To prevent clogs I now flush after each turd, and once more for the paper. Surely this does not save water!
Even with that, I still get clogs sometimes. These new toilets can't handle a 16" (40 cm) turd.
Oh, they are also unsanitary. The high-powered water jets fling tiny droplets of "water" (poo) into the air. We breathe that air. Many people even keep toothbrushes and cups in the bathroom.
I've seen most of it. I saw a woman go from man to man, though she did seem to be an OK or good worker. I also saw a man have nearly the same success, despite a dire sex ratio working against him.
When a guy feels attraction, but has the social skills of an elementary school kid, this is the sort of thing he may do. He can't resist the thrill of interacting with a real-life pretty woman, but he is unable to properly admit his feelings and/or is unable to properly express them. He regrets it later. He may fantasize about her for months afterward or worse.
Allegedly there is also a culture where the cause of pregnancy is unknown. Don't believe it for a moment. There is a language barrier and there are likely to be taboo subjects that the researcher is not aware of. If war is taboo, then it certainly will not be discussed with an outsider.
(I'm defining war as lethal group violence within a species)
Humans do pretty much everything in organized groups. Your usage of "group" is a distinction that is unfair to creatures that aren't human. To be fair you should either accept a concept of 1-on-1 war, or accept that "war" is really just a minor subdivision of the key concept: competitive activities that effectively result in death. And yes, even plants do this. That damn pine tree hanging over my garden is using chemical weapons.
Your logic with regard to evolution is circular.
Not exactly: I described a feedback loop. There is indeed a theoretical situation without war, but it is unstable. Picture two worlds, one of pacifists and one of killers. Pacifists give birth to pacifists, on and on. Likewise, killers give birth to killers, on and on. One day in each world there is born a mutant with different behavior. In the world of killers, the mutant (a pacifist) is quickly exterminated. In the world of pacifists, the mutant thrives at the expense of the pacifists. Before long, both worlds are full of killers.
Uh, OK. I'll agree, given that we've seen chimpanzees go to war!
You're looking at something way deeper and more fundamental than human nature. War is simply a manifestation of the competition of life. On some primitive level, even the dumbest forms of life engage in this.
You can't escape the situation. Remember how the winners write history? They also leave more offspring. We are the descendents of creatures who were mostly winners and never complete losers. Our minds are shaped by evolution. Our status as humans does not exempt us from selection, not even today and not ever in the future.
We are evolved to enjoy sex in ways that lead to healthy children, resulting in grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on. As far as sexual desire goes, everybody is essentially trying to make babies even if they think they are not.
We evolved this way because sex meant babies prior to birth control. We will evolve to suit the new environment of course; we now must directly want babies rather than just sex. There already exist people in our population today with this trait. Someday, the trait will be essentially universal. Everybody will want kids passionately. People who merely like sex are failing to pass on their DNA.
Development costs don't get wasted unless you never succeed. Construction costs get wasted for every device that gets built but crashes or is never launched.
These delays are not free. You have the cost of an aborted launch, and you have the cost of not performing the mission for a period of time. You also create delays for other launches from the same location, causing costs that are externalized to some other program.
Is there an actual problem with the weather, or are we just being wimpy? When is the last time weather destroyed a rocket in flight? We're being too careful if this isn't a decent portion (perhaps 10%) of the failures.
You're going to lose a few rockets anyway. If you don't even up the causes of failure, you're being pointlessly reckless in some areas while being pointlessly fearful in others.
Xfce has configurable panels. You could create an upper one if you wanted, but that would cause trouble like you're seeing. Don't do that. It's easy to make Xfce highly usable, kind of like GNOME 1. (the stupidity started with a committee deciding that GNOME 2 should have 2 panels, like some ill win/mac hybrid) Here is how:
Make just one panel, at the bottom. Set it 50 pixels tall. Put the menu on the left, next maybe a few highly-used launchers or a log-out button, next the window switcher buttons (you'll get 2 rows in 50 pixels), next a clock, and finaly a virtual desktop switcher. Disable the desktop nonsense (trash, home, etc.) and enable focus-follows-mouse.
