When does the invasion start? Has the UN already drawn up the paperwork?
Never. Somehow, the politicians of the world have somehow convinced the public that it's A-OK to bomb Libyan troops and hardware for attacking civilians, but it's totally NOT OK to bomb the Syrian troops and hardware, even though they are doing exactly the same things as Libyan troops.
Haha, yeah, our computer classrooms were all equipped with amber VT terminals. Some were actually white, but not one, as far as I can remember, was green phosphorus.
And we had... hundreds of these terminals, all connected to some powerful (for the time) Sun server. I never had as much fun on the internet, as back then. It was all mesmerizing. And people were genuinely excited and glad to connect across the world. Now we are all so fucking jaded.
I don't know if Gingrich is the only conservative that came out openly to combat climate change, but he is certainly the most vocal. And he's being punished for it. I'm only mentioning this, as it looks that the GOP has been ever more turning against anybody suggesting there is a possibility for man-made climate change. I was very surprised to learn that there is an ultra-conserrvative that is completely counter this trend.
You did say they didn't build seawalls. Here, let me quote you:
Had they taken the Tsunami incident into account they could have either built the plant with sea walls and significant concrete protection for the generators and backup systems or they could have built the plant above the markers. They did neither
Had they taken the Tsunami incident into account they could have either built the plant with sea walls and significant concrete protection for the generators and backup systems or they could have built the plant above the markers.
In fact, they had seawalls, but they were built for 12 m tsunami waves. From wikipedia:
Or are all you Linux fanbois just gonna dump Skype because it's owned by MS now, and you're leaving due to "principle" - i.e. being retarded?
Having principles is the same as being retarded? Really? I don't even know if it is possible to live without principles - unless you are a psychopath, that is.
And I'm not even a "linux fanboi" (more of a solaris/BeOS "fanboi").
After watching the Youtube video of this device, I got very interested. I would love to give it a whirl, to look around the town etc.
Well done, Canadians. If you have the lack of wisdom to outsource production to China, I might get me one of the cheaper Chinese knock-offs;) Just kidding.
TrollA: "Looks like Microsoft is kinda sorta infringing on one of our innovative patents haha!" TrollB: "Yeah, but they got lots of cash and rabid lawyers. And a reputation of fighting back." TrollA: "And Google..." TrollB: "Those are even worse." TrollA: "Well, there's always Redhat for a quicky" TrollB: "Yeah, let's do Redhat. Also known as Open Legs, hahah!"
Oh to hell with it. Have we fallen so far as a civilization that people no longer know where their food comes from? Have never seen butchering and slaughtering done? Have never killed an animal themselves, skinned, cleaned, and done their own cuts. I can probably answer myself too. Yes to all of the above.
All the activities you listed are things most of us could learn to do with just a little training. Poorly, perhaps, but sufficiently well.Those skills are not what will make or break a post-apocalyptic survival.
The UK is not part of the Eurozone So it'll be british pounds (GBP) not Euros.
Also, the problem with the idea is not that the crops will fail, but that nobody will want to pay 30 GBP just to be able to vote with 9,999 other guys. There already are elections which are free (as in beer), and even for that most just give a pass.
I know it doesn't help much, but I recently moved ISPs from AT&T of this. It sounds childish and passive aggressive, but it's easier to do than you think.
2) When you find the best for you, just ask for free installation on the call. They always do it, if not, go to #2 in the list. (Bonus, new business always gets to a live rep immediately on a call. No waiting)
3) Request a weekend installation
4) Cancel At&t service. There's no contract with AT&T internet.
The only thing keeping you from unlimited data is those 3 steps (the 4th is the pay-off).
I live in a country of only 5 million inhabitants, and yet, I have access to about a dozen different ISPs. How many ISPs, with truly differentiated services, do you have access to? If I was capped at 150GB a month, I would top it in less than a week. Luckily, we don't have such nonsense here. Any ISP that were to try to pull such shite would be dead.
