What the VP of Facebook is really asking is that Intel and AMD spend a lot of their R&D on designing features they want, and then pass those costs onto consumers everywhere, so Facebook can get cheaper servers.
A lot of the invalidations of these spaced theories tend to focus on the effects of cloud formation by cosmic rays, but are they so sure that these are the only effects that space could have? Space is pretty big, and the earth is pretty complex, and I would be willing to bet that there's going to be something out there in space, besides the obvious asteroid, that screws us.
I have a great idea! Let's show our support for Democracy and condemn the actions of the fascist dicatorship with a big shopping spree at Walmart. Maybe if we give these guys 500 billion dollars a year, they will be nice to us and freedom will reign and shower everyone with joy!
Unfortunately, to make this measuring unit workable without having to use fractions, we'd need to introduce centitods (as 1/100 todds). This brings us back to metric.
Except that, there's fractions that cannot be 100% expressed as decimal numbers, which brings us back to todds!:-)
To simplify, lets see lenght. Is better to have one constant (meter) from which all the others derive in a very simple relationship (powers of 10), than have a lot of constant (inch, feet, mile, etc) where you need even more constants to see how each one compares with the other
Yes, but the words to describe the metric units are much longer. When mentally converting from kilometers to centimeters, you have to have these really big words, consuming valuable short term memory space. On the other hand, miles and inches are shorter words, much easier.
To be fair, the utterly stupid and ridiculous rules of engagement forced on US forces by the civilian leadership for most of the war prevented them from doing anything against those air defense sites except in reaction to being fired upon. It's kinda like fighting while handcuffed.
Handcuffed and tied to your bed. I've read that you couldn't fire on a SAM site at all unless you had visual confirmation that there were no russians at the site... Like, what's that rule...
Metric's good for making some calculations by hand, but, any more, the alignment of metric units, like all relations around water to its mass and volume, all don't really hold that accurately any more, and you still need goofy constants. It's like, everything is "kinda based around 10", rather than, is based on ten.
As a consumer, I'm not really sure what the advantage to me is having to switch from getting gasoline or water in gallons and quarts, rather than in liters. Regardless of the unit of measure, the more important number, the $, is going to be the same.
I think the adoption of metric is ultimately just another statist thing. If you ask me, every country should have its own unit of measurement. Modern software can fix it all up.
I vote to start a country of Todds, where everything is measured in Todds.
the unit of mass of liquid measure, is a Todd, and that is based on how many sodas I drink in a day. You could say two 64 ouncers, or, 128 ounces.
the unit of height is a Todd, and that's about 6'1", and that's how tall I am. If I was a porn star, I would have a unit of length roughly about 1 foot, but, I'm not, so oh well.
Shame we didn't learn this lesson in Vietnam
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It's remarkable that we had in our hands a German aircraft that contained within it a very important lesson that we flat out ignored. Building a stealth plane in 1943 meant the Germans had learned something it would take us another 30 years to figure out. Stealth is essential in aircraft.
Instead, we had the likes of unstealthy aircraft flying over Vietnam and getting shot down with rather significant losses to surface to air missiles.
More than 1700 US aircraft were shot down. That's a catastrophe. It was in response to that that the US Stealth fighter program was initiated in the early 1970s. But, just imagine if we had thought, geez, the Germans had came up with a way to evade radar, we have the plane, newer technology...
Seems to me the best thing to help free speech in Iran or many other countries is to allow the transfer, to civilians, of really good encryption technology. Our government may not be able to read their stuff, but their government won't either, and that's probably more in line with what we want. If anything, the fact that our government could not read their stuff would probably garner more popular acceptance of it.
Are you being arrogant or just ignorant in presuming that American values are somehow intrinsically better than anyone elses?
American values are better than the values of the Iranian government at least on the score of free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. In America, if you make fun of the President, nobody cares. If Iran, if you make fun of the Ayatollah, you risk getting stoned to death.
Maybe people will change their mind or maybe they won't, either way you'll be covered.
Because, if you choose not to do anything, they will call that meddling as well. You are damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Since we're not talking about an invasion, but merely enabling the communications of a people, that's entirely consistent with what should be American values. It's the Star Trek solution - useful and non-violent.
