The true primary difference between the two is that in the ordered, regimented version, one can best correlate the real names with off-line marketing (and other) databases.
That means, that for Google, one is much more profitable than the other.
Certain denialist-friendly scientists from Alabama (Christie & Spencer) put out results which appeared to "deny" the mainstream results, claiming that the mismatch indicated that the ground measurements were contaminated by "heat islands".
The scientifically honest community found the problem, it was an error in processing the satellite calibration (orbital parameters), once corrected, the satellite data matched the ground data (which was not especially contaminated, this effect is well known and calibrated by normal scientists).
The same 3 or 4 denialist friendly scientists get more press than the thousands of anonymous and honest scientists whose results in aggregate fully support the fact of significant increase in greenhouse warming from human modification of the atmosphere.
"I don't care if it's Van Halen or your favorite symphony: live music has horrible sound quality compared to the recording."
It depends on your musical style.
I've heard the Vienna Philharmonic, 3rd row center Carnegie Hall.
No recording or 2-channel playback will sound as good.
However, even with classical music, a high quality playback system (budget >= $5000 USD) can sound better than many seats in average listening halls. It will not sound better than the best halls.
"I wonder when the climate change people will climb all over this for all the new land area converted from lighter colors that reflect light back into space into large areas of dark colors for the express purpose of converting more of the sun's energy to heat?"
The ones who do science quantitatively know that it matters not one bit, as the long-term benefit from lower greenhouse emissions far outweighs any albedo change.
Climatologically significant albedo changes come from pollution (soot landing on ice and hanging in the air) and change in land-use.
"A person today can work minimum wage for a few weeks to pay for one way airfare to Europe. My great grandmother had to sell herself into indentured servitude for 7 years to pay for the trip to the US."
Correction: your great-grandmother got a low-wage job which nevertheless paid for her room and board for 7 years and transportation across the Atlantic.
You can work minimum wage for a few weeks and pay for airfare to Europe. But you won't be able to eat or live anywhere for 7 years.
Oppenheimer probably was a socialist or communist politically, but still he never cooperated with the USSR or was there any suggestion he ever would.
The issue of being homosexual was a problem when they had to stay in the closet---you were susceptible to blackmail, e.g. from foreign intelligence services who didn't have a problem finding this stuff out or using it.
"Bullshit. They are absolutely fucking idiots. Illegals come into this country, frequently to get health care and to vote in our elections. Its done every day. If you're a repeat offender, they keep you in jail and you do receive decent to good health care.
And as its unpopular to actually verify citizenship in border states for elections, millions of illegals vote every year."
Illegals almost never vote in elections. You do have to be registered, and illegal immigrants want to stay off any government records.
Medcaid, sure. Here it is also against the rules for illegals to get it as well, but the hospitals are very motivated by $$$ to bill as much as they possibly can and so intentionally never check. If you're illegal and very poor you'll get better medical care and with much less out of pocket than most people until they're upper-middle class with strong benefits in a large company or government.
If the contract says "Both parties agree to enforce this contract with Voluntary Arbitration Council X" and then one side says "Screw you, and your little arbitration council too!", what legal recourse is there which doesn't involve government force or mafia violence?
>At least VC's passive investors are taking risks and stand to actually lose money if VC Executives screw up and invest in a crappy company. VC Executives are obscenely overpaid if they don't screw up and even if they do screw up and drive the fund into the ground, their "punishment" for doing their job so poorly is generally a multi-million dollar golden fee, and another try at the table in the next boom.
The USSR had plenty of mathemeticians and computer scientists and engineers. They just didn't have many good jobs for them outside of making military hardware, which is economically unproductive.
If they don't want to live off the tax payer's pocketbook, they can refuse any business from government institutions, like say universities and let those universities fend for themselves.
If The Owners of the Robotic Capital really don't need any human workers to produce everything, then.. The Owners of the Robotic Capital don't need humans
If you still can't see it, consider the arrest of Ratko Mladic the other day. Almost identical situation, except Mladic personally helped to execute at least twice as many people as died in the attack on the World Trade Centre, so you could say he is more evil than OBL. And he was arrested and taken to the ICC. He wasn't shot in the head and dumped in the ocean, because that is not how civilised societies deal with criminals.
If Osama Bin Laden had been living in West Point, New York, then yes, he would have been peaceably arrested and sent to court.
Do you think there is something very different between the cases? I do.
"describes Google's famous back-end infrastructure as a collection of obsolete technologies, designed 10 years ago for building search engines and crawlers."
Is this supposed to be a problem?
