As an European, who will be very poor pretty soon, I can only see this as a remnant of a pre-crisis pissing contest.
Just today the EU has blown up the Euro bailout-package from 400 to 2000 billion, which means that about 5000 Euros is taken via inflation from each EU-subject.
Of course our "representatives" have only agreed to the 400 billion package, so the step from 400 to 2000 is just the beginning.
NASA uses a lot of tax money and, with a population whose general impression of resemasearch is that it just giving money to boring nerds in labcoats (ignoring the economy generated by products of past research), they must do regular "America #1, Yihaaaa!" performances in order to keep the population from objecting too much against NASA funding.
Also, it's pretty clear that Obama's core voters don't see space exploration as a priority or even a necessity.
Sure, Obama told the public that he will start a program for Mars and some gullible voters actually believed it. Of course anybody paying attention and having a memory realized back then that Obama's Mars-landing was even more unrealistic than Bush's Moon-landing.
Think of all the subsidized housing and foodstamps that can be bought with just one rocketlaunch. Americans want subsidized housing and foodstamps and that is exacly what they will get in the future.
Also, NASA lags behind in what really counts, so of course they deserve rigid cuts that hurt. Otherwise they will not learn their lesson.
Isn't the "global warming will turn Earth into a second Venus" - belief also a kind of religion?
I mean, hey I sure can believe that we may have a few a little-warmer-than-usual years, but if the "Hockeystick" were true, Denmark and Florida should be diving-resorts by now.
Exactly, Firefox should concentrate on stability and fix bugs and not try to be "like Chrome" - is it really so strange that many people go to the original?
"Platform agnostic" would be great if "Platform" would also include the one you can sync the phone with.
I am running Linux on the desktop and would be willing to purchase any phone (be it Android, iOS or even Windows-based) that can reliably sync with Linux and I am also willing to pay a few hundred $ more for it, if necessary. I don't really care about what the phone itself is running.
All I can find on the Internet about Linux-sync is either horribly complicated (setting up your own sync-server, etc.), completely untested and strictly in the "this may work, but I have never tried" category or (usually) both.
I had a Treo (Palm-based) before and although it could sync with Linux, it was pretty unreliable (everything: The sync worked only at about 1/6 tries, the phone did not receive some calls, etc.).
Is there anybody with a real phone that he syncs with Linux?
First, as I said, this "pancaking", even if you believe in it, is strictly unofficial, because in the official report, the towers just "collapsed" without any explanation at all and WTC-7 did not collapse at all. So with your claim that "pancaking is common" you are also on strictly unofficial territory.
Of course when the "pancaking"-theory is correct and the floors got loose from the core, shouldn't the core be left standing?
Why did WTC-7 collapse? Why did it even burn? The official version does not say - what else are we supposed to do except make up our own minds?
I mean even if you believe in everything the government says, you have to make up your own mind because the government does not say anything about the WTC-7 collapse (and many other things).
Also missing in the report is the reason for this perfect symmetry in the collapse of all 3 buildings. Especially the South Tower was hit on a corner, why should it collapse in perfect symmetry. (Oh and of course I repeat myself that WTC-7 was not hit at all)
Oh, and why does the official report say that the plane crash in the 90th-something floor causes the software to fail in the command-center in the 22nd floor? What kind of weird logic is behind that?
And why do you call me a troll when I just link to the official report and a summary of the official report? Are you now already a "conspiracy theorist" when you look at the official report? Has 9/11 become some taboo? Are we not supposed to think or talk about it, is even looking at the "official version" some kind of evil subversion?
So tell me what a "good citizen" or "non-troll" is supposed to do, when you don't even allow reading of the official report. So far, the 9/11 Commission Report is the only official document available, there is nothing else out there. If you don't allow even that, then there is nothing left.
Exactly. America went from being a force of good to being a force of evil.
I would urge everybody to read the official report or at least a short summary. What is glaring is what is not in it:
- No WTC-7 collapse
- No explanation of find dust cloud
- No explanation why a plane crash in the 90th floor could damage the "software" (yes, that's correct) running in the command center in the 22nd floor.
