I'll wager it pales in comparison to the effect of the 3/11 Japan earthquake or the Boxing Day quake/tsunami of '04. Those quakes lifted or dropped massive areas of the crust and I actually seem to recall hearing reports that the atomic clocks would need to have some leap milliseconds directly linked to the quake.
In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife; but that doesn't work so well with a tomato. SPLAT! Introducing the Ginsu Phone--chop, Chop, CHOP! (warning, keep phone in sheath when not in use. Works best with Ginsu shaving cream. Do not hold up to face when talking. In case you need to talk for more than four hours, do not use this phone.)
Simply having a larger word size isn't what I'm talking about though. Larger word sizes are just a composition of binary bits. I'm thinking more like the Flatland analogy. We know what true and false are, but we don't know what "arrow" is.
In Flatland, a sphere projects onto the plane and is perceived as a circle. In our world, an "arrow" veracity might project as a paradox. For example, "everything I'm telling you is a lie" is a classic statement that defies analysis as "true" or "false". Perhaps it's an "arrow" statement projected onto our world.
Kind of the first joke I thought of too; but... what if our desire to ask such questions is the result of some sort of built-in bias? What if truth is N-dimensional and we just can't conceive of it in any real way? Note, not gradations of T and F, but an actual N-dimensionality of veracity. Like, I'm telling the truth, I'm telling a lie, or I'm telling an arrow.
Buzz Aldrin will be the first famous person to walk on 2017. He'll just hit 2016 with a hammer. That's how astronauts fix things. Get well soon, and God speed.
If Trump actually issued that order, I'd be on board. Instead he's expressed the desire to jail and strip citizenship of flag burners. Anybody who passed high school civics should see the problem with that. I was actually shocked to find out that SCOTUS ruled 5 to 4 that flag desecration is protected speech. So yeah, nevermind the abortion thing. We could actually end up with authoritarians on the court who don't care much for free speech.
Reddit hasn't been known for free speech for quite some time. I've only been on it for less than two years, and in that time we saw the banning of Coontown and other offensive groups. Not that I endorse the content of those groups; but if you're going to hold yourself out as a bastion of free speech, you have to at least allow anything that's legal and AFAIK the mere existence of the offensive groups wasn't illegal.
Aside from that, there was an alleged astro-turfing campaign sponsored by Hillary's campaign. There is little rhyme or reason to what gets promoted to the front page, which indicates to me that even if the site itself is free, the strings are being pulled by SEO types and/or people who have simply learned how to game the system for karma. That kind of thing can make the site effectively less than free--burying important ideas and events beneath a well-crafted cat meme.
They're making the cube sound harder than it is. The difficulty doesn't correspond well to the number of combinations. Back in the 80s when I played with them, the solution technique I knew was based on recognizing that the components of a cube could be flipped or twisted, with the flip or twist balanced out by another component. Then you simply executed moves to undo the flip or twist. My best times were 3 minutes or so, which sucks now but I bet the solution algorithms have gotten way more sophisticated. Anyway, a kid can memorize the algorithm so it can't be that hard. I'm guessing any modern CPU executes it so fast that most of the time is taken up by the movements of the robot.
Sorry, I was referring to secession in general and should have made that more clear.
Now that the issue has been raised, there are indeed right-wing secessionist nut-jobs in CA. See, State of Jefferson. They tend to spin themselves as more libertarian than right; but if you scratch the surface it seems very right-wing.
No. Revamp the primaries so that states like Iowa and New Hampshire aren't disproportionately represented. One "super Tuesday" for everybody. None of this business where states that hold late primaries are irrelevant. Also, we need to do something to make 3rd parties more viable. That's a little more murky. There may be no systemic reason why our 3rd parties are so weak. It may just be that America doesn't have much room for more than two; but perhaps if we lowered the debate threshold to 1% for at least *one* of the major debates, it might be interesting.
Anyway, the primary process screws us long before the EC comes into play.
