20% of new construction is purchased and left vacant in Vancouver. I have a hard time imagining why you would do that if not to launder/stash money. If nothing else - why not hire a property management company and rent it out? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
Carl Panzram killed 20 people, and escaped jail on many occasions. He grew tired of the police trying to gather evidence for him, and killed his 21st person, in prison, in front of an audience. The jury took 45 minutes to sentence him to death. His comment to reporters was "I am satisfied with the verdict."
As Carl sat on Death Row, an anti-death penalty group tried to get him a stay of execution. Carl was pissed off about this and sent them a letter asking them to stop.
"I look forward to a seat in the electric chair or dance at the end of a rope just like some folks do for their wedding night. The only thanks you and your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it... I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me, and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em!"
The anti-death penalty group stopped petitioning.
Do you think that this person doesn't deserve death? Do you think that prison is a waste of resources?
Here is the letter - penned in his own hand (the last one, for obvious reasons, https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/...). "I do not want another trial. Neither do I want the sentence changed in any way." His last words were "Hurry up you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!"
Depends on the use case - I have found live citronella plants *extremely* effective at entrances/exits. We now have them at every entrance/exit at my work, to my homes' screened in porch, and to the front door. We went from ~5 conference room mosquitos/day to 0 with a couple of plants.
I don't like "cyber" any more than the next guy, but I'm actually hard pressed to come up with something that says "electromagnetic spectrum attacks and defense in addition to hacking-based IT attack/defense or other attack/defense on system operation".
Whatever term you prefer, it has to include, for both attack/defense: jamming, hacking/spoofing, spying/snooping, and the general "flying a small drone with high-powered transmitter which issues orders to my missile-drone and steals it".
Cyber kinda encompasses it as "not air, not land, not sea, not space" and "uses fancy electrical/computer stuff to accomplish objectives".
"Computer war" or "hack war" doesn't fit (jamming). "Electromagnetic war" doesn't fit.
I am in Orlando. My senior design partner had the quality control testing assignment (a solid engineering intern job!) for that ride. She said that she rode it 83 times consecutively.
A few things: 1 - They did not get employment more than their counterparts (it doesn't help 'em find jobs). 2 - They did not get employment less than their counterparts (they don't take the money and slack off). 3 - They were collecting this instead of unemployment or other benefits (which may have different bureaucratic ramifications one way or another depending on program implementation overhead). 4 - They were happier. 5 - This is a successful experiment - it produced data in a controlled manner which can likely be replicated.
There are a few narratives left to be explored. Here are some samples of such stories: (PRO) "UBI, as implemented, costs less than the collection of unemployment, food stamps, housing assistance, and other assorted benefits. Giving poor people money through a unified program decreases administration costs and allows for individual choice regulation in the marketplace without affecting employment outcomes." (debatable-PRO) "UBI, as implemented, is more expensive than unemployment costs in implementation, but results in happier and less stressful citizens." (neutral) "UBI, as implemented, did not result in people just sitting about the house." (debatable-CON) "UBI did not result in additional risk-taking, business-starting, or other activities, as hypothesized." (CON) "UBI cost the taxpayer money to pay people to be happier while they sat at home doing nothing productive."
This is a joke, right? "All taxes should be paid at point of revenue" Okay - so I buy a chocolate - and pay tax where I buy it. Yep checks out. Okay - so I buy a song - and pay tax at my house. Yep checks out. Okay - so I travel to the EU and buy a song and pay tax in the EU. Pay tax in the EU from my US phone transaction from a US company... Uh... Okay - so I am referred to a Japanese site from a US company from my French search. The Japanese site paid a UK company for the referral. The French search was from a different US company, which outsources referral technology to the UK. I did not make a purchase. Who pays what tax now?
This isn't like they are studying the remaining living WWII veterans or Japanese anorexics. They should be able to find some extra BEES to run the tests on. Presumably they have access to a hive, at a minimum.