- No explanation how the collapse of the towers (which is without precedent even though there have been much bigger and longer fires in high-rise steel buildings) could happen
If anybody calls you a "conspiracy theorist", ask him wether he believes that WTC-7 did not collapse because according to the "official story" it did not. All that "pancake theory"-stuff is just as "inofficial" as Alex Jones.
Basically Star Trek is a mixture of the idea that we will colonize space in roomy and luxurious spaceships without any real effort (even the cocktails are magically created by the replicator) and socialist propaganda (just look at the Ferengi, they could be a caricature right out of a German 1930s (or Soviet 1950s) propaganda cartoon, the only thing that's missing is them sucking children's blood).
The attitude of the average Treckie toward space exploration is to wait until all technical problems solve themselves magically through "progress". They are the embodyment of lazyness and stupidity - basically the prototype of the "useful idiot" that all socal engineers want to create in their social programs (too bad for them that the idiots bred by the welfare state turned out not to be useful...).
Firefox could have become the rock solid browser that "just works".
The only reason we have standards like those set by W3C is stability.
There is no need for rapid releases any more because the major problems have been solved years ago. I am still using Firefox 3.0 as my default browser and while I had to install Chrome because Google-Translator mysteriously stopped working, otherwise I had no problems with it.
Because of the good extension-system, Firefox could be a rock-solid browser while all the experimental stuff and new functionality is done in extensions.
But no. Mozilla decided that Firefox has to be like Chrome. Of course not really like Chrome because to get the advantages of Chrome would require a complete rewrite of Firefox, so Mozilla settled for a completely nonsensical release-policy completely with automatic non-wanted upgrades ("What is my computer doing now? Oh, my browser changed again!").
Mozilla should understand that the 90s are over and people are no longer buying a new computer every 2 years and upgrade their software even more often. The new features (ALL of them) are not needed in the default install. They could be tested using extensions but there is absolutely no reason any more to change ANYTHING just for change's sake.
What we need is at least one browser-alternative that aims at creating a bug-free browser instead of a perpetual usability experiment.
A very long time ago, when I was still young and naive, I was looking forward to KDE4 because a) it promised to be faster than KDE3 b) it promised to implement single-sign-on for kwallet
Then it was released and it came with hundreds of completely worthless features (like being able to rotate windows, translucency that only blurs everything needlessly, etc.) and of course lots of bugs but it was not faster and 4.0 also did not provide single-sign-on, the only feature that I was interested in.
I tried KDE4 a couple of times (IIRC the last time it was 4.3 or 4.4) and still no single-sign-on. And I've read they refuse it because "you should have different passwords for the user account and kwallet" which does not make any sense and seems quite strange - why did they promise this feature in the first place? And why can Gnome do it? (at least that's what I've read)
Anyway, I keep using KDE3 (from http://www.trinitydesktop.org/), KDE4 is offering NOTHING that I'm interested in, it's the "Vista" of the Linux world: Optimized for some mysterious "average user" - basically the KDE-team wants to optimize KDE to beginners (plus alzheimer-patients and retards). Maybe somebody should tell the KDE-team that the 80's are over and by now almost everybody who needs KDE has worked with computers for many years, probably DECADES. There are practically no beginners left (except children) and those few that remain are not nearly numerous enough to be called the "average user".
When you get robbed, you might argue wether that is enough to hate the robber, but it's not ideological - it's just hatred of being robbed, end of story.
If an area in the city is causing more trouble in society, it should be looked at, but with the common sense you would use with anything else.
Yeah, but without control (measure objectively wether the actions actually improved the situation or made things worse) that is only effective in getting invitations to tea parties and generally feel good about what good deeds you have done.
Not the George Bush way of not finding what the problem is and blaming a group.
