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Save the naugas!

His actual proposal was 6k for older than 21 and 3k for younger people (500*12=6000 and not 12 or 10k)
Wolfram alpha is using old data, but according to it, US population over 21 is 216M and under 88M
So let's add 10M to the >21 group.
2.26*10^8*6000 = 1.356*10^12
8.8*10^8*3000 = 0.264*10^12
That's 1.62 trillion out of 3.7 trillion (not 3 out of 3). It's military, social security and interest combined, with extra 80 billion (keep on SC or give it to Nasa). Not touching anything else.
Anyway, the overhead should come from gradually reducing military and social security while gradually implementing the basic income system with those with lower income first (and the recently laid off military). There would be an 1.3M very capable people increase in the work force, plus keeping housed those that are about to go homeless, this could increase production. All this extra money (the 500bl from military) would also benefit the already strong national market.

Good point, but not to worry, raw growth is also decelerating.

You can see here the medium UN variant (which historically has proven to be too pessimistic) already shows the curve slope decreasing since around 1990, i.e. deceleration of raw growth.

Here's a chart of the growth rate.

Good point, but not to worry, raw growth is also decelerating.

You can see here the medium UN variant (which historically has proven to be too pessimistic) already shows the curve slope decreasing since around 1990, i.e. deceleration of raw growth.

Here's a chart of the growth rate.

Don't worry, you didn't miss much; Suicide Squad was cut to hell, too. And this adaptation's Joker is easily the worst (though to be fair, it's compared to three great portrayals.)

DC is desperate to get a film universe going like Marvel, but they keep dropping the ball, and wasting characters that pull audiences into theatres, which means they're less likely to take a risk on less widely popular characters. Like, for a completely arbitrary example, Iron Man. Or Deadpool. Or whoever these nobodies are.

Personally, I find nothing wrong with a trusty Debian Testing install...but feel free to hit up any of the top 3 (Debian, Slackware, RedHat/Fedora). https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

They'll never identify me!

Lamborghini motor scooters?

Lamborghini tractors are already a thing.

Wikipedia stats are probably more representative: https://analytics.wikimedia.or...

Firefox is a bit further down and, looking at the graphs, still decreasing. It's not as dire as GP indicates but it looks a little grim.

I have a billion dollar note sitting on my desk from them.

You are but a mere peasant I have on of the 100 trillion dollar bills. Although I still need to find one of these as 100,000,000,000,000 just doesn't compare to 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 even if there aren't that many 0s on the pengo note.

I couldn't help but instantly think of this.

Dude this is older than photography ! :

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/A_Peep_at_the_Gas_Lights_in_Pall_Mall_Rowlandson_1809.jpg

By the mid to late 19th century sizable infrastructure was built to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in huge complicated plants, and distribute it in major cities through pipes, for lighting - especially street lights - and maybe cooking and heating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Coal gasification processes to create syngas were used for many years to manufacture illuminating gas (coal gas) for gas lighting, cooking and to some extent, heating, before electric lighting and the natural gas infrastructure became widely available.[citation needed] Although the syngas chemical composition can vary based on the raw materials and the processes, the syngas from coal gasification generally is a mixture of 30 to 60% carbon monoxide, 25 to 30% hydrogen, 5 to 15% carbon dioxide, and 0 to 5% methane. It also contains lesser amount of other gases.[19]

The syngas produced in waste-to-energy gasification facilities can be used to generate electricity.

Of course, a leak or poor piping might make you pass out and die from carbon monoxide poisoning or perhaps you might poison yourself with a gas stove. But indoor (or outdoor) open fires of wood or coal had their share of problems too.

The stone hand axe. Our branch of hominids have been using them for around 2 million years. (And sharpened sticks probably longer, but they don't fossilize.)

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You might want to try again

And we all thought this was impossible, until the first time we saw Shazam. This Shazam not that other Shazam.

And I'm looking forward to us kicking your American asses at the Olympics.

If you know what's good for you, you would stay out of the water unless you're a wearing one of these

Heh, that's true. Everybody should have just used a regular RS-232 serial port. But it still shows how everybody was trying to set themselves apart and corner the market in some fashion. I'm picking on the Mac because I had to buy an Apple printer, and of course, I could have nothing but the best... 1000 dollars at the time. But hey, it could print postscript right up there with the big boy laser printers (and with 8 colors!), just not as quickly and not nearly so quietly, damn near needed a soundproof room of its own.

It was badly written, badly acted and badly thought.

Could be worse.

I was too young during Apollo 11 to remember anything coherently, but Viking 1 memories are robust.

Our TV was acting up at the time such that Viking 1's first images didn't show up very well on the news.

But a few days later at summer school, the teacher unfolded the daily newspaper at her desk while students were (supposed to be) studying. Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she stood up and walked toward the center of the room and placed the paper flat on a desk in the middle of the classroom without saying word.

