I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that infrared works different underwater. In fact, since WE don't see it, I am going to assume it doesn't work at all. See eyes probably evolved in water and if we don't have IR vision its probably because when the bulk work of eye generation was going on it wasn't a app worth having.
You don't know Jack about trolling! Trolling is as active and strong as it's ever been. If you read the statistics (YOU CAN READ AS WELL AS TYPE RIGHT?) you'll see that all the accusations of troll job loss are just limp dick liberals trying to scare everyone so they can get another pork barrel handout by Uncle Sam. The real threat to trolling is the damn H-1B's allowing forighn trolls who don't respect this country to take their jobs!!!!1
Seriously anyone who has had a 2nd degree sunburn will tell you the burns sensitivity to light is amazing. I had a redhead friend who had a burn and he could tell when light was on his back while walking under trees, and even if you were passing your arm over it.
That's probably how the eyes started, as a sensitive patch of skin. Sight would be a different interpretation of pain, with color being different degrees of pain.
I'm sure he had lots of skill handling his plane, and could have flown through any obstacle course, that makes him a good pilot not a Great pilot. I can ride my motorcycle 140 on the freeway during rush hour too, that doesn't make me a great rider though it does make me good. I am not a Great rider, I am trying to be, and to get there I will actually take steps that may slow me down but will save my life on the freeway. To the people who become GREAT there is no such thing as a milk run, he was over confident and got sloppy, I've never flown but in everything else I've done there is no greater n00b move then fucking up because of overconfidence. That isn't something great's do.
everyone keeps saying He was a Great pilot. He set records. records planed in advance so there would be no problems, and then all he had to do was sit in the seat for the record making part. Everything about this crash from how it could have happened, why he wasn't where he should have been, and so forth indicates that mister Fossett wasn't the GREAT pilot he's said to be. In most cases when someone thinks their Great, and people say their Great they aren't. I have a nice Image of Zap Branigan crashing his ship on an asteroid.
I wouldn't think he was a "Great Pilot" especially by the nature of his not being found. I'm not saying it was his fault the plane went down, but it most definitely is his fault he didn't file any kind of flight plan or let anyone know where he was going for the search to look. As the saying goes "a good pilot knows how to navigate difficult situations, A Great pilot knows how to avoid them."
I see the same thing in motorcycles, there are really two types, those who ride for a year and those who ride forever. the ones who ride for a year are often the ones who think they are hot shit and end up going through someones windshield and then forbid their kids to have a bike 20 years latter. If someone thinks they have the skill to go 140 in rush hour traffic they probably don't.
His accidence reeks of over confidence and to me overconfidence is the #1 sign of a n00b especially when dealing with a machine that will kill you with 100% certainty if a single bolt comes lose. I see it in Motorcycles all day.
One little flaw, they may be highly flammable but they are also highly transportable. If the plane EXPLODED, and if the hikers were where it exploded, sure. If he survived and wandered off, they could be miles from where it crashed. Him ditching the wallet and cash I could see, I'd ditch it too if my useless giant fortune sat there mocking me as I die alone in the woods. The sweater doesn't make sense, that would be worth more then gold in that situation.
I thought bandwidth was metered for the big pages? I always figured that the large websites and commercial entities that run the adds and send out the patches had to pay for bandwidth and just residential consumers got it for a base fee. Though this comes from my limited experience with small scale hosting sites that had a sliding scale for bandwidth usage of your site.
we are trying this in my neighborhood, but some guy keeps just sucking up all the bandwidth on usenet.binaries. We have been racking our heads trying to figure out how on earth we will solve this problem. so far they figure that the best course of action is to implement some sort of thing to prevent people from using excessive amounts of bandwidth they haven't figured out a name yet maybe lid or roof or a top.
my lynching initiative was shot down unfortunately.
