Redistricting, or How To Group African Americans Into Groups So They Can Elect Themselves Their Very Own Representative, But Without Using The Word "They" Or The Phrase "You People", Now With Bonus Points If Those People Think Highly Of You
Too cynical? Sorry. I'm sure it's a mighty fine...game. To...play.
> Rockstar's Manhunt 2 has been banned in the U.K. [for] 'unrelenting focus on stalking > and brutal slaying.' 'There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in > which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.'
Hah! That's what Rockstar gets for not calling the bad guys "Blood Elves" or "Nazis" or "rats" or "boars" or something. "Go kill 10 Blood Elves over that hill, and I'll give you 37 pennies."
They knew the world was round (it always casts a round shadow on the Moon, which is the only shape capable of always casting a round shadow no matter what angle light hits it at.)
From that, they further knew how big the Earth was (measuring the sun's angles in wells on the same day of the year at two latitudes, then measuring the distance between them.)
And from that, they further knew how big the moon was (knowing how big the Earth was, and how big it's shadow was on the moon, combined with the (reasonable) assumption that the sun was far enough away the light was more or less parallel from the Earth to the moon.
And from that, they further knew how far away the moon was (knowing how big it is, you can immediately calculate how far away it is by it's angular size.)
But who the hell cares about old dead white males anyway?
There're even more interesting things suggesting Columbus was aware of some intermediate continent "out there" from some ancient writings and/or rumors in those islands way off the west coast of Africa. The Vikings may not have been the only Old Worlders to go out and come back, then mostly lost the knowledge about it.
Actually, I believe things with mass can travel faster than the speed of light, but that they just can't "get there from here" because they can't travel at the speed of light without having infinite energy and mass.
To you, the traveler, time continues to move "forward" normally. Hence, from your point of view, you'd still be turning it off after you turned it on. Only from an external viewpoint would you arrive before you left.
Wouldn't the route through the wormhole also be bound by the speed of light? (What is it in higher dimensions, anyway? Does it include the time dimension?)
And hence you really couldn't go anywhere nearby "quickly", but rather only link to some place really far away that happened to be bent around through those extra dimensions.
Unless you are talking warp technology, wherein the spacial distance between the two locations is physically warped so it's just a smaller distance to travel. But that's back to sci-fi.
Yes, and the $1 trillion and counting spent on the War on Terror so far could be much better spent dumping it into cancer and heart disease research, as far as net saving of lives is concerned.
So let me see if I get this right. This woman (or women) had no job offers and few callbacks, even though they were at the top of their Harvard class...
From the doubly-deferenced original article:
> The chats sometimes include photos taken from women's Facebook pages, > and in the Yale student's case, one person threatened to sexually violate her.
Presumably the employer read that someone wanted to rape and beat her up, so they refused to hire her.
> Another participant claimed to be the student, making it appear that > she was taking part in the discussion.
"And, besides, here she is claiming she likes sex with dogs and mules and her tongue 'enters her mother's forbidden folds' on a regular basis. I won't hire her because of that, either."
WTF idiots are running these corporate HR departments?
In old EverQuest (old? yeesh) a necro's pet would adopt the speed of the weapon it was given, assuming the weapon wasn't slower than the pet's natural attack speed.
Basically, it would take the better of the weapon's damage or it's own, and the better of the weapon's attack speed, or it's own.
And the pet's attack speed was around 3s. So if you gave it a rusty dagger at around 2s, or a fine steel dagger at around 1.8s, your pet would be attacking at dagger speed but with their own natural damage amounts.
So far so good...until they got around to finally putting in the level 50 pets (back when 50 was max.)
These pets, with a dual fine steel daggers, did damage so fast that they could solo a well-equipped level 50 warrior PC. Or at least come damned close to it. This all without the necro lifting a finger to cast a spell.
So something had to go. Now you can give pets weapons, but it is little more than a decoration (except at low levels, where you can find "cheap" weapons at the auction house that the Gods didn't even drop in the early game, and your pet will do more damage than they naturally would, though no faster than "normal" speed. This is only at low levels of course. Higher levels they still outdamage the best weapons. (Which made me not want to be a warrior in any case.)
EQ to this day claims it was a bug, but that's a load of hogwash. It was a fully intended feature (pet dagger speed up) with an unintended side effect (pets could solo PC warriors at the highest levels.) Actually, I'd claim the real unintended side effect was the apparent need to have warriors be complete wimps and meat shields, doing trivial damage. The pets were just fine for groups and soloing. There was nothing wrong with 'em.
Ahh, there's a million stories of people doing things the developers didn't envision.
> "The company is already warning users that attempts to circumvent these measures is a violation of their Terms of Service."
