tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post231546678542708468..comments2024-03-29T00:39:31.629-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Citizen Power - Part II: Those Cop-Cameras...David Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-41779454818460771362014-09-01T06:20:50.031-07:002014-09-01T06:20:50.031-07:00>>Michael argues (in effect) that co-veillan...>>Michael argues (in effect) that co-veillance is an all-or-none proposition<br /><br />I really wasn't. I was suggesting that achieving a desirable balance may be a lot more difficult than it may at first seem.Michael C. Rushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11300622174153812004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-52681525136922587562014-08-31T16:12:52.156-07:002014-08-31T16:12:52.156-07:00onwardonwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-53012297431461608222014-08-31T15:44:42.009-07:002014-08-31T15:44:42.009-07:00Meat Loaf for dinner again? =^-^=Meat Loaf for dinner again? =^-^=Acacia H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07678539067303911329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26799635679149738152014-08-31T13:40:48.050-07:002014-08-31T13:40:48.050-07:00Larryhart sorry but I have always found Rocky Hor...Larryhart sorry but I have always found Rocky Horror to be execrably boring. <br /><br />Oh no! He's wearing panties and a garter belt! Argh! How daring and.... yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzz<br /><br />There's only one first rate song in this "musical" and it belongs to Meat Loaf.<br /><br />In some parallel reality, de Palma's PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is the show that gets midnight screenings and chanting fans. It's far better in every conceivable way.<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-73306905218157307792014-08-31T13:40:47.391-07:002014-08-31T13:40:47.391-07:00Larryhart sorry but I have always found Rocky Hor...Larryhart sorry but I have always found Rocky Horror to be execrably boring. <br /><br />Oh no! He's wearing panties and a garter belt! Argh! How daring and.... yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzz<br /><br />There's only one first rate song in this "musical" and it belongs to Meat Loaf.<br /><br />In some parallel reality, de Palma's PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is the show that gets midnight screenings and chanting fans. It's far better in every conceivable way.<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63008345805243587012014-08-31T13:09:13.900-07:002014-08-31T13:09:13.900-07:00Looks like the mindless hysteria has won the day f...Looks like the mindless hysteria has won the day for California reps. <a href="http://3dprint.com/13505/california-bill-3d-print-gun-sb808/" rel="nofollow">http://3dprint.com/13505/california-bill-3d-print-gun-sb808/</a><br /><br />God forbid anyone shows them that you can make a shotgun out of plumbing parts without machining.Paul451https://www.blogger.com/profile/12119086761190994938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-58993167278676071462014-08-31T10:40:19.088-07:002014-08-31T10:40:19.088-07:00LarryH poses a very interesting question: "I...<br />LarryH poses a very interesting question: "Is there anything you don't think is shit?"<br /><br /><br />This is a difficult and excellent question, one that I propose to answer forthwith through the application of Set Theory.<br /><br />For the sake of argument, I will define Set A as 'things humans produce ‘ and Set B as ‘the products of humans’. Comparing the membership of the two finite sets, I quickly find one-to-one correspondence, meaning that Set A = Set B, as the difference between ‘product’, ‘byproduct’, ‘waste product' and ‘things produced’ is mere philosophical distinction. <br /><br />However, if I assume that one or both sets are practically infinite, I am left with something of a conundrum that can only be resolved if I assume (as Cantor does) that some properties (such as the property of being an ordinal) produce collections that are simply too large to be sets.<br /><br />Now, here’s where things get tricky. Cantor says that I should make the above assumption which would then allow me to conclude that Set A and/or Set B, being practically infinite, may share the same class but are unequal and may therefore contain multiple infinities of anything (including shit), whereas Russell says I can’t make that assumption because ‘infinity’ (as in ‘infinities of anything’) is not a definable term.<br /><br />So, that’s LarryH’s answer:<br /><br />Assuming a finite set of ‘things humans produce’, then shit does figure prominently in the human lexicon as does art, literature, science, music and technology (etc), but if you choose to follow Cantor’s lead and multiply infinities then every human product, especially the mathematical, becomes 'transfinite' as in 'shit multiplied by infinity’. <br /><br /><br />Best<br />___<br /><br />Like Monty Python on logic (Ducks float; Wood floats. Ergo, Ducks are made of Wood), Rocky Horror is damn fine satire.locumranchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-62270180174425872932014-08-31T09:05:33.854-07:002014-08-31T09:05:33.854-07:00Completely off topic, but seems somehow appropriat...Completely off topic, but seems somehow appropriate for the unofficial end of summer. <br /><br />In the 1980s, I used to be a fan of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" midnight showings. I haven't seen it for at least 20 years now, probably closer to 25, and something put it into my head to rent it and watch it again last night.<br /><br />It's definitely not the same experience to watch it at home that it was in a theater full of screaming fanatics who knew all of their "lines". But there is a trade-off. Being able to hear all of the actual movie sound, there were things I never noticed before, even in multiple viewings:<br /><br />* "The Transducer will seduce ya" and "It's something you'll get used to" are rhymes for "Medusa" in the same manner that "Now we're engaged and I'm so glad" rhymes with "Oh, Brad!"<br /><br />* "God Bless Lily St Cyr" is actually a rhyme for "His lust is so sincere" several lines earlier.<br /><br />* This is probably only in the USA version, but when Brad and Janet are driving in the storm before their tire blows out, the car radio is playing Nixon's resignation speech.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-14893892558793698392014-08-31T01:27:30.353-07:002014-08-31T01:27:30.353-07:00Paul, TASER does sell two versions of a camera tha...Paul, TASER does sell two versions of a camera that becomes part of the police Taser, and is automatically activated (video and audio) as soon as the Taser is switched to the ARMED position. So complete video is captured both before and after the incident.<br /><br />Of course, the police have to actually buy and use the camera component. <br /><br /> Jerry Emanuelsonhttp://www.futurescience.com/je.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-76741629605386950392014-08-30T19:12:18.806-07:002014-08-30T19:12:18.806-07:00There is, of course, this typeThere is, of course, <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_wood_duck" title="QED" rel="nofollow">this type</a>Tony Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14578160528746657971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45899363799663861812014-08-30T19:08:33.117-07:002014-08-30T19:08:33.117-07:00...happy as a pig therein.
