Exactly. They are negotiating. "War" involves shooting and death. Using it to describe sabotage is just hyperbole.
Hyperbole, yes, but not without a purpose. You could also call it fund-raising.
This is another example of a military-industrial complex ginning up a new theatre of operations in which to spend billions^W^Wdeploy.
Which side are you talking about? The military-industrial complex in Iran is easily tighter than in the USA. Besides that, Iran has people in power who are not above releasing election results in a spreadsheet which do not even add up, let alone reflect anything close to reality (I kept a copy after downloading it from the Irandian government site) Really, they have contempt enough for everybody. Negotiation only buys them more time. I think Israel gets this and that's why they're eager to launch an attack.
As crazy as this may sound, talking with each other is usually the best option.
Problem is, every time USA, France, Germany, anybody, tries to talk to the leadership in Iran they are met with a very disingenuous leadership who will talk round in circles, but never give an inch. Rather like talking to the North Korean Government. They'll concede nothing and take everything they can get.
Not surprising - Iran's Revolutionary Guard and they aren't about to give up anything. If Grand Ayatollah Khamenei gives them too much trouble they'll just see to it he's replaced. Really is very Kremlin-esque what's going on in Tehran these days. Ultimately they want the bomb to use to preserve their grip on their own people, who they hold in great disdain.
Then whatever you are referencing is no more reliable than late 90's action movies. Shepherds five thousand years ago knew very well that their herds would happily destroy a field by grazing unless they were forcibly moved around, or kept in check by predators. The truth is closer to the opposite of what you've stated: humans are the only animal to have shown the ability to self regulate their activities to maintain a viable habitat.
Humans have had to force other humans to look after it. The horror stories of mineral extraction and manufacturing which have poisoned water, air and left spoiled wastes, which require Superfund cleanup are legion. Have a look at this some time when you are feeling this insane urge to believe everyone loves the Earth equally -- some just show up, get their profit and then move on, without a care to what they've done.
I've traveled extensively and have seen some pretty horrible things we've done in the name of profit and progress. Thank God and the few people who really cared for there now being requirements to look after proper waste processing and storage, rather than just throwing it in a hole out back.
It's true, only humans consciously care for their own environment. Other creatures just happen to live within theirs due to scale making environmental care practically a non-issue and/or succumbing to natural population cycles.
I see ants and their farms as analogous to humans' high-rise buildings (or mega-arcologies in the case of termites), I wouldn't say that really counts as environmental care so much as building maintenance.
Some humans care. When you've made a study of how mining, petroleum extraction and manufacturing have changed, due to laws requiring safeguards, cleanup plans, etc., you'll see it wasn't Wall Street that cared about the environment, it was the children with birth defects, people who found toxins in their yards in places like Love Canal and victims of the BP spill who were motivation for the change.
Being a locked down walled garden appliance kind of limits their usefulness. Note how you are trying to segregate them from PCs when that's what they really are.
What walled garden? I write web-apps for these things. We're not constrained by Apple's or Google's designs, we use these things as we see fit with the only limitation being our imagination. Might work on yours sometime.
The utility of the device and software is how you use it, not tied down to how the vendor hopes you will.
We arent defending the 'tablet'. We are pointing out that CHEAP mobile devices are going to be EVERYWHERE. We need to learn how to use them to teach with, not force a desktop paradigm because its familiar. Tablets are not toys, you are a fucking luddite if you think that. Its a portable screen with a big battery, light local processing and huge hooks into 'big iron'. If you cant see how incredibly powerful that combo can be when applied correctly then you are missing the entire point. Dismissing tablets as toys shows your serious lack of vision.
Have to agree with this assessment. I've been working on applications to take full advantage of the portable and wireless nature of these things. Nobody wants to go back to sitting at a PC or laptop after using these apps. The paradigm is changing and Bill is here telling everyone the only way to get to the next town is with a good horse and buggy whip. Seriously. It's amusing to file these things away with Ken Olson's visionary quote "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" and the alleged quote from Gates "640K should be enough [memory] for anybody." Stick to handing out the money obtained by crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
While I've watched computers go from useless technology, foisted on schools, to useful technology, sought by schools, I can only imagine his brilliant assessment is forged with the same insights that failed to foresee the internet when he was writing The Road Ahead. Bill's strength was always taking what someone else had invented and bundling it into his operating system and driving them out of business -- not because he needed to, but because he felt he needed to.
