I agree with you that it doesn't make sense from a purely logical point of view, but I can totally understand why a school would block that site like it was radioactive. The school's head(s) would be thinking about what parents would say, I suppose.
Must suck to be a teacher that relied on this, though. What can you say : "I know he was a paedophile, BUT it's a great site!"?
The reputation of DSK is his weakness, because that gives suspicion that the maid could tell the truth. You need to learn more about the guy to be convinced it is a plot or a big deformation of reality.
A plot? Much has been made of the fact that he mentioned the possibility of such a thing happening a month before this happened. What occurs to me now is this : why didn't he follow his instincts? If he thought there was some genuine possibility that he might be set up, then why try not having sex with random maids.
I'm willing to entertain the possibility that it might be a setup. But if there is reasonable evidence of sexual intercourse between the two of them, then he is either an idiot or a liar.
It is not the first try to trap him on his sexual weakness, but it is the first time it is not defeated.
"Oh no! My one weakness : sex! If only you hadn't been a woman cleaning my room when I stepped out of the shower or I might have been able to resist fucking you!"
Don't make me laugh. If she's lying, that's one thing. But I don't think that 'sexual weakness' is a valid defence in court, somehow. This all reminds me of Julian Assange - it is possible that DSK is very good at his job, and great in many other ways, but _at the same time_ a sexual predator to some extent.
Can I go ahead and patent In-Bar Purchasing (IBP) ? "A process where one person, robot, or legal entity, acquires food, beverage or short-lived sexual gratification in exchange for cash, credit, or barter."
That reminds me of a joke : "A hive intelligence, a robot, and a limited liability company walk into a bar..."
It's not untraceable, at least not easily. As I understand it, every user has a copy of the the complete history of every bitcoin. Every coin is explicitly traceable - much more so than cash.
That's what struck me as I read about the scheme. Does this mean that coins get virtually 'heavier' as time goes on? The more transactions that coin as been a part of, the longer its history : right? So the database gets larger and larger? Of course, maybe if more and more people use it, then more clients get added to the p2p network, so perhaps the load gets shared.
The software currently supports 2 decimals and the bitcoin themselves support division into "bitdust" of 1/100000000 bitcoin. So there are 2.1 quadrillion individual units. That ought to do us.
Okay, so a unit is roughly how much in other currencies?
There are perhaps 55 trillion "dollars" out there in the world. That's 1/4 of the economy so you need roughly 220 trillion dollars for the world economy. We use two decimal places with dollars, so the smallest unit is actually a penny. That's 22 quadrillion pennies to make the world go round.
Even my limited mathematical skills can see that 22 quadrillion is roughly 10 times 2.1 quadrillion. So...
I'm more surprised that not only did we make a guy out of printed Liberty Coins, but then we forbade him from doing it. If he's 99% pure silver as the OP suggests, maybe its a health thing?
Haha
Is silver bad when it gets inside of you?
Oh no - don't remind me of the whole 'colloidal silver' alternative medicine thing...
Why not...uh...find out what made the classics classic and do a bit more of that?
You know, games with interesting, non-whiney characters, non-linear story with some exploration in gameplay, music that is better tailored to each scene so it doesn't sound like they just put a track in to fill the silence.
They both reference the exact same study from 02. may: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0242
Look at the end of the Techreview article:
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1105.0242: Deciphering The Measured Ratios Of Iodine-131 To Cesium-137 At The Fukushima Reactors
And the beginning of the Nature article (*cough*blogpost*cough*):
A new analysis posted to the popular physics preprint server ArXiv.org suggests...
Furthermore, the Nature blogpost says clearly : " The work is not peer-reviewed, and like all speculation about Fukushima, it is based on sketchy and sometimes incorrect readings from the plant".
No, but "scientists" seem to think that all that matters are facts and numbers. Science can't explain everything, they can't yet find subluxations with all their lab equipment yet the trained eyes and fingers of a Chiropractor can find them within seconds.
