Whatever else you can say about G. W. Bush, he at least was able to get a lot of support for his invasions and keep those who didn't from interfering. Obama can't even get the UK on board.
I suspect the way Bush went about it gathering support for Iraq is part of the reason for the lack of support now.
There was a large anti-war sentiment in the UK before Iraq, but the the US and UK governments pushed the decision through on the basis that they knew he had WMD and he was prepared to use them.
Since Iraq, we've learnt that was all rubbish, the government elites were lying to the country and the backbench MPs. We were betrayed in the ultimate way and for no benefit to us as a country.
Cameron failed to gain support for military action because no one, including the backbench MPs trust the cabinet to give us accurate information any more and see no reason to engage in war on the basis of suspect information.
You will still have to precisely define the goals of what the machine is supposed to learn and then later do.
Yes, once, for any given task and then every single robot with the right set of sensors and actuators worldwide knows that task. That doesn't seem like a long term job to me.
The nice thing about the personal number system is it's free for me, the cost of the service is paid for through the higher call charges, thats why I don't get a cut of the increased charges like the bloke in TFA.
I've got a personal number which costs more to ring than a standard mobile line, I set it up for the similar reasons, after entering details of an accident when I renewed my insurance I got bombarded by ambulance chasers.
The only difference is that I don't get a cut of the call costs, I just wanted a way to give a telephone number on websites which comes through to my mobile phone but could easily be rerouted to voicemail off when the frequency of spam calls gets too high.
Family and friends all get my real number while all companies get the forwarding number so I know that sending everything from the forwarding number to voicemail isn't going to affect people I actually want to talk to.
nowhere in the GP post does he says he considers a line of credit as having money.
He is simply stating that despite being in a supposedly better financial position than his wife because he has provable source of income, his wife is offered much better lines of credits and that he believes this is due to their backgrounds.
ingest a substance that is dangerous to you and that we have to intervene for your own good.
I don't think the war on drugs is about that at all. There are 2 ways to look at it and neither are about being for the good of the drug user
1) It's to prevent the damage to society that drug users do in the form of low level crime to pay for habits, the costs of rehabilitation etc.
2) A convienant scapegoat for politicians can point to and say "thats why society isn't as good as it should be and it's absolutely nothing to do with those of us who make the rules and control the money"
I stopped reading any energy/military section on The Reg because they don't mention who wrote the article from the front page and I don't want to run the risk of giving Page any Page Views (pun sort of intended).
A sibling to your post mentioned that he picks facts which support his message as if he's some sort of nuclear industry shill. I don't believe that, Page writes deliberately controversial articles just so there will be a flame war in the comments which bumps his articles view count.
That's true if you assume that technology and methods of organization can't be improved
If you think of it like a Venn Diagram, Earth is this huge great circle... impossibly large to comprehend. And that represents all the raw materials which are in the Earth.
The technology we have to extract those resources economically is a much smaller circle inside that that giant circle.
Improvements in technology increase the size of the little circle but the large circle stays the same size. You haven't stopped Capitalism from being a zero-sum game, all you have done is increased the sum available to us at that point in time.
Moving off world for our resources makes that impossibly large circle bigger, but its still finite.
I'm not saying the system is about to fall over any time soon, but the idea of continuous grow for ever, which is what Capitalism needs to survive is clearly ridiculous and eventually physics catch up with us.
At it's most basic, Capitalism is simply one method for allocating goods and services. In effect raw materials and the work needed to changes those raw materials into something else.
Since both raw materials and work are finite how can Capitalism be anything other than a zero sum?
At best you can limit the frame of reference to trades inside a certain economic area or time frame or both, but then you are just externalising the raw materials coming from outside the area or outside of the timeframe (by removing a future person the opportunatity to make use of that raw material).
Of course Capitalism is a zero-sum game, if it looks like it isn't you just haven't accounted for everything and externalised some costs somewhere in the system.
Maybe yes maybe no. However, if these 'peashooters' are so harmless, why does the state want to restrict them so much?
Because although they are pointless against a modern military (which is suppose to be the point of the right to bear arms), they are extremely dangerous when used against people not part of the modern military... people like your local community members, who seem to keep getting shot whether as a result of armed burgery, shooting rampages or stand your ground self-defense.
I suspect it depends on the individual officer and how he deals with life.
You could view it as dealing with the worst in human nature and let that sour your view of all people, or you could see if as removing the worse of aspects of society and let that give you great job satsifaction.
Well the really obvious difference being that CP is straight up illegal and disgusting so sting operations by law enforcement seems reasonable while copyright infringement is a civil matter for most users.
And then of course there is the other matter of FBI being a law enforcement agency and Prenda being a private company.
Finally, for copyright infringement to be considered criminal you generally need commercial gain, if Prenda didn't have the rights to distribute the files then they have gained by their copyright infringement, in fact they are the only people to have gained. If Prenda did have the right to distribute the files then none of the people they have extorted have actually done anything wrong because they weren't using an illegal distributor.
