I used that book and wrote a BASIC program that poked random values into the address space used by the video chip and the SID chip. The computer would go bonkers and I remember my parents telling me to cut it out.
I know I sound paranoid when I say this, but: if geothermal ever actually did become feasible for providing the world's energy needs at current levels, environmentalists would rationalize a reason why it's not eco-friendly.
I wouldn't say you sound paranoid; just prejudiced.
...since pretty much all of Earth's helium results from alpha decay of radioactive metals.
So?
Different parts of the Earth are composed of a variety of elements in varying amounts. Earth's crust contains a variety of noble gases, one of those being helium. Natural helium occurs as two isotopes, helium-4 (4He) and helium-3 (3He.) Typically, helium-4 is more abundant in Earth's crust, whereas helium-3 is more abundant in the mantle below. Thus, the helium-3/helium-4 ratio of the gas found in groundwater can provide an indication of the extent to which the water has interacted with volcanic rocks derived from the mantle.
Most helium in the crust has escaped to space. The helium profile in the crust is dominated by steady-state production of helium-4 by alpha decay. This is mostly the case in the mantle as well but the mantle has some reserves of primordial helium which never escaped to space because it's buried more deeply, and that helium has an isotopic signature that includes helium-3 (the new helium from radioactivity is all helium-4). They're looking for the helium-3 using the helium-4 as a baseline.
Trying to separate opinions from public policy is silly. The belief that there is no god is a "religious belief": it is a belief that involves something religious.
It's part of a belief system that specifically does not involve anything religious.
Some peoples' interpretation of church-state separation is itself such a belief. Some people believe, for non-scientific reasons, that we shouldn't kill each other indiscriminately; should those people ignore their own opinion when creating laws? Of course not.
For ONLY non-scientific reasons? They should have plenty of ethical and pragmatic reasons to guide them in those matters, not just religous ones. If your religion is the only thing keeping you from doing evil things then you're a psychotic. Religion is no substitute for morality.
"Texas' Director of Science Curriculum was 'forced to step down' for favoring inelligent design (ID) over evolution. She apparently circulated an e-mail that was critical of evolution -- although state regulations require her not to have any opinion 'on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral.'
I can hear the cheers already. Some people really need to accept that it's okay for others to beleive in ID, and let them. Should this employee have been sharing opinions on the subject with co-workers? Probably not.
Comer was put on 30 days paid administrative leave shortly after she forwarded an e-mail in late October announcing a presentation being given by Barbara Forrest, author of "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," a book that says creationist politics are behind the movement to get intelligent design theory taught in public schools. Forrest was also a key witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case concerning the introduction of intelligent design in a Pennsylvania school district. Comer sent the e-mail to several individuals and a few online communities, saying, "FYI."
Forwarding an email to several coworkers with "FYI" hardly fits your hysterical description.
I remember watching a TV documentary years ago about how prisons have to make reasonable accommodations for the religious beliefs of prisoners. Some warden was talking about the bizarre religions and religious practices that the prisoners try to get away with, like the guy who said he belonged to the "Church of Filet Mignon" and needed to eat filet mignon every night for dinner. That was a contrived religion crafted for nonreligious purposes.
Intelligent Design is a contrived scientific theory crafted for nonscientific purposes. It's the scientific equivalent of the Church of Filet Mignon.
Most rational people would not want creationists at a government agency endorsing their position. So it makes sense to squelch any formal debate, even if it means offering up a sacrificial lamb, so to speak.
That assumes a false equivalence between religion and science. Those rational people should recognize that pushing a particular religious belief into policy is a violation of church-state separation in a way that simply promulgating a scientific curriculum never was. The fact that some religion has a doctrinal problem with a scientific finding is neither here nor there as far as science and education policy is concerned. A faith that cannot survive a collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. But when we start withholding information from students because of someone's goofy interpretation of his religion's mythology, then we have a problem. And "teaching the controversy" like Texas does, with a neutral presentation of both the truth and crap without saying which is which, is withholding information from students.
