As to the retarded question of whether or not I'm retarded: you've never met me, so you have no idea and don't for one fucking minute try and convince anybody that you do - it makes you look stupid and brands you the liar that you are. My last WAIS-III composite, assessed four years ago, was 223. Make what you will of that.
As with animal control: if you cannot identify what you see through your scope, your finger goes nowhere near the fucking trigger! (disclaimer: I am currently enjoying my retirement, and spend much time shooting small furry animals that cause damage to infrastructure and crops. Shoot the wrong thing doing that, there's a hefty fine and jail time. Not to mention that if you go waving a rifle around on a built up area in the UK you're likely to get shot yourself if the police don't already know you're there and you don't have valid reason to be waving a rifle around in a built up area (like, for instance, taking out rats near where food is stored or prepared)).
...and no, it 'in't 'cos I'm a black man. This is a CS guy looking for potential problems in QC to solve before a mature solution can be even considered ready for promotion from drawing board to prototyping - 'cos once you go physical shit gets expensive.
Except the US aren't buying the oil anymore. The oil is now pumped by American companies, loaded on American tankers, and refined by American refiners at American refineries and burned in American SUVs on American roads.
The Iraqi collective sees not penny 1 of oil revenue, fuck the inconvenient fact that it's their oil!
Yeah, you all know what I'm talking about. Alexandria: destroyed by the Romans in the name of Democracy. The Medieval "Dark Age": following the fall of the Roman Empire, the ten Centuries of zero net scientific and cultural progress, presided over by the Catholic Church; leading some to refer to the Church as the Antichrist (see the Magdeburg Centuries). the Inquisition, the Witchfinders and the Pagan Rout: anybody who played with chemicals, built machines, or made proclamations that rubbed against Church sensibilities was mocked, ostracised, and murdered (see: Galileo, Ptolemy, the origin of April Fools' Day, the/current/ Catholic extremism against Pagans...).
I could go on; there are literally hundreds of examples of years of scientific and cultural progress being destroyed just because someone didn't or didn't want to try, and understand it....and the Painted Savages call themselves civilised? I call them anything but. Backwards and doomed would be more apt. Remember the Roman Empire. Look how "civilised" that was. When the Visigoths heave over the ridge, you know your Empire is about to fall. That day is not long in coming.
the big problem I think is atmospherics. Getting two scopes to sync is the easy bit, getting them to dance out shimmer is difficult - the idea of interferometry (FYI) is to separate two points - difficult to do if they're moving in different directions in two (or four) locations at the same time. I reckon the best they could do here is to apply some sort of real time or maybe even predictive correction to the raw data (wind sensors?). Job even harder if the sensors are located a continent or two apart...
...Facebook's first priority is no longer its users' privacy (if it ever had been). Its first priority now is making money from its shareholders. From advertising space to per-click charges for using its authentication protocols and other bits of code, Facebook has other avenues of revenue than selling user data. Having close on a billion accounts live right now is a bonus for Facebook, as it shows a more or less loyal customer base for any other company that seeks a captive target.
Hence, deeply personal data you might find on FB that might find its way into some other company's database or metric for them to use to tailor their product to a target consumer, is unlikely to be uniquely identifiable - it's infinitely more likely to be statistical in nature. The single most likely candidates for individual monitoring would be those already on watch lists or those who trip warning triggers (yes, there is tech out there to monitor even "closed" or spiderproofed websites: that the police in the UK can access locked down Facebook accounts (seen it) as though the pages were Wayback mirrored is evidence enough of that).
I don't think I'd be where I am now if I didn't excuse myself from group learning at primary and go do my own thing (which was usually lots of reading, playing with numbers, craft materials or involved the computer in some way). When everyone around me is stuck for what to do next, I'm already nearly finished. I'm glad I was one of the very few students who had both the brass neck and the foresight to do this instead of sitting there and chanting out multiplication grids to 12...
This bickering is pointless. The *real* question is, how much energy would be required to overcome the molecular cohesion of an Earth-sized body conglomerate of solid, liquid and gas?
I've lost count of the number of times I've sat there and just watched a spider start building a web at 4am, finishing at around 10, and just marvelling at the insane complexity and beauty of the thing.
The closest to real-world I can think of to compare to copy~1 infringement is operating a water butte filter. If you pay for your domestic supply on a meter and you water your garden or fill your tub from a butte rather than use the main, you're depriving the water company of *potential* income. The difference here is that the water company is claiming ownership of something that FALLS OUT OF THE SKY. Well, I suppose as far as publishers are concerned artistic proof falls out of the sky as well, but we'll not dwell on their delusional nature, eh?
