I don't usually bother replying to AC's, but this guy has that peculiar mix of naivety, stupidity and arrogance that just really gets up my nose.
Japan is NOT more advanced, it seams that people fall for this so easily these days.
I agree. It's so easy to look at the newer motorway infrastructure, the artificial islands for new development, the brilliant, wonderfully advanced and incredibly efficient public transport systems that the US can hardly dream of matching and of course the newer comms infrastructure and be fooled into thinking Japan is an incredibly advanced modern nation.
Do they have any reputable universities ?
Ummm, well, yes. Only problem is that they teach in Japanese - so they can't really be teaching anything important, could they?
Do they have cutting edge biotech, nano or healthcare facilities ?
Don't you keep up with tech news?
Do they walked on the moon or have significant space presence ?
Well, yes actually, they do have quite a significant space presence.
Yes, they do have some neat electronics, but it runs our licensed tech. like those CPU chips, Wii runs IBM-CPU and ATI chip, similar PS3 uses IBM and nVidia technology. They licence most of the stuff from the west.
Standards are standards and cheap readily available chips are a sound commercial decision. You will also notice however who many big Western companies use Motorola chips for instance.
That's actually quite a shame as it seems to be a minority of Australians who actually oppose censorship here and the people who set up that website appear to be immature prats anyway.
One of the major requests that my PC repair business receives from customers is for internet filter software (eg. Net Nanny etc.) Also, over many years governments have constantly received a mandate from the public (and please remember that we do have a decent democracy here - not the circus run by the wealthy minority that they have in the US) to continue with censorship on TV and radio. As the internet takes over from these more traditional sources of entertainment and information it is only logical that censorship apply to the internet as well.
Says the Ford man! That would seem to be one of the great bones of contention between Ford and Holden (GM) supporters. Personally I love the Ford straight 6's. I've always had straight 6's in my work cars. So much easier to work on than a V6! On the other hand, I also love my '78 ZH Fairlane's 302 Cleveland (V8). Even in such a big car with so much space under the hood, I doubt that a straight 8 would quite fit...
In Australia at least it is a requirement that you actually have a registered business to obtain a.com.au domain name for a start. The domain name must also be directly related to your own business. auDA are well within their rights, as there is no evidence to show that the protest group actually has a business called 'Stephen Conroy'.
Increasingly large megapixel photos are an interesting thing though, but to me they are only interesting if the focus is small. Imagine you are a woman looking at dress photos online. The photos have such amazing detail that you can zoom in and see the weave of the fabric itself, the details of the patterns. Then imagine you're looking at a mate's car photos. You can zoom in and read the badges etc. On a photo of a forest you can zoom in and check out a bee landing on an interesting flower.
Oh, ye. The interactive view appears to be slashdotted...
You know the cool thing? You don't have to get it! You are a unique human being with your own ways of thinking and your own interests! Personally, I'm pretty bored with the regular exoplanet finds that get breathlessly reported to 'maybe possibly if-only-they-really-could have an atmostphere'. Get it put onto the Hubble schedule, check it out, if they find something, them report it. It's news. Before then it's only breathless speculation.
The hardware costs are not really so important when the military is concerned - even in otherwise poor nations the military can have some very expensive toys.
If I could pick up the UAV's broadcast, I'd probably be far more interested in being able to overpower any control frequency long enough to crash the thing and/or stopping the signal getting back to base. I'd say the control signals are far more likely to be encoded than the vid stream, so selective frequency jamming would be the way to go.
The simple fact is that most people in wealthy nations, myself and yourself included, sift through a huge amount of media each day. The headline says, "newly discovered planet could possibly maybe have an atmosphere." The link to TFA, which does go into detail about the equipment used, is anchored to, "seems to have an atmosphere." Most people will look at the title, maybe sift through the article, take note of the anchor, and presume that the story is about the planet. It was.
I do agree with you that the discovery of a planet that far away by the equipment used is wonderful and interesting, however I defy you to find a report of this discovery which mentions the equipment in either the title or the main summary (outside of an Astronomy magazine or journal). You won't, because the story is about the planet, the equipment is unfortunately reported only as part of the background to the main story, which in this case is a total non-event. In other words, the journos passed by on a really interesting report and instead cashed in on a feel-good for the masses. What's new?
For most of what you've said, I agree with you. Unfortunately a lot of people don't separate the US people from the US government. The fact that so many Americans actually seem to think that the US is helping the rest of the world and spreading democracy. Many of them even beleive that the USA is a democracy. Well, I guess it is if you have enough money...
Yes, if Yellowstone blew I'd shed a tear and more than a few for the millions affected. I'd also breath a sigh of relief to see the US gov. gone and dead. Yes, weather patterns would be affected for a few years, but I don't think that the USA really has the impact that you think in the global market anymore. Especially since the latest business, no-one seems to want to deal so much with the Americans anymore and all the while, the US is getting closer and closer to not being able to pay it's debts. That means closer and closer to the US starting another war usually, so it would probably be a great thing for world peace if Yellowstone DID blow.
