No, you really don't get it. The more they can rile up their base with this sort of bullshit, the less people pay attention to the graft and corruption -- and even if they do notice, the less likely they are to care.
Exactly. But what's interesting is that the exact same thing is happening on the Democratic side too. Hillary's supporters don't care about all her blatant corruption. The difference is that I can't quite figure out how the Dems have riled up their base to ignore this stuff the way the Reps have with all this anti-gay BS.
Actually, it is. It's part of a feedback cycle, and it keeps people from acting badly. If you do something to harm someone else, they (or their friends, family, etc., or these days the government on their behalf) will come find you, and then punish you to make an example out of you. In the future, people contemplating that action will think twice about it because they want to avoid that fate, and the person who did it the first time won't do it again.
That just isn't the case. Users don't have the rights to install and execute additional software on Linux or (real) BSD (not Mac).
WTF? Have you ever used Linux?
Here's a hint: type Alt-F2, type "bash" there, and open a shell. Now, type "vi kill_my_files.sh", then type "a rm -rf /:wq!". Then, type "chmod 755 kill_my_files.sh". There, you've now created "additional software"! Now, execute it by typing "./kill_my_files.sh". Voila! You've executed it! And your files are all gone too!
The only thing regular users can't do on Linux is *install* software system-wide so that other users can run it. Who cares? You don't need to do that to run nefarious software.
Yes, I realize that. I'm pointing out that that's infeasible, and so you *cannot* send it a command. The ship has to be fully autonomous. Communications are 1-way.
(And we still haven't figured out how this thing is going to send any data back in the first place; something that small won't have the power or antenna size necessary.)
Yeah, these are major problems with feasibility. I was just addressing the 9-year thing: the idea that you need 2-way communications for this thing is just silly and non-sensical. But that of course assumes that somehow this nano-probe can transmit a signal from Alpha Centauri that we can receive, which doesn't seem possible at this point.
I'm not hand-waving away physical limits. AFAIK, the reason our lasers aren't that well-collimated has nothing to do with the limitations of physics, but of our technology. I don't see any reason it isn't possible to make photons all travel in the exact same direction (or at least moreso than our current lasers). We just don't know how to do it yet, or our current lasers are "good enough" and we don't bother, or it's too expensive to try to improve them and there's no real need for it to justify the investment to research better methods, etc.
Yes, but then to make up for the loss in economic growth, they open the borders to millions of third-worlders, so the countries they came from free up the pressure by getting rid of these malcontents, and then they continue expanding their population and then calling for richer countries to take in their extra people. There's no solution for this other than changing the culture in the poorer countries, but they're not doing that, instead they're doubling down on their medieval values.
He also wrote some books for laypeople, including the bestseller "A Brief History of Time", which was well-known for explaining a lot of modern physics theory in a way that regular people can understand.
No, it's more like 4 years or so, not 9. Why do you think a round-trip is necessary? The point of this thing is to go out there, collect data, and then beam it back here, just like the New Horizons probe to Pluto. It doesn't have to wait to receive commands to send data, it can send any time it wants to.
It should be obvious that with that much of a time-lag, there's no way to make this a remotely-operated vehicle, and it'll have to be completely autonomous.
As a progressive, I'm voting for Trump if the election is between him and Hillary. I'm against more stupid wars like Iraq, and Hillary is a huge war hawk. So yeah, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and that's Trump.
WTF are you talking about? The mainstream media hates Sanders. They've been doing everything they can (esp. WaPo) to get him out of the way in favor of war-hawk pro-Wall Street Hillary. Your CNN link is a prime example of this: they're digging up some old ramblings of his from his younger days during the hippie movement to try to discredit him. I didn't see anything there, just a young man questioning societal norms and the establishment and raising questions, such as whether the traditional education system is really the best way to do things.
I haven't seen Bernie change his mind on anything, within recent memory (comparing his current positions to his positions from 1970 isn't the same thing). Trump changes his positions within weeks or months, all within this election cycle. But you're half right: he's getting crucified for it, whereas Hillary gets a free pass when she adopts or gives lip service to Bernie's positions in a lame attempt to get real progressives to vote for her.
And if you're not voting for those 3, that only leaves Cruz, who is an extremely far-right Dominionist Christian who wants to create a theocracy. AFAIC, he's the worst candidate of the 4. Given how much I hate Hillary, and that I don't expect Bernie to get the DNC nomination, I only hope the GOP gets its shit together and has a brokered convention and chooses Kasich or someone moderate to run against her.
