Either of the corporate douches still running are just going to do whatever the corporations tell them to. Obama is nothing but a black Bill Clinton, pandering to the intellectual left, and giving charming speeches, while he has no intention of:
A. Ending the Iraq War. B. Restoring the Bill of Rights. C. Restoring our rigged elections. D. Breaking the corporate monopolies. E. Arresting the known criminals in our government. F. Fixing the Environment. G. Fixing Education. H. Ending Police Brutality. I. Anything our founding fathers would have wanted.
Why isn't anyone talking about the obvious? Because every paper, magazine, radio, television, movie and internet channel is run by five corporations:
AOL/Time Warner Bertelsmann Disney Viacom Murdoch's News Corp.
We are their slaves already, and they have little regard for any life, human included. The only candidates the represented any kind of human interest at all were Kucinich and Paul, and the corporate news channels would not give them any traction at all, of course.
I expect some intensive games to be bundled with their own custom linux and be DVD bootable soon enough. Especially if the new multicore architecture of the world invalidates directx!
A decade away from now we will likely have massively multi core quantum chips, running at 256 bits or more. To even pretend that that kind of CPU wouldn't easily run ray tracing with 20 of it's cores tied behind it's back is pretty silly. I would shorten the time scale to 5-7 years. But I'm not profit, either, it could happen even sooner! The trend to more and larger multicore chips is pretty inevitable. When everyone's cell phone is a beowulf cluster of 128 bit x86 architecture cpus, a lot of this whole discussion is going to be completely invalid.
I think a more likely scenario is an open source ray tracing or other rendering technique engine running most games and 3d applications. Of course there will be some competitors and clones, but they will eventually fade away as the GPL code improves inevitably over time being worked on by so many game companies and other 3d programmers constantly. You might even see a scenario where a single graphics engine runs 90% of 3d apps, games or otherwise! I'm extrapolating 10 years, I don't expect any of that to happen over night.
Ah, but with a multicore chip, you can HAVE a bunch of copied dedicated chips.:) Particularly as we scale up to 16 core or 32 core chips.... Suddenly you could have the equivalent of 30 Geforce GPUs and still retain a dual core CPU for the rest of the game code.
Though his money is undoubtedly helping, I think Ubuntu would become much more popular, much faster, if it would lose the hideous orange and brown color scheme.
I believe that! And I believe they also had NORAD stand down, and are still in office!
From Wikipedia: The Washington Post reported in its August 3, 2006 edition that:
"For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances... Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial account of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public... Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted".[13]
Also, governments are prescient enough to determine exactly what day and time terrorist attacks will happen, and then schedule terrorism drills for the exact same time, causing NORAD to fail to act in time! These are statistical inevitabilities!! The truthers are nuts!
No, that is a pic from before the wreckage was being cleared. In the zoomed out version you can see a fireman on hand, and NO cutting had been done. The wishful thinking you are engaged in is that you really wish that the evil that transpired was committed by a few radical extremists from another country. You probably wish our government was not completely replaced by corporations starting with the Federal Reserve in 1912, and then later more directly when they replaced Kennedy. You probably wish that Dick Cheney was NOT an insane war criminal with direct connections to every oil company and defense contractor enabling him to not only run the operation, but to fund it, cover it up, and then make a mint on the subsequent war and invest over seas while our economy folded. I imagine you wish a lot of that wasn't true, but wishing and the facts don't add up. You cannot refute that picture alone, and it was certainly taken before any debris had been cleared.
This is ludicrous. Believing that a plane crashing into the top of a building can make it explode from the top down in under 10 seconds is much more akin to denying the evidence of the dinosaurs and worshiping invisible zombie virgin children in the sky.
Ignoring the evidence for thermite at the scene, and ALL the eye witness testimonies, particularly the firemen stating, "It was like they had detonators in the building, the floors were poppin out one by one, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!" seems a far more egregious, stupid, less scientific, and more "bury your head in the sand" kind of response.
