No, to put it precisely..... I'm... spontaneous reactions, gibbs free energy, enzymes, substrates, catalytic imagery, ideal gas law, enthalpy, entropy, and 451373 other things related to chemstry. So, now that you know, why don't you stalk someone else in here and mod yourself as the "Troll" peace
Um, I'm not the one who modded you. My post was meant as a joke, nothing more. (33 in base-13 is 42 decimal? Get it?)
Now Blair can't sell peerages to it; he's going to close it.
And then, once it's empty, we'll be able to conduct that long-awaited experiment and finally find out how many holes it takes to fill the House of Lords.
When the Polynesians found Easter Island, they found a paradise. Seas teeming with porpoises, huge edible palm trees, bountiful flightless birds and tillable soil from coast to coast.
Unfortunately, they also brought rats with them on their canoes.
The rats ate the birds and bird eggs. The trees were cut down for timber and kindling. The land was farmed to exhaustion. And the entire civilization that arose there quickly collapsed under its own weight.
The whole time, people thought things would last forever, but they couldn't see the end coming.
They shoulda just brought along some frogs to eat the rats, or something...
Let me use an analogy... If I have some food on the corner of mouth after I eat, I hope my friends will tell me about it, and not just ignore it because some guy down the hall spilled his entire meal on his tie.
The correct analogy would be if you had some food on the corner of your mouth, and one friend pointed it out, and another person sitting at the table said "Aw, that's nothing. This other guy spills food on his tie, too! Let's bust his chops about it, even though it wasn't the topic of conversation!". See? You were just itching for yet another opportunity to slag on the US, even though TFA was about Australia. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since slagging on the US is Slashdot's #1 or #2 favorite pastime (or maybe in a dead heat with Microsoft).
Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.
Oh, I don't know - I've always kind of had a rule of thumb for myself that the computer you really want always costs about two thousand bucks. (Actually, I heard that somewhere, but I can't remember where - Dvorak maybe?) Anyway, it's been true just about as long as I could remember - whenever I look at what's out there, the machine I would buy (if I were actually shopping around at that time) costs around $2000-$2500. Yes you can pay more, but you run into diminishing returns, and of course you can pay less, but then you end up somewhat short of what you'd really be happy with.
China and India have been at war a few times in living memory; they've still got unresolved border issues and are not about to integrate their weapons systems.
And China and Russia aren't exactly bosom buddies, either. Then again, does China need Russia's or India's help to develop advanced weapons?
You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing.
I would think that any rational person would indeed wonder about this.
In areas where terror is cultivated, folks are willing to do stuff for free...all in the hope that some divine power will reward them sometime in future.
True. But why? It's clear that there are people willing believe that they will receive some divine reward for mass murder, but why would a human being believe this?
I feel there's a void of uselessness in sizes between the PDA and the laptop. If I can't put it in my pants pocket, then I have to carry/backpack it, so it might as well be a laptop with a real keyboard.
Maybe so. Meanwhile, however, as far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have a keyboard, I'm not interested. It's just too useful and important an input device to do without, for anything that purports to be a "PC".
Why is that different when it comes to computers and computer criminality?
Because of the dirty little open secret of the computer industry: The average person is simply not competent to properly and safely operate a typical modern PC. (I don't mean that to be insulting to the average person; perhaps it would be better to say that the typical modern PC is too complex, too configurable, with too many of its inner workings unsafely exposed, to be used safely by the average person.) It's like back in the early days of automobiles, when things like choke opening and spark timing and fuel mixture had to be set by hand. Far too much detailed user knowledge is expected and required. These are still the pre-Model-T days for personal computing. And yet Microsoft, Dell, et al, continue to promulgate the notion that anybody can use one.
I understand. When you hate someone, you don't want to help them, allow them any influence, or be fair to them. That's the point I was trying to make.
I don't hate them. I'm working on being two of the three you mentioned. That still doesn't mean that I think they need any more help or influence than they already have.
No one believes the left would go out of their way to help (or even be fair to) religion, corporations, or the rich.
And why should they? Aren't religion, corporations, and the rich powerful and influential enough (hell, far too powerful and influential) already? What on earth would they need "help" for?
