Bones, to Spock: He's just saying he's more sure of your guesses than other peoples' facts.
As for Wikipedia -- all TFA says is that it says anagrams were popular in the Renaissance era. Well, either they were or they weren't. I don't know why "trusting Wikipedia" on this one is so damned important. And even if they were almost never used, that wouldn't impact the logic of a successful decoding.
If this manuscript is such a mystery, how come nobody tried to do this with the "herb" section before?
And secondly, is the same encoding used for the entire book? If so, it should become immediately obvious if she's on the right track by just trying to decode some of the other pages.
Great. Now they'll shove it into a machine and start cranking out babies to see what they're like.
Indeed, from their tech level, it'll prolly be trivial to "simulate" an actual planetfull of people, to see how they'd behave and treat one another and then they'd find out that we're all nasty sacks of...
Talk to your Congressman or the President. The president is charged with the power to set foreign policy. Currently, US policy is to increase freedom in China via econ omic growth. Like it or not, that's the policy, and it hasn't changed in 30 years. And that includes browsers and Internet backbone software, which they would just clone, steal, or reproduce the hard way anyway.
So if you have a beef about censorship software itself, talk to Congress, and get them to pass punitive laws to companies that do business in the US if they provide censorship software. They've done it for foreign companies that deal in Cuba who also deal in the US, so they could do it for China, too.
Oh, by the way, also stop voting for politicians who are happy to spend next generation's tax revenues this year in exchange for your vote. In this way, we won't have to borrow so much money, and the president won't have to stand there while the Chinese leader subtly mocks him.
I got news for ya pal. The rest of the country would have no problem unloading California. You are collapsing under your own weight. Your "troubles" are all self-inflicted. I assure you we sit here laughing, and, large as you are, we are larger still by far, and we will not let you get money to cover your budgetary woes.
It will burn your ears to hear it, but telling your electric companies they can't raise consumer rates, and can't construct new power plants, therefore they must buy from outstate, well, I rather enjoyed other states and companies ripping you off.
Yes, now that I think about it, I am sure it will burn your ears. But it is also true that I rather enjoyed that.
And said "tips" are meaningless on a scale of millions of "criminals". That many would be easy to trace, especially since they, as must, all come from a handful of cell or pay phones.
And woe be to the politician who backs making criminals of lots of people. Here's what'll happen: Those unelected bureaucrats will back down once it threatens their bosses.
Also, I feel little sympathy, and see some cosmic justice here that so many people who are so gung-ho on unelected officials making "unpopular choices" in things like the FDA and environmentalism, now getting bit in the ass by their very own argument.
Of course, your mental model meme-defense mechanisms will kick in and rationalize that, for things you like, unelected regulatory lawmaking (i.e. throwing-in-jail-for-disobedience) power is a good thing, but not for this special case of big TVs, which I don't like, which is, like, obviously, a special case.
Having had to physically disassemble large turds so the toilet would swallow them, yeah, I love low-flow toilets and how they save about 3% on water use, pushing off the need to increase the supply from steady growth by a year or two.
> Did you modify yours for homebrew or altering things you paid for > and not to engage in piracy? Abington IP would like to hear from you
If such people exist, of course. Yes, I am aware of the difficulties of proving you were pirating and not just playing around with things you legitimately own. Just like the difficulties of proving you were just making backups of your CDs and not because you were trading them around, and you never "got" one from a friend or Teh Internets that way, no way, no how.
Yes, those are difficult things to prove. It's a good thing the lawyers are suing a corporation without much money or good lawyers or one who'll cave and settle just for the public relations aspect of it.
> "...is so effective that a single layer can keep a wrecking ball from smashing through a brick wall, and a double > layer can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4) from knocking down drywall. According to its designers, covering an > entire room takes less than an hour."
"Congress has already had the Capital Building and its offices covered within a few days. Schools for children in Iraq should be covered within 15 years, according to schedule."
Verizon's ads do mislead consumers by deliberately confusing "area" of coverage with respect to population with area of coverage with respect to square miles.
Much of Verizon's "much greater" coverage is desert and farmland and very low-population areas. They do indicate so in the fine print of the ads, but I'm sure they'd be "Shocked! Shocked!" to find out the average viewer thought they meant percent of actual population covered.
Or the liberals, depending on what laws they wanna muck around with, hiding from direct election.
You can try to create a constitution, but even putting non-delegation as front-and-center as it's possible to get will not save you from weasel re-interpretations by the power hungry:
Article I
Section 1.All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Let the weaseling commence! "But having regulatory bodies allows Congress to hide from the direct effects of unpopular regulations!" and the ever-popular "But there's no way you can expect Congress to vote on that many laws!", ignoring the associated corollary that The People, who will be the ones to go to jail, are somehow expected to know and behave according to that many laws.
