That's what I'd really like to see. I mean, it doesn't look TOO damning that the US is sitting pretty at 50% of what Japan accomplishes, but let's just take a gander at how their upload pipes compare. I think it would cause some jaws to drop.
Ahh. So the new strategy for daily edging the estimated leakage towards the truth is to offer a panic-inducing guess, and then quickly follow up with a much lower estimate - yet one which is still far worse than the previous official estimate.
I figure that strategy will work for the 250k - 500k barrels/day range, but what strat is in place for the final stretch towards one million?
I have some suggestions:
500 - 750k barrels/day: All Atlantic coastlines will be ruined. Wait! Only the Gulf of Mexico's coasts will be ruined. 750k - 1000k barrels/day: The entire world's population will endure starvation. No, actually, only half, and generally limited to the poorest, so relax. 1000k+: We didn't cause Greenland to melt! That was somebody else!!
First, you assert that there are safe mercury compounds. All sources I have read indicate that it is only "safe in the allowable doses." You may as well try to say that secondhand smoke is safe in allowable doses. Meanwhile, heart attacks halve in cities where public smoking is banned. My jaw unavoidably drops whenever I encounter somebody whose mindset forces them to argue a ludicrous point. The battle against antivax could be argued as just, but to fight it with non-facts would make Carl Sagan frown.
Second, autism's rise. This is not an argument, for the reason which you comprehend as well as I. Autism's diagnosis is nebulous, and the rise in cases is almost certainly due in large part to its status as a catch-all. Much like how hospital patients in the US and Japan are given antibiotics for almost any ailment. It's bad health care. Lazy.
The removal of mercury, regardless of its ultimate validity, was clearly something that could be achieved without having to bend over backwards.
Finally, your last point, in which you place me on a pedestal next to murderers. Friend, go to hell. Do I sound like I am part of a hysteria? You call me ignorant. I counter that you are downplaying hazards in order to adhere to a generalized attitude about vaccination. This generalization does not apply to anyone who has educated himself (or been educated) about his options. I and my family still took vaccinations. We also immediately underwent brief detoxification efforts by way of chlorella (Google it). Problem solved. Then mercury was removed from vaccines, essentially eliminating the need for such steps. Problem rectified. I'd ask for an apology, but I judge you ill-capable of such courtesy.
The famous vaccine / autism link was based on the fact that vaccine preservatives were mercury-based. And there is much validity in this link. Consider: Mercury is known to be bad, especially for the brain, and, it can be assumed, especially for developing brains. Mercury is known to have been a component of vaccines. To expect no side effects would be criminally negligent. And to deny a possible link between mercury-laden vaccinations and brain deficiencies, similarly so. It's like trying to deny a link between a known mass extinction 65mil years ago, and a known impact of extinction-assured magnitude, also 65mil years ago.
One of the most interesting things I've read in a while.
Like Carl Sagan said, science is self-correcting. He also said you have to back up big statements with big evidence. So best of luck to this theory, in that respect.
Yellowstone, the largest supervolcano, erupted 1.3 million years ago. Is that within the margin of error for calculating a near extinction from so long ago?
The folks in the US who lambasted the movie for its alleged denunciation of the authoritarian Bush administration must be placing foot soundly in mouth right about now. It's bad when the only ones who agree with you are the Chinese government, because it also means that the alleged denunciation in question was very much deserved.
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This article is no news at all to the likes of Infinity Ward. The difference here is that Insomnia are now chiefly PS3 developers, and as the PS3 is famously difficult to develop for, even after you have a tried and solid engine going on it (it's often said that it takes twice as long and costs twice as much money to get a game completed on PS3 as it does for 360), the decision to switch to 30fps is almost certainly STRICTLY thanks to the difficulties associated with PS3 development.
Insomnia choose poorly. To make money, they should have gone multiplatform. Instead they decided to cut back on the quality of their products. It's a choice that smacks of motives they must regard as stronger than profit, and I have to trust they're content with the consequences of their decision. It also puts to rest the famous myth, now three years old, that the PS3 will eventually real some sort of unlocked potential.