Mexico *does* export murderers and rapists to the US. Are you going to try to convince me that there isn't a single instance of an illegal Mexican immigrant who's been convicted of one of those crimes?
He never said that all illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists.
What's interesting is that your side (I'm assuming you're a Hillary supporter) is all in favor of sending US troops to other countries to kill people in huge numbers (over 100k Iraqis died in *your* war in Iraq, which Hillary voted for), and you're perfectly OK with that, but you raise a stink about Trump not wanting to import some people who might have some murderers among them.
He can't be any worse than Hillary, who was a big supporter of the big bank bailout with no strings attached, so that bank executives could give themselves huge bonuses thanks to the taxpayer. Not to mention how she sells arms to nations with terrible human rights records and they give her Clinton Foundation big kickbacks.
As a progressive, I plan on voting for Trump if the election comes down to him versus Hillary. I just can't go along with today's stupid pro-corporate, pro-Wall street liberals and their warmongering. Trump isn't great, but he's better than that.
Yeah, as someone who supports a lot of progressive causes and is a fan of Bernie, I think this stuff is ridiculous, and I really don't understand why liberals are so hateful about Trump and focusing their attention on him, when to me, Cruz is far, far more dangerous, and even Hillary is a worse choice.
Cruz is a Dominionist Christian who wants to turn the US into a theocracy, and whose policies are extremely far-right, far more so than Trump's . Hillary is clearly sold out to Wall Street, is a criminal, is an imperialist warmonger, and has done all kinds of shady stuff with the Clinton Foundation to fill her pocketbook.
Why liberals think I should support Hillary, I have no idea. They talk about how great it'll be to have a female President, but I never saw them supporting Carly Fiorina, not to mention Sarah Palin.
Sorry, no. From what I see, the music industry (in America at least) has fundamentally changed a lot over the last couple of decades in how they do business and find and promote musicians. Also, genres of music change over time. If you really like Big Band music or rockabilly or Motown or '80s hair metal, for instance, there isn't exactly a lot of that being made these days.
In all seriousness though I got to a point in my life, kinda mid university, that I just got bored of new music. None of the new bands really interested me and most of the bands I do like, their latest cds were shit.
One last example before i go. Taylor swift is worth between 200 & 240 million dollars with an approx income of 80 million a year. Should i feel guilty about pirating her music thus depriving her of a few cents because she took her music off free to listen streaming services in favor of making even more money?
No, but you *should* feel guilty for willingly listening to her "music" in the first place.
You think pumping hydrocarbons out of the ground and burning them is a better method? At least with firewood, you're only participating in the short carbon cycle, and not increasing the level of greenhouse gases from a long-term view.
There's only a few ways of cooking, because it requires the use of heat: 1. burning wood, 2. burning fossil fuel, 3. electricity, and maybe 4. concentrated solar power. I guess there's also 5. nuclear fission, but that's rather infeasible, and there's also 6. various other exothermic chemical reactions, but that again is generally far more expensive than 1-4. #3 requires a power source to generate electricity, which means either burning fossil fuel (#2), nuclear power (#5), or renewable sources (solar/wind). In third world nations, by far most electric power is generated by burning fossil fuel.
So basically you're proposing for poor people in India to abandon burning wood (which regrows in a decade or three), and either buy fossil fuel and burn it, or buy electricity which was generated from fossil fuel. I don't see how this is in any way a better solution: it's both more polluting and probably more expensive for them.
What I want to know is: why do public single-person bathrooms have sex/gender identification at all? What exactly is the point? If only one person at a time can use that bathroom, why do you need to keep it sex-segregated? How is this different from race-segregated water fountains and bathrooms?
Finally, this issue really shouldn't be that difficult. If the companies with multi-person public bathrooms stopped being cheap-asses and bought some proper partitions, it shouldn't matter too much who goes in there. By this, I mean stop buying those shitty partitions that leave a full 12 inches of open space at the floor so people can stick their feet under them, have huge wide gaps around the door panel, have shitty door latches, etc. I've seen nice bathrooms that have actual walls between each stall: build those instead. If someone can go in the stall, shut the door, lock it, and not have to worry about someone being able to easily come in or peep in while they do their business, then none of this should be an issue.
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No, you really don't get it. The more they can rile up their base with this sort of bullshit, the less people pay attention to the graft and corruption -- and even if they do notice, the less likely they are to care.
Exactly. But what's interesting is that the exact same thing is happening on the Democratic side too. Hillary's supporters don't care about all her blatant corruption. The difference is that I can't quite figure out how the Dems have riled up their base to ignore this stuff the way the Reps have with all this anti-gay BS.
