I never said it had to be energy efficient. I don't know where you are coming up with that idea. There are other plentiful energy sources on the planet.
You fail chemistry forever. Have you tried posting on Digg or Reddit? It seems like you'd fit in better there.
Hey - you emit CO2. Every time you breathe. I'll leave you to look into reducing that, regardless of what else is emitting CO2.
Did pretty well in chemistry, actually, but the idea is that we simply need to find a use for the CO2 instead of letting it sit up there in the atmosphere. Whether we use it for central heating or some other reaction. I don't see why I'd fail at chemistry if pure Diamond is nothing but Carbon - C4 in most cases - and O2 is a very common form of Oxygen, the stoich behind it suggests that you could essentially take 4CO2 to get 1C4 + 4O2s out of it.
And yes - I DO look into reducing my CO2 emissions. I know that longer, deeper breaths emit less CO2 because you consume less. Avoid hyperventilating, so to speak. But if there was some form of widely accepted space suit that everyone would wear to reduce their CO2, you can bet I'd be on board.
The big problem is CO2 production to the atmosphere. It doesn't matter if its a car or a plant or a human breathing that creates the CO2, we need to find more efficient ways to deal with it. For a plant, it might be storing the emissions till they can be converted into something useful (like seperating the C from the O2 to get oxygen and DIAMONDS!). And with vehicles it's making them emit less and less CO2.
What we need is for people to look at whats emitting CO2, and reduce it, regardless of what else is emitting CO2.
I... Get oversights and mistakes - and yes this be one - clearly the good doctor wants his work to get popular enough to go under enough scrutiny to find the mistakes.
However - I don't see what any of this has to do with God.
Sometimes you people miss the obvious solution because you don't want to spend any money
Sometimes you people miss the obvious problem. If he buys her a $50 printer he's still going to have to go over there and set it up. How long will that last before its out of ink.
This is where working in IS has its perks. A lot of companies boil down to either dealing with data or providing a service, and most that provide services hang onto their customer data, so all in all - there is a lot of data to be had. Working IT, you generally have more access and privileges than other members of the company. I mean, I have access to active directory to add and remove and edit people's accounts. There is nothing stopping me from giving my own account full admin rights to everything (which it almost is anyways) - or from resetting the domain administrative password.
I deal with backing up the data day to day. I can basically do what I want with the tapes, no one checks my work. This would include all the emails off the exchange server, all the data the labs deal with, all the recent invoices, expenses, etc.
Now, here's where the benefits come in.
1) Job Security. They really don't want to have to fire you because they know of the dangers in doing so.
2) Bigger Paycheck. Buys loyalty.
3) Legally Questionable Options. Not something I'd want to get mixed up in - but for those people seeking a thrill.
*Disclaimer: I know no one with this personally, nor do I know if this really, truly is a severe medical condition. I use a pillow between my legs at night if their existence is bothering me.
My Grandfather has it. Don't know why, every other night or so he has to get up every 3 hours or so and walk around the house a few times.
Whether you'd consider it a SEVERE medical condition, well that's something else, but it is a true condition more or less. I wouldn't consider ADD's a severe condition either, neither of them are going to kill their patient.*
*unless of course they happen to be operating some heavy machinery, but I think they check for those kinds of things.**
**PS - doesn't it seem weird to add a star at the end of a line only to start it on the next paragraph? It's not like I'll lose my place somehow. Unless you were also making a small poke at dislexics too? Just kidding.
you ever have to deal with child sobbing because he can't focus on simple tasks
No but thats a good indicator - how many children diagnosed with ADHD would fall to that level of frustration? Only the ones truly suffering from it would need the medical attention.
This isn't like Counterstrike where you can just straight up ban someone by IP for doing something you don't like - not only can the authorities not watch everything but also the internet itself is so complex that's hard to determine what's happening precisely.
Is there any way for you to tell right now if I'm using a proxy or not?
I just hear a lot of people who DO make that argument as though it holds some water. "We didn't understand society 2000 years ago, so 2000 years from now they won't understand us either!"
It just annoys when I see it and I couldn't help myself. I mean I kind of knew that you were making the joke and my post wasn't really directed at you, it was just something that came to mind when I read it. I really should get back to work instead of writing long posts on/.
A lot of people like to make this claim that in a few thousand years society will have forgotten its ancestry and it will seem so ancient and primitive and confusing.
While obviously we won't seem as technologically advanced, I have a hard time as thinking of ancient societies as primitive. While their technology wasn't advanced their society isn't all that different from todays. There's an upper and a lower class - a work force and a ruling force - I mean we won't get into the complexities of politics or anything - but even people who think ancient greek religion is dead are actually half wrong: If you've ever read a horrorscope you have encountered a reminance of ancient greek society. All the zodiacs are based upon greek mythology, and a lot of greek mythology is based on the stars which still hold signifigant influence in that zodiac culture.
