Note from TFA that the disagreement that Senator Cruz had with the bill was that he and the House supported the version of the bill that said that the money from Helium sales should go to defecit reduction and the bill that passed that he voted against had the money going for national parks and "environmental issues."
Wow. I am impressed that Senator Cruz has taken such a principled stand against doing anything to improve our national parks or to protect the environment. That asshole is nothing if not consistent.
The entire Bitcoin concept is a shiny, hi-tech Ponzi scheme. Those that "invested" by spending CPU cycles (electricty) early made out. By design, no one else ever will unless, of course, they can steal the resources necessary to do the mining.
Now, now... At least he's not suggesting that humans herded dinosaurs sometime in the last 6,000 years, and is insisting that this fantasy be taught to all the children Texas public schools.
Anyone who turns to a cleric, of any religion, for medical/scientific advice deserves everything that happens to him/her.
...that all the "clean, safe, and cheap" promises were just so much bullshit? And that the hustle still continues now that it's time to pay for cleaning up the mess they made? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Of course, the NSA is investing billions of dollars in collecting and storing this pointless "metadata". Somehow collecting this stuff will improve your safety even though it is of no use. How gullable do they think we are?
We (as in "those of us who understand what's going on here") don't count. What counts is the majority of our fellow citizens who are scared, stupid, or just plain apathetic enough to not do anything about the ass-ramming that our Constitutional rights are taking.
Bullshit. Nothing. Not, really, nothing is as distracting as carrying on a conversation via text. Dialing the phone? Nope, ten digits, max. Changing the radio? Nope one button at a time. AC? Come on... Texting involves heads-down attention to the task for extended periods (several seconds at a time, at least). Yes, we've all seen the occasional dumbass reading the paper in traffic, but even that is not quite as demanding as the non-touch typing a user must do on a smart phone.
As someone who has been injured when his car was totalled by a careless dipshit who was texting while driving full speed (never even applied the brakes before rear-ending my vehicle) I am all for cutting off the hands of any offender caught being that fucking stupid.
It happened under Obama's watch. How many more years into his presidency are we going to have to wait until he owns up to his failures like this and stops blaming Bush. Season one came out during Bush's last year in office and I seem to remember I was able to purchase every episode for the price of a single season pass.
Fair enough. Let's stop blaming 'W' for all the bullshit and start blaming the obstructionist Republican Congress and Senate minority.
...nothing of importance. Yes, a big corporation forced to give lots of $23 refunds is "news" (sort of), but that a teevee show generates this much buzz of any kind is, well, sad. Then again, this whole thing is dwarfed weekly by "Dancing With the Stars" and similar fake reality shows...
Choosing and adapting terminology can seem silly and trivial when faced with what the subject matter is about, but can be just as important in combating ignorance.
So you're saying, "Use smaller words because big words are hard."
No.
I disagree. The more I understand about the way things work, the more impressed I am with the engineering, and the clearer it becomes that every single religious account of the way things work is, at best, superstitious bullshit.
Two mistakes pop up immediately int the article - IPPC (eh? OK, typo) and "The Journal of the American Meteorological Society". It's IPCC and the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS). Maybe this guy creamed himself while typing, it is the WSJ after all.
So..., I am trying to wrap my head around this... You're saying that the WSJ, a periodical noted for it's business expertise, is putting spin on this report? Why, oh why, would they want to do that, I wonder?
I look forward to the calm, rational, and coherent discussion!
For once, there may be a thread on this site that avoids tangenting off into politics. It will be refreshing to witness a debate that does not invoke Nazis, gun control, or the results of previous US elections, because those are totally offtopic and everyone will realize that.
"unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots are not 'radio communications' that are 'readily accessible' to the general public
Every single apartment complex I've lived in/visited would say otherwise.
So do the unsecured WiFi routers/AP's themselves. In fact, they broadcast their invitations to "come use me" to the world. Did someone actually fail to point out this plain fact for the court?
No, we don't "love it", we're appalled, angry, embarrassed and saddened. Trust in government is at an all-time low.
I beg to differ. You and I may be appalled, angry, embarrassed, etc., but the American public, in general, seems quite content to let their government continue the ass-ramming they've been giving to our Constitution since 2001.
Would you lose the idiotic term "sheeple"? It's smug and condescending, and is the sort of expression used by conspiracy nutjobs to distinguish themselves from the unwashed masses who don't understand the Truth as revealed on some guy's blog. In short, it makes you sound like a complete twat.
But I was deliberately trying to sound smug and condescending, you insensitive clod.
No, seriously. That we have a populace that is far more wrapped up in "news" about "Dancing With The Stars" or this week's collection of games played with various types of balls than in things that pose a glaring threat to fundamental rights and liberties is a source of shame for me. As a group, those idiots deserve all the derision I can summon, and then some.
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Note from TFA that the disagreement that Senator Cruz had with the bill was that he and the House supported the version of the bill that said that the money from Helium sales should go to defecit reduction and the bill that passed that he voted against had the money going for national parks and "environmental issues."
Wow. I am impressed that Senator Cruz has taken such a principled stand against doing anything to improve our national parks or to protect the environment. That asshole is nothing if not consistent.
Do they do ANYTHING for the actual good of the country?
Who? The Tea Party? No. Nothing. The good news is that what remains of the GOP will be forced to reckon with this next fall.
