The U.S.A. and the Soviet Union never tried to kill each other because each was convinced that the victory would be phyrric.
The 'threat' and the problem is not one of placing such a 'high barrier' to entry as it is to place the same kind of MAD logic.
Until and unless the powers that be can garantee that there won't be any more mad mullah's like Omar, we have to watch everybody carefully and keep weapons which can strike down from space out of the reach of these 'children'.
They only became stable with the PDP-11 and RSTS-E. And the darn thing had toggle switches to do the IPL. The first machine to come without a panel full of switches was the Apple I.
at the pole. In addition, the south pole is a tectonic plate so it has moved over time.
I wonder if the 'devotion' to the place isn't instead that they've been able to grow fatter faster than its grown colder.
Since the flights of cruise missiles over the Canadian artic, over the ocean and over deserts, we have learned that 'tractless' wastes are only tractless to the unpracticed eye.
Which would have changed point B to 'Hey if the other Arabs don't care we won't feed you either (Omar was a jerk and was demanding that his country get fed.)
That would meant that point C would not have happened. The Taliban woud have contained themselves in Afghanistan and starved to death or joined the litany of failures arabia has spawned and ended up running a 7/11 in DesMoines.
I totally disagre on point D. By refusing to attack in Afghanistan (which wouldn't have been necesssary if we'd secured the cockpit doors,) we sould have gone in, without the insurgency, which is currently always renewing itself. Disarming the Baathist army was a mistake.
Imagine a world where, after a subdural implantation of a chip in your head, * 'they' always know where you are when 'they' need to know, * can know if there are two of you (one's got to be an impostor!) * can free you from carrying cash (they can issue a transaction against the bank of record,), * where losing your wallet is not a problem, if fact it can be dispensed with altogether, * where applying for a job, a loan or a credit card is not a process that somebody else can do "for you" with forged credentials and/or forged ID. * where access to your credentials, medical records, employment history, military records, driving record, shopping preferences etc. travels with you, * where there are no more pesky user IDs and/or passwords to forget, * where its easy to identify and extract your burnt body from the wreckage.
Billions of shiny capsules containing RFID chips, shining in the post apocalyptic wasteland.
This is a solution desperately looking for a problem. It isn't even a good one. It could only work in basements and office buildings, at night, if there are no windows nearby. (I presume you would be able to see your way around by the steady glow of the raging fires shining in through the broken windows.)
The bible right now is a conpendium of abherant behavior.
At other times it was a catalog.;-)
Ostracism, literally scribing a name on an yoster shell, was one way it was handled in Greece.
Excommunication was the way to do it in the Catholic lands.
In ninth century Iceland, they had a legal system called outlawry wherein you could be declared an outlaw. That meant you were outside the rule of law. You made yourself fair game by doing unto somebody else. That meant that if anything happened to you, you were outside the protection of the law, so 'tough noogies'!
I'm sure that it could be enforced by implantable difficult/hazardous to remove RFID tags.
It might open with Homer Simpson getting rid of the radioactive sample stuck in his collar and end with B&B blowing up Springfield.
Actually, screw science shows we need things that will weed out the gene pool. With actual footage of people getting 'snuffed' competing for the first prize.
That would bring up the remaining IQ of the survivors.
Like 'Death Comes to the National Parks.' You could have really neat shows about the dangers to be found in the wild.
How about shows about exploding double-wides? (Sorry that one's already taken. 'Trailer Fabulous' on MTV.)
Or 'How to Have Fun in Arkansas: Fire Bombing Your Neighbour's Meth Lab?' Lots of science there. You could start a discussion grup about combustion and the difering rates of various chemicals.
Or 'Beavis&Butthead Guide to Ingesting Rapidly Dissolving (Il)legal drugs?' You could discuss drugs, digestion and/or death.
Or 'Jackass: Taunting Happy Fun Ball' Which would be about silly stunts you can commit with spheroids, like musket balls and canon balls and WWII sea mines.
