Depending on the composition of the asteroid, a bomb placed inside might possibly split it in half, and the force of that explosion would cause the two halves to move in opposite directions
And of course we will risk the whole of humanity on someone whose entire understanding of physics comes from watching The Empire Strikes Back.
Jesus, I already said it so I'm not gonna fucking repeat it.
Also, discussions are getting hijacked by partisan politics, which I suppose is only to be expected given that election season is ramping up.
OK, you've been here longer than me and you don't know about political discussions on Slashdot? Did you like take a 10-year vacation or something?
And, to be fair, the article invites discussion of Dimon's views on the crisis and his culpability because, well, they are RIGHT THERE IN THE WRITEUP.
I also don't give a shit about Chase's 500 million dollar data center, only about the fact that I too got fucked in the ass by them and am not impressed by Mr. Dimon and his obviously-crooked company either.
Yeah, the major change I propose is NOT USING THE FUCKING STEERING WHEEL FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN STEERING, IDIOT!
On a straight piece of road it wouldn't be a problem to disconnect the steering for a few seconds.
I must assume you have NEVER driven a car before. You have heard of deer, right? Even a turkey crossing the "straight piece of road" in front of you can cause an accident.
Jesus, I hope you don't work for the auto industry.
OK. I think I've had this discussion before, but maybe people need a fucking refresher on basic newtonian motion.
BLOWING UP AN ONCOMING ASTEROID will ABSOLUTELY NOT 'MOVE' IT TO EITHER SIDE. My fucking GOD did the entire planet fucking fail basic physics? It WILL guarantee that we are, instead of being slammed with one giant rock, showered with millions of smaller rocks, but WE'LL STILL BE FUCKED SIDEWAYS in that scenario.
We could, yes, potentially build a really big bomb. It's not the fact that it's too "heavy" that is why it is impractical. It's because IT CAN NEVER, EVER, FUCKING EVER POSSIBLY WORK as a solution to an oncoming asteroid. That's because making a big rock into littler rocks is not how you stop it.
Diverting the asteroid is a LOT less expensive and though it is disappointingly big hardon-creating explosion-free, (Sorry Mr. Teller, your pyro days are in fact over as I recall) it actually has an advantage over just blowing up the asteroid in that it is a solution created by an adult and not the world's most-respected Beavis-inspiring physicist child who just liked to blow shit up, and that it would work
Sorry, had to get that one off my chest. Mr. Teller and his pyromaniac fantasies have caused a mighty disturbance in a conversation that needs to be deadly serious. We do not have time for the sniggering little Beavises of the world to fantasize about making great big fire. Jesus.
Who needs to literally have it spelled out for them anymore?
Oh, I imagine there's a fair number of right-wing glibertards who aren't getting it because a man has difficulty understanding something when his salary depends on him not understanding it, but other than that, duh you've gotta be a fuckin' stupid git to not comprehend that things are warmer today than they were even 10 years ago.
For the most part...I am the happiest with congress when the best they can manage is gridlock.
I just don't find that much to celebrate in a broken political process. Maybe you enjoy it. In the meantime, lots of people suffer for your glibtard principles.
I hope you don't imagine that you garner much respect for your fuckwit opinion.
Let's get something straight here. Palin was fucking stupid. She, personally, was a fucking twit.
Anyone thinking that she was a positive for the GOP is also a fucking twit. She did more damage to the GOP brand every time she opened her dumb mouth-hole.
I don't mean to burst your fucking bubble here, genius, but I confirmed global warming by stepping the fuck outside today. Yesterday. Day before. Week before. Month before.
If you can't recognize what is now happening, you are a certified fucktard. Seriously. Seen the weather ripping your, or your neighbor's towns and or houses apart recently? Yeah.
Fucking tired of fucking idiots in the useful-idiot employ of the oil companies standing around with their gaping, stupid mouth-holes open when they should be closed, because I hear NOTHING useful coming out of them.
Indeed, the mark of a true genius would be to take only two, or even one chords and somehow make a song out of it.
An artist with every color in the world on his palette is going to get lost in the possibilities. An artist with four colors and one pencil has to be truly creative to come up with something. Same is true in music.
Having said all that, I was at a bowling alley last week (not a daily or even monthly occurrence for me), and they had some modern pop-rap stuff on the radio and it was damn-near intolerable because there was NOTHING in the music. It was some whiny chick repeating the same two phrases over and over again to a Casio drumbeat with this dink-dink-dink-dink 'chord' going on behind it that shifted by one note, on occasion. It was utter pablum that made me want to jump out of a window.
