I concluded that most of the traffic on TOR was child pornography and shared music/films.
Please explain how you arrived at this conclusion. Did you actually survey TOR traffic to see what it contained, or are you simply assuming that the only reason most people want anonymity is CP & file sharing? I was under the the impression that TOR encrypted its traffic, except for what entered/exited at the exit nodes.
Thanks for speaking up on this issue. Some people will always demonize legitimate potato ownership, and seek to take away our right to bear starchy food. It's good to know that others around here don't buy their anti-freedom propaganda.
Because the FTL technology requires a transmitter with one of the universe's highest SAR ratings.
That, and the fact that the FTL causes temporal distortion, meaning that the person you talk to via FTL hears you speak before you say anything. We've all regretted saying things a split second after saying them. FTL CDMA means you might end up saying something you shouldn't have even before you say it.
Actually, both posts were submitted at the same time, resulting in a quantum entanglement. They were both "first post" until measured. Yours was the anti-correlated part of the singlet.
National - its initial distribution was throughout the US, (since Europe already had way better porn), hence it was "National".
Geographic - Only slightly cryptic. "Graphic" is right there in the word - I don't know how much plainer they could have made it. They are telling you that if you buy their smut, you will have the most graphic scenes you can imagine of African villagers gathering crops and herding cattle while wearing grass skirts and codpieces. The origin of "Geo" is more mysterious. However, given that NatGeo was initially formed at the Cosmos Club, a private club then located on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., it seems obvious that it is a nod to George Washington, who certainly would have approved.
The Chinese have one big advantage over the US: their government doesn't need to lie to anyone.
What? They lie all the time, and do so in grandiose fashion. Just because they openly censor and spy on their own people does not mean that they are an honest regime. In fact, that itself is the problem... by censoring information, they seek to rewrite history in terms favorable to their propaganda, which is by definition lying.
From what I understand, the momentum of the internal loop would support the structure. There is a need to access the launch station 80km up, as well as a need to tether the structure, but I don't imagine they would use concrete towers for that. Kevlar should be strong enough for the tethers and space-elevator style transportation up to the launch station.
I see no problem with Verizon offering faster connectivity to their internal services (Their VOIP vs Vonage, for instance)
How do you mean that? If you mean "Verizon should be able to throttle back Vonage, and accelerate their proprietary services", I absolutely disagree. It ends up hurting the consumer and the marketplace. We end up back in the same world we were in with Ma Bell running the whole show: Crappy services for exorbitant fees.
If you meant "It's okay if Verizon's internal services happen to be faster than an unthrottled Vonage connection because they are really good at networking and telephony", I'd agree with you.
If Verizon gives me a DSL or FIOS connection for $xx.xx per month, their job is to deliver bits. Reliable, timely, consistent delivery of bits. It shouldn't matter a damn what I put across that line, or what other company sells/gives me services.
Well, I can't claim credentials like yours, but lately I've thought that a launch loop would be a much better idea than any of the gun or elevator ideas. It's gentle enough (~ 3g acceleration) to put people in orbit easily, requires no new materials, and supposedly could make multiple launches per day. Your thoughts?
From an anthropological point of view, mountaintops have historically been home to a variety of "spirits". A trip up a mountain usually means a difficult journey into a dangerous area. The mountains sometimes produce quickly changing weather which may seem (absent a rational explanation) to be the work of supernatural forces not necessarily friendly to the visitor.
A mountaintop is where Moses encountered the burning bush, and where he got the 10 commandments.
From what I've heard/read about Japan, there is a strong cultural/spiritual connection between spirits and mountains, likely influenced by the islands' mountainous topography.
In the US, Indian legend says that Mount Katahdin is home to hostile spirit Pamola. In Hawaii, the destructive power of volcanoes made mountains the obvious seat of power for powerful spiritual forces that might destroy mankind as easily as spare them. Aztec pyramids are essentially artificial mountains, and were used as places to offer sacrifices to the gods (including human sacrifice).
From Pat's point of view, Voodoo practice is essentially devil worship, which is where I assume he is getting the whole Haitian Satanic pact idea.
it would only take a few hundred million years (blink of an eye in cosmological terms) to probe the entire galaxy
But what good would that do us? A few hundred years is all it takes on earth for technology and language to change, empires to rise and fall. A few thousand years buries entire civilizations in the sands of time. Passage of one million years would result in evolution of the human race into something that we only superficially resemble today. Ten million years wipes species from the map, replacing their line with another. A hundred million years from now, if one of these probes responds back to us, would we be here to hear it? Would our descendants resemble us any more than we resemble a trilobite? If so, would we even recognize the transmission as ours, related somehow to ancient myths of the far distant past? Be able to decode it, and understand its message?
