For good or ill, this technology is a game changer.
I think one application should be putting it in footballs for better spots and touchdown calls, and shoes to determine if someone stepped out of bounds.
The UK Elections
In addition to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, the big losers were the pollsters. I wonder if this will presage our own elections next year?
Have to confess; my favorite part of the UK elections was (finally!) the departure of that vile lunatic George Galloway from Parliament.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 8, 2015
[Update a few minutes later]
Seeing reports that the vast majority of British Jews voted Tory, only about 20% for Milliband. I’m totally unshocked. Nice to see the Brits starting to come to their senses. Maggie Thatcher’s Britain still stands.
You Can’t Take The Sky From Me
As I promised yesterday, my thoughts on social justice in space are up at PJMedia.
[Update a few minutes later]
[Mid-morning update]
Mars needs Kirk, not Hofstadter.
But it’s Martin Robbins, not “Roberts.”
Carley’s Domain Name
[Update a few minutes later]
Whatever you think of her as CEO, I like having her in the race: Hillary, “Why Did You Lie As You Stood Over Bodies of Four Murdered Americans?”
[Thursday-morning update]
She’s doing it right so far.
[Bumped]
“This Is A War”
Pamela Geller defends herself against her critics:
So, why are some people blaming me? They’re saying: “Well, she provoked them! She got what she deserved!” They don’t remember, or care to remember, that as the jihadis were killing the Muhammad cartoonists in Paris, their friend and accomplice was murdering Jews in a nearby kosher supermarket. Were the Jews asking for it? Did they “bait” the jihadis? Were they “provoking” them?
Are the Jews responsible for the Nazis? Are the Christians in the Middle East responsible for being persecuted by Muslims?
Drawing Muhammad offends Islamic jihadists? So does being Jewish. How much accommodation of any kind should we give to murderous savagery? To kowtow to violent intimidation will only encourage more of it.
This is a war.
It is, no matter how much people want to deny it.
Is Fascism “Right Wing”?
Learning To Code
It’s never too late. Silicon Valley is going to have to get over its ageism.
Burke Versus Spock
Some thoughts on transhumanism and rationality.
The First Woman To Be Raped In Space
As Glenn notes, this seems to be gender feminism’s major contribution to spaceflight.
I ruffled some feathers this weekend at Space Access by having the temerity to point out that there will be some people who will oppose our expansion into space, because they don’t trust us to do it “right,” and with “social justice.” So much will they oppose it that they may even get violent about it. They do, after all, call themselves “warriors,” and they use a lot of eliminationist rhetoric, like “Smash patriarchy.” I got an email or two about it.
My quick take: Saying that I am “picking a fight” with these people is like saying that the New York Times was picking a fight with the Japanese by reporting that they had bombed Pearl Harbor. As I noted in my talk, they went after the gamers, and the SF community. They’re already on their way to go after the space settlers, as the above linked piece indicates.
I’ll have a longer take at Ricochet or PJMedia.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sort of related: Why Joss Whedon left Twitter.
[Update a while later]
Here’s one hot off the press (Monday) from D. N. Lee (the Scientific American blogger whose tweet I highlighted in my talk). This is much more mild than the tweet, but it gives you an idea of what we’re up against.
Vagina Voters
What has happened to feminism?
She thinks Hillary would be a great president because she “knows what it’s like to menstruate, be pregnant, [and] give birth.”
So you’re going to pick your leader on the basis of her biological functions, the fact she’s experienced the same bodily stuff as you? Imagine if a man did that. “I’m voting for Ted Cruz because he knows what it’s like to spunk off. And he knows the pain of being kicked in the balls.” We’d think that was a very sad dude indeed. Why is it any better for a female commentator to wax lyrical about voting on the basis of her biological similarity to a candidate rather than any shared political outlook?
She should be embarrassed, but she has no idea why. If you’re voting with your body parts, you’re definitely doing it wrong