1) Little Boy would probably qualify as a "dirty bomb" by today's standards, since it fissioned just a small fraction of its uranium
That's not what a dirty bomb is. A dirty bomb does not have a nuclear reaction. A dirty bomb isn't a weapon of mass destruction, it's a fear-based weapon for area denial.
We have a constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Right, equal protection. For example, 2 people who make wildly different sums of money every day both get pulled over for speeding by the same amount, and both of them have to pay what it takes them say 3 days to earn. That way the richer guy doesn't laugh it off while the poorer guy gets evicted. Equal protection.
I bet you let your kids play unsupervised in the street too, right? After all, your kids should have the "freedom to roam around outside", right?
I see. You think your cats are like your kids. They're not, they're animals (sorry Sunshine, your cats don't "think they're people"). My cats do in fact know to let cars pass before crossing the street, I've seen it many many times.
The average lifespan of a cat is considerably less when allowed outdoors.
I bet you'll find that if you confine people to a single compound for their entire lives that, with adequate medical care, food, and exercise, they will live longer on average than people who are free to travel the world. They'll never catch a disease if they never come into contact with anyone who has a disease, right? So what? It's not solely about the number of years, it is also about the quality of them. You're telling me that cats are not evolved to deal with traffic, but you think they've spent the last tens of millions of years of evolution just waiting for your living room? Yeah, ok buddy. That must be why cats are such good climbers, jumpers, and hunters. Just waiting for that living room. The reason cats are among the most effective and well-adapted hunters is because they just knew you had a Roomba coming.
That's a pretty nice article you linked to also.
Indoor cats have a much lower likelihood of becoming hurt or ill from outdoor hazards.
Holy fuck, really? Well shit, I'm glad someone did a study.
whereas outdoor cats live an average of just two to five years
Well, then I must be doing something right if my cats are beating the average by up to 5x.
Cats who are kept indoors can reach the ripe old age of 17 or more years
I bet those last few years are tons of fun too, right? Just like with people. I can put you in touch with my 96 year old grandma and you can ask her how many years she's wanted to die.
"One day he came in and he had part of his jaw missing," recalls his owner, Lisa McWhorter. "One of his eyes was closed shut before, and he had an abscess on his back one time from where he got into a fight with something."... "When I was little, I had indoor-outdoor cats and they all had fleas," she recalls.
Say that thing about anecdotes and data again.
And outdoor cats bring you home dead things and I don’t like that either.
Aw, poor baby. You want a keep an animal perfectly designed to hunt, but you don't want it to actually hunt. I feel so sorry for you. I have zero problems with being woken up at 1 AM by my cat meowing, going out to see what he got, trapping a remarkably unharmed rat and letting it go outside, petting my cat on the head to acknowledge his achievement and going back to bed. That's what I understood what was going to happen when I decided to own some hunting machines.
Some indoor cats do seem to yearn for the outside world.
Do tell.
Once Valerie LaRussell and her husband, Greg, let their cat Odie outside for a "playdate" with a neighbor's cat, there was no going back. The 2-year-old grey tabby would "meow his head off" and tear up the furniture whenever he was kept indoors. They tried taking him outside with a harness, but he slipped right out of it. "We just became resigned to the fact that he's going to be an indoor-outdoor cat," LaRussell says.
Yeah, weird how an animal wants to be an animal.
Although it's not the lifestyle vets recommend, LaRussell says keeping Odie outdoors has trimmed him down to what her vet says is an ideal weight.
Wow, that's weird huh? Almost like when the animal is free to run, climb, and chase, it will.
Whenever possible, try to get them in at night. Mo
Responsible cat owners -- that is to say, people who want their cats to live more than just a few years on average -- don't let their cats outside.
I appreciate you calling me irresponsible and everything, but I want my cats to have the freedom to roam around outside. They aren't meant to be in a closed environment their entire lives. Both of my cats are around or over 10 years old. I don't know how old the other one was, but she was a few years old by the time she came to me and she stayed with me for another 5 or 6 years. The vet couldn't determine her age when I got her.
