true enough; it does. I'm just saying that it's a tiny bit mysterious that Assange gets accused of rape shortly after wikileaks makes it big. Trust neither side is the prudent decision here.
Which is simply to say, that kind of stuff is less likely to happen with a divided Congress, since it generally won't get introduced on the side controlled by Republicans.
Yes.. what people don't seem to get is that its a good thing to have a ravenously partisan congress in these days of idiocracy. It prevents them from getting the particularly stupid bills passed. Or at least it slows them down.
All I found were a bunch of regurgitated articles saying "Obama Stops Bush's Ill-founded Arms Race Toward Ww3" a few pages in. See agent K's famous quote for more detail.
In my opinion, the hacktivism anonymous attacks are about all we're going to see. Granted, they're powerful, and a force to be reckoned with for sure, but the governments (most of them anyway) of the world generally don't care about a technologically literate group, making up maybe 5 percent of voters.
Use linux if you want to know why your computer works. Use mac if you don't want to know why your computer works. Use DOS if you want to know why your computer doesn't work, and use windows if you don't want to know why your computer doesn't work.
Embarasslingly enough, my desktop has 1GB RAM. Depending on what distro I'm using (quad-booter) It takes between about 70 Megs for debian/awesome or flux, to 400 or so with kubuntu.
I disagree, though you do have a point. Ubuntu is rather bloated compared to other distros, and its certainly buggy, but that's relative to other distros, not windows. It runs far faster than a vanilla XP SP2 or 3 install on the machine I'm writing this on, and certainly crashes less often. I do think it's starting to degenerate though, hardy was probably the most stable version I've ever used. But hey, there's debian for that. I'm thinking of releasing a custom debian netbook distribution at some point, but I'm trying to find out tonight if it would become YARD.
It shouldn't, I'm quite strongly anti ACTA. I'm just saying that, unfortunately, too few people have heard of it to justify this kind of 'march on capital city' optimism.
I didn't know there was an HD video minimum requirement. I recall running 1080p videos comfortably on a P4 2.8Ghz single core. Of course, it may or may not have been 264.
Many in the Senate are still stinging from the voter rebuke that just occurred, and the rest are not in a mood to pick a fight with the voters.
The entire thing should simply be rejected due to the excessive secrecy with which it was negotiated. Even if this treaty gave a gold brick to every citizen, capped punishment at one dollar and 50 cents, and baked you pies every Wednesday, the mere fact that they had to build a world wide conspiracy of silence to try to get this one over means it should be Dead On Arrival in the Senate.
You do realize that almost nobody outside of the slashdot crowd (minus other geek cults) has even heard of the ACTA?
I meant in the first sentence 'sorry if that's not an option' e.g. if you have more than 3GB RAM. Last resort. Look into it on Ubuntu Forums, its a great help forum.
Have you installed graphics drivers or tried running a 32-bit version on your 64-bit comp (sorry if that's not an issue)? You might also try firefox 4 minefield or beta 7, the speed is pretty awesome. There's also always chrome or opera. From the description though, I'd guess your problem is a weak graphics card, a graphics card without drivers installed, or a graphics card with very crappy linux drivers (generally only the older ATI cards). Assuming you installed vanilla ubuntu, it should be system>adminisitration>Hardware drivers (or restricted drivers or something along those lines). Tell me if it works.
Adobe's just now released 64-bit flash for linux again- they had cancelled it and removed the download link for months. Give it a little time, or test gnash or something. I have no idea what you're talking about when you're saying that ubuntu's archaic though. Have you tried compiz fusion yet? Used the new software center? KDE? If flash is your only issue, ubuntu should still amaze.
I'm not an expert, but I'm going to argue this post with simple logic. Mars doesn't have the atmosphere it possibly could with its gravity well; your assertion that the atmosphere is already 95% CO2 is correct, but your later statement is like saying a quarter-inch thick blanket of fleece is 'as warm as its going to get' without respecting insulatory thickness. With a gravity a bit over a third of earth's, logic says that it could support an earth type atmosphere of around 1/3 sea-level pressure (Apollo spacecraft were pressurized at this with pure O2 environments); the reason it doesn't have one now is because of solar wind erosion (as you said), but at human replaceable rates. Also, Titan has something like 1/6th earth gravity and an atmosphere 1.5 times thicker than earth's, composed mostly of nitrogen, though I admit there are probably a host of other factors playing into this. However, there are greenhouse gasses far more potent than CO2, like CFCs, which could be used to warm the Martian environment significantly without having to deal with limitations in gravitational attraction, freeing more room for much needed oxygen content.
Alright, with the atmosphere out of the way, liquid water can exist on the surface and temperatures rise. Main other thing that I can think of as a major problem is lack of a magnetosphere. I'm just brainstorming here, but we currently have magnets many hundreds or thousands (possibly more, can't remember the exact number) of times stronger than earth's magnetic field. So why not have some sort of grid of them in orbit to protect from solar winds and the like? The economics are daunting, but no more so than that of even starting a terraforming project.
The point I'm trying to make is this: You or I shouldn't pretend to know what is and is not possible for the terraformation of mars without ruling out every singe possibility. And that is highly unlikely at this point in time. To use a Master of Orion analogy, its like Meklars arguing that terraforming is impossible. It is, they're just terrible/inexperienced at it.
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why is this modded troll? It's completely right.
If they take away their freedoms gradually enough, most of the sheeple don't even realize it until they're screwed (if ever).
I'd say that's because our non-coastal population tends to be far more spread out than other nations'.
Among other nations. The trick is to create a data volume that will decrypt differently with different passwords.
true enough; it does. I'm just saying that it's a tiny bit mysterious that Assange gets accused of rape shortly after wikileaks makes it big. Trust neither side is the prudent decision here.
