I'm sorry, but I don't see where some left-wing troll's smart-assed (albeit, painfully uninformed) commentary is worthy of being published on Slashdot. Or anywhere other than said trolls own web site.
The fact of the matter is that once you get over all the anti-nuke fear mongering and unscientific scare tactics, nuclear reactors are ultimately safer and less expensive than any other power generation method available today. And it can be far safer than any other, except that we haven't had a new reactor design authorized for construction in over half a century now, and a new plant hasn't been completed in over two decades.
If you want a green planet with clear skies, its time to put pencil to paper and explore more productive technologies, before it gets too expensive to drill and blast the energy out of the ground.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_tot_cri_ca p
Country Description Amount 1. Dominica 112.79 per 1000 people 2. New Zealand 108.12 per 1000 people 3. Finland 102.15 per 1000 people 4. Denmark 93.64 per 1000 people 5. Chile 90.00 per 1000 people 6. United Kingdom 86.04 per 1000 people 7. Montserrat 83.49 per 1000 people 8. United States 81.55 per 1000 people
Yes, we are all the same. We were cloned in a lab and we have monthly meetings where we connect our brains together in order to synchronize our thoughts and opinions.
A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.
I say we just kill this fucking moron now, before he has a chance to breed.
Self defence classes? Ya think? I'd recommend Aikido, followed by Judo. Once you've gotten reasonably proficient in either of those two, you might consider more advanced styles. Avoid Karate, Kung Fu, etc. They all have very rigid styles which are often impractical in the street. I'd recommend either Jeet Kun Do (this is the Bruce Lee school, and takes many years to master), or Kali (fillipino street style, emphasis on using sticks to deliver blows - you can buy collapsing batons that fit in your pocket, and extend with a flick of the wrist).
Or, you could move to a country that isn't frought with violence and crime. Like America.
He can't get a concealed carry permit. He can't legally even get a gun. The only people who can have guns there are the criminals. Not legally of course, but London is the shining example of the folly of gun control.
Good choice though. The 27 is easily concealed and fires a powerful.40 cal round. Nothing bites more than having to riddle your attacker with 9mm or.380 shells when a double-tap of.40 cal will do the job. I just don't like the grip angle of the glocks. They're designed for European shooters who prefer the awkward low-angle grips. I'd go with a Kahr PM 4043a, myself.
He voted for media deregulation. How much more black and white do you need it to be? You people are so filled with hatred and denial that even the truth ceases to matter to you.
There are over 12,500 radio stations - AM, FM, private and public. Clearchannel owns approximately 1,200 radio stations. So how does owning 9.6% of capital constitute a monopoly? Maybe if you consider that Clearchannel owns stations in major markets, and can reach 60% of the listening audience, you could call it a monopoly IF and only if you could prove that the other 11,000 radio stations are unable to access more than 40% of the market because of clearchannel.
People, grow the hell up. Market dominance doesn't make someone a monopoly. Its the natural result of making a product better suited to the demands of consumers.
Clear Channel currently owns over 722 radio stations and a few dozen tv stations.
Clearchannel owns 1200 radio stations. Did you forget the AM band? They also own many of the ticket sales outlets which provide ticket sales for the larger venues, and have considerable holding in movie theater chains such as Carmike, AMC, Cinemark, and Century.
They're one of the biggest boosters of the Bush administration because of the monopoly-limiting regulatory rollbacks the republicans have perpetrated.
What "monopoly-limiting regulatory rollbacks" have been perpetrated? Are you talking about deregulation of the media? Well yes, you could talk about how Clearchannel owns over 1200 stations in the major markets, and provides content to 60% of radio listeners in the US (which happens when you buy radio stations in big cities...duh). But what you and your ilk never bother to mention is that there are 12,500 radio stations (AM FM total all formats public and private). Clearchannel owns just under 10% - some "monopoly". Additionally, the number of radio stations has increased since deregulation occurred, up 15% in markets considered "saturated" (rural markets) and 12% in major markets (urban areas).
In my area, CC owns six radio stations. You won't hear any local music on any of them, and as a result, the whole local music industry is floundering because the main outlets for promoting music are dominated by a few big corporations.
In my area, they own none. You still won't hear any local music because most local music sucks. Really. Other than the novelty of hearing it live, 99% of local bands always suck balls. The music industry cannot make a profit with their current discovery, production, and distribution methods so consequently they manufacture acts that aren't even up to the suck-ass level of most local acts, many of whom aren't doing anything but covering the songs put out by said manufactured acts.
But if you're so bothered by it, why don't you start a station? For around a grand you can set up a LPFM station that, in urban areas, is capable of reaching a thousand homes. Play nothing but local music, and sell advertising. Report back in one year.
