The impression I had was that Big Dog was their big product. Google bought them and killed the program cause they don't do defense work. I thought the Army saying Big Dog didn't meet noise requirements was something that allowed everyone to save face.
Maybe Google shouldn't have bought a robotics company that was primarily defense funded...
I never claimed they were saints - no one in government is. Considering that Republicans control vastly more state legislatures than the Democrats (numbers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), clearly the problem is likely more prevalent on their side. I come from a state with a 60-40 vote split (R-D) in national elections with a 10-3 representative split (R-D). I have no doubt the Dems do it the same way in their states (mine was as a kid but I didn't care about politics as a kid) - and now that I've moved to one as an adult, I get to see it in action.
I think a more balanced legislature would lend itself to better compromise. Maybe even a push to take the legislature out of district drawing like a few states already do (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana and Washington). Though I don't know all their processes, they could be shit too.
Honestly I think it will encourage his supporters to double down in support and vote.
If anything, Americans hate being told what to do by foreigners in their election. There was an article about how the BBC tried to get people to go vote Democrat in some places in Ohio (2004 I think? Maybe 2012) and the outcome was the exact opposite.
The "do nothing's" and "hardliners" are popular enough with their constituents to keep getting reelected. In the House, redrawing districts to be competitive might help but that would require the Democrats actually caring about winning state legislature elections.
My dad's convinced someone has recordings of those speeches and the only reason we haven't seen them is that someone wants to release them post nomination like that Romney speech.
Isn't that because foreign money is buying up property like mad? I remember reading stuff that talked about wealthy Chinese doing it because if they have to flee, they can't stop at a bank. I wouldn't be surprised if other regions of the world were doing it too.
Honestly, I'm not convinced that fewer kids alone is enough to be effective. Let's say today's 5 year olds live to 75. I think the pace of change over those 70 years is going to be large enough that most of them won't be necessary and likely their parents too even before their deaths. We might get lucky if mother nature throws us a serious epidemic of any sorts. Or we may find ourselves in a worldwide resource war due to climate change.
Granted if we can lower birth rates in the developing world, that would be a good thing too as we might be able to help those areas get out of poverty.
In a future where most people provide no value to society (via work per automation and work remains the only way to generate value), their sudden removal from existence would eliminate the problems that stem from them wanting to survive. And the remaining people would allow civilization to keep going under the new carrying capacity of work.
A rather bleak outcome and likely not to end well as who gets to survive will be an interesting discussion and the losers in the decision will likely not take it well. It is a solution, just not a particularly good one. Unfortunately, I do imagine that at least one society/nation will implement it in lieu of a basic income concept whether it be genocide, forced sterilization, or simply paying some portions of the population to not have kids and excess population goes away in a generation.
I would be curious how the world would look if all humanity had similar first world quality of life. Would the explosion of people all with disposable income solve the idea that work would become unnecessary?
You didn't mention what browser. As someone mulling ditching Firefox, I'm intrigued by alternatives beyond Chrome, IE/Edge, etc. I know Palemoon is out there but what else?
Not that I agree with the practice (I don't) but is it? I was reading this: http://law.justia.com/codes/ma... and one could argue (and I imagine it might be) that the fine print to use the MTA has a statement that by using the service you agree to have your conversations recorded - putting them in compliance with provision c.3.
I don't think that should be a condition to use a government service, especially a monopoly, but unfortunately the law allows all kinds of bullshit to slide in terms and conditions these days. Much to the fucking over of the common person.
The article mentions
Officials say the devices can capture important information in cases of driver error or an attack or altercation on a bus
which I do think would be valuable in an investigation of either scenario on top of video. But it doesn't mention what they do with the data generally or as a whole and that obviously is a problem.
Griffin wants to go back to the expensive paradigm of sending humans to the surface of the moon.... NASA is planning for exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. The truth is that it is astronomically (pun intended) expensive to put humans in such a hostile environment as space.
It's like you need a testbed environment for those technologies to go to Mars. Something that represents the harshness of going to Mars but we'd like to not have our astronauts die so if something happens, getting home would somewhat quicker. Something relatively close seems like a great idea. Oh? They thought of that? Interesting!
In pursuit of these goals, the Vision called for the space program to complete the International Space Station by 2010; retire the Space Shuttle by 2010; develop a new Crew Exploration Vehicle (later renamed Orion) by 2008, and conduct its first human spaceflight mission by 2014; explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020, and use lunar exploration to develop and test new approaches and technologies useful for supporting sustained exploration of Mars and beyond; explore Mars and other destinations with robotic and crewed missions; pursue commercial transportation to support the International Space Station and missions beyond low Earth orbit.
