I see you had to fish back to 1957 to find a text book you could use. How very underhanded of you. How are you qualified to say what is or is not scientific?
If you truly believed your words, you would stand behind them. Instead, you are nothing but an anonymous coward.
When the information was shared with man on how the universe and world was created, who among us could understand genetics, quantum physics, superstring theory and a host of things we still don't know about?
Tell me, who "shared" the information with man? Your statement assumes a superior, or supreme, being handing out knowledge. Where did this being come from? How did that being get the information?
Sound to me like another stupid death cult ploy. Yes, christianity is a death cult.
Who cares what C.S. Lewis thinks? The man was an author and literature professor. He was neither a scientist nor a theologian. His lack of vision gives him no special knowledge.
"Gonzo journalism" isn't. When one mixes fact and fiction, the result is fiction. By definition, journalism is " the style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation."
Too many so-called journalist twist facts and inject their own baises into stories. The result is not journalism but rather propaganda.
I have been working in IT from about 1994. I have worked as a Unix admin, Win admin, Network admin, project manager, IT manager, telephone support, field tech, application support analyst, and a few other things I am sure I am forgetting. I even worked freelance with my own business for a while.
While one does not need a degree to do an IT job, a degree helps one get the job. Remember, chances are your resume' is going to be seen by HR first. HR generally makes out the job descriptions. If the job description says "BS or greater required" you probably won't hear back from them.
The good news is that often HR doesn't care WHAT kind of degree you have, just as long as you have a degree. That will give you a leg on some applicants. What you want is a resume and cover letter that state you have a degree, and to have your resume show tech experience or at least aptitude.
Basically, use your degree to get past HR, and use your resume to get the interview with the tech people.
Or, get the job through networking, referals, and meeting the hiring managers.
Before anyone can really give you advice they need to know:
How much money?
How long do you plan to invest?
How liquid do you need it to be? Do you want to be able to access all of it instantly or would some of it in a few weeks be enough? How about if you couldn't touch it at all until the investment term expires?
How much risk are you will to take?
If you can't stand risk, may need immediate access to all of it, and may not keep it invested long term you may be best off finding the highest yield savings or money market account.
If you have enough and you can stand to not have access to most of the money for months at a time, you may want to see about setting a series of rolling CDs. As an example: You have $6000.00 and can by 6 month CDs for $1000. You buy one CD a month over 6 months. At the end of the 6 month term, you roll the CD into a new CD. It is a safe investment, you have access to the $1k for that month, you can get the rest if you need to with a penalty.
If you can stand some risk and not having access to the money, you can invest some in zero-coupon bonds and the rest in the stock market. Mutals are good.
If you would like to play with the market but want to keep a good portion of it safe, you can get an acccount with some place like ShareBuilder.com. They do dividend reinvestment.
The options are about endless. Limiting factors are amount, term, risk, and return.
2) Using those identities, set up bank accounts, rent a cheap apartment or office somewhere, get broadband, hook up a computer with P2P software and loaded with songs. Use the identities to set up websites where people can download songs. Infringe on those copyrights!!!!!!
3) Watch the ensuing hilarity as the RIAA sues it's own heads for infringement.
There is a group of scientist near Sarasota FL who can make a flawless, gem-quality 1Ct. diamond of any color for about $200.00. It takes about a week.
Take the mass of a big meteor, take its approach speed, figure the kinetic energy. If it's big enough to cause catastrophic effects if it stays in one piece and impacts the surface, it's big enough to cause catastrophic effects if you pulverize the entire thing down to dust and let it burn up as it enters the atmosphere.
Prove this. I expect it should be difficult because much more meteor dust rains down in a single day than most would believe.
A single big impactor "wastes" a lot of energy throwing chunks of the lithosphere out into escape trajectories.
So do smaller impactors.
See the comparison of buckshot to slugs in the other reply.
