The TSA's measures are worse than useless: they actually create a hazard, with long, slow-moving, densely-packed lines full of by-definition unscreened persons--lines that are about the ripest target for a bomb that you can find.
I've been thinking about that for years, but never said anything because I didn't want to give anyone any ideas.
Go back to pre-'01 screening procedures, and empower passengers with good-samaritan style legislation that exempts persons from prosecution for acts they genuinely believe to be in prevention of a terrorist incident.
Post-911, an attempting hijacker wouldn't live a minute if the rest of us were carrying pointy things.
Might not anyway, unless the TSA starts confiscating pencils and umbrellas. Almost anything will serve as a weapon in a pinch.
Dark matter- God of the gaps. Can't explain something? Dark matter! That magical substance that is everywhere it wants to be, any way you need it to be!
Gravity calculations wrong? Dark matter! What? That's makes other calculations wrong? Dark matter! The more the better!
I'm being sarcastic here, but actually it's because I'm just so jealous. Real scientists can't simply explain things away by using Substance X.
Anything that we can not or have not been able to explain used to be called an act of God. Now, it's an act of dark matter. Hubble proves it!
Why do so many people have a knee-jerk rejection of anything new we discover about the universe? Is there any reason we should have discovered dark matter before now if it exists? Is there any reason our brains should have generated reliable intuitions about the structure of the universe?
Sure it's a hypothesis, but there are reasons cosmologists accept it.
And I hate to break it to you, but invoking "dark matter" doesn't just explain any arbitrary observation, like "goddidit" does. The hypothesis that there exists a great deal of something that has mass but doesn't otherwise interact much (or at all) with more familiar stuff has very specific implications for what we should see when we point out telescopes to the sky.
I'm just asking the question, because I don't have a great deal of knowledge about this, but could an alternative explanation be that our theory of gravity is wrong?
Yeah, that or a lot of other things. There was a popular explanation called MOND - Modification of Newtonian Dynamics - but AIUI the evidence shot it down. However, I think there's some MOND variants still out there. But most cosmologists apparently lean toward DM as the best explanation for the available observations.
I don't see a black object, I see two of the fingers around what would be the 'top' of the phone which is uncharacteristically how people hold cell phones.
Well that proves it, then. You can hardly expect someone from 1928 to know how to hold a cell phone.
Well, "vampire" and "sucking" have a common theme, but I'm having trouble working in "kernel update". (I guess Linux should have been named "Vlad-The-Impalix".)
Work out that little bug, and we'll get the screenwriters on it.
SyFy has had an endless sequence of short-lived series for the past few years, and most deservedly so. SOSOADS: Same-old-"stuff"-on-a-different-set. And they spend all weekend re-running fourth rate monster/disaster movies. I don't bother tuning them in for anything but Eureka anymore.
If they need a new business model, it's "come up with a good idea and stick with it". Or maybe science fiction just can't compete against sitcoms with jiggly tits and a gay man to be the butt end of all the jokes. If they're in it for they money, they should be selling porn.
Much is said about the 5:1 tank ratio (Sherman:Panzer), which did have an impact for rapidly owning ground. Air superiority was the winner, as the Germans couldn't reliably resupply their own troops. Rocket attacks from the Typhoons (and other similarly-equipped planes) on German armoured columns laid waste to reinforcement efforts.
There was also that little problem called "The Soviet Union" in their rear, which required the attention of 2/3 of the German army even after June 1944.
Supposedly during the 1930s a Soviet commission went to see Germany show off their fancy new Panzer force on drill, and after the show they applauded politely and then said, "Now show us your current tanks." Their designs were so far ahead of the Germans' that they refused to believe that they were seeing the actual state of the art for Germany.
The Panther design was the result of the shock of encountering T-34s in 1941. The Germans considered just cloning a captured vehicle, but the air-cooled aluminum engine block was beyond their resources, so the came up with the Panther, which wasn't committed to battle until mid-1943 (and then somewhat prematurely - not all the bugs were out).
And of course, according to Wikipedia the Soviets produced 9 T-34s for every Panther built.
(Sorry, I can't remember which military writers I picked the other tidbits up from.)
I am implementing this at my factory. In fact, tanks c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b, c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c, eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3, a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c, and e4da3b7fbbce2345d7772b0674a318d5 just rolled off of the the assembly line.
