Obesity kills far more humans than "rifles" ever will, and yet you see no artists blocking food emojis, and no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
That's because food has more uses other than causing obesity- for example, food can prevent starvation. People also make boneheaded arguments about how cars kill more people than guns, disregarding all the uses cars have other than just killing people in accidents. They can get you to work, to a hospital, to get food, etc. But a gun is useful for firing bullets, period. It's pretty easy to survive without one.
To get the mining equipment launched and out to where it's going to be used, sure: you'll need lots of fuel for that one. To deorbit it, no; you might need a tiny bit of fuel to push it towards our gravity well, but that's about it.
It takes more energy to deorbit something than to escape it entirely, because orbital velocity is already 1/sqrt(2) of escape velocity. Getting to the sun requires a velocity more than three times as high as it takes to get out of the solar system entirely, which basically means about 10X as much fuel. (The fuel itself is heavy, so it's higher than that.)
Trump is extremely popular in Russia. Everyone is rooting for him over there- both the government and ordinary citizens. They were probably gathering the stuff to hand over to him.
The real puzzle here is, why does Hillary or anyone else need to do "opposition research" on Trump? He does it for you every time he opens his mouth.
All that hippie stuff in the New Testament is obviously ancient marketing bullshit. More than half of it was written by Dark Age impostors taking on the names of apostles.
Figures- say anything unflattering about guns, and you'll get modded Flamebait. Worship of guns has really developed a religious fervor in just the past ten years.
Every time a non-tech related story shows up, search the page for "news for nerds" and you're guaranteed to find this comment repeated verbatim by several idiots.
If you find a story uninteresting, then why not skip it and move on to the next one like a normal person? Instead of wasting time writing the same worthless comment, over and over again, bitching about how your precious time is being wasted?
Law is the soup they swim in. They think anything is possible if it's backed by legal force. "We put a man on the moon, so surely we can put a man on the sun. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off." With computing, they're so used to being wowed by magic that they imagine they can conjure up a technological solution to anything with a gavel.
"We found this encrypted message. You wrote software able to encrypt it, so now write something to decrypt it!"
"...I can't, it's a 5000 digit pseudoprime number! It would take the lifetime of the universe to calculate it!
Oh yeah? Well not anymore because we have a COURT ORDER [waves piece of paper] that says you need to do it by the end of the week!
Of course I wouldn't disapprove of ads that say "let them grow long."
What would piss me off is if I saw a barbershop ad, went to get a haircut, got cornered inside by a bunch of long-haired hippies telling me about all the bad things that happen to people with haircuts, and then got harassed for weeks by people leaving flyers on my door with pictures of cut-off hair.
Yep- who you are matters almost as much as what you're saying, and for good reason. Even a word like "baby" changes its meaning depending on who's saying it to whom. A parent calling his kid a "baby" is one thing; a boss calling his secretary "baby" is not only creepy, it's revealing.
It always amazes me when white people complain they can't use "nigger" even though black people use it when referring to each other, and they start whining about political correctness and freedom of speech. They seem unable to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes for even a second, or to even realize when they say stuff that reveals what how they actually think. They often think they can unring the bell with a simple apology, as if people can forget things on command.
(And it is possible for a white person to use "nigger" without being offensive in certain circumstances, like when quoting someone else who said it, when discussing the connotation of the word itself without linking it to a person, etc. I hate when people refer to it as "the N-word"- it sounds like they're awkwardly tiptoeing through a minefield while revealing a profound ignorance of where the mines actually are. Not being a flaming asshole isn't really that hard.)
First the abortion supporters say it should be made as easy and as normal as possible, like getting a haircut, and now you say its something deeply personal.
WTF? Deciding on a haircut is a deeply personal decision. Especially if it's the hair that isn't on your head.
It goes beyond "ideology". Spreading misinformation and lying to patients about made-up bullshit like fetal pain and post-abortion suicide is just fraud and harassment.
Does a zygote or a blastula count as a living human being? I'd say, sure it is. It's obviously not a camel. But it's certainly not yet a "person", and doesn't "deserve the same rights as other human beings". 90% of them end up falling into the toilet anyway. Nature doesn't give a crap about "human rights". Life on Earth is supposed to be a bitch, especially if you haven't been born yet, and people need to grow up and realize that.
Jurors in Texas are stupid. There, I said it. Many patent trolls are located in Texas and they all prefer to file in Texas courts, since idiot juries reliably award them millions. "Your website uses usernames and passwords to log in? Why didn't you get a license from this here local Texas firm that invented that idea? Pay up now, the law is the law!" Remember that John Oliver story on patents? Samsung actually built a public outdoor ice skating rink in Marshall, TX because they're so terrified of the juries there. Apple was ordered by a Texas jury to pay a half billion dollars to a troll who held a patent on the concept of copy protection. I hate Samsung and Apple, I hate copy protection, but Texas is worse than both of them put together.