Most cat owners I know are smart enough...The other owners... well, you can't fix stupid, unfortunately.
I am. Up until recently I had three, all of them could come and go as they please (I have two now). One of them is a very large cat, he's not aggressive at all, and typically stays in the house or yard. He might succeed at catching only a few animals per year because of his size. He's not exactly stealthy nor quick. The other cat is more of an alpha male with a larger territory. He probably kills an animal every 2 or 3 days if you include reptiles, but that's only counting the things he brings home. He's brought live bats and rats into the house, I don't know how many birds. I found a dead falcon or hawk in the backyard once (maybe a merlin), but I don't know if he killed it or just found it dead. In the spring time he catches young birds all the time, and every year he'll have mockingbirds attacking him whenever they see him. The third cat was between the other two, she was a good hunter but didn't do it that much (or, at least, didn't bring them home). So that one cat might kill 10 or 20 animals per month. That's well over a hundred per year. Even if you take an average with the other 2 cats, that's still in the range of at least 40 animals per cat per year, minimum. Reality is actually higher because of the fact that they do not bring everything home. If they catch a bird or lizard they might eat part of it and just leave it there. So, this statement is complete crap:
Sorry, the numbers make no sense. Quick 'envelope calculations' would show you that.
Only 10 birds per year is a lazy cat.
The ASPCA estimates between 74 million and 96 million cats in the US. At 3.7 billion birds, that makes it between 38 and 50 birds per cat per year. Considering the fact that I have no idea how many kills my cats get away from the house, that number makes perfect sense for my three cats together, that average sounds about right. The one cat alone probably covers the numbers for all 3 by himself.
I don't know what happened with that first graph. Based on the legend, 2014 saw no new capacity from coal, 23% from wind, and 3% from other. Then the article says that coal was 23% and wind was 3%.
You're thinking that a company with 95,000 employees that operates on every continent except Antarctica hasn't "noticed" a very disruptive 6 year old company in their industry? They must be pretty awful at their jobs then, no?
Depending on the severity and frequency, you might want to look into holistic approaches. Everyone's body is different, but if you try enough things you might find the magic combo that works in your case.
You're not so ignorant that you wouldn't accept a god as a possibility, are you?
Just a god? How about an asexually-reproducing giant, a cow licking people into existence, and Earth being created from the corpse of said giant? That sounds reasonable, right?
Is it possible? I suppose, it's possible. Very very many things are within the realm of possibility. For example, it could be possible that you are the only sentient being ever created, and everything that you are experiencing is nothing more than a fever dream in your mind. That's a possibility. It doesn't seem very likely though, does it? I doubt that the sky is actually the skull of a giant held aloft by 4 dwarves, and I doubt that a creator god that no one has ever seen decided to create everything with a huge master plan in mind, and then go about "testing faith" and doing other things as if he didn't know exactly what was going to happen (being omniscient, and all that). Is it possible? Sure, it's possible that an omniscient, omnipresent god created everything and then ordered people not to eat shellfish and wear mixed fabrics. I don't think it's very likely though.
So on the page that says "Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement", you're suggesting that Virgin Media did not actually receive such an order?
Because it is not a court order. It is a court order...
riiiight....
Are you suggesting that the website being blocked should sue the Court for libel? I'm sure that would go over real well.
Doesn't the UK have some amazing slander and libel laws? Time for a lawsuit...
Why do you think that an ISP blocking access to a website with a page stating that the court ordered them to block that site constitutes libel or slander?
Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten.
Well won't you be embarrassed when you actually click on the article and note the color of the target vehicle.
Do you have any idea what the actual cost of development of this program is, then the cost of actually operating the laser, or are you just going to assume it's in the billions and then try and compare it with the A10 program? Have you made any attempt at research? Or are you "just asking questions?"
I love the A10 as much as anyone, but it's pretty difficult to compare a laser program with the A10. The A10 does not exactly excel at shooting down rockets in flight, and the entire purpose of the laser program is not to develop a laser that can disable trucks. It's to develop a general-purpose laser system that can track and engage targets, and this test is a demonstration that the power output is sufficient to disable a vehicle. That gives us a frame of reference for the power of the laser.
