Ths story is particularly remarkable that when we have successfully sequenced the genomes of the entire line of the fish - reptile - bird - mammal evolution then we will finally be able to prove the theory even beyond any reasonable doubt of intelligent designers.
Maybe a short period of nuclear winter, but hey, we were getting a little hot here anyway.
The thing about an orbital weapons system like this could potentially be is that once you have one, the enemy (in this case US) can hit you, but can never hit you hard enough to take away the threat of your weapon. At least until some decades down the road, when the arms race has advanced so everyone has inaccessible doomsday asteroids ready to hit eachother/take out enemy doomsday asteroids before they can be launched.
That isn't quite true. Given enough exposure, it is still possible for vaccinated people to get sick. So your kids, even vaccinated, can be put at risk when all the unvaccinated kids show up for school.
Often, a vaccine doesn't provide perfect resistance; if you are vaccinated but are repeatedly exposed, it is possible you can still eventually catch the disease - once you hit a critical mass of unvaccinated population, even the vaccinated population becomes more at risk. So you choose not to get vaccinated, and you increase the risk of me getting sick, even though I was vaccinated.
But they get cheaper if you order 10,000 of them. What is the profit on one UAV-payload of hard drug of your choice? What percentage of UAVs would have to get through, to keep that profitable?
Oh, and you think they want to teach useful sex-ed, or relevant biology? They'd rather just teach kids that drugs are bad, mmmkay, and that sex will make you a whore and give you diseases, then shrug and look the other way when teen pregnancy rates go way up (like in Texas), because teenagers are going to have sex whether you tell them to or not.
Don't apply timecube physics! You'll age four times faster!
But you'll live 4 times as long in that time!
Thanks for reminding me of that link. I didn't realize that site was still getting updates. The rant is longer! I'm pretty sure this headache is unrelated to the tequila.
If this was a multi-step attack, rather than just stopping the first phishing email, wouldn't detection anywhere further up the chain also have limited the damage?
Now is there any data on what the star was doing 3 days ago, so we might have hints what an imminent-supernova might look like? That would mean the next one we could catch even earlier.
According to the tour at McDonald Observatory, the light takes many many centuries to get from the center of the sun to the outside, but then under 8 minutes to get all the way to Earth.
Don't tell anybody, but I am planning a secret mission to carefully break off a chunk and use it as the galaxy's largest magnifying lens. I don't have to sell my chunk of diamond, citizens of earth will pay me to keep it turned elswhere.
I had a statistics professor who used to do industrial QA/QC. He offered any of his students a deal: if they bought a new computer at best buy, he would sell them an extended warranty for half the price of best buy's extended warranty. He was quite confident that with modern manufacturing, anything that failed would either fail immediately, break within the regular warranty, or far outlast the extended warranty. The extended warranty is just free money to the retailer.
You've never been to a semi-public event where people asked not to be photographed, or asked that photographs not be published? Sometimes even former agents/officers/employees who did work outside the country will avoid being in the publicity photos, stand aside in group photos, etc., because their face might be recognized. It isn't just abused women and witness-protection-program w/ new names trying to avoid getting their pictures published. I guess people like that can't go in bars/public places any more.
And before long, privacy will be even more impossible - you can be tracked down, and your history at a place can be verified. It will be harder to create a fake identity, (or one that doesn't have obvious holes in it), but it will also be harder to escape some obsessed stalker or crazy ex or jilted 3rd world arms dealer, unless you totally drop out of society.
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I don't know; lots of SkyNet plans seem to end up failing due to human interference.
Ths story is particularly remarkable that when we have successfully sequenced the genomes of the entire line of the fish - reptile - bird - mammal evolution then we will finally be able to prove the theory even beyond any reasonable doubt of intelligent designers.
Oh, you think evidence will change their mind?
Maybe a short period of nuclear winter, but hey, we were getting a little hot here anyway.