The entire Bitcoin concept is a shiny, hi-tech Ponzi scheme. Those that "invested" by spending CPU cycles (electricty) early made out. By design, no one else ever will unless, of course, they can steal the resources necessary to do the mining.
What an idiot.
Now, now... At least he's not suggesting that humans herded dinosaurs sometime in the last 6,000 years, and is insisting that this fantasy be taught to all the children Texas public schools.
Anyone who turns to a cleric, of any religion, for medical/scientific advice deserves everything that happens to him/her.
...that all the "clean, safe, and cheap" promises were just so much bullshit? And that the hustle still continues now that it's time to pay for cleaning up the mess they made? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Never going to happen again in the US.
TFTFY, my history-challenged friend.
Of course, the NSA is investing billions of dollars in collecting and storing this pointless "metadata". Somehow collecting this stuff will improve your safety even though it is of no use. How gullable do they think we are?
We (as in "those of us who understand what's going on here") don't count. What counts is the majority of our fellow citizens who are scared, stupid, or just plain apathetic enough to not do anything about the ass-ramming that our Constitutional rights are taking.
I think we're being a bit gullible here...
Bullshit. Nothing. Not, really, nothing is as distracting as carrying on a conversation via text. Dialing the phone? Nope, ten digits, max. Changing the radio? Nope one button at a time. AC? Come on... Texting involves heads-down attention to the task for extended periods (several seconds at a time, at least). Yes, we've all seen the occasional dumbass reading the paper in traffic, but even that is not quite as demanding as the non-touch typing a user must do on a smart phone.
As someone who has been injured when his car was totalled by a careless dipshit who was texting while driving full speed (never even applied the brakes before rear-ending my vehicle) I am all for cutting off the hands of any offender caught being that fucking stupid.
It happened under Obama's watch. How many more years into his presidency are we going to have to wait until he owns up to his failures like this and stops blaming Bush. Season one came out during Bush's last year in office and I seem to remember I was able to purchase every episode for the price of a single season pass.
Fair enough. Let's stop blaming 'W' for all the bullshit and start blaming the obstructionist Republican Congress and Senate minority.
...nothing of importance. Yes, a big corporation forced to give lots of $23 refunds is "news" (sort of), but that a teevee show generates this much buzz of any kind is, well, sad. Then again, this whole thing is dwarfed weekly by "Dancing With the Stars" and similar fake reality shows...
Not necessarily stupid, but ignorant. They are not the same.
Agreed, but it's not really ignorance in most cases. It's willful ignorance, and that is much, much worse.
Choosing and adapting terminology can seem silly and trivial when faced with what the subject matter is about, but can be just as important in combating ignorance.
So you're saying, "Use smaller words because big words are hard."
No.
As scientific knowledge advances, god shrinks.
I disagree. The more I understand about the way things work, the more impressed I am with the engineering, and the clearer it becomes that every single religious account of the way things work is, at best, superstitious bullshit.
We need jobs. Fuck our grandchildren's health. We want that new bass boat.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
The reactor would mostly likely fall into the ocean, where it would be retrieved intact. RTGs are designed to survive a launch failure...
And every engineer knows that everything always behaves according to design. Right?
Two mistakes pop up immediately int the article - IPPC (eh? OK, typo) and "The Journal of the American Meteorological Society". It's IPCC and the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS). Maybe this guy creamed himself while typing, it is the WSJ after all.
So..., I am trying to wrap my head around this... You're saying that the WSJ, a periodical noted for it's business expertise, is putting spin on this report? Why, oh why, would they want to do that, I wonder?
I look forward to the calm, rational, and coherent discussion!
For once, there may be a thread on this site that avoids tangenting off into politics. It will be refreshing to witness a debate that does not invoke Nazis, gun control, or the results of previous US elections, because those are totally offtopic and everyone will realize that.
Yeah, good luck with that.
FFTA... [quote]"Google has released 'Coder,' described as a simple way to make web stuff..."[/quote] I thought that was what Rails is for.
Persis Kambatta is not dead. She's going to return some day...
"unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots are not 'radio communications' that are 'readily accessible' to the general public
Every single apartment complex I've lived in/visited would say otherwise.
So do the unsecured WiFi routers/AP's themselves. In fact, they broadcast their invitations to "come use me" to the world. Did someone actually fail to point out this plain fact for the court?
...Orson Wells reference. Just sayin'.
Do we really need to explain that a network need not be connected to the Internet to be, you know, a network?
No, we don't "love it", we're appalled, angry, embarrassed and saddened. Trust in government is at an all-time low.
I beg to differ. You and I may be appalled, angry, embarrassed, etc., but the American public, in general, seems quite content to let their government continue the ass-ramming they've been giving to our Constitution since 2001.
Would you lose the idiotic term "sheeple"? It's smug and condescending, and is the sort of expression used by conspiracy nutjobs to distinguish themselves from the unwashed masses who don't understand the Truth as revealed on some guy's blog. In short, it makes you sound like a complete twat.
But I was deliberately trying to sound smug and condescending, you insensitive clod.
No, seriously. That we have a populace that is far more wrapped up in "news" about "Dancing With The Stars" or this week's collection of games played with various types of balls than in things that pose a glaring threat to fundamental rights and liberties is a source of shame for me. As a group, those idiots deserve all the derision I can summon, and then some.