I kind of agree. Bill Gates has enough techie in him to understand that field. He's also got enough business savy to swim in that pond. What was unique is that he had both when pretty much all the competition didn't. It let him become a very big fish in that pond rather quickly. That pissed off a lot of people, rightly or otherwise.
Yet Bill Gates does care about humanity (if not so much about individuals or corporations), and he even has a sense of humor. He can even take criticism. (Try that one on Jobs.) He's doing something the 'normal' rich guys would never have thought of doing in a million years. He's turned himself into one of those super rich philanthropists like they used to have in the old movies, tv shows, and comic books. A regular Bruce Wayne without the psychotic nocturnal vigilante in tights issues. On top of that he's even convinced, cajoled, or otherwise convinced a number of the rich crowd to help. You may love him or hate him, but he's doing more now and will have a greater legacy of compassion towards humanity than almost any person in modern memory.
Of course I'd still like to have his weekly allowance.:-)
I recall seeing an article a few years ago about some areas in the US where this anti-vaccine garbage has been rather popular for years now. Seems their infection rates are many times higher than ever before, and much nastier as well. They are even getting hit by stuff that had become so rare everywhere else as to have been almost forgotten as a possible risk. I guess the safe threshold is rather narrow, and their children are paying the price.
still not as terrible at the telegraph. I suspect their fact checkers (if they have any) are brain damaged monkeys incapable of telling the difference between a banana and cactus much less facts and fantasy.
Do you have the right to let your child poor gasoline on themselves, light a match, and then run into a school full of other children and burn down the school killing how many other children who's parents would let play with gasoline and matches?
When you don't vaccinate your child, it's not just your child that's at risk, it also includes all the others they are in contact with. Why the bloody hell do you think they send sick children home when parents ignore the standard "don't send sick children to school" policies?
Maybe you have the right to subject your child to additional unnecessary risks, which in a legal stance I suspect is rather questionable due to all the cases I've heard of where parents were over-ridden to obtain necessary medical aid for minors. But even if you are, you do NOT have any right to subject other peoples children to those same avoidable risks.
Here's an idea, if you really insist on ignoring the countless millions of case studies and instead go with one discredited quack and don't mind risking your childrens health, then keep your kids out of the schools and parks and other places where children congregate. Your disregard for their safety isn't fair to them or their parents.
People seem to be forgetting that the vaccines already went through a safety testing system to get approved by the FDA. Then some yahoo comes out with a b.s. "study" of 8 kids, makes specious claims of them causing autism, (and has now been linked to a scam to get money from said claims) and people buy into it.
One ex-doctor with one highly flawed study (possible scam) is suddenly revered more than the hundreds of doctors and safety inspectors that approved it in the first place much less the millions upon millions of recorded cases of everything being just hunky dory with it. The only thing I can think of is he somehow used a hypnoray to melt their brains, and just try to prove I'm wrong, even though scientist have been telling us for years that there's no such thing as hypnorays and melting someones brain would be fatal. Now it's up to you to prove me wrong.
(Doesn't sound reasonable when I put it like that, now does it. Now find that on switch and start up your brains, you're going to need them in the real world.)
Just a side note for people to think about: A century or so ago, diarrhea was a major killer. Now it is easily dealt with and prevented, yet a lot of the world doesn't have those means or knowledge. About 20 years ago the death rate of children world wide was around 5 million. Lots of people have been working hard to change this and now the rates are down to about 1.5 million children a year. Yet if someone were to convince a significant portion of these people to forgo the effective techniques for preventing and treating this issue, you would see the death rates skyrocket again. Is your life and the lives of the children in your community worth risking because of one crackpot? This is true with any disease.
It's very difficult to predict which which variations of the flu will be the big pain each flu season, and it takes a relatively long time to make the vaccines. Of course, if the vaccinations are effective and shut down one strain, that doesn't mean another strain doesn't take up the slack. Kind of a damned of you do, damned worse if you don't proposition. Good news though, there is a group working on a universal flu vaccine. Seems they found one part of the influenza viral shell that doesn't mutate and are trying to develop an effective vaccine that targets it. I sure hope they succeed, and freaking soon.
Vaccines are not antibiotics, period. (yes, big emphasis on that) Microbes can NOT become immune to vaccines because vaccines never effect the microbe.
Guess you fell asleep in grade school health class, so here's a refresher with as little medical/science junk as possible. Antibiotics attack and kill the microbes. If they don't kill all of them, the survivors might reproduce into an infection resistant to that antibiotic. Vaccines hype up your immune system so it can identify and kill the target microbe when/if you get infected, it's like giving your friends the heads up and phone number of that total creepazoid so you can hit ignore when he/she calls.
