A 10 kiloton warhead in the centre of any city would cause at least 45,000 immediate deaths and about 250,000 injuries. That's a warhead smaller than either of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs.
With a standard 300 kiloton warhead you would have over 600,000 immediate deaths and over 2 million injuries.
How much good is it going to do to "take warnings seriously"?
Many of the Aztec (and Maya) did live "in dense cesspools of cities".
I really do wonder, though... would the Old World folks have acted any differently if they'd understood that going to the New World would pretty much obliterate the locals through disease?
I am quite certain that they would have been delighted. Killing millions of the locals without even having to go to the trouble of shooting or stabbing them? So much cheaper, too.
You should read the original sources, or even history books, about this period. It is hard to believe that human beings could be so cruel.
Incidentally, it is told that while Cortes and his Spanish troops were living in luxury in the royal palace at Tenochtitlan, they were accompanied everywhere by Aztecs burning incense. They proudly believed that this was to honour them as gods, whereas in fact it was to disguise their appalling body odour.
The greatest problem with making democracy work has always been getting the people well enough educated, informed, and motivated. What we see today is that elections are held, whose outcome can be accurately predicted when one knows how much money each of the various candidates has spent. Given money, apparently, one can secure votes simply by the oldest techniques of propaganda: repetition, the Big Lie, etc.
These considerations may go a long way to explain the steadily worsening quality of publicly-funded education in most countries. (See the Goering quotation below).
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant". - Maximilien Robespierre, “Oeuvres”, Volume 2, page 253
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree". - Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on Virginia” (1782)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be". - Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey (1816)
"Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy". - Hermann Goering
No country is purely "communist" or "capitalist" or "fascist" or "democratic".
Well, actually no country is democratic, period. Last ones I heard of were ancient Athens and Syracuse, right up until the free democratic citizens of Athens decided to conquer and enslave Syracuse - and got virtually all their men of military age killed.
A generation later, Athens was an oligarchy much like present-day USA, and Syracuse was ruled by an iron-fisted tyrant.
No one has tried democracy since, except the Swiss, who are said to find it quite suitable to their needs.
Patents and copyrights do a lot of harm. Jefferson always made a point of publishing any invention he made, or bought, free of charge in all the big city newspapers.
The work culture in China is much more hierarchical...
Yes, they are still living in the Dark Ages. The poor benighted souls think that intelligent, creative, well-educated, hard-working employees are more valuable than those who are not.
And, of course, their education system still insists that pupils learn.
The patches slow down specific workloads and effect specific chips differently.
They ***affect*** specific chips differently.
I find it hard to accept advice on complex technical matters from someone who is unfamiliar with English - although I suspect it is your first language.
Maybe you will reply that such small differences hardly matter.
Which, when you think it through, is exactly why you are defending Intel's decision. They clearly think that way too.
My thought precisely. (Apologies for a similar post a moment ago).
It does occur to me that Intel has adopted a very old Microsoft practice. Namely making paying customers carry out beta tests, thereby saving immense amounts of money and time.
What those people are overlooking is that if encryption is weak enough (or subverted) that NSA can crack it, it is weak enough for other government agencies and criminals to do likewise.
They may still believe that good ol' American know-how leads the world - but if so, they are just plain wrong. Mathematics is international.
In fact the story goes back to 1975 (at least). That's when Diffie and Hellman found themselves battling the NSA, which wanted DES to be accepted as the encryption standard simply because NSA could crack it.
This is not about Republicans versus Democrats, it is now about saving democracy.
How can you save what you never had, and never wanted? The Founding Fathers (with the noble but doomed exception of Jefferson) were dead set against democracy, and deliberately created a republic instead. They took great pains to keep power away from the mass of the people.
And another publicly known fact is that there are a bunch Russians slimeballs with skin in the game, going so low as to troll-mod community sites like Slashdot. Understand this Ivan: you just provide more evidence every time you do it.
Can you cite the slightest piece of concrete evidence for this lurid fantasy?
It's hard to imagine any objective observer not already having enough evidence at hand to know that America is currently under the control of a criminal gang of thugs.
Now that is certainly true; as it has been true every year since the 1950s, and probably long before.
Linus created an operating system, while Trump got caught committing treason colluding with a foreign hostile adversary's attack on our democracy.
I don't see the comparison.
Trump is going to prison.
Linus is a good person.
Nearly right!
Linus created an operating system
Linus wrote a kernel. Most of the rest of Linux distributions comes from elsewhere, hence the preferred title GNU/Linux.
while Trump got caught committing treason
No he didn't. If you think otherwise, please give details of what exactly he did and why it is legally treasonous.
treason n noun 1 (also high treason) the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government. 2 (petty treason) historical the crime of murdering a master or husband.
colluding with a foreign hostile adversary's attack on our democracy.
collude n verb come to a secret agreement in order to deceive others; conspire.
Governments (like corporations) always collude; in terms of foreign policy, they do little else. But what is this "foreign hostile adversary"? (a multiply redundant expression, by the way). Russia is in no way hostile to the USA, and the only way in which it is an adversary is that it competes in trade - which is what capitalism enjoins - and sometimes declines to do what the US government orders it to do.
Needless to say, there was no "attack on our democracy". First because there was obviously no "attack", and second because there is obviously no "democracy".
Slashdot Mirror
A 10 kiloton warhead in the centre of any city would cause at least 45,000 immediate deaths and about 250,000 injuries. That's a warhead smaller than either of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs.
With a standard 300 kiloton warhead you would have over 600,000 immediate deaths and over 2 million injuries.
How much good is it going to do to "take warnings seriously"?
Especially if, as apparently in Hawaii, there are no shelters designed to resist thermonuclear attack.
After all, it's not as if they were real Americans.
Twice is coincidence...
Watch this spot.
