The caption for the cool picture says "This image shows Jupiter's south pole, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles. The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles in diameter."
With a diameter of ~86,000 mi, some of those ovoids are easily 5000 mi across, not "up to 600mi in diameter" - am I missing something, or are they only talking about teeny circles? Or did they just drop a zero?
I'm fine with that and would support it, as long as we're willing as a society to a) actually kill off ALL those other programs, and b) let people then actually suffer the consequences of their choices. If all the aid programs are gone, and you get a UBI and are starving to death because you blew your check on a new cellphone and meth, then you starve to death in a ditch. Spent your money on meth and your kids are sick? Oops, I guess your kids die, then.
Nature has a terrific way of weeding out grasshoppers; the repeated idea of taking from the ants to keep the grasshoppers comfortable is unsustainable.
The fact is, with the self-justification that "well, trump is evil" a number of people in the bureaucracy of the administration have come to feel they get to determine who gets to know what, to hell with any other concerns than their own personal agendas or desires.
Now it will bite these narcissists in the ass, as they've just handed the tangerine tyrant a PERFECT excuse to go on a draconian house cleaning and make a nasty example of whomever he catches (and the public, by large will agree).
I don't doubt that Trump is a jerk. That's who we're blaming everything on, right?
But first, let's remember that the U.S. $ is what, about 30% stronger than it was just a couple of years ago? That's going to have an impact on tourism, for sure.
Then realise that the U.S. Is a huge country of generally wealthy people who rarely leave that country. That means foreign visitor tourism, while huge numbers, is still nearly meaningless in proportion to Americans traveling internally.
When the only other explanation is "something we completely don't understand is happening", then the alternative of "giant alien megastructure" tends to sound reassuringly better to academics who are very uncomfortable admitting they don't have a fucking clue what's happening.
It's apparently aperiodic so it's not - (as far as we can tell) orbiting the star in a regular way. It's also MASSIVE, causing up to 20% dimming...this is gigantic.
It could be orbiting so far out from the primary that we haven't yet seen a repetitive cycle...but if it's that far out and still occluding the star by 20% that makes it a ridiculously huge thing.
So "we don't have a clue" doesn't get you grants. "Potential alien construct" - even if everyone agrees the idea's a ridiculous place to start - might get you some sympathetic review.
Well, one thing Heather Metcalf has managed to accomplish is to conclusively prove why nobody reads Scientific American as a science publication any more.
...and that's why "science" as a thing is rapidly losing credibility.
The SJW's have aggressively politicized everything: it's no longer about qualifications, it's about identity politics....and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
The fact is that NO city, ever, was built for permanence.
They exist for one reason: convenience. They are (generally) opportunistic agglomerations of people in time around wherever it happened to be easiest to unload/drop that heavy shit we were carrying from some other place.
They are, like all human creations, ephemeral. Sure, the timeframe may exceed human lifetimes, but with the success of humanity some of our oldest continually-inhabited places are now THOUSANDS of years old.
Ironically, the *oldest* places tend to be the least in fear, as generally our ancient ancestors (lacking our astonishing capabilities (arrogance?) to control and direct our environment) were extremely respectful of long term natural processes. During Hurricane Katrina, the oldest French parts of New Orleans were basically fine: it was the more recent 'fill ins' by American industry that built in flood plains etc and ended up getting whacked when the dikes failed.
Of course, they weren't always right as Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion would prove....
Build a sandcastle on the beach, and ultimately, it will eventually get wiped out. Even if that sandcastle is made of millions of tons of concrete and rebar, and houses millions of people. "Eventually" is just a little bit longer.
Considering the major impact that the solar wind has on high level ozone concentrations and cloud formation that we're only beginning to understand, one might wonder how much of an impact this may be having on global temperature.
BTW, that linked video was pretty nearly worthless explaining anything.
Meaning, of course, that they execute the rules (laws) established by Congress.
In the absence of such rules, the executive office is free to write its own rules.
Ergo: Stop returning 95% of incumbent congressfucks and elect representatives that will simply pass a law making 'net neutrality' a thing.
Can't do it, or can't convince at least 51% of the electorate (or, in reality, only about 30%) to agree with you and actually vote? Then it must be not such a big deal.
...are you suggesting that a commercial resort and property organization doesn't have NSA-grade elint protection?/shock.
Curious that many of the people railing about this likely would just as vociferously insist that the Secretary of State talking about classified info her own private shitty email server is "JUST FINE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS".
Trumps a narcissistic boob, but this is pretty much going to be the standard for any politician that's NOT from a cultivated political class - ie anyone who has any life other than politics.
Only Liberals would be so willfully blind as to look at a shithole like most of India and China and say "I WISH WE COULD BE MORE LIKE THEM"...simply because of politics.