Thanks, Republicans, for helping me figure out whether "Net Neutrality" is a good thing or a bad thing, without even having to find a definition. All one needs to do is figure out which side of the argument the Republicans are supporting. The opposite side is the one which is best for consumers. It's so easy!
makes it easy to figure out which side is working for the man on the street, and which is serving commercial interests. Thanks, Republicans! Without your involvement, I may not have had a clue what to think about this here "Net Neutrality".
I, for one, cannot wait until these guys tackle the Wii. Heck, I thought at first that that was the whole point behind the exercise. I've done my own tests, for what it's worth, though not using quite so idealized a setup. The Wiimote's motion control has tremendous input lag.. I gauged it to be at least 120ms greater than the buttons on the same controller. The kicker? The Wii Motion Plus did NOTHING to reduce this. And this is the reason why games which rely upon the motion component of the controller quite simply suffer for it. It's really only the games which minimize said control which remain playable.
Natal and Sony's wand have essentially the same lag.
When the day comes that wind farms are developed which resemble, from a bird's eye view, a doppler hook echo which happens to travel at about 30 mph, THEN I might worry about true/false positives being misinterpreted/ignored.
I like how the article (and its link to the article pushing the PS3) both ignore the continued existence of the $200 "Arcade" unit. Tell you what. I'll use the same approach:
--- Attention! Microsoft introduces bare-bones Xbox 360 with smaller internal storage and a pricetag $100 lower than the recently announced PS3 Slim! With this entry, Microsoft seeks to one-up the competition - both from Sony and their mutual rival, Nintendo - by offering the most affordable current-generation gaming console in the market. Combined with what is widely regarded as the most robust library of AAA titles, this new Xbox 360 package may prove irresistible to financially weary consumers this holiday season. ---
I also stifle a chuckle at the various folks who have implied that the PS3's price has been the only thing keeping it from being a success. Developers would beg to differ, since it takes a great deal more time and money to eke a 360-like performance out of the PS3, and generally involves sacrifices, such as anti-aliasing or reduced texture detail. Someone already said it earlier: The PS3 had three years to prove its hardware superiority. The only argument a person can still make is a deliberately vague one: To say that the PS3 has a "hardware advantage" (Blu-ray, Wifi) without specifically admitting that its visual capabilities are in fact inferior, as Konami themselves demonstrated with their three-year, 720p, 24fps masterpiece.
They've been decreasing anomalously for a while now. Obvious sign of this is unexpectedly mild summers. This could be another facet. Makes me worried about whenever the sunspots return to their normal rhythm.
What a relief that the hacker "found nothing incriminating". I had been reading some worrying things about the email being used for both personal and governmental business. Glad this nonpartisan article cleared that up.
Also glad it turns out that Palin actually did not give an introductory speech to the Alaska Independence Group in 2008. And that she had always, always opposed the Bridge To Nowhere and is not a flip-flopper. And that she's never abused her power to get people fired. And that those funny photos showing her not pregnant while her daughter was.. were taken of some lookalike family, not hers. So glad the GOP has finally found somebody without a trace of corruption or lies.
I think we can all guess what the graphs would indicate in an intelligence comparison. And I strongly suspect that there would be a conspicuous correlation between such results and the cowardice/paranoia-related results of this recent Science study. Conspicuous like the South American / African continents' jigsaw puzzle.
A nice postscript to the upcoming criminal tampering with voting machines, which the GOP will again undertake, would be if it turns out that many folks had secretly set up their own camcorders (or whatever equates such) to record the post-voting activities around their local voting machines, and captured evidence of tampering. I don't personally expect the race to be close enough to matter, but the corruption which allowed the last two elections to transpire the way they did has not just conveniently vanished. Folks in Ohio and Florida, particularly, should keep their eyes open.
The only places where it may raise "questions about creationism" is in Western society, and even then I would limit that to the most backward countries, or country. Most nations are too forward-thinking to permit their children to be allowed, in mass numbers, to be raised with such brainwashed, useless perceptions of the world.
We already know in advance that the election is going to be as rigged as the GOP believes they can get away with. Diebold was forced to admit it. Fortunately, Obama's success this November will be too sweeping for even the usual election-stealing shenanigans to saddle us with four more years of war, corruption, lies, and deepening economy woes.