On the very top of the front page was a stunning black-and-white image of sand/dust dunes and a big-ass boulder, with just the words "Mars!" as a label.

The students started gathering around in amazement. "It looks like a rocky beach! Maybe it landed on Earth by mistake, like on Gilligan's Island [TV show]," one kid shouted.

It was a trimmed version of this image.

The fact that some Abble users are migrating to Lunix is *proof* that homosexuality is a choice, and it can be cured. There just needs to be a free enough market.

What about all the niggers? We could send 'em all back to Africa.

Yes it does have military implications. If anyone doubts that they just need to look at the X37b

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Must military products be made in the U.S. ? Sure doesn't seem that way

Just ask Magnaquench

http://www.counterpunch.org/20...

Should this be illegal, Yeah.

The secret sauce is noise.

Here is a picture of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Top: Real
Bottom: CG

They have both the SAME number of pixels, which means it must be the colors which are different.

Peter Jackson (used to) deeply understands using miniatures and bigatures to convey the "warmth" and "depth" with unique texturing and realistic lighting.

George Lucas on the other does not understanding anything about noise. Notice how the bottom textures look all bland. Everything looks fake and plastic. The word "Sterile" comes to mind.

It isn't about less, but more. Namely adding noise so objects look more realistic.

Here is the launch profile. http://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png

Launches to GTO need to be going a lot faster (7.7 km/s for ISS, vs 9.88 km/s for GTO). The Falcon 9 uses up enough fuel that it cannot execute the "boostback" burn listed in the image.

Instead it continues on in a parabolic arc until it hits the atmosphere to slow down, firing the rocket at the last minute to stop over the drone ship.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

As the people of California already know, one picture explains it all. These are the kinds of things that justify calling for early elections to make at least a feeble effort at correcting the problem. And I hope this time the lessons of privatization fall on fertile ground.

I have a celebrity doppelganger, but he is a bit of a dick so we don't mention him.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

for real, I have so many accessories it would be so much nicer to use my turbo gamepad for one example. im sure someone will come up with an adaptor however https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

the lack of pirates is causing global warming. I HAVE NUMBERS ON MY SIDE!

Experiment time: look at the two images linked, and tell me what the difference is between them:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

http://www.atigunstocks.com/me...

To put you out of your misery immediately, the first image is of a Mossberg model 500 shotgun with a standard stock. The second image is also of a Mossberg model 500 shotgun with a pistol grip.

Senator Dianne Feinstein* would have you believe that the 500 Standard is "safe". She would also have you believe that the 500 Pistol stock is an "assault rifle".

IT'S A FUCKING SHOTGUN!

They're BOTH shotguns!

They're the SAME DAMN MODEL!

*yes, this would be the same untermench who was filmed during an anti-gun rally with an AK-47, her finger on the trigger and a magazine in the receiver - in a room packed with people!

http://keepandbeararms.com/inf...

Free parking is actually quite common for German churches. Here is an example - about 500m away from where I live:

Nope! I've taken the liberty of researching your car's security and have a foolproof method to prevent hacked car theft. Thanks Obama!

The GP makes some really good points, and the best you can counter them with are some insults and gibberish?

The gedit text editor is a superb example of how hipsters/millennials are ruin perfectly good software.

Here is a screenshot of the gedit UI from 2009.

It shows gedit as it was developed by Generation X, with a clean, sensible, and consistent UI.

Here is a more recent screenshot of the gedit UI after hipsters/millennials have had their way with it.

The hipster/millennial version is a total mess, with no consistency, functionality that's hidden and inaccessible, and usability that is absolutely terrible.

It is hard to believe but those are the same program!

Only hipsters/millennials could take a really usable software UI and ruin it as quickly as they have done with gedit.

The GP makes some really good points, and the best you can counter them with are some insults and gibberish?

The gedit text editor is a superb example of how hipsters/millennials are ruin perfectly good software.

Here is a screenshot of the gedit UI from 2009.

It shows gedit as it was developed by Generation X, with a clean, sensible, and consistent UI.

Here is a more recent screenshot of the gedit UI after hipsters/millennials have had their way with it.

The hipster/millennial version is a total mess, with no consistency, functionality that's hidden and inaccessible, and usability that is absolutely terrible.

It is hard to believe but those are the same program!

Only hipsters/millennials could take a really usable software UI and ruin it as quickly as they have done with gedit.

Not in America, the side skirts are considered only for the fuel efficiency. This is the current standard:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

They are required to have the bar on the rear which acts as a bumper if you will, but the only time trailers are lower than this is if there technical requirement for it.

Hmmm.. I reckon the algos started around 1980.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

I'm not quite sure why I am replying to such a racist rant, but I wanted to point out that the vast majority of Muslims in the UK are from South Asia. This immigration had nothing to do with the EU, but was possible because of the Commonwealth.

