Due to the constant under-budgeting by congress, NASA has been reduced to offering carnival rides for the rich. NASA is supposed to be about science. This is shameful and reflects poorly upon our nation.
Cause: They made their product open source but were charging money for a hosted service. Other people start selling their own hosted service and they got unhappy that they didn't have a monopoly so they switched part of their code to "Commons Clause" which disallows others from offer it as part of a paid service.
Beyond the obvious Betteridge response, Facebook is now a publicly traded corporation and board members of publicly traded corporations are required to do whatever it takes to increase the value of stocks or be voted out. This seems like a good idea until you realize this brings out the absolute worst and most sociopathic behavior. Facebook is not going to change.
However, what is going to change (eventually) is everyone else's obsession with Facebook. Sure, you'll always have a class of fools who will keep using it regardless of the what they hear but the allure is that other people are also using it. As more people recognize it's making them unhappy, more people will quit. The good news is that far fewer people from the latest generation are actually joining. Sadly, this pattern will only happen language by language. Small language bases will form quickly and evaporate just as quickly. However, widespread languages will slowly decay.
Ultimately, a better alternative to Facebook is going to be what eviscerates Facebook's userbase but it's corpse will forever haunt the internet just like MySpace.
There are few places that I warn people about and Oklahoma is one of them.
First off, about half of Oklahoma's power is generated from burning coal which something they take pride in. However you feel about coal energy, there are health consequences for living downwind from a coal plant. If you are still on board then perhaps you will be interested to know that Oklahoma is deeply Republican, very pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-science.
However you feel about these topics, I just think people should know what they are signing up for before the find themselves in a situation they may be unhappy with.
He effectively told them to stop using BSD based computers (iOS) and start using Linux based computers (Android). I suppose it's a good thing he didn't insist they switch to a Lumia phones.
Though if you think this is going to ruffle feathers then just wait until he starts insisting on Emacs instead of Vi!;)
Sorry but my hopes are grounded in reality. Climate change is already causing disasters and will continue to cause them regardless of what any human hopes. However, my hope is that the disasters hit the right places so that the willfully ignorant will wake up. Perhaps you are unaware of the damage being done to the ecosystem and the ecological devastation it will cause but that doesn't make it less real.
The longer we wait to do something the worse it will be.
I sure hope next year the same kind of damaging hurricanes make landfall in more southern states because maybe, just maybe it will finally convince enough deniers that we'll actually start taking real action to reverse the damage we've done. People claim it's "too big a problem" or "too hard to solve" but that's just bullshit. Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources... and supplies are running low.
According to Kuiken, the UN is unlikely to endorse a ban, because that requires consensus, and some countries with biotech industries are expected to oppose the measure.
Never trust an application to not behave maliciously. If it has the technical capability to copy your information and phone home then you should assume that's exactly what it will do. We need to develop security hardened OSes to prevent this kind of privacy infringement because it will not stop on it's own but it can be prevented from happening in the first place.
But (nearly?) all clothes that we buy today are still sewn by human hands.
This is a merely a matter of cost optimization. It's a better short-term business decision to exploit cheap human labor in foreign countries than to invest in automation that will only pay for itself over the course of 20 years. Simply change the rules so that minimum wage applies when outsourcing to other countries and suddenly they will automate it because it will be the cheaper option.
Huh... it's good to know about the sources people cite.
The Rebel Media (officially The Rebel News Network Ltd.,[1] stylized as THEREBEL.media, and shortened to The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right[2][3][4][5][6] online political and social commentary media website. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology, also known as counter-jihad.[7][8][9]
Former Sun News reporter Faith Goldy later joined the outlet.[10] Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right men's organization Proud Boys, was also a contributor. Lilley, Goldy, and McInnes have all since left the project.[11]
Many of The Rebel's contributors announced their departure – or were fired – in the second half of August 2017, following Goldy's prominent coverage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her interview with The Daily Stormer.
The Rebel Media broadcasts its content on the Rebel Media website and its YouTube channel, which previously peaked on August 16, 2017, at 873,800 subscribers, however with the August departures, it had fallen to a minimum of 842,200 as of August 31. In September–October 2017 the channel resumed its growth. On August 15, 2018, it had over one million subscribers.[12]
The Rebel Media has been described as part of the alt-right movement,[13] although it rejected the term after the Charlottesville rally.[14]
It seems to be a one-stop-shop for racism and Islamophobia.
Slaves cannot quit and choose a different employer. You can.
Actually, there are plenty of people who cannot withstand a disruption in employment. This is a problem that UBI seeks to fix.
Slaves cannot choose where they live. You can.
Actually, some people do not have enough money to move. This is a problem that UBI seeks to fix.
You like having things, like clothing, food, electricity? Well, somebody has got to produce all of that for you.
Actually, automation has gotten to the point where the efforts of a dozen people can feed thousands of people. It won't be long until it's down to just one person. Clothing is almost entirely made by machines. Electricity? Well damn dude, that shit is provided by the Sun.
You think THEY want to work for free?
You do know that some people do things just for the betterment of the world right? I write code and give it away so that other people don't have to.
