FYI, unless you're selling to particularly techy types (like a PC shop or whatever) in my experience Overture consistently outperforms Google by quite a margin.
Without getting too specific, I spend around $10K on Google in a week and about $40K on Overture - Overture CPA is around the $20 mark and Google is around $35. If you haven't already, get some ads on Overture and see what they do...
The idea that you can cheat by using different software at different points during the race is ridiculous
This is patently untrue, and a ridiculous thing to posit.
In fact, one of the teams got into trouble a while ago for having code on their car that was stored in volatile ROM, such that when they reached park fermé it vanished forever.
This truism speaks volumes about the current state of US political (and social) discourse - the less you know about an issue, the more likely you are to have strong opinions on it. Karl Rove has made a career (and a president) out of agitating the populace into action through this little secret. How many GOP voters have looked into the social implications of allowing same-sex marriages? How many understand the nuances of radical islam? Isn't "flip-flopping" equivalent to "evolving"?
I find that I rarely have a strong opinion on many issues, outside of the tenets of a civil society - libertarianism, almost. A belief in the fundamentals of individual existence.
Reminds of me of the theory about why Bush always sounds like he's explaining things to a bunch of pre-schoolers - he's just repeating things the exact way they were explained to him.
Chances are Stevens (not exactly renowned as a world-class legislator, see: Bridge to Nowhere pork scandal) has been listening to lobbyist who has as much respect for his intelligence as Stevens has for taxpayers and constituents.
In a hint that Google could adjust its stance in China in the future, he added: "Perhaps now [emphasis mine] the principled approach makes more sense."
I'm disappointed that even the Great Google himself can't actually speak in bold.
Am I the only one who assumed that the submitter is trying to spam/. with his student accomodation website, or have I been working on SEO for so long that I'm just a big cynic?
The Inq does seem to have a somewhat poor reputation on this site and elsewhere; any chance anyone could tell me why? Are there documented cases of the Inq lying, or being deceitful? Of overly shoddy journalism?
The Register doesn't have this rep, yet they share common DNA and I've seen at least one case where they have actually had their integrity called into question.
As for TFA, we all heard many moons ago that the PS3 was a bitch to program for (the comparison I've seen most often on this very site is to the Saturn, which iirc had 2 cpus), and Sony aren't exactly filling the marketplace with confidence on this one. If the slow speed of this "local memory" to Cell access is irrelevant to any conceivable operation, as most people here seem to be saying, then why is it even mentioned on this slideshow?
Seems to me there's a good mix of Shooting the Messenger, Ignoring Inconvenient Facts from the TFA and maybe even just a hint of Fanboyism here.
Did I write a long entry explaining the intracacies of fatwa? No, I just said that one was issued - I was demonstrating the nuances and opaqueness of any situation, not saying LOOK A FATWA HAHA STUPID AMERICANS IRAN IS GOOD REALLY.
Please don't invent my motives out of whole coth to suit your rebuttal.
The story was a lie, it was based entirely on fiction. I nearly pointed this out in the post but assumed that most people would know this by now - unfortunately I forgot just how good this sort of black psy-ops is at percolating into the Conventional Wisdom.
My point was exactly that the IAEA haven't reported on 40,000 centrifuges - your quote said "open to inspection", I was wondering by whom.
"In late 2005, Bulgarian transport planes delivered tens of thousands of centrifuges from Belarus and Ukraine; they were transported directly to Neyshabour." - sounds like moving stuff to me
My point was that you are quick to quote what is obviously complete bullshit, and then say it makes you uneasy - even though, yes, you said it was unproven.
Realistically, it's going to be impossible to prevent any country that wants nuclear weapons from getting them.
Hear hear - India and Pakistan did it, North Korea did it (gulp), Japan could do it (or already has) if it weren't like, the world's biggest taboo there for obvious reasons, South Africa and Brazil came within a cunt hair of doing it (the former with Israeli backing), Israel did it by cheating - their enriched uranium was donated by a certain country, as were the designs, West Germany was on the verge of doing it, and of course the US, UK, France, China, Russia all did it as part of the Great Game.
It's one hell of a genie to have let out of the bottle.
