Both are incredibly irritating and near impossible to talk with online.
Both deny well established scientific facts and evidence in order to fit their worldview.
Both try to make their existing worldview fit the facts, rather than admit that their interpretation was wrong and adapt their worldview accordingly.
Moderate Christians like myself, who see no conflict between Christianity and science, and moderate atheists I know, who have nothing against religion and are simply unconvinced by the evidence for theism, get lumped in with the fundamentalists and their arguments and questions summarily dismissed by both sides.
I blame the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Not every Atheist is Joseph Stalin and not every Christian is Eric Rudolph. Stop lumping everyone into those two camps.
Christian fundamentalists, stop going full retard and cherry picking what science you like. Scripture deals with the things we could not figure out by ourselves, like the Trinity. Science rests its presupositions on Christian philosophy, that the universe is orderly, understandable, and can be understood mathematically. Remember the words of Robert Boyle, “From a knowledge of God's work we shall know Him.”
Atheists fundamentalists, deal with the fact that the last 50 years of Biology and Paleontology has raised legitimate objections to Darwinian theory that need to be dealt with. The "Monkeys typing Shakespeare Theorem" doesn't cut it and everyone knows it.
Hand-waving and just-so stories don't convince either side and, if either side was so sure about their position, would not use them. My time is better spent discussing these things in person where both sides are far more sensible and civil.
"Implementing a stable driver ABI impedes progress"
Not having a stable driver ABI impedes progress. Not having one means you have to take your scarce and valuable developers and put them on fixing busted drivers every 6 months. If you DO have a well planned ABI you can instead put those developers on fixing real issues and improving the product. Linux continues to fall further and further behind Windows and Mac because of this.
Having a stable ABI means you can completely overhaul something and not have it impact anything else. You could completely rewrite something from scratch and as long as you have an ABI, the rest of the system doesn't even see the difference. Having a stable ABI means you can keep backwards compatibility via depreciated ABIs like Microsoft does.
"Even MS have had to deprecate their old ABI several times, the most recent of which was vista."
and yet all that old stuff still works fine. Hmmmm, seems like Microsoft knows how to design ABIs.
Everything else you wrote is irrelevant. OS's with ABIs have stable and reliable drivers. OS's without ABIs have sh*tty drivers that die.
"If your distro is crap, maybe you should change your distro."
We are, we are transitioning to Windows.
"If your admin is crap, maybe you should change your admin."
Our admin has real work to do, he's not sitting around playing Halo. Wasting a couple days fixing Linux monkey code every 6 months gets very expensive, especially when I have to drive to the site because the NIC drivers crapped themselves. He needs to continue development of new features with our programmer to keep us ahead of our competitors.
What is needed is an operating system that doesn't sh*t itself on update so nVidia can write a single Linux driver as they do with Windows/Mac and call it a day.
My firewire cards last driver was for windows 2000 and yet it worked in windows 7 32-bit. I finally junked my last firewire peripheral so I didn't bother to see if it worked on Windows 7 64 bit.
All that's needed is for Nvidia to release the documentation on the components they manufacture, as AMD/ATI did in 2008 (and Intel has always done). The existing nouveau driver team will take it from there.
Yea, how well has that actually worked. Oh yea, it's failed miserably. 4 years later and ATI Linux drivers are still garbage and the only reason Intel drivers work is because of the server market and because chips don't change often. It's not rocket science, writing graphics drivers are HARD and Linus continually poking his pecker into the kernel means they continually break and have to be tinkered with to work again.
The VOIP visitation recorders at work have to have updates turned off because Ubuntu craps itself whenever it tries to update. When the box is 4 hours away that is a big deal. Our windows machines have auto-updates turned on and never have problems. We've tried having a development machine at the office to test the updates, but for whatever reason, the number of VOIP boxes and minor hardware revisions make it impossible to develop a standard update profile for us to reliably push out to all machines. So we have to just lock them down as much as we can and hope for the best. We are working on a Windows based solution so we can eliminate the Linux boxes in the future.
It needs to be repeated so it sinks in, Linux needs a reliable ABI so ATI and others can just slap a Linux driver onto the CD that comes with the card and call it a day.
The biggest problem with Christianity is Christians, as a Christian I find that so often to be the case. I sometimes agree with what you say and sometimes want to just slap you through your monitor.