There are a lot of wannabe hipsters using Windows. Check out this loser. The rest are the common, naive plebes who buy into shit like surveillance and believe that everyone is looking out for them.

Apple has a lot of the wannabe arteests who think having Apple products will somehow imbue them with creativity. The remainder are metrosexuals, "bisexuals" and the technically incompetent. Apple users are generally the loudest and cannot tolerate anything less than glowing praise for all things Apple.

Google has a lot of uneducated and chintzy skinflints who would rather have malware and scamware-filled freemium shit than spend a couple bucks for clean, functional, standalone software. The rest are people who exploit the open nature of Android to get the most out of it.

Linux and BSD are all over the place. From huge supercomputers to embedded systems to the Cheetos stained virgins who love to argue over the internet.

Germany's imports of gas are going down: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Part of their plan for transition is to reduce energy consumption, e.g. by insulating homes so they need less heating and cooling. Every year they are getting less dependent on gas.

At the moment Germany imports about 35% of its gas from Russia because it is cheap. However, they have made sure they are not dependent on any one supplier, as any sensible government would. They get the rest from other European suppliers like Norway.

Right, this has been discussed before. I think the overall conclusion is, "fine, re-assign the tag. But at least change the icon!!"

I have a suggestion for the new Digital icon.

A breach response team, you say?

Yes. Oh yes.

Not sure if chickens are the right thing to deliver, but Bolivia certainly does not know how to feed their population properly

Give a man a fish... Seriously, as another poster pointed out the real issue is building up the infrastructure. The topography makes that really difficult, though--ie, really expensive. Compare that to the US and consider where population centers are (hint, very few people live in the mountains). Meanwhile even if most people lived in the interior, the shortest route to the ocean for shipping is...through the mountains.

I am always baffled, when pride is willing to kill people.

Is Bill Gates personally delivering those 100,000 chickens? Because I'm pretty sure the offense of pride is more about the idea that the problem is a lack of food and not the means to deliver that food. So, just dropping off 100,000 chickens is akin to "let them eat cake".

that is not accurate by a LONG shot.
Look at this map of CA's water.
What you see is that the Colorado river is supplying LA and San Diego. NONE of this goes to Ag. Right now, LA/SD are pulling 2-5x the amount of water that they are entitled to. In particular, between the 2 cities, both are pulling down the reservoirs at a frightening rate. As it is, Colorado has never even used our part of the water, so, LA/SD usage is WAY OUT OF LINE.
My understanding is that normally, your usage of Colorado is about 20-30% of our water, when it should only be around 5%. And right now, you folks are way up high.

So, to allow the reservoirs to re-build up, LA/SD really needs to get off Colorado water and instead, move to coastal water. SD has a plant that is going up, but we need many more. And then LA should start paying for their water, as opposed to getting it freely.

The guess work here ... Is astronomical

You might be going for a joke here but I think you're spot on. Humanity has only been space-faring for a few decades and is already (almost?) able to detect oxygen in the atmosphere of another sun's planet. Nothing screams LIFE like detecting earth-like levels of free oxygen. If we detect oxygen, those systems will go to the top of the list for visiting when (not if) we get interstellar capability.

With 21% oxygen in the atmosphere, the earth has been screaming LIFE to the universe for hundreds of millions of years. Anybody out there even slightly more advanced than we are knows there is something to see here. And I believe that anybody out there significantly more advanced that we are can get here with little trouble.

The only question is, what will they think of us when they get here? Will they think us peaceful or barbaric? Listen to the news and ponder that question.

If you're not snagging it out of the air with a skyhook, you're just playing with yourself.

Does anybody really cares about the brand of fake hair piece Trump is using?

It does say something about his judgement that he wears that thing in public and thinks it looks OK. I mean, there are expensive rugs that look really good and you can't tell. If dude is so rich and cares so much about his appearance, why would he go out looking like a troll doll with radiation poisoning? I mean, Charles Nelson-Reilly had a better hairpiece than The Donald. On the other hand, if Trump does NOT really care about his appearance, then why spend all the time and energy and expense to cover up the fact that he's bald?

Here's a great American president who didn't spend $60k on a bad weave:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Not only was he such a bad-ass that he kicked Hitler's ass, but he led this country into an era when we actually became great, and did not give one single fuck about the fact that he was losing his hair. He was like the presidential version of Dwayne Johnson. And let me tell you, 63% of American women have not said they will never vote for Dwayne Johnson the way they have about Trump. Hell, 63% of American men would probably give Dwayne Johnson an enthusiastic reach-around if he asked right now. That's how cool and manly bald-ass Dwayne Johnson is, like Ike.