The thing about an orbital weapons system like this could potentially be is that once you have one, the enemy (in this case US) can hit you, but can never hit you hard enough to take away the threat of your weapon. At least until some decades down the road, when the arms race has advanced so everyone has inaccessible doomsday asteroids ready to hit eachother/take out enemy doomsday asteroids before they can be launched.
That's not several dozen, that's a few gross.
That isn't quite true. Given enough exposure, it is still possible for vaccinated people to get sick. So your kids, even vaccinated, can be put at risk when all the unvaccinated kids show up for school.
Often, a vaccine doesn't provide perfect resistance; if you are vaccinated but are repeatedly exposed, it is possible you can still eventually catch the disease - once you hit a critical mass of unvaccinated population, even the vaccinated population becomes more at risk. So you choose not to get vaccinated, and you increase the risk of me getting sick, even though I was vaccinated.
But they get cheaper if you order 10,000 of them. What is the profit on one UAV-payload of hard drug of your choice? What percentage of UAVs would have to get through, to keep that profitable?
Oh, and you think they want to teach useful sex-ed, or relevant biology? They'd rather just teach kids that drugs are bad, mmmkay, and that sex will make you a whore and give you diseases, then shrug and look the other way when teen pregnancy rates go way up (like in Texas), because teenagers are going to have sex whether you tell them to or not.
That's probably why you aren't running things; war is complicated.
> I am a gravitational theorist.
I don't even understand what that title means, but it sounds very cool.
I'm going to start telling people I'm a gravitational engineer.
Only in California. Will TV shows and movies have to have warnings too? Selling things in CA is almost not worth it, what with the extra cost.
As proven in double-blind studies.
You might want to get your adrenaline gauge checked; it seems to be getting crosstalk from your endorphine circuits.
Somebody mod this up.
I don't think we invaded Afghanistan for the copper.
. None of the astronaughts tuned their clocks in relation to the rotation of the moon when they landed upon the moon.
Wow, you got me there. I guess maybe the governments on the moon haven't set official time zones yet, or something?
Don't apply timecube physics! You'll age four times faster!
But you'll live 4 times as long in that time!
Thanks for reminding me of that link. I didn't realize that site was still getting updates. The rant is longer! I'm pretty sure this headache is unrelated to the tequila.
If this was a multi-step attack, rather than just stopping the first phishing email, wouldn't detection anywhere further up the chain also have limited the damage?
Now is there any data on what the star was doing 3 days ago, so we might have hints what an imminent-supernova might look like? That would mean the next one we could catch even earlier.
According to the tour at McDonald Observatory, the light takes many many centuries to get from the center of the sun to the outside, but then under 8 minutes to get all the way to Earth.
Either spell it "gigawatts," or start referring to hard drive and memory in "jiggabytes."
Don't tell anybody, but I am planning a secret mission to carefully break off a chunk and use it as the galaxy's largest magnifying lens. I don't have to sell my chunk of diamond, citizens of earth will pay me to keep it turned elswhere.
I usually give them their own zip code. Sometimes I gave radio shack their own store address. The employees didn't seem to care.
I had a statistics professor who used to do industrial QA/QC. He offered any of his students a deal: if they bought a new computer at best buy, he would sell them an extended warranty for half the price of best buy's extended warranty. He was quite confident that with modern manufacturing, anything that failed would either fail immediately, break within the regular warranty, or far outlast the extended warranty. The extended warranty is just free money to the retailer.
You've never been to a semi-public event where people asked not to be photographed, or asked that photographs not be published? Sometimes even former agents/officers/employees who did work outside the country will avoid being in the publicity photos, stand aside in group photos, etc., because their face might be recognized. It isn't just abused women and witness-protection-program w/ new names trying to avoid getting their pictures published. I guess people like that can't go in bars/public places any more.
And before long, privacy will be even more impossible - you can be tracked down, and your history at a place can be verified. It will be harder to create a fake identity, (or one that doesn't have obvious holes in it), but it will also be harder to escape some obsessed stalker or crazy ex or jilted 3rd world arms dealer, unless you totally drop out of society.