I would have to do some moderate research for actual citations - but I think the idea preceded any of your examples. I've been reading Sci-Fi since 6th grade. Long before graduating high school in 1974, the idea of an enemy being unable to fire your weapon had percolated through my mind. Can't remember which author first put it into my head, but he was contemporary with Robert A. Heinlein.
What is it with names, anyway? Much of the world feels that remembering names is one of the most important things you can do. You've simply GOT TO remember who is who, right?
Like you, I'm supposed to be pretty intelligent. When I was younger, I remembered all sorts of important stuff, trivial stuff, things that were both useful and useless. But, names? In one ear, and out the other. Girls, teammates, workmates, officers, shipmates - I'd remember their faces, and what they did, how I felt about them, but forget their names. You could walk up to me, introduce yourself, and promise to pay me 500 bucks if I remembered your name next week, and ten minutes later I'd be kicking myself in the ass. "What was that guy's name? Mike? Mickey? Munster?"
I guess that I had to compensate for my strengths in some areas by being an utter moron in other areas?
Needless to say, I'm totally lost when people start discussing celebrities. I only remember a few names - like a Michael Jackson or a Tom Cruise.
Slashdot karma probably indicates different things for different people. Some people who post here are IT people, who bring a long history of mixed education and experience to the board. Other people are just interested readers who are excellent thinkers, and bring little more than intelligence with them. Other people manage to maintain high karma based on being funny. Some folk may not be especially smart, and may not offer a whole lot to any particular discussion, but they read much more than they write, so that when they do make a post, it's well thought out, and contributes something.
A high karma rating really only indicates one thing, when all is said and done.
You've posted some posts that were liked by more people than disliked.
"Neutral" third party? Maybe you missed the "patent troll" thing. I'd explain it to you, but it might require some words with more than four or five letters, and I'd probably lose you after the first few sentences.
Speaking of sophistry - I'd like to know which artists are going hungry due to piracy, and which artists are going hungry because *IAA affiliated companies don't pass the profits on to the starving artists. Give me a list of artists who have missed a meal because pirates "stole" their music, so that all us "pirates" can send them a dollar or two. Oh, those poor suffering artists! The idea just hurts my soul!
I suspect that only a European would say that. I have been looking at news casts for decades now. It seems that everyone in south western Asia, Asia minor, and north Africa has an "arsenal". Much of Africa, as well. Pay attention to the news from Africa, Asia, and the mideast, see how many guns are visible during the news cast.
Your particular kind of stupidity is only found among privileged and protected fools who have never been anywhere that isn't protected.
Nonsense. I bought 8 gig of memory about 4 years ago, for an Opteron rig. That computer recently started having serious problems, with corrupted data and crashing. I looked at all the other components first, then finally ran memory tests. Memtest failed immediately. I removed three modules and ran memtest again, it failed immediately. Replaced with another module, memtest ran for awhile, then failed. The other two modules proved to be good, so I am now running that aging Opteron with 4 gig of memory.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - I realize a single person's anecdotal evidence doesn't carry much weight. I wonder what the statistics are though? As AaronLS already pointed out, these tests seem to indicate that my situation isn't very unusual. Components age and wear out.
You're sure about that? The various holdings of the Rothschild clan seems pretty frigging evil to me. The Taliban can't start and end world wide recessions and depressions, after all. The Rothschild clan can, and has.
Perhaps you misread my posts. Nowhere have I mentioned an "assault". I'm not the person to rough someone up, and allow them to walk away, before or after a hospital stay. My intent is much more "illegal" than some mere "assault" or even "assault and battery".
If I had ever been diagnosed with PTSD, and if I were under a shrink's care at the VA hospital, then I would have a valid defense later at my trial, for murder.
Are we quite clear now, what I am saying?
The people under discussion shit on my brother's graves, and they plan to shit on the graves of six and seven year old innocent children. The whole lot of them are just about worth one magazine of M16 rounds. But, any sensible veteran would bring more than one mag.
The SKS may make a decent deer rifle, if proper ammo is available. The only time I handled one, the guy who owned it only had jacketed bullets. That was all that was available at that time, in our area. A fast, light, jacketed bullet passes through a body, causing minimal damage, then carries on into the distance. It's been awhile since I hunted regularly, I can't remember the proper name, but 30-30 always came in a semi-jacketed bullet that mushroomed nicely on impact. If someone is making that round for the SKS, it could be a good deer rifle.
