Quite disingenious. The whole of the quad cities is bigger than Des Moines. Small for me is 0~200. Regular is ~1000. 300,000 people is not a small town.
Very nice. If you scroll toward the right (or east), you can see other grid patterns, although not as striking. Perhaps it's an artifact (not the Indiana Jones kind of artifact) of the sonar, or maybe the data-gathering process.
Now what's really fascinating are these gigantic letters spelling "(c) 2009 Google" on the ocean floor.
The imaging artifacts are the mostly likely explanation. Or perhaps shadows caused by such things as varying refractive indices. The only oddity is that the features meet at 90-degree angles. That bugs me a bit.
Besides, isn't Atlantis supposed to have been a Ring City around a central harbour and volcano? Why would it have what looks like a modern city grid layout?
I'm not an expert (or lawyer, but I play one on TV), but an ancient city the size of Wales is probably pretty hard to sink.
Plato was writing based on third-hand descriptions, so we can't really verify the veracity of his statements.
While it would be neat to find Atlantis (recollect how Troy was mythical until the late 1800's?), I suspect this will turn out to be just an example of natural ditches that line up nicely.
Or maybe it is Atlantis, and it turns out to be run by the same people who are responsible for that face at Cydonia on Mars!
Why are these idiots still in office? What in the hell do we have to do get politicians in office that actually work for the American people instead of a bunch of errand boys for the MPAA/RIAA?
DEAR WASHINGTON, F**K YOU! GET BACK TO WORK YOU USELESS BUNCH OF BUFFOONS.
Why do you keep voting for Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and the rest of the gang in DC?
We are already 24 years way past Orwellian 1984. This might be why a crushing recession or depression is a good thing....All these stimulus bills that force tracking and have other law enforcement assisting technologies should never pass.
Doesn't Facebook have a TOS clause related to owning Mr Furry and not having to send condolences for any reason unless Mrs Furry perpetually licenses all of Mr Furry's memoirs and other intellectual property to them?
[Clarence Thomas] said that the women's marijuana was never bought or sold, never crossed state lines and had no "demonstrable" effect on the national market for marijuana: "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything," including "quilting bees, clothes drives and potluck suppers." Thus "the federal government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers."
I've heard that frogs have the ability to detect single photons. This is from a cryptographer who jokingly proposed a frog-based system for quantum key distribution.
But on a more serious note, what does it really mean for two people to become entangled? And does it matter that the photons are detected by a human retina? Could the entanglement just as easily happen if the photons were fired into my left butt-cheek?
Furthermore, how does one "record" it such that the data can be retrieved? Yes, I know your dumb girlfriend "saw" the flash, and can report it, but it's still subjective. It's not like saying "hmm, that photon bumped the meter to 3.2eV"
eXactly. When your company does any of the retarded things you mentioned, you start looking for a new job.
No way in hell you want to stay at a sinking ship that does any of those brain dead moves.
bonus points if you can not only set that bridge on fire when you leave but take out 3 city blocks on both sides as well. Been there done that. Got quite a bit of self satisfaction telling the entire executive staff in one meeting that "they all were mentally incompetent snails with the collective IQ of a small salad bar. This company will be bankrupt in 12 months" and left.
I was wrong, they filed for chapter 11 6 months later, and then were sold off for assets in 12months.
Posting Anon because I know the CTO moron that worked there posts here on a regular basis from his new sinking ship.. I am SURE YOU REMEMBER ME JOHN!
And if he remembers the quote and realises you're addressing him, anon isn't going to save your ass. Just thought I'd point that out.
If I own my body (thereby making fetus-killing legal), shouldn't I also have a right to destroy my body (suicide, old age euthanasia, refusal of health services)???
My answer is yes. My body; my choice; mind your own business bible-thumper.
In that case, you'll agree with my right to hit all the bongs I want, right?
I think it goes back to the showing the DDT is a harmful chemical (other then the old commercial "DDT its good for you and good for me!") it was widely used and was considered safe and effective a marvel in scientific advancement. Then it was shown to have effect on the eagle population and perhaps humans as well. So we had to stop using the chemical, but that opened peoples minds to think other things will have such problems, and to question every advancement and study the effects of it. In general it is a positive thing but it has lead to fear mongering and a belief that we should stop advancements as every advancement has some cost to it (however in my opinion they usually forget to factor in the benefits). Such as the immunization and the possible link to autism, lets say it creates a 1% increase in autism how ever it saves 25% from death, the benefits out weigh the risks and the parents who avoid this are poor judges on risk assessment.
I agree with your point, which is well made, but try making it to the 1% who happened to get autism from the vaccine.
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I hate 90 degree angles too. Maybe we should form a support group.
Right-angles are Wrong! (A group to lobby Congress?)
Or maybe Right-angles anonymous?
Quite disingenious. The whole of the quad cities is bigger than Des Moines. Small for me is 0~200. Regular is ~1000. 300,000 people is not a small town.
Very nice. If you scroll toward the right (or east), you can see other grid patterns, although not as striking. Perhaps it's an artifact (not the Indiana Jones kind of artifact) of the sonar, or maybe the data-gathering process.
Now what's really fascinating are these gigantic letters spelling "(c) 2009 Google" on the ocean floor.
The imaging artifacts are the mostly likely explanation. Or perhaps shadows caused by such things as varying refractive indices. The only oddity is that the features meet at 90-degree angles. That bugs me a bit.
I get 100 mbit fiber for $65/mo in a small town in Iowa. WTF is taking the rest of you so long?
I'd like to know what town you're in. Everywhere else in Iowa is practically 28.8k dialup.
Better, even. Ever seen boobs on page 3 of Weekly World News?
No. I was too busy looking at boobs in the line at the store.
