Brian Herbert does a great job with likeable oligarchs, and it doesn't represent sexual misconduct positively, or gender discrimination. Many characters on all sides have these failings, but it always represented as a weakness, a negative characteristic that rallies opposing forces to work together against them.
Indeed, he manages to keep it morally familiar.
There does seem to be some strange code-wording there, though.
It's not common to find sexual behavior that we find to be truly anathema nowadays (and I'm not talking simple polyamory or group sexual encounters) to be represented as positive or normal.
Why would it be? That is, in fact, the familiar and awful, not the unfamiliar. If something is unfamiliar, you don't really know if it is good or bad at a glance.
I don't know, it all sounds so wishy-washy and weasel-worded.
Maybe people who read stories about simplistic futures have simplistic tastes and are choosing authors that deliver. It hardly seems to fit the authors I read.
They should try some Kim Stanley Robinson, for example The Memory of Whiteness can be found for bottom price at a used book store.
People buy Brian Herbert's Dune universe re-hash books like crazy. I've read a few thousand pages of them myself. But how many people read his earlier book, Sudanna, Sudanna? Not the best storytelling ever, but one of the most charming and original.
Sheri Tepper writes science fiction with such different cultures that I'm not even always sure what happened. The stories are rich enough that my attention is held, and yet years later I'm still trying to figure out what she was talking about. I guess most people around here will start yelling, "SJW" and "ethics in journalism" as soon as they realize that Sheri is a woman's name, without ever reading any of it.
Even Neal Stephenson got substantially mixed reviews for Anathem, mostly because people had a hard time following it with the cultural code-words replaced with invented words.
It surprises me how many people claim to be sci-fi fans, but haven't read Rama by Arthur C Clarke, or even Childhood's End. Many have read Dune but haven't and wouldn't bother reading The Green Brain. Many haven't even read The Jesus Incident.
People are happy to pan (or worship) Harry Harrison for his adventure books, but it continually amazes me how few read West of Eden.
Do kids these days not even know about John Varley? Have they read Titan?
Your lawyers will advise you that you can't really sue software vendors when you're mad at them. Bugs happen. Having somebody to "strangle" means "having somebody outside the company to blame when talking to your own boss." That is all it means.
And of course, lots of companies do have a different management dynamic than that.
A lot of people minuderstand this, and make up nonsense about "being able to sue somebody if something goes wrong," which of course they can't.
Others make the mistake of thinking support = solved problems.
Corporate support means documentation that proves you Did Everything Reasonable and according to Professional Standards.
Small or privately owned shops don't need that, and don't even know why other people do need it, so you get a lot of know-it-alls on here hooking their thumbs in their suspenders yacking about how stupid people are and they can't do anything for themselves. lolol
For the shallow reader wanting to save materials and energy, this looks like a great idea.
It isn't for people who have internet and time to read crap like this site.
For somebody with a name involving patents, it seems exceptionally daft to trot out the old "if this really were a good idea, someone would have put it into use decades ago." Uhm, no. Who the fuck told you that ideas make it to market based on how "good" they are?! Poor child, you've been lied to.
I'd be worried if somebody is using altered chargers to charge the battery even though they will make it so that it doesn't fit the same charger. But that is always true. That would be the exact same problem if they were being given free new laptops with working batteries, too. So that is a non-comment.
Electricity only comes in one type. Solar energy does not create different electricity that a power grid. It isn't flat or flabby or watered down, it doesn't have bees or mosquitoes stuck in it. In places that would use this technology, PV is probably more reliable and consistent than grid power, even during the rare hours when the grid is powered.
"half the time... invariably" you can just stop there, you're just reciting anecdotes like a meathead. You may or may not know anything about batteries, but just speaking to humans about batteries you "still don't have a clue."
Did you ever consider people troll the threads with those pictures either as a warning, or because the pictures are exiting? What makes you think that the existence of negative forum responses means anything at all?
Do you figure that when the user you respond to, who has a lower user id than you and can probably even read, didn't see the same thing in the forums... that they brought up? It may be that there is other information in the threads than, "OMG the sky is falling, run away unless you have a NEMA 4 sealed head!"
I have to agree overall, but perhaps it is worth focusing exclusively on regions that have an existing electronics recycling industry. That way the worst case is they're ending up in the same places as now. For India they have this already, in Africa I suspect it varies substantially from country to country what type of wastes people are used to handling.
