> The government is not out to get you, the hapless individual.
This may be true for the government, but not necessarily true for the individual. There's two sides to the social transaction, and either one can be intractable. The agent could see the victim simply as a target of opportunity. (See: Now I've got you, you sob.)
And no, you don't have to convince the government, you have to convince the agent you are facing.
The agents stated (according to the report) "It's just paperwork, it doesn't matter". Yet when he fails to sign it when expected, suddenly it DOES matter? You can't have it both ways.
Consider a nefarious intent scenario: Once the paperwork is signed, and taken away, there is nobody to attest to the protest that it is incorrect. You say "it is only needed for statistical purposes", yet what are the penalties for it being incorrect?... confiscation? Tax evasion investigation/charges?
While I don't assume nefarious intent, you don't NEED intent when dealing with the government, you merely need to examine procedures.
Thank you for an excellent example of the "Right" answer being forsaken for the "Right now" answer. (Or, if you prefer, the Cheap over the Elegant.)
Specifically, that the TV truck engineers chose an off-the-shelf answer (cell boosters) that required zero effort and knowledge, rather than, say, wiring external cell antennas on the trailer, and running connections inside.
Because, after all, you stop looking once you have an answer...
He knew he didn't fully charge the battery. However, the range indicator gave no indication that he would have any problem getting to his destination until it was too late to easily correct.
1) The battery indicator in the morning indicated a drastically different available range than the night before.
2) The range indicator did not (apparently) adjust for observable driving conditions (the aggressive driving Tesla complained about).
There's enough fault to go around: - the reporter, for concluding that stop-and-go driving would improve range - the Tesla personnel, for failing to consider that the reporter's conclusion is not unreasonable for the advise given. - the vehicle (and thus indirectly, Tesla) for both of the problems noted above.
IMO, Tesla should have pulled the vehicle back when the first problem was observed and gone over the data then and there. But that too would have been a PR fiasco, so they tried to put a brave face on it, and ended up with a worse one.
> We can only speculate what is meant by "cleared." Did they clear the battery conditioning, so that he simply needed to continue with normal procedures to complete his trip? Or did they clear him in the sense that he could stop charging as well and should just head back, disregarding any future messages from the vehicle?
He was on a shepherded trip in the EV, with Tesla personnel dancing in attendance and verifying that what was planned would work. There is not a lot of doubt that "cleared" in this context means "advised him that continuing would not result in any problems." Assuming anything less also assumes incompetence on the part of the Tesla personnel, since their purpose was to ensure that the trip showed Tesla in a good light.
As someone earlier said about extortion, "You keep saying that word...."
I think the term you want is closer to "lease". If Steam gets its back up, it can cut you off from the products you "bought". And finding out that you live in.au but bought as if you were in.us might do it.
Steam is only the lesser of two evils when you consider that the greater one is "always connected" DRM.
I would love to mod you up, but no points today. I, too, went there and found the "if you won't play with our javascript, we won't let you look". At least they were clever and entertaining about it.
I have a similar fetish against unnecessary flash pages, and certain Very Large Game Companies have sites you cannot view without Flash installed. They, however, lack the sense of humor of Lobbyplag.
Or perhaps the sense of humor of a constipated badger.
However, mind that what you want to watch is the Wikileaks organization, not the Wikileaks leader, for openness.
For instant Godwinization, if what you are worried about is the SS, why are you worried about whether Himmler wears boxers or briefs? (Or whether he beds his wife vs unmarried women of loose morals?)
Probably for the same reason they don't simply hold the camera and chopper in place and rotate the world. It takes more effort to rotate the chopper, or even the camera. And even if you went to the effort, it would be incredibly difficult to rotate the chopper around the camera while moving in any direction, and harder still (because you are, after all, subject to air movement) to keep the image steady. And finally, even if you did all of the above, there are limits to how fast you can rotate a chopper.
Instead, a common solution is to have a lens that provides a 360 degree view, with various degrees of distortion. (Panomorphic lenses) Note that in many cases it is 360 degrees around a single axis, with only a limited field of view along the other axes. Some variations use mirrors, others appear to be extreme versions of the fish-eye lens. (Example.)
Another solution appears to be having either a reflector or the camera itself rotate, stitching the continuous stream of images into a series of 360 degree images. ( Android phone example, mirror rotation example)
And yet a third solution is to simply have cameras pointed in every direction at once. (Example)
Relatively recently the British have created a "Get Britain Working" program that includes both "working for volunteer/charity organizations" and "working in the private sector". As you said, "by law" they aren't to be used to replace staff on normal income. But it's the private sector, there's little supervision, and it gets a lot of abuse. See also this recent court decision.
