Maybe it's because I live in the third world and am used to dealing with corruption like this almost on a daily basis that I am so cynical.
It's more that people in the "third world" tend to take a cynical view of public officials and politicians. Whereas many in the "developed" world tend to be very trusting of the same...
The Pirate Bay has also already registered a domain specifically for those in Belgium, to work around the censorship order. http://depiraatbaai.be/ (Flemish Dutch for "The Pirate Bay")
How soon before they also register lepiratebay.be or labaiedepirates.be ?
"These observations should dispel in one fell swoop any notion that recent global warming could be natural."
Really? Because climate has never, ever, not even once, shifted quickly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png Note the huge uptick in average temperature starting roughly 11.5k years BP.
I wonder how well the methods used to reconstruct climate would be able to identify a similar event to that observed in Canada. Even though Ellesmere Island is a large island it is still a comparativly small part of the planet.
No, but we have documented proof that both Europe and North America were experiencing a "mini ice age" as late at the mid-1800's, and that before the early 1700's (when the mini ice-age started) it was warmer than it is now.
However as none of these records were written by "climate scientists" the AGW lot tend to deny them.
A voting machine that prints out, you check and then but in a box in the old fashioned way, stops spoilt papers and unclear intentions,
Assuming that eliminating "spoilt papers" and "unclear intentions" is actually a desirable (and that great care has been taken not to eliminate uncommon, but correct, ways to vote.) There's also the issue of complex ballots, including multiple elections on the same ballot paper. Something which appears to be common in the US, but very rare anywhere else.
How about "only fuck with targets that the intel agencies sniffing in the darknet don't mind seeing fucked with" like targets in countries hostile to the US?
Governments can change which countries they do and don't like very rapidly. As well as publically claiming one thing, whilst actually doing something completly different. Even if you could find a country which truely had no friends you'd probably find that various "intelligence agencies" would view you as trespassing on their "turf".
What you do is clearly a breach of contract between you and the content provider, with more contractual implications up the licensing chain.
The only way a contract could possibly exist with a streaming media site would be where a user had to "sign in" somehow. If this server was just making a decision based on the IP address it saw then how could such a contractual relationship exist?
My parents bought a microwave oven this summer and we placed a cell phone in and called it. It rang so I doubt microwave ovens are properly shielded.
All that proves is that it dosn't block 1.9GHz, 1.8GHz, 850kHz, 900kHz, 450kHz or whatever the phone was using. You might just as well put a battery powered radio inside. Or even declared it was not "properly shielded" because you could see inside!
My el-cheapo microwave says on the box that it has 1500 watts of cooking power. Wifi stuff works over a couple of watts.
In order to get that amount of microwave energy you'd need something in excess of 2kw of electrical energy. If you are in North America 1.5kw makes rather more sense as power consumption. The term "cooking power" could turn out to be as much a fiction as "music power".
Well, there are adequate replacements for CFCs. Why existing drugs were not reformulated using non-CFC propellants is beyond me. It'd been known for quite some time that CFCs would be banned.
Presumably because "reformulated" drugs would be new drugs in terms of patents. Bringing out such drugs when there were competing generics would not be a smart move financially speaking.
I find it interesting how human health of millions is a lower priority than closing a minor loophole in a CFC treaty.
Especially given that it's unlikely that anyone would have noticed the USA not doing this...
This is far from the first time that environmental concerns have taken priority over human lives.
As well as ending up causing more pollution than the status quo. e.g. chemical A is replaced with chemical B. Chemical B is only slightly less toxic than chemical A, but several times as much is required to do the same job.
The UK does some odd things sometimes. I work for a software company and about 15 years ago an agency in the UK Gov was interested in our software. They wanted 50 seats. Well our normal price is about $4000 but for that big of a sale we would have gone as low as $2000.
Might have helped to have given them a price in GBP:)
The problem with a nuclear power plant is that while its failure mode is relatively rare, it fails in such a way that it becomes one of the worst flavors of industrial accident in existence.
I don't recall that Union Carbide were operating a nuclear power plant in Bhopal.
Ram a 747 into a nuclear reactor
Yet just over 10 years ago Indian Point Energy Center did not have any planes crashed into it. Somehow WTC 1&2 were more attractive to terrorists than IP 2&3...
Since his initial misconduct was publicly complaining about being pressured to join prayer meetings, they had to find something else to justify firing him.
Especially given that any kind of pressure to take part in any religious activity in work time (possibly even just sanctioning such a thing in the workplace) sounds like serious misconduct on their part.
Well, actually, I can think of plenty of ways you could be "set up" to "have an affair" as long as "have an affair" remains in quotes. Quite simply, a supervisor at work could require you to work late on various nights but arrange it in such a way that you have no proof that you really worked late. Then they could bring out someone they've hired to claim to have had an affair with you and tell your spouse that you were lying about working late.
Wouldn't they get in trouble for only employing married people? Also falsifying who is in the building probably violates fire regulations.
