Before anyone starts jumping on Fox News for whatever axe they have to grind with them, please substitute Fox News with "CNN" or "MSNBC" and ask yourself if your vitriol would be just the same.
It would be a shitty thing to do no matter who did it.
The only thing that made sense in Battlestar Galactica was the nuclear missiles. The idea of human-occupied fighters is completely 20th-century. If war is ever conducted in space, it will be all kinetic-kill weapons, nuclear bombs and maybe nuclear mines. It will never make sense to put a human (or a similarly-sized Cylon) on board a fighter with a heavy life support system and limit the acceleration to 9-gravity peaks. Dispense with the biological elements and you'll only be limited by how much thrust the engines can produce. Humans, if present at all, will be aboard missile-laden motherships only, directing the battle strategy which will be carried out by automation.
We need to produce high-skill jobs to occupy high-skill graduates. And we need medium-skill and low-skill jobs to employ the people who aren't up to doing high-skill jobs.
In short, we need more jobs. And that means we have to get off of dependency on manufactured goods exported from near-slave-labor countries.
Gates is talking about slapping a band-aid on a gaping wound.
v = sqrt(3 kT/m) ;
where m = 1.66E-27
k = 1.38E-23
T = 1E6
so
v = 158 km/sec?
What's the escape velocity of a particle in this halo?
Somewhere close to the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (European)
Yeah, that's my point. A really hot gas can't be gravitationally bound to the galaxy. It would all fly off into intergalactic space and then you wouldn't have a halo any more. I think what they're doing is regarding "temperature" as a stand-in for DENSITY. It's THIN not HOT.
If you want to call that the "left." But you see the same attitude toward the government in all respects: Government=bad, doingwhateverthehelliwantfuckyouverymuch=Good. That's not right or left. That's narcisism.
To be fair, people are trained to look at people when they talk to them. If you're talking to your passenger, you're less likely to be looking at the road. I'm not claiming it's better or worse than a cell, but it isn't like they're free of distraction.
Yeah, and they're trained to look at the road when they're driving. To learn a new skill, sometimes you have to adapt old behaviors. For example, one could learn to ignore the fucking phone while driving.
It can only be illegal if there is a specific law. Lacking that, the proper response is to laugh in the face of the interviewer asking such a question. Then tell them, "I don't know YOU. Even my MOTHER doesn't get access to my social media accounts! I don't want to work for s company that has no concept of appropriate privacy and security."
seriously, there should be a $1000 fine for texting while operating a moving vehicle. Same as for throwing burning refuse (cigarette butt) out the window. OK, maybe it's not as bad as the cigs, but it's on the same scale of total disregard for safety and common sense.
Worse! You won't bother to retain the keys to files you no longer need and you might trash those keys. When the government subpoenas your files in a case against your buddy, you won't be able to provide them. Now you're a co-conspirator and guilty of obstruction. No change in laws is needed to use them against you.
If you want to think that a President Romney will think big and ramp up the manned space program, you're free to think that
But if you're more concerned about budget deficits and restoring fiscal responsibility in Washington, you bet that Mitt is all over that!
Yet he's dead set on not raising taxes on his own class and he complains to his rich friends that poor people don't pay their fair share. I can see how this is going to work.
Correct. And it should be pointed out that people don't have a responsibility to agree on everything just because they agree the current dictator had got to go.
Hawking's explanation is one of several competing theories regarding the origin of the universe and why it's expanding.
If it turns out that the sum of all this potential is approximately equal to the sum of all the other energy in the universe, that would be an interesting fact. But this theory assumes there is almost 3x as much energy in the universe than we can physically measure.
Isn't the missing or "dark" energy calculation is the result? That's what I've read and I find it deeply dissatisfying because it doesn't answer the question of why it has to be that and offers little hope of verification.
Yeah, Apple achieves high rates of adoption by using proprietary methods to ensure you use iTunes to talk to your phone and iTunes pushes you hard to update your device's software. But they don't provide a means to revert your device to a previous release that worked better. So millions (or ALL) iOS users are going to be stuck with whatever Apple has broken (this time, mostly the maps app) until they fix it -- if ever. Aren't you glad you shelled out all that money for an iPhone and aren't you happy that iOS makes updating so easy?
Now the cat is out of the bag. The ONLY reason mapping ever worked right on your iPhone was thanks to Google. Didn't know that? Well you do NOW. You'd think the guys at Apple would be smart enough not to release their replacement until it was comparable to Google's but no such luck. This is a major blunder, brought on by Apple's burning need to kill off Android.
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Before anyone starts jumping on Fox News for whatever axe they have to grind with them, please substitute Fox News with "CNN" or "MSNBC" and ask yourself if your vitriol would be just the same.
It would be a shitty thing to do no matter who did it.
