Because the kid is going to suffer for their parents stupidity no matter what you do. The tin foil hat limits the suffering to that one kid, though, rather than forcing an entire school of kids to suffer for the stupidity of one kids parents.
The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility.... there was no long-term damage reported at the facility and there were no major power outages.
Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said last month that an attack by intruders with guns and rifles could be just as devastating as a cyber attack.
A shooter "could get 200 yards away with a.22 rifle and take the whole thing out,"
Clearly this man is an idiot who should not be listened to. If 100+ rounds from a high power rifle didn't cause an outage, someone 200 yards away with a.22 sure as hell isn't going to.
"California had an installed generating capacity of 45GW. At the time of the blackouts, demand was 28GW. A demand supply gap was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create an artificial shortage. Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance in days of peak demand to increase the price. Traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20 times its normal value. "
[California's rolling blackouts were a way to drive up profits](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis). They have absolutely nothing in common with the Northeast Blackout event in 2003.
No. Google didn't try to buy Rockstar, which is the consortium that produces no products and practices no patents.
Nortel produced a lot of produts. Google bid on some of Nortel's patents after they went bankrupt. Rockstar is the consortium that outbid Google and bought those patents.
I think you're on to something. If we can find out who is providing the 74 virgins to the suicide bombers, we'll have found the real source of all the terrorism. It only makes sense to stake out places that have a high percentage of virgins running around.
It makes almost perfect sense! The only question left, really, is why anyone would want 74 of these.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
Not true. Power generating wind turbines have brakes that can stop the blades and the blades can be locked in place. They need those things in order to shut down for maintenance and when winds get too high, otherwise you get this, which is expensive and dangerous.
The brakes can't stop the blades instantly, though, so you couldn't stop them fast enough to avoid a bird collision.
Also, birds are everywhere. They would always in the vicinity unless you're in the middle of the ocean or above 25,000 feet or so (yes, they fly that high). You'd never be able to generate power if you shut down every time there was a bird in the area.
the musician presented real world figures over the pitiful amounts of money he made off of his more popular songs on Spotify as opposed to CD
Would you pay $20,000 to rent a car for one trip to the store?
No? Then why would you think that people should pay as much to listen to a song one time as they would to buy it on CD? Yet that seems to be the argument the musician was making.
Were you trying to reply to someone else's comment rather than the main story? The summary only has one link which goes to a story on Ars Technica. None of the headlines you've given are on their site. The article there links back to the study on Nature.com, which also does not have any of the headlines you've given.
I linked to the comment because your previous comment proved that you're too stupid and lazy to read back in the comments.
If you'd bothered to do so, you'd have noticed that this entire comment thread was started by someone saying "This proves it! Noah and his sons have been found through genetics."
I'll just point out that nowhere did I say that...(see other comments on this thread for a fun definition of 'believe')
You didn't say that. this guy said that and my original post was a reply to that guy, not you.
You're obviously too confused to actually read posts in sequential order and have no clue what I'm talking about. It would really be best if you took the time to read and respond intelligently without jumping to wild-ass conclusions that aren't supported (much like the person I responded to), but it seems you aren't willing to do that.
If you're going to reply to a comment, you should get it right. I pointed out that there are many races that do not share the genetic code found in Western Europeans. Noah's sons didn't manage to marry one of every ethnic race on the planet.
Of course you ignored all that and took one sentence out of context to try and make some point.
TFA is real science...trying to prove or disprove Mythology is not science
I didn't respond to TFA. I responded to a post from someone who was claiming that TFA supports the biblical flood.
Except that this gene is primarily found in Western Europeans and is non-existent in Asians and other races on the planet. The flood that supposedly took out everyone on the planet would have left everyone sharing the same genetic code which is absolutely not the case here.
Not really. This is a gene that's particular to Western Europeans. Not Asians, Aficans or any other race on the planet. The flood that supposedly took out everyone on the planet except for Noah and his crotch fruit would have left everyone sharing the same genetic code which is not the case.
Evolution theory, on the other hand, predicts that beneficial genetic mutations will spread exactly like this.
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Shh... you're interrupting the "OMG GOOGLE IS EVIL" circlejerk.
Because the kid is going to suffer for their parents stupidity no matter what you do. The tin foil hat limits the suffering to that one kid, though, rather than forcing an entire school of kids to suffer for the stupidity of one kids parents.
The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility. ... there was no long-term damage reported at the facility and there were no major power outages.
Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said last month that an attack by intruders with guns and rifles could be just as devastating as a cyber attack.
A shooter "could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle and take the whole thing out,"
Clearly this man is an idiot who should not be listened to. If 100+ rounds from a high power rifle didn't cause an outage, someone 200 yards away with a .22 sure as hell isn't going to.
Crap. I spend too much time on Reddit and used the wrong formatting.
Here's the proper link.
