God this is tedious. I was making a joke. It wasn't a very funny one, but that is all it was. I made a joke about someone describing a volume as 1.5 times a quarter of eight of something we can't all agree on. I very clearly referred to a quart as a quarter of 8 pints, to which Megane retorted "A quart is a quarter of a gallon, not a quarter of a pint." Excellent reading comprehension skills there. When I asked if there was some kind of gallon that was not made of 8 pints, given that Megane was trying very hard to contradict me while actually agreeing with me, noh8rz10 replied with a condescending reply saying that yes, there are 8 pints in a gallon, and asking if I had any other questions that need answering. Now, I know it is extremely unfashionable on this site to read the article, but it does behoove one to read the comment they are replying to, and in cases where you are making comment on other peoples comments on previous comments, to read the whole bloody thread. In this case, there were 4 sentences, apart from a list of measurement conversions, to read, and you somehow arrived at the conclusion that rather than the possibility that there are 2 people on the internet who are incapable of reading 10 words correctly, that I must have phrased my words incorrectly, and you choose this as a way of deciding instead of reading 4 sentences?
Option 1 should be used in some form for any hardware repair job. Remove disk, replace with disk containing freshly installed virgin OS. Beside the frustration of having to deal with idiots telling you that software that isn't specifically allowed automatically invalidates the warranty (and I have been told this by HP Proliant server support staff regarding Redhat, a flavour of linux that they readily supply support for on their website), who knows who is going to end up looking at your hard drive? I'd rather not have the hard drive of a machine I use for internet banking in the hands of someone I don't know. Plus, when they are finished with it, they WILL wipe the drive and install a fresh OS. If yo have anything you want to keep, take the drive out.
Do we know that for sure? The linked article requires a subscription, but if it is the same as this story then it was based on an analysis of the DNA of a single individual from circa 5000BC, who was closely related to northern Europeans but was living in Spain. There are many interpretations one could make from that: that all Europeans were similar to this man, that this guy was of mixed parentage and was relatively unique, that he belonged to a splinter population that got wiped out... I am sure there are many other plausible hypotheses. At the end of the day, you are trying to make a guess about the entire population of Europe from a sample size of one individual near Europe's borders.
Was this some other study, and if so can you provide some details please?
FTFA:He could now effectively be held responsible for around $6,000 in assistance already provided by the state along with future child support payments.
The question you should be asking is "Why should everyone else have to pay for it?"
Everyone pays for everyone else's children. Since he has been found by the court to be financially responsible for the child, is he going to be given the normal tax breaks associated with dependents?
Could restate your opinion in a way that makes some semblance of logical sense? I have no idea what property rights in America you claim "European busybodies" are infringing by refusing to sell to murderers.
Wrong. The photoelectric effect explains how electrons energized by photons can escape their atomic bonds. It does not involve photons being converted into electrons.
I'd be ok with it too if it meant that Granny paid very little, but I think that we'll see Granny paying the same amount she currently is while everyone else gets to pay out the ass without being able to turn to alternate ISPs. It's not like this is really going to lower anyone's monthly fees, even Granny's; it's just an excuse to charge more.
I would love to be proven wrong, but that's just not the business model these creeps run.
Even more than the inevitable cash grab, I'd be worried that this kind of payment scheme would lead to a lack of investment in upgraded infrastructure. If people get charged per bit, they will use less. Less demand leads to less upgrading of lines, and the people who do actually need massive data throughput, for stuff like, for example, off-site redundant systems, can't actually get what they need at all. People will always get charged for what they want compared to what the average is, no matter how much it would cost to upgrade everyone to that level. As an example of that: about 5 years ago a customer was paying â1k a month for a fast (for here) no contention line. Now you can get the same speed with 5:1 contention for about â30 a month.
In the end? The powerful will be more so - you will pay more, and get less.
Mission accomplished, and your expectations diminished, as planned.
Related to the above and regarding the title of the article, why would big Silicon Valley heads care if Washington DID implode? They are all sitting on massive warchests of "foreign" money sitting in US dollar accounts in American banks beloning to their foreign subsidiaries for tax avoidance purposes. This money will NEVER be brought home (in terms of paying tax: it is actually back in America), it just sits there piling up, acting as a bank account, and when someone cashes in his shares he pays longterm capital gains on the value of his shares, which includes a bit of that massive pile of cash. Now, if the debt ceiling is breached.... US treasury bond interest rates will go up, and bank interest rates will rise as a result. Good result if you have several tens of billions of dollars to put into a long term deposit account.
The problem is not exactly solvable. All translated texts in existence have something related to base the translation on. The Egyptian Hieroglyphs were untranslatable, until the Rosetta stone provided a sequence of texts. Two were already known, which matched in their translations - thus implying that the unknown third was the same text in that language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone).
This article from a few weeks back could provide a possible entry point for beginning to decipher texts like that. Since it relies not on dictionaries, but rather the relationships between words, it may be possible to narrow down the meanings of words in unknown languages into smaller groups of possible translations, or at least I imagine so from reading it.
