Nice hearing someone say it so bluntly.
Also, why link to some blog about what he said, instead of linking to the actual speech (somebody had already beaten me to it above, but just an AC, so invisible to much too many)?
But since they're already at it, they should escalate the pressure, something along the lines of massive flyer campaign, perhaps even the T-shirts with catchy slogan. And of course, we have progressed since the times of shooting the Red Dwarf, so today the townsfolk could also collectively join some Facebook group that emphatically disagrees with nuclear weapons.
Then they could have public viewing of Threads, it's better than The Day After.
I'd venture a guess that there's lots of male-male bonding (if you know what I mean) going on in those caves.
Dunno 'bout that "bonding" (BDSM being too much a thing of a debauched West, or at least much more normal societies in general), but there's lots of male-many_male involuntary fucking every Thursday when rookies arrive to the Afghan Army's barracks, according to soldiers who were stationed at the same bases. Guess the Taliban ain't a bit different - in culture where screwing a girl who's not your wife means death, the comrade in (your) arms might seem like a preferable alternative to a donkey.
That's second or third biggest aluminium producer in Germany, if I recall correctly. Remember kids, the more solar electricity Germans send to the grid, the less capacity for normal priced kinds remains ("renewables" can't be switched on and off according to demand, law assures their preferential treatment). Also, if you're from Poland or Czech Republic, kids, you're gonna pay for German ideology too, even if your government's folly wasn't that great (well, it was, German stupidity was just additional cherry on top of this shit cake).
Germany's most certainly not abandoning old gas plants (but maybe some were retired because of old age) as some good American or "Grün" tried to tell above, it's keeping them online and building new ones, same goes for coal plants on even greater scale - 14 new plants with 11 GW of installed capacity, mostly coal ones, some gas. Also it contracted reopening of already closed monsters, like Austrian mazut plant in Graz, that's right kids, mazut. But don't worry, 'tis a clean, healthy mazut, because it's backing up wind and solar, so it's okay. Remember, it's true if Uncle Norbert says so. Oh, yeah, aunt Angie kicked his sorry ass out of gov't but we still gonna block any lowering of subsidies, as well as building of those 3600 km of high-voltage power lines, necessary for getting our grid out of state of permanent near-failure. Those Poles and Czechs will never get to installing those phase shifters nor will their grids afford to fail under overload from our sources, cause that would be BAD.
And remember: Energy Revolution is in full swing! So careful, it might hit you.
Well, there's always a few nerds in training, who are still in the phase of just liking SF and OS Wars and need some easing into using your brain for creating superior weaponry, I blame it on forgetting John von Neumann's example.
What's worse, where's my Obligatory Xkcd Reference? Shotguns are nice, mind you, but I found them somewhat lacking in comparison with kilowatt laser.
Might be nice to find bibliography of some long time published magazine, throw out familiar names and have a brief look at some of those remaining.
During nineties, there was a Czech mutation of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It had decades of delay behind the original and was issued bi-monthly instead of monthly so the editor cherry picked from the past and the present of magazine's portfolio. I discovered quite a bunch of interesting names both old and forgotten or new and yet-to-be-recognized, also forgotten faces of familiar names.
Some examples from the magazine would be James Tiptree, Bruce Holland Rogers, Esther M. Friesner, Joe Haldeman (yeah, I've read Forever War and Hemingway Hoax before, but Ma Qui and Graves were different meat), Ray Vukcevich, Vance Aandahl, Barry N. Malzberg, Lisa Tuttle and loads of others I don't even remember, all those authors of twenty short stories and a novel, that somehow made it into publishing three stories in Magazine of F&SF and getting translated 20-40 years later.
As for actual suggestions of forgotten gems or interesting tidbits, there is House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, if you don't mind old fashioned heroes scribbling their Oh No's and God Why's into diary while Unspeakable Horrors enter the door, already mentioned and not exactly forgotten James Tiptree, Jr., non-Amber Zelazny*, Yevgeniy Zamyatin (Us, but his "non-SF" stuff is worth reading too), Kallocain by Karin Boye, William Tenn (Liberation of Earth, Venus and the Seven Sexes), Strugacki brother's (I liked Picnic by the road, but there's more to them, especially "Escape Attempt"), Henry Kuttner/C.L.Moore, Sam Lundwall (No Time for Heroes and Bernhard the Conqueror), Shirley Jackson, Robert Aickman (The Waiting Room).
