Brazil gets a 300% energy efficiency for growing sugar cane to make ethanol. That's "spending 1 gallon of gas to get the equivalent of 3 gallons." And all they're doing is destroying the rainforest to get it!
Personally, I'm in favor of developing ANWR if we can ensure that a close watch is kept on the oil companies to make sure they don't screw up the environment, but there's no way it will end our dependence on the Middle East. Absolutely it could.
The United States does not get much oil from the Middle East. eia.doe.gov, I've typed it so many times, they got the numbers, go and read.
Texas produces as much oil for our Union as does Saudi Arabia (folding in Texas's share of the offshore production to get this number).
When the United States protects the free flow of oil at market prices, it is a gigantic gift to Japan and the ungrateful scum of Europe.
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There are many unpleasant things which are not torture.
Waterboarding is one of them.
Surgery is another.
If the intent was to torture, there are a lot easier ways than waterboarding.
The only reason waterboarding is being called "torture" is because it works.
Maybe it is time for money to be backed by something tangible and valuable, instead of the federal nothing-in-reserve notes we have now, backed only by the printing of nothing-in-reserve notes on the one hand, and the incineration of nothing-in-reserve notes on the other. The dollar is backed by taxes, to be levied when the respective bonds become due. The taxing may be delayed with more bonds, but ultimately the dollar is backed by taxes.
If I were president I would swap the defence budget and NASA's budget. Yeah, right, with one stroke of the pen (in your pants) you would throw away the best military the world has ever known. What complete idiocy.
How about we make the NASA and DoD budgets one and the same?
Open-source computer code has been around about as long as computers, and the equivalent to open source in other areas such as blueprints have been around since time immemorial. Even the phrase "open source" is itself confusing, since "open sources" are things like phone books, and a "closed" source is somebody you have to do legwork to talk to;-)
I bet you've never been to a 3rd world catholic country - lots of angry violent mobs in those places too. It has more to do with being a 3rd world country - or living in 3rd world conditions - than it does with being catholic, or muslim Where are all the Catholic suicide bombers? Where are all the Tibetan/Burmese Buddhist suicide bombers?
Now that the IRA has gone all Bono on us, they won't be using human-guided bombs.
I've been to Mexico and San Antonio so I know all about the 3rd world and Catholicism. I am fair and balanced, so I also wonder if tropical latitudes cause corruption.
But really, with the exception of the Tamil Tigers, modern extremist Islam has a monopoly on suicide bombers.
If there was one thing that might make a thinking human give the extremists a second thought, it would be to renounce such violence in word and deed.
Many thoughtful Muslims have indeed denounced terrorism. It takes only a few seconds to find them, here are a couple dozen.
Is killing because you are a uniformed soldier any better in the eyes of god than killing because you are a guerrilla soldier? It certainly should be, if that god is worthy of worship.
Because every thoughtful human already knows that it is better to be a uniformed soldier than a little-warrior.
And why do soldiers wear uniforms?
It certainly is not to protect the soldier. As a matter of fact, a soldier's uniform is actually a big flashing neon arrow pointing to some kid that says to the enemy, SHOOT ME!
And that's one of the things a uniform is for. It makes the soldier into a target to be killed.
Now if that's all there was to it, you might say that the whole uniform thing is not such a groovy idea. BUT! What a uniform also does -- the corollary to the whole idea of a uniformed person -- is to say that if the individual wearing a uniform is a legitimate target, then the person standing next to him in civilian clothes is not. -http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000125.html
Is it better to be a uniformed soldier, or a terrorist who shoots schoolgirls in the back?
Is it better to be a uniformed soldier, or an apologist for those who use mentally disabled women as guidance systems for bombs that blow up Suq-Mart shoppers?
Tell me, you worthless pile of shit. Which is better?
Many, many engineers are not Registered Professional Engineers.
Do EE's need to get certified in Canada? Here in the States, most don't bother. The few who work on public safety related things do.
Nearly all CE's need to get certified, or they won't find work.
So it's entirely proper to call yourself an engineer if you do engineering. It is illegal to call yourself a Registered Professional Engineer when you are not.
