How exactly do you obviously tell the difference between insurgents picking up a comrade and his intelligence form a battle and evacuating him and civilians picking up a wounded person from a battlefield and evacuating him? No ones debating whether they were picking up a wounded man, but what you don't seem to be clear on is that soldiers are legitimate targets if they are trying to remove a wounded or incapacitated enemy soldier from an active battlefield to avoid surrender. So it all comes down to a matter of identifying them as insurgents or not from the gun cam video which you both cant keep your eyes locked onto 100% of the time cause you gotta do other shit too, like flying and reading instruments.
The unfortunate truth is that those overly protective parents count for a lot because the consequences are many.
This. And the fact that more and more we are entrusting our children to be constantly supervised by others instead of taking care of them ourselves. If it's not your kid, you're generally twice as worried about them getting hurt in your care because not only is the kid hurt, but you're also worried about the parent going off the deep-end.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said previously he planned to post internal Bank of America documents. It's not clear whether or when that might happen or whether the material is the same as what Anonymous has leaked.
Looks like this is a separate leak, but maybe of the same documents but no one knows?
Did the bank of america stuff ever get released? Wasn't that supposed to shed light on the whole economic meltdown and put people in jail and save the world and shit? Or did it get released and the news never picked up on it?
We're tied at a rate of 99.0 with Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, New Zealand....
Basically all these countries stopped taking accurate measures because the rates are so high it's stupid to spend money on trying to collect the data to see if you're at 99.9 or 99.89. Therefore they all get listed at 99.0 by the UN.
I think the big problem is that in the USA, you will need to build flying Humvees to get this idea accepted. Anything smaller will be seen as an insult to American integrity, and not safe on the roads
You went right from one urban legend to one on the other side and threw basic science and reason out the window with it. First of all, the cup didn't melt, she spilled it on herself while removing the lid (Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants. Secondly, you say the temperature was 190 degrees, and "was kept at a temperature hotter than you could possibly make coffee at home". This leaves us with two possible options.
You meant 190F and somehow lack the sufficient technology to boil water at home. If that's the case, find some wood, light it on fire, and put a pot of water above it. Let me know if you have questions.
You meant 190C and expect us to believe this coffee existed in some sort of pressurized coffee cup that allowed the water to be heated to nearly twice it's normal boiling point and yet when the pressure was released it somehow spilled rather then vaporizing
Isn't it right to privacy from the government? You must be able to sign away your right to privacy for something like a reality TV show. Is it different when they agree to provide you with a laptop and a contract versus money from a tv show and a contract?
Unless you live in a magical world where pigs give you bacon unharmed without dying I'm pretty sure that term could easily be construed as a threat against a police office.
If cops are pigs then bacon would be dead cops. You thought it was funny cause the badass shouts it on the TV, the cops don't think its funny because they're the ones who get shot for real. With the amount of gang activity in this country I'd radio ahead and check the names of people driving by shouting out the window that they're gonna kill me too.
Instead of insulting him with straw mans, perhaps you should simply explain to him without hostility that you've decided to use an unconventional and less specific maximum velocity abbreviation to describe terminal velocity. Also, even the most elementary physics class deals with both Newtonian motion and voltage so your "physics" specifier is not as helpful in determining the meaning of the acronym as you seem to believe it to be.
And yet all that time lolsec was doing nothing about it. Now that it's out in the open and the corrupt officials are resigning and being investigated is when they feel they need to strike? It's like closing the barn door after the horse got out and then lighting it on fire.
History says otherwise. Look at Western European societies that gone from being irrational and god fearing to secular and reasonable.
Usually through the process of the irrational god-fearing people dying. Not necessarily violently (though the horrors of ww1 and ww2 certainly helped) but being replaced by offspring who would grow more and more liberal. I agree that individuals can change, but a people as a whole generally don't without the time to be replaced by new generations.
Having a peaked roof doesn't decrease the amount of extra atmosphere in the way of that sunlight during the winter nor does it increase the amount of time that sun is above the horizon.
Perhaps, but he'd of had to spend a lot more money on building a much stronger roof to support the weight of all the snow. Besides which, the attic is generally for storage and there's insulation between the living spaces and the attic flooring so he shouldn't be wasting much heat on that portion of the house anyways. Either way, the sun isn't as effective at heating in the winter (that's why it's fucking winter!) so this shouldn't make as big of a difference as it does in the summer anyways.