I know when I donate used electronics (for recycling) and expired textiles, the electronics are going to Asia and the textiles are going to Africa where 2 old shirts can make 1 newer shirt.
Because re-use requires a trip to a special handler of electronic materials, and recycling is done curbside. If you could get the garbage haulers to invest in electronics recycling and put it curbside, then people would know it is more important to somebody than the recycling.
It also might have very little utility. In addition to few customers using TOR to connect to banking services, what is the account termination rate of those users? Is it higher than average? I would assume that it is not only above average, buy way above average. I'd go so far as to make a wild guess that if a user consistently uses TOR to connect to their bank, they have a less than 25% chance of that account still being open and in good standing in 2 years.
It is like porn and merchant accounts. It isn't that banks dislike porn, or that porn encourages fraud. It is just that, for whatever unknown and debatable reasons, that industry has a much higher rate of merchant accounts being closed for a wide variety of reasons. Whereas a restaurant can probably get a merchant account, even if the owner has weak or bad credit.
Also, I don't really want my bank to be so open and free about offering network access that they introduce new features that will have few users. That gives more chances for bugs to expose their other users. They should focus on providing secure core online banking services, not shoehorning every niche product idea into the interface.
My bank requires the removal of sunglasses before entering the bank, a policy I happily comply with. I take them off at the ATM, too, just to be polite.
I say my bank does have business knowing where I am accessing from. And indeed, it requires a second authentication factor if it doesn't identify my location. Blocking access from inside a known "darknet" seems like an obvious and prudent precaution to me. Anything involved in the security of account access is the literal business of both the bank and the client.
Why should your utility pay you for power generation any more than they pay the big plant that is actually a reliable source?
They shouldn't, and they don't. I was actually bragging about how awesome they do, not complaining. The reason I mentioned it is that there is a strange meme going around right now where people are telling each other that all the PV numbers are faked and are subsidized by utilities over-paying. They're paying wholesale, but that power goes directly to the neighbors of the one generating it; whoever is using power closest to them. So it offsets retail. That is perfect for the utility because they're getting the same overhead revenue so that they have money to maintain the infrastructure, and there is less actual wear too.
No, you don't pay "income tax" on what is generated because it isn't income. The way it actually works is that you're just using less power and what you generate just reduces your bill. Residential customers don't produce more than they use. In some cases they produce almost as much as they use. In fact, because of income withholding requirements, and the fact that isn't part of the existing utility process, if you were to somehow produce more annually than you used, they would require you to sell or transfer the surplus to another existing utility customer. So that sale would be a contractual sale of the credit on the books, not a sale of the power. So the utility wouldn't be handling the money. I think there was one frugal retiree who ended up with a credit, but he donated it to charity. (we have a 100% donation-supported charity program, no subsidy)
OSHA has nothing to do with this issue, BTW. Did you know that when you put PV on your roof, you don't have to hire any employees to sit on your roof collecting the power? I know, crazy, right? Do you even have any idea what you're ranting for/against?
It isn't a government-sanctioned monopoly. It is a governing body with a directly elected board. We elect them and they only do one; manage the utilities. So it remains non-partisan in reality. There are no subsidies, and there is no "green stuff" just sloshing around. The books are open.
Warrants are already insufficient to pry open safes and encrypted drives.
The warrant gets them the safe or encrypted drive. Opening it? That is what subpoenas are for.
If they don't have a case, they don't really need the data. If they have a case, they can get the data. Nothing changes for cases where they are following the law and getting warrants.
This only inconveniences dragnet searches that are probably illegal anyways, or would be if judges had the courage to allow the victim standing to challenge.
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Brian Herbert does a great job with likeable oligarchs, and it doesn't represent sexual misconduct positively, or gender discrimination. Many characters on all sides have these failings, but it always represented as a weakness, a negative characteristic that rallies opposing forces to work together against them.
Indeed, he manages to keep it morally familiar.
There does seem to be some strange code-wording there, though.
It's not common to find sexual behavior that we find to be truly anathema nowadays (and I'm not talking simple polyamory or group sexual encounters) to be represented as positive or normal.
