More and more I get this feeling of disgust each time I hear a company complain about something that has to do with consumer rights. At least I am getting more disgusted and not more desensitized...
Did you really see me advocating carpet bombing the Middle East?
No, and it doesn't matter, and I didn't say carpet bombing. The point of that sentence was going and bombing countries shouldn't have been the first reaction. However I do accept that violence is sometimes is a necessary.
No. You don't know anything about me, but you are making wild assumptions about what I care to know and my position on my government's actions in the Middle East.
True and fair.
You are offering up strawmen. You are appealing to emotion and using value judgments.
But let's say I was all those things you assumed I am. Your weak argument would do nothing to convince me.
Emotions ? The whole point of that is that we shouldn't appeal to emotions or rash judgment. Understanding them might open you up to the fact that their actions might be a reaction rather than an action. Some of these Iraqis who were blowing themselves to kill American soldiers are considered by their people as freedom fighters and not terrorists. So me the person who have no access to intelligence material, how do you propose I would understand the motivations of these different groups ? I only have these videos, and these videos might help me understand that some of these groups who are fighting us are not really terrorists, and some are. How difficult is to accept that ?
I agree that we don't need videos to object to terrorism, but we do need to understand who is doing what for what reason.
Terrorism is a problem, but bombing the shit out of them right away is not the god sent solution. Understanding them, understanding the motivations behind what they do is very important to defeat them. If you don't understand why they hate you, then how can you destroy them ? Or more importantly what is your moral justification for killing them if you don't know why they are doing what they are doing? For me it sounds as if you don't care enough to know, and content with delegating these issues to your government ( which is the stupidest thing anyone can ever do), and this in my opinion is even worse than a bad argument.
I guess they know that, but they want to make it harder for anyone to find these things. Now I understand if it is regarding material on how to construct IEDs or similar things. But if these videos promotes terrorism then why not let them? Look at this from my point of view, arabic is my fluent language and I have easy access to that sort of material, but I am not going to be convinced by these videos just because I saw them. However there is a positive side for this, by hearing what they have to say, I gain more information on them and the way they think. So for me the average person I can better articulate my objections to these people, and be able to say with knowledge why these people are bad, and not just "they hate us for our freedom" - Sorry to break this to you, they don't hate you for your freedom. Now for you, who is not from that region, or someone who doesn't speaks arabic, you should have access for these videos because how else would you understand them if they were not presented to you ? The state is stupid to think that people would suddenly resort to terrorism just because they saw some bearded asshole with a machine gun and screaming "death to the infidels" --- Not letting you see that is more dangerous than you actually seeing and understand what he is saying.
~~~Rant over
The only reaction I have if Fuck you! Why don't they install chips in our asses as well to see if we accidentally farted a theme song!
What a bunch of idiots!
I don't look arabic, I have European background, 3 of my grandparents are Greek and one is from Iceland and unfortunately I am whiter than snow. But my name is arabic and would give the false impression that I am a mulsim as well.
No I do not expect them to differentiate and that is a complete fair criticism , but are you telling me that a person coming from a background that is very hostile to the US, and specializes in a domain that would hinder intelligence and information gathering wouldn't be permanently flagged for extra screening by some agency ?
I never said I am fine with it. But I don't understand the problem. Do you want my post to be full or ranting and caps lock to emphasis my complete and utter anger of this ?
In these situations you should keep calm, no reason for you to be agitated as they will use this against you. However that doesn't mean you should be polite. In one incident, I told the interrogator to go hang himself upside down by the testicles after he asked a very stupid question ( the funny part his partner laughed his ass off ) but I still managed to say it in the coldest way possible.
While we should give them the benefit of the doubt because it might very well be a pure coincidence. However when I think about my own experience, I can't help and refute that. I have been "randomly" chosen so many times, that now I think they have a very biased random screening process. I almost get picked for extra screening almost every time I travel ( and I do travel frequently ). My background could be a factor, I come from the same country as our crypto friend, but from the north and if you were following the news lately there have been a lot of it in the city of Tripoly ( the city where I grew up in ). And we have some extremist that you can comfortably link them to Al-Qaeda.
Actually he is not only arabic, his background ( for which I could be mistaken ) is shiite muslim ( but he may not be religious ). In lebanon, the largest shiite parties are anti-american like Hizbollah and Amal.
That's way more complicated. You are talking about an n-body ( n= 22500 ) dynamics, if I am not mistaken this can be best handled by fluid dynamics.