By the way: I have yet to read a post including LMGTFY that wasn't an utter douchebag troll.
How long before we can build a laser-guided bullet, which will compensate for the wind as it goes?
We're closer than you'd think: I've seen a conference paper about the integration of a micro-power source into a ballistic bullet at PowerMEMS 2009 and fin-stabilized fletchettes are no big news, either. Put the two togetherr, plus a lot more sophisticated technology... and voilÃ, laser-guided sniper projectile. One such projectile would cost like an apartment in Dubai, but may be worth it.
1. Non-guided projectiles (not just bullets) shining a laser light back to a detecor at the gun/firing position will soon "miss" the detector.
Sniper rifles don't fire streams of bullets. That would make them inaccurate (thermal stresses in and around the barrel). There are some automatic rifles that can also act as snipers, but then they fire single shots.
A stream of bullets would mean stray shots which then means collateral damage (may not be of interest) and potentially giving advance warning to the target before it is hit.
Note that I am *not* arguing against using a sophisticated technology - I am arguing that it would not be suitable for sniping purposes.
Fire a stream of bullets. Each projectile has a laser diode in the rear end which is tracked by the guidance system on the gun. As the gun collects information on crosswinds, etc, it adjusts the trajectory of subsequent projectiles. Its just like firing tracers but more automated and on a smaller scale.
I can think of at least 3 reasons why this is a dumb idea, without even the slightest effort.
If a high-caliber sniper rifle with such improved self-correcting optics (which would practically render the barel trueness a non-issue) falls in the hands of the bad guys, high-ranking political figures will be at much higher risk. The only thing that will hinder the marksman will be wind.
Which, to be honest, is actually a rather big obstacle still. A bit too stochastic to completely eliminate uncertainty at long (over 1000m) distances.
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
That aside, MS was going to lose their case against Lindows. Had to settle out of court and pay Lindows to drop the case.
It is collapsible (double click any tab), has all items visible in appropriately sized icons (bigger icons are more commonly used) to the user on a single click, and the user may customise locations of icons as well as the availability of shortcut keys,
If this were true, it would be great, but it's a lie: the ribbon does NOT have all the items visible, nor made accessible! There's a shitton of features/functions which you cannot access throug hthe ribbon, especialy in Excel. There you have to add these to the (wait for it..) toolbar with the customize function - you must find it among thousands of functions sorted alphabetically (and if you don't remember the exact name or don't guess the name Microsoft decided to call that function in the new Excel, you're SOL) add it to the toolbar and you're good to go (?). Except, then you have a fucking long toolbar, and it's the exact antithesis of what Microsoft was allegedly trying to avoid.
With menus, all the functions were available. With the ribbon, only the most commonly used. The less commonly used ones (but still extremely important for, e.g. researchers) can not be accessed in any other way but through customizing the toolbar.
The Shah, for all the domestic failings he may or may not have had, oversaw a prosperous, pluralistic nation
It was also a very liberal nation - perhaps the most liberal nation in the Islamic world - where women did not have to wear anything on their heads and could be seen in miniskirts and high heels.
Religious minorities such as Zoroastrians and Baha'i were'nt oppressed and Christians and Jews could marry who the fuck they wanted.
Gregg invented in the laserdisc in 1958 (!), selling patent to MCA who developed commercially with Philips. Sony contributed some work on error correction to the Red Book standard, but the hard work of hardware design and modulation technique came from Philips, building on their laserdisc work.
What Sony did, and has ever done since, was see a market to exploit.
Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, comparing the laserdisc to CD is total engineering fail! The laserdisc is an ANALOG medium - it uses pulse width modulated analog signals, not digital - not ones and zeroes. The length of the "pits" in a laserdisc is not a quantized value. The CD uses a digitally coded signal (so the length of the pits is quantized, which introduces some engineering challenges in exactly counting the number of digits that a given length of a pit represents) with addressing and redundant data (cross-interleaved Reed Solomon) on two levels (two concatenated RS codes).
