Hmm going by facebook comments most Americans think that the Russian and Chinese militaries are much stronger than our own. But who knows they could just be shills.
My feeling is that the US is clearly a superior force, but also that it doesn't matter. Any confrontation would be an utter bloodbath simply because if the nukes start firing it just doesn't matter anymore who's superior. It only takes missiles hitting one city and the cost is just too damn high.
I dont think that applies to nuclear powers outside the big 4 (US, UK, China, Russia) , BUT while I highly doubt an NK nuke could hit the US, or even Europe or Ausstralia, its not inconcievable they could hit Japan or trivially Seoul , and even with a hiroshima sized bomb that would lead to an absolutely unnaceptable death toll. possibly climbing into the hundreds of thousands, or even millions if NK really hass figured out how to build a hydrogen bomb (which I have my doubts).
Ultimately it just dooesnt matter how good or numerous your soldiers are,, once people start splitting atoms over major cities. At that point, the only things that counts are missiles and misery.
Ah yes the magical pizza parlour that used some sort of magic to hide children in an evil sec dungeon that does not exist on this plane of reality (literally, there is no basement). Damn you normies for not believing that the darataddly reptilians are phase shifting inter dimensional rape dungeons into pizza shops.maaaaaaaaaaa I said I ate my meds
The best Superman film I've seen is an Animated one. "All Star Superman" (The names a pun on the fact hes literally powered by sunlight). They frigging nail him in that. He's the big blue boyscout, whos a bit TOO pure for this world, but he loves the place so much he'd give his life to save it, and for that the world loves him back. THATS superman.
Its interesting that with the Wonderwoman movie, they actually got her right, and in return, the audience and critics loved it, and loved her. Just do that for Supes, and save the grimdark shit for batman. Grimdark works for batman, he's goddamn batman and batman is sad and punches people a lot. The rest of them are not grimdark, especially fucking supes.
Ironically, part of whats made the Marvel films work so well is they seem to be letting Directors actually put their *creative* stamp on the films, but making sure they are picking the right people to do that. And still, managing to get the canon more or less right, with a useful "Its a different universe" ruse to cover when it isnt.
I mean Thor Ragnarok had Taika Waititi's influence stamped all over it. And that made for a frigging fun film.
(FWIW - Frank Miller is a horrible human being: racist, sexist, reactionary, and mean-spirited. None of that in any way diminishes his talent as a storyteller, or his fist as an artist. Those are both genius level. In other news, Pablo Picasso was an asshole - and a genius. the Universe is unfair. Get a hat.)
See also: Lord Byron (Mad, Bad, Dangerous to know), Hunter S Thompson (Randomly shot at journalists, repeat drunken asshole, hotel trasher, etc) , Isaac Newton (Complete bastard of a man who went out of his way to destroy other academics who he felt in competition, notably Leibnitz) , Steve Jobs (Chair throwing god of marketing and spotting good ideas),Thomas Edison (Similar deal to Newton), Bobby Fisher (Worlds greatest chess master, and also a guy who thought 9/11 was excellent. An epic cunt of a man) , and so on.
It would seem some folks just have so much stuff in their heads, they forget to stop and look at their own basic decency to other humans. Also, possibly autism.
Felonies generally do not occur as the result of a mistake. Intent is a large part of the requirement for most felony convictions.
I would be very surprised if anything less than about 90% of the population has committed a felony at some point, possibly not even realising it. When I worked at the DOJ there was a stupid number of people in prison for shit they didnt even realise was a crime at the time.
Meanwhile competing platforms that have retained focus are still going strong (take objective-C as an example. For all its ugliness, it's a pretty good tech to know right now purely due to the fact that Apple has kept strong on using it for iOS development over the years and iOS doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.)
Apple has kind of abandoned ObjC. Its all about swift now. Well kind of. Objective C is still developed, just not with the same focus.
