It isn't entirely unreasonably to posit that many of the Chinese, Indians and Africans were wiped out during the third world war (nuclear) and eugenics wars. On the other hand, it could have more to do with the series being filmed in a place where acquiring so many Asian actors wasn't practical.
BSG completely lost the plot as it gradually moved closer to theology. I don't mind a bit of theology in Sci-fi but BSG went too far. Any further and it would have completely plagiarised Exodus. It spoiled any Sci-fi element it once had and turned the story into meaningless drivel.
From what I understand of the fighters in Star Wars they make little sense in there own setting. It is claimed that they are solar powered but solar power provides such little energy that it is useless as a main source of power. If it were their primary source of power they would be competing with destroyers that have such a high energy output they rival a small star. The power such a fighter could muster would be a pico-fraction at best. A Dyson Sphere can barely compete with an imperial Star Destroyer so how can a TIE fighter be a threat to anything if it uses solar power?
There are very few science fiction series where vessel capabilities are at all consistent or balanced to be honest.
Star Trek wins outright irrespective of technology because its superbeings are far more powerful. In Star Wars the force is about as good as it gets. I am quite sure that the Q crap all over that.
The point of them being corporations is arbitrary. It's because of legal framework. The police have to send court orders to an ISP to request evidence in the event of criminal use. It should be possible for a TOR exit node to register as a relay so that the police can look it up in a database and send a court order when evidence is needed. The problem with this is that everyone then decides to register as a relay.
The problem is that nerds are often described as having weak social ability. I question this. Is it really weak or circumstantially disadvantageous? Can a jock so easily succeed socially in and amongst the greater nerd population?
I put forward that nerds merely have an alternative social protocols to the majority of their peers resulting in an incompatibility that puts them in a difficult position. These protocols can fall anywhere on the spectrum from mode of communication to types of interests.
When a system exists that causes these minorities to gravitate towards one another, such as an academic establishment, the social barrier is removed when they are amongst a greater number of peers with compatible social traits. They are then more able to find a mate with fewer of the traditional constraints.
I greatly respect what cygwin is and does but ultimately it's unpleasantly bloated when you only need a handful of ported programs. After using the putty terminal editor I can't touch cygwins. When using cygwin I set up the sshd service so that I can use putty for it on localhost instead.
I would let them have the chair. It keeps them involved and gives them some responsibility. I would argue that unless anyone is willing to start a war that will likely see millions killed, there is no way the committee can achieve anything to improve the situation unless the country has full inclusion.
I have absolutely not objection to which country has the chair until they do something inappropriate with it. It seems to me as though Canada is simply using North Korea's bad name to its own ends. I can tell you one thing. Canada's actions wont do a thing to improve the situation. It is only making relations worse than they need to be and reinforces North Korea's isolation.
The funny thing is forcing ISPs to do that is a waste of time. You just use a different DNS server instead of the default provided by your ISP. You can even use the ROOT servers directly.
DreamWeaver is acceptable even for the professional providing it is used correctly.
In my experience problems are introduced in two ways: When it is used for important code that needs care and attention (or backend code in general). This particularly applies for large projects. This is symptomatic of the golden hammer approach, where DreamWeaver is used as much as possible rather than as much as is optimal for the entire cycle. The tool is much better adjusted for building and prototyping views. It should not see much use beyond that. When its output is trusted implicitly along with any actions it might perform. What you see isn't always what you get and what you want isn't always something you can see anywhere else but in lower levels.
True though it may be that DreamWeaver can be used productively in some rolls and situations, what benefit it does bring hardly seems worth it for the price.
I totally agree. Though it is hard to fully rely on comparisons such as "drank the equivalent in beer of almost 1 year worth of wages for a local laborer" for a true sense of scale and situational difference when the cost of some non-luxury essentials is much lower for those people.
The neural activity monitored may not be related to the sensation of pain at all, but to the action of blocking or resolving it neurologically. The study is interesting but it only tracks blood flow. It is very imprecise and can only lead to guided guesswork.
If the researchers are so confident in their determination of the role of those brain regions, perhaps they should lobotomise themselves in the same regions and never feel pain again.
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"it can" Where did you read "it will"?
It isn't entirely unreasonably to posit that many of the Chinese, Indians and Africans were wiped out during the third world war (nuclear) and eugenics wars. On the other hand, it could have more to do with the series being filmed in a place where acquiring so many Asian actors wasn't practical.
BSG completely lost the plot as it gradually moved closer to theology. I don't mind a bit of theology in Sci-fi but BSG went too far. Any further and it would have completely plagiarised Exodus. It spoiled any Sci-fi element it once had and turned the story into meaningless drivel.