I have questions and am highly skeptical of the official story, as are many of the widows and widowers of the actual victims of these heinous acts. Wanting more information and demanding valid scientific evidence besides "more and further exploration is required to explain this" and "the resulting amount of money was of little practical consequence" in the official investigation are just prudent, moral and reasoned reasons to want more information.
Why did Dick Cheney tell the fighters that NORAD scrambled to stand down, the order stands?
Do you seriously expect me to believe that all of this is coincidence, particularly considering all the put options placed on the airline industry mere days before the event, and the recent insurance adjustment for all of the world trade center?
Have you even examined ANY of the evidence, or are you just another ignorant fuck repeating lines out of some crappy pop journal with a political agenda?
Having questions and wanting answers is not stupid, and doesn't make "truthers" points of view invalid or unreasonable, or in any way connected to the religious right and the "Jesus did it" crowd. Ironically, it's the "Jesus did it" that so often wants to state "The terrorists did it", with no actual evidence of who the terrorists were, what their motives were, or why they acted that way and how it somehow got turned down as attention worthy by NORAD.
I've read the bible, and I've read your post, and YOU seem to operating on the principles of wishful thinking. I just want more information, including the NIST steel failure statistics, which have been largely shown to date to be bunkum.
Please explain THIS picture, and how this happens with planes crashing into buildings:
That is how our legal system works almost every time. And THAT is why we have such ludicrous insurance laws, safety laws, and a complete erosion of civil liberties.
I'm sure at least one of the lawyers did well though, in this process.
Is there any chance I can get a Russian translation for the next ReiserFS?
On a serious note, though, since he's going to the big house, can they give him a computer in there? I can think of tons of FOSS projects that could benefit from his boredom. For instance, can we finally get voice and video in Pidgin? I mean, I think five years is long enough to wait, and since he's got at least 15.... He will even know how we feel!
I think Popular Mechanics has long been a joke to most real fans of actual science. Pretty pictures, light skimpy articles full of glib personal anecdotes, and the occasional government planted misinformation.
It's like US magazine, but for nerds. Sadly there are enough wanna be nerds out there who don't see it as a joke and actually buy the piece of crap.
Most of the media is a joke, and popular magazines (and certainly Popular Mechanics) are one of the primary farces that humanity passes off as "information".
I found their 9/11 debunking particularly egregious and lacking of any real science, but bringing that up is going to get me modded into oblivion.....
You want to be scientific? Let's go crash another plane into another building. I guarantee you it will not fall down in it's own footprint at free fall speed. I think Slashdot is just as dangerously controlled as the rest of the media, and it seems a lack of real 9/11 information seems to bear that out.
I thought Neanderthals went extinct because they required more meat per individual than humans, and as a result did not reproduce as rapidly or successfully, and was just plain weeded out by humanity's viral nature.
For all we know they could have been much more intelligent than us in various ways, perhaps even having "super-powers" like infrared vision (night vision), brain electrical communication (telepathy), or super-human strength. None of those would have mattered though, when they starve faster than humans, and there are so many more of us. Even if they did not directly compete for environments, eventually they would lose out any way.
Maybe a more educated archaeologist can explain it in more detail:
I think having a democratically elected government that relies on science during criminal investigations is a good thing. I don't see how demanding that somehow is contrary to the public safety. Quite the opposite in fact.
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Either of the corporate douches still running are just going to do whatever the corporations tell them to. Obama is nothing but a black Bill Clinton, pandering to the intellectual left, and giving charming speeches, while he has no intention of:
A. Ending the Iraq War.
B. Restoring the Bill of Rights.
C. Restoring our rigged elections.
D. Breaking the corporate monopolies.
E. Arresting the known criminals in our government.
F. Fixing the Environment.
G. Fixing Education.
H. Ending Police Brutality.
I. Anything our founding fathers would have wanted.
Why isn't anyone talking about the obvious? Because every paper, magazine, radio, television, movie and internet channel is run by five corporations:
AOL/Time Warner
Bertelsmann
Disney
Viacom
Murdoch's News Corp.
