Minor attracted adults? AKA pedophiles? You're going to have a hard time drumming up sympathy for that particular group, no matter how legitimate the sites are.
It's unfortunate that some species do not survive, but that's natural selection for you. To say the climate changes are unnatural is to say that man is unnatural, which is either folly or hubris.
But "global warming" isn't all bad news. For example, the climate changes have spurred the growth of other species, such as African Elephants, which have tripled in numbers over the past 6 months.
Its software is designed to weed out the difference between pedestrians and drivers
So how does that work? Any sufficiently slow-moving vehicle is indistinguishable from a pedestrian. Hell, sometimes pedestrians are moving faster than the traffic.
Although it's difficult to say whether or not it's even necessary, since if all phones in a certain area are moving at 2-3MPH, it's more likely due to traffic than, say, no cars on the road. Maybe not at 2AM (except on New Years), but that shouldn't be hard to account for.
Also, some back of the hand math: Stairs can, conservatively, handle 1 person per 2 steps. If there's 20 steps per story, and it takes 30 seconds to descend each floor, that's 1 person every 3 seconds -- and that's just assuming a slow moving, well spaced, single-file line. You'd have a hard time beating that with escape tubes. It's like the old bandwidth problem. It may be faster to transmit a small amount of data over a fast network, but it's almost always faster to transport a large amount of data on a slower moving infrastructure with massive bandwidth -- AKA hard drives in a station wagon.
A simple traffic control system would try to prevent collisions with people who enter the tube part of the way down.
Yeah, I'm not so sure any traffic control system in a disaster situation could be simple. Here are the main problems, in no particular order:
1) The power will probably be out, which pretty much rules out automated physical access control. 2) The traffic control system would need some way to know who was waiting where, as well as when they entered the egress. 3) People will be panicked and unlikely to obey visual signals. 4) Anyone who does not or cannot get out of the way in time will be hit by the next person coming down. If they're incapacitated or killed by the collision, the pileup will grow very quickly -- likely faster than it could be cleared. 5) The "simple traffic control" will have to account for the rate of acceleration for people who jumped at a higher floor. Also, people who get knocked out or panic (not unlikely) may have a lower terminal velocity than those who maintain legs/arms crossed positions, which could easily lead to #4. 6) Any accident or attack near the bottom of the escape route would render it completely useless, unlike stairs where people could plausibly exit at the next higher floor above any catastrophic damage, or possibly climb down through the wreckage.
Really, it would have to be a very complicated system, and an attacker would probably be able to defeat it with little difficulty (relative to launching any sort of attack). I can't think of many accident situations where it would come in handy either, aside from a short-notice impending doom scenario. Stairs at multiple locations would probably be easier, safer, cheaper, and more effective.
Conservatives call them liberal, and liberals call them conservative. I'd say that's a pretty good indicator of centrism, however I'm fairly liberal, and I still think the NYT is leftist FWIW.
You know, I'm a pretty dedicated Windows user. I've ugraded to each version from 3.0 as soon as (or sometimes before) it's officially released (although I skipped Millenium). I was skeptical of XP at first because I didn't like the "Playskool look," but it grew on me and, moreover, the much improved stability was a welcome change. I've tried OSX, and quite a few flavors of Linux over the years, but I'm mostly a gamer/HTPC guy, and Windows gives me the best results in those areas. That said, I've tried the public preview of Vista, and I hate it. All of the established configuration and navigation controls have been needlessly reorganized, the hardware support is spotty (at best), it's unstable, overly restrictive, and excessively "secure," if by secure you mean "pops up a lot of dialog boxes whenever you try to do anything."
At any rate, I will certainly consider it in 6-12 months after release, but at this point Vista feels more like a step backwards. I get all of the disadvantages I listed above, and there are really no new advantages or incentives. I supposed I'll be forced to upgrade at some point because of DX10, but otherwise I see myself sticking with XP as long as possible.
