Well, the $50 million settlement sort of helped convince most people, despite the fact that the lawyers claim that "this is not an admission of guilt".
1. Leak documents that show boring day to day operational details, including civilian casualties on the internet 2. Blame the people who distribute, download and read said documents for the deaths of those people and the deaths of everyone else from now on in the war due to "security risks" 3. ??? 4. Profit 5. (STILL lose the war)
It also shows how utterly stupid the people who we entrust to fight wars for us are. Like these documents haven't been distributed all over the world in hundreds of thousands if not millions of downloads already from the main site, and as if there aren't currently thousands of OTHER sites all over the world offering these files for download.
Invoking the Streisand effect will only make matters worse and encourage even more downloading.
So after reading TFA, all we have is the word of what one person's mother was allegedly told by Winston Churchill's bodyguard about what Sir Winston apparently did to an alleged report by two crewmembers.
Unfortunately there's a lack of any kind of "evidence" that said incident even took place, since any possible files with reference to the alleged event were destroyed 60 years ago. So, what was the news here again?
It is not like alpha emitters are a particularly rare thing...
No. The problem is that the alpha emitters have half-lives in the billions of years. While there's plenty of helium being produced inside our planet, the problem is one of venting. No one is willing to stand over active volcanoes to collect it for some reason. The helium that comes up through permeable rocks in the crust can't be collected because it's so diffuse. So we're stuck with those helium pockets that can be collected - those that happen to be trapped (along with natural gas) under rocks that aren't permeable. Those pockets took - billions of years to create, and dozens of years to empty.
I have understood why this man has let his disease advance so far as to cause the loss of one of his toes. Passing out from a night of drinking isn't something healthy people should do if they want to remain healthy. Needless to say it's not the best thing you can do when you're a type 2 diabetic either. While it's true that alcohol inhibits gluconeogenesis (endogenous production of glucose from other things like amino acids - this happens in the liver) to some extent, it's not the best way to lower your blood sugar. Plus it destroys your pancreas (and any remaining B cells) to boot. Not to mention the effects on blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol, etc.
I assume that we shall be reading stories soon about how this dog has eaten his other remaining toes, his legs, thighs, etc. Hopefully however this dog also has enough talent to become a seeing eye dog before this man ends up with terminal kidney failure.
they most likely make more money on my food and drink (the coffee at least has much higher margins) than they would have if I had bought the book and had coffee at home
OK, if you want to open a Starbucks then open the Starbucks. You don't need the extra couple million dollars worth of book inventory, the tens of thousands of square feet that need BTU's in order to be air conditioned, the storage for books in the back, the insurance for your inventory, the lost interest in the money invested in your inventory, and the extra dozen or so employees in charge of the "book" section.
Your rationale is completely flawed. While B&N do generate revenue from your coffee and donuts, I refuse to accept that it's profitable. If everyone did what you do, B&N would go bankrupt quickly - in fact, this is just what is happening.
When I go to B&N it's full of people lounging in chairs/on the floor, reading books.
While I understand that initially B&N's browser-friendly policy made it very popular, there's a difference between reading 3-4 pages of a book to see if it is a worthwhile purchase, and reading it from cover to cover - which is what a lot of people are very obviously doing. This means that 1) the person won't purchase the book - why should they? and 2) I would be purchasing a "used" book. While being read doesn't fade the letters, there's a difference between new and used in terms of wrinkled pages, smudges, etc. If I'm paying for new, I want new.
I've yet to see large crowds walking out of a war movie before it ends, so if they're *capable* of showing that war is hell they certainly aren't doing it.
A live 120mm mortar round in going off in the middle of the movie theater should do it. Then the (surviving) people will have a fairly good idea about what war really is.
even if it has to contravene international law to do so.
It's this sort of attitude that makes the US "loved" the whole world over. Because I am sure (and recent past history supports me) that there are quite a few people in the US government who also believe that the US is above the law.
You are attempting to compare physical strength with mental ability? Perhaps you are not as mentally agile as you believe yourself to be.
Any senior citizen with a mental deficit is suffering from a disease. "Senility", which used to be something accepted normal as you aged, is now known to be the symptom of a problem. Trust me - the medical degree on my wall assures me that I know whereof I speak. You are merely aware of the old stereotype.
