Are they going to let us make excavations? Maybe we'll find a marker and the people in the colony will start going crazy. Then when we move the marker, some weird funky alien stuff starts invading the colony, and the people die, and then they come back to life and try to kill you.
Yeah, that sounds like an awesome plot they could wrap into a NASA MMO.
If I share my pencil with you, either you can use or I can use it. We can't use it at the same time.
If I share my car with you, either I can drive it, or you can drive it, we can't both drive it at the same time.
With piracy online of music, movies, and software, you're not really sharing, since both people can use the "object" at the same time. Sharing is the term people who participate use to rationalize their actions. I won't say it's stealing, but the actions are definitely immoral.
If I'm not mistaken, Bungie's new game series have always been at the forefront of physics engines in games.
Look at the Myth series. It was a break from the standard resource gathering strategy games, in addition it was one of the first RTS games to feature real physics. It was likely the inspiration for the Total War series of games.
Fermilab said their odds of discovering it before CERN was between 50-96%. This means that if the particle exists, there's a 50-96% chance that Fermilab will find it first and a 4-50% chance that CERN will find it first and a 1% chance that some other unknown entity finds it first.
With propranolol you'll be LOLing so hard you'll be ROTFLYAO.
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McCain's problem in Indiana is that white republicans didn't want to vote him, not a shift to democrat. There was a rather large portion of Indiana republicans who also voted in the democrat primary because by the time Indiana's primary came along, McCain was already chosen.
The turning democrat numbers were a bit inflated because of those two major factors. Simply put, Indiana is a fairly conservative state, fiscally and socially. McCain was nothing like what Indiana would have voted for, Indiana would have swung Republican in the Presidential election had Mitt Romney or Rudy Guiliani been the nominee over McCain. In fact, had either of those two been the nominee, I doubt Indiana would have been considered a battleground state and Obama would have spent little time here. McCain was a weak candidate, he had a history at odds with the base. Obama has a bit of a campaign base in Indiana from the primaries, so combine that with the innate weakness of McCain in Indiana and the results aren't surprising.
And yes, it was a case of more black voters turning out to vote in Indiana. There were huge outcries when various schools around the state were busing students to go get registered to vote, when in previous years there was never such an effort. There was a lot of dirty politics at play in Indiana, and most people wouldn't even know about it if they didn't live in the state.
This has nothing to do with partisanship. It's amazing that people don't realize how this will negatively effect exposure of the candidates to the people. If your state does this, and they have less than 1 million votes, the state will almost certainly be passed over in the election. Campaigning always has and always will be about the best bang for the buck. With the electoral system, candidates focus on areas that would have close elections one way or the other based on electoral votes that the state provides.
With the election based on popular vote, the focus shifts away from states and to urban centers where a candidate can book a meeting and be able to grab 50,000 or more people. You're not going to get more than a couple thousand in the more rural areas. With the new system, you'll see campaigning focusing around NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and a few other populous areas, probably state capitols if the candidate comes to the state. Rhode Island and Vermont? Hah they'll be lucky to ever see a Presidential candidate with such a system. Maybe Rhode Island would get lucky if a candidate was taking a bus from Boston to NYC.
2008 was the first year in a long time that a Candidate came to campaign in Indiana. Indiana was a battleground state only because of the ability of Obama to get the black vote in his pocket without really have to campaign with them. The battleground status erupted during the primaries. In the general election Indianapolis basically gave Obama 100k votes, and Gary gave about 70k. Basically, Obama had Lake and Marion counties in his pocket, so it was a matter of campaigning to eat enough votes in the other counties away from McCain to win the state.
A common opinion in Indiana was that individuals who usually voted Republican couldn't or wouldn't vote for McCain because they didn't want him leading the Republican party and tarnishing it with bad policies. There's good evidence to support this as well since the downstate elections weren't affected by Obama. If the people of Indiana majorly voted straight ticket, Mitch Daniels would have been ousted and house seats would have switched up hands. Neither happened, Daniels won 58% 40% (compared to Obama's (50% 49%), and not a single house seat switched hands, every rep had at least a 15% advantage.