The same should apply to Software Engineering, if there ever is such a thing.
What would an uncertified EE call himself in Canada? Electronics Designer? Gate Organizer? Substrate Doper?
You cannot deny that the guy has a couple of screws loose. Rep. Ron Paul (L+R-INO) thinks the United States supported Osama. He parrots leftover commie crap about "illegal war" when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq specifically fulfills the requirements of the War Powers Act and is indeed a formal Declaration of War.
The diagnosis is not clear. Is Ron Paul stupid? Or is he a liar? Are these symptoms of senility, or an underlying psychopathy?
You are not thinking literally enough:
"Then it was privatized, and the company cut costs and corners." Means the evil capitalist scum actually shaved the top corners of the tiger wall so that they were too low.
Please use the proper left-focused lenses when reading Slashdot. Unauthorized eyewear prohibited.
"Programmable" in this case means it can be programmed with a given response. Not that it is a computer executing code.
Like ROM is programmable, or a CD, or a sheet of paper. It contains code, but does not execute code.
While it's certainly possible to put a little computer in an RFID application, the added cost would price them out of the inventory control business. Ingredients: water, tomato, 8051....
In fact knowing how to program well is about as relevant to a computer scientist as 'being good with numbers' is to a mathematician; ie not entirely irrelevant, but there is a lot more to it than that. A computer scientist who can program can build his own "research vehicles," programs to explore a facet of the science.
I find a strong correlation between music and programming. A good musician must know instrumental technique as well as music theory, must be able to execute that theory on an instrument, use an instrument to explore the theory.
Techne the episteme, and episteme the techne.
In this model, a programming language is like a style of music, and I cannot imagine being limited to just one style of music!
And of course some styles are more "basic," lower-level if you will. How to understand classical styles unless you know the chamber and folk styles from which they came?
Landing from lunar orbit and takeoff to orbit each require delta Vs greater than 2000 m/sec. Entering and leaving lunar orbit takes even more. Leaving lunar orbit only takes about 800 m/s.
Does this really help with controlling inventory? The RFID is not on the product, but on the pallet. So, they're going to be able to track how many wooden pallets they have, but not the product that is sitting on top. Until it's implemented in the product, I don't see how this will help them. This is as silly as requiring each line of code to have its own identifying number!
In my experience, liberals have always worked hard to counter facts. It would seem strange to consider facts having a liberal bias. They do it by dropping context.
That way, the isolated fact is self-contained, self-consistent, and therefore true.
Take, for example, the "fact" that the United States should not have removed Saddam Hussein from power.
The context of that act was that Saddam had fired over a thousand missiles at our aircraft. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were corrupted by Saddam. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were going to end. The context of that act was that after sanctions ended, Saddam would resume his encysted WMD programs.
And most importantly, the idiots drop the larger context, that in a post-9/11 world, we cannot wait for threats to become imminent. But whenever, and I mean whenever, the administration made that point, the context-droppers would say, "but Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11," and claim that the administration was attempting to "link" Iraq to 9/11. The administration was explaining the necessary change in its worldview, the change necessitated by 9/11, which means that the words "Iraq" and "9/11" appear in sentences together.
Context is so anathema to liberals (using the American sense of "liberal" which is the exact opposite of the dictionary and European conceptions of the word) their entire thought process consists of isolated factettes. "Halliburton." No verb required, just a single word. Sometimes they make little rhymes so they can march in large corporates and destroy MacDonald's restaurants, these might have verbs to make the meter marchable.
These context-free lunatics would even jail those who attempt to provide context. Look what they did when someone attempted to provide the context for the CIA sending an ex-ambassador on an intel mission - they went apeshit.
And really, when someone habitually drops context, they are just apes.
"give orange orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me me give give me you" says Nim Chimpsky.
"Halliburton Cheney Bush lied Neocon Halliburton lied Oil died" say the liberals.
Liberals do not think. Therefore they are not human.
Yup, those are all good examples of the sort of anti-intellectualism I'm talking about. It goes way back, too. America's cultural heroes, at least as far as practical invention goes, are people like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison who lacked formal education and who succeeded by doing things contrary to the conventional and accepted wisdom of people who had formal education. What does a formal education have to do with intellectualism?