This is a bit off topic, but also a bit on-topic.
Can anyone recommend a book or books which tackle the old testament form precisely this point of view? Ie, a scholarly mode of conversation. And very definitely NOT religious. Example: There are books which talk about the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Obviously these are not written by people who believe in said book, or whose faith is ancient Egyptian. They are scholarly pursuits. That's what I'm after. No religious agenda whatsoever; no patina of faith tainting things. Just a discussion of the passages and what they're likely to mean, and their historical context.
A pie in the sky book, for me, would be one which focuses on the geographical aspect of the stories in the old testament (yet simultaneously avoids the aforementioned patina of faith), taking the reader from place to place and outlining the probable contemporary locations of events past, whether said events are reckoned to be fact or myth.
Since you're not going to provide any links or quotes to underscore your assertions, I'm going to make my reply in kind. The bottom line, chief, is that we are choosing between a man whose ex-preacher you hate, and a man who will continue to bury this country in four more years of the worst Republican catastrophe in over seven decades. Only 15% of the country is racist enough to vote based on skin color. The rest don't even have an "excuse" as poor as that: voting for McCain would be criminally irresponsible. It would mean you're part of the problem. Not that it's going to make any difference. Rant and rave all you want, because corruption is going to lose this round.
A fun fantasy idea I've had goes something like this. After the dust settles, everyone who voted for Bush 2.0 gets rounded up and shipped to a convenient corner of the country (let's say.. Florida), where the economy is then artificially reduced to deep third-world standards over the span of four years, in keeping with a lobbyist- and Republican-driven leadership. And just to underscore the point, this new pseudo-country is quickly forced to invade several mid-eastern countries, true to the promises made by the country's new fat-cheeked, pinheaded leader. Who knows if this new country would survive? I doubt they would be happy. But at least the rest of the US will have dispensed with that hell.
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Development will move on to countries where Sony can't bully.
And you know what made Sony so upset as to sue everyone they could think of? I'll tell you: MKV playback support.
That's what I'd really like to see. I mean, it doesn't look TOO damning that the US is sitting pretty at 50% of what Japan accomplishes, but let's just take a gander at how their upload pipes compare. I think it would cause some jaws to drop.
Ahh. So the new strategy for daily edging the estimated leakage towards the truth is to offer a panic-inducing guess, and then quickly follow up with a much lower estimate - yet one which is still far worse than the previous official estimate.
I figure that strategy will work for the 250k - 500k barrels/day range, but what strat is in place for the final stretch towards one million?
I have some suggestions:
500 - 750k barrels/day: All Atlantic coastlines will be ruined. Wait! Only the Gulf of Mexico's coasts will be ruined.
750k - 1000k barrels/day: The entire world's population will endure starvation. No, actually, only half, and generally limited to the poorest, so relax.
1000k+: We didn't cause Greenland to melt! That was somebody else!!
People Who Require Scientific Studies To Prove Something Easily Intuitable Have Lower IQs.
Chief, let's counter your points one by one.
First, you assert that there are safe mercury compounds. All sources I have read indicate that it is only "safe in the allowable doses." You may as well try to say that secondhand smoke is safe in allowable doses. Meanwhile, heart attacks halve in cities where public smoking is banned. My jaw unavoidably drops whenever I encounter somebody whose mindset forces them to argue a ludicrous point. The battle against antivax could be argued as just, but to fight it with non-facts would make Carl Sagan frown.
Second, autism's rise. This is not an argument, for the reason which you comprehend as well as I. Autism's diagnosis is nebulous, and the rise in cases is almost certainly due in large part to its status as a catch-all. Much like how hospital patients in the US and Japan are given antibiotics for almost any ailment. It's bad health care. Lazy.
The removal of mercury, regardless of its ultimate validity, was clearly something that could be achieved without having to bend over backwards.
Finally, your last point, in which you place me on a pedestal next to murderers. Friend, go to hell. Do I sound like I am part of a hysteria? You call me ignorant. I counter that you are downplaying hazards in order to adhere to a generalized attitude about vaccination. This generalization does not apply to anyone who has educated himself (or been educated) about his options. I and my family still took vaccinations. We also immediately underwent brief detoxification efforts by way of chlorella (Google it). Problem solved. Then mercury was removed from vaccines, essentially eliminating the need for such steps. Problem rectified. I'd ask for an apology, but I judge you ill-capable of such courtesy.