But even that is based on a lot of assumptions, for example will the bag hold ? if yes then it will behave like the horse. If not, then it depends on how fast will it tear, and how will it tear!
Try this, take a melon and throw it out of a 10 story building, then another melon in ten plastic bags, and another in 100 plastic bags, and throw them. The result will show you what I mean.
If you know the Horse's density and assume he is spherical ( I don't know why this assumption makes me laugh ) you can estimate his terminal velocity, same for the mouse. Now I might be wrong on this one but I would think that roughly both have the same density. If you do a simple calculation this would give you about ~3.5 factor more in favor of the horse ( the horse's terminal velocity following these assumptions would be 3.5 times higher than the one for the mouse).
Now the relative surface of two animals is around 800 (again assuming same density and both as spherical)?
So if I assume I didn't mess up doing all of this on the go, the relative Force/Area would be around 96 times higher for the horse.
Give me a break, I wanted to write that comment that was as short, as quick, and as simple as possible.
My conclusion isn't wrong ( in the literal sense ), I just made a "very" conservative estimation ( we do that in physics ). The whole point was to show, that the difference between a mouse and horse isn't small, but rather gigantic.
I was not going into assumptions of density and its uniformity, or whether we can assume animals as spherical or not, or of buoyancy and drag factors. Now I agree with http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2894703&cid=40216663 , I should have mentioned that I was doing a very conservative estimation and the number is actually much higher.
I am aware of that, but I didn't want to complicate things, in case the reader was not a physicist. Sometimes simple assumptions can still give you a clear indication of what is going on.
Force = dP / dt
P = mass * velocity
A mouse weights around ~20g , a horse around ~450kg. If we assume that both of them have the same velocity when touching the floor, the horse will experience a force that is ~22000 times higher. Easily explains the splashing... ( I could go more and calculate an approximation of the value force itself, but I think this is enough )
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Artificial selection anyone ?
People do that ?
I thought the same, they are not talking about ICECUBE.
What's with this new sudden wave of common sense ?
Science doesn't ask why should we! Science asks why the heck not put chainsaws on bears and fit them with jetpacks you insensitive clod!
More and more I get this feeling of disgust each time I hear a company complain about something that has to do with consumer rights. At least I am getting more disgusted and not more desensitized...
Did you really see me advocating carpet bombing the Middle East?
No, and it doesn't matter, and I didn't say carpet bombing. The point of that sentence was going and bombing countries shouldn't have been the first reaction. However I do accept that violence is sometimes is a necessary.
No. You don't know anything about me, but you are making wild assumptions about what I care to know and my position on my government's actions in the Middle East.
True and fair.
You are offering up strawmen. You are appealing to emotion and using value judgments.
But let's say I was all those things you assumed I am. Your weak argument would do nothing to convince me.
Emotions ? The whole point of that is that we shouldn't appeal to emotions or rash judgment. Understanding them might open you up to the fact that their actions might be a reaction rather than an action. Some of these Iraqis who were blowing themselves to kill American soldiers are considered by their people as freedom fighters and not terrorists. So me the person who have no access to intelligence material, how do you propose I would understand the motivations of these different groups ? I only have these videos, and these videos might help me understand that some of these groups who are fighting us are not really terrorists, and some are. How difficult is to accept that ? I agree that we don't need videos to object to terrorism, but we do need to understand who is doing what for what reason.
Terrorism is a problem, but bombing the shit out of them right away is not the god sent solution. Understanding them, understanding the motivations behind what they do is very important to defeat them. If you don't understand why they hate you, then how can you destroy them ? Or more importantly what is your moral justification for killing them if you don't know why they are doing what they are doing? For me it sounds as if you don't care enough to know, and content with delegating these issues to your government ( which is the stupidest thing anyone can ever do), and this in my opinion is even worse than a bad argument.
I wrote this some time ago in another discussion, while it's not the same subject. If you read it you can understand how it is related. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2546664&cid=38189330
I guess they know that, but they want to make it harder for anyone to find these things. Now I understand if it is regarding material on how to construct IEDs or similar things. But if these videos promotes terrorism then why not let them? Look at this from my point of view, arabic is my fluent language and I have easy access to that sort of material, but I am not going to be convinced by these videos just because I saw them. However there is a positive side for this, by hearing what they have to say, I gain more information on them and the way they think. So for me the average person I can better articulate my objections to these people, and be able to say with knowledge why these people are bad, and not just "they hate us for our freedom" - Sorry to break this to you, they don't hate you for your freedom. Now for you, who is not from that region, or someone who doesn't speaks arabic, you should have access for these videos because how else would you understand them if they were not presented to you ? The state is stupid to think that people would suddenly resort to terrorism just because they saw some bearded asshole with a machine gun and screaming "death to the infidels" --- Not letting you see that is more dangerous than you actually seeing and understand what he is saying. ~~~Rant over
Hey! Someone of us talk about the lack of meaning in life, about materialism, about nihilism and sometimes boobies!
