Thinner air means less O2, and less O2 means the jet would have it hard to get the amount of fuel needed. Who cares about planes that are too fast to shoot down, what about missile tech.? Doesn't this really just mean that someone can nuke us in an hour, as apposed to 6?
an hour? ICBMs take like 15 minutes to fly across the world
I used to think it would be absurd of someone to sue MacDonalds because they spilled coffee on themselves... Then it happened.
That was actually a valid case - you should read up on something before criticizing it. While just saying "she burnt herself with her coffee, so she sued. what a fucking dumbass." and have it sound bad, the truth isn't. McDonald's was cutting costs by keeping the coffee temperature higher than it should have, so they'd have to brew less pots of coffee during the course of a day. The higher temp led to worse burns.. a 'normal' cup of coffee doesn't have enuogh heat to produce a serious burn
"Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams, but its $99 membership fee may make it an unpopular choice with so many similar services already available for free."
Like which ones? This would be neat--but only if they have sarcastic comments like Consumer Reports does.
American method of capitalism is the only successful system? That's horseshit. It just happened to appear under the right circumstances to enable its rapid growth. People have existed for thousands of years, and there has always been a "the most successful system." Just because the American economy is good now doesn't mean nothing else will work.. and just because it seems to be working fine now doesn't mean that it's the best way to govern something. If you had forced our system of capitalism on some feudal land in the middle ages, or forced it upon some African nation now, it probably would've/will fall apart. One of the huge reasons why it works so well was the abundance of unused natural resources in North America..
One question that I don't really know the answer to:
Is Russia like that because of that attitude, or did the attitude arise because of Russia's poor economic state?
I honestly don't see this type of war for the future of mankind. Without trying to sound morbid, the whole point of war is _not_ to blow up your enemies' toys, but to kill the opposing legion's fighters.
Well yeah.. the point of war is to win, usually using any means possible.. but destroying your opponent's satellites etc. will prevent them from gathering intelligence, which is almost as (or even more) important as having more troops nowadays..
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5) Unborn children losing the right to live.
Umm.. although I can tell by your "beliefs" that you'd probably hate me and disregard my opinion as ignorant (as some people of my "beliefs" would to you), by definition, unborn children are not alive. Note: I'm not saying that children in womb are not alive. That's just the definition. In fact, I don't really have a full-formed opinion on abortion; partial-birth abortion is plain sick, and the thought of "killing a baby" is, too. But are they alive? Bacteria growing on you and other symbiotic life could be considered you; nobody has (and nobody should) have a problem with eliminating life such as this. A baby in the womb really is, again, by definition, a parasite. Who says that they are any different? Who says that they are alive? They cannot think, they cannot move, they cannot do anything - they could be considered no less than bacteria or any other parasite. Therefore you'd have the right to 'kill' 'it'. Then again, I also fully understand the view that a baby is a baby is a baby, and that killing it is definitely murder. But what about women who were raped? Would you force her to bear the child? What if a woman was to die during birth? Would you force her to carry on, then? Sure, these are extenuating circumstances, but they WILL and DO happen.
Also: just because Bush says he is moral does not make him moral. just because Bush is a Republican does not make him moral. likewise, just because Clinton was a Democrat and just because all the Republicans say he's immoral does not make him immoral, and it does not make his 8 years in office as "years of wretchedness." You do not know what happened. The Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a silly war over bragging rights. Don't listen to 94.7% of the shit they say.
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I don't get it either. However, me, being the young prototypical slacker or whatever (apathetic, disattached from society, blablablah), I find a lot of "dark" humor hilarious. (btw, why is everyone calling it black? I might just be racist, but when I hear black humor, I think of movies like The Wood before something like Snatch.) Anyway, one thing I can tell you is - I have no idea what's so funny about it. In the movie Out of Sight, for example, whiteboy Bob's death is fucking hilarious - if you haven't seen it, here's a summary: at a crucial scene near the end, he's about to capture/kill the good guy. He's armed, the good guy isn't. He starts to climb the stairs toward the good guy, trips, and shoots himself in the head. hehe. Anyway, I guess you could call this irony, as he's portrayed as clumsy throughout the movie (like when he slips on the steps going into the house..) and the good guy is surely about to get killed. But it's not just that. The way in which he dies definitely makes me laugh.
Now I haven't seen Snatch yet, so I don't know whether this is the same scenario or not, but I can tell you one thing: it's definitely not "great knee-slapping hilarious stuff." It's funny, yes, but it's not haha-funny. It's ironic funny, if that makes sense.