The ash damage still depends on prevailing wind patterns. Seriously though, and this will probably get a troll rating, I don't really think that the majority of the world will really be very upset if the USA snuffs it. I speak with people from all over the world as part of my daily grind and very, very rarely ever find people who support the USA, but a stack of people from many nations who reckon that the US destroyed their country. Oh, we'll see media frenzies and all mouth how horrified we are, then breath a sigh of relief and go back to living life.
Even if an eruption rivaled Krakatoa, we are not really talking about the destruction of a nation. Major emergency, yes. Short term lowering of worldwide temperatures, yes, but loss of a nation? No. Some might even say that the loss of Washington would be a good thing for the USA.
The major damage would probably be like other volcanic eruptions. Local area earthquakes, pyroclastic flows and general poisonous gas hazards. Larger area inundation with ash, depending on prevailing winds.
In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and I presume in Canada, it is Metre. Strangely enough it also appears to be metre in France, the country which gave us the Metre. Meter on the other hand is a verb. That leaves the US out of the English speaking nations as the only one that got the verb and noun mixed up and screwed the English language for the rest of us.
I find maps far less distracting, far less annoying and generally far more useful. Personally, I never really trust anything with a womans voice that gives directions...
Open two different browsers, say Chrome and Firefox. Use one to log in to your email, but nothing else. In the other, never log in to Google services. It certainly doesn't solve the whole problem, but it is trivially easy and has no serious drawbacks.
Use a second browser, but block cookies from google. Done.
ONE person on the Firefox team made a blog entry. Hardly a major policy statement from Mozilla.
On the issue of google tracking. If you're not logged in, they track you via a cookie. I set Firefox not to keep cookies from google. End of story. Privacy issues averted. I'll continue using google as a search engine, because Bing just really doesn't do as wholistic or as good a job. Full stop.
Thank you. The only real drawback I've found with the WL-520GU is the great range. I've got a mate living one street away and a couple of houses up who keeps on nagging me for my wifi password so he can use my printer!
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Ye. Was half asleep - brain skipped up on logic.
Half asleep writing. Logic skip.
ONE prison is no smoking and they attribute a drop in the crime rate to it?
The Isle of Man has a population of just over 80,000. It probably only has one prison.
I don't usually bother replying to AC's, but this guy has that peculiar mix of naivety, stupidity and arrogance that just really gets up my nose.
Japan is NOT more advanced, it seams that people fall for this so easily these days.
I agree. It's so easy to look at the newer motorway infrastructure, the artificial islands for new development, the brilliant, wonderfully advanced and incredibly efficient public transport systems that the US can hardly dream of matching and of course the newer comms infrastructure and be fooled into thinking Japan is an incredibly advanced modern nation.
Do they have any reputable universities ?
Ummm, well, yes. Only problem is that they teach in Japanese - so they can't really be teaching anything important, could they?
Do they have cutting edge biotech, nano or healthcare facilities ?
Don't you keep up with tech news?
Do they walked on the moon or have significant space presence ?
Well, yes actually, they do have quite a significant space presence.
Yes, they do have some neat electronics, but it runs our licensed tech. like those CPU chips, Wii runs IBM-CPU and ATI chip, similar PS3 uses IBM and nVidia technology. They licence most of the stuff from the west.
Standards are standards and cheap readily available chips are a sound commercial decision. You will also notice however who many big Western companies use Motorola chips for instance.
This from the most technological advanced country on the planet.....
AT&T happy to take customers money, not willing to spend millions for a working network.
I didn't see any mention of Japan in TFA?
Never mind, auDA can't do anything about http://stephen-conroy.com/
That's actually quite a shame as it seems to be a minority of Australians who actually oppose censorship here and the people who set up that website appear to be immature prats anyway.
One of the major requests that my PC repair business receives from customers is for internet filter software (eg. Net Nanny etc.) Also, over many years governments have constantly received a mandate from the public (and please remember that we do have a decent democracy here - not the circus run by the wealthy minority that they have in the US) to continue with censorship on TV and radio. As the internet takes over from these more traditional sources of entertainment and information it is only logical that censorship apply to the internet as well.
Says the Ford man! That would seem to be one of the great bones of contention between Ford and Holden (GM) supporters. Personally I love the Ford straight 6's. I've always had straight 6's in my work cars. So much easier to work on than a V6! On the other hand, I also love my '78 ZH Fairlane's 302 Cleveland (V8). Even in such a big car with so much space under the hood, I doubt that a straight 8 would quite fit...
In Australia at least it is a requirement that you actually have a registered business to obtain a .com.au domain name for a start. The domain name must also be directly related to your own business. auDA are well within their rights, as there is no evidence to show that the protest group actually has a business called 'Stephen Conroy'.
Well I've always found it amusing when Americans talk about democracy...
Asimov eat your heart out.
Been free for ages here in Australia and stacks of people use it. Especially loved by poor students everywhere...
