Well, the work was supported by a "Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative from the Army Research Office" and, as they say, military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Wonder how much pressure the PM is getting from Washington?
He doesn't need pressure. When their US masters give them orders they simply obey. They don't even question it. It's been that way for decades. All the bullshit whining about the EU taking away their sovereignty is just a smoke screen - the UK has had no sovereignty for a very long time. And, of course, one of the tasks their masters have set them is to disrupt the EU as much as possible (it's a threat to US economic dominance).
True. But he's undoubtedly doing it under orders from his US masters - who don't care whether he gets re-elected or not. The UK has for a very long time now been a client kingdom of the US. One of their main roles on behalf of their masters is to disrupt the EU as much as possible, but they have to carry out other menial tasks too.
It means nothing. Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as the internet anyway. An "internet" that wasn't connected to the internet couldn't possibly succeed. What they really mean is they want international network conections that don't go via the US. That's not very hard really - just lay a cable to Europe.
WTF? You demand a citation, then spill a bunch of false information, I mean "informed opinions", with no citation at all. WebMD says you are totally wrong. It's fat.
WTF? You demand a citation, then spill a bunch of false information, I mean "informed opinions", with no citation at all. WebMD says you are totally wrong. It's fat.
Most drunk drivers can drive as well as most sober drivers
Of course they can. Just like the vast majority of people think their driving skills are better than average.
Most people may be able to drive reasonably well when they're not too drunk, but their reaction times are slower, so if something happens -.e.g., a pedestrian walks out in front of them - they can't react as fast, and that pedestrian's dead, where they may have lived if the driver had reacted faster..
No it's not. A hangover is caused by ethanal poisoning. Ethanal (archaic name: acetaldehyde) is what your liver converts ethanol into - it converts that to ethanoic acid (archaic name: acetic acid, aka vinegar) before it excretes it. Ethanal has an apple smell and even inhaling its fumes can give you a mild hangover. Water helps dilute it and helps your body excrete it, but dehydration only exacerbates a hangover, it doesn't cause it.
What gives you the idea that I'm not already older?:)
Hint: I was in my late 20s when I registered on/. You have my UID number, work it out.
You're not very old then.
When i was in my early 20s i was programming computers that loaded their stage 2 boot loaders off paper tape and their operating systems from punched cards. Slashdot was nearly 20 years away in those days.
There is no causation between beer consumption and a "beer gut".
Citation please!
I think you're almost certainly wrong (no citation, this is just informed opinion) - particularly when it comes to people who drink home brew or other beers that have a fair amount of live yeast in them. Part of a beer gut is intestinal irritation causing swelling - and that can be caused by yeast. Part of it is a swollen liver - caused by the alcohol. Probably only a relatively small proportion is fat.
[......] that was the exact purpose of faith in it's original form –to explain away thing we couldn't yet explain, and to explain things to people who couldn't understand them.
I doubt it. I'd say the original purpose of faith was to allow people to overcome their terror of dying and to pretend that they weren't just going to cease to exist one day.
A secondary purpose of faith was to give a small elite power and wealth.
The problem is that every time science figures out some natural process and shows that it is in fact governed by hard, unfeeling laws or simple randomness it detracts from the idea that God cares.
Nah, you'd have to be pretty delusional to believe that god cares. Just look at the horror and misery going on around the world all the time - if there was a god that cared, it wouldn't be like that. And the old bullshit line that it's all part of god's mysterious plan, is nothing but desperate rationalization.
I can imagine people there have things more important to worry about.
Like not being able to read or write, for a start. Nearly 90% of women and well over 50% of men can't read or write. The internet's not going to be much use to them!
The days when desktop environments improved as time went by seem to have gone. Now they just get more and more annoying with every iteration. Unfortunately that's the way of the world and there's nothing to be done but to grit your teeth and put up with it. Hopefully things will change again before too long.
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Well, the work was supported by a "Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative from the Army Research Office" and, as they say, military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Wonder how much pressure the PM is getting from Washington?
He doesn't need pressure. When their US masters give them orders they simply obey. They don't even question it. It's been that way for decades. All the bullshit whining about the EU taking away their sovereignty is just a smoke screen - the UK has had no sovereignty for a very long time. And, of course, one of the tasks their masters have set them is to disrupt the EU as much as possible (it's a threat to US economic dominance).