No, you MUST give something back for all the effort they have put forth on your account.
Who said people didn't want to give back? If you provide people with that which they need to survive then they can make better decisions about their future.
Yes, we have a problem wherein too much wealth and power are concentrated among too few people.
And what is your solution to this problem? Should we just hope the wealthy have a change of heart? We tried labor unions and look what happened to those. You are standing in the way of progress. Be careful because it may run you over and drag you with it.
pretty much all media in Russia is US-controlled or -influenced.
LOL! Yeah, that's why reporters that a critical of Putin keep "falling" out of windows. A more likely scenario is that Putin is a brutal authoritarian who chafes at the prospect of exposure.
There is no need for ballot stuffing. Any elections of such scale are merely publicity circus, and this applies to all countries, not only Russia. People don't have enough information on who to vote for, and have no say over which choices end up in ballots in the first place.
The US has primaries which decide who's on the ballot. Don't confuse the US with Russia where Putin runs disinformation campaigns to keep people off the ballot.
Sure, there is a segment of the US population who has been susceptible to disinformation from dishonest "news" outlets which is why we need better laws to keep the news truthful. Currently efforts to pass such laws are being blocked by the party that benefits from these disinformation efforts.
However, to say all people are being disinformed is just stupid because there are so many separate efforts by people to get real information out to the public that it could never really be stopped in even a slightly free nation. This is why Putin's ballot stuffing is needed, to suppress those who voted for another candidate as their efforts would inspire more people to take part in democracy.
The answer is not to waste time and money trying to treat all the symptoms; the answer is to fix them all at once by setting a goal to reduce the world's population by 75% by the year 2100.
I'm looking forward to doing my patriotic duty to celebrate Purge day!;)
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Due to the constant under-budgeting by congress, NASA has been reduced to offering carnival rides for the rich. NASA is supposed to be about science. This is shameful and reflects poorly upon our nation.
TLDR: they broke their own business models.
Cause: They made their product open source but were charging money for a hosted service. Other people start selling their own hosted service and they got unhappy that they didn't have a monopoly so they switched part of their code to "Commons Clause" which disallows others from offer it as part of a paid service.
NASA should reallocate the billions of dollars...
Slight problem. The SLS was mandated by congress. Only congress has the capacity to abandon the SLS right now.
Google bribed Apple and I'm not sure it could be any more transparent.
How many people would go to Antarctica if the snow was made of perchlorates.
Probably a lot more than we put in orbit.
We may live on Jupiter.
It's difficult to take you seriously when you fail to recognize that Jupiter is a gas planet so as far as Jupiter goes, there is no "on" to be.
Beyond the obvious Betteridge response, Facebook is now a publicly traded corporation and board members of publicly traded corporations are required to do whatever it takes to increase the value of stocks or be voted out. This seems like a good idea until you realize this brings out the absolute worst and most sociopathic behavior. Facebook is not going to change.
However, what is going to change (eventually) is everyone else's obsession with Facebook. Sure, you'll always have a class of fools who will keep using it regardless of the what they hear but the allure is that other people are also using it. As more people recognize it's making them unhappy, more people will quit. The good news is that far fewer people from the latest generation are actually joining. Sadly, this pattern will only happen language by language. Small language bases will form quickly and evaporate just as quickly. However, widespread languages will slowly decay.
Ultimately, a better alternative to Facebook is going to be what eviscerates Facebook's userbase but it's corpse will forever haunt the internet just like MySpace.
This is as intelligent as only hiring Paralympic athletes to deliver packages. So much faster than when regular cripples do a flight of stairs! -_-
Report by company purchased by larger company makes larger company look good
Hmm... it's almost like they have some sort of influence over these things. I'm glad I Got The Facts. -_-
The Russians pay good money for people to spread divisive propaganda that sets Americans at each others' throats
I knew this could be controversial so I wrote it in a very neutral manner.
sets Americans at each others' throats as you have done.
*sigh* I suppose if you are looking for a fight then even windmills will do.
There are few places that I warn people about and Oklahoma is one of them.
First off, about half of Oklahoma's power is generated from burning coal which something they take pride in. However you feel about coal energy, there are health consequences for living downwind from a coal plant. If you are still on board then perhaps you will be interested to know that Oklahoma is deeply Republican, very pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-science.
However you feel about these topics, I just think people should know what they are signing up for before the find themselves in a situation they may be unhappy with.
He effectively told them to stop using BSD based computers (iOS) and start using Linux based computers (Android). I suppose it's a good thing he didn't insist they switch to a Lumia phones.
Though if you think this is going to ruffle feathers then just wait until he starts insisting on Emacs instead of Vi! ;)
Sorry but my hopes are grounded in reality. Climate change is already causing disasters and will continue to cause them regardless of what any human hopes. However, my hope is that the disasters hit the right places so that the willfully ignorant will wake up. Perhaps you are unaware of the damage being done to the ecosystem and the ecological devastation it will cause but that doesn't make it less real.
The longer we wait to do something the worse it will be.
You're vindictive
No, my desire is not to hurt people but rather to make them recognize the truth. It's already been shown to be effective.
and worse, wishing for confirmation of your bias.
