And under a new moon or when clouded, you can't even see your own hand in front of your face. No amount of adaptation helps if there is practically no light to adapt to. It's a rare occurrence for those of us living in developed countries to have no light outside, as usually there is always some kind of light source relatively nearby, even if it is the diffuse light coming from a nearby city. But in the real wilderness with no civilization nearby, when it gets dark it is really, really dark.
For weeks, Russian officials had denied the French and German accusations
At this point, who the fuck cares what Russia says. The current Russian regime has lost all credibility.
1. Russia: "There are no Russian troops in Crimea" One month later: Crimea is annexed by Russia Russia: "Of course there were Russian troops in Crimea"
2. Russia: "The hundreds of trucks at the Ukrainian border are just delivering humanitarian supplies" One month later: Ukrainian separatists fight back the Ukrainian government offensive which went pretty well up to that point.
3. Russia: "There are no Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Only some guys on 'vacation' " One month later: Russian soldiers boast about skirmishes with Ukrainian forces on social media. Mothers and wives of Russian soldiers demand answers from the Russian government on why so many sons and fathers die during 'training exercises'
4. Russia: "Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was not shot down by Ukrainian rebels using Russian supplied missiles" Immediately thereafter: Separatist boasts on social media about shooting down Ukrainian airplane. Post quickly disappears. Photographic evidence and witnesses report of a Buk surface-to-air missile launcher being moved from eastern Ukraine into Russia.
5. Russia: "The Syrian army did not use chemical weapons against rebel positions" UN investigation: missiles were launched during the time of the attack from Syrian army controlled territory. Russia uses UN security council veto 10 times to block further investigations.
6. Russia: "Our olympic athletes are not using illegal substances as this is rigorously controlled by our anti-doping-agency. Independent Investigation: systematic state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes is uncovered. 19 national anti-doping organisations recommend suspending Russia from participation in all sports.
7. Russia: "We have photographic evidence that the US is supporting ISIS" Immediately after: Media reveals that the evidence are screenshots of a video game.
Russia expects to be taken seriously about anything they have to say? Why?
...and they're slightly off, it doesn't have a 10:1 aspect ratio, it's 9:4:1.
I am a member of the intergalactic consortium that founded the Open UFO Specifications Society, and it just happens that those are the ideal flying saucer dimensions, as defined by the latest review version of the OUFOSS-1.2.
The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn't make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.
If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.
Nuclear energy is great up until the point the time comes to dismantle an aging nuclear plant and all the nuclear waste that goes along with it. Then the power companies duck away by buying themselves out of the equation and letting taxpayer money take over.
Nuclear power is a really nice deal. Reap all the profits and let the taxpayer take care of the dirty work.
And if the unthinkable happens and one of the things blows up in your face due to incalculable risks, as has happened before at least two times, well, the taxpayer will also have to step in because like Fukushima taught us, the costs of a nuclear meltdown are so immense, it will bankrupt any company.
Whatever way you look at it, nuclear is a shady deal with corporations reaping profits while carrying none of the risks.
Note how those Indie-Games you like so much all come with mediocre graphics (if they're not even one of those "pixel graphics" rubbish that for some odd reason is so en vogue right now)
Why would you call pixel graphics "rubbish"? Pixel art has a charm of its own, and many players prefer to have good, innovative gameplay over the shiniest and latest graphics. Indie-studios have limited resources, and emphasizing gameplay over graphics is what has made many of their games so appealing and successful.
Just stop it. Just fucking stop it. I don't give a fuck about Bitcoin.
Apparently you give a small fuck, because you took the time to go to the article page and post a comment. Someone who doesn't give a fuck would have stopped reading after the headline and moved on to the next story.
Why do you give a fuck that he gives a small fuck? If you didn't give a fuck you wouldn't have bothered to comment that he gives a small fuck? Are you trying to create a big fuck to give?
You do have to wonder why Wikileaks and Assange are so eager to target everything U.S. - the intelligence agencies, political fuck-ups, armed forces fuck-ups...
