Ask yourself why the US has so many high paying jobs compared to Mexico. It is maybe because over many years the actions of the government and the various freedoms protected by the government have made the US more powerful and wealthier than Mexico? No maybe you don't agree with the way the US got it's wealth and power but don't be so deliberately ignorant to deny that the wealth and power is here by design. That design is created and implimented by the US government.
Thats hard to say. It's partly culture (protastant work ethic) partly abundance of resources, partly the immigration of exceptional people (einstien, Telsa etc..), the availability of capital, strong property laws, a strong and numerous middle class. The current admin is hedging the immigration of exceptional people in favor of the immigration fo marginal people and they are hurting the middle class. The culture has shifted and the protestant work ethic is not as pervasive. Resources and capital you still have in abundance though.
America is now a country of middle managers, having outsourced so much of the actual work to other countries. At some point they will realize how little they need you and cut their ties. You'll notice the massive tumble the dollar has taken in the last 6 years. The corporatiosn are bribing your government to legislate yourselves into insignifigance.
This obssesive focus on short term gains that your culture and stock set up encourages will ultimately be severely detrimental to America. Someone should wise up before you out source, down size, and Quarterly report yourselves into a minor historic foot note.
So in America, A president ordering others to repeatedly violate your constitution and violate the rights of the people you are not punished but if you get a blow job from an ugly fat girl you get impeachment hearings. My god you guys have issues with sex.
Traditionally the idea is from an outside observer a object falling into a black hole never makes it as any information flowing from that object is slowed by gravity as it escapes. Until it cannot escape at the event horizon.
However, a trip of any useful length will require your tires to rotate significantly more than 360 degrees. Perhaps someday these research cars will be able to travel more than 47 inches.
I have a dream. A 300 mile wide wheel. in one revolution it will span cities.
I don't see the problem here. Microsoft and Immersion signed a contract that said "If the Immersion case with Sony is settled, Immersion pays Microsoft $XXX". They then settled their case, but chose to call it something other than a settlement. As long as the word 'settle'/'settlement' has a legally definable meaning, and that meaning covers the 'business arrangement' between Sony and Immersion, then Microsoft is owed money. There's nothing insidious or underhanded about it. If Immersion doesn't like it, they should have either not settled or not agreed to those terms in the first place.
It all hinges on the definition of the word "settlement". So their going to dance around the semantics of that particular word.
100 tonnes likely would not be enough for a generation ship. Possibly would be okay for a sleeper ship. It would be a matter of science and engineering. The drive would be less then 100% efficient and the power generator as well so you will need signifcantly more then 500 kg's. A fusion reaction only releases a small portion of the enrgy locked into the atoms. The exact percentage escapes me but it's not significant. On the level of 2-5%. So you must mutiply your numbers by 20 just to account for reaction efficency. You need some sort of reaction that liberates more of the energy (anti-matter maybe) without requiring 10,000 times the energy to create the fuel (anti-matter). etc..
It may be possible but we are a long way off in terms of enineering and basic science. The idea however is there is a lot of "magic" technologies of questionable possibility thats needs to be made. We need a driive mechanism that can get us ot a significant portion of C. A Power source that can provide enough energy to the drive to without adding significant weight and engineering objects to exist for more then a hundred years.
Digital distribution is the way of the future, not Blu-Ray or HD DVD discs. Isn't netflix already selling movie downloads?
There is this community then there is the multitude of non-tech literate. While we have 3 mbit and 5 mbit and 8 mbit connections to toy with the average consumer things 1.5 mbit is fast internet. Waiting 8h for a movie to download is par for the course for those of use who installer programs that came on 22 floppies or waited 16h with our main line tied up hoping to god mom or dad wouldn't pick the phone up requiring us to start over.We're a different breed then the average consumer. For us digital distribution is here. For them wait 2 more formate generation and they may join us. The thing is they are 10 times our number so online HD movie distribution is likely another dozen years from main stream.
The PS3 is a really good DVD/Blu-ray player. It had a in movie HUD similar to the PS2 except it's responsive and doesn't suck. It scales up significantly better then my HD-TV.
As a propaganda tool it was a good idea. For any practical use : 0. You may reduce your gamma ray dosage buy if you were close enough to get a significant dose then your dead anyways since inverse square law trumps the 60% dosage reduction you could get by rolling up into a ball. Also the radioactive salt isotopes would work their way into your body and that dosage cannot be mitigated through reducing your exposed area. Also if you don't get a advanced warning like an air raid siren by the time you have any indication of a nuclear attack the gamma radiation has already washed over you!
I chose Dell 3 times because I am cheap. Which laptop brand would you recommend on quality ?
Quality or price? how about Quality and Price. Just look at the dell product get nearly exactly the same specs at a whitebox mom and pop shop. Although the margin has closed between dell and the white boxes. It used to be a good 20-30% cheaper now it's closer to 5%.
