I read the response by Dr. Roy Spencer. I even went so far as to read some of the comments on his site and his responses to those comments. Regardless of whether Spencer's work is flawed or not, he handles himself like a juvenile blogger driven by ideaology rather than a professional scientist interested in research. At one point he bans another commenter from continued comments for raising issues with Spencer's original paper. Upon banning the commenter, he proudly proclaims in all caps,
CONGRATULATIONS, OBSCURITY, YOU ARE THE FIRST TO BE BANNED FROM THIS SITE. THE CHARGE IS EITHER (1) CHRONIC IGNORANCE, OR (2) MALICIOUS OBFUSCATION. YOUR CHOICE.
Reading the whole discussion is like watching the dick-waving comments go back and forth on Youtube, or like watching a transcript from a Bill O'Reilly episode where the guest speakers just yell at each other until someone gets their mic cut off.
This kind of petty bickering has got to stop if we're ever going to make any progress in this country again. We have to stop putting value in the antics of drama queens. It may have been cute in high school politics but this kind of crap is going to render our country irrelevant if it keeps going on much longer. (And for the pedants and assholes, I am American, so I use the term, "our country," to refer to the United States).
At least you did something useful with your life. If you had worked in Wall Street, your day-by-day microsecond trader skills would have been forgotten by history and science alike. Fifty years from now, folks will still talk about the U.S. space program, and scientists will still reference the data that your missions collected. If that's not something to be proud of, I don't know what is.
You have a legacy. The only thing wall street traders have is a bag of pixie dust called money.
Speaking as a young engineer (albeit, not electrical) how the hell do you expect any of the young, new graduate engineers to gain the experience necessary to eventually fill the open positions at your company when there isn't a single company in this country interested in hiring anyone with less than 5 years of professional experience?
Speaking as a young engineer, I have to say that most major tech. companies seem to abhor the idea of actually investing time and resources in my generation's workforce.
There's a difference between arrogance and ambition, and if you give two shits about our species making anymore technical and scientific progress you probably ought to learn that distinction.
You want to get the U.S. federal government and military to invest in a technology like space mining? Tell them that China is going to be pulling an asteroid, essentially an orbital continental bomb, into Earth orbit in a controlled manner to "mine" it. I gaurantee you the DoD will start modding the OTV and any other space assets it has to wrangle some of their own asteroid "mines" into Earth orbit as well, conveniently positioned in an orbit that allows an impact point on top of China in the event of a de-orbit.
I think I would rather see T-mobile go bankrupt. Perhaps then some of the smaller start-up cellular providers could afford to buy portions of their assets. I would love to see companies like SimpleMobile and Cricket buy up their own towers in some areas and become strong localized competitors in the GSM arena.
The DOJ has the burden of proving alleged anti-competitive affects and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court.
I have their evidence. Prior to the announcement of the merger, T-mobile offered a number of no contract plans that were slightly cheaper than 2-year contractual obligation plans, thus allowing the customer more freedom to pick a carrier that suited their needs based on changing lifestyles and habits over a two year period. After the proposed merger was announced, all of the no-contract plans were eliminated, and I have three recorded conversations with T-mobile customer service representatives explicitly saying that the no-contract plans were dropped in an effort to lock users into using T-mobile's services for two years.
Explain to me how moving a customer from a no-contract plan that allows them to switch carriers on a whim, to a 2 year contractually obligated plan that locks the customer to one carrier for two years increase competition AT&T&T(-Mobile).
I used to speak to people in call centers whose primary language was English all the time. Of course, the company that owned those call centers was T-mobile USA, and when I called them, the call center employees were friendly, honest, straightforward, and tried to work with me.
Then, all of the sudden, a few months ago, every time I called a T-mobile call center, I talked to someone who I could barely understand and that couldn't think past the script in front of them. I wonder what happened to T-mobile a few months ago that caused that to occur....hmmmmm.
Well, we could take one of those "suitcase nuclear reactors" that space habitat engineers are working on and put them on planes. Hysteria or not, nuclear fuel sources have the highest energy density of any power-producing materials we know of. Hence one of the reasons more research needs to go into how to scale it down and utilize it in a safe, mobile form.
Interesting. The idea of tiered e-mail settings on age is definitely one I have not considered. I'll have to think about that.
At the various meetings and discussions your school district has had on this topic, did you happen to hear any of the primary decision makers voice what they thought the students might be gaining from having their e-mails filtered? As opposed to some other set up?
I guess what I am getting at is, what good does anyone think this particular filtering system does for the students?
I mean, when someone is wrong once, you shrug. When they're wrong ten times, you raise an eyebrow. But when they're wrong hundreds of times, they need to be added to the twit filter.
By that metric, what political/social ideaology are we supposed to trust? Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a particularly stellar record in "being right." Most of the other third parties are just as bad, if not worse than the libertarians. I suppose I like the idea of "The Independants," but they don't really stand for any cohesive ideaology.
You might want to change your battle cries based on recent GSM politics:
Verizon: "You may fire when ready."
AT&T: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
T-Mobile: "Shit here come the Borg! Arm the phas-... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!"
Sprint: "Huh? What's going on over there guys?"