> "...continued migration away from iPhone development will most likely result in lower quality software."
Dooooooooooom!!!
The only ones to "stick it out" are the ones who are the most likely to profit. This tends to be apps people mostly want.
One could argue the less likelihood of profit on an Apple Mac platform is what increases the average quality of programs -- only the "good stuff" gets ported, in addition to a handful of Mac-only apps.
Keep in mind part of Apple's "problem" with the approval process isn't related to quality at all, but rather strategic thinking on which apps to allow, to discourage competition to its own apps, or the OS as a whole.
> Really, it's appalling that teachers aren't some of our most highly-paid professionals.
Ironically, this immediately suggests the problem is crappy teachers, and that, by offering more money, we could attract more competent teachers, who are, presumably, currently lured off by higher pay in other arenas.
Fair enough. But that in turn requires scrapping teachers' unions precisely so you can unload the dead weight and keep churning, looking for better teachers. You would also have much more brutal tests before prospects could even get their foot in the door for consideration.
We know Egypt and China are run by power hungry, soulless, murderous bastards. That's a given.
And while they censor, the United Nations doesn't. Or shouldn't, anyway.
China, bastards, can complain to Egypt, bastards, and get the poster taken down.
Egypt, bastards, can be scared of China's (bastards) economic power in buying Egyptian oil, and pre-emptively censor, not even waiting for a request.
But the United Nations should never, ever, go censor on behalf of one country in another country. It was created to keep this shit in check, not provide a way to spread your thuggery around.
> scenes from Dune... "I knew it, he knew it, he knew I knew he knew it, but > he didn't realize I knew he knew I knew he knew it. The twitching of my > pinkie finger drew his attention away from my own eyebrow thus concealing my knowledge."
Jessica looked around the table. Next to the Baron sat Pieter on one side, and Rabban the other. Next to Pieter sat an obese creature more disgusting than either the Baron or his nephew. This was Pieter's computer technician genius, a Palmtat, with the ego of a planet and the social graces of its muddy earth. A wave of sexual revulsion swept Jessica, almost overwhelming her Bene Gesserit training. A few quick darts of her eyes showed nobody had noticed, at least that she could catch. She can't slip at this game. "Strong like the oak," as she steeled herself at the disgusting presence and tried to ignore it.
"I'd love to have this recipe!" squeaked the thing, in an attempt at social ingratiation. "Ok," she said, quickly turning elsewhere to avoid eye contact, lest it fall in love with her because she said more than one word to it. While such a dependence might be useful some day, she would need months of Gesserit self-preparation before even dreaming of such. And any touching would be right out. Even using The Voice on it could prove disastrous if more than one or two syllables at a time.
No, whatever this thing called a mental discipline, it stood side-by-side with Mentat and Bene Gesserit in its depths of...what? No, something scared Jessica, and she knew not what. There was no knowledge in Bene Gesserit history of such mental training, and she could only guess at it. A normal Palmtat, well, this was something different. Something more. She would have to talk to the Mother later and see if she had anything to say.
For now, Jessica just initiated conversation with an accomplice far to the right, as if they had been speaking all along, to divert the attention of it. With a flick of her brow, Jessica pleaded volumes of "come save me, dammit!"
I can't see that as being any more efficient than the 100% energy conversion of antimatter and matter that the Federation uses.
Even if they could somehow extract, as energy, the incredible mass of the black hole, slowly, they'd still have to haul that mass to hell's half acre and back everywhere they went. Still, it might be a benefit if they could suck out such tremendous amounts to cart the black hole around.
Also, refueling would be easy -- just dump arbitrary matter into the black hole. You can even get still more energy released as the matter is crushed down as it passes the event horizon (which, by the way, is not the same thing as the point where it's crushed to inifnity. Indeed, a black hole the size of our solar system would let you float through the event horizon without even enough gravity to rip you to pieces at that point.
Storing all this knowledge has not gotten me any girls yet, though, so I have to use other tricks.
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Bones, to Spock: He's just saying he's more sure of your guesses than other peoples' facts.
As for Wikipedia -- all TFA says is that it says anagrams were popular in the Renaissance era. Well, either they were or they weren't. I don't know why "trusting Wikipedia" on this one is so damned important. And even if they were almost never used, that wouldn't impact the logic of a successful decoding.
If this manuscript is such a mystery, how come nobody tried to do this with the "herb" section before?
And secondly, is the same encoding used for the entire book? If so, it should become immediately obvious if she's on the right track by just trying to decode some of the other pages.
Wait, wut?