The founding fathers would be horrified by > 95% of current people. Most of them would put our women in stocks for daring to wear pants (god forbid they saw a beach) and want to put our minorities in chains. I respect them for what they did during their time and in the context of their world but I don't give a fuck about what they think about ours. People need to stop talking about them like they were the chosen prophets who received the constitution from the hand of God himself. It was a bunch of white guys sitting in a room arguing profusely and compromising about how many times they could vote on behalf of all the black people they owned. The only reason the whole damn thing worked is because they agreed upon and wrote SO little that it was flexible enough for us to change as the country has gone on.
I'm guessing the only reason they don't is....there aren't any terrorists.
....really? You don't see any other possible problems that might crop up for a terrorist organization looking to purchase a 737 outright? No problems with moving that amount of money or the Government/intelligence agencies taking any sort of look into who are buying large aircraft?
Also the reason they aren't blowing up...
airport scanner queues - Environment with heightened security with smaller casualties then attacking a more densely crowded and enclosed area. People have an innate fear of flying, not a fear of standing in lines, so wont do as much psychological damage. If your not going to hit an airplane might as well go someplace outside of the airport with less security and less risk. Not a particularly appealing target.
shopping malls - They've been there, done that. Casualties aren't that spectacular so it doesn't get much press which is why I could excuse you for being ignorant even when you can do this: http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+bomber+shopping+mall
trains - you really haven't heard of the train bombings in Spain or the underground bombings in London?? That's rather unbelievable.
buses - Well now we're in the realm of closing our eyes, holding our hands over our ears and screaming, because buses get blown up here and there every month.
sports stadiums, museums, Hooters bars, etc., etc., etc) Yea, if they aren't attacking 1276 mystreet Lane then clearly they don't exist in the slightest!
How this got modded interesting is beyond me. Are we just up modding any historical reference whether it makes a lick of sense or not? I'm not an Obama fan but this comparison is so wrong it's embarrassing. You're actually claiming that the president is hosting a discussion about jobs, the deficit and the economy in order to pull a "bread and circus" act to distract people from important issues like jobs, the deficit, and the economy? The cognitive dissonance that must be required to either claim or up mod such an inherently self-defeating argument is absolutely staggering. This is not a bread and circus act, this is a discussion about issues by someone you don't like using a technology you don't like.
Nowhere in that point or anywhere else does he call out DCGS-A or it's effectiveness. All he's doing is identifying new software capabilities that need to be added. There's a vast difference between saying we need new analytic software that can create link diagrams and timelines and saying the entire hardware infrastructure and software architecture currently deployed doesn't work. Without the article authors slant on DCGS-A and them pushing palantir you wouldn't even know what DCGS-A is according to Flynn's need request and you certainly wouldn't think it's any more a failure then any one of the other 5 programs he said he wants the new tools to interface with.
It's like submitting a need statement saying your soldiers need better maps with real-time updates while mobile in their Humvee and then someone taking that and saying the entire Humvee program is a failure and is costing lives and we should scrap it in favor of some venture capital corporation's version of a Humvee.
1. Military has it's own system, not controlled by Palantir (Oh noz!!)
2. Officer requests additional tools for system, and highlights reasons why those tools are needed
3. Someone twists the Need Statement to claim Army's system is broken and just happens to start pushing Palantir (remember them from the BoA scandal?)
Read the PDF before you read the article and it's absolutely impossible to come to the same conclusions that the article did, especially the DCGS-A responsible for lives lost part. All he's doing is requesting new analytic tools and the only time he mentions DCGS-A is when he requests that the analytic tools be able to interface with that system. This is clearly a fluff piece for Palantir and with the amount of money they throw around for congressmen, advertising and track suits so their developers look super hip, it's not surprising.
Nowhere in the PDF does it claim the DCGS-A's computer faults have resulted in lives lost. The PDF is a request from MG Flynn for more advanced analytic tools because they don't have all the software they need to sort through the enormous amounts of information and make the connections they need to. That's not a fault of DCGS-A, that just means they want more functionality integrated into DCGS-A. Trying to claim he's saying DCGS-A is resulting in lives lost is like claiming someone said Windows is failing because they asked for some custom graphing programs to be procured. The only time he even mentions DCGS-A in his need statement is when he says he wants the new software to run on it. Not exactly something you'd request if you were of the opinion it was costing the lives of your men.