Which is a shame, because, despite its initially confusing syntax, it's a great little language, achieving the OO C++ was designed to achieve with none of the headaches.
Instead of focusing on this stuff, Apple should instead focus on making a decent piece of hardware: like a keyboard that doesn't suck. I'm sure someone in the world likes that keyboard, but there don't seem to be many.
Who said apple focuses on Microsoft?
And up until jobs carked it, they've always made pretty great hardware.
So a rapist/molester/abuser/violent person that may be alone in a car with someone is less risky than a molester at a daycare? IS that the point being made here?
Obviously, there are exceptions.
But there is no sane reason why a convicted weed grower shouldn't be able to drive an uber
Can you not please try and speak for the rest of us? Itâ(TM)s a science article about home made rockets , this is a geek site. Itâ(TM)s exactly what the site is about and has always been about , and Iâ(TM)ve been here since the nineties
Reminder: If your a person who thinks "Companies should stay out of politics" and are not actively supporting folks like Bernie Sanders (Or one of the right wing equivilents who are against corporate donations to parties, assuming such a uniicorn exists) who are directly campaigning for banning corpoorate donations and lobbying, you are a hypocrite.
Actually itâ(TM)s something the uber app probably can catch although not by design. A few times Iâ(TM)ve had uber drivers make completely crazy journeys (usually with me demanding they stop it). In one case a drive between two adjacent suburbs ending up nearly 10kms in the opposite direction. In all cases though when I challenged the fare in the app, the app almost instantly rectified it back to what it would have been had The driver taken a sensible route , and refunded me the difference. Arguably these bogus fares should show up in the logs as having had absurd routing, and presumably thus fix it. The problem is most passengers probably donâ(TM)t know about challenging the fare
Where does this "cheap energy" come from? Extracting water from the air, desalination, and so on are all energy expensive operations. Like, really expensive. Its pretty clear theres no such thing as "cheap energy" anymore, not on the old scales, since carbon based fuels logically have to be phased out sooner rather than later. And all the other options, Nuclear, Solar, or Wind , are not "cheap" at all.
I'll give some advice here on how to have excellent dreams;- Write them down. I keep a phone next to my bed, and every morning if I wake up with a dream I write it down and post it. Everybody loves that shit, shaynes brains crazy adventures in time and spacel. The thing is, theres science . behind it. Your dreams happen mostly in short term memory space. Your brain generally wont transfer it into long term memory because its all untrue nonsense facts, BUT if you CHOSE to remember it, it will actually get filed away. The questioon is how to solidify the memory. Thus;- dream diary! Except fuck modern dream diaries, put it on facebook. The best part is, your friends will; have pretty interesting interpretations of your dreams. Those interpretations are nonsense, but you ewill get an interesting window into how friends think your brain works
Pump and dump is all it can be. A currencies maximum cash out cant be any more than whats been put into the system to start with. So somebody somewhere is just going make the right choices and walk out at the right time, and blam, theres no US dollars supporting the digibucks and everyones investment just evaporated.
This includes Bitcoin too, by the way, however the relative size of the pool and how distributed it is means its probably fairly safe from that, for now.
When people point out that "fiat" currencies are only backed up by government promises, they forget to note that cryptocurrencies are only backed up by "fiat" currency, and when those real dollars are gone, its fundamental to the equasion that the exchange rate would then be zero.
ÃoeDreamersà , what a stupid name. Deport their sorry asses and let them complain to their criminal parents for dragging them to US.
How does anyone benefit from this? We are talking about people who morally have done nothing wrong, have been participating in the economy as much as any other American , and are generally a positive to the economy. When you deport them, you remove mouths to feed from the economy, productive parts of the workforce, potentially tear families apart, and spend tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers moneys (And potentially vastly more if it gets caught up in legal challenges) , to achieve what is effectively a set-back for civil society.