Liberal attitude desires a weak government with weak tools
That's actually not true at all. Conservatives should historically favor a weaker government because freedom is the value which remains supreme and a government imposing laws is not free. Liberals favor a stronger government because they are willing to trade freedom for what they see as social justice.
Perhaps they should learn to read their bible and understand what "reap what you sow" really means
If you want to make it that way, its a two way street. Fact is, liberals began and continue the expansion of government.
You'd be amazed at how afraid most officers are to do something without a court order. Most law enforcement officials are good people.
I'm not talking about most rank and file cops or government workers. I would agree that they are good and law abiding people. What I am talking about is Presidents, cabinet members, heads of agencies, and the like, regardless of political party.
The great mistake that we conservatives made was that we looked at the abuses of the Clinton administration but rather than throw Tolkien's ring into the volcano when we had the chance, like Isildur we thought we could wear it better. Now Obama looks to be tempted by the same ring himself, although this is a step in the right direction.
The interesting thing here -- and this comment is partly motivated by your sig -- is that this killing of the domestic satellite spying program is not a liberal action but a conservative one
That's very true and I think that the decision of conservative pundits to support Obama where he does continue surveilliance powers to remain consistent is dead off. It would be better to admit that we were wrong and move on. The sooner you admit your mistakes, the sooner you can fix them.
I've also got on my page a pretty big rethink on free trade and a major rethink of foreign policy. When our society is working at its best, our liberals are our daydreamers and our conservatives advocate tried and true, but some of the things conservatives tried have not worked: free trade, and an interventionist foreign policy. So, we have to jettison them and move on.
It's murder and conspiracy. This is the same damn thing we executed Tookie for. Death penalty. You cannot have cops murdering people and planting evidence to justify it. Absolutely not. Death penalty.
Thing is, although we know that we're jacking up the CO2, it does mean that we are the only ones that can jack up CO2. As a rule, we're going to find that we will need to treat the atmosphere and manage it as much as we do our water and our land.
Dare I say, too, that if you plug the sequestration into a nuclear power plant, there's less CO2...
I think these things are as symbolic as the targetting agreements the USA used to make with the likes of Russia. "Oh, are missiles are no longer pointed at each other." Except that, its really not too hard to change that. Similarly, if the President wants to get a picture, covertly, of USA territory, he certainly can. It's not like the satellites don't ever fly over the USA.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
I drank the Jack Kemp free trade kool-aid in the 1980s and was a big believer in it. But it hasn't worked. The biggest economic successes of the Reagan administration were from his protectionist policies, not free trade. I waited for trade to balance with Bush I, Clinton and then thought that the total free regime of Bush II would finally work. It didn't. Thirty years of failure is enough for me.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
If anything, the great economic lesson of George W Bush's presidency was that free trade does not work. This country has not had as an ardent of a free trade President as Bush Jr and it simply didn't work.
Time to move on from a failed ideologically driven plan.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
I don't like Bush because of the twin deficits, although I do think his attempt at immigration reform. The one thing that I did like about Sarah Palin was that she was a Republican who intuitively understood that the GOP could get the union vote if it dumped free trade. McCain should have listened to her and made a fight in Michigan and Ohio.
Make Democrats be the party of shut down plants in the USA, that's my plan.
I figure between social values and stopping free trade, the GOP carries the current South and West, as it does, but then gets to add Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All we'd have to do is walk into every union hall, every non-union plant, and say, hey, "the Democrats think that you should have the same wages as the Chinese...", and really just go from there. Look at all those Chrysler dealers. Look at all those GM dealers. Look at all those Japanese cars. The GOP has been handed a gift of a lifetime, and I'm saying, go nationalist, kick the foreign products out, and get the vote.
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What the VP of Facebook is really asking is that Intel and AMD spend a lot of their R&D on designing features they want, and then pass those costs onto consumers everywhere, so Facebook can get cheaper servers.
F--- that.
A lot of the invalidations of these spaced theories tend to focus on the effects of cloud formation by cosmic rays, but are they so sure that these are the only effects that space could have? Space is pretty big, and the earth is pretty complex, and I would be willing to bet that there's going to be something out there in space, besides the obvious asteroid, that screws us.