One thing you can bet on. If Kerry gets in office, he's not going to let the media consolidation continue.
The Hollywood Reporter: What are your thoughts on media consolidation, and do you believe it has become a problem in the country?
John Kerry: I think it is a serious problem in the country, and I was against the FCC decision and efforts to narrow the ownership of media outlets in America.
Now let us examine Kerry's voting record, and it's impact.
Kerry was a strong supporter of the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which by some accounts was the most lobbied piece of legislation in history. The result of these laws was a massive consolidation of media companies, particularly in the radio industry, where over 4,000 radio stations have been sold since 1996. Clear Channel alone went from 40 stations to approximately 1,200 stations. The legislation also gave away the digital spectrum to the broadcasting companies free of charge (rather than having it auctioned off). The spectrum is valued at about $70 billion. Keep in mind, this is the same John Kerry who likes to brag about how he boldly shafted the poor by supporting welfare reform. Apparently, giving a $70 billion Christmas gift for the telecom industry is a more laudable goal than provi
America has more linux users than any other country, almost double the next best country. Regardless of that fact, the idea that the 'rest of the world' is going to push the US into using linux is just pure provincial snobbery bordering on anti-Americanism. It's also a tremendous discredit to the pan-nationalist activism of Linux users, who don't play these petty turf wars.
I just got off work, came home, did the "chores", and flicked on tvtime, and caught the last 5 minutes of call for help. As the credit rolled by, Leo threw a nice little dig in, "Look at the names to the left [Note: They were technically on his left, but...], these are the people who make Call for Help possible, we could'nt do this without them...".
I find it abherrent that a company would clean house wholesale of talent when its doing well, and even when its doing poorly for that matter. I can't imagine the cost savings in moving production a hundred miles away can make up for hiring, firing, and moving costs.
Well, that really depends on what you want to program. For instance, to do probably about 80% of the programs out there, a fundamental knowledge of Algebra is useful - but not even required.
If you want to program video games, you'll need college level algebra just to program the physics, but again, you don't have to be a math wiz.
If you want to do cad/cam/cas programs, your ass better know some calculus and trig.
Point in fact, traditionally you've found that people program as a supplement to their chosen profession - mathematicians use computers to crunch large numbers. Engineers use computers to test and design structures. Biologists use computers to analyze and predict populatons. Chemists use computers to simulate complex chemical reactions.
If you want to get a better picture of where you use math (and a tremendous insight into computing mathematics), check out Wolframs A New Kind of Science. He developed this book while researching computers and mathematics, and its really an interesting read whether you understand wth he's talking about or not.
...after trolling your websites, I've concluded that your graphics are weak. You could do better even in GIMP, which also leads me to belive that you're not much of an authority on graphics programs.
What a terrible name for this documentary! That quote was from a crystalline-based life form that killed terraformers who were destroying their habitat in one of the first seasons of ST:TNG.
And what is equally frightening is that I know that.
Gimp sucks. Sure, you can make good looking graphics, but it takes twice as long to do, and the learning curve is far longer than even for photoshop. Thanks to crossover office, I can use both Photoshop and Paintshop Pro on Linux. I don't even know why I haven't uninstalled GIMP.
Nuclear technologies present today actually produce less overall and less harmful by products than traditional fossil fuel methods. This fear of anything "nuke" is driven by dirty technologies that are 5 generations old, almost as hold as the waste they're burying a mile under a mountain in nevada that is miles away from anyone else. Lets have a little science, and a little less fiction when we look at our energy needs, and hey...bring on the quantum nucleonic reactor powered cars.
The electricity that powers this best still comes from the same pollution belching power plant as other refridgerators. Guys, face it, nothing is green friendly until we get a hydrogen and nuclear based economy going.
A long time ago there was a series based on war of the world - long story short, the martians had found a way to exist as parasites in human hosts. Anyway, a small group went around foiling their grand conspiracy, and this went on for a few seasons, then the aliens took over, and everything reverted to mad-max style conditions. Then the show sucked, because the dynamics had changed.
Well, it happenned to Andromeada. I liked the show when it was *just* Dylan and a crew of misfits trying to restore a sense of justice and equity to a galaxy that had fallen into its dark ages. Then shit started getting wierd. Trance became a psychic pan-dimensional being, Thier became some powerful political force over the Nietzian Prides, and suddenly the systems commonwealth was reborn, and the show should have ended there. They tried to milk it without getting any new and dynamic aspects. Basically, the story had completed its arc, and producers wanted it to bounce, and that doesn't happen. The rule with any good sci-fi series is that you have an overall arc, you take it, and then you finish it gracefully. It's better to die with a loving and loyal fanbase the way Lexx and ST: Voyager did then to become cliche and worn out like X-Files did. Failing to do either leaves fans rabidly jaded, like with Firefly and Farscape.