We are their slaves already, and they have little regard for any life, human included. The only candidates the represented any kind of human interest at all were Kucinich and Paul, and the corporate news channels would not give them any traction at all, of course.
I expect some intensive games to be bundled with their own custom linux and be DVD bootable soon enough. Especially if the new multicore architecture of the world invalidates directx!
OK, so he was optimistic about 3-4 years. So?
A decade away from now we will likely have massively multi core quantum chips, running at 256 bits or more. To even pretend that that kind of CPU wouldn't easily run ray tracing with 20 of it's cores tied behind it's back is pretty silly. I would shorten the time scale to 5-7 years. But I'm not profit, either, it could happen even sooner! The trend to more and larger multicore chips is pretty inevitable. When everyone's cell phone is a beowulf cluster of 128 bit x86 architecture cpus, a lot of this whole discussion is going to be completely invalid.
I think a more likely scenario is an open source ray tracing or other rendering technique engine running most games and 3d applications. Of course there will be some competitors and clones, but they will eventually fade away as the GPL code improves inevitably over time being worked on by so many game companies and other 3d programmers constantly. You might even see a scenario where a single graphics engine runs 90% of 3d apps, games or otherwise! I'm extrapolating 10 years, I don't expect any of that to happen over night.
Ah, but with a multicore chip, you can HAVE a bunch of copied dedicated chips. :) Particularly as we scale up to 16 core or 32 core chips.... Suddenly you could have the equivalent of 30 Geforce GPUs and still retain a dual core CPU for the rest of the game code.
And that word processor will STILL run better than Microsoft Word!
Your mom's basement sounds WAY more fun than mine.
What? Is Iceweasal somehow different in functionality? Do we need to make the icon more orange and blue?
Though his money is undoubtedly helping, I think Ubuntu would become much more popular, much faster, if it would lose the hideous orange and brown color scheme.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12326/
I believe that! And I believe they also had NORAD stand down, and are still in office!
From Wikipedia:
The Washington Post reported in its August 3, 2006 edition that:
"For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances... Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial account of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public... Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted".[13]
But whatever, *I'm* the crazy..... right?
More specifically, magnetism causes steel to melt 100 stories down from the impact zone, leaving remnants like this:
http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_a567c508f431db9f78e20057b5b59fb9.jpg
Also, governments are prescient enough to determine exactly what day and time terrorist attacks will happen, and then schedule terrorism drills for the exact same time, causing NORAD to fail to act in time! These are statistical inevitabilities!! The truthers are nuts!
http://www.loosechange911.com/download/NORAD/NORAD.torrent
There is no simpler explanation that has been seen time and time again throughout history during the fascist takeover of a democracy!
Yeah, I imagine some of the top-secret nuclear waste some of them might be recovering is totally worth a lot of money!!!
Scan last year's books, or whatever supplemental material you may want to add, and put it in a pdf and onto an sd card and into a Nintendo DS.
Cost: $100 per student for all books, updated, with additional supplemental materials every semester.
They get: One small book to carry with everything of theirs in a backpack, all their information bookmarked or copy pasted clearly with a stylus.
I get: One less thing to worry about at the PTA meeting.
No, that is a pic from before the wreckage was being cleared. In the zoomed out version you can see a fireman on hand, and NO cutting had been done. The wishful thinking you are engaged in is that you really wish that the evil that transpired was committed by a few radical extremists from another country. You probably wish our government was not completely replaced by corporations starting with the Federal Reserve in 1912, and then later more directly when they replaced Kennedy. You probably wish that Dick Cheney was NOT an insane war criminal with direct connections to every oil company and defense contractor enabling him to not only run the operation, but to fund it, cover it up, and then make a mint on the subsequent war and invest over seas while our economy folded. I imagine you wish a lot of that wasn't true, but wishing and the facts don't add up. You cannot refute that picture alone, and it was certainly taken before any debris had been cleared.
This is ludicrous. Believing that a plane crashing into the top of a building can make it explode from the top down in under 10 seconds is much more akin to denying the evidence of the dinosaurs and worshiping invisible zombie virgin children in the sky.