Personally, I didn't like the SKS very much. To light, to short, poor balance - it just doesn't feel like a real rifle in my hands. Give me something more like a Remington 700, please. Or, if we are going for more of a military look, let's style something along the lines of an M1 or an M14. I carried both, and love them both. Forget the M16, it's another toy, to me, and those tumbling rounds are totally unsuitable for deer hunting.
Three weapons is not an "arsenal". When people use that term, I expect to find dozens of weapons, not ten or less. Owning 3 or more shotguns means that you use shotguns to hunt different kind of game - maybe ducks, upland fowl, and squirrels, maybe a twelve guage for slugs to hunt deer.
That small.223 is great for varmints such as groundhog - generally the same person will own one or more larger deer rifles, like a 30-30 or a 30-06.
If our gun enthusiast also goes to target ranges, he may own yet another weapon that has been customized for extreme accuracy..270,.243, or.223 are all great target rounds.
Arsenal. I've only seen three specific weapons mentioned, and some references to an "assault rifle". That "assault rifle" merits some concern, but it's not clear yet what they are referring to. Like as not, some fool has characterized a deer rifle as an "assault weapon", but he may well have been carrying an SKS or something.
As for "why so much ammo" - 100 rounds is no big deal anywhere. Ammo comes in boxes of 20, and it's not uncommon to purchase 2 to 10 boxes at a time. Anyone serious about marksmanship might buy 100 boxes at a time. It only takes several minutes to use up a box, if you're carefully aiming. If you're just having fun, it only takes a minute.
People who ask these questions and make these assumptions are obviously not outdoorsmen.
These days, I'm on Linux, and I use VLC media player for everything. VLC is also available for Windows, and I've met some Windows users who love it just as much as I do. WinAmp stopped whipping the Llama's ass about the time that - uhhh - was it AOL who bought it from the developer? Or Yahoo? Someone bought it, paid the developer to continue developing, but put restrictions on him. No whipping the llama's ass, for one thing.
I don't know how you can miss the cynicism, and the explanation for the cynicism that I've posted above.
One more time:
WE ARE ALREADY BEING ASSURED OF THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE DATA TO BE OBTAINED FROM THIS ICE CORE, BEFORE THE EQUIPMENT IS EVEN SET UP!
A more appropriate claim would be, "We hope that an ice core from this area will give us more detailed information than previous ice cores have given us. We expect that changes in climate will be documented more clearly in the thicker layers of ice that we hope to find."
Please, go back, and read everything I've written. My own message isn't buried layers deep in ice. Just open your eyes and read it.
Shhhh! You're going to cause a lot of people's strokes here! Any city with a drug culture must be a hellhole to live in. Our government has been telling us that for decades, so it has to be true!
You know that, I know that, and most everyone on slashdot knows that. The media does not know that, nor does John Q. Public, and the people who understand science the least, are the politicians.
FACT: We already have a large number of ice cores from around the world. The premise of the article is, this new ice core is going to give us data on global warming that none of the other ice cores gave us. We are being given premature statements about the accuracy and precision of this new ice core. By "premature", I mean the tools aren't even on site to take the core with yet.
How can they make such predictions? OBVIOUSLY, this is not intended to be a scientific expedition. The expedition WILL supply ammunition for those who will profit from a global warming panic. If the expedition fails to supply that ammunition, the real data will be hammered and beaten into the shape demanded.
Science? I'm sure that some of the people on the expedition believe they are working for the advancement of science.
Sometimes, a "scientist" has preestablished conclusions, for which he needs to find substantiating evidence. In such a case, you might expect the "scientists" to tell us what they are going to find before the experiment is concluded.
Or, if you prefer me to be more blunt, the global warming crowd is openly telling us what they are going to find already. They've made their minds up. Evidence WILL be made to support their conclusions, no matter how they have to spin and warp the data.
No - ice cores are one of two things. Either it is pretty much pure research into prehistory - OR, see my post above. I think it's smoke and mirrors, to be used to help convince the public that global warming has been accelerated to a panic level.
A little panic in the streets always facilitates the further redistribution of wealth from those who have it, to those who have even more of it.
I read an article on this a few days ago. Discovery, I think it was on.
Anyway - there seem to be a number of assumptions made about the quality of the ice core, as well as the detail to be found in that ice core. Such assumptions lead me to believe that the results of that ice core are probably already in. They already know that they are going to verify mankind has caused global warming, and that we are accelerating global warming at a catastrophic rate. I'm about half certain that they've already entered the results into one of their computer models.