Also, candidates know the EC is there so they build their strategy around it. If it were a direct popular vote, they'd change their strategy and we might actually get the same results.
Just because he's an oligarch doesn't mean he's wrong. If transparency "disrupts" the sausage-making, maybe it's because there were too many rodent hairs in there.
The "OMG, some rich asshole sponsored this" argument has been applied to a number of initiatives, and in each case I'm trying my best to analyze the initiative on its own merits rather than based on who sponsored it.
It's not easy though. The voter's guide is 223 pages.
That's a good point. There's the arms vs. armor race where it looks like arms are winning. In the signal vs. jamming race, I don't know if it looks like there's a clear winner yet. It seems like spread-spectrum would help defeat jammers, followed by the fact that any single-point jammer creates a signal that you just home in on and blow up. So then let's say you distribute jammers everywhere (including hospitals and places of worship, bastards!) and jam all frequencies. Bummer. It does seem like some degree of autonomy is required; but as long as you have clear coms to base you should be OK. So then maybe the ultimate scenario becomes sending orders from Nebraska to a base overseas, and then the missile launches there and uses intel about the target to guide itself the rest of the way. Or perhaps we could just live in peace. Nah... crazy talk.
My first thought in rebuttal was that they could attach a few JDAMs to the thing; but as usual the question has been raised and discussed elsewhere. Long story short, if they can't take it out with the gun, they'll put some missiles on 'er.
IMHO, it seems like an awful lot of modern warfare these days is just a matter of getting the missiles close enough and then releasing them. F-35 is a boondoggle, an anachronism before it even got off the drawing board. The replacement for the A-10 *and* the F-35 is dudes sitting behind a screen somewhere in Nebraska, making the call and entering codes into drones. We're already doing that. We'll just do more of it.
I don't know what the path is that leads to the error, but FWIW this was Firefox on Windows. Whenever I see screwed up stuff like that, I usually assume they are on a Mac; but I have no idea if that's the most common cause or not.
In any event, we got their attention and it's fixed!
On my machine, "couldn't" is rendering as "couldna-hat(TM)t" where "a-hat" is the a with the little hat mark over it. It's probably a unicide bug, but it's as if you're saying that "couldn't find a buyer" is a trademarked phrase, which it kind of is.
It's an interesting idea; but even without googling I'm willing to bet the impact zone is too far from any active rover. Why? Because the impact zone is probably close to the planned landing, and they probably didn't plan to land too close to a rover. Why? Because they want to explore diverse areas, and because even a well controlled landing might hit a rover.
I'm willing to wager... uhhh... stupid Internet points that the impact zone is 1000 (one thousand) km or more from any active rover.
AFAIK, the rovers can't get that far in a reasonable time. The zone will be covered with dust again, and/or the rover will fail. They can't "book it", at least not yet. They drive these things like Cameron's father's car. They're orders of magnitude more precious.
I know I've said this before: "Twitter should have been an RFC, not a company".
Remember RFCs and when there were clients other than HTTP that people cared about? This. Twitter's 140 character messages could be just UDP if you don't care about them making it, or a really quick TCP connection to some server that then redistributes the messages. Heck, it could even be blockchain based and distributed with no central server; but it never should have been a company. The only reason it's a company is because of the way VC money sloshes around in the Valley, and it's a casino where retail investors play against the house and always lose.
For example, parent is consumer grade prose. It comes with an extra "is" and perhaps some other problems I've missed. The procedure manual for operating an airliner is probably up to some sort of editorial standard also. The airlines paid for that. You paid nothing for our prose, and you got what is you paid for.
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Microseconds, not milliseconds. Here's a good read about the impact of major quakes on the Earth's rotation
I'll wager it pales in comparison to the effect of the 3/11 Japan earthquake or the Boxing Day quake/tsunami of '04. Those quakes lifted or dropped massive areas of the crust and I actually seem to recall hearing reports that the atomic clocks would need to have some leap milliseconds directly linked to the quake.