I want this to be true so badly, but all the "can I buy it with my BitCoin? Harr harr harr." things were going on for, like, 10 years before BitCoin became such a big thing that Joe SixPack talks about it.
I wonder if the Gutenberg press was the beginning of propaganda papers, and if there was a time when people believed that it was true only because it was printed. Certainly there was a time when people regarded everything on the internet as accurate. Did such a time exist for the TV?
Gotta love Penny Arcade - " I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames.". And its true!
Nice to know that he stopped being mean to people via E-mail and started to make an automated-content-theft device. Really turned that one around.
Here a Kennedy Space Center, 11000 of the 13000 workers are contractors. Contractors do not receive backpay (although some of them could still work because their contracts were paid up). People seriously underestimate the size of the contractor workforce.
I was listening to a podcast with a famous neuropsych guy on the drive home - he did the Tetris study. Here is the basic protocol: Step 1 - have people play tetris for a bit, let 'em figure out what the game is. Step 2 - take a blood sugar/glucose brain test thingy (something about using radioactive isotope markers latches onto sugar molecules to do live imaging to see when the sugar was consumed). You basically figure out what regions of the brain are eating up the sugar and how fast. Step 3 - train participants on Tetris for a couple of weeks. Step 4 - Redo the brain test.
What do you think the conclusions are?... Think, about it. More sugar consumed? Lower? In the same regions? Different? Faster? Slower?... The uninitiated probably say "the brain will use more 'processing power' in total, with possible expansion into regions". Something like "the brain will solve the problem for what it is - a spacial-temporal 2-dimensional planning problem with 4 rotational dimensions, additionally using visual processing and fine motor function." Reasonable guess, BUT ITS WRONG.... People with higher levels of Tetris skill think *LESS* (use less glucose, slower, to the same brain regions).... This is surprising, but has a pretty good explanation - the 'learning' period starts with all kinds of new brain connections, manual solving, etc. and the 'use' period is mostly just pruning off connections to be faster and more efficient.... The scientists were "surprised", but it is really more of a "hmm, that's surprising..." than a "state of shock".
"Scientists report that scientists did studies on monkeys to see if monkeys would make good scientists. Its not all good news, though, some scientists will be out of a job... Unless, of course, they happen to be monkeys."
(delivery is important) "SCIENTISTS report that SCIENTISTS did studies on MONKEYS to see if MONKEYS would make good SCIENTISTS. Its not all good news, though, some SCIENTISTS will be out of a job... Unless, of course, they happen to be MONKEYS."
I have always simply seen those meals as efficient: Step 0 - castiron pan fry bacon, make coffee fry hardtack biscuits in leftover bacon grease degrease pan with leftover coffee use greaseCoffee as gravy for biscuits
End result - pan is clean, no washup except the cup used to make coffee, breakfast cheap/delicious, squeezed for every last calorie.
Let's see... Disabled automatic braking Configured the system to error on the side of driving Tampered with the video to artificially darken it before it was released tot he press Had no oversight of the "driver" "Driver" is a term used *very* loosely, considering that they were *reading* when the car collided. System *and* driver does not read *specific* warning signs warning of the possibility of night bike riders.
It was a murder machine. In many ways, this system was specifically set up to murder people. They wrote a 70-page report on how badly they screwed up on *every* turn.
Meanwhile, Google/Waymo cars have been on public roads since 2015... Ubers' murdermachine was allowed on the road for 17 days before murdering someone.
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20% of new construction is purchased and left vacant in Vancouver. I have a hard time imagining why you would do that if not to launder/stash money. If nothing else - why not hire a property management company and rent it out?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
We already have a number of stories describing this phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, I recommend my favorite tag for this story: "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"
Carl Panzram killed 20 people, and escaped jail on many occasions. He grew tired of the police trying to gather evidence for him, and killed his 21st person, in prison, in front of an audience. The jury took 45 minutes to sentence him to death. His comment to reporters was "I am satisfied with the verdict."
As Carl sat on Death Row, an anti-death penalty group tried to get him a stay of execution. Carl was pissed off about this and sent them a letter asking them to stop.