You know how to get around this, don't you? Enough people start informing Time/Warner that doing such stuff is "a violation of money coming out of my pocket into yours."
I recall buying a Gateway years ago. Upon finding out Doom didn't run on it, the technical person at the other end of the phone stated, "We don't consider Doom to be a necessary application." Back it went. I assure you they quickly changed their tune.
"Turning the software back on historical records, he found out that Hillary Clinton's astounding record of 49 of 51 profitable IPO offerings were so statistically unlikely as to justify the Wall Street Journal's characterization as 'the likes of which God has never seen' as completely accurate. Did the traders just write down for her the profitable ones at the end of the day, and eat the losing ones themselves?"
> Perplex City Season 2 is not coming out any time soon.
Actually, I know someone who works there, and they're keeping it a secret. PC Season 2 will involve directing all you braniac nerds into seeing who will be the first, the very first, to successfully discover 'the Hairy Triangle'.
> The Russian argument is that, although the US might claim that the defences are intended solely > for use against Iranian missiles, they could have a role against Russia's own missiles which > would destabilise the existing balance of power.
What balance of power?
They're a freedom-based democracy, right?
There is no "balance of power" between the US and France, or England, or India, or Germany, or Japan, or Italy, or Israel, or etc., or etc., or etc...
Slashdot Mirror
Wait for it...
"Why is the line to my father dotted?"
"Uhh, the computer does it after linking your DNA. Apparently he's not your actual father."
"WHAT?!?!?"
"Yes. Apparently your real father is Franklin O'Tool, a retired mail carrier now in Hawaii."
"Ohhhh my god. Ahhh, what is a 'real father', anyway?"
"Apparently, it's a mail carrier."
Redistricting, or How To Group African Americans Into Groups So They Can Elect Themselves Their Very Own Representative, But Without Using The Word "They" Or The Phrase "You People", Now With Bonus Points If Those People Think Highly Of You
Too cynical? Sorry. I'm sure it's a mighty fine...game. To...play.
> Rockstar's Manhunt 2 has been banned in the U.K. [for] 'unrelenting focus on stalking
> and brutal slaying.' 'There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in
> which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.'
Hah! That's what Rockstar gets for not calling the bad guys "Blood Elves" or "Nazis" or "rats" or "boars" or something. "Go kill 10 Blood Elves over that hill, and I'll give you 37 pennies."
They knew the world was round (it always casts a round shadow on the Moon, which is the only shape capable of always casting a round shadow no matter what angle light hits it at.)
From that, they further knew how big the Earth was (measuring the sun's angles in wells on the same day of the year at two latitudes, then measuring the distance between them.)
And from that, they further knew how big the moon was (knowing how big the Earth was, and how big it's shadow was on the moon, combined with the (reasonable) assumption that the sun was far enough away the light was more or less parallel from the Earth to the moon.
And from that, they further knew how far away the moon was (knowing how big it is, you can immediately calculate how far away it is by it's angular size.)
But who the hell cares about old dead white males anyway?
There're even more interesting things suggesting Columbus was aware of some intermediate continent "out there" from some ancient writings and/or rumors in those islands way off the west coast of Africa. The Vikings may not have been the only Old Worlders to go out and come back, then mostly lost the knowledge about it.
Actually, I believe things with mass can travel faster than the speed of light, but that they just can't "get there from here" because they can't travel at the speed of light without having infinite energy and mass.
No.
To you, the traveler, time continues to move "forward" normally. Hence, from your point of view, you'd still be turning it off after you turned it on. Only from an external viewpoint would you arrive before you left.
Wouldn't the route through the wormhole also be bound by the speed of light? (What is it in higher dimensions, anyway? Does it include the time dimension?)
And hence you really couldn't go anywhere nearby "quickly", but rather only link to some place really far away that happened to be bent around through those extra dimensions.
Unless you are talking warp technology, wherein the spacial distance between the two locations is physically warped so it's just a smaller distance to travel. But that's back to sci-fi.
Yes, and the $1 trillion and counting spent on the War on Terror so far could be much better spent dumping it into cancer and heart disease research, as far as net saving of lives is concerned.
Yes, even if you take into account a nuked city.
From TFA:
> Sifting through data from trillions of collisions...
and
> The odds of the observed signal being due to something other than the
> cascade b are estimated to be one in 30 million.
There are over 66,000 one in 30 million events in "trillions" of collisions, which means at least 2 trillion.
I presume they mean one in 30 million, after taking into account "trillions".
So let me see if I get this right. This woman (or women) had no job offers and few callbacks, even though they were at the top of their Harvard class...
From the doubly-deferenced original article:
> The chats sometimes include photos taken from women's Facebook pages,
> and in the Yale student's case, one person threatened to sexually violate her.
