If we are allowed to bring strawman party specific definitions
You just failed the "allowed to post a rebuttal" test: Political ideologies (conservative, liberal) are not parties. You may try again after you check yourself before you wreck yourself. I suggest a dictionary, asshole.
Typical Liberal, spewing pop culture and failing all around.
By definition, liberals spy on government and conservatives spy on people, so really, your argument falls flat on its face.
If we are allowed to bring strawman party specific definitions I think I'd win. For instance: Liberals are responsible for all ill in the world, by definition. Conservatives don't believe the government should be large enough to spy on people, Liberals _feel_ otherwise (a symptom of having a broken cortex or few in their head).
How very convenient. Perhaps they should train them in a uniform way so that we (the public) have a way to refute the evidence against us.
While perhaps not an unreasonable claim taken as itself, when you consider these are, not the world's smartest animals, being trained by not the world's smartest government employees - you have to take reality into account. A more reasonable thing might be to have a document for each animal indicating what it's signal is, that is automatically admitted to court in any dog-signal-centered case.
If you will agree never to cite Edison on a list of people contributing significantly (to anything other than the stagnation of advanced technologies) then I'll agree that not _all_ the great minds are of German/Austrian decent - though I strongly believe everyone you cited has some in their blood. But seriously, for all the harm Edison caused I'm surprised he could be included in that list - his fight with Tesla alone probably set us back 50 years.
_We_ don't say such nonsense, the liberal media says we do to brainwash the rest of you retards.
(and btw, Fox News is included in the liberal media - just look at who owns the company - hell for that matter look at Glen Beck - reasonable arguments blown so out of proportion and presented in such an insane manner as to detract from any value the original ideas once had - that's a liberal move)
You are getting that wrong. DC can be transmitted farther than AC. DC has only resistive losses, while AC also has capacitive and inductive ones.
That is perhaps the single most ignorant (yet modded up) thing I have ever heard of the AC-DC debate. DC cannot come close to multi-phase transmission of electricity, it does NOT travel further than normal AC when the frequencies are properly tuned to the network of wires and the power levels being utilized and even in relatively short distances AC is better than DC for it's ability to transmit. Hell, you can't even get a DC line running 12+ miles because the thing will lose so much power in ohmic heating it becomes prohibitively expensive to power the line. The ONLY time DC can be transmitted further than AC for a given level of power (and this doesn't even work in many situations) is to have voltage on the order of millions of volts - then the effects leading to it's transmission will typically manage a little better over short durations of time.
A simple way to look at it is this:
With DC, you are actually moving electrons around in a loop, you get them from the power supply. With AC, you are very unlikely to ever encounter an electron in the wires of your home that came from the power company (save for extremely bad timing on the oscillators driving the system) - AC just pushes and pulls, relying on the pressure of the electrons against one another to transmit them without the extra pushes.
I'm shocked you didn't get -5 Troll for that insanely incorrect post.
I love the taste of freshly made coffee, unfortunately I became intolerant to caffeine so I can no longer have it. Caffeine free coffee would be awesome for me.
You are a freak of nature and we really shouldn't be wasting resources on your desires.
Pretty early on in the piece to be slashdotted. Pulled for some reason?
Obviously the neutrinos went back in time while conveying their message, thereby providing a result without having conducted the experiment and the scientists jumped the gun on this. Realizing their error in not actually conducting the experiment the publication is on, they must have pulled the paper. I'd check back in a few days.
You would be an idiot to use a phone for a credit card (at least with voice it is *unlikely* you will be snooped, but even with that - anyone can sit near a city bridge and catch people paying bills w/ cc number with very little equipment) - with data it is certainly not going to require a human to snoop it, but at the very least you would expect your phone to open a secure connection. If the physical security of a device is compromised it WILL be cracked if the cracker knows basic electronic security techniques - there is simply no secure electronic device when it comes to physical insecurity - software (and as an extension software-accessible encryption) cannot be made secure unless you strap a block of thermite to the memory with a tamper-activated fuse.
The US didn't encourage China to become the world's factory. The cost to ship to China is about a hundred times more than to have things shipped from China to the same destination in the US (check DHL, FedEx, UPS for yourself).