Another thing for me, at least, is that I know it isn't real - it's just a movie. I'm not laughing at the brains and gore, I'm laughing at the manner in which it happened, kinda like a Chris Farley-esque "physical humor" joke. I KNOW death is not funny. I know it. But I still laugh. maybe it's because I've grown up in such a sheltered community..
just trying to ease your mind on the whole corrupt youth of america topic..
Some years back my friend's older brother bought a few dozen copies of Mario/DuckHunt for a dime apiece. He then proceeded to go around town and throw them at people.
I think the situation lends iteslf to this sort of prankery!</i>
LOL! I used to work at Funcoland, where they're sold (or were) for 9 cents (super mario/duck hunt) 19 cents (super mario/duck hunt/..I forget the name. some weird athletics game) or 49 cents (super mario, original) apiece. Some guy who looked like Jesus came in every once in a while and bought all the copies in stock.. hehheehe
I really don't give a crap if the US government knows what my political views are. If they haven't gotten around to shooting Ralph Nader and Harry Browne yet, they are hardly likely to get around to bothering with me. Exactly. Well, at least until after they've taken care of Nader and Browne. If you don't care about now, it'll eventually catch up to you
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but my chemistry teacher was telling me about a Proton Exchange Membrane.. the way he described it to me, these things will be heavenly. To briefly summarize it, it ionizes hydrogen to provide energy. The hydrogen is combined with oxygen molecules, which can be taken in from normal air, and the only waste output (I believe) is water. I did a brief google search to refresh my memory and to help you lazy bastards with learning about this from a more reliable source. They won't be commercially available for years, but..invest in the companies researching/producing these babies (:
Much like we can't ask the victims at Kent State, right? Yeah, they were doing the same thing. Conducting a peaceful protest when they were gunned down. wrong. The people killed at Kent State weren't conducting anything - the US killed innocent bystanders;).
radius I'm guessing is of some Latin root. We take a lot of words from Latin, and often the pluralization is wordus to wordi, radius to radii. It just happens that radius has an i before us in the singular form. Virus goes to viri. Don't ask me what the roots are, I think vir has something to do with being very small.
There's a little more to it than wordus just being changed to wordi - there were hundreds of years that the Romans kinda spoke the language, it wasn't some arbitrary decision. The most common form of a -us word is in the second declension, where the plural happens to be -i.
Radius, I believe, is actually derived from Greek - a lot of math terms are, if you'll notice. Vir is the Latin word for man or husband. Anyway, my point is, just because radius's plural is radii, don't assume virus's is virii. Besides, I've taken Latin for four years, and I have all this pent-up-Latin-grammar-badassness in me.
if you could crack something like this, I wouldn't doubt the NSA would give you a visit - not to "dispose" of you, but to hire you. wouldn't that make a lot more sense?
if Napster shows they're taking action to prevent the transmittence of copyrighted materials through their program, wouldn't this give them some ground to stand on in the RIAA thing?
You hit the nail on the head. Electronic devices produce heat; modern armies have thermal detectors for spotting people. So thats one strike.
Are you fucking kidding me? "Human beings produce heat; modern armies should use lizards and other cold blooded animals that wont be picked up by thermal detectors as easily". Although the equipment might fail sometimes, and you still have to carry it, I don't think this will bother a soldier - anything that keeps him alive would be welcome. Equipment failure wouldn't exactly be lethal, either. A M16 failing in Vietnam would kill you, but your little PDA malfunctioning wouldn't be the end of everything
The Doctor is still there, but he is no longer the Doctor. He has been expanded and enhanced to the point that he IS Voyager. Voyager is no longer his vessel but is now his body.
or how about everyone dies except the doctor and he "IS Voyager". the ship assimilates random satellites/ships to fix any damage it's taken and VGER returns to Earth, awaiting new orders from the creator..
The "places that [are] supposed to do it" are all relatively safe from attack - they're underground or underwater. I doubt that it's possible to launch missiles by itself, because that would make it very dangerous if stolen. I'm willing to bet that if the codes have been compromised, there's a system to make them invalid..
As for a golden era, I don't know when America as a country was ever in one. A case could be made, I think, that the last Golden Era was the few years leading up to and including the drafting of the Declaration of Independance and the subsequent Revolutionary War. After that, the lawyers got ahold of it, and most of 'em who couldn't hack the courtroom became politicians.