When I'm in a coding interview that never ends where I also happen to be naked, that tips me off right away that I'm dreaming. Seriously, I can walk through a doorway or climb through a window and suddenly all my clothes vanish at once and everyone is looking at me. So when this happens, I instantly know, aha, this is a dream. So I start telling people that I'm lucid dreaming, that they don't actually exist, and that I'm stuck in this fake dreamworld that I can't escape but where nothing I do or say really matters anyway.
Typically these nonexistent people will say, "Wow, it must suck to know you're trapped in a dream naked... but anyway how do you write a recursive function that can detect a cycle in a linked list?" Questions like that usually make me forget that I'm dreaming.
It's a dumb idea- don't try this at home- but in principle there's no reason why you couldn't make an engine that runs on TNT.
TNT explosions are sooty. When TNT detonates it forms nitrogen gas and steam, but also carbon monoxide and elemental carbon which are both flammable- so you actually get more energy out of TNT if you burn it with oxygen instead of detonating it. TNT is pretty stable and was originally used as a yellow dye for years before anyone even realized it could explode (or that it was toxic). It can be melted and aerosolized like gasoline or diesel into a flammable fuel-air mixture. But since it melts at 80 degrees, it would be like making a ICE engine that runs on melted wax. It would also generate YUGE amounts of nitrogen oxides and would be much filthier than diesel. In general nitrogen is not something you want in an internal combustion engine, and there are plenty of organic molecules that don't contain nitrogen at all. From an emissions perspective, THC would be a much better fuel than TNT.
TNT also has catalytic properties (it can form charge-transfer complexes) so it might actually be useful in something like a battery.
Actually you're right... I read it back in high school.
"It was a good hanging," said Syme reminiscently. "I think it spoils it when they tie their feet together. I like to see them kicking. And above all, at the end, the tongue sticking right out, and blue a quite bright blue. That's the detail that appeals to me. Because my new telescreen has 4K resolution."
I usually have AdBlock on, but whenever I turn it off on any website, I get the ads as a creepy reminder that I'm being watched by a crowd of colluding websites. (I don't know about Plus, but regular AdBlock is clearly just hiding the ads from view.)
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Obesity kills far more humans than "rifles" ever will, and yet you see no artists blocking food emojis, and no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
That's because food has more uses other than causing obesity- for example, food can prevent starvation. People also make boneheaded arguments about how cars kill more people than guns, disregarding all the uses cars have other than just killing people in accidents. They can get you to work, to a hospital, to get food, etc. But a gun is useful for firing bullets, period. It's pretty easy to survive without one.
To get the mining equipment launched and out to where it's going to be used, sure: you'll need lots of fuel for that one. To deorbit it, no; you might need a tiny bit of fuel to push it towards our gravity well, but that's about it.
It takes more energy to deorbit something than to escape it entirely, because orbital velocity is already 1/sqrt(2) of escape velocity. Getting to the sun requires a velocity more than three times as high as it takes to get out of the solar system entirely, which basically means about 10X as much fuel. (The fuel itself is heavy, so it's higher than that.)
Trump is extremely popular in Russia. Everyone is rooting for him over there- both the government and ordinary citizens. They were probably gathering the stuff to hand over to him.
The real puzzle here is, why does Hillary or anyone else need to do "opposition research" on Trump? He does it for you every time he opens his mouth.
All that hippie stuff in the New Testament is obviously ancient marketing bullshit. More than half of it was written by Dark Age impostors taking on the names of apostles.
The guy also had a job as a prison guard- figures.
Figures- say anything unflattering about guns, and you'll get modded Flamebait. Worship of guns has really developed a religious fervor in just the past ten years.
This statement is about a perp who called 911 and proclaimed himself an agent of ISIS
If I wanted to make a statement by shooting up a couple dozen people and going down in a blazing firefight, *I* would be yelling Allah Akbar too.
Because otherwise my mass shooting wouldn't make it onto the news.
Let me guess. You do your "hunting" with an AR-15, right?
Every time a non-tech related story shows up, search the page for "news for nerds" and you're guaranteed to find this comment repeated verbatim by several idiots.
If you find a story uninteresting, then why not skip it and move on to the next one like a normal person? Instead of wasting time writing the same worthless comment, over and over again, bitching about how your precious time is being wasted?
People probably say these things because Stuxnet was the first worm to successfuly destroy a nuclear centrifuge plant.
Law is the soup they swim in. They think anything is possible if it's backed by legal force. "We put a man on the moon, so surely we can put a man on the sun. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off." With computing, they're so used to being wowed by magic that they imagine they can conjure up a technological solution to anything with a gavel.
"We found this encrypted message. You wrote software able to encrypt it, so now write something to decrypt it!"
"...I can't, it's a 5000 digit pseudoprime number! It would take the lifetime of the universe to calculate it!
Oh yeah? Well not anymore because we have a COURT ORDER [waves piece of paper] that says you need to do it by the end of the week!
