As I said... not acceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

I'm all for an arms-length agency that controls police data and equipment so there's no opportunity for people within an agency to cover each other's asses.

I think when you put on a badge and assume the authority it grants over others, you should be held to a much higher standard. This does not seem to be a common enough belief to actual have such standards implemented.

It's unacceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

You have a case, you have a case number. The interface is stupid and you can't paste it in, you have to type it out every time. And every selected camera is another query with that same field waiting for the 15 character code.

You get bored, you type in crap knowing A) people rarely check if there's no complaint and B) you have a case.

I can't say that's what happens with every system, but that's why the video logs look like this on the ones I've touched. Which is also why we captured logon ID and didn't just rely on trusting the manual input.

You know what they fucked with far less often? CPIC queries. Abuse CPIC and you lose your job because if you don't lose your job, the RCMP pulls the police service's access. It should be the same locally, but it typically isn't.

Nope. No matter where you look in the sky, on large enough scales it looks the same. There's no indication that things are significantly different in any particular direction.

There can't be a 'source' of a Big Bang that looks like that. It has to happen everywhere or the sky would show signs that it was all accelerating away from a single point.

What we can say is we don't really have much ability to figure out what happened early on. The conditions are too extreme and we don't have any way to model what might have been going on. That's not faith either, that's, "We don't know and might never be able to figure it out".

Maybe Brave respects my choices more, but I still install Ghostery and UBlock Origin.

>If this is true then wouldn't the Biden admin have wanted the BLS to hide or change the CPI reports during those first couple years in the supply chain crunch when those numbers were just destroying their approval ratings?

The difference is between 'spin' and 'outright lying'. Normal governments will show the stats you can examine until the cows come home without being able to say they're lying. They adjust the definition of who is employed or seeking employment, things like that. They can still look bad, because they're still reporting aspects of the real facts.

I think the measure I was talking about is referred to as the "Labor Force Participation Rate", but I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what you mean when you imply that AI doesn't understand storytelling. It's not *great* at it, but if you formalize the process (outlines, character profiles, world details, external notes, and so on) you can get something coherent if you use a decent AI.

There's a stat - I forget the name for it - but it's basically "The percentage of hours worked out of all those who would normally be expected to be working".

If you're of working age, not prevented by disability, etc., you would be counted. It can't be fudged by not counting people who have just given up, it can't be fudged by counting part time employment. And you can combine that with the wage distribution curve, and then the wealth distribution curve to get a pretty good picture of the overall economic health of your population.

I've never heard of a government that wants that. Generally, economic reports are spun to make the government look more effective than it has been and to protect the wealthy against accusations of hoarding that might result in taxation. A really bad government might just give up on spin and, say, fire people who won't just tell whatever lie they want.

That's why I hate most subscription services. Gyms, AAA - hell even insurance to some degree. They're all built around the idea that the customers should be paying but they're the enemy.

With a straight up transactional or metered service, the more the customer uses something, the more they get paid. They're incentivized to make the service or product good. With a subscription, the more the customer uses a service, the LESS money they get paid. They want to balance the scales between making the service good enough to keep the customer from unsubscribing but not so good that they use it.

If artificial superintelligence is a thing, we're going to need it to defend against it.

Honestly, I don't see this law passing anyway.

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In space, the problem becomes apparent rapidly. You have to worry about every action having a reaction - and though the forces are always equal, the velocities resulting very much depend on the relative masses.

On a space walk, forgetting that can mean testing out your tether or losing hardware. Or maybe (though I'd think unlikely): getting caught between two massive things you can't just flick out of the way because they're 'weightless'.

I grudgingly concede the point, but I may or may not hold an actual grudge about it.

> Roman's primary mirror "is about the same size as that of Hubble's, but at 80% less weight

While accurate, it's not the right way to express the idea for something that will be in free fall. It's 80% less mass. Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source - it will have no 'weight', what it will have is momentum based on its mass.

It's going to be GTAV with nicer graphics and then degraded by attempts to maximize DLC and online subscriptions.

>the challenge for the rest of the country is to keep these about 33% utterly deranged people under control.

They're strong because they were tolerated. They came out from under their rocks and were not immediately chased back under them. They coordinated. They kept pushing and every time someone tried to be 'reasonable' instead of recognizing the pattern and putting a stop to it, they advanced.

They're not going to give up that perceived advantage peacefully. The ones in office will do everything they can to further corrupt the system, and if that fails they will straight up refuse to give up.