When it comes to GDrive, I wonder whether anyone is being forced to use it. I doubt this is the case. If this is not the case, why not just avoid it? Shhesh?
There are many reasons one might not succeed in avoiding it. For instance, one might send a sensitive document to someone unaware of these issues who then uploads it to GDrive. Not everyone is going to have seen this story that you're complaining about.
LinkedIn is even worse than a simple rating system - it has a system where you can give recommendations to your coworkers and the like. It's even worse than ranking cause it's actual descriptive text. The parent argument is very valid.
Writing a good recommendation is a pain in the ass. If you don't write one for somebody they're not going to be offended as if you clicked on a link saying "this person is not my friend". They'll just assume you're too busy to write a dozen recommendations.
Of course, if someone writes one for you, then you owe them one. I wrote recommendations for a few jerks I'm still waiting for.
I would consider myself a "conservative" because I'm generally comfortable with things working the way they did most of my life as I was growing up. Unfortunately the people now usually referred to as "conservatives" want to restore the world to the way it was a hundred years before any of us were born (according to a grotesque understanding of history which considers the Founding Fathers as Christian ayatollahs with beliefs that apparently contradicted all the writings they left behind). These people are "conservatives" in the same way that the "National Socialists" were "socialists". So I don't call myself a conservative, and I pay no attention to the "true" meaning of the word since it's commonly understood as meaning its antonym. The meanings of words change over time, and when the meaning of my self-description changes, I start describing myself differently.
I love places that try to require a tip on the bill. Those places, shoudl I happen to wind up at one unknowingly, will never get a cent for a tip. I'll figure out the actual check total and pay exactly that. The can go scratch on the tip for being retarded about it.
In Death Valley? They'll remember your face and tomorrow you'll end up driving an extra 50 miles for lunch.
No, that's what happened in your mind. In reality, they were released by the courts.
Yes, on a strictly atomic, procedural level, a court decision was the mechanism used to transfer crazy people from mental hospitals to profitably run private jails. It was a lot like Bush vs. Gore which transferred only one crazy person.
Don't go in August! That's crazy! The best times to go to Death Valley are March and October. The temperature is much nicer and the place is less crowded. We were there last month and all the waitresses and hotel owners in the surrounding towns were saying the same thing: "You picked a great time to come... the weather is getting nice and all the Europeans are gone." [Actual quote]
It could be constraints imposed by when they get their vacations, but one of the most well known phenomena in Death Valley is the appearance of thousands of European and Asian tourists during the hottest months of the year. We usually go once every one or two years and on the last few visits we saw that a lot of places had instituted a policy where the tip is included in the bill (so you pay taxes on it) but only in the summer months, because of the difference in tipping behavior.
One thing that was really nice about Death Valley- every place we stayed had excellent wireless.
Global warming is most likely a scam as it is being presented through the GEO-political arena. But most things pushed through there are scams too. If there really was a problem, we would be a lot further down the path of fixing it if they didn't attempt to forgive the third world debt by placing payment systems in place to benefit them.
OK, genius, how does debt forgiveness keep us from fixing global warming?
This is a great interview question- a good indicator of experience. I ask interviewees about this all the time (there's an NPE here, can you see it?) and they're either clueless or bitterly familiar with it. And once in a while I still get bitten in the ass by this type of bug. Be careful when you do arithmetic on an integer that you got from a collection.
I find your post painful to read. You are a tired, cynical, resigned coward. America doesn't need you. The world doesn't need you. You are part of the problem. A spoiled middle class cock who never stood up and fought for anything their life. Everything you say, you could have put in a positive way instead of that sarcastic snivelling tone. The whole reason your country is in such a mess is because of people like you.
I find your post painful to read. You are a tired, cynical, resigned Anonymous Coward. America doesn't need you. The world doesn't need you. You are part of the problem. A spoiled middle class cock who never stood up and fought for anything their life. Everything you say, you could have put in a positive way instead of that sarcastic snivelling tone. The whole reason your country is in such a mess is because of people like you.