Actually, it is. It's part of a feedback cycle, and it keeps people from acting badly. If you do something to harm someone else, they (or their friends, family, etc., or these days the government on their behalf) will come find you, and then punish you to make an example out of you. In the future, people contemplating that action will think twice about it because they want to avoid that fate, and the person who did it the first time won't do it again.
Whoops, I forgot you have to type <ESC>, as so: "a rm -rf / <ESC> :wq!"
That just isn't the case. Users don't have the rights to install and execute additional software on Linux or (real) BSD (not Mac).
WTF? Have you ever used Linux?
Here's a hint: type Alt-F2, type "bash" there, and open a shell. Now, type "vi kill_my_files.sh", then type "a rm -rf / :wq!". Then, type "chmod 755 kill_my_files.sh". There, you've now created "additional software"! Now, execute it by typing "./kill_my_files.sh". Voila! You've executed it! And your files are all gone too!
The only thing regular users can't do on Linux is *install* software system-wide so that other users can run it. Who cares? You don't need to do that to run nefarious software.
Yes, I realize that. I'm pointing out that that's infeasible, and so you *cannot* send it a command. The ship has to be fully autonomous. Communications are 1-way.
(And we still haven't figured out how this thing is going to send any data back in the first place; something that small won't have the power or antenna size necessary.)
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Yeah, these are major problems with feasibility. I was just addressing the 9-year thing: the idea that you need 2-way communications for this thing is just silly and non-sensical. But that of course assumes that somehow this nano-probe can transmit a signal from Alpha Centauri that we can receive, which doesn't seem possible at this point.
I'm not hand-waving away physical limits. AFAIK, the reason our lasers aren't that well-collimated has nothing to do with the limitations of physics, but of our technology. I don't see any reason it isn't possible to make photons all travel in the exact same direction (or at least moreso than our current lasers). We just don't know how to do it yet, or our current lasers are "good enough" and we don't bother, or it's too expensive to try to improve them and there's no real need for it to justify the investment to research better methods, etc.
Yes, but then to make up for the loss in economic growth, they open the borders to millions of third-worlders, so the countries they came from free up the pressure by getting rid of these malcontents, and then they continue expanding their population and then calling for richer countries to take in their extra people. There's no solution for this other than changing the culture in the poorer countries, but they're not doing that, instead they're doubling down on their medieval values.
He also wrote some books for laypeople, including the bestseller "A Brief History of Time", which was well-known for explaining a lot of modern physics theory in a way that regular people can understand.
Don't you think that advanced alien civilizations would have better laser-collimation technology than us?
No, it's more like 4 years or so, not 9. Why do you think a round-trip is necessary? The point of this thing is to go out there, collect data, and then beam it back here, just like the New Horizons probe to Pluto. It doesn't have to wait to receive commands to send data, it can send any time it wants to.
It should be obvious that with that much of a time-lag, there's no way to make this a remotely-operated vehicle, and it'll have to be completely autonomous.
WaPo isn't just anti-Trump, it's blatantly pro-Hilllary, and has been trashing Bernie for a long time now.
And IIRC, Bernie is against raising the H1B cap too. That might have something to do with it....
As a progressive, I'm voting for Trump if the election is between him and Hillary. I'm against more stupid wars like Iraq, and Hillary is a huge war hawk. So yeah, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and that's Trump.
WTF are you talking about? The mainstream media hates Sanders. They've been doing everything they can (esp. WaPo) to get him out of the way in favor of war-hawk pro-Wall Street Hillary. Your CNN link is a prime example of this: they're digging up some old ramblings of his from his younger days during the hippie movement to try to discredit him. I didn't see anything there, just a young man questioning societal norms and the establishment and raising questions, such as whether the traditional education system is really the best way to do things.
I haven't seen Bernie change his mind on anything, within recent memory (comparing his current positions to his positions from 1970 isn't the same thing). Trump changes his positions within weeks or months, all within this election cycle. But you're half right: he's getting crucified for it, whereas Hillary gets a free pass when she adopts or gives lip service to Bernie's positions in a lame attempt to get real progressives to vote for her.
And if you're not voting for those 3, that only leaves Cruz, who is an extremely far-right Dominionist Christian who wants to create a theocracy. AFAIC, he's the worst candidate of the 4. Given how much I hate Hillary, and that I don't expect Bernie to get the DNC nomination, I only hope the GOP gets its shit together and has a brokered convention and chooses Kasich or someone moderate to run against her.