Some day kids and teachers will be using these in education, while PCs will be relics of the past. He really needs to shut it.
The fifth movie involved Lex Luthor causing water rise on the East Coast.
I thought that was the one where he was creating land out of some pseudo chemical/physics science using Kryptonite to make some big, nasty island in the Atlantic.
In the first Superman, he hits the San Andreas Fault with a couple stolen nuke missiles to cause the central valley of California to become the new West Coast (and Otis, trying to claim his own Otisburg)
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Oh, don't let the government go there.. particularly that last bit "through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", which could imply we must be tracked and reported upon when we appear to be in a situation where we may be deemed at risk due to locality.
Warning: Entering Cowboy Neal's Neighborhood on Saturday Night - Cheese Puff dust levels approaching critical levels - Alerting DHS and your Heath Insurer
Even the sea cannot resist the trendy go to locations along the Jersey shore!
No worries. The ban in NYC on large sodas should reduce the amount of pee flowing into the ocean enough to counteract the sea level rise on a local level.
Entering the Flood Control Dam #3 controll room you hear a ghostly voice echo, as if played over a tannoy somewhere in the distance, "Drill, Baby, Drill!"
I'm not an expert, I've tried to research this, but I find contradictory information which I assume is related to the political nature of the issue. In a nutshell, why can't we use GPS to determine the actual impact of rising sea levels? It would seem to me to be very elementary to place some sort of beacon in a few spots to determine what the actual sea level is. Granted, you might have to wait for calm waters, but nothing about this seems difficult.
Yes, you're right, nothing about this does seem difficult. All we have to do is remove the political influence driven by stupidity.
Wow. I just realized I asked for the impossible. No wonder this has gone nowhere.
FTFY
Humans are the only animal known to destroy their own habitat.
GPS is nowhere near accurate enough. You are talking about yearly see-level variations of a handful of millimeters a year. GPS is only accurate to a few centimeters, at best, with maximum augmentation (practically the error is in the range of 10 cm or more). Nowhere near good enough.
One of the fun things about chasing around with a GPSr, looking for Geodetic Survey markers is you learn a bit about them and the equipment used to place them. How did they get these elevations so darn exact? Well, pull your heads out of your digital-electronic-technology-saviour-for-everything sand pile and realise a very good quality spring with a reference weight and scale can tell you far more accurately what your elevation is, based upon readings taken at nearby sea level. 100 years ago they could tell you within 1 inch the elevation of a marker and to the best of satellite measure, these are still very accurate (using the sort of equipment they have at their disposal.
So not likely to be so much a case of local gravity fluctuation, try thinking what else could explain it? More fresh water introduced from Greenland Ice cap and Polar melting? Given time it will flow around the continents, but if the melt is happening fast enough that which has flowed to the Pacific and Southerly Atlantic is being replaced at a similar, if not accelating rate.
I am sure there are at least 400 slightly wacked 'Sheldons' that are lifers, who would love to go to Mars to die on national TV!!! Did that need to be in the form of a question??!!
It's called a drum. That's what keeps the beat in music. It's open source too, just have to buy a little hardware.
The most original and impressive drum album ever - Drums of Passion Stop playing around with Hip Hop and learn to compose and play like this and you will be legend.
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People must be blind if they can't see how much current intellectual property regulations are stifling innovation.
Most people are sheep. They only see what they can buy, not what that seller has prevented them from buying.
Exactly. They are negotiating. "War" involves shooting and death. Using it to describe sabotage is just hyperbole.
Hyperbole, yes, but not without a purpose. You could also call it fund-raising.
This is another example of a military-industrial complex ginning up a new theatre of operations in which to spend billions^W^Wdeploy.
Which side are you talking about? The military-industrial complex in Iran is easily tighter than in the USA. Besides that, Iran has people in power who are not above releasing election results in a spreadsheet which do not even add up, let alone reflect anything close to reality (I kept a copy after downloading it from the Irandian government site) Really, they have contempt enough for everybody. Negotiation only buys them more time. I think Israel gets this and that's why they're eager to launch an attack.
As crazy as this may sound, talking with each other is usually the best option.
