Do you know what has the largest effect on the climate of Earth? The Sun. Now, do you think that Sol falls under the purview of NASA or not?
How about, instead of "shuffling" the money into something else, why don't we give NASA an extra $2 Billion to explore the Solar System. We could probably take it out of petty cash at the Pentagon.
Congress determines how much to spend. Congress determines how much tax to collect. If the latter is less than the former, you run a deficit. If you run a deficit, the debt increases.
So "Operation Fast and Furious" happened before you were born? That scandal, which resulted in the death of one of the American Border Patrol, was a Democrat conspiracy intended to result in the seizure of guns.
While a complete and utter clusterfuck, that is not what Operation Fast and Furious was at all. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite, where they were letting criminals walk away with guns instead of seizing them. That's why it's called the ATF "gunwalking" scandal.
If I was Mexican maybe I would give a shit. I actually don't care that much about how Trump's proposed wall effects them, it's how it affects us. It's about our attitude towards immigration, how much it will cost, enforcement and legal issues (e.g. splitting up families where the children are US citizens and thus entitled to stay), and the actual practicality and feasibility of such an endeavor. Comprende?
Because it forces the next person to actively undo them, which can potentially be a news story with political backlash. Instead, the next person now doesn't have to do anything and they get their way, and no one will remember when it just doesn't happen.
Also, you forgot ICQ, where IIRC if someone received enough warnings from other users they would be kicked off for a while. A chat program that can put you on timeout for being an ass-hat would be worth something!
Nothing you can't wear, eat, or live in is intrinsically worth much of anything.
There are many resources that have intrinsic value but don't fit into those three categories. With iron I can make weapons and come steal all your clothing, food, and shelter, for example. Technology has intrinsic value as it allows us to harness more resources faster, so we can produce more/better food, clothing, and shelter.
Even non-physical things, like ideas, are resources that have intrinsic value. Being able to accurately tell the time and predict the seasons means I can better plan how I grow food. Good luck planting your seeds in November... of course, you don't even know that it is November, or what November is, but I'm sure you'll be fine.
Agreed that race conditions can be very tricky to spot. But there is one case I've run into a couple of times...
If you're trying to debug something and you start putting in some print statements or breakpoints, and suddenly the bug goes away... It's probably a race condition, which was inadvertently "fixed" by you slowing down the execution with your breakpoints, etc. I like to think of it as the CS equivalent of the Observer Effect.
Buffer overflow is a problem that can't ever be completely mitigated, at least not in an ideal way. Basically, something is producing data and putting it in the buffer, and something else is taking the data out and consuming it in some way. As long as your consumer is at least as fast as your producer, the buffer will never overflow. Since you don't necessarily have control of both producer and consumer, you can't always guarantee this.
That being said, the vast majority of the time it is preventable, and at the very least should be recoverable in the rare event that it does happen.
Apparently it still works out to be that large, according to this:
There are 8! (40,320) ways to arrange the corner cubes. Seven can be oriented independently, and the orientation of the eighth depends on the preceding seven, giving 3^7 (2,187) possibilities. There are 12! / 2 (239,500,800) ways to arrange the edges, restricted from 12! because edges must be in an even permutation exactly when the corners are. [...] Eleven edges can be flipped independently, with the flip of the twelfth depending on the preceding ones, giving 2^11 (2,048) possibilities.
In the video the cube did look like it might have had some modification. There are significant bevels on the corners, presumably so the alignment can be off by more and it will self-correct as you twist it.
It is therefore seen that Newton's laws become increasingly inaccurate when the scale is very large (relativity), or very small (quantum mechanics).
My understanding is that the Laws of Motion still apply at large scales, but that mass also increases with velocity (whereas Newton would have assumed that mass was constant). It's only Newton's Law of Gravity that was superseded by relativity. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sometimes I wonder why my remote control refuse to obey my commands when the commercials on TV are running and I try to quicky zap away, coincidence? Maybe I'm just being paranoid - but sometimes these questions are worth raising so we don't just accept everything blindly.
So don't accept it blindly. But also don't start spouting random anecdotal conjecture. You could easily test whether this is true by performing some simple experiments and recording the data. Otherwise, yes, you are just being paranoid.
Ok, so find me a source that shows that more than 3 of the 30,000 emails contained classified information. Which would mean that Comey lied to the House committee when he made these statements.
I like how you basically posted the entire transcript, except the first few exchanges. I've bolded the part that you obviously wanted to exclude.
Gowdy: Good morning, Director Comey. Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: That's what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, I'm looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That's not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
So a small number of portion markings (meaning not the entire email) on 3 out of 30,000 emails, but to you that's clearly intent? I don't give a shit about this email "scandal", and unless you dredge up something a hell of a lot worse than that, I never will.
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Do you know what has the largest effect on the climate of Earth? The Sun. Now, do you think that Sol falls under the purview of NASA or not?
How about, instead of "shuffling" the money into something else, why don't we give NASA an extra $2 Billion to explore the Solar System. We could probably take it out of petty cash at the Pentagon.
Congress determines how much to spend. Congress determines how much tax to collect. If the latter is less than the former, you run a deficit. If you run a deficit, the debt increases.
I wish I'd read this before responding to your comment above.
So uh, yeah, Operation Fast and Furious is whatever you want it to be. Have a nice day!