There, did that make sense to you? If you want to know more, pick up any pamphlet on vaccinations at any accredited medical facility, like a licensed physicians office, licensed pharmacy, the hospital, urgent care (if you have that), etc, just not the dippy new age stuff that got you into stupid in the first place.
There's a lot more to immunology, but this isn't the place to discuss it. You can find it if you want, but please stop listening to bubblegum pundits, they'll get you killed with their "medical opinions".
Yes, but then again it kind of makes sense, an actors entire career is based on them doing and saying exactly what someones else tells them to and to do it convincingly. Guess they've trained to be professional sheep or something.
* Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
(0° to 35° C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
(-20° to 45° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
So, do you know of anyone on this planet that lives somewhere that these temperatures, humiditys, and possibly even altitudes won't be exceeded at some point during the year? In my opinion that's a pretty cruddy stats for a personal device intended to be carried with you everywhere.
Are you going to sit out in the rain and work on spreadsheets?
Using a phone while walking to somewhere it's not raining (car, home, work, etc) is normal, using a computer outside in the rain isn't. Do you see where you went wrong with that?
So an immature but technically competent jerk cracked you computers and is now trying to get your companies lunch money, metaphorically. Your response is, among other things, to tell his mom. O_o You know, that sounds about right.
Hey, just look at the last 40,000 years where they started with an almost unanimous belief in religion to the present where a growing populace of atheist have started speaking out because they are sick of getting treated as if they were some kind of diseased second class citizen. Of course there are studies that show there number of children increase with poverty and poor education. There are other studies that the more educated are more likely to be atheists than the ignorant. Take that however you want to.
How fast does the indicator work? How much trace is needed to cause indication? How many things can it detect? What explosives or other prohibited materials is it incapable of detecting that really should be that is detected by the other systems in place that can already detect what the plant does?
There are a LOT of other questions in addition to these that would need to be answered before even contemplating the possibility of employing a detection system like these plants.
You want fast detection from tiny traces and specific identification of both the source location and material. But I can imagine it being used for watchdogging an area for certain types of contamination, like detecting a dioxin leak from a chemical storage facility or something like that.
Guess you'd say there's no difference between a battle axe and broad sword, they both have sharp slabs of metal used to cut up somebody you don't like...
Incorrect, they can easily have the exact same firing characteristics. The difference is it's easier to build more powerful trebuchets than catapults, and they can often be readied faster as well if the designers planned for it.
The height of the "trajectory arc" is completely based on the release angle and force. The method used to impart moment to the swinging launch arm has no bearing on the trajectory. It could be a freaking hydraulic ram swinging that launch arm, so long as the release angle and force are the same, you get the exact same result.
I can't get the stupid video to run, but if they are using an elastic spring, to spin a launching arm, then yes, definitely catapult. For those that don't know the difference, it's simple: A Catapult uses torsion to impart momentum to a swinging launch arm which flings the projectile. A Trebuchet uses a counterweight to do the same thing.
And just because there are stupid reporters that can really get things wrong, a ballista or arbalest is a direct fire siege engine sized freaking crossbow! (Ok, there's actually a lot more to it than that, but so many of the reporters are so ignorant they apparently think a siege engine might be the new ultra horsepower replacement for the hemi, that I'm not going into those details... )
That judge is going to have to ban all group activities with that logic. No basketball, or other sports, no quilting bees, no prison work groups, no film making, no year book, no cheerleading, no anything that has somebody directing/leading/refereeing that includes multiple people.
Ok, I listed some retirement home stuff and school stuff, but then again I'm pointing out how stupid the judges idea of things that leads to gang-like-behavior is. Additionally, I have no idea what people do in prison other than the tropes TV tells me such as basketball, weightlifting, and riots. TV sucks for accuracy, I'd have never guessed anyone played pnp rpgs there.
Some fakers also spoof seed/peer numbers. For example, if a torrent was posted an hour ago and has 10000 already, odds are really great it's a fake, especially with a nice round number like 10000.
I guess the rule of thumb is that if it looks suspicious, it probably is. Also, if you start a torrent that claims tons of seeds and peers, but you only get very small numbers (single digits), be very suspicious, it's probably fake. One more thing, ignore samples. I've seen tons of things that have great samples, but the actual files really sucked and had little to nothing to do with the samples. I don't even bother with samples anymore, just a waste of bandwidth.
