From the intuitor.com site mentioned in a post below:
Typical handgun bullets are made of copper-clad lead or lead alloys. They simply don't create bright flashes of light when they strike objects, even if the objects are made of steel. In the chemical industry it's commonplace to limit maintenance workers to copper-alloy or lead hammers when they are working in areas where flammable fumes may be present. Hammers made of these materials do not produce sparks when they strike objects, while steel hammers can. If you've never noticed this phenomenon with steel hammers, don't be surprised, the sparks generally are barely visible even under ideal lighting conditions.
You assume that people using the site are idiots, that the questions the site asks won't accurately fit you into a job category that matches your experience, and that everyone using the site will take it as gospel. Never mind the fact that any HR department worth its salt already has this data, so your last point is moot.
This whole post comes across as a poorly disguised attempt to keep us plebes in our place. You want this data for yourself, but you don't want the people you negotiate with to have it. You want what every manager or business owner wants, to reduce costs and therefor keep more of the profits in your greedy little hands. One way to do this is to keep employees ignorant of their true worth.
This is why we still need unions. Or democratically controlled trade guilds, seeing how unions have all turned into what they were fighting: another boss.
No, it's more like if a flood is caused by a storm and not a dam breaking, we don't have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars reinforcing dams around the country...
Right, because, you know, that levy thing in New Orleans, it wouldn't have helped a bit if we had reinforced that.
If you know that storms break dams, and you know that more storms are coming, wouldn't it make sense to reinforce your dams?
The right is the one with false assumptions about economics and human behavior. Look at recent research & experiments in economics and games theory. The selfish actor theory is flat out wrong. People are not primarily motivated by self interest. They are far more motivated by notions of reciprocity and fairness. Our entire economic theory is based on a dangerous falsehood. Because it assumes selfishness, it actually encourages it.
We're trying to get Linux on the desktop. Most of the IT department wants it. We're transitioning all our old AIX an HP-UX servers to Linux on VMWare on Blades. That's actually what they hired me for.
Right now, we use Novell for our file, print and LDAP authentication services. We do have the workstations fairly tightly locked down, and we can use Zenworks to push to clients. Novell is making it easy for us to transition because of course SUSE supports all the Novell tools. Compatiblity with all our old documents is the main thing keeping us back. You would shudder to know how many Access databases we have scattered all over...
You know, you could very easily prove me wrong by providing a link to any argument against anthropogenic global climate change that hasn't already been debunked about a million times. Just because my argument doesn't follow proper forms doesn't mean my conclusion is wrong. You do the very same thing by asserting that I am wrong without supporting your point. Go ahead, post a link.
I am a master debater. And a cunning linguist. But I don't rely on proofs by assertion when arguing anthropogenic global climate change. Only when calling out a troll who disrespects others in lieu of actual debate.
Out of curiosity, do you think the global climate is changing? Do you think we are having an impact? Impact or no, do you think we should do anything about it?
They made several layers with increasing refractive indices, so the RI of the outermost coating is close to air while that of the innermost coating is close to the material it coats. What's cool about this is that it cuts reflexion across the EM spectrum, it doesn't just trade off reflectivity in one part of the spectrum for that in another, like previous anti-reflective coatings have done. Unfortunately, it isn't transparent so it won't work as a coating for glass.
And at no point have I asserted that you were personally at fault for any of that, so I have no idea where you're getting that from.
I think it's all the bold. Bold scares me.;-)
Anyway, you're probably right. Filtering does kind of suck, and it doesn't really seem to do much good. I just hate cleaning up after some trojan, virus, or worm gets loose in our systems, and I know that most employees here have no clue about safe browsing habits.
As far as I know, Alaska is part of America. Here in America, we have this thing called a democratic republic. As part of this whole "democracy" thing, we created the ANWR back in 1960. It is not Alaska's land anymore, sorry. You want to fuck it up now, you ask the US Congress first.
The U.S. Department of Energy's own Energy Information Administration predicts that Arctic Refuge drilling would reduce the price of gas by no more than a few cents per gallon when it is at or near peak production twenty years down the road.
