I work with people from China, India, Korea, France, (the list goes on), but I don't expect to see them outside my window when I wake up (unless I fell asleep at work and my snoring scared them all outside).
Poster below seems to be the only one with the correct interpretation- the comment was not about the use of the term 'Chinaman' (which I think is not considered derogatory everywhere) but about the 'out the window' comment. Now you have made me overanalyze the joke too, thanks.
> Hezbollah even eschewed radio communications, using couriers instead, rendering a substantial amount of the high tech based Israeli hardware and personnel useless.
I would hardly say that depriving the enemy of quick and easy communications is 'useless'. Forcing them to use slow and unreliable communications probably helped quite a bit. Maybe think of it as forcing your opponent onto a network with extreme lag times and a high rate of packet loss...
Failure to use new technology probably won't lead to victory. The first machine guns were quite unreliable for example, but they are quite popular now. I'm surprised that someone here would criticize developing technology. You are also overlooking the issue of quality vs quantity. One well trained division would destroy several poorly trained ones. I think one of the issues with Hezbollah was that they were better trained than the Israelis thought they would be.
> I'd ask of the Western world: "How many divisions have you got?".
Enough.
> Note; UAVs, CCTV cameras and satellites do not count towards your tally.
I don't know why you thought I said we shouldn't look. I didn't say we should stick our heads in the sand, we should look for what we can. If, on the very very very off chance we actually find something, we need to be careful. They may be friendly, they may not, but if they are not, and if they can travel here, they could likely splatter us like a bug without slowing down. I'm hoping they are friendly (just not 'how to serve humanity ' friendly...). Ideally we would intercept a transmission and learn something really interesting, but that's even less likely than just finding one in the first place.
I was wondering where that precedent came from. It's interesting how traditions change over time- now I think they (lawmakers in general, not just RI) go drinking first, then write the bill and vote on it.
Yes, good old combo (I like hot), can't get that out East- people here think I'm insane when I describe it (ok, they may have thought that before too). Going back in a few weeks, better start being nice to my arteries now. Funny story, I once snuck a combo sandwich onto an airplane, which then was delayed for an hour- short version is I made _no_ friends on that flight...
Pizza. Can't get good pizza in Indy, not like in Chicago. Rolling Blackout? Get a deep dish. Stuck in 8 feet of snow? Get some pepperoni on it, but eat quick because you won't be stuck long. Plenty of reasons to put it in Chicago.
Fortunately, the difficulty in obtaining the dinosaur DNA and SGI workstations is more than compensated for by the ease of finding a smart ass obese slovenly IT guy...
Step 1: Rent botnet. Step 2: Have each 'rented' computer run update, anti-virus, anti-malware... Step 3: Profit! Ok, no profit, but maybe you get to enjoy reduced amounts of spam.
What would really work people up is asking if they care that China can go to the Moon when the USA can't. If getting there is the race, then we've not only won (almost 40 years ago) but we've lapped the second place country. 5 times.
The other important thing to realize is that getting people to the Moon is not really all that hard. The hard part is getting them back. I have confidence that China will soon be able to send people _to_ the Moon, but that's not going to impress me much.
I'm sure she's smart and a nice person, but what an amazing lapse of common sense. Looks like an interesting project though, hope she gets it back, and that this doesn't have lasting ill effects.
Would have been a lot worse if she was wearing one of those 'This shirt is a munition' shirts...
Why is there always confusion over this issue? The real milestone is when it reaches 2M articles in binary (base 2)! That would be 2,097,152 decimal, for those too lazy to break out their calculators, or 2*(2^20) according to Wikipedia.
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I work with people from China, India, Korea, France, (the list goes on), but I don't expect to see them outside my window when I wake up (unless I fell asleep at work and my snoring scared them all outside).
Poster below seems to be the only one with the correct interpretation- the comment was not about the use of the term 'Chinaman' (which I think is not considered derogatory everywhere) but about the 'out the window' comment. Now you have made me overanalyze the joke too, thanks.
I hope for your sake he's not in China...
> Terms of the deal are secret,
I bet you'll find them on Google...
... is that the mouse is 8 feet tall!
The cat, however, was quite scared.