Problem is, every time USA, France, Germany, anybody, tries to talk to the leadership in Iran they are met with a very disingenuous leadership who will talk round in circles, but never give an inch. Rather like talking to the North Korean Government. They'll concede nothing and take everything they can get.
Not surprising - Iran's Revolutionary Guard and they aren't about to give up anything. If Grand Ayatollah Khamenei gives them too much trouble they'll just see to it he's replaced. Really is very Kremlin-esque what's going on in Tehran these days. Ultimately they want the bomb to use to preserve their grip on their own people, who they hold in great disdain.
Somebody set us up the Stuxnet!
For sale: 5,000 slightly damaged nuclear centrifuges.
As-Is for parts
Best offer. U pickup.
Contact M.Ahmadinejad.01@facebook.com
Iranian President Ahmadinejad found playing FarmVille.
Ayatollah Khamenei utters, "Bastards!!"
Then whatever you are referencing is no more reliable than late 90's action movies. Shepherds five thousand years ago knew very well that their herds would happily destroy a field by grazing unless they were forcibly moved around, or kept in check by predators. The truth is closer to the opposite of what you've stated: humans are the only animal to have shown the ability to self regulate their activities to maintain a viable habitat.
Humans have had to force other humans to look after it. The horror stories of mineral extraction and manufacturing which have poisoned water, air and left spoiled wastes, which require Superfund cleanup are legion. Have a look at this some time when you are feeling this insane urge to believe everyone loves the Earth equally -- some just show up, get their profit and then move on, without a care to what they've done.
I've traveled extensively and have seen some pretty horrible things we've done in the name of profit and progress. Thank God and the few people who really cared for there now being requirements to look after proper waste processing and storage, rather than just throwing it in a hole out back.
It's true, only humans consciously care for their own environment. Other creatures just happen to live within theirs due to scale making environmental care practically a non-issue and/or succumbing to natural population cycles.
I see ants and their farms as analogous to humans' high-rise buildings (or mega-arcologies in the case of termites), I wouldn't say that really counts as environmental care so much as building maintenance.
Some humans care. When you've made a study of how mining, petroleum extraction and manufacturing have changed, due to laws requiring safeguards, cleanup plans, etc., you'll see it wasn't Wall Street that cared about the environment, it was the children with birth defects, people who found toxins in their yards in places like Love Canal and victims of the BP spill who were motivation for the change.
Being a locked down walled garden appliance kind of limits their usefulness. Note how you are trying to segregate them from PCs when that's what they really are.
What walled garden? I write web-apps for these things. We're not constrained by Apple's or Google's designs, we use these things as we see fit with the only limitation being our imagination. Might work on yours sometime.
The utility of the device and software is how you use it, not tied down to how the vendor hopes you will.
We arent defending the 'tablet'. We are pointing out that CHEAP mobile devices are going to be EVERYWHERE. We need to learn how to use them to teach with, not force a desktop paradigm because its familiar. Tablets are not toys, you are a fucking luddite if you think that. Its a portable screen with a big battery, light local processing and huge hooks into 'big iron'. If you cant see how incredibly powerful that combo can be when applied correctly then you are missing the entire point. Dismissing tablets as toys shows your serious lack of vision.
Have to agree with this assessment. I've been working on applications to take full advantage of the portable and wireless nature of these things. Nobody wants to go back to sitting at a PC or laptop after using these apps. The paradigm is changing and Bill is here telling everyone the only way to get to the next town is with a good horse and buggy whip. Seriously. It's amusing to file these things away with Ken Olson's visionary quote "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" and the alleged quote from Gates "640K should be enough [memory] for anybody." Stick to handing out the money obtained by crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
I completely agree with his assessment
While I've watched computers go from useless technology, foisted on schools, to useful technology, sought by schools, I can only imagine his brilliant assessment is forged with the same insights that failed to foresee the internet when he was writing The Road Ahead. Bill's strength was always taking what someone else had invented and bundling it into his operating system and driving them out of business -- not because he needed to, but because he felt he needed to.
Some day kids and teachers will be using these in education, while PCs will be relics of the past. He really needs to shut it.
... those who already are highly educated and working on something, we benefit at the loss to other countries.
The fifth movie involved Lex Luthor causing water rise on the East Coast.