This is trivial, but the Declaration of Indepence was written by lawyers. Of course, they all had "better" morals than many lawyers do today - john adams defended the soldiers involved with the boston massacre to make sure they'd get a fair trial. how could you say the golden age of our country was the few years before and after the revolution? not only was it not a country for part of it (heh), but it was a time of death and destruction and all the neat stuff associated with wars. Not to mention that most of the people were poor and uneducated.
There have been many "golden era"s in which the majority of the people were happy - we're in one right now, if you haven't noticed. The economy is/was booming, people are making money, and we've been relatively peaceful. I don't know about you, but my life is pretty much troublefree, as is just about everyone I know
"NOBODY has the right to kill anyone else. " Not even the United States government?
Are you serious? The government should not be able to kill anyone. Just because we elect people to represent us (yeah, the system doesn't work as well as planned. Then again, nothing does) doesn't give them the right to kill. Like that unarmed man who was shot 40+ times by police because they thought he was armed - if that was legal, an officer could shoot me while I'm walking to the store and claim I was carrying an AK-47. or something. This is how countries like Iraq rid themselves of opposition. This is not something that should happen anywhere, especially not the US.
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I believe in "eye for an eye." So the government has the right -- nay, the duty -- to execute anyone who shows a wanton disregard for human life and kills someone else without cause.
I don't believe in "eye for an eye." So the government doesn't have the right? It's not right to "show a wanton disregard for human life...", but it doesn't mean the government has a duty to kill people.
Equvicating punishment for murder and rape to playing around on someone else's computer mearly shows your level of respect for your own kind. But then again seeing that you are at one of the most expensive schools in the world explains it for all to see, you elitist piece of garbage.
If you think a rapist or murderer is being aptly punished with 5 years in a prison..
The scary thing here is that the judge, or whoever is responsible for these terms of parole, was convinced that Mitnick could somehow cause "millions of dollars of damage" or take over the world or something just by coming in contact with a computer. If the general public perceives hackers and "computer experts", who are mostly responsible for the advancements in communications we've seen, as this dangerous, then we are hindering ourselves. If people were not so ignorant about computers, Mitnick would not be suffering so much. This would hardly be an issue.
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Thinner air means less O2, and less O2 means the jet would have it hard to get the amount of fuel needed. Who cares about planes that are too fast to shoot down, what about missile tech.? Doesn't this really just mean that someone can nuke us in an hour, as apposed to 6? an hour? ICBMs take like 15 minutes to fly across the world
What we really need is for electric cars to overtake petrol based cars in terms of miles/gallon -
400 miles on one battery, divided by 0 gallons of gas used..
I used to think it would be absurd of someone to sue MacDonalds because they spilled coffee on themselves... Then it happened.
That was actually a valid case - you should read up on something before criticizing it. While just saying "she burnt herself with her coffee, so she sued. what a fucking dumbass." and have it sound bad, the truth isn't. McDonald's was cutting costs by keeping the coffee temperature higher than it should have, so they'd have to brew less pots of coffee during the course of a day. The higher temp led to worse burns.. a 'normal' cup of coffee doesn't have enuogh heat to produce a serious burn
"Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams, but its $99 membership fee may make it an unpopular choice with so many similar services already available for free."
Like which ones? This would be neat--but only if they have sarcastic comments like Consumer Reports does.
Like the ones that cost $99 to join?
American method of capitalism is the only successful system? That's horseshit. It just happened to appear under the right circumstances to enable its rapid growth. People have existed for thousands of years, and there has always been a "the most successful system." Just because the American economy is good now doesn't mean nothing else will work.. and just because it seems to be working fine now doesn't mean that it's the best way to govern something. If you had forced our system of capitalism on some feudal land in the middle ages, or forced it upon some African nation now, it probably would've/will fall apart. One of the huge reasons why it works so well was the abundance of unused natural resources in North America..
One question that I don't really know the answer to: Is Russia like that because of that attitude, or did the attitude arise because of Russia's poor economic state?
I honestly don't see this type of war for the future of mankind. Without trying to sound morbid, the whole point of war is _not_ to blow up your enemies' toys, but to kill the opposing legion's fighters. Well yeah.. the point of war is to win, usually using any means possible.. but destroying your opponent's satellites etc. will prevent them from gathering intelligence, which is almost as (or even more) important as having more troops nowadays..
5) Unborn children losing the right to live.