Suppose I need to go somewhere, and the shortest path goes through a neighborhood where my skin color is unwelcome. Could that be avoided? It'd be best if this didn't require me to specify anything, because I might be unaware of the danger.
Politicians set the limits low to get votes from grandma and from people who think the street is a place for young/dumb/autistic/adhd kids to play without supervision. Except for a few corrupt small towns abusing power on a highway that passes through, nobody else expects or desires to have the speed limits enforced as posted.
So... can I set the car to go 9% faster? Can I set it to go the fastest speed that keeps any violation from being a felony? Can I set it to accelerate in a sporty/aggressive fasion? Can I get it passing cars whenever possible?
They "will pass their knowledge and skills on"? Uh, how? Why?
The other teachers will be sitting in their own classes. They won't be watching the better-paid one. Teachers have work assigned to them, and after they finish they want to go home to their families or run off and get drunk. They are human.
Getting decent teachers requires two main things. First, the long-term (decades) pay has to look OK. (this isn't long-term) Second, the discipline problems must be solved. A couple bouncers in every classroom might do the job, as long as they actually do drag the disruptive kids out of class with a bit of minor violence.
The moment any such 'bug' went active, it would set off alarms -- by necessity, the communications would have to occur over the provider's own network. Unless their network admins are idiots they should notice the abberant traffic.
No way. How exactly are you going to view that traffic? You can't usefully plug an Ethernet cable into your head. You'll need an Ethernet chip, made by GUESS WHO...
Yep, the magic packets will NOT be reported to your OS. Either they get dropped, or they get sent directly (via DMA) to some other Chinese chip. Nothing will show up in Wireshark.
I expect this refers to abortion. OK, so how about the child? Doesn't he own his own body? You people always ignore this, probably because it blows your arguments to pieces.
Given the situation of pregnancy, it's impossible to avoid having at least two of the three people give up some rights. Ignoring the father, it comes down to a choice between a woman being annoyed and a child being killed. What is the greater loss of rights? Would you rather be annoyed or killed?
Now add in the fact that the child didn't cause the awkward situation. The child is 100% innocent. The woman had control, but she chose not to avoid the awkward situation while she could. Essentially, she made a choice that she now regrets and she wants to undo that choice. Well, that choice was her consent. Now she isn't the only person involved. There is a 100% innocent person for which this is literally a life-or-death matter. Normally we protect people; we take unwilling people (unconcious, suicidal, etc.) to the hospital all the time under the assumption that they will later be glad that they were saved.
I'm simply not going to pretend that we can all get along. I acknowledge that there are cultures that are fundamentally at odds with my own; they wish to destroy me. A failing of my own culture is the desire to bury our heads in the sand, expecting that everybody is like us and will want to sing kum-bai-ya around a campfire. I wish to respond in kind.
I also have no hesitation judging some other cultures (not all other cultures) as being fucked up. There are places that marry 7-year-old girls to middle aged men. There are places that sexually mutilate children of both sexes; there are also superior cultures that harm neither boys nor girls. There are places where disputing a supposed "Holy Book" can get you killed. There are places where girls are force-fed to make them fat, kind of like how ducks and geese are force-fed to make foie gras. There are places where "breast ironing" (burning a girl's breast buds to halt growth via scarring) is normal. WTF!!!
These fucked-up places are a pox on the Earth. They have rapid population growth. It is highly likely that they will overwealm the decent parts of this planet. Civilization is all downhill from here, most likely. There is only a sliver of hope; in theory we could slay the filth.
The USA is rank 24 (of 182) for corruption. Only 23 countries are better. Mexico is rank 100. You have no clue about Mexico. See for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index Of course, Afghanistan ties for spot 180 or 181. It's not so much about government; it's a matter of culture. Check out the map. The good parts of the world share the culture of northwestern Europe, with just a few rare exceptions. (the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all have culture from northwestern Europe)
Chinese corporations are busy mining in Afghanistan, not US corporations. The US only benefits indirectly by lower prices on the world market; if the Chinese use Afghanistan then they might not compete so hard for resources in North America and South America.
