The pathetic thing that you're missing, Mr "I Am Happy Living In A Police State", is that no "crime", federal or otherwise, was committed. I can't wait for the day when I can get you pulled over by a bunch of thugs for the entire afternoon complete with 3rd degree and cavity search just because I dunno, I just don't like the look of you and don't think you should be wearing what you are. I mean, you COULD be a terrorist...
It has to be the idle loop in the most popular operating systems. For all we think we suck every single tick of CPU power out of our machines, in actual fact most of their time is spent idling. That has to be the most frequently run code in the world.
No, that is an apple to oranges comparison. And just because I can make a battery doesn't mean I'll make a battery that will also be a perpetual energy machine, all I have to do is keep adding a cup of water a day. The return on investment so far is quite negative. At one point you have to decide that maybe it was all wishful thinking, turn out the lights, and start something new. I've been hearing about sustainable fusion all my life. It's been 20 years away, for the past 50 years and god knows how many billions of dollars. The only thing that has happened is that the math has gotten much more complicated. But every year people are bullshitted into "believing" this and other pseudo-sciences, and funding them. I'm not saying can the research, I'm saying put the money where stuff is actually happening and results are obtained. Reinforce success, not failure.
They couldn't manage to get funding because people will believe magic and bullshit far, far easier than boring old science. This is why there are so many particle accelerators, for example. How much did the LHC cost versus how much practical and EXPLOITABLE knowledge did it give us? I'm not talking about pretty graphs and charts and "a greater understanding of subatomic particles and how the universe works". I mean real, useful knowledge that can be applied to industrial processes? Versus say, investing those billions in artificial limb research, or materials sciences, or drug research... etc. It's all been about the crackpot promise of "fusion" in our lifetime... remember unlimited power is ONLY 20 years away! Of course no politician wants to be remembered for being the guy who turned down a chance at discovering that - even if it isn't real. So guess who gets the budget.
'We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone...'
Wonderful. Now all the police have to do is ask Ford to hand over their records or face charges of obstruction of justice. After all, they are concealing evidence of crimes which is in itself a crime.
Kind of hard to build a case on hearsay. Prove they received 10M, and they will be sued into nothingness. But this is "he said she said" - ain't worth shit.
Speculator. Investment is something else entirely. You have something at the end of the day when you are investing, there is simply no way to lose your capital. Risk is kept to a minimum. Speculation on the other hand is, well, roll the dice again let's see what happens... The difference is subtle - so subtle that most people don't get it. But it's the difference between buying a piece of land or a barrel of crude oil versus buying, well - Bitcoin... It doesn't matter if you made millions with bitcoin - you did it by speculating rather than rather than investing? Why? Because not a person on earth can tell you or me why exactly bitcoin is the price that it is today, or the price it will be next week. It's extraordinarily volatile, no one is sure how many bitcoins there actually are, no one is sure how many bitcoins to charge for a given product (why should I sell you something for 1 bitcoin today that you might have to pay 2 bitcoin for tomorrow?), etc. Until someone can work out that bitcoin is not responding simply to low volume, DDOS attacks on the exchanges, and price manipulation by a few wealthy people, it's just gambling plain and simple.
There's nothing wrong with gambling if you're into that sort of thing, but you have to be aware that it is very possible that suddenly end up with nothing at all. Like the guy who sold his house for one tulip, right before the tulip market crashed (forever).
You're going to look like a fool when Bitcoins are worth $100,000 each. But then the guy who buys them for $100k is going to feel like a fool when they're back to $0.30.
Clausewitz stated in his book "On War" that war is won by the most violent. Therefore the one with the biggest guns (or at least the one who makes the most effective use of them) wins. And he gets to write the rules, and ignore the inconvenient ones. After all - who is going to stop him? The "rules of war" are only good during peacetime, and usually only as a pretext to help justify another war. Ironic, no?
Oh yeah, being diabetic increases your chances of infection (almost anywhere in the body) by at least an order of magnitude. And people who get pyelonephritis tend to have it recur. Usually it's because of some anatomical defect (duplicated ureters, for example) obstructing the flow of urine. Urine must flow. If it doesn't flow, then you start getting trouble:)
How could it be perpendicular to something that's going around in a circle, unless its a ring that is not only perpendicular but also spins at exactly the same rate as the satellite. Otherwise the force will only be perpendicular for an instant, and then be at some angle for the rest of the orbit. Kind of hard to expect from a dark matter ring especially since there are all kinds of satellite orbits.
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There is nothing pathetic about it.
The pathetic thing that you're missing, Mr "I Am Happy Living In A Police State", is that no "crime", federal or otherwise, was committed. I can't wait for the day when I can get you pulled over by a bunch of thugs for the entire afternoon complete with 3rd degree and cavity search just because I dunno, I just don't like the look of you and don't think you should be wearing what you are. I mean, you COULD be a terrorist...
If you've oversold your network and you can't afford to upgrade, you don't deserve to stay in business.
Yes that is exactly what the telcos want to do with metering - fuck you with it.
Costs are up 900%! Of course we have 900% more customers, and we're making 600% more profit, but let's concentrate on those COSTS! OMG!