In terms of grams of CO2 per candela, a candle has a carbon profile worse than that of an incandescent bulb. Beeswax candles are an exception but most paraffin wax is derived from petroleum.
Yeah, no CO2 output, and there's an infinite supply of it, thank goodness!
There is a technological solution to everything. Just feed that CO2 to photosynthetic methane-generating bacteria and then sequester the methane by pumping it deep underground where it won't bother anybody.
We're having a 12x12 rape room added to our house as an extension on a new crawlspace foundation with wood joist floor framing. We're jealous of our neighbors- they just had one added to their house near the entertainment room and theirs is just fabulous.
Ho boy, what a mountain of stupid we have to climb here.
No one suspended habeas corpus. You are just repeating the wording from sites apposed to the action that was taken. Habeas corpus in the US is not specifically guaranteed to foreigners but had been extended by law.
As has already been pointed out to you, the "law" that extended it to all persons on U.S. soil was the U.S. Constitution, so the rest of your argument is rather incoherent:
Now under certain situations, that law doesn't necessarily apply as long as the military gives them the ability to show their innocence. This is no in any way a suspension of habeas corpus.
How do you even respond to something this stupid?
Look, foreign packets don't need to go through the US. They can build and implement their own data links to these other countries and nothing would be routed through the US. Well, that is assuming they have the bandwidth available to support the traffic they generate. Look into something called routing tables.
Uh, that was my entire point, Mister Reading Comprehension. So it behooves you, if you want the world's packets to keep flowing through your country, not to announce to everyone that you're reading them as they go through. I didn't think this would actually need explaining, but even now that plans are clearly afoot to lay fiber right around your sorry ass, I guess it still does.
Is the real problem that you want something we have
Other than an overinflated credit rating, you have nothing anyone wants, nor do you make anything that anyone wants to buy. You have some temporary dominance as far as the Internet's backbone infrastructure is concerned, which you are about to lose, although in all other respects you have been completely losing the broadband race thanks to your incompetent government and corrupt telecoms. And I live here so you can drop this attitude like I'm someone from France giving you good timely advice you're not in the mood to hear.
IT doesn't matter much to me, like I said before.
If you don't know much about IT then I don't see why anyone would care what you have to say about routing tables.
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This appears to be a case of poor sentence construction, with a misplaced modifier and a missing comma. It looks like the guy is just a bad writer.
And here I was all ready with a joke about Mitt Romney calling secularism a "religion" last week!
I used that book and wrote a BASIC program that poked random values into the address space used by the video chip and the SID chip. The computer would go bonkers and I remember my parents telling me to cut it out.
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
I know I sound paranoid when I say this, but: if geothermal ever actually did become feasible for providing the world's energy needs at current levels, environmentalists would rationalize a reason why it's not eco-friendly.
I wouldn't say you sound paranoid; just prejudiced.
So?Most helium in the crust has escaped to space. The helium profile in the crust is dominated by steady-state production of helium-4 by alpha decay. This is mostly the case in the mantle as well but the mantle has some reserves of primordial helium which never escaped to space because it's buried more deeply, and that helium has an isotopic signature that includes helium-3 (the new helium from radioactivity is all helium-4). They're looking for the helium-3 using the helium-4 as a baseline.
Trying to separate opinions from public policy is silly. The belief that there is no god is a "religious belief": it is a belief that involves something religious.
It's part of a belief system that specifically does not involve anything religious.
Some peoples' interpretation of church-state separation is itself such a belief. Some people believe, for non-scientific reasons, that we shouldn't kill each other indiscriminately; should those people ignore their own opinion when creating laws? Of course not.
For ONLY non-scientific reasons? They should have plenty of ethical and pragmatic reasons to guide them in those matters, not just religous ones. If your religion is the only thing keeping you from doing evil things then you're a psychotic. Religion is no substitute for morality.