Government intervention in a market (in this case health care) causes tons of things to go out of whack. If Germany has a universal health care system with no private system, then yes there costs would be lower than what currently have.
Our issue is that we have a government entity messing around with the market. Occasionally government intervention causes prices to go down, but that is through subsidies. The federal government is not subsidizing health care currently, one of the biggest problems is that government is significantly overpaying and underpaying for services and medications. Total payments dispensed for medications from Federal programs tend to fall between x2 and x8 the actual cost of the drug. Additionally Federal insurance also will pay providers less than the cost of the procedure. The free market isn't working within health care because it isn't allowed to with all the government intervention.
Plastic surgery has been decreasing in costs while getting better and better. That is the free market working as there's practically no government intervention there. With or without insurance companies the free market works as long as government doesn't get involved.
Just because an individual votes for a Presidential candidate does not mean that individual agrees with all stances of that candidate. Your claim that over 50% of Americans want Gitmo closed is rather baseless. I could make the claim that Obama was just elected to show that America isn't racist, and would be just as valid as yours.
Really? Care to explain why we have such extensive state & federal data recovery departments? Oh, that's right, to check hard drives, etc. seized by law enforcement.
How about this then:
You statement implies that nobody would want the following types of data:
-The manuscript of the final Harry Potter series (before it was published).
-Paparazzi Photos of (enter name of celebrity here).
-The checking account numbers for 1million + bank accounts.
etc.
My point being, there are plenty of times even a "normal, common, everyday" person might have data valuable enough to do a forensic analysis. Hell, with a little know-how, you could build your own lab to do the recovery for a lot cheaper than YOU think is possible.
Since I don't think you are stupid, I can only assume you work for a government agency, most likely law enforcement, and it's in your (and ONLY your) best interests to ensure all our data is stored in an easy-to search state.
So the question is not if you are a government shill, but which agency you shill for.
They would want such data, but prosecuting the crime in those cases when a wipe was performed is not cost effective. You'd have to be high profile for the cost to be justified, we're talking treason, spying, etc etc, which would involve government or military data.
If you had the Harry Potter manuscript or child pornography on a hard drive that you wiped, the Fed's aren't going to waste the money on what could be a wild goose chase for nothing. It's much easier for them tap and track your online behavior to generate necessary suspicion to get a warrant to seize your computer and perform the forensic investigation/data recovery on that drive.
Remember, data recovery doesn't just mean from damaged hard drives, it also includes recovering encrypted data, data that was deleted but still on the drive and hidden data. Data recovery of overwritten/wiped data has failed to recover significant amounts of files.
TL;DR It's not worth the cost/effort of recovering data from a wiped drive when obtaining a search warrant for your PC is easier.
Don't worry, they'll just keep using the power of the Federal government to regulate interstate trade as their reasoning for it. That is what started all the expansion of government in the first place. Though of course, I'm curious as to how any welfare systems regulate interstate trade, as well as where in the constitution the federal government has the authority to establish them.
This leads me into a side tangent. I can't stand how people think that the federal government should implement the will of the majority upon the minority. Your only choices are to suck it up and hope that when the minority get power, they can revert the former majority's will, or move to another country. Likewise, I don't understand people's distaste for the state to allow the majority to put it's will over the minority. That's the beauty of being a union of "autonomous" states. They're supposed to be given so much more power than the Federal government, and thanks to the open borders with states, if the majority are doing what you don't like, and you can't change it, just move to another state. You don't have quite that flexibility when it's done at the Federal level.
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Are they going to let us make excavations? Maybe we'll find a marker and the people in the colony will start going crazy. Then when we move the marker, some weird funky alien stuff starts invading the colony, and the people die, and then they come back to life and try to kill you.
Yeah, that sounds like an awesome plot they could wrap into a NASA MMO.
No really, I just want a Dead Space MMO.
If I share my pencil with you, either you can use or I can use it. We can't use it at the same time.
If I share my car with you, either I can drive it, or you can drive it, we can't both drive it at the same time.