*Might have been caused by crappy translation but I found Amber books mildly amusing but mostly just fluff, his short stories varying from amusing and interesting to masterpieces; whoever here haven't read A Rose for Ecclesiastes yet and is more of a bookworm with penchant for SF&F instead of die-hard SF fan, go read it _right now_, you won't regret it.
Oooh, I second the Tiptree suggestion very much, it's hardly as forgotten as Lord Dunsany or Eddings (frankly, for the latter I just vaguely remember about existence of Ouroboros something, not even the author's name) but it's touch of something very different. By the way, have science already found out what colour were the Neanderthals' eyes?
Santorum doesn't have a Google Problem, America has a Santorum Problem - too much of it smeared on it's face.
No, I'm neither "liberal" nor Democrat, but this election's pretendents for GOP's nomination really look like a freak show. Seriously, if this is the best you can offer or (more importantly) agree on, than you shouldn't bitch about Obama or Hillary, you deserve them.
Guess you're right but I'm still getting somewhat warm feeling imagining spoiled American (you know the kind I mean) crook coming to kick back to Saudi Arabia. After few years there, that plea bargain deal might look pretty appealing, especially if it includes a part about not going into some max security hell.
Hehe, yeah, those were the times.
Anyway, as far as I know, it was just a masterfully delivered joke. But I'm torn too, it would be really nice Darwinistic razor, especially if substantial part of money were sent to Sisyfos. I've been toying with a wider idea (selling the whole shebang, from positively charged clothes through colon cleansing to fashionable tinfoil lined caps) and getting rich plus supporting local skeptic club or even better, some nice interesting and underfunded research. Only flaw I can see, is being jerk towards lots of mostly just naïve and gullible people - the plan includes final coming out and publicizing the results
Well, I have similar experiences from here (Czech Republic), with lots of people being irrationally* scared, but that's the danger of basing judgement on personal experience - people tend to flock in groups (or maybe nets, not sure about the proper sociological term) and if you know mostly people from say two or three plus random strangers from the pub, you might completely miss other groups' differing prevalent opinions.
Here we had the anti-Temelín hysteria, loud and all-encompassing, during the nineties and it seemed (at least to me, being part of it for most of its duration) that it's evil corrupt politicians pushing Big Energy's agenda against the will of pretty much anyone else.
Yet looking back with cool head at the public opinion polls, support for building never dropped below 55%, give or take. Zealots are just louder and being against something always attracts more of them, being for something, especially something not enough big, revolutionary and instigating that warm self-righteous feeling, will be always too constructive for those loud pretentious types. Guess this might be Britain's case too.
*Before bunch of smartasses fires opening of salvo "Chernobyl, TMI, Fukushima, Windscale are terrible, renewables could replace nukes within mere 20 years, if you just hug that blade": If I try pointing out lack of viable options and exaggeration of commonly known problems (it's on again, only two reactors instead of four were built, so now we have another iteration of the same debate), lot of people actually agree with me on everything when I go point by point, yet they finish in the spirit of "Anyway, nuclear is bad, that's what I feel", then I call their fear irrational.
It generates about one sixth of electricity from nukes and plans to build a lot more of them within next 20 years, public support dropped after Fukushima, but has already recovered. That's not too special, but it's completely different league than Germany with it's traditional over the top reaction to social wave du jour or Austria's hysteria (sorry, Austrians, there's no better name for it).
with compiz, avant-window-navigator (docky is probably fine too and it has that useful effect of _really_ zooming dock icons when you hover the mouse above, which I can't find in AWN) - while it's theoretically dependent on compiz, since XFCE's compositor reached mature level, all you actually need is xfwm, though eye candy's not complete, but I guess that's not your priority anyway. As a long time XFCE user, I still kept Gnome's evince, sometimes gedit (for quick point'n'click in file manager, for everything else there's vim anyway) or file-roller. I have quite strong allergy to pretty much every DE supplied music/movie player I've ran into, so Audacious and MPlayer it is.
Switching workplaces is customizable, left click at the edge of screen to get to the next one or middle clicking desktop and dragging or rotating the mousewheel worked for me.
Also - don't take it too far with jigsaw puzzle approach, in my experience it's still better to have something as a base with replacing parts you dislike than completely DIY mess.
Oh, and all this ran on Ubuntu, then Debian (currently 64-bit Wheezy), and at the moment looks like this.