Now I hated the 2004 NASA plan because it basically gutted Aeronautics money and I was doing technology forecasting for Aero as an undergrad but the plan wasn't inherently bad. And compared to what the current plans are, it was certainly far better. It honestly doesn't matter as there seems to be no love for NASA or manned space anymore in DC and the purse strings are largely tightened. I think if you want to do exciting space work, go to China. They give a damn.
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It's cheap as hell to live in Mississippi and other parts of the Southeast. What's stopping any company from setting up shop there? You'd think that you could lure a number of folks there with solid salaries compared to the cost of living and compared to what you're paying in San Fran, New York, and Boston. I guess the question is what's stopping companies from wanting to do it. Is it cause there's nothing there to keep employees entertained? Socially conservative politics turns off top talent? Poor schools comparatively? Passively accepted racism? Strong religious prevalence? Poor infrastructure?
Rubio's biggest problem is his criticisms of Obama are pretty much the same situation he's in except with a shitty record of going to vote. His story is nice but why would I bother to vote for a guy who can't be bothered to do his job.
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I'd rather we take the GS pay system approach to minimum wage. The cost of living in Kansas is waaaay less tan New York City. So we establish a minimum wage and then adjust based on where an employer is.
I'm also partial to guaranteed minimum income and no minimum wage. But it has to be enough for a very minimal lifestyle and no kid perks. Eliminate all the bureaucracy of the safety net programs as well as a good bit of social security's. Throw in socialized healthcare and things might be even better. Employer can't hold much over a lazy employee so they have to pay something reasonable to get people to show up and do stuff.
I imagine Rubio will continue to do well even in the face of his embarrassing debate gaffe, Kasich doesn't have the money (but is probably their best option), and Bush has a ton of money to keep going. I imagine Carson's few will back Cruz or Trump when he folds.
I'm curious which establishment candidate South Carolina will unite behind.
Hasn't she always been polling at below 5%?
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She was pretty much already out. It's just formal because now it's far more expensive to ride along as a candidate.
I got a $200 Droid Charge when LTE first rolled out for Verizon. It was still chugging along just fine but I was eligible for an upgrade and Verizon was giving the LG G2 away for $50 and I found a $50 off code for online purchases so I got a new phone for the $30 activation fee. I'm currently able to get an upgrade but I know they also changed contracts and stuff so I don't feel like paying anywhere more than $100 for a new phone and since my current one is chugging along fine, I'll wait until the G5 comes out and snag a cheap G4.
My mod points number just says Oprah. Or at least it feels like it. I get them all the damn time.
I had quit reading for a while and came back still getting a bajillion of them. Always 5 to spend but once I use them, they're back in a couple of days. I guess it's fine cause I generally have nothing mod up worthy to say and I guess the metamod keeps giving me good scores. It just seems weird to get so many mod points as a rather lackluster contributor. But maybe that's what one wants in a system.
Everything I've read gives the Democrats a huge lead in EC votes from historical data. Something like 240 to high 100s or low 200s and basically said without Ohio and Florida, the Republicans are in a pretty tight spot. And if I recall correctly, Colorado was a tossup state. I imagine that any Republican will shut down their marijuana legalization so odds are they vote Democrat and that puts Republicans in a tighter spot. I think Virginia was as well.
Now this does depend on who the Republicans run. I think Trump and Cruz will be guaranteed losers in swing states. Rubio maybe. Not sure who else might rise to the occasion from the established players. I'd love to see Kasich do well and rise up. A Kasich-Rubio ticket would give them Ohio and Florida and probably be a tough match against HIllary or Bernie.
I, on the other hand, have little time to find recipes, shop for ingredients, manage my stock and cook food from scratch.
While there is a bit of prep time involved, crock pot cooking is pretty much my go to approach for food. I also find myself cooking enough servings for an entire week so I don't have to cook most days (except breakfast as I can't cook eggs in advance).
A coworker was telling me he and his wife found some mom blog with a whole month's worth of food you can get at Costco for like $150 and you just cook it all in one day then freeze stuff and eat it over time.
If you have kids, you could get them to help in some of the easier prep as well. I know it's not 100% easy but it is a start.
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The impression I had was that Big Dog was their big product. Google bought them and killed the program cause they don't do defense work. I thought the Army saying Big Dog didn't meet noise requirements was something that allowed everyone to save face.