I wouldn't say it's all bogus, but if it walks like bogus, talks like bogus, and shits like bogus, then it's probably bogus.
And, what a coincidence. "The announcement comes on the same day a leaked draft of the next major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed more evidence of human-led climate change."
That was the only reason I liked WinAmp. WinAmp kicked the llama's ass. When it stopped kicking the llama's ass, I stopped using it. Get in line for your asskicking, little llama!
Westboro's freedom of speech is protected by law, and I'll not interfere with that. Heaping suffering and grief upon an assembly of people who are already grieving for a lost loved on goes far beyond freedom of speech.
I'm an American. I'm a veteran. I've actually carried that flag in places where it wasn't respected, or wanted. Burning my flag offends me, yes. But, I do recognize that burning the flag might constitute free speech, and that some people might find no other way to convey a message, and to get their point across.
Picketing funerals goes far beyond burning a flag. Picketing the funerals of innocent children is even more despicable than picketing the funerals of fallen heros.
I would suppress the "voices" of Westboro, no problem.
NAMBLA is history. Search for B4UACT instead. Some freaks, same message, new management because the FBI took NAMBLA down. Of course, taking them down does little good. Scum grows faster than it can be eliminated.
Yes, I would incite violence against these people. But, I take issue with your description of these "peaceful demonstrators". The wounds they cause grieving widows, widowers, children, and parents are no less serious than the wounds caused by thrown rocks and bottles. Maybe more serious.
These slime are treading very carefully, picking their targets, and choosing their victims with the goal of causing as much pain and grief as possible, while using the law to "protect" them from the consequences of their actions.
And, no, a punch in the face is not adequate, or appropriate. These sumbitches WANT to be punched in the face, so that they can sue the "offender".
One certified looney-tune who can call on the Veteran's Administration for defense in court should unload on these low lifes, and put them all out of everyone's misery. That is what riot guns were made for. Let the Westboro freaks bury about half of their own, AND be forced stand silently while suffering the verbal abuse of an outraged nation. Poetic justice, as well as real justice, IMHO. And, I certainly DO NOT use the word "justice" in the sense of "Whoever has the most money gets the most justice".
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I would have to do some moderate research for actual citations - but I think the idea preceded any of your examples. I've been reading Sci-Fi since 6th grade. Long before graduating high school in 1974, the idea of an enemy being unable to fire your weapon had percolated through my mind. Can't remember which author first put it into my head, but he was contemporary with Robert A. Heinlein.
What is it with names, anyway? Much of the world feels that remembering names is one of the most important things you can do. You've simply GOT TO remember who is who, right?
Like you, I'm supposed to be pretty intelligent. When I was younger, I remembered all sorts of important stuff, trivial stuff, things that were both useful and useless. But, names? In one ear, and out the other. Girls, teammates, workmates, officers, shipmates - I'd remember their faces, and what they did, how I felt about them, but forget their names. You could walk up to me, introduce yourself, and promise to pay me 500 bucks if I remembered your name next week, and ten minutes later I'd be kicking myself in the ass. "What was that guy's name? Mike? Mickey? Munster?"
I guess that I had to compensate for my strengths in some areas by being an utter moron in other areas?
Needless to say, I'm totally lost when people start discussing celebrities. I only remember a few names - like a Michael Jackson or a Tom Cruise.
Slashdot karma probably indicates different things for different people. Some people who post here are IT people, who bring a long history of mixed education and experience to the board. Other people are just interested readers who are excellent thinkers, and bring little more than intelligence with them. Other people manage to maintain high karma based on being funny. Some folk may not be especially smart, and may not offer a whole lot to any particular discussion, but they read much more than they write, so that when they do make a post, it's well thought out, and contributes something.
A high karma rating really only indicates one thing, when all is said and done.
You've posted some posts that were liked by more people than disliked.
"Neutral" third party? Maybe you missed the "patent troll" thing. I'd explain it to you, but it might require some words with more than four or five letters, and I'd probably lose you after the first few sentences.
Speaking of sophistry - I'd like to know which artists are going hungry due to piracy, and which artists are going hungry because *IAA affiliated companies don't pass the profits on to the starving artists. Give me a list of artists who have missed a meal because pirates "stole" their music, so that all us "pirates" can send them a dollar or two. Oh, those poor suffering artists! The idea just hurts my soul!
I suspect that only a European would say that. I have been looking at news casts for decades now. It seems that everyone in south western Asia, Asia minor, and north Africa has an "arsenal". Much of Africa, as well. Pay attention to the news from Africa, Asia, and the mideast, see how many guns are visible during the news cast.