This setup's of course just a result of my preferences and idiosyncrasies and far from perfect, but it bugs me less than others I've tried.
And yes, even US protesters have been slaughtered by Israelis.
Um, if you step in front of armoured bulldozer with a very limited view in an attempt to block it with your own body and get bulldozed, it's not called "being slaughtered" but "competing for Darwin Award".
The More You Know.
P.S. Also check out Wikipedia for some WMD's measures and usage. You'd be surprised how relatively small they usually are and how little they are used in Israeli-Palestinian conflict (not at all). As for rocks being thrown by Palestinian kids, you shouldn't omit rockets and mortar shells sent by their older compatriots, if you want to be fair (I know, I know, you don't, but I am such a hopeless case and sometimes give a benefit of doubt even where obviously wasted). Not mentioning the issue of proper training in stone throwing and suicide bombing for a modern army; they're really better off with machine guns and F-15s usable against anyone than wasting part of the practice on the stone age/WWII warfare methods useless against regular armies.
Of course, measure is a little outdated, e.g. the founding of a scientific magazine for the publishing of your work is not rated, which is really a shame, hopefully the author will work it into some future version.
As long as the current Czar is former KGB colonel and their journalists are murdered more often than anywhere else, I'd say let's not bother with splitting hair and keep the handy communist tag ready. It might not be accurate but it wasn't after all even during USSR times, that which we call feudal autocracy by any other name would reek as foul.
Maybe I just missed it, but I still can't see the video of antropomorphic robots attaching one of them to a crossed truss with a nailgun. You can't get more Christmas spirit than that.
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I Adblock everything, but whitelist the sites I support. Is this too much? Not enough?
Dunno, but seems like exactly what I'm doing. Keep on going and don't waste too much time worrying about this.
Nice hearing someone say it so bluntly.
Also, why link to some blog about what he said, instead of linking to the actual speech (somebody had already beaten me to it above, but just an AC, so invisible to much too many)?
But since they're already at it, they should escalate the pressure, something along the lines of massive flyer campaign, perhaps even the T-shirts with catchy slogan. And of course, we have progressed since the times of shooting the Red Dwarf, so today the townsfolk could also collectively join some Facebook group that emphatically disagrees with nuclear weapons.
Then they could have public viewing of Threads, it's better than The Day After.
I'd venture a guess that there's lots of male-male bonding (if you know what I mean) going on in those caves.
Dunno 'bout that "bonding" (BDSM being too much a thing of a debauched West, or at least much more normal societies in general), but there's lots of male-many_male involuntary fucking every Thursday when rookies arrive to the Afghan Army's barracks, according to soldiers who were stationed at the same bases. Guess the Taliban ain't a bit different - in culture where screwing a girl who's not your wife means death, the comrade in (your) arms might seem like a preferable alternative to a donkey.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/voerde-insolvency-idUSL5E8GP8ZR20120525
That's second or third biggest aluminium producer in Germany, if I recall correctly. Remember kids, the more solar electricity Germans send to the grid, the less capacity for normal priced kinds remains ("renewables" can't be switched on and off according to demand, law assures their preferential treatment). Also, if you're from Poland or Czech Republic, kids, you're gonna pay for German ideology too, even if your government's folly wasn't that great (well, it was, German stupidity was just additional cherry on top of this shit cake).
Germany's most certainly not abandoning old gas plants (but maybe some were retired because of old age) as some good American or "Grün" tried to tell above, it's keeping them online and building new ones, same goes for coal plants on even greater scale - 14 new plants with 11 GW of installed capacity, mostly coal ones, some gas. Also it contracted reopening of already closed monsters, like Austrian mazut plant in Graz, that's right kids, mazut. But don't worry, 'tis a clean, healthy mazut, because it's backing up wind and solar, so it's okay.
Remember, it's true if Uncle Norbert says so. Oh, yeah, aunt Angie kicked his sorry ass out of gov't but we still gonna block any lowering of subsidies, as well as building of those 3600 km of high-voltage power lines, necessary for getting our grid out of state of permanent near-failure. Those Poles and Czechs will never get to installing those phase shifters nor will their grids afford to fail under overload from our sources, cause that would be BAD.
And remember: Energy Revolution is in full swing! So careful, it might hit you.
I've looked over my shoulder and scrolled, so in my peripheral vision I've read "Sony Slashes Jobs (10,000 Cuts)".