Thanks for your contributions to the conversation. However, I do have one question I would like to see answered.
As an educator, what do you think the students gain from being told they cannot write certain words, as opposed to being educated how and when it is appropriate to use those words?
In other words, as an educator, why do you feel it is better to teach students that some words should be ignored, rather then teaching them about the nature of those words? Do you think your current filtering methods provide students with some skill or mindest that will better benefit them in the long run?
But I think the relevant question is, should Obama have reversed the cancellation of the shuttle program? Considering that program was such an epic money sink for getting nowhere past LEO, and the fact that most of the technology being used had not improved since the late 1970's, I would assert that saving the shuttle program would have actually been a poort choice. That is just my teo cents as an launch vehicle engineer working outside of the shuttle program, though.
...and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the rest of the world outside of the United States!....
FTFY. I think there is more than enough evidence to point to the fact that shitty boradband speeds in the United States are due to politics, greed, corruption, and outright laziness more than a lack of technology.
Current T-mo customer here as well. I hopped on with T-Mo when I bought my N900 (love it!), and have really loved interacting with the company since. When I heard about the T-mo merger with AT&T I started having flashbacks to when Cingular got bought by AT&T and my optimism died a little bit more that day.
Anyways, since I value having a GSM phone far more than I do most other items when picking a cell service, I still want to stay with a company that allows me to use sim cards in unlocked phones rather than jumping ship to Sprint. That said, I think in the next month or so, I am going to buy a Simple Mobile sim card at a local gas station or something and try out their service. I know they run on T-Mobile's towers, but I will take some comfort in knowing that not all of my money is going over to AT&T post merger. If I find the service to be decent, I'll probably transfer my T-Mo number over to Simple mobile permanently and kiss T-Mo goodbye.
Simple Mobile is relatively unknown, so far as I can tell. You might want to try something similar as well before jumping ship to the CDMA networks.
Well, if you ask the state of California, just about everything that ever existed is known to potentially cause cancer. So, I guess we should just get rid of everything that exists? At least in California?
P.S. For those who don't get this joke, go look up Prop 65.
No. But slowly dying in 6 months with a steady stream of hookers and whiskey paid for by the Make a Wish foundation and various charities? That's life baby!
What if a bunch of people send e-mails to their political representatives and slog the representatives' inboxes? Is that considered hacking? Didn't that just happen after a digital call to arms by Preseident Obama regarding the debt ceiling ordeal?
That kind of gets into a fuzzy grey area about the freedom to contact one's own political representative (i.e. speech).
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CONGRATULATIONS, OBSCURITY, YOU ARE THE FIRST TO BE BANNED FROM THIS SITE. THE CHARGE IS EITHER (1) CHRONIC IGNORANCE, OR (2) MALICIOUS OBFUSCATION. YOUR CHOICE.
Reading the whole discussion is like watching the dick-waving comments go back and forth on Youtube, or like watching a transcript from a Bill O'Reilly episode where the guest speakers just yell at each other until someone gets their mic cut off.
This kind of petty bickering has got to stop if we're ever going to make any progress in this country again. We have to stop putting value in the antics of drama queens. It may have been cute in high school politics but this kind of crap is going to render our country irrelevant if it keeps going on much longer. (And for the pedants and assholes, I am American, so I use the term, "our country," to refer to the United States).
At least you did something useful with your life. If you had worked in Wall Street, your day-by-day microsecond trader skills would have been forgotten by history and science alike. Fifty years from now, folks will still talk about the U.S. space program, and scientists will still reference the data that your missions collected. If that's not something to be proud of, I don't know what is.
You have a legacy. The only thing wall street traders have is a bag of pixie dust called money.
Speaking as a young engineer (albeit, not electrical) how the hell do you expect any of the young, new graduate engineers to gain the experience necessary to eventually fill the open positions at your company when there isn't a single company in this country interested in hiring anyone with less than 5 years of professional experience?
Speaking as a young engineer, I have to say that most major tech. companies seem to abhor the idea of actually investing time and resources in my generation's workforce.
There's a difference between arrogance and ambition, and if you give two shits about our species making anymore technical and scientific progress you probably ought to learn that distinction.
Why did you choose to use, "bleeping," at first, in your post, and then "fucking," later?
You want to get the U.S. federal government and military to invest in a technology like space mining? Tell them that China is going to be pulling an asteroid, essentially an orbital continental bomb, into Earth orbit in a controlled manner to "mine" it. I gaurantee you the DoD will start modding the OTV and any other space assets it has to wrangle some of their own asteroid "mines" into Earth orbit as well, conveniently positioned in an orbit that allows an impact point on top of China in the event of a de-orbit.
I think I would rather see T-mobile go bankrupt. Perhaps then some of the smaller start-up cellular providers could afford to buy portions of their assets. I would love to see companies like SimpleMobile and Cricket buy up their own towers in some areas and become strong localized competitors in the GSM arena.
The DOJ has the burden of proving alleged anti-competitive affects and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court.
