Instead, what the left wing is arguing for is a banana republic type of government
If the left ever gained absolute power in this country, we'd all be in concentration camps, guarded by soldiers wearing armbands with peace insignias, with Joan Baez droning 24x7 from the public address.
I'm not joking or exaggerating: there was so much leaked radioactive material on/in the ground that they expected it to concentrate through natural drainage to above critical mass.
You're not joking...but perhaps you should be. For critical mass, you're talking between 10kg of plutonium (Pu-239) to 80kg (Pu-242). That's a lot of Pu to have "leaked". Not impossible I suppose (in terms of volume, even a Pu-242 core is less than a foot in diameter), but even if there was 10kg of loose Plutonium in the ground around Hanford, getting it all together seems unlikely...it's in millions of gallons of liquid and millions of tons of earth. It's not like Pu atoms are magnetically drawn to each other - they're just heavy.
True, Hanford produced 55,000kg of plutonium during its operational life, and 10-80kg would be a small fraction. But I'm skeptical...not that Hanford isn't polluted, but that there's a danger of enough loose Pu accumulating through "drainage" to get into a critical mass/configuration.
Its also why Japan is having its densely populated cities (along with other areas) laid down with fibre optic while we're stuck with inferior methods of internet access. Japanese businesses are willing to look at the long-term while American businesses only look to the next quarter.
Yeah...that must be it. It couldn't be because the entire country of Japan is smaller than California, and when you subtract the inhabitable mountains, volcanos, etc. it's more like Nevada. Or that it has some of the densest metro regions in the world, including the world's largest, Tokyo.
Nope, couldn't be that running fiber everywhere is a much smaller and easier task. Must be that the Japanese are so clever and the Americans so dumb.
And of course, in two states in the union (New Jersey and Oregon), you are forbidden from even touching the pump...the fact that you can't pump your own gas is quite a disincentive to getting out of the car.
The best part of remembering the overpopulation scare is when you realize it was promulgated by the same idiotic baby boomers who are now lining up to take fertility drugs so they can have quintuplets in their late 40s.
Exactly. The U.S. border patrol has been using this method to determine which cars to inspect since the 40s, long before there were big expensive software packages to roll dice. You don't need "game theory" when "common sense" and "obvious approach" suffice.
I have a "hidden" PC stashed in a panel behind the entertainment center. I replicate nightly from my desktop to the media center. Weekly, I replicate from the media center to a portable USB drive. On Mondays, the USB drive goes to the office with me and stays there till Friday.
Not everyone has the foresight to schedule their disasters for weekdays, as you do.
In the very unlikely case that after 3 fucking years of development
This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose. It doesn't clarify or improve the sentence. There are innumerable ways you could have written this sentence with more punch, wit, and style.
Without the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley, they only have to have a CONSISTENT policy of data storage...
The requirements...as interpreted by your auditors. SOX 404 is a single paragraph. Repeat: a single, vaguely worded paragraph. The massive requirements, documentation, and directives are all auditors' speculations about what might be needed to satisfy it.
Unlikely. A real lawyer would have better things to do with his time. More likely, someone who took business law in community college and is desperate to show off his knowledge.
Do any of you realize how stupid you sound complaining about tort law, which has existed as a key part of societies for several centuries, almost the world over?
That's why I also never complain about war, crime, poverty, disease, or dictatorships. If it's old, it must be good!
I stopped editing Wikipedia BECAUSE of their obsession with "being legit". It got really tiresome to look through pages with nearly every sentence marked "citation needed". Or to come back and find that whole paragraphs have been stricken from pages because they weren't sufficiently documented. There are dozens of pages I can think of that were once long, in-depth articles that have been reduced to stubs in the name of "being legit". I also disagree with the anti-original-research policy.
The whole point of Wikipedia is that it's self-correcting. If I know a lot about a subject, I write about it. If some of it is bogus, someone else will correct it. Documenting it with endless citations adds nothing. Wikipedia didn't used to be like that...but then some people got obsessed with "being as legit as Encyclopedia Britannica". I mean, gee, if we can't cite Wikipedia in our term papers, what good is it! Gasp! Yawn. Wikipedia would eventually have been good enough there wouldn't be a question, but now it's gone down this tedious path.
It's hilarious to read now. Go look at most of the higher math or science articles...few citations, but no one questions them because they don't understand them. Now go look at some pop culture article - tons of citations needed or marked all over the place. Some things are inherently un-citable, yet good to add to articles. And of course, there is NO standard for citations - a quote from some yahoo's web page is as good as a cite for a scientific journal. So what's the point?
I've made thousands of edits and created several entire categories, but ultimately it wasn't worth my effort any longer. Now I put my specialized content on web pages and if people find it, good for them; if less do because it's not on Wikipedia, big deal.
As a side note, I sincerely hope that the Wikipedia project is replaced by something with structured data, rather than free-flowing text...i.e., something that is queryable. "Here's an article about the Confederate Generals of the U.S. Civil War" should be accompanied by "and here is the information in a structured format so you can use it programmatically".