You keep saying "we creationists believe" as if there's only one interpretation of scripture. The bible is meant to tell us things we could not figure out ourselves (We could not have figured out the trinity or Christ's sacrifice, for example, without divine revelation of those things.) and contains many different writing styles. Some is poetry, some is history, some is laws. It is, in effect, a love letter from a parent to the children. Christians take various interpretations, quite a few, myself included, simply admit that we don't know how it happened in regards to the floods. I can of course think of a few ways, but I don't know. He could have used natural forces, he could have just plonked down a few miles of water, I don't know and that is OK. You are entitled to your interpretations, but please don't lump me in with your interpretation as you seem to frequently do.
I am reminded of Matthew 22:37, Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
We Christians don't get brownie points for being stupid. Science itself was founded on the Christian worldview, that the universe was real, orderly, and understandable. This is unique among worldviews. Robert Boyle, whom you yourself have quoted in the past, said “From a knowledge of God's work we shall know Him.” To ignore what we have learned about his creation, and instead try to make your interpretation of scripture fit instead, is a slap in the face of God himself.
We do this in our everyday lives, I read the Chilton's manual for my pickup and take an interpretation of the information there. Often I go investigate my pickup and find that my interpretation of that book was wrong, does that mean that the Chilton's manual is useless and was written by someone who had never worked on my pickup? No, it just means that my interpretation, based on the information I had at the time, was incorrect. The more I learn the better my understanding and the greater appreciation of the information I find within. Thus it is with the bible. Also like the bible, there is plenty I don't understand. Just because I don't understand all of it is no reason to dismiss the parts I do understand, nor is it reason to not try to understand it.
Wisdom 11:17-20 For not without means was your almighty hand,l
that had fashioned the universe from formless matter,*
to send upon them many bears or fierce lions,
Or newly created, wrathful, unknown beasts
breathing forth fiery breath,
Or pouring out roaring smoke,
or flashing terrible sparks from their eyes.
Not only could these attack and completely destroy them;
even their frightful appearance itself could slay.
Even without these, they could have been killed at a single blast,
pursued by justice
and winnowed by your mighty spirit. But you have disposed all things by measure and number and weight.
To translate for those unfamiliar. God COULD have created a world that operated like the Paean worldview, at the whims of magical beasts and demi-gods, but in his love created a world that we humans, created in his image, could come to know and understand. If Science says that the world is 14 billion years old, then great. The fact that our dating isn't 100% perfect or we don't fully understand something doesn't mean we throw it all in the bin and shoehorn a biblical interpretation in. We just say humbly that we don't know and continue looking for explanations. We are not going to have a complete understanding of the universe tomorrow, next year, or next century. Perhaps we'll find a reason for the supposed discrepancies.
I don't buy the interpretations that show the wold as only 6,000 years old or that scripture shows the date of the second coming. (Ma
Note that we are talking about failures a bit more serious than your netbook, we are talking about communication satellites and NUCLEAR REACTORS. Yes, the people who say nuclear power is unsafe are working to make nuclear power unsafe.
Reminds me of the worldwide Chlorine ban that Greenpeace was proposing in the 80's. (Patrick Moore left Greenpeace over this.) Yea, go drink non-Chlorinated water for a year, I call dibs on your stuff when you're dead from Cholera. People need to THINK about these things.
Then there is the fact that mining Tin is VERY damaging to the environment, much more so than mining Lead.
I have no idea how that "steel" hangar was constructed, but typically they were wooden-framed quonsets, with steel skins. Hardly the same thing.
The hanger was a steel framed structure, I was in that hanger before, dodge and duck all you want about that fact. There are quite a few steel framed quonsets that were sold/built as steel prefab kits.
Just no. Prior to 9/11, *NO* modern steel office "skyscraper" in the world was known to have collapsed due to fire. None. Not a single one. Ever.
How many of them were constructed like the WTC? Any firefighter will tell you that steel trusses fail quickly in a fire vs girders
How many of them had aircraft the size of the 9/11 aircraft slam into them at full speed with full loads of fuel?
How many of them had 20 stories on fire all at once?
How many of them had no effective firefighting or fire suppression to combat the fire. (The best the fighter-fighters could have done on 9/11 was contain the blaze, but that wouldn't have been enough.)
How many of them were 100 stories tall.
