2 * "I have no fucking clue" is still "I have no fucking clue" In fact, I think I'll invent a new unit of time called "I have no fucking clue" or IHNFC This project will take me approximately 10 IGNFC's "How long is that? We just found out that the entire software platform is incompatible with anything over IE6! Actually, it's ONLY compatible with IE6... or netscape, but we don't know what a netscape is, we think it might be a router or something..." Well, that's the great thing about IGNFC measurement! You see, despite this unforeseen problem, the IHNFC system automatically adjusts and this will actually still consume 10 IHNFC units. "Fantastic!" I know... and, as an added bonus, IGNFCs estimate automatically contract when angry people are in the room, and extend when people that actually have to work on the project are around. Unfortunately conversion to standard time intervals is very complex and can only be calculated once the project it complete.
Project leader: Ok, so we need to know how long it will take for you to do X Me: I'm not sure, that's an entirely new API, proprietary to the vendor, there's almost no documentation and their website has a support forum filled with questions and basically no replys to any of them. Project leader: Well, we need a number. Me: Why? Project leader: I have to fill in this box here... see? Me: Ok fine, 800 hrs Project leader: Now hold on a minute, this wont take 800hrs Me: It could, I have no idea. It's already taken the majority of at least one hour and I don't even know what language it's in. Project leader: Fine, I'll put down 800hrs, but you're the one that's going to look silly.
POST PROJECT REVIEW Project leader: I can see here your original estimate was 800hrs, and your actual billed time was 1265hrs. What causes led to you missing your estimate, and how can we avoid those in the future. Me: Don't make estimates. Project leader: Come on now, I need a real answer. Me: Why? Project leader: I have to fill in this box here... see? Me:....
This is why you don't pay for media. My wife's iPod recently decided to just stop syncing with her windows desktop all together. iTunes has always been the worst of the worst in music management but now it's just dead to her. I'm sure I could reinstall windows for the 10th time, but shes just done with it and wants to be rid of it. It especially irked her when it tried to "Sync" with her camera every time she plugged it in and randomly erased photos... So I ordered her a new MP3 player with the same amount of memory and features for $35 (her iPod was $200) so she was happy... then she asked "How do I get all this music I bought off of it?"
YOU PAID FOR MUSIC?!?!?
Then I had to explain she didn't actually "buy" anything at all. Downloaded her entire music collection in about 5min (took me an hour to look it all up) and I guess that's piracy even though she paid for it. Go figure.
Don't pay for media. You're just asking to get screwed.
They thought it was a health tonic. If you didn't drink it, you had all sorts of digestive tract issues. Water, especially in cities, was considered almost poisonous. Also, the beer of the time was very weak. It was watered down because it was basically the only way to quench your thirst without getting sick. There are many old songs that revolve around the boss watering down the workers beer so they'd get more work done, but if the boss watered it down too much his workers would get sick and not come to work. He didn't want them pooping their brains out but he didn't want them drunk either.
I pay $38/month and have pulled down in excess of 52Mbs according to my logs. Now that's not 100... but if I'm looking to buy some hardware for my next firewall, I'm going to be thinking 5 or 10years down the road and exceeding 100Mbs seems likely. My current setup can do gigabyte transfers, why would I downgrade? I don't think me hitting Gig speeds is in the near future but going over 100 definitely is.
You're failing to grasp the size difference between NK's nukes and the stuff the US and Russians tested in LEO back in the day. We have conventional bombs that rival what NK can do with a nuke. We're talking something that would only take out a few city blocks... still very bad, but in space? Totally useless. The EMP would be tiny.
The most destructive thing they could do with a nuke on a missile is hit one of our carrier groups. THAT would be devastating to our fleet. But we have some pretty fancy gadgetry designed to prevent that very thing from happening. The far more effective thing they could do with a nuke is forget the rocket. Put the biggest nuke they can get together on one of their subs, sail it into any major harbor in the world and detonate it. Just the fact that it happened at all would devastate the world economy and the environmental impact of half a dozen oil tankers dumping, now radioactive, crude into the harbor would be incalculable.
I just hope China has as many spies in North Korea as I suspect. They're the only ones that really have any control over that psychopath.
This entire thing was ridiculous and made so by the police. 2 men shut down one of the largest cities on earth. These sorts of attacks happen all the time most other parts of the world. Imagine living in Israel or Syria. If they ever get 20 guys again like 9/11 and they all just get rifles and randomly start shooting people all over the country like the Washington sniper did this countries going to become a police state if the police react like this. More people were killed in Massachusetts in the past week in car accidents then by these bombers. Where was the police presence to prevent those fatalities? Oh, that's right, they were busy firing thousands of rounds at a 2 guys in a residential neighborhood.