It isn't going to help much if you post your production rate on Slashdot.
I've heard it said that much of the Chinese government's restrictions on free speech, protest, etc. are to maintain social stability.
Is that an ideal that's especially resonant with the Chinese culture for some reason? If so, why?
Or is it a transparent attempt to maintain power (stability = keeping the same people/party in power)? Or is it both?
Kinda like announcing that a soldier who died by friendly fire actually died a heroic death? Or quietly putting a priest out to pasture so people won't figure out that he's been molesting children?
People in power do this kind of crap all the time. The only difference is the degree and the extremes they'll go to.
I doubt the US had anything to do with it, we have a administration with "no bag" in office.
The US intelligence agencies have a long history of doing things without getting clearance from the White House.
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Dutch multinationals have revealed that the worm is also attacking them.
The Wikipedia article has a table of purported number of infections in various countries. Indonesia and India have the worst problem after Iran. Over six thousand in the Anglophone countries. If this is in fact only spreading via USB sticks, we've got some really promiscuous behavior going on.
(You may well be skeptical of the six million reported for China. It's not a defacement; there's a link to an article that quotes someone actually making the claim. But the quote makes it sound like the speaker doesn't know what he's talking about.)
If dark matter acted as "stuff" that had mass then surely it would clump!!
I don't know about the scale of stars and planets, but it is strongly believed that DM "clumps" in and around galaxies. The effect on the rotation curves was one of the first things that tipped off the probable existence of such stuff.
If the current date is later than the date in the configuration file then infection will also not occur and the threat will exit. The date found in the current configuration file is June 24, 2012.
Somebody just didn't want to get blamed for the end of the world.
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The TSA's measures are worse than useless: they actually create a hazard, with long, slow-moving, densely-packed lines full of by-definition unscreened persons--lines that are about the ripest target for a bomb that you can find.
I've been thinking about that for years, but never said anything because I didn't want to give anyone any ideas.
Go back to pre-'01 screening procedures, and empower passengers with good-samaritan style legislation that exempts persons from prosecution for acts they genuinely believe to be in prevention of a terrorist incident.
Post-911, an attempting hijacker wouldn't live a minute if the rest of us were carrying pointy things.
Might not anyway, unless the TSA starts confiscating pencils and umbrellas. Almost anything will serve as a weapon in a pinch.
Dark matter- God of the gaps. Can't explain something? Dark matter! That magical substance that is everywhere it wants to be, any way you need it to be!
Gravity calculations wrong? Dark matter! What? That's makes other calculations wrong? Dark matter! The more the better!
I'm being sarcastic here, but actually it's because I'm just so jealous. Real scientists can't simply explain things away by using Substance X.
Anything that we can not or have not been able to explain used to be called an act of God. Now, it's an act of dark matter. Hubble proves it!
Why do so many people have a knee-jerk rejection of anything new we discover about the universe? Is there any reason we should have discovered dark matter before now if it exists? Is there any reason our brains should have generated reliable intuitions about the structure of the universe?
Sure it's a hypothesis, but there are reasons cosmologists accept it.
And I hate to break it to you, but invoking "dark matter" doesn't just explain any arbitrary observation, like "goddidit" does. The hypothesis that there exists a great deal of something that has mass but doesn't otherwise interact much (or at all) with more familiar stuff has very specific implications for what we should see when we point out telescopes to the sky.
Love the picture of Einstein at the bottom.
I'm just asking the question, because I don't have a great deal of knowledge about this, but could an alternative explanation be that our theory of gravity is wrong?
Yeah, that or a lot of other things. There was a popular explanation called MOND - Modification of Newtonian Dynamics - but AIUI the evidence shot it down. However, I think there's some MOND variants still out there. But most cosmologists apparently lean toward DM as the best explanation for the available observations.
(article in German)
Most of us will have an excuse not to read TFA this time.
(As if lack of an excuse ever made much difference.)
Someone needs to give it a mathematical treatment.
Part of the payoff comes in the form of practical experience with living and working in space.
I see huge potential in selling this to Tea Party members and other political groups so they don't need to be confused by other points of view!
They already have conservapedia.
More confirmation bias.
...it's just another Simpson's Halloween "horror" story.
If I were in that company's position, I'd very much like that testimony to remain sealed as well.
And it's the courts' job to keep rich people happy.