There were some that burned. Certainly. In fact some of them burned for days.
How many of them were constructed like the WTC? Any firefighter will tell you that steel trusses fail quickly in a fire vs girders.
How many of them had aircraft the size of the 9/11 aircraft slam into them at full speed with full loads of fuel?
How many of them had 20 stories on fire all at once?
How many of them had no effective firefighting or fire suppression to combat the fire. (The best the fighter-fighters could have done on 9/11 was contain the blaze, but that wouldn't have been enough.)
How many of them were 100 stories tall.
But they didn't collapse. None of them. Ever.
I've already pointed out that steel truss buildings collapse all the time in fire. The examples I've seen Troofers bring up were either constructed differently or while they did "burn for days", the fire was never of the intensity.
Sometimes I wonder if the government intentionally lets tin-foil BS like this go unchecked to distract people from the far more mundane things it does that it shouldn't be doing. Secret war in Yemen, bombing rescue workers in Pakistan, arming drug cartels in Mexico, etc. This is the same government that couldn't keep Fast and Furious under wraps.
If the government was going to pull off 9/11 they would have loaded an 18 wheeler or similar to the roof with explosives and parked it in the basement like the Arabs tried in 93. (The Arabs only had a cargo van to work with.) Except they would have done a stress analysis, under the guise of preventing another 93 bombing, so they knew exactly where to park it so the towers would come down. Everyone would have believed that Arabs did it, nobody would have seen anything.
The only reason you have food stamps is because of the government interferences into the food market that drive up food prices. The point still stands, food in the US is incredibly cheap, but it could be even cheaper.
Sugar in the US is twice the world price because of tariffs. Milk is made artificially expensive. Large portions of the Orange crop is removed by the market and/or outright destroyed in the name of keeping prices high
Without food stamps people would not starve, they just wouldn't be able to buy Doritos, steak, and soda, as I saw back when I worked a cash register. Instead they would have to make do with beans, rice, hamburger, carrots, and tang. I brought up the example of the Serbians to simply point out that it is not difficult to live on a very small food budget with a little planning and preparation. Hell, I can make Rice and pork-chops without even trying. It's damn tasty and cheaper than any fast food or hot-pockets. If you can't afford pork chops then make meatballs instead.
Ahhh, I dream of the day that leaded solder is used again in electronics. Got to love brain-dead environmentalists who don't bother researching WHY some things are done the way they are.
Lead paint in kids toys? Yea, no good reason for that.
Lead solder in electronics? VERY VERY VERY GOOD F*****G REASONS FOR USING IT.
Any environmental savings is more than made up by the lowered reliability and shorter lifespans. Anyone who thinks lead-free solder has been a good idea is either ignorant of its problems or an idiot.
Now I don't know WHY its so high, it could be the wear leveling isn't as good as they claim, the controller design is bad, there is heat buildup or heat cycling that is causing damage, but there is something not right about the SSD designs because I've seen expensive and cheap, SLC and MLC drives ALL FAIL the exact same way, just flip the switch and they are gone. That tells me there is some fundamental flaw somewhere they haven't gotten a handle on yet, and that isn't something I'd want to trust my data to.
As far as I can see the answer is rather simple. Speed vs reliability.
A Class 10 SD card is rated for at least 10 megabytes per second. While we think that is blazing fast for a SD card, it's painfully slow for a hard drive even 10 years ago. On the flip side, SD cards are very reliable. I have only had one fail on me ever and it was an old 512 MB card.
SSD have transfer rates of between 100 MB/s to 500 MB/s, Just that fact alone could explain the poor reliability. The electronics in the chips are working 10-50 times faster than they do in other applications. So SSDs COULD be incredibly reliable in my view, but you would have to accept the painfully slow read/write speeds you see in SD cards. In fact, that has been my experience, the SSD drives in the first netbooks were SLOW, and yet they seemed to keep chugging along.
Whatever private company gets the contract from the airport becomes an effective monopoly; it's not like I can choose to go with a different screening company if I don't like the screeners at my city's airport.