The first person who mentions MST3K is gonna get bitchslapped.
TI-85 won't do logistic regression. If you don't need f(x)=c/(1+ae^(-bx)), then it works great. I'm ditching my TI-85 for a calculator that can do topology, however, so if anyone needs one, call me in two weeks.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see where some left-wing troll's smart-assed (albeit, painfully uninformed) commentary is worthy of being published on Slashdot. Or anywhere other than said trolls own web site.
The fact of the matter is that once you get over all the anti-nuke fear mongering and unscientific scare tactics, nuclear reactors are ultimately safer and less expensive than any other power generation method available today. And it can be far safer than any other, except that we haven't had a new reactor design authorized for construction in over half a century now, and a new plant hasn't been completed in over two decades.
If you want a green planet with clear skies, its time to put pencil to paper and explore more productive technologies, before it gets too expensive to drill and blast the energy out of the ground.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_tot_cri_ca p
Country Description Amount
1. Dominica 112.79 per 1000 people
2. New Zealand 108.12 per 1000 people
3. Finland 102.15 per 1000 people
4. Denmark 93.64 per 1000 people
5. Chile 90.00 per 1000 people
6. United Kingdom 86.04 per 1000 people
7. Montserrat 83.49 per 1000 people
8. United States 81.55 per 1000 people
...flame bait. To whom? Slashdot's ultra-left wingnuts?
I knew it...
(resistance is futile)
I say we just kill this fucking moron now, before he has a chance to breed.
Self defence classes? Ya think? I'd recommend Aikido, followed by Judo. Once you've gotten reasonably proficient in either of those two, you might consider more advanced styles. Avoid Karate, Kung Fu, etc. They all have very rigid styles which are often impractical in the street. I'd recommend either Jeet Kun Do (this is the Bruce Lee school, and takes many years to master), or Kali (fillipino street style, emphasis on using sticks to deliver blows - you can buy collapsing batons that fit in your pocket, and extend with a flick of the wrist).
Or, you could move to a country that isn't frought with violence and crime. Like America.
He can't get a concealed carry permit. He can't legally even get a gun. The only people who can have guns there are the criminals. Not legally of course, but London is the shining example of the folly of gun control.
.40 cal round. Nothing bites more than having to riddle your attacker with 9mm or .380 shells when a double-tap of .40 cal will do the job. I just don't like the grip angle of the glocks. They're designed for European shooters who prefer the awkward low-angle grips. I'd go with a Kahr PM 4043a, myself.
Good choice though. The 27 is easily concealed and fires a powerful
Two weeks before some smelly frenchman BASE jumps this thing.
A year before a section mysteriously falls, killing a couple from Prague, a travelling salesman from China, and several grazing sheep.
He voted for media deregulation. How much more black and white do you need it to be? You people are so filled with hatred and denial that even the truth ceases to matter to you.
This is not a violation of my rights. Any moron can take a picture of my building. This sure as hell isn't an "online" issue.
Is michael using timothy's account today?
There are over 12,500 radio stations - AM, FM, private and public. Clearchannel owns approximately 1,200 radio stations. So how does owning 9.6% of capital constitute a monopoly? Maybe if you consider that Clearchannel owns stations in major markets, and can reach 60% of the listening audience, you could call it a monopoly IF and only if you could prove that the other 11,000 radio stations are unable to access more than 40% of the market because of clearchannel.
People, grow the hell up. Market dominance doesn't make someone a monopoly. Its the natural result of making a product better suited to the demands of consumers.
Clearchannel owns 1200 radio stations. Did you forget the AM band? They also own many of the ticket sales outlets which provide ticket sales for the larger venues, and have considerable holding in movie theater chains such as Carmike, AMC, Cinemark, and Century.
What "monopoly-limiting regulatory rollbacks" have been perpetrated? Are you talking about deregulation of the media? Well yes, you could talk about how Clearchannel owns over 1200 stations in the major markets, and provides content to 60% of radio listeners in the US (which happens when you buy radio stations in big cities...duh). But what you and your ilk never bother to mention is that there are 12,500 radio stations (AM FM total all formats public and private). Clearchannel owns just under 10% - some "monopoly". Additionally, the number of radio stations has increased since deregulation occurred, up 15% in markets considered "saturated" (rural markets) and 12% in major markets (urban areas).
In my area, they own none. You still won't hear any local music because most local music sucks. Really. Other than the novelty of hearing it live, 99% of local bands always suck balls. The music industry cannot make a profit with their current discovery, production, and distribution methods so consequently they manufacture acts that aren't even up to the suck-ass level of most local acts, many of whom aren't doing anything but covering the songs put out by said manufactured acts.