He's in a pressurized suit. So the natural state of the suit is basically gingerbread man shaped. Every movement you make is against the natural pressure of the suit the straiten out. It's a significant workout.
No, it's fucking retarded at its face. So we find the children that need the LEAST amount of help, and give them the most help. Then we take the kids in the most trouble and flunk them out, punish them, hold them back a grade. The entire premise is idiotic. In this country we have trouble getting normal children the basic skills they need. Last I checked, our gifted students were doing ok. So lets start focusing on the kids that need it, and let the ones that gifted ones be gifted on their own.
Well, you're thinking in terms of Cause - > Effect. And you're under the assumption that every Effect was created by a cause. But what you have to accept is the reverse is true: Every Cause is created by it's effect. Schrodinger's cat isn't alive or dead until you observe it. The universe works in completely the opposite direction than our minds are designed to understand it. Fascinating really.
Pledge to only except individual campaign donations and post those donations online. Pledge to attend EVERY vote unless medically unable. No abstaining. Pledge to Vote against or veto (depending on office) any legislation that contains earmarks (I realize that this is currently all legislation) Pledge to avoid "hot button" issues like abortion, Gun control, gay marriage and focus on the many issues most people agree on where easy progress can be made. These highly incendiary issues are used by the current parties to distract people from their lack of real action on real issues. Pledge to budget only for the current year. Budgeting for years you will not be in office is ridiculous because it will simply be re-written at that time. Budgets that claim to spend now and then save in 4 years after you're gone are a joke. Pledge to reduce the US military presence in the world by at least 50%. Let the military decide which bases to close and where. We'll still have the largest, most expensive military on earth. So it'll be ok. End the drug war. End mandatory minimums. Make it illegal for police seizures of cash to go to the departments involved. Make it illegal for any drug sentence to exceed the sentence for murder. Make getting a greencard so easy, people stop traversing the dessert in order to avoid having to get one. If you obey the law, and have a job, you should be able to get into the country easily.
Your questions are wrong because our human minds are not adapted to handle the truth... which is: there was no time and space prior to the big bang... because there was no time that was prior to the big bang. The Big Bang created time and space. Our best measurements and studies have concluded that the universe will not collapse again. It is in an accelerating expansion. It's not slowing down. There will be no big crunch. Are there other universes? Perhaps... but I tended to think that if there are... they are all part of this one same system. All effecting each other, and therefore all part of this universe just in an indirect way... but then I'm just getting into semantics.
yes, generally the trigger is on a relay that's switched on and off by the phones speaker. The "lost signal" beep would like set it off without any extra effort at all. Then you have the fact that its just plain easier to use a cheap watch with an alarm on it.
The fact of the matter is, no matter what you think of, there is no way to stop this sort of thing. They could have had concrete trash cans that direct blasts up, but then they just don't put them in the bins. Ban black powder, but then they just use stuff you can find at a hardware store... put concrete barricades up but that just directs the blast back at the crowd. Ban everything that could possibly be used and then they'll take a dumptruck full of dirt and plow into a crowd at 60mph. People who want to do something like this will always find a force multiplier. This is a psychology issue, you need to treat the mind. You can't stop an avalanche once it's already started.
It's pretty easy to be profitable when you can pick and choose where you deploy your service. Let me know when they start deploying their service in towns with less than 20k people and the phone companies will have something to worry about.
Agreed. You need someone that knows what they're doing to keep track of them... those types of people cost, minimum $50k/year... but they rarely ever need do anything at all. It's hard to convince management to keep them on. But when they aren't around and you need them.... whoa unto you.
Al Gore wanted to deregulate the telecoms industry back in the day but when he went to congress he said: “The response was ‘hell no: If we deregulate these guys, how will we raise money from them?’”
No, tritium is a hydrogen isotope. It can not be used to make a water molecule. Water can not be radioactive. It can only contain radioactive contaminants.
Water can not be radioactive. It's actually an incredibly good radiation insulator and that's exactly why they use it. The problem is the radioactive particulates in it. Fish eat, absorb those and then still, the fish is not radioactive, the problem is that when you eat the fish these materials get into your body. Funny enough, the radiations usually not going to cause you any health problems, the material itself is almost always heavy metals however. And those are very bad for you indeed.
