Although I have nothing wrong in general with items made in another country, I woudl think that military items should be created in the country within which it is issued. Take for example, the recent thing about spys infiltrating the national Grid.
I think this from the Wall Street Journal proves your point.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project -- the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever -- according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.
Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.
"I'm not saying we should kill all of the stupid people in the world, but maybe if we just removed all of the unnecessary warning labels the problem would correct itself"
What if you are not smart enough to realize that you are one of the stupid people?
So is mine when I am at work, but while I am home watching TV, nobody is paying me.
A moderate up-front investment in learning how to use a device may save you a bunch of time and aggravation in future.
It takes at most, 3 seconds to perform most actions on a TV, allowing me to change channels 20 times per minute. The smartphone takes about 1 second to perform an action. Thanks to this, it is now possible watch 3 times less tv in the same amount of time.
Maybe getting ripped off politically and economically by Western countries for the last 300 years âthe same western countries that still favor and put their lackeys in charge thereâ also has something to do with them not being successful.
You mean like that Toyota plant in Indiana (one of hundreds of outsourcing from eastern to western examples)? Or is "outsourcing" only bad when it is the USA that sends a job overseas?
Neat idea, but how do they get rid of the heat of 1000 suns?
They keep them in the dark so they don't get hot.
or from wikipedia:
The solar cells require high-capacity heat sinks to prevent thermal destruction and to manage temperature related performance losses...In May 2008, IBM demonstrated a prototype CPV using computer chip cooling techniques to achieve an energy density of 2300 suns.
The US's focus on science is back, forcing a religion on people via the government is gone, foreign policy changes have already started getting us into better light globally, a renewed focus on alternate energies..and not just on a specific ideology regarding alternate energies, but a focus on a broad swath of alternative energies.
I don't by in to any Cult of personality, but I can look at what's going on.
So I, for one, am pretty happy at the changes so far. You can bet the farm that if he does something I don't like I will call him out on it.
You can add that people are also paying attention to the excuses that the new head of the IRS gave about his inability to pay taxes.
Not a sword, a dagger. And no, you shouldn't be allowed to carry either on an airplane. 9/11 happened because 4 guys with box-cutters could commandeer an airplane
Box cutters and pocket knives were legal at the time. Too bad the other 100 plus passengers on those planes were not carrying box cutters or pocket knives. The world would be a very different place today.
Can someone explain for non US residents what the problem is?
The problem is that when Abraham Lincoln and Jesse Helms wrote the constitution, they made it a right for the American people to have television. Now, 350 years later, congress changed the way TV has always been delivered - from an anolog microsft tower in Denver to a newer more technologically advanced 60 watt digital station located in Southern Pennsylvania.
The confusion has resulted in NASCAR cancelling their season, resulting in billions of dollars in lost revenue for Bud Light (a subsidiary of the Coors Brewing Company located in South Africa).
Hey, I have another "scientific" theory, 1 out of every 460 scientific papers are about artificial intelligence, That means the LHC is alive and we don't even know it yet.!
You are wrong, it is not alive. It just emailed me and said that there was nothing to see here and keep moving along.
Just last weekend I read a study that said over 80% of reviews are 4 or 5 star, not because they love the product, but because people are embarassed to say that they bought a bad product. The person with the negative experience typically either exagerates the positive or does not rate the product.
Saving lives is nice and fuzzy and all that, but selling to people with _money_ is a lot more appealing to drug corporations.
That's because all their greedy employees like to get paid. I had a friend (a doctor no less) that worked at Cook Pharmica in Bloomington. As soon as I found out that he accepted payment for his work, I dropped him. I told him it was about saving lives, and to fu$k his family and their "need" for food.
Microsoft should outsource management or hire H-1B visa personnel for management positions as well. It will be cheaper for the company too. How about that?
Microsofts H1B visas since 2001 are as follows (myvisajobs.com):
The more I play games, both video games, board games or pen and paper RPGs, the more I see the obvious patterns that exist beneath them....
...Video games have also some recurring ingredients.
The pattern I've noticed is take a successful game and give it better graphics. The games I play from the 80s on my MAME are the same I play with my kids on the Wii, they just have marginally better graphics and a greatly improved controller.
If you do homeschool I'd really encourage you to find a way for your kids to regularly interact with their peers. I spent 5 years working with high school students. Every kid that came in that was homeschooled took at least a year to stop being socially retarded. It was almost impossible to have a conversation with them when they first started coming. After a year or so you could actually talk to them about something they were interested in and they had developed sufficient social skills to build friendships with the other kids. Obviously my experience isn't scientific, but I'm not exaggerating - Literally ever homeschooled kid, literally over a year.