Your particular kind of stupidity is only found among privileged and protected fools who have never been anywhere that isn't protected.
" Either it's DOA or runs forever."
Nonsense. I bought 8 gig of memory about 4 years ago, for an Opteron rig. That computer recently started having serious problems, with corrupted data and crashing. I looked at all the other components first, then finally ran memory tests. Memtest failed immediately. I removed three modules and ran memtest again, it failed immediately. Replaced with another module, memtest ran for awhile, then failed. The other two modules proved to be good, so I am now running that aging Opteron with 4 gig of memory.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - I realize a single person's anecdotal evidence doesn't carry much weight. I wonder what the statistics are though? As AaronLS already pointed out, these tests seem to indicate that my situation isn't very unusual. Components age and wear out.
You're sure about that? The various holdings of the Rothschild clan seems pretty frigging evil to me. The Taliban can't start and end world wide recessions and depressions, after all. The Rothschild clan can, and has.
Perhaps you misread my posts. Nowhere have I mentioned an "assault". I'm not the person to rough someone up, and allow them to walk away, before or after a hospital stay. My intent is much more "illegal" than some mere "assault" or even "assault and battery".
If I had ever been diagnosed with PTSD, and if I were under a shrink's care at the VA hospital, then I would have a valid defense later at my trial, for murder.
Are we quite clear now, what I am saying?
The people under discussion shit on my brother's graves, and they plan to shit on the graves of six and seven year old innocent children. The whole lot of them are just about worth one magazine of M16 rounds. But, any sensible veteran would bring more than one mag.
You mention an argument. I see none here.
The SKS may make a decent deer rifle, if proper ammo is available. The only time I handled one, the guy who owned it only had jacketed bullets. That was all that was available at that time, in our area. A fast, light, jacketed bullet passes through a body, causing minimal damage, then carries on into the distance. It's been awhile since I hunted regularly, I can't remember the proper name, but 30-30 always came in a semi-jacketed bullet that mushroomed nicely on impact. If someone is making that round for the SKS, it could be a good deer rifle.
Personally, I didn't like the SKS very much. To light, to short, poor balance - it just doesn't feel like a real rifle in my hands. Give me something more like a Remington 700, please. Or, if we are going for more of a military look, let's style something along the lines of an M1 or an M14. I carried both, and love them both. Forget the M16, it's another toy, to me, and those tumbling rounds are totally unsuitable for deer hunting.
Three weapons is not an "arsenal". When people use that term, I expect to find dozens of weapons, not ten or less. Owning 3 or more shotguns means that you use shotguns to hunt different kind of game - maybe ducks, upland fowl, and squirrels, maybe a twelve guage for slugs to hunt deer.
That small .223 is great for varmints such as groundhog - generally the same person will own one or more larger deer rifles, like a 30-30 or a 30-06.
If our gun enthusiast also goes to target ranges, he may own yet another weapon that has been customized for extreme accuracy. .270, .243, or .223 are all great target rounds.
Arsenal. I've only seen three specific weapons mentioned, and some references to an "assault rifle". That "assault rifle" merits some concern, but it's not clear yet what they are referring to. Like as not, some fool has characterized a deer rifle as an "assault weapon", but he may well have been carrying an SKS or something.
As for "why so much ammo" - 100 rounds is no big deal anywhere. Ammo comes in boxes of 20, and it's not uncommon to purchase 2 to 10 boxes at a time. Anyone serious about marksmanship might buy 100 boxes at a time. It only takes several minutes to use up a box, if you're carefully aiming. If you're just having fun, it only takes a minute.
People who ask these questions and make these assumptions are obviously not outdoorsmen.
These days, I'm on Linux, and I use VLC media player for everything. VLC is also available for Windows, and I've met some Windows users who love it just as much as I do. WinAmp stopped whipping the Llama's ass about the time that - uhhh - was it AOL who bought it from the developer? Or Yahoo? Someone bought it, paid the developer to continue developing, but put restrictions on him. No whipping the llama's ass, for one thing.
*sigh*
I don't know how you can miss the cynicism, and the explanation for the cynicism that I've posted above.
One more time:
WE ARE ALREADY BEING ASSURED OF THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE DATA TO BE OBTAINED FROM THIS ICE CORE, BEFORE THE EQUIPMENT IS EVEN SET UP!
A more appropriate claim would be, "We hope that an ice core from this area will give us more detailed information than previous ice cores have given us. We expect that changes in climate will be documented more clearly in the thicker layers of ice that we hope to find."