Well you see health care isn't a right, hells it's not even a privilege, it's a straight luxury. So is having your own bedroom, or even bed.While working a sweat shops sucks no one forces them to, it's just the best option available and consumers can't be held accountable for lack of better options. That doesn't include situations where better options are forbidden through slavery, legislation (like the chines "black" people), caste systems, or emigration restrictions which should be slapped down.
Every thing I have ever read about trade liberalization shows that it is pareto-efficient, that is, Both sides win. The US gets things cheaper and other countries get jobs that pay more then substance farming. If you mandate through legislation that the cost to use their labor goes up guess what happens? investment leaves. Thats not some crazy republican lie, thats fact and has happened several times. Mandating through law that you get paid more then your work is worth doesn't make it worth more. Many goods can be made in the states by low labor machines but it is cheaper to use low tech labor intensive processes over seas because labor is cheaper, if you increase the cost of their labor without increasing its value you have a problem.
The Japs knew this and spent considerable effort to create high value labor when they industrialized. The reason a western laborer gets more things like cars appliances and health care is because our labor is really valuable and it is cost effective to invest expensive medical treatment to double our productive lives or cars to allow more time savings.
I care very deeply for the poor in the sweet shops, and wish there was a way to help them out that didn't take self-determinism on their part and generations to accomplish. I just know that nothing comes free. They are screwed, and flawed socialist policy or heavy handed western intervention has always failed. sometimes the best thing to do with a painful wound is stop picking at it.
I don't believe in any god. But its the opposite to the "not believing is a sin" the "believing is ignorant" that I was trying to get at as causing the uping of the ID stuff. I went to some atheist meetings and all they talked about was how ignorant christens were. which is different then what I thought they would talk about, maybe humanism and how you don't need divinity to have a moral society, you know MTOB, not worrying what the christens were doing.
I want someone to hit the nail on the head with creationisms, but no one seems to ever do that online so I'll give it my best shot.
Evolution in no way denounces god. Even the Catholic church says the view science has on the universe and evolution are compatible with their faith: http://rellavent.blogspot.com/2008/09/catholic-church-acknowledges-evolution.html
And it's pretty easy to reconcile the two: universe created in a big explosion that created light, land and heaven coalescing into stellar bodies, water and land separating as it cools, life slowly taking to the land, and man ultimately being removed from the bliss of the primordial garden by eating the fruit of knowledge. It's god, if evolution happened without his help at all, he set up the universe knowing full well what it would do. ID in the 6k year old vein makes no sense and actually is insulting to the power of god.
This brings up the problem of the creationists. Science as it is written, is not in that strong of a conflict with the bible as it is written, so why do they continue to push it?
we know the symptoms: text books, politicians, online spaming, but what causes the disease?
Or to frame it in a more humanistic perspective: what do they gain by perusing their agenda? This should be the prime argument in creationism, not the symptomatic treatment that has been prevalent.
My theory is that creationism is viewed as being linked to a value system that creationists view as being under attack from secular radicals, and evolution is taken as a battle field to fight against this because Evolution is pretty removed from their day to day lives, if they chose to believe fantasy on it they wont hurt them selves like they would if they choose to believe fantasy about refrigeration. Basically they are picking ID as the place to make their stand to defend their way of life.
That brings up the other point, why do they feel their way of life is in danger? It could be politicians playing it up for votes, it could be changing social economics beyond anyones control, it could be pure paranoia, and it could be that people in the cities and scientific community actually attack them. I think its a combination of all those factors, but i also think one of the largest factors is the fact that Secular atheists do actively attack the religious beliefs of others.
I know this from having been to several meetings. The atheist community is one of the most bitter and spiteful I have ever seen and actively wish to see all "non-rational" belief systems torn down and replaced with their "belief" system on a level that matches any religion. Pure tribalism at its best, two sets of group-think throwing stones at each other. the Atheists attack christen beliefs and they attack the atheists through ID.
