Most people just see the GPS side of this fight, afraid of losing GPS in the continental U.S. In reality it would have mostly affected those who needed extreme precision, not the average users. That's not to say that losing the precision is good, no it's clearly bad for everyone. However, lightsquared wanted to give wireless internet to everyone in the continental U.S. It's just a shame there wasn't some technical way to resolve the issue before lawyers got involved.
Oversimplification aside, what I said was not a fallacy any more than their claims of global catastrophe from excess CO2 in the atmosphere were realistic. You might want to revisit the extreme nonsense that has been spouted as truth by these people (Lovelock included) only a few years ago before you say that I have spoken in error.
You could continue to take the very easy road and simply throw out logical fallacies as if you are the more knowledgeable between us. You could continue to pretend I have used them in an argument without pointing to any specific phrase and providing an example of how the fallacies apply. You could do this, you probably will.
The IPCC and the core scientists associated with the assessment reports sure had me fooled. They loved the spotlight, and everyone believed what they said because they were 'selfless scientists', not politicians.
Sounds like attempted whitewashing. For over a decade now, science journalism, science publishing, and indeed the IPCC which is supposed to be the climate-science gold-standard (or is it gold-pressed-latinum standard?), has been all too eager to engage these very same people, to use them as mouthpieces for their own dire predictions, and to incorporate them into a movement to radically reshape how energy is bought and sold and used in the world. The worlds economies run on those forms of energy, so what was planned was little less than a control of the world economy at large, a unified "Gas-pedal" as it were on world production that was controlled by a few that were accountable to no one.
Now, when those "non-credible scientists" as you say are backing down from their completely untenable belief systems, now you wash your hands of what they were saying before?
Make up your minds. Either what they were saying was correct and doom was upon us because we drove SUV's, or it was exaggerated alarmism. You can't have it both ways. Your quote of "doesn't discredit any of the actual science" is vacuous and true on face because science was not what these men were preaching. What they were spouting was political activism that had no basis in reality while abusing their standing as authorities on the matter. But you alarmists were all too eager to use them as authorities and subject-matter-experts to quote when they were saying what you liked. Now that they're not, they're kooks?
How is that cognitive dissonance treatment coming along anyway?
Computers are already somewhat decent at parking cars.
I never said parking, I said driving autonomously. Last I checked, the DARPA challenge was still difficult, traffic or no traffic. Your point is completely invalid.
Why do people in spaceflight always resort to hyperbole when describing docking maneuvers? Example from this article:
Then there is the complicated matter of latching on to the space station, which Musk described as moving faster than a speeding bullet.
"I think it is important to appreciate that this is pretty tricky," Musk told reporters.
"The public out there, they may not realize that the space station is zooming around the Earth every 90 minutes, and it is going 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometers) an hour," he added.
"So you have got to launch up there and you've got to rendezvous and be backing into the space station within inches really, and this is something that is going 12 times faster than the bullet from an assault rifle. So it's hard."
But... your RELATIVE velocity is something that is tightly controlled, and during final docking maneuvers on the order of millimeters per second. So exactly what is so tricky? Yes you're moving extremely fast relative to the earths surface, who cares when that surface is 300 miles away? There isn't even any atmosphere to affect your relative position/velocity.
If this maneuver were indeed so difficult, why has there never been a major docking incident in orbit? We can't get computers to drive autonomously on earth, but we can program computers to automatically dock with the space station, that tells me it's EASIER than driving. I would wager that any navy pilots who turned shuttle pilots would say that carrier landings at night or in-flight refueling operations are far trickier than docking with the ISS.
What if the law were changed such that any lawsuit challenging the use must demonstrate efforts to use said copyrighted material?
i.e., a grace period under which a copyright/patent/trademark owner may let material sit on a shelf, but beyond which they lose control if they have not created anything from it.
Apple doesn't sell technology. They sell widget-fashion. Their stores are not unlike a Louis Vuitton store. When you walk in you see no inventory on shelves. Instead you see demos and highly simplified displays of the product as if they're fine china. Apple promotes iterations of it's product based on an arbitrarily forced obsolescence model, not technology changes. They deliberately withhold obvious features from initial offerings of a product simply to get people to upgrade later.
meh, this has all been said before, and will be said again.
That's interesting. I didn't know this. I suppose I should have expected this outcome, but I had no idea it was actually occurring. This is not to different from a railroad shipping company lobbying against a local offramp to an interstate highway to protect their local business. It's one company protecting a business model by essentially paying for laws against a new media.
"I don't have an account." = worked in a classified environment and likely wanted to reduce exposure to data mining. Smart guy, avoids giving away information for free. Hire him/her.
There's quite a few people who are like this, moreso than might be expected considering where the DoD budget is going these days.
So, his open complaint pasted all over the internet about not getting the correct result on PIPA/SOPA doesn't strike you as an admission of bribery of elected officials? Mind you, this open admission by Dodd caused thousands of people to directly petition Obama to open an investigation into him. I sincerely doubt most of those people were "Fox News watchers."