They got the storage down pretty well I think. There's hydrogen cars drive around all over my town. I also know some off-road guys that use it in competition because they get their trucks at crazy angles sometimes and liquid fuel becomes problematic when the trucks at a 90 degree angle.
The point is, biodiesel burns dirty and is inefficient. We can burn hydrogen at almost 100% efficiency. The reaction in which they turn the plant material into hydrogen likely happens in a closed cycle. The entire reaction is contained. So they could cycle through the same material several times to get the most out of it. Where-as, with diesel, you combine it with ambient air that's and an unknown temperature, moisture and oxygen content, light it and hope for the best.
People should study what they want. Productivity increases mean we can provide for everyone with fewer people needed. That means we can easily afford a basic income, and challenges to stimulate individuals to unleash the native curiosity and creativity most of us are born with. We need to rethink pre-industrial age, feudal economics and understand that money is a tool that should benefit us, instead of a God demanding human sacrifice.
Bullshit. This kind of "we" and "our" think is exactly what's wrong with western society. The idea that I slave away at a job that I don't like so I can make X amount of money... but that money doesn't belong to me, it belongs to "us" and you're going to just move some of that money over and give it to someone that has a job that's interesting to them but doesn't provide for them financially is just plain evil.
Doing something you love, just for the shear joy of it despite receiving little to no financial incentive to do so has a name. It's called ART.
People should study what they want. But if what they study doesn't put food on the table, they need to find a way to do that. If they're not willing to sacrifice for their art, that's their problem, not the rest of societies.
Yes, someone should attack North Korean and put that shit to rest for good. But it shouldn't be us. This is a South Korea, Chinese and Japanese problem. If they do not care to get involved, we certainly should not. The North Koreans have no capability of attacking us except the assets we foolishly have in the area. We're creating our own problem here and should back the fuck off and let the people that live their take care of themselves. Next thing to happen is they nuke a carrier group and we pretend to act all surprised?
When you're at a party and some crazy asshole shows up... go home. It's not your house. Let the owners be owners.
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2 * "I have no fucking clue" is still "I have no fucking clue"
In fact, I think I'll invent a new unit of time called "I have no fucking clue" or IHNFC
This project will take me approximately 10 IGNFC's
"How long is that? We just found out that the entire software platform is incompatible with anything over IE6! Actually, it's ONLY compatible with IE6... or netscape, but we don't know what a netscape is, we think it might be a router or something..."
Well, that's the great thing about IGNFC measurement! You see, despite this unforeseen problem, the IHNFC system automatically adjusts and this will actually still consume 10 IHNFC units.
"Fantastic!"
I know... and, as an added bonus, IGNFCs estimate automatically contract when angry people are in the room, and extend when people that actually have to work on the project are around. Unfortunately conversion to standard time intervals is very complex and can only be calculated once the project it complete.
My estimates suck because:
Project leader: Ok, so we need to know how long it will take for you to do X
Me: I'm not sure, that's an entirely new API, proprietary to the vendor, there's almost no documentation and their website has a support forum filled with questions and basically no replys to any of them.
Project leader: Well, we need a number.
Me: Why?
Project leader: I have to fill in this box here... see?
Me: Ok fine, 800 hrs
Project leader: Now hold on a minute, this wont take 800hrs
Me: It could, I have no idea. It's already taken the majority of at least one hour and I don't even know what language it's in.
Project leader: Fine, I'll put down 800hrs, but you're the one that's going to look silly.
POST PROJECT REVIEW ....
Project leader: I can see here your original estimate was 800hrs, and your actual billed time was 1265hrs. What causes led to you missing your estimate, and how can we avoid those in the future.
Me: Don't make estimates.
Project leader: Come on now, I need a real answer.
Me: Why?
Project leader: I have to fill in this box here... see?
Me:
This is why you don't pay for media.
My wife's iPod recently decided to just stop syncing with her windows desktop all together. iTunes has always been the worst of the worst in music management but now it's just dead to her. I'm sure I could reinstall windows for the 10th time, but shes just done with it and wants to be rid of it. It especially irked her when it tried to "Sync" with her camera every time she plugged it in and randomly erased photos...
So I ordered her a new MP3 player with the same amount of memory and features for $35 (her iPod was $200) so she was happy... then she asked "How do I get all this music I bought off of it?"
YOU PAID FOR MUSIC?!?!?
