noble myself, but with today's technology, that sort of thing seems to be on the way out.
Most of the new White House is using encrypted, extra-governmental messaging services as well. There is a lawsuit making its way through the courts about it now. Something about preserving records.
You can see it in terms of an arms race. The endgame with the digital arms race may be "nobody can read anything"... which beats the hell out of "mutually assured destruction", which is where the military arms race gets us. I say, let's take the information arms race all the way to the bitter end.
If MS gets away with it because of their market dominance, what's the reason that Apple gets away with it?
I have the same Phenom, with an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe board. The BIOS has an option for "C1E support", which sounds similar to your "CPU parking" - turning it on makes the system fail to boot. I don't remember exactly where the failure happens, but it's before GRUB can bring up the boot menu.
Perhaps in the future, eating out will be so economically untenable that only the ultra-wealthy will do it, and most people will prepare their own food. So, sorta like it was for all of human history until just recently. The horror...
What's the alternative? No strikes, and they still get replaced with machines a couple years later?
Living in Texas, "My doctor" is already WebMD.
We've been terraforming Earth for a while already. The problem is, it's being done in a completely disorganized way and will probably end up making things worse.
They already have computers that will play Sublime 24/7. Just wait until they invent a bong-smoking machine, they'll be out of a job too.
Mostly, Whole Foods shoppers are worried about things like celiac disease (that they don't have). Also, as many Greenpeace Vegans they have, there are just as many Trumpkin Paleo guys.
And all of them are trying to look like someone with no more than $3.50.
We could have had the internet 40 years ago too.