But apparently you want to scrap the laser program and instead have fleets of A10s just flying around Israel or aircraft carriers or any other place where a laser defense system might come in handy? Yeah, that sounds a whole lot cheaper than having a trailer with a laser and radar sitting there waiting for targets.
A better question would be why do you choose to believe that? Or should I capitalize the word "WHY" like the answer is obvious and I'm just being obtuse? I know, I know, the reason you believe it is because you're gullible, don't fact check, and like to hear things that reinforce your existing views. I just like to ask WHY is that?
Here's some more information about your "lost civilization":
Atlantis is the name of a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state (see The Republic).
You understand the meanings of the things I put in bold, right?
No one said anything about there being no cities underwater. There are obviously quite a few, and your link lists several of them. You know which city isn't listed on that page? Atlantis, the specific single city you mentioned in your first post (not "cities buried beneath water and hidden for thousands of years", but, specifically, Atlantis). You want to know why Atlantis isn't listed on that page? Because it's widely regarded as being a myth. So, yeah, you're the troll.
Here's a story about Curt Schilling calling out the guys who are talking about fisting and raping his underage daughter, and you're "uncomfortable" with how people use the word "doxing." Way to keep things in perspective.
Here, here's a definition for you:
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent
In an ideal world, the free market would step in and protect consumers in place of the government having to do so.
You think so? Isn't it the free market which lead to the situation that we have today with a few major companies having the power to control the network and shut out competitors? Did all that happen in some sort of socialist vacuum?
You're welcome to take that up with the reviewers listing them in the top 10. I personally don't care, I was just answering the guy's question about how they make money.
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1) Little Boy would probably qualify as a "dirty bomb" by today's standards, since it fissioned just a small fraction of its uranium
That's not what a dirty bomb is. A dirty bomb does not have a nuclear reaction. A dirty bomb isn't a weapon of mass destruction, it's a fear-based weapon for area denial.
TFS mentions a few times where it was tried in the US.
We have a constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Right, equal protection. For example, 2 people who make wildly different sums of money every day both get pulled over for speeding by the same amount, and both of them have to pay what it takes them say 3 days to earn. That way the richer guy doesn't laugh it off while the poorer guy gets evicted. Equal protection.
Yeah, really a stunning victory you pulled off in that debate. Truly an intellectual powerhouse. I'm really feeling the sting of defeat over here.
I bet you let your kids play unsupervised in the street too, right? After all, your kids should have the "freedom to roam around outside", right?
I see. You think your cats are like your kids. They're not, they're animals (sorry Sunshine, your cats don't "think they're people"). My cats do in fact know to let cars pass before crossing the street, I've seen it many many times.
The average lifespan of a cat is considerably less when allowed outdoors.
I bet you'll find that if you confine people to a single compound for their entire lives that, with adequate medical care, food, and exercise, they will live longer on average than people who are free to travel the world. They'll never catch a disease if they never come into contact with anyone who has a disease, right? So what? It's not solely about the number of years, it is also about the quality of them. You're telling me that cats are not evolved to deal with traffic, but you think they've spent the last tens of millions of years of evolution just waiting for your living room? Yeah, ok buddy. That must be why cats are such good climbers, jumpers, and hunters. Just waiting for that living room. The reason cats are among the most effective and well-adapted hunters is because they just knew you had a Roomba coming.
That's a pretty nice article you linked to also.
Indoor cats have a much lower likelihood of becoming hurt or ill from outdoor hazards.
Holy fuck, really? Well shit, I'm glad someone did a study.
whereas outdoor cats live an average of just two to five years
Well, then I must be doing something right if my cats are beating the average by up to 5x.
Cats who are kept indoors can reach the ripe old age of 17 or more years
I bet those last few years are tons of fun too, right? Just like with people. I can put you in touch with my 96 year old grandma and you can ask her how many years she's wanted to die.