Sure the U.S. isn't perfect and you will always find something to criticize, but there are much worse countries in the world, actively fighting against liberties, free press, human rights, etc. the most prominent and important being China and Russia. How come there are never any leaks from these autocratic countries?
By always putting the spotlight on the U.S. Wikileaks and Assange are playing right into the hands of these autocratic regimes, not just by exposing classified information, but also ideologically by repeatedly pointing out the U.S. as apparently being no better or even worse than the countries ruled by despots. Which in the grand scheme of things is simply false. And if you think so, you are deluded. Where would you rather live? The U.S. or Russia / China?
Considering all of this it's hard to shake the feeling that Wikileaks and Assange have degenerated into being agents for Russia. Maybe they have actually been infiltrated and controlled by Russia in one way or another.
So if they all worship the same "one true God", why do the mohamed-psychos believe they need to kill everyone else for the glory of their "one true God". Because it's not a religions it's a murderous cult of crazy nuts.
The reason is always the same: power and money. Diligent people with an agenda have always taken advantage of weak-spirited individuals to serve their purpose. Islamic extremism is just one example of how faith can be used to radicalize people. The Nazis used the argument of racial superiority, Mexican drug lords use the more immediate promise of wealth and power to lure young, impressionable people... religious extremism is not really about faith... that's just the means to recruit the foot soldiers. The real underlying battle are struggles for power and influence in the Middle East.
Like another poster already pointed out, the ancient Egyptians, which lived thousands of years before arabs even existed.
Or did you think mohamed invented arabs when he invented allah?
Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope.
I wonder where the guy found all the time between his mass rape sessions.
It's a common accusation from more base-minded people that Mohammed was a pedophile, which I guess is what you're hinting at. While it might be true that Mohammed had sex with what we consider to be children in the 21st century - I honestly don't know that - I think it's safe to say that this was happening all over the world in the 6th century and would not be some "perversion" unique to Mohammed. It might be inconceivable to you, but moral and ethical standards do change over the centuries.
I think the entire article is misleading. All of those faces and images are not generated from scratch, but are in fact based on graphical templates that I guess were fed to this neural network. And all that neural network seems to do is to apply some morphs to the existing images by interpolating with other images. I was sceptical at first, but then the Petronas Towers showed up during the morphs of the "Towers" category. Also there is so much background detail in the images, no way all of that information was generated from scratch by an AI.
Don't worry.. we have Donald Trump to destroy the establishment and give the country back to the hard working Americans!
Oh, wait... Trump... isn't that that billionaire who put Wall Street bankers and former Big Oil executives into the White House? Oh, and isn't he about to lower taxes for corporations and very rich people? Waaaaaaaaait.....
So since the Trump=Russia narrative failed, we now have an SJW=Russia talking point to try and rile up the right against Russia?
It did not fail. The investigations are ongoing. Why are you so dismissive about this subject? Wouldn't you want to know if a foreign entity that is not the friend of the US and the west in general is interfering in your country's politics? Wouldn't you be concerned about possible collusion between the White House and an authoritarian country that actively fights against western values on multiple fronts?
You are confusing energy with CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
If your numbers are correct, the point is not the relative energy generation of humans vs the sun, but that due to the higher CO2 concentration caused by humans, more of those 174 000 Terawats of heat energy from the sun that you mention will be retained in the atmosphere.
The problem with suppressing conspiracy theories, and promoting "authoritative" sources, is that it makes real conspiracies even easier for the authorities to cover up.
No it isn't. Despite what many right-wing conspiracy theorists say, we have a good, functioning and critical press in practically all of the western world. I would we worried if we were living in Russia or China, where all local search engines forward you to the next state-sponsored propaganda news channel anyway. But we should quit selling ourselves short and over-criticizing the mainstream press in our parts of the world. It is much, much better than most people give it credit for, especially compared to what much of the non-western world is served on a daily basis.
