If you removed the red lights and replaced them with round abouts, you wouldn't need the cameras, lights, or tickets. You'd increase safety, reduce the need for enforcement and increase traffic flow in the effected area. But don't let safety and common sense get in the way of the local police getting a new squad car.
Edward Snowden claims to have uncovered a plot to subvert our constitutional rights by a super secret organization. Both claims are far fetched... which do we have more proof of?
socialism
1. a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
The united states is partially socialist. Not as socialist as the USSR was or China is. Most of the western world is to some degree socialist. This is a matter of degrees not absolutes.
No president has. They declare "police actions" and bypass the constitution. The federal government basically suspended the constitutional oversights on themselves during the civil war, and never saw the need to abide by it again.
I've got ADD. I was diagnosed with it in 5th grade. My parents refused medications and instead demanded the school address it via teaching techniques. Right or wrong that decision lead to me being who I am. They used to tell me in my special ed class that I was the only one in there that actually had ADD, the rest were just lazy. lol. It does bother me how many people I meet that claim to have ADD and clearly do not. Just about everyone self diagnoses themselves with it at a whim. It's not a joke, it's a real and debilitating disease.
My teachers taught me how to focus despite my disability. Today's shrinks (at least the ones I see) call it "Hyper focus" which has it's pluses and negatives. I can be given a task and plow through it in an almost machine like manner. I could be at a rock concert, it doesn't matter. If the planes going down and you need someone to work on fixing the autopilot before we crash without being distracted by imminent death and everyone screaming, I'm your man. I'd still be stripping wires as we plowed into the ground.
The downside is, I'm not in many plane crashes or doing work at rock concerts so often. More routinely I'm at my desk focused on some code or SQL, and I miss a fire drill... or someone comes up to me, needs my attention and keeps bugging me until I finally turn around in a rage and say WHAT?!?!?!? then feel very embarrassed. Luckily I've explained my condition and my co-workers understand why it happens. Like any mental health condition it becomes a lot easier to deal with when you have a shrink give you tools that you can teach to those around you. Now my friends and co-workers know there is value in me being a bit off and put up with me getting cranky when torn away from my work. They also tap me on the shoulder for fire alarms now.:-)
And, I always like to state that being open about mental health issues is good. We need to stop shunning people who have them... We ALL have them.
You mean, their reason for violating our constitutional rights? Last I check, those weren't up for debate. I didn't hear anything about Alien invasion or a super volcano about to destroy the world, so setting up the most invasive surveillance network ever created to spy on everyone on earth is a bit premature I think.
The treaty doesn't say anything about them not being able to mine the shit out of the moon. It just says they can't claim territory or place nukes in space (which you can be damned sure we've already breached) It also says the parties retain rights over whatever the launch into space, so should they start building mining platforms and shipping stuff back, we couldn't touch the equipment without breaching the treaty.
Making "racism" illegal is no different that declaring thought crime. When the state can govern your speech and your thought, alls well, as long as you agree with the state. Once you don't, you're fucked. I've always argued, you can easily determine if a law is a good one by the simple thought experiment: "Once we inevitably elect the next tyrant, will this law help or hurt his ascent to power?" What do you think Hitler would have done with such a law? I think it's rather clear.
There isn't much to compare to the horror that's going on there now. I'd hate to see their arsenal get lose but the pain and suffering happening to those people now dwarfs even the worst case scenario with the nukes.
This guy was one of the top brass in NK. Lets keep in mind how many millions of tortures and death he's likely responsible for. The worlds better off without him, and we can only hope NK becomes unstable soon. Those poor people that live there, my God. How can we still have such a place on this earth.
They were tried and abandon in the 1970s. They cost a lot and there were a lot of nasty byproducts that made decommissioning a site a nightmare. It's arguable however that we have better technology now and they might be worth looking at again. But LFTR's have definitely been tried, failed and abandoned. But take heart, there are about 1000 ways to build a reactor. We've plenty of designs left to try.
That paper talks about the possility that one might observe plumes, as one of several possible explanations for the terrain features seen on Europa. Actually observing such plumes is something else entirely.
Isn't that
This is just direct confirmation of what we already knew about.
What I said?
How is that clear? On what do you base the claim that the odds are so good that "it's just a matter of confirming it"? I don't think you would find anybody working in that field willing to make that bold claims.
Google is your friend:
"I'd be shocked if no life existed on Europa," said Shank, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
You don't seem to understand the difference between evidence and proof. We've plenty of evidence, just not the proof.
I've even go so far as to say I'm relatively sure we'll find life on every planetary body in our solar system. Even the moon. It may only be a few microbes in a lot of cases, but I seriously doubt life is nearly as unique as some believe.
This is just direct confirmation of what we already knew about. It's pretty clear Europa probably has some form of life under the ice. The odds are definitely in it's favor. It's just a matter of confirming it, just like these plumes. The really exciting bit will be if it's multicellular or even fish like animals. I really hope I live long enough to see it.
