I think the general idea was that you need to get the antimatter to interact directly with the matter at the centre of a planet. You could posit that the death star was sending an immense stream of contained antimatter bound within some sort of energy beam which also worked to clear away regular matter in the upper crust.
The same Obama who was against gay marriage back in 2008? He's a career politician just like the rest of them, going wherever the wind blows and lacking personal integrity in his opinions. That's not to say his opinions lare morally wrong on an ongoing basis, just that they change whenever it suits him politically. Trump, not so much, and that resonates with a lot of people tired of seeing the same cut-outs mouthing the same trendy platitudes for years now.
You're kind of idealising biblical societies there though - sure they worked, you can make almost anything work if you believe hard enough, but that doesn't make them optimal. Still, it's true that the bible contains quite a bit of actual history.
While I know it's heresy to actually read the article, the point being made is that enterprise solutions don't work well with the freemium model, which one would have thought was intuitive, but thanks for the pious moralisations all the same.
No, this is fairly emblematic of the entire google experience with the exception of search. Baffling decisions, opaque design processes, confusing interfaces, poorly thought out systems, zero and I do mean zero access to customer services. It's not artful or original, it's mostly just crap. Which is why they keep shutting their experiments down after a couple of years.
Why did you feel you had to go there? Are you trying to say the people of the Fertile Crescent are the real master race? One could just as easily point to the disarray in the Middle East at the moment and draw the opposite conclusion. Neither perspective has value.
And yet, this'll make your hair stand on end, an M67 hand grenade weighs less than a pound and has an effective kill radius of five meters and casualty radius of about 15 meters.
Now imagine someone buying a dozen drones and wiring them to work on a preprogrammed flight path over a busy sporting event.
Or far more worryingly, the possibility that explosives might be dropped on public events or something similar. A co-ordinated attack could do a lot of damage.
And Warhol is mentioned in the SCUM Manifesto? No? Maybe surgical corsets are? No? So what exactly does the attempted murder of Andy Warhol have to do with your insistence that the Ada Initiative should be responding to dead comment threads? Is this just an attempt to tie a schizophrenic who tried to kill someone she thought was stealing from her to feminism as a whole? Of course it is.
Ah, so you accuse me of calling her a liar, but the conference organizer was just "covering his ass" for saying the same thing? Do you have any idea how schizophrenic you sound?
There are three stories of an event, but you choose one that agrees with your prejudices and then say everyone else is "trying to drown out the facts". Got it - you're a paranoid schizophrenic, hence your obsession with Solanis. I'm glad I don't have a Factory for you to visit me at.
Yeah I'm just going to leave this here for the world to see, along with the revolutionary omelette maker who responded below. Thanks for showing everyone the intellectual pretzelling you're willing to undergo for your ideology. Really, hardcore religious fanatics are taking note.:D
Next, you're going to be outraged about Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, right? I mean, clearly, you don't understand satire.
You have no idea who Valerie Solanis was, do you. Once again since your memory appears to be a bit flaky, she attempted to murder Andy Warhol and left him permanently mutilated, he was forced to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life, for which she was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia. Robert Marmorstein, writing in The Village Voice, declared that Solanas "has dedicated the remainder of her life to the avowed purpose of eliminating every single male from the face of the earth." Norman Mailer called her the "Robespierre of feminism."
She was deadly serious, as is her book.
The conference organizer apparently is, since he disagrees with her characterization of what happened. Unless you're calling him a liar now. And you must be, or else you've just proved my accusation of you as a hypocrite to be true. So, come on - are you calling him a liar, or are you admitting you're a hypocrite?
I'd say he was trying to cover his own ass as much as possible after the whole thing went viral, for which he can hardly be blamed. Raging internet mob on one side and ghastly feminist hatemongers on the other, most likely he'd prefer if the whole affair was quietly forgotten. I'm going with Violet's version of events, without a doubt.
Now then, at this point I have to wonder - why are you trying to drown out the facts? Are you a feminist or just someone who can't stop arguing?
...based on any hope they might have that people would take them seriously? I mean do you know what the SCUM Manifesto actually is? It makes Mein Kampf look like a rational and reasonable body of writing by comparison. The bare notion that it would be recommended reading for anyone but students of psychiatry boggles the mind, and yet there's a comment, unchallenged, not so much as an eyebrow raised, recommending it right on the Ada website.
You're right, it doesn't.
It's all right there in black and white buddy, direct from Violet herself. Unless you're calling her a liar now.