I have a great idea! Let's show our support for Democracy and condemn the actions of the fascist dicatorship with a big shopping spree at Walmart. Maybe if we give these guys 500 billion dollars a year, they will be nice to us and freedom will reign and shower everyone with joy!
Unfortunately, to make this measuring unit workable without having to use fractions, we'd need to introduce centitods (as 1/100 todds). This brings us back to metric.
Except that, there's fractions that cannot be 100% expressed as decimal numbers, which brings us back to todds! :-)
To simplify, lets see lenght. Is better to have one constant (meter) from which all the others derive in a very simple relationship (powers of 10), than have a lot of constant (inch, feet, mile, etc) where you need even more constants to see how each one compares with the other
Yes, but the words to describe the metric units are much longer. When mentally converting from kilometers to centimeters, you have to have these really big words, consuming valuable short term memory space. On the other hand, miles and inches are shorter words, much easier.
I'm sorry, but we already have the Smoot [wikipedia.org] for measurement of length. You'll just have to learn to live with being 1.09 Smoots tall.
Perhaps Todd can be the fractional part of a smooth. Thus, my height would be One Smoot, 2 Todds.
To be fair, the utterly stupid and ridiculous rules of engagement forced on US forces by the civilian leadership for most of the war prevented them from doing anything against those air defense sites except in reaction to being fired upon. It's kinda like fighting while handcuffed.
Handcuffed and tied to your bed. I've read that you couldn't fire on a SAM site at all unless you had visual confirmation that there were no russians at the site... Like, what's that rule...
Metric's good for making some calculations by hand, but, any more, the alignment of metric units, like all relations around water to its mass and volume, all don't really hold that accurately any more, and you still need goofy constants. It's like, everything is "kinda based around 10", rather than, is based on ten.
As a consumer, I'm not really sure what the advantage to me is having to switch from getting gasoline or water in gallons and quarts, rather than in liters. Regardless of the unit of measure, the more important number, the $, is going to be the same.
I think the adoption of metric is ultimately just another statist thing. If you ask me, every country should have its own unit of measurement. Modern software can fix it all up.
I vote to start a country of Todds, where everything is measured in Todds.
the unit of mass of liquid measure, is a Todd, and that is based on how many sodas I drink in a day. You could say two 64 ouncers, or, 128 ounces.
the unit of height is a Todd, and that's about 6'1", and that's how tall I am. If I was a porn star, I would have a unit of length roughly about 1 foot, but, I'm not, so oh well.
It's remarkable that we had in our hands a German aircraft that contained within it a very important lesson that we flat out ignored. Building a stealth plane in 1943 meant the Germans had learned something it would take us another 30 years to figure out. Stealth is essential in aircraft.
Instead, we had the likes of unstealthy aircraft flying over Vietnam and getting shot down with rather significant losses to surface to air missiles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War
More than 1700 US aircraft were shot down. That's a catastrophe. It was in response to that that the US Stealth fighter program was initiated in the early 1970s. But, just imagine if we had thought, geez, the Germans had came up with a way to evade radar, we have the plane, newer technology...
You have to wonder, what if?
Seems to me the best thing to help free speech in Iran or many other countries is to allow the transfer, to civilians, of really good encryption technology. Our government may not be able to read their stuff, but their government won't either, and that's probably more in line with what we want. If anything, the fact that our government could not read their stuff would probably garner more popular acceptance of it.
Plus GobalHawks don't have families so if they shoot it down nobody dies which is a big plus.
Which means we can fly them over Iranian airspace without causing too big of a stink.
Are you being arrogant or just ignorant in presuming that American values are somehow intrinsically better than anyone elses?
American values are better than the values of the Iranian government at least on the score of free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. In America, if you make fun of the President, nobody cares. If Iran, if you make fun of the Ayatollah, you risk getting stoned to death.
There are dedicated C-130s for that job. There is even a flying TV station ..
Some how I think any of the above lack subtlety.
It's provocative, but its not an attack, particularly if the aircraft was not in Iranian airspace.
There are dedicated C-130s for that job. There is even a flying TV station ..
Some how I think any of the above lack subtlety.
My bad on the wrong aircraft. I know we had used airborne electronic posts for this sort of thing.
Maybe people will change their mind or maybe they won't, either way you'll be covered.
