Donkeys have problems. They need constant food and water (who's going to carry that?) Donkeys need veterinary care. Donkeys freak out if anyone fires a weapon nearby (guns are really loud, in case you didn't know...and you probably don't). Donkeys are intentionally targeted by the enemy and must be protected. This robot has all the advantages of the Terminator. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the batteries run out.
Sigh...here we go again. The moral outrage. The reason that sex offenders have these laws is that they would be convicted, serve their sentences, move to somewhere that nobody knew them, and start molesting children again. The story was, over and over, "if we had just known this guy was in prison".
No, wrong. Any Chinese who is dealing with foreigners will speak English. English, as a subject, is taught in all schools just like Chinese, History, P.E., Math, etc.
If you are in a Chinese company all the team leaders will be Chinese. It's a racial thing, you have to understand Chinese history to get it. Even if it cripples the team and the project fails, it's still worth the cost according to Chinese management. It is well and good for you foreigners from over the sea to find that you are inferior to the center of the world.
Because it's an artifact from an age when people thought that the police were acting in good faith, and they saw numerous violent criminals returned to the street to kill again due to procedural mistakes.
Of course, this was all before our brave new world where police are all fascist thugs and actual fascist thugs are given aid and comfort by the Attorney General. What a world!
The Burvixese race evolved on the planet Arcturus 1, progressing from turtle-like swamp dewellers to a benevolent, highly technological society in just over fifteen million Earth years. Although the Burvixese had the wherewithal to build crude interplanetary vessels, they preferred to remain on the comfortable damp surface of their world and explore the galaxy through HyperWave communication. Using this method, the Burvixese made contact with several neighboring alien cultures, including the Utwig, the Gg, and unfortunately, the Druuge, whom the Burvixese would have been much better off never finding. For many decades, the Burvixese exchanged information with these races, trading technological, historical and philosophical facts and theories, until the fateful year 2142. It was then that the Gg announced that they had come under attack by a unknown alien race, who appeared to want nothing less than their complete annihilation. The Gg surmised that the hostile race, the Kohr-Ah, had located them using the Gg's HyperWave transmissions. Knowing that they had little chance of survival, the Gg warned the Burvixese that, unless they restricted their own transmissions, they too might face a gruesome fate.
Being a charitable race, before the Burvixese turned off their HyperWave transmitters, they shared the Gg's warning with the Druuge. But it was too late. The Druuge's powerful advertising beacons had already attracted the attention of the murderous Kohr-Ah, who, having finished with the Gg, began moving in the general direction of the Persei constellation, home of the Druuge. Realizing their peril, the Druuge took immediate action. They ceased all transmissions and sent a task force of their fastest ships to the moon of the Burvixese world. Once there, the task force assembled a huge HyperWave broadcaster on the moon's surface. When it was complete, the Druuge activated the unit which began emitting powerful HyperWave signals, focused directly toward the oncoming KohrAh fleet. The Druuge hoped that the hostile aliens would change course toward the Burvixese planet and fail to find their own worlds. Unfortunately, this ruse was all too effective: the Kohr-Ah changed course, attacked the poor Burvixese and, sadly, destroyed them all in three days of orbital bombardment.
The typical method used by hobbyists was: overclock step by step until it crashes. Then, back off one step. You are now at the "optimal" speed - i.e. the fastest and therefore best speed. Games crash? Must be software bugs!
Nope! It's the same processor. Sure, some come out different, but oftentimes there are loads of perfectly good processors that get underclocked for marketing reasons only. It's not like the ratios come out perfectly every time, which is what you seem to be implying. They often times don't do it with good reason. Intel is very big into marketing. If they were an engineering firm, they'd sell one product at one price and be done with it.
We all realize that when Intel bakes a bunch of processors, they come out all the same, and then Intel labels some as highspeed, some as middle, and some as low. They are then sold for different prices. However, they are the exact same CPU.
Overclocking isn't the issue, because the CPUs are the same. The problem arises when aggressive overclocking is done by ignorant hobbyists or money-grubbing computer retailers. They overclock the computer to where it crashes, and then back off just a little bit. "There! Now I've got a real MEAN MACHINE," he thinks.
There are plenty of laws regulating guns. Ask anyone who's had to deal with the ATF. But don't let that get in the way of hating people who have different political beliefs than you - you sound like you're really enjoying yourself.
I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
What a fascist idea. A German court would get this, I would think. Telling the government it is doing its own laws wrong...well, that sounds rather free to me.