Unfortunately, as both the NYT and Washington Post report, the documentary itself is a stinker. They both claim it does little to present actual problems, showing instead unfeasible hacks that admittedly would never work, and contenting itself to merely cast doubt over the voting machines rather than providing any solid evidence. And let's be honest -- it's easy to cast doubt on anything, including paper voting or anything else. On top if it all, the woman at the center of it all reportedly comes off as a crackpot, rather than someone with whom the public would actually empathize.
Not having seen it myself, I can't make any conclusions of my own, but if the reviews are accurate, this film does a disservice to the concept of secure voting by further validating the fringe/crackpot image that people already have regarding this issue.
The real news is that Diebold is so furious over such a vague "expose." What they should be doing is simply ignoring the whole thing, unless questioned specifically. By launching their own campaign against it, they're legitimizing the film -- which may actually be a good thing -- and giving it more attention than it may have otherwise received.
Personally, I think there are much bigger problems with the voting system than the machines that count the votes. Primaries, party politics, and campaign financing all throw much bigger wrenches into the gears than a couple of districts in Ohio that might have gotten shafted.
Actually All Soul's Day (The Day of the Dead) is today, Nov. 2nd. I know this only because most of the town where I live shuts down in observance, including the DMV, which I actually needed to visit today. Too bad for me I guess.
Come on, use your imagination here, you're a freaking government!
Telling a government to use it's imagination is like telling a paralyzed man to run. Sure, it may be funny to watch them try, but people are going to think you're a prick.
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I haven't seen much (actually I haven't seen any) argument that the historical temperature records are unreliable.
Well of course you haven't -- it's non disprovable. What's someone going to say, "I was there and your results are wrong."?
You'll have a tough time proving God doesn't exist as well, but that doesn't mean he exists.
Wait, are you saying smoking is bad for you?!?
Minor attracted adults? AKA pedophiles? You're going to have a hard time drumming up sympathy for that particular group, no matter how legitimate the sites are.
It's unfortunate that some species do not survive, but that's natural selection for you. To say the climate changes are unnatural is to say that man is unnatural, which is either folly or hubris.
But "global warming" isn't all bad news. For example, the climate changes have spurred the growth of other species, such as African Elephants, which have tripled in numbers over the past 6 months.
Its software is designed to weed out the difference between pedestrians and drivers
So how does that work? Any sufficiently slow-moving vehicle is indistinguishable from a pedestrian. Hell, sometimes pedestrians are moving faster than the traffic.
Although it's difficult to say whether or not it's even necessary, since if all phones in a certain area are moving at 2-3MPH, it's more likely due to traffic than, say, no cars on the road. Maybe not at 2AM (except on New Years), but that shouldn't be hard to account for.
Also, some back of the hand math: Stairs can, conservatively, handle 1 person per 2 steps. If there's 20 steps per story, and it takes 30 seconds to descend each floor, that's 1 person every 3 seconds -- and that's just assuming a slow moving, well spaced, single-file line. You'd have a hard time beating that with escape tubes. It's like the old bandwidth problem. It may be faster to transmit a small amount of data over a fast network, but it's almost always faster to transport a large amount of data on a slower moving infrastructure with massive bandwidth -- AKA hard drives in a station wagon.
A simple traffic control system would try to prevent collisions with people who enter the tube part of the way down.
Yeah, I'm not so sure any traffic control system in a disaster situation could be simple. Here are the main problems, in no particular order:
1) The power will probably be out, which pretty much rules out automated physical access control.
2) The traffic control system would need some way to know who was waiting where, as well as when they entered the egress.
3) People will be panicked and unlikely to obey visual signals.
4) Anyone who does not or cannot get out of the way in time will be hit by the next person coming down. If they're incapacitated or killed by the collision, the pileup will grow very quickly -- likely faster than it could be cleared.
5) The "simple traffic control" will have to account for the rate of acceleration for people who jumped at a higher floor. Also, people who get knocked out or panic (not unlikely) may have a lower terminal velocity than those who maintain legs/arms crossed positions, which could easily lead to #4.
6) Any accident or attack near the bottom of the escape route would render it completely useless, unlike stairs where people could plausibly exit at the next higher floor above any catastrophic damage, or possibly climb down through the wreckage.