Because he doesn't believe any of the stuff you just said. Neither do I. Why do I need to be regulated? Why, when I got to the bank and deposit over $10,000 to I have to explain to the government how and where I got it? Why is that any of their business? This idea of money laundering is ludicrous. The idea that year after year, we need to give up more and more of our rights and privacy just to make the feds job of catching criminals easier baffles me. If we want to trade dollars for pounds or goldfish, fuck the government. They do not have a need to know about our transaction. And before you start talking about tax collection, there are a lot easier ways to collect taxes that are completely unavoidable. But if they implemented them, people would quickly become aware of just how much they were paying in taxes and likely revolt. This diffuse mess we have now serves to obfuscate just how much of your paycheck the feds end up with, and they like it that way.
Ya no... that's not how it works at all. It's called a Fiber Mux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing We do the same thing with your data when it's on copper, it's just a different kind of signal, in that case we use a DSLAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dslam (which is just another kind of mux)
If someone has hacked into your ISP to the point that they have control over the fiber muxes, you have a hell of a lot more to worry about than them listening to your phone calls.
Also, keep in mind that with copper, all they have to do is walk out to the pedestal behind your house and attach alligator clips to the right pair of wires and a spare speaker. And people DO do that, we've caught them. Hacking our muxes would require them to breach dozens of layers of security. It would be quite a feat.
All phone and data services have a cost to deploy, cost to maintain, and a maximum distance from the head office they can serve. DSL is cheap to deploy, moderate to maintain and can serve a moderate distance from the CO Cable is cheap to deploy, cheap to maintain and can only serve a very short distance from the CO requiring a lot of repeaters and such. Fiber is enormously expensive to deploy, Enormously expensive to maintain but can serve very long distances from the CO
Last report I saw on Obamas broadband initiative was that it cost $80 BILLION dollars to increase the number of people that could get broadband from 96% to 98%. The remaining people would cost hundreds of billions more to get broadband to, because they are up on mountains or out in the Dakotas. And that's just regular DSL and Cable. How much do you think it'd cost to do fiber? More than our GDP that's for sure.
The problem isn't cities. In cities even copper can do gigabit service easily. It's the rural areas that are the problem.
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If you removed the red lights and replaced them with round abouts, you wouldn't need the cameras, lights, or tickets. You'd increase safety, reduce the need for enforcement and increase traffic flow in the effected area. But don't let safety and common sense get in the way of the local police getting a new squad car.
Edward Snowden claims to have uncovered a plot to subvert our constitutional rights by a super secret organization. Both claims are far fetched... which do we have more proof of?
You mean a new tax. I don't see them batting an eyelash at that. It's not like THEY will have to pay it.
um, no...
socialism
1. a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
The united states is partially socialist. Not as socialist as the USSR was or China is. Most of the western world is to some degree socialist. This is a matter of degrees not absolutes.
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No president has. They declare "police actions" and bypass the constitution. The federal government basically suspended the constitutional oversights on themselves during the civil war, and never saw the need to abide by it again.
Why the heck did they name Christmas shorts "Prep and landing"? I've been baffled by this since it came out.
Also, Amazon didn't seem to be able to remove the versions I have of these shorts from my NAS. Funny thing.
My wild theory is that it's the NSA.
See you take the name: satoshi nakamoto
rearrange the letters and you get: ha! NSA is tomatos ok?
and tomatoes are green like MONEY! most of the year.
I've got ADD. I was diagnosed with it in 5th grade. My parents refused medications and instead demanded the school address it via teaching techniques. Right or wrong that decision lead to me being who I am. They used to tell me in my special ed class that I was the only one in there that actually had ADD, the rest were just lazy. lol. It does bother me how many people I meet that claim to have ADD and clearly do not. Just about everyone self diagnoses themselves with it at a whim. It's not a joke, it's a real and debilitating disease.
My teachers taught me how to focus despite my disability. Today's shrinks (at least the ones I see) call it "Hyper focus" which has it's pluses and negatives. I can be given a task and plow through it in an almost machine like manner. I could be at a rock concert, it doesn't matter. If the planes going down and you need someone to work on fixing the autopilot before we crash without being distracted by imminent death and everyone screaming, I'm your man. I'd still be stripping wires as we plowed into the ground.
The downside is, I'm not in many plane crashes or doing work at rock concerts so often. More routinely I'm at my desk focused on some code or SQL, and I miss a fire drill... or someone comes up to me, needs my attention and keeps bugging me until I finally turn around in a rage and say WHAT?!?!?!? then feel very embarrassed. Luckily I've explained my condition and my co-workers understand why it happens. Like any mental health condition it becomes a lot easier to deal with when you have a shrink give you tools that you can teach to those around you. Now my friends and co-workers know there is value in me being a bit off and put up with me getting cranky when torn away from my work. They also tap me on the shoulder for fire alarms now. :-)
And, I always like to state that being open about mental health issues is good. We need to stop shunning people who have them... We ALL have them.
You mean, their reason for violating our constitutional rights? Last I check, those weren't up for debate. I didn't hear anything about Alien invasion or a super volcano about to destroy the world, so setting up the most invasive surveillance network ever created to spy on everyone on earth is a bit premature I think.