Mexico *does* export murderers and rapists to the US. Are you going to try to convince me that there isn't a single instance of an illegal Mexican immigrant who's been convicted of one of those crimes?
He never said that all illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists.
What's interesting is that your side (I'm assuming you're a Hillary supporter) is all in favor of sending US troops to other countries to kill people in huge numbers (over 100k Iraqis died in *your* war in Iraq, which Hillary voted for), and you're perfectly OK with that, but you raise a stink about Trump not wanting to import some people who might have some murderers among them.
And how is any of this worse than what Cruz advocates?
Why all the hate for Trump, but Cruz gets a free pass from the liberals?
He can't be any worse than Hillary, who was a big supporter of the big bank bailout with no strings attached, so that bank executives could give themselves huge bonuses thanks to the taxpayer. Not to mention how she sells arms to nations with terrible human rights records and they give her Clinton Foundation big kickbacks.
As a progressive, I plan on voting for Trump if the election comes down to him versus Hillary. I just can't go along with today's stupid pro-corporate, pro-Wall street liberals and their warmongering. Trump isn't great, but he's better than that.
Absolutely. And the Hillary supporters are really making clear their disdain for the working class by their actions and their anti-Bernie rhetoric.
Yeah, as someone who supports a lot of progressive causes and is a fan of Bernie, I think this stuff is ridiculous, and I really don't understand why liberals are so hateful about Trump and focusing their attention on him, when to me, Cruz is far, far more dangerous, and even Hillary is a worse choice.
Cruz is a Dominionist Christian who wants to turn the US into a theocracy, and whose policies are extremely far-right, far more so than Trump's . Hillary is clearly sold out to Wall Street, is a criminal, is an imperialist warmonger, and has done all kinds of shady stuff with the Clinton Foundation to fill her pocketbook.
Why liberals think I should support Hillary, I have no idea. They talk about how great it'll be to have a female President, but I never saw them supporting Carly Fiorina, not to mention Sarah Palin.
Sorry, no. From what I see, the music industry (in America at least) has fundamentally changed a lot over the last couple of decades in how they do business and find and promote musicians. Also, genres of music change over time. If you really like Big Band music or rockabilly or Motown or '80s hair metal, for instance, there isn't exactly a lot of that being made these days.
In all seriousness though I got to a point in my life, kinda mid university, that I just got bored of new music. None of the new bands really interested me and most of the bands I do like, their latest cds were shit.
What year was that?
One last example before i go. Taylor swift is worth between 200 & 240 million dollars with an approx income of 80 million a year. Should i feel guilty about pirating her music thus depriving her of a few cents because she took her music off free to listen streaming services in favor of making even more money?
No, but you *should* feel guilty for willingly listening to her "music" in the first place.
You think pumping hydrocarbons out of the ground and burning them is a better method? At least with firewood, you're only participating in the short carbon cycle, and not increasing the level of greenhouse gases from a long-term view.
There's only a few ways of cooking, because it requires the use of heat: 1. burning wood, 2. burning fossil fuel, 3. electricity, and maybe 4. concentrated solar power. I guess there's also 5. nuclear fission, but that's rather infeasible, and there's also 6. various other exothermic chemical reactions, but that again is generally far more expensive than 1-4. #3 requires a power source to generate electricity, which means either burning fossil fuel (#2), nuclear power (#5), or renewable sources (solar/wind). In third world nations, by far most electric power is generated by burning fossil fuel.
So basically you're proposing for poor people in India to abandon burning wood (which regrows in a decade or three), and either buy fossil fuel and burn it, or buy electricity which was generated from fossil fuel. I don't see how this is in any way a better solution: it's both more polluting and probably more expensive for them.
What I want to know is: why do public single-person bathrooms have sex/gender identification at all? What exactly is the point? If only one person at a time can use that bathroom, why do you need to keep it sex-segregated? How is this different from race-segregated water fountains and bathrooms?
Finally, this issue really shouldn't be that difficult. If the companies with multi-person public bathrooms stopped being cheap-asses and bought some proper partitions, it shouldn't matter too much who goes in there. By this, I mean stop buying those shitty partitions that leave a full 12 inches of open space at the floor so people can stick their feet under them, have huge wide gaps around the door panel, have shitty door latches, etc. I've seen nice bathrooms that have actual walls between each stall: build those instead. If someone can go in the stall, shut the door, lock it, and not have to worry about someone being able to easily come in or peep in while they do their business, then none of this should be an issue.