The answer is all Engineers are "Mathematical Engineers" and all Engineers are "Science Engineers". There is nothing beyond engineering other than the application of those two things to solve real world techinical problems. If you think building bridges is more prestigious then designing airplanes or designing the software and algorithms to make missiles hit other missiles that's fine and dandy but you don't get to redefine engineering into "only the specific disciplines states bother to license". The fact of the matter is you want the same commitment to technical thinking, grasp of physics and science, and ability to do thorough and ethical work in the person you want writing all the software controlling the 747 you're flying in as you want from the civil engineer who built the runway. I was going to say designed the plane but that's an Aerospace "engineer" who isn't licensed as a P.E. either.
As an aside: Industrial Engineering, really? IE? Imaginary Engineering? They don't even make things. If you want to say something doesn't fit the definition of engineering it'd be the Industrial guys for sure. My heart weeps for the supposed "watering down" of their field.
Fuck whether or not N=NP. Can users handle the power and responsibility of a recycle bin icon on their desktop? This, THIS is the most important open question in Computer Science. Naturally, this too is equivalent to the God Poutine question.
I'm thinking wikipedia isn't a very good source for us considering the "yorktown campaign" and the "Siege of Yorktown" give wildly different answers even though the former claims to be maximums marshalled at any point during and after the siege. The Siege of Yorktown page says:
Either way, There were a lot of continental forces that weren't at Yorktown whereas Yorktown is the prime example of where the French marshaled forces in a joint effort. Don't get me wrong, without French involvement both financially and later directly certainly made the difference in the war but I think more French troops the continental troops in theater is incorrect.
You're correct on the ships but definitely incorrect on the troops unless you decide not to count militias which would be silly considering the nature of the Revolutionary war. Or unless you decide to throw in all French troops anywhere in the world since they're now at war with England. But those troops aren't fighting the American Revolution, they're just doing what they always do.
To be fair Libya has diplomats in America begging the UN to do something. No wholly unlike Benjamin Franklin in France. Of course in this case the diplomats don't really represent any sort of coherent government anymore so it's still a giant cluster fuck that we probably shouldn't nose into without a solid invite.
Or make a stand, right now. KILL a US arms dealer whose weapons are RIGHT now being used to kill civilians. Yes, the US didn't know how fast to sell weapons once it lifted its own embargo.
Yea, that damn US making all those AK-47's, RPD's, T-72 tanks and Mig fighters and then selling them to Libya in the 70s and 80s. Though if you're going to turn Soviet Union into an acronym shouldn't the 'S' come first?
Yea, it's a private museum so costs like $18 for the museum and then they have interactive spy experiences for a little less but I've never checked those out.
Jurors have no business using wifi while they're serving anyway.
This is while they are in selection, before they are serving on a case. Their duties at that point involved sitting there wasting time and being available to answer questions about themselves. There's no reason for them not to be able to use wifi.
We have scanners and printers running no problem in our office on Ubuntu. Why exactly does he mention having to program printer and scanner drivers?
Now I'm just throwing this out there, but it might be possible that there's more then one printer company that makes more than one type of printer so that there might exist in one of the foreign offices of the German government a printer of a make and model which isn't the exact same as yours?
Because hiroshima and nagasaki ?
No other nation in the world had the guts to pull such a retarded move and kill thousands of people in the blink of an eye.
You are quite right, other nations (and US) usually did it more slowly with firebombing turning civilian cities into flames so powerful they would literally suck the air and people into them. The Japanese though favored biological weapons:
"Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around 400,000 Chinese civilians.[11] Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.[19]
Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644, Unit 100, et cetera) were involved in research, development, and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics." (source)
For comparison the high end estimates for casualties from the combined a-bomb drops are at 240,000 (source). The plague is a much slower death then "blink of an eye" so if we're going to start assigning moral responsibility to countries as a whole as you seem to want to then I think the empire of Japan got off a lot easier then it fucking deserved.