Are we talking about the same George Bush who said that Islam is a "religion of peace"?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who passed the "no child left behing" act which could be straight from mid-20th century marxism?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who said that "family values don't stop at the border" regarding Mexicans, even though Mexicans have higher illigitimacy, higher child abuse, higher domestic abuse, etc. than the average European-American?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who wants to legalize over 8 Million illegal immigrants with his amnesty program?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who wants to create a "guest worker program" which will lead to even more immigration?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who increased government spending and amounts the highest public debt seen in all human history?
Huh. George Bush supports EVERYTHING you said so far. He is one of the biggest multiculturalists ever.
There is nothing racist or fascist or anything about taking into account where a certain group has come from in discussing a situation. It's just your perception of their race and their brain size should not be the first things on the table.
Agreed. In a normal world all this would merely be a foot-note. When everybody is treated equally and we accept unequal levels of intelligence, discipline and commitment lead to unequal levels of success, there is no reason to even bring it to the table.
However in our sick world in which unequal levels of success are used as PROOF for discrimination, racism and other evils it is neccessary to give evidence that inherent abilities and not discrimination are the main cause of unequeal levels of success.
History of oppression, former environment they lived in and their ability to adapt from that to the new one, etc. should be what you look at.
Funny, around the same time of the atlantic slave trade an even larger number of Europeans where enslaved by Arabs across the Mediterranean. Funny how "history of oppression" causes Blacks to drop out of school centuries later while it didn't have an effect on Europeans. How strange.
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For Firefox it's also more like "change for change's sake"
exactly
According to some studies, wars and social unrest are more common in cooler climates.
Actually it makes sense, after all warmth is beneficial for plant growth.
As an European, who will be very poor pretty soon, I can only see this as a remnant of a pre-crisis pissing contest.
Just today the EU has blown up the Euro bailout-package from 400 to 2000 billion, which means that about 5000 Euros is taken via inflation from each EU-subject.
Of course our "representatives" have only agreed to the 400 billion package, so the step from 400 to 2000 is just the beginning.
Actually, space tourism has been the dominant form of American space flight for more than 20 years.
The OWS represent according to themselves 99% of the population, yet they are endorsed by Obama, Bernanke and Soros.
Is anybody fooled by that?
NASA uses a lot of tax money and, with a population whose general impression of resemasearch is that it just giving money to boring nerds in labcoats (ignoring the economy generated by products of past research), they must do regular "America #1, Yihaaaa!" performances in order to keep the population from objecting too much against NASA funding.
Well, what do you expect?
Also, it's pretty clear that Obama's core voters don't see space exploration as a priority or even a necessity.
Sure, Obama told the public that he will start a program for Mars and some gullible voters actually believed it. Of course anybody paying attention and having a memory realized back then that Obama's Mars-landing was even more unrealistic than Bush's Moon-landing.
Think of all the subsidized housing and foodstamps that can be bought with just one rocketlaunch. Americans want subsidized housing and foodstamps and that is exacly what they will get in the future.
Also, NASA lags behind in what really counts, so of course they deserve rigid cuts that hurt. Otherwise they will not learn their lesson.
Isn't the "global warming will turn Earth into a second Venus" - belief also a kind of religion?
I mean, hey I sure can believe that we may have a few a little-warmer-than-usual years, but if the "Hockeystick" were true, Denmark and Florida should be diving-resorts by now.
IPv4 will stay alive for a very long time
If IPv6 would have been designed better, IPv4 would be dead by now... but here we are.
Exactly, Firefox should concentrate on stability and fix bugs and not try to be "like Chrome" - is it really so strange that many people go to the original?
America is becoming a 3rd-world country (propably a lot like Brazil) and will have a 3rd-world space program, i.e. none at all.
Basically America committed suicide.
But it's too late now, maybe the Chinese will pick up the ball, who knows.
Did anybody recognize over which area the ISS flew in the video?
"Platform agnostic" would be great if "Platform" would also include the one you can sync the phone with.