What, so Genghis would rather kill a few thousand people so he can drive his SUV without causing a carbon footprint for a month? What a load of fecal matter!
Genocide and mass murder are NOT GREEN, even if there is a net reduction in carbon dioxide production, it's NOT green. Does that cretin now think we should idolize the likes of the Stalin, Hitler, Jim Jones, Pol Pot, and other monsters in human form? Maybe we should just fix the anthropomorphic carbon dioxide issue by nuking all population centers to cause the extinction of humanity...
As to the study, how stupid do you have to be to not realize that a population reduction (by any means) of a carbon dioxide spewing fire using creature will result in a reduction in the creation/release of carbon dioxide by said life forms.
I hope this lady (Julia Pongratz, lead researcher on this) doesn't even win an Ig Nobel award or mention.
I wonder if she's the research version of a troll. My advice, put on your asbestos undies lady, cause the flames are rising.
This would be great, but let's face it, without independent verification, it's like Harry Potter 12, people want it, but it's not likely.
I like how they say they've been using a unit to heat a factory for two years, but won't identify the factory, much less let it be examined. Just like the alien spaceship I keep hidden in my secret vault, but I can't tell you where lest the aliens get mad at me...
Even if it's fake, they'll sell a few units in 3 months, if they actually do ship on time.
As to them not being able to describe the physics involved in the process, that's not so strange. Unfortunate, but feasible. There have been many discoveries throughout history that the discoverers didn't understand until much later, but that never stopped anyone from taking advantage of them. I'm glad they didn't try to use some scientific technobabble double speak to try and say that "something" is happening and this is how it usually occurs "this way" but not with our process and we really don't know what's going on here. There have been plenty of others that have done that in the past.
Wonder how small a complete unit that can power a decent quality car would be. That would be really nice.
Open loop instead of closed... They are going to have to fix that before anyone will take them seriously.
The 3rd movie pretty much pounded the wooden stake in pretty solidly, I can't imagine it reasonably coming back to suck even more. (But if it does, it will...)
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I kind of agree. Bill Gates has enough techie in him to understand that field. He's also got enough business savy to swim in that pond. What was unique is that he had both when pretty much all the competition didn't. It let him become a very big fish in that pond rather quickly. That pissed off a lot of people, rightly or otherwise.
:-)
Yet Bill Gates does care about humanity (if not so much about individuals or corporations), and he even has a sense of humor. He can even take criticism. (Try that one on Jobs.) He's doing something the 'normal' rich guys would never have thought of doing in a million years. He's turned himself into one of those super rich philanthropists like they used to have in the old movies, tv shows, and comic books. A regular Bruce Wayne without the psychotic nocturnal vigilante in tights issues. On top of that he's even convinced, cajoled, or otherwise convinced a number of the rich crowd to help. You may love him or hate him, but he's doing more now and will have a greater legacy of compassion towards humanity than almost any person in modern memory.
Of course I'd still like to have his weekly allowance.
I recall seeing an article a few years ago about some areas in the US where this anti-vaccine garbage has been rather popular for years now. Seems their infection rates are many times higher than ever before, and much nastier as well. They are even getting hit by stuff that had become so rare everywhere else as to have been almost forgotten as a possible risk. I guess the safe threshold is rather narrow, and their children are paying the price.
still not as terrible at the telegraph. I suspect their fact checkers (if they have any) are brain damaged monkeys incapable of telling the difference between a banana and cactus much less facts and fantasy.
Do you have the right to let your child poor gasoline on themselves, light a match, and then run into a school full of other children and burn down the school killing how many other children who's parents would let play with gasoline and matches?
When you don't vaccinate your child, it's not just your child that's at risk, it also includes all the others they are in contact with. Why the bloody hell do you think they send sick children home when parents ignore the standard "don't send sick children to school" policies?
Maybe you have the right to subject your child to additional unnecessary risks, which in a legal stance I suspect is rather questionable due to all the cases I've heard of where parents were over-ridden to obtain necessary medical aid for minors.
But even if you are, you do NOT have any right to subject other peoples children to those same avoidable risks.
Here's an idea, if you really insist on ignoring the countless millions of case studies and instead go with one discredited quack and don't mind risking your childrens health, then keep your kids out of the schools and parks and other places where children congregate. Your disregard for their safety isn't fair to them or their parents.
People seem to be forgetting that the vaccines already went through a safety testing system to get approved by the FDA. Then some yahoo comes out with a b.s. "study" of 8 kids, makes specious claims of them causing autism, (and has now been linked to a scam to get money from said claims) and people buy into it.