What are those? Suppose we bomb a sandbox, either northern Africa or somewhere between Israel and India. We kill a French doctor who was there fixing up women who got damaged by giving birth at age 11. Was he innocent? Since he was helping to support a culture that embraces eternal violence toward all other cultures, I'd say no. He is not innocent. He is in fact a traitor. Good riddence.
I suppose that a spy helping a non-sandbox country could be innocent. (for example, a Chinese spy in Pakistan or an Italian spy in Libya) Oh well. He chose a dangerous career, and anyway we all have to die.
You can't usefully put more than about 25 devices on a channel. Assuming all the devices are 2.4 GHz, you have at most 3 channels. 75 devices doesn't do the job. If you only connect the VPN endpoint though, then that is just one device and it'll work tolerably OK. Better would be stringing an ethernet cable to the dock. He probably already has a power cable, maybe even water and sewage, so it wouldn't be a big deal. You just unplug it when you go to sea, or rip it loose in an emergency.
it's going to have to share the same satellite link for example
The whole point of this is to avoid the satellite link. He's probably in port, where he can just toss a cable from the ship to the dock. At worst he's close enough to shore for a WiMax link. I'm betting he's in port. He probably also has temporary connections for power, water, and sewer. It's probably like an RV hook-up at an RV campground.
I'm betting this comes out of some morale/entertainment budget. They couldn't afford Madonna, they aren't allowed to use that budget for hookers or alcohol, and thus... the internet.
I assume he intends to literally toss an Ethernet cable from ship to shore. I bet they do this for electrical power too; why burn fuel if you don't need to? Maybe they even attach water and sewer pipes. They can disconnect if they need to go out to sea, properly if not an emergency or ripping loose if it is an emergency.
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To prevent clogs I now flush after each turd, and once more for the paper. Surely this does not save water!
Even with that, I still get clogs sometimes. These new toilets can't handle a 16" (40 cm) turd.
Oh, they are also unsanitary. The high-powered water jets fling tiny droplets of "water" (poo) into the air. We breathe that air. Many people even keep toothbrushes and cups in the bathroom.
Hmmm, I wonder if her gender made a difference. Perhaps in that culture war is considered a topic for men and perhaps boys.
It's long-term, but not successful. At this point, I don't think we're ever going to see a pregnancy.
I've seen most of it. I saw a woman go from man to man, though she did seem to be an OK or good worker. I also saw a man have nearly the same success, despite a dire sex ratio working against him.
When a guy feels attraction, but has the social skills of an elementary school kid, this is the sort of thing he may do. He can't resist the thrill of interacting with a real-life pretty woman, but he is unable to properly admit his feelings and/or is unable to properly express them. He regrets it later. He may fantasize about her for months afterward or worse.
there are cultures where war is unknown
Allegedly there is also a culture where the cause of pregnancy is unknown. Don't believe it for a moment. There is a language barrier and there are likely to be taboo subjects that the researcher is not aware of. If war is taboo, then it certainly will not be discussed with an outsider.
(I'm defining war as lethal group violence within a species)
Humans do pretty much everything in organized groups. Your usage of "group" is a distinction that is unfair to creatures that aren't human. To be fair you should either accept a concept of 1-on-1 war, or accept that "war" is really just a minor subdivision of the key concept: competitive activities that effectively result in death. And yes, even plants do this. That damn pine tree hanging over my garden is using chemical weapons.
Your logic with regard to evolution is circular.
Not exactly: I described a feedback loop. There is indeed a theoretical situation without war, but it is unstable. Picture two worlds, one of pacifists and one of killers. Pacifists give birth to pacifists, on and on. Likewise, killers give birth to killers, on and on. One day in each world there is born a mutant with different behavior. In the world of killers, the mutant (a pacifist) is quickly exterminated. In the world of pacifists, the mutant thrives at the expense of the pacifists. Before long, both worlds are full of killers.
Uh, OK. I'll agree, given that we've seen chimpanzees go to war!
You're looking at something way deeper and more fundamental than human nature. War is simply a manifestation of the competition of life. On some primitive level, even the dumbest forms of life engage in this.