Why would it be? That is, in fact, the familiar and awful, not the unfamiliar. If something is unfamiliar, you don't really know if it is good or bad at a glance.
I don't know, it all sounds so wishy-washy and weasel-worded.
Maybe people who read stories about simplistic futures have simplistic tastes and are choosing authors that deliver. It hardly seems to fit the authors I read.
They should try some Kim Stanley Robinson, for example The Memory of Whiteness can be found for bottom price at a used book store.
People buy Brian Herbert's Dune universe re-hash books like crazy. I've read a few thousand pages of them myself. But how many people read his earlier book, Sudanna, Sudanna? Not the best storytelling ever, but one of the most charming and original.
Sheri Tepper writes science fiction with such different cultures that I'm not even always sure what happened. The stories are rich enough that my attention is held, and yet years later I'm still trying to figure out what she was talking about. I guess most people around here will start yelling, "SJW" and "ethics in journalism" as soon as they realize that Sheri is a woman's name, without ever reading any of it.
Even Neal Stephenson got substantially mixed reviews for Anathem, mostly because people had a hard time following it with the cultural code-words replaced with invented words.
It surprises me how many people claim to be sci-fi fans, but haven't read Rama by Arthur C Clarke, or even Childhood's End. Many have read Dune but haven't and wouldn't bother reading The Green Brain. Many haven't even read The Jesus Incident.
People are happy to pan (or worship) Harry Harrison for his adventure books, but it continually amazes me how few read West of Eden.
Do kids these days not even know about John Varley? Have they read Titan?
Voting is still not inalienable.
Not sure why you took mushrooms off that list, most states it is as bad as cocaine.
Your lawyers will advise you that you can't really sue software vendors when you're mad at them. Bugs happen. Having somebody to "strangle" means "having somebody outside the company to blame when talking to your own boss." That is all it means.
And of course, lots of companies do have a different management dynamic than that.
A lot of people minuderstand this, and make up nonsense about "being able to sue somebody if something goes wrong," which of course they can't.
Others make the mistake of thinking support = solved problems.
Corporate support means documentation that proves you Did Everything Reasonable and according to Professional Standards.
Small or privately owned shops don't need that, and don't even know why other people do need it, so you get a lot of know-it-alls on here hooking their thumbs in their suspenders yacking about how stupid people are and they can't do anything for themselves. lolol
For the shallow reader wanting to save materials and energy, this looks like a great idea.
It isn't for people who have internet and time to read crap like this site.
For somebody with a name involving patents, it seems exceptionally daft to trot out the old "if this really were a good idea, someone would have put it into use decades ago." Uhm, no. Who the fuck told you that ideas make it to market based on how "good" they are?! Poor child, you've been lied to.
I'd be worried if somebody is using altered chargers to charge the battery even though they will make it so that it doesn't fit the same charger. But that is always true. That would be the exact same problem if they were being given free new laptops with working batteries, too. So that is a non-comment.
Electricity only comes in one type. Solar energy does not create different electricity that a power grid. It isn't flat or flabby or watered down, it doesn't have bees or mosquitoes stuck in it. In places that would use this technology, PV is probably more reliable and consistent than grid power, even during the rare hours when the grid is powered.
"half the time... invariably" you can just stop there, you're just reciting anecdotes like a meathead. You may or may not know anything about batteries, but just speaking to humans about batteries you "still don't have a clue."
Did you ever consider people troll the threads with those pictures either as a warning, or because the pictures are exiting? What makes you think that the existence of negative forum responses means anything at all?
Do you figure that when the user you respond to, who has a lower user id than you and can probably even read, didn't see the same thing in the forums... that they brought up? It may be that there is other information in the threads than, "OMG the sky is falling, run away unless you have a NEMA 4 sealed head!"
I have to agree overall, but perhaps it is worth focusing exclusively on regions that have an existing electronics recycling industry. That way the worst case is they're ending up in the same places as now. For India they have this already, in Africa I suspect it varies substantially from country to country what type of wastes people are used to handling.
I know when I donate used electronics (for recycling) and expired textiles, the electronics are going to Asia and the textiles are going to Africa where 2 old shirts can make 1 newer shirt.
Because re-use requires a trip to a special handler of electronic materials, and recycling is done curbside. If you could get the garbage haulers to invest in electronics recycling and put it curbside, then people would know it is more important to somebody than the recycling.