Well, too late I guess...
Well, there's always a few nerds in training, who are still in the phase of just liking SF and OS Wars and need some easing into using your brain for creating superior weaponry, I blame it on forgetting John von Neumann's example.
What's worse, where's my Obligatory Xkcd Reference? Shotguns are nice, mind you, but I found them somewhat lacking in comparison with kilowatt laser.
Might be nice to find bibliography of some long time published magazine, throw out familiar names and have a brief look at some of those remaining. During nineties, there was a Czech mutation of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It had decades of delay behind the original and was issued bi-monthly instead of monthly so the editor cherry picked from the past and the present of magazine's portfolio. I discovered quite a bunch of interesting names both old and forgotten or new and yet-to-be-recognized, also forgotten faces of familiar names.
Some examples from the magazine would be James Tiptree, Bruce Holland Rogers, Esther M. Friesner, Joe Haldeman (yeah, I've read Forever War and Hemingway Hoax before, but Ma Qui and Graves were different meat), Ray Vukcevich, Vance Aandahl, Barry N. Malzberg, Lisa Tuttle and loads of others I don't even remember, all those authors of twenty short stories and a novel, that somehow made it into publishing three stories in Magazine of F&SF and getting translated 20-40 years later.
As for actual suggestions of forgotten gems or interesting tidbits, there is House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, if you don't mind old fashioned heroes scribbling their Oh No's and God Why's into diary while Unspeakable Horrors enter the door, already mentioned and not exactly forgotten James Tiptree, Jr., non-Amber Zelazny*, Yevgeniy Zamyatin (Us, but his "non-SF" stuff is worth reading too), Kallocain by Karin Boye, William Tenn (Liberation of Earth, Venus and the Seven Sexes), Strugacki brother's (I liked Picnic by the road, but there's more to them, especially "Escape Attempt"), Henry Kuttner/C.L.Moore, Sam Lundwall (No Time for Heroes and Bernhard the Conqueror), Shirley Jackson, Robert Aickman (The Waiting Room).
*Might have been caused by crappy translation but I found Amber books mildly amusing but mostly just fluff, his short stories varying from amusing and interesting to masterpieces; whoever here haven't read A Rose for Ecclesiastes yet and is more of a bookworm with penchant for SF&F instead of die-hard SF fan, go read it _right now_, you won't regret it.
Oooh, I second the Tiptree suggestion very much, it's hardly as forgotten as Lord Dunsany or Eddings (frankly, for the latter I just vaguely remember about existence of Ouroboros something, not even the author's name) but it's touch of something very different. By the way, have science already found out what colour were the Neanderthals' eyes?
the same physicists you trust to make stuff work can tell you why CO2 causes global warming
Something tells me you don't mean Freeman Dyson.
But if you had other ideas, you'd probably be off doing something with them
Like not screaming that sky is fallin and waiting for sounder proofs and policies? Seems to me he's doing it.
You must mean Moon Revolutions.
see title
Santorum doesn't have a Google Problem, America has a Santorum Problem - too much of it smeared on it's face.
No, I'm neither "liberal" nor Democrat, but this election's pretendents for GOP's nomination really look like a freak show. Seriously, if this is the best you can offer or (more importantly) agree on, than you shouldn't bitch about Obama or Hillary, you deserve them.
Guess you're right but I'm still getting somewhat warm feeling imagining spoiled American (you know the kind I mean) crook coming to kick back to Saudi Arabia. After few years there, that plea bargain deal might look pretty appealing, especially if it includes a part about not going into some max security hell.
Read and weep, ye of too much faith.
Hehe, yeah, those were the times.
Anyway, as far as I know, it was just a masterfully delivered joke. But I'm torn too, it would be really nice Darwinistic razor, especially if substantial part of money were sent to Sisyfos. I've been toying with a wider idea (selling the whole shebang, from positively charged clothes through colon cleansing to fashionable tinfoil lined caps) and getting rich plus supporting local skeptic club or even better, some nice interesting and underfunded research. Only flaw I can see, is being jerk towards lots of mostly just naïve and gullible people - the plan includes final coming out and publicizing the results
Well, I have similar experiences from here (Czech Republic), with lots of people being irrationally* scared, but that's the danger of basing judgement on personal experience - people tend to flock in groups (or maybe nets, not sure about the proper sociological term) and if you know mostly people from say two or three plus random strangers from the pub, you might completely miss other groups' differing prevalent opinions.