About the gender selection.
The female genitals could have as much responsibility (like the pH value).
If the environment is hostile to one type of sperm, chances are better for the other type.
The inclusion of a X or Y chromosome in a spermatozoa has no effect on its survivability in the female.
Allergy formation is not all up to genetics. Timing and level of initial exposure is believed to be key. Therefore, formation of the allergy may be preventable, even in a genetically predisposed person.
Plus, are you saying that we should avoid helping those who are ill because of genetic predispositions to certain problems? Should we stop helping people with sickle cell anemia? Maybe we should let white folks who contract skin cancer die, since their lack of melanin allows more damaging radiation through to living skin cells, resulting in higher skin cancer rates?
One of the cool things about being human is that we have science which lets us overcome potentially lethal problems, which allows people to contribute to society who otherwise would have been lost to disease.
Insightful? Fuck you. Peanut allergy formation isn't fully understood, but is believed to be related to the how and why of initial exposure, as well as genetics.
I used to know a guy (former special forces, FWIW) who had a young son with a number of health complications, including peanut allergy. Despite the health-related shit he had to go through, he was a fun, upbeat, all around great kid. Do you honestly believe that the life of an asshole like you is worth more than a kid like that?
You want to improve the gene pool by weeding out the unworthy? Start with yourself. I would recommend mentioning your proposal to this kid's dad - he'd gladly take you out of the gene pool in about 5 seconds.
Yeah, yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls. It's just that sometimes ignorance needs to be refuted regardless.
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You won't have to wait long. We're getting there.
I concluded that most of the traffic on TOR was child pornography and shared music/films.
Please explain how you arrived at this conclusion. Did you actually survey TOR traffic to see what it contained, or are you simply assuming that the only reason most people want anonymity is CP & file sharing? I was under the the impression that TOR encrypted its traffic, except for what entered/exited at the exit nodes.
That's all well and good, but where the hell are they going to get a shark big enough to mount such a large laser?
I thought microwave transmission was the way to go, and they had worked out how to avoid accidentally frying non-target stuff on the ground.
Thanks for speaking up on this issue. Some people will always demonize legitimate potato ownership, and seek to take away our right to bear starchy food. It's good to know that others around here don't buy their anti-freedom propaganda.
Yeah. This one goes to 11.
Because the FTL technology requires a transmitter with one of the universe's highest SAR ratings.
That, and the fact that the FTL causes temporal distortion, meaning that the person you talk to via FTL hears you speak before you say anything. We've all regretted saying things a split second after saying them. FTL CDMA means you might end up saying something you shouldn't have even before you say it.
That was just the Universe defending itself from the catastrophic effects of recursive quantum entanglement.
Actually, both posts were submitted at the same time, resulting in a quantum entanglement. They were both "first post" until measured. Yours was the anti-correlated part of the singlet.
"National Geographic":
National - its initial distribution was throughout the US, (since Europe already had way better porn), hence it was "National".
Geographic - Only slightly cryptic. "Graphic" is right there in the word - I don't know how much plainer they could have made it. They are telling you that if you buy their smut, you will have the most graphic scenes you can imagine of African villagers gathering crops and herding cattle while wearing grass skirts and codpieces. The origin of "Geo" is more mysterious. However, given that NatGeo was initially formed at the Cosmos Club, a private club then located on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., it seems obvious that it is a nod to George Washington, who certainly would have approved.
Not fucking likely. ;)
The Chinese have one big advantage over the US: their government doesn't need to lie to anyone.
What? They lie all the time, and do so in grandiose fashion. Just because they openly censor and spy on their own people does not mean that they are an honest regime. In fact, that itself is the problem ... by censoring information, they seek to rewrite history in terms favorable to their propaganda, which is by definition lying.
From what I understand, the momentum of the internal loop would support the structure. There is a need to access the launch station 80km up, as well as a need to tether the structure, but I don't imagine they would use concrete towers for that. Kevlar should be strong enough for the tethers and space-elevator style transportation up to the launch station.