Climate change is just as real as gravity. You can deny the effect it has all you want but it will not change the consequences.
I sure hope next year the same kind of damaging hurricanes make landfall in more southern states because maybe, just maybe it will finally convince enough deniers that we'll actually start taking real action to reverse the damage we've done. People claim it's "too big a problem" or "too hard to solve" but that's just bullshit. Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources... and supplies are running low.
According to Kuiken, the UN is unlikely to endorse a ban, because that requires consensus, and some countries with biotech industries are expected to oppose the measure.
It's not even worth discussing here.
Wrong. You can't exploit speculative execution on a CPU that doesn't have it.
sure you can... but only speculatively. ;)
Never trust an application to not behave maliciously. If it has the technical capability to copy your information and phone home then you should assume that's exactly what it will do. We need to develop security hardened OSes to prevent this kind of privacy infringement because it will not stop on it's own but it can be prevented from happening in the first place.
But (nearly?) all clothes that we buy today are still sewn by human hands.
This is a merely a matter of cost optimization. It's a better short-term business decision to exploit cheap human labor in foreign countries than to invest in automation that will only pay for itself over the course of 20 years. Simply change the rules so that minimum wage applies when outsourcing to other countries and suddenly they will automate it because it will be the cheaper option.
I've been saying for a long time that he should just film a bunch of scenes that could be used in future movies, but now it's too late.
Don't be ridiculous. Dead? Fix it in post! Seriously, it doesn't matter if people are dead or not because CG makes anything visually possible.
Huh... it's good to know about the sources people cite.
The Rebel Media (officially The Rebel News Network Ltd.,[1] stylized as THEREBEL.media, and shortened to The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right[2][3][4][5][6] online political and social commentary media website. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology, also known as counter-jihad.[7][8][9]
Former Sun News reporter Faith Goldy later joined the outlet.[10] Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right men's organization Proud Boys, was also a contributor. Lilley, Goldy, and McInnes have all since left the project.[11]
Many of The Rebel's contributors announced their departure – or were fired – in the second half of August 2017, following Goldy's prominent coverage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her interview with The Daily Stormer.
The Rebel Media broadcasts its content on the Rebel Media website and its YouTube channel, which previously peaked on August 16, 2017, at 873,800 subscribers, however with the August departures, it had fallen to a minimum of 842,200 as of August 31. In September–October 2017 the channel resumed its growth. On August 15, 2018, it had over one million subscribers.[12]
The Rebel Media has been described as part of the alt-right movement,[13] although it rejected the term after the Charlottesville rally.[14]
It seems to be a one-stop-shop for racism and Islamophobia.
I don't know about you but as far as I'm concerned, these Thanos guys can eat shit.
Slaves cannot quit and choose a different employer. You can.
Actually, there are plenty of people who cannot withstand a disruption in employment. This is a problem that UBI seeks to fix.
Slaves cannot choose where they live. You can.
Actually, some people do not have enough money to move. This is a problem that UBI seeks to fix.
You like having things, like clothing, food, electricity? Well, somebody has got to produce all of that for you.
Actually, automation has gotten to the point where the efforts of a dozen people can feed thousands of people. It won't be long until it's down to just one person. Clothing is almost entirely made by machines. Electricity? Well damn dude, that shit is provided by the Sun.
You think THEY want to work for free?
You do know that some people do things just for the betterment of the world right? I write code and give it away so that other people don't have to.
No, you MUST give something back for all the effort they have put forth on your account.
Who said people didn't want to give back? If you provide people with that which they need to survive then they can make better decisions about their future.
Yes, we have a problem wherein too much wealth and power are concentrated among too few people.
And what is your solution to this problem? Should we just hope the wealthy have a change of heart? We tried labor unions and look what happened to those. You are standing in the way of progress. Be careful because it may run you over and drag you with it.
pretty much all media in Russia is US-controlled or -influenced.
LOL! Yeah, that's why reporters that a critical of Putin keep "falling" out of windows. A more likely scenario is that Putin is a brutal authoritarian who chafes at the prospect of exposure.
There is no need for ballot stuffing. Any elections of such scale are merely publicity circus, and this applies to all countries, not only Russia. People don't have enough information on who to vote for, and have no say over which choices end up in ballots in the first place.
The US has primaries which decide who's on the ballot. Don't confuse the US with Russia where Putin runs disinformation campaigns to keep people off the ballot.
Sure, there is a segment of the US population who has been susceptible to disinformation from dishonest "news" outlets which is why we need better laws to keep the news truthful. Currently efforts to pass such laws are being blocked by the party that benefits from these disinformation efforts.
However, to say all people are being disinformed is just stupid because there are so many separate efforts by people to get real information out to the public that it could never really be stopped in even a slightly free nation. This is why Putin's ballot stuffing is needed, to suppress those who voted for another candidate as their efforts would inspire more people to take part in democracy.
The answer is not to waste time and money trying to treat all the symptoms; the answer is to fix them all at once by setting a goal to reduce the world's population by 75% by the year 2100.
I'm looking forward to doing my patriotic duty to celebrate Purge day! ;)