From what I understand of the fighters in Star Wars they make little sense in there own setting. It is claimed that they are solar powered but solar power provides such little energy that it is useless as a main source of power. If it were their primary source of power they would be competing with destroyers that have such a high energy output they rival a small star. The power such a fighter could muster would be a pico-fraction at best. A Dyson Sphere can barely compete with an imperial Star Destroyer so how can a TIE fighter be a threat to anything if it uses solar power? There are very few science fiction series where vessel capabilities are at all consistent or balanced to be honest. Star Trek wins outright irrespective of technology because its superbeings are far more powerful. In Star Wars the force is about as good as it gets. I am quite sure that the Q crap all over that.
Could be a company that intends to rent out space to such agencies and for such uses or for cloud computing (amazon).
"The human genome"? That's a bit of a misnomer. With compression and differential storage however the point is still valid.
The point of them being corporations is arbitrary. It's because of legal framework. The police have to send court orders to an ISP to request evidence in the event of criminal use. It should be possible for a TOR exit node to register as a relay so that the police can look it up in a database and send a court order when evidence is needed. The problem with this is that everyone then decides to register as a relay.
A billionaire's porn collection?
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The problem is that nerds are often described as having weak social ability. I question this. Is it really weak or circumstantially disadvantageous? Can a jock so easily succeed socially in and amongst the greater nerd population?
I put forward that nerds merely have an alternative social protocols to the majority of their peers resulting in an incompatibility that puts them in a difficult position. These protocols can fall anywhere on the spectrum from mode of communication to types of interests.
When a system exists that causes these minorities to gravitate towards one another, such as an academic establishment, the social barrier is removed when they are amongst a greater number of peers with compatible social traits. They are then more able to find a mate with fewer of the traditional constraints.
I greatly respect what cygwin is and does but ultimately it's unpleasantly bloated when you only need a handful of ported programs. After using the putty terminal editor I can't touch cygwins. When using cygwin I set up the sshd service so that I can use putty for it on localhost instead.
I would let them have the chair. It keeps them involved and gives them some responsibility. I would argue that unless anyone is willing to start a war that will likely see millions killed, there is no way the committee can achieve anything to improve the situation unless the country has full inclusion.
I have absolutely not objection to which country has the chair until they do something inappropriate with it. It seems to me as though Canada is simply using North Korea's bad name to its own ends. I can tell you one thing. Canada's actions wont do a thing to improve the situation. It is only making relations worse than they need to be and reinforces North Korea's isolation.
Easy work around is to market and label it as HDMI with compatible in tiny font beneath.
The funny thing is forcing ISPs to do that is a waste of time. You just use a different DNS server instead of the default provided by your ISP. You can even use the ROOT servers directly.
A lesson in empathy is a great deterrent.
Some "hacker tools" are also security tools.
Encryption for example.
I am curious if any EU ministers can define "hacker tool" or give some examples.
DreamWeaver is acceptable even for the professional providing it is used correctly.
In my experience problems are introduced in two ways:
When it is used for important code that needs care and attention (or backend code in general). This particularly applies for large projects. This is symptomatic of the golden hammer approach, where DreamWeaver is used as much as possible rather than as much as is optimal for the entire cycle. The tool is much better adjusted for building and prototyping views. It should not see much use beyond that.
When its output is trusted implicitly along with any actions it might perform. What you see isn't always what you get and what you want isn't always something you can see anywhere else but in lower levels.
True though it may be that DreamWeaver can be used productively in some rolls and situations, what benefit it does bring hardly seems worth it for the price.
I agree, if using third party storage you use encryption for anything they don't need to see.
Yet Google's statements are impressively stupid for such a competent company.
The location of data and the security of data are not always unrelated.
I totally agree. Though it is hard to fully rely on comparisons such as "drank the equivalent in beer of almost 1 year worth of wages for a local laborer" for a true sense of scale and situational difference when the cost of some non-luxury essentials is much lower for those people.
In other words, the sun farted.
And it was a whopper.
The neural activity monitored may not be related to the sensation of pain at all, but to the action of blocking or resolving it neurologically. The study is interesting but it only tracks blood flow. It is very imprecise and can only lead to guided guesswork.
If the researchers are so confident in their determination of the role of those brain regions, perhaps they should lobotomise themselves in the same regions and never feel pain again.
Great way to create a new kind of government approved caste system if you ask me.
Lowest hanging fruit; when is it not incompetence?
I'll definitely use that URL too. It's Apple, couldn't possibly have malware.
Would work much better with solid state hard drives.