The treaty doesn't say anything about them not being able to mine the shit out of the moon. It just says they can't claim territory or place nukes in space (which you can be damned sure we've already breached) It also says the parties retain rights over whatever the launch into space, so should they start building mining platforms and shipping stuff back, we couldn't touch the equipment without breaching the treaty.
Which would be nothing once our government drops a rock on their camp site and calls it a meteor strike.
Oh that's easy... "the majority"
Making "racism" illegal is no different that declaring thought crime. When the state can govern your speech and your thought, alls well, as long as you agree with the state. Once you don't, you're fucked. I've always argued, you can easily determine if a law is a good one by the simple thought experiment: "Once we inevitably elect the next tyrant, will this law help or hurt his ascent to power?" What do you think Hitler would have done with such a law? I think it's rather clear.
There isn't much to compare to the horror that's going on there now. I'd hate to see their arsenal get lose but the pain and suffering happening to those people now dwarfs even the worst case scenario with the nukes.
Its healthcare.gov all over again!
This guy was one of the top brass in NK. Lets keep in mind how many millions of tortures and death he's likely responsible for. The worlds better off without him, and we can only hope NK becomes unstable soon. Those poor people that live there, my God. How can we still have such a place on this earth.
They were tried and abandon in the 1970s. They cost a lot and there were a lot of nasty byproducts that made decommissioning a site a nightmare. It's arguable however that we have better technology now and they might be worth looking at again. But LFTR's have definitely been tried, failed and abandoned. But take heart, there are about 1000 ways to build a reactor. We've plenty of designs left to try.
Are they going to ban them in restaurants next? Movie theaters? What an idiotic premise!
That paper talks about the possility that one might observe plumes, as one of several possible explanations for the terrain features seen on Europa. Actually observing such plumes is something else entirely.
Isn't that
This is just direct confirmation of what we already knew about.
What I said?
How is that clear? On what do you base the claim that the odds are so good that "it's just a matter of confirming it"? I don't think you would find anybody working in that field willing to make that bold claims.
Google is your friend:
"I'd be shocked if no life existed on Europa," said Shank, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091116-jupiter-moon-life-europa-fish.html
You don't seem to understand the difference between evidence and proof. We've plenty of evidence, just not the proof.
I've even go so far as to say I'm relatively sure we'll find life on every planetary body in our solar system. Even the moon. It may only be a few microbes in a lot of cases, but I seriously doubt life is nearly as unique as some believe.
We've known about the plumes for a long time:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1603.pdf
This is just direct confirmation of what we already knew about.
It's pretty clear Europa probably has some form of life under the ice. The odds are definitely in it's favor. It's just a matter of confirming it, just like these plumes. The really exciting bit will be if it's multicellular or even fish like animals. I really hope I live long enough to see it.
Because he doesn't believe any of the stuff you just said. Neither do I. Why do I need to be regulated? Why, when I got to the bank and deposit over $10,000 to I have to explain to the government how and where I got it? Why is that any of their business? This idea of money laundering is ludicrous. The idea that year after year, we need to give up more and more of our rights and privacy just to make the feds job of catching criminals easier baffles me. If we want to trade dollars for pounds or goldfish, fuck the government. They do not have a need to know about our transaction. And before you start talking about tax collection, there are a lot easier ways to collect taxes that are completely unavoidable. But if they implemented them, people would quickly become aware of just how much they were paying in taxes and likely revolt. This diffuse mess we have now serves to obfuscate just how much of your paycheck the feds end up with, and they like it that way.
Ya no... that's not how it works at all.
It's called a Fiber Mux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing
We do the same thing with your data when it's on copper, it's just a different kind of signal, in that case we use a DSLAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dslam
(which is just another kind of mux)
If someone has hacked into your ISP to the point that they have control over the fiber muxes, you have a hell of a lot more to worry about than them listening to your phone calls.
Also, keep in mind that with copper, all they have to do is walk out to the pedestal behind your house and attach alligator clips to the right pair of wires and a spare speaker. And people DO do that, we've caught them. Hacking our muxes would require them to breach dozens of layers of security. It would be quite a feat.
way to not understand the industry at all. lol
All phone and data services have a cost to deploy, cost to maintain, and a maximum distance from the head office they can serve.
DSL is cheap to deploy, moderate to maintain and can serve a moderate distance from the CO
Cable is cheap to deploy, cheap to maintain and can only serve a very short distance from the CO requiring a lot of repeaters and such.
Fiber is enormously expensive to deploy, Enormously expensive to maintain but can serve very long distances from the CO
Last report I saw on Obamas broadband initiative was that it cost $80 BILLION dollars to increase the number of people that could get broadband from 96% to 98%. The remaining people would cost hundreds of billions more to get broadband to, because they are up on mountains or out in the Dakotas. And that's just regular DSL and Cable. How much do you think it'd cost to do fiber? More than our GDP that's for sure.
The problem isn't cities. In cities even copper can do gigabit service easily. It's the rural areas that are the problem.
Taking bets on how long it takes people to fork SteamOS into SteamBoatOS with full desktop and other crap...
I'm betting 45 seconds.