On August 8 2006, BP was forced to shut down the eastern half of its Prudhoe Bay oil field after severe corrosion was found in the company's low-pressure transit lines. The corrosion was discovered after a court-ordered testing of its pipeline system, the first cleaning and testing of the low-pressure transit pipe system since 1992.
Prudhoe Bay and its Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System average over 500 reported spills every year of oil and other toxic substances.
The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, which represents 229 Native Alaskan tribes, officially opposes any development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
According to polls, the majority of residents of the United States and Canada are also opposed to drilling in the Arctic Refuge. A poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times and published on August 4, 2006 reported that 51% of Americans were opposed to drilling in the Arctic NWR and 45% were in favor of drilling.
Funny how, in an article about wave power, you refuse to recognize alternative energy sources as another possible source of energy. Reduce or import, those are our only options.
Odd how most Alaskans, and north coast Inuit seem to be in favor of ANWR drilling. Oh, well. Let's just import more mid-east oil.
Odd how Alaskans, who all profit off of oil, would be in favor of something that would give them a bigger government check. Strange how externalities like destruction of habitat impact everyone, not just those living nearby. Weird how little oil there actually is in the ANWR. Bizarre how the only possible alternative to drilling in a wildlife refuge is importing foreign oil.
I have Ultraviolet clearance, and have been tasked by The Computer with tracking down cursed frogurt. Do you have form 114C-B79 verifying the uncursed status of that frogurt, citizen?
I think what he meant was that these generators will not be as intrusively visible as wind farms, which are often situated on ridges where they are visible for miles around. Wind farms are notorious for generating NIMBYism.
Ah, but what if Yuri is a libertarian objectivist and thinks sharing weakens the herd? What if he wants to make a buck off of you? You are denying him his Natural Right to profit off of others. Without the profit motive, Yuri has no incentive to make a horse in the first place, unless of course he has an itch that only a horse can scratch, but how likely is that? I mean really, what are the chances that thousands of Yuris world wide would all choose to make various barn yard animals and give them away for free?
FreeBSD is like, "Hey, dudes! Come use our free stuff for whatever you like. Just don't forget to thanks us and it's all good."
Linux is like, "You are free to join our collective but you have to contribute if you want to distribute our free stuff. Whatever you contribute becomes part of our free stuff."
See the difference? FreeBSD is for hippies and Linux is for commies. It's a subtle distinction, I know.;-)
Adolescents and children are not naturally at odds with the older generation, that is the major point of the book I mentioned. In tribes that do not artificially distance themselves from their own infants, that does not take place.
I've done random soups of around five million starting live cells, 10,000 cells on a side at 5% density. That's nowhere near big enough to find any naturally occurring patterns that grow without bounds, though.
Yes, James DeMeo's Book, Saharasia. DeMeo was a student of Wilhelm Reich, who some people think is a nutcase. But along side all the wacky Orgone theory and cloudbusting stuff, Reich did some interesting anthropology research, and DeMeo followed in his footsteps. Reich did a survey of about 300 cultural anthropology studies, and found evidence that the origin of human violence came at a certain place and time. DeMeo expanded that research to a survey of almost 3,000 studies, with an expanded set of questions. He also came up with evidence that tied dramatic climate change to the origins of violence.
No, it is not in our nature. We evolved under conditions of local surplus and local scarcity. Under these conditions, cooperation and trade are the most effective strategy. We cooperate with other humans because we must compete with most of the rest of nature.
The "Humans are naturally competitive" idea is no more than a self serving excuse for bad behavior with little explanatory power.
Hehe, naturalism of the gaps, that's good. Let me see if I can figure out the analogy to the "God of the Gaps," though. In that, God is said to be acting in whatever gaps science has in it. So, in your example, nature is in the gaps? I like it.
You have stated the three possibilities for the origin of the big bang. I don't really see any more evidence for one over the others. I also can't see that the "created by an external source" idea is any more logical.
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You assume that people using the site are idiots, that the questions the site asks won't accurately fit you into a job category that matches your experience, and that everyone using the site will take it as gospel. Never mind the fact that any HR department worth its salt already has this data, so your last point is moot.