So what has opening your mind done for you other than wasting some time being high? Write any poems? Make any breakthroughs? Or did you risk you health for a high with no benefits?
Personally, I've done about 4 dozen different drugs spanning every category - after each new one I was able to program in a different paradigm (async, polymorphism, etc) without the years of learning it most people require. At this point, I can write an ANN in about a day that is capable of performing just about any task I require it to.
Joe Matz, Corporate Vice President of Licensing and Pricing went on the record with âoeWe are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved.â
i read this as being: onlive is not presently legit but microsoft is playing nice (i.e. squeezing them for every last nickel without involving more than a few lawyers) for now -- until they lose patience (or feel threatened by being beating to market by an upstart.. not once but twice) and bring the sledgehammer down on onlive's entire business model -- windows and office desktop and gaming platform (xbox and windows games, at least)
For all the hatred out there against Microsoft and calling foul whenever they defend their interests (even in this article, oddly enough) - they are treating some thieves pretty nicely in this instance.
Lol...most of the people who created the technical age are European. The USA took a whopping 12 people to the moon I'll give them that, but apart from weapons and a few gadgets that make nice iThings, not much has come out of US minds. Garbage in = garbage out
Listening to Americans who so cleary believe the nonsense they are force fed is the closest thing I can think of to a living tragic comedy.
To get specific: virtually everything of the modern age comes from those of Austrian/German descent - most of whom moved to America for the reasons outlined in my previous post. So really, if you yourself are not of Austrian or German lineage, you don't have much room to talk here. That said, most of the great creations that symbolize the modern age are derivations of Tesla's work, created and improved upon in America. While you might have a stranglehold on arrogant-self-indemnifying-Euro-trash, we have it on innovation (though given there is a very small group of Americans who can call themselves native to the region, it is arguably an attractive rather than a creative force).
If the President is actually in possession of launch capability the U.S. needs to be thrown down in biblical fashion.
Well that is essentially the reason Republicans have a strong preference for a military background - the president is commander-in-chief ie: the president is at the top of the chain of command of the armed forces. Still beats the hell out of some shadowy agency having their hand on the button IMO.
But I do reckon one thing that you may have missed --- America and the West still need the OIL from the Middle East
If you successful turning the entire region into vast area of glass parking lots, you ain't gonna get any oil there either
We don't need the oil we want the oil. We have hybrid and electric transportation, we have enough oil to last a few decades just out of Alaska and the Gulf, we have proven effective routes to biodiesel synthesis that can be expanded to large scale use, and we have nuclear power - we would need to build more reactors and improve the infrastructure - but we do at this moment have the technology and the means to get off our oil dependency as slowly as is required. In the long run their causing us nothing but problems both in terms of the increased oil use and their death throws, attempting feverishly and futilely to find a way to sustain when they have no more oil to sell yet have a populace to brainwashed through religious ideals to defend it that the best future they have in store is that of N. Korea - too irrational and overzealous for anyone to want to help them and too uneducated to help themselves.
Unfortunately being the top power on Earth takes money, something the USA no longer has.
Technically money is a construct no country on Earth has (other than China) - and it's only a pretty good approximation of labor to begin with. The USA has (for the moment) the freest civilization on Earth, and thereby the best place for innovative minds to go. Our labor defines us, and we are, by and large, the intellectuals that created the modern technological age. Whether that is a self-defeating system that dies due to the powers granted to a few bad people by new technological innovations, the complacency of the average voter, a combination of the two or something loosely related remains to be seen - but currently the USA is still on top (even in regard to China, they manufacture a lot, we design most of it - all the USA has to do to maintain it's lead is be free introduce harsh tariffs on exported labor).
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If we are allowed to bring strawman party specific definitions
You just failed the "allowed to post a rebuttal" test: Political ideologies (conservative, liberal) are not parties. You may try again after you check yourself before you wreck yourself. I suggest a dictionary, asshole.
Typical Liberal, spewing pop culture and failing all around.
By definition, liberals spy on government and conservatives spy on people, so really, your argument falls flat on its face.