There's minimalism with creativity, and then there's shit. I do think a lot of today's music that's played on the radio and promoted by the RIAA is total shit, but there's a whole other dimension of interesting music that the RIAA and the commercial enterprises do not control.
ow see, statements like this are what make me so wary of trusting anything out of the mouths of the more fanatical members of the environmental movement. Really? So it's hotter today that it was during the Mesozoic era
Are you seriously that fucking stupid? It's statements like these that make me dismiss the fuck out of anything else that EVER comes out of your stupid mouth, k?
I'm not going to argue that it's a good thing for a 30 year old to hook up with a 13 year old, but for something that's supposed to be so obviously bad it's remarkable how weak the arguments against it are.
Do yourself a favor and stop being deliberately fucking obtuse about this. I am the dad of two teenage girls. Any male over the age of 17 touching either of them is in violation of the law, and had better hope the police get to them before I do.
I'm like this because my mother, my wife, my wife's sister, my aunt, all have suffered abuse at the hands of older men they were supposed to be able to trust. They have attempted and sometimes succeeded various means of suicide. The psychological damage that comes from rape is undeniable, and it lasts a lifetime, and it is completely inexcusable from a moral standpoint. Those people knew what they were doing and they knew it was wrong.
If you are confused about this I strongly recommend you don't test your head-up-the-ass moral ambiguity out on the nearest teenage girl you can find, because, well, you'd better pray she's not my kid. Having seen and lived with the damage this kind of thing causes, I assure you, I'll have no mercy whatsoever.
So, I repeat, do yourself a favor, and shut the fuck up before you really piss me off.
Ron Paul also is happily cashing his social security checks. Not even a token effort to prove to us that he don't need no bootstraps.
And let's not forget, he banked most of that social security income in his government job. In my opinion he's double-dipping. That is, if I judge him by his own standards (which he couldn't stand).
Also, he's one of the laziest idiots in Congress. He has led ONE bill to execution in his quarter-century-plus career. ONE. It was the sale of an historical house in Galveston, I think.
Other than that, Ron Paul has been all talk, big talk, and no action.
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I'm sorry you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Cue a bunch of Glenn Beck website links.
That simply does not compute.
So he can finish tearing our social safety net down and turn us into a third-world shithole?
No thanks. I'd rather a non-sociopath be in the White House.
You are exactly fucking right. YOU DON'T.
And of course we will risk the whole of humanity on someone whose entire understanding of physics comes from watching The Empire Strikes Back.
Jesus, I already said it so I'm not gonna fucking repeat it.
OK, you've been here longer than me and you don't know about political discussions on Slashdot? Did you like take a 10-year vacation or something?
And, to be fair, the article invites discussion of Dimon's views on the crisis and his culpability because, well, they are RIGHT THERE IN THE WRITEUP.
I also don't give a shit about Chase's 500 million dollar data center, only about the fact that I too got fucked in the ass by them and am not impressed by Mr. Dimon and his obviously-crooked company either.
Yeah, the major change I propose is NOT USING THE FUCKING STEERING WHEEL FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN STEERING, IDIOT!
I must assume you have NEVER driven a car before. You have heard of deer, right? Even a turkey crossing the "straight piece of road" in front of you can cause an accident.
Jesus, I hope you don't work for the auto industry.
OK. I think I've had this discussion before, but maybe people need a fucking refresher on basic newtonian motion.
BLOWING UP AN ONCOMING ASTEROID will ABSOLUTELY NOT 'MOVE' IT TO EITHER SIDE. My fucking GOD did the entire planet fucking fail basic physics? It WILL guarantee that we are, instead of being slammed with one giant rock, showered with millions of smaller rocks, but WE'LL STILL BE FUCKED SIDEWAYS in that scenario.
We could, yes, potentially build a really big bomb. It's not the fact that it's too "heavy" that is why it is impractical. It's because IT CAN NEVER, EVER, FUCKING EVER POSSIBLY WORK as a solution to an oncoming asteroid. That's because making a big rock into littler rocks is not how you stop it.
Diverting the asteroid is a LOT less expensive and though it is disappointingly big hardon-creating explosion-free, (Sorry Mr. Teller, your pyro days are in fact over as I recall) it actually has an advantage over just blowing up the asteroid in that it is a solution created by an adult and not the world's most-respected Beavis-inspiring physicist child who just liked to blow shit up, and that it would work
Sorry, had to get that one off my chest. Mr. Teller and his pyromaniac fantasies have caused a mighty disturbance in a conversation that needs to be deadly serious. We do not have time for the sniggering little Beavises of the world to fantasize about making great big fire. Jesus.
Really? Let's see your data, genius.
If you're a complete moron, that is.
Who needs to literally have it spelled out for them anymore?