Ignoring the evidence for thermite at the scene, and ALL the eye witness testimonies, particularly the firemen stating, "It was like they had detonators in the building, the floors were poppin out one by one, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!" seems a far more egregious, stupid, less scientific, and more "bury your head in the sand" kind of response.
I have questions and am highly skeptical of the official story, as are many of the widows and widowers of the actual victims of these heinous acts. Wanting more information and demanding valid scientific evidence besides "more and further exploration is required to explain this" and "the resulting amount of money was of little practical consequence" in the official investigation are just prudent, moral and reasoned reasons to want more information.
Why did Dick Cheney tell the fighters that NORAD scrambled to stand down, the order stands?
Do you seriously expect me to believe that all of this is coincidence, particularly considering all the put options placed on the airline industry mere days before the event, and the recent insurance adjustment for all of the world trade center?
Have you even examined ANY of the evidence, or are you just another ignorant fuck repeating lines out of some crappy pop journal with a political agenda?
Having questions and wanting answers is not stupid, and doesn't make "truthers" points of view invalid or unreasonable, or in any way connected to the religious right and the "Jesus did it" crowd. Ironically, it's the "Jesus did it" that so often wants to state "The terrorists did it", with no actual evidence of who the terrorists were, what their motives were, or why they acted that way and how it somehow got turned down as attention worthy by NORAD.
I've read the bible, and I've read your post, and YOU seem to operating on the principles of wishful thinking. I just want more information, including the NIST steel failure statistics, which have been largely shown to date to be bunkum.
Please explain THIS picture, and how this happens with planes crashing into buildings:
http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_a567c508f431db9f78e20057b5b59fb9.jpg
and in 15 years I think the public will finally be ready for a replacement of fat32.
That is how our legal system works almost every time. And THAT is why we have such ludicrous insurance laws, safety laws, and a complete erosion of civil liberties.
I'm sure at least one of the lawyers did well though, in this process.
Is there any chance I can get a Russian translation for the next ReiserFS?
On a serious note, though, since he's going to the big house, can they give him a computer in there? I can think of tons of FOSS projects that could benefit from his boredom. For instance, can we finally get voice and video in Pidgin? I mean, I think five years is long enough to wait, and since he's got at least 15.... He will even know how we feel!
YOU may be in an office block, but *I* am in my parent's basement, with the rest of /.
I think Popular Mechanics has long been a joke to most real fans of actual science. Pretty pictures, light skimpy articles full of glib personal anecdotes, and the occasional government planted misinformation.
It's like US magazine, but for nerds. Sadly there are enough wanna be nerds out there who don't see it as a joke and actually buy the piece of crap.
Most of the media is a joke, and popular magazines (and certainly Popular Mechanics) are one of the primary farces that humanity passes off as "information".
I found their 9/11 debunking particularly egregious and lacking of any real science, but bringing that up is going to get me modded into oblivion.....
You want to be scientific? Let's go crash another plane into another building. I guarantee you it will not fall down in it's own footprint at free fall speed. I think Slashdot is just as dangerously controlled as the rest of the media, and it seems a lack of real 9/11 information seems to bear that out.
I am not an Archaeologist, but....
I thought Neanderthals went extinct because they required more meat per individual than humans, and as a result did not reproduce as rapidly or successfully, and was just plain weeded out by humanity's viral nature.
For all we know they could have been much more intelligent than us in various ways, perhaps even having "super-powers" like infrared vision (night vision), brain electrical communication (telepathy), or super-human strength. None of those would have mattered though, when they starve faster than humans, and there are so many more of us. Even if they did not directly compete for environments, eventually they would lose out any way.
Maybe a more educated archaeologist can explain it in more detail:
I was actually in a agreement with you. I think the 9/11 commission report was a total white wash and devoid of science. :)
I think having a democratically elected government that relies on science during criminal investigations is a good thing. I don't see how demanding that somehow is contrary to the public safety. Quite the opposite in fact.