I work for a company that does inmate telephones in county jails. You are correct in that we are a monopoly in that jail once the contract is signed. Only problem for us is that the contract comes up for renewal in 3 years or so. If we suck, we're out the door,our competitor is in, and it's another 3 years until we have another chance. We wanted to charge a site for some system upgrades, our competitor came in and said they would do the upgrades for free in exchange for the phone contract. Now we are doing the upgrades for free rather than lose the site. Competition may have screwed us out a bit of money, but it saved our customer money. Not too worried, we will do the same to them at another site. They have their advantages, we have ours.
It's been almost 12 years since 9/11. If airport security was on 3 year contracts airport security companies would be coming up on their fourth contract renewal. Compare that with the TSA where there has been NO competition, NO renegotiated contracts, nothing.
Interesting, then why did I see the steel airplane hanger next to the school in Kindred, ND collapse when it caught fire. (This was in the early 90 IIRC.) Must have been more of that government thermite.
Steel truss buildings like hangars and quonsets collapse all the time when they catch fire. It's just that most of them are not a thousand feet tall.
there are plenty of things that should NEVER be privatized
healthcare insurance, for instance
What about food? Surely food is more important that healthcare. We need to collectivize and put government in charge of the farms to ensure that the poor have enough to eat.
Oh wait, in the US food is so cheap and abundant that poor people are fat and in the Soviet union tens of millions of people starved to death and people waited in line for hours to buy bread when government managed the farms.
I know some Serbian refugees who came to the US and were on food stamps. A family of 4 was living on the food stamp allotment for one person and they still considered themselves to be eating like kings. How? They weren't spending any of the money on junk food, they were buying 20 pound bags of rice, 20 pound bags of hamburger, and pasta and cooking everything themselves at home. They were amazing with ramen noodles.
Exactly. That happens all the time where one pilot says, "I'm gonna do X. You take over." Also, it's not incredibly complicated to keep an airplane more-or-less flying straight and level. These are not aerobatic aircraft, they are designed to be inherently stable.
And because not everyone was a close minded isolationist.
Because our current policy of sticking our hand in everyone's business around the world is working so fabulously well.
In fact, why don't you go over to your neighbors place and start rearranging their furniture to how you think it should be. After all, you don't want to be a close minded isolationist and let them take care of their own internal matters and disputes. I'm sure they will welcome your meddling with open arms.
If someone attacks you, like in WWII, you go kick ass and then come home. Don't go around the world picking fights because sooner or later you're gonna meet something that's bigger than you. Friends come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. So don't accumulate enemies.
I can tell you from working at manufacturing plant that formed copper and brass for switchgear components that steel dies last FOREVER forming that stuff, no wear like in the case of working steel.
Those dies are made of VERY hard tool steel. You can't make firing pins out of that kind of steel because they will be too brittle and prone to shattering/breaking. The CZ-52 used a VERY hard steel firing pin and as a result has a well know reputation for brittle and easily broken firing pins. You need to use a softer grade of steel that is hard enough to not deform from repeated firing, but soft enough to not be brittle. Steel of that type is too soft to hold such microscopic stampings.
California tried to get it passed years ago, but then, as now, the technology doesn't work. The numbers are so small that they get smeared off the firing pin after a few boxes of ammo. These sorts of registries have been tried in Canada and in several US states and they solve no crimes whatsoever. They also consume funding for police that would be much better spent elsewhere.
The real goal of course is to make only rich people have guns. We already have the laws needed and a bunch that we don't. Enforce what we have before asking for any new ones. I used to work the gun counter at Wal-Mart when going to school and we had plenty of people get denied or people engaging in obvious straw buying. NEVER was any one of them prosecuted. The ATF never came to get the paperwork we had with their information, they never took statements, asked for no security video, nothing. They did not care.
Pffff, no problems, it still works minus the line of stuck pixels, I'll live till the replacement gets here. Like I said, it will go in my basement on my computer that I run QuickLOAD on for my reloading bench. (Also plays my internet radio and mp3s.) Got some other simulation software as well and the big monitor is good for reading the pressure curve data. I have a 17" on it now and QuickLOAD likes a wide screen monitor for displaying the charts.
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Both are incredibly irritating and near impossible to talk with online.
Both deny well established scientific facts and evidence in order to fit their worldview.
Both try to make their existing worldview fit the facts, rather than admit that their interpretation was wrong and adapt their worldview accordingly.
Moderate Christians like myself, who see no conflict between Christianity and science, and moderate atheists I know, who have nothing against religion and are simply unconvinced by the evidence for theism, get lumped in with the fundamentalists and their arguments and questions summarily dismissed by both sides.