Many of the Aztec (and Maya) did live "in dense cesspools of cities".
I really do wonder, though... would the Old World folks have acted any differently if they'd understood that going to the New World would pretty much obliterate the locals through disease?
I am quite certain that they would have been delighted. Killing millions of the locals without even having to go to the trouble of shooting or stabbing them? So much cheaper, too.
You should read the original sources, or even history books, about this period. It is hard to believe that human beings could be so cruel.
Incidentally, it is told that while Cortes and his Spanish troops were living in luxury in the royal palace at Tenochtitlan, they were accompanied everywhere by Aztecs burning incense. They proudly believed that this was to honour them as gods, whereas in fact it was to disguise their appalling body odour.
As Robert Heinlein once observed, the medical term for women who use the rhythm method is "mother."
Exactly!
The greatest problem with making democracy work has always been getting the people well enough educated, informed, and motivated. What we see today is that elections are held, whose outcome can be accurately predicted when one knows how much money each of the various candidates has spent. Given money, apparently, one can secure votes simply by the oldest techniques of propaganda: repetition, the Big Lie, etc.
These considerations may go a long way to explain the steadily worsening quality of publicly-funded education in most countries. (See the Goering quotation below).
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant".
- Maximilien Robespierre, “Oeuvres”, Volume 2, page 253
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree".
- Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on Virginia” (1782)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be".
- Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey (1816)
"Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy".
- Hermann Goering
Again, quite droll.
Talking about shitholes and "street shitting", have you taken a walk in San Francisco lately?
America was just a hotel to them.
And now it's getting to be more of a hellhotel, they are off. Good for them.
No country is purely "communist" or "capitalist" or "fascist" or "democratic".
Well, actually no country is democratic, period. Last ones I heard of were ancient Athens and Syracuse, right up until the free democratic citizens of Athens decided to conquer and enslave Syracuse - and got virtually all their men of military age killed.
A generation later, Athens was an oligarchy much like present-day USA, and Syracuse was ruled by an iron-fisted tyrant.
No one has tried democracy since, except the Swiss, who are said to find it quite suitable to their needs.
Patents and copyrights do a lot of harm. Jefferson always made a point of publishing any invention he made, or bought, free of charge in all the big city newspapers.
Of course he died bankrupt.
Louis XIV lived for a lot less than he would pay in rent in Silicon Valley.
The work culture in China is much more hierarchical...
Yes, they are still living in the Dark Ages. The poor benighted souls think that intelligent, creative, well-educated, hard-working employees are more valuable than those who are not.
And, of course, their education system still insists that pupils learn.
Very droll!
The patches slow down specific workloads and effect specific chips differently.
They ***affect*** specific chips differently.
I find it hard to accept advice on complex technical matters from someone who is unfamiliar with English - although I suspect it is your first language.
Maybe you will reply that such small differences hardly matter.
Which, when you think it through, is exactly why you are defending Intel's decision. They clearly think that way too.
My thought precisely. (Apologies for a similar post a moment ago).
It does occur to me that Intel has adopted a very old Microsoft practice. Namely making paying customers carry out beta tests, thereby saving immense amounts of money and time.
So when are we customers going to get ten per cent of our money back?
"Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and the pig enjoys it". - George Bernard Shaw
What those people are overlooking is that if encryption is weak enough (or subverted) that NSA can crack it, it is weak enough for other government agencies and criminals to do likewise.
They may still believe that good ol' American know-how leads the world - but if so, they are just plain wrong. Mathematics is international.
In fact the story goes back to 1975 (at least). That's when Diffie and Hellman found themselves battling the NSA, which wanted DES to be accepted as the encryption standard simply because NSA could crack it.
This is not about Republicans versus Democrats, it is now about saving democracy.
How can you save what you never had, and never wanted? The Founding Fathers (with the noble but doomed exception of Jefferson) were dead set against democracy, and deliberately created a republic instead. They took great pains to keep power away from the mass of the people.
And another publicly known fact is that there are a bunch Russians slimeballs with skin in the game, going so low as to troll-mod community sites like Slashdot. Understand this Ivan: you just provide more evidence every time you do it.
Can you cite the slightest piece of concrete evidence for this lurid fantasy?
It's hard to imagine any objective observer not already having enough evidence at hand to know that America is currently under the control of a criminal gang of thugs.
Now that is certainly true; as it has been true every year since the 1950s, and probably long before.
Linus created an operating system, while Trump got caught committing treason colluding with a foreign hostile adversary's attack on our democracy.
I don't see the comparison.
Trump is going to prison.
Linus is a good person.
Nearly right!
Linus created an operating system
Linus wrote a kernel. Most of the rest of Linux distributions comes from elsewhere, hence the preferred title GNU/Linux.
while Trump got caught committing treason
No he didn't. If you think otherwise, please give details of what exactly he did and why it is legally treasonous.
treason
n noun
1 (also high treason) the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.
2 (petty treason) historical the crime of murdering a master or husband.
colluding with a foreign hostile adversary's attack on our democracy.
collude
n verb come to a secret agreement in order to deceive others; conspire.
Governments (like corporations) always collude; in terms of foreign policy, they do little else. But what is this "foreign hostile adversary"? (a multiply redundant expression, by the way). Russia is in no way hostile to the USA, and the only way in which it is an adversary is that it competes in trade - which is what capitalism enjoins - and sometimes declines to do what the US government orders it to do.
Needless to say, there was no "attack on our democracy". First because there was obviously no "attack", and second because there is obviously no "democracy".
https://www.thenation.com/arti...
https://consortiumnews.com/201...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.strategic-culture....
https://scholar.princeton.edu/...
yournewswire.com/jimmy-carter-the-u-s-is-completely-subverted-by-oligarchs/
Trump is going to prison.
No, he isn't.