The main difference between now and then is that a lot more people have put emphasis on historians. Before the 1800's there really wasn't such a thing as "Archaeologists" - there were "grave robbers" who would break into tombs and sell the valuables but nothing in the interest of preserving history. (Just as a side note, thats why King Tut's Tomb was such a big deal, the first undisturbed tomb of a pharaoh, with valuables and everything still in tact). But now we have Libraries, Museums, historical conservation acts, basically a whole set of society in line with preserving our history. Yes - there WERE libraries in ancient times, but they were nothing like the libraries we have today. Specifically that libraries were not a public resource, only the aristocracy could use the library (both physically and by law, I mean illegal to enter the library if you don't have permission but if you didn't have permission you were probably illiterate anyways). Anyways, since this age of historical preservation has come about, we haven't really "puzzled" over much of society anymore. There are a few small quirks here and there; debates on how they erected the pyramids, how far back "writing" goes, etc etc. But much of it is just 2 widely accepted answers that keep going back and forth on who is right.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, 3000 years from now, they won't be going "How did they have electricity back then?" - because we have MANY records of how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in 1752, and that really sparked development on it. Whereas it was difficult to have the historical records from 1 library survive the test of time way back when, this new fangled internet thing has caused the spread of information so great that the redundancy on our data is so huge that even if every piece of paper is burned and Wikipedia goes down - there are still thousands of documents from every junior high school student that the information is preserved in some form or another. And quite honestly - the sources that AREN'T big are usually the ones with more accurate information. (Every king and pharaoh and emperor claims that they were great - however the accounts from a peasant or soldier are better indicators of how well a nation-state was doing).
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What's your problem? I'm not upset. Not even the slightest little bit.
I never said it had to be energy efficient. I don't know where you are coming up with that idea. There are other plentiful energy sources on the planet.
Was there an actual attack? No.
Woah now junior, you don't know that.
There have been no reported attacks.
But now that its out there - it's up to people to update their kernel.
You fail chemistry forever. Have you tried posting on Digg or Reddit? It seems like you'd fit in better there.
Hey - you emit CO2. Every time you breathe. I'll leave you to look into reducing that, regardless of what else is emitting CO2.
Did pretty well in chemistry, actually, but the idea is that we simply need to find a use for the CO2 instead of letting it sit up there in the atmosphere. Whether we use it for central heating or some other reaction. I don't see why I'd fail at chemistry if pure Diamond is nothing but Carbon - C4 in most cases - and O2 is a very common form of Oxygen, the stoich behind it suggests that you could essentially take 4CO2 to get 1C4 + 4O2s out of it.
And yes - I DO look into reducing my CO2 emissions. I know that longer, deeper breaths emit less CO2 because you consume less. Avoid hyperventilating, so to speak. But if there was some form of widely accepted space suit that everyone would wear to reduce their CO2, you can bet I'd be on board.
The big problem is CO2 production to the atmosphere. It doesn't matter if its a car or a plant or a human breathing that creates the CO2, we need to find more efficient ways to deal with it. For a plant, it might be storing the emissions till they can be converted into something useful (like seperating the C from the O2 to get oxygen and DIAMONDS!). And with vehicles it's making them emit less and less CO2.
What we need is for people to look at whats emitting CO2, and reduce it, regardless of what else is emitting CO2.
Haha - I totally meant to put "- and yes this could be one -"
Which makes it...
Well I want to say Ironic but then we'll spur that whole debate on whats Ironic and whats not.
Technicality, Zodiac versus Chinese Zodiac, I shouldn't have used "All"
Perhaps he meant a lawsuit from a customer who found out his information was being sold online?
I... Get oversights and mistakes - and yes this be one - clearly the good doctor wants his work to get popular enough to go under enough scrutiny to find the mistakes.
However - I don't see what any of this has to do with God.
What other nation is fighting in the war?
Or the moon landing.
(Obligatory I know, and someone else undoubtedly will beat me to it)
We already made the unfounded claim that all natural disasters and climate related problems on the Earth are due to women dressing immodestly.
Sometimes you people miss the obvious solution because you don't want to spend any money
Sometimes you people miss the obvious problem. If he buys her a $50 printer he's still going to have to go over there and set it up. How long will that last before its out of ink.
This is where working in IS has its perks. A lot of companies boil down to either dealing with data or providing a service, and most that provide services hang onto their customer data, so all in all - there is a lot of data to be had. Working IT, you generally have more access and privileges than other members of the company. I mean, I have access to active directory to add and remove and edit people's accounts. There is nothing stopping me from giving my own account full admin rights to everything (which it almost is anyways) - or from resetting the domain administrative password.
I deal with backing up the data day to day. I can basically do what I want with the tapes, no one checks my work. This would include all the emails off the exchange server, all the data the labs deal with, all the recent invoices, expenses, etc.