But it's apparently ok for the American Physical Society to endorse claims made by "Climatologists"? That appears to be Dr. Giaever's first complaint. His second point is that that 0.8 degrees difference in the average temperature of the average temperature of a planet over 150 years is well within "experimental error". Given the huge number of measurements and cacluations which would be needed even if the measuring devices and methods had not changed at all in that time.
And Nobel Laureaute status is nice, but you'd be surprised at how many Nobel Laureates fly off into cloud-cuckoo land. (For example, Roger Penrose has caused biologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers to boggle, with his consciousness-by-quantum-nanotube-therefore-free-will spiel he's been pushing. He's great at astrophysics, but this stuff he's been writing lately is weird and wrong on many levels
But comment on climatologists in similar ways and you tend to get asked what your qualifications you have in "climatology"...
If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead.
If the third stage were to fail to ignite can the crew not manually initiate separation of the third stage from the Service Module? (Probably also immediatly also dump the Orbital Module to reduce mass). Then use the engine and thrusters to give control over where they are going to land. Even if the third stage were to explode. So long as both the crew and the Descent Module survived the explosion they should still be able to land safely.
This article only refers to NASA vehicles. There is no mention of any of Soviet/Russian Federation design/manufacture. The original article also does not make it clear if this was a TMA or TMA-M.
Sorry but Cable internet at home is faster than the T3 we have here at work. most businesses dont have a T3 but instead have a T1 that most DSL can equate or beat.
You won't find T anything in New Zealand. It's one of those things which separate US (possibly NANP) telecoms from the rest of the planet.
Although I have no idea what software the author is using, I had no problem following his line of thought... More bars are better, no?
Depends what you are measuring. Signal to Noise ratio can be more important than signal strength. It would also be helpful to see how this affects reception on the WAP end.
The debate was never about forcing pedophiles^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpriest to marry gays in their church. It was about giving the same right and benefit to homosexual couples.
Which is still discriminatory. Against single people, also triads, Vs, groups, etc. The simplist way to eliminate discrimination would be for the state to get out of people's relationships. Which would also be the most obvious way to go about things if "smaller government" were actually being advocated.
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Maybe it's because I live in the third world and am used to dealing with corruption like this almost on a daily basis that I am so cynical.
It's more that people in the "third world" tend to take a cynical view of public officials and politicians. Whereas many in the "developed" world tend to be very trusting of the same...
The Pirate Bay has also already registered a domain specifically for those in Belgium, to work around the censorship order. http://depiraatbaai.be/ (Flemish Dutch for "The Pirate Bay")
How soon before they also register lepiratebay.be or labaiedepirates.be ?
"These observations should dispel in one fell swoop any notion that recent global warming could be natural."
Really? Because climate has never, ever, not even once, shifted quickly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
Note the huge uptick in average temperature starting roughly 11.5k years BP.
I wonder how well the methods used to reconstruct climate would be able to identify a similar event to that observed in Canada. Even though Ellesmere Island is a large island it is still a comparativly small part of the planet.
No, but we have documented proof that both Europe and North America were experiencing a "mini ice age" as late at the mid-1800's, and that before the early 1700's (when the mini ice-age started) it was warmer than it is now.
However as none of these records were written by "climate scientists" the AGW lot tend to deny them.
I was just thinking there was a cost associated with counting votes by hand.
Probably considerably less than obtaining, maintaining and securely storing complex machines which will hardly ever actually be used.
A voting machine that prints out, you check and then but in a box in the old fashioned way, stops spoilt papers and unclear intentions,
Assuming that eliminating "spoilt papers" and "unclear intentions" is actually a desirable (and that great care has been taken not to eliminate uncommon, but correct, ways to vote.)
There's also the issue of complex ballots, including multiple elections on the same ballot paper. Something which appears to be common in the US, but very rare anywhere else.
How about "only fuck with targets that the intel agencies sniffing in the darknet don't mind seeing fucked with" like targets in countries hostile to the US?
Governments can change which countries they do and don't like very rapidly. As well as publically claiming one thing, whilst actually doing something completly different. Even if you could find a country which truely had no friends you'd probably find that various "intelligence agencies" would view you as trespassing on their "turf".
What you do is clearly a breach of contract between you and the content provider, with more contractual implications up the licensing chain.
The only way a contract could possibly exist with a streaming media site would be where a user had to "sign in" somehow.
If this server was just making a decision based on the IP address it saw then how could such a contractual relationship exist?
My parents bought a microwave oven this summer and we placed a cell phone in and called it. It rang so I doubt microwave ovens are properly shielded.
All that proves is that it dosn't block 1.9GHz, 1.8GHz, 850kHz, 900kHz, 450kHz or whatever the phone was using.
You might just as well put a battery powered radio inside. Or even declared it was not "properly shielded" because you could see inside!
My el-cheapo microwave says on the box that it has 1500 watts of cooking power. Wifi stuff works over a couple of watts.
In order to get that amount of microwave energy you'd need something in excess of 2kw of electrical energy. If you are in North America 1.5kw makes rather more sense as power consumption. The term "cooking power" could turn out to be as much a fiction as "music power".
