Nary a peep from the law, anywhere (that I could find). Clearly, depictions of a teacher blowing kids up into hamburger because they didn't have the correct opinions doesn't sink to the heinous depravity of this musician's vid./sarc
That said, it should still be noted that even conventional water-cooled reactors don't explode in a fashion that cause people's shadows to be burned into concrete like the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Spreading that kind of image is irresponsible. Nuclear power has legitimate risks, and those are what should be discussed.
Meanwhile, individual windmills may or may not be aesthetic, according to one's sensibilities, but it's a hard argument that gigantic collections of them don't visually and sonically degrade open spaces and natural surroundings. Individual snowmobiles or speedboats may be graceful and beautiful, but put a few hundred of them together in a formerly serene place and their grace and beauty evaporate.
Windmills additionally kill lots of birds, including raptors and threatened species, and they do that continuously. They also have high rates of mechanical failure, and require expensive on-site maintenance. Worst of all, because of the uneven nature of their generation, they cannot replace baseline power stations, which limits them to marginal contributions above the peak demand curve. As more wind power comes on line, utilities are constructing natural gas plants to provide backup peak reserve, lest wind not be available at the moment needed. In other words, not only is wind power expensive on its own, but it often requires additional expenditure for backup generation.
I don't see how one must be rich and powerful to dislike the impact of large scale wind power. There are uses and places for it, but its shortcomings are hard to dismiss when considering large-scale application. What I see are decisions and allocations being made on the basis of political, rather than engineering, analyses. That kind of thinking often leads to trouble.
Specifically, I'm referring to your argument that "Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best."
Under capitalism, science is often bent to the needs of the patron/employer/investor.
Under socialism, science is often bent to the political needs of the "people" as interpreted and enforced by the government.
Neither case must necessarily lead to a poor outcome. However, it's naive to think science can be completely unfettered from the society that supports it. All forms of government and economy concentrate power into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. Those few then use that power to shape the actions of others to suit their own needs and beliefs.
Gloss: Lysenko was the director of the Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences, who decreed as a matter of state ideology (among other bizarre rubbish) that desirable traits in plants were not heritable, but instead could only spread through grafts and nongenetic methods. In short, he was a Lamarckian who could ruin a scientist's career, or worse, for daring question the validity of official state science.
Under Lysenko, agricultural science in the USSR was, from the late 1920s until 1964, based on ideology rather than the scientific method, and this led to uncounted misery for Soviet citizens due to massively underperforming or failed crops.
We start to treat killing the enemy the way we treat killing chickens at the Perdue packing plant.
At the most fundamental level, war is still human beings killing other human beings...usually human beings who've never met. One of the damping feed-backs in the war loop is the ugliness and brutality of it. That loop needs more, not fewer, negative feed-backs. Further depersonalization and sterilization of war may incentivize the decision to engage in it.
1. Make retro Polaroid film packs. 2. Offer guy sitting in Hollywood coffee shop with laptop 10% of gross to write three-page treatment. Make sure plot depends on LOTS of Polaroids. 3. Text Christopher Nolan's agent: "got a treatment for Memento II that's hotter than Paris Hilton's ass at a Bikram barbecue...wanna put some eyeballs on it?" 4... (mysterious H-wood black box processes + various drugs and Malibu parties) 5. Call travel agent and book vay-kay in Bali. Or hell, just BUY Bali.
or the amount paid in interest alone on the national debt every four days (although that amount is on its way up very soon).
We each have a different lens through which to observe the expenditures of government. Personally, I'd rather see space money increased, and re-allocated toward unmanned probes and robotics. Extraordinarily more bang for the buck...but less emotionally satisfying for some. Either way, I prefer spending money learning about black holes than pouring it into black holes.
Take a look at the stimulus bill broken out by line and I'll bet you can find a dozen ways some of that money could be better "re-purposed" toward creating and maintaining high-quality aerospace jobs building spaceships, probes, and engineering infrastructure.
Don't even have to change gadgets. That takes care of the average citizen who would be fine with consumer-grade privacy.
One could add complexity by creating multiple Skype land-phone-accessible numbers, and push them through Grand Central. Or get sexy by using VOIP over a VPN connection to a stateside proxy.
