No, the colonies did becuase George III, a porphyric idiot, started upping the taxes to pay for England's little imperialistic chessmatch with France.
psst Kings don't levy taxes, Parliament does. Lord North was the Prime Minister at the time of the American War of Independence. How much of an idiot George III may or may not have been isn't really relevant...
What makes this "unnecessarily" ambitious rather than "necessarily" ambitious? Overwhelming nuclear force by a foe remains a means of defeating a MAD strategy. You can't counter that unless you have the capability to expand your own nuclear force in response.
Right, and we already have that capability. Thus, the new facility is unnecessary.
As an aside, we are signatories of the NPT. We can hardly go around beating other countries over head for violating the treaty when we ourselves are violating our obligations under it. If we don't want new nuclear weapons being developed by previously non-nuclear nations, or nuclear nations giving nukes to others, it behooves us to live up to our obligations under the same treaty to reduce our own nuclear arsenal. If we're not planning on reducing our arsenal anymore, then we're already in violation of the treaty, so we might as well stop complaining when our enemies start developing their own weapons. The NPT is really the only thing that gives us any right to complain about other nations developing nuclear weapons. In the absence of such an agreement, they have as much right to them as we do. Our mutual agreement to reduce and disarm in return for them not developing their own is the only leg we've got to stand on here if we're to have any say on this issue.
The entire internet is a perfectly safe place. It's just that some of the people you might meet on it are not perfectly safe people. But you're perfectly safe as long as you never encounter them anywhere but on the internet. The idea that the internet itself is an unsafe place because you can communicate with bad people on it is as absurd as saying "phone-space" is unsafe because you can talk to bad people on the phone...
It has had value since humans placed value on things.
Ah, good, at least you understand where value comes from (and thus fundamentally agree with the person you were responding to), rather than believing in magical fairy tales like "intrinsic value" or such nonsense...
One thing I've always disliked is when authors needlessly inject their own politics, left or right, into fiction, but Clancy was no worse with that than many authors.
I think it really depends on how its done. I think Robert Heinlein was a certifiable crack-pot when it comes to his ideas on government and society, but it's still enjoyable fiction, and gives insight into the way people like that think...
What kind of chemicals or parasites have invaded their brains to turn off their genetic programming?
Thought. Higher brain functions, contemplating the purpose of such programming. Nature is dead. Nature remains dead. And we have killed it. Yet its shadow still looms...
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If you give people what they ask for, you quickly discover that people don't actually know what they want.
Yeah unfortunately the summary is pretty bad (welcome to/.). It's obviously well known that there are non-circadian clocks in many plants and animals. When they say this is "first evidence for [the] clocks", they don't mean first evidence for their existence, but rather for a particular mechanism.
American reporters only use imperial units. If you don't translate for them, they nearly always mess up the conversion. As far as that failed orbital maneuver, it was the defense contractor that use imperial units.
Um, no, definitely not. Very few people in the US use imperial units. They tend to use US customary units. If you used imperial units, especially when talking volume, you'll confuse the heck out of everyone, since that's one of the areas where US customary units are quite different from imperial units.
Of course there's personal gain involved. But calling someone greedy for not taking out a loan when they don't need to, thus avoid paying interest, is kinda stupid. Especially so when you call it "excessive" greed. Yes, he did this at least in part to not have to pay investors back with interest for the money they lent. And I, just today, bought a computer with money out of my pocket rather than agreeing to the stores financing plan. Calling me *excessively* greedy for not taking out a loan when I didn't need to just just moronic...
CR figured out how to fund his game without taking investor loans. Good on him. Calling that "excessive greed" is stupidity writ large...
Ergo, creative control. He never acted as if it was outrageous that investors want something for their money, that's an interesting bit of fantasy on your part. He merely noted that this does create constraints that can interfere with making a good game (there's a few dozen examples you can hear about if you actually follow the discussions among the game developers -- CR tends to be vague, but some of his employees that worked with him at Digital Anvil and other previous projects can be quite specific and biting at times about the interference they've gotten from publishers in the past).
...is to make a statement that is both somewhat inflammatory but sufficiently vague to allow people to read into it whatever they want. You really need to learn the art of a good troll. The less you say, the better it works.