I blame the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Not every Atheist is Joseph Stalin and not every Christian is Eric Rudolph. Stop lumping everyone into those two camps.
Christian fundamentalists, stop going full retard and cherry picking what science you like. Scripture deals with the things we could not figure out by ourselves, like the Trinity. Science rests its presupositions on Christian philosophy, that the universe is orderly, understandable, and can be understood mathematically. Remember the words of Robert Boyle, “From a knowledge of God's work we shall know Him.”
Atheists fundamentalists, deal with the fact that the last 50 years of Biology and Paleontology has raised legitimate objections to Darwinian theory that need to be dealt with. The "Monkeys typing Shakespeare Theorem" doesn't cut it and everyone knows it.
Hand-waving and just-so stories don't convince either side and, if either side was so sure about their position, would not use them. My time is better spent discussing these things in person where both sides are far more sensible and civil.
Good night.
"Implementing a stable driver ABI impedes progress"
Not having a stable driver ABI impedes progress. Not having one means you have to take your scarce and valuable developers and put them on fixing busted drivers every 6 months. If you DO have a well planned ABI you can instead put those developers on fixing real issues and improving the product. Linux continues to fall further and further behind Windows and Mac because of this.
Having a stable ABI means you can completely overhaul something and not have it impact anything else. You could completely rewrite something from scratch and as long as you have an ABI, the rest of the system doesn't even see the difference. Having a stable ABI means you can keep backwards compatibility via depreciated ABIs like Microsoft does.
"Even MS have had to deprecate their old ABI several times, the most recent of which was vista."
and yet all that old stuff still works fine. Hmmmm, seems like Microsoft knows how to design ABIs.
Everything else you wrote is irrelevant. OS's with ABIs have stable and reliable drivers. OS's without ABIs have sh*tty drivers that die.
"If your distro is crap, maybe you should change your distro."
We are, we are transitioning to Windows.
"If your admin is crap, maybe you should change your admin."
Our admin has real work to do, he's not sitting around playing Halo. Wasting a couple days fixing Linux monkey code every 6 months gets very expensive, especially when I have to drive to the site because the NIC drivers crapped themselves. He needs to continue development of new features with our programmer to keep us ahead of our competitors.
What is needed is an operating system that doesn't sh*t itself on update so nVidia can write a single Linux driver as they do with Windows/Mac and call it a day.
My firewire cards last driver was for windows 2000 and yet it worked in windows 7 32-bit. I finally junked my last firewire peripheral so I didn't bother to see if it worked on Windows 7 64 bit.
All that's needed is for Nvidia to release the documentation on the components they manufacture, as AMD/ATI did in 2008 (and Intel has always done). The existing nouveau driver team will take it from there.
Yea, how well has that actually worked. Oh yea, it's failed miserably. 4 years later and ATI Linux drivers are still garbage and the only reason Intel drivers work is because of the server market and because chips don't change often. It's not rocket science, writing graphics drivers are HARD and Linus continually poking his pecker into the kernel means they continually break and have to be tinkered with to work again.
The VOIP visitation recorders at work have to have updates turned off because Ubuntu craps itself whenever it tries to update. When the box is 4 hours away that is a big deal. Our windows machines have auto-updates turned on and never have problems. We've tried having a development machine at the office to test the updates, but for whatever reason, the number of VOIP boxes and minor hardware revisions make it impossible to develop a standard update profile for us to reliably push out to all machines. So we have to just lock them down as much as we can and hope for the best. We are working on a Windows based solution so we can eliminate the Linux boxes in the future.
It needs to be repeated so it sinks in, Linux needs a reliable ABI so ATI and others can just slap a Linux driver onto the CD that comes with the card and call it a day.
The biggest problem with Christianity is Christians, as a Christian I find that so often to be the case. I sometimes agree with what you say and sometimes want to just slap you through your monitor.
You keep saying "we creationists believe" as if there's only one interpretation of scripture. The bible is meant to tell us things we could not figure out ourselves (We could not have figured out the trinity or Christ's sacrifice, for example, without divine revelation of those things.) and contains many different writing styles. Some is poetry, some is history, some is laws. It is, in effect, a love letter from a parent to the children. Christians take various interpretations, quite a few, myself included, simply admit that we don't know how it happened in regards to the floods. I can of course think of a few ways, but I don't know. He could have used natural forces, he could have just plonked down a few miles of water, I don't know and that is OK. You are entitled to your interpretations, but please don't lump me in with your interpretation as you seem to frequently do.