I have their evidence. Prior to the announcement of the merger, T-mobile offered a number of no contract plans that were slightly cheaper than 2-year contractual obligation plans, thus allowing the customer more freedom to pick a carrier that suited their needs based on changing lifestyles and habits over a two year period. After the proposed merger was announced, all of the no-contract plans were eliminated, and I have three recorded conversations with T-mobile customer service representatives explicitly saying that the no-contract plans were dropped in an effort to lock users into using T-mobile's services for two years.
Explain to me how moving a customer from a no-contract plan that allows them to switch carriers on a whim, to a 2 year contractually obligated plan that locks the customer to one carrier for two years increase competition AT&T&T(-Mobile).
I used to speak to people in call centers whose primary language was English all the time. Of course, the company that owned those call centers was T-mobile USA, and when I called them, the call center employees were friendly, honest, straightforward, and tried to work with me.
Then, all of the sudden, a few months ago, every time I called a T-mobile call center, I talked to someone who I could barely understand and that couldn't think past the script in front of them. I wonder what happened to T-mobile a few months ago that caused that to occur....hmmmmm.
Well, we could take one of those "suitcase nuclear reactors" that space habitat engineers are working on and put them on planes. Hysteria or not, nuclear fuel sources have the highest energy density of any power-producing materials we know of. Hence one of the reasons more research needs to go into how to scale it down and utilize it in a safe, mobile form.
Interesting. The idea of tiered e-mail settings on age is definitely one I have not considered. I'll have to think about that.
At the various meetings and discussions your school district has had on this topic, did you happen to hear any of the primary decision makers voice what they thought the students might be gaining from having their e-mails filtered? As opposed to some other set up?
I guess what I am getting at is, what good does anyone think this particular filtering system does for the students?
Wait, we (the U.S.) already tried that? When did I miss the memo?
Not if the idea you are arguing against is so ludicrously ill-developed it immediately solicits a laugh from anyone with a shred of common sense.
I mean, when someone is wrong once, you shrug. When they're wrong ten times, you raise an eyebrow. But when they're wrong hundreds of times, they need to be added to the twit filter.
By that metric, what political/social ideaology are we supposed to trust? Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a particularly stellar record in "being right." Most of the other third parties are just as bad, if not worse than the libertarians. I suppose I like the idea of "The Independants," but they don't really stand for any cohesive ideaology.
Thoughts?
Verizon: "You may fire when ready." ... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!"
AT&T: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
T-Mobile: "Shit here come the Borg! Arm the phas-
Sprint: "Huh? What's going on over there guys?"
Thanks for your contributions to the conversation. However, I do have one question I would like to see answered.
As an educator, what do you think the students gain from being told they cannot write certain words, as opposed to being educated how and when it is appropriate to use those words?
In other words, as an educator, why do you feel it is better to teach students that some words should be ignored, rather then teaching them about the nature of those words? Do you think your current filtering methods provide students with some skill or mindest that will better benefit them in the long run?
But I think the relevant question is, should Obama have reversed the cancellation of the shuttle program? Considering that program was such an epic money sink for getting nowhere past LEO, and the fact that most of the technology being used had not improved since the late 1970's, I would assert that saving the shuttle program would have actually been a poort choice. That is just my teo cents as an launch vehicle engineer working outside of the shuttle program, though.
...and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the rest of the world outside of the United States!....
FTFY. I think there is more than enough evidence to point to the fact that shitty boradband speeds in the United States are due to politics, greed, corruption, and outright laziness more than a lack of technology.
Maybe a lot of people can empathize with the desire to steal free cell phone service. I know I hate paying those sons of bitches.
Current T-mo customer here as well. I hopped on with T-Mo when I bought my N900 (love it!), and have really loved interacting with the company since. When I heard about the T-mo merger with AT&T I started having flashbacks to when Cingular got bought by AT&T and my optimism died a little bit more that day.
Anyways, since I value having a GSM phone far more than I do most other items when picking a cell service, I still want to stay with a company that allows me to use sim cards in unlocked phones rather than jumping ship to Sprint. That said, I think in the next month or so, I am going to buy a Simple Mobile sim card at a local gas station or something and try out their service. I know they run on T-Mobile's towers, but I will take some comfort in knowing that not all of my money is going over to AT&T post merger. If I find the service to be decent, I'll probably transfer my T-Mo number over to Simple mobile permanently and kiss T-Mo goodbye.
Simple Mobile is relatively unknown, so far as I can tell. You might want to try something similar as well before jumping ship to the CDMA networks.
Well, if you ask the state of California, just about everything that ever existed is known to potentially cause cancer. So, I guess we should just get rid of everything that exists? At least in California?
P.S. For those who don't get this joke, go look up Prop 65.
No. But slowly dying in 6 months with a steady stream of hookers and whiskey paid for by the Make a Wish foundation and various charities? That's life baby!
Is there an emoticon that makes a WOOOOSH sound?
What if a bunch of people send e-mails to their political representatives and slog the representatives' inboxes? Is that considered hacking? Didn't that just happen after a digital call to arms by Preseident Obama regarding the debt ceiling ordeal?
That kind of gets into a fuzzy grey area about the freedom to contact one's own political representative (i.e. speech).
Well, I was trying to be funny. But you know how that goes on /.