Ok, time to burst your little ego bubble. It looks to me like you are using a false analogy, mostly because you are a dumbass.
A 12ga 00 buckshot round is made up of the equivalent of 9 54 grain.33 caliber rounds. That would make a single 12ga 00 buckshot round about the equivalent of 6.45 ACP rounds in mass. The kinetic energy of a.45 round is about 340 ft-lbs. For 9 pellet 12 ga 00 buckshot it is about 1,810 ft-lbs. Not a fair comparison. We can however compare a 450 grain SABOT round for a 12ga shotgun. (9 * 54 = 486 giving the buckshot round more mass)
Now, let's talk range. 9 pellet 00 buckshot at 50 yards averages 3 hits. The same round at 75 yards averages 1 hit. At 100 yards, the pellet arrives with a velocity of about 780 ft/sec. As you can see, shotgun pellets diverge upon leaving the gun. So would the pieces of a possible impactor. The would diverge in a cone shaped pattern. Said spread could be enhanced by using a second nuke. The single 450 grain sabot will the target and it will do so with about 1050 ft/sec.
Now, let's talk about penetration power. A single large object has more penetrating power than multiple smaller objects. Interestingly, the results of comparison testing at 7 yards:
While it is true that the kinetic energy of the components of a shattered object will be the same as the inital whole object there are several things you have neglected.
Because the resulting pieces will be of varying size and shape, some will be below the size to successfully reach the surface before burning up.
Not all the resulting component pieces will have the same tragectory, thus
some pieces will miss the target
the kinetic energy will be spread out over a larger area.
Because the resulting pieces will be smaller and spread over a larger area, the resulting damage will be less pronounced. Think of the damage caused by getting a large tattoo. If those thousands of small pin pricks were converted into a single strike the damage would be much greater. Which would create more damage to you: three handfulls of pebbles dropped on your head, or a single rock of equivelent mass of those same three handfulls?
Not to mention that in your own post you show that Asmiov states "or, by that time, something more appropriate". This indicates to me that the best tool available at the time was a nuke and Asimov understood that it may not be the best tool but was the only one available and that in the future there may be better tools.
However, computers are a different challenge... they are somewhat necessary in todays society
For general purpose purpose computers, they are not necessary for a person private life.. They are only need for work, and many jobs don't require computers.
How do you tell and convicted hacker, also a programmer, that he can't use a computer?
The same way you tell a cab driver or truck driver that their license is being revoked. "Looks like you need a new career."
It does not matter if one is a doctor, lawyer, banker, program, or truck driver. If one abuses or misuses the knowledge and skills needed for one's career there is no reason not to ban one from practicing said knowledge and skills regardless of one's career.
The problem is that you are using physical characteristic profiling when the article is about financial transactions being delayed or blocked because of the receipient's name. My reply is more germain to the actual article than your original comment.
My reply first examine's your initial claim in the context of the article. I then go on to show you how your whole post doesn't work as the financial institutions are working of a list of names as opposed to physical characteristics. If the receipient has a name that is similar to, or matches the name or alias of a terrorist, the transaction gets flaged. If it is believed that the receipient is a terrorist, then the transaction is blocked.
Here is a punchline for you. Only stupid people think a republic is a direct democracy and only stupid people expect elections to be decided AGAINST the contents of the constitution.
But, I guess the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean anything if your candidate didn't get elected.
At this point I would like you to show where it says white terrorist are not on the list provided by the U.S. Government to West Union for the flagging of financial transactions.
And, while I am at it, in this case the "profiling" is done using names. Now, let us say that Timothy McVeigh were still on the loose. The Feds might request all financial transactions for anyone with that name and all known aliases be flagged for investigation. Would that be wrong?
How about if it is the name Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali? He is a former Baath Party member accused of funding and leading terrorist operations with a US$1 million bounty on his head by the Iraqi governemt.