"California had an installed generating capacity of 45GW. At the time of the blackouts, demand was 28GW. A demand supply gap was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create an artificial shortage. Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance in days of peak demand to increase the price. Traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20 times its normal value. "
[California's rolling blackouts were a way to drive up profits](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis). They have absolutely nothing in common with the Northeast Blackout event in 2003.
it is theoretically possible to build something that cannot be damaged or destroyed by the application of external momentum or energy.
Actually, that's pretty easy to disprove.
Given enough energy, we can rip apart atoms. The Large Hadron Collider was built specifically to do this.
Anything you build is going to be made of atoms. If atoms can be blown apart into subatomic particles, anything you build can likewise be destroyed.
No. Google didn't try to buy Rockstar, which is the consortium that produces no products and practices no patents.
Nortel produced a lot of produts. Google bid on some of Nortel's patents after they went bankrupt. Rockstar is the consortium that outbid Google and bought those patents.
their proposed solution, if they win is to house the chimps in a preserve in Florida.
And then, since the chimps are now people in the eyes of the law, they can vote!
Because Florida's election results aren't wacky enough on their own.
I am my mother?
I think you're on to something. If we can find out who is providing the 74 virgins to the suicide bombers, we'll have found the real source of all the terrorism. It only makes sense to stake out places that have a high percentage of virgins running around.
It makes almost perfect sense! The only question left, really, is why anyone would want 74 of these.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
For many people/sheeple
And there's where I stopped reading your comment. If you can't refrain from using childish insults, you don't deserve to be heard.
If you enjoyed that, you might like the "Things I Won't Work With" posts on Derek Lowe's blog since he writes with a similar style.
some flashing lights should do the trick
Ooh! We can have windmills that look like this!
At the very least, it'll be a great setting for raves.
Not true. Power generating wind turbines have brakes that can stop the blades and the blades can be locked in place. They need those things in order to shut down for maintenance and when winds get too high, otherwise you get this, which is expensive and dangerous.
The brakes can't stop the blades instantly, though, so you couldn't stop them fast enough to avoid a bird collision.
Also, birds are everywhere. They would always in the vicinity unless you're in the middle of the ocean or above 25,000 feet or so (yes, they fly that high). You'd never be able to generate power if you shut down every time there was a bird in the area.
Glad you feel that way. You'll be signing up to be one of the first test subjects, right?
Expect Sharktopus II: Nuclear Boogaloo any week now
The second and third Sharktopus movies are already in the works, so this one would be Sharktopus IV: A Nuclear Hope.
The problem is that nowadays hardly anybody buys albums if they can avoid it
Your "hardly anybody" bought 204.8 million albums and 1.34 billion individual songs last year.
the musician presented real world figures over the pitiful amounts of money he made off of his more popular songs on Spotify as opposed to CD
Would you pay $20,000 to rent a car for one trip to the store?
No? Then why would you think that people should pay as much to listen to a song one time as they would to buy it on CD? Yet that seems to be the argument the musician was making.
That explains it... and yeah, that website is thick with whackjobs.
Were you trying to reply to someone else's comment rather than the main story? The summary only has one link which goes to a story on Ars Technica. None of the headlines you've given are on their site. The article there links back to the study on Nature.com, which also does not have any of the headlines you've given.
I linked to the comment because your previous comment proved that you're too stupid and lazy to read back in the comments.
If you'd bothered to do so, you'd have noticed that this entire comment thread was started by someone saying "This proves it! Noah and his sons have been found through genetics."
So now you've seen it. Asshole.
I'll just point out that nowhere did I say that...(see other comments on this thread for a fun definition of 'believe')
You didn't say that. this guy said that and my original post was a reply to that guy, not you.
You're obviously too confused to actually read posts in sequential order and have no clue what I'm talking about. It would really be best if you took the time to read and respond intelligently without jumping to wild-ass conclusions that aren't supported (much like the person I responded to), but it seems you aren't willing to do that.
If you're going to reply to a comment, you should get it right. I pointed out that there are many races that do not share the genetic code found in Western Europeans. Noah's sons didn't manage to marry one of every ethnic race on the planet.
Of course you ignored all that and took one sentence out of context to try and make some point.
TFA is real science...trying to prove or disprove Mythology is not science
I didn't respond to TFA. I responded to a post from someone who was claiming that TFA supports the biblical flood.
Except that this gene is primarily found in Western Europeans and is non-existent in Asians and other races on the planet. The flood that supposedly took out everyone on the planet would have left everyone sharing the same genetic code which is absolutely not the case here.
Not really. This is a gene that's particular to Western Europeans. Not Asians, Aficans or any other race on the planet. The flood that supposedly took out everyone on the planet except for Noah and his crotch fruit would have left everyone sharing the same genetic code which is not the case.
Evolution theory, on the other hand, predicts that beneficial genetic mutations will spread exactly like this.