May I remind you at the end of the day what ended WW2 was the combined efforts of european countries and russians (oh noes the evil russians!) and certainly not the Americans who showed up when the war was about to end anyway and quite conviniently claiming all the credit
This argument is as deranged and revisionist as the one where people claim the US won single-handedly. Actually doubly so when talking about the Pacific theater as you are. You do realize the Soviet Union only declared war on Japan and attacked 3 days AFTER the atomic bombing of Hiroshima right? But yea, it must be the US that showed up late and took the credit.
Hopefully you don't already realize this and are making a joke about dead soldiers (really poor taste) but they aren't protesting at the funerals because the soldiers were homosexuals, they are protesting at the dead soldiers funerals because it's such a despicable thing to do it inevitably garners media attention. Their "statement" is that the soldiers (whatever their sexuality) died because America has gays in it and God is punishing us for it. It's very convoluted, and completely ridiculous.
Yeah, because the sun just randomly appears in the middle of the sky, with no previous warning whatsoever. Riiiight.
You cannot possibly believe most people drive around paying attention to compass directions, sun angle, cloud cover and foliage and thinking about when they come over the next hill with the turn at the top if the sun is going to be there at just the right angle to completely blind them or if the foliage there will block it and then make speed changes in preparation beforehand. We can play the ideal world with perfect people game all day long but the truth of the matter is people sometimes get blinded by the sun and then have to react to it. I'm not saying that's definately the case in this specific situation, I'm just saying ruling it out entirely as a contributing factor is ridiculous.
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed. This isn't different.
No, but there will probably be a second or so delay of "WTF?!" before the correct reaction kicks in and during that time someone could easily step out from a parked car or her vehicle could veer slightly due to the surprise of suddenly losing vision before she breaks. and I'm pretty sure the result would be blaming the person throwing the mud, not the driver. At least in the civil case.
So apparently outside Chicago people react to blinding light instantaneously without distraction or disorientation and drivers are able to make large instantaneous velocity changes without putting other cars at risk?
I'm not sure about the exact numbers on the speed of light, but I'm pretty sure it can hit and blind you faster than you can slow your car to a speed that isn't "too fast for the conditions". Even if you react immediately (which is unlikely as being blinded is generally distracting and disorienting) and slam on breaks rather than trying to slow but then there's an extremely high chance of the vehicles behind you blinded a moment later slamming into you. This would be better of course in this specific situation but overall would likely cause way more accidents and loss of life then it would save.
That's a lot of guesswork about the sun that's easily dismissed by the fact that the driver Veloz got in a fender bender with (first accident) corroborated that the sun was blinding there when they had their accident as well. I can't think of a motive for him to lie about that.
First of all I think that's highly debatable if not flat out false. I think we like to believe that because that's what we see over here, and that's what stirs a lot of passion over here, but at the end of the day, even when the internet WAS shut off, it's the people with piles of bricks holding the square and responding to low-tech alarms of clacking two steel rods together to cause people to rush to the defense in order to continue to hold the square that won the day. If tweets were more powerful then bricks then justin beiber (sp?) fans would be running the world. But the truth is the tweets are only as powerful so far as their ability to incite, organize and deploy said bricks. In that they have a use, but there are other methods to do such things.
I think the problem with your statement that the revolutionary telco employee should stay to defend the networks comes down to basic force deployment strategy. Not every member of the telco is going to be willing to fight. If he makes his stand there alone he's just going to get locked up or shot because chances are every member of the police force or group of thugs that show up to turn the internet off WILL be willing to fight. Therefore he's far better abandoning his indefensible location and banding together with the handful of employees from every other teclo and business across the city thereby concentrating their forces into a size large enough to hold ground and force change. If the telco is truly THAT important it would be easy to convince the larger force to move in and defend it. It seems however they decided the main square was far more appropriate.
You don't need a kill switch when you have people with guns. Anyone who's willing to stand up to that is already in the streets protesting, not standing around maintaining the network.
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Where are the mathematical engineers?
The answer is all Engineers are "Mathematical Engineers" and all Engineers are "Science Engineers". There is nothing beyond engineering other than the application of those two things to solve real world techinical problems. If you think building bridges is more prestigious then designing airplanes or designing the software and algorithms to make missiles hit other missiles that's fine and dandy but you don't get to redefine engineering into "only the specific disciplines states bother to license". The fact of the matter is you want the same commitment to technical thinking, grasp of physics and science, and ability to do thorough and ethical work in the person you want writing all the software controlling the 747 you're flying in as you want from the civil engineer who built the runway. I was going to say designed the plane but that's an Aerospace "engineer" who isn't licensed as a P.E. either.