Fortunately for you, it's not true. So by the time you reach 80, assuming you've kept your blood pressure, thrombi, neurodegenerative diseases and all those other CAUSES of "senility" under control, and haven't banged your head about too much, you should be just as agile as you are now - or perhaps even smarter. It turns out you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. And because he's an old dog, he probably knows quite a few more tricks than you.
(Staring down at my water cooled desktop) Oh, really? Gamers have no idea what they're doing when they put a machine together right?
Get a Mac
Oh, that explains it. Yes, get a Mac. Ahaha haha aha ha aha ha ha. Sorry you have just disqualified yourself from any meaningful debate on computer performance. The only numbers Macs excel in is price - but you do realize I can buy my setup 3 times over for the price of the Mac equivalent, right? Personally I will keep my money, and replace my hardware if it fails. After all, I just have to buy the failed component and not replace the whole desktop.
Right click on this post for a special message. Oh wait, you can't.
No you're right - after further reading I learn that they actually own the equipment in question. So it's more like the manager of an apartment you rent changing the locks...
Visit your local Barnes and Noble. Find books on the programming language of your choice. Buy them. And instead of leaving them lying around - READ them.
Get your hands on a compiler for the language of your choice, try out the examples in those books (DO NOT use the included CD's, that's the lazy man's way). Pay attention to the code you are typing. Compile, run, try to figure out what's happening. Look for tutorials on the internet, and do the same.
Finally, assign yourself SIMPLE projects and try to write programs that meet your goals.
This is how we did it back in the old days, when all you had was a couple pages on assembly language distributed in your MS DOS manual. Modern IDE's let you see much more clearly what's going on than a code dump in debug.exe.
Of a solar sail is rather neat. Problem is they can never accelerate outside of our solar system. Once they hit the termination shock that's it, no more power. I wonder if someone has done the math to see what the max theoretical speed they could reach is. Of course they could probably do more if they put the sail away, slingshot around Jupiter back close to the sun and deploy the sail again once they pass the sun.
The problem however is that the "sail" only works in one direction - "away from the sun". Unlike a sailboat which can sail at an angle to the wind because it has a keel and can therefore push back against the wind, the only thing a solar sail can do is spin on its axis. It cannot change direction on its own. And the pressure you get decreases dramatically with distance from the sun, too. Still, nice to know the concept works. I'm sure practical applications will be found. This is not a method of interstellar travel, however.
Fossil fuel burning is the controlled use of energy that originated from the sun.
No it's the difference between burning a candle 24/7 for a year, or setting off one stick of dynamite. Our current use of fossil fuel is the stick of dynamite. We're burning up millions of year's worth of stored energy in a few hundred years. Sure, you don't want to be around the stick of dynamite when it goes off - but it's not something that lasts forever. And fossil fuels won't last forever either. I'm not really worried, but the sheep love end of the world fantasies.
What people don't realize is that the earth will get warmer with machinery,cars, power plants, etc.
You've never heard of something called conservation of energy, then? Tell me, sir, where is all the energy coming from that produces all that heat? Magic? Or is it the river that was slowed down by the dam and made to turn a turbine (in exchange for extracting some of its total energy). Is it the uranium that was mined and refined and made to give up its heat and neutrons quickly - in exchange for removing billions of year's worth of slowly releasing that energy into the environment? Do you SERIOUSLY think that an air conditioner produces more heat than the total energy that goes into it? What about all the cold air coming out the other end?
In fact the ONLY net energy input into our system is fossil fuel burning. But even that was produced by energy over millions of years. When it's all gone, that extra source of heat will be gone.
Do the words "closed system" mean anything to you? Sheesh, it's like the people who claim that the earth will "run out of resources". There may not be enough copper to go around if we keep growing our population like we are, but the copper isn't going anywhere. It's still here. But now you have to share it among 7+ billion people instead of the 4 billion we were 30 years ago. Everyone gets less, but we won't ever "run out" until we start putting it on rockets and shooting it out of the solar system.
I dunno, some people just don't think. Well no, many philosophers argue MOST people don't think.