Presumably the employer read that someone wanted to rape and beat her up, so they refused to hire her.
> Another participant claimed to be the student, making it appear that
> she was taking part in the discussion.
"And, besides, here she is claiming she likes sex with dogs and mules and her tongue 'enters her mother's forbidden folds' on a regular basis. I won't hire her because of that, either."
WTF idiots are running these corporate HR departments?
A few years ago, they finally got around to regulating child pornography. Now this. Is there no end to this slippery slope?!?!?
The article continues:
"On the positive side, US corporations are supplying the hacking tools for both sides, as encouraged by the US State Department..."
Filter for copyrighted movies?
Zip it up. It'll be a tad smaller to boot.
Next stupidity?
In old EverQuest (old? yeesh) a necro's pet would adopt the speed of the weapon it was given, assuming the weapon wasn't slower than the pet's natural attack speed.
Basically, it would take the better of the weapon's damage or it's own, and the better of the weapon's attack speed, or it's own.
And the pet's attack speed was around 3s. So if you gave it a rusty dagger at around 2s, or a fine steel dagger at around 1.8s, your pet would be attacking at dagger speed but with their own natural damage amounts.
So far so good...until they got around to finally putting in the level 50 pets (back when 50 was max.)
These pets, with a dual fine steel daggers, did damage so fast that they could solo a well-equipped level 50 warrior PC. Or at least come damned close to it. This all without the necro lifting a finger to cast a spell.
So something had to go. Now you can give pets weapons, but it is little more than a decoration (except at low levels, where you can find "cheap" weapons at the auction house that the Gods didn't even drop in the early game, and your pet will do more damage than they naturally would, though no faster than "normal" speed. This is only at low levels of course. Higher levels they still outdamage the best weapons. (Which made me not want to be a warrior in any case.)
EQ to this day claims it was a bug, but that's a load of hogwash. It was a fully intended feature (pet dagger speed up) with an unintended side effect (pets could solo PC warriors at the highest levels.) Actually, I'd claim the real unintended side effect was the apparent need to have warriors be complete wimps and meat shields, doing trivial damage. The pets were just fine for groups and soloing. There was nothing wrong with 'em.
Ahh, there's a million stories of people doing things the developers didn't envision.
> My mom probably isn't getting shafted
Oh, I wouldn't know about that, if ya know what I mean...
> "The company is already warning users that attempts to circumvent these measures is a violation of their Terms of Service."
You know how to get around this, don't you? Enough people start informing Time/Warner that doing such stuff is "a violation of money coming out of my pocket into yours."
I recall buying a Gateway years ago. Upon finding out Doom didn't run on it, the technical person at the other end of the phone stated, "We don't consider Doom to be a necessary application." Back it went. I assure you they quickly changed their tune.
"Turning the software back on historical records, he found out that Hillary Clinton's astounding record of 49 of 51 profitable IPO offerings were so statistically unlikely as to justify the Wall Street Journal's characterization as 'the likes of which God has never seen' as completely accurate. Did the traders just write down for her the profitable ones at the end of the day, and eat the losing ones themselves?"
"You didn't really think they spent six hundred dollars on a hammer, did you?"
> discovery of 'the Cube'
and
> Perplex City Season 2 is not coming out any time soon.
Actually, I know someone who works there, and they're keeping it a secret. PC Season 2 will involve directing all you braniac nerds into seeing who will be the first, the very first, to successfully discover 'the Hairy Triangle'.
If you think Russia is "the good guys", go ahead and live there.
I'll wait.
G'wan. Go.
"Wait! I didn't actually [i]mean to follow my rhetoric![/i]" >:( Gosh! Golly >:(
Occasional abberant behavior was recognized and dealt with. Compare that to the North's official policies, as well as the subsequent 30 years.
> USA has never really been expanisionist in the same sense
Yes, expanding freedom, however badly being flubbed at the moment, is akin to expanding totalitarian dictatorship.
Seems like you have three choices: US Style, Soviet Style, or Islamic Style. Pick one. WHOA!!! EVERYBODY STOP RUNNIN' IN MY DIRECTION!
Hyperbole is nice -- you didn't actually expect us to LIVE anywhere else than US Style, did you?
I await downmodding by people upset at the US who would never go to Russia or an Islamic country to live in any case.
> The Russian argument is that, although the US might claim that the defences are intended solely
> for use against Iranian missiles, they could have a role against Russia's own missiles which
> would destabilise the existing balance of power.
What balance of power?
They're a freedom-based democracy, right?
There is no "balance of power" between the US and France, or England, or India, or Germany, or Japan, or Italy, or Israel, or etc., or etc., or etc...
"64 processors is enough for anybody!" >:(