Maybe Google shouldn't have bought a robotics company that was primarily defense funded...
I never claimed they were saints - no one in government is. Considering that Republicans control vastly more state legislatures than the Democrats (numbers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), clearly the problem is likely more prevalent on their side. I come from a state with a 60-40 vote split (R-D) in national elections with a 10-3 representative split (R-D). I have no doubt the Dems do it the same way in their states (mine was as a kid but I didn't care about politics as a kid) - and now that I've moved to one as an adult, I get to see it in action.
I think a more balanced legislature would lend itself to better compromise. Maybe even a push to take the legislature out of district drawing like a few states already do (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana and Washington). Though I don't know all their processes, they could be shit too.
Honestly I think it will encourage his supporters to double down in support and vote.
If anything, Americans hate being told what to do by foreigners in their election. There was an article about how the BBC tried to get people to go vote Democrat in some places in Ohio (2004 I think? Maybe 2012) and the outcome was the exact opposite.
The "do nothing's" and "hardliners" are popular enough with their constituents to keep getting reelected. In the House, redrawing districts to be competitive might help but that would require the Democrats actually caring about winning state legislature elections.
My dad's convinced someone has recordings of those speeches and the only reason we haven't seen them is that someone wants to release them post nomination like that Romney speech.
Same.
Isn't that because foreign money is buying up property like mad? I remember reading stuff that talked about wealthy Chinese doing it because if they have to flee, they can't stop at a bank. I wouldn't be surprised if other regions of the world were doing it too.
Honestly, I'm not convinced that fewer kids alone is enough to be effective. Let's say today's 5 year olds live to 75. I think the pace of change over those 70 years is going to be large enough that most of them won't be necessary and likely their parents too even before their deaths. We might get lucky if mother nature throws us a serious epidemic of any sorts. Or we may find ourselves in a worldwide resource war due to climate change.
Granted if we can lower birth rates in the developing world, that would be a good thing too as we might be able to help those areas get out of poverty.
In a future where most people provide no value to society (via work per automation and work remains the only way to generate value), their sudden removal from existence would eliminate the problems that stem from them wanting to survive. And the remaining people would allow civilization to keep going under the new carrying capacity of work.
A rather bleak outcome and likely not to end well as who gets to survive will be an interesting discussion and the losers in the decision will likely not take it well. It is a solution, just not a particularly good one. Unfortunately, I do imagine that at least one society/nation will implement it in lieu of a basic income concept whether it be genocide, forced sterilization, or simply paying some portions of the population to not have kids and excess population goes away in a generation.
I would be curious how the world would look if all humanity had similar first world quality of life. Would the explosion of people all with disposable income solve the idea that work would become unnecessary?
You didn't mention what browser. As someone mulling ditching Firefox, I'm intrigued by alternatives beyond Chrome, IE/Edge, etc. I know Palemoon is out there but what else?
Not that I agree with the practice (I don't) but is it? I was reading this: http://law.justia.com/codes/ma... and one could argue (and I imagine it might be) that the fine print to use the MTA has a statement that by using the service you agree to have your conversations recorded - putting them in compliance with provision c.3.
I don't think that should be a condition to use a government service, especially a monopoly, but unfortunately the law allows all kinds of bullshit to slide in terms and conditions these days. Much to the fucking over of the common person.
The article mentions
Officials say the devices can capture important information in cases of driver error or an attack or altercation on a bus
which I do think would be valuable in an investigation of either scenario on top of video. But it doesn't mention what they do with the data generally or as a whole and that obviously is a problem.
"gaming" rig
The toilet paper roll on your desk is just for wiping your nose as well, right? ;)
Really? Missed the porn and masturbation joke? I think a proper woosh is in order. This one is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Griffin wants to go back to the expensive paradigm of sending humans to the surface of the moon. ... NASA is planning for exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. The truth is that it is astronomically (pun intended) expensive to put humans in such a hostile environment as space.
It's like you need a testbed environment for those technologies to go to Mars. Something that represents the harshness of going to Mars but we'd like to not have our astronauts die so if something happens, getting home would somewhat quicker. Something relatively close seems like a great idea. Oh? They thought of that? Interesting!