Perhaps you are a dick that can't carry a conversation and it took you over a year to wear them down?
Or perhaps you are at the same mental level of the average public school kid and they found your interest in Hannah Montana thrilling.
Just because its more distracting doesn't mean its bad for you.
Exactly, I've seen people drive a car while putting on make up, talking on the phone, reading the paper, and drinking a cup of coffee all at the same time and have yet to see a single car accident in any city I've ever lived in. And we've never heard of someone not paying attention on the street and stepping in front of a car/bus.
Hell, my kids tell me that they can do homework while watching TV and chatting online.
Yes, distractions are not bad for you large cup of coffee with cream and an egg mcmuffin please and they actually help.
Why not tell people, "you can smile if you want to for your license, but we also have to shoot a picture of you not smiling"? Then, record both images, so that the recognition software has two looks available for that individual. Heck, get a shot of them with and without glasses, too.
This approach would make people happy, promote friendliness, and improve security.
and then have them wear a variety of fake beards, mustaches, wigs, and masks.
No, the recent blockbuster titles aren't generally available... But there's tons of good sci-fi and horror, and lots of independent and foreign films, and tons of documentaries, and lots of old TV... Enough stuff that my wife and I make very good use of the streaming stuff.
They also have lots of children's show for my kids. The Netflix Roku thing, Hulu, and the network sites allowed me to cancel my satellite subscription.
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College degrees are the new high school diplomas. If you didn't go to college, you're like a backwoods hick whose parents took him out of schooling early so he could chop wood and feed the pigs. You don't need to look for a job, you need to go rejoin normal society by going back to school.
According to USA Today, 20.4% of farmers have a 4 year degree and 90% of farmers are self-employed and the middle half of farmers earn from $766 to $1382 a week in 2006. College degrees and income are in line with the rest of America and self-employment is much higher than the rest of the population.
Why is it that a college educated person running a business, with millions of dollars of equipment is considered uneducated?
Would that prove the existence of God ? Well no. There are problems:
it's not repeateable (it's the end of the world, you just ain't going to do it twice)
it doesn't "prove" omnipotence, just proves this guy is very, very, very powerfull
it doesn't "prove" omnipresence, after all how would you know if he missed a terrorist somewhere that realizes that after what happened to his fellow muslims, he'd best stay quiet
Actually the problem with proving God exists or does not exist with science is that you need to compare something created by God to something not created by God, examine the difference, and the difference will be God.
If God exists, all things are created by God, and there is no difference between the two objects. If God does not exist, neither object was created by God and there is no difference between the two objects.
Either way, you have no observable difference between the two objects.
"There are depictions of violence other than video games that children are exposed to:..."
You are correct that there are other depictions of violence, like the news, that children will be exposed to. The difference is if you see a violent act on the news, you typically feel sympathy/empathy for the victim. When playing a violent video game, you feel power.
There is the possibility that that feeling of power is sought after in real life.
When I was in the military during the first gulf war, we were taught to kill enemy soldiers using incredibly realistic video games called simulators. Part of the reason was to make killing an actual person as trivial as killing a bunch of pixels on a tv screen. Some of the modern violent first person shooters that I have seen are very similar to those simulators that I used in the military, but with better graphics. Will these modern first person shooters turn a person into a killer, I don't know, but apparently the military hopes so.
Maybe he's been stuck with the tech support job because he sucks, and employees are using it as an excuse after they decide not to hire him because he sucks.
That's kind of harsh, I'm sure he is a very competent asshole.
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I think this from the Wall Street Journal proves your point.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project -- the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever -- according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.
Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.
What if you are not smart enough to realize that you are one of the stupid people?
So is mine when I am at work, but while I am home watching TV, nobody is paying me.
It takes at most, 3 seconds to perform most actions on a TV, allowing me to change channels 20 times per minute. The smartphone takes about 1 second to perform an action. Thanks to this, it is now possible watch 3 times less tv in the same amount of time.
I've had your gf and I'd like my headphones back please.
You mean like that Toyota plant in Indiana (one of hundreds of outsourcing from eastern to western examples)? Or is "outsourcing" only bad when it is the USA that sends a job overseas?
Then let's just hope this internet thing catches on.
What can't you loosen if you don't play? I can see a scenario where you can't lose if you don't play.
