You completely missed the point of everything, and for bonus points you didn't even read what I wrote and then called ME ignorant.
Where did I say we would fire 1?
How did having 10 warheads on 50 missiles make a difference in DETERENCE when we already had 2000+ missiles? Is there some tipping point in MAD that I don't know about?
As for you comments about terrorism, terrorism was barely used before Reagan capitulated to terrorists and at least half of suicide bombers are secular, not muslim extremists.
Before the MX "peace keeper," if the Soviets saw a blip on their radar it could have been nothing, or maybe 10 nukes coming their way. If it was 10 nukes, that would be bad, but hardly affect their ability to respond with hundreds of misiles.
With the introduction of the "Peace Keeper" with 10 warheads in Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs, thus 10 MIRVs = MX) that blip could mean nothing, or ten missiles with enough warhead to lay waste to every major city and military target in the USSR, Thus every blip was turned into a possible nuclear war requiring a decision for or against a full nuclear response by the Soviets in a matter of minutes, all by a missile named the "Peace Keeper."
It is doubtful Reagan was aware of this irony, as he actually stated in a press conference that nuclear missles could be "called back" if he changed his mind about launching them. We can also thank Reagan for starting a terrorism fad when he pulled out of Beruit after one terrorist attack.
My wife wont use Opera because it crashes so often and wont read many of here IE-only pages. So, she uses IE and then her computer gets so hosed IE gives her syntax errors.
I love the way Opera remembers what you had open after a crash, and tabbed browsing and mouse gestures rule.
Firefox has copied all of that, except for recovery after crashes, which it really out to copy given how often it crashes. Adblock is the best feature, ever, and it also can read most pages.
I can logically PROVE there will be more hurricanes.
A tropical storm is a storm with wind speeds up to 73MPH. Assuming you believe in science, and thus global warming, it is safe to assume you agree that warmer oceans. These storms are heat engines, more heat = more powerful storm. Thus, global warming leads to (slightly) stronger storms. If just one tropical storm of 73MPH winds is increased to 74MPH winds, TA DA, we have more hurricanes due to global warming!
Yes, I know that's not what people mean when they say more, but it's not my fault they are inprecise.
I thought the same thing. All it takes is for one single comet to break off piece that has life on it that is small enough to land in an ocean without vaporizing itself.
Besides, I though it was proven that amino acids can survive impact, along with leptides. Someone should run that same test with spores and single cell life.
I learned in school the breakdown resistance of air was 30kV/cm, so a 40kV charge (not current...) would creat a whopping 1.33cm spark. I've done better under the sheets.
I used a set of fake legos some 15 years ago. None of them stuck together. They looked like lego bricks, but stacked like clay bricks and fell over in a big mess if you bumped them. Not fun.
How dare you make OSS usable by normal people? If you do that, normal people might start using and then it will become widely used and even popular and that would be SO un-cool.
Keep OSS like it is: by programmers who like to read 1MB man file and memorize obscure commands to use counterintuitive interfaces, for programmers who like to read 1MB man file and memorize obscure commands to use counterintuitive interfaces.
Heh, I have a pair of HD 540's (got em used...) and I have the same comment. I used them so much that the pads and wire were destroyed, and even though they don't make them anymore I was able to order replacements that were better than original.
So, where does one research speakers? I know where to find reviews, but most reviews are almost purely emotional. I'd rather have science like frequency repsonse graphs and the like.
Long ago, I listened to some Bose 501's and they blew my old speakers out of the water: deeper bass, great sound. My old speakers were garbage, though.
Anyway, every time Bose comes up, people say it sucks. When asked "why?" one will say "it has no bass," another says "it has too much bass," two others will say opposing things about treble.
I'm starting to think it's just "cool" to say they suck.
Bose are quite over-priced (but I bought mine refurbished), and they sell terrible tweeter-only narrow-band center channel speakers, and they refuse to release frequency response charts (which is a very bad sign) so maybe they do suck. But it seems many of those who claim to be "audiophiles" are the same people who buy "magic" speaker wires for $2,000 that need to be "broken in" before they have the right "essence" or "fluffiness" some such BS, or claim records are better than CDs. So, I don't really belive them.
Anyway, someone give me a good reason why Bose sucks. Well, in addition to them hiding basic facts like frequency response.