Depends. Do you call it "Christmas" or "Holidays"? The only reason "global warming" was changed to "climate change" was an attempt to take out the "warming" part so that they wouldn't get jumped on every time the odd year ended up colder than expected (which is completely normal - natural phenomena don't follow graphs exactly). However the change neither adds value or information to the name. It's a political thing, it's lame, and I refuse to be forced to change by people in a country that doesn't even adopt the metric system.
Personally I don't give a damn what they call it. People who go for the brand new words and try to change everyone else are just brainless followers trying to look "hip" and "fashionable" to make up for their lack of personality and willpower.
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Well, the $50 million settlement sort of helped convince most people, despite the fact that the lawyers claim that "this is not an admission of guilt".
Losing a war? Here's the plan!
1. Leak documents that show boring day to day operational details, including civilian casualties on the internet
2. Blame the people who distribute, download and read said documents for the deaths of those people and the deaths of everyone else from now on in the war due to "security risks"
3. ???
4. Profit
5. (STILL lose the war)
It also shows how utterly stupid the people who we entrust to fight wars for us are. Like these documents haven't been distributed all over the world in hundreds of thousands if not millions of downloads already from the main site, and as if there aren't currently thousands of OTHER sites all over the world offering these files for download.
Invoking the Streisand effect will only make matters worse and encourage even more downloading.
So after reading TFA, all we have is the word of what one person's mother was allegedly told by Winston Churchill's bodyguard about what Sir Winston apparently did to an alleged report by two crewmembers.
Unfortunately there's a lack of any kind of "evidence" that said incident even took place, since any possible files with reference to the alleged event were destroyed 60 years ago. So, what was the news here again?
It is not like alpha emitters are a particularly rare thing...
No. The problem is that the alpha emitters have half-lives in the billions of years. While there's plenty of helium being produced inside our planet, the problem is one of venting. No one is willing to stand over active volcanoes to collect it for some reason. The helium that comes up through permeable rocks in the crust can't be collected because it's so diffuse. So we're stuck with those helium pockets that can be collected - those that happen to be trapped (along with natural gas) under rocks that aren't permeable. Those pockets took - billions of years to create, and dozens of years to empty.
I have understood why this man has let his disease advance so far as to cause the loss of one of his toes. Passing out from a night of drinking isn't something healthy people should do if they want to remain healthy. Needless to say it's not the best thing you can do when you're a type 2 diabetic either. While it's true that alcohol inhibits gluconeogenesis (endogenous production of glucose from other things like amino acids - this happens in the liver) to some extent, it's not the best way to lower your blood sugar. Plus it destroys your pancreas (and any remaining B cells) to boot. Not to mention the effects on blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol, etc.
I assume that we shall be reading stories soon about how this dog has eaten his other remaining toes, his legs, thighs, etc. Hopefully however this dog also has enough talent to become a seeing eye dog before this man ends up with terminal kidney failure.
100% of sheep are sheep.
Seriously, wtf?
they most likely make more money on my food and drink (the coffee at least has much higher margins) than they would have if I had bought the book and had coffee at home
OK, if you want to open a Starbucks then open the Starbucks. You don't need the extra couple million dollars worth of book inventory, the tens of thousands of square feet that need BTU's in order to be air conditioned, the storage for books in the back, the insurance for your inventory, the lost interest in the money invested in your inventory, and the extra dozen or so employees in charge of the "book" section.
Your rationale is completely flawed. While B&N do generate revenue from your coffee and donuts, I refuse to accept that it's profitable. If everyone did what you do, B&N would go bankrupt quickly - in fact, this is just what is happening.
When I go to B&N it's full of people lounging in chairs/on the floor, reading books.
While I understand that initially B&N's browser-friendly policy made it very popular, there's a difference between reading 3-4 pages of a book to see if it is a worthwhile purchase, and reading it from cover to cover - which is what a lot of people are very obviously doing. This means that 1) the person won't purchase the book - why should they? and 2) I would be purchasing a "used" book. While being read doesn't fade the letters, there's a difference between new and used in terms of wrinkled pages, smudges, etc. If I'm paying for new, I want new.
I've yet to see large crowds walking out of a war movie before it ends, so if they're *capable* of showing that war is hell they certainly aren't doing it.
A live 120mm mortar round in going off in the middle of the movie theater should do it. Then the (surviving) people will have a fairly good idea about what war really is.