Sounds like this is basically only useful to help maintain a low-power consumption orbit of heavenly bodies with strong magnetic fields(aka just earth in our solar system).
You are right, but there are currently about 6000 man made satellites in orbit (only about half of which are functional) and only 70 odd probes which go beyond earths magnetosphere so it's not like a huge number of vehicles couldn't use this technology. Especially since Satellite life times are normally limited by propellant they can carry
Also, just off the top of my head Jupiter and Saturn have magnetospheres.
Also, this assumes the asteroid isn't tumbling or rotating. You would have to cancel this before actually attempting to move the object.
Only if you need to attach 1 big rocket to object being captured.
You could use a gravity tub approach, although it probably needs a small target to work.
Or, you could put lots of smaller rockets all over the surface and just have them fire a quick pulse when they are facing the right way, that would have the added benefit of redundancy should a rocket fail.
I refuse to accept that there is no better solution than the status-quo. There must be a way to capture the will of the people, protect minorities, and protect the people from government overreach. There must be a way to have our cake and eat it.
Rather than having professional career politicians drafting bills for consideration by house representatives, have a committee drawn from the General Population in a similar way to jury selection.
A single professional lawmaker is used in a similar way to a judge to oversee the committee, they ensure the process is legal, give instructions but can't make a decision about the outcome.
A committee is formed to consider a specific issue put forwards from 'somewhere' which would be phrased in a high level term which the committee can agree to or ammend,e.g. Committe recommends that National Speed Limits should be increased in light of improvements in vehicle handling but maximum Blood Alcohol of drivers level should be reduced.
Professional lawmakers then turn those high level recommendations into a proper draft bill but must meet all the high level recommendations and only the high level recommendations (no tacking on a Internet monitoing clause into the bill for transport) before the bill is passed on to the House and Senate in the normal way.
The randomess of the committee should (if the sample is large enough) represent some sort of democratic consensus and the short period and limited powers of the committee members makes bribery and corporate influence harder / less effective.
In essence, it's a 3rd layer of the Legislature acting as a filter to the ideas which are allowed to be discussed by the other 2 legislative entities.
I suspect that the accident rate will be much lower than even trains
1) because of the lack of other stuff in the tube so there just wont be anything to run into accept other pods which might have stopped, no trees falling on to tracks or cars at level crossing etc.
2) because the pods are meant to have the air sucked out of them. If anything happens to the tube which breaks the structure of the tube (tree falling onto it for example, then air is going to rush in and the pod wont be able to travel at 800mph even if it tried to, it makes a very easy to detect failsafe system, just have pressure sensors on the pods and in the tubes.
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I suspect the way Bush went about it gathering support for Iraq is part of the reason for the lack of support now.
There was a large anti-war sentiment in the UK before Iraq, but the the US and UK governments pushed the decision through on the basis that they knew he had WMD and he was prepared to use them.
Since Iraq, we've learnt that was all rubbish, the government elites were lying to the country and the backbench MPs. We were betrayed in the ultimate way and for no benefit to us as a country.
Cameron failed to gain support for military action because no one, including the backbench MPs trust the cabinet to give us accurate information any more and see no reason to engage in war on the basis of suspect information.
Are were you?
If the vehicle is completely automated why would it fly with the check engine light on?
The computer is responsible for all aspects of the vehicles use and would just book itself in for regular maintenance work.
There is an issue of the user not wanting to pay for the maintenance but in that case the vehicle just becomes unavailable.
Yes, once, for any given task and then every single robot with the right set of sensors and actuators worldwide knows that task. That doesn't seem like a long term job to me.
Thats a good thing isn't it?
Surely the point it to stop the marketing calls, the making money off them is just a side benefit.
The nice thing about the personal number system is it's free for me, the cost of the service is paid for through the higher call charges, thats why I don't get a cut of the increased charges like the bloke in TFA.
I've got a personal number which costs more to ring than a standard mobile line, I set it up for the similar reasons, after entering details of an accident when I renewed my insurance I got bombarded by ambulance chasers.
The only difference is that I don't get a cut of the call costs, I just wanted a way to give a telephone number on websites which comes through to my mobile phone but could easily be rerouted to voicemail off when the frequency of spam calls gets too high.
Family and friends all get my real number while all companies get the forwarding number so I know that sending everything from the forwarding number to voicemail isn't going to affect people I actually want to talk to.
That is brilliant.
nowhere in the GP post does he says he considers a line of credit as having money.
He is simply stating that despite being in a supposedly better financial position than his wife because he has provable source of income, his wife is offered much better lines of credits and that he believes this is due to their backgrounds.
I don't think the war on drugs is about that at all. There are 2 ways to look at it and neither are about being for the good of the drug user
1) It's to prevent the damage to society that drug users do in the form of low level crime to pay for habits, the costs of rehabilitation etc.
2) A convienant scapegoat for politicians can point to and say "thats why society isn't as good as it should be and it's absolutely nothing to do with those of us who make the rules and control the money"
RTFA - He's Hindu.