"I look forward to a seat in the electric chair or dance at the end of a rope just like some folks do for their wedding night. The only thanks you and your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it... I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me, and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em!"
The anti-death penalty group stopped petitioning.
Do you think that this person doesn't deserve death? Do you think that prison is a waste of resources?
Here is the letter - penned in his own hand (the last one, for obvious reasons, https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/...). "I do not want another trial. Neither do I want the sentence changed in any way." His last words were "Hurry up you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!"
https://www.smbc-comics.com/co...
Depends on the use case - I have found live citronella plants *extremely* effective at entrances/exits. We now have them at every entrance/exit at my work, to my homes' screened in porch, and to the front door. We went from ~5 conference room mosquitos/day to 0 with a couple of plants.
Those are Cyber PsyOps ;).
PS - Land PsyOps is firing "please surrender" leaflets via mortar.
I don't like "cyber" any more than the next guy, but I'm actually hard pressed to come up with something that says "electromagnetic spectrum attacks and defense in addition to hacking-based IT attack/defense or other attack/defense on system operation".
Whatever term you prefer, it has to include, for both attack/defense: jamming, hacking/spoofing, spying/snooping, and the general "flying a small drone with high-powered transmitter which issues orders to my missile-drone and steals it".
Cyber kinda encompasses it as "not air, not land, not sea, not space" and "uses fancy electrical/computer stuff to accomplish objectives".
"Computer war" or "hack war" doesn't fit (jamming).
"Electromagnetic war" doesn't fit.
Open to other suggestions.
I am in Orlando. My senior design partner had the quality control testing assignment (a solid engineering intern job!) for that ride. She said that she rode it 83 times consecutively.
*shudder*
3% cashback indicates that he would have made $72K on the transaction. Naturally, the credit card company probably made more.
A few things:
1 - They did not get employment more than their counterparts (it doesn't help 'em find jobs).
2 - They did not get employment less than their counterparts (they don't take the money and slack off).
3 - They were collecting this instead of unemployment or other benefits (which may have different bureaucratic ramifications one way or another depending on program implementation overhead).
4 - They were happier.
5 - This is a successful experiment - it produced data in a controlled manner which can likely be replicated.
There are a few narratives left to be explored. Here are some samples of such stories:
(PRO) "UBI, as implemented, costs less than the collection of unemployment, food stamps, housing assistance, and other assorted benefits. Giving poor people money through a unified program decreases administration costs and allows for individual choice regulation in the marketplace without affecting employment outcomes."
(debatable-PRO) "UBI, as implemented, is more expensive than unemployment costs in implementation, but results in happier and less stressful citizens."
(neutral) "UBI, as implemented, did not result in people just sitting about the house."
(debatable-CON) "UBI did not result in additional risk-taking, business-starting, or other activities, as hypothesized."
(CON) "UBI cost the taxpayer money to pay people to be happier while they sat at home doing nothing productive."
This is a joke, right?
"All taxes should be paid at point of revenue"
Okay - so I buy a chocolate - and pay tax where I buy it. Yep checks out.
Okay - so I buy a song - and pay tax at my house. Yep checks out.
Okay - so I travel to the EU and buy a song and pay tax in the EU. Pay tax in the EU from my US phone transaction from a US company... Uh...
Okay - so I am referred to a Japanese site from a US company from my French search. The Japanese site paid a UK company for the referral. The French search was from a different US company, which outsources referral technology to the UK. I did not make a purchase. Who pays what tax now?
This isn't like they are studying the remaining living WWII veterans or Japanese anorexics. They should be able to find some extra BEES to run the tests on. Presumably they have access to a hive, at a minimum.
Oh, for sure. But you have to think "if I had bought $500 of BitCoin when it was a SlashDot joke, I would be a multi-millionaire now".
Then you read: "Yea, eelo is going to be HUGE" and you have no idea whether is it HUGE like BitCoin or huge like Meego.