What makes Google money? Search and search ads.
Mature technology designed for search engines by a company with a billion in revenue per year from search ads is probably very good for making money from a search engine.
In the USA in the 19th century, with a gold standard, there were a tremendous number of unjust banking shenanigans which resulted in the confiscation of assets from the productive sector into the banking owners.
There was always fractional reserve, and private banks had their own control over the money supply. LIke it or not, the Federal Reserve system was an improvement.
Carbon dioxide does not cause catastrophic runaway global warming. It may cause approx. a degree or so of warming. Any more would require positive feedback and there is no evidence that is happening. We've measured the radiation in at all wavelengths and we've measured the radiation out at all wavelengths. The evidence for positive feedback is just not there.
Climate models predict that the concentration of water vapor in the upper troposphere could double by the end of the century as a result of increases in greenhouse gases. Such moistening plays a key role in amplifying the rate at which the climate warms in response to anthropogenic activities, but has been difficult to detect because of deficiencies in conventional observing systems. We use satellite measurements to highlight a distinct radiative signature of upper tropospheric moistening over the period 1982 to 2004. The observed moistening is accurately captured by climate model simulations and lends further credence to model projections of future global warming.
some blackhats know how to mount the attack. Lots of others don't.
Remember, this is (with very high probability) a persistent and professional effort from a well-funded national intelligence service. Very serious. Even good black hats might not have the resources to accomplish this (which of course could include substantial personal physical wiretapping and replacement of manufactured devices).
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"In contrast official government forces, praetorian guards - elite legionaries, did not work out so well for many roman emperors."
This doesn't necessarily mean that things didn't work out well for Romans (minus one emperor).
The true primary difference between the two is that in the ordered, regimented version, one can best correlate the real names with off-line marketing (and other) databases.
That means, that for Google, one is much more profitable than the other.
Certain denialist-friendly scientists from Alabama (Christie & Spencer) put out results which appeared to "deny" the mainstream results, claiming that the mismatch indicated that the ground measurements were contaminated by "heat islands".
The scientifically honest community found the problem, it was an error in processing the satellite calibration (orbital parameters), once corrected, the satellite data matched the ground data (which was not especially contaminated, this effect is well known and calibrated by normal scientists).
The same 3 or 4 denialist friendly scientists get more press than the thousands of anonymous and honest scientists whose results in aggregate fully support the fact of significant increase in greenhouse warming from human modification of the atmosphere.
Try tasting decent red wines from various worldwide vineyards & styles. The dispersion is at least as large as fine whiskeys.
"I don't care if it's Van Halen or your favorite symphony: live music has horrible sound quality compared to the recording."
It depends on your musical style.
I've heard the Vienna Philharmonic, 3rd row center Carnegie Hall.
No recording or 2-channel playback will sound as good.
However, even with classical music, a high quality playback system (budget >= $5000 USD) can sound better than many seats in average listening halls. It will not sound better than the best halls.
"I wonder when the climate change people will climb all over this for all the new land area converted from lighter colors that reflect light back into space into large areas of dark colors for the express purpose of converting more of the sun's energy to heat?"
The ones who do science quantitatively know that it matters not one bit, as the long-term benefit from lower greenhouse emissions far outweighs any albedo change.
Climatologically significant albedo changes come from pollution (soot landing on ice and hanging in the air) and change in land-use.
Except then you wouldn't have any solar panels built and installed and working for a few dozens of years.
"A person today can work minimum wage for a few weeks to pay for one way airfare to Europe. My great grandmother had to sell herself into indentured servitude for 7 years to pay for the trip to the US."
Correction: your great-grandmother got a low-wage job which nevertheless paid for her room and board for 7 years and transportation across the Atlantic.
You can work minimum wage for a few weeks and pay for airfare to Europe. But you won't be able to eat or live anywhere for 7 years.
You mean like the large across-the-board tariff that China has employed via currency manipulation for the last 25 years?
Yes, it has clearly destroyed their industrial base and damaged their standard of living.
Johnny von Neumann
Oppenheimer probably was a socialist or communist politically, but still he never cooperated with the USSR or was there any suggestion he ever would.
The issue of being homosexual was a problem when they had to stay in the closet---you were susceptible to blackmail, e.g. from foreign intelligence services who didn't have a problem finding this stuff out or using it.
$100 they already offer this "emergency channel" except they sell it to corporates to check in on their drones, regardless of friend status.
I seem to remember somebody who worked in HR bragging about this very ability.