The only thing that made sense in Battlestar Galactica was the nuclear missiles. The idea of human-occupied fighters is completely 20th-century. If war is ever conducted in space, it will be all kinetic-kill weapons, nuclear bombs and maybe nuclear mines. It will never make sense to put a human (or a similarly-sized Cylon) on board a fighter with a heavy life support system and limit the acceleration to 9-gravity peaks. Dispense with the biological elements and you'll only be limited by how much thrust the engines can produce. Humans, if present at all, will be aboard missile-laden motherships only, directing the battle strategy which will be carried out by automation.
They can ASK. That should get the same response I recommended above.
I think people can condition themselves to selectively turn on and off conditioned behaviors. What's a brain for, anyway?
I think there's a problem. They'll be up against financisl support for public universities in California.
but why start with sucrose? Any vegetable matter will do. Grass clippings are cheaper.
We need to produce high-skill jobs to occupy high-skill graduates. And we need medium-skill and low-skill jobs to employ the people who aren't up to doing high-skill jobs.
In short, we need more jobs. And that means we have to get off of dependency on manufactured goods exported from near-slave-labor countries.
Gates is talking about slapping a band-aid on a gaping wound.
Let's see. At the average thermal velocity of
What's the escape velocity of a particle in this halo?
Somewhere close to the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (European)
Yeah, that's my point. A really hot gas can't be gravitationally bound to the galaxy. It would all fly off into intergalactic space and then you wouldn't have a halo any more. I think what they're doing is regarding "temperature" as a stand-in for DENSITY. It's THIN not HOT.
If you want to call that the "left." But you see the same attitude toward the government in all respects: Government=bad, doingwhateverthehelliwantfuckyouverymuch=Good. That's not right or left. That's narcisism.
To be fair, people are trained to look at people when they talk to them. If you're talking to your passenger, you're less likely to be looking at the road. I'm not claiming it's better or worse than a cell, but it isn't like they're free of distraction.
Yeah, and they're trained to look at the road when they're driving. To learn a new skill, sometimes you have to adapt old behaviors. For example, one could learn to ignore the fucking phone while driving.
It can only be illegal if there is a specific law. Lacking that, the proper response is to laugh in the face of the interviewer asking such a question. Then tell them, "I don't know YOU. Even my MOTHER doesn't get access to my social media accounts! I don't want to work for s company that has no concept of appropriate privacy and security."
seriously, there should be a $1000 fine for texting while operating a moving vehicle. Same as for throwing burning refuse (cigarette butt) out the window. OK, maybe it's not as bad as the cigs, but it's on the same scale of total disregard for safety and common sense.
Worse! You won't bother to retain the keys to files you no longer need and you might trash those keys. When the government subpoenas your files in a case against your buddy, you won't be able to provide them. Now you're a co-conspirator and guilty of obstruction. No change in laws is needed to use them against you.
If you want to think that a President Romney will think big and ramp up the manned space program, you're free to think that
But if you're more concerned about budget deficits and restoring fiscal responsibility in Washington, you bet that Mitt is all over that!
Yet he's dead set on not raising taxes on his own class and he complains to his rich friends that poor people don't pay their fair share. I can see how this is going to work.
Really? Where's China's mars rover?
WTF is wrong with NASA doing science?
Everyone knows a Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of milk chocolate.
What's the escape velocity of a particle in this halo?
Correct. And it should be pointed out that people don't have a responsibility to agree on everything just because they agree the current dictator had got to go.
Sales and stock price are the only kinds. of fame that matter to corporations.
An increase of 85% just scratches the surface.
Possibly, but it's moving in the right direction and fast.
Hawking's explanation is one of several competing theories regarding the origin of the universe and why it's expanding.
If it turns out that the sum of all this potential is approximately equal to the sum of all the other energy in the universe, that would be an interesting fact. But this theory assumes there is almost 3x as much energy in the universe than we can physically measure.
Isn't the missing or "dark" energy calculation is the result? That's what I've read and I find it deeply dissatisfying because it doesn't answer the question of why it has to be that and offers little hope of verification.
Quantum fluctuations are random. One that big is very rare, but it can certainly happen.
The universe may very well have a net energy of zero, or very nearly zero. (Hawking, A Brief History of Time, pp. 129)
For the correct placement of the value of zero, of course; that being whatever amount of energy that that universe comprises.
Advertisers are ignoring what the user wants and using your data any way they see fit just because they can?
Know what else they're tracking and selling to other advertisers? Your do-not-track setting.
Yeah, Apple achieves high rates of adoption by using proprietary methods to ensure you use iTunes to talk to your phone and iTunes pushes you hard to update your device's software. But they don't provide a means to revert your device to a previous release that worked better. So millions (or ALL) iOS users are going to be stuck with whatever Apple has broken (this time, mostly the maps app) until they fix it -- if ever. Aren't you glad you shelled out all that money for an iPhone and aren't you happy that iOS makes updating so easy?
Now the cat is out of the bag. The ONLY reason mapping ever worked right on your iPhone was thanks to Google. Didn't know that? Well you do NOW. You'd think the guys at Apple would be smart enough not to release their replacement until it was comparable to Google's but no such luck. This is a major blunder, brought on by Apple's burning need to kill off Android.