Well, here's how my logic would go in this particular election, if I were eligible:
THE most important thing about democracy, even more important that any real or perceived influende on actual policy, is that you get to hold the people in power accountable.
Kerry may be a wild card, but you KNOW that Bush LIED to you. To ALL of you, and not just about his private life, or even shady business practices, but about important political decisions with direct bearing on the security of your country and the rest of the world. He LIED to you in order to go get accceptance for going to war on a sovreign nation who was no threat. He LIED to you about the reasons you should or should not support risking the death and suffering of thousands of american soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Even if you would have supported it anyway, there is NO excuse for misleading the public in such a blatant way on such a serious matter. NOONE should get away with that, EVER.
If you don't kick him out now, you're basically telling politicians (all of them), that they can get away with pretty much anything and enjoy continued support, as long as they dangle some sort of enemy in front of you.
Even if you believe Kerry will be worse (I fail to comprehend how that is even remotely likely, but I know you are out there), how much worse could he be, and wouldn't it still be worth it just to send a clear message that you will be held accountable if you fuck up?
So in short, the old logo gave the impression that this 'NetBSD' thing was a militantly demonic anti-American homosexual cult dedicated to destroying computers.
No, you've got it all wrong. The thing is, the seekrit world government immensely enjoys exercising their power to dictate the US election results, but they don't actually care much who wins, it's just for chuckles. So after the war they simply agreed to let it depend on a silly external criterion which is below them to rig, freeng up the debating time for more important things.
I know that, the article says so. The question is how can you get a light beam entering the eye to end up anywhere else on the retina than all the other rays coming from the same place, i.e. the place on the retina where you see the actual projector.
Normally it shouldn't matter from which direction a ray leaves the projector. As long as it hits anywhere on the cornea at all the optics should still make sure it ends up the same place on the retina as all other rays coming from the same point in space (or roughly the same place, if the source point is out of focus). That's what lenses do, and the whole point of having one in the eye.
For the projector to work it either has to cover your field of view (which I got the impression it does not), or they have found some clever way around this probelem and I'm ccurious what it is.
I mean, if I remember my optics correctly, the way the cornea/lens assembly works is that all incoming light originating at the same point out there ends up in the same spot on the retina, regardless of which path they take through the lens. This is what enables us to see a clear image.
Although it has certain other intersting proerties, laser light obeys normal refraction.
Yet they talk about suåperimosing the image on the normal view. How can you project to any other part of the visual field than the area where you see the projector?
It is obvious that the Old Republic has a left wing slant to it. I find it funny that because Darth Vader is either in the middle or slightly to the right he is all the sudden some kook that shoudl be discredited.
Sadly, any hope Africa had in becoming a real 'developing' continent, is over thanks to AIDS
In the short term, yes, but further on, I wouldn't know. Many consider the culling provided by the medieval plagues to have been instumental to the subsequent dominant position og Europe and the West. No, not in a Darwinistic sense by refining us, but simply in eliminating overpopulation and freeing up space and resources necessary to build a different society.
This of course in no way lessens the tragedy happening in Africa, and I certainly don't mean to be cynical about it. Just careful in predicting what its effects might be in the long run.
Even the 14-inch has only 1024, which is simply below par IMO. Apart from that it looks like a very nice contender in the low-end portable market, but that screen would probably make me avoid it if I were shopping today. Shame; I do like that iPod-look.
Yes it's a pain for the users, but it does alleviate the potential of corporate espionage (don't beleive it doesn't exist, it most certainly does) and also spyware/adware/etc screwing up your computers.
So does cutting off the electricity. Or how about firing everybody and shutting down the company entirely? Then we'll finally all be safe.
The 1st ed system is totally unworkable, but there is tons and tons of brilliant and atmospheric _stuff_ in those books to use (criticals, treasures, items, etc.) that just makes the 2nd ed books look completly boring.
Mix and match and do whatever is fun. Hell, if you're all good, experienced, and disciplinede players (and ditto DM), you don't need rules or numbers or dice at all. All the interesting stuff is about puzzles, plot, decisions, consequences, and creative ways of dealing with situations anyway. Oh, and role-play.
Temperatures have been on a slow, and natural climb, since the last ice age
Which is more than enough reason for concern in itself. Spewing out extra CO2 that might accellerate it (even if the chance was slight, which it is not) just because it is not proven to be harmful is basically playing russian roulette.