Doesn't matter. My conversation would be about pictures you see in 4chan and poop. I bet you if enough people do that, they will stop recording...
The only reaction I have if Fuck you! Why don't they install chips in our asses as well to see if we accidentally farted a theme song! What a bunch of idiots!
I don't look arabic, I have European background, 3 of my grandparents are Greek and one is from Iceland and unfortunately I am whiter than snow. But my name is arabic and would give the false impression that I am a mulsim as well.
No I do not expect them to differentiate and that is a complete fair criticism , but are you telling me that a person coming from a background that is very hostile to the US, and specializes in a domain that would hinder intelligence and information gathering wouldn't be permanently flagged for extra screening by some agency ?
I never said I am fine with it. But I don't understand the problem. Do you want my post to be full or ranting and caps lock to emphasis my complete and utter anger of this ? In these situations you should keep calm, no reason for you to be agitated as they will use this against you. However that doesn't mean you should be polite. In one incident, I told the interrogator to go hang himself upside down by the testicles after he asked a very stupid question ( the funny part his partner laughed his ass off ) but I still managed to say it in the coldest way possible.
Yet he lives and works in Canada.
While we should give them the benefit of the doubt because it might very well be a pure coincidence. However when I think about my own experience, I can't help and refute that. I have been "randomly" chosen so many times, that now I think they have a very biased random screening process. I almost get picked for extra screening almost every time I travel ( and I do travel frequently ). My background could be a factor, I come from the same country as our crypto friend, but from the north and if you were following the news lately there have been a lot of it in the city of Tripoly ( the city where I grew up in ). And we have some extremist that you can comfortably link them to Al-Qaeda.
There is your answer right there.
Actually he is not only arabic, his background ( for which I could be mistaken ) is shiite muslim ( but he may not be religious ). In lebanon, the largest shiite parties are anti-american like Hizbollah and Amal.
That's way more complicated. You are talking about an n-body ( n= 22500 ) dynamics, if I am not mistaken this can be best handled by fluid dynamics. But even that is based on a lot of assumptions, for example will the bag hold ? if yes then it will behave like the horse. If not, then it depends on how fast will it tear, and how will it tear! Try this, take a melon and throw it out of a 10 story building, then another melon in ten plastic bags, and another in 100 plastic bags, and throw them. The result will show you what I mean.
If you know the Horse's density and assume he is spherical ( I don't know why this assumption makes me laugh ) you can estimate his terminal velocity, same for the mouse. Now I might be wrong on this one but I would think that roughly both have the same density. If you do a simple calculation this would give you about ~3.5 factor more in favor of the horse ( the horse's terminal velocity following these assumptions would be 3.5 times higher than the one for the mouse). Now the relative surface of two animals is around 800 (again assuming same density and both as spherical)? So if I assume I didn't mess up doing all of this on the go, the relative Force/Area would be around 96 times higher for the horse.
Give me a break, I wanted to write that comment that was as short, as quick, and as simple as possible. My conclusion isn't wrong ( in the literal sense ), I just made a "very" conservative estimation ( we do that in physics ). The whole point was to show, that the difference between a mouse and horse isn't small, but rather gigantic. I was not going into assumptions of density and its uniformity, or whether we can assume animals as spherical or not, or of buoyancy and drag factors. Now I agree with http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2894703&cid=40216663 , I should have mentioned that I was doing a very conservative estimation and the number is actually much higher.
AIUI, you assume wrong.
I am aware of that, but I didn't want to complicate things, in case the reader was not a physicist. Sometimes simple assumptions can still give you a clear indication of what is going on.
Force = dP / dt P = mass * velocity A mouse weights around ~20g , a horse around ~450kg. If we assume that both of them have the same velocity when touching the floor, the horse will experience a force that is ~22000 times higher. Easily explains the splashing... ( I could go more and calculate an approximation of the value force itself, but I think this is enough )
I might be willing to concede that point, but to state that Google abused its search monopoly is ridiculous.