If we are allowed to bring strawman party specific definitions I think I'd win. For instance: Liberals are responsible for all ill in the world, by definition. Conservatives don't believe the government should be large enough to spy on people, Liberals _feel_ otherwise (a symptom of having a broken cortex or few in their head).
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How very convenient. Perhaps they should train them in a uniform way so that we (the public) have a way to refute the evidence against us.
While perhaps not an unreasonable claim taken as itself, when you consider these are, not the world's smartest animals, being trained by not the world's smartest government employees - you have to take reality into account. A more reasonable thing might be to have a document for each animal indicating what it's signal is, that is automatically admitted to court in any dog-signal-centered case.
HINT TO GEO: travel with lots of cats.
lmfao
Someone mod the AC up, excellent point AND started with "Interesting" to make it get clicked - pro.
If you will agree never to cite Edison on a list of people contributing significantly (to anything other than the stagnation of advanced technologies) then I'll agree that not _all_ the great minds are of German/Austrian decent - though I strongly believe everyone you cited has some in their blood. But seriously, for all the harm Edison caused I'm surprised he could be included in that list - his fight with Tesla alone probably set us back 50 years.
_We_ don't say such nonsense, the liberal media says we do to brainwash the rest of you retards. (and btw, Fox News is included in the liberal media - just look at who owns the company - hell for that matter look at Glen Beck - reasonable arguments blown so out of proportion and presented in such an insane manner as to detract from any value the original ideas once had - that's a liberal move)
You are getting that wrong. DC can be transmitted farther than AC. DC has only resistive losses, while AC also has capacitive and inductive ones.
That is perhaps the single most ignorant (yet modded up) thing I have ever heard of the AC-DC debate. DC cannot come close to multi-phase transmission of electricity, it does NOT travel further than normal AC when the frequencies are properly tuned to the network of wires and the power levels being utilized and even in relatively short distances AC is better than DC for it's ability to transmit. Hell, you can't even get a DC line running 12+ miles because the thing will lose so much power in ohmic heating it becomes prohibitively expensive to power the line. The ONLY time DC can be transmitted further than AC for a given level of power (and this doesn't even work in many situations) is to have voltage on the order of millions of volts - then the effects leading to it's transmission will typically manage a little better over short durations of time. A simple way to look at it is this: With DC, you are actually moving electrons around in a loop, you get them from the power supply. With AC, you are very unlikely to ever encounter an electron in the wires of your home that came from the power company (save for extremely bad timing on the oscillators driving the system) - AC just pushes and pulls, relying on the pressure of the electrons against one another to transmit them without the extra pushes. I'm shocked you didn't get -5 Troll for that insanely incorrect post.
I am a statistician.
"We constructed a database of 438,801 off-label side effects for 1332 drugs and 10,097 adverse events."
...Then, with naive assumptions, on a null hypothesis, you'd be picking up an average of 666k+ 'side effects' anyway, purely by chance....
Lets see if you can spot the error there (hint: your not a very good statistician).
I love the taste of freshly made coffee, unfortunately I became intolerant to caffeine so I can no longer have it. Caffeine free coffee would be awesome for me.
You are a freak of nature and we really shouldn't be wasting resources on your desires.
Pretty early on in the piece to be slashdotted. Pulled for some reason?
Obviously the neutrinos went back in time while conveying their message, thereby providing a result without having conducted the experiment and the scientists jumped the gun on this. Realizing their error in not actually conducting the experiment the publication is on, they must have pulled the paper. I'd check back in a few days.
You would be an idiot to use a phone for a credit card (at least with voice it is *unlikely* you will be snooped, but even with that - anyone can sit near a city bridge and catch people paying bills w/ cc number with very little equipment) - with data it is certainly not going to require a human to snoop it, but at the very least you would expect your phone to open a secure connection. If the physical security of a device is compromised it WILL be cracked if the cracker knows basic electronic security techniques - there is simply no secure electronic device when it comes to physical insecurity - software (and as an extension software-accessible encryption) cannot be made secure unless you strap a block of thermite to the memory with a tamper-activated fuse.
The problem is it wasn't back when the grid was being made. There was no good, easy, efficient way to convert DC voltage. Now, not so hard.