The biggest problem here, then, is distinguishing true intellectuals from aintellectuals - people who think they are intellectuals, but they ain't. (If "ain't" isn't intellectual enough, that is a symptom of aintellectualism, so regard the initial 'a' as indicating negation).
Formal education has become the industry of aintellectualism.
Yes, of course, there are some true intellectuals associated with formal education. There are millions of people working in the industry, and in any large population there will be a few way out on the skinny parts of the bell curve. On one skinny end are the intellectuals, in the bulging middle are the aintellectuals, and on the other skinny end are coaches and department chairmen.
And we must count the intellectual students who are pressed into the violent hellholes of formal education by law or custom, even though they could teach every class they were ever locked in.
(Ending sentence with a preposition is completely valid in English, though clarity needs the attendant verb nearby. All grammar and spelling Nazis are aintellectuals.)
The formal education racket goes way beyond the requirements of Sturgeon's Law, such that they achieve five nines of reliably aintellectual crap.
"Postmodernism" and "deconstructionism" are the crowning achievements of aintellectualism. They are bullshit, and normal people know it. If "intellectual" is identified with "bullshit" in the public's opinion, these soi-disant intellectuals have only themselves to blame.
The word "intellectual" itself must be redeemed. It correctly describes men who live by their minds. "Aintellectual" describes, and is designed to irritate, those who live by destroying minds.
Nixon won the 1960 election, but knew (either explicitly or implicitly) that succession crises are some of the Worst Things in the World. Ferzample, Shia vs. Sunni is a succession crisis.
Contrast this to Albert Gore Junior, who tried to sue his way to the White House. Instant succession crisis. Seven years later, imbecile conspiracists think he was somehow cheated, that they were cheated.
Moon hoax, Kennedy assassination conspiracy, 9/11 Truthers' LIHOP vs. MIHOP, vaccination conspiracies (some junior Kennedy piece of trash is all about this crap), anti-(some-)war, UFO cover-up conspiracies - now we need to add Al Gore election conspiracy to this litany of idiocy.
Nixon was a more moral man than Al Gore, probably because he was much more intelligent. Hell, Nixon is still more intelligent than Gore!
BTW, I've heard that "Gangs of New York" is a good movie. It's about how good and pure the Democrat Party was in their Tammany Hall heydays.
The song is already a Jihadi song, you only need to change one word!
"Spirit in the Sky" by Norman bin Greenbaum:
When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's the best When I lay me down to die Goin' up to the spirit in the sky Goin' up to the spirit in the sky That's where I'm gonna go when I die When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's the best
Prepare yourself you know it's a must Gotta have a friend in Muhammad So you know that when you die He's gonna recommend you To the spirit in the sky Gonna recommend you To the spirit in the sky That's where you're gonna go when you die When you die and they lay you to rest You're gonna go to the place that's the best
Never been a sinner I never sinned I got a friend in Muhammed So you know that when I die He's gonna set me up with The spirit in the sky Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky That's where I'm gonna go when I die When I die and they lay me to rest I'm gonna go to the place that's the best Go to the place that's the best
For example, the wealthy town of Grosse Point Shores is in a very liberal Detroit district. Do you think their views are taken seriously? Yes, because it's likely that their views are liberal.
It's been said a hundred times, it is so easy for rich people to be socialists.
Atomic power is not considered as "green" and people promoting the environment mostly oppose it and for good reasons. Atomic power is the most green power yet invented and every real environmentalist is in favor of nuclear power.
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The United States does not get much oil from the Middle East. eia.doe.gov, I've typed it so many times, they got the numbers, go and read.
Texas produces as much oil for our Union as does Saudi Arabia (folding in Texas's share of the offshore production to get this number).
When the United States protects the free flow of oil at market prices, it is a gigantic gift to Japan and the ungrateful scum of Europe.
There are many unpleasant things which are not torture.
Waterboarding is one of them.
Surgery is another.
If the intent was to torture, there are a lot easier ways than waterboarding.