It just so happens that the very small, agenda driven, socialized, government-paid scientific community is the only one that buys into the extremist theories.
First of all, you try to make it sound like there are others that are not agenda-driven, which is obvious bullshit.
The rest of your argument is basically "only the people who know anything about the climate believe in it, and they are few." Uh, yeah? You think truth is some kind of democracy where every vote is equal whether you are informed or not?
As for your supposed "independent scientists": if you're a scientist your'e almost always either paid by a governement or by industry. Do the math. And no, the laissez-faires are not in the majority among climatologists; not by a long shot.
Even many liberals are leaving the ranks of the extremist environmentalist groups. Largely because the groups have shown themselves to be fraudulent.
What the groups do or do not do has no bearing on whether there is a link between emissions and climate.
And why is it that it's always the US that gets the blame?
You don't get the blame. You get slammed because you are in a position to do something your future emissions (unlike India and China), yet refuse to do so.
You are right that americans should be very worried indeed about their disappearing freedoms, but the important ones are being taken away under the guise of protection against terrorism, not climate change.
And whoever modded that incoherent, unsubstatiated knee-jerk drivel as insightful clearly has no idea what an insight is.
I'm afarid I did misunderstand "up", yes. And thus asssumed the post was a reference to Halflife 2. The rest of my comment and the allegation of being behind schedule was referring to HL2, but I can see how that was not celar.
It always amazes me that so many people take the "soure stolen, we have to delay"-thing at face value. What exactly was the link between those two things supposed to be? Sure, ahving your game stolen sucks, and a couple of days of collecting evidence might be in order, but rewriting the entire schedule? Come on! They were lagging behind schedule, and a convenient excuse came along. Nothing wrong with taking the time to do it well instead of rushing release, but that bad excuse annoys me.
You can control the affected area even more precisely than that: if you have two or more antennas, you could triangulate the position of a phone and choose whether to service it or not based on its position. Meaning that you can literally draw your block-zone on the map and when you step outside that invisible line, your phone works. (Not sure they actually do, but it's certainly possible.
This also means you don't have to drown out any other transmitters, you can just play man-in the middle: you know which phones are in your zone, if a tower tries to contat it, you say you're it, but can't answer. If a phone tries to contact a tower, you pretend you're it an denies service. All you have to do is be first.
Combined, you have a very robust soloution with a well-defined virtual cage that is "invisible" from the outside but completely "dark" on the inside.
Actualle, the way GSM jammer work, that is not an option. You could do it by modifying the how you negotiate cell stations, but that would require new low-level firmware.
No, GSM jammers of this type work by impersonating the local base stations by responding before them, but not actually letting anything through.
The systems have been available for a few years, and are apparently very good at blocking out only a well defined area. The stumbling blocks have been entirely legal/regulatory.
I don't know if the available equipment handles it already, but there is no technical reason why the jammer couldn't engage slightly more thoroughly in the transaction and forward select calls.
Right, I'll try to be polite, but this is costing me, OK:
You demonstrate later in the post that you do in fact understand the difference between NOx and other pollution, and yet you use a NOx map to make sweeping claims about pollution distribution and causes. What gives? Are you purpousely trying to mislead, or could you just not bother to go back and fix the post when you discovered the flaw? (and who modded that insightful?)
For all the whining and complaining about how the US should have joined the Kyoto accord, it's very easy to see that China is the #1 offender, and that Europe is not doing so hot itself.
Kyoto is not a badge for achievement, it is a commitment to future reductions. USA refuses to commit, and is being criticised for exacly that. Plus, see above point.
What good would Kyoto have done if it exempted the country who needs it most?
Sorry, I can't respond politely to this.
"If we can't solve everything in one fell swoop it is clearly best not to start at all."? You cannot be serious.
Except in that case it was not very informed, and the means that brought some real info and could have got even more were actively blocked and ignored by those who wanted the war.
Slashdot Mirror
"Do Voodoo Cable Folds involve a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?"'
No, actually the entire process is performed just by slinging insults at the cable.
Well, here's how my logic would go in this particular election, if I were eligible:
THE most important thing about democracy, even more important that any real or perceived influende on actual policy, is that you get to hold the people in power accountable.