Plenty of straw-man arguments. So let's dismember your comment a bit:
1. how fukushima is no big deal, its media hype and confusion
Nobody said it's "no big deal" (straw man). But it is entirely true that the media overhyped it.
2. how fukushima was easily avoidable, so therefore, its ok
Nobody sane says "it is ok" (straw man). But it is easily avoidable.
3. how events like this are really rare. so nuclear power is ok
Events like this are really rare. That's entirely true.
4. how nuclear is really really safe compared to other sources, and science illiterates are just hysterical
Yes, nuclear is indeed really safe. I really don't know whether the average science illiterate is also hysterical. I guess one has to have a little knowledge to be hysterical, but that's just my personal conclusion.
repeat after me: denial, denial, denial, denial
In spite of your lovely trolling at the end, I have to remark that the true denial is thinking we can transition to clean energy without nuclear power.
Wind and solar, while definitely on the rise, will never completely replace base load power generation such as nuclear plants. Nuclear power plants can only be satisfactorily replaced by other base power sources such as coal-fired or natural gas-fired. Of the mentioned, nuclear is by far the cleanest and safest method of generating power.
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When does the invasion start? Has the UN already drawn up the paperwork?
Never. Somehow, the politicians of the world have somehow convinced the public that it's A-OK to bomb Libyan troops and hardware for attacking civilians, but it's totally NOT OK to bomb the Syrian troops and hardware, even though they are doing exactly the same things as Libyan troops.
And all the while, the world public opinion is completely fine with North Korean regime's massive torture and murder in concentration camps, of their own civilian population.
"Double standards" doesn't even begin to describe the hypocrisy. We do live in a hugely fucked up world.
Haha, yeah, our computer classrooms were all equipped with amber VT terminals. Some were actually white, but not one, as far as I can remember, was green phosphorus.
And we had... hundreds of these terminals, all connected to some powerful (for the time) Sun server. I never had as much fun on the internet, as back then. It was all mesmerizing. And people were genuinely excited and glad to connect across the world. Now we are all so fucking jaded.
I don't know if Gingrich is the only conservative that came out openly to combat climate change, but he is certainly the most vocal. And he's being punished for it. I'm only mentioning this, as it looks that the GOP has been ever more turning against anybody suggesting there is a possibility for man-made climate change. I was very surprised to learn that there is an ultra-conserrvative that is completely counter this trend.
I'm not saying they didn't have sea walls.
You did say they didn't build seawalls. Here, let me quote you:
Had they taken the Tsunami incident into account they could have either built the plant with sea walls and significant concrete protection for the generators and backup systems or they could have built the plant above the markers. They did neither
Read your own damn post.
Had they taken the Tsunami incident into account they could have either built the plant with sea walls and significant concrete protection for the generators and backup systems or they could have built the plant above the markers.
In fact, they had seawalls, but they were built for 12 m tsunami waves. From wikipedia:
Although Japan has invested the equivalent of billions of dollars on anti-tsunami seawalls which line at least 40% of its 34,751 km (21,593 mi) coastline and stand up to 12 m (39 ft) high, the tsunami simply washed over the top of some seawalls, collapsing some in the process.
and
The remaining reactors shut down automatically after the earthquake, with emergency generators starting up to run the control electronics and water pumps needed to cool reactors. The plant was protected by a seawall designed to withstand a 5.7 m (19 ft) tsunami but not the 14 m (46 ft) maximum wave which arrived 41â"60 minutes after the earthquake.
Or are all you Linux fanbois just gonna dump Skype because it's owned by MS now, and you're leaving due to "principle" - i.e. being retarded?
Having principles is the same as being retarded? Really? I don't even know if it is possible to live without principles - unless you are a psychopath, that is.
And I'm not even a "linux fanboi" (more of a solaris/BeOS "fanboi").