Actually, [control]-[reset] did not necessarily reboot an Apple II; it would usually break you to a prompt, although it could be programmed to perform a reboot (most games that didn't want you dropping to a prompt and messing around would do this). To guarantee a reboot, though, regardless of the program running, you had to hit [open apple]-[control]-[reset]. Thus, Apple II had its own "three-finger salute", although on the IIc with it's reset button on the left instead of the right, you could do it with one hand and some of us would refer to it as a "Vulcan nerve pinch".
It spent the last 15 years sitting in a glorified junkyard. That's a greater sacrilege than having these birds in the skies again, regardless of the pilots' location...
No doubt this is a result of the extended downtime on the forums. They need to download the latest MechJeb and they can't until the forums are back online...
If you want to see what a country looks like where it isn't under control, think back a few years to Iraq.
Picking a country essentially in the midst of a civil war is naturally going to paint an unrealistic picture. If you want a picture of how big a threat terrorism is to the average American air traveler without all the extra security precautions we added after 9/11/2001, look at the average number of deaths per year caused by it up until those additional measures were implemented. If you want to talk about terrorism in general, leave out the "air travelers" part. Even if you just look at the stats for 2001 alone, a banner year for terrorism in the US, it was a less serious cause for concern than a lack of rubber mats in bathrooms. Anything that kills people is something we ought to look at reducing, the question is how do we prioritize our resources to most effectively save the most people without wasting inordinate amounts of money on problems that don't warrant that level of expenditure when more serious problems could use the money more effectively to save more people.
I'm interested in keeping the incidents of terrorism & hijackings under reasonable control which is a rational goal.
Good. And the person you're replying to is pointing out that the problem is under reasonable control and always has been. You can cite all the examples of successful attacks you like, the facts are that it all adds up to an actual problem of significantly smaller proportion that a few hundred other potential causes of loss of life or injury that we spend far, far less time and money worrying about today. To pretend otherwise is fear-mongering.
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No, the colonies did becuase George III, a porphyric idiot, started upping the taxes to pay for England's little imperialistic chessmatch with France.
psst Kings don't levy taxes, Parliament does. Lord North was the Prime Minister at the time of the American War of Independence. How much of an idiot George III may or may not have been isn't really relevant...
I got a good chuckle out of that. Hopefully you had your tongue firmly in cheek when you wrote that.
What makes this "unnecessarily" ambitious rather than "necessarily" ambitious? Overwhelming nuclear force by a foe remains a means of defeating a MAD strategy. You can't counter that unless you have the capability to expand your own nuclear force in response.
Right, and we already have that capability. Thus, the new facility is unnecessary.
As an aside, we are signatories of the NPT. We can hardly go around beating other countries over head for violating the treaty when we ourselves are violating our obligations under it. If we don't want new nuclear weapons being developed by previously non-nuclear nations, or nuclear nations giving nukes to others, it behooves us to live up to our obligations under the same treaty to reduce our own nuclear arsenal. If we're not planning on reducing our arsenal anymore, then we're already in violation of the treaty, so we might as well stop complaining when our enemies start developing their own weapons. The NPT is really the only thing that gives us any right to complain about other nations developing nuclear weapons. In the absence of such an agreement, they have as much right to them as we do. Our mutual agreement to reduce and disarm in return for them not developing their own is the only leg we've got to stand on here if we're to have any say on this issue.
Am I the only one picturing Elon Musk sitting in a chair with a white cat in his lap now?
The entire internet is a perfectly safe place. It's just that some of the people you might meet on it are not perfectly safe people. But you're perfectly safe as long as you never encounter them anywhere but on the internet. The idea that the internet itself is an unsafe place because you can communicate with bad people on it is as absurd as saying "phone-space" is unsafe because you can talk to bad people on the phone...
It has had value since humans placed value on things.
Ah, good, at least you understand where value comes from (and thus fundamentally agree with the person you were responding to), rather than believing in magical fairy tales like "intrinsic value" or such nonsense...
At least it has intrinsic value...
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One thing I've always disliked is when authors needlessly inject their own politics, left or right, into fiction, but Clancy was no worse with that than many authors.
I think it really depends on how its done. I think Robert Heinlein was a certifiable crack-pot when it comes to his ideas on government and society, but it's still enjoyable fiction, and gives insight into the way people like that think...
Bingo. And some people liked them. You're always free to buy or not buy what you like or don't like.