The famous vaccine / autism link was based on the fact that vaccine preservatives were mercury-based. And there is much validity in this link. Consider: Mercury is known to be bad, especially for the brain, and, it can be assumed, especially for developing brains. Mercury is known to have been a component of vaccines. To expect no side effects would be criminally negligent. And to deny a possible link between mercury-laden vaccinations and brain deficiencies, similarly so. It's like trying to deny a link between a known mass extinction 65mil years ago, and a known impact of extinction-assured magnitude, also 65mil years ago.
One of the most interesting things I've read in a while.
Like Carl Sagan said, science is self-correcting. He also said you have to back up big statements with big evidence. So best of luck to this theory, in that respect.
Yellowstone, the largest supervolcano, erupted 1.3 million years ago. Is that within the margin of error for calculating a near extinction from so long ago?
The folks in the US who lambasted the movie for its alleged denunciation of the authoritarian Bush administration must be placing foot soundly in mouth right about now. It's bad when the only ones who agree with you are the Chinese government, because it also means that the alleged denunciation in question was very much deserved.
This article is no news at all to the likes of Infinity Ward. The difference here is that Insomnia are now chiefly PS3 developers, and as the PS3 is famously difficult to develop for, even after you have a tried and solid engine going on it (it's often said that it takes twice as long and costs twice as much money to get a game completed on PS3 as it does for 360), the decision to switch to 30fps is almost certainly STRICTLY thanks to the difficulties associated with PS3 development.
Insomnia choose poorly. To make money, they should have gone multiplatform. Instead they decided to cut back on the quality of their products. It's a choice that smacks of motives they must regard as stronger than profit, and I have to trust they're content with the consequences of their decision. It also puts to rest the famous myth, now three years old, that the PS3 will eventually real some sort of unlocked potential.
Thanks, Republicans, for helping me figure out whether "Net Neutrality" is a good thing or a bad thing, without even having to find a definition. All one needs to do is figure out which side of the argument the Republicans are supporting. The opposite side is the one which is best for consumers. It's so easy!
makes it easy to figure out which side is working for the man on the street, and which is serving commercial interests. Thanks, Republicans! Without your involvement, I may not have had a clue what to think about this here "Net Neutrality".
I, for one, cannot wait until these guys tackle the Wii. Heck, I thought at first that that was the whole point behind the exercise. I've done my own tests, for what it's worth, though not using quite so idealized a setup. The Wiimote's motion control has tremendous input lag.. I gauged it to be at least 120ms greater than the buttons on the same controller. The kicker? The Wii Motion Plus did NOTHING to reduce this. And this is the reason why games which rely upon the motion component of the controller quite simply suffer for it. It's really only the games which minimize said control which remain playable. Natal and Sony's wand have essentially the same lag.
When the day comes that wind farms are developed which resemble, from a bird's eye view, a doppler hook echo which happens to travel at about 30 mph, THEN I might worry about true/false positives being misinterpreted/ignored.
I like how the article (and its link to the article pushing the PS3) both ignore the continued existence of the $200 "Arcade" unit. Tell you what. I'll use the same approach:
---
Attention! Microsoft introduces bare-bones Xbox 360 with smaller internal storage and a pricetag $100 lower than the recently announced PS3 Slim! With this entry, Microsoft seeks to one-up the competition - both from Sony and their mutual rival, Nintendo - by offering the most affordable current-generation gaming console in the market. Combined with what is widely regarded as the most robust library of AAA titles, this new Xbox 360 package may prove irresistible to financially weary consumers this holiday season.
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I also stifle a chuckle at the various folks who have implied that the PS3's price has been the only thing keeping it from being a success. Developers would beg to differ, since it takes a great deal more time and money to eke a 360-like performance out of the PS3, and generally involves sacrifices, such as anti-aliasing or reduced texture detail. Someone already said it earlier: The PS3 had three years to prove its hardware superiority. The only argument a person can still make is a deliberately vague one: To say that the PS3 has a "hardware advantage" (Blu-ray, Wifi) without specifically admitting that its visual capabilities are in fact inferior, as Konami themselves demonstrated with their three-year, 720p, 24fps masterpiece.