PS: my refurbished 501s are now my surround channels, I recently bought 21-year-old DQ-10s for up front and have a Cambridge Soundworks center that was the only full-bandwidth center I found at the time. No, it doesn't have the same tweeters as my DQ-10s, but as they are all full-bandwidth they sound great together. Audiophile I am not, but geek who like great sound for cheap I am.
So, the company that printed a word doc, deleted the file, and then scanned the 100-odd page doc as IMAGES and handed it to my wife to make some changes, is going to preserve our info until the end of time.
The same company that backed up F-22 radar system designs to an obsolete tape, and then threw away every device in the company that could read the tape, is saving our data.
There are hundreds of thousands of Etruscan artifacts with writing on them that pre-date the greeks and romans, but nobody has ever been able to translate them. They basically used (invented?) the modern alphabet, but used no spacing and they may have written right to left. I wonder if this software could work on it...
I wonder if conspiracy theorists really believe that our enemies let us get away with the "hoax" or if they just never think it through that far?
For a hoax to work, either every country on Earth that had RADAR had to 1) Coincidentally turn it off for the 9-day length of every mission, or at least not aim it toward the sky. or 2) Be in on the conspiracy.
So, Russia and China never bothered to verify that our crafts were flying to the moon, landing there, and then leaving? Odd behavious from the inventors of the phrase "trust, but verify." I guess nobody used a high-power telescope to watch, either.
RADAR was used to measure the distance to Venus. Amateurs and kids used radio signals to track Sputnik and come up with it's launch site. But the Commies just sat on their hands during the end of the greatest race in all the history of all of mankind?
That was the worst, lamest, most pathetic computer list I have ever read. That's something my wife would forward (mechanical engineer).
Here's a much better story: my inlaws called in yet another computer-induced panic. Sis was crying, mom locked herself in the bedroom, and dad was in a frenzy yelling at us about his computer and wanting us to come fix it (a four hour drive). The problem was that the computer would not print and the home phone stopped working. We politely told him that we weren't going to travel 8 hours to fix his printer, and he really needed to call the phone company about his phone line.
2 days later the phone guy showed up and unplugged the printer's USB cable from the phone jack.
Because: Space Power Heat Usability: I can build a honeynet, let hackers trash it, and restore the who thing in minutes. I suppose I could do the same with live discs and a big KVM switch, but this is more flexible. Besides, it's cooler this way. And sadly, that really matters when impressing management... Show a manager a USB pocket drive, no big deal. Show him a watch with a USB drive and suddenly you have to change every single security procedure.
1) Space is hardly at a premium 2) Generally, never use an abbreviation without defining it. 3) When I see a headline/blurb made up of alphabet soup and nothing else, I am not interested enough to bother looking up what the headline/blurb means. 4) Google is blocked at my company unless I log into my MIS machine -- my 3.2GHz, 19" LCD email reader that wont let me install a real browser, change IE's homepage or even remove icons from the desktop.
That is a damn good point and one I completely forgot. I will have to remember to mention that the next time I clean 700 viruses and 250 pieces of spyware of my relative's computer (those numbers are NOT exaggerated).
As much of a PC person as I am, my new stock suggestion to relatives is "if you can't build your own PC, but a Mac."
In case you were wondering, VMware is an application that lets you run several virtual machines on one host machine, and even set up a virtual network of those machines and bridge it to the real world if you want, allowing honeynets and the such.
I hate headlines that list some alphabet soup without explaining what the heck it is. I read about 2 years of RSS headlines before seeing an article that mentioned what RSS was.
Well, I think it is. I couldn't really find any technical details in there, but I have been looking for YEARS for a media hub for my stereo. I don't want to have to stream music from a 400W computer that is running 24/7. I want basically a component mp3 player with a large HDD, nice interface, networking, and a few other features.
Now it seems I have a choice: $150 for a streaming module, or $900 for one with a HDD. I think I will stick to hooking up my portable mp3 player to my stereo
I think it is safe to assume you did not watch the movie and you are simply regurgitating the opinions that someone else told you to have.
As a bleeding heart liberal who was against most run rights before watching the movie, I came away quite convinced that guns were NOT the cause of America's gun violence problems. Moore showed that Canada had more guns, less violence, and made a strong case that our culture was to blame, not our guns.