The government also used to include assault rifles on that list. One day, it may do so again. Even if that does disgruntle people who think it's very unfair. We can but hope.

Thank you, for proving my point, about the commonalities between you and the pro-life crowd. "Assault weapon" is an invented term, like "partial birth abortion," something that sounds really scary but when you actually examine the issue you quickly learn that it doesn't mean a damn thing.

The difference between an "assault rifle" and a regular rifle is cosmetic. Mini-14 with OEM stock? Legal in all 50 States. Mini-14 with aftermarket stock? Assault rifle. Banned in NY, CA, CT, IL, and a few others, whilst uninformed people seek to ban it on the Federal level. The two firearms have the exact same capabilities. Putting a spoiler on a Honda Civic does not turn it into a Formula One race car.

The government also used to include assault rifles on that list. One day, it may do so again. Even if that does disgruntle people who think it's very unfair. We can but hope.

Thank you, for proving my point, about the commonalities between you and the pro-life crowd. "Assault weapon" is an invented term, like "partial birth abortion," something that sounds really scary but when you actually examine the issue you quickly learn that it doesn't mean a damn thing.

The difference between an "assault rifle" and a regular rifle is cosmetic. Mini-14 with OEM stock? Legal in all 50 States. Mini-14 with aftermarket stock? Assault rifle. Banned in NY, CA, CT, IL, and a few others, whilst uninformed people seek to ban it on the Federal level. The two firearms have the exact same capabilities. Putting a spoiler on a Honda Civic does not turn it into a Formula One race car.

Only if it is this one. While not quite Sweet Meteor of Death for 2016 it would be an acceptable solution.

Theists are dumb.

I like was tesla.com has done with their website.

You, sir, are mistaken. They do appear to have an error on their site, not surprising given that they've let this model stagnate;

Well, I'll be darned. They're still selling the mid 2012 model. That's a surprise. Stagnate isn't what I'd call that. ;)

I do the same, and my MBP and 1 external 2TB disk carries everything I "need"

Uh... I don't see how an external disk has any bearing on the amount of RAM available for running additional operating systems in a virtualized environment, but okay...

It allows me to carry all those non-essential low-hit but desired things that otherwise would take up extra space on the high end SSD that is better served as swap space if needed.

I find, quite often, that my Mac is using upward of around 12GB of RAM (minus buffers, caches, and the like) while my PC sits comfortably at just over 8GB running the same applications.

I'm running 3-4 IDEs, XCode, Mail, Safari with multiple tabs open (memory hog), multiple terminal sessions, MySQL, H2 test suites, and currently my memory stack is at 20GB out of 24GB, mostly due to some heavy research involving about 20+ safari tabs being open (you know how much RAM that eats). My laptop runs a similar stack, minus the 20-40 safari tabs, and rarely exceeds 16GB. This includes running both XCode iOS emulation and Android Studio plus emulation, and the entire server side stack and applications. My windows VMs are restricted to 4GB RAM max generally because I'm testing, not running production levels, or, for browsers, down to 1.5GB. Linux VMs, depending upon use, are similarly restricted, except they range from 1-4GB. I also tend to tune my VMs to not be running crap they don't need. Memory hasn't been a problem yet, even on a project that required Oracle on windows, SugarCRM on windows (separate VM) and JBoss on Windows (yep, 3 windows servers, on a laptop no less)

You're either trying to run a fully scaled out production configuration that forces memory consumption, or your requirements are far far higher than mine, which would surprise me and result in "I wish to subscribe to your newsletter" ;)

As for test suites - I run a full set today, my laptop runs it fastest. It still takes 45 minutes or so to run upwards of a total of 2000 unit and integration tests across the entire build. I could, if I really wanted to spend the week working on it, likely reduce that entire runtime down to around 5 minutes, but it would be a wasted week since I hardly ever run the entire set and wait on it, I offload the full suite to my CI server and only deal with the subset I need locally 99% of the time.

You know, if I could do it legally, I'd just throw the 32GB in my PC and run OS X in a VM and call it a day. But I can't, and I also can't buy a MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM and the models that come with RAM slots only support up to 16GB (again, only 8GB officially); so, I carry 3 laptops when I know I'm going to have to work remotely.

I would have sworn that the last pluggable set supported 16GB officially and 32GB max. I just checked, you are correct, only 8GB officially. At this point, that's unbelievable. Even the minis are 8GB officially. I have a few of those, and they're all maxed out at 16GB and have been, for years. I guess that just made me assume 16GB was the official max.

I'm good with not doing that; I just won't buy another Apple computer until they sell something that fits my needs. If the one I'm using currently (well, there are two but one won't boot OS X anymore for reasons discussed earlier in the thread) happens to break before Apple starts selling something that actually suits my needs (or begins allowing OS X to run on non-Apple hardware, legally and without hacks), well, I g