I can hear the cheers already. Some people really need to accept that it's okay for others to beleive in ID, and let them. Should this employee have been sharing opinions on the subject with co-workers? Probably not.
From the Austin-American Statesman: Forwarding an email to several coworkers with "FYI" hardly fits your hysterical description.
I remember watching a TV documentary years ago about how prisons have to make reasonable accommodations for the religious beliefs of prisoners. Some warden was talking about the bizarre religions and religious practices that the prisoners try to get away with, like the guy who said he belonged to the "Church of Filet Mignon" and needed to eat filet mignon every night for dinner. That was a contrived religion crafted for nonreligious purposes.
Intelligent Design is a contrived scientific theory crafted for nonscientific purposes. It's the scientific equivalent of the Church of Filet Mignon.
Most rational people would not want creationists at a government agency endorsing their position. So it makes sense to squelch any formal debate, even if it means offering up a sacrificial lamb, so to speak.
That assumes a false equivalence between religion and science. Those rational people should recognize that pushing a particular religious belief into policy is a violation of church-state separation in a way that simply promulgating a scientific curriculum never was. The fact that some religion has a doctrinal problem with a scientific finding is neither here nor there as far as science and education policy is concerned. A faith that cannot survive a collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. But when we start withholding information from students because of someone's goofy interpretation of his religion's mythology, then we have a problem. And "teaching the controversy" like Texas does, with a neutral presentation of both the truth and crap without saying which is which, is withholding information from students.
I'm not sure where Nimrod got such a bad rap -- as king of Assyria he was anything but a dork.
As usual, this is all Bugs Bunny's fault.
When it comes to GDrive, I wonder whether anyone is being forced to use it. I doubt this is the case. If this is not the case, why not just avoid it? Shhesh?
There are many reasons one might not succeed in avoiding it. For instance, one might send a sensitive document to someone unaware of these issues who then uploads it to GDrive. Not everyone is going to have seen this story that you're complaining about.
LinkedIn is even worse than a simple rating system - it has a system where you can give recommendations to your coworkers and the like. It's even worse than ranking cause it's actual descriptive text. The parent argument is very valid.
Writing a good recommendation is a pain in the ass. If you don't write one for somebody they're not going to be offended as if you clicked on a link saying "this person is not my friend". They'll just assume you're too busy to write a dozen recommendations.
Of course, if someone writes one for you, then you owe them one. I wrote recommendations for a few jerks I'm still waiting for.
Repeat after me: Bush != conservative.
But he calls himself one, and so do all his fans.
I would consider myself a "conservative" because I'm generally comfortable with things working the way they did most of my life as I was growing up. Unfortunately the people now usually referred to as "conservatives" want to restore the world to the way it was a hundred years before any of us were born (according to a grotesque understanding of history which considers the Founding Fathers as Christian ayatollahs with beliefs that apparently contradicted all the writings they left behind). These people are "conservatives" in the same way that the "National Socialists" were "socialists". So I don't call myself a conservative, and I pay no attention to the "true" meaning of the word since it's commonly understood as meaning its antonym. The meanings of words change over time, and when the meaning of my self-description changes, I start describing myself differently.
I love places that try to require a tip on the bill. Those places, shoudl I happen to wind up at one unknowingly, will never get a cent for a tip. I'll figure out the actual check total and pay exactly that. The can go scratch on the tip for being retarded about it.
In Death Valley? They'll remember your face and tomorrow you'll end up driving an extra 50 miles for lunch.
No, that's what happened in your mind. In reality, they were released by the courts.
Yes, on a strictly atomic, procedural level, a court decision was the mechanism used to transfer crazy people from mental hospitals to profitably run private jails. It was a lot like Bush vs. Gore which transferred only one crazy person.
If that was meant as a joke, then reality is already one step ahead of you.