As an aside: Industrial Engineering, really? IE? Imaginary Engineering? They don't even make things. If you want to say something doesn't fit the definition of engineering it'd be the Industrial guys for sure. My heart weeps for the supposed "watering down" of their field.
Fuck whether or not N=NP. Can users handle the power and responsibility of a recycle bin icon on their desktop? This, THIS is the most important open question in Computer Science. Naturally, this too is equivalent to the God Poutine question.
I'm thinking wikipedia isn't a very good source for us considering the "yorktown campaign" and the "Siege of Yorktown" give wildly different answers even though the former claims to be maximums marshalled at any point during and after the siege. The Siege of Yorktown page says:
American: 8,000 regulars, 3,100 militia
French: 7,800-8,800 regulars, 29 war ships
Total: 18,900-19,900
Either way, There were a lot of continental forces that weren't at Yorktown whereas Yorktown is the prime example of where the French marshaled forces in a joint effort. Don't get me wrong, without French involvement both financially and later directly certainly made the difference in the war but I think more French troops the continental troops in theater is incorrect.
You're correct on the ships but definitely incorrect on the troops unless you decide not to count militias which would be silly considering the nature of the Revolutionary war. Or unless you decide to throw in all French troops anywhere in the world since they're now at war with England. But those troops aren't fighting the American Revolution, they're just doing what they always do.
To be fair Libya has diplomats in America begging the UN to do something. No wholly unlike Benjamin Franklin in France. Of course in this case the diplomats don't really represent any sort of coherent government anymore so it's still a giant cluster fuck that we probably shouldn't nose into without a solid invite.
Or make a stand, right now. KILL a US arms dealer whose weapons are RIGHT now being used to kill civilians. Yes, the US didn't know how fast to sell weapons once it lifted its own embargo.
Yea, that damn US making all those AK-47's, RPD's, T-72 tanks and Mig fighters and then selling them to Libya in the 70s and 80s. Though if you're going to turn Soviet Union into an acronym shouldn't the 'S' come first?
The fastest seismic velocity in the crust is about(rounding up) 8Km/s, That's less then 5mph.
I think you mean miles per second. It'd be like 18k mph ;)
Yea, it's a private museum so costs like $18 for the museum and then they have interactive spy experiences for a little less but I've never checked those out.
I fail to see how comments in the repository commit message could possibly slow down the code itself.
just look at what democracy did for Ancient Greece!!
As opposed to other forms of government all of which of course were able to avoid being conquered by the Roman Empire except for democracies right?
Jurors have no business using wifi while they're serving anyway.
This is while they are in selection, before they are serving on a case. Their duties at that point involved sitting there wasting time and being available to answer questions about themselves. There's no reason for them not to be able to use wifi.
We have scanners and printers running no problem in our office on Ubuntu. Why exactly does he mention having to program printer and scanner drivers?
Now I'm just throwing this out there, but it might be possible that there's more then one printer company that makes more than one type of printer so that there might exist in one of the foreign offices of the German government a printer of a make and model which isn't the exact same as yours?
Because hiroshima and nagasaki ? No other nation in the world had the guts to pull such a retarded move and kill thousands of people in the blink of an eye.
You are quite right, other nations (and US) usually did it more slowly with firebombing turning civilian cities into flames so powerful they would literally suck the air and people into them. The Japanese though favored biological weapons:
For comparison the high end estimates for casualties from the combined a-bomb drops are at 240,000 (source). The plague is a much slower death then "blink of an eye" so if we're going to start assigning moral responsibility to countries as a whole as you seem to want to then I think the empire of Japan got off a lot easier then it fucking deserved.