Really, it would have to be a very complicated system, and an attacker would probably be able to defeat it with little difficulty (relative to launching any sort of attack). I can't think of many accident situations where it would come in handy either, aside from a short-notice impending doom scenario. Stairs at multiple locations would probably be easier, safer, cheaper, and more effective.
It just wants to be acute dolphin. You know.. like dolphin, a Peale.
I'm not sure where you think hands grow, but I'll give you a hint: It's not on the end of legs.
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Hang on, my phone's ringing... Ah crap, it's the 1990s again. What do they want this time?!?
Or rather than sueing them, we could try suing them!
Conservatives call them liberal, and liberals call them conservative. I'd say that's a pretty good indicator of centrism, however I'm fairly liberal, and I still think the NYT is leftist FWIW.
Well don't keep us all in suspense! What of theirs is exploding?!?
You know, I'm a pretty dedicated Windows user. I've ugraded to each version from 3.0 as soon as (or sometimes before) it's officially released (although I skipped Millenium). I was skeptical of XP at first because I didn't like the "Playskool look," but it grew on me and, moreover, the much improved stability was a welcome change. I've tried OSX, and quite a few flavors of Linux over the years, but I'm mostly a gamer/HTPC guy, and Windows gives me the best results in those areas. That said, I've tried the public preview of Vista, and I hate it. All of the established configuration and navigation controls have been needlessly reorganized, the hardware support is spotty (at best), it's unstable, overly restrictive, and excessively "secure," if by secure you mean "pops up a lot of dialog boxes whenever you try to do anything."
At any rate, I will certainly consider it in 6-12 months after release, but at this point Vista feels more like a step backwards. I get all of the disadvantages I listed above, and there are really no new advantages or incentives. I supposed I'll be forced to upgrade at some point because of DX10, but otherwise I see myself sticking with XP as long as possible.
Unfortunately, as both the NYT and Washington Post report, the documentary itself is a stinker. They both claim it does little to present actual problems, showing instead unfeasible hacks that admittedly would never work, and contenting itself to merely cast doubt over the voting machines rather than providing any solid evidence. And let's be honest -- it's easy to cast doubt on anything, including paper voting or anything else. On top if it all, the woman at the center of it all reportedly comes off as a crackpot, rather than someone with whom the public would actually empathize.
Not having seen it myself, I can't make any conclusions of my own, but if the reviews are accurate, this film does a disservice to the concept of secure voting by further validating the fringe/crackpot image that people already have regarding this issue.
The real news is that Diebold is so furious over such a vague "expose." What they should be doing is simply ignoring the whole thing, unless questioned specifically. By launching their own campaign against it, they're legitimizing the film -- which may actually be a good thing -- and giving it more attention than it may have otherwise received.
Personally, I think there are much bigger problems with the voting system than the machines that count the votes. Primaries, party politics, and campaign financing all throw much bigger wrenches into the gears than a couple of districts in Ohio that might have gotten shafted.
In South America, chupacabras sip YOU!
I believe you are mistaken, sir. The original story is here.
Exactly. Thank God for Cool Web Search.
How can an article citing Netcraft stats, submitted by a nerd, and approved by a nerd, get this basic concept wrong?
Obviously the submitter and editor are either NOT nerds, or need to have their nerd quals revoked.
Actually All Soul's Day (The Day of the Dead) is today, Nov. 2nd. I know this only because most of the town where I live shuts down in observance, including the DMV, which I actually needed to visit today. Too bad for me I guess.
Come on, use your imagination here, you're a freaking government!
Telling a government to use it's imagination is like telling a paralyzed man to run. Sure, it may be funny to watch them try, but people are going to think you're a prick.
Saying fung shui is BS is like saying art is false. Design is a matter of preference, not a disprovable assertion.
Either that, or a very confused homeless guy.
"This restaurant sure throws away a lot of paper, and hardly any food!"
USA Dept of homerland security
Homerland? Is that Fox's version of Disneyworld? And why do they get their own federal department? It must be a return favor for Fox News.
What if they helped you in the front?