This is enough to get someone to resign on the appearance of Bribery but Chris Dodd's blatant admission of buying representation is not?
double standard continues for elected officials.
It's harder to ignore the Trillions thrown at financial institutions that were "too big to fail".
But before that become a serious thought, he was already saying he wanted to make the switch I described.
FWIW, Defense is only about 25-30% of the entire budget, and it's a discretionary part of the budget (which means people have to justify spending it every year). Social programs (Social Security, Medicare, etc..etc..) are all block-allotments, there are no civil servants justifying those budgets in front of your representatives each year, forced to explain any federal waste or anything like that. That money is simply spent with no thought as to efficiency, every year.
every year, and they have no money to do anything about it.
A new plan each is meaningless when the president wants to take money away from scientific endeavors and dump money on civil servants in social programs.
He's not pounding on Vader. He's pounding on Vader's lightsaber for no reason, which is the equivalent of kicking a wall next to the the guy you're really angry at instead of punching him. The emotion is lost in the stupidity of the action.
The makes of the original episodes were doing what they could with what they had. I still enjoy the Luke/Vader fight in Ep 5, even though it's fairly slow paced and some of the moves are silly. ESB and RoTJ both have short clips during fights wherein someone is beaten (on the ground), yet the victor continues to pound away his lightsaber at the opponents lightsaber as if he hasn't won yet. This actually looks quite retarded to anyone who knows fighting, and should look so to anyone with critical thinking skills.
OTOH, the choreography in Ep 1,2,3 is much improved. With the huge exception of the Palpatine/Sam Jackson fight in Ep 3 (which was a f-ing disaster), they look much more like real fights.
BTW, have you ever seen a fencing match? They've VERY fast. Swordfighting isn't for grandma.
Containment has almost nothing to do with cold shutdown.
Cold shutdown is defined as a fissionable material no longer requiring active cooling to remain at a stable temperature. This indicates that whatever fission may still be occurring in the nuclear material (whether it breached containment or not) it is in such small and sporadic amounts as to not be a concern to restart itself and continue melting through containment or into the open air.
1) People are facing a wall, not each other.
2) There's no table central to all players, where pizza resides.
3) A single-line of players means players on the ends have trouble communicating verbally.
4) There's uneven lighting across the gaming spots, and it looks like more lighting behind the players than in front of them
5) Those chairs are not comfortable enough.
/you have to consider these things if you want to keep going all weekend
Slashdot Mirror
...cause facebook to start renting/selling their information for profit?
/pull out
Most people just see the GPS side of this fight, afraid of losing GPS in the continental U.S. In reality it would have mostly affected those who needed extreme precision, not the average users. That's not to say that losing the precision is good, no it's clearly bad for everyone. However, lightsquared wanted to give wireless internet to everyone in the continental U.S. It's just a shame there wasn't some technical way to resolve the issue before lawyers got involved.
Oversimplification aside, what I said was not a fallacy any more than their claims of global catastrophe from excess CO2 in the atmosphere were realistic. You might want to revisit the extreme nonsense that has been spouted as truth by these people (Lovelock included) only a few years ago before you say that I have spoken in error.
You could continue to take the very easy road and simply throw out logical fallacies as if you are the more knowledgeable between us. You could continue to pretend I have used them in an argument without pointing to any specific phrase and providing an example of how the fallacies apply. You could do this, you probably will.
No? Really?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/27/the-tribalistic-corruption-of-peer-review-the-chris-de-freitas-incident/
Sure seems like some of them who were in the spotlight had time to try to manipulate the culture.
The IPCC and the core scientists associated with the assessment reports sure had me fooled. They loved the spotlight, and everyone believed what they said because they were 'selfless scientists', not politicians.
Sounds like attempted whitewashing. For over a decade now, science journalism, science publishing, and indeed the IPCC which is supposed to be the climate-science gold-standard (or is it gold-pressed-latinum standard?), has been all too eager to engage these very same people, to use them as mouthpieces for their own dire predictions, and to incorporate them into a movement to radically reshape how energy is bought and sold and used in the world. The worlds economies run on those forms of energy, so what was planned was little less than a control of the world economy at large, a unified "Gas-pedal" as it were on world production that was controlled by a few that were accountable to no one.
Now, when those "non-credible scientists" as you say are backing down from their completely untenable belief systems, now you wash your hands of what they were saying before?
Make up your minds. Either what they were saying was correct and doom was upon us because we drove SUV's, or it was exaggerated alarmism. You can't have it both ways. Your quote of "doesn't discredit any of the actual science" is vacuous and true on face because science was not what these men were preaching. What they were spouting was political activism that had no basis in reality while abusing their standing as authorities on the matter. But you alarmists were all too eager to use them as authorities and subject-matter-experts to quote when they were saying what you liked. Now that they're not, they're kooks?
How is that cognitive dissonance treatment coming along anyway?
I never said parking, I said driving autonomously. Last I checked, the DARPA challenge was still difficult, traffic or no traffic. Your point is completely invalid.
oops, I forgot about the mir re-supply crash. But IIRC, that crash was during a manual docking from the station due to some other complications.