Kerry may be a wild card, but you KNOW that Bush LIED to you. To ALL of you, and not just about his private life, or even shady business practices, but about important political decisions with direct bearing on the security of your country and the rest of the world. He LIED to you in order to go get accceptance for going to war on a sovreign nation who was no threat. He LIED to you about the reasons you should or should not support risking the death and suffering of thousands of american soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Even if you would have supported it anyway, there is NO excuse for misleading the public in such a blatant way on such a serious matter. NOONE should get away with that, EVER.
If you don't kick him out now, you're basically telling politicians (all of them), that they can get away with pretty much anything and enjoy continued support, as long as they dangle some sort of enemy in front of you.
Even if you believe Kerry will be worse (I fail to comprehend how that is even remotely likely, but I know you are out there), how much worse could he be, and wouldn't it still be worth it just to send a clear message that you will be held accountable if you fuck up?
So in short, the old logo gave the impression that this 'NetBSD' thing was a militantly demonic anti-American homosexual cult dedicated to destroying computers.
Yes?
No, you've got it all wrong. The thing is, the seekrit world government immensely enjoys exercising their power to dictate the US election results, but they don't actually care much who wins, it's just for chuckles. So after the war they simply agreed to let it depend on a silly external criterion which is below them to rig, freeng up the debating time for more important things.
I know, I used to work f#%&&&//7... No Carrier.
The article mentions a single mirror. This implies that the display is a vector, rather than a raster display
No it doesn't.
I know that, the article says so. The question is how can you get a light beam entering the eye to end up anywhere else on the retina than all the other rays coming from the same place, i.e. the place on the retina where you see the actual projector.
Normally it shouldn't matter from which direction a ray leaves the projector. As long as it hits anywhere on the cornea at all the optics should still make sure it ends up the same place on the retina as all other rays coming from the same point in space (or roughly the same place, if the source point is out of focus). That's what lenses do, and the whole point of having one in the eye.
For the projector to work it either has to cover your field of view (which I got the impression it does not), or they have found some clever way around this probelem and I'm ccurious what it is.
I mean, if I remember my optics correctly, the way the cornea/lens assembly works is that all incoming light originating at the same point out there ends up in the same spot on the retina, regardless of which path they take through the lens. This is what enables us to see a clear image.
Although it has certain other intersting proerties, laser light obeys normal refraction.
Yet they talk about suåperimosing the image on the normal view. How can you project to any other part of the visual field than the area where you see the projector?
Anyone know what the trick is?
It is obvious that the Old Republic has a left wing slant to it. I find it funny that because Darth Vader is either in the middle or slightly to the right he is all the sudden some kook that shoudl be discredited.
But don't forget it will be the first time it will have, had, erm, have, had, happened on that wednesday evening as well.
I believe the correct tense is "will haven upon went happenid"
Sadly, any hope Africa had in becoming a real 'developing' continent, is over thanks to AIDS
In the short term, yes, but further on, I wouldn't know. Many consider the culling provided by the medieval plagues to have been instumental to the subsequent dominant position og Europe and the West. No, not in a Darwinistic sense by refining us, but simply in eliminating overpopulation and freeing up space and resources necessary to build a different society.
This of course in no way lessens the tragedy happening in Africa, and I certainly don't mean to be cynical about it. Just careful in predicting what its effects might be in the long run.
Even the 14-inch has only 1024, which is simply below par IMO. Apart from that it looks like a very nice contender in the low-end portable market, but that screen would probably make me avoid it if I were shopping today. Shame; I do like that iPod-look.
Yes it's a pain for the users, but it does alleviate the potential of corporate espionage (don't beleive it doesn't exist, it most certainly does) and also spyware/adware/etc screwing up your computers.
So does cutting off the electricity. Or how about firing everybody and shutting down the company entirely? Then we'll finally all be safe.
The 1st ed system is totally unworkable, but there is tons and tons of brilliant and atmospheric _stuff_ in those books to use (criticals, treasures, items, etc.) that just makes the 2nd ed books look completly boring.
Mix and match and do whatever is fun. Hell, if you're all good, experienced, and disciplinede players (and ditto DM), you don't need rules or numbers or dice at all. All the interesting stuff is about puzzles, plot, decisions, consequences, and creative ways of dealing with situations anyway. Oh, and role-play.
Temperatures have been on a slow, and natural climb, since the last ice age
Which is more than enough reason for concern in itself. Spewing out extra CO2 that might accellerate it (even if the chance was slight, which it is not) just because it is not proven to be harmful is basically playing russian roulette.