My argument in this instance (and it's worked in court to defend the perfectly lawful butte operation and to argue against paying nearly £1,000 per year) is this: why should I pay a private company 10% of my gross income to poison something that is essential for life, that I can easily obtain in practically its purest form for practically nothing?
...which is why they supplied keys for their OSes separately to the media. Why they went for hooky VLKs and those distributing them instead of the end users using them. Establish the user base and lock them in, when you get the planned obsolescence running properly, as they have now, then you've got a captive audience and every fucking penny they will ever earn for the rest of their lives.
Partisan politics operating under colour of Democracy is an abject failure in its theory but NONE OF YOU SHEEP CAN SEE IT.
What Partisan politics do is polarise one group of people against another - much as what we're seeing here. RvD, two sides fighting each other instead of fighting the REAL ENEMY which is the criminal element RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY.
What changes when the regime changes?
NOTHING.
Why?
The promises might be slightly different, but the endgames in any case are EXACTLY THE SAME. Gain at the expense of EVERYBODY ELSE.
Fuck you lot, as long as you keep consuming and breeding more consumers and continue to buy into the Great Fiscal Lie, then the 1% will continue to divide you and they will continue to control you, all the time further abrogating your rights previously guaranteed by a two hundred fifty-odd year old piece of parchment!
An engineer tackles problems because he's been told to.
Do you want to be someone who enjoys what he does, solves new problems by applying old solutions or variations thereof, then rewrites the manuals? Be a hacker.
Or do you want to be someone who spends his entire working life reading manuals and doing what he's told? Be an engineer.
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No, I did my own research.
As to the retarded question of whether or not I'm retarded: you've never met me, so you have no idea and don't for one fucking minute try and convince anybody that you do - it makes you look stupid and brands you the liar that you are. My last WAIS-III composite, assessed four years ago, was 223. Make what you will of that.
As with animal control: if you cannot identify what you see through your scope, your finger goes nowhere near the fucking trigger! (disclaimer: I am currently enjoying my retirement, and spend much time shooting small furry animals that cause damage to infrastructure and crops. Shoot the wrong thing doing that, there's a hefty fine and jail time. Not to mention that if you go waving a rifle around on a built up area in the UK you're likely to get shot yourself if the police don't already know you're there and you don't have valid reason to be waving a rifle around in a built up area (like, for instance, taking out rats near where food is stored or prepared)).
...and no, it 'in't 'cos I'm a black man. This is a CS guy looking for potential problems in QC to solve before a mature solution can be even considered ready for promotion from drawing board to prototyping - 'cos once you go physical shit gets expensive.
no, it's a prize/award, not a conditional loan.
Except the US aren't buying the oil anymore. The oil is now pumped by American companies, loaded on American tankers, and refined by American refiners at American refineries and burned in American SUVs on American roads.
The Iraqi collective sees not penny 1 of oil revenue, fuck the inconvenient fact that it's their oil!
Maybe not, but there is the obligation to disobey an unlawful order like firing on civilian noncombatants.
...in pursuit of riches.
Yeah, you all know what I'm talking about. Alexandria: destroyed by the Romans in the name of Democracy. /current/ Catholic extremism against Pagans...).
The Medieval "Dark Age": following the fall of the Roman Empire, the ten Centuries of zero net scientific and cultural progress, presided over by the Catholic Church; leading some to refer to the Church as the Antichrist (see the Magdeburg Centuries).
the Inquisition, the Witchfinders and the Pagan Rout: anybody who played with chemicals, built machines, or made proclamations that rubbed against Church sensibilities was mocked, ostracised, and murdered (see: Galileo, Ptolemy, the origin of April Fools' Day, the
I could go on; there are literally hundreds of examples of years of scientific and cultural progress being destroyed just because someone didn't or didn't want to try, and understand it. ...and the Painted Savages call themselves civilised? I call them anything but. Backwards and doomed would be more apt. Remember the Roman Empire. Look how "civilised" that was. When the Visigoths heave over the ridge, you know your Empire is about to fall. That day is not long in coming.
the big problem I think is atmospherics. Getting two scopes to sync is the easy bit, getting them to dance out shimmer is difficult - the idea of interferometry (FYI) is to separate two points - difficult to do if they're moving in different directions in two (or four) locations at the same time. I reckon the best they could do here is to apply some sort of real time or maybe even predictive correction to the raw data (wind sensors?). Job even harder if the sensors are located a continent or two apart...