Trump became president due to Russian influence in our election
No, that's not why he became president, but it's a wonderful ego-saving belief for a segment of the country
There are a number of high-profile investigations going on that are starting to provide results and evidence of how a foreign actor (Russia) tried to influence the election in favor of Trump. And Russia has a history of manipulating public opinion and interfering with elections in other countries.
Do you think all of this is "fake news" and all the agents, secret services, politicians and other actors that are involved in these investigations are part of a liberal conspiracy?
I guess that's a wonderful ego-saving belief for a segment of the country.
Nice summary of the unthinkable collusion that has been going on between the Trump team and Putin's Russia.
But I'm afraid the far-right (alt-right?) Republican camp has been padded so thoroughly against investigative journalism (fake news) and real facts (with -alternative facts-) that all of this evidence of collusion and treason will simply bounce right off them. It's amazing and scary thoroughly this group of people has been shielded from reason. It seems practically like brainwashing. All it takes is propaganda and a "great", charismatic leader that talks loudly. Now everybody should understand how Nazi Germany could happen.
What I don't understand is how all this shutting out of non-Chinese tech companies doesn't count as protectionism that goes against WTO rules, of which China is a member. The original motivation might have been censorship, but it is also a convenient way of boosting the domestic tech industry by keeping competition out. I thought stuff like this is exactly why the WTO was devised in the first place. Why is China not sanctioned for these actions?
Or the explosions from the Death Stars. After all, those things were holding on to a lot of power that had to go somewhere...
Every Death Star contains a clone of Donald Trump in its core. When a "Fire!" command is received, the Principal Fire Command Engineer takes a lighter and pretends to put fire on Donald Trumps hair. The Death Star core bundles the concentrated anger of the Donald into a laser beam.
This is what actually happens inside of a Death Star.
Slashdot Mirror
And under a new moon or when clouded, you can't even see your own hand in front of your face.
No amount of adaptation helps if there is practically no light to adapt to.
It's a rare occurrence for those of us living in developed countries to have no light outside, as usually there is always some kind of light source relatively nearby, even if it is the diffuse light coming from a nearby city. But in the real wilderness with no civilization nearby, when it gets dark it is really, really dark.
For weeks, Russian officials had denied the French and German accusations
At this point, who the fuck cares what Russia says. The current Russian regime has lost all credibility.
1. Russia: "There are no Russian troops in Crimea"
One month later: Crimea is annexed by Russia
Russia: "Of course there were Russian troops in Crimea"
2. Russia: "The hundreds of trucks at the Ukrainian border are just delivering humanitarian supplies"
One month later: Ukrainian separatists fight back the Ukrainian government offensive which went pretty well up to that point.
3. Russia: "There are no Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Only some guys on 'vacation' "
One month later: Russian soldiers boast about skirmishes with Ukrainian forces on social media. Mothers and wives of Russian soldiers demand answers from the Russian government on why so many sons and fathers die during 'training exercises'
4. Russia: "Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was not shot down by Ukrainian rebels using Russian supplied missiles"
Immediately thereafter: Separatist boasts on social media about shooting down Ukrainian airplane. Post quickly disappears. Photographic evidence and witnesses report of a Buk surface-to-air missile launcher being moved from eastern Ukraine into Russia.
5. Russia: "The Syrian army did not use chemical weapons against rebel positions"
UN investigation: missiles were launched during the time of the attack from Syrian army controlled territory. Russia uses UN security council veto 10 times to block further investigations.
6. Russia: "Our olympic athletes are not using illegal substances as this is rigorously controlled by our anti-doping-agency.
Independent Investigation: systematic state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes is uncovered. 19 national anti-doping organisations recommend suspending Russia from participation in all sports.
7. Russia: "We have photographic evidence that the US is supporting ISIS"
Immediately after: Media reveals that the evidence are screenshots of a video game.
Russia expects to be taken seriously about anything they have to say? Why?
...and they're slightly off, it doesn't have a 10:1 aspect ratio, it's 9:4:1.