So "Operation Fast and Furious" happened before you were born? That scandal, which resulted in the death of one of the American Border Patrol, was a Democrat conspiracy intended to result in the seizure of guns.
While a complete and utter clusterfuck, that is not what Operation Fast and Furious was at all. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite, where they were letting criminals walk away with guns instead of seizing them. That's why it's called the ATF "gunwalking" scandal.
What the crap is a 'Jesus name'?
If I was Mexican maybe I would give a shit. I actually don't care that much about how Trump's proposed wall effects them, it's how it affects us. It's about our attitude towards immigration, how much it will cost, enforcement and legal issues (e.g. splitting up families where the children are US citizens and thus entitled to stay), and the actual practicality and feasibility of such an endeavor. Comprende?
Because it forces the next person to actively undo them, which can potentially be a news story with political backlash. Instead, the next person now doesn't have to do anything and they get their way, and no one will remember when it just doesn't happen.
whatever the MSN one was called
We used to just call it MSN...
Also, you forgot ICQ, where IIRC if someone received enough warnings from other users they would be kicked off for a while. A chat program that can put you on timeout for being an ass-hat would be worth something!
Or you could, you know, learn to use a soldering iron.
No one can solder a ball-grid array package by hand.
Maybe you could buy your own pick-and-place machine and reflow oven and learn how to use those instead?
Nothing you can't wear, eat, or live in is intrinsically worth much of anything.
There are many resources that have intrinsic value but don't fit into those three categories. With iron I can make weapons and come steal all your clothing, food, and shelter, for example. Technology has intrinsic value as it allows us to harness more resources faster, so we can produce more/better food, clothing, and shelter.
Even non-physical things, like ideas, are resources that have intrinsic value. Being able to accurately tell the time and predict the seasons means I can better plan how I grow food. Good luck planting your seeds in November... of course, you don't even know that it is November, or what November is, but I'm sure you'll be fine.
Agreed that race conditions can be very tricky to spot. But there is one case I've run into a couple of times...
If you're trying to debug something and you start putting in some print statements or breakpoints, and suddenly the bug goes away... It's probably a race condition, which was inadvertently "fixed" by you slowing down the execution with your breakpoints, etc. I like to think of it as the CS equivalent of the Observer Effect.
Buffer overflow is a problem that can't ever be completely mitigated, at least not in an ideal way. Basically, something is producing data and putting it in the buffer, and something else is taking the data out and consuming it in some way. As long as your consumer is at least as fast as your producer, the buffer will never overflow. Since you don't necessarily have control of both producer and consumer, you can't always guarantee this.
That being said, the vast majority of the time it is preventable, and at the very least should be recoverable in the rare event that it does happen.
Apparently it still works out to be that large, according to this:
There are 8! (40,320) ways to arrange the corner cubes. Seven can be oriented independently, and the orientation of the eighth depends on the preceding seven, giving 3^7 (2,187) possibilities. There are 12! / 2 (239,500,800) ways to arrange the edges, restricted from 12! because edges must be in an even permutation exactly when the corners are. [...] Eleven edges can be flipped independently, with the flip of the twelfth depending on the preceding ones, giving 2^11 (2,048) possibilities.
8! × 37 × (12! / 2) × 2^11 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000
Including all permutations is about 12 times that, around 519 quintillion.
In the video the cube did look like it might have had some modification. There are significant bevels on the corners, presumably so the alignment can be off by more and it will self-correct as you twist it.
It is therefore seen that Newton's laws become increasingly inaccurate when the scale is very large (relativity), or very small (quantum mechanics).
My understanding is that the Laws of Motion still apply at large scales, but that mass also increases with velocity (whereas Newton would have assumed that mass was constant). It's only Newton's Law of Gravity that was superseded by relativity. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Actually almost everybody here is talking bullshit too trying to sound smarter than everybody else.
First time on /. I take it?
Wow, that's the best you can find on him huh? Pretty pathetic. Guilt by association isn't a thing.
Seriously, with this attitude is any wonder that no one likes the US anymore.
USA! USA!
Has there been any presidential candidate in decades who wasnt a scoundrel?
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but yes: Barack Hussein Obama.
Sometimes I wonder why my remote control refuse to obey my commands when the commercials on TV are running and I try to quicky zap away, coincidence? Maybe I'm just being paranoid - but sometimes these questions are worth raising so we don't just accept everything blindly.
So don't accept it blindly. But also don't start spouting random anecdotal conjecture. You could easily test whether this is true by performing some simple experiments and recording the data. Otherwise, yes, you are just being paranoid.
Sure, if you don't mind not being able to receive any calls or texts either.
Ok, so find me a source that shows that more than 3 of the 30,000 emails contained classified information. Which would mean that Comey lied to the House committee when he made these statements.
Specifically I think it's because he did it across state lines.
I like how you basically posted the entire transcript, except the first few exchanges. I've bolded the part that you obviously wanted to exclude.
Gowdy: Good morning, Director Comey. Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: That's what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, I'm looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That's not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
So a small number of portion markings (meaning not the entire email) on 3 out of 30,000 emails, but to you that's clearly intent? I don't give a shit about this email "scandal", and unless you dredge up something a hell of a lot worse than that, I never will.
Could be 1865. The party of Lincoln is as dead as he is.