It just so happens that the very small, agenda driven, socialized, government-paid scientific community is the only one that buys into the extremist theories.
First of all, you try to make it sound like there are others that are not agenda-driven, which is obvious bullshit.
The rest of your argument is basically "only the people who know anything about the climate believe in it, and they are few." Uh, yeah? You think truth is some kind of democracy where every vote is equal whether you are informed or not?
As for your supposed "independent scientists": if you're a scientist your'e almost always either paid by a governement or by industry. Do the math.
And no, the laissez-faires are not in the majority among climatologists; not by a long shot.
Even many liberals are leaving the ranks of the extremist environmentalist groups. Largely because the groups have shown themselves to be fraudulent.
What the groups do or do not do has no bearing on whether there is a link between emissions and climate.
And why is it that it's always the US that gets the blame?
You don't get the blame. You get slammed because you are in a position to do something your future emissions (unlike India and China), yet refuse to do so.
You are right that americans should be very worried indeed about their disappearing freedoms, but the important ones are being taken away under the guise of protection against terrorism, not climate change.
And whoever modded that incoherent, unsubstatiated knee-jerk drivel as insightful clearly has no idea what an insight is.
The list of included apps, from AbiWord to Xchat, is pretty impressive for a device intended primarily as a music player.
But wait till you see the impressive list of paper clips, pens, and post-its that fill up half the space in my new moderate-capacity water bottle.
I'm afarid I did misunderstand "up", yes. And thus asssumed the post was a reference to Halflife 2. The rest of my comment and the allegation of being behind schedule was referring to HL2, but I can see how that was not celar.
They narrow the war on drugs to just the fake dope!
It always amazes me that so many people take the "soure stolen, we have to delay"-thing at face value. What exactly was the link between those two things supposed to be? Sure, ahving your game stolen sucks, and a couple of days of collecting evidence might be in order, but rewriting the entire schedule? Come on! They were lagging behind schedule, and a convenient excuse came along. Nothing wrong with taking the time to do it well instead of rushing release, but that bad excuse annoys me.
You can control the affected area even more precisely than that: if you have two or more antennas, you could triangulate the position of a phone and choose whether to service it or not based on its position. Meaning that you can literally draw your block-zone on the map and when you step outside that invisible line, your phone works. (Not sure they actually do, but it's certainly possible.
This also means you don't have to drown out any other transmitters, you can just play man-in the middle: you know which phones are in your zone, if a tower tries to contat it, you say you're it, but can't answer. If a phone tries to contact a tower, you pretend you're it an denies service. All you have to do is be first.
Combined, you have a very robust soloution with a well-defined virtual cage that is "invisible" from the outside but completely "dark" on the inside.
I'd prefer a national "no-watch list" for offenders.
Actualle, the way GSM jammer work, that is not an option. You could do it by modifying the how you negotiate cell stations, but that would require new low-level firmware.
You don't need the metal, you just have to fool the phone to use your cell.
No, GSM jammers of this type work by impersonating the local base stations by responding before them, but not actually letting anything through.
The systems have been available for a few years,
and are apparently very good at blocking out only a well defined area. The stumbling blocks have been entirely legal/regulatory.
I don't know if the available equipment handles it already, but there is no technical reason why the jammer couldn't engage slightly more thoroughly in the transaction and forward select calls.
Right, I'll try to be polite, but this is costing me, OK:
You demonstrate later in the post that you do in fact understand the difference between NOx and other pollution, and yet you use a NOx map to make sweeping claims about pollution distribution and causes. What gives? Are you purpousely trying to mislead, or could you just not bother to go back and fix the post when you discovered the flaw? (and who modded that insightful?)
For all the whining and complaining about how the US should have joined the Kyoto accord, it's very easy to see that China is the #1 offender, and that Europe is not doing so hot itself.
Kyoto is not a badge for achievement, it is a commitment to future reductions. USA refuses to commit, and is being criticised for exacly that. Plus, see above point.
What good would Kyoto have done if it exempted the country who needs it most?
Sorry, I can't respond politely to this.
"If we can't solve everything in one fell swoop it is clearly best not to start at all."?
You cannot be serious.
Except in that case it was not very informed, and the means that brought some real info and could have got even more were actively blocked and ignored by those who wanted the war.
The inspectors turned out right, remember?