They've been decreasing anomalously for a while now. Obvious sign of this is unexpectedly mild summers. This could be another facet. Makes me worried about whenever the sunspots return to their normal rhythm.
By the end of the year, you'll be able to spot a bot merely by the fact that it has an awareness of such an unimportant footnote in history.
What a relief that the hacker "found nothing incriminating". I had been reading some worrying things about the email being used for both personal and governmental business. Glad this nonpartisan article cleared that up. Also glad it turns out that Palin actually did not give an introductory speech to the Alaska Independence Group in 2008. And that she had always, always opposed the Bridge To Nowhere and is not a flip-flopper. And that she's never abused her power to get people fired. And that those funny photos showing her not pregnant while her daughter was.. were taken of some lookalike family, not hers. So glad the GOP has finally found somebody without a trace of corruption or lies.
I think we can all guess what the graphs would indicate in an intelligence comparison. And I strongly suspect that there would be a conspicuous correlation between such results and the cowardice/paranoia-related results of this recent Science study. Conspicuous like the South American / African continents' jigsaw puzzle.
A nice postscript to the upcoming criminal tampering with voting machines, which the GOP will again undertake, would be if it turns out that many folks had secretly set up their own camcorders (or whatever equates such) to record the post-voting activities around their local voting machines, and captured evidence of tampering. I don't personally expect the race to be close enough to matter, but the corruption which allowed the last two elections to transpire the way they did has not just conveniently vanished. Folks in Ohio and Florida, particularly, should keep their eyes open.
The only places where it may raise "questions about creationism" is in Western society, and even then I would limit that to the most backward countries, or country. Most nations are too forward-thinking to permit their children to be allowed, in mass numbers, to be raised with such brainwashed, useless perceptions of the world.
We already know in advance that the election is going to be as rigged as the GOP believes they can get away with. Diebold was forced to admit it. Fortunately, Obama's success this November will be too sweeping for even the usual election-stealing shenanigans to saddle us with four more years of war, corruption, lies, and deepening economy woes.
This is a bit off topic, but also a bit on-topic. Can anyone recommend a book or books which tackle the old testament form precisely this point of view? Ie, a scholarly mode of conversation. And very definitely NOT religious. Example: There are books which talk about the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Obviously these are not written by people who believe in said book, or whose faith is ancient Egyptian. They are scholarly pursuits. That's what I'm after. No religious agenda whatsoever; no patina of faith tainting things. Just a discussion of the passages and what they're likely to mean, and their historical context. A pie in the sky book, for me, would be one which focuses on the geographical aspect of the stories in the old testament (yet simultaneously avoids the aforementioned patina of faith), taking the reader from place to place and outlining the probable contemporary locations of events past, whether said events are reckoned to be fact or myth.
Well, Chief.. how about the Book of Judas? It's one of those tattered scrolls. So tell me.. are you tolerant of that discovery, or a hypocrite?
Since you're not going to provide any links or quotes to underscore your assertions, I'm going to make my reply in kind. The bottom line, chief, is that we are choosing between a man whose ex-preacher you hate, and a man who will continue to bury this country in four more years of the worst Republican catastrophe in over seven decades. Only 15% of the country is racist enough to vote based on skin color. The rest don't even have an "excuse" as poor as that: voting for McCain would be criminally irresponsible. It would mean you're part of the problem. Not that it's going to make any difference. Rant and rave all you want, because corruption is going to lose this round.
A fun fantasy idea I've had goes something like this. After the dust settles, everyone who voted for Bush 2.0 gets rounded up and shipped to a convenient corner of the country (let's say.. Florida), where the economy is then artificially reduced to deep third-world standards over the span of four years, in keeping with a lobbyist- and Republican-driven leadership. And just to underscore the point, this new pseudo-country is quickly forced to invade several mid-eastern countries, true to the promises made by the country's new fat-cheeked, pinheaded leader. Who knows if this new country would survive? I doubt they would be happy. But at least the rest of the US will have dispensed with that hell.