Then I had to explain she didn't actually "buy" anything at all. Downloaded her entire music collection in about 5min (took me an hour to look it all up) and I guess that's piracy even though she paid for it. Go figure.
Don't pay for media. You're just asking to get screwed.
They thought it was a health tonic. If you didn't drink it, you had all sorts of digestive tract issues. Water, especially in cities, was considered almost poisonous. Also, the beer of the time was very weak. It was watered down because it was basically the only way to quench your thirst without getting sick. There are many old songs that revolve around the boss watering down the workers beer so they'd get more work done, but if the boss watered it down too much his workers would get sick and not come to work. He didn't want them pooping their brains out but he didn't want them drunk either.
I pay $38/month and have pulled down in excess of 52Mbs according to my logs. Now that's not 100... but if I'm looking to buy some hardware for my next firewall, I'm going to be thinking 5 or 10years down the road and exceeding 100Mbs seems likely. My current setup can do gigabyte transfers, why would I downgrade? I don't think me hitting Gig speeds is in the near future but going over 100 definitely is.
You're failing to grasp the size difference between NK's nukes and the stuff the US and Russians tested in LEO back in the day. We have conventional bombs that rival what NK can do with a nuke. We're talking something that would only take out a few city blocks... still very bad, but in space? Totally useless. The EMP would be tiny.
The most destructive thing they could do with a nuke on a missile is hit one of our carrier groups. THAT would be devastating to our fleet. But we have some pretty fancy gadgetry designed to prevent that very thing from happening. The far more effective thing they could do with a nuke is forget the rocket. Put the biggest nuke they can get together on one of their subs, sail it into any major harbor in the world and detonate it. Just the fact that it happened at all would devastate the world economy and the environmental impact of half a dozen oil tankers dumping, now radioactive, crude into the harbor would be incalculable.
I just hope China has as many spies in North Korea as I suspect. They're the only ones that really have any control over that psychopath.
This entire thing was ridiculous and made so by the police. 2 men shut down one of the largest cities on earth. These sorts of attacks happen all the time most other parts of the world. Imagine living in Israel or Syria. If they ever get 20 guys again like 9/11 and they all just get rifles and randomly start shooting people all over the country like the Washington sniper did this countries going to become a police state if the police react like this. More people were killed in Massachusetts in the past week in car accidents then by these bombers. Where was the police presence to prevent those fatalities? Oh, that's right, they were busy firing thousands of rounds at a 2 guys in a residential neighborhood.
He's in a pressurized suit. So the natural state of the suit is basically gingerbread man shaped. Every movement you make is against the natural pressure of the suit the straiten out. It's a significant workout.
No, it's fucking retarded at its face. So we find the children that need the LEAST amount of help, and give them the most help. Then we take the kids in the most trouble and flunk them out, punish them, hold them back a grade. The entire premise is idiotic. In this country we have trouble getting normal children the basic skills they need. Last I checked, our gifted students were doing ok. So lets start focusing on the kids that need it, and let the ones that gifted ones be gifted on their own.
Well, you're thinking in terms of Cause - > Effect. And you're under the assumption that every Effect was created by a cause. But what you have to accept is the reverse is true: Every Cause is created by it's effect. Schrodinger's cat isn't alive or dead until you observe it. The universe works in completely the opposite direction than our minds are designed to understand it. Fascinating really.
Pledge to only except individual campaign donations and post those donations online.
Pledge to attend EVERY vote unless medically unable. No abstaining.
Pledge to Vote against or veto (depending on office) any legislation that contains earmarks (I realize that this is currently all legislation)
Pledge to avoid "hot button" issues like abortion, Gun control, gay marriage and focus on the many issues most people agree on where easy progress can be made. These highly incendiary issues are used by the current parties to distract people from their lack of real action on real issues.
Pledge to budget only for the current year. Budgeting for years you will not be in office is ridiculous because it will simply be re-written at that time. Budgets that claim to spend now and then save in 4 years after you're gone are a joke.
Pledge to reduce the US military presence in the world by at least 50%. Let the military decide which bases to close and where. We'll still have the largest, most expensive military on earth. So it'll be ok.
End the drug war.
End mandatory minimums.
Make it illegal for police seizures of cash to go to the departments involved.
Make it illegal for any drug sentence to exceed the sentence for murder.