For all your "factual" analysis, you seem to have missed the KEY objection today to electrics: time to charge. (Instead, you focused solely on their key advantage, how...coincidental.)
A Tesla today takes an hour to fill to 80%. An hour. I drive 50 miles each way to work. Commonly, then, I visit customers around the city during the day, easily another 100mi. And then on Fridays, I might have to fetch a kid from college 150 miles away.
I don't have multiple hours per day to sit around waiting for my car to charge, to say nothing of professional truck drivers for whom every hour sitting is directly hurting their income.
If they solve the charge time issue, and the electric premium costs I'll be the first in line to buy one, but for now (and barring a surprising tech breakthrough) electric vehicles will remain a boutique toy for the idle rich or pious eco-nuts.
That's the best idea I've seen posted in a long while. Perfect: if you release a software product, as long as it's not released to the public domain, you're responsible for it.
Should they go back and patch Win95 while they're at it? Make Win386 rock-solid in the face of current virii and ransomware?
By that same logic, you could insist that Ford go back and install safety glass and airbags on any existing Model T's still running.
The simple fact is that OS's are a treadmill. It's a not a typewriter that you buy once and use until it breaks.
Look, I think OS firms *should* support 'the last few versions' - say whatever was current 10 years ago (ie in MS's case, Win2007). But to go back further, or to MANDATE that?
If you can't be bothered to run reasonably current OSs, then you're going to be as safe as you deserve.
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"...Good."
Glad to hear the government is putting paid to the professional whinging class for once.
The caption for the cool picture says "This image shows Jupiter's south pole, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles. The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles in diameter."
With a diameter of ~86,000 mi, some of those ovoids are easily 5000 mi across, not "up to 600mi in diameter" - am I missing something, or are they only talking about teeny circles? Or did they just drop a zero?
I'm fine with that and would support it, as long as we're willing as a society to
a) actually kill off ALL those other programs, and
b) let people then actually suffer the consequences of their choices. If all the aid programs are gone, and you get a UBI and are starving to death because you blew your check on a new cellphone and meth, then you starve to death in a ditch. Spent your money on meth and your kids are sick? Oops, I guess your kids die, then.
Nature has a terrific way of weeding out grasshoppers; the repeated idea of taking from the ants to keep the grasshoppers comfortable is unsustainable.
I'm PERFECTLY fine with that.
So the next step is that it needs to play itself?
If it beat a human that it determined was playing "perfectly", that's the only next opponent.
Perhaps they will teach even go masters something?
The fact is, with the self-justification that "well, trump is evil" a number of people in the bureaucracy of the administration have come to feel they get to determine who gets to know what, to hell with any other concerns than their own personal agendas or desires.
Now it will bite these narcissists in the ass, as they've just handed the tangerine tyrant a PERFECT excuse to go on a draconian house cleaning and make a nasty example of whomever he catches (and the public, by large will agree).
I don't doubt that Trump is a jerk. That's who we're blaming everything on, right?
But first, let's remember that the U.S. $ is what, about 30% stronger than it was just a couple of years ago? That's going to have an impact on tourism, for sure.
Then realise that the U.S. Is a huge country of generally wealthy people who rarely leave that country. That means foreign visitor tourism, while huge numbers, is still nearly meaningless in proportion to Americans traveling internally.
http://www.eturbonews.com/5332...
96.7% of US tourism is domestic.
Ergo, 3.3% is foreign
Foreign tourism could drop by 50% and most venues wouldn't even notice.
" Trump's fawning, servile obsequiousness with respect to Russia's dictator, not about homophobia"
Pretty strong words for something that has not a single shred of actual proof?
Good to know the liberals are channeling Leni Riefenstahl so perfectly.
When the only other explanation is "something we completely don't understand is happening", then the alternative of "giant alien megastructure" tends to sound reassuringly better to academics who are very uncomfortable admitting they don't have a fucking clue what's happening.
It's apparently aperiodic so it's not - (as far as we can tell) orbiting the star in a regular way. It's also MASSIVE, causing up to 20% dimming...this is gigantic.
It could be orbiting so far out from the primary that we haven't yet seen a repetitive cycle...but if it's that far out and still occluding the star by 20% that makes it a ridiculously huge thing.
So "we don't have a clue" doesn't get you grants. "Potential alien construct" - even if everyone agrees the idea's a ridiculous place to start - might get you some sympathetic review.
Well, one thing Heather Metcalf has managed to accomplish is to conclusively prove why nobody reads Scientific American as a science publication any more.
...and that's why "science" as a thing is rapidly losing credibility.
The SJW's have aggressively politicized everything: it's no longer about qualifications, it's about identity politics....and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
The fact is that NO city, ever, was built for permanence.
