Even if we overestimated and supposed that, for ease of calculation, a single nuclear strike could completely eliminate a city, all but the very smallest countries have substantially more than 12 cities, and a fair amount of hinterland. Not to mention the fact that unpleasant side effects like nuclear winter and social chaos, which would presumably do most of the killing after the first couple of days, would be far more severe with more warheads rather than fewer.
My nation has only four cities by Western standards, and all of our "hinterland" is just outside those cities. We also have more weapons trained on us than any other nation, including soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. Those who call themselves our enemies make up about a fifth of the world's population, and they have over a thousand men for every one of ours. They have also started six wars with us in the living generations.
For some reason I always read/. quotes in a Clinton voice. Which is unusual, I don' t live in America. I think that it all started with that terrific quote of his.... how did it go... oh yeah:
It comes with Windows Mobile on the navigation system.
Which was the only thing that the author found to complain about in the whole article. Telling, very telling. From TFA:
If you can stomach the Windows Mobile interface long enough to set your destination, you get to view your route guidance in a tiny screen in the rearview mirror.
The company is named after the star cluster Pleiades, which in Greek mythology is known as the Seven Sisters, and in Japanese mythology the name is "Subaru", which roughly translated into English means, "to govern", "unite," or "gather together". The company logo is influenced by the star cluster. The large star in the logo represents Fuji Heavy Industries, and the five smaller stars represent the current five companies that are united under the FHI group.
This is the website where you find the latest sighting opportunities for your location.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Go to +REALTIME DATA / Sighting Opportunities then, choose your country and the rest should be self explanatory, at least for the United States which is all I have used this website for:)
After about a week you'll get a message like this:
Your battery can only hold 2% of it's original capacity. To learn about replacement options, please click here.
The designer / technician in the video calls the Model S "the iPhone of the auto industry". So your troll-modded comment is rather insightful indeed! Mods, quick!
Some cultures are absolutley superior to others. Cultures which treat women as property, for instance, are inferior cultures.
So what you are saying is that specialization, and acknowledgement of the fact that women differ from men is inferior to the Western ideal that "all men are created equal" ("men" including women, of course) and just letting everyone do everything with no regard to specific gender-related (or race-related, or handicap-related) differences?
Just because a culture is different than yours does not made it inferior. I would argue that Western culture, women's rights and all, is inferior to Eastern culture in that Western culture idolizes drug abuse, pornography, violent crime, and ignorance. Try to listen to some popular music with an objective standpoint, or popular movies, and see exactly what Western culture is.
What is not obvious is that we should confuse the process of Darwinian evolution with cultural evolution.
You mean biological evolution, not "Darwinian evolution". Darwin himself did not subscribe to the specific ideas regarding biological evolution that we subscribe to today.
I'll take the analogy further: _don't_ look at software. Because this is what patents have done to software: Patents were the reason for the downfall of a standard HTML 5 video codec. Not litigation or the threat of litigation, but the existence of patents and the fact that there is no way for a company (Apple, in this case) to check if someone is trolling a patent or three.
What has this to do with copyright? Should copyright be pulling in one direction while patents are pulling in the other? Haven't the two traditionally gone hand in hand, to the point where laymen cannot distinguish between the two? What is the intent of protections, and who are they protecting?
Red headline means subscribers only. Subscribers get to see articles before they are published. But due to a bug, sometimes the subscribers-only tag is removed a few seconds _after_ the article goes live. If you are lucky enough to visit/. right at that time, you get a red headline.
and they effortlessly multitask--leave one in the bathroom, one on the nightstand, one in the car, etc.
Allright, I understand what you've multitasking with the pages in the bathroom for, and if you're into that whole "cuming outside" thing than the one on the nightstand as well. But I really cannot figure out what you're doing with the one in the car. Wiping down the dipstick?
Slashdot Mirror
"This is the best sunspot I've seen in two years."
ACHTUNG! Do not look at sunspots with remaining eye!
Try this site that I found on some /. sig:
http://what-is-what.com/
It displays all wrong in IE, and has some broken ad at the bottom for Firefox. A _broken_ add, even broken in Firefox.
That would just start another Texas war:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/26/texas-from-saved-to-doomed-in-just-6-hours/
And maybe Arizona too:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/06/arizona-is-6000-years-old/
In any case, when Phil posts about astronomy (like the name of the blog suggests) it is a great read.
Even if we overestimated and supposed that, for ease of calculation, a single nuclear strike could completely eliminate a city, all but the very smallest countries have substantially more than 12 cities, and a fair amount of hinterland. Not to mention the fact that unpleasant side effects like nuclear winter and social chaos, which would presumably do most of the killing after the first couple of days, would be far more severe with more warheads rather than fewer.
My nation has only four cities by Western standards, and all of our "hinterland" is just outside those cities. We also have more weapons trained on us than any other nation, including soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. Those who call themselves our enemies make up about a fifth of the world's population, and they have over a thousand men for every one of ours. They have also started six wars with us in the living generations.