The solution to the problem is not the one shown on/. of armchair intellectuals decrying the ignorance of the bible belt hicks, while smugly reassuring each other that they have the "best" ideology. It is through an understanding of their actions and why they do them and coming to terms with them. Calling their text book stupid isn't going to get them to stop. I don't know what the solution is, but I know what it isn't.
I often hear my libertarian minded friends talk about deregulation, an I often have to remind them that the only reason I don't shoot their ass and take their house is because of government regulation. Deregulated theft is still theft, even on wall street. The common street thug doesn't have a direct line to W which is the only real difference. Re-regulate them in the right way and pull the plug on the neo-con shell game forever.
not really, if your 50x more efficient than a slow top heavy business that is 100x times larger then you you're still going down. Especially when the larger corp. has the ability to sue you for losses for things like requiring better emission controls. Efficiency can be for many things, are you talking about what is most efficient when everyone's rights are accounted for, or for the people at the top regardless of the people stepped on? The top down system is great for achieving set goals like highways or bridges, but is terrible for achieving broader goals like increasing living standards in a community.
The problem with that is a "local" community has a lot of trouble dealing with an "International" corporation that has a lot more money. Especially when it's the federal government who signs away legal rights the community has to the highest bidder. So many people talk the talk of smaller federal govt. but don't acknowledge the greater protection of individual rights that would be needed for it to work. Though that isn't really the case with this lawsuit.
I like co-ops and all, but the price charged to you for the service isn't necessarily the price of providing it. If your infrastructure is payed for partially through bonds or taxes then the whole cost may actually be more. Not saying it is, but things like that can sneak up on you.
Are you joking or stupid? You obviously have no idea what a price co-ordinated economy is. The market doesn't work on giant companies telling you what you're going to pay based on what they think they can get because all competition is gone due to oligopoly.
Did you know that people sell oil and gold for more than the cost to mine it?
Did you now the Oil companies are watched like hawks for trust violations? and that a large part of oil prices are set by the largest cartel in the world? Hardly a free market.
Did you know that that soft drink you pay $3.50 for at the movie theater costs the movie theater pennies worth of syrup and cold water?
Sounds like vendor lock in, which last time I checked was considered a coercion of the free market.
Did you know that many drugs sold for $10 or more a pill cost mere pennies to manufacture? All you have to do is invest a few billion in finding one that works
NO, bad idiot, read some facts. drug companies spend more on ads then R&D, it's just they get the govt. to strong arm everyone through intellectual property laws to pay more, Complete failure of the free market.
In the competitive free-market advocated by Milton Friedman, not The oligopolistic-market advocated by the modern republicans, the consumer demand and the cost of supply set prices, not the whims of some giant company that has strong armed govt. support and stifled competition.
It's basic morals, universalize the maxim: if every company did the same you'd only have on company left after a while, it would be the one who controlled the food and you'd have to sell your life away for just enough food to survive. It happened in the past, it was called feudalism, and is basically what your view of business advocates at it's extreme.
I get you, but I also doubt they would change their marketing much, I imagine instead of saying 10+, the will now say: Up To 10 Hours* As for standardized, the first thought I had when reading the summery was "who is Sony afraid to get sued by that they'd change something in a way that could cost them" Maybe they see the battery life fudging as something that may get cracked down on.
A good doctor treats symptoms without addressing the underlying ailment if the ailments cure is worse then the disease, or if we don't really know what the "cure" is. Global warming is kind of like AIDS on that front.
While I could give you aspirin to help ease the debilitating fever you have, but I am instead going to cure the entire disease by swapping out your entire immune system in a process of 32 operations and endless injections that should leave you as weak as a child and totally bankrupt.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that infrared works different underwater. In fact, since WE don't see it, I am going to assume it doesn't work at all. See eyes probably evolved in water and if we don't have IR vision its probably because when the bulk work of eye generation was going on it wasn't a app worth having.
