Protest in the U.S., esp. rioty protest has a different set of consequences that generally do not balance well with the felt injustice. Even the reporters that report on these protests are similarly punished.
While the founding fathers of the U.S. built in the notion of defending citizens against government injustice even to the point of militia action since the founding there has been a constant effort made to erode these protections. If the subject matter is sufficiently distasteful to the government preemptive actions taken to prevent like-minded individuals from forming organized (esp. large) action groups. The system is rigged to keep the offended marginalized and powerless.
Name any one of those "must prevent robots and low IQ humans too" type in what you see graphic programs and someone will be able to name a counter. Image recognition AI techniques are quite a bit more capable than most would believe.
Wings do not make sense for a vertical take off ascent, but they make quite a bit of sense for the decent. The alternatives require expensive recovery operations and with respect to Russian style crashing into the dirt on parachute, hazardous to the occupants integrity.
IANAAE but I suspect novel designs that are reasonable to implement could be had which incorporate characteristics enabling glide decent to a runway but eliminate or substantially reduce the unnecessary drag on ascent. The fixed wing configuration of the shuttle was engineering's answer to a technical requirement using the state of the art for the 1970's inspired by concepts imagined in the second half of the 1950's.
I believe you have mistakenly assumed three things:
I am the one with the naive view of the world and its cultures.
I am speaking from my personal views with respect to American government and culture rather than providing perspectives held by others.
All populations of the world are highly educated, cosmopolitan, and not conditioned by religious or political organizations.
I would however like to take up your assertion as to why the U.S. government and media are "still in business." With respect to its government I would assert that you speak of a symptom not the cause. The cause is related to the false assumption I mentioned earlier regarding a highly educated, cosmopolitan culture. Whether or not there are elements of manipulative cultural conditioning is a matter for the conspiracy theorists to take up. The demographics of American are anything but homogeneous. Looking at the following statistics shoots down the highly educated notion. Persons with even a high school education as a percentage of the population has been abysmally low for the overwhelming majority of the 20th century. Those having attained a college education are still below 30%. If you want to understand how a population can be so highly susceptible to suggestion and deception look no further. Even among the educated there is a strong tendency toward specialization of knowledge oriented toward their profession.
As to the media, these monopolies exist because they provide a product the population will accept and dare I say, appreciate. The formulas may have been conceived by the industry but there exists an ever present pressure between companies to out compete the other. This can only be accomplished by providing content that the masses prefer more than the other company. Your notion of "provide an alternative" does exist in the form of public media (TV and radio) companies. They however do not garner the same audience levels--in fact not even close--as your "monopolies." Again the cause of which I'd suggest probably is the same as the cause of the U.S.'s government being the way it is.
BTW: you do realize that you just lumped all American Scientologies and Muslims into a monolithic group right...? To be honest I don't recall any news pertaining to Scientologists threatening nor commiting violence, though they do seem fond of litigation... With respect to Muslims, aside from non-American Muslims such as those responsible for the two separate attacks on the World Trade Center, I seem to recall far more violent/terrorist attacks committed by other groups including and especially those branding themselves Christians. Check out America's history pertaining to white supremacist activities for a start.
I can understand the frustration with my statements. However, one must look from the perspective an outsider to the U.S. to grasp what I am saying. It is quite realistic to expect people to lump disparate pieces into something more monolithic.
One only has to take an American perspective, historical or modern of countries and cultures around the world to see this is the case. The reason this church wishes to burn Korans is no exception. Their reasoning must flow something along the lines of "If Muslims were responsible for 9/11 then certainly all Muslims are evil..."
Making a distinction between the peoples of the U.S. and the U.S. government is delusive. After all, is the U.S. not "for the people, by the people, and of the people?" Accordingly, like the U.S. government which is an arm of the people so too, the American media is an arm of the people. If this were not so neither would be in business for very long.