For what it's worth, I've never hired a person because of a facebook profile, but I have not hired plenty of people because of facebook profiles.
They keep them in the dark so they don't get hot.
or from wikipedia:
The solar cells require high-capacity heat sinks to prevent thermal destruction and to manage temperature related performance losses...In May 2008, IBM demonstrated a prototype CPV using computer chip cooling techniques to achieve an energy density of 2300 suns.
You can add that people are also paying attention to the excuses that the new head of the IRS gave about his inability to pay taxes.
Box cutters and pocket knives were legal at the time. Too bad the other 100 plus passengers on those planes were not carrying box cutters or pocket knives. The world would be a very different place today.
The problem is that when Abraham Lincoln and Jesse Helms wrote the constitution, they made it a right for the American people to have television. Now, 350 years later, congress changed the way TV has always been delivered - from an anolog microsft tower in Denver to a newer more technologically advanced 60 watt digital station located in Southern Pennsylvania.
The confusion has resulted in NASCAR cancelling their season, resulting in billions of dollars in lost revenue for Bud Light (a subsidiary of the Coors Brewing Company located in South Africa).
I hope that helps.
You are wrong, it is not alive. It just emailed me and said that there was nothing to see here and keep moving along.
Just last weekend I read a study that said over 80% of reviews are 4 or 5 star, not because they love the product, but because people are embarassed to say that they bought a bad product. The person with the negative experience typically either exagerates the positive or does not rate the product.
That's because all their greedy employees like to get paid. I had a friend (a doctor no less) that worked at Cook Pharmica in Bloomington. As soon as I found out that he accepted payment for his work, I dropped him. I told him it was about saving lives, and to fu$k his family and their "need" for food.
Microsofts H1B visas since 2001 are as follows (myvisajobs.com):
IT Workers 18,816
Engineering 80
Business 359
Social Science 454
Life Science 112
Math and physical science 2
Managers 2,614
Other 289
The pattern I've noticed is take a successful game and give it better graphics. The games I play from the 80s on my MAME are the same I play with my kids on the Wii, they just have marginally better graphics and a greatly improved controller.
Perhaps you are a dick that can't carry a conversation and it took you over a year to wear them down?
Or perhaps you are at the same mental level of the average public school kid and they found your interest in Hannah Montana thrilling.
Exactly, I've seen people drive a car while putting on make up, talking on the phone, reading the paper, and drinking a cup of coffee all at the same time and have yet to see a single car accident in any city I've ever lived in. And we've never heard of someone not paying attention on the street and stepping in front of a car/bus.
Hell, my kids tell me that they can do homework while watching TV and chatting online.
Yes, distractions are not bad for you large cup of coffee with cream and an egg mcmuffin please and they actually help.
and then have them wear a variety of fake beards, mustaches, wigs, and masks.
They also have lots of children's show for my kids. The Netflix Roku thing, Hulu, and the network sites allowed me to cancel my satellite subscription.
According to USA Today, 20.4% of farmers have a 4 year degree and 90% of farmers are self-employed and the middle half of farmers earn from $766 to $1382 a week in 2006. College degrees and income are in line with the rest of America and self-employment is much higher than the rest of the population.
Why is it that a college educated person running a business, with millions of dollars of equipment is considered uneducated?
Anybody that is doing a cost benefit analysis prior to attending college is probably going to end up in finances.
Actually the problem with proving God exists or does not exist with science is that you need to compare something created by God to something not created by God, examine the difference, and the difference will be God.
If God exists, all things are created by God, and there is no difference between the two objects. If God does not exist, neither object was created by God and there is no difference between the two objects.
Either way, you have no observable difference between the two objects.
"There are depictions of violence other than video games that children are exposed to:..."
You are correct that there are other depictions of violence, like the news, that children will be exposed to. The difference is if you see a violent act on the news, you typically feel sympathy/empathy for the victim. When playing a violent video game, you feel power.
There is the possibility that that feeling of power is sought after in real life.
When I was in the military during the first gulf war, we were taught to kill enemy soldiers using incredibly realistic video games called simulators. Part of the reason was to make killing an actual person as trivial as killing a bunch of pixels on a tv screen. Some of the modern violent first person shooters that I have seen are very similar to those simulators that I used in the military, but with better graphics. Will these modern first person shooters turn a person into a killer, I don't know, but apparently the military hopes so.
That's kind of harsh, I'm sure he is a very competent asshole.