I doubt they "lied" about the last cockpit words. At first they said it was "all right, goodnight" then they said "goodnight Malaysian three seven zero" Their inability to get it right the first time is just incompetence. They have shown themselves to be incompetent from the start. That's all this is.
Yeah, Germans have historically been far too straightforward for propaganda,
That's true. It's why this guy's propaganda had such a hard time sticking. Think what could have happened if the German people had fallen for that shit.
I don't think you're troll, but I also think it's OK to get worked up about unimportant stuff some of the time. We can't always be serious and entertainment is an important outlet for people. You can get worked up about trivial stuff one day and important stuff another: it's just part of being well rounded, I think. What bugs me, however, is why all this fuss about Star Wars. The movies were good when I was a 10 year old. Now they are unwatchable and boring to me. When I see them now, I think "mediocre children's movie" and I can't understand the fuss they generate. It's not like I find kid's/family movies beneath me, either: I loved How To Train Your Dragon, Up, Wall-E, The Princess Bride, Stardust, Coraline, and The Corpse Bride. Those are just off the top of my head.
1. Programming can't be learned in a few weeks. You need the freedom to play with it.
Exactly, you need to play with with it. But what a bootcamp could potentially do is give the beginner the skills and confidence to start playing with it. A well-run intro course would teach the students how to teach themselves.
Based on past experiences with companies like this, they're crap at finding the source of a problem. I've wasted hours on the phone in the past and nothing was ever fixed. I'm leaving the country in 6 weeks and I'm busy. I don't need this fixed and I don't have time to spend hours on hold at Verizon to have them tell me to re-boot my router.
Their infrastructure probably can't support what they're selling. In recent months my FiOS connection has become a mess. The Speakeasy speed test suggests I'm still getting the peak download speed I paid for, but I have suspicion these data are being cached and that's why it looks fast. General browsing has become very laggy. e.g. Google maps is very frustrating to use. Traceroute sees a lot of time outs to maps.google.com I haven't bothered contacting them because I'm moving in a month. When I cancel my service I plan on telling them that the slow speeds are the reason I'm doing so. At this point I really can't be bothered to talk to their tech support.
In fact, I just priced my last board Park and also on Seeed. The Seeed price is $45 for 5 boards and the Park is $70 for three boards. However, Seeed have long delivery times unless you pay for Fedex, which adds $32 to this particular order, bringing the price to $77. Park will do free shipping or priority for $5. So basically, for $75 you'd get three board from Park or 5 from Seed. The Park website is nicer, as it will convert a.brd to gerbers and show you the gerbers in a nice viewer. If you only *need* three boards, maybe as a first run, then maybe Park is better. If you want bulk, then maybe Seeed is better.
You'd have to run the numbers, but I think seedstudio will end up close to the OSH Park prices or maybe cheaper. It likely depends on the exact size of your board.
They're called "3-D printers" to make them sound cool and imply they are an easy to use natural extension of ink/laser printers. But they're no such thing and consumers can see that and are confuse by it. 3-D printers are automated tools in the same way a CNC milling machine is an automated tool. In fact, they'd be better described as "CNC extruders" than as "3-D printers", since they have sod all to do with printing on paper. Does your generic consumer have a need for a "CNC extruder"? No he/she does not.
These machines are for people who want to build new stuff. They're tools for machinists and others who want to work with wood, plastic or metal. People who have workshop in their garage. i.e. They're tools for people who know they need them. Furthermore, because they're the current "in" thing, they're being used in instances where a CNC milling machine would have been far more appropriate. This stupid crap with 3-D printed guns, for instance.
OK. So the PAC can't donate to the candidate directly, but they can donate in a way that works towards a candidate's goals. I'm sure there are plenty of ways of skirting around the "can't coordinate with a candidate's campaign" restriction.
You will of course not have noticed that the bailouts were not actually used to help the people who
were trapped in negative equity situations, but primarily used to payout ongoing large bonuses and
option packages to the 'managers' of the institutions..