American media giving an American church free and abundant publicity about their burning of the Koran gives them legitimacy and a notion of prevalence. The U.S. has spent both the 20th century and thus far the 21st sticking its nose into the affairs of countries around the world whose policies, political makeup, etc. it does not agree with. The extent of which ranges from saber rattling at UN council and other venues, to effecting economic sanctions, inciting civil wars, supporting terrorists, political assassinations, as well as outright military invasions.
To suggest that such a Koran burning event--especially the manner in which it is being treated/covered in the media--is not able to be viewed as a form of intimidation toward Muslims demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about the situation.
How dare you crash my party?!? My dreams of world domination through punishing former but still claiming patent holders squashed! My only hope now is perversely in east Texas. Thanks a lot.
One might say that there's readily observable proof all around you but for the filters placed before your eyes that limit your perspective. One of the obvious proofs many cite are the irreducible complexities of biological systems. Certain of these have complexities that can be likened to putting silicon, germanium, and a few other exotic raw ingredients in a can. Shake it, put it outside to get zapped by lightning then expect a Intel Core i7 processor to drop out when you upend it. It's hard for many people to take on faith that reproductive and energy harvest/utilization systems functioned sufficiently well the first time out of the gate for there to even be subsequent population generations to evolve in the first place. In any other field of science the probabilistic math describing the chance of such a thing happening would be deemed "impossible." We're talking about probabilities on the order of magnitude such as the chance of having every atom in your body so perfectly aligned in relation to a wall that you could walk right through it unopposed.
Empirical proof? As in proof by experiment; not exactly possible. That is true for either theistic or evolution explanations. However, the overwhelming evidence demonstrating that present science's "answer" is bankrupt requires an unprecedented amount un-scientific denial. The lame attempts of explaining away numerous 1 in 10^60 chances of something happening with 10^10 years worth of rolling the dice imply either outright deceit or mental health issues.
If you don't want to slap the "God" badge on first-cause, or subsequent outcome fine. But until the scientific community starts acting more "scientific" when it comes to this subject no one will get anywhere with regards to solving the mystery. Scientists need to stop communicating Darwinian evolution in all it's flavors as fact, and stop believing it theory when at best it's a hypothesis whose evidence to the contrary puts it in the ridiculously implausible category.
Scientists think it's OK to warp science to fit their primitive belief systems.
Just look at...
the Darwinian rational for fair skinned people subjugating other races, particularly those of African decent. Or have you forgotten that the full title is "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life"
the notion of Bloodletting for the purpose of balancing the humours and the prevention of blood stagnating in the body (doesn't circulate you know...)
Live broadcasts cannot be rated for "accidental" content. While the V-Chip could be used to prevent known racy shows from being presented to those opting out of them it does nothing for Janet Jackson's attempts to boost her career with "malfunctioning" wardrobes on live TV. Giving the FCC teeth to force compliance to the shows rating (if that's all it was) doesn't seem out of line. It might mean live broadcasts are forced to have a 5 minute time-to-live so that they can be pre-screened. But so what?
In general I would agree with people that are claiming certain members of American culture get too worked up about certain parts of a person's anatomy. At the same time I'm not sure it's unreasonable to make it reasonably possible for such persons to "opt out." The present dilemma America seems to have is that the minority is as usual trying to force the majority live their lives as they do.
That's interesting I bought $0.59 cables plus $1.95 shipping from Amazon marketplace and they work beautifully. There might be a bit of a crap shoot involved when you get to sub $5 cables but even if I had to purchase 2 or 3 $5 cables in order to get a good one it'd still be better than spending $30 on the cheapest Best Buy/Wally World offering.
You had to bring up that hack! It makes me sick to see what that d-bag did. Berman's interpretation might not have had mass-audience appeal but at least he made an honest effort at having a consistent, reasonably plausible universe that honored Roddenberry's vision. Red-matter indeed! The only thing Star Trek about that film was the ship's name.
I applaud CCP for that patch. PLEX was an out-of-band game object. Bringing it into the game completely--by not treating it special--was a great idea. This new patch transitions the PLEX into an actual commodity for trade, piracy and consumption like everything else from Zydrine to Cap Boosters. Unhindered by logistics, market forces should finally be able to create a better value for PLEX consumers.
