The bees in question were brought to North America (and elsewhere, from Europe), which was a crude sort of science (someone figured out how to make a colony portable and then they carried it somewhere).
So in parts of the world, yeah, science did create this problem.
I guess it would be nice to be able to drop a few kilograms of conventional explosives on the U.S., but you might as well send 100 (or 1,000 or 10,000) agents and hope one succeeds.
Useful thing. And I don't really think that triggering raving paranoia is useful.
But no, I don't see any military use for an enormously expensive, small, energy limited platform, at least not any use that isn't easier and cheaper to serve in some other fashion. I suppose you could crash it on something and claim it was an accident.
From where I sit, coming up with some meaningful examples would do a lot more to make my position look absurd than giving me the raspberries.
Nope. I'll back off from what I said previously and claim that American cars aren't particularly unsafe for the miles that are driven in America, relative to safety standards and miles from around the world (looking around, it is hard to even find decent numbers, and then you have to account for the different types of driving that are done).
It's inevitable. If you accept that people aren't equal, the best 10% of China's workforce is larger than half of the entire United States workforce.
Throw in that it is much easier to transfer knowledge and technology than it is to create them, and any notion of keeping a lead goes right out the window, especially over the long term.
The upside is that we are quite a bit more likely to benefit from Chinese advancements than we are to be hurt by them.
Many European cars fail American crash safety standards. U.S. flights are equally or more safe than the global average. The food supply is quite safe (waiter snot is probably the biggest thing to worry about, not shit in your cabbage).
As far as the environment, you go swim in a river in China and I will swim in 20 rivers in the U.S.
Or you might have read comments that are coming from someone more extreme than the typical Chinese. There are plenty of wack-job nationalistic Americans, and plenty of more moderate Americans.
As far as a new cold war, who cares? China can't invade America anymore than America can invade China, and they aren't seriously rattling the nuclear saber (they would rather sell us crap than blow us up...).
China probably could find the bodies to invade the U.S., but they would have a tough time holding any territory whatsoever (unless they found a really nifty way of shifting those bodies over the Pacific ocean). The U.S. doesn't have the bodies to invade China.
I guess there is the possibility of an economic war with China, but the coal on mainland America means that we will still be able to make electricity, mitigating the impact on our quality of life, and the fact that China has 4 times the people will make it nearly impossible for the U.S. to continue to 'dominate' the world economically.
CDisplayEx appears to be inactive but is about what it says, ComicRack wants to help you manage your files, so I don't use it (when I checked it out, I didn't really look to see if there was a way to use it only as a viewer).
If the old drive had a few issues, there is some chance that you bumped the disk controller from PIO mode to the fastest DMA mode that it supports.
PIO triggers interrupts for everything and is also horribly slow, so moving to DMA can make a huge difference.
(If it was in PIO and you did the imaging using that system, you would have wondered what the hell was wrong with it (unless you are familiar with this fun quirk of Windows, in which case you would have known what was up))
At the moment, the sailors can (to some extent) rely on the pirates not shooting at them. If they start shooting first, things may actually become more dangerous for them.
As much as anything, the sailors might not think they are getting paid enough to be getting in gun fights (so companies are looking at the cost of piracy vs the cost of fighting it off; they may even be assuming that someone else will deal with it in the medium to long term).
Actually, I was sort of pointing out that you can use encryption for purposes other than the narrow one defined in that cartoon (which is roughly, protection against imaginary, wrench wielding bad guys).
The blaring second paragraph distracts from closely reading the last 5 words of the first paragraph (for me anyway, my above comment is a result of this).
Does encrypting some of the stuff on my laptop (to limit and/or mitigate the potential consequences of someone stealing it for the hardware) make me a crypto nerd?
For the people to fire a representative, you have to have a democratic election (or something very similar). I'm sorry my joke wasn't funnier.
Of course, it is often effectively the case that the majority isn't paying attention and the minority rules, so the relevancy of the label demanded by pedantry may vary.
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You think the first man made be box was a success?
Even if it was, it was a successful experiment.
The bees in question were brought to North America (and elsewhere, from Europe), which was a crude sort of science (someone figured out how to make a colony portable and then they carried it somewhere).
So in parts of the world, yeah, science did create this problem.
I guess it would be nice to be able to drop a few kilograms of conventional explosives on the U.S., but you might as well send 100 (or 1,000 or 10,000) agents and hope one succeeds.