Increasingly large megapixel photos are an interesting thing though, but to me they are only interesting if the focus is small. Imagine you are a woman looking at dress photos online. The photos have such amazing detail that you can zoom in and see the weave of the fabric itself, the details of the patterns. Then imagine you're looking at a mate's car photos. You can zoom in and read the badges etc. On a photo of a forest you can zoom in and check out a bee landing on an interesting flower.
Oh, ye. The interactive view appears to be slashdotted...
You know the cool thing? You don't have to get it! You are a unique human being with your own ways of thinking and your own interests! Personally, I'm pretty bored with the regular exoplanet finds that get breathlessly reported to 'maybe possibly if-only-they-really-could have an atmostphere'. Get it put onto the Hubble schedule, check it out, if they find something, them report it. It's news. Before then it's only breathless speculation.
The hardware costs are not really so important when the military is concerned - even in otherwise poor nations the military can have some very expensive toys.
If I could pick up the UAV's broadcast, I'd probably be far more interested in being able to overpower any control frequency long enough to crash the thing and/or stopping the signal getting back to base. I'd say the control signals are far more likely to be encoded than the vid stream, so selective frequency jamming would be the way to go.
The simple fact is that most people in wealthy nations, myself and yourself included, sift through a huge amount of media each day. The headline says, "newly discovered planet could possibly maybe have an atmosphere." The link to TFA, which does go into detail about the equipment used, is anchored to, "seems to have an atmosphere." Most people will look at the title, maybe sift through the article, take note of the anchor, and presume that the story is about the planet. It was.
I do agree with you that the discovery of a planet that far away by the equipment used is wonderful and interesting, however I defy you to find a report of this discovery which mentions the equipment in either the title or the main summary (outside of an Astronomy magazine or journal). You won't, because the story is about the planet, the equipment is unfortunately reported only as part of the background to the main story, which in this case is a total non-event. In other words, the journos passed by on a really interesting report and instead cashed in on a feel-good for the masses. What's new?
I still say it's not a real news story.
If they find out that it does actually have an atmosphere, that is news. Until then, we do not have a news story here...
For most of what you've said, I agree with you. Unfortunately a lot of people don't separate the US people from the US government. The fact that so many Americans actually seem to think that the US is helping the rest of the world and spreading democracy. Many of them even beleive that the USA is a democracy. Well, I guess it is if you have enough money...
Yes, if Yellowstone blew I'd shed a tear and more than a few for the millions affected. I'd also breath a sigh of relief to see the US gov. gone and dead. Yes, weather patterns would be affected for a few years, but I don't think that the USA really has the impact that you think in the global market anymore. Especially since the latest business, no-one seems to want to deal so much with the Americans anymore and all the while, the US is getting closer and closer to not being able to pay it's debts. That means closer and closer to the US starting another war usually, so it would probably be a great thing for world peace if Yellowstone DID blow.
The ash damage still depends on prevailing wind patterns. Seriously though, and this will probably get a troll rating, I don't really think that the majority of the world will really be very upset if the USA snuffs it. I speak with people from all over the world as part of my daily grind and very, very rarely ever find people who support the USA, but a stack of people from many nations who reckon that the US destroyed their country. Oh, we'll see media frenzies and all mouth how horrified we are, then breath a sigh of relief and go back to living life.
You are quite correct to draw a distinction between the unit itself and the tool used to measure it.
Even if an eruption rivaled Krakatoa, we are not really talking about the destruction of a nation. Major emergency, yes. Short term lowering of worldwide temperatures, yes, but loss of a nation? No. Some might even say that the loss of Washington would be a good thing for the USA.
The major damage would probably be like other volcanic eruptions. Local area earthquakes, pyroclastic flows and general poisonous gas hazards. Larger area inundation with ash, depending on prevailing winds.
In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and I presume in Canada, it is Metre. Strangely enough it also appears to be metre in France, the country which gave us the Metre. Meter on the other hand is a verb. That leaves the US out of the English speaking nations as the only one that got the verb and noun mixed up and screwed the English language for the rest of us.
I find maps far less distracting, far less annoying and generally far more useful. Personally, I never really trust anything with a womans voice that gives directions...
Open two different browsers, say Chrome and Firefox. Use one to log in to your email, but nothing else. In the other, never log in to Google services. It certainly doesn't solve the whole problem, but it is trivially easy and has no serious drawbacks.
Use a second browser, but block cookies from google. Done.
ONE person on the Firefox team made a blog entry. Hardly a major policy statement from Mozilla.
On the issue of google tracking. If you're not logged in, they track you via a cookie. I set Firefox not to keep cookies from google. End of story. Privacy issues averted. I'll continue using google as a search engine, because Bing just really doesn't do as wholistic or as good a job. Full stop.
Thank you. The only real drawback I've found with the WL-520GU is the great range. I've got a mate living one street away and a couple of houses up who keeps on nagging me for my wifi password so he can use my printer!