Rephrasing the news would take effort. Based on the fake news I see in my feed(s), it's the sheer lack of effort needed that spreads it so fast.
If people have to internalize what they've just read before passing it on, we'll not only get less of it, we MIGHT get people actually reading sh*t and not just fwding based on the headline they just skimmed.
Compressed video...You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
But, how do you know they're REAL blondes, brunettes, and redheads?
Oh... NVM
Sand is basically finely ground rock. That doesn't seem like an insurmountable technical problem by today's standards.
The problem is two-fold. Features and cost.
1) Not all sand is equal. Not noted here but covered in a recent Planet Money podcast is that the sand that is stolen often has characteristics that make it particularly popular for why it's being stolen. The stolen sand often has a color or texture that makes it wanted elsewhere. For example: much of the beach sand is uniformly the same shape (cubic) and size. This makes it ideal for construction, where a powdery, desert sand wouldn't work. While you can sieve crushed rock to any uniform size, sand is also hundreds of different kinds of "rock": calcium, silicon, and some of it with substructure that changes its characteristics further.
2) It's cheaper to steal (or "buy") than to make. From the podcast, one poorer neighborhood came out one morning to find that much of the public beach had been carted away in the night. Some sleuthing found that a nearby hotel development had a crappy beach, and taken off with it. While some science showed that the sand was "theirs", in many parts of the world with pretty beaches, courts and police are susceptible to bribery or threats. In the story, it leaned more on threats and soon the case waned and the locals had a beach of mud. For the price of a few trucks and a few thugs, the hotel owner got a brand new beach that dramatically increased the value of their property.
While technology COULD solve this problem, it really can only pull this off if you can get the cost to below that of hired force. That's what a lot of the tragedy of the commons come down to; if you can benefit by being a greater asshole and escape the consequences, then you win.
DNS looks up YOU!
That lack of submenus staying open was the the thing that got me off of Mate. I tried to like it, but I haven't been able to break the muscle memory of moving diagonally to a submenu and expecting it to stay open. XFCE under Xubuntu is working quite well for me right now.
It's another disinformation campaign that's been going on for some time. There are a few congressional members who have been aiming to rid us of the Post Office and sell off pieces of it to their buddies. They've been making sure that the PO's budget can't balance through making them pre-pay pensions for a very unreasonable amount of time as well as shrinking the amount they can charge for stamps.
That doesn't even get into the political battle over letting the PO act as a bank for low income people. Which it did at one time but was removed in the late sixties and completely shut down by 1984.
The US postal system is also one of the largest single union employers in the country. Yet another reason that many are trying to "drowned it in a bathtub."
The Post Office is additionally hamstrung by Congress micro-managing it. Want to get rid of Saturday delivery? No. Want to raise the price of a stamp? No. It's really quite tragic. Like that story about the boy who keeps commanding a grasshopper to jump and pulling off legs each time it fails, then loudly proclaiming that it must be deaf.
I was expecting a Warrant canary.
e.g. something to say they have not yet been been given secret orders by the NSA/CIA to install a backdoor for spying on users.
Like Apple used to have. Is there some reason Google cannot do that?
I think their absence of an existing Warrant Canary speaks volumes. (That is - they've already been issued such an order or warrant.)
EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way
Ow ow ow, I think they just broke my irony meter!
No mod points today, so I just chimed in to say - Hell, yeah! How has nobody else commented on this!?
There is also a strong correlation between Democrat governance and crime. Think about that the next time you vote.
You had me up to there. It's actually more that 1) There's a strong correlation between population density and Democratic governance (and its emphasis on shared services), and 2) There's a strong correlation between population density and crime. Might as well say something like "ice cream causes violent crime" or something. Yes, you said "correlation", but "causation" was strongly hinted.
You took all that time to create a detailed, well formatted post, but didn't name and shame the manufacturer and model? Please let tell us how to avoid the pain you've gone through.
Agreed. This is the sort of detail that you won't often find on a regular online review. I'd love to have this info, if anything to at least add to a list of manufacturers to avoid for a while, even if the model goes away.
THIS. It's probably an even more significant issue in terms of mortality stats. We're not just dealing with "Average Joe" here -- these guys were generally chosen because they were in top physical and mental condition... physically probably in the top 5% of the population, if not higher. It shouldn't be surprising at all that most of them live to their mid-80s or more.
Sibling post by someone else points out that they used the low-Earth and grounded astronauts-in-training as a control group, so I now assume that accounted for that. BUT: your/our point still stands that you'd expect astronauts of any mission to generally be in better shape than the general population, and live longer in general.
Just pointing out that life expectancy at age 40, which is when these astronauts flew, is 79.9 years.
No mod points today, so just reinforcing your statement.
The life expectancy figures cited by grandparent are based on a starting age of "zero". A lot of kids don't make it to age five, many due to car accidents. Once you've made it to age five, the "average life expectancy" of the remaining pool has gone up quite a bit.
As you move up the population pool age brackets, you have already lost the people who were going to bring down the average. To state otherwise brings you to the situation where you're introduced to an 85 year old man and say to him "you should have been dead five years ago!" In the case of astronauts, you're also dealing with a bunch of guys who are in relatively good shape - you've already weeded out the morbidly obese, drug addiction, etc.
The IRS actually has tons of tables in the XLS format for figuring this sort of thing out. They're used primarily in figuring out distribution of retirement benefits over time, but have other uses.
For example, if you get a speeding ticket in New Orleans, it is ALWAYS advantageous to show up to set a court date, and not pay automatically even IF you are guilty as hell.
As you say, your mileage may vary. In some jurisdictions, you're on the hook for court costs if you get to court, even if you're found in the clear. A $50 parking ticket in Chicago can also run you another $75-$100 in court costs - win-or-lose - if you decide to fight it.
Six digits is low ID? Wow.
I think it's a reference to "um... Lucas" above, with an ID of #13147. That's the lower end of FIVE digits, which is pretty good.
At least I can take comfort in the fact that I have been diligent about not having my picture appear on the Web - identifying me using a FindFace-like service would probably be quite difficult.
Similar to web cookies, the aggregation of multiple sightings of you in public will construct an "identity" of you far more detailed than currently exists in the public record today. The sum total of where you live, where you shop, where you work, where (and who!!!) you visit will result in a profile fingerprint that's just as useful, simply lacking your name. It's enough.
"You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape." - Ellyn Mustard