Given how much radiation sickness sucks and the fatality rate, being close enough to die of a head trauma guarantees being close enough to die from radiation poisoning. OF the two I'd prefer head trauma.
Congratulations! You managed a comment about the Iraq war, and an comment about George W. Bush (via sig) in a thread with absolutely no connection to either whatsoever. You win nothing but your own self satisfaction. Thanks for cluttering up the internet.
Your defensive reaction is odd. It seems your responding to a bitter satirical jab with self righteous indignation which makes you look more foolish then him. He is trolling his political view and you are trolling yours. Both of you clutter up the internet with off topic vitriol.
Winning is subjective since Russia hasn't really shrank it's sphere of influence and the people who ran it before (the KGB and central committee) still run it. They are still a force and they have quietly disappeared as "the enemy" but they haven't changed that much. The state runs economic black mail. The old KGB splintered into private enterprise and now run organized crime syndicates. They didn't "lose" they just adapted American tactics.
I can't be the only one that finds classic/vintage cars beautiful. And I can't be the only one who thinks recent car designs are insipid. Yes, they're more reliable, the interiors are nicer, but why does the outside look like automobile equivalent of hospital food? Aerodynamics be damned! Does anybody think a 2007 corvette looks nicer than a 1960s model? Or a 2007 mustang looks nicer than a 1960s model? (And just look at it before the last redesign).
Agree? Disagree?
Compare a 1963 corvette to a 2005 NSX and yes the NSX looks better. A 1963 mustang to a 2007 s2000 and you'll find the s2000 is subjectively better looking. You comparing models that have come down dramatically in the grand scheme of things.
Where I come from the corvette and the mustangs are cars for the old and the poor driving beyond their means. In my particular driving circle of various ethnicity and social class there is a persistent stigma that they are either old mens cars (mustang) or white trash cars (corvette).
The software for their walkmans, cameras, md players etc.. are after thoughts. They make some decent hardware then slap on some shoddy software that is barely functional. For the PSP and PS3 they problably have a dedicated GUI design team drawn from some of their game studios.
Actually the PS3 UI is pretty smooth. The windows/apple software for their devices suck but their device GUI's aren't bad. The PSP, PS3, PS2, PS1 have a pretty simple straightforward GUI.
Sony releases a Good but over priced product with some restrictions our community feels is bad but supports linux : Corprate arrogance, we will never buy this product. Down with DRM.
Apple release a possibly good over priced product with many restrictions through a patently evil telecom : OMG best thing since the transitor. We'll buy it at any price, with any strings. If Jobs gives us DRM We'll grow to love it.
As expected, you totally misunderstood my contention. I do not approve of their actions, but I do understand them, and provided the context for that understanding.
Then condemn the actions and the group. You cannot be lenient just because you have a soft spot for some of the ideas of the evil-doers .
Kaun Bola (says who)? The British and French were always perceived as antagonistic to each other at a cultural level, yet both cultures grew and neither "shrank"
They expanded at the expense of the East Indian, Native American, Chinese, Vietnamese, Algerian, Spanish etc... The English and French culture spread and subjugated others and diminishes other cultures in numbers and in influence. In the past century the English culture kept expanding in a different form (American English culture) and French has been receding from it's pinnacle.
Cultures may change and evolve and all that, but they still have a fundamental right to exist.
I am stating a empirical truth. No actually they don't. A culture is not valuable in and of itself. I strongly believe that an individual should be allowed to choose and live in/practice any culture or religion he pleases but any culture does nto have any innate right to exist either logically, realistically, or morally.
That will only happen if that cultures grows at the expense of another. I do not believe that this will happen with Hindus.
Islam grew at the expense of other non abrihamic cultures in the region. Christianity grew at the expense of the various tribal and polytheistic beliefs in Europe and in the middle east, finally being evicted out of most parts of the middle east. American culture grew at the expense of the native cultures. So many examples that you cannot deny the truth that for one to "grow" another must shrink.
These are not "past wrongs". Hindus are being persecuted right now, even as we speak. Again, that does not justify these particular actions, but it does provide a broader context for them.
Perhaps but i condemn the actions all the same. A villain is a villain. The type of racism that these two groups represent is still repugnant with any justification.
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Ask yourself why the US has so many high paying jobs compared to Mexico. It is maybe because over many years the actions of the government and the various freedoms protected by the government have made the US more powerful and wealthier than Mexico? No maybe you don't agree with the way the US got it's wealth and power but don't be so deliberately ignorant to deny that the wealth and power is here by design. That design is created and implimented by the US government.