I am reminded of Matthew 22:37, Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
We Christians don't get brownie points for being stupid. Science itself was founded on the Christian worldview, that the universe was real, orderly, and understandable. This is unique among worldviews. Robert Boyle, whom you yourself have quoted in the past, said “From a knowledge of God's work we shall know Him.” To ignore what we have learned about his creation, and instead try to make your interpretation of scripture fit instead, is a slap in the face of God himself.
We do this in our everyday lives, I read the Chilton's manual for my pickup and take an interpretation of the information there. Often I go investigate my pickup and find that my interpretation of that book was wrong, does that mean that the Chilton's manual is useless and was written by someone who had never worked on my pickup? No, it just means that my interpretation, based on the information I had at the time, was incorrect. The more I learn the better my understanding and the greater appreciation of the information I find within. Thus it is with the bible. Also like the bible, there is plenty I don't understand. Just because I don't understand all of it is no reason to dismiss the parts I do understand, nor is it reason to not try to understand it.
Wisdom 11:17-20
For not without means was your almighty hand,l
that had fashioned the universe from formless matter,*
to send upon them many bears or fierce lions,
Or newly created, wrathful, unknown beasts
breathing forth fiery breath,
Or pouring out roaring smoke,
or flashing terrible sparks from their eyes.
Not only could these attack and completely destroy them;
even their frightful appearance itself could slay.
Even without these, they could have been killed at a single blast,
pursued by justice
and winnowed by your mighty spirit.
But you have disposed all things by measure and number and weight.
To translate for those unfamiliar. God COULD have created a world that operated like the Paean worldview, at the whims of magical beasts and demi-gods, but in his love created a world that we humans, created in his image, could come to know and understand. If Science says that the world is 14 billion years old, then great. The fact that our dating isn't 100% perfect or we don't fully understand something doesn't mean we throw it all in the bin and shoehorn a biblical interpretation in. We just say humbly that we don't know and continue looking for explanations. We are not going to have a complete understanding of the universe tomorrow, next year, or next century. Perhaps we'll find a reason for the supposed discrepancies.
I don't buy the interpretations that show the wold as only 6,000 years old or that scripture shows the date of the second coming. (Ma
In case anyone is wondering, here is a list of failures cause by Tin whiskers.
http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/failures/
Note that we are talking about failures a bit more serious than your netbook, we are talking about communication satellites and NUCLEAR REACTORS. Yes, the people who say nuclear power is unsafe are working to make nuclear power unsafe.
Reminds me of the worldwide Chlorine ban that Greenpeace was proposing in the 80's. (Patrick Moore left Greenpeace over this.) Yea, go drink non-Chlorinated water for a year, I call dibs on your stuff when you're dead from Cholera. People need to THINK about these things.
Then there is the fact that mining Tin is VERY damaging to the environment, much more so than mining Lead.
I have no idea how that "steel" hangar was constructed, but typically they were wooden-framed quonsets, with steel skins. Hardly the same thing.
The hanger was a steel framed structure, I was in that hanger before, dodge and duck all you want about that fact. There are quite a few steel framed quonsets that were sold/built as steel prefab kits.
Just no. Prior to 9/11, * NO * modern steel office "skyscraper" in the world was known to have collapsed due to fire. None. Not a single one. Ever.
How many of them were constructed like the WTC? Any firefighter will tell you that steel trusses fail quickly in a fire vs girders
How many of them had aircraft the size of the 9/11 aircraft slam into them at full speed with full loads of fuel?
How many of them had 20 stories on fire all at once?
How many of them had no effective firefighting or fire suppression to combat the fire. (The best the fighter-fighters could have done on 9/11 was contain the blaze, but that wouldn't have been enough.)
How many of them were 100 stories tall.
There were some that burned. Certainly. In fact some of them burned for days.
How many of them were constructed like the WTC? Any firefighter will tell you that steel trusses fail quickly in a fire vs girders.
How many of them had aircraft the size of the 9/11 aircraft slam into them at full speed with full loads of fuel?