Why the hell would we? What's so great about hand-to-hand combat? War is not about personal "honor" or "glory"; it's about about doing unto the other guy before he can do unto you, and achieving one's strategic objective as quickly, and with as little in the way of friendly losses, as possible.
American military choppers don't exactly have a reputation for staying in the air...
This is not unique to American helicopters, especially attack helicopters. Witness the beating the Mi-24 "Hind" took during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Helicopters are simply too slow, and not agile enough, to survive well under combat conditions. If you wanna attack air targets, send an F-15. If you wanna kill tanks, send a Warthog. Let the helicopters do the airlifting and troop extractions and other things that they do well.
well Nuclear looks good if you compare it to coal.
but what if you try to compare it to
* Hydro
* Wind
* Solar
* Geothermal
* Tidal
Of those five, only hydro produces any really significant amount of power. The others either have a long way to go before being useful, or have other hangups like resistance from NIMBY types (esp. wind generation).
You are right. All the thousands of nuke America has been manufacturing to bully the world, must have pressured them to get their own nukes. I agree with you. They must have been scared that without nukes of their own, US would probably try to "liberate" them too like Iraq. I vote you for +1 insightful.
I can see why you're posting as AC, if you're going to spew crap like that. The Soviets got into the nuclear race just about the same time as we did, and both of us got into it in reaction to discovering that the Nazis were trying to build The Bomb. Russia was hardly some sort of innocent victim when it came to the arms race.
Ignoring the fact that pebble bed reactors have a bad safety record, I don't believe there is a single nuclear power plant in operation that isn't subsidised by the government.
Meanwhile, here in the States at least, the price of oil is subsidized by a $400 billion annual defense budget and is about to push us into World War III.
All that means is that what oil is left will be efficiently allocated by selling it at $20/gallon when it becomes scarce enough.
By that time, the only people paying $20/gal for oil will be those people who absolutely can't use an alternative material. The rest of us will be paying less than $20/gal for some substitute, which someone will have developed by then because it became profitable to do so.
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Um, I'm not the one who modded you. My post was meant as a joke, nothing more. (33 in base-13 is 42 decimal? Get it?)
Are you in base 13?
Now Blair can't sell peerages to it; he's going to close it.
And then, once it's empty, we'll be able to conduct that long-awaited experiment and finally find out how many holes it takes to fill the House of Lords.
They shoulda just brought along some frogs to eat the rats, or something...
Let me use an analogy... If I have some food on the corner of mouth after I eat, I hope my friends will tell me about it, and not just ignore it because some guy down the hall spilled his entire meal on his tie.
The correct analogy would be if you had some food on the corner of your mouth, and one friend pointed it out, and another person sitting at the table said "Aw, that's nothing. This other guy spills food on his tie, too! Let's bust his chops about it, even though it wasn't the topic of conversation!". See? You were just itching for yet another opportunity to slag on the US, even though TFA was about Australia. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since slagging on the US is Slashdot's #1 or #2 favorite pastime (or maybe in a dead heat with Microsoft).
Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.
Oh, I don't know - I've always kind of had a rule of thumb for myself that the computer you really want always costs about two thousand bucks. (Actually, I heard that somewhere, but I can't remember where - Dvorak maybe?) Anyway, it's been true just about as long as I could remember - whenever I look at what's out there, the machine I would buy (if I were actually shopping around at that time) costs around $2000-$2500. Yes you can pay more, but you run into diminishing returns, and of course you can pay less, but then you end up somewhat short of what you'd really be happy with.
Stern didn't quit. He got a boatload of cash for going to satellite. He won, all while portraying himself as the victim.
And he's doing it again, with his "I hate Les Moonves" campaign. (Of course, CBS was just begging for trouble by suing Stern.)
WHAT? There are satelite pictures of NASA runways on the INTERNET?? OMG, does Homeland Security know about this?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Screw that - there are some nice overheads of the launch pads, about 5 miles to the east of the runway.
Thousands of bible thumpers complained about Howard Stern and it led to him quitting.
And IMO it's the best move he possibly could've made.
China and India have been at war a few times in living memory; they've still got unresolved border issues and are not about to integrate their weapons systems.
And China and Russia aren't exactly bosom buddies, either. Then again, does China need Russia's or India's help to develop advanced weapons?
