I don't get why you are picking out conservatives. All politics are the same, regardless of the party. You just choose to see the worst of the other side because of cognitive bias, you're mentally protecting what you're most invested in.
I didn't say citrus growers, I said farmers and I meant it. Since you grew up in an orange grove and your grandfather was a citrus grower, I'm willing to bet that you live in central Florida, and are probably unfamiliar with agriculture in northern Florida (panhandle).
Panhandle farmers tend to grow cotton, peanuts, and pine trees. Some of them also grow oranges, kumquats, pears, pecans, and other assorted produce for their own and local consumption.
Over Christmas, I helped set up lamps to keep away the frost after I got back from hunting. I saw a few other local farmers doing the same on the way back from the stands.
So yes, I know farmers (not citrus growers) that do this. I've done it myself and seen others do it as well.
He might be an idiot when it comes to light usage, but many farmers are not. In northern Florida, where there is still a risk of frost, farmers often use incandescent lamps to keep their oranges from freezing. At least those that grow on such a small scale that flash freezing the oranges is impractical.
As someone else pointed out in response to the first highlighted post, that is most likely just a stock photo of *a* police raid, not a photo of the police raid that took place in regards to the PS3 hacker.
News sites do this sort of thing all the time. Look at how the information about the raid was released (from the victim, not from the news source originally).
Did anyone else notice the reek of the True Scotsman fallacy? If you agree with him, he brags about it. If you don't, he cites the reason to be because you aren't a TRUE pro-unix admin.
Florida is pretty notorious or its school system in the rest of the country. I went to school there, then moved to Virginia. The difference was like night and day.
I hope you won't put your daughter through the FL schools.
How about the Lugar-Obama Nonproliferation legislation for conventional weaponry?
Or the 2007 Iraq-Afghan War De-Escalation Act (which Bush rejected)?
Or his several pieces of legislation aimed at preventing nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists?
Or his other numerous pieces of legislation that were aimed at creating a more transparent government, setting example for other nations to prevent behind the scenes warmongering?
Obama was in the been in the Senate since 2005. He started campaigning heavily in early/mid 2008.
Also, you are wrong about senators having a diplomatic role. Senators travel to other countries all the time working on diplomacy. Watch Charlie Wilson's War as a fairly historically accurate depiction on how even a representative can have major impacts on foreign policy and foreign affairs.
They gave Obama the Peace Prize for his diplomatic actions as a Senator. It had nothing to do with his time as a President.
Only Fox News purported the idea that there was favoritism towards Obama from the committee, and that was mostly just butthurt over not having their pet G.W.McCain in office.
You are fairly enthusiastic in your opinion, but hardly correct. There is a lot of debate among these candidates, and you contradicted yourself by denying so.
Obama, for example, is part of the reason why we are de-escalating the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, why we are not at war with NK after its attacks on SK, and are not raising aggression with China and Russia over territorial disputes with Japan.
I'm not a supporter of Obama, but you can hardly call him an enthusiastic warmonger. Unless you are confusing warmongering with diplomacy.
The 1989 award to the Dalai Lama was in honor of Ghandi, because he died before he would have been awarded the prize, and the prize isn't awarded posthumously.
I think the astro-turfing attempts by multiple posters making similar posts at nearly exactly the same time intervals from the same IP does a pretty good job of that as well. Check out the comments on his blog.
I think you might be confusing the Universe and the Multiverse. What you are describing sounds similar to M theory, but you said "Universe", which doesn't make sense.
The "Universe" is understood to be spatially bound (though growing since the Big Bang). The Multiverse involves infinite parallel universes existing on different membranes of higher dimensions.
5Mb/s down typically means <1Mb/s up, which can be painful for running a game server. Back when I lived in dorms and we had a fat up pipe, my roommate and I could run 4-5 servers at a time, and they drew traffic because they were some of the fastest on the east coast.
Now I can't host a single one because pings are too high for visitors.
Could analog computing solve this problem? If it can't generate a digital signal, then could it generate something that an analog computer could interpret, possibly to much greater effect than in a digital system?
My understanding is that analog computing is gaining ground in the research field (after being dormant for decades) and this seems like perfect timing.
That is what they said (customers, Chinese users, etc etc)... I don't know why you're pointing out that out, as it seems nobody would be fooled when what they said is as clear as day.
Because people that live in the Panhandle of Florida (which has some of the poorest areas) are notorious for insurance/government program fraud. I used to live there and can tell you all sorts of stories about how the locals have been trying to screw people over for money. There's a documentary of a town about a half hour away from where I used to live where people were maiming themselves (cutting off limbs and such) to collect insurance on such a wide scale that insurance investigations into fraud were conducted on just about everyone in the town.
The stereotype implied isn't just him living in Florida, or being a trailer park resident, but a combination of the two as there is an existing stereotype for that group.
Doesn't make the stereotype right, but it does exist.
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I don't get why you are picking out conservatives. All politics are the same, regardless of the party. You just choose to see the worst of the other side because of cognitive bias, you're mentally protecting what you're most invested in.
Shame, really.
I didn't say citrus growers, I said farmers and I meant it. Since you grew up in an orange grove and your grandfather was a citrus grower, I'm willing to bet that you live in central Florida, and are probably unfamiliar with agriculture in northern Florida (panhandle).
Panhandle farmers tend to grow cotton, peanuts, and pine trees. Some of them also grow oranges, kumquats, pears, pecans, and other assorted produce for their own and local consumption.
Over Christmas, I helped set up lamps to keep away the frost after I got back from hunting. I saw a few other local farmers doing the same on the way back from the stands.