How about if it is the name Rashid Taan Kadhim, who has $1 million bounty. He leads insurgent operations in Anbar and is responsible for funding terrorist operations in Diyala.
How about Abu Marwan, real name is Khalaf Muhammad Mukhlif al-Dulaimi, who funds, organizes and smuggles terrorists and weapons to Iraq.
If you want to sponsor someone with your money that you earned with your time, it is your choice. No government should have the right to prevent you spending your money as you please in ANY way (campaign finance, rebel funding, vacation, retirement, drugs, prostitutes, schooling, whatever). Money is nothing magical, money is merely a store of your time to be redeemed to save you time in the future. That is all money is, time saved up for another day. Why should there be barriers on how you use your time, if you personally aren't hurting anyone?
Interesting idea. Let's see how well it holds up.
Paying for the production of, buying, and selling kiddie porn and snuff porn doesn't necessarily involve personally hurting anyone. You didn't kill anyone or have sex with an 8yo.
Paying someone to rape, torture, and/or murder a third party doesn't necessarily involve personally hurting anyone. You didn't beat, stab, poison, etc. anyone.
Providing money so a third party can bribe a public official doesn't necessarily involve personally hurting anyone.
Paying someone to commit arson doesn't necessarily involve personally hurting anyone, even is someone is hurt or dies. You didn't set the fire, right?
I don't think your statement holds up very well. Using your logic, someone could pay to have you killed, and said someone would not have done anything wrong because they did not personally hurt anyone.
Dubai-based representatives from Western Union Financial Services, an American company based in Colorado, and Minnesota-based MoneyGram International said their clerks are simply following U.S. Treasury Department guidelines that scrutinize cash flows for terrorist links. Most of the flagged transactions are delayed a few hours. Some are blocked entirely.
Gee, a U.S. company is following U.S. law and flagging financial transactions that may be related to terrorism. Most of said transactions are delayed a short time, some are blocked entirely. Yeah, lots to get upset with there.
Profiling you say? Profiles are like stereotypes, they exist because the is truth to them.
Racism you say? You do not know if the list only covers Muslims. Is it still racist if the list contains the known aliases for members of the IRA, or Red Dawn, or the other terrorist organizations?
"Western Union told me that if I send money to Sahir Mohammed, the money will be blocked because of his name," said 36-year-old Abdul Rahman Maruthayil, who later sent the money through UAE Exchange, a Dubai-based money transfer service.
Sounds to me like the Western Union employee didn't understand what actually happens, that or he was deliberately misleading people.
1) The FBI and the NSA are too separate agencies with two different missions. 2) The NSA's computers are much better protected because they are in the business of information monitoring and security. 3) The FBI is a law enforcement agency with files on millions of Americans, including those that have security clearances. Said files may include information which can be used to apply pressure to or to find weaknesses of said people with security clearances. 4) How much do you think the Witness Relocation and Protection database would be worth to various organized crime outfits? What do you think would happen if people in the program started being killed or disappearing? What would happen to RICO cases? 5) This individual was caught after over 180 and possibly 270 days. That is almost a year of illicit access.
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Bah! I upload all my personal data to Kazaa. I just name it "The sounds of balloon rubs, fingernails on a blackboard, and cats mating, greatest hits!"
I see you had to fish back to 1957 to find a text book you could use. How very underhanded of you.
How are you qualified to say what is or is not scientific?
If you truly believed your words, you would stand behind them. Instead, you are nothing but an anonymous coward.
Tell me, who "shared" the information with man? Your statement assumes a superior, or supreme, being handing out knowledge. Where did this being come from? How did that being get the information?
Sound to me like another stupid death cult ploy. Yes, christianity is a death cult.
Who cares what C.S. Lewis thinks? The man was an author and literature professor. He was neither a scientist nor a theologian. His lack of vision gives him no special knowledge.
"Gonzo journalism" isn't. When one mixes fact and fiction, the result is fiction. By definition, journalism is " the style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation."