Here we had the anti-Temelín hysteria, loud and all-encompassing, during the nineties and it seemed (at least to me, being part of it for most of its duration) that it's evil corrupt politicians pushing Big Energy's agenda against the will of pretty much anyone else.
Yet looking back with cool head at the public opinion polls, support for building never dropped below 55%, give or take. Zealots are just louder and being against something always attracts more of them, being for something, especially something not enough big, revolutionary and instigating that warm self-righteous feeling, will be always too constructive for those loud pretentious types. Guess this might be Britain's case too.
*Before bunch of smartasses fires opening of salvo "Chernobyl, TMI, Fukushima, Windscale are terrible, renewables could replace nukes within mere 20 years, if you just hug that blade": If I try pointing out lack of viable options and exaggeration of commonly known problems (it's on again, only two reactors instead of four were built, so now we have another iteration of the same debate), lot of people actually agree with me on everything when I go point by point, yet they finish in the spirit of "Anyway, nuclear is bad, that's what I feel", then I call their fear irrational.
It generates about one sixth of electricity from nukes and plans to build a lot more of them within next 20 years, public support dropped after Fukushima, but has already recovered. That's not too special, but it's completely different league than Germany with it's traditional over the top reaction to social wave du jour or Austria's hysteria (sorry, Austrians, there's no better name for it).
Hmm, I guess I might accidentally run the R statistics package someday?
Have no worry. That one's executable is capitalized.
with compiz, avant-window-navigator (docky is probably fine too and it has that useful effect of _really_ zooming dock icons when you hover the mouse above, which I can't find in AWN) - while it's theoretically dependent on compiz, since XFCE's compositor reached mature level, all you actually need is xfwm, though eye candy's not complete, but I guess that's not your priority anyway. As a long time XFCE user, I still kept Gnome's evince, sometimes gedit (for quick point'n'click in file manager, for everything else there's vim anyway) or file-roller. I have quite strong allergy to pretty much every DE supplied music/movie player I've ran into, so Audacious and MPlayer it is. Switching workplaces is customizable, left click at the edge of screen to get to the next one or middle clicking desktop and dragging or rotating the mousewheel worked for me.
Also - don't take it too far with jigsaw puzzle approach, in my experience it's still better to have something as a base with replacing parts you dislike than completely DIY mess.
Oh, and all this ran on Ubuntu, then Debian (currently 64-bit Wheezy), and at the moment looks like this.
This setup's of course just a result of my preferences and idiosyncrasies and far from perfect, but it bugs me less than others I've tried.
And yes, even US protesters have been slaughtered by Israelis.
Um, if you step in front of armoured bulldozer with a very limited view in an attempt to block it with your own body and get bulldozed, it's not called "being slaughtered" but "competing for Darwin Award".
The More You Know.
P.S. Also check out Wikipedia for some WMD's measures and usage. You'd be surprised how relatively small they usually are and how little they are used in Israeli-Palestinian conflict (not at all). As for rocks being thrown by Palestinian kids, you shouldn't omit rockets and mortar shells sent by their older compatriots, if you want to be fair (I know, I know, you don't, but I am such a hopeless case and sometimes give a benefit of doubt even where obviously wasted). Not mentioning the issue of proper training in stone throwing and suicide bombing for a modern army; they're really better off with machine guns and F-15s usable against anyone than wasting part of the practice on the stone age/WWII warfare methods useless against regular armies.
There's tried and true scientific measure for this stuff, Crackpot Index. Count score for yourself:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Of course, measure is a little outdated, e.g. the founding of a scientific magazine for the publishing of your work is not rated, which is really a shame, hopefully the author will work it into some future version.
As long as the current Czar is former KGB colonel and their journalists are murdered more often than anywhere else, I'd say let's not bother with splitting hair and keep the handy communist tag ready. It might not be accurate but it wasn't after all even during USSR times, that which we call feudal autocracy by any other name would reek as foul.
Maybe I just missed it, but I still can't see the video of antropomorphic robots attaching one of them to a crossed truss with a nailgun. You can't get more Christmas spirit than that.
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Still one pipe more than necessary (if you have GNU tools):
/var/log/apache2/access.log.1 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u
tallis:/home/krigl# tail -100
GNU sort has uniq's functionality implemented.