That doesn't speak to whether DCGS-A is a great system or not, but neither does the PDF they're claiming as evidence which is why I'm calling bullshit.
Don't forget irrigation and and land usage which has a much larger effect. But at the end of the day your comparing what we put up there in the last 9 days from human inputs of water vapor to evaporation from the surface area of the world's oceans. Whereas on the other hand CO2 will just keep building and building in concentration as we output it.
I agree shutting off 90% production is crazy, but if we're simply deciding between installing moisture traps or CO2 scrubbers I think I'd go for the scrubbers.
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How exactly do you obviously tell the difference between insurgents picking up a comrade and his intelligence form a battle and evacuating him and civilians picking up a wounded person from a battlefield and evacuating him? No ones debating whether they were picking up a wounded man, but what you don't seem to be clear on is that soldiers are legitimate targets if they are trying to remove a wounded or incapacitated enemy soldier from an active battlefield to avoid surrender. So it all comes down to a matter of identifying them as insurgents or not from the gun cam video which you both cant keep your eyes locked onto 100% of the time cause you gotta do other shit too, like flying and reading instruments.
The unfortunate truth is that those overly protective parents count for a lot because the consequences are many.
This. And the fact that more and more we are entrusting our children to be constantly supervised by others instead of taking care of them ourselves. If it's not your kid, you're generally twice as worried about them getting hurt in your care because not only is the kid hurt, but you're also worried about the parent going off the deep-end.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said previously he planned to post internal Bank of America documents. It's not clear whether or when that might happen or whether the material is the same as what Anonymous has leaked.
Looks like this is a separate leak, but maybe of the same documents but no one knows?
Did the bank of america stuff ever get released? Wasn't that supposed to shed light on the whole economic meltdown and put people in jail and save the world and shit? Or did it get released and the news never picked up on it?
Compared the US illiteracy rates vs real "first world" countries lately?
Have you? Literacy rates
We're tied at a rate of 99.0 with Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, New Zealand....
Basically all these countries stopped taking accurate measures because the rates are so high it's stupid to spend money on trying to collect the data to see if you're at 99.9 or 99.89. Therefore they all get listed at 99.0 by the UN.
did you watch the video? the very first interaction is Microsoft rudely closing the shades and refusing to come out when linux comes by.
I think the big problem is that in the USA, you will need to build flying Humvees to get this idea accepted. Anything smaller will be seen as an insult to American integrity, and not safe on the roads
Way ahead of you: DARPA's Flying humvee
Isn't it right to privacy from the government? You must be able to sign away your right to privacy for something like a reality TV show. Is it different when they agree to provide you with a laptop and a contract versus money from a tv show and a contract?
Unless you live in a magical world where pigs give you bacon unharmed without dying I'm pretty sure that term could easily be construed as a threat against a police office.
If cops are pigs then bacon would be dead cops. You thought it was funny cause the badass shouts it on the TV, the cops don't think its funny because they're the ones who get shot for real. With the amount of gang activity in this country I'd radio ahead and check the names of people driving by shouting out the window that they're gonna kill me too.
Instead of insulting him with straw mans, perhaps you should simply explain to him without hostility that you've decided to use an unconventional and less specific maximum velocity abbreviation to describe terminal velocity. Also, even the most elementary physics class deals with both Newtonian motion and voltage so your "physics" specifier is not as helpful in determining the meaning of the acronym as you seem to believe it to be.
breaking the law =/= vigilantism (taking the law into your own hands)
And yet all that time lolsec was doing nothing about it. Now that it's out in the open and the corrupt officials are resigning and being investigated is when they feel they need to strike? It's like closing the barn door after the horse got out and then lighting it on fire.
History says otherwise. Look at Western European societies that gone from being irrational and god fearing to secular and reasonable.
Usually through the process of the irrational god-fearing people dying. Not necessarily violently (though the horrors of ww1 and ww2 certainly helped) but being replaced by offspring who would grow more and more liberal. I agree that individuals can change, but a people as a whole generally don't without the time to be replaced by new generations.
Having a peaked roof doesn't decrease the amount of extra atmosphere in the way of that sunlight during the winter nor does it increase the amount of time that sun is above the horizon.