40,000 are available for inspection by whom? The IAEA? They must have forgotten to mention them.
Your quote makes zero sense - do you have any idea how much stabilised power you'd need to run 155,000 centrifuges for weeks? The IAEA (and the US) watches all ex-Soviet nuke equipment so closely you probably couldn't clean them without there being a note made in 15 different databases, but they managed to fly 155,000 centrifuges to Iran without anyone noticing?
Your point appears to be that anyone can pull anything out of their ass and it will make you uneasy - you're buying into it...
how much people believe that Iran has 'only' 50 centrifuges(we've been wrong before!)
Umm, you mean about Iraq? You do realise that we were "wrong" on purpose, and totally the other way - mobile biological labs turned out to be weather balloon inflating equipment, fertilizer factories were labelled as anthrax factories and the weapons located "around baghdad and tikrit, north, east, west and south somewhat" (to quote Von Rumsfeld).. didn't exist.
Plus, it would have been a lot easier to keep track of what equipment Iran was buying if Dick Cheney hadn't knowingly outed a covert CIA agent tasked with Iranian counterproliferation as political retribution against her husband.
A single bomb required uranium enriched to around 85% u238, which takes a system of a thousand or more cascading centrifuges many, many weeks.
Power plants require uranium to be enriched to around the 4% mark, which takes fewer centrifuges and less time - as someone more qualified than I said when Iran announced its enrichment achievements, "Iran Now Capable of Making Glow in the Dark Watch Hands"
The manner in which Mossad tricked the US into attacking Libya was described in detail by former Mossad case worker Victor Ostrovsky in "The Other Side of Deception," the second of two revealing books he wrote after he left Israel's foreign intelligence service. The story began in February 1986, when Israel sent a team of navy commandos in miniature submarines into Tripoli to land and install a "Trojan," a six-foot-long communications device, in the top floor of a five-story apartment building. The device, only seven inches in diameter, was capable of receiving messages broadcast by Mossad's LAP (LohAma Psicologit-psychological warfare or disinformation section) on one frequency and automatically relaying the broadcasts on a different frequency used by the Libyan government.
The commandos activated the Trojan and left it in the care of a lone Mossad agent in Tripoli who had leased the apartment and who had met them at the beach in a rented van. "By the end of March, the Americans were already intercepting messages broadcast by the Trojan," Ostrovsky writes.
"Using the Trojan, the Mossad tried to make it appear that a long series of terrorist orders were being transmitted to various Libyan embassies around the world," Ostrovsky continues. As the Mossad had hoped, the transmissions were deciphered by the Americans and construed as ample proof that the Libyans were active sponsors of terrorism. What's more, the Americans pointed out, Mossad reports confirmed it. "The French and the Spanish, though, were not buying into the new stream of information. To them it seemed suspicious that suddenly, out of the blue, the Libyans, who had been extremely careful in the past, would start advertising their future actions. The French and the Spanish were right. The information was bogus."
Ostrovsky wrote: "Operation Trojan was one of the Mossad's greatest successes. It brought about the airstrike on Libya that President Reagan had promised -- a strike that had three important consequences. First, it derailed a deal for the release of the American hostages in Lebanon, thus preserving the Hezbollah as the No. 1 enemy in the eyes of the West. Second, it sent a message to the entire Arab world, telling them exactly where the United States stood regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. Third, it boosted the Mossad's image, since it was they who, by ingenious sleight of hand, had prodded the United States to [bomb Libya]"
To blame the US intelligence services for the Iraq war is to believe that Rumsfeld and Cheney didn't want to go to war, that they felt they had to because of the intelligence. The truth is that they made sure that Bush and others only got intelligence that suppprted their pre-determined outcome of 'regime change', no matter how poorly sourced it was.
It's your typical Republican MO - break an agency, then point at it and say "look, it's broken! Abolish it all!". See also; FEMA.
The spinning method requires 'thousands and thousands of centrifuges'.
Unless you're Iran, in which case only 50 centrifuges is enough to put you "a few months away" from a nuclear weapon, according to Olmert. Or, y'know, 10 years at best, according to the latest National Intelligence Estimate. Of course, powers within Iran that are more relevant than Ahmedinejad have declared that atomic weaponry is unislamic and issued a fatwa against gaining them, and Ahmedinejad isn't the head of the military anyway. But look! Over there! They're making Jews wear yellow ribbons! Quick, bomb them!