Note that to retain "jobseeker benefits", even people who had held down a regular job for a significant time might be required to work unpaid for 4 or 6 weeks (depending on which article you read). Asking someone who held a job for 10 years to work "to develop working skills" is asinine.
> Time was running at 10% speed during this 3,000-person battle, which is the maximum amount of time dilation possible.
So they slowed time down within the battle area. I wonder if the stars and planets outside the time dilation area appeared blue-shifted to those within...
> besides, if the universe were expanding and protons weren't, i don't think our meter sticks would be expanding.
Perhaps you are missing the fact that the meter sticks are made of atoms, not protons. An expanding electron shell, and resulting inter-atomic distance might go some way towards explaining the meter stick phenomenon.
But just to argue the other side as well, astronomic evidence suggests that the universe is expanding. That we can tell this means that we have some metric that is NOT expanding. In this case, the speed of light.
So perhaps we can use the speed of light to determine if atoms are changing size relative to the speed of light... traversing them, perhaps?
> although I think we're all in agreement that pedophiles are awful,...... in the same way that rapists are awful: it is a one-way relationship. Were it more often a two-way relationship, it would not be socially abhorrent. Homosexuality was (and for many people still is) abhorrent, but it is acceptable because of the (most common) nature of the relationship.
> but at that point it's not preference but illness.
It is both.... That the preference shows elements of psychopathology and cognitive distortion (self delusion) makes it an illness.
But regardless of how it is classified, it is not socially acceptable.
IMO, a large variety of socially unacceptable behaviors are classified as "illness" to excuse our attempting to alter them based on how society views the behavior. It wasn't that long ago that homosexuality was a similar "illness". We treat this sort of "illness" more often from OUR desires rather than from those of the "sufferer".
What effects have you noticed on the field of Paleontology from the movie Jurassic Park, and your participation (as advisor) in it? More widespread misconceptions based on movie magic? More (or fewer) students? Funding?
... that would neither have prevented nor (further) criminalized the scenario it was drawn up in response to.
On the plus side, we're not "fighting the last war". On the down side, we're not "fighting the next war" either.
As of 20 hours ago, cbs says 'It's still unclear what motivated the attack." Very hard to counter motivations like his, without knowing what his were.
And sadly, we have people spending time studying Adam Lanza's DNA, hoping for "extreme violence" tendency clues. Much like hoping to find whether a CPU has "goto tendencies". Or like tearing apart Einstein's brain, looking for where the genius node is.
1) Smaller clips? Bring more guns. Adam already did. 2) Background checks? Nobody has said Adam would have failed. 3) Tougher penalties? Adam committed suicide. Who you going to penalize? 4) Programs to cut gun violence? That's nice, if you can predict why or where. That isn't the case here. 5) "Well, we have to do SOMETHING!" - maybe for political reasons, yes. But as Slashdot says about the TSA, security theater doesn't make you safer.
... because I don't work so hard. Guppies are so frightfully clever, and they all wear grey. And Goldfish are stupid. Besides, they all wear gold. No, I don't want to play with goldfish children.....
I'm recently off an 8 month stint of looking for work. Highly trained, specialized skill set. So yeah, 8 months.
Looking for work, done even moderately, can take half of each day. You have to be able to go to an interview at the interviewer's convenience, meaning not making unchangeable plans during the work day. For work like mine, interviews often take participation over the internet, which requires a non-stressful environment. That is, when the interview doesn't require you to commute to the work site.
Guess what you can't do, what you don't have time for, if you're being forced to commit workfare?
And "work training" that involves an unskilled position doing grunt labor is training only in the skill of "regularly showing up for work on time". An important skill, yes, but not one that is improved by weeks of labor.
So yeah. It's a scam. It looks good on paper, but stinks in execution.
1) Get a facebook app on the service that... 2)... posts to N "holding" accounts"... 3)... which message back (negating the $1 fee)... 4)... whose message gets eaten by the app.
you then have N accounts you can sell to spammers, with no charges leveled due to previous communication. The person who tried the app doesn't get clued in because of the lack of charges and lack of messages.
Mind, this is being posited by someone entirely ignorant of the facebook environment. Maybe it can't be done. Would you bet on it?
Of course, strategy two is "grab someone's facebook account and spam to their entire list" ala "open this attachment for a big surprise!"
Slashdot Mirror
I thought they were talking about a 3D printer app...
> The government is not out to get you, the hapless individual.
This may be true for the government, but not necessarily true for the individual. There's two sides to the social transaction, and either one can be intractable. The agent could see the victim simply as a target of opportunity. (See: Now I've got you, you sob.)
And no, you don't have to convince the government, you have to convince the agent you are facing.
The agents stated (according to the report) "It's just paperwork, it doesn't matter". Yet when he fails to sign it when expected, suddenly it DOES matter? You can't have it both ways.