The absolute asshole arrogance to think that anything man does will have a long-term effect on climate is unbelievable
I am going to assume then that you are one of those assholes who are so absolutely arrogant you feel you can do whatever you like and fuck the consequences for everyone else? Those people are usually labeled as criminals.
Certainly a few specialities by chance might get hit particularly hard. And the information used by those specialists are in libraries, are known by professionals, are known by other specialists are in computers.... How difficult would it be to replace those specialists in a generation?
Remember the claim was another dark ages not a deep recession.
If you are talking about a major impact that does not cause human extinction, we could still be talking about loss of a significant proprtion of the species through a very very long winter. If we had a 20 year long global winter, we'd probably still be able to grow food in equatorial and tropical regions. Guess its a good thing we have invested in making sure the best infrastructure and the brightest minds are in places like central Africa, Equador, and south Asia. We'll only lose all the hangers on and lazy people in noerthern Eurasia and north America. Also a good thing that all the textbooks are in Swahili and Mara.
Because correlation is not causation and because they use the word "explain" Nothing has been explained.
The proper way to report on this would be to say that these extinctions "(appear to) coincide with..." and that this may be sufficient ground for further investigation,
"Furthermore, we identify ve additional historical
mass extinction events that might be explained by the motion of the Sun around
our Galaxy."
Where is the claim to have explained everything? I think there is an inherent suggestion in the above that further investigation is warranted. The paper does propose more than one possible mechanism, and I would guess that it could be that there have been more than one respnsible for historical events. I see this paper as merely saying that interesting stuff can happen when you're in a more interesting part of the galaxy.
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Thank you. I'm glad someone saw what I meant :(
God this is tedious. I was making a joke. It wasn't a very funny one, but that is all it was. I made a joke about someone describing a volume as 1.5 times a quarter of eight of something we can't all agree on. I very clearly referred to a quart as a quarter of 8 pints, to which Megane retorted "A quart is a quarter of a gallon, not a quarter of a pint." Excellent reading comprehension skills there. When I asked if there was some kind of gallon that was not made of 8 pints, given that Megane was trying very hard to contradict me while actually agreeing with me, noh8rz10 replied with a condescending reply saying that yes, there are 8 pints in a gallon, and asking if I had any other questions that need answering. Now, I know it is extremely unfashionable on this site to read the article, but it does behoove one to read the comment they are replying to, and in cases where you are making comment on other peoples comments on previous comments, to read the whole bloody thread. In this case, there were 4 sentences, apart from a list of measurement conversions, to read, and you somehow arrived at the conclusion that rather than the possibility that there are 2 people on the internet who are incapable of reading 10 words correctly, that I must have phrased my words incorrectly, and you choose this as a way of deciding instead of reading 4 sentences?
any qs?
No questions. I was merely pointing out that Megane above did not read what I wrote. Obviously you didn't either. Nevermind.
A quart is a quarter of a gallon, not a quarter of a pint. Now pint off, you tablespooner.
And are these gallons of yours some newfangled ones that are not made up of 8 pints?
Was that 1.5 quarters of eight American or English pints?
Would that be Brian May?
Disagreeing with someone is not trolling.
I agree! It's a good thing that your statement has 50% less disagreement.
Not sure why this comment is modded "troll". It's 100% accurate.
Beacause it had at least 50% more trolling.
Option 1 should be used in some form for any hardware repair job. Remove disk, replace with disk containing freshly installed virgin OS. Beside the frustration of having to deal with idiots telling you that software that isn't specifically allowed automatically invalidates the warranty (and I have been told this by HP Proliant server support staff regarding Redhat, a flavour of linux that they readily supply support for on their website), who knows who is going to end up looking at your hard drive? I'd rather not have the hard drive of a machine I use for internet banking in the hands of someone I don't know. Plus, when they are finished with it, they WILL wipe the drive and install a fresh OS. If yo have anything you want to keep, take the drive out.
because they were all slaughtered by homos
Whoa, easy there. That could be misconstrued.... and if you were referring to the homo genus, homo sapiens neanderthalensis was a member.
Do we know that for sure? The linked article requires a subscription, but if it is the same as this story then it was based on an analysis of the DNA of a single individual from circa 5000BC, who was closely related to northern Europeans but was living in Spain. There are many interpretations one could make from that: that all Europeans were similar to this man, that this guy was of mixed parentage and was relatively unique, that he belonged to a splinter population that got wiped out... I am sure there are many other plausible hypotheses. At the end of the day, you are trying to make a guess about the entire population of Europe from a sample size of one individual near Europe's borders. Was this some other study, and if so can you provide some details please?
FTFA: He could now effectively be held responsible for around $6,000 in assistance already provided by the state along with future child support payments.
The question you should be asking is "Why should everyone else have to pay for it?"
Everyone pays for everyone else's children. Since he has been found by the court to be financially responsible for the child, is he going to be given the normal tax breaks associated with dependents?