AC won over DC primarily because of the distance it can be transmitted.
The US didn't encourage China to become the world's factory. The cost to ship to China is about a hundred times more than to have things shipped from China to the same destination in the US (check DHL, FedEx, UPS for yourself).
This is the second half of a strategy involving dumping. The first part involved the actual dumping and eliminating competition.
Go Vishnu!
It's all about MuMetal hats these days.
Ugh, ohhh, ewwww, gosh darn I just wanted to grunt and moan with the rest of you pussies.
So what has opening your mind done for you other than wasting some time being high? Write any poems? Make any breakthroughs? Or did you risk you health for a high with no benefits?
Personally, I've done about 4 dozen different drugs spanning every category - after each new one I was able to program in a different paradigm (async, polymorphism, etc) without the years of learning it most people require. At this point, I can write an ANN in about a day that is capable of performing just about any task I require it to.
(i know, i know.. i will punish myself later)
i read this as being: onlive is not presently legit but microsoft is playing nice (i.e. squeezing them for every last nickel without involving more than a few lawyers) for now -- until they lose patience (or feel threatened by being beating to market by an upstart.. not once but twice) and bring the sledgehammer down on onlive's entire business model -- windows and office desktop and gaming platform (xbox and windows games, at least)
For all the hatred out there against Microsoft and calling foul whenever they defend their interests (even in this article, oddly enough) - they are treating some thieves pretty nicely in this instance.
Lol...most of the people who created the technical age are European. The USA took a whopping 12 people to the moon I'll give them that, but apart from weapons and a few gadgets that make nice iThings, not much has come out of US minds. Garbage in = garbage out
Listening to Americans who so cleary believe the nonsense they are force fed is the closest thing I can think of to a living tragic comedy.
To get specific: virtually everything of the modern age comes from those of Austrian/German descent - most of whom moved to America for the reasons outlined in my previous post. So really, if you yourself are not of Austrian or German lineage, you don't have much room to talk here. That said, most of the great creations that symbolize the modern age are derivations of Tesla's work, created and improved upon in America. While you might have a stranglehold on arrogant-self-indemnifying-Euro-trash, we have it on innovation (though given there is a very small group of Americans who can call themselves native to the region, it is arguably an attractive rather than a creative force).
If the President is actually in possession of launch capability the U.S. needs to be thrown down in biblical fashion.
Well that is essentially the reason Republicans have a strong preference for a military background - the president is commander-in-chief ie: the president is at the top of the chain of command of the armed forces. Still beats the hell out of some shadowy agency having their hand on the button IMO.
I read it quite loud and clear, actually
But I do reckon one thing that you may have missed --- America and the West still need the OIL from the Middle East
If you successful turning the entire region into vast area of glass parking lots, you ain't gonna get any oil there either
We don't need the oil we want the oil. We have hybrid and electric transportation, we have enough oil to last a few decades just out of Alaska and the Gulf, we have proven effective routes to biodiesel synthesis that can be expanded to large scale use, and we have nuclear power - we would need to build more reactors and improve the infrastructure - but we do at this moment have the technology and the means to get off our oil dependency as slowly as is required. In the long run their causing us nothing but problems both in terms of the increased oil use and their death throws, attempting feverishly and futilely to find a way to sustain when they have no more oil to sell yet have a populace to brainwashed through religious ideals to defend it that the best future they have in store is that of N. Korea - too irrational and overzealous for anyone to want to help them and too uneducated to help themselves.
Unfortunately being the top power on Earth takes money, something the USA no longer has.
Technically money is a construct no country on Earth has (other than China) - and it's only a pretty good approximation of labor to begin with. The USA has (for the moment) the freest civilization on Earth, and thereby the best place for innovative minds to go. Our labor defines us, and we are, by and large, the intellectuals that created the modern technological age. Whether that is a self-defeating system that dies due to the powers granted to a few bad people by new technological innovations, the complacency of the average voter, a combination of the two or something loosely related remains to be seen - but currently the USA is still on top (even in regard to China, they manufacture a lot, we design most of it - all the USA has to do to maintain it's lead is be free introduce harsh tariffs on exported labor).