No, the NSAs (as well as all government agencies) job is to defend the constitution and protect the citizens of the United States of America. The NSA has abandon the former goal in favor of the latter. They are not mutually exclusive. This country was founded on the principle that we as a people value freedom and liberty over life itself. The NSA, and apparently the president have forgotten this.
As long as you're only targeting republicans for this kind of scrutiny your righteous indignation rings hollow to me. Most democrats supported the war at the time, and our current democrat president continues those same policies, still has troops in those same countries and has, in fact, escalated hostilities in numerous other countries as well. You don't give a shit about the poor souls slain in war unless it furthers your political agenda. It's sad.
Ok, that thing is lame. It looks like someone built it in their garage (they probably did.) And Monster truck? What? They have it next to a stock F150 and it has less ground clearance, smaller tires and I see no front axle shafts (so no 4x4) and in fact, it's hard to see but I don't think there are rear drive shafts either. All this is, is a giant quadracopter with landing gear off a Honda Civic. They should just do away with the tires to save weight and be done with it.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle allows a small region of empty space to come into existence probabilistically due to quantum fluctuations.
Ok, so this entire premise is refuted by this one statement. This statement assumes there was "Space" prior to the big bang. There was neither time or space prior to the big bang... in fact, there WAS NO PRIOR TO THE BIG BANG. It would be like arguing that "This triangle rolled across the floor while it was a circle"
Secondly, it also assumes that the universes physical laws like quantum mechanics still applied prior to the big bang. There were no universal laws, and once again there is no "Prior to the big bang"
The only way this would work is if the Big Bang were not the beginning of all time and space, and we have mountains of observational evidence that already proves this.
Everyone loves money. Tell your boss to offer a program. Whatever the licensing fee for windows is for the first year, off that up as a bonus to anyone that switches. You lose the first year cash incentive, but once people convert they can't switch back and it'll pay for itself next year.
Apparently they never checked her stance on Gay marriage:
“I don’t ever want anybody to be denied rights within our country. I happen to think marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s tradition, and I believe that that’s the right answer. But perhaps we will decide that there needs to be some way for people to express their desire to live together through civil union.”
Condoleezza Rice — Dec. 20, 2010
I guess websites will have to protest and such and then she'll resign after 2 weeks right?
There's 313 million people in the US. 7 million signed up. So that's 2% of the country.
I know exactly 0 people that have signed up for it, and I live in a poor neighborhood. I visited the site myself and couldn't navigate it well enough to find coverage...
So... how many people do you know that have signed up? Any?
These things really aren't going to hit their stride until they start using Transparent OLED displays so instead of cloaking you in VR it's overlays info on the real world.
OR... they could pull off a 16bit chip that can withstand temps up to 3000 degrees and is impervious to EMP attacks and you have the defense industry paying you all the money you want to figure it out.
Everything in this is bullshit. Webmail loads slower? You've never been infected? Really? If you're running XP you could have all sorts of malware and not have a clue. Notice linux clients aren't even mentioned.
Now hold on there... I can get behind a lease... you made an agreement with someone not to sublet. You should abide by that. But the ridiculous permitting process just to rent out a room is stupid. If someone wants to give me $20 to spend the night, and I own the house or the owner doesn't care, then screw the city. Next they'll try and tell me what I can smoke or eat. Oh wait.
There are around 300 million firearms in the United States. The US military has under 8000 armored vehicles that could even remotely considered "tanks"
If the people of the united states rose up against their government, it would be no contest. The military would lose very quickly. This is the point of the Right to bare arms. There can be no military coup in this country while the populace is so armed.
You're unwittingly pointing out the flaw in the study. The Stradivarius arguments been going on for hundreds of years... the tube amp argument for 30. But technology has changed. New violins are better than what was made even 10 years ago. The same goes for transistor amps (at least in regards to instrument amplifiers) If I were to play guitar for you on a 1950s tube amp, and then a 1980s transistor amp you would immediately declare the transistor amp utter crap. Trained ear or not. Now if I were to use one of the better transistor amps from the late 90s early 2000's you might not have the same opinion. And if I were to use a modern amp modeler like an AxeFXII you'd probably say it sounded better than a tube amp. Though the price of such a system is in the $3k range so the vintage tube amp might be cheaper. But the price will come down. Tube amps are on their way out.
