Comment Re:Look, he's been consistent (Score 1) 12
This wasn't obvious? I should have thought it apparent from your Olympian height.
Comment Look, he's been consistent (Score 1) 12
He has been exactly what everyone who paid any attention expected.
Totally consistent, achieving the same quality of result across the board and across time.
The #SurpriseNotSurprise will be when Valerie Jarrett decrees that Her Majesty is un-viable as a candidate, and Michelle Obama steps forward to relieve her husband.
Totally consistent, achieving the same quality of result across the board and across time.
The #SurpriseNotSurprise will be when Valerie Jarrett decrees that Her Majesty is un-viable as a candidate, and Michelle Obama steps forward to relieve her husband.
Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution 591
schwit1 writes Yesterday, Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill that approves the use of nitrogen gas for executions in the state. The method, which would effectively asphyxiate death row inmates by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen through a gas mask, is meant to be the primary alternative to lethal injection, the Washington Post reports.
Fallin and other supporters of the procedure say it's pain-free and effective, noting that the nitrogen would render inmates unconscious within ten seconds and kill them in minutes. It's also cheap: state representatives say the method only requires a nitrogen tank and a gas mask, but financial analysts say its impossible to give precise figures, the Post reports.
Oklahoma's primary execution method is still lethal injection, but the state's procedure is currently under review by the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Tennessee suspended executions statewide following challenges to its own lethal injection protocol.
Fallin and other supporters of the procedure say it's pain-free and effective, noting that the nitrogen would render inmates unconscious within ten seconds and kill them in minutes. It's also cheap: state representatives say the method only requires a nitrogen tank and a gas mask, but financial analysts say its impossible to give precise figures, the Post reports.
Oklahoma's primary execution method is still lethal injection, but the state's procedure is currently under review by the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Tennessee suspended executions statewide following challenges to its own lethal injection protocol.
Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe 157
StartsWithABang writes You're used to real numbers: that is, numbers that can be expressed as a decimal, even if it's an arbitrarily long, non-repeating decimal. There are also complex numbers, which are numbers that have a real part and also an imaginary part. The imaginary part is just like the real part, but is also multiplied by i, or the square root of -1. It's a simple definition: the Mandelbrot set consists of every possible complex number, n, where the sequence n, n^2 + n, (n^2 + n)^2 + n, etc.—where each new term is the prior term, squared, plus n—does not go to either positive or negative infinity. The scale of zoom visualizations now goes well past the limits of the observable Universe, with no signs of loss of complexity at all.
Comment Re:As though you know which heartbeat is your last (Score 1) 4
Who said anything about anything? Why lead a chaotic life?
Comment Re:It does get more drivers on the road (Score 4, Insightful) 96
I think the idea is that those drivers will be less likely to work that morning/afternoon when there is a high prices night up ahead. Of course the means there are limited drivers on the lower priced afternoons, but it should work out as time goes on with more and more drivers signing up.
Comment As though you know which heartbeat is your last (Score 1) 4
One should keep the affairs continuously in order.
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 1) 276
The problem with this is simple: the moment you set up a paid search service, you have to restrict access to those people who have paid the subscription fees.
How so? You're going to have all sorts of promotional access.
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 1) 276
The whole point of this thread is that you don't go dictating to corporations to take a haircut. Unless you're the government.
Comment Re:Godwined before it even started (Score 2) 301
But if Goebbels' heirs don't have an exclusive right to the diaries, then what incentive does Goebbels have to write diaries? We must continue to grant and enforce this monopoly, or else Goebbels' lack of return for his hard work will cause him to give up and get a job as a dishwasher. Is that the kind of world you want to live in?!
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 1) 276
You really gotta walk back that excessive, exuberant, irrational optimism, Sparky.
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 1) 276
Well, there are incubators that support some shiny new thing, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram but they tend to Do One Little Thing Well, a la Unix, and then sell their soul for rock-n-roll.
But we think about IT here. There are also business in the Real World http://www.groundedcoffeeshop.com/ but both of these examples underscore your broader point, if I may radically restate it: economic activity of consequence is a top-down, not a bottom-up affair these days.
But we think about IT here. There are also business in the Real World http://www.groundedcoffeeshop.com/ but both of these examples underscore your broader point, if I may radically restate it: economic activity of consequence is a top-down, not a bottom-up affair these days.
Comment Re:Don't commit crimethink against Her Highness! (Score 1) 9
I'm willing to commit to a definite maybe.
BHO owns a substantial chunk of his woes, but it's not an open-and-shut case that we'd've gotten into reform mode in the counterfactual case of a GOP administration.
BHO owns a substantial chunk of his woes, but it's not an open-and-shut case that we'd've gotten into reform mode in the counterfactual case of a GOP administration.
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 0) 276
Unlikely to be an equal revenue stream.
Comment Re:privacy? (Score 2) 276
The cost would seem proportional to the users.
As far as running the business, just let me sharpen my AWS knives a little more. . .
Of course, in our post-capitalistic era, just having a good business plan is necessary but insufficient to protect you from Big Oligarchy and Big Government, assuming you could pry them apart with a crowbar. If you offer a viable alternative, look for "something really, really unfortunate" to arrive with an innocuous name like "Net Neutrality", or something.
As far as running the business, just let me sharpen my AWS knives a little more. .
Of course, in our post-capitalistic era, just having a good business plan is necessary but insufficient to protect you from Big Oligarchy and Big Government, assuming you could pry them apart with a crowbar. If you offer a viable alternative, look for "something really, really unfortunate" to arrive with an innocuous name like "Net Neutrality", or something.