Thats hard to say. It's partly culture (protastant work ethic) partly abundance of resources, partly the immigration of exceptional people (einstien, Telsa etc..), the availability of capital, strong property laws, a strong and numerous middle class. The current admin is hedging the immigration of exceptional people in favor of the immigration fo marginal people and they are hurting the middle class. The culture has shifted and the protestant work ethic is not as pervasive. Resources and capital you still have in abundance though.
America is now a country of middle managers, having outsourced so much of the actual work to other countries. At some point they will realize how little they need you and cut their ties. You'll notice the massive tumble the dollar has taken in the last 6 years. The corporatiosn are bribing your government to legislate yourselves into insignifigance.
This obssesive focus on short term gains that your culture and stock set up encourages will ultimately be severely detrimental to America. Someone should wise up before you out source, down size, and Quarterly report yourselves into a minor historic foot note.
You'll find that the worst xenophobes will hire anybody if they can save a few bucks.
I think a Xenophile will go out of their way to hire minorities they think less of because they can feel snooty in being "above" their employee.
Expect massive Luddite revolts. I'm serious. You have no idea how many MILLIONS of Mexican migrant workers there are.
This wont be pretty. Perhaps we should ask England is advice concerning textile machines?
Yeah that strategy worked famously for the Luddites? They sure stopped the industrial revolutions, shows them smarmy technoolooogits.
And actually, Monica wasn't all that bad. I've dated worse. ... Well what can you really say to that. My condolences?
So in America, A president ordering others to repeatedly violate your constitution and violate the rights of the people you are not punished but if you get a blow job from an ugly fat girl you get impeachment hearings. My god you guys have issues with sex.
Traditionally the idea is from an outside observer a object falling into a black hole never makes it as any information flowing from that object is slowed by gravity as it escapes. Until it cannot escape at the event horizon.
However, a trip of any useful length will require your tires to rotate significantly more than 360 degrees. Perhaps someday these research cars will be able to travel more than 47 inches.
I have a dream. A 300 mile wide wheel. in one revolution it will span cities.
I don't see the problem here. Microsoft and Immersion signed a contract that said "If the Immersion case with Sony is settled, Immersion pays Microsoft $XXX". They then settled their case, but chose to call it something other than a settlement. As long as the word 'settle'/'settlement' has a legally definable meaning, and that meaning covers the 'business arrangement' between Sony and Immersion, then Microsoft is owed money. There's nothing insidious or underhanded about it. If Immersion doesn't like it, they should have either not settled or not agreed to those terms in the first place.
It all hinges on the definition of the word "settlement". So their going to dance around the semantics of that particular word.
Star Control 4 should really get a prize for being the most disappointing sequel/continuation ever made.
There was a 4? My god and I missed it... I know it's a typo.
100 tonnes likely would not be enough for a generation ship. Possibly would be okay for a sleeper ship. It would be a matter of science and engineering. The drive would be less then 100% efficient and the power generator as well so you will need signifcantly more then 500 kg's. A fusion reaction only releases a small portion of the enrgy locked into the atoms. The exact percentage escapes me but it's not significant. On the level of 2-5%. So you must mutiply your numbers by 20 just to account for reaction efficency. You need some sort of reaction that liberates more of the energy (anti-matter maybe) without requiring 10,000 times the energy to create the fuel (anti-matter). etc..
It may be possible but we are a long way off in terms of enineering and basic science. The idea however is there is a lot of "magic" technologies of questionable possibility thats needs to be made. We need a driive mechanism that can get us ot a significant portion of C. A Power source that can provide enough energy to the drive to without adding significant weight and engineering objects to exist for more then a hundred years.
It might be a very long time.
Digital distribution is the way of the future, not Blu-Ray or HD DVD discs. Isn't netflix already selling movie downloads?
There is this community then there is the multitude of non-tech literate. While we have 3 mbit and 5 mbit and 8 mbit connections to toy with the average consumer things 1.5 mbit is fast internet. Waiting 8h for a movie to download is par for the course for those of use who installer programs that came on 22 floppies or waited 16h with our main line tied up hoping to god mom or dad wouldn't pick the phone up requiring us to start over.We're a different breed then the average consumer. For us digital distribution is here. For them wait 2 more formate generation and they may join us. The thing is they are 10 times our number so online HD movie distribution is likely another dozen years from main stream.
The PS3 is a really good DVD/Blu-ray player. It had a in movie HUD similar to the PS2 except it's responsive and doesn't suck. It scales up significantly better then my HD-TV.
As a propaganda tool it was a good idea. For any practical use : 0. You may reduce your gamma ray dosage buy if you were close enough to get a significant dose then your dead anyways since inverse square law trumps the 60% dosage reduction you could get by rolling up into a ball. Also the radioactive salt isotopes would work their way into your body and that dosage cannot be mitigated through reducing your exposed area. Also if you don't get a advanced warning like an air raid siren by the time you have any indication of a nuclear attack the gamma radiation has already washed over you!