In pursuit of these goals, the Vision called for the space program to complete the International Space Station by 2010; retire the Space Shuttle by 2010; develop a new Crew Exploration Vehicle (later renamed Orion) by 2008, and conduct its first human spaceflight mission by 2014; explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020, and use lunar exploration to develop and test new approaches and technologies useful for supporting sustained exploration of Mars and beyond; explore Mars and other destinations with robotic and crewed missions; pursue commercial transportation to support the International Space Station and missions beyond low Earth orbit.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Now I hated the 2004 NASA plan because it basically gutted Aeronautics money and I was doing technology forecasting for Aero as an undergrad but the plan wasn't inherently bad. And compared to what the current plans are, it was certainly far better. It honestly doesn't matter as there seems to be no love for NASA or manned space anymore in DC and the purse strings are largely tightened. I think if you want to do exciting space work, go to China. They give a damn.
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Thanks for the laugh.
It's cheap as hell to live in Mississippi and other parts of the Southeast. What's stopping any company from setting up shop there? You'd think that you could lure a number of folks there with solid salaries compared to the cost of living and compared to what you're paying in San Fran, New York, and Boston. I guess the question is what's stopping companies from wanting to do it. Is it cause there's nothing there to keep employees entertained? Socially conservative politics turns off top talent? Poor schools comparatively? Passively accepted racism? Strong religious prevalence? Poor infrastructure?
Rubio's biggest problem is his criticisms of Obama are pretty much the same situation he's in except with a shitty record of going to vote. His story is nice but why would I bother to vote for a guy who can't be bothered to do his job.
I'd rather we take the GS pay system approach to minimum wage. The cost of living in Kansas is waaaay less tan New York City. So we establish a minimum wage and then adjust based on where an employer is.
I'm also partial to guaranteed minimum income and no minimum wage. But it has to be enough for a very minimal lifestyle and no kid perks. Eliminate all the bureaucracy of the safety net programs as well as a good bit of social security's. Throw in socialized healthcare and things might be even better. Employer can't hold much over a lazy employee so they have to pay something reasonable to get people to show up and do stuff.
Trump, Cruz, and ?
I imagine Rubio will continue to do well even in the face of his embarrassing debate gaffe, Kasich doesn't have the money (but is probably their best option), and Bush has a ton of money to keep going. I imagine Carson's few will back Cruz or Trump when he folds.
I'm curious which establishment candidate South Carolina will unite behind.
She was pretty much already out. It's just formal because now it's far more expensive to ride along as a candidate.
That's what keeps me from upgrading phones.
I got a $200 Droid Charge when LTE first rolled out for Verizon. It was still chugging along just fine but I was eligible for an upgrade and Verizon was giving the LG G2 away for $50 and I found a $50 off code for online purchases so I got a new phone for the $30 activation fee. I'm currently able to get an upgrade but I know they also changed contracts and stuff so I don't feel like paying anywhere more than $100 for a new phone and since my current one is chugging along fine, I'll wait until the G5 comes out and snag a cheap G4.
My mod points number just says Oprah. Or at least it feels like it. I get them all the damn time.
I had quit reading for a while and came back still getting a bajillion of them. Always 5 to spend but once I use them, they're back in a couple of days. I guess it's fine cause I generally have nothing mod up worthy to say and I guess the metamod keeps giving me good scores. It just seems weird to get so many mod points as a rather lackluster contributor. But maybe that's what one wants in a system.
It will be interesting as then they'll have to hire mechanics to work their fleet. Or is their plan to have an Uber for mechanics?
Mayhaps.
Everything I've read gives the Democrats a huge lead in EC votes from historical data. Something like 240 to high 100s or low 200s and basically said without Ohio and Florida, the Republicans are in a pretty tight spot. And if I recall correctly, Colorado was a tossup state. I imagine that any Republican will shut down their marijuana legalization so odds are they vote Democrat and that puts Republicans in a tighter spot. I think Virginia was as well.
Now this does depend on who the Republicans run. I think Trump and Cruz will be guaranteed losers in swing states. Rubio maybe. Not sure who else might rise to the occasion from the established players. I'd love to see Kasich do well and rise up. A Kasich-Rubio ticket would give them Ohio and Florida and probably be a tough match against HIllary or Bernie.
I, on the other hand, have little time to find recipes, shop for ingredients, manage my stock and cook food from scratch.
While there is a bit of prep time involved, crock pot cooking is pretty much my go to approach for food. I also find myself cooking enough servings for an entire week so I don't have to cook most days (except breakfast as I can't cook eggs in advance).
A coworker was telling me he and his wife found some mom blog with a whole month's worth of food you can get at Costco for like $150 and you just cook it all in one day then freeze stuff and eat it over time.
If you have kids, you could get them to help in some of the easier prep as well. I know it's not 100% easy but it is a start.