The nontechnological solution: "Hey, amigo, lemme use your phone for a minute - I left mine in my Mercedes."
Just look at any long thread here on Slashdot and you see a pattern of convergence to a disgruntled, socially frightened, and overworked IT/programmer guy named Anonymous Coward.
On second thought, looks like that applies to most other UIDs here as well.;-)
On a more serious level, makes me wonder. If such a tool was used to narrow down a suspect in a crime or malfeasance, would constitutional guarantees against self-incrimination come into play? Could one argue that intentional postings of information pseudo-anonymously are implicitly protected from meta-analytical incrimination?
Not that I have any thing to, umm, hide, mind you....
Yep, the "50 million bubbles in every bottle" are injected by machine. Just like the flaming iridescent streamers over Beijing were injected by a machine into the vid.
The spring water *is* naturally carbonated. But the gas is drawn off separately by Perrier, stored, and re-injected when they bottle the water. Supposedly the carbonation level in the bottle is precisely adjusted to match the level in the source, the Vergèze spring.
At the same time, he's fighting against a lot of people who pretend that all the other athletes compete on a level field. Between genetics, economics, training resources, secret drugs and unethical (or illegal) techniques - and plain old luck - that myth is hopelessly naive and misleading.
As I see it, this is about strength of mind and will more than about strength of body. That's what separates the real champions from the rest. The Olympics serve to remind us what is best in us. This example would touch millions of people, far, far more than someone shaving another three hundredths of a second off the 100 meter record or whatever.
His legs were amputated. He should not be amputated from the idea he's still 100% human.
Make sure you get one with a PlaysForSure sticker on the package before you even *think* of inserting your USB key in the slot. And get rid of that pathetic 256MB unit you carry around in your jeans pocket. Go big or go home. After seeing what's up there on YouPorn, "girls" all want 8GB's (or more!) these days.
It's an optical illusion until you realize that the shadows are forming in the bowls of craters. The sun is coming low from the right, and illuminating the left side of the crater walls.
Meanwhile, the LEM shadow looks long because the sun angle is so low.
Just kidding...seriously, I agree that if you give something to the web community as an act of goodwill, that goodwill pretty much evaporates (and then some) when you start tugging on the attached strings.
"The DeLorean is the only car to come with rear-view mirrors installed horizontally. Also, the printed warning reads 'Officers in mirror are closer than they appear.' "
You changed the topic to piss on the messenger yourself.
Intentional? If so, it's a devilishly clever post.
If not...umm, maybe LGF or DKos would be more suited to your style of discussion. An assumption that we don't share identical politics is not an excuse to abandon simple civility.
Given that Krugman is part of the *actual headline* and the article *explicitly* concerns his take on the "Connectivity Power Shift," my opinion on Krugman's penchant for despair is squarely on topic.
That's the only reason I can think of for his unrelentingly dour take on the US. He's predicted seven of the last two recessions. He makes current low unemployment numbers sound like a con game and a pending disaster. He describes the declining budget deficit and growing Treasury revenues as symptoms of deep economic sickness. The historic rise in stock values? Waterfall just ahead. Meanwhile, he has nothing but scorn for anything created by those who don't share his politics.
I used to read him (this was in pre-NY Times paywall days), but I gave up on him for the same reason I gave up on my old girlfriend. Some people aren't happy unless they're unhappy.
The US has plenty of strengths as well as plenty of problems. I expect the commentators I read to acknowledge both.
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How exactly does one get to be "kind" and "cruel" at the same time?
Don't date much, do you?
Nary a peep from the law, anywhere (that I could find). Clearly, depictions of a teacher blowing kids up into hamburger because they didn't have the correct opinions doesn't sink to the heinous depravity of this musician's vid. /sarc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k&feature=player_embedded#at=86
They're called pebble bed reactors. These are what we should be building. They are self-moderating without active control systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor
That said, it should still be noted that even conventional water-cooled reactors don't explode in a fashion that cause people's shadows to be burned into concrete like the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Spreading that kind of image is irresponsible. Nuclear power has legitimate risks, and those are what should be discussed.