As for your other points, you seem to be quoting a right-wing web site I read a while back. Like most right-wing sources, they didn't let the truth stand in the way of their ideas. I'll quote a few of your points:
"The incorrect statement was NOT that the movie was anti-gun. Obviously it was. You're delusional if you really believe otherwise."
Guess I'm delusional, too.
"Moore in the movie cut the FBI background check and specifically made it look like the bank was just handing out guns to everyone who walked in....A complete distortion of reality."
It was never stated or implied that he didn't need to fill out paperwork. Do you really expect the movie to be filmed in realtime and have 2 hours of the movie devoted to paperwork? Give me a break.
"Even the title of the movie (Bowling for Columbine) was based on a lie. Moore claimed that the title was based on the "little known fact" that the killers skipped school and went bowling before the murders. The police said it was flatly false. Moore then changed his story that they were supposed to go bowling before the murders. If he lied to create the title, how truthful do you think he was in the rest of the movie?"
Wrong. Dead wrong. Whatever source you are quoting for your opinions and facts is lying to you. Moore made it clear at the begining AND at the end of the movie that it was claimed by some friends, but never proved, that they had gone bowling in the morning, and that other people said they had not gone bowling. It was indicative of how much confusion and speculation there was about that morning. Either you were absent from the begining and the end of the movie, or you never saw it.
"You can BS your friends in a barroom but like the man said last night, Ya can't BS on/."
You're right about that.
"Instead of blindly following a politcal hack, why not use that watermelon on top your shoulders for something -eh?"
"Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine"
Um, what? Did I watch a different movie? What I got out of that movie was that Canada has even more guns than the US, and much less gun violence, and that America's problem was not guns but our culture.
Am I missing something, or is this what passes for journalism these days?
Ok, I asked a question about ID, and I get 3 or 4 answers defending creationism...
Are you defending creationism or ID? I'm not asking you to defend your faith or the bible, I'm asking about ID. There is not a word about ID in the Bible, I've read it. ID is a new-age, post-modern, pseudo-science, end-run version of creationism, but it has nothing to do with the Bible.
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You completely missed the point of everything, and for bonus points you didn't even read what I wrote and then called ME ignorant.
Where did I say we would fire 1?
How did having 10 warheads on 50 missiles make a difference in DETERENCE when we already had 2000+ missiles? Is there some tipping point in MAD that I don't know about?
As for you comments about terrorism, terrorism was barely used before Reagan capitulated to terrorists and at least half of suicide bombers are secular, not muslim extremists.
Talking out of your ass leads to bad breath...
Before the MX "peace keeper," if the Soviets saw a blip on their radar it could have been nothing, or maybe 10 nukes coming their way. If it was 10 nukes, that would be bad, but hardly affect their ability to respond with hundreds of misiles.
With the introduction of the "Peace Keeper" with 10 warheads in Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs, thus 10 MIRVs = MX) that blip could mean nothing, or ten missiles with enough warhead to lay waste to every major city and military target in the USSR, Thus every blip was turned into a possible nuclear war requiring a decision for or against a full nuclear response by the Soviets in a matter of minutes, all by a missile named the "Peace Keeper."
It is doubtful Reagan was aware of this irony, as he actually stated in a press conference that nuclear missles could be "called back" if he changed his mind about launching them. We can also thank Reagan for starting a terrorism fad when he pulled out of Beruit after one terrorist attack.
My wife wont use Opera because it crashes so often and wont read many of here IE-only pages. So, she uses IE and then her computer gets so hosed IE gives her syntax errors.
I love the way Opera remembers what you had open after a crash, and tabbed browsing and mouse gestures rule.
Firefox has copied all of that, except for recovery after crashes, which it really out to copy given how often it crashes. Adblock is the best feature, ever, and it also can read most pages.
So, which do I use?
All 3...
I can logically PROVE there will be more hurricanes.
A tropical storm is a storm with wind speeds up to 73MPH. Assuming you believe in science, and thus global warming, it is safe to assume you agree that warmer oceans. These storms are heat engines, more heat = more powerful storm. Thus, global warming leads to (slightly) stronger storms. If just one tropical storm of 73MPH winds is increased to 74MPH winds, TA DA, we have more hurricanes due to global warming!
Yes, I know that's not what people mean when they say more, but it's not my fault they are inprecise.
I thought the same thing. All it takes is for one single comet to break off piece that has life on it that is small enough to land in an ocean without vaporizing itself.