You don't know Jack about trolling! Trolling is as active and strong as it's ever been. If you read the statistics (YOU CAN READ AS WELL AS TYPE RIGHT?) you'll see that all the accusations of troll job loss are just limp dick liberals trying to scare everyone so they can get another pork barrel handout by Uncle Sam. The real threat to trolling is the damn H-1B's allowing forighn trolls who don't respect this country to take their jobs!!!!1
Seriously anyone who has had a 2nd degree sunburn will tell you the burns sensitivity to light is amazing. I had a redhead friend who had a burn and he could tell when light was on his back while walking under trees, and even if you were passing your arm over it.
That's probably how the eyes started, as a sensitive patch of skin. Sight would be a different interpretation of pain, with color being different degrees of pain.
I'm sure he had lots of skill handling his plane, and could have flown through any obstacle course, that makes him a good pilot not a Great pilot. I can ride my motorcycle 140 on the freeway during rush hour too, that doesn't make me a great rider though it does make me good. I am not a Great rider, I am trying to be, and to get there I will actually take steps that may slow me down but will save my life on the freeway. To the people who become GREAT there is no such thing as a milk run, he was over confident and got sloppy, I've never flown but in everything else I've done there is no greater n00b move then fucking up because of overconfidence. That isn't something great's do.
everyone keeps saying He was a Great pilot. He set records. records planed in advance so there would be no problems, and then all he had to do was sit in the seat for the record making part. Everything about this crash from how it could have happened, why he wasn't where he should have been, and so forth indicates that mister Fossett wasn't the GREAT pilot he's said to be. In most cases when someone thinks their Great, and people say their Great they aren't. I have a nice Image of Zap Branigan crashing his ship on an asteroid.
I wouldn't think he was a "Great Pilot" especially by the nature of his not being found. I'm not saying it was his fault the plane went down, but it most definitely is his fault he didn't file any kind of flight plan or let anyone know where he was going for the search to look. As the saying goes "a good pilot knows how to navigate difficult situations, A Great pilot knows how to avoid them."
I see the same thing in motorcycles, there are really two types, those who ride for a year and those who ride forever. the ones who ride for a year are often the ones who think they are hot shit and end up going through someones windshield and then forbid their kids to have a bike 20 years latter. If someone thinks they have the skill to go 140 in rush hour traffic they probably don't.
His accidence reeks of over confidence and to me overconfidence is the #1 sign of a n00b especially when dealing with a machine that will kill you with 100% certainty if a single bolt comes lose. I see it in Motorcycles all day.
One little flaw, they may be highly flammable but they are also highly transportable. If the plane EXPLODED, and if the hikers were where it exploded, sure. If he survived and wandered off, they could be miles from where it crashed. Him ditching the wallet and cash I could see, I'd ditch it too if my useless giant fortune sat there mocking me as I die alone in the woods. The sweater doesn't make sense, that would be worth more then gold in that situation.
I thought bandwidth was metered for the big pages? I always figured that the large websites and commercial entities that run the adds and send out the patches had to pay for bandwidth and just residential consumers got it for a base fee. Though this comes from my limited experience with small scale hosting sites that had a sliding scale for bandwidth usage of your site.
we are trying this in my neighborhood, but some guy keeps just sucking up all the bandwidth on usenet .binaries. We have been racking our heads trying to figure out how on earth we will solve this problem. so far they figure that the best course of action is to implement some sort of thing to prevent people from using excessive amounts of bandwidth they haven't figured out a name yet maybe lid or roof or a top.
my lynching initiative was shot down unfortunately.
It sounds like a goof especially coming from a company that pledged to raise the bar on patent quality.
That IS raising the bar on patent quality. Golly, you have a lot to learn about how business works.
Well you see health care isn't a right, hells it's not even a privilege, it's a straight luxury. So is having your own bedroom, or even bed.While working a sweat shops sucks no one forces them to, it's just the best option available and consumers can't be held accountable for lack of better options. That doesn't include situations where better options are forbidden through slavery, legislation (like the chines "black" people), caste systems, or emigration restrictions which should be slapped down.