This whole post comes across as a poorly disguised attempt to keep us plebes in our place. You want this data for yourself, but you don't want the people you negotiate with to have it. You want what every manager or business owner wants, to reduce costs and therefor keep more of the profits in your greedy little hands. One way to do this is to keep employees ignorant of their true worth.
This is why we still need unions. Or democratically controlled trade guilds, seeing how unions have all turned into what they were fighting: another boss.
Right, because, you know, that levy thing in New Orleans, it wouldn't have helped a bit if we had reinforced that.
If you know that storms break dams, and you know that more storms are coming, wouldn't it make sense to reinforce your dams?
The right is the one with false assumptions about economics and human behavior. Look at recent research & experiments in economics and games theory. The selfish actor theory is flat out wrong. People are not primarily motivated by self interest. They are far more motivated by notions of reciprocity and fairness. Our entire economic theory is based on a dangerous falsehood. Because it assumes selfishness, it actually encourages it.
I'm also curious as to what odd combination of circumstances has lead to a cow farmer to become a slashdot regular.
What, this isn't news for herds? Damn, I've been reading the wrong web site all along!
We're trying to get Linux on the desktop. Most of the IT department wants it. We're transitioning all our old AIX an HP-UX servers to Linux on VMWare on Blades. That's actually what they hired me for.
Right now, we use Novell for our file, print and LDAP authentication services. We do have the workstations fairly tightly locked down, and we can use Zenworks to push to clients. Novell is making it easy for us to transition because of course SUSE supports all the Novell tools. Compatiblity with all our old documents is the main thing keeping us back. You would shudder to know how many Access databases we have scattered all over...
You know, you could very easily prove me wrong by providing a link to any argument against anthropogenic global climate change that hasn't already been debunked about a million times. Just because my argument doesn't follow proper forms doesn't mean my conclusion is wrong. You do the very same thing by asserting that I am wrong without supporting your point. Go ahead, post a link.
I am a master debater. And a cunning linguist. But I don't rely on proofs by assertion when arguing anthropogenic global climate change. Only when calling out a troll who disrespects others in lieu of actual debate.
Out of curiosity, do you think the global climate is changing? Do you think we are having an impact? Impact or no, do you think we should do anything about it?
My computer is run by a bicycle power generator!
Mine runs by burning baby seals alive. Sure, it costs a bit more, but it's worth it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Calling the former Vice President of the United States of America a "hippy-liberal-hypocritical type" isn't trolling at all, now is it?
The conservative/big oil side of the debate has no viable position left to argue, so they resort to infantile name calling, as usual.
They made several layers with increasing refractive indices, so the RI of the outermost coating is close to air while that of the innermost coating is close to the material it coats. What's cool about this is that it cuts reflexion across the EM spectrum, it doesn't just trade off reflectivity in one part of the spectrum for that in another, like previous anti-reflective coatings have done. Unfortunately, it isn't transparent so it won't work as a coating for glass.
And at no point have I asserted that you were personally at fault for any of that, so I have no idea where you're getting that from.
;-)
I think it's all the bold. Bold scares me.
Anyway, you're probably right. Filtering does kind of suck, and it doesn't really seem to do much good. I just hate cleaning up after some trojan, virus, or worm gets loose in our systems, and I know that most employees here have no clue about safe browsing habits.
Um, you do know about the 267,000 gallon Prudhoe Bay oil spill, right? I fail to see how that counts as no destruction of habitat.
As far as I know, Alaska is part of America. Here in America, we have this thing called a democratic republic. As part of this whole "democracy" thing, we created the ANWR back in 1960. It is not Alaska's land anymore, sorry. You want to fuck it up now, you ask the US Congress first.
The U.S. Department of Energy's own Energy Information Administration predicts that Arctic Refuge drilling would reduce the price of gas by no more than a few cents per gallon when it is at or near peak production twenty years down the road.
On August 8 2006, BP was forced to shut down the eastern half of its Prudhoe Bay oil field after severe corrosion was found in the company's low-pressure transit lines. The corrosion was discovered after a court-ordered testing of its pipeline system, the first cleaning and testing of the low-pressure transit pipe system since 1992.