It wasn't "primarily" used for bonuses, although the bonuses were about about 10% of the bailout. This is clearly absurd. However, the purpose of the money was to ensure that credit kept flowing. It appears to have done that. The money should, however, have come with strict regulation attached. That is where the government fucked up.
(as a foreigner) I am not fully aware of the possibilities of a PAC but I don't see it as a democratic problem when like-minded people band together to push a subject, compare it to starting a political party.
Nothing is wrong with it when you put it that way, but that's not the way it is. The problem is that PACs are about donations. i.e. the situation is becoming increasingly skewed towards the voter(s) needing to donate money in order to have influence. The supreme court is progressively lifting the restrictions on these sorts of campaign donations. It's basically legalised bribery. That is what is fucked up about it and it's getting worse. Furthermore, politicians are now wasting a lot of their time soliciting donations. They're in Washington to do a job, yet they're wasting loads of time not doing it because they need money to get re-elected. It's totally fucked up. The increasing influence of money in US politics is a nasty cancer, the spread of which needs to be reversed.
A cochlear implant is not a "hearing aid", which is a microphone and speaker inside the ear canal. A hearing aid is basically a modern ear trumpet, because it drives the cochlear with sound waves via the ear drum. A cochlear implant, on the other hand, is a neural prosthesis. Electrodes are surgically inserted into the cochlear and "sound" is delivered via direct electrical stimulation that drives the auditory sensory neurons. These devices allow people who would otherwise be 100% deaf to hear, assuming that their auditory nerve is intact and the innervation of the cochlear is still present. The problem, however, is that these implants have relatively few electrodes (of the order of 10 or so) and this results in a distorted picture of the world. Here are details with photos of the surgery.
He just told me that "everything was slower" I suppose it could be running Mountain Lion, yes. All I know is that he's bitched about Mavericks a lot and he's not computer illiterate.
I've seen some weirdness with Mavericks on some machines. On my 2011 13" Air, Mavericks is fine. On my ~2009 (don't recall the exact year) Mini it's really, really, slow. I even wiped the HDD and did a re-install. It behaved at a reasonable speed for a week or two and now it's back to horrible slowness. I also have a colleague who has two more or less identical 2013 Macbook Pros. One has Mavericks and one has Lion. He claims the machine running Mavericks is very obviously slower than that running Lion. This is despite the extra RAM on the Mavericks machine.
While as a consumer I'll bemoan paying more, the reality is, to deliver quality content they need to find the price sweet spot. It's still way below the cost of cable TV, so I don't think it will hurt them in the long run.
That depends how people choose to use it. If they choose it as an alternative to cable then, yes, a small price increase is no big deal. If, however, they have Netflix in addition to cable then it's a different situation. Given that you can't get news or most TV shows on Netflix then I suspect we're dealing with the latter situation. Personally, I've just cancelled my Netflix subscription and subscribed to HBO for the duration of Game of Thrones (or at least the first two months of it: I'll see what I think it's worth to me).
I don't believe that anybody actually believes all that claptrap about Xenu.. L Ron Hubbard made it all up to bilk money out of desparate people, and plenty of other folk are happy to continue the premise and keep the money flowing.. but does anybody actually believe it? I doubt it..
I wouldn't be so sure. I think the main reason it sounds crazy is because this particular belief is shared by comparatively few people. When few people are involved, such beliefs are called cults and are rejected by wider society. It's when crazy beliefs spread and are shared by many people that they're called a religion. Of course different societies draw the line differently.
The beliefs of the Christian church are pretty crazy too, when you stop to think about it, but they're widely accepted in our society so they no longer draw incredulity. Think how crazy this sounds: the Catholic church tells us that during communion the bread and wine literally turn into the blood and body of Christ. However, through some mysterious process, they appear to our senses as unchanged. So the Catholic church tells you that what you're seeing and tasting is wrong, and you should ignore the evidence right in front of you. Presumably, millions of people accept and believe this. Then we have the fact that many Christians believe that everything in the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Yet these same people ignore the parts they don't like (Christians choose to eat pork even though their book tells them not to), they ignore the fact that the Bible is often self-contradictory, and they ignore the fact that the Bible we have today is based on copies of copies that include known errors, additions, and omissions. If God is all-powerful, why is He unable to provide "his inerrant word" in an accurate form, and why is it that he never shows his face?