Absolutely! They didn't even believe me when I showed them the construct I made to convert the Feng Shui energy in my room to Chi in my body, and funnel THAT into my Orgonne machine to power my toaster...
You fail to understand the power of the nervous system and how Chiropractic care can eliminate bottlenecks in the function.
Chiropractic has cured everything from sore backs, bedwetting, colic to arthritis. I've even read about a couple of deaf people hearing after proper diagnosis and treatment by a Chiropractor.
Hell, I've heard of people gaining the ability to fly. Also there was that guy who became really good with clock mechanisms, and cutting into peoples heads with his finger.
When you said yellow cake, I was picturing, you know, lemon or maybe butter flavored. This is definitely not lemon or butter flavored. It tastes like burning.
There's an exhibit in the window of the Wellcome Museum on Euston Rd. in London with pictures of some artist making actual cake from yellow cake and eating it. While you may not actually die from the amounts used, I still wouldn't intentionally EAT some. I guess it's no worse than living in a radon-rich area, but still...
"Yes, Supreme Overlord"... following some suitable punishment... The only trouble would be making it respond to an imperious tone and ignore all others.
Perhaps some sort of throne you have to sit on to issue Telebot commands? Or some cape pseudo-peripheral?
The main problem is the lack of a magnetosphere, isn't it.
No, that is an internet myth or in other words an urban legend.
Yes, Mars has only a neglectible small magnetosphere, but that has nothing to do with the atmosphere, hint: see Venus.
Haha! "Hint", yes. Oh my : how cutting. Yes, I can see Venus - probably even through a telescope if I tried. I expect that the highly poisonous atmosphere of Venus is something to aim for when settling Mars.
Actually, now that I say this I have a distinct memory of googling this, and getting a bunch of 'internet ideas' on how to make one for Mars. In other words : nonsense.
I fail to parse this sentence, you googled and found nonsense? I'm sorry for you.
angel'o'sphere
Don't be patronising - it's annoying. Let me be more clear : badly written webpages describing how to restart the spin of Mars' magnetic core are not the same thing as methods that are feasible within realistic energy, cost, and resource constraints. Furthermore, sci-fi novels, no matter how entertaining they are (the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy was very good) are not actual predictions of the future. Of course you know that; I'm just reminding you...
The point of Mars is: it is the only planet in the Solar System we can easy reach and basically terraform for free with our current technology.
Terraform Mars. Yeah, right. Mars barely has an atmosphere, less than 1% of Earth's pressure. It's mostly CO2. Enough to blow sand around, not enough to be useful.
The main problem is the lack of a magnetosphere, isn't it. Actually, now that I say this I have a distinct memory of googling this, and getting a bunch of 'internet ideas' on how to make one for Mars. In other words : nonsense.
... if anything, this will result in a film that looks unnaturally smooth to a movie going audience... essentially adding a distraction for the 2D viewers while not fixing anything for 3D viewers...
That's why I never go outside. And when I stay inside, I insist on strobe lighting.
Out into the big room, with the green carpet, and blue ceiling? Never!
Plutonium does not exist naturally on earth, it's extremely toxic, and it lasts for millions of years.
From wikipedia:
"Plutonium is the heaviest primordial element (see also primordial nuclide), by virtue of its most stable isotope, plutonium-244, whose half-life of about 80 million years is just long enough for the element to be found in trace quantities in nature."
It exists in nature because it lasts for millions of years.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with you that it doesn't make sense from a purely logical point of view, but I can totally understand why a school would block that site like it was radioactive. The school's head(s) would be thinking about what parents would say, I suppose.
Must suck to be a teacher that relied on this, though. What can you say : "I know he was a paedophile, BUT it's a great site!"?
The reputation of DSK is his weakness, because that gives suspicion that the maid could tell the truth. You need to learn more about the guy to be convinced it is a plot or a big deformation of reality.
