No, you are simply wrong, as I quite clearly demonstrated, which is why you were modded down and I was modded up. So let me try to explain it in the very simple terms you need.
Again, birds did not evolve a boom/bust cycle. They can not pick it through evolution, it is not up to them, it is up to their predators and food sources. As the article clearly explains, a prime number cycle for cicadas ensures that only ONE predator boom/bust cycle will match up with theirs, and natural predator/prey cycles are not ever that long. Here, all you demonstrate is a complete lack of understanding of evolution and ecology.
You also have quite clearly either not read, or not understood the article. More importantly, you appear to not have even looked at the pictures. By overlapping patterns in prime cycles, a complex pattern is built up that does not appear repetitive to the eye. It was clearly demonstrated in the pictures, in case you are illiterate.
Curtains ARE nature, everything is. Hanging curtains create a natural, complex pattern of folds. A standard repeating background does not have those same complex patterns.
When you say "random things look random because they are random." you clearly demonstrate again that you have not read the article. Are curtains random? If you generated a 'random' curtain texture and tiled it, would it still appear random? No! It would not be seamless. But if you generated the tile using prime numbers, you could tile it and not see obvious seams.
As I explained, they are not using prime numbers to mimic randomness, they are using them to create tiles that appear seamless. You total fucking idiot.
When you claim "Fifth, nature does cyclical rather handily; not everything need be random to look natural." you AGAIN clearly demonstrate your total lack of comprehension about the article. They are not trying to create "random" you microencephalic retard, they trying to create background patterns that can be repeated across a page without appearing to be repeating tiles. You utter cretin.
Now fuck off and let the smart people talk. I'm done with you, you're dismissed from class.
Just because you do not understand something does not make it wrong. Birds haven't "evolved" a boom/bust cycle, that's not how that works. It's the standard predator/prey boom/bust cycle. Birds don't spend vast periods of time underground, you know. Curtains are natural, "natural" here taking the meaning of "organic" rather than "patterned.
Please, don't be one of those guys who tries to prove how smart they are by attempting to find fault with the article. It does not make you look as smart as you think. The fact that you hurt your brain trying to comprehend something the rest of us had no trouble understanding actually makes you look pretty dumb.
He's not the only one, bucky. No need to be an ass. I don't have the problem with the post anonymously checkbox, but I have not been able to click on any off-site links for a week, using Firefox 3.6.16. Internet Exploder works, but I'm not using that POS.
Except you aren't counseling sane, cool decision making, anyone conversing with you can tell you have a high emotional charge around this issue. It makes you appear illogical and partisan, not cool and logical. Your emotional charge is the reason that you are harming your cause.
You corrected nothing, as you are simply wrong. Corporations don't have to pay retroactively, that's what the cap is for. Just stop, okay? You aren't helping your cause.
I never worry about downmods, and the damn nuclear power lobbyists could learn a thing or two if they just listened. What sounds better to the average man with concerns over nuclear power, "There's nothing to worry about, stupid, now shut up and sit down." OR, "I share your concerns about safety, which is why I advocate newer, safer reactor designs. With safer nuclear power as an option, we won't have to destroy the climate with CO2 anymore" Obviously, the second approach will win more converts. But these aren't actual nuclear power industry lobbyists, these are frustrated dorks. They have contrary tendencies to begin with. They think they are smarter than the average person. They have personal ego-investment in nuclear power because they have been touting it for so long. An actual nuclear power industry lobbyist would have far better control over his emotions and would be far more effective at advocacy. The guys here are just ego stroking. They have a belief system that runs "I'm smart. Because I'm smart, I believe in using nuclear power. If nuclear power is called into question, my intelligence is called into question. Therefore, I must defend nuclear power, or be thought the fool."
Who knows, maybe I am the nuclear power industry lobbyist, trying to get these assholes to stop hurting my cause.
Hahaha, seriously, retcon? My words are all right there, show me!
Drivers liabilities are not capped, if they owe more than their insurance covers, they pay, up to their own personal net worth. The government does not step in to pay for anything! In the case of nuclear power, they pay, only up to the cap, and they DO NOT have to declare bankruptcy. See the difference?
You really couldn't be any more wrong about this. Remember, you helped kill nuclear power by playing the fool and acting the ass. Unlike you, I actually want nuclear power, so thanks for helping destroy my dreams.
I'm through explaining things to children, Good Day sir.
Then: Elections have consequences! We won, get over it!