The only reason waterboarding is being called "torture" is because it works.
Ron Paul supporters are voluntarily stupid.
Paultroons is far more fair.
How about we make the NASA and DoD budgets one and the same?
Ditch the idea of a civilian space agency.
Fold NASA into DARPA!
Now that the IRA has gone all Bono on us, they won't be using human-guided bombs.
I've been to Mexico and San Antonio so I know all about the 3rd world and Catholicism. I am fair and balanced, so I also wonder if tropical latitudes cause corruption.
But really, with the exception of the Tamil Tigers, modern extremist Islam has a monopoly on suicide bombers.
If there was one thing that might make a thinking human give the extremists a second thought, it would be to renounce such violence in word and deed.
Many thoughtful Muslims have indeed denounced terrorism. It takes only a few seconds to find them, here are a couple dozen.
Good to know what side you're on.
Because every thoughtful human already knows that it is better to be a uniformed soldier than a little-warrior. And why do soldiers wear uniforms?
It certainly is not to protect the soldier. As a matter of fact, a soldier's uniform is actually a big flashing neon arrow pointing to some kid that says to the enemy, SHOOT ME!
And that's one of the things a uniform is for. It makes the soldier into a target to be killed.
Now if that's all there was to it, you might say that the whole uniform thing is not such a groovy idea. BUT! What a uniform also does -- the corollary to the whole idea of a uniformed person -- is to say that if the individual wearing a uniform is a legitimate target, then the person standing next to him in civilian clothes is not . -http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000125.html
Is it better to be a uniformed soldier, or a terrorist who shoots schoolgirls in the back?
Is it better to be a uniformed soldier, or an apologist for those who use mentally disabled women as guidance systems for bombs that blow up Suq-Mart shoppers?
Tell me, you worthless pile of shit. Which is better?
Go ahead. Tell the world which side you're on.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Many, many engineers are not Registered Professional Engineers.
Do EE's need to get certified in Canada? Here in the States, most don't bother. The few who work on public safety related things do.
Nearly all CE's need to get certified, or they won't find work.
So it's entirely proper to call yourself an engineer if you do engineering. It is illegal to call yourself a Registered Professional Engineer when you are not.
The same should apply to Software Engineering, if there ever is such a thing.
What would an uncertified EE call himself in Canada? Electronics Designer? Gate Organizer? Substrate Doper?
The diagnosis is not clear. Is Ron Paul stupid? Or is he a liar? Are these symptoms of senility, or an underlying psychopathy?
Please use the proper left-focused lenses when reading Slashdot. Unauthorized eyewear prohibited.
Because Ron Paul is either a liar or an idiot, or both.
"Programmable" in this case means it can be programmed with a given response. Not that it is a computer executing code.
Like ROM is programmable, or a CD, or a sheet of paper. It contains code, but does not execute code.
While it's certainly possible to put a little computer in an RFID application, the added cost would price them out of the inventory control business. Ingredients: water, tomato, 8051....
I find a strong correlation between music and programming. A good musician must know instrumental technique as well as music theory, must be able to execute that theory on an instrument, use an instrument to explore the theory.
Techne the episteme, and episteme the techne.
In this model, a programming language is like a style of music, and I cannot imagine being limited to just one style of music!
And of course some styles are more "basic," lower-level if you will. How to understand classical styles unless you know the chamber and folk styles from which they came?
Only one "pilot" was from Saudi Arabia.
This mix was on purpose.
By using so many Saudis they could fool people about the nature of the operation and organization.
I'm sure they thank you for playing along.
Try it yourself:
Orbiter SFS:
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Project Apollo:
http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
(Bwwhaha! Now I've ruined your life by turning you on to this most addicting simulation. See you in rehab!)
That way, the isolated fact is self-contained, self-consistent, and therefore true.
Take, for example, the "fact" that the United States should not have removed Saddam Hussein from power.
The context of that act was that Saddam had fired over a thousand missiles at our aircraft. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were corrupted by Saddam. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were going to end. The context of that act was that after sanctions ended, Saddam would resume his encysted WMD programs.