Besides, I though it was proven that amino acids can survive impact, along with leptides. Someone should run that same test with spores and single cell life.
I learned in school the breakdown resistance of air was 30kV/cm, so a 40kV charge (not current...) would creat a whopping 1.33cm spark. I've done better under the sheets.
I used a set of fake legos some 15 years ago. None of them stuck together. They looked like lego bricks, but stacked like clay bricks and fell over in a big mess if you bumped them. Not fun.
How dare you make OSS usable by normal people? If you do that, normal people might start using and then it will become widely used and even popular and that would be SO un-cool.
Keep OSS like it is: by programmers who like to read 1MB man file and memorize obscure commands to use counterintuitive interfaces, for programmers who like to read 1MB man file and memorize obscure commands to use counterintuitive interfaces.
Heh, I have a pair of HD 540's (got em used...) and I have the same comment. I used them so much that the pads and wire were destroyed, and even though they don't make them anymore I was able to order replacements that were better than original.
So, where does one research speakers? I know where to find reviews, but most reviews are almost purely emotional. I'd rather have science like frequency repsonse graphs and the like.
Long ago, I listened to some Bose 501's and they blew my old speakers out of the water: deeper bass, great sound. My old speakers were garbage, though.
Anyway, every time Bose comes up, people say it sucks. When asked "why?" one will say "it has no bass," another says "it has too much bass," two others will say opposing things about treble.
I'm starting to think it's just "cool" to say they suck.
Bose are quite over-priced (but I bought mine refurbished), and they sell terrible tweeter-only narrow-band center channel speakers, and they refuse to release frequency response charts (which is a very bad sign) so maybe they do suck. But it seems many of those who claim to be "audiophiles" are the same people who buy "magic" speaker wires for $2,000 that need to be "broken in" before they have the right "essence" or "fluffiness" some such BS, or claim records are better than CDs. So, I don't really belive them.
Anyway, someone give me a good reason why Bose sucks. Well, in addition to them hiding basic facts like frequency response.
PS: my refurbished 501s are now my surround channels, I recently bought 21-year-old DQ-10s for up front and have a Cambridge Soundworks center that was the only full-bandwidth center I found at the time. No, it doesn't have the same tweeters as my DQ-10s, but as they are all full-bandwidth they sound great together. Audiophile I am not, but geek who like great sound for cheap I am.
So, the company that printed a word doc, deleted the file, and then scanned the 100-odd page doc as IMAGES and handed it to my wife to make some changes, is going to preserve our info until the end of time.
The same company that backed up F-22 radar system designs to an obsolete tape, and then threw away every device in the company that could read the tape, is saving our data.
What could possibly go wrong?
There are hundreds of thousands of Etruscan artifacts with writing on them that pre-date the greeks and romans, but nobody has ever been able to translate them. They basically used (invented?) the modern alphabet, but used no spacing and they may have written right to left. I wonder if this software could work on it...
I wonder if conspiracy theorists really believe that our enemies let us get away with the "hoax" or if they just never think it through that far?
For a hoax to work, either every country on Earth that had RADAR had to
1) Coincidentally turn it off for the 9-day length of every mission, or at least not aim it toward the sky.
or
2) Be in on the conspiracy.
So, Russia and China never bothered to verify that our crafts were flying to the moon, landing there, and then leaving? Odd behavious from the inventors of the phrase "trust, but verify." I guess nobody used a high-power telescope to watch, either.
RADAR was used to measure the distance to Venus. Amateurs and kids used radio signals to track Sputnik and come up with it's launch site. But the Commies just sat on their hands during the end of the greatest race in all the history of all of mankind?
I agree. Many of us geeks thrive on competition. Stategy, too. If only there was some way to incorporate strategy. Fantasy BOINC, anyone?
That was the worst, lamest, most pathetic computer list I have ever read. That's something my wife would forward (mechanical engineer).
Here's a much better story: my inlaws called in yet another computer-induced panic. Sis was crying, mom locked herself in the bedroom, and dad was in a frenzy yelling at us about his computer and wanting us to come fix it (a four hour drive). The problem was that the computer would not print and the home phone stopped working. We politely told him that we weren't going to travel 8 hours to fix his printer, and he really needed to call the phone company about his phone line.
2 days later the phone guy showed up and unplugged the printer's USB cable from the phone jack.