Or '101 Things I Like About [name] Disease' where contestants are infected with some disease and have five minutes to identify it and receive the anti-toxin or die trying.
to lead to the restoration of the 'Its the will of Allah/God/Yaweh/insert_name_of_deity_here' to explain everything that requires any actual work to find out.
Its a lazy and cheap solution that 'explains' nothing and avoids having to provide any deep answers.
I grew up with that kind of crap in a Catholic school. The beloved answer to any 'hard' question was 'Its a mystery.' Accept that for an answer and pretty soon the 'mystery' gets wider and wider until its a mystery why you're even asking the question.
My favorite answer of that type is a reply given to students looking into some part of nuclear physics. Would you trust students who were told that something was just 'the will of Allah.'
Were talking nuclear physics here. The kind of stuff that goes boom in a pretty mushroom cloud.
I worry more about the Iranian nuclear program when they start accepting those answers than if they actually admitted that they don't know everything but were damn well going to try and find out.
Otherwise the worst nightware scenarios just got likelier.
What HAS Microsoft done in the past 30 years that was innovative (instead of a reaction to market pressures,) novel (something uniquely new) or generous (like free as in 'libre')
Microsoft reflects Bill Gates "biggest baddest bully in the whole playground" mentality.
He and Microsoft were convicted and managed to buy off any punishment like a student who's rich enough to buy off the faculty.
I'd still like to hear of something not derivative or purchased from Microsoft.
It might be a short list given the screams of "Make it more like the Mac" that I've been hearing for the past twenty years.
If you were an Aristotlean, as most religious people are, despte their protestations, you have to __believe__ that nature abhors a vacuum, in spite of what our collective experience in outer space shows/tells you.
Its like living in a universe where the phlogiston theory actually works.
I actually get more thinking done on the subway during the commute. If I could dispense with the ten hours per week plus the 40 hour wasted there,I'd actully be much further ahead.
Meanwhile, I tried to telecommute for a week while telling my boss that I had pneumonia. I got more done in that week in my underwear than in the rest of the month. He still insisted that I haul my carcass in thought and my productivity went up in smoke.
where IP addresses change pretty much at the whims and vaguaries of the sys admin and of reality interfering with assigning a 'stable' (not static) IP address.
What if yourHost.site.tld is given an IP address that is 'banned' as belonging to undesirables?
Its the problems we make for ourselves on the way to solving out original 1 that usually spell doom for a project/code/solution.
Mostly because of the (human) language we use to describe the original problem in 1.
And if you're unilingual, you've got a problem.
If you're unicultural, you've got a problem.
Really good programmers 'listen' before trying to apply a bunch of solutions which may turn out to be entirely inappropriate. (I once solved a programming problem by designing a desk for the data entry clerks. [It worked hand-in-hand with the dual-station manual cheque entry code I wrote. The code was easy but they couldn't figure out how to set up the work so that it could be used.])
Really good programmers see the objects AND see the relationships between them.
Really fortunate good programmers get to write to code to handle the relationships as well as the objects.
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Even if we have to stab each other in the eye with dinner cuttlery.
We're only human, and the average IQ is only 100(1) and that's not enough.
Hell, the ones we call 'clever' are ones who have figured out better ways to blow us up, from Alfred Nobel (chemical) to Einstein (fission).
1) In a room full of Einsteins the average IQ is still only 100. You get my drift anyway.
I have problems with those kinds of crackpot assertions.
The U.S.A. and the Soviet Union never tried to kill each other because each was convinced that the victory would be phyrric.
The 'threat' and the problem is not one of placing such a 'high barrier' to entry as it is to place the same kind of MAD logic.
Until and unless the powers that be can garantee that there won't be any more mad mullah's like Omar, we have to watch everybody carefully and keep weapons which can strike down from space out of the reach of these 'children'.
currently in synchronous orbits. Source: "Deep Black" by William E Burows"
Keep the bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, infantile clap trap to yourself.