Consider a nefarious intent scenario: ... confiscation? Tax evasion investigation/charges?
Once the paperwork is signed, and taken away, there is nobody to attest to the protest that it is incorrect. You say "it is only needed for statistical purposes", yet what are the penalties for it being incorrect?
While I don't assume nefarious intent, you don't NEED intent when dealing with the government, you merely need to examine procedures.
Thank you for an excellent example of the "Right" answer being forsaken for the "Right now" answer. (Or, if you prefer, the Cheap over the Elegant.)
Specifically, that the TV truck engineers chose an off-the-shelf answer (cell boosters) that required zero effort and knowledge, rather than, say, wiring external cell antennas on the trailer, and running connections inside.
Because, after all, you stop looking once you have an answer...
... because saying post-posterous is itself preposterous.
> Just an indication that something is going on whether it is or not, and the system doesn't look frozen.
FTFY.
He knew he didn't fully charge the battery. However, the range indicator gave no indication that he would have any problem getting to his destination until it was too late to easily correct.
1) The battery indicator in the morning indicated a drastically different available range than the night before.
2) The range indicator did not (apparently) adjust for observable driving conditions (the aggressive driving Tesla complained about).
There's enough fault to go around:
- the reporter, for concluding that stop-and-go driving would improve range
- the Tesla personnel, for failing to consider that the reporter's conclusion is not unreasonable for the advise given.
- the vehicle (and thus indirectly, Tesla) for both of the problems noted above.
IMO, Tesla should have pulled the vehicle back when the first problem was observed and gone over the data then and there. But that too would have been a PR fiasco, so they tried to put a brave face on it, and ended up with a worse one.
> We can only speculate what is meant by "cleared." Did they clear the battery conditioning, so that he simply needed to continue with normal procedures to complete his trip? Or did they clear him in the sense that he could stop charging as well and should just head back, disregarding any future messages from the vehicle?
He was on a shepherded trip in the EV, with Tesla personnel dancing in attendance and verifying that what was planned would work. There is not a lot of doubt that "cleared" in this context means "advised him that continuing would not result in any problems." Assuming anything less also assumes incompetence on the part of the Tesla personnel, since their purpose was to ensure that the trip showed Tesla in a good light.
>It's much cheaper to buy games on Steam...
As someone earlier said about extortion, "You keep saying that word...."
I think the term you want is closer to "lease". If Steam gets its back up, it can cut you off from the products you "bought". And finding out that you live in .au but bought as if you were in .us might do it.
Steam is only the lesser of two evils when you consider that the greater one is "always connected" DRM.
I would love to mod you up, but no points today. I, too, went there and found the "if you won't play with our javascript, we won't let you look". At least they were clever and entertaining about it.
I have a similar fetish against unnecessary flash pages, and certain Very Large Game Companies have sites you cannot view without Flash installed. They, however, lack the sense of humor of Lobbyplag.
Or perhaps the sense of humor of a constipated badger.
However, mind that what you want to watch is the Wikileaks organization, not the Wikileaks leader, for openness.
For instant Godwinization, if what you are worried about is the SS, why are you worried about whether Himmler wears boxers or briefs? (Or whether he beds his wife vs unmarried women of loose morals?)
Last time *I* followed advice from Slashdot on the chicks, I ended up on a blind double date with Rhode Island Red and a Miss La Fleche.
Actually, I've been going steady with them ever since. Not for the romance, you perv... I need the eggs.
Probably for the same reason they don't simply hold the camera and chopper in place and rotate the world. It takes more effort to rotate the chopper, or even the camera. And even if you went to the effort, it would be incredibly difficult to rotate the chopper around the camera while moving in any direction, and harder still (because you are, after all, subject to air movement) to keep the image steady. And finally, even if you did all of the above, there are limits to how fast you can rotate a chopper.
Instead, a common solution is to have a lens that provides a 360 degree view, with various degrees of distortion. (Panomorphic lenses) Note that in many cases it is 360 degrees around a single axis, with only a limited field of view along the other axes. Some variations use mirrors, others appear to be extreme versions of the fish-eye lens. (Example.)
Another solution appears to be having either a reflector or the camera itself rotate, stitching the continuous stream of images into a series of 360 degree images. ( Android phone example, mirror rotation example)
And yet a third solution is to simply have cameras pointed in every direction at once. (Example)
Relatively recently the British have created a "Get Britain Working" program that includes both "working for volunteer/charity organizations" and "working in the private sector". As you said, "by law" they aren't to be used to replace staff on normal income. But it's the private sector, there's little supervision, and it gets a lot of abuse. See also this recent court decision.