Who ever thought ducks......happy as a pig therein.<br /><br />Who ever thought ducks were made of wood? Tony Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14578160528746657971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-68035422230739748832014-08-30T16:40:12.836-07:002014-08-30T16:40:12.836-07:00locumranch:
Capable of telling shit from Shinola,...locumranch:<br /><i><br />Capable of telling shit from Shinola, I am of the latter category.<br /></i><br /><br />Is there anything you <b>don't</b> think is shit?LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-284365200320004222014-08-30T13:55:24.420-07:002014-08-30T13:55:24.420-07:00"And "Autumn" isn't really a th...<i>"And "Autumn" isn't really a thing."</i><br /><br />(Just to explain that, in the southern two thirds of Australia, the "dying-season" is Summer. In the top third, it's a month or so after monsoon ends. Neither of which correspond to European-style "Autumn" even transposed 6 months for the southern hemisphere.)Paul451https://www.blogger.com/profile/12119086761190994938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-59203575022039696382014-08-30T13:49:53.960-07:002014-08-30T13:49:53.960-07:00Re: Seasons
Traditional cultures at my latitude ty...Re: Seasons<br />Traditional cultures at my latitude typically have summer/winter/spring split into one or two seasons each. And "Autumn" isn't really a thing. Right now Deep Winter (cold/rain) has ended, and we're into Early Spring (warmer days/cold nights/rain). But in my specific region, the main tribes have four seasons, two long warm/hot seasons, two short cold seasons. Classically, the top-end has two seasons, "The Big Wet" and "The Big Dry", but most tribes apparently have 6-8 seasons, often unevenly distributed. So some might have just one or two long seasons for the eight month Dry Season, then three or four short seasons for The Wet. Pre-monsoon-storms, true-monsoon, late-monsoon-calm-humid. And even those seasons will be sub-divided. Of course, drill down further and you'll find dozens of major seasonal cycles for different purposes (fish/birds/lizards/plants/fires/winds/storms/travel...) from just one tribe, which is what you'd expect to develop in a nomadic culture.<br /><br />Whereas European farmers would only need planting-growing-harvesting-freezing.Paul451https://www.blogger.com/profile/12119086761190994938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-42323534392013612842014-08-30T13:02:56.127-07:002014-08-30T13:02:56.127-07:00Locumranch,
You weren't being told to "sh...Locumranch,<br />You weren't being told to "shut up", you were asked to "join us, learn our language, play in our toybox".<br /><br />Right now, you're the schoolkid whining, "<i>I</i> don't understand [therefore] <i>it's</i> stupid".<br /><br />[Interestingly, you're even wrong about the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The effect is weaker as knowledge increases, that was the point of the study.]<br /><br /><i>"irregardless"</i><br /><br />Them's fighting words.<br /><br />[turing phrase: fhewing tfavid]Paul451https://www.blogger.com/profile/12119086761190994938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-76024903609977538172014-08-30T12:57:20.232-07:002014-08-30T12:57:20.232-07:00Funny that Taser makes the cop-cams, but don't...Funny that Taser makes the cop-cams, but don't have trigger-cameras on Tasers themselves (their first and primary product).Paul451https://www.blogger.com/profile/12119086761190994938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-90253500231579068832014-08-30T12:24:15.951-07:002014-08-30T12:24:15.951-07:00@Dr Brin,
I never took notice that all but the su...@Dr Brin,<br /><br />I never took notice that all but the summer months (well, kinda sorta on the college schedule) contain the letter "R".LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-91710900207563964392014-08-30T12:22:33.165-07:002014-08-30T12:22:33.165-07:00@Tim H,
That's not Eric Idle with the long be...@Tim H,<br /><br />That's not Eric Idle with the long beard going "It's...", is it? Tyring to picture the face behind the beard from memory, and if it's any of the regulars, it's gotta be Michael (Don't call me Sarah) Palin.<br /><br />Speaking of Monty Python, I see locum in his turn invokes the principle asserted by (yes, this was) Eric Idle in "Life of Brian", which equates telling a man he can't have babies to oppression.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-3409626923022173242014-08-30T11:31:15.494-07:002014-08-30T11:31:15.494-07:00Locum, "Porno for everyone" in an aging ...Locum, "Porno for everyone" in an aging society? It'll be like the Python intro with a succession of young ladies followed by "Now for something ompletely different!" Eric Idle in a bikini.Tim H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-554766186238258692014-08-30T10:56:39.071-07:002014-08-30T10:56:39.071-07:00Alfred and Michael make some interesting points.