After watching the Youtube video of this device, I got very interested. I would love to give it a whirl, to look around the town etc.
Well done, Canadians. If you have the lack of wisdom to outsource production to China, I might get me one of the cheaper Chinese knock-offs ;) Just kidding.
Overheard in office at PatentTrolls Inc:
TrollA: "Looks like Microsoft is kinda sorta infringing on one of our innovative patents haha!"
TrollB: "Yeah, but they got lots of cash and rabid lawyers. And a reputation of fighting back."
TrollA: "And Google..."
TrollB: "Those are even worse."
TrollA: "Well, there's always Redhat for a quicky"
TrollB: "Yeah, let's do Redhat. Also known as Open Legs, hahah!"
Oh to hell with it. Have we fallen so far as a civilization that people no longer know where their food comes from? Have never seen butchering and slaughtering done? Have never killed an animal themselves, skinned, cleaned, and done their own cuts. I can probably answer myself too. Yes to all of the above.
All the activities you listed are things most of us could learn to do with just a little training. Poorly, perhaps, but sufficiently well.Those skills are not what will make or break a post-apocalyptic survival.
The UK is not part of the Eurozone
So it'll be british pounds (GBP) not Euros.
Also, the problem with the idea is not that the crops will fail, but that nobody will want to pay 30 GBP just to be able to vote with 9,999 other guys. There already are elections which are free (as in beer), and even for that most just give a pass.
Maybe because of MILF
I know it doesn't help much, but I recently moved ISPs from AT&T of this. It sounds childish and passive aggressive, but it's easier to do than you think.
1) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internet+providers [lmgtfy.com]
2) When you find the best for you, just ask for free installation on the call. They always do it, if not, go to #2 in the list. (Bonus, new business always gets to a live rep immediately on a call. No waiting)
3) Request a weekend installation
4) Cancel At&t service. There's no contract with AT&T internet.
The only thing keeping you from unlimited data is those 3 steps (the 4th is the pay-off).
I live in a country of only 5 million inhabitants, and yet, I have access to about a dozen different ISPs. How many ISPs, with truly differentiated services, do you have access to? If I was capped at 150GB a month, I would top it in less than a week. Luckily, we don't have such nonsense here. Any ISP that were to try to pull such shite would be dead.
By the way: I have yet to read a post including LMGTFY that wasn't an utter douchebag troll.
...in a country where you're charged for incoming calls! And the most outrageous/hilarious thing about it is, USians think that's completely normal.
How long before we can build a laser-guided bullet, which will compensate for the wind as it goes?
We're closer than you'd think: I've seen a conference paper about the integration of a micro-power source into a ballistic bullet at PowerMEMS 2009 and fin-stabilized fletchettes are no big news, either. Put the two togetherr, plus a lot more sophisticated technology... and voilÃ, laser-guided sniper projectile. One such projectile would cost like an apartment in Dubai, but may be worth it.
1. Non-guided projectiles (not just bullets) shining a laser light back to a detecor at the gun/firing position will soon "miss" the detector.
Sniper rifles don't fire streams of bullets. That would make them inaccurate (thermal stresses in and around the barrel). There are some automatic rifles that can also act as snipers, but then they fire single shots.
A stream of bullets would mean stray shots which then means collateral damage (may not be of interest) and potentially giving advance warning to the target before it is hit.
Note that I am *not* arguing against using a sophisticated technology - I am arguing that it would not be suitable for sniping purposes.
Fire a stream of bullets. Each projectile has a laser diode in the rear end which is tracked by the guidance system on the gun. As the gun collects information on crosswinds, etc, it adjusts the trajectory of subsequent projectiles. Its just like firing tracers but more automated and on a smaller scale.
I can think of at least 3 reasons why this is a dumb idea, without even the slightest effort.