Space borne weapons are already here. Now its a question of limiting the cost and the damage to national 'prestige.'
You know that don't you?
Until the weather changed and she felt that she didn't want to suffer your lousy cooking anymore.
How soon they forget.
EVERY Disc Operating System crashed.
They only became stable with the PDP-11 and RSTS-E. And the darn thing had toggle switches to do the IPL. The first machine to come without a panel full of switches was the Apple I.
at the pole. In addition, the south pole is a tectonic plate so it has moved over time.
I wonder if the 'devotion' to the place isn't instead that they've been able to grow fatter faster than its grown colder.
Since the flights of cruise missiles over the Canadian artic, over the ocean and over deserts, we have learned that 'tractless' wastes are only tractless to the unpracticed eye.
Or the penguins were really lousy at it and they didn't want the kid to pick up bad habits like pecking and other things which could hurt.
Which would have changed point B to 'Hey if the other Arabs don't care we won't feed you either (Omar was a jerk and was demanding that his country get fed.)
That would meant that point C would not have happened. The Taliban woud have contained themselves in Afghanistan and starved to death or joined the litany of failures arabia has spawned and ended up running a 7/11 in DesMoines.
I totally disagre on point D. By refusing to attack in Afghanistan (which wouldn't have been necesssary if we'd secured the cockpit doors,) we sould have gone in, without the insurgency, which is currently always renewing itself. Disarming the Baathist army was a mistake.
Point E would never have existed.
That means that you have opted out. And that's going to cost you something while giving you something else. Its a trade-off.
Hope you have fun out there, THX-1138.
Imagine a world where, after a subdural implantation of a chip in your head,
* 'they' always know where you are when 'they' need to know,
* can know if there are two of you (one's got to be an impostor!)
* can free you from carrying cash (they can issue a transaction against the bank of record,),
* where losing your wallet is not a problem, if fact it can be dispensed with altogether,
* where applying for a job, a loan or a credit card is not a process that somebody else can do "for you" with forged credentials and/or forged ID.
* where access to your credentials, medical records, employment history, military records, driving record, shopping preferences etc. travels with you,
* where there are no more pesky user IDs and/or passwords to forget,
* where its easy to identify and extract your burnt body from the wreckage.
Billions of shiny capsules containing RFID chips, shining in the post apocalyptic wasteland.
Welcome to "The Twilight Zone."
This is a solution desperately looking for a problem. It isn't even a good one. It could only work in basements and office buildings, at night, if there are no windows nearby. (I presume you would be able to see your way around by the steady glow of the raging fires shining in through the broken windows.)
This was indeed a hack and so is the guy.
Didn't he ever ask himself "Why?"
The bible right now is a conpendium of abherant behavior.
;-)
At other times it was a catalog.
Ostracism, literally scribing a name on an yoster shell, was one way it was handled in Greece.
Excommunication was the way to do it in the Catholic lands.
In ninth century Iceland, they had a legal system called outlawry wherein you could be declared an outlaw. That meant you were outside the rule of law. You made yourself fair game by doing unto somebody else. That meant that if anything happened to you, you were outside the protection of the law, so 'tough noogies'!
I'm sure that it could be enforced by implantable difficult/hazardous to remove RFID tags.
It might open with Homer Simpson getting rid of the radioactive sample stuck in his collar and end with B&B blowing up Springfield.
Actually, screw science shows we need things that will weed out the gene pool. With actual footage of people getting 'snuffed' competing for the first prize.
That would bring up the remaining IQ of the survivors.
Like 'Death Comes to the National Parks.' You could have really neat shows about the dangers to be found in the wild.
How about shows about exploding double-wides? (Sorry that one's already taken. 'Trailer Fabulous' on MTV.)