I chose Dell 3 times because I am cheap. Which laptop brand would you recommend on quality ?
Quality or price? how about Quality and Price. Just look at the dell product get nearly exactly the same specs at a whitebox mom and pop shop. Although the margin has closed between dell and the white boxes. It used to be a good 20-30% cheaper now it's closer to 5%.
Given how much radiation sickness sucks and the fatality rate, being close enough to die of a head trauma guarantees being close enough to die from radiation poisoning. OF the two I'd prefer head trauma.
Well it may be physically impossible but also essential for our survival. Thus int he end we're really screwed.
Congratulations! You managed a comment about the Iraq war, and an comment about George W. Bush (via sig) in a thread with absolutely no connection to either whatsoever. You win nothing but your own self satisfaction. Thanks for cluttering up the internet.
Your defensive reaction is odd. It seems your responding to a bitter satirical jab with self righteous indignation which makes you look more foolish then him. He is trolling his political view and you are trolling yours. Both of you clutter up the internet with off topic vitriol.
Winning is subjective since Russia hasn't really shrank it's sphere of influence and the people who ran it before (the KGB and central committee) still run it. They are still a force and they have quietly disappeared as "the enemy" but they haven't changed that much. The state runs economic black mail. The old KGB splintered into private enterprise and now run organized crime syndicates. They didn't "lose" they just adapted American tactics.
I can't be the only one that finds classic/vintage cars beautiful. And I can't be the only one who thinks recent car designs are insipid. Yes, they're more reliable, the interiors are nicer, but why does the outside look like automobile equivalent of hospital food? Aerodynamics be damned! Does anybody think a 2007 corvette looks nicer than a 1960s model? Or a 2007 mustang looks nicer than a 1960s model? (And just look at it before the last redesign).
Agree? Disagree?
Compare a 1963 corvette to a 2005 NSX and yes the NSX looks better. A 1963 mustang to a 2007 s2000 and you'll find the s2000 is subjectively better looking. You comparing models that have come down dramatically in the grand scheme of things.
Where I come from the corvette and the mustangs are cars for the old and the poor driving beyond their means. In my particular driving circle of various ethnicity and social class there is a persistent stigma that they are either old mens cars (mustang) or white trash cars (corvette).
Look at it this way. They will have to stop whaling. This is garenteed. either
a- they are not legally able to whale hunt.
b- there are no more whales.
Of these two options one is more immediate. One is much less sane.
The software for their walkmans, cameras, md players etc.. are after thoughts. They make some decent hardware then slap on some shoddy software that is barely functional. For the PSP and PS3 they problably have a dedicated GUI design team drawn from some of their game studios.
Actually the PS3 UI is pretty smooth. The windows/apple software for their devices suck but their device GUI's aren't bad. The PSP, PS3, PS2, PS1 have a pretty simple straightforward GUI.
Sony releases a Good but over priced product with some restrictions our community feels is bad but supports linux : Corprate arrogance, we will never buy this product. Down with DRM.
Apple release a possibly good over priced product with many restrictions through a patently evil telecom : OMG best thing since the transitor. We'll buy it at any price, with any strings. If Jobs gives us DRM We'll grow to love it.
Ahh that RD field is strong as ever.
As expected, you totally misunderstood my contention. I do not approve of their actions, but I do understand them, and provided the context for that understanding.
Then condemn the actions and the group. You cannot be lenient just because you have a soft spot for some of the ideas of the evil-doers .
Kaun Bola (says who)? The British and French were always perceived as antagonistic to each other at a cultural level, yet both cultures grew and neither "shrank"
They expanded at the expense of the East Indian, Native American, Chinese, Vietnamese, Algerian, Spanish etc... The English and French culture spread and subjugated others and diminishes other cultures in numbers and in influence. In the past century the English culture kept expanding in a different form (American English culture) and French has been receding from it's pinnacle.
Cultures may change and evolve and all that, but they still have a fundamental right to exist.
I am stating a empirical truth. No actually they don't. A culture is not valuable in and of itself. I strongly believe that an individual should be allowed to choose and live in/practice any culture or religion he pleases but any culture does nto have any innate right to exist either logically, realistically, or morally.
That will only happen if that cultures grows at the expense of another. I do not believe that this will happen with Hindus.
Islam grew at the expense of other non abrihamic cultures in the region. Christianity grew at the expense of the various tribal and polytheistic beliefs in Europe and in the middle east, finally being evicted out of most parts of the middle east. American culture grew at the expense of the native cultures. So many examples that you cannot deny the truth that for one to "grow" another must shrink.
These are not "past wrongs". Hindus are being persecuted right now, even as we speak. Again, that does not justify these particular actions, but it does provide a broader context for them.
Perhaps but i condemn the actions all the same. A villain is a villain. The type of racism that these two groups represent is still repugnant with any justification.