Every thing I have ever read about trade liberalization shows that it is pareto-efficient, that is, Both sides win. The US gets things cheaper and other countries get jobs that pay more then substance farming. If you mandate through legislation that the cost to use their labor goes up guess what happens? investment leaves. Thats not some crazy republican lie, thats fact and has happened several times. Mandating through law that you get paid more then your work is worth doesn't make it worth more. Many goods can be made in the states by low labor machines but it is cheaper to use low tech labor intensive processes over seas because labor is cheaper, if you increase the cost of their labor without increasing its value you have a problem.
The Japs knew this and spent considerable effort to create high value labor when they industrialized. The reason a western laborer gets more things like cars appliances and health care is because our labor is really valuable and it is cost effective to invest expensive medical treatment to double our productive lives or cars to allow more time savings.
I care very deeply for the poor in the sweet shops, and wish there was a way to help them out that didn't take self-determinism on their part and generations to accomplish. I just know that nothing comes free. They are screwed, and flawed socialist policy or heavy handed western intervention has always failed. sometimes the best thing to do with a painful wound is stop picking at it.
I don't believe in any god. But its the opposite to the "not believing is a sin" the "believing is ignorant" that I was trying to get at as causing the uping of the ID stuff. I went to some atheist meetings and all they talked about was how ignorant christens were. which is different then what I thought they would talk about, maybe humanism and how you don't need divinity to have a moral society, you know MTOB, not worrying what the christens were doing.
I want someone to hit the nail on the head with creationisms, but no one seems to ever do that online so I'll give it my best shot.
/. of armchair intellectuals decrying the ignorance of the bible belt hicks, while smugly reassuring each other that they have the "best" ideology. It is through an understanding of their actions and why they do them and coming to terms with them. Calling their text book stupid isn't going to get them to stop. I don't know what the solution is, but I know what it isn't.
Evolution in no way denounces god. Even the Catholic church says the view science has on the universe and evolution are compatible with their faith: http://rellavent.blogspot.com/2008/09/catholic-church-acknowledges-evolution.html And it's pretty easy to reconcile the two: universe created in a big explosion that created light, land and heaven coalescing into stellar bodies, water and land separating as it cools, life slowly taking to the land, and man ultimately being removed from the bliss of the primordial garden by eating the fruit of knowledge. It's god, if evolution happened without his help at all, he set up the universe knowing full well what it would do. ID in the 6k year old vein makes no sense and actually is insulting to the power of god.
This brings up the problem of the creationists. Science as it is written, is not in that strong of a conflict with the bible as it is written, so why do they continue to push it?
we know the symptoms: text books, politicians, online spaming, but what causes the disease? Or to frame it in a more humanistic perspective: what do they gain by perusing their agenda? This should be the prime argument in creationism, not the symptomatic treatment that has been prevalent.
My theory is that creationism is viewed as being linked to a value system that creationists view as being under attack from secular radicals, and evolution is taken as a battle field to fight against this because Evolution is pretty removed from their day to day lives, if they chose to believe fantasy on it they wont hurt them selves like they would if they choose to believe fantasy about refrigeration. Basically they are picking ID as the place to make their stand to defend their way of life.
That brings up the other point, why do they feel their way of life is in danger? It could be politicians playing it up for votes, it could be changing social economics beyond anyones control, it could be pure paranoia, and it could be that people in the cities and scientific community actually attack them. I think its a combination of all those factors, but i also think one of the largest factors is the fact that Secular atheists do actively attack the religious beliefs of others.
I know this from having been to several meetings. The atheist community is one of the most bitter and spiteful I have ever seen and actively wish to see all "non-rational" belief systems torn down and replaced with their "belief" system on a level that matches any religion. Pure tribalism at its best, two sets of group-think throwing stones at each other. the Atheists attack christen beliefs and they attack the atheists through ID.
