Fewer than would be produced generating the same amount of energy with coal, which currently provides about 70% of our energy in the US. Even if we all decide today that we're going to swear off fossil fuels, the process of converting our society to the alternatives will take decades, decades in which we will still rely on millions of barrels of oil every day.
Assuming that a reasonable investment of public funds were made into the infrastructure, I imagine we could convert nearly all of our hydrocarbon power plants to fission in under ten years. "Reasonable" here is defined as "less than what we've wasted in Iraq".
Neocon Bullheadedness (Ex): Analogous to the Madness rule for clerics of Tharizdun (see RttToEE), Neoconservatives add half of their Neocon level to their Wisdom for the purpose of Will saves and any checks related to avoiding changing one's mind, but subtract this number from their Wisdom for all other purposes except spellcasting. Neocons who worship Jeebus count their cleric levels as Neocon levels for this purpose.
Cause Fear (Ex): By invoking the sacred name of Terrism, Bush can cause a disturbed fearful state in those who hear his speeches. Anyone hearing such a speech for five consecutive rounds must make a Will save (DC 18) or be shaken for 24 hours. In addition, for the next four months the victim must make a Will save (DC 13) upon future mention of Terrism, or be shaken for 10 minutes. Listeners with Intelligence 12 or greater are unaffected; listeners with intelligence 16 or greater are highly amused.
Get a million people together (shouldn't be hard if all the torrent sites make note of the campaign) to chip in $1 or $10 each to make a matching offer: "We'll pay you to take this to trial."
Even if the RIAA outbids The Internets, it's still a PR coup -- "Look at what they were willing to do in order to hide stuff..."
You obviously can't be arsed to use your brain for even a few milliseconds, so let me spell it out for you:
Instead of funding this program, those same taxpayer dollars could be used to fund any number of other programs which many people would believe to be more worthy.
Alternatively, they could be returned to the taxpayers in the form of a tax cut.
Tax reduction OR other programs are an alternative to military spending.
I am neither an 8th-grade dunderhead or a hippie. Try again.
"Why should we pay the Air Force, or anyone else, to do this instead of fixing potholes/improving education/doing research/fixing healthcare/reducing taxes?"
"Why does the American taxpayer benefit more from this than from any other use of the money?"
And I don't see why this would be hard. Perhaps I'm naive about IT challenges, but where I work nobody even thinks about archives and backups until they need them; there are just some perl scripts that run every night make sure all that stuff gets made.
Do you really need anything other than anacron, scp, maybe a bit of perl, a RAID array or a tape drive, and some guy to buy new disks (or tapes, or whatever you're using) once in a while to make email backups?
Unix is far older than 17. Linux is close enough to Unix that I can ssh into machines and do stuff without really worrying about what *nix they're running.
Oh, cry me a river for Boeing. They've had their pockets lined with overpriced military contracts (overpaying for shit that won't work anyway) for how long?
I was hand-holding my radar gun when measuring the speeds of snails and Vista.
Upon repeating the measurement with a tripod-mounted radar gun, Vista went at 2 inches/minute; my previous measurement of 16 inches/minute was due to jitter from hand-holding it. This has never been a problem measuring OS speeds before; sorry.
Comment withdrawn. Perhaps a more appropriate comparison would be to lichen?
... and those of us who are actually in the business of teaching and/or learning can get on with it.
My university uses D2L. I, as a TA, hate the motherfucking thing, end of story.
I have a professor who adamantly refuses to use it and posts course information as plain vanilla html pages (with pdf alternate links, if the LaTeK -> html doesn't look quite right). Nobody complains.
As a side-effect you can use curl to download all the notes at once. Try that with D2L.
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Congratulations, if this goes through and someone gets that job, we now have a new record-holder:
The Most Rickrolled Person In The World.
I'll show you a country powered by them: France. They've got the cheapest power and cleanest air in Europe.
Assuming that a reasonable investment of public funds were made into the infrastructure, I imagine we could convert nearly all of our hydrocarbon power plants to fission in under ten years. "Reasonable" here is defined as "less than what we've wasted in Iraq".
Aristocrat (Neoconservative) 10/Clr2 of Jeebus
Str: 13
Dex: 8 (choked on a pretzel)
Con: 14 (able to stomach sight of Laura Bush)
Int: 8
Wis: 9*
Cha: 14 (people still like him)
HP: 10d6+2d8+24
Skill points: 13*2 (Ari) +2*1 (Clr) = 28
Profession (failed businessman) +3
Craft (ridiculous speeches) +4
Knowledge (torture methods) +5
Knowledge (religion) +2
Knowledge (pseudoscience) +3
Perform (monkey faces) +7
Neocon Bullheadedness (Ex): Analogous to the Madness rule for clerics of Tharizdun (see RttToEE), Neoconservatives add half of their Neocon level to their Wisdom for the purpose of Will saves and any checks related to avoiding changing one's mind, but subtract this number from their Wisdom for all other purposes except spellcasting. Neocons who worship Jeebus count their cleric levels as Neocon levels for this purpose.