> Hezbollah even eschewed radio communications, using couriers instead, rendering a substantial amount of the high tech based Israeli hardware and personnel useless.
I would hardly say that depriving the enemy of quick and easy communications is 'useless'. Forcing them to use slow and unreliable communications probably helped quite a bit. Maybe think of it as forcing your opponent onto a network with extreme lag times and a high rate of packet loss...
Failure to use new technology probably won't lead to victory. The first machine guns were quite unreliable for example, but they are quite popular now. I'm surprised that someone here would criticize developing technology. You are also overlooking the issue of quality vs quantity. One well trained division would destroy several poorly trained ones. I think one of the issues with Hezbollah was that they were better trained than the Israelis thought they would be.
> I'd ask of the Western world: "How many divisions have you got?".
Enough.
> Note; UAVs, CCTV cameras and satellites do not count towards your tally.
But they will count against the enemies tally...
I don't know why you thought I said we shouldn't look. I didn't say we should stick our heads in the sand, we should look for what we can. If, on the very very very off chance we actually find something, we need to be careful. They may be friendly, they may not, but if they are not, and if they can travel here, they could likely splatter us like a bug without slowing down. I'm hoping they are friendly (just not 'how to serve humanity ' friendly...). Ideally we would intercept a transmission and learn something really interesting, but that's even less likely than just finding one in the first place.
Better to hide, and then see if we don't need to (after we find something that is). The reverse doesn't work as well...
> (In space, nobody can hear your sarcasm.)
That wasn't sarcasm, that was a vacuous joke...
I was wondering where that precedent came from. It's interesting how traditions change over time- now I think they (lawmakers in general, not just RI) go drinking first, then write the bill and vote on it.
Yes, good old combo (I like hot), can't get that out East- people here think I'm insane when I describe it (ok, they may have thought that before too). Going back in a few weeks, better start being nice to my arteries now. Funny story, I once snuck a combo sandwich onto an airplane, which then was delayed for an hour- short version is I made _no_ friends on that flight...
Pizza. Can't get good pizza in Indy, not like in Chicago. Rolling Blackout? Get a deep dish. Stuck in 8 feet of snow? Get some pepperoni on it, but eat quick because you won't be stuck long. Plenty of reasons to put it in Chicago.
Fortunately, the difficulty in obtaining the dinosaur DNA and SGI workstations is more than compensated for by the ease of finding a smart ass obese slovenly IT guy...
I thought I read that Bush is dumb in the morning, but a genius at night. I may not be remembering that correctly, anyone have the link?
The fuzzy feeling is from God. The warm is because her diaper leaked, go change her.
All your sunspots are belong to us? To Al Gore? This is confusing...
At least no one is welcoming their un-sunspotted overlords...
Step 1: Rent botnet.
Step 2: Have each 'rented' computer run update, anti-virus, anti-malware...
Step 3: Profit! Ok, no profit, but maybe you get to enjoy reduced amounts of spam.
Repeat until bored.
can it be classified as 'Gambling Losses' for tax purposes?
Will it come with OnStar?
Look out below!
Put a 10 cent rebate on it, you won't see a single one lying around.
Will Mac users minds stop working at the next update if they've had any unauthorized thoughts?
Make your own 'when did they start' jokes below...
What would really work people up is asking if they care that China can go to the Moon when the USA can't. If getting there is the race, then we've not only won (almost 40 years ago) but we've lapped the second place country. 5 times.
The other important thing to realize is that getting people to the Moon is not really all that hard. The hard part is getting them back. I have confidence that China will soon be able to send people _to_ the Moon, but that's not going to impress me much.
Land on them.
I'm sure she's smart and a nice person, but what an amazing lapse of common sense. Looks like an interesting project though, hope she gets it back, and that this doesn't have lasting ill effects.
Would have been a lot worse if she was wearing one of those 'This shirt is a munition' shirts...
But can I use it blindfolded while using my Wiimote lightsaber?
Why is there always confusion over this issue? The real milestone is when it reaches 2M articles in binary (base 2)!
That would be 2,097,152 decimal, for those too lazy to break out their calculators, or 2*(2^20) according to Wikipedia.