I am a member of the intergalactic consortium that founded the Open UFO Specifications Society, and it just happens that those are the ideal flying saucer dimensions, as defined by the latest review version of the OUFOSS-1.2.
I seriously doubt that. Citation?
The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn't make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.
If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.
Nuclear energy is great up until the point the time comes to dismantle an aging nuclear plant and all the nuclear waste that goes along with it. Then the power companies duck away by buying themselves out of the equation and letting taxpayer money take over.
Nuclear power is a really nice deal. Reap all the profits and let the taxpayer take care of the dirty work.
And if the unthinkable happens and one of the things blows up in your face due to incalculable risks, as has happened before at least two times, well, the taxpayer will also have to step in because like Fukushima taught us, the costs of a nuclear meltdown are so immense, it will bankrupt any company.
Whatever way you look at it, nuclear is a shady deal with corporations reaping profits while carrying none of the risks.
Note how those Indie-Games you like so much all come with mediocre graphics (if they're not even one of those "pixel graphics" rubbish that for some odd reason is so en vogue right now)
Why would you call pixel graphics "rubbish"? Pixel art has a charm of its own, and many players prefer to have good, innovative gameplay over the shiniest and latest graphics. Indie-studios have limited resources, and emphasizing gameplay over graphics is what has made many of their games so appealing and successful.
Just stop it. Just fucking stop it. I don't give a fuck about Bitcoin.
Apparently you give a small fuck, because you took the time to go to the article page and post a comment. Someone who doesn't give a fuck would have stopped reading after the headline and moved on to the next story.
Why do you give a fuck that he gives a small fuck? If you didn't give a fuck you wouldn't have bothered to comment that he gives a small fuck? Are you trying to create a big fuck to give?
You do have to wonder why Wikileaks and Assange are so eager to target everything U.S. - the intelligence agencies, political fuck-ups, armed forces fuck-ups...
Sure the U.S. isn't perfect and you will always find something to criticize, but there are much worse countries in the world, actively fighting against liberties, free press, human rights, etc. the most prominent and important being China and Russia. How come there are never any leaks from these autocratic countries?
By always putting the spotlight on the U.S. Wikileaks and Assange are playing right into the hands of these autocratic regimes, not just by exposing classified information, but also ideologically by repeatedly pointing out the U.S. as apparently being no better or even worse than the countries ruled by despots. Which in the grand scheme of things is simply false. And if you think so, you are deluded. Where would you rather live? The U.S. or Russia / China?
Considering all of this it's hard to shake the feeling that Wikileaks and Assange have degenerated into being agents for Russia. Maybe they have actually been infiltrated and controlled by Russia in one way or another.
So if they all worship the same "one true God", why do the mohamed-psychos believe they need to kill everyone else for the glory of their "one true God". Because it's not a religions it's a murderous cult of crazy nuts.
The reason is always the same: power and money. Diligent people with an agenda have always taken advantage of weak-spirited individuals to serve their purpose. Islamic extremism is just one example of how faith can be used to radicalize people. The Nazis used the argument of racial superiority, Mexican drug lords use the more immediate promise of wealth and power to lure young, impressionable people... religious extremism is not really about faith... that's just the means to recruit the foot soldiers. The real underlying battle are struggles for power and influence in the Middle East.
Who do you think built the pyramids, idiot.
Like another poster already pointed out, the ancient Egyptians, which lived thousands of years before arabs even existed.
Or did you think mohamed invented arabs when he invented allah?
Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope.
I wonder where the guy found all the time between his mass rape sessions.
It's a common accusation from more base-minded people that Mohammed was a pedophile, which I guess is what you're hinting at. While it might be true that Mohammed had sex with what we consider to be children in the 21st century - I honestly don't know that - I think it's safe to say that this was happening all over the world in the 6th century and would not be some "perversion" unique to Mohammed. It might be inconceivable to you, but moral and ethical standards do change over the centuries.