I've been to Montreal. The local beer, which was mostly lager, sucked. The Canadian IPAs I tried also sucked. In the US, the big-brand lagers suck too but the hundreds of beers produced by the multitude of US micro-breweries do not suck at all. They're easily some of the best beers in the world.
The US has seen a minor decrease in carbon emissions over the last 5 years or so, but this likely at least in part due to the financial crisis. There has been no long-term decrease over the "last 20 years", as you state, so the US isn't setting an example in cutting emissions. What matters, then, is total current emissions, where the US second only to China. The US emitted 5.4 million tonnes in 2010. By comparison, India (one of the countries you single out) and the EU have combined emissions of 5.7 million tonnes. India and China have very much larger populations. The US emissions per capita for 2012 are 16.4 tonnes, whereas China's are 7.1 and India's a paltry 1.6. Clearly the US has a lot of work to do.
It would be tolerable if these people were just conspiracy nuts ala the "moon landing were faked" folks. We could laugh at them and move on with our lives. These people, however, are in seats of power in the government and are making big decisions about scientific funding.
And they're there because they were voted in by people who sympathise with these views. We get the government we deserve because, as a nation, the bulk of the US is scientifically illiterate. There will continue to be illiterates in power as long as the people are illiterate. Somehow we need to find a way to promote science
as a way of thinking and do so without hurting the feelings of the religious right.
They failed in Greenland because they were fuckwits and reared cattle in conditions that couldn't support this. It's amazing they lasted as long as they did. Had they made an effort to live in a more similar manner to the indigenous people, who'd lived there for many centuries, they'd have been ok. The early European settlers didn't have a technology problem, they had a common sense problem.
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I doubt they "lied" about the last cockpit words. At first they said it was "all right, goodnight" then they said "goodnight Malaysian three seven zero" Their inability to get it right the first time is just incompetence. They have shown themselves to be incompetent from the start. That's all this is.
Yeah, Germans have historically been far too straightforward for propaganda,
That's true. It's why this guy's propaganda had such a hard time sticking. Think what could have happened if the German people had fallen for that shit.
I don't think you're troll, but I also think it's OK to get worked up about unimportant stuff some of the time. We can't always be serious and entertainment is an important outlet for people. You can get worked up about trivial stuff one day and important stuff another: it's just part of being well rounded, I think. What bugs me, however, is why all this fuss about Star Wars. The movies were good when I was a 10 year old. Now they are unwatchable and boring to me. When I see them now, I think "mediocre children's movie" and I can't understand the fuss they generate. It's not like I find kid's/family movies beneath me, either: I loved How To Train Your Dragon, Up, Wall-E, The Princess Bride, Stardust, Coraline, and The Corpse Bride. Those are just off the top of my head.
1. Programming can't be learned in a few weeks. You need the freedom to play with it.
Exactly, you need to play with with it. But what a bootcamp could potentially do is give the beginner the skills and confidence to start playing with it. A well-run intro course would teach the students how to teach themselves.
Based on past experiences with companies like this, they're crap at finding the source of a problem. I've wasted hours on the phone in the past and nothing was ever fixed. I'm leaving the country in 6 weeks and I'm busy. I don't need this fixed and I don't have time to spend hours on hold at Verizon to have them tell me to re-boot my router.