What kind of chemicals or parasites have invaded their brains to turn off their genetic programming?
Thought. Higher brain functions, contemplating the purpose of such programming. Nature is dead. Nature remains dead. And we have killed it. Yet its shadow still looms...
If you give people what they ask for, you quickly discover that people don't actually know what they want.
Yeah unfortunately the summary is pretty bad (welcome to /.). It's obviously well known that there are non-circadian clocks in many plants and animals. When they say this is "first evidence for [the] clocks", they don't mean first evidence for their existence, but rather for a particular mechanism.
American reporters only use imperial units. If you don't translate for them, they nearly always mess up the conversion. As far as that failed orbital maneuver, it was the defense contractor that use imperial units.
Um, no, definitely not. Very few people in the US use imperial units. They tend to use US customary units. If you used imperial units, especially when talking volume, you'll confuse the heck out of everyone, since that's one of the areas where US customary units are quite different from imperial units.
Of course there's personal gain involved. But calling someone greedy for not taking out a loan when they don't need to, thus avoid paying interest, is kinda stupid. Especially so when you call it "excessive" greed. Yes, he did this at least in part to not have to pay investors back with interest for the money they lent. And I, just today, bought a computer with money out of my pocket rather than agreeing to the stores financing plan. Calling me *excessively* greedy for not taking out a loan when I didn't need to just just moronic...
CR figured out how to fund his game without taking investor loans. Good on him. Calling that "excessive greed" is stupidity writ large...
So, no lobster for you?
Ergo, creative control. He never acted as if it was outrageous that investors want something for their money, that's an interesting bit of fantasy on your part. He merely noted that this does create constraints that can interfere with making a good game (there's a few dozen examples you can hear about if you actually follow the discussions among the game developers -- CR tends to be vague, but some of his employees that worked with him at Digital Anvil and other previous projects can be quite specific and biting at times about the interference they've gotten from publishers in the past).
I think his point...
...is to make a statement that is both somewhat inflammatory but sufficiently vague to allow people to read into it whatever they want. You really need to learn the art of a good troll. The less you say, the better it works.
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Actually, [control]-[reset] did not necessarily reboot an Apple II; it would usually break you to a prompt, although it could be programmed to perform a reboot (most games that didn't want you dropping to a prompt and messing around would do this). To guarantee a reboot, though, regardless of the program running, you had to hit [open apple]-[control]-[reset]. Thus, Apple II had its own "three-finger salute", although on the IIc with it's reset button on the left instead of the right, you could do it with one hand and some of us would refer to it as a "Vulcan nerve pinch".
Library problems? Were there ever 16-bit programs that were not statically linked to their libraries?
It spent the last 15 years sitting in a glorified junkyard. That's a greater sacrilege than having these birds in the skies again, regardless of the pilots' location...
No doubt this is a result of the extended downtime on the forums. They need to download the latest MechJeb and they can't until the forums are back online...
At best they have found a correlation in time.
So, you're saying they've found precisely what they claimed to have found -- a correlation.
If you want to see what a country looks like where it isn't under control, think back a few years to Iraq.
Picking a country essentially in the midst of a civil war is naturally going to paint an unrealistic picture. If you want a picture of how big a threat terrorism is to the average American air traveler without all the extra security precautions we added after 9/11/2001, look at the average number of deaths per year caused by it up until those additional measures were implemented. If you want to talk about terrorism in general, leave out the "air travelers" part. Even if you just look at the stats for 2001 alone, a banner year for terrorism in the US, it was a less serious cause for concern than a lack of rubber mats in bathrooms. Anything that kills people is something we ought to look at reducing, the question is how do we prioritize our resources to most effectively save the most people without wasting inordinate amounts of money on problems that don't warrant that level of expenditure when more serious problems could use the money more effectively to save more people.
I'm interested in keeping the incidents of terrorism & hijackings under reasonable control which is a rational goal.
Good. And the person you're replying to is pointing out that the problem is under reasonable control and always has been. You can cite all the examples of successful attacks you like, the facts are that it all adds up to an actual problem of significantly smaller proportion that a few hundred other potential causes of loss of life or injury that we spend far, far less time and money worrying about today. To pretend otherwise is fear-mongering.
Jeb would never do that. Jeb has no limits.