I see no problem with Verizon offering faster connectivity to their internal services (Their VOIP vs Vonage, for instance)
How do you mean that? If you mean "Verizon should be able to throttle back Vonage, and accelerate their proprietary services", I absolutely disagree. It ends up hurting the consumer and the marketplace. We end up back in the same world we were in with Ma Bell running the whole show: Crappy services for exorbitant fees.
If you meant "It's okay if Verizon's internal services happen to be faster than an unthrottled Vonage connection because they are really good at networking and telephony", I'd agree with you.
If Verizon gives me a DSL or FIOS connection for $xx.xx per month, their job is to deliver bits. Reliable, timely, consistent delivery of bits. It shouldn't matter a damn what I put across that line, or what other company sells/gives me services.
Well, I can't claim credentials like yours, but lately I've thought that a launch loop would be a much better idea than any of the gun or elevator ideas. It's gentle enough (~ 3g acceleration) to put people in orbit easily, requires no new materials, and supposedly could make multiple launches per day. Your thoughts?
From an anthropological point of view, mountaintops have historically been home to a variety of "spirits". A trip up a mountain usually means a difficult journey into a dangerous area. The mountains sometimes produce quickly changing weather which may seem (absent a rational explanation) to be the work of supernatural forces not necessarily friendly to the visitor.
A mountaintop is where Moses encountered the burning bush, and where he got the 10 commandments.
From what I've heard/read about Japan, there is a strong cultural/spiritual connection between spirits and mountains, likely influenced by the islands' mountainous topography.
In the US, Indian legend says that Mount Katahdin is home to hostile spirit Pamola. In Hawaii, the destructive power of volcanoes made mountains the obvious seat of power for powerful spiritual forces that might destroy mankind as easily as spare them. Aztec pyramids are essentially artificial mountains, and were used as places to offer sacrifices to the gods (including human sacrifice).
From Pat's point of view, Voodoo practice is essentially devil worship, which is where I assume he is getting the whole Haitian Satanic pact idea.
it would only take a few hundred million years (blink of an eye in cosmological terms) to probe the entire galaxy
But what good would that do us? A few hundred years is all it takes on earth for technology and language to change, empires to rise and fall. A few thousand years buries entire civilizations in the sands of time. Passage of one million years would result in evolution of the human race into something that we only superficially resemble today. Ten million years wipes species from the map, replacing their line with another. A hundred million years from now, if one of these probes responds back to us, would we be here to hear it? Would our descendants resemble us any more than we resemble a trilobite? If so, would we even recognize the transmission as ours, related somehow to ancient myths of the far distant past? Be able to decode it, and understand its message?
That's simply awesome.
About the gender selection. The female genitals could have as much responsibility (like the pH value). If the environment is hostile to one type of sperm, chances are better for the other type.
The inclusion of a X or Y chromosome in a spermatozoa has no effect on its survivability in the female.
http://www.basegear.com/nightstarlight.html
http://www.fleshlight.com/
Maybe these guys can come up with something for you.
Are you using some sort of programmable, logic-controlled toaster?
Sure. Why not?
They chip it to China, where it is used as raw material for making toys and medical devices.
I had a shitty day, and he kicked a sore spot. I normally don't go off like that, but what the hell. I've got karma to burn.
Allergy formation is not all up to genetics. Timing and level of initial exposure is believed to be key. Therefore, formation of the allergy may be preventable, even in a genetically predisposed person.
Plus, are you saying that we should avoid helping those who are ill because of genetic predispositions to certain problems? Should we stop helping people with sickle cell anemia? Maybe we should let white folks who contract skin cancer die, since their lack of melanin allows more damaging radiation through to living skin cells, resulting in higher skin cancer rates?
One of the cool things about being human is that we have science which lets us overcome potentially lethal problems, which allows people to contribute to society who otherwise would have been lost to disease.
Insightful? Fuck you. Peanut allergy formation isn't fully understood, but is believed to be related to the how and why of initial exposure, as well as genetics.
I used to know a guy (former special forces, FWIW) who had a young son with a number of health complications, including peanut allergy. Despite the health-related shit he had to go through, he was a fun, upbeat, all around great kid. Do you honestly believe that the life of an asshole like you is worth more than a kid like that?
You want to improve the gene pool by weeding out the unworthy? Start with yourself. I would recommend mentioning your proposal to this kid's dad - he'd gladly take you out of the gene pool in about 5 seconds.
Yeah, yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls. It's just that sometimes ignorance needs to be refuted regardless.