So yes, I know farmers (not citrus growers) that do this. I've done it myself and seen others do it as well.
He might be an idiot when it comes to light usage, but many farmers are not. In northern Florida, where there is still a risk of frost, farmers often use incandescent lamps to keep their oranges from freezing. At least those that grow on such a small scale that flash freezing the oranges is impractical.
I feel like you could buy a top 500 qualifying supercomputer off the shelf from a company like Cray.
:-\
I looked it up, and this 89 Teraflop machine is less than buying 4 Cray E6 cabinets.
Watson on Jeopardy is supposedly 78 Teraflops, and it isn't even a system emphasizing processing power (it emphasizes the filtering algorithms).
Seems like much less of a feat from that perspective...
As someone else pointed out in response to the first highlighted post, that is most likely just a stock photo of *a* police raid, not a photo of the police raid that took place in regards to the PS3 hacker.
News sites do this sort of thing all the time. Look at how the information about the raid was released (from the victim, not from the news source originally).
Unfunny. I'd mod you a troll if I had points left over.
Did anyone else notice the reek of the True Scotsman fallacy? If you agree with him, he brags about it. If you don't, he cites the reason to be because you aren't a TRUE pro-unix admin.
Sorta grates on my nerves a bit.
Maybe it's just because I go to a school that has a strong engineering program, but being an engineer still makes you a chick magnet.
This is because it typically means:
1. You're intelligent and hardworking
2. You have a job (and usually one that pays well) or a job lined up
3. You get along with people fairly well
I don't know how this will carry over after college (I'll find out in a few months), but it hasn't done any harm to me.
Florida is pretty notorious or its school system in the rest of the country. I went to school there, then moved to Virginia. The difference was like night and day.
I hope you won't put your daughter through the FL schools.
How about the Lugar-Obama Nonproliferation legislation for conventional weaponry?
Or the 2007 Iraq-Afghan War De-Escalation Act (which Bush rejected)?
Or his several pieces of legislation aimed at preventing nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists?
Or his other numerous pieces of legislation that were aimed at creating a more transparent government, setting example for other nations to prevent behind the scenes warmongering?
Need me to continue?
Obama was in the been in the Senate since 2005. He started campaigning heavily in early/mid 2008.
Also, you are wrong about senators having a diplomatic role. Senators travel to other countries all the time working on diplomacy. Watch Charlie Wilson's War as a fairly historically accurate depiction on how even a representative can have major impacts on foreign policy and foreign affairs.
They gave Obama the Peace Prize for his diplomatic actions as a Senator. It had nothing to do with his time as a President.
Only Fox News purported the idea that there was favoritism towards Obama from the committee, and that was mostly just butthurt over not having their pet G.W.McCain in office.
You are fairly enthusiastic in your opinion, but hardly correct. There is a lot of debate among these candidates, and you contradicted yourself by denying so.
Obama, for example, is part of the reason why we are de-escalating the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, why we are not at war with NK after its attacks on SK, and are not raising aggression with China and Russia over territorial disputes with Japan.
I'm not a supporter of Obama, but you can hardly call him an enthusiastic warmonger. Unless you are confusing warmongering with diplomacy.
The 1989 award to the Dalai Lama was in honor of Ghandi, because he died before he would have been awarded the prize, and the prize isn't awarded posthumously.
I think the astro-turfing attempts by multiple posters making similar posts at nearly exactly the same time intervals from the same IP does a pretty good job of that as well. Check out the comments on his blog.
I think you might be confusing the Universe and the Multiverse. What you are describing sounds similar to M theory, but you said "Universe", which doesn't make sense.
The "Universe" is understood to be spatially bound (though growing since the Big Bang). The Multiverse involves infinite parallel universes existing on different membranes of higher dimensions.
Including the prison system...
I think the warden/officer relationship/prisoner relationship is much closer to a gang structure than D&D is.
You didn't ask what more than 1/3rd of Americans needed a faster pipe for, you asked what I needed it for.
Torrenting, server hosting, and video chats are all up there on my list.
They might be more common activities with a fatter pipe.
5Mb/s down typically means <1Mb/s up, which can be painful for running a game server. Back when I lived in dorms and we had a fat up pipe, my roommate and I could run 4-5 servers at a time, and they drew traffic because they were some of the fastest on the east coast.
Now I can't host a single one because pings are too high for visitors.
Could analog computing solve this problem? If it can't generate a digital signal, then could it generate something that an analog computer could interpret, possibly to much greater effect than in a digital system?
My understanding is that analog computing is gaining ground in the research field (after being dormant for decades) and this seems like perfect timing.
That is what they said (customers, Chinese users, etc etc)... I don't know why you're pointing out that out, as it seems nobody would be fooled when what they said is as clear as day.
Of all the things that I wanted my Droid to do that it couldn't, dual-core multitasking wasn't one of them.
Because people that live in the Panhandle of Florida (which has some of the poorest areas) are notorious for insurance/government program fraud. I used to live there and can tell you all sorts of stories about how the locals have been trying to screw people over for money. There's a documentary of a town about a half hour away from where I used to live where people were maiming themselves (cutting off limbs and such) to collect insurance on such a wide scale that insurance investigations into fraud were conducted on just about everyone in the town.
The stereotype implied isn't just him living in Florida, or being a trailer park resident, but a combination of the two as there is an existing stereotype for that group.
Doesn't make the stereotype right, but it does exist.
Back in my day, kids joined the military when they wanted to shoot stuff, not any of this Modern Warfare shit.
Now they only need a more efficient way of catching the planes when they land.