You think that a comment with no replies means that the organization isn't bothered by it? If you're not a hypocrite, go read Slashdot at -1, and make those same accusations about the crowd here.
Slashdot deliberately exercises very little editorial control, I would certainly expect a professional organisation to police the commentary on its website.
... who was going to give a talk about sex, rape, and the use of drugs to obviate consent, at a computer security conference. And it wasn't the Ada Initiative that "shut it down", but rather, the conference organizer decided to shut it down because 'the talk included "discussion of date rape drugs"'. In fact, contrary to your accusation, the Ada Initiative suggested ways that the speaker could still make the presentation, specifically doing a video of the talk or as an after-con talk. As the organizer states, "I have since reached out to Violet about recording her talk so we can put it up on our video site."
I arrived at the Security BSides venue half an hour before my talk was set to begin, and I tracked down the main organizer to get connected with the speaker wrangler. I found him next door at DNA Pizza, where he was talking with this person. I apologized for the interruption, the organizer told me where to wait, and the woman he was talking to smiled at me. I smiled back.
The organizer came into the LockSport Lounge around 10 minutes later and asked if he could speak with me. I asked Eric Michaud to join me.
The organizer said, “So, I need to ask you: is there any rape in your talk?”
I said, “Is there any WHAT in my talk?” I was shocked.
“Well, there’s been a complaint about your talk.” He continued, “It’s from someone who is a rape survivor and they said they will be triggered by your talk if there’s any rape in it.”
“No, no, there’s no rape in my talk. I talk about human sexual systems and the effects drugs, including caffeine and alcohol, affect the performance of these systems and the dangers of mixing different things. What’s going on here?”
He replied, “Someone has said they will be triggered by your talk, and they’re a rape survivor.”
“Okay. In the talk I do cover ‘date rape’ drugs, and I explain their actions and how they’re dangerous.”
Then he said, “Do you describe how to use date rape drugs? They said that if you are going to tell people how to use date rape drugs then it’s the same as rape, and there’s going to be a problem.”
I told the organizer, “Wow, this really sucks - I know it’s not your fault. Well, how about if I shift the talk to a different room? We could put it on the smaller stage where the room has doors that close, or I could do it in the LockSport Lounge. Hell, I can even present it at the afterparty, it’s no problem. What is going to be easiest for you? It looks like you’re in a shitty position.”
“No, they’re here and they’re not leaving. They told me they’ll make it into a bigger problem if you do your talk.”
I paused for a minute. I said, “Okay. I guess I won’t give my talk, then. I don’t want this to be a problem for you, you’re in a shit position. It sounds like this person is going to make it into a bigger problem no matter what you do. It’s no big deal, don’t worry about it. Maybe I can do a video of the talk and BSides can have it as an after-con talk.”
The way the organizer looked at me, I knew that wouldn’t happen, either.
These sorts of parasitic strident supremacist organisations aren't helping women, they're actively trying to damage men, and the sooner they are revealed for what they are the better. The extent to which this diseased movement has made its way into many parts of society will, for future generations, become a matter for horrified fascination, an education in mass institutionalised fraud and hysteria, an object lesson in the ease with which a moral panic can be raised.
And don't even bother with accusations of misogyny. Seriously, it's a sad and transparent attempt to shame the voices of truth into silence.
Aren't you forgetting about those Russian nukes? Putin just ordered twenty new ones. This age is different from any other in that regard, a state which holds ICBMs can degrade to any depth and still remain viable.
But aren't the cows just returning carbon that the plants had recently sequestered back into the atmosphere? It's not as though the cows are digging up coal and eating it.
If China and the US started nuking one another the Russians would immediately take advantage and try to re-establish the old Soviet Union, which could very well lead to them being nuked and in turn nuking everyone else.
Hold on there, the coin as usual has two sides. Chinese women tend to be quite open about asking to see wage slips, bank account balances, and pre-ordering the home and car they want from their prospective husbands. http://www.chinahush.com/2011/...
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I think the general idea was that you need to get the antimatter to interact directly with the matter at the centre of a planet. You could posit that the death star was sending an immense stream of contained antimatter bound within some sort of energy beam which also worked to clear away regular matter in the upper crust.
Very progressive.
The same Obama who was against gay marriage back in 2008? He's a career politician just like the rest of them, going wherever the wind blows and lacking personal integrity in his opinions. That's not to say his opinions lare morally wrong on an ongoing basis, just that they change whenever it suits him politically. Trump, not so much, and that resonates with a lot of people tired of seeing the same cut-outs mouthing the same trendy platitudes for years now.