Nobody is bothering to apply because they know that enviros will make it their mission in life to make the project unfeasible - economically, socially, and if necessary at the homes of the officials involved. There is a religious fervor that exists, opposition to nuclear power has a long and storied history. There are people who would love to relive their youth and teach a new generation the joys of thwarting new technology.
Correlation is not causation. Repeat this until you understand it.
Of course, this is in reply to a pro-drug message, so it will be ignored and probably moderated down, whereas if it were in reply to a less popular idea, would be moderated to +5. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Quick test: ask any Chinese who beat Japan in WWII. The island-hopping campaign, the atom bombs, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria had nothing to do with it. Nope, Mao Zedong all the way. Despite the fact that he fought the Japanese, like, twice during the whole war.
We are all human, no matter how "bad' or "evil" our actions may seem to fellow humans. It's all relative. There is no right or wrong, just different points of view. What seems to you appalling can seem to others as acceptable or even righteous. At one time, it was a good thing to enslave Africans because their seemingly barbaric actions betrayed a decided lack of humanity.
...and this is how it starts. "I support freedom, but group X is so bad that they're not even human." Having now established the fact that people can be classified as subhuman (untermensch) based on their religion, the rest flows naturally from there.
I'm not buying it. Ph.D's don't pull these shenanigans - this sounds like a trailer park drama! If there's anything I've learned, it's that highly educated people are simply better than double-digit IQs. Moreover, most of society's mavericks are brave professors who challenge society to accept new, uncomfortable truths. You must be some sort of wingnut who was failed out of school for unacceptable political views instead of actual lack of intellect, that's the only thing that can explain your bitterness.
Oh, don't worry - we US citizens abroad are among the only people on the face of the planet subject to double taxation. That's right - we pay taxes to our host government where we live (but never receive services) and to the US government as well (where we never receive services as well). Why? Well, apparently Obama thinks that the only reason any American would ever leave America (the best country, ever) is to avoid taxation. So, he took care of the problem. Problem solved!
Our ally was not "Russia", it was the Soviet Union. Second, our enemy was not the Soviet Union, it was the Nazis, and we won a victory against them quite well. Third, according to the Oliver Stone documentary on WWII I just watched on Showtime, the Soviet Union rightly feared a joint Germano-Polish invasion. Inconvenient truths, eh? You right-wing nutbags will never learn. Stop watching Fox News!
This would be a compelling argument if only the EU were a representative government.
As it is, the EU is much like Communist China - a patriarchal oligarchy making judgments about what is good and bad for its subjects. Are these judgments actually good? We don't know, because it has never occurred to the Mandarins to ask the subjects.
Yeah, except when they cross-reference your income tax records (what, is that illegal, oh nooo...might have to pay a million dollar fine to make tens of millions in profit) and find out that you're not one of their target customers anyway and you don't get the offer.
On the other hand, some attorneys will become wealthy from the fact that this sort of income profiling is inherently racist.
Almost equal to US GDP TODAY? Are you insane, man? China GDP $7.3 trillion, America GDP $15 trillion. Less than half. China is growing at a rate of 10% per year...let's see, those of us who got passing grades at math figure out when the pass happens (assuming zero American growth).
You know, sometimes I think people just pull things out of their asses just because there is this urgent compulsion to imagine China up and America down. There is this bizarre frisson of pleasure from imagining a world in which they get to bow to another country. I remember the same thing regarding Japan in the 80s.
Soon, the "global internet", where anyone on the planet could request information from anyone else and have that request fulfilled, will be a quaint concept from the past, like the buggy whip, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or color-blind hiring. Internet fragmentation is coming, indeed it MUST come, as it fits the needs of so many, so well.
Think about yourself - when's the last time you needed something from.ru or.cn? I got to the point where I outright blocked everything from.ru as I had zero legitimate (English-language) users and all spam from that country. Not trying to be racist, but that's how it was. What happened? Spam accounts went from 10 per day to 3 per month. Legitimate conversations on my website were not affected at all.
They'll just do this on a national level instead of international. You have to realize that there is real harm that arrives from the unfiltered internet. Racism, sexism, hegemony, all these concepts are enabled by technology. How many young boys have heard the story of the underage sex fiend John McAfee, and decided that he's an ideal male? Merely because he's been portrayed as a "rebel" and a "fugitive from authority"? You have to realize that these are heady words that have a great effect on youth, especially those raised without role models. This is what countries fear, and quite rightly in my opinion.