And most importantly, the idiots drop the larger context, that in a post-9/11 world, we cannot wait for threats to become imminent. But whenever, and I mean whenever, the administration made that point, the context-droppers would say, "but Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11," and claim that the administration was attempting to "link" Iraq to 9/11. The administration was explaining the necessary change in its worldview, the change necessitated by 9/11, which means that the words "Iraq" and "9/11" appear in sentences together.
Context is so anathema to liberals (using the American sense of "liberal" which is the exact opposite of the dictionary and European conceptions of the word) their entire thought process consists of isolated factettes. "Halliburton." No verb required, just a single word. Sometimes they make little rhymes so they can march in large corporates and destroy MacDonald's restaurants, these might have verbs to make the meter marchable.
These context-free lunatics would even jail those who attempt to provide context. Look what they did when someone attempted to provide the context for the CIA sending an ex-ambassador on an intel mission - they went apeshit.
And really, when someone habitually drops context, they are just apes.
"give orange orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me me give give me you" says Nim Chimpsky.
"Halliburton Cheney Bush lied Neocon Halliburton lied Oil died" say the liberals.
Liberals do not think. Therefore they are not human.
The biggest problem here, then, is distinguishing true intellectuals from aintellectuals - people who think they are intellectuals, but they ain't. (If "ain't" isn't intellectual enough, that is a symptom of aintellectualism, so regard the initial 'a' as indicating negation).
Formal education has become the industry of aintellectualism.
Yes, of course, there are some true intellectuals associated with formal education. There are millions of people working in the industry, and in any large population there will be a few way out on the skinny parts of the bell curve. On one skinny end are the intellectuals, in the bulging middle are the aintellectuals, and on the other skinny end are coaches and department chairmen.
And we must count the intellectual students who are pressed into the violent hellholes of formal education by law or custom, even though they could teach every class they were ever locked in.
(Ending sentence with a preposition is completely valid in English, though clarity needs the attendant verb nearby. All grammar and spelling Nazis are aintellectuals.)
The formal education racket goes way beyond the requirements of Sturgeon's Law, such that they achieve five nines of reliably aintellectual crap.
"Postmodernism" and "deconstructionism" are the crowning achievements of aintellectualism. They are bullshit, and normal people know it. If "intellectual" is identified with "bullshit" in the public's opinion, these soi-disant intellectuals have only themselves to blame.
The word "intellectual" itself must be redeemed. It correctly describes men who live by their minds. "Aintellectual" describes, and is designed to irritate, those who live by destroying minds.
Nixon won the 1960 election, but knew (either explicitly or implicitly) that succession crises are some of the Worst Things in the World. Ferzample, Shia vs. Sunni is a succession crisis.
Contrast this to Albert Gore Junior, who tried to sue his way to the White House. Instant succession crisis. Seven years later, imbecile conspiracists think he was somehow cheated, that they were cheated.
Moon hoax, Kennedy assassination conspiracy, 9/11 Truthers' LIHOP vs. MIHOP, vaccination conspiracies (some junior Kennedy piece of trash is all about this crap), anti-(some-)war, UFO cover-up conspiracies - now we need to add Al Gore election conspiracy to this litany of idiocy.
Nixon was a more moral man than Al Gore, probably because he was much more intelligent. Hell, Nixon is still more intelligent than Gore!
BTW, I've heard that "Gangs of New York" is a good movie. It's about how good and pure the Democrat Party was in their Tammany Hall heydays.
The song is already a Jihadi song, you only need to change one word!
"Spirit in the Sky" by Norman bin Greenbaum:
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
Prepare yourself you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend in Muhammad
So you know that when you die
He's gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the place that's the best
Never been a sinner I never sinned
I got a friend in Muhammed
So you know that when I die
He's gonna set me up with
The spirit in the sky
Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
Go to the place that's the best
It's been said a hundred times, it is so easy for rich people to be socialists.
Know nukes.
People need to be programmers before they study computer science.
That means they need to know programming before they get to university.
The way it is now, university is just remedial and hopelessly behind-the-times.
AFAIC, nobody ever learned to program in school.