It has to be the idle loop in the most popular operating systems. For all we think we suck every single tick of CPU power out of our machines, in actual fact most of their time is spent idling. That has to be the most frequently run code in the world.
But Ms Feinstein, surely if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear?
Apple devices to Windows PC's. Why not Android phones to MacBooks?
No one is innocent until deemed so by the government. Until then they are all potential terrorists or unwitting accomplices to terrorists.
Which is also wrong.
No, that is an apple to oranges comparison. And just because I can make a battery doesn't mean I'll make a battery that will also be a perpetual energy machine, all I have to do is keep adding a cup of water a day. The return on investment so far is quite negative. At one point you have to decide that maybe it was all wishful thinking, turn out the lights, and start something new. I've been hearing about sustainable fusion all my life. It's been 20 years away, for the past 50 years and god knows how many billions of dollars. The only thing that has happened is that the math has gotten much more complicated. But every year people are bullshitted into "believing" this and other pseudo-sciences, and funding them. I'm not saying can the research, I'm saying put the money where stuff is actually happening and results are obtained. Reinforce success, not failure.
They couldn't manage to get funding because people will believe magic and bullshit far, far easier than boring old science. This is why there are so many particle accelerators, for example. How much did the LHC cost versus how much practical and EXPLOITABLE knowledge did it give us? I'm not talking about pretty graphs and charts and "a greater understanding of subatomic particles and how the universe works". I mean real, useful knowledge that can be applied to industrial processes? Versus say, investing those billions in artificial limb research, or materials sciences, or drug research... etc. It's all been about the crackpot promise of "fusion" in our lifetime... remember unlimited power is ONLY 20 years away! Of course no politician wants to be remembered for being the guy who turned down a chance at discovering that - even if it isn't real. So guess who gets the budget.
I know lots of people who own a Wii (myself included), and amazingly few people who actually use it.
'We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone...'
Wonderful. Now all the police have to do is ask Ford to hand over their records or face charges of obstruction of justice. After all, they are concealing evidence of crimes which is in itself a crime.
Kind of hard to build a case on hearsay. Prove they received 10M, and they will be sued into nothingness. But this is "he said she said" - ain't worth shit.
Only if you're pedantic. By all means, keep "investing".
a very astute investor.
Speculator. Investment is something else entirely. You have something at the end of the day when you are investing, there is simply no way to lose your capital. Risk is kept to a minimum. Speculation on the other hand is, well, roll the dice again let's see what happens... The difference is subtle - so subtle that most people don't get it. But it's the difference between buying a piece of land or a barrel of crude oil versus buying, well - Bitcoin... It doesn't matter if you made millions with bitcoin - you did it by speculating rather than rather than investing? Why? Because not a person on earth can tell you or me why exactly bitcoin is the price that it is today, or the price it will be next week. It's extraordinarily volatile, no one is sure how many bitcoins there actually are, no one is sure how many bitcoins to charge for a given product (why should I sell you something for 1 bitcoin today that you might have to pay 2 bitcoin for tomorrow?), etc. Until someone can work out that bitcoin is not responding simply to low volume, DDOS attacks on the exchanges, and price manipulation by a few wealthy people, it's just gambling plain and simple.
There's nothing wrong with gambling if you're into that sort of thing, but you have to be aware that it is very possible that suddenly end up with nothing at all. Like the guy who sold his house for one tulip, right before the tulip market crashed (forever).
50 Coins of Gray?
Sasha coins? Why not.
You're going to look like a fool when Bitcoins are worth $100,000 each. But then the guy who buys them for $100k is going to feel like a fool when they're back to $0.30.
Clausewitz stated in his book "On War" that war is won by the most violent. Therefore the one with the biggest guns (or at least the one who makes the most effective use of them) wins. And he gets to write the rules, and ignore the inconvenient ones. After all - who is going to stop him? The "rules of war" are only good during peacetime, and usually only as a pretext to help justify another war. Ironic, no?
So the UK is slowly removing itself from the Internet by censoring itself. No loss. And "OMG it has the word torrent in it, it must be evil!".
Oh yeah, being diabetic increases your chances of infection (almost anywhere in the body) by at least an order of magnitude. And people who get pyelonephritis tend to have it recur. Usually it's because of some anatomical defect (duplicated ureters, for example) obstructing the flow of urine. Urine must flow. If it doesn't flow, then you start getting trouble :)
Yeah that's a well known tactic - if you're not intelligent enough to refute the argument then attack the speaker. 4chan is that way ----->
"It is hoped the technology could cut the RAF's maintenance and service bill by over £1.2m over the next four years."
Yeah it's always hoped that it will save money, yet somehow government contracting just gets more and more expensive every year.
And amazingly you managed to contribute even less. Must be pretty hard to come up with less than nothing.
How could it be perpendicular to something that's going around in a circle, unless its a ring that is not only perpendicular but also spins at exactly the same rate as the satellite. Otherwise the force will only be perpendicular for an instant, and then be at some angle for the rest of the orbit. Kind of hard to expect from a dark matter ring especially since there are all kinds of satellite orbits.
Yeah probably, I'm not a physicist. Just a specialist in another field who sometimes reads up on physics stuff as a hobby :)