The person making a run with more than 20 billion ISK worth of cargo in his holds exercised a profound lack of sound judgment by not providing for transport security equal to the risk of loss. The guy was making the run in a Kestrel, an insta-pop (one shot kill) frigate class missile boat with no escort. Running 20 billion ISK in cargo most certainly would have merited at minimum spending 30 million ISK on a cloaked ship. Transporting all 74 PLEX in a single run demonstrates a level of stupidity well beyond redemption.
I suspect that had this been a Ragnarok kill--a titan class ship, roughly valued around 50 billion ISK--I doubt many would be making much of ado about it, especially out of game.
While I cannot speak for you, I can say that a great deal of people when factoring in the cost of their time applied to waiting for that 500KB web page with a 5KB/s dialup would say they're being ridiculously over-charged at $7/month... You must have had one of those audio tape turned data drives for your C64 as only patience born from waiting for one of those would tolerate 5KB/s. Still, so much of what is possible on the Internet isn't even compatible with 5KB/s. When I lived in the God forsaken back of beyond with only 1.5Mbit/s satellite I often felt frustration from its limitations.
I believe the marketing department has an easier time saying "zero" fatalities than they would saying 0.000001 fatalities/hwy mile hence the rounding. Of course the fun part is that GM could have played the rounding game back in the '60s when Nader was being a pain in their *%$ but they were more fond of intimidation and harassment by way of questioning his sexual habits and general character along with intrusive probing of his private life.
The American culture also once had the mentality that wearing seat belts were a hassle. So much so that in the first years that they found there way into cars it was estimated that only 10-15% of people actually used them. At this point most everyone save inbred hicks understand their point and use them or at least are compelled to obey traffic laws mandating their use.
Cultures can be changed, usually it takes a bit of time or a heavy handed law but eventually usually do.
I'm not sure how you could really add it to a controller as since it's a heat pump. The top of the controller will get hot while the bottom cold (or vise-versa). A suit might be interesting since unlike a controller you would only be exposed to one side of the TEC.
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Protest in the U.S., esp. rioty protest has a different set of consequences that generally do not balance well with the felt injustice. Even the reporters that report on these protests are similarly punished.
While the founding fathers of the U.S. built in the notion of defending citizens against government injustice even to the point of militia action since the founding there has been a constant effort made to erode these protections. If the subject matter is sufficiently distasteful to the government preemptive actions taken to prevent like-minded individuals from forming organized (esp. large) action groups. The system is rigged to keep the offended marginalized and powerless.
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Name any one of those "must prevent robots and low IQ humans too" type in what you see graphic programs and someone will be able to name a counter. Image recognition AI techniques are quite a bit more capable than most would believe.
Wings do not make sense for a vertical take off ascent, but they make quite a bit of sense for the decent. The alternatives require expensive recovery operations and with respect to Russian style crashing into the dirt on parachute, hazardous to the occupants integrity.
IANAAE but I suspect novel designs that are reasonable to implement could be had which incorporate characteristics enabling glide decent to a runway but eliminate or substantially reduce the unnecessary drag on ascent. The fixed wing configuration of the shuttle was engineering's answer to a technical requirement using the state of the art for the 1970's inspired by concepts imagined in the second half of the 1950's.
your contribution is much appreciated. I can't wait to see all the new ideas built off of this release.
I would however like to take up your assertion as to why the U.S. government and media are "still in business." With respect to its government I would assert that you speak of a symptom not the cause. The cause is related to the false assumption I mentioned earlier regarding a highly educated, cosmopolitan culture. Whether or not there are elements of manipulative cultural conditioning is a matter for the conspiracy theorists to take up. The demographics of American are anything but homogeneous. Looking at the following statistics shoots down the highly educated notion. Persons with even a high school education as a percentage of the population has been abysmally low for the overwhelming majority of the 20th century. Those having attained a college education are still below 30%. If you want to understand how a population can be so highly susceptible to suggestion and deception look no further. Even among the educated there is a strong tendency toward specialization of knowledge oriented toward their profession.