Of course I wouldn't disapprove of ads that say "let them grow long."
What would piss me off is if I saw a barbershop ad, went to get a haircut, got cornered inside by a bunch of long-haired hippies telling me about all the bad things that happen to people with haircuts, and then got harassed for weeks by people leaving flyers on my door with pictures of cut-off hair.
One prank I love is posting a picture of a fetus, and asking someone, "Do you really think this counts as a human being?"
"Of course it is, you monster!
"Then you're an idiot, because that's a cat fetus."
Yep- who you are matters almost as much as what you're saying, and for good reason. Even a word like "baby" changes its meaning depending on who's saying it to whom. A parent calling his kid a "baby" is one thing; a boss calling his secretary "baby" is not only creepy, it's revealing.
It always amazes me when white people complain they can't use "nigger" even though black people use it when referring to each other, and they start whining about political correctness and freedom of speech. They seem unable to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes for even a second, or to even realize when they say stuff that reveals what how they actually think. They often think they can unring the bell with a simple apology, as if people can forget things on command.
(And it is possible for a white person to use "nigger" without being offensive in certain circumstances, like when quoting someone else who said it, when discussing the connotation of the word itself without linking it to a person, etc. I hate when people refer to it as "the N-word"- it sounds like they're awkwardly tiptoeing through a minefield while revealing a profound ignorance of where the mines actually are. Not being a flaming asshole isn't really that hard.)
First the abortion supporters say it should be made as easy and as normal as possible, like getting a haircut, and now you say its something deeply personal.
WTF? Deciding on a haircut is a deeply personal decision. Especially if it's the hair that isn't on your head.
I have a feeling that if I post comments on this story, I'm going to be seeing ads for cervical sponges on every page I visit for the next month!
It goes beyond "ideology". Spreading misinformation and lying to patients about made-up bullshit like fetal pain and post-abortion suicide is just fraud and harassment.
Does a zygote or a blastula count as a living human being? I'd say, sure it is. It's obviously not a camel. But it's certainly not yet a "person", and doesn't "deserve the same rights as other human beings". 90% of them end up falling into the toilet anyway. Nature doesn't give a crap about "human rights". Life on Earth is supposed to be a bitch, especially if you haven't been born yet, and people need to grow up and realize that.
Sounds pretty secure to me. Show an 8 inch floppy disk to an evil hacker in Eastern Europe- he'll think it's part of a swivel chair!
Jurors in Texas are stupid. There, I said it. Many patent trolls are located in Texas and they all prefer to file in Texas courts, since idiot juries reliably award them millions. "Your website uses usernames and passwords to log in? Why didn't you get a license from this here local Texas firm that invented that idea? Pay up now, the law is the law!" Remember that John Oliver story on patents? Samsung actually built a public outdoor ice skating rink in Marshall, TX because they're so terrified of the juries there. Apple was ordered by a Texas jury to pay a half billion dollars to a troll who held a patent on the concept of copy protection. I hate Samsung and Apple, I hate copy protection, but Texas is worse than both of them put together.
catch(StackOverflowError e) {
return "I found a cycle!";
}
There, done!
When I'm in a coding interview that never ends where I also happen to be naked, that tips me off right away that I'm dreaming. Seriously, I can walk through a doorway or climb through a window and suddenly all my clothes vanish at once and everyone is looking at me. So when this happens, I instantly know, aha, this is a dream. So I start telling people that I'm lucid dreaming, that they don't actually exist, and that I'm stuck in this fake dreamworld that I can't escape but where nothing I do or say really matters anyway.
Typically these nonexistent people will say, "Wow, it must suck to know you're trapped in a dream naked... but anyway how do you write a recursive function that can detect a cycle in a linked list?" Questions like that usually make me forget that I'm dreaming.
It's a dumb idea- don't try this at home- but in principle there's no reason why you couldn't make an engine that runs on TNT.
TNT explosions are sooty. When TNT detonates it forms nitrogen gas and steam, but also carbon monoxide and elemental carbon which are both flammable- so you actually get more energy out of TNT if you burn it with oxygen instead of detonating it. TNT is pretty stable and was originally used as a yellow dye for years before anyone even realized it could explode (or that it was toxic). It can be melted and aerosolized like gasoline or diesel into a flammable fuel-air mixture. But since it melts at 80 degrees, it would be like making a ICE engine that runs on melted wax. It would also generate YUGE amounts of nitrogen oxides and would be much filthier than diesel. In general nitrogen is not something you want in an internal combustion engine, and there are plenty of organic molecules that don't contain nitrogen at all. From an emissions perspective, THC would be a much better fuel than TNT.
TNT also has catalytic properties (it can form charge-transfer complexes) so it might actually be useful in something like a battery.
I usually have AdBlock on, but whenever I turn it off on any website, I get the ads as a creepy reminder that I'm being watched by a crowd of colluding websites. (I don't know about Plus, but regular AdBlock is clearly just hiding the ads from view.)