You seem to lack the cognitive ability. Pretty typical of a 7-digit UID holder.
What is wrong with you, Sonny, is that some early onset Alzheimer's or were you born like that?
Let me guess, your fancy LED lets you see the past and the future in addition to seeing everything I've seen or imagined?
How many tinfoil layers does the hat need to block the radiation?
It also might have very little utility. In addition to few customers using TOR to connect to banking services, what is the account termination rate of those users? Is it higher than average? I would assume that it is not only above average, buy way above average. I'd go so far as to make a wild guess that if a user consistently uses TOR to connect to their bank, they have a less than 25% chance of that account still being open and in good standing in 2 years.
It is like porn and merchant accounts. It isn't that banks dislike porn, or that porn encourages fraud. It is just that, for whatever unknown and debatable reasons, that industry has a much higher rate of merchant accounts being closed for a wide variety of reasons. Whereas a restaurant can probably get a merchant account, even if the owner has weak or bad credit.
Also, I don't really want my bank to be so open and free about offering network access that they introduce new features that will have few users. That gives more chances for bugs to expose their other users. They should focus on providing secure core online banking services, not shoehorning every niche product idea into the interface.
It sounds like you should be using a VPN instead of a dark net with an exit gateway.
My bank requires the removal of sunglasses before entering the bank, a policy I happily comply with. I take them off at the ATM, too, just to be polite.
I say my bank does have business knowing where I am accessing from. And indeed, it requires a second authentication factor if it doesn't identify my location. Blocking access from inside a known "darknet" seems like an obvious and prudent precaution to me. Anything involved in the security of account access is the literal business of both the bank and the client.
Why should your utility pay you for power generation any more than they pay the big plant that is actually a reliable source?
They shouldn't, and they don't. I was actually bragging about how awesome they do, not complaining. The reason I mentioned it is that there is a strange meme going around right now where people are telling each other that all the PV numbers are faked and are subsidized by utilities over-paying. They're paying wholesale, but that power goes directly to the neighbors of the one generating it; whoever is using power closest to them. So it offsets retail. That is perfect for the utility because they're getting the same overhead revenue so that they have money to maintain the infrastructure, and there is less actual wear too.
No, you don't pay "income tax" on what is generated because it isn't income. The way it actually works is that you're just using less power and what you generate just reduces your bill. Residential customers don't produce more than they use. In some cases they produce almost as much as they use. In fact, because of income withholding requirements, and the fact that isn't part of the existing utility process, if you were to somehow produce more annually than you used, they would require you to sell or transfer the surplus to another existing utility customer. So that sale would be a contractual sale of the credit on the books, not a sale of the power. So the utility wouldn't be handling the money. I think there was one frugal retiree who ended up with a credit, but he donated it to charity. (we have a 100% donation-supported charity program, no subsidy)
OSHA has nothing to do with this issue, BTW. Did you know that when you put PV on your roof, you don't have to hire any employees to sit on your roof collecting the power? I know, crazy, right? Do you even have any idea what you're ranting for/against?
Joyent sounds pretty awesome and ethical to me.
Presumably ethics is only for "SJWs."
Gamergate womenhaters should just crawl back under their rocks. They are so not the direction society is moving on this stuff! lol
It isn't a government-sanctioned monopoly. It is a governing body with a directly elected board. We elect them and they only do one; manage the utilities. So it remains non-partisan in reality. There are no subsidies, and there is no "green stuff" just sloshing around. The books are open.
It is mainstream here, and lots of places. You can have nice things, if your community wants them.
Go isn't supposed to be widely used, just well supported on Google's cloud.
My country has these already! You can see them ... Oh, wait.
... if you believe!
*pew!* *pew!* *pew!* *splat*
I'm not convinced pre-cooking the jumper is going to reduce the cleanup very much.
1) Bag clip
2) slap-chop
3) Floating arm trebuchet
Warrants are already insufficient to pry open safes and encrypted drives.
The warrant gets them the safe or encrypted drive. Opening it? That is what subpoenas are for.
If they don't have a case, they don't really need the data. If they have a case, they can get the data. Nothing changes for cases where they are following the law and getting warrants.
This only inconveniences dragnet searches that are probably illegal anyways, or would be if judges had the courage to allow the victim standing to challenge.