One ex-doctor with one highly flawed study (possible scam) is suddenly revered more than the hundreds of doctors and safety inspectors that approved it in the first place much less the millions upon millions of recorded cases of everything being just hunky dory with it.
The only thing I can think of is he somehow used a hypnoray to melt their brains, and just try to prove I'm wrong, even though scientist have been telling us for years that there's no such thing as hypnorays and melting someones brain would be fatal. Now it's up to you to prove me wrong.
(Doesn't sound reasonable when I put it like that, now does it. Now find that on switch and start up your brains, you're going to need them in the real world.)
Just a side note for people to think about: A century or so ago, diarrhea was a major killer. Now it is easily dealt with and prevented, yet a lot of the world doesn't have those means or knowledge. About 20 years ago the death rate of children world wide was around 5 million. Lots of people have been working hard to change this and now the rates are down to about 1.5 million children a year. Yet if someone were to convince a significant portion of these people to forgo the effective techniques for preventing and treating this issue, you would see the death rates skyrocket again. Is your life and the lives of the children in your community worth risking because of one crackpot? This is true with any disease.
It's very difficult to predict which which variations of the flu will be the big pain each flu season, and it takes a relatively long time to make the vaccines. Of course, if the vaccinations are effective and shut down one strain, that doesn't mean another strain doesn't take up the slack. Kind of a damned of you do, damned worse if you don't proposition. Good news though, there is a group working on a universal flu vaccine. Seems they found one part of the influenza viral shell that doesn't mutate and are trying to develop an effective vaccine that targets it. I sure hope they succeed, and freaking soon.
Vaccines are not antibiotics, period. (yes, big emphasis on that) Microbes can NOT become immune to vaccines because vaccines never effect the microbe.
Guess you fell asleep in grade school health class, so here's a refresher with as little medical/science junk as possible.
Antibiotics attack and kill the microbes. If they don't kill all of them, the survivors might reproduce into an infection resistant to that antibiotic.
Vaccines hype up your immune system so it can identify and kill the target microbe when/if you get infected, it's like giving your friends the heads up and phone number of that total creepazoid so you can hit ignore when he/she calls.
There, did that make sense to you? If you want to know more, pick up any pamphlet on vaccinations at any accredited medical facility, like a licensed physicians office, licensed pharmacy, the hospital, urgent care (if you have that), etc, just not the dippy new age stuff that got you into stupid in the first place.
There's a lot more to immunology, but this isn't the place to discuss it. You can find it if you want, but please stop listening to bubblegum pundits, they'll get you killed with their "medical opinions".
Yes, but then again it kind of makes sense, an actors entire career is based on them doing and saying exactly what someones else tells them to and to do it convincingly. Guess they've trained to be professional sheep or something.
They are going to be absolutely livid when they see this, especially the republicans. ROFLMAO
didn't expect it to screw up the post like that, didn't look screwed up in the preview either.
op temp 32 to 95 F, 0 to 35 C
non-op temp -4 to-113 F, -20 to 45 C
Environmental requirements
* Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
(0° to 35° C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
(-20° to 45° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
So, do you know of anyone on this planet that lives somewhere that these temperatures, humiditys, and possibly even altitudes won't be exceeded at some point during the year? In my opinion that's a pretty cruddy stats for a personal device intended to be carried with you everywhere.
Are you going to sit out in the rain and work on spreadsheets?
Using a phone while walking to somewhere it's not raining (car, home, work, etc) is normal, using a computer outside in the rain isn't. Do you see where you went wrong with that?
So an immature but technically competent jerk cracked you computers and is now trying to get your companies lunch money, metaphorically. Your response is, among other things, to tell his mom.
O_o
You know, that sounds about right.
That works out to more than 12 per day. I wonder what 2009-now looks like.
Hey, just look at the last 40,000 years where they started with an almost unanimous belief in religion to the present where a growing populace of atheist have started speaking out because they are sick of getting treated as if they were some kind of diseased second class citizen.
Of course there are studies that show there number of children increase with poverty and poor education.
There are other studies that the more educated are more likely to be atheists than the ignorant.
Take that however you want to.
How fast does the indicator work? How much trace is needed to cause indication? How many things can it detect? What explosives or other prohibited materials is it incapable of detecting that really should be that is detected by the other systems in place that can already detect what the plant does?
There are a LOT of other questions in addition to these that would need to be answered before even contemplating the possibility of employing a detection system like these plants.