Could restate your opinion in a way that makes some semblance of logical sense? I have no idea what property rights in America you claim "European busybodies" are infringing by refusing to sell to murderers.
Obscene and tasteless? Ok, fair enough, I just looked at the headings so I missed the "avoiding detection" bit, but that is ridiculous.
Yes. Next question?
I realize you're jesting, but that's only because you haven't seen the list of blockable things:
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46809/kw/parental%20controls/c/346,6679,6680/related/1
ie. It's not just "porn".
TorrentFreak *is* covered by that list and was therefore blocked.
I just looked at that list, and cannot see a relevant category.
Wrong. The photoelectric effect explains how electrons energized by photons can escape their atomic bonds. It does not involve photons being converted into electrons.
The FSM is an expression of a sincerely held belief.
I'd be ok with it too if it meant that Granny paid very little, but I think that we'll see Granny paying the same amount she currently is while everyone else gets to pay out the ass without being able to turn to alternate ISPs. It's not like this is really going to lower anyone's monthly fees, even Granny's; it's just an excuse to charge more. I would love to be proven wrong, but that's just not the business model these creeps run.
Even more than the inevitable cash grab, I'd be worried that this kind of payment scheme would lead to a lack of investment in upgraded infrastructure. If people get charged per bit, they will use less. Less demand leads to less upgrading of lines, and the people who do actually need massive data throughput, for stuff like, for example, off-site redundant systems, can't actually get what they need at all. People will always get charged for what they want compared to what the average is, no matter how much it would cost to upgrade everyone to that level. As an example of that: about 5 years ago a customer was paying â1k a month for a fast (for here) no contention line. Now you can get the same speed with 5:1 contention for about â30 a month.
Stage management. Drama. Theatrics.
In the end? The powerful will be more so - you will pay more, and get less.
Mission accomplished, and your expectations diminished, as planned.
Related to the above and regarding the title of the article, why would big Silicon Valley heads care if Washington DID implode? They are all sitting on massive warchests of "foreign" money sitting in US dollar accounts in American banks beloning to their foreign subsidiaries for tax avoidance purposes. This money will NEVER be brought home (in terms of paying tax: it is actually back in America), it just sits there piling up, acting as a bank account, and when someone cashes in his shares he pays longterm capital gains on the value of his shares, which includes a bit of that massive pile of cash. Now, if the debt ceiling is breached.... US treasury bond interest rates will go up, and bank interest rates will rise as a result. Good result if you have several tens of billions of dollars to put into a long term deposit account.
It will be a good thing, when America slides down the hole that swallowed Rome, Assyria, Babylon and Egypt.
Which one? Taxation to support an oversized army, not having a big enough army, climate change, or having the Greeks in charge?
Linear Script A is still not decoded - though apparently related to Linear Script B (which has been decoded) it is still not translatable.
There are others - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm
The problem is not exactly solvable. All translated texts in existence have something related to base the translation on. The Egyptian Hieroglyphs were untranslatable, until the Rosetta stone provided a sequence of texts. Two were already known, which matched in their translations - thus implying that the unknown third was the same text in that language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone).
This article from a few weeks back could provide a possible entry point for beginning to decipher texts like that. Since it relies not on dictionaries, but rather the relationships between words, it may be possible to narrow down the meanings of words in unknown languages into smaller groups of possible translations, or at least I imagine so from reading it.
The absolute asshole arrogance to think that anything man does will have a long-term effect on climate is unbelievable
I am going to assume then that you are one of those assholes who are so absolutely arrogant you feel you can do whatever you like and fuck the consequences for everyone else? Those people are usually labeled as criminals.
Certainly a few specialities by chance might get hit particularly hard. And the information used by those specialists are in libraries, are known by professionals, are known by other specialists are in computers.... How difficult would it be to replace those specialists in a generation?
Remember the claim was another dark ages not a deep recession.
If you are talking about a major impact that does not cause human extinction, we could still be talking about loss of a significant proprtion of the species through a very very long winter. If we had a 20 year long global winter, we'd probably still be able to grow food in equatorial and tropical regions. Guess its a good thing we have invested in making sure the best infrastructure and the brightest minds are in places like central Africa, Equador, and south Asia. We'll only lose all the hangers on and lazy people in noerthern Eurasia and north America. Also a good thing that all the textbooks are in Swahili and Mara.
Because correlation is not causation and because they use the word "explain" Nothing has been explained.
The proper way to report on this would be to say that these extinctions "(appear to) coincide with ..." and that this may be sufficient ground for further investigation,
"Furthermore, we identify ve additional historical mass extinction events that might be explained by the motion of the Sun around our Galaxy."
Where is the claim to have explained everything? I think there is an inherent suggestion in the above that further investigation is warranted. The paper does propose more than one possible mechanism, and I would guess that it could be that there have been more than one respnsible for historical events. I see this paper as merely saying that interesting stuff can happen when you're in a more interesting part of the galaxy.
That potentially lethal force is legal because it is authorized by the Constitution which has been ratified by the people.
Did you get to vote on that then?