it would take a long time for the subsistence people of the world to even approach the amount of per-head CO2 being put out by americans.
also, you fuckers are obsessed with showing the rest of the world how to live, to hell with what they think. how is this any different? why not set the example for the rest of the world? why not simply invade them or smart-bomb their factories because they're pumping out CO2?
i like to think of it as looking at a game of pool if you're sitting with your eye level aligned with the side of the table, and a whisky in your hand (that part is very important). the table is essentially reduced to 1 dimension instead of the 2 that are necessary to model it (excluding corner cases such as spin, and balls becoming airborne).
when a shot is taken, balls appear to either collide and bounce, or pass through each other. far more pass through each other than collide, and it's nigh on impossible to predict which balls will bounce and which will not.
call up a credit card company and talk to one of the call centre folks on the ground about cyber security... yeah, good luck with that.
if you were to ask to speak to a manager, saying that their services are being used by criminal gangs to commit fraud and money laundering, you'll get a bit further.
the good thing is we get to use this cool stuff in years to come.
i remember a physics teacher in highschool noting that the only two 20th century inventions of note that weren't applications of military tech were the microwave oven and velcro (which was from the space program).
now, i doubt the accuracy of that (magnetrons were invented for radar IIRC), but it makes a good point.
On top of that are specific software patents (mapping elliptical regions to capacitive touches) and hardware patents (Apple's new type of rocker switch).
fingertips are elliptical. changing a circle to an ellipse is a trivial matter of changing the circle's aspect ratio, something that's so obvious even apple's lawyers thought of doing it.
what exactly is new about this rocker switch that apple got a patent on it? citations? really, i'm curious, because they seem to be confusing progressive refinement of design with actual invention. they are different things, otherwise we could literally re-invent the wheel by simply making it wider or narrower.
management isn't as streamlined though, but maybe that's because i use darktable rather than one of the more established managers out there (i value flexibility in colour adjustment more than access to an "upload to facebook" button).
just like you're allegedly an Apple shill, and if you're not being paid for your comments, you're just a sad, fashion victim loser who thinks a multibillion dollar corporation is in dire need of his personal skills to defend them.
- of-course it is different because the risk is to the investors, not to all tax payers. If this thing does not work out why should the risk be socialized?
sometimes you need to build something that is quite likely to run at a loss, or at least not return an immediate profit this generation.
it is a sad state of affairs that a business is more likely to think long term than one of the current crop of western governments. but that is not the fault of governments, or regulation. it is more to do with the lack of long term thinking that comes with (relatively) short terms, and term limits. for "the leader of the free world" to never think beyond at most 8 years is unbelievable folly, and the USA is paying dearly for it.
the other great folly in policy is that so much is driven by personal interests (usually business related). conflicts of interest abound, and the pork flows free where it could be used for useful things.
take an example of a government that thinks long term: China. the USA is running scared from China. their government doesn't need to worry about next term, and doesn't even have to worry about what the voters think. that's a double-edged sword right there, but one advantage is that policy can be formulated without worrying about how it'll look on Fox news to laymen that have no understanding of how things work, and the policy can pass without care for which congressmen don't have a personal cut of the spoils of it.
of course, i'm not saying either model makes sense. just encouraging you to run a few though experiments in your head, and see how your worldview works with them. you might find that as soon as you run the "arsehole" scenario, the libertarian worldview turns to shit, just like every other worldview. what's needed is a system that works in the presence of arseholes, and you'll get the closest to utopia that humanity can give.
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it would take a long time for the subsistence people of the world to even approach the amount of per-head CO2 being put out by americans.
also, you fuckers are obsessed with showing the rest of the world how to live, to hell with what they think. how is this any different? why not set the example for the rest of the world? why not simply invade them or smart-bomb their factories because they're pumping out CO2?
double standard? what's that?
"publicly denounced", or "proved wrong and thought people should know they were believing a lie"?
how about we phrase it in terms you'll understand.
think of the scientific community as a "free market", and peer review as "competitive forces".
by your understanding of the world, the science that survives this system must be perfect.
your definition of science is wrong.
therefore your conclusions are wrong.
how are american lives more important than russian lives, or any other?
guinness and soy are both quite umami tastes.
in australia we'd say it tastes like vegemite, and we'd all rejoice and drink it all down.
i like to think of it as looking at a game of pool if you're sitting with your eye level aligned with the side of the table, and a whisky in your hand (that part is very important). the table is essentially reduced to 1 dimension instead of the 2 that are necessary to model it (excluding corner cases such as spin, and balls becoming airborne).
when a shot is taken, balls appear to either collide and bounce, or pass through each other. far more pass through each other than collide, and it's nigh on impossible to predict which balls will bounce and which will not.
stand up and it all makes sense.
