I don't evaluate authors by their degree of cookie-cutter alignment with my own political views. If I did, I would have missed all the great Charles Stross that's out there now.
"a sneering condescending disdain for the liberals that he blames for all the problems of the world."
They are not the cause of all the problems in the world, just for being wrong about all the problems of the world - even when compared to the old Greatest Generation Democrats.
His "ancestors" were just Koreans - one culture, one country, from the beginning. North Korea only came into existence in 1945, as Stalin grabbed Japanese colonial territory at the end of WW II. North Korea has no more reason to exist as a separate country than East Germany did. Its fate will be the same.
When you survey all the groundhogs in a given area, inevitably you will note a series of normal distributions in the observable characteristics of the species. You might observe that on that hilltop over there, the groundhogs have slightly longer ears than their fellows on the adjacent flat ground. As this article points out, a biologist will be irresistibly tempted to proclaim a new subspecies, Joseph Blow's Long-Eared Groundhog. When Dr. Blow submits his paper, he modestly hopes that the name he bestows, Marmota longaauris blowii, will survive peer review and bestow upon him the tiny bit of immortality that will keep him on the tenure track at State U.
But now suppose that this is Kern County, California, and you're an activist running People's Earth Resistance, which as an advocacy for "rewilding" and "decivilizing" is fanatically opposed to developing anything whatsoever. You stumble upon Dr Blow's paper and observe that the long-eared groundhogs, whether they are a real species or not, are now your ideal excuse for filing an injunction against California High-Speed Rail. Judges and lawyers, not being scientists, have no way of telling an academic scam when they see it. And, children, this is why our country can't build anything anymore.
When a city starts to fluoridate its water for dental heath, sometimes this means lowering the level of natural fluoride in the water. So much for the hippies' "industrial rat poison" theory.
What emboldens ACS is the unanimity shown by Internet infrastructure companies in deleting the domains and search access of sites with fringe political views. The obvious next target is "illegal content" that reduces the profitability of any deep pockets US or EU companies. Sci-Hub will lose its domain in 3...2...1
Coal is so low in energy density compared to nuclear that the sheer tonnage (or tonneage, as the case may be) of coal that has to be mined per megawatt magnifies the effect of every pollutant in it. And that's before we even consider the carbon.
Several of my coworkers who lived in the path of eclipse had their cameras mounted on telescopes without solar filters. The best picture they took was Jupiter shining brightly to one side of the eclipse.
That must have been some radical fisheye they had mounted, because Jupiter is roughly opposite the sun right now. The bright star near the sun would have been Venus.
The gradual infiltration of the masses into Usenet, and its replacement by other online media, started only after you no longer needed academic/governmental credentials to get onto the Internet. It started with newbie students, who roamed around clueless on the system at the start of each school year. When the Internet opened up to the public, the term 'endless September' was coined.
I first had to face this problem back when the only online forum for discussing it was Usenet, which had no visibility with the general public whatever. Fortunately, I found an underserved market of fellow Boomers who, suddenly finding themselves adrift in a digital future beyond their comprehension, needed people other than the condescending pups at Geek Squad who could guide them in applying today's tech to their daily lives.
It starts with their need to personally start applying the software they have had contact with only at the office to work on taxes or get started with that long-dreamed-of novel. Boomers don't share their grandchildren's obsession with social media, but they find themselves needing to apply it for their families, clubs and political organizations. And once they find out that the tiny computer in their pocket has multiple uses that integrate with each other, there's no stopping them.
... they will leave on their own once the company starts treating them like dirt, promoting 20-somethings above them, giving them menial, uninteresting work, and other things that will make them want to leave.
Or worse, shooing them into middle management. That's the designated job for over-40s.
Haha! "...diffusing the bomb." Get rid of it by spreading it in the air? Abruptly, or gradually?
Wordings like this come from the same clueless copy editors who order crowds to "disburse." See we have the UXB team spreading the bomb debris in the air, and the German townspeople responding by tossing money aloft.
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I don't evaluate authors by their degree of cookie-cutter alignment with my own political views. If I did, I would have missed all the great Charles Stross that's out there now.
PDF has harsher transients, whereas paper sounds warmer with a more rounded bass.
And to get the best experience from paper, I always use my $1000 Monster reading glasses.
Call me when Elon has done six moon landings, a few Mars crawlers, and some gas giant probes.
Yes: to conceal a crappy argument, move the goalposts.
Yet we live in a time when private entrepreneurs are opening up space as never before.
"a sneering condescending disdain for the liberals that he blames for all the problems of the world."
They are not the cause of all the problems in the world, just for being wrong about all the problems of the world - even when compared to the old Greatest Generation Democrats.