To be honest, a decently specced Mac Mini type device , with swappable ram and SSD , with some sort of affordable way to throw a graphic card in (perhaps just put out an affordable thunderbolt cage?) would satisfy a whole raft of users left in the lurch after the seemingly frozen state of the mac pro. 2017 maybe we dont need monsters anymore, but a decently modern machine with some capacity to grow would be fine for most of apples remaining professionals in the creative and coder fields.
Who says it was Cubans doing it? Maybe Russian spies? Or a conflicted Cuban Government with some departments or factions wanting no deal
I doubt dissent is looked upon fondly within the cuban government. If Raul Castro wants to be nice to america in return for not being embargoed to hell and back, theres a good chance department heads know disobeying President Castro is a good way to get gulaged.
But now you mention it, russians on the other hand, DO have a motive, which is to say it probably isn't fond of its old vassal state fluttering its eyelids in admiration to its former (and russias current) nemesis. Unfortunately for Russia, The USA is the quarterback in this highschool love triangle, so all spurned Russia can do is pass whispers around accusing cuba of being bit of a loose woman and, uh, deploying crazy accoustic weapons (?). If indeed it is a sound weapon, the fact it makes the US government look even crazier than trump already bonkers contributions to international politics , makes such an approach more interesting.
HOWEVER As to the scientific validity of it, the fact its supposed to be *high pitched* instead of some sort of bowel upsetting low rumble has me skeptical at best.
Yeah the whole "Accoustic weapon" thing seems a bit too sci-fi for my liking. Like, what would be the point? The Cubans are *super keen* to not piss off the Americans right now, other than a few nationalistic grumbles, because post-fidel cuba knows thats how it gets out of its rut, but normalizing trade with its wealthy neighbor.
So I dont see a motive. And the weapon, excuse my skepticism but if its *high* pitches we're talking about thats even fishier,due to the higher difficulties of propagating high pitches along with the easier task of locating the source. Super low frequencies, maybe , but high frequencies? I highly doubt it. But a busted old tube television set, or whistling from a damaged HF transformer, theres are some noises that can get on your nerves very quickly, and both *entirely reasonable* things to occur natively on an island thats been subsiding on leftovers from the old USSR for half a lifetime.
So no motive, no weapon, a bunch of sick diplomats with symptoms may well just be an odd-ball bug going around (embassies see a lot of back packers, aka "virus vectors").
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My feeling is that the US is clearly a superior force, but also that it doesn't matter. Any confrontation would be an utter bloodbath simply because if the nukes start firing it just doesn't matter anymore who's superior. It only takes missiles hitting one city and the cost is just too damn high.
I dont think that applies to nuclear powers outside the big 4 (US, UK, China, Russia) , BUT while I highly doubt an NK nuke could hit the US, or even Europe or Ausstralia, its not inconcievable they could hit Japan or trivially Seoul , and even with a hiroshima sized bomb that would lead to an absolutely unnaceptable death toll. possibly climbing into the hundreds of thousands, or even millions if NK really hass figured out how to build a hydrogen bomb (which I have my doubts).
Ultimately it just dooesnt matter how good or numerous your soldiers are,, once people start splitting atoms over major cities. At that point, the only things that counts are missiles and misery.
Ah yes the magical pizza parlour that used some sort of magic to hide children in an evil sec dungeon that does not exist on this plane of reality (literally, there is no basement). Damn you normies for not believing that the darataddly reptilians are phase shifting inter dimensional rape dungeons into pizza shops.maaaaaaaaaaa I said I ate my meds
No being gay is not a misdeed. Being gay while funneling millions into anti gay groups however makes you a cunt
The best Superman film I've seen is an Animated one. "All Star Superman" (The names a pun on the fact hes literally powered by sunlight). They frigging nail him in that. He's the big blue boyscout, whos a bit TOO pure for this world, but he loves the place so much he'd give his life to save it, and for that the world loves him back. THATS superman.