WHOOOSH!
call up a credit card company and talk to one of the call centre folks on the ground about cyber security... yeah, good luck with that.
if you were to ask to speak to a manager, saying that their services are being used by criminal gangs to commit fraud and money laundering, you'll get a bit further.
the good thing is we get to use this cool stuff in years to come.
i remember a physics teacher in highschool noting that the only two 20th century inventions of note that weren't applications of military tech were the microwave oven and velcro (which was from the space program).
now, i doubt the accuracy of that (magnetrons were invented for radar IIRC), but it makes a good point.
it's impossible to know another person's pain, let alone another being.
it's just a call that no real scientist is willing to make on anything that has the capacity to react at all to it's environment.
T-800: "I sense injuries. The data could be called pain."
as a parent, i'm going to be watching what my kid watches. and try to limit the amount of TV they watch in the first place.
if you let TV raise your kids, then you reap what you sow. and Disney's nowhere near as bad as most of the shit that gets broadcast.
i may backflip when my kid gets old enough to nag me for stuff.
trivial. these patents would all be invalidated if they were ever tested in a sane court.
also, how much are you being paid for your comments?
i say this all the time, but i think it's deceptive if you are being paid, and plain sad if you're shilling for free.
On top of that are specific software patents (mapping elliptical regions to capacitive touches) and hardware patents (Apple's new type of rocker switch).
fingertips are elliptical. changing a circle to an ellipse is a trivial matter of changing the circle's aspect ratio, something that's so obvious even apple's lawyers thought of doing it.
what exactly is new about this rocker switch that apple got a patent on it? citations? really, i'm curious, because they seem to be confusing progressive refinement of design with actual invention. they are different things, otherwise we could literally re-invent the wheel by simply making it wider or narrower.
$18 = rich.
also, universities tend to share a single subscription with their students.
it's getting better. quite usable now.
management isn't as streamlined though, but maybe that's because i use darktable rather than one of the more established managers out there (i value flexibility in colour adjustment more than access to an "upload to facebook" button).
the should have made a post on macrumours if they wanted to be taken seriously.
"allegedly" copying the iPad.
just like you're allegedly an Apple shill, and if you're not being paid for your comments, you're just a sad, fashion victim loser who thinks a multibillion dollar corporation is in dire need of his personal skills to defend them.
translation:
I want to piss all over the world, but don't want anyone else to.
thanks, cunt.
makes me baaawwwww
i could care less about forming a sentence.
i tend to use yyyy-mm-dd for easier sorting.
- of-course it is different because the risk is to the investors, not to all tax payers. If this thing does not work out why should the risk be socialized?
sometimes you need to build something that is quite likely to run at a loss, or at least not return an immediate profit this generation.
it is a sad state of affairs that a business is more likely to think long term than one of the current crop of western governments. but that is not the fault of governments, or regulation. it is more to do with the lack of long term thinking that comes with (relatively) short terms, and term limits. for "the leader of the free world" to never think beyond at most 8 years is unbelievable folly, and the USA is paying dearly for it.
the other great folly in policy is that so much is driven by personal interests (usually business related). conflicts of interest abound, and the pork flows free where it could be used for useful things.
take an example of a government that thinks long term: China. the USA is running scared from China. their government doesn't need to worry about next term, and doesn't even have to worry about what the voters think. that's a double-edged sword right there, but one advantage is that policy can be formulated without worrying about how it'll look on Fox news to laymen that have no understanding of how things work, and the policy can pass without care for which congressmen don't have a personal cut of the spoils of it.
of course, i'm not saying either model makes sense. just encouraging you to run a few though experiments in your head, and see how your worldview works with them. you might find that as soon as you run the "arsehole" scenario, the libertarian worldview turns to shit, just like every other worldview. what's needed is a system that works in the presence of arseholes, and you'll get the closest to utopia that humanity can give.
i wonder how this gets a troll mod?
WE MUST NOT HAVE DISSENT AGAINST OUR LEADAAAR!
i suppose he can't defend himself, with his billions and lawyers. we must defend him from the internet trolls on his behalf.
SCART