I want this to be true so badly, but all the "can I buy it with my BitCoin? Harr harr harr." things were going on for, like, 10 years before BitCoin became such a big thing that Joe SixPack talks about it.
I wonder if the Gutenberg press was the beginning of propaganda papers, and if there was a time when people believed that it was true only because it was printed. Certainly there was a time when people regarded everything on the internet as accurate. Did such a time exist for the TV?
Wow.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/r...
https://www.penny-arcade.com/r...
Gotta love Penny Arcade - " I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames.". And its true!
Nice to know that he stopped being mean to people via E-mail and started to make an automated-content-theft device. Really turned that one around.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/co...
Here a Kennedy Space Center, 11000 of the 13000 workers are contractors. Contractors do not receive backpay (although some of them could still work because their contracts were paid up). People seriously underestimate the size of the contractor workforce.
At KSC, it is worth noting that, of the 13000 people on site, 11000 are contractors.
I was listening to a podcast with a famous neuropsych guy on the drive home - he did the Tetris study. Here is the basic protocol:
Step 1 - have people play tetris for a bit, let 'em figure out what the game is.
Step 2 - take a blood sugar/glucose brain test thingy (something about using radioactive isotope markers latches onto sugar molecules to do live imaging to see when the sugar was consumed). You basically figure out what regions of the brain are eating up the sugar and how fast.
Step 3 - train participants on Tetris for a couple of weeks.
Step 4 - Redo the brain test.
What do you think the conclusions are? ... ... ... ... ...
Think, about it. More sugar consumed? Lower? In the same regions? Different? Faster? Slower?
The uninitiated probably say "the brain will use more 'processing power' in total, with possible expansion into regions". Something like "the brain will solve the problem for what it is - a spacial-temporal 2-dimensional planning problem with 4 rotational dimensions, additionally using visual processing and fine motor function." Reasonable guess, BUT ITS WRONG.
People with higher levels of Tetris skill think *LESS* (use less glucose, slower, to the same brain regions).
This is surprising, but has a pretty good explanation - the 'learning' period starts with all kinds of new brain connections, manual solving, etc. and the 'use' period is mostly just pruning off connections to be faster and more efficient.
The scientists were "surprised", but it is really more of a "hmm, that's surprising..." than a "state of shock".
I thought the same thing, but then I saw the name:
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
Commonly known by the abbreviations Rubisco or rubisco, RuBPCase, or RuBPco,
Essentially, unlike something complex-but-used like CRISPR/DNA/CAMphotosynthesis, even the scientists who study it don't use the full name.
"Scientists report that scientists did studies on monkeys to see if monkeys would make good scientists. Its not all good news, though, some scientists will be out of a job... Unless, of course, they happen to be monkeys."
(delivery is important)
"SCIENTISTS report that SCIENTISTS did studies on MONKEYS to see if MONKEYS would make good SCIENTISTS. Its not all good news, though, some SCIENTISTS will be out of a job... Unless, of course, they happen to be MONKEYS."
Well, ya know, 26% of it died today.
I have always simply seen those meals as efficient:
Step 0 - castiron pan
fry bacon, make coffee
fry hardtack biscuits in leftover bacon grease
degrease pan with leftover coffee
use greaseCoffee as gravy for biscuits
End result - pan is clean, no washup except the cup used to make coffee, breakfast cheap/delicious, squeezed for every last calorie.
Let's see...
Disabled automatic braking
Configured the system to error on the side of driving
Tampered with the video to artificially darken it before it was released tot he press
Had no oversight of the "driver"
"Driver" is a term used *very* loosely, considering that they were *reading* when the car collided.
System *and* driver does not read *specific* warning signs warning of the possibility of night bike riders.
It was a murder machine. In many ways, this system was specifically set up to murder people. They wrote a 70-page report on how badly they screwed up on *every* turn.
Meanwhile, Google/Waymo cars have been on public roads since 2015... Ubers' murdermachine was allowed on the road for 17 days before murdering someone.
Just NO.