Now, here's where the benefits come in.
1) Job Security. They really don't want to have to fire you because they know of the dangers in doing so.
2) Bigger Paycheck. Buys loyalty.
3) Legally Questionable Options. Not something I'd want to get mixed up in - but for those people seeking a thrill.
Where do you live and who is your ISP?
I've never once gotten close to breaking my advertised up to speed - I'm always about 3 or 4 MBits below it.
Absolutely. If you give dopaminergic stimulants to someone who's neurotypical, you'll watch them bounce off the ceiling.
They also get a movement speed boost and an increased fire rate.
What's next? Treating restless leg syndrome?*
*Disclaimer: I know no one with this personally, nor do I know if this really, truly is a severe medical condition. I use a pillow between my legs at night if their existence is bothering me.
My Grandfather has it. Don't know why, every other night or so he has to get up every 3 hours or so and walk around the house a few times.
Whether you'd consider it a SEVERE medical condition, well that's something else, but it is a true condition more or less. I wouldn't consider ADD's a severe condition either, neither of them are going to kill their patient.*
*unless of course they happen to be operating some heavy machinery, but I think they check for those kinds of things.**
**PS - doesn't it seem weird to add a star at the end of a line only to start it on the next paragraph? It's not like I'll lose my place somehow. Unless you were also making a small poke at dislexics too? Just kidding.
you ever have to deal with child sobbing because he can't focus on simple tasks
No but thats a good indicator - how many children diagnosed with ADHD would fall to that level of frustration? Only the ones truly suffering from it would need the medical attention.
This isn't like Counterstrike where you can just straight up ban someone by IP for doing something you don't like - not only can the authorities not watch everything but also the internet itself is so complex that's hard to determine what's happening precisely.
Is there any way for you to tell right now if I'm using a proxy or not?
I don't know if I'd consider setting up a good Proxy server as "Slaying a Dictator".
I think that's actually part of a big chain quest so that you can get keyed along with a large group of people to then slay the dictator.
I know, I know.
I just hear a lot of people who DO make that argument as though it holds some water. "We didn't understand society 2000 years ago, so 2000 years from now they won't understand us either!"
It just annoys when I see it and I couldn't help myself. I mean I kind of knew that you were making the joke and my post wasn't really directed at you, it was just something that came to mind when I read it. I really should get back to work instead of writing long posts on /.
You require more minerals.
No. Seriously dude, get out into the sunlight more often, get some vitamin D.
A lot of people like to make this claim that in a few thousand years society will have forgotten its ancestry and it will seem so ancient and primitive and confusing.
While obviously we won't seem as technologically advanced, I have a hard time as thinking of ancient societies as primitive. While their technology wasn't advanced their society isn't all that different from todays. There's an upper and a lower class - a work force and a ruling force - I mean we won't get into the complexities of politics or anything - but even people who think ancient greek religion is dead are actually half wrong: If you've ever read a horrorscope you have encountered a reminance of ancient greek society. All the zodiacs are based upon greek mythology, and a lot of greek mythology is based on the stars which still hold signifigant influence in that zodiac culture.
The main difference between now and then is that a lot more people have put emphasis on historians. Before the 1800's there really wasn't such a thing as "Archaeologists" - there were "grave robbers" who would break into tombs and sell the valuables but nothing in the interest of preserving history. (Just as a side note, thats why King Tut's Tomb was such a big deal, the first undisturbed tomb of a pharaoh, with valuables and everything still in tact). But now we have Libraries, Museums, historical conservation acts, basically a whole set of society in line with preserving our history. Yes - there WERE libraries in ancient times, but they were nothing like the libraries we have today. Specifically that libraries were not a public resource, only the aristocracy could use the library (both physically and by law, I mean illegal to enter the library if you don't have permission but if you didn't have permission you were probably illiterate anyways). Anyways, since this age of historical preservation has come about, we haven't really "puzzled" over much of society anymore. There are a few small quirks here and there; debates on how they erected the pyramids, how far back "writing" goes, etc etc. But much of it is just 2 widely accepted answers that keep going back and forth on who is right.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, 3000 years from now, they won't be going "How did they have electricity back then?" - because we have MANY records of how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in 1752, and that really sparked development on it. Whereas it was difficult to have the historical records from 1 library survive the test of time way back when, this new fangled internet thing has caused the spread of information so great that the redundancy on our data is so huge that even if every piece of paper is burned and Wikipedia goes down - there are still thousands of documents from every junior high school student that the information is preserved in some form or another. And quite honestly - the sources that AREN'T big are usually the ones with more accurate information. (Every king and pharaoh and emperor claims that they were great - however the accounts from a peasant or soldier are better indicators of how well a nation-state was doing).
Is it like... Rocket science?
I know how to simulate your brain on drugs. I saw a cool 30 second documentary on it once.