Its interesting that with the Wonderwoman movie, they actually got her right, and in return, the audience and critics loved it, and loved her. Just do that for Supes, and save the grimdark shit for batman. Grimdark works for batman, he's goddamn batman and batman is sad and punches people a lot. The rest of them are not grimdark, especially fucking supes.
Ironically, part of whats made the Marvel films work so well is they seem to be letting Directors actually put their *creative* stamp on the films, but making sure they are picking the right people to do that. And still, managing to get the canon more or less right, with a useful "Its a different universe" ruse to cover when it isnt.
I mean Thor Ragnarok had Taika Waititi's influence stamped all over it. And that made for a frigging fun film.
See also: Lord Byron (Mad, Bad, Dangerous to know), Hunter S Thompson (Randomly shot at journalists, repeat drunken asshole, hotel trasher, etc) , Isaac Newton (Complete bastard of a man who went out of his way to destroy other academics who he felt in competition, notably Leibnitz) , Steve Jobs (Chair throwing god of marketing and spotting good ideas),Thomas Edison (Similar deal to Newton), Bobby Fisher (Worlds greatest chess master, and also a guy who thought 9/11 was excellent. An epic cunt of a man) , and so on.
It would seem some folks just have so much stuff in their heads, they forget to stop and look at their own basic decency to other humans. Also, possibly autism.
I would be very surprised if anything less than about 90% of the population has committed a felony at some point, possibly not even realising it. When I worked at the DOJ there was a stupid number of people in prison for shit they didnt even realise was a crime at the time.
Just noticed that. My apologies
Apple has kind of abandoned ObjC. Its all about swift now. Well kind of. Objective C is still developed, just not with the same focus.
Which is a shame, because, despite its initially confusing syntax, it's a great little language, achieving the OO C++ was designed to achieve with none of the headaches.
Who said apple focuses on Microsoft?
And up until jobs carked it, they've always made pretty great hardware.
But yeah, that goddamn keyboard.
Obviously, there are exceptions.
But there is no sane reason why a convicted weed grower shouldn't be able to drive an uber
Can you not please try and speak for the rest of us? Itâ(TM)s a science article about home made rockets , this is a geek site. Itâ(TM)s exactly what the site is about and has always been about , and Iâ(TM)ve been here since the nineties
Yeah pretty much. Trains here seem to leave whenever the fuck they want to , and if you complain you'll just get a big ol "So what?".
Reminder: If your a person who thinks "Companies should stay out of politics" and are not actively supporting folks like Bernie Sanders (Or one of the right wing equivilents who are against corporate donations to parties, assuming such a uniicorn exists) who are directly campaigning for banning corpoorate donations and lobbying, you are a hypocrite.
No ifs , no buts, hypocrite.
Actually itâ(TM)s something the uber app probably can catch although not by design. A few times Iâ(TM)ve had uber drivers make completely crazy journeys (usually with me demanding they stop it). In one case a drive between two adjacent suburbs ending up nearly 10kms in the opposite direction. In all cases though when I challenged the fare in the app, the app almost instantly rectified it back to what it would have been had
The driver taken a sensible route , and refunded me the difference. Arguably these bogus fares should show up in the logs as having had absurd routing, and presumably thus fix it. The problem is most passengers probably donâ(TM)t know about challenging the fare
Where does this "cheap energy" come from? Extracting water from the air, desalination, and so on are all energy expensive operations. Like, really expensive. Its pretty clear theres no such thing as "cheap energy" anymore, not on the old scales, since carbon based fuels logically have to be phased out sooner rather than later. And all the other options, Nuclear, Solar, or Wind , are not "cheap" at all.
The poor counties are not the problem. Its countries like the US and Australia that are causing the major problems.