Oh, I imagine there's a fair number of right-wing glibertards who aren't getting it because a man has difficulty understanding something when his salary depends on him not understanding it, but other than that, duh you've gotta be a fuckin' stupid git to not comprehend that things are warmer today than they were even 10 years ago.
I still haven't seen the prominent announcement that the Apple Employee who gave away this guy's account has been terminated.
See I'm about 60 days from buying a new phone and I was going to go with the iPhone, but if Apple is this sloppy about their security then fuck them.
And I stress that I shouldn't have to look for this announcement. Apple should be loud and clear about it.
I just don't find that much to celebrate in a broken political process. Maybe you enjoy it. In the meantime, lots of people suffer for your glibtard principles.
I hope you don't imagine that you garner much respect for your fuckwit opinion.
Mittware:
Software that like its creator has no perceptible function except to consume the resources of others.
Yeah, this is an app that will perform its primary function ONE TIME EVER.
I'm sure they'll think that one through (given how little thought Mittens gives to his anything).
"It wasn't stupid to pick Palin."???
Let's get something straight here. Palin was fucking stupid. She, personally, was a fucking twit.
Anyone thinking that she was a positive for the GOP is also a fucking twit. She did more damage to the GOP brand every time she opened her dumb mouth-hole.
I don't mean to burst your fucking bubble here, genius, but I confirmed global warming by stepping the fuck outside today. Yesterday. Day before. Week before. Month before.
If you can't recognize what is now happening, you are a certified fucktard. Seriously. Seen the weather ripping your, or your neighbor's towns and or houses apart recently? Yeah.
Fucking tired of fucking idiots in the useful-idiot employ of the oil companies standing around with their gaping, stupid mouth-holes open when they should be closed, because I hear NOTHING useful coming out of them.
Oh, for god's sake are we back to twelve-year-old jackasses trolling this site again?
Bullshit.
Indeed, the mark of a true genius would be to take only two, or even one chords and somehow make a song out of it.
An artist with every color in the world on his palette is going to get lost in the possibilities. An artist with four colors and one pencil has to be truly creative to come up with something. Same is true in music.
Having said all that, I was at a bowling alley last week (not a daily or even monthly occurrence for me), and they had some modern pop-rap stuff on the radio and it was damn-near intolerable because there was NOTHING in the music. It was some whiny chick repeating the same two phrases over and over again to a Casio drumbeat with this dink-dink-dink-dink 'chord' going on behind it that shifted by one note, on occasion. It was utter pablum that made me want to jump out of a window.
There's minimalism with creativity, and then there's shit. I do think a lot of today's music that's played on the radio and promoted by the RIAA is total shit, but there's a whole other dimension of interesting music that the RIAA and the commercial enterprises do not control.
Are you seriously that fucking stupid? It's statements like these that make me dismiss the fuck out of anything else that EVER comes out of your stupid mouth, k?
Should be downgraded as it is clear they don't know dick.
Do yourself a favor and stop being deliberately fucking obtuse about this. I am the dad of two teenage girls. Any male over the age of 17 touching either of them is in violation of the law, and had better hope the police get to them before I do.
I'm like this because my mother, my wife, my wife's sister, my aunt, all have suffered abuse at the hands of older men they were supposed to be able to trust. They have attempted and sometimes succeeded various means of suicide. The psychological damage that comes from rape is undeniable, and it lasts a lifetime, and it is completely inexcusable from a moral standpoint. Those people knew what they were doing and they knew it was wrong.
If you are confused about this I strongly recommend you don't test your head-up-the-ass moral ambiguity out on the nearest teenage girl you can find, because, well, you'd better pray she's not my kid. Having seen and lived with the damage this kind of thing causes, I assure you, I'll have no mercy whatsoever.
So, I repeat, do yourself a favor, and shut the fuck up before you really piss me off.
I do actually think, which is more than I can say for any given Paulbot, on any given day.
How can you respect yourself when you're nothing but a cheap whore for big oil?
Constituents in a state where his party's platform is to abolish critical thinking.
It seems like Ron Paul found the people you could fool all of the time, since he hasn't done jack shit with his elected office except sell a house.
Ron Paul also is happily cashing his social security checks. Not even a token effort to prove to us that he don't need no bootstraps.
And let's not forget, he banked most of that social security income in his government job. In my opinion he's double-dipping. That is, if I judge him by his own standards (which he couldn't stand).
Also, he's one of the laziest idiots in Congress. He has led ONE bill to execution in his quarter-century-plus career. ONE. It was the sale of an historical house in Galveston, I think.
Other than that, Ron Paul has been all talk, big talk, and no action.