Is the evolution of the word "smart" complete yet? At the very least, lexicographers should now include the following:
adj., unnecessarily complicated. augmented with electronics in a way that is perceived as foolish.
Extra bonus, two parodies for the price of one. Ask your doctor if it's OK to use this phone. It's *that* sexy.
Do people really want thinner phones?
In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife; but that doesn't work so well with a tomato. SPLAT! Introducing the Ginsu Phone--chop, Chop, CHOP! (warning, keep phone in sheath when not in use. Works best with Ginsu shaving cream. Do not hold up to face when talking. In case you need to talk for more than four hours, do not use this phone.)
Simply having a larger word size isn't what I'm talking about though. Larger word sizes are just a composition of binary bits. I'm thinking more like the Flatland analogy. We know what true and false are, but we don't know what "arrow" is.
In Flatland, a sphere projects onto the plane and is perceived as a circle. In our world, an "arrow" veracity might project as a paradox. For example, "everything I'm telling you is a lie" is a classic statement that defies analysis as "true" or "false". Perhaps it's an "arrow" statement projected onto our world.
Kind of the first joke I thought of too; but... what if our desire to ask such questions is the result of some sort of built-in bias? What if truth is N-dimensional and we just can't conceive of it in any real way? Note, not gradations of T and F, but an actual N-dimensionality of veracity. Like, I'm telling the truth, I'm telling a lie, or I'm telling an arrow.
Buzz Aldrin will be the first famous person to walk on 2017. He'll just hit 2016 with a hammer. That's how astronauts fix things. Get well soon, and God speed.
If Trump actually issued that order, I'd be on board. Instead he's expressed the desire to jail and strip citizenship of flag burners. Anybody who passed high school civics should see the problem with that. I was actually shocked to find out that SCOTUS ruled 5 to 4 that flag desecration is protected speech. So yeah, nevermind the abortion thing. We could actually end up with authoritarians on the court who don't care much for free speech.
Reddit hasn't been known for free speech for quite some time. I've only been on it for less than two years, and in that time we saw the banning of Coontown and other offensive groups. Not that I endorse the content of those groups; but if you're going to hold yourself out as a bastion of free speech, you have to at least allow anything that's legal and AFAIK the mere existence of the offensive groups wasn't illegal.
Aside from that, there was an alleged astro-turfing campaign sponsored by Hillary's campaign. There is little rhyme or reason to what gets promoted to the front page, which indicates to me that even if the site itself is free, the strings are being pulled by SEO types and/or people who have simply learned how to game the system for karma. That kind of thing can make the site effectively less than free--burying important ideas and events beneath a well-crafted cat meme.
Film at 11.
They're making the cube sound harder than it is. The difficulty doesn't correspond well to the number of combinations. Back in the 80s when I played with them, the solution technique I knew was based on recognizing that the components of a cube could be flipped or twisted, with the flip or twist balanced out by another component. Then you simply executed moves to undo the flip or twist. My best times were 3 minutes or so, which sucks now but I bet the solution algorithms have gotten way more sophisticated. Anyway, a kid can memorize the algorithm so it can't be that hard. I'm guessing any modern CPU executes it so fast that most of the time is taken up by the movements of the robot.
Sorry, I was referring to secession in general and should have made that more clear.
Now that the issue has been raised, there are indeed right-wing secessionist nut-jobs in CA. See, State of Jefferson. They tend to spin themselves as more libertarian than right; but if you scratch the surface it seems very right-wing.
One for all the right-wing nut jobs who have suggested this. A new, smaller one for left-wing nut jobs. Both. Right into the Sun. Thank-you.
No. Revamp the primaries so that states like Iowa and New Hampshire aren't disproportionately represented. One "super Tuesday" for everybody. None of this business where states that hold late primaries are irrelevant. Also, we need to do something to make 3rd parties more viable. That's a little more murky. There may be no systemic reason why our 3rd parties are so weak. It may just be that America doesn't have much room for more than two; but perhaps if we lowered the debate threshold to 1% for at least *one* of the major debates, it might be interesting.