Or 'How to Have Fun in Arkansas: Fire Bombing Your Neighbour's Meth Lab?' Lots of science there. You could start a discussion grup about combustion and the difering rates of various chemicals.
Or 'Beavis&Butthead Guide to Ingesting Rapidly Dissolving (Il)legal drugs?' You could discuss drugs, digestion and/or death.
Or 'Jackass: Taunting Happy Fun Ball' Which would be about silly stunts you can commit with spheroids, like musket balls and canon balls and WWII sea mines.
Or '101 Things I Like About [name] Disease' where contestants are infected with some disease and have five minutes to identify it and receive the anti-toxin or die trying.
The possibilities are endless.
Shut up and give us all your dough.
(And I think its 'abstention' not 'abstination', which isn't a word so I don't really know what you wrote. Or was this the new 'BushSpeak'?)
The morons who imitated B&B were doing their bit to stay out of the gene pool. (That why I love the Darwin Awards.)
to lead to the restoration of the 'Its the will of Allah/God/Yaweh/insert_name_of_deity_here' to explain everything that requires any actual work to find out.
Its a lazy and cheap solution that 'explains' nothing and avoids having to provide any deep answers.
I grew up with that kind of crap in a Catholic school. The beloved answer to any 'hard' question was 'Its a mystery.' Accept that for an answer and pretty soon the 'mystery' gets wider and wider until its a mystery why you're even asking the question.
My favorite answer of that type is a reply given to students looking into some part of nuclear physics. Would you trust students who were told that something was just 'the will of Allah.'
Were talking nuclear physics here. The kind of stuff that goes boom in a pretty mushroom cloud.
I worry more about the Iranian nuclear program when they start accepting those answers than if they actually admitted that they don't know everything but were damn well going to try and find out.
Otherwise the worst nightware scenarios just got likelier.
What HAS Microsoft done in the past 30 years that was innovative (instead of a reaction to market pressures,) novel (something uniquely new) or generous (like free as in 'libre')
Microsoft reflects Bill Gates "biggest baddest bully in the whole playground" mentality.
He and Microsoft were convicted and managed to buy off any punishment like a student who's rich enough to buy off the faculty.
I'd still like to hear of something not derivative or purchased from Microsoft.
It might be a short list given the screams of "Make it more like the Mac" that I've been hearing for the past twenty years.
If you were an Aristotlean, as most religious people are, despte their protestations, you have to __believe__ that nature abhors a vacuum, in spite of what our collective experience in outer space shows/tells you.
Its like living in a universe where the phlogiston theory actually works.
People are so stupid.
I actually get more thinking done on the subway during the commute. If I could dispense with the ten hours per week plus the 40 hour wasted there,I'd actully be much further ahead.
Meanwhile, I tried to telecommute for a week while telling my boss that I had pneumonia. I got more done in that week in my underwear than in the rest of the month. He still insisted that I haul my carcass in thought and my productivity went up in smoke.
where IP addresses change pretty much at the whims and vaguaries of the sys admin and of reality interfering with assigning a 'stable' (not static) IP address.
What if yourHost.site.tld is given an IP address that is 'banned' as belonging to undesirables?
Its the problems we make for ourselves on the way to solving out original 1 that usually spell doom for a project/code/solution.
Mostly because of the (human) language we use to describe the original problem in 1.
And if you're unilingual, you've got a problem.
If you're unicultural, you've got a problem.
Really good programmers 'listen' before trying to apply a bunch of solutions which may turn out to be entirely inappropriate. (I once solved a programming problem by designing a desk for the data entry clerks. [It worked hand-in-hand with the dual-station manual cheque entry code I wrote. The code was easy but they couldn't figure out how to set up the work so that it could be used.])
Really good programmers see the objects AND see the relationships between them.
Really fortunate good programmers get to write to code to handle the relationships as well as the objects.
I can just imagine Bill G. using the three-finger-salute to reboot a rocket that has malfunctioned.
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!