Now: Waaah!!!
Yeah, that's exactly what they are saying in Wisconsin today. Prosser the Tosser is out the door, Scott Walker's agenda will be killed in the courts now, the unions and working people will triumph, and the recall of the Republican senators is moving ahead full steam. The next national election will be very interesting, don't you think?
Oh come on, now. Are you telling me he would let a little thing like police cordons stop him? He CAN get as close as he wants, I just don't think he WANTS to.
Do you have reading comprehension problems? I never said plant operators carry NO insurance, I said, their liability is capped by law and therefore they only need to carry a very limited amount of insurance. All that verbiage, okay, it's mostly copypasta, but you should make sure your response actually pertains to what was written before before wasting so much time.
We don't really know, nobody can track the cause of various cancers. But that's not the point, the point is that greedy nuclear power executives and tone deaf nuclear power proponents have killed any chance of safe, clean nuclear power.
The value of a cheap all in one home unit really depends on what side of that estimate they come closer too. I might buy a $250 Commodore-64 form-factor computer I can hook up to my big TV in the living room. I would not pay much more than that, though. Definitely not $900. I think a bargain coffee table computer could attract customers that might be intimidated by a laptop, tablet, or a big clunky desktop.
On one level, there's no way to tell, and therefore, it doesn't matter whether it is or not. On another level, of course it isn't a hallucination, "hallucination" is pretty much defined as "not reality" so you kind of have to redefine either "hallucination" or "reality" to make them the same thing, and then the terms become meaningless.
Although you are mostly correct, I feel just pedantic enough to point out that central nervous system depression is nothing at all like psychological depression, you may as well be comparing psychological depression to a tropical depression. Depressed people are generally cognitively capable of figuring out that using alcohol to treat their depression is a loosing battle. Schizophrenics are not generally capable of figuring out that hallucinogens make them crazier than they already are.
Fuck off, I did not make any definitive statements. I'm not pro or anti nuke, I'm anti-stupidity. And socially challenged geeks and nerds need to be hit in the face with facts before they even begin to register them, so no, I'm not going to be nice to the people that are killing their own dreams of cheap, safe, clean nuclear power. I'm doing it for their own good, not because I enjoy being a bastard. I've tried explaining things nicely, and nice explanations fall on deaf ears.
It wasn't the anti nuke crowd that killed nuclear power, it was the greed and shortsightedness of management, and the overzealous insensitivity of the pro nuclear crowd, who basically have been telling everyone to shut the hell up and stop whining. Give me one example of the anti nuke idiots actually accomplishing anything, and I'll retract my statement. But the anti-nuke idiots had nothing to do with the GE Three resigning over safety issues with the same model core that is in several Fukushima reactors. You did know that, right? Three top engineers at GE nuclear power division resigned over safety concerns, yet GE went ahead and sold those reactors for decades.
The thing that worked the anti-nuke idiots into a frenzy was simply greedy sociopathic CEOs skirting safety laws and ignoring the advice of their own engineers. So they may be idiots, but they did not start the problem. No, the pro nuke crowd are the ones who really killed their own dream.
You are deeply confused by semantics. "It's all an illusion" is an illusion, because "it" is not "that." No separation. You are not a little homonculus in your head, looking out of your eyes and listening through your ears. The present moment is real, not an illusion. Consciousness is real, not an illusion, but there is no one that has consciousness. It exists, because it is created by circumstance, but consciousness does not adhere to an individual.
There is life to sense and measure heat. Life is real. It just isn't what you think it is, and rather than accept what it is, you have decided it is all an illusion. It is easier for some people to believe "It is all meaningless" than to take responsibility for creating meaning.
Oh, it should be obvious to most people, especially schizophrenics, but it isn't. They do things like Salvia and think they are talking to gray aliens.
Blah, blah, blah. How does it feel to help kill nuclear power? Because that is what you are doing by downplaying legitimate concerns. You are not reassuring anyone. Personally, I want safe clean power. Maybe you don't, I don't know, either that, or you are just have no understanding of social interactions and have no clue how much damage you are doing to your own cause. But I want nuclear power, so do me a favor and shut the hell up, thanks.
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No, you are simply wrong, as I quite clearly demonstrated, which is why you were modded down and I was modded up. So let me try to explain it in the very simple terms you need.