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Donkeys have problems. They need constant food and water (who's going to carry that?) Donkeys need veterinary care. Donkeys freak out if anyone fires a weapon nearby (guns are really loud, in case you didn't know...and you probably don't). Donkeys are intentionally targeted by the enemy and must be protected. This robot has all the advantages of the Terminator. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the batteries run out.
What, cavemen had boxing gloves? Besides, they didn't practice sparring every day, they fought sporadically.
Sigh...here we go again. The moral outrage. The reason that sex offenders have these laws is that they would be convicted, serve their sentences, move to somewhere that nobody knew them, and start molesting children again. The story was, over and over, "if we had just known this guy was in prison".
No, wrong. Any Chinese who is dealing with foreigners will speak English. English, as a subject, is taught in all schools just like Chinese, History, P.E., Math, etc.
If you are in a Chinese company all the team leaders will be Chinese. It's a racial thing, you have to understand Chinese history to get it. Even if it cripples the team and the project fails, it's still worth the cost according to Chinese management. It is well and good for you foreigners from over the sea to find that you are inferior to the center of the world.
Because it's an artifact from an age when people thought that the police were acting in good faith, and they saw numerous violent criminals returned to the street to kill again due to procedural mistakes.
Of course, this was all before our brave new world where police are all fascist thugs and actual fascist thugs are given aid and comfort by the Attorney General. What a world!
The Burvixese race evolved on the planet Arcturus 1, progressing from turtle-like swamp dewellers to a benevolent, highly technological society in just over fifteen million Earth years. Although the Burvixese had the wherewithal to build crude interplanetary vessels, they preferred to remain on the comfortable damp surface of their world and explore the galaxy through HyperWave communication. Using this method, the Burvixese made contact with several neighboring alien cultures, including the Utwig, the Gg, and unfortunately, the Druuge, whom the Burvixese would have been much better off never finding. For many decades, the Burvixese exchanged information with these races, trading technological, historical and philosophical facts and theories, until the fateful year 2142. It was then that the Gg announced that they had come under attack by a unknown alien race, who appeared to want nothing less than their complete annihilation. The Gg surmised that the hostile race, the Kohr-Ah, had located them using the Gg's HyperWave transmissions. Knowing that they had little chance of survival, the Gg warned the Burvixese that, unless they restricted their own transmissions, they too might face a gruesome fate.
Being a charitable race, before the Burvixese turned off their HyperWave transmitters, they shared the Gg's warning with the Druuge. But it was too late. The Druuge's powerful advertising beacons had already attracted the attention of the murderous Kohr-Ah, who, having finished with the Gg, began moving in the general direction of the Persei constellation, home of the Druuge. Realizing their peril, the Druuge took immediate action. They ceased all transmissions and sent a task force of their fastest ships to the moon of the Burvixese world. Once there, the task force assembled a huge HyperWave broadcaster on the moon's surface. When it was complete, the Druuge activated the unit which began emitting powerful HyperWave signals, focused directly toward the oncoming KohrAh fleet. The Druuge hoped that the hostile aliens would change course toward the Burvixese planet and fail to find their own worlds. Unfortunately, this ruse was all too effective: the Kohr-Ah changed course, attacked the poor Burvixese and, sadly, destroyed them all in three days of orbital bombardment.
--Star Control 2 manual
A more important question is: how much did she pay in taxes? I'm not talking about dodging taxes by giving to charity, either.
The typical method used by hobbyists was: overclock step by step until it crashes. Then, back off one step. You are now at the "optimal" speed - i.e. the fastest and therefore best speed. Games crash? Must be software bugs!
Nope! It's the same processor. Sure, some come out different, but oftentimes there are loads of perfectly good processors that get underclocked for marketing reasons only. It's not like the ratios come out perfectly every time, which is what you seem to be implying. They often times don't do it with good reason. Intel is very big into marketing. If they were an engineering firm, they'd sell one product at one price and be done with it.
We all realize that when Intel bakes a bunch of processors, they come out all the same, and then Intel labels some as highspeed, some as middle, and some as low. They are then sold for different prices. However, they are the exact same CPU.
Overclocking isn't the issue, because the CPUs are the same. The problem arises when aggressive overclocking is done by ignorant hobbyists or money-grubbing computer retailers. They overclock the computer to where it crashes, and then back off just a little bit. "There! Now I've got a real MEAN MACHINE," he thinks.
There are plenty of laws regulating guns. Ask anyone who's had to deal with the ATF. But don't let that get in the way of hating people who have different political beliefs than you - you sound like you're really enjoying yourself.
I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
What a fascist idea. A German court would get this, I would think. Telling the government it is doing its own laws wrong...well, that sounds rather free to me.