Too many so-called journalist twist facts and inject their own baises into stories. The result is not journalism but rather propaganda.
This world could use some real journalism.
I have been working in IT from about 1994. I have worked as a Unix admin, Win admin, Network admin, project manager, IT manager, telephone support, field tech, application support analyst, and a few other things I am sure I am forgetting. I even worked freelance with my own business for a while.
While one does not need a degree to do an IT job, a degree helps one get the job. Remember, chances are your resume' is going to be seen by HR first. HR generally makes out the job descriptions. If the job description says "BS or greater required" you probably won't hear back from them.
The good news is that often HR doesn't care WHAT kind of degree you have, just as long as you have a degree. That will give you a leg on some applicants. What you want is a resume and cover letter that state you have a degree, and to have your resume show tech experience or at least aptitude.
Basically, use your degree to get past HR, and use your resume to get the interview with the tech people.
Or, get the job through networking, referals, and meeting the hiring managers.
If you can't stand risk, may need immediate access to all of it, and may not keep it invested long term you may be best off finding the highest yield savings or money market account.
If you have enough and you can stand to not have access to most of the money for months at a time, you may want to see about setting a series of rolling CDs. As an example: You have $6000.00 and can by 6 month CDs for $1000. You buy one CD a month over 6 months. At the end of the 6 month term, you roll the CD into a new CD. It is a safe investment, you have access to the $1k for that month, you can get the rest if you need to with a penalty.
If you can stand some risk and not having access to the money, you can invest some in zero-coupon bonds and the rest in the stock market. Mutals are good.
If you would like to play with the market but want to keep a good portion of it safe, you can get an acccount with some place like ShareBuilder.com. They do dividend reinvestment.
The options are about endless. Limiting factors are amount, term, risk, and return.
1) Steal the identity of the heads of the RIAA.
2) Using those identities, set up bank accounts, rent a cheap apartment or office somewhere, get broadband, hook up a computer with P2P software and loaded with songs. Use the identities to set up websites where people can download songs. Infringe on those copyrights!!!!!!
3) Watch the ensuing hilarity as the RIAA sues it's own heads for infringement.
There is a group of scientist near Sarasota FL who can make a flawless, gem-quality 1Ct. diamond of any color for about $200.00. It takes about a week.
Prove this. I expect it should be difficult because much more meteor dust rains down in a single day than most would believe.
Ok, time to burst your little ego bubble. It looks to me like you are using a false analogy, mostly because you are a dumbass.
.33 caliber rounds. That would make a single 12ga 00 buckshot round about the equivalent of 6 .45 ACP rounds in mass. The kinetic energy of a .45 round is about 340 ft-lbs. For 9 pellet 12 ga 00 buckshot it is about 1,810 ft-lbs. Not a fair comparison. We can however compare a 450 grain SABOT round for a 12ga shotgun. (9 * 54 = 486 giving the buckshot round more mass)
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A 12ga 00 buckshot round is made up of the equivalent of 9 54 grain
Now, let's talk range. 9 pellet 00 buckshot at 50 yards averages 3 hits. The same round at 75 yards averages 1 hit. At 100 yards, the pellet arrives with a velocity of about 780 ft/sec. As you can see, shotgun pellets diverge upon leaving the gun. So would the pieces of a possible impactor. The would diverge in a cone shaped pattern. Said spread could be enhanced by using a second nuke. The single 450 grain sabot will the target and it will do so with about 1050 ft/sec.
Now, let's talk about penetration power. A single large object has more penetrating power than multiple smaller objects. Interestingly, the results of comparison testing at 7 yards:
round | Ballistic Gel | SAE 1010
Buckshot | 13-15 inches | no penetration
450 slug | 21 inches | penetration
Looks like multiple smaller impactors do less damage than a single massive impactor.
Thank you for playing.