How many of them had 20 stories on fire all at once?
How many of them had no effective firefighting or fire suppression to combat the fire. (The best the fighter-fighters could have done on 9/11 was contain the blaze, but that wouldn't have been enough.)
How many of them were 100 stories tall.
But they didn't collapse. None of them. Ever.
I've already pointed out that steel truss buildings collapse all the time in fire. The examples I've seen Troofers bring up were either constructed differently or while they did "burn for days", the fire was never of the intensity.
Sometimes I wonder if the government intentionally lets tin-foil BS like this go unchecked to distract people from the far more mundane things it does that it shouldn't be doing. Secret war in Yemen, bombing rescue workers in Pakistan, arming drug cartels in Mexico, etc. This is the same government that couldn't keep Fast and Furious under wraps.
If the government was going to pull off 9/11 they would have loaded an 18 wheeler or similar to the roof with explosives and parked it in the basement like the Arabs tried in 93. (The Arabs only had a cargo van to work with.) Except they would have done a stress analysis, under the guise of preventing another 93 bombing, so they knew exactly where to park it so the towers would come down. Everyone would have believed that Arabs did it, nobody would have seen anything.
The only reason you have food stamps is because of the government interferences into the food market that drive up food prices. The point still stands, food in the US is incredibly cheap, but it could be even cheaper.
Sugar in the US is twice the world price because of tariffs. Milk is made artificially expensive. Large portions of the Orange crop is removed by the market and/or outright destroyed in the name of keeping prices high
Without food stamps people would not starve, they just wouldn't be able to buy Doritos, steak, and soda, as I saw back when I worked a cash register. Instead they would have to make do with beans, rice, hamburger, carrots, and tang. I brought up the example of the Serbians to simply point out that it is not difficult to live on a very small food budget with a little planning and preparation. Hell, I can make Rice and pork-chops without even trying. It's damn tasty and cheaper than any fast food or hot-pockets. If you can't afford pork chops then make meatballs instead.
Ahhh, I dream of the day that leaded solder is used again in electronics. Got to love brain-dead environmentalists who don't bother researching WHY some things are done the way they are.
Lead paint in kids toys? Yea, no good reason for that.
Lead solder in electronics? VERY VERY VERY GOOD F*****G REASONS FOR USING IT.
Any environmental savings is more than made up by the lowered reliability and shorter lifespans. Anyone who thinks lead-free solder has been a good idea is either ignorant of its problems or an idiot.
Now I don't know WHY its so high, it could be the wear leveling isn't as good as they claim, the controller design is bad, there is heat buildup or heat cycling that is causing damage, but there is something not right about the SSD designs because I've seen expensive and cheap, SLC and MLC drives ALL FAIL the exact same way, just flip the switch and they are gone. That tells me there is some fundamental flaw somewhere they haven't gotten a handle on yet, and that isn't something I'd want to trust my data to.
As far as I can see the answer is rather simple. Speed vs reliability.
A Class 10 SD card is rated for at least 10 megabytes per second. While we think that is blazing fast for a SD card, it's painfully slow for a hard drive even 10 years ago. On the flip side, SD cards are very reliable. I have only had one fail on me ever and it was an old 512 MB card.
SSD have transfer rates of between 100 MB/s to 500 MB/s, Just that fact alone could explain the poor reliability. The electronics in the chips are working 10-50 times faster than they do in other applications. So SSDs COULD be incredibly reliable in my view, but you would have to accept the painfully slow read/write speeds you see in SD cards. In fact, that has been my experience, the SSD drives in the first netbooks were SLOW, and yet they seemed to keep chugging along.
Whatever private company gets the contract from the airport becomes an effective monopoly; it's not like I can choose to go with a different screening company if I don't like the screeners at my city's airport.
I work for a company that does inmate telephones in county jails. You are correct in that we are a monopoly in that jail once the contract is signed. Only problem for us is that the contract comes up for renewal in 3 years or so. If we suck, we're out the door,our competitor is in, and it's another 3 years until we have another chance. We wanted to charge a site for some system upgrades, our competitor came in and said they would do the upgrades for free in exchange for the phone contract. Now we are doing the upgrades for free rather than lose the site. Competition may have screwed us out a bit of money, but it saved our customer money. Not too worried, we will do the same to them at another site. They have their advantages, we have ours.