Now they are able to make violins by modeling them on computers and such... In fact, the AxeFX I mentioned before can do "tone modeling" and you could record the Stradivarius into it and it could model any violin to sound damn near exactly like it. So basically, technology is eclipsing the uniqueness of many technologies.
There is a big push now to create ultra-cheap microscopes for the developing world. This might be related to that. If you could get a powerful microscope that was the size of a postage stamp, that might help a lot of people. With this technique you could not only improve resolution, you could instead keep the same resolution and shrink the microscope by 25%
It cost google over $500 per customer to install when it got to pick and choose their customers. The local ISP is required by federal law to provide phone service to ALL customers. The actual cost per customers if you actually have to serve everyone is in the thousands. And yes, of course th local ISP is going to sue. It's the only legal recourse they have to fight a company that clearly has them at a regulatory disadvantage. Telcos are going bankrupt all across this country right now and it's not because they're raking in the money by over charging you.
Ok, well... my understanding of it is that nature is made up by random events. If those events were all there were, you'd get white noise. A perfectly even randomness. However, nature also has laws. With regard to sand, there's gravity, and slope, friction, etc... and that means these randomly falling grains of sand, on the macro scale, end up forming patterns. These patterns end up being very complex but predictable with statistics. Understanding a dune from the point of view of a grain of sand is nearly impossible. You just need to know the rules the system is following and then you can make accurate macro-scale predictions without having to compute every grain of sand in the dune.
The arguments made its way into nearly every branch of science now. Our attempts at brute forcing nature, and trying to connect the sub-atomic scale with the macro scale have mostly failed. But it now seems that maybe nature doesn't work that way. Nature seems more to work based on sets of probabilities, and particles seem to work more like "attributes" than matter. So perhaps the brain works like this to. It's a collection of chaos, bound by rules. Those rules cause the microscopic chaos to form patterns on the macro scale.
Why is this getting rated funny? The NSA really does have the power to do this sort of thing, and that sort of power is exactly why they need to be stopped immediately.
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You mean like a finished product?
No, the NSAs (as well as all government agencies) job is to defend the constitution and protect the citizens of the United States of America. The NSA has abandon the former goal in favor of the latter. They are not mutually exclusive. This country was founded on the principle that we as a people value freedom and liberty over life itself. The NSA, and apparently the president have forgotten this.
Here's a better (and cheaper) game:
Banished
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As long as you're only targeting republicans for this kind of scrutiny your righteous indignation rings hollow to me. Most democrats supported the war at the time, and our current democrat president continues those same policies, still has troops in those same countries and has, in fact, escalated hostilities in numerous other countries as well. You don't give a shit about the poor souls slain in war unless it furthers your political agenda. It's sad.
Ok, that thing is lame. It looks like someone built it in their garage (they probably did.) And Monster truck? What? They have it next to a stock F150 and it has less ground clearance, smaller tires and I see no front axle shafts (so no 4x4) and in fact, it's hard to see but I don't think there are rear drive shafts either. All this is, is a giant quadracopter with landing gear off a Honda Civic. They should just do away with the tires to save weight and be done with it.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle allows a small region of empty space to come into existence probabilistically due to quantum fluctuations.
Ok, so this entire premise is refuted by this one statement.
This statement assumes there was "Space" prior to the big bang. There was neither time or space prior to the big bang... in fact, there WAS NO PRIOR TO THE BIG BANG. It would be like arguing that "This triangle rolled across the floor while it was a circle"
Secondly, it also assumes that the universes physical laws like quantum mechanics still applied prior to the big bang. There were no universal laws, and once again there is no "Prior to the big bang"
The only way this would work is if the Big Bang were not the beginning of all time and space, and we have mountains of observational evidence that already proves this.
Me to, I can't wait to have lesbian sex with you. Oh wait...
Everyone loves money. Tell your boss to offer a program. Whatever the licensing fee for windows is for the first year, off that up as a bonus to anyone that switches. You lose the first year cash incentive, but once people convert they can't switch back and it'll pay for itself next year.
Apparently they never checked her stance on Gay marriage:
“I don’t ever want anybody to be denied rights within our country. I happen to think marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s tradition, and I believe that that’s the right answer. But perhaps we will decide that there needs to be some way for people to express their desire to live together through civil union.”
Condoleezza Rice — Dec. 20, 2010
I guess websites will have to protest and such and then she'll resign after 2 weeks right?
Is it a Lie? Well lets do an impromtu survey...
There's 313 million people in the US.