So this happened: Government: Would you provide us an interface to check up on GPS locations without warrants?
Version: Sure.
> The message encoded a DNA sequence
Great. Now they'll shove it into a machine and start cranking out babies to see what they're like.
Indeed, from their tech level, it'll prolly be trivial to "simulate" an actual planetfull of people, to see how they'd behave and treat one another and then they'd find out that we're all nasty sacks of...
Uhhh. Oh oh.
Talk to your Congressman or the President. The president is charged with the power to set foreign policy. Currently, US policy is to increase freedom in China via econ omic growth. Like it or not, that's the policy, and it hasn't changed in 30 years. And that includes browsers and Internet backbone software, which they would just clone, steal, or reproduce the hard way anyway.
So if you have a beef about censorship software itself, talk to Congress, and get them to pass punitive laws to companies that do business in the US if they provide censorship software. They've done it for foreign companies that deal in Cuba who also deal in the US, so they could do it for China, too.
Oh, by the way, also stop voting for politicians who are happy to spend next generation's tax revenues this year in exchange for your vote. In this way, we won't have to borrow so much money, and the president won't have to stand there while the Chinese leader subtly mocks him.
Slashdot China. As if nerds didn't have enough problems getting the girls, now Chinese nerds have to also fight a 5:4 male-female ratio on top of it?
In other stunning news, Nashville is a city still waiting to die.
I got news for ya pal. The rest of the country would have no problem unloading California. You are collapsing under your own weight. Your "troubles" are all self-inflicted. I assure you we sit here laughing, and, large as you are, we are larger still by far, and we will not let you get money to cover your budgetary woes.
It will burn your ears to hear it, but telling your electric companies they can't raise consumer rates, and can't construct new power plants, therefore they must buy from outstate, well, I rather enjoyed other states and companies ripping you off.
Yes, now that I think about it, I am sure it will burn your ears. But it is also true that I rather enjoyed that.
Don't you have a BMW to drive to a vinyard somewhere?
And said "tips" are meaningless on a scale of millions of "criminals". That many would be easy to trace, especially since they, as must, all come from a handful of cell or pay phones.
And woe be to the politician who backs making criminals of lots of people. Here's what'll happen: Those unelected bureaucrats will back down once it threatens their bosses.
Also, I feel little sympathy, and see some cosmic justice here that so many people who are so gung-ho on unelected officials making "unpopular choices" in things like the FDA and environmentalism, now getting bit in the ass by their very own argument.
Of course, your mental model meme-defense mechanisms will kick in and rationalize that, for things you like, unelected regulatory lawmaking (i.e. throwing-in-jail-for-disobedience) power is a good thing, but not for this special case of big TVs, which I don't like, which is, like, obviously, a special case.
It hurts because its true.
Having had to physically disassemble large turds so the toilet would swallow them, yeah, I love low-flow toilets and how they save about 3% on water use, pushing off the need to increase the supply from steady growth by a year or two.
Fucktards in government.
> After all, the pigs already use infrared sensors to search homes without a warrant
I thought (warrantless) IR scanners got tossed by the Supreme Court ten years ago.
When did the Supreme Court overturn this decision they made earlier?
> Did you modify yours for homebrew or altering things you paid for
> and not to engage in piracy? Abington IP would like to hear from you
If such people exist, of course. Yes, I am aware of the difficulties of proving you were pirating and not just playing around with things you legitimately own. Just like the difficulties of proving you were just making backups of your CDs and not because you were trading them around, and you never "got" one from a friend or Teh Internets that way, no way, no how.
Yes, those are difficult things to prove. It's a good thing the lawyers are suing a corporation without much money or good lawyers or one who'll cave and settle just for the public relations aspect of it.
> "...is so effective that a single layer can keep a wrecking ball from smashing through a brick wall, and a double
> layer can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4) from knocking down drywall. According to its designers, covering an
> entire room takes less than an hour."
"Congress has already had the Capital Building and its offices covered within a few days. Schools for children in Iraq should be covered within 15 years, according to schedule."
Verizon's ads do mislead consumers by deliberately confusing "area" of coverage with respect to population with area of coverage with respect to square miles.
Much of Verizon's "much greater" coverage is desert and farmland and very low-population areas. They do indicate so in the fine print of the ads, but I'm sure they'd be "Shocked! Shocked!" to find out the average viewer thought they meant percent of actual population covered.
Or the liberals, depending on what laws they wanna muck around with, hiding from direct election.