I am running Linux on the desktop and would be willing to purchase any phone (be it Android, iOS or even Windows-based) that can reliably sync with Linux and I am also willing to pay a few hundred $ more for it, if necessary. I don't really care about what the phone itself is running.
All I can find on the Internet about Linux-sync is either horribly complicated (setting up your own sync-server, etc.), completely untested and strictly in the "this may work, but I have never tried" category or (usually) both.
I had a Treo (Palm-based) before and although it could sync with Linux, it was pretty unreliable (everything: The sync worked only at about 1/6 tries, the phone did not receive some calls, etc.).
Is there anybody with a real phone that he syncs with Linux?
First, as I said, this "pancaking", even if you believe in it, is strictly unofficial, because in the official report, the towers just "collapsed" without any explanation at all and WTC-7 did not collapse at all. So with your claim that "pancaking is common" you are also on strictly unofficial territory.
Of course when the "pancaking"-theory is correct and the floors got loose from the core, shouldn't the core be left standing?
Why did WTC-7 collapse? Why did it even burn? The official version does not say - what else are we supposed to do except make up our own minds?
I mean even if you believe in everything the government says, you have to make up your own mind because the government does not say anything about the WTC-7 collapse (and many other things).
Also missing in the report is the reason for this perfect symmetry in the collapse of all 3 buildings. Especially the South Tower was hit on a corner, why should it collapse in perfect symmetry. (Oh and of course I repeat myself that WTC-7 was not hit at all)
Oh, and why does the official report say that the plane crash in the 90th-something floor causes the software to fail in the command-center in the 22nd floor? What kind of weird logic is behind that?
And why do you call me a troll when I just link to the official report and a summary of the official report? Are you now already a "conspiracy theorist" when you look at the official report? Has 9/11 become some taboo? Are we not supposed to think or talk about it, is even looking at the "official version" some kind of evil subversion?
So tell me what a "good citizen" or "non-troll" is supposed to do, when you don't even allow reading of the official report. So far, the 9/11 Commission Report is the only official document available, there is nothing else out there. If you don't allow even that, then there is nothing left.
I would think that a real investigation of what happened on 9/11 should come before a response.
I would urge everybody to read the official report or at least a short summary. What is glaring is what is not in it:
If anybody calls you a "conspiracy theorist", ask him wether he believes that WTC-7 did not collapse because according to the "official story" it did not. All that "pancake theory"-stuff is just as "inofficial" as Alex Jones.
Yes, actually the whole "out-of-Africa" theory is standing on a weak foundation.
Basically anthropologists made a lot of assumptions when formulating that theory and the whole thing falls apart with new DNA-tests.
Maybe this is what will finally get us to IPv6.
Because of the incompatibility of the addresses, it seems that the IPv6 transition will be delayed forever.
Compared to Facebook, that's pretty harmless.
The "Like" button reveals to facebook every website you visit:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/What_Facebooks_Like_buttons_reveal
And facebook even tries to ban workarounds that prevent their buttons from sending data without being clicked:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Facebook-beschwert-sich-ueber-datenschutzfreundlichen-2-Klick-Button-2-Update-1335658.html
Basically Star Trek is a mixture of the idea that we will colonize space in roomy and luxurious spaceships without any real effort (even the cocktails are magically created by the replicator) and socialist propaganda (just look at the Ferengi, they could be a caricature right out of a German 1930s (or Soviet 1950s) propaganda cartoon, the only thing that's missing is them sucking children's blood).
The attitude of the average Treckie toward space exploration is to wait until all technical problems solve themselves magically through "progress". They are the embodyment of lazyness and stupidity - basically the prototype of the "useful idiot" that all socal engineers want to create in their social programs (too bad for them that the idiots bred by the welfare state turned out not to be useful...).
Firefox could have become the rock solid browser that "just works".
The only reason we have standards like those set by W3C is stability.
There is no need for rapid releases any more because the major problems have been solved years ago. I am still using Firefox 3.0 as my default browser and while I had to install Chrome because Google-Translator mysteriously stopped working, otherwise I had no problems with it.
