I don't know how it is in China, but in Russia most opposition NGOs are already accused of being directly funded by CIA/Mossad/whatnot, and of acting solely in the interests of those powers to "dismantle the country and sell it to the West". For all the load of bullshit that it is, enough people believe it
Indeed. They are actually paid by Soros, CIA only steps in when they destabilize the country enough for another "color revolution".
That's actually an interesting observation. Originally it was expected that in September hordes of newbies will get their Internet access at school and start posting inane things until either novelty wears off or sufficient amount of clue is obtained.
Now it's supposedly the other way around, kids on summer vacations flood 4chan with [even more than usual] idiotic remarks.
"Gravity tractor" is the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
If you have a heavy object that you can bring close enough to the asteroid so gravity will be sufficient to move asteroid at all, you can just as well land that object at the asteroid and push asteroid away from it, so both will end up in different orbits that do not intersect with Earth. At the scale of anything that can be built by humans (leave alone launched into space), jackscrew would be more powerful than gravity.
Of course, just as well you can simply cut asteroid into pieces and push them apart -- for example with explosions.
One of the problems with online reviews is that you can't really be sure that they are not astroturf or otherwise skewed.
And what stops Facebook and Bing from simply lying? Facebook shows fake "not found" page when you try to access someone blocking you (if you are logged in), so dishonesty is not something foreign for them already.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior. Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
Why? There is no reason for such delays -- if tickets are cheap, backlogs are too expensive to maintain. Backlogs are not a problem with expensive tickets, and this is what I am against.
Under the old system, the rate the populace was ticketed was limited by the police staff. Now it's potentially unlimited.
Law is not a lottery. If laws are bad, no one should believe that it's OK just because he wasn't caught yet.
Just make those fines reasonable. Currently my car is not being watched all the time (except for every intersection, toll crossing, passing by a government building...) yet if I approach ONE PARTICULAR BUSY INTERSECTION in the wrong lane and make a turn, or misread one of its three arrow-ridden traffic lights, I will get $400-$500 fine. What if it was $5 for jaywalking and $25 for traffic violation if the only consequence of it was a recording on the camera? But each and every time it happens? How about parking tickets calculated exponentially, so rate increases from normal for another hour to same as it is for a full day? What about ACTUALLY ISSUING TICKETS for all speeders, and dealing with the fact that road becomes completely unusable if posted speed limits are obeyed, so limits have to be changed to something realistic?
People insist on what can be described as "law enforcement by accident" when laws make no sense in the first place.
Bill Gates' life goal is to have power over people who are intellectually superior to him -- this is how he deals with realization of his own stupidity. Dangling money in front of researchers is probably just as satisfying as crippling everyone's thinking process with poorly designed software.
Windows 7 is fresh on the heels of Mac OS X and modern Linux desktop. Xbox 360, a copy of Playstation. Zune vs iPod. Powershell vs Linux and UNIX command line. C# vs Java. IE9 vs Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Opera. WP7 vs Android and iOS. The Marketplace vs AppStore / Android Market / Linux distro repositories. Silverlight vs Flash. Bing vs Google. I won't even go into the multitude of formats and standards they've attempted to undermine with their own (WMV, OOXML, XPS, ActiveX etc.)
And they always do it wrong, losing a fundamental idea behind things they "copied" while keeping accidental, superficial things.
The truth is, they don't understand software development, and never did.
Same as what they did previous two times they have flooded the mobile devices market with crap -- they can tell users that those phones "run Windows software" and "support Microsoft Office".
"Economic implosion" happened years after Communists dismantled their economy and placed Libertarians in power.
Russian Libertarians, of course, were parroting US-originated propaganda by then, so Americans were told (by the same propaganda workers, of course) that things happened in the reverse order.
This is why Russians are so against hostile propaganda campaigns, and this is why nothing Americans can say now, will change this.
Plants are very primitive compared to animals, and localized mutations of their cells have nearly no effect on them, so why would they be significantly affected by radioactive contamination in the first place? The whole problem with radioactive contamination and plants is that they can accumulate radioactive isotopes over their lifetime and become dangerous for humans and animals to consume.
An SUV Dwarf, you say? What, pray tell, does one of those horrible creatures look like?
Post this to 4chan, and in a week Encyclopedia Dramatica will have a whole page of pictures portraying SUV Dwarves in all imaginable and unimaginable contexts.
That probably worked at some point, but now 4chan detects this and block all images with extra data. It's still possible to post a PNG or GIF image with image data being a file in a different format -- then it will look like static and turn into the hidden file if converted to a raw image format.
Not 24x7. However you waste huge amounts of energy if you use cellular for data transfer if wifi is available -- unless you have a charger attached, battery will be drained very fast in this mode.
It only covers organizations that fight against OTHER countries' governments, thus including all CIA front groups. American NGOs still have to pay for Microsoft software.
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Another Microsoft marketing person found.
Now they don't even bother googling for bugs and complaints posted on the forums, and invent "problems" entirely on their own.
I don't know how it is in China, but in Russia most opposition NGOs are already accused of being directly funded by CIA/Mossad/whatnot, and of acting solely in the interests of those powers to "dismantle the country and sell it to the West". For all the load of bullshit that it is, enough people believe it
Indeed. They are actually paid by Soros, CIA only steps in when they destabilize the country enough for another "color revolution".