Note that to retain "jobseeker benefits", even people who had held down a regular job for a significant time might be required to work unpaid for 4 or 6 weeks (depending on which article you read). Asking someone who held a job for 10 years to work "to develop working skills" is asinine.
> Time was running at 10% speed during this 3,000-person battle, which is the maximum amount of time dilation possible.
So they slowed time down within the battle area. I wonder if the stars and planets outside the time dilation area appeared blue-shifted to those within...
Heard a variation on this story more than 20 years ago...
The HCF instruction was built into the motorola 6800.
> besides, if the universe were expanding and protons weren't, i don't think our meter sticks would be expanding.
Perhaps you are missing the fact that the meter sticks are made of atoms, not protons. An expanding electron shell, and resulting inter-atomic distance might go some way towards explaining the meter stick phenomenon.
But just to argue the other side as well, astronomic evidence suggests that the universe is expanding. That we can tell this means that we have some metric that is NOT expanding. In this case, the speed of light.
So perhaps we can use the speed of light to determine if atoms are changing size relative to the speed of light ... traversing them, perhaps?
> although I think we're all in agreement that pedophiles are awful, ... ... in the same way that rapists are awful: it is a one-way relationship. Were it more often a two-way relationship, it would not be socially abhorrent. Homosexuality was (and for many people still is) abhorrent, but it is acceptable because of the (most common) nature of the relationship.
> but at that point it's not preference but illness.
It is both.... That the preference shows elements of psychopathology and cognitive distortion (self delusion) makes it an illness.
But regardless of how it is classified, it is not socially acceptable.
IMO, a large variety of socially unacceptable behaviors are classified as "illness" to excuse our attempting to alter them based on how society views the behavior. It wasn't that long ago that homosexuality was a similar "illness". We treat this sort of "illness" more often from OUR desires rather than from those of the "sufferer".
What effects have you noticed on the field of Paleontology from the movie Jurassic Park, and your participation (as advisor) in it? More widespread misconceptions based on movie magic? More (or fewer) students? Funding?
... that would neither have prevented nor (further) criminalized the scenario it was drawn up in response to.
On the plus side, we're not "fighting the last war". On the down side, we're not "fighting the next war" either.
As of 20 hours ago, cbs says 'It's still unclear what motivated the attack." Very hard to counter motivations like his, without knowing what his were.
And sadly, we have people spending time studying Adam Lanza's DNA, hoping for "extreme violence" tendency clues. Much like hoping to find whether a CPU has "goto tendencies". Or like tearing apart Einstein's brain, looking for where the genius node is.
1) Smaller clips? Bring more guns. Adam already did.
2) Background checks? Nobody has said Adam would have failed.
3) Tougher penalties? Adam committed suicide. Who you going to penalize?
4) Programs to cut gun violence? That's nice, if you can predict why or where. That isn't the case here.
5) "Well, we have to do SOMETHING!" - maybe for political reasons, yes. But as Slashdot says about the TSA, security theater doesn't make you safer.
I have only one question:
Do they allow outside email to reach you?
Actually, that goes for preservation of secret information, too.
In either case, the greatest security concern is the meat they call the employee. Hardware is easy to secure by comparison.
... because I don't work so hard. Guppies are so frightfully clever, and they all wear grey. And Goldfish are stupid. Besides, they all wear gold. No, I don't want to play with goldfish children.....
The Commerce Clause hasn't been limited to transactions that cross state lines for a long time.
> Why does that notion fill me with dread?
Because it should.
I'm recently off an 8 month stint of looking for work. Highly trained, specialized skill set. So yeah, 8 months.
Looking for work, done even moderately, can take half of each day. You have to be able to go to an interview at the interviewer's convenience, meaning not making unchangeable plans during the work day. For work like mine, interviews often take participation over the internet, which requires a non-stressful environment. That is, when the interview doesn't require you to commute to the work site.
Guess what you can't do, what you don't have time for, if you're being forced to commit workfare?
And "work training" that involves an unskilled position doing grunt labor is training only in the skill of "regularly showing up for work on time". An important skill, yes, but not one that is improved by weeks of labor.
So yeah. It's a scam. It looks good on paper, but stinks in execution.
1) Get a facebook app on the service that... ... posts to N "holding" accounts"... ... which message back (negating the $1 fee) ... ... whose message gets eaten by the app.
2)
3)
4)
you then have N accounts you can sell to spammers, with no charges leveled due to previous communication. The person who tried the app doesn't get clued in because of the lack of charges and lack of messages.
Mind, this is being posited by someone entirely ignorant of the facebook environment. Maybe it can't be done. Would you bet on it?
Of course, strategy two is "grab someone's facebook account and spam to their entire list" ala "open this attachment for a big surprise!"
DC, however, does not transmit well over "neighborhood" sized distances. See Edison, buried DC buses.