You can try to create a constitution, but even putting non-delegation as front-and-center as it's possible to get will not save you from weasel re-interpretations by the power hungry:
Article I
Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Let the weaseling commence! "But having regulatory bodies allows Congress to hide from the direct effects of unpopular regulations!" and the ever-popular "But there's no way you can expect Congress to vote on that many laws!", ignoring the associated corollary that The People, who will be the ones to go to jail, are somehow expected to know and behave according to that many laws.
It burns your ears because it's true.
> "...continued migration away from iPhone development will most likely result in lower quality software."
Dooooooooooom!!!
The only ones to "stick it out" are the ones who are the most likely to profit. This tends to be apps people mostly want.
One could argue the less likelihood of profit on an Apple Mac platform is what increases the average quality of programs -- only the "good stuff" gets ported, in addition to a handful of Mac-only apps.
Keep in mind part of Apple's "problem" with the approval process isn't related to quality at all, but rather strategic thinking on which apps to allow, to discourage competition to its own apps, or the OS as a whole.
For Christ's sake, Xena cannot leap into orbit. It's just fiction, New Zealand.
> Really, it's appalling that teachers aren't some of our most highly-paid professionals.
Ironically, this immediately suggests the problem is crappy teachers, and that, by offering more money, we could attract more competent teachers, who are, presumably, currently lured off by higher pay in other arenas.
Fair enough. But that in turn requires scrapping teachers' unions precisely so you can unload the dead weight and keep churning, looking for better teachers. You would also have much more brutal tests before prospects could even get their foot in the door for consideration.
Is that a 2D projection of a 4D rotating object, or a 2D film of a 3D projection of a 4D rotating object?
It sounds funny, but it's not.
So "This" was missing either an up arrow to point to the parent post, or a colon, to point to itself?
We know Egypt and China are run by power hungry, soulless, murderous bastards. That's a given.
And while they censor, the United Nations doesn't. Or shouldn't, anyway.
China, bastards, can complain to Egypt, bastards, and get the poster taken down.
Egypt, bastards, can be scared of China's (bastards) economic power in buying Egyptian oil, and pre-emptively censor, not even waiting for a request.
But the United Nations should never, ever, go censor on behalf of one country in another country. It was created to keep this shit in check, not provide a way to spread your thuggery around.
As a parent, it's surprising how quickly that "side" evaporates. I support criticism that you kill people. That you don't "have to" is irrelevant.
> scenes from Dune... "I knew it, he knew it, he knew I knew he knew it, but
> he didn't realize I knew he knew I knew he knew it. The twitching of my
> pinkie finger drew his attention away from my own eyebrow thus concealing my knowledge."
Jessica looked around the table. Next to the Baron sat Pieter on one side, and Rabban the other. Next to Pieter sat an obese creature more disgusting than either the Baron or his nephew. This was Pieter's computer technician genius, a Palmtat, with the ego of a planet and the social graces of its muddy earth. A wave of sexual revulsion swept Jessica, almost overwhelming her Bene Gesserit training. A few quick darts of her eyes showed nobody had noticed, at least that she could catch. She can't slip at this game. "Strong like the oak," as she steeled herself at the disgusting presence and tried to ignore it.
"I'd love to have this recipe!" squeaked the thing, in an attempt at social ingratiation. "Ok," she said, quickly turning elsewhere to avoid eye contact, lest it fall in love with her because she said more than one word to it. While such a dependence might be useful some day, she would need months of Gesserit self-preparation before even dreaming of such. And any touching would be right out. Even using The Voice on it could prove disastrous if more than one or two syllables at a time.
No, whatever this thing called a mental discipline, it stood side-by-side with Mentat and Bene Gesserit in its depths of...what? No, something scared Jessica, and she knew not what. There was no knowledge in Bene Gesserit history of such mental training, and she could only guess at it. A normal Palmtat, well, this was something different. Something more. She would have to talk to the Mother later and see if she had anything to say.
For now, Jessica just initiated conversation with an accomplice far to the right, as if they had been speaking all along, to divert the attention of it. With a flick of her brow, Jessica pleaded volumes of "come save me, dammit!"
I can't see that as being any more efficient than the 100% energy conversion of antimatter and matter that the Federation uses.
Even if they could somehow extract, as energy, the incredible mass of the black hole, slowly, they'd still have to haul that mass to hell's half acre and back everywhere they went. Still, it might be a benefit if they could suck out such tremendous amounts to cart the black hole around.
Also, refueling would be easy -- just dump arbitrary matter into the black hole. You can even get still more energy released as the matter is crushed down as it passes the event horizon (which, by the way, is not the same thing as the point where it's crushed to inifnity. Indeed, a black hole the size of our solar system would let you float through the event horizon without even enough gravity to rip you to pieces at that point.
Storing all this knowledge has not gotten me any girls yet, though, so I have to use other tricks.