Besides, isn't Atlantis supposed to have been a Ring City around a central harbour and volcano? Why would it have what looks like a modern city grid layout?
I'm not an expert (or lawyer, but I play one on TV), but an ancient city the size of Wales is probably pretty hard to sink.
Plato was writing based on third-hand descriptions, so we can't really verify the veracity of his statements.
Numerous articles and you pick the sun?
Anyway here it is on google map
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.480209,-24.120483&spn=2.988616,5.026245&t=h&z=8
Don't knock the Sun. It's at least as good as the Weekly World News!
While it would be neat to find Atlantis (recollect how Troy was mythical until the late 1800's?), I suspect this will turn out to be just an example of natural ditches that line up nicely.
Or maybe it is Atlantis, and it turns out to be run by the same people who are responsible for that face at Cydonia on Mars!
This sounds like a job for INDIANA JONES (and Sophia)!
Dude, I'm already in a foul mood so don't tell me I agree with Clarence Thomas on something. I just don't need that kind of shit right now.
Okay. You agree with Michael Savage. Better?
At least you don't agree with that insufferable Captain Sullenberger. He's never in a fowl mood.
Why are these idiots still in office? What in the hell do we have to do get politicians in office that actually work for the American people instead of a bunch of errand boys for the MPAA/RIAA?
DEAR WASHINGTON, F**K YOU! GET BACK TO WORK YOU USELESS BUNCH OF BUFFOONS.
Why do you keep voting for Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and the rest of the gang in DC?
We are already 24 years way past Orwellian 1984. This might be why a crushing recession or depression is a good thing....All these stimulus bills that force tracking and have other law enforcement assisting technologies should never pass.
Fixed that for you.
This law speaks of retention, not generation.
Ergo, the solution is to simply not generate a log.
Hound your ISP about it, too.
I suppose it works better to stand in the cold with a sign on Constitution Ave while being looked down upon as if you were some kind of terrorist...
Doesn't Facebook have a TOS clause related to owning Mr Furry and not having to send condolences for any reason unless Mrs Furry perpetually licenses all of Mr Furry's memoirs and other intellectual property to them?
"Weird... because I'm pretty sure if you're browsing the web, you're communicating across state lines"
Communicating yet, but, does that actually constitute interstate commerce? I thought that was all the feds were supposed to be able to legislate?
I think this applies here.
http://www.veiled-chameleon.com/weblog/archives/000166.html
[Clarence Thomas] said that the women's marijuana was never bought or sold, never crossed state lines and had no "demonstrable" effect on the national market for marijuana: "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything," including "quilting bees, clothes drives and potluck suppers." Thus "the federal government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers."
I've heard that frogs have the ability to detect single photons. This is from a cryptographer who jokingly proposed a frog-based system for quantum key distribution. But on a more serious note, what does it really mean for two people to become entangled? And does it matter that the photons are detected by a human retina? Could the entanglement just as easily happen if the photons were fired into my left butt-cheek?
Furthermore, how does one "record" it such that the data can be retrieved? Yes, I know your dumb girlfriend "saw" the flash, and can report it, but it's still subjective. It's not like saying "hmm, that photon bumped the meter to 3.2eV"
And how long before the experiment becomes the basis for a porn movie plot?
You'll be hearing from my lawyers in the morning.
What do you use at your desk that will fit in a jar for recycling that you can't use over and over again instead?
Pee. He lives as a recluse in his mommy's basement.
eXactly. When your company does any of the retarded things you mentioned, you start looking for a new job.
No way in hell you want to stay at a sinking ship that does any of those brain dead moves.
bonus points if you can not only set that bridge on fire when you leave but take out 3 city blocks on both sides as well. Been there done that. Got quite a bit of self satisfaction telling the entire executive staff in one meeting that "they all were mentally incompetent snails with the collective IQ of a small salad bar. This company will be bankrupt in 12 months" and left.
I was wrong, they filed for chapter 11 6 months later, and then were sold off for assets in 12months.
Posting Anon because I know the CTO moron that worked there posts here on a regular basis from his new sinking ship.. I am SURE YOU REMEMBER ME JOHN!
And if he remembers the quote and realises you're addressing him, anon isn't going to save your ass. Just thought I'd point that out.
People complain about others bashing Microsoft but I have to give you kudos for working it into that!
+1 Respect ;)
Funnily enough, I also thought of that. Then logic kicked in. The container also needs a screen door.
Just for reference
Actually, that last bit is in dispute, if you RTFS.
If you feel comfortable doing linear extrapolations on a highly nonlinear system, anyway.
Even if the Earth is warming, the bias isn't in the facts, it's in whether or not this is a natural thing, and whether we can do anything about it.
If I own my body (thereby making fetus-killing legal), shouldn't I also have a right to destroy my body (suicide, old age euthanasia, refusal of health services)???
My answer is yes. My body; my choice; mind your own business bible-thumper.
In that case, you'll agree with my right to hit all the bongs I want, right?
I think it goes back to the showing the DDT is a harmful chemical (other then the old commercial "DDT its good for you and good for me!") it was widely used and was considered safe and effective a marvel in scientific advancement. Then it was shown to have effect on the eagle population and perhaps humans as well. So we had to stop using the chemical, but that opened peoples minds to think other things will have such problems, and to question every advancement and study the effects of it. In general it is a positive thing but it has lead to fear mongering and a belief that we should stop advancements as every advancement has some cost to it (however in my opinion they usually forget to factor in the benefits). Such as the immunization and the possible link to autism, lets say it creates a 1% increase in autism how ever it saves 25% from death, the benefits out weigh the risks and the parents who avoid this are poor judges on risk assessment.
I agree with your point, which is well made, but try making it to the 1% who happened to get autism from the vaccine.