Funny, I thought the free market economy was a Minoan concept...
from its shareholders? I meant *for* its shareholders! It's 8am, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
...Facebook's first priority is no longer its users' privacy (if it ever had been). Its first priority now is making money from its shareholders. From advertising space to per-click charges for using its authentication protocols and other bits of code, Facebook has other avenues of revenue than selling user data. Having close on a billion accounts live right now is a bonus for Facebook, as it shows a more or less loyal customer base for any other company that seeks a captive target.
Hence, deeply personal data you might find on FB that might find its way into some other company's database or metric for them to use to tailor their product to a target consumer, is unlikely to be uniquely identifiable - it's infinitely more likely to be statistical in nature. The single most likely candidates for individual monitoring would be those already on watch lists or those who trip warning triggers (yes, there is tech out there to monitor even "closed" or spiderproofed websites: that the police in the UK can access locked down Facebook accounts (seen it) as though the pages were Wayback mirrored is evidence enough of that).
Oh, to have mod points...
I don't think I'd be where I am now if I didn't excuse myself from group learning at primary and go do my own thing (which was usually lots of reading, playing with numbers, craft materials or involved the computer in some way). When everyone around me is stuck for what to do next, I'm already nearly finished. I'm glad I was one of the very few students who had both the brass neck and the foresight to do this instead of sitting there and chanting out multiplication grids to 12...
This bickering is pointless. The *real* question is, how much energy would be required to overcome the molecular cohesion of an Earth-sized body conglomerate of solid, liquid and gas?
It's for a school project...
Yeah.
I just went Santorini all over my keyboard, now I got sticky keys.
I would sooner take dating advice from a married guy than a single one.
Think about it. Why's he married? He must be doing something right.
I've lost count of the number of times I've sat there and just watched a spider start building a web at 4am, finishing at around 10, and just marvelling at the insane complexity and beauty of the thing.
The closest to real-world I can think of to compare to copy~1 infringement is operating a water butte filter. If you pay for your domestic supply on a meter and you water your garden or fill your tub from a butte rather than use the main, you're depriving the water company of *potential* income. The difference here is that the water company is claiming ownership of something that FALLS OUT OF THE SKY. Well, I suppose as far as publishers are concerned artistic proof falls out of the sky as well, but we'll not dwell on their delusional nature, eh?
My argument in this instance (and it's worked in court to defend the perfectly lawful butte operation and to argue against paying nearly £1,000 per year) is this: why should I pay a private company 10% of my gross income to poison something that is essential for life, that I can easily obtain in practically its purest form for practically nothing?
nice Adams ref.
...promoting them? Is Sony a bank now? Did I blink and miss something?
They didn't just attack Napster, they called everybody who listened to music, thieves. That was the drummer Ulrich who said that.
At which point I made a public event of incinerating hundreds of Pounds worth of Metallica merchandise just to make a statement:
YOU DO NOT SHIT WHERE YOU EAT.
...which is why they supplied keys for their OSes separately to the media. Why they went for hooky VLKs and those distributing them instead of the end users using them. Establish the user base and lock them in, when you get the planned obsolescence running properly, as they have now, then you've got a captive audience and every fucking penny they will ever earn for the rest of their lives.
Partisan politics operating under colour of Democracy is an abject failure in its theory but NONE OF YOU SHEEP CAN SEE IT.
What Partisan politics do is polarise one group of people against another - much as what we're seeing here. RvD, two sides fighting each other instead of fighting the REAL ENEMY which is the criminal element RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY.
What changes when the regime changes?
NOTHING.
Why?
The promises might be slightly different, but the endgames in any case are EXACTLY THE SAME. Gain at the expense of EVERYBODY ELSE.
Fuck you lot, as long as you keep consuming and breeding more consumers and continue to buy into the Great Fiscal Lie, then the 1% will continue to divide you and they will continue to control you, all the time further abrogating your rights previously guaranteed by a two hundred fifty-odd year old piece of parchment!
A hacker tackles problems because he wants to.
An engineer tackles problems because he's been told to.
Do you want to be someone who enjoys what he does, solves new problems by applying old solutions or variations thereof, then rewrites the manuals? Be a hacker.
Or do you want to be someone who spends his entire working life reading manuals and doing what he's told? Be an engineer.
3000+ms lag would be a bitch.
For a definition of "13-year-olds", read: "44-year-old disgruntled single-portion-shopper FBI agents".