You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing.
I would think that any rational person would indeed wonder about this.
In areas where terror is cultivated, folks are willing to do stuff for free...all in the hope that some divine power will reward them sometime in future.
True. But why? It's clear that there are people willing believe that they will receive some divine reward for mass murder, but why would a human being believe this?
I feel there's a void of uselessness in sizes between the PDA and the laptop. If I can't put it in my pants pocket, then I have to carry/backpack it, so it might as well be a laptop with a real keyboard.
Maybe so. Meanwhile, however, as far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have a keyboard, I'm not interested. It's just too useful and important an input device to do without, for anything that purports to be a "PC".
Why is that different when it comes to computers and computer criminality?
Because of the dirty little open secret of the computer industry: The average person is simply not competent to properly and safely operate a typical modern PC. (I don't mean that to be insulting to the average person; perhaps it would be better to say that the typical modern PC is too complex, too configurable, with too many of its inner workings unsafely exposed, to be used safely by the average person.) It's like back in the early days of automobiles, when things like choke opening and spark timing and fuel mixture had to be set by hand. Far too much detailed user knowledge is expected and required. These are still the pre-Model-T days for personal computing. And yet Microsoft, Dell, et al, continue to promulgate the notion that anybody can use one.
I wonder if we could just connect this directly up to the chairs in SCO's offices and solve the worlds energy problems!
Better yet, we could use the cow shit directly, as padding in the chairs that are sold to SCO...
I understand. When you hate someone, you don't want to help them, allow them any influence, or be fair to them. That's the point I was trying to make.
I don't hate them. I'm working on being two of the three you mentioned. That still doesn't mean that I think they need any more help or influence than they already have.
Cue vitriolic abuse from 'realists'...
Well, at least you realize your position isn't 'realistic'.
No one believes the left would go out of their way to help (or even be fair to) religion, corporations, or the rich.
And why should they? Aren't religion, corporations, and the rich powerful and influential enough (hell, far too powerful and influential) already? What on earth would they need "help" for?
How about hand to hand combat
Why the hell would we? What's so great about hand-to-hand combat? War is not about personal "honor" or "glory"; it's about about doing unto the other guy before he can do unto you, and achieving one's strategic objective as quickly, and with as little in the way of friendly losses, as possible.
American military choppers don't exactly have a reputation for staying in the air...
This is not unique to American helicopters, especially attack helicopters. Witness the beating the Mi-24 "Hind" took during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Helicopters are simply too slow, and not agile enough, to survive well under combat conditions. If you wanna attack air targets, send an F-15. If you wanna kill tanks, send a Warthog. Let the helicopters do the airlifting and troop extractions and other things that they do well.
Communism is not a political system, its economic.
All political systems are economic systems, and vice versa.
well Nuclear looks good if you compare it to coal.
but what if you try to compare it to
* Hydro
* Wind
* Solar
* Geothermal
* Tidal
Of those five, only hydro produces any really significant amount of power. The others either have a long way to go before being useful, or have other hangups like resistance from NIMBY types (esp. wind generation).
You are right. All the thousands of nuke America has been manufacturing to bully the world, must have pressured them to get their own nukes. I agree with you. They must have been scared that without nukes of their own, US would probably try to "liberate" them too like Iraq. I vote you for +1 insightful.
I can see why you're posting as AC, if you're going to spew crap like that. The Soviets got into the nuclear race just about the same time as we did, and both of us got into it in reaction to discovering that the Nazis were trying to build The Bomb. Russia was hardly some sort of innocent victim when it came to the arms race.
Ignoring the fact that pebble bed reactors have a bad safety record, I don't believe there is a single nuclear power plant in operation that isn't subsidised by the government.
Meanwhile, here in the States at least, the price of oil is subsidized by a $400 billion annual defense budget and is about to push us into World War III.
Adaptation is going to be the critical skill needed in the future.
How is this different from, oh, say, any other period in human history?
All that means is that what oil is left will be efficiently allocated by selling it at $20/gallon when it becomes scarce enough.
By that time, the only people paying $20/gal for oil will be those people who absolutely can't use an alternative material. The rest of us will be paying less than $20/gal for some substitute, which someone will have developed by then because it became profitable to do so.