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Not to mention that in your own post you show that Asmiov states "or, by that time, something more appropriate". This indicates to me that the best tool available at the time was a nuke and Asimov understood that it may not be the best tool but was the only one available and that in the future there may be better tools.
For general purpose purpose computers, they are not necessary for a person private life.. They are only need for work, and many jobs don't require computers.
The same way you tell a cab driver or truck driver that their license is being revoked. "Looks like you need a new career."
It does not matter if one is a doctor, lawyer, banker, program, or truck driver. If one abuses or misuses the knowledge and skills needed for one's career there is no reason not to ban one from practicing said knowledge and skills regardless of one's career.
I don't.
A snack for other sea critters.
Next time, try reading. Or do you not know where MAINE is?
Cryptographically signed by whom? What is to prevent cryptographically signed malware?
The weakest link in any computer system is the user. That would not stop people from installing, knowingly or not, malware.
Actually, I care and everyone else should too, specifically because it will go into the public domain.
This will, hopefully, prevent yet another patent troll.
The problem is that you are using physical characteristic profiling when the article is about financial transactions being delayed or blocked because of the receipient's name. My reply is more germain to the actual article than your original comment.
My reply first examine's your initial claim in the context of the article. I then go on to show you how your whole post doesn't work as the financial institutions are working of a list of names as opposed to physical characteristics. If the receipient has a name that is similar to, or matches the name or alias of a terrorist, the transaction gets flaged. If it is believed that the receipient is a terrorist, then the transaction is blocked.
Here is a punchline for you. Only stupid people think a republic is a direct democracy and only stupid people expect elections to be decided AGAINST the contents of the constitution.
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But, I guess the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean anything if your candidate didn't get elected.
Do the world and yourself a favor and learn why the Electoral College exists and how it works, which you should have learned in Civics. You can start with the following:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitut
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_Colle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College
At this point I would like you to show where it says white terrorist are not on the list provided by the U.S. Government to West Union for the flagging of financial transactions.
And, while I am at it, in this case the "profiling" is done using names. Now, let us say that Timothy McVeigh were still on the loose. The Feds might request all financial transactions for anyone with that name and all known aliases be flagged for investigation. Would that be wrong?
How about if it is the name Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali? He is a former Baath Party member accused of funding and leading terrorist operations with a US$1 million bounty on his head by the Iraqi governemt.
How about if it is the name Rashid Taan Kadhim, who has $1 million bounty. He leads insurgent operations in Anbar and is responsible for funding terrorist operations in Diyala.
How about Abu Marwan, real name is Khalaf Muhammad Mukhlif al-Dulaimi, who funds, organizes and smuggles terrorists and weapons to Iraq.
Interesting idea. Let's see how well it holds up.
I don't think your statement holds up very well. Using your logic, someone could pay to have you killed, and said someone would not have done anything wrong because they did not personally hurt anyone.
Gee, a U.S. company is following U.S. law and flagging financial transactions that may be related to terrorism. Most of said transactions are delayed a short time, some are blocked entirely. Yeah, lots to get upset with there.
Profiling you say? Profiles are like stereotypes, they exist because the is truth to them.
Racism you say? You do not know if the list only covers Muslims. Is it still racist if the list contains the known aliases for members of the IRA, or Red Dawn, or the other terrorist organizations?
Sounds to me like the Western Union employee didn't understand what actually happens, that or he was deliberately misleading people.
1) The FBI and the NSA are too separate agencies with two different missions.
2) The NSA's computers are much better protected because they are in the business of information monitoring and security.
3) The FBI is a law enforcement agency with files on millions of Americans, including those that have security clearances. Said files may include information which can be used to apply pressure to or to find weaknesses of said people with security clearances.
4) How much do you think the Witness Relocation and Protection database would be worth to various organized crime outfits? What do you think would happen if people in the program started being killed or disappearing? What would happen to RICO cases?
5) This individual was caught after over 180 and possibly 270 days. That is almost a year of illicit access.