I don't see a black object, I see two of the fingers around what would be the 'top' of the phone which is uncharacteristically how people hold cell phones.
Well that proves it, then. You can hardly expect someone from 1928 to know how to hold a cell phone.
Well, "vampire" and "sucking" have a common theme, but I'm having trouble working in "kernel update". (I guess Linux should have been named "Vlad-The-Impalix".)
Work out that little bug, and we'll get the screenwriters on it.
SyFy has had an endless sequence of short-lived series for the past few years, and most deservedly so. SOSOADS: Same-old-"stuff"-on-a-different-set. And they spend all weekend re-running fourth rate monster/disaster movies. I don't bother tuning them in for anything but Eureka anymore.
If they need a new business model, it's "come up with a good idea and stick with it". Or maybe science fiction just can't compete against sitcoms with jiggly tits and a gay man to be the butt end of all the jokes. If they're in it for they money, they should be selling porn.
Much is said about the 5:1 tank ratio (Sherman:Panzer), which did have an impact for rapidly owning ground. Air superiority was the winner, as the Germans couldn't reliably resupply their own troops. Rocket attacks from the Typhoons (and other similarly-equipped planes) on German armoured columns laid waste to reinforcement efforts.
There was also that little problem called "The Soviet Union" in their rear, which required the attention of 2/3 of the German army even after June 1944.
Supposedly during the 1930s a Soviet commission went to see Germany show off their fancy new Panzer force on drill, and after the show they applauded politely and then said, "Now show us your current tanks." Their designs were so far ahead of the Germans' that they refused to believe that they were seeing the actual state of the art for Germany.
The Panther design was the result of the shock of encountering T-34s in 1941. The Germans considered just cloning a captured vehicle, but the air-cooled aluminum engine block was beyond their resources, so the came up with the Panther, which wasn't committed to battle until mid-1943 (and then somewhat prematurely - not all the bugs were out).
And of course, according to Wikipedia the Soviets produced 9 T-34s for every Panther built.
(Sorry, I can't remember which military writers I picked the other tidbits up from.)
I am implementing this at my factory. In fact, tanks c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b, c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c, eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3, a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c, and e4da3b7fbbce2345d7772b0674a318d5 just rolled off of the the assembly line.
It isn't going to help much if you post your production rate on Slashdot.
I've heard it said that much of the Chinese government's restrictions on free speech, protest, etc. are to maintain social stability.
Is that an ideal that's especially resonant with the Chinese culture for some reason? If so, why?
Or is it a transparent attempt to maintain power (stability = keeping the same people/party in power)? Or is it both?
Kinda like announcing that a soldier who died by friendly fire actually died a heroic death? Or quietly putting a priest out to pasture so people won't figure out that he's been molesting children?
People in power do this kind of crap all the time. The only difference is the degree and the extremes they'll go to.
I doubt the US had anything to do with it, we have a administration with "no bag" in office.
The US intelligence agencies have a long history of doing things without getting clearance from the White House.
Dutch multinationals have revealed that the worm is also attacking them.
The Wikipedia article has a table of purported number of infections in various countries. Indonesia and India have the worst problem after Iran. Over six thousand in the Anglophone countries. If this is in fact only spreading via USB sticks, we've got some really promiscuous behavior going on.
(You may well be skeptical of the six million reported for China. It's not a defacement; there's a link to an article that quotes someone actually making the claim. But the quote makes it sound like the speaker doesn't know what he's talking about.)
This splits light from the screen and sends it to nine points in front of the TV.
What if you only have eight eyes?
Whoosh... Thats the sound of a joke going over your head.
If a joke goes over your head in outer space, does it make a woosh?
but simulating galaxy collisions have been done before: http://www.galaxydynamics.org/
However, new to the simulation is dark-matter calculations.
Note that this is clusters, not galaxies.
Also, DM *has* been modelled in galactic collisions before. I don't know about clusters, though.
If dark matter acted as "stuff" that had mass then surely it would clump!!
I don't know about the scale of stars and planets, but it is strongly believed that DM "clumps" in and around galaxies. The effect on the rotation curves was one of the first things that tipped off the probable existence of such stuff.
If the current date is later than the date in the configuration file then infection will also not occur and the threat will exit. The date found in the current configuration file is June 24, 2012.
Somebody just didn't want to get blamed for the end of the world.
Talk about "confirmation bias"!
Yes - exactly what I was thinking!