Umm.. although I can tell by your "beliefs" that you'd probably hate me and disregard my opinion as ignorant (as some people of my "beliefs" would to you), by definition, unborn children are not alive. Note: I'm not saying that children in womb are not alive. That's just the definition. In fact, I don't really have a full-formed opinion on abortion; partial-birth abortion is plain sick, and the thought of "killing a baby" is, too. But are they alive? Bacteria growing on you and other symbiotic life could be considered you; nobody has (and nobody should) have a problem with eliminating life such as this. A baby in the womb really is, again, by definition, a parasite. Who says that they are any different? Who says that they are alive? They cannot think, they cannot move, they cannot do anything - they could be considered no less than bacteria or any other parasite. Therefore you'd have the right to 'kill' 'it'. Then again, I also fully understand the view that a baby is a baby is a baby, and that killing it is definitely murder. But what about women who were raped? Would you force her to bear the child? What if a woman was to die during birth? Would you force her to carry on, then? Sure, these are extenuating circumstances, but they WILL and DO happen.
Also: just because Bush says he is moral does not make him moral. just because Bush is a Republican does not make him moral. likewise, just because Clinton was a Democrat and just because all the Republicans say he's immoral does not make him immoral, and it does not make his 8 years in office as "years of wretchedness." You do not know what happened. The Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a silly war over bragging rights. Don't listen to 94.7% of the shit they say.
I don't get it either. However, me, being the young prototypical slacker or whatever (apathetic, disattached from society, blablablah), I find a lot of "dark" humor hilarious. (btw, why is everyone calling it black? I might just be racist, but when I hear black humor, I think of movies like The Wood before something like Snatch.) Anyway, one thing I can tell you is - I have no idea what's so funny about it. In the movie Out of Sight, for example, whiteboy Bob's death is fucking hilarious - if you haven't seen it, here's a summary: at a crucial scene near the end, he's about to capture/kill the good guy. He's armed, the good guy isn't. He starts to climb the stairs toward the good guy, trips, and shoots himself in the head. hehe. Anyway, I guess you could call this irony, as he's portrayed as clumsy throughout the movie (like when he slips on the steps going into the house..) and the good guy is surely about to get killed. But it's not just that. The way in which he dies definitely makes me laugh.
Now I haven't seen Snatch yet, so I don't know whether this is the same scenario or not, but I can tell you one thing: it's definitely not "great knee-slapping hilarious stuff." It's funny, yes, but it's not haha-funny. It's ironic funny, if that makes sense.
Another thing for me, at least, is that I know it isn't real - it's just a movie. I'm not laughing at the brains and gore, I'm laughing at the manner in which it happened, kinda like a Chris Farley-esque "physical humor" joke. I KNOW death is not funny. I know it. But I still laugh. maybe it's because I've grown up in such a sheltered community..
just trying to ease your mind on the whole corrupt youth of america topic..
Some years back my friend's older brother bought a few dozen copies of Mario/DuckHunt for a dime apiece. He then proceeded to go around town and throw them at people.
I think the situation lends iteslf to this sort of prankery!</i>
LOL! I used to work at Funcoland, where they're sold (or were) for 9 cents (super mario/duck hunt) 19 cents (super mario/duck hunt/..I forget the name. some weird athletics game) or 49 cents (super mario, original) apiece. Some guy who looked like Jesus came in every once in a while and bought all the copies in stock.. hehheehe
I really don't give a crap if the US government knows what my political views are. If they haven't gotten around to shooting Ralph Nader and Harry Browne yet, they are hardly likely to get around to bothering with me. Exactly. Well, at least until after they've taken care of Nader and Browne. If you don't care about now, it'll eventually catch up to you
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but my chemistry teacher was telling me about a Proton Exchange Membrane.. the way he described it to me, these things will be heavenly. To briefly summarize it, it ionizes hydrogen to provide energy. The hydrogen is combined with oxygen molecules, which can be taken in from normal air, and the only waste output (I believe) is water. I did a brief google search to refresh my memory and to help you lazy bastards with learning about this from a more reliable source. They won't be commercially available for years, but ..invest in the companies researching/producing these babies (:
Much like we can't ask the victims at Kent State, right? Yeah, they were doing the same thing. Conducting a peaceful protest when they were gunned down. wrong. The people killed at Kent State weren't conducting anything - the US killed innocent bystanders ;).
radius I'm guessing is of some Latin root.
We take a lot of words from Latin, and often the pluralization is wordus to wordi, radius to radii. It just happens that radius has an i before us in the singular form. Virus goes to viri.
Don't ask me what the roots are, I think vir has something to do with being very small.