Yes, I am talking about Israel.
And why exactly did you look at the pictures in the first place?
Doesn't seem a required step in copying files. Did you look at every other file you copied too?
Maybe he works in Texas.
Did anyone else read this with a Shatner voice?
For some reason I always read /. quotes in a Clinton voice. Which is unusual, I don' t live in America. I think that it all started with that terrific quote of his.... how did it go... oh yeah:
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
It comes with Windows Mobile on the navigation system.
Which was the only thing that the author found to complain about in the whole article. Telling, very telling. From TFA:
If you can stomach the Windows Mobile interface long enough to set your destination, you get to view your route guidance in a tiny screen in the rearview mirror.
Here you go.
Sound like my wife
What's my father in law doing browsing Slashdot?
From Wikipedia:
The company is named after the star cluster Pleiades, which in Greek mythology is known as the Seven Sisters, and in Japanese mythology the name is "Subaru", which roughly translated into English means, "to govern", "unite," or "gather together". The company logo is influenced by the star cluster. The large star in the logo represents Fuji Heavy Industries, and the five smaller stars represent the current five companies that are united under the FHI group.
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That's a myth. Although your eyes can't see it, the piss comes out in unconnected drops. Electricity cannot go up the piss.
Tried that with a bug zapper. All it left me with was a smelly bugzapper.
This is the website where you find the latest sighting opportunities for your location.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Go to +REALTIME DATA / Sighting Opportunities then, choose your country and the rest should be self explanatory, at least for the United States which is all I have used this website for :)
I prefer this site, which has an Iridium Flare calculator as well:
http://www.heavens-above.com/
I live in Israel. Will I still "have at least a few opportunities to see the biggest spaceship ever built"? Actually, yes, but not because of the US flyovers:
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&Session=kebgfgfichcdapnnagjfnaip
That the car only went about 50 miles or so with an 18 hour charge time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3bMKR5eXk
There are two morons fighting over gas/electric in the comments of that Youtube video. Here is a gem from that argument:
Y not wuud gas carz?
Intelligent debate, indeed!
Though I still have no idea how they plan to seat 5 real people plus two kiddy seats. In the trunk maybe?
The trunk is in the front. The child seats are rear-facing, behind the back seat. Five adults go two in front and three in back.
After about a week you'll get a message like this:
Your battery can only hold 2% of it's original capacity. To learn about replacement options, please click here.
The designer / technician in the video calls the Model S "the iPhone of the auto industry". So your troll-modded comment is rather insightful indeed! Mods, quick!
Some cultures are absolutley superior to others. Cultures which treat women as property, for instance, are inferior cultures.
So what you are saying is that specialization, and acknowledgement of the fact that women differ from men is inferior to the Western ideal that "all men are created equal" ("men" including women, of course) and just letting everyone do everything with no regard to specific gender-related (or race-related, or handicap-related) differences?
Just because a culture is different than yours does not made it inferior. I would argue that Western culture, women's rights and all, is inferior to Eastern culture in that Western culture idolizes drug abuse, pornography, violent crime, and ignorance. Try to listen to some popular music with an objective standpoint, or popular movies, and see exactly what Western culture is.
What is not obvious is that we should confuse the process of Darwinian evolution with cultural evolution.
You mean biological evolution, not "Darwinian evolution". Darwin himself did not subscribe to the specific ideas regarding biological evolution that we subscribe to today.
Just being pedantic, carry on!
Thanks.
It would be no different than taking random drugs you bought off the street corner.
What's wrong with taking FUCK STOP FUCK random drugs bought off the FUCK STOP FUCK street corner?
I'll take the analogy further: _don't_ look at software. Because this is what patents have done to software:
Patents were the reason for the downfall of a standard HTML 5 video codec. Not litigation or the threat of litigation, but the existence of patents and the fact that there is no way for a company (Apple, in this case) to check if someone is trolling a patent or three.
What has this to do with copyright? Should copyright be pulling in one direction while patents are pulling in the other? Haven't the two traditionally gone hand in hand, to the point where laymen cannot distinguish between the two? What is the intent of protections, and who are they protecting?
Red headline means subscribers only. Subscribers get to see articles before they are published. But due to a bug, sometimes the subscribers-only tag is removed a few seconds _after_ the article goes live. If you are lucky enough to visit /. right at that time, you get a red headline.
Best: Eliminate single points of failure...
Earth is a single point of failure.
Therefore, Earth must be eliminated.
and they effortlessly multitask--leave one in the bathroom, one on the nightstand, one in the car, etc.
Allright, I understand what you've multitasking with the pages in the bathroom for, and if you're into that whole "cuming outside" thing than the one on the nightstand as well. But I really cannot figure out what you're doing with the one in the car. Wiping down the dipstick?