You're kind of idealising biblical societies there though - sure they worked, you can make almost anything work if you believe hard enough, but that doesn't make them optimal. Still, it's true that the bible contains quite a bit of actual history.
While I know it's heresy to actually read the article, the point being made is that enterprise solutions don't work well with the freemium model, which one would have thought was intuitive, but thanks for the pious moralisations all the same.
No, this is fairly emblematic of the entire google experience with the exception of search. Baffling decisions, opaque design processes, confusing interfaces, poorly thought out systems, zero and I do mean zero access to customer services. It's not artful or original, it's mostly just crap. Which is why they keep shutting their experiments down after a couple of years.
“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws”
~ Nietzsche
You're a moron ready to kick off a race war on the basis of bog mummies. People like you are the joke.
Why did you feel you had to go there? Are you trying to say the people of the Fertile Crescent are the real master race? One could just as easily point to the disarray in the Middle East at the moment and draw the opposite conclusion. Neither perspective has value.
Sometimes science advances with the phrase "hmm, that's unexpected" and sometimes with the phrase "arghargharghargharghargh!".
Was that a yes or a no, I'm genuinely curious and your link doesn't appear to hold any answers.
Is that subsidised by the government in Norway though? There's a lot of oil money floating around up north.
And yet, this'll make your hair stand on end, an M67 hand grenade weighs less than a pound and has an effective kill radius of five meters and casualty radius of about 15 meters.
Now imagine someone buying a dozen drones and wiring them to work on a preprogrammed flight path over a busy sporting event.
Or far more worryingly, the possibility that explosives might be dropped on public events or something similar. A co-ordinated attack could do a lot of damage.
And Warhol is mentioned in the SCUM Manifesto? No? Maybe surgical corsets are? No? So what exactly does the attempted murder of Andy Warhol have to do with your insistence that the Ada Initiative should be responding to dead comment threads? Is this just an attempt to tie a schizophrenic who tried to kill someone she thought was stealing from her to feminism as a whole? Of course it is.
Ah, so you accuse me of calling her a liar, but the conference organizer was just "covering his ass" for saying the same thing? Do you have any idea how schizophrenic you sound?
There are three stories of an event, but you choose one that agrees with your prejudices and then say everyone else is "trying to drown out the facts". Got it - you're a paranoid schizophrenic, hence your obsession with Solanis. I'm glad I don't have a Factory for you to visit me at.
Yeah I'm just going to leave this here for the world to see, along with the revolutionary omelette maker who responded below. Thanks for showing everyone the intellectual pretzelling you're willing to undergo for your ideology. Really, hardcore religious fanatics are taking note. :D
Next, you're going to be outraged about Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, right? I mean, clearly, you don't understand satire.
You have no idea who Valerie Solanis was, do you. Once again since your memory appears to be a bit flaky, she attempted to murder Andy Warhol and left him permanently mutilated, he was forced to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life, for which she was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia. Robert Marmorstein, writing in The Village Voice, declared that Solanas "has dedicated the remainder of her life to the avowed purpose of eliminating every single male from the face of the earth." Norman Mailer called her the "Robespierre of feminism."
She was deadly serious, as is her book.
The conference organizer apparently is, since he disagrees with her characterization of what happened. Unless you're calling him a liar now. And you must be, or else you've just proved my accusation of you as a hypocrite to be true. So, come on - are you calling him a liar, or are you admitting you're a hypocrite?
I'd say he was trying to cover his own ass as much as possible after the whole thing went viral, for which he can hardly be blamed. Raging internet mob on one side and ghastly feminist hatemongers on the other, most likely he'd prefer if the whole affair was quietly forgotten. I'm going with Violet's version of events, without a doubt.
Now then, at this point I have to wonder - why are you trying to drown out the facts? Are you a feminist or just someone who can't stop arguing?
Based on what?
...based on any hope they might have that people would take them seriously? I mean do you know what the SCUM Manifesto actually is? It makes Mein Kampf look like a rational and reasonable body of writing by comparison. The bare notion that it would be recommended reading for anyone but students of psychiatry boggles the mind, and yet there's a comment, unchallenged, not so much as an eyebrow raised, recommending it right on the Ada website.
You're right, it doesn't.
It's all right there in black and white buddy, direct from Violet herself. Unless you're calling her a liar now.
You think that a comment with no replies means that the organization isn't bothered by it? If you're not a hypocrite, go read Slashdot at -1, and make those same accusations about the crowd here.