Don't go in August! That's crazy! The best times to go to Death Valley are March and October. The temperature is much nicer and the place is less crowded. We were there last month and all the waitresses and hotel owners in the surrounding towns were saying the same thing: "You picked a great time to come... the weather is getting nice and all the Europeans are gone." [Actual quote]
It could be constraints imposed by when they get their vacations, but one of the most well known phenomena in Death Valley is the appearance of thousands of European and Asian tourists during the hottest months of the year. We usually go once every one or two years and on the last few visits we saw that a lot of places had instituted a policy where the tip is included in the bill (so you pay taxes on it) but only in the summer months, because of the difference in tipping behavior.
One thing that was really nice about Death Valley- every place we stayed had excellent wireless.
This is a great interview question- a good indicator of experience. I ask interviewees about this all the time (there's an NPE here, can you see it?) and they're either clueless or bitterly familiar with it. And once in a while I still get bitten in the ass by this type of bug. Be careful when you do arithmetic on an integer that you got from a collection.
Not to mention, how much processing power will AT&T have to spend on analyzing our packets?
I'm guessing several tons of coal per second.
I find your post painful to read. You are a tired, cynical, resigned coward. America doesn't need you. The world doesn't need you. You are part of the problem. A spoiled middle class cock who never stood up and fought for anything their life. Everything you say, you could have put in a positive way instead of that sarcastic snivelling tone. The whole reason your country is in such a mess is because of people like you.
I find your post painful to read. You are a tired, cynical, resigned Anonymous Coward. America doesn't need you. The world doesn't need you. You are part of the problem. A spoiled middle class cock who never stood up and fought for anything their life. Everything you say, you could have put in a positive way instead of that sarcastic snivelling tone. The whole reason your country is in such a mess is because of people like you.
In terms of grams of CO2 per candela, a candle has a carbon profile worse than that of an incandescent bulb. Beeswax candles are an exception but most paraffin wax is derived from petroleum.
Yeah, no CO2 output, and there's an infinite supply of it, thank goodness!
There is a technological solution to everything. Just feed that CO2 to photosynthetic methane-generating bacteria and then sequester the methane by pumping it deep underground where it won't bother anybody.
+ The Rape Rooms Are Shut Down
We're having a 12x12 rape room added to our house as an extension on a new crawlspace foundation with wood joist floor framing. We're jealous of our neighbors- they just had one added to their house near the entertainment room and theirs is just fabulous.
Ho boy, what a mountain of stupid we have to climb here.
No one suspended habeas corpus. You are just repeating the wording from sites apposed to the action that was taken. Habeas corpus in the US is not specifically guaranteed to foreigners but had been extended by law.
As has already been pointed out to you, the "law" that extended it to all persons on U.S. soil was the U.S. Constitution, so the rest of your argument is rather incoherent:
Now under certain situations, that law doesn't necessarily apply as long as the military gives them the ability to show their innocence. This is no in any way a suspension of habeas corpus.
How do you even respond to something this stupid?
Look, foreign packets don't need to go through the US. They can build and implement their own data links to these other countries and nothing would be routed through the US. Well, that is assuming they have the bandwidth available to support the traffic they generate. Look into something called routing tables.
Uh, that was my entire point, Mister Reading Comprehension. So it behooves you, if you want the world's packets to keep flowing through your country, not to announce to everyone that you're reading them as they go through. I didn't think this would actually need explaining, but even now that plans are clearly afoot to lay fiber right around your sorry ass, I guess it still does.
Is the real problem that you want something we have
Other than an overinflated credit rating, you have nothing anyone wants, nor do you make anything that anyone wants to buy. You have some temporary dominance as far as the Internet's backbone infrastructure is concerned, which you are about to lose, although in all other respects you have been completely losing the broadband race thanks to your incompetent government and corrupt telecoms. And I live here so you can drop this attitude like I'm someone from France giving you good timely advice you're not in the mood to hear.
IT doesn't matter much to me, like I said before.
If you don't know much about IT then I don't see why anyone would care what you have to say about routing tables.