Just because someone on the Trump campaign had contact with Russians means nothing
Not just "someone"
I think the entire article is misleading. All of those faces and images are not generated from scratch, but are in fact based on graphical templates that I guess were fed to this neural network. And all that neural network seems to do is to apply some morphs to the existing images by interpolating with other images.
I was sceptical at first, but then the Petronas Towers showed up during the morphs of the "Towers" category. Also there is so much background detail in the images, no way all of that information was generated from scratch by an AI.
Don't worry.. we have Donald Trump to destroy the establishment and give the country back to the hard working Americans!
Oh, wait... Trump... isn't that that billionaire who put Wall Street bankers and former Big Oil executives into the White House? Oh, and isn't he about to lower taxes for corporations and very rich people?
Waaaaaaaaait.....
The mosquito-infested hellhole will push further inward.
Not everyone...
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany...
So since the Trump=Russia narrative failed, we now have an SJW=Russia talking point to try and rile up the right against Russia?
It did not fail. The investigations are ongoing.
Why are you so dismissive about this subject? Wouldn't you want to know if a foreign entity that is not the friend of the US and the west in general is interfering in your country's politics? Wouldn't you be concerned about possible collusion between the White House and an authoritarian country that actively fights against western values on multiple fronts?
Mmkay.
You are confusing energy with CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
If your numbers are correct, the point is not the relative energy generation of humans vs the sun, but that due to the higher CO2 concentration caused by humans, more of those 174 000 Terawats of heat energy from the sun that you mention will be retained in the atmosphere.
The problem with suppressing conspiracy theories, and promoting "authoritative" sources, is that it makes real conspiracies even easier for the authorities to cover up.
No it isn't. Despite what many right-wing conspiracy theorists say, we have a good, functioning and critical press in practically all of the western world.
I would we worried if we were living in Russia or China, where all local search engines forward you to the next state-sponsored propaganda news channel anyway. But we should quit selling ourselves short and over-criticizing the mainstream press in our parts of the world. It is much, much better than most people give it credit for, especially compared to what much of the non-western world is served on a daily basis.
Trump became president due to Russian influence in our election
No, that's not why he became president, but it's a wonderful ego-saving belief for a segment of the country
There are a number of high-profile investigations going on that are starting to provide results and evidence of how a foreign actor (Russia) tried to influence the election in favor of Trump.
And Russia has a history of manipulating public opinion and interfering with elections in other countries.
Do you think all of this is "fake news" and all the agents, secret services, politicians and other actors that are involved in these investigations are part of a liberal conspiracy?
I guess that's a wonderful ego-saving belief for a segment of the country.
Russian apologists coming up in 3... 2... 1...
Nice summary of the unthinkable collusion that has been going on between the Trump team and Putin's Russia.
But I'm afraid the far-right (alt-right?) Republican camp has been padded so thoroughly against investigative journalism (fake news) and real facts (with -alternative facts-) that all of this evidence of collusion and treason will simply bounce right off them. It's amazing and scary thoroughly this group of people has been shielded from reason. It seems practically like brainwashing.
All it takes is propaganda and a "great", charismatic leader that talks loudly.
Now everybody should understand how Nazi Germany could happen.
What I don't understand is how all this shutting out of non-Chinese tech companies doesn't count as protectionism that goes against WTO rules, of which China is a member.
The original motivation might have been censorship, but it is also a convenient way of boosting the domestic tech industry by keeping competition out.
I thought stuff like this is exactly why the WTO was devised in the first place. Why is China not sanctioned for these actions?
Or the explosions from the Death Stars. After all, those things were holding on to a lot of power that had to go somewhere...
Every Death Star contains a clone of Donald Trump in its core. When a "Fire!" command is received, the Principal Fire Command Engineer takes a lighter and pretends to put fire on Donald Trumps hair. The Death Star core bundles the concentrated anger of the Donald into a laser beam.
This is what actually happens inside of a Death Star.
Sarcasm is funny.