Im fairly sure ther are multiple constitutional barriers to this ruling being enforcable.-
Expect it to die in appeals
I'll give some advice here on how to have excellent dreams;- Write them down. I keep a phone next to my bed, and every morning if I wake up with a dream I write it down and post it. Everybody loves that shit, shaynes brains crazy adventures in time and spacel. The thing is, theres science . behind it. Your dreams happen mostly in short term memory space. Your brain generally wont transfer it into long term memory because its all untrue nonsense facts, BUT if you CHOSE to remember it, it will actually get filed away. The questioon is how to solidify the memory. Thus;- dream diary! Except fuck modern dream diaries, put it on facebook. The best part is, your friends will; have pretty interesting interpretations of your dreams. Those interpretations are nonsense, but you ewill get an interesting window into how friends think your brain works
Pump and dump is all it can be. A currencies maximum cash out cant be any more than whats been put into the system to start with. So somebody somewhere is just going make the right choices and walk out at the right time, and blam, theres no US dollars supporting the digibucks and everyones investment just evaporated.
This includes Bitcoin too, by the way, however the relative size of the pool and how distributed it is means its probably fairly safe from that, for now.
When people point out that "fiat" currencies are only backed up by government promises, they forget to note that cryptocurrencies are only backed up by "fiat" currency, and when those real dollars are gone, its fundamental to the equasion that the exchange rate would then be zero.
Its a blockchain backed ponzi scheme
How does anyone benefit from this? We are talking about people who morally have done nothing wrong, have been participating in the economy as much as any other American , and are generally a positive to the economy. When you deport them, you remove mouths to feed from the economy, productive parts of the workforce, potentially tear families apart, and spend tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers moneys (And potentially vastly more if it gets caught up in legal challenges) , to achieve what is effectively a set-back for civil society.
To be honest, a decently specced Mac Mini type device , with swappable ram and SSD , with some sort of affordable way to throw a graphic card in (perhaps just put out an affordable thunderbolt cage?) would satisfy a whole raft of users left in the lurch after the seemingly frozen state of the mac pro. 2017 maybe we dont need monsters anymore, but a decently modern machine with some capacity to grow would be fine for most of apples remaining professionals in the creative and coder fields.
Hmmmmm. Tasty tasty christ burger. Only at Crispy Christs, home of the Saute Savior
I doubt dissent is looked upon fondly within the cuban government. If Raul Castro wants to be nice to america in return for not being embargoed to hell and back, theres a good chance department heads know disobeying President Castro is a good way to get gulaged.
But now you mention it, russians on the other hand, DO have a motive, which is to say it probably isn't fond of its old vassal state fluttering its eyelids in admiration to its former (and russias current) nemesis. Unfortunately for Russia, The USA is the quarterback in this highschool love triangle, so all spurned Russia can do is pass whispers around accusing cuba of being bit of a loose woman and, uh, deploying crazy accoustic weapons (?). If indeed it is a sound weapon, the fact it makes the US government look even crazier than trump already bonkers contributions to international politics , makes such an approach more interesting.
HOWEVER As to the scientific validity of it, the fact its supposed to be *high pitched* instead of some sort of bowel upsetting low rumble has me skeptical at best.
Yeah the whole "Accoustic weapon" thing seems a bit too sci-fi for my liking. Like, what would be the point? The Cubans are *super keen* to not piss off the Americans right now, other than a few nationalistic grumbles, because post-fidel cuba knows thats how it gets out of its rut, but normalizing trade with its wealthy neighbor.
So I dont see a motive. And the weapon, excuse my skepticism but if its *high* pitches we're talking about thats even fishier,due to the higher difficulties of propagating high pitches along with the easier task of locating the source. Super low frequencies, maybe , but high frequencies? I highly doubt it. But a busted old tube television set, or whistling from a damaged HF transformer, theres are some noises that can get on your nerves very quickly, and both *entirely reasonable* things to occur natively on an island thats been subsiding on leftovers from the old USSR for half a lifetime.
So no motive, no weapon, a bunch of sick diplomats with symptoms may well just be an odd-ball bug going around (embassies see a lot of back packers, aka "virus vectors").
We sure theres a crime scene here?