Again, birds did not evolve a boom/bust cycle. They can not pick it through evolution, it is not up to them, it is up to their predators and food sources. As the article clearly explains, a prime number cycle for cicadas ensures that only ONE predator boom/bust cycle will match up with theirs, and natural predator/prey cycles are not ever that long. Here, all you demonstrate is a complete lack of understanding of evolution and ecology.
You also have quite clearly either not read, or not understood the article. More importantly, you appear to not have even looked at the pictures. By overlapping patterns in prime cycles, a complex pattern is built up that does not appear repetitive to the eye. It was clearly demonstrated in the pictures, in case you are illiterate.
Curtains ARE nature, everything is. Hanging curtains create a natural, complex pattern of folds. A standard repeating background does not have those same complex patterns.
When you say "random things look random because they are random." you clearly demonstrate again that you have not read the article. Are curtains random? If you generated a 'random' curtain texture and tiled it, would it still appear random? No! It would not be seamless. But if you generated the tile using prime numbers, you could tile it and not see obvious seams.
As I explained, they are not using prime numbers to mimic randomness, they are using them to create tiles that appear seamless. You total fucking idiot.
When you claim "Fifth, nature does cyclical rather handily; not everything need be random to look natural." you AGAIN clearly demonstrate your total lack of comprehension about the article. They are not trying to create "random" you microencephalic retard, they trying to create background patterns that can be repeated across a page without appearing to be repeating tiles. You utter cretin.
Now fuck off and let the smart people talk. I'm done with you, you're dismissed from class.
You already posted this. It wasn't funny the first time. The technology does not require actual speech.
Just because you do not understand something does not make it wrong. Birds haven't "evolved" a boom/bust cycle, that's not how that works. It's the standard predator/prey boom/bust cycle. Birds don't spend vast periods of time underground, you know. Curtains are natural, "natural" here taking the meaning of "organic" rather than "patterned.
Please, don't be one of those guys who tries to prove how smart they are by attempting to find fault with the article. It does not make you look as smart as you think. The fact that you hurt your brain trying to comprehend something the rest of us had no trouble understanding actually makes you look pretty dumb.
He's not the only one, bucky. No need to be an ass. I don't have the problem with the post anonymously checkbox, but I have not been able to click on any off-site links for a week, using Firefox 3.6.16. Internet Exploder works, but I'm not using that POS.
Couldn't find anything, huh? Just say so, don't resort to ad-hominems. It makes you look foolish.
Except you aren't counseling sane, cool decision making, anyone conversing with you can tell you have a high emotional charge around this issue. It makes you appear illogical and partisan, not cool and logical. Your emotional charge is the reason that you are harming your cause.
You corrected nothing, as you are simply wrong. Corporations don't have to pay retroactively, that's what the cap is for. Just stop, okay? You aren't helping your cause.
I never worry about downmods, and the damn nuclear power lobbyists could learn a thing or two if they just listened. What sounds better to the average man with concerns over nuclear power, "There's nothing to worry about, stupid, now shut up and sit down." OR, "I share your concerns about safety, which is why I advocate newer, safer reactor designs. With safer nuclear power as an option, we won't have to destroy the climate with CO2 anymore" Obviously, the second approach will win more converts. But these aren't actual nuclear power industry lobbyists, these are frustrated dorks. They have contrary tendencies to begin with. They think they are smarter than the average person. They have personal ego-investment in nuclear power because they have been touting it for so long. An actual nuclear power industry lobbyist would have far better control over his emotions and would be far more effective at advocacy. The guys here are just ego stroking. They have a belief system that runs "I'm smart. Because I'm smart, I believe in using nuclear power. If nuclear power is called into question, my intelligence is called into question. Therefore, I must defend nuclear power, or be thought the fool."
Who knows, maybe I am the nuclear power industry lobbyist, trying to get these assholes to stop hurting my cause.
Hahaha, seriously, retcon? My words are all right there, show me!
Drivers liabilities are not capped, if they owe more than their insurance covers, they pay, up to their own personal net worth. The government does not step in to pay for anything! In the case of nuclear power, they pay, only up to the cap, and they DO NOT have to declare bankruptcy. See the difference?
You really couldn't be any more wrong about this. Remember, you helped kill nuclear power by playing the fool and acting the ass. Unlike you, I actually want nuclear power, so thanks for helping destroy my dreams.
I'm through explaining things to children, Good Day sir.
Then: Elections have consequences! We won, get over it!
Now: Waaah!!!