"One day he came in and he had part of his jaw missing," recalls his owner, Lisa McWhorter. "One of his eyes was closed shut before, and he had an abscess on his back one time from where he got into a fight with something." ... "When I was little, I had indoor-outdoor cats and they all had fleas," she recalls.
Say that thing about anecdotes and data again.
And outdoor cats bring you home dead things and I don’t like that either.
Aw, poor baby. You want a keep an animal perfectly designed to hunt, but you don't want it to actually hunt. I feel so sorry for you. I have zero problems with being woken up at 1 AM by my cat meowing, going out to see what he got, trapping a remarkably unharmed rat and letting it go outside, petting my cat on the head to acknowledge his achievement and going back to bed. That's what I understood what was going to happen when I decided to own some hunting machines.
Some indoor cats do seem to yearn for the outside world.
Do tell.
Once Valerie LaRussell and her husband, Greg, let their cat Odie outside for a "playdate" with a neighbor's cat, there was no going back. The 2-year-old grey tabby would "meow his head off" and tear up the furniture whenever he was kept indoors. They tried taking him outside with a harness, but he slipped right out of it. "We just became resigned to the fact that he's going to be an indoor-outdoor cat," LaRussell says.
Yeah, weird how an animal wants to be an animal.
Although it's not the lifestyle vets recommend, LaRussell says keeping Odie outdoors has trimmed him down to what her vet says is an ideal weight.
Wow, that's weird huh? Almost like when the animal is free to run, climb, and chase, it will.
Whenever possible, try to get them in at night. Mo
Responsible cat owners -- that is to say, people who want their cats to live more than just a few years on average -- don't let their cats outside.
I appreciate you calling me irresponsible and everything, but I want my cats to have the freedom to roam around outside. They aren't meant to be in a closed environment their entire lives. Both of my cats are around or over 10 years old. I don't know how old the other one was, but she was a few years old by the time she came to me and she stayed with me for another 5 or 6 years. The vet couldn't determine her age when I got her.
Most cat owners I know are smart enough...The other owners... well, you can't fix stupid, unfortunately.
And fuck you too, pal.
I'm not really a cat owner.
I am. Up until recently I had three, all of them could come and go as they please (I have two now). One of them is a very large cat, he's not aggressive at all, and typically stays in the house or yard. He might succeed at catching only a few animals per year because of his size. He's not exactly stealthy nor quick. The other cat is more of an alpha male with a larger territory. He probably kills an animal every 2 or 3 days if you include reptiles, but that's only counting the things he brings home. He's brought live bats and rats into the house, I don't know how many birds. I found a dead falcon or hawk in the backyard once (maybe a merlin), but I don't know if he killed it or just found it dead. In the spring time he catches young birds all the time, and every year he'll have mockingbirds attacking him whenever they see him. The third cat was between the other two, she was a good hunter but didn't do it that much (or, at least, didn't bring them home). So that one cat might kill 10 or 20 animals per month. That's well over a hundred per year. Even if you take an average with the other 2 cats, that's still in the range of at least 40 animals per cat per year, minimum. Reality is actually higher because of the fact that they do not bring everything home. If they catch a bird or lizard they might eat part of it and just leave it there. So, this statement is complete crap:
Sorry, the numbers make no sense. Quick 'envelope calculations' would show you that.
Only 10 birds per year is a lazy cat.
The ASPCA estimates between 74 million and 96 million cats in the US. At 3.7 billion birds, that makes it between 38 and 50 birds per cat per year. Considering the fact that I have no idea how many kills my cats get away from the house, that number makes perfect sense for my three cats together, that average sounds about right. The one cat alone probably covers the numbers for all 3 by himself.
I don't know what happened with that first graph. Based on the legend, 2014 saw no new capacity from coal, 23% from wind, and 3% from other. Then the article says that coal was 23% and wind was 3%.
When this bunch starts noticing Uber
You're thinking that a company with 95,000 employees that operates on every continent except Antarctica hasn't "noticed" a very disruptive 6 year old company in their industry? They must be pretty awful at their jobs then, no?
Depending on the severity and frequency, you might want to look into holistic approaches. Everyone's body is different, but if you try enough things you might find the magic combo that works in your case.