Slashdot deliberately exercises very little editorial control, I would certainly expect a professional organisation to police the commentary on its website.
... who was going to give a talk about sex, rape, and the use of drugs to obviate consent, at a computer security conference. And it wasn't the Ada Initiative that "shut it down", but rather, the conference organizer decided to shut it down because 'the talk included "discussion of date rape drugs"'. In fact, contrary to your accusation, the Ada Initiative suggested ways that the speaker could still make the presentation, specifically doing a video of the talk or as an after-con talk. As the organizer states, "I have since reached out to Violet about recording her talk so we can put it up on our video site."
Trying to rewrite history doesn't work very well on the internet, you know.
I arrived at the Security BSides venue half an hour before my talk was set to begin, and I tracked down the main organizer to get connected with the speaker wrangler. I found him next door at DNA Pizza, where he was talking with this person. I apologized for the interruption, the organizer told me where to wait, and the woman he was talking to smiled at me. I smiled back.
The organizer came into the LockSport Lounge around 10 minutes later and asked if he could speak with me. I asked Eric Michaud to join me.
The organizer said, “So, I need to ask you: is there any rape in your talk?”
I said, “Is there any WHAT in my talk?” I was shocked.
“Well, there’s been a complaint about your talk.” He continued, “It’s from someone who is a rape survivor and they said they will be triggered by your talk if there’s any rape in it.”
“No, no, there’s no rape in my talk. I talk about human sexual systems and the effects drugs, including caffeine and alcohol, affect the performance of these systems and the dangers of mixing different things. What’s going on here?”
He replied, “Someone has said they will be triggered by your talk, and they’re a rape survivor.”
“Okay. In the talk I do cover ‘date rape’ drugs, and I explain their actions and how they’re dangerous.”
Then he said, “Do you describe how to use date rape drugs? They said that if you are going to tell people how to use date rape drugs then it’s the same as rape, and there’s going to be a problem.”
I told the organizer, “Wow, this really sucks - I know it’s not your fault. Well, how about if I shift the talk to a different room? We could put it on the smaller stage where the room has doors that close, or I could do it in the LockSport Lounge. Hell, I can even present it at the afterparty, it’s no problem. What is going to be easiest for you? It looks like you’re in a shitty position.”
“No, they’re here and they’re not leaving. They told me they’ll make it into a bigger problem if you do your talk.”
I paused for a minute. I said, “Okay. I guess I won’t give my talk, then. I don’t want this to be a problem for you, you’re in a shit position. It sounds like this person is going to make it into a bigger problem no matter what you do. It’s no big deal, don’t worry about it. Maybe I can do a video of the talk and BSides can have it as an after-con talk.”
The way the organizer looked at me, I knew that wouldn’t happen, either.
I said,
The Ada Initiative is a hardcore feminist organisation whose conference guidelines were used to justify the expulsion and subsequent firings of two engineers in the donglegate debacle. Despite claiming to be non violent, apparently they aren't bothered by suggestions to hand out the S.C.U.M. Manifesto at conferences - that would be the Society For Cutting Up Men - whose deranged author had attempted to murder Andy Warhol. They were also responsible for shutting down a well known and respected speaker at another conference.
These sorts of parasitic strident supremacist organisations aren't helping women, they're actively trying to damage men, and the sooner they are revealed for what they are the better. The extent to which this diseased movement has made its way into many parts of society will, for future generations, become a matter for horrified fascination, an education in mass institutionalised fraud and hysteria, an object lesson in the ease with which a moral panic can be raised.
And don't even bother with accusations of misogyny. Seriously, it's a sad and transparent attempt to shame the voices of truth into silence.
Shitbag you say,
you're talking about an openly declared war of total destruction
And tuned out. I have a fuckton of mod points as usual but imma let it ride.
Aren't you forgetting about those Russian nukes? Putin just ordered twenty new ones. This age is different from any other in that regard, a state which holds ICBMs can degrade to any depth and still remain viable.
But aren't the cows just returning carbon that the plants had recently sequestered back into the atmosphere? It's not as though the cows are digging up coal and eating it.
If China and the US started nuking one another the Russians would immediately take advantage and try to re-establish the old Soviet Union, which could very well lead to them being nuked and in turn nuking everyone else.
Hold on there, the coin as usual has two sides. Chinese women tend to be quite open about asking to see wage slips, bank account balances, and pre-ordering the home and car they want from their prospective husbands. http://www.chinahush.com/2011/...