Government by bureaucrats and politicians is always guaranteed to be awful. That's what happens when you put control of everything into the hands of a few and then stop paying attention.
Amazingly, when radicals talk about opening governance to everyone, lots of people quickly decry the idea, complaining about how idiotic "the people" are. Are all the people really any less idiotic than a small group of people? Really?
I'll have you know, that I have been visiting slashdot since 1997 back in the "Chips and Dips" version. That was back when CmdTaco would personally stop by each member's house to give us a custom ID badge with our number on it. Then he personally invited us all to a meeting on how to troll and we had Goatse give a speech about GNAA. He's good like that.
Ballmer is a pretty poor example. To his credit, he probably comes across as one of the few people in the tech arena who would be tolerable over a beer, but a less-than-stellar showman who at his best is a parody of himself. He inspires pity more than loathing.
Now when will we get Fake Larry Ellison? That guy is just a comedy goldmine. The often attributed, arrogance of Jobs, greedy, self-serving, with a sense of self-denial and a twinge of bat-shit insane.
Bat-shit insane doesn't come in twinge; ultrasonic shriek perhaps.
You didn't get people reacting this way when Craig Venter created a virus with a totally novel genetic code, and that would be a much more reasonable place to become scared. This is just dramatic.
They are/were not that different from other large elephants. You can build a free range park and let them roam.
They were not that dangerous, and were routinely hunted by proto humans using spears. The long standing theory is that they were hunted to extinction, although the darling theory this week is Climate Change did them in.
These are not so big and not so tough that they can't be brought down by your average elephant gun.
Global Warming did not arrive in time to save them.
BTW Would an elephant gun used in that way be a Mammoth Firearm.
Coffee making is pretty automated as it is... the coffee maker in my office is hooked up to a water source so the only thing we have to do add beans every so often.
He lost his job to Automation... they came out with the Mister Coffee machine.
So you do a bunch of sequels to a horror movie, all they do is drain any remaining impact out of the original
I'm sure this applies to any hit movie. I mean, the first time they made Scary Movie, it was a guilty pleasure. Now it's, well, just dull. There are few exceptions. Empire Strikes Back thematically seems better than Star Wars. The revelation of the relationship between Luke and Darth Vader was good enough to be parodied by Toy Story (was it 2 or 3?). But the Star Wars prequels? Maybe the producers should take a hint.
I don't ask my cardiologist to change the oil in my car, no matter how smart he is. Similarly, the opinions of an opinionated physicist on climate change don't hold as much weight as the opinions of someone who is immersed in the field of climate science.
Ask yourself: why are there no models which show anything but global warming. If your answer is "conspiracy", then we're probably done here.
The relevant specialty here is statistics.
Whether the best 5 cheese pizza chef on the planet can be cross-trained for pepperoni or not isn't that important.
However, I've previously read that cows infected with Mad Cow Disease are disposed of by dissolving them in lye, not burning, precisely due to the risk that prions could survive the fire and become airborne.
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Show me two horses that can make toast.
Horse toasties! Yum!
Now the Chinese are making pirate copies of Steve Ballmer. It isn't difficult. But, of course, they are useless.
Hereafter, show proper respect to Chairman Ballmer.
If not they may ship quality controlled product.
Submarine reactors are measured in tens of kilowatts, much too small to be of practical use for power generation.
Akula class sub: 100,000 hp, or 74.6 Mw at the shaft.
how do they make those little tractors?
The design is in their DNA. They build them in polynomial time of course.
Wait, whut??? You mean aunts or ANTS?
Better make that ants.
Most things take at least a week to get to slashdot but I think it is on this minute because its dinner time in Melbourne and Sydney.
When the water rises, the fish eat the aunts; when the water falls the aunts eat the fish.
The answer is Stuxnet?
Yes. It contributed to less spin.
Government by bureaucrats and politicians is always guaranteed to be awful. That's what happens when you put control of everything into the hands of a few and then stop paying attention.