Because:
Space
Power
Heat
Usability: I can build a honeynet, let hackers trash it, and restore the who thing in minutes. I suppose I could do the same with live discs and a big KVM switch, but this is more flexible.
Besides, it's cooler this way. And sadly, that really matters when impressing management... Show a manager a USB pocket drive, no big deal. Show him a watch with a USB drive and suddenly you have to change every single security procedure.
1) Space is hardly at a premium
2) Generally, never use an abbreviation without defining it.
3) When I see a headline/blurb made up of alphabet soup and nothing else, I am not interested enough to bother looking up what the headline/blurb means.
4) Google is blocked at my company unless I log into my MIS machine -- my 3.2GHz, 19" LCD email reader that wont let me install a real browser, change IE's homepage or even remove icons from the desktop.
In case you were wondering, anyone can do anything on their own, eventually. When someone does it for them it is called "being helpful."
That is a damn good point and one I completely forgot. I will have to remember to mention that the next time I clean 700 viruses and 250 pieces of spyware of my relative's computer (those numbers are NOT exaggerated).
As much of a PC person as I am, my new stock suggestion to relatives is "if you can't build your own PC, but a Mac."
In case you were wondering, VMware is an application that lets you run several virtual machines on one host machine, and even set up a virtual network of those machines and bridge it to the real world if you want, allowing honeynets and the such.
I hate headlines that list some alphabet soup without explaining what the heck it is. I read about 2 years of RSS headlines before seeing an article that mentioned what RSS was.
Well, I think it is. I couldn't really find any technical details in there, but I have been looking for YEARS for a media hub for my stereo. I don't want to have to stream music from a 400W computer that is running 24/7. I want basically a component mp3 player with a large HDD, nice interface, networking, and a few other features.
Now it seems I have a choice: $150 for a streaming module, or $900 for one with a HDD. I think I will stick to hooking up my portable mp3 player to my stereo
I think it is safe to assume you did not watch the movie and you are simply regurgitating the opinions that someone else told you to have.
...A complete distortion of reality."
/."
As a bleeding heart liberal who was against most run rights before watching the movie, I came away quite convinced that guns were NOT the cause of America's gun violence problems. Moore showed that Canada had more guns, less violence, and made a strong case that our culture was to blame, not our guns.
As for your other points, you seem to be quoting a right-wing web site I read a while back. Like most right-wing sources, they didn't let the truth stand in the way of their ideas. I'll quote a few of your points:
"The incorrect statement was NOT that the movie was anti-gun. Obviously it was. You're delusional if you really believe otherwise."
Guess I'm delusional, too.
"Moore in the movie cut the FBI background check and specifically made it look like the bank was just handing out guns to everyone who walked in.
It was never stated or implied that he didn't need to fill out paperwork. Do you really expect the movie to be filmed in realtime and have 2 hours of the movie devoted to paperwork? Give me a break.
"Even the title of the movie (Bowling for Columbine) was based on a lie. Moore claimed that the title was based on the "little known fact" that the killers skipped school and went bowling before the murders. The police said it was flatly false. Moore then changed his story that they were supposed to go bowling before the murders. If he lied to create the title, how truthful do you think he was in the rest of the movie?"
Wrong. Dead wrong. Whatever source you are quoting for your opinions and facts is lying to you. Moore made it clear at the begining AND at the end of the movie that it was claimed by some friends, but never proved, that they had gone bowling in the morning, and that other people said they had not gone bowling. It was indicative of how much confusion and speculation there was about that morning. Either you were absent from the begining and the end of the movie, or you never saw it.
"You can BS your friends in a barroom but like the man said last night, Ya can't BS on
You're right about that.
"Instead of blindly following a politcal hack, why not use that watermelon on top your shoulders for something -eh?"
Excellent advice!
"Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine"
Um, what? Did I watch a different movie? What I got out of that movie was that Canada has even more guns than the US, and much less gun violence, and that America's problem was not guns but our culture.
Am I missing something, or is this what passes for journalism these days?
Ok, I asked a question about ID, and I get 3 or 4 answers defending creationism...
Are you defending creationism or ID? I'm not asking you to defend your faith or the bible, I'm asking about ID. There is not a word about ID in the Bible, I've read it. ID is a new-age, post-modern, pseudo-science, end-run version of creationism, but it has nothing to do with the Bible.
I'm judging the design, and saying the designer is a fool. You are the one saying that fool is God, not I.