Why do people in spaceflight always resort to hyperbole when describing docking maneuvers? Example from this article:
But... your RELATIVE velocity is something that is tightly controlled, and during final docking maneuvers on the order of millimeters per second. So exactly what is so tricky? Yes you're moving extremely fast relative to the earths surface, who cares when that surface is 300 miles away? There isn't even any atmosphere to affect your relative position/velocity.
If this maneuver were indeed so difficult, why has there never been a major docking incident in orbit? We can't get computers to drive autonomously on earth, but we can program computers to automatically dock with the space station, that tells me it's EASIER than driving. I would wager that any navy pilots who turned shuttle pilots would say that carrier landings at night or in-flight refueling operations are far trickier than docking with the ISS.
What if the law were changed such that any lawsuit challenging the use must demonstrate efforts to use said copyrighted material? i.e., a grace period under which a copyright/patent/trademark owner may let material sit on a shelf, but beyond which they lose control if they have not created anything from it.
Apple doesn't sell technology. They sell widget-fashion. Their stores are not unlike a Louis Vuitton store. When you walk in you see no inventory on shelves. Instead you see demos and highly simplified displays of the product as if they're fine china. Apple promotes iterations of it's product based on an arbitrarily forced obsolescence model, not technology changes. They deliberately withhold obvious features from initial offerings of a product simply to get people to upgrade later.
meh, this has all been said before, and will be said again.
That's interesting. I didn't know this. I suppose I should have expected this outcome, but I had no idea it was actually occurring. This is not to different from a railroad shipping company lobbying against a local offramp to an interstate highway to protect their local business. It's one company protecting a business model by essentially paying for laws against a new media.
Or...
"I don't have an account." = worked in a classified environment and likely wanted to reduce exposure to data mining. Smart guy, avoids giving away information for free. Hire him/her.
There's quite a few people who are like this, moreso than might be expected considering where the DoD budget is going these days.
So, his open complaint pasted all over the internet about not getting the correct result on PIPA/SOPA doesn't strike you as an admission of bribery of elected officials? Mind you, this open admission by Dodd caused thousands of people to directly petition Obama to open an investigation into him. I sincerely doubt most of those people were "Fox News watchers."
This is enough to get someone to resign on the appearance of Bribery but Chris Dodd's blatant admission of buying representation is not? double standard continues for elected officials.
It's harder to ignore the Trillions thrown at financial institutions that were "too big to fail".
But before that become a serious thought, he was already saying he wanted to make the switch I described.
FWIW, Defense is only about 25-30% of the entire budget, and it's a discretionary part of the budget (which means people have to justify spending it every year). Social programs (Social Security, Medicare, etc..etc..) are all block-allotments, there are no civil servants justifying those budgets in front of your representatives each year, forced to explain any federal waste or anything like that. That money is simply spent with no thought as to efficiency, every year.
every year, and they have no money to do anything about it. A new plan each is meaningless when the president wants to take money away from scientific endeavors and dump money on civil servants in social programs.
Would a car be considered a propane accessory?
That's a good sign.
He's not pounding on Vader. He's pounding on Vader's lightsaber for no reason, which is the equivalent of kicking a wall next to the the guy you're really angry at instead of punching him. The emotion is lost in the stupidity of the action.
The makes of the original episodes were doing what they could with what they had. I still enjoy the Luke/Vader fight in Ep 5, even though it's fairly slow paced and some of the moves are silly. ESB and RoTJ both have short clips during fights wherein someone is beaten (on the ground), yet the victor continues to pound away his lightsaber at the opponents lightsaber as if he hasn't won yet. This actually looks quite retarded to anyone who knows fighting, and should look so to anyone with critical thinking skills.
OTOH, the choreography in Ep 1,2,3 is much improved. With the huge exception of the Palpatine/Sam Jackson fight in Ep 3 (which was a f-ing disaster), they look much more like real fights.
BTW, have you ever seen a fencing match? They've VERY fast. Swordfighting isn't for grandma.
Containment has almost nothing to do with cold shutdown.
Cold shutdown is defined as a fissionable material no longer requiring active cooling to remain at a stable temperature. This indicates that whatever fission may still be occurring in the nuclear material (whether it breached containment or not) it is in such small and sporadic amounts as to not be a concern to restart itself and continue melting through containment or into the open air.
Please back the truck of panic up.
1) People are facing a wall, not each other.
2) There's no table central to all players, where pizza resides.
3) A single-line of players means players on the ends have trouble communicating verbally.
4) There's uneven lighting across the gaming spots, and it looks like more lighting behind the players than in front of them
5) Those chairs are not comfortable enough.
/you have to consider these things if you want to keep going all weekend
So what are the substances generally used for modern fracking operations?
/personally I use her rack, some Caprican brandy and a stogie or two.
Affordable health care is a pipe dream. The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit. I liken it to the cost of gas...
I think you mean invested in marketing new wonder drugs not efficient.