7 million signed up.
So that's 2% of the country.
I know exactly 0 people that have signed up for it, and I live in a poor neighborhood.
I visited the site myself and couldn't navigate it well enough to find coverage...
So... how many people do you know that have signed up? Any?
These things really aren't going to hit their stride until they start using Transparent OLED displays so instead of cloaking you in VR it's overlays info on the real world.
I dunno, but a chip that could function while immersed in molten lava seems like it would be pretty handy to those that like to blow things up.
Future generations will scarcely believe that we were here now, watching the footing for their prison be poured, and we did nothing.
OR... they could pull off a 16bit chip that can withstand temps up to 3000 degrees and is impervious to EMP attacks and you have the defense industry paying you all the money you want to figure it out.
Everything in this is bullshit. Webmail loads slower? You've never been infected? Really? If you're running XP you could have all sorts of malware and not have a clue. Notice linux clients aren't even mentioned.
Now hold on there... I can get behind a lease... you made an agreement with someone not to sublet. You should abide by that. But the ridiculous permitting process just to rent out a room is stupid. If someone wants to give me $20 to spend the night, and I own the house or the owner doesn't care, then screw the city. Next they'll try and tell me what I can smoke or eat. Oh wait.
There are around 300 million firearms in the United States. The US military has under 8000 armored vehicles that could even remotely considered "tanks"
If the people of the united states rose up against their government, it would be no contest. The military would lose very quickly. This is the point of the Right to bare arms. There can be no military coup in this country while the populace is so armed.
You're unwittingly pointing out the flaw in the study. The Stradivarius arguments been going on for hundreds of years... the tube amp argument for 30. But technology has changed. New violins are better than what was made even 10 years ago. The same goes for transistor amps (at least in regards to instrument amplifiers) If I were to play guitar for you on a 1950s tube amp, and then a 1980s transistor amp you would immediately declare the transistor amp utter crap. Trained ear or not. Now if I were to use one of the better transistor amps from the late 90s early 2000's you might not have the same opinion. And if I were to use a modern amp modeler like an AxeFXII you'd probably say it sounded better than a tube amp. Though the price of such a system is in the $3k range so the vintage tube amp might be cheaper. But the price will come down. Tube amps are on their way out.
Now they are able to make violins by modeling them on computers and such... In fact, the AxeFX I mentioned before can do "tone modeling" and you could record the Stradivarius into it and it could model any violin to sound damn near exactly like it. So basically, technology is eclipsing the uniqueness of many technologies.
There is a big push now to create ultra-cheap microscopes for the developing world. This might be related to that. If you could get a powerful microscope that was the size of a postage stamp, that might help a lot of people. With this technique you could not only improve resolution, you could instead keep the same resolution and shrink the microscope by 25%
It cost google over $500 per customer to install when it got to pick and choose their customers. The local ISP is required by federal law to provide phone service to ALL customers. The actual cost per customers if you actually have to serve everyone is in the thousands. And yes, of course th local ISP is going to sue. It's the only legal recourse they have to fight a company that clearly has them at a regulatory disadvantage. Telcos are going bankrupt all across this country right now and it's not because they're raking in the money by over charging you.
Ok, well... my understanding of it is that nature is made up by random events. If those events were all there were, you'd get white noise. A perfectly even randomness. However, nature also has laws. With regard to sand, there's gravity, and slope, friction, etc... and that means these randomly falling grains of sand, on the macro scale, end up forming patterns. These patterns end up being very complex but predictable with statistics. Understanding a dune from the point of view of a grain of sand is nearly impossible. You just need to know the rules the system is following and then you can make accurate macro-scale predictions without having to compute every grain of sand in the dune.
The arguments made its way into nearly every branch of science now. Our attempts at brute forcing nature, and trying to connect the sub-atomic scale with the macro scale have mostly failed. But it now seems that maybe nature doesn't work that way. Nature seems more to work based on sets of probabilities, and particles seem to work more like "attributes" than matter. So perhaps the brain works like this to. It's a collection of chaos, bound by rules. Those rules cause the microscopic chaos to form patterns on the macro scale.
Why is this getting rated funny? The NSA really does have the power to do this sort of thing, and that sort of power is exactly why they need to be stopped immediately.
We're talking about politicians, not good people.
Someone with some common sense:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
And because of that, we should be intolerant of his beliefs? The flat out hypocrisy of this entire affair has been ridiculous.