Because of the good extension-system, Firefox could be a rock-solid browser while all the experimental stuff and new functionality is done in extensions.
But no. Mozilla decided that Firefox has to be like Chrome. Of course not really like Chrome because to get the advantages of Chrome would require a complete rewrite of Firefox, so Mozilla settled for a completely nonsensical release-policy completely with automatic non-wanted upgrades ("What is my computer doing now? Oh, my browser changed again!").
Mozilla should understand that the 90s are over and people are no longer buying a new computer every 2 years and upgrade their software even more often. The new features (ALL of them) are not needed in the default install. They could be tested using extensions but there is absolutely no reason any more to change ANYTHING just for change's sake.
What we need is at least one browser-alternative that aims at creating a bug-free browser instead of a perpetual usability experiment.
...or implemented what they promised for 4.0?
A very long time ago, when I was still young and naive, I was looking forward to KDE4 because
a) it promised to be faster than KDE3
b) it promised to implement single-sign-on for kwallet
Then it was released and it came with hundreds of completely worthless features (like being able to rotate windows, translucency that only blurs everything needlessly, etc.) and of course lots of bugs but it was not faster and 4.0 also did not provide single-sign-on, the only feature that I was interested in.
I tried KDE4 a couple of times (IIRC the last time it was 4.3 or 4.4) and still no single-sign-on. And I've read they refuse it because "you should have different passwords for the user account and kwallet" which does not make any sense and seems quite strange - why did they promise this feature in the first place? And why can Gnome do it? (at least that's what I've read)
Anyway, I keep using KDE3 (from http://www.trinitydesktop.org/), KDE4 is offering NOTHING that I'm interested in, it's the "Vista" of the Linux world: Optimized for some mysterious "average user" - basically the KDE-team wants to optimize KDE to beginners (plus alzheimer-patients and retards). Maybe somebody should tell the KDE-team that the 80's are over and by now almost everybody who needs KDE has worked with computers for many years, probably DECADES. There are practically no beginners left (except children) and those few that remain are not nearly numerous enough to be called the "average user".
When you get robbed, you might argue wether that is enough to hate the robber, but it's not ideological - it's just hatred of being robbed, end of story.
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH
Yeah, but without control (measure objectively wether the actions actually improved the situation or made things worse) that is only effective in getting invitations to tea parties and generally feel good about what good deeds you have done.
Not the George Bush way of not finding what the problem is and blaming a group.
Are we talking about the same George Bush who said that Islam is a "religion of peace"?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who passed the "no child left behing" act which could be straight from mid-20th century marxism?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who said that "family values don't stop at the border" regarding Mexicans, even though Mexicans have higher illigitimacy, higher child abuse, higher domestic abuse, etc. than the average European-American?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who wants to legalize over 8 Million illegal immigrants with his amnesty program?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who wants to create a "guest worker program" which will lead to even more immigration?
Are we talking about the same George Bush who increased government spending and amounts the highest public debt seen in all human history?
Huh. George Bush supports EVERYTHING you said so far. He is one of the biggest multiculturalists ever.
There is nothing racist or fascist or anything about taking into account where a certain group has come from in discussing a situation. It's just your perception of their race and their brain size should not be the first things on the table.
Agreed. In a normal world all this would merely be a foot-note. When everybody is treated equally and we accept unequal levels of intelligence, discipline and commitment lead to unequal levels of success, there is no reason to even bring it to the table.
However in our sick world in which unequal levels of success are used as PROOF for discrimination, racism and other evils it is neccessary to give evidence that inherent abilities and not discrimination are the main cause of unequeal levels of success.
History of oppression, former environment they lived in and their ability to adapt from that to the new one, etc. should be what you look at.
Funny, around the same time of the atlantic slave trade an even larger number of Europeans where enslaved by Arabs across the Mediterranean. Funny how "history of oppression" causes Blacks to drop out of school centuries later while it didn't have an effect on Europeans. How strange.