Their infrastructure probably can't support what they're selling. In recent months my FiOS connection has become a mess. The Speakeasy speed test suggests I'm still getting the peak download speed I paid for, but I have suspicion these data are being cached and that's why it looks fast. General browsing has become very laggy. e.g. Google maps is very frustrating to use. Traceroute sees a lot of time outs to maps.google.com I haven't bothered contacting them because I'm moving in a month. When I cancel my service I plan on telling them that the slow speeds are the reason I'm doing so. At this point I really can't be bothered to talk to their tech support.
In fact, I just priced my last board Park and also on Seeed. The Seeed price is $45 for 5 boards and the Park is $70 for three boards. However, Seeed have long delivery times unless you pay for Fedex, which adds $32 to this particular order, bringing the price to $77. Park will do free shipping or priority for $5. So basically, for $75 you'd get three board from Park or 5 from Seed. The Park website is nicer, as it will convert a .brd to gerbers and show you the gerbers in a nice viewer. If you only *need* three boards, maybe as a first run, then maybe Park is better. If you want bulk, then maybe Seeed is better.
You'd have to run the numbers, but I think seedstudio will end up close to the OSH Park prices or maybe cheaper. It likely depends on the exact size of your board.
These machines are for people who want to build new stuff. They're tools for machinists and others who want to work with wood, plastic or metal. People who have workshop in their garage. i.e. They're tools for people who know they need them. Furthermore, because they're the current "in" thing, they're being used in instances where a CNC milling machine would have been far more appropriate. This stupid crap with 3-D printed guns, for instance.
OK. So the PAC can't donate to the candidate directly, but they can donate in a way that works towards a candidate's goals. I'm sure there are plenty of ways of skirting around the "can't coordinate with a candidate's campaign" restriction.
You will of course not have noticed that the bailouts were not actually used to help the people who were trapped in negative equity situations, but primarily used to payout ongoing large bonuses and option packages to the 'managers' of the institutions..
It wasn't "primarily" used for bonuses, although the bonuses were about about 10% of the bailout. This is clearly absurd. However, the purpose of the money was to ensure that credit kept flowing. It appears to have done that. The money should, however, have come with strict regulation attached. That is where the government fucked up.
(as a foreigner) I am not fully aware of the possibilities of a PAC but I don't see it as a democratic problem when like-minded people band together to push a subject, compare it to starting a political party.
Nothing is wrong with it when you put it that way, but that's not the way it is. The problem is that PACs are about donations. i.e. the situation is becoming increasingly skewed towards the voter(s) needing to donate money in order to have influence. The supreme court is progressively lifting the restrictions on these sorts of campaign donations. It's basically legalised bribery. That is what is fucked up about it and it's getting worse. Furthermore, politicians are now wasting a lot of their time soliciting donations. They're in Washington to do a job, yet they're wasting loads of time not doing it because they need money to get re-elected. It's totally fucked up. The increasing influence of money in US politics is a nasty cancer, the spread of which needs to be reversed.
A cochlear implant is not a "hearing aid", which is a microphone and speaker inside the ear canal. A hearing aid is basically a modern ear trumpet, because it drives the cochlear with sound waves via the ear drum. A cochlear implant, on the other hand, is a neural prosthesis. Electrodes are surgically inserted into the cochlear and "sound" is delivered via direct electrical stimulation that drives the auditory sensory neurons. These devices allow people who would otherwise be 100% deaf to hear, assuming that their auditory nerve is intact and the innervation of the cochlear is still present. The problem, however, is that these implants have relatively few electrodes (of the order of 10 or so) and this results in a distorted picture of the world. Here are details with photos of the surgery.
He just told me that "everything was slower" I suppose it could be running Mountain Lion, yes. All I know is that he's bitched about Mavericks a lot and he's not computer illiterate.
I shall check that out and see how it goes.
I've seen some weirdness with Mavericks on some machines. On my 2011 13" Air, Mavericks is fine. On my ~2009 (don't recall the exact year) Mini it's really, really, slow. I even wiped the HDD and did a re-install. It behaved at a reasonable speed for a week or two and now it's back to horrible slowness. I also have a colleague who has two more or less identical 2013 Macbook Pros. One has Mavericks and one has Lion. He claims the machine running Mavericks is very obviously slower than that running Lion. This is despite the extra RAM on the Mavericks machine.