Perhaps, but he'd of had to spend a lot more money on building a much stronger roof to support the weight of all the snow. Besides which, the attic is generally for storage and there's insulation between the living spaces and the attic flooring so he shouldn't be wasting much heat on that portion of the house anyways. Either way, the sun isn't as effective at heating in the winter (that's why it's fucking winter!) so this shouldn't make as big of a difference as it does in the summer anyways.
The founding fathers would be horrified by > 95% of current people. Most of them would put our women in stocks for daring to wear pants (god forbid they saw a beach) and want to put our minorities in chains. I respect them for what they did during their time and in the context of their world but I don't give a fuck about what they think about ours. People need to stop talking about them like they were the chosen prophets who received the constitution from the hand of God himself. It was a bunch of white guys sitting in a room arguing profusely and compromising about how many times they could vote on behalf of all the black people they owned. The only reason the whole damn thing worked is because they agreed upon and wrote SO little that it was flexible enough for us to change as the country has gone on.
I'm guessing the only reason they don't is....there aren't any terrorists.
....really? You don't see any other possible problems that might crop up for a terrorist organization looking to purchase a 737 outright? No problems with moving that amount of money or the Government/intelligence agencies taking any sort of look into who are buying large aircraft?
Also the reason they aren't blowing up ...
As both a tax payer and flyer I don't see anything better in EITHER arena about paying someone with a medical degree to search for bombs and weapons.
How this got modded interesting is beyond me. Are we just up modding any historical reference whether it makes a lick of sense or not? I'm not an Obama fan but this comparison is so wrong it's embarrassing. You're actually claiming that the president is hosting a discussion about jobs, the deficit and the economy in order to pull a "bread and circus" act to distract people from important issues like jobs, the deficit, and the economy? The cognitive dissonance that must be required to either claim or up mod such an inherently self-defeating argument is absolutely staggering. This is not a bread and circus act, this is a discussion about issues by someone you don't like using a technology you don't like.
Nowhere in that point or anywhere else does he call out DCGS-A or it's effectiveness. All he's doing is identifying new software capabilities that need to be added. There's a vast difference between saying we need new analytic software that can create link diagrams and timelines and saying the entire hardware infrastructure and software architecture currently deployed doesn't work. Without the article authors slant on DCGS-A and them pushing palantir you wouldn't even know what DCGS-A is according to Flynn's need request and you certainly wouldn't think it's any more a failure then any one of the other 5 programs he said he wants the new tools to interface with.
It's like submitting a need statement saying your soldiers need better maps with real-time updates while mobile in their Humvee and then someone taking that and saying the entire Humvee program is a failure and is costing lives and we should scrap it in favor of some venture capital corporation's version of a Humvee.
Read the PDF before you read the article and it's absolutely impossible to come to the same conclusions that the article did, especially the DCGS-A responsible for lives lost part. All he's doing is requesting new analytic tools and the only time he mentions DCGS-A is when he requests that the analytic tools be able to interface with that system. This is clearly a fluff piece for Palantir and with the amount of money they throw around for congressmen, advertising and track suits so their developers look super hip, it's not surprising.
Nowhere in the PDF does it claim the DCGS-A's computer faults have resulted in lives lost. The PDF is a request from MG Flynn for more advanced analytic tools because they don't have all the software they need to sort through the enormous amounts of information and make the connections they need to. That's not a fault of DCGS-A, that just means they want more functionality integrated into DCGS-A. Trying to claim he's saying DCGS-A is resulting in lives lost is like claiming someone said Windows is failing because they asked for some custom graphing programs to be procured. The only time he even mentions DCGS-A in his need statement is when he says he wants the new software to run on it. Not exactly something you'd request if you were of the opinion it was costing the lives of your men.
That doesn't speak to whether DCGS-A is a great system or not, but neither does the PDF they're claiming as evidence which is why I'm calling bullshit.
Don't forget irrigation and and land usage which has a much larger effect. But at the end of the day your comparing what we put up there in the last 9 days from human inputs of water vapor to evaporation from the surface area of the world's oceans. Whereas on the other hand CO2 will just keep building and building in concentration as we output it.
I agree shutting off 90% production is crazy, but if we're simply deciding between installing moisture traps or CO2 scrubbers I think I'd go for the scrubbers.