It's been almost 12 years since 9/11. If airport security was on 3 year contracts airport security companies would be coming up on their fourth contract renewal. Compare that with the TSA where there has been NO competition, NO renegotiated contracts, nothing.
So just because this doesn't help absolutely everybody in every situation means that we shouldn't do it? Is that your logic?
Are you also in favor of ending cancer research since that research will not benefit everyone? After all, not everyone gets cancer.
You're also probably also in favor of getting rid of welfare and food stamps since not everyone benefits from those programs either.
Interesting, then why did I see the steel airplane hanger next to the school in Kindred, ND collapse when it caught fire. (This was in the early 90 IIRC.) Must have been more of that government thermite.
Steel truss buildings like hangars and quonsets collapse all the time when they catch fire. It's just that most of them are not a thousand feet tall.
I don't know about you, but I was never fondled by a mall cop.
thank you
there are plenty of things that should NEVER be privatized
healthcare insurance, for instance
What about food? Surely food is more important that healthcare. We need to collectivize and put government in charge of the farms to ensure that the poor have enough to eat.
Oh wait, in the US food is so cheap and abundant that poor people are fat and in the Soviet union tens of millions of people starved to death and people waited in line for hours to buy bread when government managed the farms.
I know some Serbian refugees who came to the US and were on food stamps. A family of 4 was living on the food stamp allotment for one person and they still considered themselves to be eating like kings. How? They weren't spending any of the money on junk food, they were buying 20 pound bags of rice, 20 pound bags of hamburger, and pasta and cooking everything themselves at home. They were amazing with ramen noodles.
Sometimes it is easier and cheaper to bulldoze what you have and start over. We do this with buildings all the time.
The opposite has happened in the private prison industry. Private actors with state power is the worst of both worlds.
Because prisoners don't get to chose their prison and nobody cares when they complain........kind of like how it is now with the TSA.
Exactly. That happens all the time where one pilot says, "I'm gonna do X. You take over." Also, it's not incredibly complicated to keep an airplane more-or-less flying straight and level. These are not aerobatic aircraft, they are designed to be inherently stable.
And because not everyone was a close minded isolationist.
Because our current policy of sticking our hand in everyone's business around the world is working so fabulously well.
In fact, why don't you go over to your neighbors place and start rearranging their furniture to how you think it should be. After all, you don't want to be a close minded isolationist and let them take care of their own internal matters and disputes. I'm sure they will welcome your meddling with open arms.
If someone attacks you, like in WWII, you go kick ass and then come home. Don't go around the world picking fights because sooner or later you're gonna meet something that's bigger than you. Friends come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. So don't accumulate enemies.
I can tell you from working at manufacturing plant that formed copper and brass for switchgear components that steel dies last FOREVER forming that stuff, no wear like in the case of working steel.
Those dies are made of VERY hard tool steel. You can't make firing pins out of that kind of steel because they will be too brittle and prone to shattering/breaking. The CZ-52 used a VERY hard steel firing pin and as a result has a well know reputation for brittle and easily broken firing pins. You need to use a softer grade of steel that is hard enough to not deform from repeated firing, but soft enough to not be brittle. Steel of that type is too soft to hold such microscopic stampings.
If that is true then all of my guns are defective.
California tried to get it passed years ago, but then, as now, the technology doesn't work. The numbers are so small that they get smeared off the firing pin after a few boxes of ammo. These sorts of registries have been tried in Canada and in several US states and they solve no crimes whatsoever. They also consume funding for police that would be much better spent elsewhere.
The real goal of course is to make only rich people have guns. We already have the laws needed and a bunch that we don't. Enforce what we have before asking for any new ones. I used to work the gun counter at Wal-Mart when going to school and we had plenty of people get denied or people engaging in obvious straw buying. NEVER was any one of them prosecuted. The ATF never came to get the paperwork we had with their information, they never took statements, asked for no security video, nothing. They did not care.
Pffff, no problems, it still works minus the line of stuck pixels, I'll live till the replacement gets here. Like I said, it will go in my basement on my computer that I run QuickLOAD on for my reloading bench. (Also plays my internet radio and mp3s.) Got some other simulation software as well and the big monitor is good for reading the pressure curve data. I have a 17" on it now and QuickLOAD likes a wide screen monitor for displaying the charts.