As to the media, these monopolies exist because they provide a product the population will accept and dare I say, appreciate. The formulas may have been conceived by the industry but there exists an ever present pressure between companies to out compete the other. This can only be accomplished by providing content that the masses prefer more than the other company. Your notion of "provide an alternative" does exist in the form of public media (TV and radio) companies. They however do not garner the same audience levels--in fact not even close--as your "monopolies." Again the cause of which I'd suggest probably is the same as the cause of the U.S.'s government being the way it is.
BTW: you do realize that you just lumped all American Scientologies and Muslims into a monolithic group right...? To be honest I don't recall any news pertaining to Scientologists threatening nor commiting violence, though they do seem fond of litigation... With respect to Muslims, aside from non-American Muslims such as those responsible for the two separate attacks on the World Trade Center, I seem to recall far more violent/terrorist attacks committed by other groups including and especially those branding themselves Christians. Check out America's history pertaining to white supremacist activities for a start.
I can understand the frustration with my statements. However, one must look from the perspective an outsider to the U.S. to grasp what I am saying. It is quite realistic to expect people to lump disparate pieces into something more monolithic.
One only has to take an American perspective, historical or modern of countries and cultures around the world to see this is the case. The reason this church wishes to burn Korans is no exception. Their reasoning must flow something along the lines of "If Muslims were responsible for 9/11 then certainly all Muslims are evil..."
Making a distinction between the peoples of the U.S. and the U.S. government is delusive. After all, is the U.S. not "for the people, by the people, and of the people?" Accordingly, like the U.S. government which is an arm of the people so too, the American media is an arm of the people. If this were not so neither would be in business for very long.
American media giving an American church free and abundant publicity about their burning of the Koran gives them legitimacy and a notion of prevalence. The U.S. has spent both the 20th century and thus far the 21st sticking its nose into the affairs of countries around the world whose policies, political makeup, etc. it does not agree with. The extent of which ranges from saber rattling at UN council and other venues, to effecting economic sanctions, inciting civil wars, supporting terrorists, political assassinations, as well as outright military invasions.
To suggest that such a Koran burning event--especially the manner in which it is being treated/covered in the media--is not able to be viewed as a form of intimidation toward Muslims demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about the situation.
You evil evil person! How did you ever get a five digit ID and not know/play Duke Nukem? Did mommy sign you up whilst you were in her womb?
What of the security of the citizen in the face of a corrupt government?
Intended as humor or not... The cost of the product is offset by paid advertisements (stickers) and installed bloatware.
How dare you crash my party?!? My dreams of world domination through punishing former but still claiming patent holders squashed! My only hope now is perversely in east Texas. Thanks a lot.
One might say that there's readily observable proof all around you but for the filters placed before your eyes that limit your perspective. One of the obvious proofs many cite are the irreducible complexities of biological systems. Certain of these have complexities that can be likened to putting silicon, germanium, and a few other exotic raw ingredients in a can. Shake it, put it outside to get zapped by lightning then expect a Intel Core i7 processor to drop out when you upend it. It's hard for many people to take on faith that reproductive and energy harvest/utilization systems functioned sufficiently well the first time out of the gate for there to even be subsequent population generations to evolve in the first place. In any other field of science the probabilistic math describing the chance of such a thing happening would be deemed "impossible." We're talking about probabilities on the order of magnitude such as the chance of having every atom in your body so perfectly aligned in relation to a wall that you could walk right through it unopposed.
Empirical proof? As in proof by experiment; not exactly possible. That is true for either theistic or evolution explanations. However, the overwhelming evidence demonstrating that present science's "answer" is bankrupt requires an unprecedented amount un-scientific denial. The lame attempts of explaining away numerous 1 in 10^60 chances of something happening with 10^10 years worth of rolling the dice imply either outright deceit or mental health issues.
If you don't want to slap the "God" badge on first-cause, or subsequent outcome fine. But until the scientific community starts acting more "scientific" when it comes to this subject no one will get anywhere with regards to solving the mystery. Scientists need to stop communicating Darwinian evolution in all it's flavors as fact, and stop believing it theory when at best it's a hypothesis whose evidence to the contrary puts it in the ridiculously implausible category.