May I remind you at the end of the day what ended WW2 was the combined efforts of european countries and russians (oh noes the evil russians!) and certainly not the Americans who showed up when the war was about to end anyway and quite conviniently claiming all the credit
This argument is as deranged and revisionist as the one where people claim the US won single-handedly. Actually doubly so when talking about the Pacific theater as you are. You do realize the Soviet Union only declared war on Japan and attacked 3 days AFTER the atomic bombing of Hiroshima right? But yea, it must be the US that showed up late and took the credit.
Really? This article was written by the same local news channel?
Once you detonate the warhead there isn't going to be a whole lot of solid mass left traveling in the original direction.
Not that I pity Westboro at all (hypocritical demon warshipers)...
Fuck me, who let that crazy church build demon warships?!?!
Hopefully you don't already realize this and are making a joke about dead soldiers (really poor taste) but they aren't protesting at the funerals because the soldiers were homosexuals, they are protesting at the dead soldiers funerals because it's such a despicable thing to do it inevitably garners media attention. Their "statement" is that the soldiers (whatever their sexuality) died because America has gays in it and God is punishing us for it. It's very convoluted, and completely ridiculous.
ah, so you nailed someone while being blinded by the sun too!
Yep, turned out she was only hot b/c the sun was in my eyes =/
Yeah, because the sun just randomly appears in the middle of the sky, with no previous warning whatsoever. Riiiight.
You cannot possibly believe most people drive around paying attention to compass directions, sun angle, cloud cover and foliage and thinking about when they come over the next hill with the turn at the top if the sun is going to be there at just the right angle to completely blind them or if the foliage there will block it and then make speed changes in preparation beforehand. We can play the ideal world with perfect people game all day long but the truth of the matter is people sometimes get blinded by the sun and then have to react to it. I'm not saying that's definately the case in this specific situation, I'm just saying ruling it out entirely as a contributing factor is ridiculous.
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed. This isn't different.
No, but there will probably be a second or so delay of "WTF?!" before the correct reaction kicks in and during that time someone could easily step out from a parked car or her vehicle could veer slightly due to the surprise of suddenly losing vision before she breaks. and I'm pretty sure the result would be blaming the person throwing the mud, not the driver. At least in the civil case.
So apparently outside Chicago people react to blinding light instantaneously without distraction or disorientation and drivers are able to make large instantaneous velocity changes without putting other cars at risk?
I'm not sure about the exact numbers on the speed of light, but I'm pretty sure it can hit and blind you faster than you can slow your car to a speed that isn't "too fast for the conditions". Even if you react immediately (which is unlikely as being blinded is generally distracting and disorienting) and slam on breaks rather than trying to slow but then there's an extremely high chance of the vehicles behind you blinded a moment later slamming into you. This would be better of course in this specific situation but overall would likely cause way more accidents and loss of life then it would save.
That's a lot of guesswork about the sun that's easily dismissed by the fact that the driver Veloz got in a fender bender with (first accident) corroborated that the sun was blinding there when they had their accident as well. I can't think of a motive for him to lie about that.
One million tweets is more powerful than a brick.
First of all I think that's highly debatable if not flat out false. I think we like to believe that because that's what we see over here, and that's what stirs a lot of passion over here, but at the end of the day, even when the internet WAS shut off, it's the people with piles of bricks holding the square and responding to low-tech alarms of clacking two steel rods together to cause people to rush to the defense in order to continue to hold the square that won the day. If tweets were more powerful then bricks then justin beiber (sp?) fans would be running the world. But the truth is the tweets are only as powerful so far as their ability to incite, organize and deploy said bricks. In that they have a use, but there are other methods to do such things.
I think the problem with your statement that the revolutionary telco employee should stay to defend the networks comes down to basic force deployment strategy. Not every member of the telco is going to be willing to fight. If he makes his stand there alone he's just going to get locked up or shot because chances are every member of the police force or group of thugs that show up to turn the internet off WILL be willing to fight. Therefore he's far better abandoning his indefensible location and banding together with the handful of employees from every other teclo and business across the city thereby concentrating their forces into a size large enough to hold ground and force change. If the telco is truly THAT important it would be easy to convince the larger force to move in and defend it. It seems however they decided the main square was far more appropriate.
You don't need a kill switch when you have people with guns. Anyone who's willing to stand up to that is already in the streets protesting, not standing around maintaining the network.