Anyway, the primary process screws us long before the EC comes into play.
Also, candidates know the EC is there so they build their strategy around it. If it were a direct popular vote, they'd change their strategy and we might actually get the same results.
Just because he's an oligarch doesn't mean he's wrong. If transparency "disrupts" the sausage-making, maybe it's because there were too many rodent hairs in there.
The "OMG, some rich asshole sponsored this" argument has been applied to a number of initiatives, and in each case I'm trying my best to analyze the initiative on its own merits rather than based on who sponsored it.
It's not easy though. The voter's guide is 223 pages.
That's a good point. There's the arms vs. armor race where it looks like arms are winning. In the signal vs. jamming race, I don't know if it looks like there's a clear winner yet. It seems like spread-spectrum would help defeat jammers, followed by the fact that any single-point jammer creates a signal that you just home in on and blow up. So then let's say you distribute jammers everywhere (including hospitals and places of worship, bastards!) and jam all frequencies. Bummer. It does seem like some degree of autonomy is required; but as long as you have clear coms to base you should be OK. So then maybe the ultimate scenario becomes sending orders from Nebraska to a base overseas, and then the missile launches there and uses intel about the target to guide itself the rest of the way. Or perhaps we could just live in peace. Nah... crazy talk.
My first thought in rebuttal was that they could attach a few JDAMs to the thing; but as usual the question has been raised and discussed elsewhere. Long story short, if they can't take it out with the gun, they'll put some missiles on 'er.
IMHO, it seems like an awful lot of modern warfare these days is just a matter of getting the missiles close enough and then releasing them. F-35 is a boondoggle, an anachronism before it even got off the drawing board. The replacement for the A-10 *and* the F-35 is dudes sitting behind a screen somewhere in Nebraska, making the call and entering codes into drones. We're already doing that. We'll just do more of it.
I don't know what the path is that leads to the error, but FWIW this was Firefox on Windows. Whenever I see screwed up stuff like that, I usually assume they are on a Mac; but I have no idea if that's the most common cause or not.
In any event, we got their attention and it's fixed!
On my machine, "couldn't" is rendering as "couldna-hat(TM)t" where "a-hat" is the a with the little hat mark over it. It's probably a unicide bug, but it's as if you're saying that "couldn't find a buyer" is a trademarked phrase, which it kind of is.
Mods, kill me! here's a map, BTW.
It's an interesting idea; but even without googling I'm willing to bet the impact zone is too far from any active rover. Why? Because the impact zone is probably close to the planned landing, and they probably didn't plan to land too close to a rover. Why? Because they want to explore diverse areas, and because even a well controlled landing might hit a rover.
I'm willing to wager... uhhh... stupid Internet points that the impact zone is 1000 (one thousand) km or more from any active rover.
AFAIK, the rovers can't get that far in a reasonable time. The zone will be covered with dust again, and/or the rover will fail. They can't "book it", at least not yet. They drive these things like Cameron's father's car. They're orders of magnitude more precious.
We've already got Clintongate, and if we get into a war with Russia we're all cooked.
I know I've said this before: "Twitter should have been an RFC, not a company".
Remember RFCs and when there were clients other than HTTP that people cared about? This. Twitter's 140 character messages could be just UDP if you don't care about them making it, or a really quick TCP connection to some server that then redistributes the messages. Heck, it could even be blockchain based and distributed with no central server; but it never should have been a company. The only reason it's a company is because of the way VC money sloshes around in the Valley, and it's a casino where retail investors play against the house and always lose.
For example, parent is consumer grade prose. It comes with an extra "is" and perhaps some other problems I've missed. The procedure manual for operating an airliner is probably up to some sort of editorial standard also. The airlines paid for that. You paid nothing for our prose, and you got what is you paid for.