Scientists think it's OK to warp science to fit their primitive belief systems.
Just look at...
Live broadcasts cannot be rated for "accidental" content. While the V-Chip could be used to prevent known racy shows from being presented to those opting out of them it does nothing for Janet Jackson's attempts to boost her career with "malfunctioning" wardrobes on live TV. Giving the FCC teeth to force compliance to the shows rating (if that's all it was) doesn't seem out of line. It might mean live broadcasts are forced to have a 5 minute time-to-live so that they can be pre-screened. But so what?
In general I would agree with people that are claiming certain members of American culture get too worked up about certain parts of a person's anatomy. At the same time I'm not sure it's unreasonable to make it reasonably possible for such persons to "opt out." The present dilemma America seems to have is that the minority is as usual trying to force the majority live their lives as they do.
That's interesting I bought $0.59 cables plus $1.95 shipping from Amazon marketplace and they work beautifully. There might be a bit of a crap shoot involved when you get to sub $5 cables but even if I had to purchase 2 or 3 $5 cables in order to get a good one it'd still be better than spending $30 on the cheapest Best Buy/Wally World offering.
You had to bring up that hack! It makes me sick to see what that d-bag did. Berman's interpretation might not have had mass-audience appeal but at least he made an honest effort at having a consistent, reasonably plausible universe that honored Roddenberry's vision. Red-matter indeed! The only thing Star Trek about that film was the ship's name.
So you mean all someone needs to do is be John (or Jane) Doe #101 and they're home free!?!
I applaud CCP for that patch. PLEX was an out-of-band game object. Bringing it into the game completely--by not treating it special--was a great idea. This new patch transitions the PLEX into an actual commodity for trade, piracy and consumption like everything else from Zydrine to Cap Boosters. Unhindered by logistics, market forces should finally be able to create a better value for PLEX consumers.
The person making a run with more than 20 billion ISK worth of cargo in his holds exercised a profound lack of sound judgment by not providing for transport security equal to the risk of loss. The guy was making the run in a Kestrel, an insta-pop (one shot kill) frigate class missile boat with no escort. Running 20 billion ISK in cargo most certainly would have merited at minimum spending 30 million ISK on a cloaked ship. Transporting all 74 PLEX in a single run demonstrates a level of stupidity well beyond redemption.
I suspect that had this been a Ragnarok kill--a titan class ship, roughly valued around 50 billion ISK--I doubt many would be making much of ado about it, especially out of game.
While I cannot speak for you, I can say that a great deal of people when factoring in the cost of their time applied to waiting for that 500KB web page with a 5KB/s dialup would say they're being ridiculously over-charged at $7/month... You must have had one of those audio tape turned data drives for your C64 as only patience born from waiting for one of those would tolerate 5KB/s. Still, so much of what is possible on the Internet isn't even compatible with 5KB/s. When I lived in the God forsaken back of beyond with only 1.5Mbit/s satellite I often felt frustration from its limitations.
I believe the marketing department has an easier time saying "zero" fatalities than they would saying 0.000001 fatalities/hwy mile hence the rounding. Of course the fun part is that GM could have played the rounding game back in the '60s when Nader was being a pain in their *%$ but they were more fond of intimidation and harassment by way of questioning his sexual habits and general character along with intrusive probing of his private life.
The American culture also once had the mentality that wearing seat belts were a hassle. So much so that in the first years that they found there way into cars it was estimated that only 10-15% of people actually used them. At this point most everyone save inbred hicks understand their point and use them or at least are compelled to obey traffic laws mandating their use.
Cultures can be changed, usually it takes a bit of time or a heavy handed law but eventually usually do.
I'm not sure how you could really add it to a controller as since it's a heat pump. The top of the controller will get hot while the bottom cold (or vise-versa). A suit might be interesting since unlike a controller you would only be exposed to one side of the TEC.
My humblest apologies for accidentally including an extra 'p'...
Fortunately there are some facts to back up your argument...