What's the matter, you don't want to take a pill that may cause anal bleeding or death when you want to treat a migraine? Live a little!
placebo's do have in fact, while small, a significant effect on health
A significant small effect?
You're not so ignorant that you wouldn't accept a god as a possibility, are you?
Just a god? How about an asexually-reproducing giant, a cow licking people into existence, and Earth being created from the corpse of said giant? That sounds reasonable, right?
Is it possible? I suppose, it's possible. Very very many things are within the realm of possibility. For example, it could be possible that you are the only sentient being ever created, and everything that you are experiencing is nothing more than a fever dream in your mind. That's a possibility. It doesn't seem very likely though, does it? I doubt that the sky is actually the skull of a giant held aloft by 4 dwarves, and I doubt that a creator god that no one has ever seen decided to create everything with a huge master plan in mind, and then go about "testing faith" and doing other things as if he didn't know exactly what was going to happen (being omniscient, and all that). Is it possible? Sure, it's possible that an omniscient, omnipresent god created everything and then ordered people not to eat shellfish and wear mixed fabrics. I don't think it's very likely though.
So on the page that says "Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement", you're suggesting that Virgin Media did not actually receive such an order?
Because it is not a court order. It is a court order...
riiiight....
Are you suggesting that the website being blocked should sue the Court for libel? I'm sure that would go over real well.
the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Therefore UK users can access the blocked sites?
Doesn't the UK have some amazing slander and libel laws? Time for a lawsuit...
Why do you think that an ISP blocking access to a website with a page stating that the court ordered them to block that site constitutes libel or slander?
Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten.
Well won't you be embarrassed when you actually click on the article and note the color of the target vehicle.
Do you have any idea what the actual cost of development of this program is, then the cost of actually operating the laser, or are you just going to assume it's in the billions and then try and compare it with the A10 program? Have you made any attempt at research? Or are you "just asking questions?"
I love the A10 as much as anyone, but it's pretty difficult to compare a laser program with the A10. The A10 does not exactly excel at shooting down rockets in flight, and the entire purpose of the laser program is not to develop a laser that can disable trucks. It's to develop a general-purpose laser system that can track and engage targets, and this test is a demonstration that the power output is sufficient to disable a vehicle. That gives us a frame of reference for the power of the laser.
But apparently you want to scrap the laser program and instead have fleets of A10s just flying around Israel or aircraft carriers or any other place where a laser defense system might come in handy? Yeah, that sounds a whole lot cheaper than having a trailer with a laser and radar sitting there waiting for targets.
Now, WHY is that?
A better question would be why do you choose to believe that? Or should I capitalize the word "WHY" like the answer is obvious and I'm just being obtuse? I know, I know, the reason you believe it is because you're gullible, don't fact check, and like to hear things that reinforce your existing views. I just like to ask WHY is that?
Here's some more information about your "lost civilization":
Atlantis is the name of a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state (see The Republic).
You understand the meanings of the things I put in bold, right?
No one said anything about there being no cities underwater. There are obviously quite a few, and your link lists several of them. You know which city isn't listed on that page? Atlantis, the specific single city you mentioned in your first post (not "cities buried beneath water and hidden for thousands of years", but, specifically, Atlantis). You want to know why Atlantis isn't listed on that page? Because it's widely regarded as being a myth. So, yeah, you're the troll.
Much more cross discipline and fun and a lot more people could play and discover.
Maybe so, but then again the battleship Musashi is not widely regarded as being a myth.
Here's a story about Curt Schilling calling out the guys who are talking about fisting and raping his underage daughter, and you're "uncomfortable" with how people use the word "doxing." Way to keep things in perspective.
Here, here's a definition for you:
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent
In an ideal world, the free market would step in and protect consumers in place of the government having to do so.
You think so? Isn't it the free market which lead to the situation that we have today with a few major companies having the power to control the network and shut out competitors? Did all that happen in some sort of socialist vacuum?
You're welcome to take that up with the reviewers listing them in the top 10. I personally don't care, I was just answering the guy's question about how they make money.
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