Prudhoe Bay and its Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System average over 500 reported spills every year of oil and other toxic substances.
The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, which represents 229 Native Alaskan tribes, officially opposes any development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
According to polls, the majority of residents of the United States and Canada are also opposed to drilling in the Arctic Refuge. A poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times and published on August 4, 2006 reported that 51% of Americans were opposed to drilling in the Arctic NWR and 45% were in favor of drilling.
Funny how, in an article about wave power, you refuse to recognize alternative energy sources as another possible source of energy. Reduce or import, those are our only options.
Odd how most Alaskans, and north coast Inuit seem to be in favor of ANWR drilling. Oh, well. Let's just import more mid-east oil.
Odd how Alaskans, who all profit off of oil, would be in favor of something that would give them a bigger government check. Strange how externalities like destruction of habitat impact everyone, not just those living nearby. Weird how little oil there actually is in the ANWR. Bizarre how the only possible alternative to drilling in a wildlife refuge is importing foreign oil.
I have Ultraviolet clearance, and have been tasked by The Computer with tracking down cursed frogurt. Do you have form 114C-B79 verifying the uncursed status of that frogurt, citizen?
Fact is, any energy added to the grid is a good thing, as long as it produces more energy than what you put into it!
And as long as all externalities are paid for by the people causing them. Which rules out the ANWR, doesn't it?
I think what he meant was that these generators will not be as intrusively visible as wind farms, which are often situated on ridges where they are visible for miles around. Wind farms are notorious for generating NIMBYism.
Ah, but what if Yuri is a libertarian objectivist and thinks sharing weakens the herd? What if he wants to make a buck off of you? You are denying him his Natural Right to profit off of others. Without the profit motive, Yuri has no incentive to make a horse in the first place, unless of course he has an itch that only a horse can scratch, but how likely is that? I mean really, what are the chances that thousands of Yuris world wide would all choose to make various barn yard animals and give them away for free?
;-)
See? Commies are so unrealistic.
Wow, I must be one of those Linux hippies...
;-)
FreeBSD is like, "Hey, dudes! Come use our free stuff for whatever you like. Just don't forget to thanks us and it's all good."
Linux is like, "You are free to join our collective but you have to contribute if you want to distribute our free stuff. Whatever you contribute becomes part of our free stuff."
See the difference? FreeBSD is for hippies and Linux is for commies. It's a subtle distinction, I know.
Adolescents and children are not naturally at odds with the older generation, that is the major point of the book I mentioned. In tribes that do not artificially distance themselves from their own infants, that does not take place.
I've done random soups of around five million starting live cells, 10,000 cells on a side at 5% density. That's nowhere near big enough to find any naturally occurring patterns that grow without bounds, though.
Yes, James DeMeo's Book, Saharasia. DeMeo was a student of Wilhelm Reich, who some people think is a nutcase. But along side all the wacky Orgone theory and cloudbusting stuff, Reich did some interesting anthropology research, and DeMeo followed in his footsteps. Reich did a survey of about 300 cultural anthropology studies, and found evidence that the origin of human violence came at a certain place and time. DeMeo expanded that research to a survey of almost 3,000 studies, with an expanded set of questions. He also came up with evidence that tied dramatic climate change to the origins of violence.
No, it is not in our nature. We evolved under conditions of local surplus and local scarcity. Under these conditions, cooperation and trade are the most effective strategy. We cooperate with other humans because we must compete with most of the rest of nature.
The "Humans are naturally competitive" idea is no more than a self serving excuse for bad behavior with little explanatory power.
Hehe, naturalism of the gaps, that's good. Let me see if I can figure out the analogy to the "God of the Gaps," though. In that, God is said to be acting in whatever gaps science has in it. So, in your example, nature is in the gaps? I like it.
You have stated the three possibilities for the origin of the big bang. I don't really see any more evidence for one over the others. I also can't see that the "created by an external source" idea is any more logical.
Gunpoint, eh? Had a gun held to your head by tax collectors, did you? Sorry to hear that. Shame about that blatant exaggeration problem, too.