With piracy online of music, movies, and software, you're not really sharing, since both people can use the "object" at the same time. Sharing is the term people who participate use to rationalize their actions. I won't say it's stealing, but the actions are definitely immoral.
And how many years will it take to lug the shield up there and build it?
If I'm not mistaken, Bungie's new game series have always been at the forefront of physics engines in games.
Look at the Myth series. It was a break from the standard resource gathering strategy games, in addition it was one of the first RTS games to feature real physics. It was likely the inspiration for the Total War series of games.
RTFA.
Fermilab said their odds of discovering it before CERN was between 50-96%. This means that if the particle exists, there's a 50-96% chance that Fermilab will find it first and a 4-50% chance that CERN will find it first and a 1% chance that some other unknown entity finds it first.
How many hours do it take for you to shed half your mass in genetic material?
Propranolol.
Lol your nightmares away.
With propranolol you'll be LOLing so hard you'll be ROTFLYAO.
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Seriously? Get the Harry Potter out. Out now!
McCain's problem in Indiana is that white republicans didn't want to vote him, not a shift to democrat. There was a rather large portion of Indiana republicans who also voted in the democrat primary because by the time Indiana's primary came along, McCain was already chosen.
The turning democrat numbers were a bit inflated because of those two major factors. Simply put, Indiana is a fairly conservative state, fiscally and socially. McCain was nothing like what Indiana would have voted for, Indiana would have swung Republican in the Presidential election had Mitt Romney or Rudy Guiliani been the nominee over McCain. In fact, had either of those two been the nominee, I doubt Indiana would have been considered a battleground state and Obama would have spent little time here. McCain was a weak candidate, he had a history at odds with the base. Obama has a bit of a campaign base in Indiana from the primaries, so combine that with the innate weakness of McCain in Indiana and the results aren't surprising.
And yes, it was a case of more black voters turning out to vote in Indiana. There were huge outcries when various schools around the state were busing students to go get registered to vote, when in previous years there was never such an effort. There was a lot of dirty politics at play in Indiana, and most people wouldn't even know about it if they didn't live in the state.
This has nothing to do with partisanship. It's amazing that people don't realize how this will negatively effect exposure of the candidates to the people. If your state does this, and they have less than 1 million votes, the state will almost certainly be passed over in the election. Campaigning always has and always will be about the best bang for the buck. With the electoral system, candidates focus on areas that would have close elections one way or the other based on electoral votes that the state provides.
With the election based on popular vote, the focus shifts away from states and to urban centers where a candidate can book a meeting and be able to grab 50,000 or more people. You're not going to get more than a couple thousand in the more rural areas. With the new system, you'll see campaigning focusing around NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and a few other populous areas, probably state capitols if the candidate comes to the state. Rhode Island and Vermont? Hah they'll be lucky to ever see a Presidential candidate with such a system. Maybe Rhode Island would get lucky if a candidate was taking a bus from Boston to NYC.
2008 was the first year in a long time that a Candidate came to campaign in Indiana. Indiana was a battleground state only because of the ability of Obama to get the black vote in his pocket without really have to campaign with them. The battleground status erupted during the primaries. In the general election Indianapolis basically gave Obama 100k votes, and Gary gave about 70k. Basically, Obama had Lake and Marion counties in his pocket, so it was a matter of campaigning to eat enough votes in the other counties away from McCain to win the state.
A common opinion in Indiana was that individuals who usually voted Republican couldn't or wouldn't vote for McCain because they didn't want him leading the Republican party and tarnishing it with bad policies. There's good evidence to support this as well since the downstate elections weren't affected by Obama. If the people of Indiana majorly voted straight ticket, Mitch Daniels would have been ousted and house seats would have switched up hands. Neither happened, Daniels won 58% 40% (compared to Obama's (50% 49%), and not a single house seat switched hands, every rep had at least a 15% advantage.
Maybe the goatse man's black hole was the culprit for this time travel mishap.
Damn you, I had been waiting for a Slashdot article to come across that I could use that one on.
They could be Tok'ra, not Goa'uld. They you be able to retain your own personality.