A plot? Much has been made of the fact that he mentioned the possibility of such a thing happening a month before this happened. What occurs to me now is this : why didn't he follow his instincts? If he thought there was some genuine possibility that he might be set up, then why try not having sex with random maids.
I'm willing to entertain the possibility that it might be a setup. But if there is reasonable evidence of sexual intercourse between the two of them, then he is either an idiot or a liar.
It is not the first try to trap him on his sexual weakness, but it is the first time it is not defeated.
"Oh no! My one weakness : sex! If only you hadn't been a woman cleaning my room when I stepped out of the shower or I might have been able to resist fucking you!"
Don't make me laugh. If she's lying, that's one thing. But I don't think that 'sexual weakness' is a valid defence in court, somehow. This all reminds me of Julian Assange - it is possible that DSK is very good at his job, and great in many other ways, but _at the same time_ a sexual predator to some extent.
HE'S. A. TROLL.
Can I go ahead and patent In-Bar Purchasing (IBP) ? "A process where one person, robot, or legal entity, acquires food, beverage or short-lived sexual gratification in exchange for cash, credit, or barter."
That reminds me of a joke : "A hive intelligence, a robot, and a limited liability company walk into a bar..."
It's not untraceable, at least not easily. As I understand it, every user has a copy of the the complete history of every bitcoin. Every coin is explicitly traceable - much more so than cash.
That's what struck me as I read about the scheme. Does this mean that coins get virtually 'heavier' as time goes on? The more transactions that coin as been a part of, the longer its history : right? So the database gets larger and larger? Of course, maybe if more and more people use it, then more clients get added to the p2p network, so perhaps the load gets shared.
The software currently supports 2 decimals and the bitcoin themselves support division into "bitdust" of 1/100000000 bitcoin. So there are 2.1 quadrillion individual units. That ought to do us.
Okay, so a unit is roughly how much in other currencies?
There are perhaps 55 trillion "dollars" out there in the world. That's 1/4 of the economy so you need roughly 220 trillion dollars for the world economy. We use two decimal places with dollars, so the smallest unit is actually a penny. That's 22 quadrillion pennies to make the world go round.
Even my limited mathematical skills can see that 22 quadrillion is roughly 10 times 2.1 quadrillion. So...
I'm more surprised that not only did we make a guy out of printed Liberty Coins, but then we forbade him from doing it. If he's 99% pure silver as the OP suggests, maybe its a health thing?
Haha
Is silver bad when it gets inside of you?
Oh no - don't remind me of the whole 'colloidal silver' alternative medicine thing...
Why not...uh...find out what made the classics classic and do a bit more of that?
You know, games with interesting, non-whiney characters, non-linear story with some exploration in gameplay, music that is better tailored to each scene so it doesn't sound like they just put a track in to fill the silence.
Totally agree : make VAGRANT STORY II...
They both reference the exact same study from 02. may: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0242 Look at the end of the Techreview article:
And the beginning of the Nature article (*cough*blogpost*cough*):
Furthermore, the Nature blogpost says clearly : " The work is not peer-reviewed, and like all speculation about Fukushima, it is based on sketchy and sometimes incorrect readings from the plant".
I'm sorry but you are wrong. Berillium Spheres are what is needed as the power source of the future.
Beryllium
No, but "scientists" seem to think that all that matters are facts and numbers. Science can't explain everything, they can't yet find subluxations with all their lab equipment yet the trained eyes and fingers of a Chiropractor can find them within seconds.
Absolutely! They didn't even believe me when I showed them the construct I made to convert the Feng Shui energy in my room to Chi in my body, and funnel THAT into my Orgonne machine to power my toaster...
You fail to understand the power of the nervous system and how Chiropractic care can eliminate bottlenecks in the function. Chiropractic has cured everything from sore backs, bedwetting, colic to arthritis. I've even read about a couple of deaf people hearing after proper diagnosis and treatment by a Chiropractor.