You can't escape the situation. Remember how the winners write history? They also leave more offspring. We are the descendents of creatures who were mostly winners and never complete losers. Our minds are shaped by evolution. Our status as humans does not exempt us from selection, not even today and not ever in the future.
You could probably do the job with a battery-powered circular saw. Diamond saw blades don't look sharp.
We are evolved to enjoy sex in ways that lead to healthy children, resulting in grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on. As far as sexual desire goes, everybody is essentially trying to make babies even if they think they are not.
We evolved this way because sex meant babies prior to birth control. We will evolve to suit the new environment of course; we now must directly want babies rather than just sex. There already exist people in our population today with this trait. Someday, the trait will be essentially universal. Everybody will want kids passionately. People who merely like sex are failing to pass on their DNA.
Development costs don't get wasted unless you never succeed. Construction costs get wasted for every device that gets built but crashes or is never launched.
These delays are not free. You have the cost of an aborted launch, and you have the cost of not performing the mission for a period of time. You also create delays for other launches from the same location, causing costs that are externalized to some other program.
Is there an actual problem with the weather, or are we just being wimpy? When is the last time weather destroyed a rocket in flight? We're being too careful if this isn't a decent portion (perhaps 10%) of the failures.
You're going to lose a few rockets anyway. If you don't even up the causes of failure, you're being pointlessly reckless in some areas while being pointlessly fearful in others.
Xfce has configurable panels. You could create an upper one if you wanted, but that would cause trouble like you're seeing. Don't do that. It's easy to make Xfce highly usable, kind of like GNOME 1. (the stupidity started with a committee deciding that GNOME 2 should have 2 panels, like some ill win/mac hybrid) Here is how:
Make just one panel, at the bottom. Set it 50 pixels tall. Put the menu on the left, next maybe a few highly-used launchers or a log-out button, next the window switcher buttons (you'll get 2 rows in 50 pixels), next a clock, and finaly a virtual desktop switcher. Disable the desktop nonsense (trash, home, etc.) and enable focus-follows-mouse.
Suppose I need to go somewhere, and the shortest path goes through a neighborhood where my skin color is unwelcome. Could that be avoided? It'd be best if this didn't require me to specify anything, because I might be unaware of the danger.
Politicians set the limits low to get votes from grandma and from people who think the street is a place for young/dumb/autistic/adhd kids to play without supervision. Except for a few corrupt small towns abusing power on a highway that passes through, nobody else expects or desires to have the speed limits enforced as posted.
So... can I set the car to go 9% faster? Can I set it to go the fastest speed that keeps any violation from being a felony? Can I set it to accelerate in a sporty/aggressive fasion? Can I get it passing cars whenever possible?
They "will pass their knowledge and skills on"? Uh, how? Why?
The other teachers will be sitting in their own classes. They won't be watching the better-paid one. Teachers have work assigned to them, and after they finish they want to go home to their families or run off and get drunk. They are human.
Getting decent teachers requires two main things. First, the long-term (decades) pay has to look OK. (this isn't long-term) Second, the discipline problems must be solved. A couple bouncers in every classroom might do the job, as long as they actually do drag the disruptive kids out of class with a bit of minor violence.
The moment any such 'bug' went active, it would set off alarms -- by necessity, the communications would have to occur over the provider's own network. Unless their network admins are idiots they should notice the abberant traffic.
No way. How exactly are you going to view that traffic? You can't usefully plug an Ethernet cable into your head. You'll need an Ethernet chip, made by GUESS WHO...
Yep, the magic packets will NOT be reported to your OS. Either they get dropped, or they get sent directly (via DMA) to some other Chinese chip. Nothing will show up in Wireshark.
Imagine a chip, made in China, that has a network connection (to China) and can DMA to/from your RAM.
Oh, hey, you have one: your Ethernet chip. Shit. We're fucked.
Also notice the chips in your wireless router, cable modem, cell phone, cell tower, USB stick, USB port, etc.
"own your body", hmmm?
I expect this refers to abortion. OK, so how about the child? Doesn't he own his own body? You people always ignore this, probably because it blows your arguments to pieces.