Nobody is bothering to apply because they know that enviros will make it their mission in life to make the project unfeasible - economically, socially, and if necessary at the homes of the officials involved. There is a religious fervor that exists, opposition to nuclear power has a long and storied history. There are people who would love to relive their youth and teach a new generation the joys of thwarting new technology.
Correlation is not causation. Repeat this until you understand it.
Of course, this is in reply to a pro-drug message, so it will be ignored and probably moderated down, whereas if it were in reply to a less popular idea, would be moderated to +5. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Quick test: ask any Chinese who beat Japan in WWII. The island-hopping campaign, the atom bombs, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria had nothing to do with it. Nope, Mao Zedong all the way. Despite the fact that he fought the Japanese, like, twice during the whole war.
We are all human, no matter how "bad' or "evil" our actions may seem to fellow humans. It's all relative. There is no right or wrong, just different points of view. What seems to you appalling can seem to others as acceptable or even righteous. At one time, it was a good thing to enslave Africans because their seemingly barbaric actions betrayed a decided lack of humanity.
...and this is how it starts. "I support freedom, but group X is so bad that they're not even human." Having now established the fact that people can be classified as subhuman (untermensch) based on their religion, the rest flows naturally from there.
Ah, the JMIS series of jpegs. Where are you, baby? I've looked all over for you...
I'm not buying it. Ph.D's don't pull these shenanigans - this sounds like a trailer park drama! If there's anything I've learned, it's that highly educated people are simply better than double-digit IQs. Moreover, most of society's mavericks are brave professors who challenge society to accept new, uncomfortable truths. You must be some sort of wingnut who was failed out of school for unacceptable political views instead of actual lack of intellect, that's the only thing that can explain your bitterness.
Oh, don't worry - we US citizens abroad are among the only people on the face of the planet subject to double taxation. That's right - we pay taxes to our host government where we live (but never receive services) and to the US government as well (where we never receive services as well). Why? Well, apparently Obama thinks that the only reason any American would ever leave America (the best country, ever) is to avoid taxation. So, he took care of the problem. Problem solved!
Our ally was not "Russia", it was the Soviet Union. Second, our enemy was not the Soviet Union, it was the Nazis, and we won a victory against them quite well. Third, according to the Oliver Stone documentary on WWII I just watched on Showtime, the Soviet Union rightly feared a joint Germano-Polish invasion. Inconvenient truths, eh? You right-wing nutbags will never learn. Stop watching Fox News!
This would be a compelling argument if only the EU were a representative government.
As it is, the EU is much like Communist China - a patriarchal oligarchy making judgments about what is good and bad for its subjects. Are these judgments actually good? We don't know, because it has never occurred to the Mandarins to ask the subjects.
Yeah, except when they cross-reference your income tax records (what, is that illegal, oh nooo...might have to pay a million dollar fine to make tens of millions in profit) and find out that you're not one of their target customers anyway and you don't get the offer.
On the other hand, some attorneys will become wealthy from the fact that this sort of income profiling is inherently racist.
Almost equal to US GDP TODAY? Are you insane, man? China GDP $7.3 trillion, America GDP $15 trillion. Less than half. China is growing at a rate of 10% per year...let's see, those of us who got passing grades at math figure out when the pass happens (assuming zero American growth).
You know, sometimes I think people just pull things out of their asses just because there is this urgent compulsion to imagine China up and America down. There is this bizarre frisson of pleasure from imagining a world in which they get to bow to another country. I remember the same thing regarding Japan in the 80s.
Soon, the "global internet", where anyone on the planet could request information from anyone else and have that request fulfilled, will be a quaint concept from the past, like the buggy whip, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or color-blind hiring. Internet fragmentation is coming, indeed it MUST come, as it fits the needs of so many, so well.
Think about yourself - when's the last time you needed something from .ru or .cn? I got to the point where I outright blocked everything from .ru as I had zero legitimate (English-language) users and all spam from that country. Not trying to be racist, but that's how it was. What happened? Spam accounts went from 10 per day to 3 per month. Legitimate conversations on my website were not affected at all.
They'll just do this on a national level instead of international. You have to realize that there is real harm that arrives from the unfiltered internet. Racism, sexism, hegemony, all these concepts are enabled by technology. How many young boys have heard the story of the underage sex fiend John McAfee, and decided that he's an ideal male? Merely because he's been portrayed as a "rebel" and a "fugitive from authority"? You have to realize that these are heady words that have a great effect on youth, especially those raised without role models. This is what countries fear, and quite rightly in my opinion.