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Did anyone else get an image in their head of Mr Potatohead eyes and a fake mustache attached to genitals just now? Just me? OK.
FYI, unless you're selling to particularly techy types (like a PC shop or whatever) in my experience Overture consistently outperforms Google by quite a margin. Without getting too specific, I spend around $10K on Google in a week and about $40K on Overture - Overture CPA is around the $20 mark and Google is around $35. If you haven't already, get some ads on Overture and see what they do...
8 cylinders, 20,000 RPM (although in-race they rarely go above 19,500rpm).
Yet another reason why President Gore would have been an interesting period.
I find that I rarely have a strong opinion on many issues, outside of the tenets of a civil society - libertarianism, almost. A belief in the fundamentals of individual existence.
Chances are Stevens (not exactly renowned as a world-class legislator, see: Bridge to Nowhere pork scandal) has been listening to lobbyist who has as much respect for his intelligence as Stevens has for taxpayers and constituents.
I thought they changed the name to 'OSX Forever'?
Am I the only one who assumed that the submitter is trying to spam /. with his student accomodation website, or have I been working on SEO for so long that I'm just a big cynic?
The Register doesn't have this rep, yet they share common DNA and I've seen at least one case where they have actually had their integrity called into question.
As for TFA, we all heard many moons ago that the PS3 was a bitch to program for (the comparison I've seen most often on this very site is to the Saturn, which iirc had 2 cpus), and Sony aren't exactly filling the marketplace with confidence on this one. If the slow speed of this "local memory" to Cell access is irrelevant to any conceivable operation, as most people here seem to be saying, then why is it even mentioned on this slideshow?
Seems to me there's a good mix of Shooting the Messenger, Ignoring Inconvenient Facts from the TFA and maybe even just a hint of Fanboyism here.
Did I write a long entry explaining the intracacies of fatwa? No, I just said that one was issued - I was demonstrating the nuances and opaqueness of any situation, not saying LOOK A FATWA HAHA STUPID AMERICANS IRAN IS GOOD REALLY.
Please don't invent my motives out of whole coth to suit your rebuttal.
The story was a lie, it was based entirely on fiction. I nearly pointed this out in the post but assumed that most people would know this by now - unfortunately I forgot just how good this sort of black psy-ops is at percolating into the Conventional Wisdom.
"In late 2005, Bulgarian transport planes delivered tens of thousands of centrifuges from Belarus and Ukraine; they were transported directly to Neyshabour." - sounds like moving stuff to me
My point was that you are quick to quote what is obviously complete bullshit, and then say it makes you uneasy - even though, yes, you said it was unproven.
It's one hell of a genie to have let out of the bottle.
Jesus Howard Christ
Is that you, Doug?
Your quote makes zero sense - do you have any idea how much stabilised power you'd need to run 155,000 centrifuges for weeks? The IAEA (and the US) watches all ex-Soviet nuke equipment so closely you probably couldn't clean them without there being a note made in 15 different databases, but they managed to fly 155,000 centrifuges to Iran without anyone noticing?
Your point appears to be that anyone can pull anything out of their ass and it will make you uneasy - you're buying into it...
Plus, it would have been a lot easier to keep track of what equipment Iran was buying if Dick Cheney hadn't knowingly outed a covert CIA agent tasked with Iranian counterproliferation as political retribution against her husband.
Power plants require uranium to be enriched to around the 4% mark, which takes fewer centrifuges and less time - as someone more qualified than I said when Iran announced its enrichment achievements, "Iran Now Capable of Making Glow in the Dark Watch Hands"
The clothing thing is a hoax, a lie, disinformation to be endlessly repeated, half-remembered and alluded to even long after it's been proven bogus.
It's your typical Republican MO - break an agency, then point at it and say "look, it's broken! Abolish it all!". See also; FEMA.
- allow construction of valuable Caspian pipelines
- keep Halliburton and Bechtel's stocks higher than Timothy Leary
- threaten the security of the West
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