While as a consumer I'll bemoan paying more, the reality is, to deliver quality content they need to find the price sweet spot. It's still way below the cost of cable TV, so I don't think it will hurt them in the long run.
That depends how people choose to use it. If they choose it as an alternative to cable then, yes, a small price increase is no big deal. If, however, they have Netflix in addition to cable then it's a different situation. Given that you can't get news or most TV shows on Netflix then I suspect we're dealing with the latter situation. Personally, I've just cancelled my Netflix subscription and subscribed to HBO for the duration of Game of Thrones (or at least the first two months of it: I'll see what I think it's worth to me).
I don't believe that anybody actually believes all that claptrap about Xenu.. L Ron Hubbard made it all up to bilk money out of desparate people, and plenty of other folk are happy to continue the premise and keep the money flowing.. but does anybody actually believe it? I doubt it..
I wouldn't be so sure. I think the main reason it sounds crazy is because this particular belief is shared by comparatively few people. When few people are involved, such beliefs are called cults and are rejected by wider society. It's when crazy beliefs spread and are shared by many people that they're called a religion. Of course different societies draw the line differently.
The beliefs of the Christian church are pretty crazy too, when you stop to think about it, but they're widely accepted in our society so they no longer draw incredulity. Think how crazy this sounds: the Catholic church tells us that during communion the bread and wine literally turn into the blood and body of Christ. However, through some mysterious process, they appear to our senses as unchanged. So the Catholic church tells you that what you're seeing and tasting is wrong, and you should ignore the evidence right in front of you. Presumably, millions of people accept and believe this. Then we have the fact that many Christians believe that everything in the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Yet these same people ignore the parts they don't like (Christians choose to eat pork even though their book tells them not to), they ignore the fact that the Bible is often self-contradictory, and they ignore the fact that the Bible we have today is based on copies of copies that include known errors, additions, and omissions. If God is all-powerful, why is He unable to provide "his inerrant word" in an accurate form, and why is it that he never shows his face?
I've been to Montreal. The local beer, which was mostly lager, sucked. The Canadian IPAs I tried also sucked. In the US, the big-brand lagers suck too but the hundreds of beers produced by the multitude of US micro-breweries do not suck at all. They're easily some of the best beers in the world.
Don't ask logical questions on this topic, it does no good.
The US has seen a minor decrease in carbon emissions over the last 5 years or so, but this likely at least in part due to the financial crisis. There has been no long-term decrease over the "last 20 years", as you state, so the US isn't setting an example in cutting emissions. What matters, then, is total current emissions, where the US second only to China. The US emitted 5.4 million tonnes in 2010. By comparison, India (one of the countries you single out) and the EU have combined emissions of 5.7 million tonnes. India and China have very much larger populations. The US emissions per capita for 2012 are 16.4 tonnes, whereas China's are 7.1 and India's a paltry 1.6. Clearly the US has a lot of work to do.
It just doesn't matter.
No, but if they talk shit when they're there you'd hope people would vote them out again. I'm being too idealistic, aren't I?
It would be tolerable if these people were just conspiracy nuts ala the "moon landing were faked" folks. We could laugh at them and move on with our lives. These people, however, are in seats of power in the government and are making big decisions about scientific funding.
And they're there because they were voted in by people who sympathise with these views. We get the government we deserve because, as a nation, the bulk of the US is scientifically illiterate. There will continue to be illiterates in power as long as the people are illiterate. Somehow we need to find a way to promote science as a way of thinking and do so without hurting the feelings of the religious right.
They failed in Greenland because they were fuckwits and reared cattle in conditions that couldn't support this. It's amazing they lasted as long as they did. Had they made an effort to live in a more similar manner to the indigenous people, who'd lived there for many centuries, they'd have been ok. The early European settlers didn't have a technology problem, they had a common sense problem.