There's a little more to it than wordus just being changed to wordi - there were hundreds of years that the Romans kinda spoke the language, it wasn't some arbitrary decision. The most common form of a -us word is in the second declension, where the plural happens to be -i.
Radius, I believe, is actually derived from Greek - a lot of math terms are, if you'll notice. Vir is the Latin word for man or husband. Anyway, my point is, just because radius's plural is radii, don't assume virus's is virii. Besides, I've taken Latin for four years, and I have all this pent-up-Latin-grammar-badassness in me.
thank you for your time.
if you could crack something like this, I wouldn't doubt the NSA would give you a visit - not to "dispose" of you, but to hire you. wouldn't that make a lot more sense?
if Napster shows they're taking action to prevent the transmittence of copyrighted materials through their program, wouldn't this give them some ground to stand on in the RIAA thing?
You hit the nail on the head. Electronic devices produce heat; modern armies have thermal detectors for spotting people. So thats one strike.
Are you fucking kidding me? "Human beings produce heat; modern armies should use lizards and other cold blooded animals that wont be picked up by thermal detectors as easily". Although the equipment might fail sometimes, and you still have to carry it, I don't think this will bother a soldier - anything that keeps him alive would be welcome. Equipment failure wouldn't exactly be lethal, either. A M16 failing in Vietnam would kill you, but your little PDA malfunctioning wouldn't be the end of everything
The Doctor is still there, but he is no longer the Doctor. He has been expanded and enhanced to the point that he IS Voyager. Voyager is no longer his vessel but is now his body.
or how about everyone dies except the doctor and he "IS Voyager". the ship assimilates random satellites/ships to fix any damage it's taken and VGER returns to Earth, awaiting new orders from the creator..
The "places that [are] supposed to do it" are all relatively safe from attack - they're underground or underwater. I doubt that it's possible to launch missiles by itself, because that would make it very dangerous if stolen. I'm willing to bet that if the codes have been compromised, there's a system to make them invalid..
As for a golden era, I don't know when America as a country was ever in one. A case could be made, I think, that the last Golden Era was the few years leading up to and including the drafting of the Declaration of Independance and the subsequent Revolutionary War. After that, the lawyers got ahold of it, and most of 'em who couldn't hack the courtroom became politicians.
This is trivial, but the Declaration of Indepence was written by lawyers. Of course, they all had "better" morals than many lawyers do today - john adams defended the soldiers involved with the boston massacre to make sure they'd get a fair trial. how could you say the golden age of our country was the few years before and after the revolution? not only was it not a country for part of it (heh), but it was a time of death and destruction and all the neat stuff associated with wars. Not to mention that most of the people were poor and uneducated.
There have been many "golden era"s in which the majority of the people were happy - we're in one right now, if you haven't noticed. The economy is/was booming, people are making money, and we've been relatively peaceful. I don't know about you, but my life is pretty much troublefree, as is just about everyone I know
"NOBODY has the right to kill anyone else. " Not even the United States government?
Are you serious? The government should not be able to kill anyone. Just because we elect people to represent us (yeah, the system doesn't work as well as planned. Then again, nothing does) doesn't give them the right to kill. Like that unarmed man who was shot 40+ times by police because they thought he was armed - if that was legal, an officer could shoot me while I'm walking to the store and claim I was carrying an AK-47. or something. This is how countries like Iraq rid themselves of opposition. This is not something that should happen anywhere, especially not the US.
this is in response to another post:
I believe in "eye for an eye." So the government has the right -- nay, the duty -- to execute anyone who shows a wanton disregard for human life and kills someone else without cause.
I don't believe in "eye for an eye." So the government doesn't have the right? It's not right to "show a wanton disregard for human life...", but it doesn't mean the government has a duty to kill people.
..said John Roberts, a Minneapolis attorney who specializes in cyberlaw. "You can't say whatever you want about a company."
Northwest Airlines sucks. ha!
Equvicating punishment for murder and rape to playing around on someone else's computer mearly shows your level of respect for your own kind. But then again seeing that you are at one of the most expensive schools in the world explains it for all to see, you elitist piece of garbage.
If you think a rapist or murderer is being aptly punished with 5 years in a prison..
The scary thing here is that the judge, or whoever is responsible for these terms of parole, was convinced that Mitnick could somehow cause "millions of dollars of damage" or take over the world or something just by coming in contact with a computer. If the general public perceives hackers and "computer experts", who are mostly responsible for the advancements in communications we've seen, as this dangerous, then we are hindering ourselves. If people were not so ignorant about computers, Mitnick would not be suffering so much. This would hardly be an issue.