Never heard of him. Byte magazine?
Yes, and for "Lucifer's Hammer."
His "ancestors" were just Koreans - one culture, one country, from the beginning. North Korea only came into existence in 1945, as Stalin grabbed Japanese colonial territory at the end of WW II. North Korea has no more reason to exist as a separate country than East Germany did. Its fate will be the same.
Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
Because what Crazy Fat Kid is doing is not deterrence. He's actively trying to start a war that he is certain to lose. He still thinks it's 1953.
What we will find out is that running headlong into flames is just a feature of Silicon Valley's latest code development methodology.
When you survey all the groundhogs in a given area, inevitably you will note a series of normal distributions in the observable characteristics of the species. You might observe that on that hilltop over there, the groundhogs have slightly longer ears than their fellows on the adjacent flat ground. As this article points out, a biologist will be irresistibly tempted to proclaim a new subspecies, Joseph Blow's Long-Eared Groundhog. When Dr. Blow submits his paper, he modestly hopes that the name he bestows, Marmota longaauris blowii, will survive peer review and bestow upon him the tiny bit of immortality that will keep him on the tenure track at State U.
But now suppose that this is Kern County, California, and you're an activist running People's Earth Resistance, which as an advocacy for "rewilding" and "decivilizing" is fanatically opposed to developing anything whatsoever. You stumble upon Dr Blow's paper and observe that the long-eared groundhogs, whether they are a real species or not, are now your ideal excuse for filing an injunction against California High-Speed Rail. Judges and lawyers, not being scientists, have no way of telling an academic scam when they see it. And, children, this is why our country can't build anything anymore.
The invocation of "blockchain woo" in IT seems to be developing in the same way as "quantum woo" in physics.
No, Equifax is going to treat the breach as a "hard pull" on everyone's account and ding your score for it.
When a city starts to fluoridate its water for dental heath, sometimes this means lowering the level of natural fluoride in the water. So much for the hippies' "industrial rat poison" theory.
A flaw in so much online commerce is that when something goes wrong, there is no way of reaching a human if your problem is not covered by the FAQ.
Community well water here, but we have to treat it to remove natural arsenic.
What emboldens ACS is the unanimity shown by Internet infrastructure companies in deleting the domains and search access of sites with fringe political views. The obvious next target is "illegal content" that reduces the profitability of any deep pockets US or EU companies. Sci-Hub will lose its domain in 3...2...1
Shaddap faggot you aren't a nuclear engineer of any type.
The steel in your bridge came from a Korean nuclear smelter.
Coal is so low in energy density compared to nuclear that the sheer tonnage (or tonneage, as the case may be) of coal that has to be mined per megawatt magnifies the effect of every pollutant in it. And that's before we even consider the carbon.
Several of my coworkers who lived in the path of eclipse had their cameras mounted on telescopes without solar filters. The best picture they took was Jupiter shining brightly to one side of the eclipse.
That must have been some radical fisheye they had mounted, because Jupiter is roughly opposite the sun right now. The bright star near the sun would have been Venus.
The gradual infiltration of the masses into Usenet, and its replacement by other online media, started only after you no longer needed academic/governmental credentials to get onto the Internet. It started with newbie students, who roamed around clueless on the system at the start of each school year. When the Internet opened up to the public, the term 'endless September' was coined.
I first had to face this problem back when the only online forum for discussing it was Usenet, which had no visibility with the general public whatever. Fortunately, I found an underserved market of fellow Boomers who, suddenly finding themselves adrift in a digital future beyond their comprehension, needed people other than the condescending pups at Geek Squad who could guide them in applying today's tech to their daily lives.
It starts with their need to personally start applying the software they have had contact with only at the office to work on taxes or get started with that long-dreamed-of novel. Boomers don't share their grandchildren's obsession with social media, but they find themselves needing to apply it for their families, clubs and political organizations. And once they find out that the tiny computer in their pocket has multiple uses that integrate with each other, there's no stopping them.
... they will leave on their own once the company starts treating them like dirt, promoting 20-somethings above them, giving them menial, uninteresting work, and other things that will make them want to leave.
Or worse, shooing them into middle management. That's the designated job for over-40s.
What kinda porn was *he* trying to hide???
Turtle porn, all the way down.
Haha! "...diffusing the bomb." Get rid of it by spreading it in the air? Abruptly, or gradually?
Wordings like this come from the same clueless copy editors who order crowds to "disburse." See we have the UXB team spreading the bomb debris in the air, and the German townspeople responding by tossing money aloft.
Rural Belgium has this same problem, but from WW I.