Yeah, that's exactly what they are saying in Wisconsin today. Prosser the Tosser is out the door, Scott Walker's agenda will be killed in the courts now, the unions and working people will triumph, and the recall of the Republican senators is moving ahead full steam. The next national election will be very interesting, don't you think?
Oh come on, now. Are you telling me he would let a little thing like police cordons stop him? He CAN get as close as he wants, I just don't think he WANTS to.
Yeah, I was assuming it was fanless like the original.
Do you have reading comprehension problems? I never said plant operators carry NO insurance, I said, their liability is capped by law and therefore they only need to carry a very limited amount of insurance. All that verbiage, okay, it's mostly copypasta, but you should make sure your response actually pertains to what was written before before wasting so much time.
Really?!? But it's so safe! Why would they keep people away from a perfectly safe place?
We don't really know, nobody can track the cause of various cancers. But that's not the point, the point is that greedy nuclear power executives and tone deaf nuclear power proponents have killed any chance of safe, clean nuclear power.
Oh my. I'm ashamed, I never confuse loosing and losing!
The value of a cheap all in one home unit really depends on what side of that estimate they come closer too. I might buy a $250 Commodore-64 form-factor computer I can hook up to my big TV in the living room. I would not pay much more than that, though. Definitely not $900. I think a bargain coffee table computer could attract customers that might be intimidated by a laptop, tablet, or a big clunky desktop.
On one level, there's no way to tell, and therefore, it doesn't matter whether it is or not. On another level, of course it isn't a hallucination, "hallucination" is pretty much defined as "not reality" so you kind of have to redefine either "hallucination" or "reality" to make them the same thing, and then the terms become meaningless.
Although you are mostly correct, I feel just pedantic enough to point out that central nervous system depression is nothing at all like psychological depression, you may as well be comparing psychological depression to a tropical depression. Depressed people are generally cognitively capable of figuring out that using alcohol to treat their depression is a loosing battle. Schizophrenics are not generally capable of figuring out that hallucinogens make them crazier than they already are.
Fuck off, I did not make any definitive statements. I'm not pro or anti nuke, I'm anti-stupidity. And socially challenged geeks and nerds need to be hit in the face with facts before they even begin to register them, so no, I'm not going to be nice to the people that are killing their own dreams of cheap, safe, clean nuclear power. I'm doing it for their own good, not because I enjoy being a bastard. I've tried explaining things nicely, and nice explanations fall on deaf ears.
It wasn't the anti nuke crowd that killed nuclear power, it was the greed and shortsightedness of management, and the overzealous insensitivity of the pro nuclear crowd, who basically have been telling everyone to shut the hell up and stop whining. Give me one example of the anti nuke idiots actually accomplishing anything, and I'll retract my statement. But the anti-nuke idiots had nothing to do with the GE Three resigning over safety issues with the same model core that is in several Fukushima reactors. You did know that, right? Three top engineers at GE nuclear power division resigned over safety concerns, yet GE went ahead and sold those reactors for decades.
The thing that worked the anti-nuke idiots into a frenzy was simply greedy sociopathic CEOs skirting safety laws and ignoring the advice of their own engineers. So they may be idiots, but they did not start the problem. No, the pro nuke crowd are the ones who really killed their own dream.
Look, I'm all for robots operating in a largely autonomous manner, as long as they do not eat old people's medicine for fuel.
You are deeply confused by semantics. "It's all an illusion" is an illusion, because "it" is not "that." No separation. You are not a little homonculus in your head, looking out of your eyes and listening through your ears. The present moment is real, not an illusion. Consciousness is real, not an illusion, but there is no one that has consciousness. It exists, because it is created by circumstance, but consciousness does not adhere to an individual.
There is life to sense and measure heat. Life is real. It just isn't what you think it is, and rather than accept what it is, you have decided it is all an illusion. It is easier for some people to believe "It is all meaningless" than to take responsibility for creating meaning.
Duh. Thus, the definition of schizophrenia.
Oh, it should be obvious to most people, especially schizophrenics, but it isn't. They do things like Salvia and think they are talking to gray aliens.
Blah, blah, blah. How does it feel to help kill nuclear power? Because that is what you are doing by downplaying legitimate concerns. You are not reassuring anyone. Personally, I want safe clean power. Maybe you don't, I don't know, either that, or you are just have no understanding of social interactions and have no clue how much damage you are doing to your own cause. But I want nuclear power, so do me a favor and shut the hell up, thanks.