Given the situation of pregnancy, it's impossible to avoid having at least two of the three people give up some rights. Ignoring the father, it comes down to a choice between a woman being annoyed and a child being killed. What is the greater loss of rights? Would you rather be annoyed or killed?
Now add in the fact that the child didn't cause the awkward situation. The child is 100% innocent. The woman had control, but she chose not to avoid the awkward situation while she could. Essentially, she made a choice that she now regrets and she wants to undo that choice. Well, that choice was her consent. Now she isn't the only person involved. There is a 100% innocent person for which this is literally a life-or-death matter. Normally we protect people; we take unwilling people (unconcious, suicidal, etc.) to the hospital all the time under the assumption that they will later be glad that they were saved.
Fool.
(or you're one of the enemy)
I'm simply not going to pretend that we can all get along. I acknowledge that there are cultures that are fundamentally at odds with my own; they wish to destroy me. A failing of my own culture is the desire to bury our heads in the sand, expecting that everybody is like us and will want to sing kum-bai-ya around a campfire. I wish to respond in kind.
I also have no hesitation judging some other cultures (not all other cultures) as being fucked up. There are places that marry 7-year-old girls to middle aged men. There are places that sexually mutilate children of both sexes; there are also superior cultures that harm neither boys nor girls. There are places where disputing a supposed "Holy Book" can get you killed. There are places where girls are force-fed to make them fat, kind of like how ducks and geese are force-fed to make foie gras. There are places where "breast ironing" (burning a girl's breast buds to halt growth via scarring) is normal. WTF!!!
These fucked-up places are a pox on the Earth. They have rapid population growth. It is highly likely that they will overwealm the decent parts of this planet. Civilization is all downhill from here, most likely. There is only a sliver of hope; in theory we could slay the filth.
The USA is rank 24 (of 182) for corruption. Only 23 countries are better. Mexico is rank 100. You have no clue about Mexico. See for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Of course, Afghanistan ties for spot 180 or 181. It's not so much about government; it's a matter of culture. Check out the map. The good parts of the world share the culture of northwestern Europe, with just a few rare exceptions. (the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all have culture from northwestern Europe)
Chinese corporations are busy mining in Afghanistan, not US corporations. The US only benefits indirectly by lower prices on the world market; if the Chinese use Afghanistan then they might not compete so hard for resources in North America and South America.
So it's ok to kill innocents?
What are those? Suppose we bomb a sandbox, either northern Africa or somewhere between Israel and India. We kill a French doctor who was there fixing up women who got damaged by giving birth at age 11. Was he innocent? Since he was helping to support a culture that embraces eternal violence toward all other cultures, I'd say no. He is not innocent. He is in fact a traitor. Good riddence.
I suppose that a spy helping a non-sandbox country could be innocent. (for example, a Chinese spy in Pakistan or an Italian spy in Libya) Oh well. He chose a dangerous career, and anyway we all have to die.
You can't usefully put more than about 25 devices on a channel. Assuming all the devices are 2.4 GHz, you have at most 3 channels. 75 devices doesn't do the job. If you only connect the VPN endpoint though, then that is just one device and it'll work tolerably OK. Better would be stringing an ethernet cable to the dock. He probably already has a power cable, maybe even water and sewage, so it wouldn't be a big deal. You just unplug it when you go to sea, or rip it loose in an emergency.
it's going to have to share the same satellite link for example
The whole point of this is to avoid the satellite link. He's probably in port, where he can just toss a cable from the ship to the dock. At worst he's close enough to shore for a WiMax link. I'm betting he's in port. He probably also has temporary connections for power, water, and sewer. It's probably like an RV hook-up at an RV campground.
I'm betting this comes out of some morale/entertainment budget. They couldn't afford Madonna, they aren't allowed to use that budget for hookers or alcohol, and thus... the internet.
I assume he intends to literally toss an Ethernet cable from ship to shore. I bet they do this for electrical power too; why burn fuel if you don't need to? Maybe they even attach water and sewer pipes. They can disconnect if they need to go out to sea, properly if not an emergency or ripping loose if it is an emergency.