Well, there are adequate replacements for CFCs. Why existing drugs were not reformulated using non-CFC propellants is beyond me. It'd been known for quite some time that CFCs would be banned.
Presumably because "reformulated" drugs would be new drugs in terms of patents. Bringing out such drugs when there were competing generics would not be a smart move financially speaking.
I find it interesting how human health of millions is a lower priority than closing a minor loophole in a CFC treaty.
Especially given that it's unlikely that anyone would have noticed the USA not doing this...
This is far from the first time that environmental concerns have taken priority over human lives.
As well as ending up causing more pollution than the status quo. e.g. chemical A is replaced with chemical B. Chemical B is only slightly less toxic than chemical A, but several times as much is required to do the same job.
The UK does some odd things sometimes. I work for a software company and about 15 years ago an agency in the UK Gov was interested in our software. They wanted 50 seats. Well our normal price is about $4000 but for that big of a sale we would have gone as low as $2000.
:)
Might have helped to have given them a price in GBP
my servers take up to 45 seconds to get to the boot loader.
:)
If that's actually an issue then you most likely have considerably more serious problems with your servers
The problem with a nuclear power plant is that while its failure mode is relatively rare, it fails in such a way that it becomes one of the worst flavors of industrial accident in existence.
I don't recall that Union Carbide were operating a nuclear power plant in Bhopal.
Ram a 747 into a nuclear reactor
Yet just over 10 years ago Indian Point Energy Center did not have any planes crashed into it. Somehow WTC 1&2 were more attractive to terrorists than IP 2&3...
Since his initial misconduct was publicly complaining about being pressured to join prayer meetings, they had to find something else to justify firing him.
Especially given that any kind of pressure to take part in any religious activity in work time (possibly even just sanctioning such a thing in the workplace) sounds like serious misconduct on their part.
Well, actually, I can think of plenty of ways you could be "set up" to "have an affair" as long as "have an affair" remains in quotes. Quite simply, a supervisor at work could require you to work late on various nights but arrange it in such a way that you have no proof that you really worked late. Then they could bring out someone they've hired to claim to have had an affair with you and tell your spouse that you were lying about working late.
Wouldn't they get in trouble for only employing married people? Also falsifying who is in the building probably violates fire regulations.
A better analogy would be someone using their car in a reasonable manner but crashing into the crowd because someone cut their brake lines.
But the brakes in a car generally don't fail because someone put the wrong CD in or tuned to the wrong radio station.
Physics is not Climatology
But it's apparently ok for the American Physical Society to endorse claims made by "Climatologists"? That appears to be Dr. Giaever's first complaint. His second point is that that 0.8 degrees difference in the average temperature of the average temperature of a planet over 150 years is well within "experimental error". Given the huge number of measurements and cacluations which would be needed even if the measuring devices and methods had not changed at all in that time.
And Nobel Laureaute status is nice, but you'd be surprised at how many Nobel Laureates fly off into cloud-cuckoo land. (For example, Roger Penrose has caused biologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers to boggle, with his consciousness-by-quantum-nanotube-therefore-free-will spiel he's been pushing. He's great at astrophysics, but this stuff he's been writing lately is weird and wrong on many levels
But comment on climatologists in similar ways and you tend to get asked what your qualifications you have in "climatology"...
If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead.
If the third stage were to fail to ignite can the crew not manually initiate separation of the third stage from the Service Module? (Probably also immediatly also dump the Orbital Module to reduce mass). Then use the engine and thrusters to give control over where they are going to land.
Even if the third stage were to explode. So long as both the crew and the Descent Module survived the explosion they should still be able to land safely.
Hmm.. Reminds me of the Apollo program except they expected the plasma issue. Maybe they thought another frequency would be immune to the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_blackout
This article only refers to NASA vehicles. There is no mention of any of Soviet/Russian Federation design/manufacture. The original article also does not make it clear if this was a TMA or TMA-M.
ntop (http://www.ntop.org) should be able to do more or less what you want, but you might have to tweak a few things.
It dosn't look like this will do anything the original poster was actually asking about.
Sorry but Cable internet at home is faster than the T3 we have here at work. most businesses dont have a T3 but instead have a T1 that most DSL can equate or beat.
You won't find T anything in New Zealand. It's one of those things which separate US (possibly NANP) telecoms from the rest of the planet.
Although I have no idea what software the author is using, I had no problem following his line of thought ... More bars are better, no?
Depends what you are measuring. Signal to Noise ratio can be more important than signal strength. It would also be helpful to see how this affects reception on the WAP end.
The debate was never about forcing pedophiles^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpriest to marry gays in their church. It was about giving the same right and benefit to homosexual couples.
Which is still discriminatory. Against single people, also triads, Vs, groups, etc. The simplist way to eliminate discrimination would be for the state to get out of people's relationships. Which would also be the most obvious way to go about things if "smaller government" were actually being advocated.