The solution to the problem is not the one shown on
I often hear my libertarian minded friends talk about deregulation, an I often have to remind them that the only reason I don't shoot their ass and take their house is because of government regulation. Deregulated theft is still theft, even on wall street. The common street thug doesn't have a direct line to W which is the only real difference. Re-regulate them in the right way and pull the plug on the neo-con shell game forever.
not really, if your 50x more efficient than a slow top heavy business that is 100x times larger then you you're still going down. Especially when the larger corp. has the ability to sue you for losses for things like requiring better emission controls. Efficiency can be for many things, are you talking about what is most efficient when everyone's rights are accounted for, or for the people at the top regardless of the people stepped on? The top down system is great for achieving set goals like highways or bridges, but is terrible for achieving broader goals like increasing living standards in a community.
The problem with that is a "local" community has a lot of trouble dealing with an "International" corporation that has a lot more money. Especially when it's the federal government who signs away legal rights the community has to the highest bidder. So many people talk the talk of smaller federal govt. but don't acknowledge the greater protection of individual rights that would be needed for it to work. Though that isn't really the case with this lawsuit.
Crap, another thing I will need to manage in the next SimCity.
I like co-ops and all, but the price charged to you for the service isn't necessarily the price of providing it. If your infrastructure is payed for partially through bonds or taxes then the whole cost may actually be more. Not saying it is, but things like that can sneak up on you.
What has also changed is that oil has gotten incredibly expensive.
Thats not a Problem if we Import cheep nuclear energy from the moon now is it? Problem solved.
That and the "waste" from breeders makes for good bombs. Doesn't bother me, but gets a lot of nosebleeds in Washington scared.
Did you know that people sell oil and gold for more than the cost to mine it?
Did you now the Oil companies are watched like hawks for trust violations? and that a large part of oil prices are set by the largest cartel in the world? Hardly a free market.
Did you know that that soft drink you pay $3.50 for at the movie theater costs the movie theater pennies worth of syrup and cold water?
Sounds like vendor lock in, which last time I checked was considered a coercion of the free market.
Did you know that many drugs sold for $10 or more a pill cost mere pennies to manufacture? All you have to do is invest a few billion in finding one that works
NO, bad idiot, read some facts. drug companies spend more on ads then R&D, it's just they get the govt. to strong arm everyone through intellectual property laws to pay more, Complete failure of the free market.
In the competitive free-market advocated by Milton Friedman, not The oligopolistic-market advocated by the modern republicans, the consumer demand and the cost of supply set prices, not the whims of some giant company that has strong armed govt. support and stifled competition.
It's basic morals, universalize the maxim: if every company did the same you'd only have on company left after a while, it would be the one who controlled the food and you'd have to sell your life away for just enough food to survive. It happened in the past, it was called feudalism, and is basically what your view of business advocates at it's extreme.
Combined with a process that harnesses external energy from the sun or chemical reactions, they could form a self-replicating, evolving system
It's called a Lava Lamp.
I get you, but I also doubt they would change their marketing much, I imagine instead of saying 10+, the will now say: Up To 10 Hours* As for standardized, the first thought I had when reading the summery was "who is Sony afraid to get sued by that they'd change something in a way that could cost them" Maybe they see the battery life fudging as something that may get cracked down on.
*In sleep mode.
Just wondering here, how would a move like this affect marketing of computers?
Are you talking about the battery life thing or getting a fluff piece linked to /.? Either way I say it affects it pretty good.
To Paraphrase the article: The bad news: It's not the awesomest thing ever. The good: It's still pretty fucking awesome.
A good doctor treats symptoms without addressing the underlying ailment if the ailments cure is worse then the disease, or if we don't really know what the "cure" is. Global warming is kind of like AIDS on that front.
While I could give you aspirin to help ease the debilitating fever you have, but I am instead going to cure the entire disease by swapping out your entire immune system in a process of 32 operations and endless injections that should leave you as weak as a child and totally bankrupt.