I thought that was the one where he was creating land out of some pseudo chemical/physics science using Kryptonite to make some big, nasty island in the Atlantic.
In the first Superman, he hits the San Andreas Fault with a couple stolen nuke missiles to cause the central valley of California to become the new West Coast (and Otis, trying to claim his own Otisburg)
"Humans are the only animal known to destroy their own habitat."
The Matrix is not a reliable source for information about ecology and comparative zoology.
Who is referencing the Matrix? This is an older observation that piece of fluff.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Oh, don't let the government go there .. particularly that last bit "through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", which could imply we must be tracked and reported upon when we appear to be in a situation where we may be deemed at risk due to locality.
Warning: Entering Cowboy Neal's Neighborhood on Saturday Night - Cheese Puff dust levels approaching critical levels - Alerting DHS and your Heath Insurer
Hotspot! I see what you did there. Ha!
Even the sea cannot resist the trendy go to locations along the Jersey shore!
No worries. The ban in NYC on large sodas should reduce the amount of pee flowing into the ocean enough to counteract the sea level rise on a local level.
Entering the Flood Control Dam #3 controll room you hear a ghostly voice echo, as if played over a tannoy somewhere in the distance, "Drill, Baby, Drill!"
It was nice knowing you!
Florida .. Washington DC .. Manhanttan Island .. Boston .. Coastal Texas .. New Orleans ..
Yep, going to have to redraw a lot of maps and move those beach umbrellas back a few miles.
Lex Luthor (thinking about the first Superman movie) had the right idea, but wrong coast and he didn't even need nukes.
Perhaps the east coast is sinking, relative to the rest of the world?
I'm still here in California, waiting for the Big One .. when all the land East of the San Andreas Fault slides off into the Atlantic.
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I'm not an expert, I've tried to research this, but I find contradictory information which I assume is related to the political nature of the issue. In a nutshell, why can't we use GPS to determine the actual impact of rising sea levels? It would seem to me to be very elementary to place some sort of beacon in a few spots to determine what the actual sea level is. Granted, you might have to wait for calm waters, but nothing about this seems difficult.
Yes, you're right, nothing about this does seem difficult. All we have to do is remove the political influence driven by stupidity.
Wow. I just realized I asked for the impossible. No wonder this has gone nowhere.
FTFY
Humans are the only animal known to destroy their own habitat.
GPS is nowhere near accurate enough. You are talking about yearly see-level variations of a handful of millimeters a year. GPS is only accurate to a few centimeters, at best, with maximum augmentation (practically the error is in the range of 10 cm or more). Nowhere near good enough.
One of the fun things about chasing around with a GPSr, looking for Geodetic Survey markers is you learn a bit about them and the equipment used to place them. How did they get these elevations so darn exact? Well, pull your heads out of your digital-electronic-technology-saviour-for-everything sand pile and realise a very good quality spring with a reference weight and scale can tell you far more accurately what your elevation is, based upon readings taken at nearby sea level. 100 years ago they could tell you within 1 inch the elevation of a marker and to the best of satellite measure, these are still very accurate (using the sort of equipment they have at their disposal.
So not likely to be so much a case of local gravity fluctuation, try thinking what else could explain it? More fresh water introduced from Greenland Ice cap and Polar melting? Given time it will flow around the continents, but if the melt is happening fast enough that which has flowed to the Pacific and Southerly Atlantic is being replaced at a similar, if not accelating rate.
That really is the only logical explanation.
Fat cats?
It's really happening and the concentration around the East Coast confirms my worst fears of the hot air coming out of Washington DC.
I am sure there are at least 400 slightly wacked 'Sheldons' that are lifers, who would love to go to Mars to die on national TV!!!
Did that need to be in the form of a question??!!
I thought it was lawyers we had too many of?
Which is the most efficacious way to get there?
Because we all know Ralph Kramden could only send you so far as the Moon
It's called a drum. That's what keeps the beat in music. It's open source too, just have to buy a little hardware.
The most original and impressive drum album ever - Drums of Passion Stop playing around with Hip Hop and learn to compose and play like this and you will be legend.
riaa will try to shut them down better have a big legal fund
Why would RIAA do that? They love people creating the stuff, as long as they get a cut of the action.