Meanwhile, individual windmills may or may not be aesthetic, according to one's sensibilities, but it's a hard argument that gigantic collections of them don't visually and sonically degrade open spaces and natural surroundings. Individual snowmobiles or speedboats may be graceful and beautiful, but put a few hundred of them together in a formerly serene place and their grace and beauty evaporate.
Windmills additionally kill lots of birds, including raptors and threatened species, and they do that continuously. They also have high rates of mechanical failure, and require expensive on-site maintenance. Worst of all, because of the uneven nature of their generation, they cannot replace baseline power stations, which limits them to marginal contributions above the peak demand curve. As more wind power comes on line, utilities are constructing natural gas plants to provide backup peak reserve, lest wind not be available at the moment needed. In other words, not only is wind power expensive on its own, but it often requires additional expenditure for backup generation.
I don't see how one must be rich and powerful to dislike the impact of large scale wind power. There are uses and places for it, but its shortcomings are hard to dismiss when considering large-scale application. What I see are decisions and allocations being made on the basis of political, rather than engineering, analyses. That kind of thinking often leads to trouble.
960 x 720 = 691200 pixels
I'm guessing this must be the front cam spec, and the article reported it incorrectly.
Also, it's surprising that the base model will have 8GB of RAM. That's actually a downgrade from the previous version.
Season 8, 18th episode, to be precise.
I don't recall that he addressed how the inscrutable sentient ocean actually came to be.
In any case, Solaris gets my vote as one of the three greatest science fiction novels ever.
Specifically, I'm referring to your argument that "Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best."
Under capitalism, science is often bent to the needs of the patron/employer/investor.
Under socialism, science is often bent to the political needs of the "people" as interpreted and enforced by the government.
Neither case must necessarily lead to a poor outcome. However, it's naive to think science can be completely unfettered from the society that supports it. All forms of government and economy concentrate power into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. Those few then use that power to shape the actions of others to suit their own needs and beliefs.
Gloss: Lysenko was the director of the Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences, who decreed as a matter of state ideology (among other bizarre rubbish) that desirable traits in plants were not heritable, but instead could only spread through grafts and nongenetic methods. In short, he was a Lamarckian who could ruin a scientist's career, or worse, for daring question the validity of official state science.
Under Lysenko, agricultural science in the USSR was, from the late 1920s until 1964, based on ideology rather than the scientific method, and this led to uncounted misery for Soviet citizens due to massively underperforming or failed crops.
Wikipedia has a decent article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
We start to treat killing the enemy the way we treat killing chickens at the Perdue packing plant.
At the most fundamental level, war is still human beings killing other human beings...usually human beings who've never met. One of the damping feed-backs in the war loop is the ugliness and brutality of it. That loop needs more, not fewer, negative feed-backs. Further depersonalization and sterilization of war may incentivize the decision to engage in it.
Please clone yourself...we need multiple copies.
1. Make retro Polaroid film packs. ... (mysterious H-wood black box processes + various drugs and Malibu parties)
2. Offer guy sitting in Hollywood coffee shop with laptop 10% of gross to write three-page treatment. Make sure plot depends on LOTS of Polaroids.
3. Text Christopher Nolan's agent: "got a treatment for Memento II that's hotter than Paris Hilton's ass at a Bikram barbecue...wanna put some eyeballs on it?"
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5. Call travel agent and book vay-kay in Bali. Or hell, just BUY Bali.
or the amount paid in interest alone on the national debt every four days (although that amount is on its way up very soon).
We each have a different lens through which to observe the expenditures of government. Personally, I'd rather see space money increased, and re-allocated toward unmanned probes and robotics. Extraordinarily more bang for the buck...but less emotionally satisfying for some. Either way, I prefer spending money learning about black holes than pouring it into black holes.
Take a look at the stimulus bill broken out by line and I'll bet you can find a dozen ways some of that money could be better "re-purposed" toward creating and maintaining high-quality aerospace jobs building spaceships, probes, and engineering infrastructure.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pV-c6t5fOVmNorqMpHvnCMw
Don't even have to change gadgets. That takes care of the average citizen who would be fine with consumer-grade privacy.