Hell, I've heard of people gaining the ability to fly. Also there was that guy who became really good with clock mechanisms, and cutting into peoples heads with his finger.
Who wants some cake?
When you said yellow cake, I was picturing, you know, lemon or maybe butter flavored. This is definitely not lemon or butter flavored. It tastes like burning.
There's an exhibit in the window of the Wellcome Museum on Euston Rd. in London with pictures of some artist making actual cake from yellow cake and eating it. While you may not actually die from the amounts used, I still wouldn't intentionally EAT some. I guess it's no worse than living in a radon-rich area, but still...
"Yes, Supreme Overlord" ... following some suitable punishment ... The only trouble would be making it respond to an imperious tone and ignore all others.
Perhaps some sort of throne you have to sit on to issue Telebot commands? Or some cape pseudo-peripheral?
Stop drinking the tech blogger kool-aid. Whatever you read it on, it's still a fucking computer.
During your rambling, pointless paragraph I was quite surprised to see no mention of "the cloud" or changing my paradigm.
Hah! Also : I change my paradigms as often as I change my pants, and the only clouds I see are those in my coffee.
No, that is an internet myth or in other words an urban legend. Yes, Mars has only a neglectible small magnetosphere, but that has nothing to do with the atmosphere, hint: see Venus.
Haha! "Hint", yes. Oh my : how cutting. Yes, I can see Venus - probably even through a telescope if I tried. I expect that the highly poisonous atmosphere of Venus is something to aim for when settling Mars.
I fail to parse this sentence, you googled and found nonsense? I'm sorry for you.
angel'o'sphere
Don't be patronising - it's annoying. Let me be more clear : badly written webpages describing how to restart the spin of Mars' magnetic core are not the same thing as methods that are feasible within realistic energy, cost, and resource constraints. Furthermore, sci-fi novels, no matter how entertaining they are (the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy was very good) are not actual predictions of the future. Of course you know that; I'm just reminding you...
Yeah, exactly like goin to the moon. There was no food or water there when you got there and you would be killed by radiation.
I see you've read my novel "Christopher Columbus and the Hordes of Radioactive Zombie Indians", then?
This is the best comment in the thread; possibly ever.
Sir, I think you're overly optimistic to think we can defend ourselves from everything. We can't even fix our own damn problems (i.e. climate change).
Sir, worry not! I have a diamondonium sphere which will defend you from any attack. Also a gun of some sort.
yrs, etc
gilleain
In 1492 sailing to America from Europe was about like going to the moon, today...
Except America had abundant resources, shared the same atmosphere, gravity, and temperature?
The point of Mars is: it is the only planet in the Solar System we can easy reach and basically terraform for free with our current technology.
Terraform Mars. Yeah, right. Mars barely has an atmosphere, less than 1% of Earth's pressure. It's mostly CO2. Enough to blow sand around, not enough to be useful.
The main problem is the lack of a magnetosphere, isn't it. Actually, now that I say this I have a distinct memory of googling this, and getting a bunch of 'internet ideas' on how to make one for Mars. In other words : nonsense.
... if anything, this will result in a film that looks unnaturally smooth to a movie going audience... essentially adding a distraction for the 2D viewers while not fixing anything for 3D viewers...
That's why I never go outside. And when I stay inside, I insist on strobe lighting.
Out into the big room, with the green carpet, and blue ceiling? Never!
Plutonium does not exist naturally on earth, it's extremely toxic, and it lasts for millions of years.
From wikipedia: "Plutonium is the heaviest primordial element (see also primordial nuclide), by virtue of its most stable isotope, plutonium-244, whose half-life of about 80 million years is just long enough for the element to be found in trace quantities in nature." It exists in nature because it lasts for millions of years.
The problem (for biological things, like human beings) is going out of Earth magnetic shield.
For example, from ion irons. Er, iron ions. el reg article.