If a high-caliber sniper rifle with such improved self-correcting optics (which would practically render the barel trueness a non-issue) falls in the hands of the bad guys, high-ranking political figures will be at much higher risk. The only thing that will hinder the marksman will be wind.
Which, to be honest, is actually a rather big obstacle still. A bit too stochastic to completely eliminate uncertainty at long (over 1000m) distances.
Nokia may really not survive this caliber of a corporate psychopath
But it'll be good for him! As always.
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
That aside, MS was going to lose their case against Lindows. Had to settle out of court and pay Lindows to drop the case.
It is collapsible (double click any tab), has all items visible in appropriately sized icons (bigger icons are more commonly used) to the user on a single click, and the user may customise locations of icons as well as the availability of shortcut keys,
If this were true, it would be great, but it's a lie: the ribbon does NOT have all the items visible, nor made accessible! There's a shitton of features/functions which you cannot access throug hthe ribbon, especialy in Excel. There you have to add these to the (wait for it..) toolbar with the customize function - you must find it among thousands of functions sorted alphabetically (and if you don't remember the exact name or don't guess the name Microsoft decided to call that function in the new Excel, you're SOL) add it to the toolbar and you're good to go (?). Except, then you have a fucking long toolbar, and it's the exact antithesis of what Microsoft was allegedly trying to avoid.
With menus, all the functions were available. With the ribbon, only the most commonly used. The less commonly used ones (but still extremely important for, e.g. researchers) can not be accessed in any other way but through customizing the toolbar.
The Shah, for all the domestic failings he may or may not have had, oversaw a prosperous, pluralistic nation
It was also a very liberal nation - perhaps the most liberal nation in the Islamic world - where women did not have to wear anything on their heads and could be seen in miniskirts and high heels.
Religious minorities such as Zoroastrians and Baha'i were'nt oppressed and Christians and Jews could marry who the fuck they wanted.
Gregg invented in the laserdisc in 1958 (!), selling patent to MCA who developed commercially with Philips. Sony contributed some work on error correction to the Red Book standard, but the hard work of hardware design and modulation technique came from Philips, building on their laserdisc work.
What Sony did, and has ever done since, was see a market to exploit.
Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, comparing the laserdisc to CD is total engineering fail! The laserdisc is an ANALOG medium - it uses pulse width modulated analog signals, not digital - not ones and zeroes. The length of the "pits" in a laserdisc is not a quantized value. The CD uses a digitally coded signal (so the length of the pits is quantized, which introduces some engineering challenges in exactly counting the number of digits that a given length of a pit represents) with addressing and redundant data (cross-interleaved Reed Solomon) on two levels (two concatenated RS codes).
Do not do this.
'cause that wouldn't be right.
Plenty of straw-man arguments. So let's dismember your comment a bit:
1. how fukushima is no big deal, its media hype and confusion
Nobody said it's "no big deal" (straw man). But it is entirely true that the media overhyped it.
2. how fukushima was easily avoidable, so therefore, its ok
Nobody sane says "it is ok" (straw man). But it is easily avoidable.
3. how events like this are really rare. so nuclear power is ok
Events like this are really rare. That's entirely true.
4. how nuclear is really really safe compared to other sources, and science illiterates are just hysterical
Yes, nuclear is indeed really safe. I really don't know whether the average science illiterate is also hysterical. I guess one has to have a little knowledge to be hysterical, but that's just my personal conclusion.
repeat after me: denial, denial, denial, denial
In spite of your lovely trolling at the end, I have to remark that the true denial is thinking we can transition to clean energy without nuclear power.
Wind and solar, while definitely on the rise, will never completely replace base load power generation such as nuclear plants. Nuclear power plants can only be satisfactorily replaced by other base power sources such as coal-fired or natural gas-fired. Of the mentioned, nuclear is by far the cleanest and safest method of generating power.
I would like to repeat that statement, maybe it does penetrate the thick skull of ignorant people: Nuclear is the cleanest and safest base-load power generation by a HUGE margin.