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If the left ever gained absolute power in this country, we'd all be in concentration camps, guarded by soldiers wearing armbands with peace insignias, with Joan Baez droning 24x7 from the public address.
You're not joking...but perhaps you should be. For critical mass, you're talking between 10kg of plutonium (Pu-239) to 80kg (Pu-242). That's a lot of Pu to have "leaked". Not impossible I suppose (in terms of volume, even a Pu-242 core is less than a foot in diameter), but even if there was 10kg of loose Plutonium in the ground around Hanford, getting it all together seems unlikely...it's in millions of gallons of liquid and millions of tons of earth. It's not like Pu atoms are magnetically drawn to each other - they're just heavy.
True, Hanford produced 55,000kg of plutonium during its operational life, and 10-80kg would be a small fraction. But I'm skeptical...not that Hanford isn't polluted, but that there's a danger of enough loose Pu accumulating through "drainage" to get into a critical mass/configuration.
Sure it does. A game of football is nothing more than a few quintillion molecules moving around.
I'm curious what D&D you're referring to...a "2d6 roll against your INT" isn't Dungeon and Dragons, so what are you talking about?
Which, of course, is the first thing Google thinks of...
Yeah...that must be it. It couldn't be because the entire country of Japan is smaller than California, and when you subtract the inhabitable mountains, volcanos, etc. it's more like Nevada. Or that it has some of the densest metro regions in the world, including the world's largest, Tokyo.
Nope, couldn't be that running fiber everywhere is a much smaller and easier task. Must be that the Japanese are so clever and the Americans so dumb.
Fascinating. Now what does this have to do with the appendix, which is the topic we're discussing?
And of course, in two states in the union (New Jersey and Oregon), you are forbidden from even touching the pump...the fact that you can't pump your own gas is quite a disincentive to getting out of the car.
The best part of remembering the overpopulation scare is when you realize it was promulgated by the same idiotic baby boomers who are now lining up to take fertility drugs so they can have quintuplets in their late 40s.
I know that when I sell something, I first made loud pronouncements about how buying it was a big mistake and it isn't worth much.
(Use your head).
Um, no. The vast majority of software was created by IBM and the seven dwarves and shared with no one.
The SECOND problem with this is he's saying:
Huh? So this is also about SENDING email?
Ah, I'd wondered where Robert McElwaine had gone...
Exactly. The U.S. border patrol has been using this method to determine which cars to inspect since the 40s, long before there were big expensive software packages to roll dice. You don't need "game theory" when "common sense" and "obvious approach" suffice.
Not everyone has the foresight to schedule their disasters for weekdays, as you do.
This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose. It doesn't clarify or improve the sentence. There are innumerable ways you could have written this sentence with more punch, wit, and style.
Thank you for demonstrating, far better than I ever could, that politics is purely fashion. Yes, let's hate Americans. All the cool kids are doing it!
If someone used a tag called "becauseindiansaredumb" or "becausemexicansaredumb", everyone here would be up in arms.
Now seriously...customizing the interface is termed a hack? Next you'll tell me how you hacked your desktop by changing the desktop wallpaper...
1. eliminate all caffeine from your diet
2. get 30-40 minutes of cardio exercise 3-4 times a week
I haven't been sleepy during the day since, and I sleep great at night.
Eating a small lunch and eliminating sweets also helps...
Might have been the toolish way you frothed over how you were "blown away at how innovative [Windows 95] was".
The requirements...as interpreted by your auditors. SOX 404 is a single paragraph. Repeat: a single, vaguely worded paragraph. The massive requirements, documentation, and directives are all auditors' speculations about what might be needed to satisfy it.
Unlikely. A real lawyer would have better things to do with his time. More likely, someone who took business law in community college and is desperate to show off his knowledge.
That's why I also never complain about war, crime, poverty, disease, or dictatorships. If it's old, it must be good!
The whole point of Wikipedia is that it's self-correcting. If I know a lot about a subject, I write about it. If some of it is bogus, someone else will correct it. Documenting it with endless citations adds nothing. Wikipedia didn't used to be like that...but then some people got obsessed with "being as legit as Encyclopedia Britannica". I mean, gee, if we can't cite Wikipedia in our term papers, what good is it! Gasp! Yawn. Wikipedia would eventually have been good enough there wouldn't be a question, but now it's gone down this tedious path.
It's hilarious to read now. Go look at most of the higher math or science articles...few citations, but no one questions them because they don't understand them. Now go look at some pop culture article - tons of citations needed or marked all over the place. Some things are inherently un-citable, yet good to add to articles. And of course, there is NO standard for citations - a quote from some yahoo's web page is as good as a cite for a scientific journal. So what's the point?
I've made thousands of edits and created several entire categories, but ultimately it wasn't worth my effort any longer. Now I put my specialized content on web pages and if people find it, good for them; if less do because it's not on Wikipedia, big deal.
As a side note, I sincerely hope that the Wikipedia project is replaced by something with structured data, rather than free-flowing text...i.e., something that is queryable. "Here's an article about the Confederate Generals of the U.S. Civil War" should be accompanied by "and here is the information in a structured format so you can use it programmatically".