I would like to propose an addendum to Rule 34.
If you can imagine it, there is porn and a wiki for it.
It's heavy Doc Brown.
Isn't this one of the problems that SPF seeks to mitigate by using DNS as a method to establish valid email senders?
I once held a crazy theory that China was trying to piss of the US to the point that the US would nuke China.
In a perfect NIMBY world there would be no humans.
Government intervention in a market (in this case health care) causes tons of things to go out of whack. If Germany has a universal health care system with no private system, then yes there costs would be lower than what currently have.
Our issue is that we have a government entity messing around with the market. Occasionally government intervention causes prices to go down, but that is through subsidies. The federal government is not subsidizing health care currently, one of the biggest problems is that government is significantly overpaying and underpaying for services and medications. Total payments dispensed for medications from Federal programs tend to fall between x2 and x8 the actual cost of the drug. Additionally Federal insurance also will pay providers less than the cost of the procedure. The free market isn't working within health care because it isn't allowed to with all the government intervention.
Plastic surgery has been decreasing in costs while getting better and better. That is the free market working as there's practically no government intervention there. With or without insurance companies the free market works as long as government doesn't get involved.
Just because an individual votes for a Presidential candidate does not mean that individual agrees with all stances of that candidate. Your claim that over 50% of Americans want Gitmo closed is rather baseless. I could make the claim that Obama was just elected to show that America isn't racist, and would be just as valid as yours.
Some of the math suggested it would ignite the atmosphere and kill everybody
Well at least we wouldn't be dealing with environmentalists now if that were true.
Really? Care to explain why we have such extensive state & federal data recovery departments? Oh, that's right, to check hard drives, etc. seized by law enforcement.
How about this then:
You statement implies that nobody would want the following types of data:
-The manuscript of the final Harry Potter series (before it was published).
-Paparazzi Photos of (enter name of celebrity here).
-The checking account numbers for 1million + bank accounts.
etc.
My point being, there are plenty of times even a "normal, common, everyday" person might have data valuable enough to do a forensic analysis. Hell, with a little know-how, you could build your own lab to do the recovery for a lot cheaper than YOU think is possible.
Since I don't think you are stupid, I can only assume you work for a government agency, most likely law enforcement, and it's in your (and ONLY your) best interests to ensure all our data is stored in an easy-to search state.
So the question is not if you are a government shill, but which agency you shill for.
They would want such data, but prosecuting the crime in those cases when a wipe was performed is not cost effective. You'd have to be high profile for the cost to be justified, we're talking treason, spying, etc etc, which would involve government or military data.
If you had the Harry Potter manuscript or child pornography on a hard drive that you wiped, the Fed's aren't going to waste the money on what could be a wild goose chase for nothing. It's much easier for them tap and track your online behavior to generate necessary suspicion to get a warrant to seize your computer and perform the forensic investigation/data recovery on that drive.
Remember, data recovery doesn't just mean from damaged hard drives, it also includes recovering encrypted data, data that was deleted but still on the drive and hidden data. Data recovery of overwritten/wiped data has failed to recover significant amounts of files.
TL;DR
It's not worth the cost/effort of recovering data from a wiped drive when obtaining a search warrant for your PC is easier.
Don't worry, they'll just keep using the power of the Federal government to regulate interstate trade as their reasoning for it. That is what started all the expansion of government in the first place. Though of course, I'm curious as to how any welfare systems regulate interstate trade, as well as where in the constitution the federal government has the authority to establish them.
This leads me into a side tangent. I can't stand how people think that the federal government should implement the will of the majority upon the minority. Your only choices are to suck it up and hope that when the minority get power, they can revert the former majority's will, or move to another country. Likewise, I don't understand people's distaste for the state to allow the majority to put it's will over the minority. That's the beauty of being a union of "autonomous" states. They're supposed to be given so much more power than the Federal government, and thanks to the open borders with states, if the majority are doing what you don't like, and you can't change it, just move to another state. You don't have quite that flexibility when it's done at the Federal level.
But Helen is the 5th Cylon!