Because, if you choose not to do anything, they will call that meddling as well. You are damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Since we're not talking about an invasion, but merely enabling the communications of a people, that's entirely consistent with what should be American values. It's the Star Trek solution - useful and non-violent.
I bet a few AWACS aircraft orbiting just outside of the Iranian border could serve as communications relays.
Liberal attitude desires a weak government with weak tools
That's actually not true at all. Conservatives should historically favor a weaker government because freedom is the value which remains supreme and a government imposing laws is not free. Liberals favor a stronger government because they are willing to trade freedom for what they see as social justice.
Perhaps they should learn to read their bible and understand what "reap what you sow" really means
If you want to make it that way, its a two way street. Fact is, liberals began and continue the expansion of government.
You'd be amazed at how afraid most officers are to do something without a court order. Most law enforcement officials are good people.
I'm not talking about most rank and file cops or government workers. I would agree that they are good and law abiding people. What I am talking about is Presidents, cabinet members, heads of agencies, and the like, regardless of political party.
The great mistake that we conservatives made was that we looked at the abuses of the Clinton administration but rather than throw Tolkien's ring into the volcano when we had the chance, like Isildur we thought we could wear it better. Now Obama looks to be tempted by the same ring himself, although this is a step in the right direction.
The interesting thing here -- and this comment is partly motivated by your sig -- is that this killing of the domestic satellite spying program is not a liberal action but a conservative one
That's very true and I think that the decision of conservative pundits to support Obama where he does continue surveilliance powers to remain consistent is dead off. It would be better to admit that we were wrong and move on. The sooner you admit your mistakes, the sooner you can fix them.
I've also got on my page a pretty big rethink on free trade and a major rethink of foreign policy. When our society is working at its best, our liberals are our daydreamers and our conservatives advocate tried and true, but some of the things conservatives tried have not worked: free trade, and an interventionist foreign policy. So, we have to jettison them and move on.
It's murder and conspiracy. This is the same damn thing we executed Tookie for. Death penalty. You cannot have cops murdering people and planting evidence to justify it. Absolutely not. Death penalty.
Thing is, although we know that we're jacking up the CO2, it does mean that we are the only ones that can jack up CO2. As a rule, we're going to find that we will need to treat the atmosphere and manage it as much as we do our water and our land.
Dare I say, too, that if you plug the sequestration into a nuclear power plant, there's less CO2...
Do you have any idea how much red-tape laws create? ... This is a huge deterrent for corruption
It only deters people that think they have to follow the law, not be above it, and in our government, we have more of the latter.
I think these things are as symbolic as the targetting agreements the USA used to make with the likes of Russia. "Oh, are missiles are no longer pointed at each other." Except that, its really not too hard to change that. Similarly, if the President wants to get a picture, covertly, of USA territory, he certainly can. It's not like the satellites don't ever fly over the USA.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
I drank the Jack Kemp free trade kool-aid in the 1980s and was a big believer in it. But it hasn't worked. The biggest economic successes of the Reagan administration were from his protectionist policies, not free trade. I waited for trade to balance with Bush I, Clinton and then thought that the total free regime of Bush II would finally work. It didn't. Thirty years of failure is enough for me.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
If anything, the great economic lesson of George W Bush's presidency was that free trade does not work. This country has not had as an ardent of a free trade President as Bush Jr and it simply didn't work.
Time to move on from a failed ideologically driven plan.
Let me guess, you also thought George Bush was an awesome president and Sarah Palin could've been even better had she ever made it to VP and then from VP to president?
I don't like Bush because of the twin deficits, although I do think his attempt at immigration reform. The one thing that I did like about Sarah Palin was that she was a Republican who intuitively understood that the GOP could get the union vote if it dumped free trade. McCain should have listened to her and made a fight in Michigan and Ohio.
Make Democrats be the party of shut down plants in the USA, that's my plan.
I figure between social values and stopping free trade, the GOP carries the current South and West, as it does, but then gets to add Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All we'd have to do is walk into every union hall, every non-union plant, and say, hey, "the Democrats think that you should have the same wages as the Chinese...", and really just go from there. Look at all those Chrysler dealers. Look at all those GM dealers. Look at all those Japanese cars. The GOP has been handed a gift of a lifetime, and I'm saying, go nationalist, kick the foreign products out, and get the vote.