Please, go back, and read everything I've written. My own message isn't buried layers deep in ice. Just open your eyes and read it.
Shhhh! You're going to cause a lot of people's strokes here! Any city with a drug culture must be a hellhole to live in. Our government has been telling us that for decades, so it has to be true!
You know that, I know that, and most everyone on slashdot knows that. The media does not know that, nor does John Q. Public, and the people who understand science the least, are the politicians.
FACT: We already have a large number of ice cores from around the world. The premise of the article is, this new ice core is going to give us data on global warming that none of the other ice cores gave us. We are being given premature statements about the accuracy and precision of this new ice core. By "premature", I mean the tools aren't even on site to take the core with yet.
How can they make such predictions? OBVIOUSLY, this is not intended to be a scientific expedition. The expedition WILL supply ammunition for those who will profit from a global warming panic. If the expedition fails to supply that ammunition, the real data will be hammered and beaten into the shape demanded.
Science? I'm sure that some of the people on the expedition believe they are working for the advancement of science.
Sometimes, a "scientist" has preestablished conclusions, for which he needs to find substantiating evidence. In such a case, you might expect the "scientists" to tell us what they are going to find before the experiment is concluded.
Or, if you prefer me to be more blunt, the global warming crowd is openly telling us what they are going to find already. They've made their minds up. Evidence WILL be made to support their conclusions, no matter how they have to spin and warp the data.
No - ice cores are one of two things. Either it is pretty much pure research into prehistory - OR, see my post above. I think it's smoke and mirrors, to be used to help convince the public that global warming has been accelerated to a panic level.
A little panic in the streets always facilitates the further redistribution of wealth from those who have it, to those who have even more of it.
I read an article on this a few days ago. Discovery, I think it was on.
Anyway - there seem to be a number of assumptions made about the quality of the ice core, as well as the detail to be found in that ice core. Such assumptions lead me to believe that the results of that ice core are probably already in. They already know that they are going to verify mankind has caused global warming, and that we are accelerating global warming at a catastrophic rate. I'm about half certain that they've already entered the results into one of their computer models.
I wouldn't say it's all bogus, but if it walks like bogus, talks like bogus, and shits like bogus, then it's probably bogus.
And, what a coincidence. "The announcement comes on the same day a leaked draft of the next major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed more evidence of human-led climate change."
Politics, as usual.
That was the only reason I liked WinAmp. WinAmp kicked the llama's ass. When it stopped kicking the llama's ass, I stopped using it. Get in line for your asskicking, little llama!
I place morality far above legality. Anonymous is more moral than WBC. Of course, that's one hell of a backhanded compliment . . .
Which part of "verbal abuse" do you fail to understand? Is it the "abuse" part?
Westboro's freedom of speech is protected by law, and I'll not interfere with that. Heaping suffering and grief upon an assembly of people who are already grieving for a lost loved on goes far beyond freedom of speech.
I'm an American. I'm a veteran. I've actually carried that flag in places where it wasn't respected, or wanted. Burning my flag offends me, yes. But, I do recognize that burning the flag might constitute free speech, and that some people might find no other way to convey a message, and to get their point across.
Picketing funerals goes far beyond burning a flag. Picketing the funerals of innocent children is even more despicable than picketing the funerals of fallen heros.
I would suppress the "voices" of Westboro, no problem.
NAMBLA is history. Search for B4UACT instead. Some freaks, same message, new management because the FBI took NAMBLA down. Of course, taking them down does little good. Scum grows faster than it can be eliminated.
Yes, I would incite violence against these people. But, I take issue with your description of these "peaceful demonstrators". The wounds they cause grieving widows, widowers, children, and parents are no less serious than the wounds caused by thrown rocks and bottles. Maybe more serious.
These slime are treading very carefully, picking their targets, and choosing their victims with the goal of causing as much pain and grief as possible, while using the law to "protect" them from the consequences of their actions.
And, no, a punch in the face is not adequate, or appropriate. These sumbitches WANT to be punched in the face, so that they can sue the "offender".
One certified looney-tune who can call on the Veteran's Administration for defense in court should unload on these low lifes, and put them all out of everyone's misery. That is what riot guns were made for. Let the Westboro freaks bury about half of their own, AND be forced stand silently while suffering the verbal abuse of an outraged nation. Poetic justice, as well as real justice, IMHO. And, I certainly DO NOT use the word "justice" in the sense of "Whoever has the most money gets the most justice".