Amazingly, when radicals talk about opening governance to everyone, lots of people quickly decry the idea, complaining about how idiotic "the people" are. Are all the people really any less idiotic than a small group of people? Really?
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
I'll have you know, that I have been visiting slashdot since 1997 back in the "Chips and Dips" version. That was back when CmdTaco would personally stop by each member's house to give us a custom ID badge with our number on it. Then he personally invited us all to a meeting on how to troll and we had Goatse give a speech about GNAA. He's good like that.
Wow, a two or maybe three digit id!
Then Iran can have Nuclear Weapons. The only thing I ask is that they can only be aimed at you.
Ask not what Iran can do for you, but what you can do for Iran.
Ballmer is a pretty poor example. To his credit, he probably comes across as one of the few people in the tech arena who would be tolerable over a beer, but a less-than-stellar showman who at his best is a parody of himself. He inspires pity more than loathing.
Now when will we get Fake Larry Ellison? That guy is just a comedy goldmine. The often attributed, arrogance of Jobs, greedy, self-serving, with a sense of self-denial and a twinge of bat-shit insane.
Bat-shit insane doesn't come in twinge; ultrasonic shriek perhaps.
a REALLY big fish tank?
A logical place to keep a REALLY big mammal.
Lifespan at 5 deg C, 33% metabolic rate.
Sequence shortened.
Just wait till you have to deal with the Life Span Exporting Countries cartel.
Table for two, jasmine tea for one, pursue law degree, and wear Mexican wrestling mask at work.
You didn't get people reacting this way when Craig Venter created a virus with a totally novel genetic code, and that would be a much more reasonable place to become scared. This is just dramatic.
What code? Wikileaks?
A mammoth on a slippery slope would be very amusing to watch! Let's do it!
That's how the baby mammoths got their tusks bent.
They are/were not that different from other large elephants. You can build a free range park and let them roam.
They were not that dangerous, and were routinely hunted by proto humans using spears. The long standing theory is that they were hunted to extinction, although the darling theory this week is Climate Change did them in.
These are not so big and not so tough that they can't be brought down by your average elephant gun.
Global Warming did not arrive in time to save them.
BTW Would an elephant gun used in that way be a Mammoth Firearm.
As I said in one of my FB posts:
The whole zodiac system is a CANCER on our society.
We should LIBRArate ourselves from it before our whole society ends in PICES.
Ophiuch it.
Coffee making is pretty automated as it is... the coffee maker in my office is hooked up to a water source so the only thing we have to do add beans every so often.
He lost his job to Automation ... they came out with the Mister Coffee machine.
When your job is to uphold the law, it is a bad idea to organize the conspiracy.
that there was a 64 bit version of Windows 3.0!
It failed because of 64 bit viruses.
I'm posting AC cause I work for a large three lettered software company.
FUD Inc?
So you do a bunch of sequels to a horror movie, all they do is drain any remaining impact out of the original
I'm sure this applies to any hit movie. I mean, the first time they made Scary Movie, it was a guilty pleasure. Now it's, well, just dull. There are few exceptions. Empire Strikes Back thematically seems better than Star Wars. The revelation of the relationship between Luke and Darth Vader was good enough to be parodied by Toy Story (was it 2 or 3?). But the Star Wars prequels? Maybe the producers should take a hint.
How about a cowboy version : Use the Horse Luke.
No legitimate scientist
I don't ask my cardiologist to change the oil in my car, no matter how smart he is. Similarly, the opinions of an opinionated physicist on climate change don't hold as much weight as the opinions of someone who is immersed in the field of climate science.
Ask yourself: why are there no models which show anything but global warming. If your answer is "conspiracy", then we're probably done here.
The relevant specialty here is statistics.
Whether the best 5 cheese pizza chef on the planet can be cross-trained for pepperoni
or not isn't that important.
However, I've previously read that cows infected with Mad Cow Disease are disposed of by dissolving them in lye, not burning, precisely due to the risk that prions could survive the fire and become airborne.
And become prion airs.