He is playing a game that has no winning moves.
True. But he's undoubtedly doing it under orders from his US masters - who don't care whether he gets re-elected or not. The UK has for a very long time now been a client kingdom of the US. One of their main roles on behalf of their masters is to disrupt the EU as much as possible, but they have to carry out other menial tasks too.
Who cares about a hardware simulator running in a web browser?
I do.
Yep. Just more of the usual "big data" bullshit hype. The sort of nonsense you'd expect from Weird mag.
If we applied it to tfa, there wouldn't be anything left.
What does having your own internet even mean?
It means nothing. Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as the internet anyway. An "internet" that wasn't connected to the internet couldn't possibly succeed. What they really mean is they want international network conections that don't go via the US. That's not very hard really - just lay a cable to Europe.
WTF? You demand a citation, then spill a bunch of false information, I mean "informed opinions", with no citation at all. WebMD says you are totally wrong. It's fat.
It doesn't say anything of the kind.
No citations there!
Of course they can. Just like the vast majority of people think their driving skills are better than average.
Most people may be able to drive reasonably well when they're not too drunk, but their reaction times are slower, so if something happens - .e.g., a pedestrian walks out in front of them - they can't react as fast, and that pedestrian's dead, where they may have lived if the driver had reacted faster..
No it's not. A hangover is caused by ethanal poisoning. Ethanal (archaic name: acetaldehyde) is what your liver converts ethanol into - it converts that to ethanoic acid (archaic name: acetic acid, aka vinegar) before it excretes it. Ethanal has an apple smell and even inhaling its fumes can give you a mild hangover. Water helps dilute it and helps your body excrete it, but dehydration only exacerbates a hangover, it doesn't cause it.
You're not very old then.
When i was in my early 20s i was programming computers that loaded their stage 2 boot loaders off paper tape and their operating systems from punched cards. Slashdot was nearly 20 years away in those days.
Citation please!
I think you're almost certainly wrong (no citation, this is just informed opinion) - particularly when it comes to people who drink home brew or other beers that have a fair amount of live yeast in them. Part of a beer gut is intestinal irritation causing swelling - and that can be caused by yeast. Part of it is a swollen liver - caused by the alcohol. Probably only a relatively small proportion is fat.
[......] that was the exact purpose of faith in it's original form –to explain away thing we couldn't yet explain, and to explain things to people who couldn't understand them.
I doubt it. I'd say the original purpose of faith was to allow people to overcome their terror of dying and to pretend that they weren't just going to cease to exist one day.
A secondary purpose of faith was to give a small elite power and wealth.
The problem is that every time science figures out some natural process and shows that it is in fact governed by hard, unfeeling laws or simple randomness it detracts from the idea that God cares.
Nah, you'd have to be pretty delusional to believe that god cares. Just look at the horror and misery going on around the world all the time - if there was a god that cared, it wouldn't be like that. And the old bullshit line that it's all part of god's mysterious plan, is nothing but desperate rationalization.
The point of faith is to quell your terror of dying.and the fact that one day you just won't exist.
The problem is that we created god - and we obviously weren't very good engineers because the god we created seems to be a bit of an arsehole.
And Rupert Murdoch owns a very high proportion of the media in Australia - where i am. And we extradited him to you in the first place.
This is an article about Afghanistan. Get used to it. Sorry.
Like not being able to read or write, for a start. Nearly 90% of women and well over 50% of men can't read or write. The internet's not going to be much use to them!
Incredible as it may seem, the USA is only a tiny fraction of the world!
Almost makes it sound worth the constant threat of bombings, shootings, and oppression by the Taliban.
Sorry to disillusion you, but i started using Facebook while i was living in Kabul in 06!
That's tautology - "eutroglobiont" means "true cave dwelling organism" - the "eu" prefix means "true".
it's not stuff that matters
It matters to the snail!
The days when desktop environments improved as time went by seem to have gone. Now they just get more and more annoying with every iteration. Unfortunately that's the way of the world and there's nothing to be done but to grit your teeth and put up with it. Hopefully things will change again before too long.