...Alfred and Michael make some interesting points.<br /><br />In the first case, Alfred invokes the Dunning-Kruger Effect to tell non-specialists (especially myself) to 'shut up' lest they display their obvious ignorance and incompetence, but he forgets that the same principle applies to everyone irregardless of specialty, including himself. Be that as it may, I defer to his greater level of mathematical indoctrination, assuming that he can defend Cantor's premise without the non-specialty use of 'mapping' or 'argument from contradiction'.<br /><br />In the second case, Michael argues (in effect) that co-veillance is an all-or-none proposition, forcing us to either accept the enforced ignorance of privacy or a shameless indulgence in voyeurism as a lifestyle choice, mostly because we've been headed toward cultural voyeurism for a long time, moving away from a Robert F. Kennedy health privacy culture to a Ronald Reagan colonic polyp display culture with weekly updates. We can therefore only assume that public voyeurism will get much much worse, at least until such prurient 'discovery' gets so routine that the public simply tunes out, caring little about watching yet another presidential sex film. Until then, however, sousveillance & coveillance will most likely become synonymous with 'PORNO for Everyone'.<br /><br />Bestlocumranchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-64438353798735395272014-08-30T10:24:10.936-07:002014-08-30T10:24:10.936-07:00And "arrrrrrs!" So many letter "R...And "arrrrrrs!" So many letter "R"s Autumn feels like a pirate attack, stealing the light and easy life!<br /><br />On the other hand , with three kids now in college, we seem to be trading (lots of) money for TIME!David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-2913255134749203542014-08-30T08:17:31.667-07:002014-08-30T08:17:31.667-07:00Off topic...
Before leaving work for the American...Off topic...<br /><br />Before leaving work for the American holiday weekend, I set my calendar ahead for next Tuesday, the same calendar I've had since fourth grade in the 1960s. And as every year, there's a melancholy feeling associated with having to look at the first of a string of longer month names. <br /><br />Although I haven't been on a school schedule in forever, it still feels sad to go from the six consecutive months with less-than-seven letters to the six consecutive months with seven-or-more letters.<br /><br />Sigh.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-61543235366643592352014-08-30T05:32:09.016-07:002014-08-30T05:32:09.016-07:00locum is right about ubiquitous videos touted as p...locum is right about ubiquitous videos touted as proving a thing which really remains unproven. I would point out any lawyer could demolish an attempt to make unwarranted assumptions from such.<br /><br />One problem is the TV networks have done this for years, to the point that 60 minutes has been satirized for it (I remember the Whoopee Cushion scandal, and the waving about of the manila folder with "EVIDENCE" printed on it, in lieu of actual evidence.) And propaganda of all types has used the same techniques of editing, lies, and suggestion to manipulate perception. We have watched <i>Blow Up</i> also.<br /><br />Of late too we have seen James O'Keefe and Alex Jones do it.<br /><br />We are much wiser now. Progress does exist.Jumperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794110173836133321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-29086748969444114692014-08-29T20:21:01.373-07:002014-08-29T20:21:01.373-07:00I agree with Alfred,
I "witnessed" a cra...I agree with Alfred,<br />I "witnessed" a crash,<br />A car in front of me pulled out from a junction and was hit by a motorbike<br /><br />After helping the two injured parties until the ambulance arrived I had to walk around the scene to work out what had happened,<br />I had watched it - but it was too fast - only afterwards was I able to understand what I had seen,<br /><br />My "eye witness" input was almost uselessDuncan Cairncrossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-58452636484511965562014-08-29T15:20:20.626-07:002014-08-29T15:20:20.626-07:00Recording events even during the mundane times can...Recording events even during the mundane times can be useful and should be something we all consider doing. I witnessed a car accident at a stop light once where the person turning left in front of be was hit by someone coming through the intersection from the left. The mangled mess of both cars wound up in the lanes in front of me and I had to stop quickly. I glanced at the left turn light figuring I might get asked as a witness whether it was red or green and I clearly remember noting its state, but by the time the police asked I was too shaky and couldn't recall. I knew that could happen to witnesses and still I couldn't beat it. A dash-cam would have done it, though. 8/<br /><br />Cheap, ubiquitous cameras and microphones don't have to produce everything for YouTube consumption, but a little helper for those of us who witness events would sure be useful.Alfred Differnoreply@blogger.com