One could add complexity by creating multiple Skype land-phone-accessible numbers, and push them through Grand Central. Or get sexy by using VOIP over a VPN connection to a stateside proxy.
The nontechnological solution: "Hey, amigo, lemme use your phone for a minute - I left mine in my Mercedes."
Just look at any long thread here on Slashdot and you see a pattern of convergence to a disgruntled, socially frightened, and overworked IT/programmer guy named Anonymous Coward.
On second thought, looks like that applies to most other UIDs here as well. ;-)
On a more serious level, makes me wonder. If such a tool was used to narrow down a suspect in a crime or malfeasance, would constitutional guarantees against self-incrimination come into play? Could one argue that intentional postings of information pseudo-anonymously are implicitly protected from meta-analytical incrimination?
Not that I have any thing to, umm, hide, mind you....
bada-boom
[ducks]
Yep, the "50 million bubbles in every bottle" are injected by machine. Just like the flaming iridescent streamers over Beijing were injected by a machine into the vid.
The spring water *is* naturally carbonated. But the gas is drawn off separately by Perrier, stored, and re-injected when they bottle the water. Supposedly the carbonation level in the bottle is precisely adjusted to match the level in the source, the Vergèze spring.
would be this. That's Spirit on its way to Mars aboard a Delta 2. Same rocket that was used to send Phoenix to Mars. Works for me.
At the same time, he's fighting against a lot of people who pretend that all the other athletes compete on a level field. Between genetics, economics, training resources, secret drugs and unethical (or illegal) techniques - and plain old luck - that myth is hopelessly naive and misleading.
As I see it, this is about strength of mind and will more than about strength of body. That's what separates the real champions from the rest. The Olympics serve to remind us what is best in us. This example would touch millions of people, far, far more than someone shaving another three hundredths of a second off the 100 meter record or whatever.
His legs were amputated. He should not be amputated from the idea he's still 100% human.
Make sure you get one with a PlaysForSure sticker on the package before you even *think* of inserting your USB key in the slot. And get rid of that pathetic 256MB unit you carry around in your jeans pocket. Go big or go home. After seeing what's up there on YouPorn, "girls" all want 8GB's (or more!) these days.
It's an optical illusion until you realize that the shadows are forming in the bowls of craters. The sun is coming low from the right, and illuminating the left side of the crater walls.
Meanwhile, the LEM shadow looks long because the sun angle is so low.
You can even see its shadow.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/ls_17_5aa.html
Better yet, go to the root page, and explore the sites of each of the lunar missions. You can "tunnel" down to photos only a few hundred meters wide.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html
Just kidding...seriously, I agree that if you give something to the web community as an act of goodwill, that goodwill pretty much evaporates (and then some) when you start tugging on the attached strings.
"The DeLorean is the only car to come with rear-view mirrors installed horizontally. Also, the printed warning reads 'Officers in mirror are closer than they appear.' "
You changed the topic to piss on the messenger yourself.
Intentional? If so, it's a devilishly clever post.
If not...umm, maybe LGF or DKos would be more suited to your style of discussion. An assumption that we don't share identical politics is not an excuse to abandon simple civility.
Given that Krugman is part of the *actual headline* and the article *explicitly* concerns his take on the "Connectivity Power Shift," my opinion on Krugman's penchant for despair is squarely on topic.
That's the only reason I can think of for his unrelentingly dour take on the US. He's predicted seven of the last two recessions. He makes current low unemployment numbers sound like a con game and a pending disaster. He describes the declining budget deficit and growing Treasury revenues as symptoms of deep economic sickness. The historic rise in stock values? Waterfall just ahead. Meanwhile, he has nothing but scorn for anything created by those who don't share his politics.
I used to read him (this was in pre-NY Times paywall days), but I gave up on him for the same reason I gave up on my old girlfriend. Some people aren't happy unless they're unhappy.
The US has plenty of strengths as well as plenty of problems. I expect the commentators I read to acknowledge both.
Heh heh. This means I will be receiving ads for kracked serialz for Microsoft products, based on my hard drive contents.