Cause Fear (Ex): By invoking the sacred name of Terrism, Bush can cause a disturbed fearful state in those who hear his speeches. Anyone hearing such a speech for five consecutive rounds must make a Will save (DC 18) or be shaken for 24 hours. In addition, for the next four months the victim must make a Will save (DC 13) upon future mention of Terrism, or be shaken for 10 minutes. Listeners with Intelligence 12 or greater are unaffected; listeners with intelligence 16 or greater are highly amused.
Feats: Courteous Theocracy (background feat), Dodge Draft, Thrall to Demon (Karl Rove), Weapon Focus (flag lapel pin), Dodge (for hunting with Cheney)
Typical cleric spells prepared: **can't cast spells, Wis10**
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And, if you want your music to be audible to everyone in the room, you can plug your iPod into some speakers. Like, any speakers.
I'd rather make my own music than jump through all those DRM hoops.
You can buy a decent used piano, or a nice guitar, for the price of all that stuff. Want music? Go play some.
When the anon stuff started going down I learned about the ebaumsworld calling card in an hour of reading encyclopediadramatica.
Count on it that the Co$ has done the same. They're not stupid; they're just crazy.
So we outbid them.
Get a million people together (shouldn't be hard if all the torrent sites make note of the campaign) to chip in $1 or $10 each to make a matching offer: "We'll pay you to take this to trial."
Even if the RIAA outbids The Internets, it's still a PR coup -- "Look at what they were willing to do in order to hide stuff..."
You obviously can't be arsed to use your brain for even a few milliseconds, so let me spell it out for you:
Instead of funding this program, those same taxpayer dollars could be used to fund any number of other programs which many people would believe to be more worthy.
Alternatively, they could be returned to the taxpayers in the form of a tax cut.
Tax reduction OR other programs are an alternative to military spending.
I am neither an 8th-grade dunderhead or a hippie. Try again.
"Why should we pay the Air Force, or anyone else, to do this instead of fixing potholes/improving education/doing research/fixing healthcare/reducing taxes?"
"Why does the American taxpayer benefit more from this than from any other use of the money?"
And I don't see why this would be hard. Perhaps I'm naive about IT challenges, but where I work nobody even thinks about archives and backups until they need them; there are just some perl scripts that run every night make sure all that stuff gets made.
Do you really need anything other than anacron, scp, maybe a bit of perl, a RAID array or a tape drive, and some guy to buy new disks (or tapes, or whatever you're using) once in a while to make email backups?
The Bush presidency has helped OBL's cause beyond his wildest dreams.
The SPCA has a much easier time recruiting when there's a serial puppy-kicker on the loose.
Elsewhere in the world destruction of evidence is taken as guilt. Is that not the case in the USA?
In the USA, it matters a whole lot who you're talking about whether or not XYZ counts as guilt.
And why does the US military consider the vast bulk of the world to be its enemy?
I've wondered about that too. Facebook fails at image processing.
You obviously don't need a password, then.
Just buy a dog.
Unix is far older than 17. Linux is close enough to Unix that I can ssh into machines and do stuff without really worrying about what *nix they're running.
Oh, cry me a river for Boeing. They've had their pockets lined with overpriced military contracts (overpaying for shit that won't work anyway) for how long?
If you don't teach kids how to filter garbage, they will be doomed to believe it once they leave the walls of your home.
Which, of course, is exactly what keeps Mormonism alive.
Ah, sorry -- my deepest apologies!
I was hand-holding my radar gun when measuring the speeds of snails and Vista.
Upon repeating the measurement with a tripod-mounted radar gun, Vista went at 2 inches/minute; my previous measurement of 16 inches/minute was due to jitter from hand-holding it. This has never been a problem measuring OS speeds before; sorry.
Comment withdrawn. Perhaps a more appropriate comparison would be to lichen?
... and those of us who are actually in the business of teaching and/or learning can get on with it.
My university uses D2L. I, as a TA, hate the motherfucking thing, end of story.
I have a professor who adamantly refuses to use it and posts course information as plain vanilla html pages (with pdf alternate links, if the LaTeK -> html doesn't look quite right). Nobody complains.
As a side-effect you can use curl to download all the notes at once. Try that with D2L.
If they made Vista-brand snails or vacuum cleaners, they'd sell like mad.
Strict academic masturbation? You mean like those German guys who sat around in the '20's and '30's working out quantum mechanics, right?
Oh, right -- that thing that makes transistors possible, and thus these here Intertubes, and modern chemistry...
DoD doesn't do research aimed at "applications", if by "application" you mean "something that might make your life better".
Is this real research or military stuff?