"Bullshit. They are absolutely fucking idiots. Illegals come into this country, frequently to get health care and to vote in our elections. Its done every day. If you're a repeat offender, they keep you in jail and you do receive decent to good health care.
And as its unpopular to actually verify citizenship in border states for elections, millions of illegals vote every year."
Illegals almost never vote in elections. You do have to be registered, and illegal immigrants want to stay off any government records.
Medcaid, sure. Here it is also against the rules for illegals to get it as well, but the hospitals are very motivated by $$$ to bill as much as they possibly can and so intentionally never check. If you're illegal and very poor you'll get better medical care and with much less out of pocket than most people until they're upper-middle class with strong benefits in a large company or government.
most likely scenario:
The new executives who were Friends Of The Private Equity Partners get lots of money, and the long-time executives who weren't, get the shaft.
No they couldn't.
If the contract says "Both parties agree to enforce this contract with Voluntary Arbitration Council X" and then one side says "Screw you, and your little arbitration council too!", what legal recourse is there which doesn't involve government force or mafia violence?
>At least VC's passive investors are taking risks and stand to actually lose money if VC Executives screw up and invest in a crappy company. VC Executives are obscenely overpaid if they don't screw up and even if they do screw up and drive the fund into the ground, their "punishment" for doing their job so poorly is generally a multi-million dollar golden fee, and another try at the table in the next boom.
FTFY
The USSR had plenty of mathemeticians and computer scientists and engineers. They just didn't have many good jobs for them outside of making military hardware, which is economically unproductive.
If they don't want to live off the tax payer's pocketbook, they can refuse any business from government institutions, like say universities and let those universities fend for themselves.
Are they doing that?
a) yes
b) no
If The Owners of the Robotic Capital really don't need any human workers to produce everything, then.. The Owners of the Robotic Capital don't need humans
FTFY
If you still can't see it, consider the arrest of Ratko Mladic the other day. Almost identical situation, except Mladic personally helped to execute at least twice as many people as died in the attack on the World Trade Centre, so you could say he is more evil than OBL. And he was arrested and taken to the ICC. He wasn't shot in the head and dumped in the ocean, because that is not how civilised societies deal with criminals.
If Osama Bin Laden had been living in West Point, New York, then yes, he would have been peaceably arrested and sent to court.
Do you think there is something very different between the cases? I do.
No.
You're taxed on any compensation for labor, regardless of the monetary form of the compensation. It's an obvious loophole if it were otherwise.
If you got german bonds in return for your labor you get taxed even though you never personally sold and converted them to dollars in your account.
"describes Google's famous back-end infrastructure as a collection of obsolete technologies, designed 10 years ago for building search engines and crawlers."
Is this supposed to be a problem?
What makes Google money? Search and search ads.
Mature technology designed for search engines by a company with a billion in revenue per year from search ads is probably very good for making money from a search engine.
That's completely BS.
In the USA in the 19th century, with a gold standard, there were a tremendous number of unjust banking shenanigans which resulted in the confiscation of assets from the productive sector into the banking owners.
There was always fractional reserve, and private banks had their own control over the money supply. LIke it or not, the Federal Reserve system was an improvement.
Carbon dioxide does not cause catastrophic runaway global warming. It may cause approx. a degree or so of warming. Any more would require positive feedback and there is no evidence that is happening. We've measured the radiation in at all wavelengths and we've measured the radiation out at all wavelengths. The evidence for positive feedback is just not there.
This is false.
http://www.science20.com/news_account/greenhouse_gases_and_water_vapor_when_positive_feedback_is_a_bad_thing
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2010JD014192.shtml
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m2054qq6126802g8/
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL035333.shtml
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F2007JCLI2142.1
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005GL025505.shtml
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005.../2005GL023624.shtml
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v164l177374p1445/
Let's just look at one abstract.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/310/5749/841
Climate models predict that the concentration of water vapor in the upper troposphere could double by the end of the century as a result of increases in greenhouse gases. Such moistening plays a key role in amplifying the rate at which the climate warms in response to anthropogenic activities, but has been difficult to detect because of deficiencies in conventional observing systems. We use satellite measurements to highlight a distinct radiative signature of upper tropospheric moistening over the period 1982 to 2004. The observed moistening is accurately captured by climate model simulations and lends further credence to model projections of future global warming.
some blackhats know how to mount the attack. Lots of others don't.
Remember, this is (with very high probability) a persistent and professional effort from a well-funded national intelligence service. Very serious. Even good black hats might not have the resources to accomplish this (which of course could include substantial personal physical wiretapping and replacement of manufactured devices).