They exist for one reason: convenience. They are (generally) opportunistic agglomerations of people in time around wherever it happened to be easiest to unload/drop that heavy shit we were carrying from some other place.
They are, like all human creations, ephemeral. Sure, the timeframe may exceed human lifetimes, but with the success of humanity some of our oldest continually-inhabited places are now THOUSANDS of years old.
Ironically, the *oldest* places tend to be the least in fear, as generally our ancient ancestors (lacking our astonishing capabilities (arrogance?) to control and direct our environment) were extremely respectful of long term natural processes. During Hurricane Katrina, the oldest French parts of New Orleans were basically fine: it was the more recent 'fill ins' by American industry that built in flood plains etc and ended up getting whacked when the dikes failed.
Of course, they weren't always right as Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion would prove....
Build a sandcastle on the beach, and ultimately, it will eventually get wiped out.
Even if that sandcastle is made of millions of tons of concrete and rebar, and houses millions of people. "Eventually" is just a little bit longer.
Has it uncovered the petrified vegetation that Antarctica used to be covered with?
Considering the major impact that the solar wind has on high level ozone concentrations and cloud formation that we're only beginning to understand, one might wonder how much of an impact this may be having on global temperature.
BTW, that linked video was pretty nearly worthless explaining anything.
The FCC is part of the executive branch.
Meaning, of course, that they execute the rules (laws) established by Congress.
In the absence of such rules, the executive office is free to write its own rules.
Ergo:
Stop returning 95% of incumbent congressfucks and elect representatives that will simply pass a law making 'net neutrality' a thing.
Can't do it, or can't convince at least 51% of the electorate (or, in reality, only about 30%) to agree with you and actually vote? Then it must be not such a big deal.
That sir/madam, is a fair point.
...are you suggesting that a commercial resort and property organization doesn't have NSA-grade elint protection? /shock.
Curious that many of the people railing about this likely would just as vociferously insist that the Secretary of State talking about classified info her own private shitty email server is "JUST FINE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS".
Trumps a narcissistic boob, but this is pretty much going to be the standard for any politician that's NOT from a cultivated political class - ie anyone who has any life other than politics.
Only Liberals would be so willfully blind as to look at a shithole like most of India and China and say "I WISH WE COULD BE MORE LIKE THEM"...simply because of politics.
Sure, /. that's a "troll"?
Pls point out anything factually incorrect?
...treason's not such a big deal, as long as it's committed against Republican administrations.
Sharing a Democratic candidate's emails with wikileaks however?
That will get you two bullets in the back of the head.
Except...time is money.
For all your "factual" analysis, you seem to have missed the KEY objection today to electrics: time to charge. (Instead, you focused solely on their key advantage, how...coincidental.)
A Tesla today takes an hour to fill to 80%. An hour.
I drive 50 miles each way to work. Commonly, then, I visit customers around the city during the day, easily another 100mi. And then on Fridays, I might have to fetch a kid from college 150 miles away.
I don't have multiple hours per day to sit around waiting for my car to charge, to say nothing of professional truck drivers for whom every hour sitting is directly hurting their income.
If they solve the charge time issue, and the electric premium costs I'll be the first in line to buy one, but for now (and barring a surprising tech breakthrough) electric vehicles will remain a boutique toy for the idle rich or pious eco-nuts.
"The other male employees would talk about how he 'refuses to wear a condom' and 'has had sex with over 1000 people.'"
If you have sex with more than 1000 partners, are they really all *people* to you?
That's the best idea I've seen posted in a long while. Perfect: if you release a software product, as long as it's not released to the public domain, you're responsible for it.
I wish I could mod you to the sky.
Same exact thing I say when they talk about this with the US:
Korea: 519 persons per sqkm
Japan: 348 persons per sqkm
Europe: 127 persons per sqkm
USA: 35 persons per sqkm
Australia: 3 persons per sqkm
It seems to be hard for tech-enthusiasts to grasp that a widely-distributed population makes providing infrastructure INTRINSICALLY harder.
It's something to do with hurting Trump.
EVERYTHING is justifiable in a tight-enough echo chamber.
Should they go back and patch Win95 while they're at it? Make Win386 rock-solid in the face of current virii and ransomware?
By that same logic, you could insist that Ford go back and install safety glass and airbags on any existing Model T's still running.
The simple fact is that OS's are a treadmill. It's a not a typewriter that you buy once and use until it breaks.
Look, I think OS firms *should* support 'the last few versions' - say whatever was current 10 years ago (ie in MS's case, Win2007). But to go back further, or to MANDATE that?
If you can't be bothered to run reasonably current OSs, then you're going to be as safe as you deserve.