You want fast detection from tiny traces and specific identification of both the source location and material. But I can imagine it being used for watchdogging an area for certain types of contamination, like detecting a dioxin leak from a chemical storage facility or something like that.
Guess you'd say there's no difference between a battle axe and broad sword, they both have sharp slabs of metal used to cut up somebody you don't like...
Incorrect, they can easily have the exact same firing characteristics. The difference is it's easier to build more powerful trebuchets than catapults, and they can often be readied faster as well if the designers planned for it.
The height of the "trajectory arc" is completely based on the release angle and force. The method used to impart moment to the swinging launch arm has no bearing on the trajectory. It could be a freaking hydraulic ram swinging that launch arm, so long as the release angle and force are the same, you get the exact same result.
I can't get the stupid video to run, but if they are using an elastic spring, to spin a launching arm, then yes, definitely catapult.
For those that don't know the difference, it's simple:
A Catapult uses torsion to impart momentum to a swinging launch arm which flings the projectile.
A Trebuchet uses a counterweight to do the same thing.
And just because there are stupid reporters that can really get things wrong, a ballista or arbalest is a direct fire siege engine sized freaking crossbow! (Ok, there's actually a lot more to it than that, but so many of the reporters are so ignorant they apparently think a siege engine might be the new ultra horsepower replacement for the hemi, that I'm not going into those details... )
That judge is going to have to ban all group activities with that logic. No basketball, or other sports, no quilting bees, no prison work groups, no film making, no year book, no cheerleading, no anything that has somebody directing/leading/refereeing that includes multiple people.
Ok, I listed some retirement home stuff and school stuff, but then again I'm pointing out how stupid the judges idea of things that leads to gang-like-behavior is. Additionally, I have no idea what people do in prison other than the tropes TV tells me such as basketball, weightlifting, and riots. TV sucks for accuracy, I'd have never guessed anyone played pnp rpgs there.
And what multibillion dollar multinational company isn't abusing patent law (among others)
Some fakers also spoof seed/peer numbers. For example, if a torrent was posted an hour ago and has 10000 already, odds are really great it's a fake, especially with a nice round number like 10000.
I guess the rule of thumb is that if it looks suspicious, it probably is. Also, if you start a torrent that claims tons of seeds and peers, but you only get very small numbers (single digits), be very suspicious, it's probably fake. One more thing, ignore samples. I've seen tons of things that have great samples, but the actual files really sucked and had little to nothing to do with the samples. I don't even bother with samples anymore, just a waste of bandwidth.
What, so Genghis would rather kill a few thousand people so he can drive his SUV without causing a carbon footprint for a month? What a load of fecal matter!
Genocide and mass murder are NOT GREEN, even if there is a net reduction in carbon dioxide production, it's NOT green. Does that cretin now think we should idolize the likes of the Stalin, Hitler, Jim Jones, Pol Pot, and other monsters in human form? Maybe we should just fix the anthropomorphic carbon dioxide issue by nuking all population centers to cause the extinction of humanity...
As to the study, how stupid do you have to be to not realize that a population reduction (by any means) of a carbon dioxide spewing fire using creature will result in a reduction in the creation/release of carbon dioxide by said life forms.
I hope this lady (Julia Pongratz, lead researcher on this) doesn't even win an Ig Nobel award or mention.
I wonder if she's the research version of a troll. My advice, put on your asbestos undies lady, cause the flames are rising.
This would be great, but let's face it, without independent verification, it's like Harry Potter 12, people want it, but it's not likely.
I like how they say they've been using a unit to heat a factory for two years, but won't identify the factory, much less let it be examined. Just like the alien spaceship I keep hidden in my secret vault, but I can't tell you where lest the aliens get mad at me...
Even if it's fake, they'll sell a few units in 3 months, if they actually do ship on time.
As to them not being able to describe the physics involved in the process, that's not so strange. Unfortunate, but feasible. There have been many discoveries throughout history that the discoverers didn't understand until much later, but that never stopped anyone from taking advantage of them. I'm glad they didn't try to use some scientific technobabble double speak to try and say that "something" is happening and this is how it usually occurs "this way" but not with our process and we really don't know what's going on here. There have been plenty of others that have done that in the past.
Wonder how small a complete unit that can power a decent quality car would be. That would be really nice.
Open loop instead of closed... They are going to have to fix that before anyone will take them seriously.
The 3rd movie pretty much pounded the wooden stake in pretty solidly, I can't imagine it reasonably coming back to suck even more. (But if it does, it will...)