Make getting a greencard so easy, people stop traversing the dessert in order to avoid having to get one. If you obey the law, and have a job, you should be able to get into the country easily.
ok, flame away... :-)
Your questions are wrong because our human minds are not adapted to handle the truth... which is: there was no time and space prior to the big bang... because there was no time that was prior to the big bang. The Big Bang created time and space. Our best measurements and studies have concluded that the universe will not collapse again. It is in an accelerating expansion. It's not slowing down. There will be no big crunch. Are there other universes? Perhaps... but I tended to think that if there are... they are all part of this one same system. All effecting each other, and therefore all part of this universe just in an indirect way... but then I'm just getting into semantics.
yes, generally the trigger is on a relay that's switched on and off by the phones speaker. The "lost signal" beep would like set it off without any extra effort at all. Then you have the fact that its just plain easier to use a cheap watch with an alarm on it.
The fact of the matter is, no matter what you think of, there is no way to stop this sort of thing. They could have had concrete trash cans that direct blasts up, but then they just don't put them in the bins. Ban black powder, but then they just use stuff you can find at a hardware store... put concrete barricades up but that just directs the blast back at the crowd. Ban everything that could possibly be used and then they'll take a dumptruck full of dirt and plow into a crowd at 60mph. People who want to do something like this will always find a force multiplier. This is a psychology issue, you need to treat the mind. You can't stop an avalanche once it's already started.
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I think you got this backwards. This is just as fucking stupid as current proposed gun laws.
It's pretty easy to be profitable when you can pick and choose where you deploy your service. Let me know when they start deploying their service in towns with less than 20k people and the phone companies will have something to worry about.
Agreed. You need someone that knows what they're doing to keep track of them... those types of people cost, minimum $50k/year... but they rarely ever need do anything at all. It's hard to convince management to keep them on. But when they aren't around and you need them.... whoa unto you.
That would require the consumer to spend more than $9.95 on the router, and we can't have that. This is ENTIRELY the consumers fault.
Al Gore wanted to deregulate the telecoms industry back in the day but when he went to congress he said: “The response was ‘hell no: If we deregulate these guys, how will we raise money from them?’”
No, tritium is a hydrogen isotope. It can not be used to make a water molecule. Water can not be radioactive. It can only contain radioactive contaminants.
Water can not be radioactive. It's actually an incredibly good radiation insulator and that's exactly why they use it. The problem is the radioactive particulates in it. Fish eat, absorb those and then still, the fish is not radioactive, the problem is that when you eat the fish these materials get into your body. Funny enough, the radiations usually not going to cause you any health problems, the material itself is almost always heavy metals however. And those are very bad for you indeed.
They got the storage down pretty well I think. There's hydrogen cars drive around all over my town. I also know some off-road guys that use it in competition because they get their trucks at crazy angles sometimes and liquid fuel becomes problematic when the trucks at a 90 degree angle.
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The point is, biodiesel burns dirty and is inefficient. We can burn hydrogen at almost 100% efficiency. The reaction in which they turn the plant material into hydrogen likely happens in a closed cycle. The entire reaction is contained. So they could cycle through the same material several times to get the most out of it. Where-as, with diesel, you combine it with ambient air that's and an unknown temperature, moisture and oxygen content, light it and hope for the best.
People should study what they want. Productivity increases mean we can provide for everyone with fewer people needed. That means we can easily afford a basic income, and challenges to stimulate individuals to unleash the native curiosity and creativity most of us are born with. We need to rethink pre-industrial age, feudal economics and understand that money is a tool that should benefit us, instead of a God demanding human sacrifice.
Bullshit. This kind of "we" and "our" think is exactly what's wrong with western society. The idea that I slave away at a job that I don't like so I can make X amount of money... but that money doesn't belong to me, it belongs to "us" and you're going to just move some of that money over and give it to someone that has a job that's interesting to them but doesn't provide for them financially is just plain evil.
Doing something you love, just for the shear joy of it despite receiving little to no financial incentive to do so has a name. It's called ART.
People should study what they want. But if what they study doesn't put food on the table, they need to find a way to do that. If they're not willing to sacrifice for their art, that's their problem, not the rest of societies.
Yes, someone should attack North Korean and put that shit to rest for good. But it shouldn't be us. This is a South Korea, Chinese and Japanese problem. If they do not care to get involved, we certainly should not. The North Koreans have no capability of attacking us except the assets we foolishly have in the area. We're creating our own problem here and should back the fuck off and let the people that live their take care of themselves. Next thing to happen is they nuke a carrier group and we pretend to act all surprised?
When you're at a party and some crazy asshole shows up... go home. It's not your house. Let the owners be owners.