But if you're so bothered by it, why don't you start a station? For around a grand you can set up a LPFM station that, in urban areas, is capable of reaching a thousand homes. Play nothing but local music, and sell advertising. Report back in one year.
How can I bet on that? Lets look at John Kerry's words.
Now let us examine Kerry's voting record, and it's impact.
America has more linux users than any other country, almost double the next best country. Regardless of that fact, the idea that the 'rest of the world' is going to push the US into using linux is just pure provincial snobbery bordering on anti-Americanism. It's also a tremendous discredit to the pan-nationalist activism of Linux users, who don't play these petty turf wars.
We figured this out in the 60's.
I just got off work, came home, did the "chores", and flicked on tvtime, and caught the last 5 minutes of call for help. As the credit rolled by, Leo threw a nice little dig in, "Look at the names to the left [Note: They were technically on his left, but...], these are the people who make Call for Help possible, we could'nt do this without them...".
I find it abherrent that a company would clean house wholesale of talent when its doing well, and even when its doing poorly for that matter. I can't imagine the cost savings in moving production a hundred miles away can make up for hiring, firing, and moving costs.
Well, that really depends on what you want to program. For instance, to do probably about 80% of the programs out there, a fundamental knowledge of Algebra is useful - but not even required.
If you want to program video games, you'll need college level algebra just to program the physics, but again, you don't have to be a math wiz.
If you want to do cad/cam/cas programs, your ass better know some calculus and trig.
Point in fact, traditionally you've found that people program as a supplement to their chosen profession - mathematicians use computers to crunch large numbers. Engineers use computers to test and design structures. Biologists use computers to analyze and predict populatons. Chemists use computers to simulate complex chemical reactions.
If you want to get a better picture of where you use math (and a tremendous insight into computing mathematics), check out Wolframs A New Kind of Science. He developed this book while researching computers and mathematics, and its really an interesting read whether you understand wth he's talking about or not.
I've also concluded that Slashdot's glory days are long, long over...
"All hail prince of the obvious."
- Dominar Rygel XVI
...after trolling your websites, I've concluded that your graphics are weak. You could do better even in GIMP, which also leads me to belive that you're not much of an authority on graphics programs.
...marked this as "redundant", and didn't bother to even do a simple text search for "quote"? I was the first one to mention it.
Slashdot mods are fucking morons. Yes, you...with your finger on the "flamebait" button, I'm talking to you.
What a terrible name for this documentary! That quote was from a crystalline-based life form that killed terraformers who were destroying their habitat in one of the first seasons of ST:TNG.
And what is equally frightening is that I know that.
Gimp sucks. Sure, you can make good looking graphics, but it takes twice as long to do, and the learning curve is far longer than even for photoshop. Thanks to crossover office, I can use both Photoshop and Paintshop Pro on Linux. I don't even know why I haven't uninstalled GIMP.
Nuclear technologies present today actually produce less overall and less harmful by products than traditional fossil fuel methods. This fear of anything "nuke" is driven by dirty technologies that are 5 generations old, almost as hold as the waste they're burying a mile under a mountain in nevada that is miles away from anyone else. Lets have a little science, and a little less fiction when we look at our energy needs, and hey...bring on the quantum nucleonic reactor powered cars.
The electricity that powers this best still comes from the same pollution belching power plant as other refridgerators. Guys, face it, nothing is green friendly until we get a hydrogen and nuclear based economy going.
A long time ago there was a series based on war of the world - long story short, the martians had found a way to exist as parasites in human hosts. Anyway, a small group went around foiling their grand conspiracy, and this went on for a few seasons, then the aliens took over, and everything reverted to mad-max style conditions. Then the show sucked, because the dynamics had changed.
Well, it happenned to Andromeada. I liked the show when it was *just* Dylan and a crew of misfits trying to restore a sense of justice and equity to a galaxy that had fallen into its dark ages. Then shit started getting wierd. Trance became a psychic pan-dimensional being, Thier became some powerful political force over the Nietzian Prides, and suddenly the systems commonwealth was reborn, and the show should have ended there. They tried to milk it without getting any new and dynamic aspects. Basically, the story had completed its arc, and producers wanted it to bounce, and that doesn't happen. The rule with any good sci-fi series is that you have an overall arc, you take it, and then you finish it gracefully. It's better to die with a loving and loyal fanbase the way Lexx and ST: Voyager did then to become cliche and worn out like X-Files did. Failing to do either leaves fans rabidly jaded, like with Firefly and Farscape.
The first person who mentions MST3K is gonna get bitchslapped.
TI-85 won't do logistic regression. If you don't need f(x)=c/(1+ae^(-bx)), then it works great. I'm ditching my TI-85 for a calculator that can do topology, however, so if anyone needs one, call me in two weeks.