That's actually an interesting observation. Originally it was expected that in September hordes of newbies will get their Internet access at school and start posting inane things until either novelty wears off or sufficient amount of clue is obtained.
Now it's supposedly the other way around, kids on summer vacations flood 4chan with [even more than usual] idiotic remarks.
"Gravity tractor" is the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
If you have a heavy object that you can bring close enough to the asteroid so gravity will be sufficient to move asteroid at all, you can just as well land that object at the asteroid and push asteroid away from it, so both will end up in different orbits that do not intersect with Earth. At the scale of anything that can be built by humans (leave alone launched into space), jackscrew would be more powerful than gravity.
Of course, just as well you can simply cut asteroid into pieces and push them apart -- for example with explosions.
One of the problems with online reviews is that you can't really be sure that they are not astroturf or otherwise skewed.
And what stops Facebook and Bing from simply lying? Facebook shows fake "not found" page when you try to access someone blocking you (if you are logged in), so dishonesty is not something foreign for them already.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior.
Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
Why? There is no reason for such delays -- if tickets are cheap, backlogs are too expensive to maintain. Backlogs are not a problem with expensive tickets, and this is what I am against.
Under the old system, the rate the populace was ticketed was limited by the police staff. Now it's potentially unlimited.
Law is not a lottery. If laws are bad, no one should believe that it's OK just because he wasn't caught yet.
Why not?
Just make those fines reasonable. Currently my car is not being watched all the time (except for every intersection, toll crossing, passing by a government building...) yet if I approach ONE PARTICULAR BUSY INTERSECTION in the wrong lane and make a turn, or misread one of its three arrow-ridden traffic lights, I will get $400-$500 fine. What if it was $5 for jaywalking and $25 for traffic violation if the only consequence of it was a recording on the camera? But each and every time it happens? How about parking tickets calculated exponentially, so rate increases from normal for another hour to same as it is for a full day? What about ACTUALLY ISSUING TICKETS for all speeders, and dealing with the fact that road becomes completely unusable if posted speed limits are obeyed, so limits have to be changed to something realistic?
People insist on what can be described as "law enforcement by accident" when laws make no sense in the first place.
Bill Gates' life goal is to have power over people who are intellectually superior to him -- this is how he deals with realization of his own stupidity. Dangling money in front of researchers is probably just as satisfying as crippling everyone's thinking process with poorly designed software.
Windows 7 is fresh on the heels of Mac OS X and modern Linux desktop. Xbox 360, a copy of Playstation. Zune vs iPod. Powershell vs Linux and UNIX command line. C# vs Java. IE9 vs Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Opera. WP7 vs Android and iOS. The Marketplace vs AppStore / Android Market / Linux distro repositories. Silverlight vs Flash. Bing vs Google. I won't even go into the multitude of formats and standards they've attempted to undermine with their own (WMV, OOXML, XPS, ActiveX etc.)
And they always do it wrong, losing a fundamental idea behind things they "copied" while keeping accidental, superficial things.
The truth is, they don't understand software development, and never did.
Same as what they did previous two times they have flooded the mobile devices market with crap -- they can tell users that those phones "run Windows software" and "support Microsoft Office".
And nothing of value would be lost.
Zeus.
Trojan.
THIS IS GREEK MYTHOLOGY!!!
(and, of course, madness and blasphemy in its context)
Information is not a problem. Carefully designed, manipulative, propaganda-filled editorials are, though outright lies are pretty bad, too.
"Economic implosion" happened years after Communists dismantled their economy and placed Libertarians in power.
Russian Libertarians, of course, were parroting US-originated propaganda by then, so Americans were told (by the same propaganda workers, of course) that things happened in the reverse order.
This is why Russians are so against hostile propaganda campaigns, and this is why nothing Americans can say now, will change this.
Plants are very primitive compared to animals, and localized mutations of their cells have nearly no effect on them, so why would they be significantly affected by radioactive contamination in the first place? The whole problem with radioactive contamination and plants is that they can accumulate radioactive isotopes over their lifetime and become dangerous for humans and animals to consume.
No.
From what you heard, everyone in the world loves Americans.
An SUV Dwarf, you say? What, pray tell, does one of those horrible creatures look like?
Post this to 4chan, and in a week Encyclopedia Dramatica will have a whole page of pictures portraying SUV Dwarves in all imaginable and unimaginable contexts.
That probably worked at some point, but now 4chan detects this and block all images with extra data.
It's still possible to post a PNG or GIF image with image data being a file in a different format -- then it will look like static and turn into the hidden file if converted to a raw image format.
Not 24x7. However you waste huge amounts of energy if you use cellular for data transfer if wifi is available -- unless you have a charger attached, battery will be drained very fast in this mode.
AND ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE.
you, sir, are and
Two more words - FUCK THAT!
And I actually know how to use a slide rule.
Wifi off saves battery,
No. Power consumption from using any cellular data service is far, far above anything consumed by wifi.
It only covers organizations that fight against OTHER countries' governments, thus including all CIA front groups. American NGOs still have to pay for Microsoft software.