I stopped reading any energy/military section on The Reg because they don't mention who wrote the article from the front page and I don't want to run the risk of giving Page any Page Views (pun sort of intended).
A sibling to your post mentioned that he picks facts which support his message as if he's some sort of nuclear industry shill. I don't believe that, Page writes deliberately controversial articles just so there will be a flame war in the comments which bumps his articles view count.
He's not stupid, just deliberately disingenuous.
If you think of it like a Venn Diagram, Earth is this huge great circle... impossibly large to comprehend. And that represents all the raw materials which are in the Earth.
The technology we have to extract those resources economically is a much smaller circle inside that that giant circle.
Improvements in technology increase the size of the little circle but the large circle stays the same size. You haven't stopped Capitalism from being a zero-sum game, all you have done is increased the sum available to us at that point in time.
Moving off world for our resources makes that impossibly large circle bigger, but its still finite.
I'm not saying the system is about to fall over any time soon, but the idea of continuous grow for ever, which is what Capitalism needs to survive is clearly ridiculous and eventually physics catch up with us.
At it's most basic, Capitalism is simply one method for allocating goods and services. In effect raw materials and the work needed to changes those raw materials into something else.
Since both raw materials and work are finite how can Capitalism be anything other than a zero sum?
At best you can limit the frame of reference to trades inside a certain economic area or time frame or both, but then you are just externalising the raw materials coming from outside the area or outside of the timeframe (by removing a future person the opportunatity to make use of that raw material).
Of course Capitalism is a zero-sum game, if it looks like it isn't you just haven't accounted for everything and externalised some costs somewhere in the system.
It's not superman without Lex Luther.
just a radio controlled aircraft
Because although they are pointless against a modern military (which is suppose to be the point of the right to bear arms), they are extremely dangerous when used against people not part of the modern military... people like your local community members, who seem to keep getting shot whether as a result of armed burgery, shooting rampages or stand your ground self-defense.
I suspect it depends on the individual officer and how he deals with life.
You could view it as dealing with the worst in human nature and let that sour your view of all people, or you could see if as removing the worse of aspects of society and let that give you great job satsifaction.
Well the really obvious difference being that CP is straight up illegal and disgusting so sting operations by law enforcement seems reasonable while copyright infringement is a civil matter for most users.
And then of course there is the other matter of FBI being a law enforcement agency and Prenda being a private company.
Finally, for copyright infringement to be considered criminal you generally need commercial gain, if Prenda didn't have the rights to distribute the files then they have gained by their copyright infringement, in fact they are the only people to have gained. If Prenda did have the right to distribute the files then none of the people they have extorted have actually done anything wrong because they weren't using an illegal distributor.
You are right, but there are currently about 6000 man made satellites in orbit (only about half of which are functional) and only 70 odd probes which go beyond earths magnetosphere so it's not like a huge number of vehicles couldn't use this technology. Especially since Satellite life times are normally limited by propellant they can carry
Also, just off the top of my head Jupiter and Saturn have magnetospheres.
OPEC != OTEC
Only if you need to attach 1 big rocket to object being captured.
You could use a gravity tub approach, although it probably needs a small target to work.
Or, you could put lots of smaller rockets all over the surface and just have them fire a quick pulse when they are facing the right way, that would have the added benefit of redundancy should a rocket fail.
Rather than having professional career politicians drafting bills for consideration by house representatives, have a committee drawn from the General Population in a similar way to jury selection.
A single professional lawmaker is used in a similar way to a judge to oversee the committee, they ensure the process is legal, give instructions but can't make a decision about the outcome.
A committee is formed to consider a specific issue put forwards from 'somewhere' which would be phrased in a high level term which the committee can agree to or ammend,e.g. Committe recommends that National Speed Limits should be increased in light of improvements in vehicle handling but maximum Blood Alcohol of drivers level should be reduced.
Professional lawmakers then turn those high level recommendations into a proper draft bill but must meet all the high level recommendations and only the high level recommendations (no tacking on a Internet monitoing clause into the bill for transport) before the bill is passed on to the House and Senate in the normal way.
The randomess of the committee should (if the sample is large enough) represent some sort of democratic consensus and the short period and limited powers of the committee members makes bribery and corporate influence harder / less effective.
In essence, it's a 3rd layer of the Legislature acting as a filter to the ideas which are allowed to be discussed by the other 2 legislative entities.
I suspect that the accident rate will be much lower than even trains
1) because of the lack of other stuff in the tube so there just wont be anything to run into accept other pods which might have stopped, no trees falling on to tracks or cars at level crossing etc.
2) because the pods are meant to have the air sucked out of them. If anything happens to the tube which breaks the structure of the tube (tree falling onto it for example, then air is going to rush in and the pod wont be able to travel at 800mph even if it tried to, it makes a very easy to detect failsafe system, just have pressure sensors on the pods and in the tubes.