Maybe you accidentally taped the honest one.
Useful thing. And I don't really think that triggering raving paranoia is useful.
But no, I don't see any military use for an enormously expensive, small, energy limited platform, at least not any use that isn't easier and cheaper to serve in some other fashion. I suppose you could crash it on something and claim it was an accident.
From where I sit, coming up with some meaningful examples would do a lot more to make my position look absurd than giving me the raspberries.
Nope. I'll back off from what I said previously and claim that American cars aren't particularly unsafe for the miles that are driven in America, relative to safety standards and miles from around the world (looking around, it is hard to even find decent numbers, and then you have to account for the different types of driving that are done).
The intent of my question was for you to provide me some more imaginative examples.
So spell it out for me.
What do you think a (manned) military space station is useful for?
The only thing I can think of is triggering raving paranoia.
Two at a time then?
It's inevitable. If you accept that people aren't equal, the best 10% of China's workforce is larger than half of the entire United States workforce.
Throw in that it is much easier to transfer knowledge and technology than it is to create them, and any notion of keeping a lead goes right out the window, especially over the long term.
The upside is that we are quite a bit more likely to benefit from Chinese advancements than we are to be hurt by them.
Are you kidding?
Many European cars fail American crash safety standards. U.S. flights are equally or more safe than the global average. The food supply is quite safe (waiter snot is probably the biggest thing to worry about, not shit in your cabbage).
As far as the environment, you go swim in a river in China and I will swim in 20 rivers in the U.S.
Or you might have read comments that are coming from someone more extreme than the typical Chinese. There are plenty of wack-job nationalistic Americans, and plenty of more moderate Americans.
As far as a new cold war, who cares? China can't invade America anymore than America can invade China, and they aren't seriously rattling the nuclear saber (they would rather sell us crap than blow us up...).
China probably could find the bodies to invade the U.S., but they would have a tough time holding any territory whatsoever (unless they found a really nifty way of shifting those bodies over the Pacific ocean). The U.S. doesn't have the bodies to invade China.
I guess there is the possibility of an economic war with China, but the coal on mainland America means that we will still be able to make electricity, mitigating the impact on our quality of life, and the fact that China has 4 times the people will make it nearly impossible for the U.S. to continue to 'dominate' the world economically.
You can add those buttons to most modern browsers:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
I haven't used them, but NearlyFreeSpeech.NET looks pretty cheap:
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
(They don't support FCGI or any sort of persistent processes, but for static content with only a few readers, the price is hard to beat)
CDisplayEx and ComicRack are two:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayex/
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/
CDisplayEx appears to be inactive but is about what it says, ComicRack wants to help you manage your files, so I don't use it (when I checked it out, I didn't really look to see if there was a way to use it only as a viewer).
If the old drive had a few issues, there is some chance that you bumped the disk controller from PIO mode to the fastest DMA mode that it supports.
PIO triggers interrupts for everything and is also horribly slow, so moving to DMA can make a huge difference.
(If it was in PIO and you did the imaging using that system, you would have wondered what the hell was wrong with it (unless you are familiar with this fun quirk of Windows, in which case you would have known what was up))
You buy $100 of Gold. I'll buy $100 of S&P index funds (of course, I won't use money that I think I will need inside of a year or two).
At the moment, the sailors can (to some extent) rely on the pirates not shooting at them. If they start shooting first, things may actually become more dangerous for them.
As much as anything, the sailors might not think they are getting paid enough to be getting in gun fights (so companies are looking at the cost of piracy vs the cost of fighting it off; they may even be assuming that someone else will deal with it in the medium to long term).
Wait, don't the bad guys blow up the studio?
Actually, I was sort of pointing out that you can use encryption for purposes other than the narrow one defined in that cartoon (which is roughly, protection against imaginary, wrench wielding bad guys).
The blaring second paragraph distracts from closely reading the last 5 words of the first paragraph (for me anyway, my above comment is a result of this).
Sorry to hear about your other appendages.
Does encrypting some of the stuff on my laptop (to limit and/or mitigate the potential consequences of someone stealing it for the hardware) make me a crypto nerd?
For the people to fire a representative, you have to have a democratic election (or something very similar). I'm sorry my joke wasn't funnier.
Of course, it is often effectively the case that the majority isn't paying attention and the minority rules, so the relevancy of the label demanded by pedantry may vary.