Speak for yourself.
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Excellent kool aid chugging contest victory, sir.
but as usual, only the technologically inclined who also care about privacy will use it. That is, not many.
Which is simply to say, that kind of stuff is less likely to happen with a divided Congress, since it generally won't get introduced on the side controlled by Republicans.
Yes.. what people don't seem to get is that its a good thing to have a ravenously partisan congress in these days of idiocracy. It prevents them from getting the particularly stupid bills passed. Or at least it slows them down.
An internet explorer browser slashdot's browser of choice? What the hell are you smoking dude?
All I found were a bunch of regurgitated articles saying "Obama Stops Bush's Ill-founded Arms Race Toward Ww3" a few pages in. See agent K's famous quote for more detail.
like I said, a force to be reckoned with. That was rather pessimistic, I admit. But when its that small... the war on cyber-terrorism anyone?
In my opinion, the hacktivism anonymous attacks are about all we're going to see. Granted, they're powerful, and a force to be reckoned with for sure, but the governments (most of them anyway) of the world generally don't care about a technologically literate group, making up maybe 5 percent of voters.
Use linux if you want to know why your computer works. Use mac if you don't want to know why your computer works. Use DOS if you want to know why your computer doesn't work, and use windows if you don't want to know why your computer doesn't work.
Embarasslingly enough, my desktop has 1GB RAM. Depending on what distro I'm using (quad-booter) It takes between about 70 Megs for debian/awesome or flux, to 400 or so with kubuntu.
I disagree, though you do have a point. Ubuntu is rather bloated compared to other distros, and its certainly buggy, but that's relative to other distros, not windows. It runs far faster than a vanilla XP SP2 or 3 install on the machine I'm writing this on, and certainly crashes less often. I do think it's starting to degenerate though, hardy was probably the most stable version I've ever used. But hey, there's debian for that. I'm thinking of releasing a custom debian netbook distribution at some point, but I'm trying to find out tonight if it would become YARD.
It shouldn't, I'm quite strongly anti ACTA. I'm just saying that, unfortunately, too few people have heard of it to justify this kind of 'march on capital city' optimism.
Its just really popular to hate fox news on slashdot.
I didn't know there was an HD video minimum requirement. I recall running 1080p videos comfortably on a P4 2.8Ghz single core. Of course, it may or may not have been 264.
Many in the Senate are still stinging from the voter rebuke that just occurred, and the rest are not in a mood to pick a fight with the voters. The entire thing should simply be rejected due to the excessive secrecy with which it was negotiated. Even if this treaty gave a gold brick to every citizen, capped punishment at one dollar and 50 cents, and baked you pies every Wednesday, the mere fact that they had to build a world wide conspiracy of silence to try to get this one over means it should be Dead On Arrival in the Senate.
You do realize that almost nobody outside of the slashdot crowd (minus other geek cults) has even heard of the ACTA?
I meant in the first sentence 'sorry if that's not an option' e.g. if you have more than 3GB RAM. Last resort. Look into it on Ubuntu Forums, its a great help forum.
Have you installed graphics drivers or tried running a 32-bit version on your 64-bit comp (sorry if that's not an issue)? You might also try firefox 4 minefield or beta 7, the speed is pretty awesome. There's also always chrome or opera. From the description though, I'd guess your problem is a weak graphics card, a graphics card without drivers installed, or a graphics card with very crappy linux drivers (generally only the older ATI cards). Assuming you installed vanilla ubuntu, it should be system>adminisitration>Hardware drivers (or restricted drivers or something along those lines). Tell me if it works.
Adobe's just now released 64-bit flash for linux again- they had cancelled it and removed the download link for months. Give it a little time, or test gnash or something. I have no idea what you're talking about when you're saying that ubuntu's archaic though. Have you tried compiz fusion yet? Used the new software center? KDE? If flash is your only issue, ubuntu should still amaze.
Last line should be "Terraforming is possible....."
I'm not an expert, but I'm going to argue this post with simple logic. Mars doesn't have the atmosphere it possibly could with its gravity well; your assertion that the atmosphere is already 95% CO2 is correct, but your later statement is like saying a quarter-inch thick blanket of fleece is 'as warm as its going to get' without respecting insulatory thickness. With a gravity a bit over a third of earth's, logic says that it could support an earth type atmosphere of around 1/3 sea-level pressure (Apollo spacecraft were pressurized at this with pure O2 environments); the reason it doesn't have one now is because of solar wind erosion (as you said), but at human replaceable rates. Also, Titan has something like 1/6th earth gravity and an atmosphere 1.5 times thicker than earth's, composed mostly of nitrogen, though I admit there are probably a host of other factors playing into this. However, there are greenhouse gasses far more potent than CO2, like CFCs, which could be used to warm the Martian environment significantly without having to deal with limitations in gravitational attraction, freeing more room for much needed oxygen content.
Alright, with the atmosphere out of the way, liquid water can exist on the surface and temperatures rise. Main other thing that I can think of as a major problem is lack of a magnetosphere. I'm just brainstorming here, but we currently have magnets many hundreds or thousands (possibly more, can't remember the exact number) of times stronger than earth's magnetic field. So why not have some sort of grid of them in orbit to protect from solar winds and the like? The economics are daunting, but no more so than that of even starting a terraforming project.
The point I'm trying to make is this: You or I shouldn't pretend to know what is and is not possible for the terraformation of mars without ruling out every singe possibility. And that is highly unlikely at this point in time. To use a Master of Orion analogy, its like Meklars arguing that terraforming is impossible. It is, they're just terrible/inexperienced at it.