I agree that these were all silly - except perhaps the one about disco. I personally am hoping that the 70's never ever come back.
even if it has to contravene international law to do so.
It's this sort of attitude that makes the US "loved" the whole world over. Because I am sure (and recent past history supports me) that there are quite a few people in the US government who also believe that the US is above the law.
You are attempting to compare physical strength with mental ability? Perhaps you are not as mentally agile as you believe yourself to be.
Any senior citizen with a mental deficit is suffering from a disease. "Senility", which used to be something accepted normal as you aged, is now known to be the symptom of a problem. Trust me - the medical degree on my wall assures me that I know whereof I speak. You are merely aware of the old stereotype.
Fortunately for you, it's not true. So by the time you reach 80, assuming you've kept your blood pressure, thrombi, neurodegenerative diseases and all those other CAUSES of "senility" under control, and haven't banged your head about too much, you should be just as agile as you are now - or perhaps even smarter. It turns out you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. And because he's an old dog, he probably knows quite a few more tricks than you.
Very common on hacked together gaming rigs.
(Staring down at my water cooled desktop) Oh, really? Gamers have no idea what they're doing when they put a machine together right?
Get a Mac
Oh, that explains it. Yes, get a Mac. Ahaha haha aha ha aha ha ha. Sorry you have just disqualified yourself from any meaningful debate on computer performance. The only numbers Macs excel in is price - but you do realize I can buy my setup 3 times over for the price of the Mac equivalent, right? Personally I will keep my money, and replace my hardware if it fails. After all, I just have to buy the failed component and not replace the whole desktop.
Right click on this post for a special message. Oh wait, you can't.
As programmers get older their sharpness of brain fades
Citation needed. Not all older people have Alzheimer's.
No you're right - after further reading I learn that they actually own the equipment in question. So it's more like the manager of an apartment you rent changing the locks...
No, this is more like they forced open your door and changed the locks, then left you a note to that effect.
Visit your local Barnes and Noble. Find books on the programming language of your choice. Buy them. And instead of leaving them lying around - READ them.
Get your hands on a compiler for the language of your choice, try out the examples in those books (DO NOT use the included CD's, that's the lazy man's way). Pay attention to the code you are typing. Compile, run, try to figure out what's happening. Look for tutorials on the internet, and do the same.
Finally, assign yourself SIMPLE projects and try to write programs that meet your goals.
This is how we did it back in the old days, when all you had was a couple pages on assembly language distributed in your MS DOS manual. Modern IDE's let you see much more clearly what's going on than a code dump in debug.exe.
Of a solar sail is rather neat. Problem is they can never accelerate outside of our solar system. Once they hit the termination shock that's it, no more power. I wonder if someone has done the math to see what the max theoretical speed they could reach is. Of course they could probably do more if they put the sail away, slingshot around Jupiter back close to the sun and deploy the sail again once they pass the sun.
The problem however is that the "sail" only works in one direction - "away from the sun". Unlike a sailboat which can sail at an angle to the wind because it has a keel and can therefore push back against the wind, the only thing a solar sail can do is spin on its axis. It cannot change direction on its own. And the pressure you get decreases dramatically with distance from the sun, too. Still, nice to know the concept works. I'm sure practical applications will be found. This is not a method of interstellar travel, however.
that person doesn't come for free usually.
Nah but they're real cheap in Malaysia.
Fossil fuel burning is the controlled use of energy that originated from the sun.
No it's the difference between burning a candle 24/7 for a year, or setting off one stick of dynamite. Our current use of fossil fuel is the stick of dynamite. We're burning up millions of year's worth of stored energy in a few hundred years. Sure, you don't want to be around the stick of dynamite when it goes off - but it's not something that lasts forever. And fossil fuels won't last forever either. I'm not really worried, but the sheep love end of the world fantasies.
We don't disagree.
The truth is a shitload of science indicates it is us, and unless you're somehow qualified to comment maybe STFU.
I can't hear you - say it louder.
What people don't realize is that the earth will get warmer with machinery,cars, power plants, etc.
You've never heard of something called conservation of energy, then? Tell me, sir, where is all the energy coming from that produces all that heat? Magic? Or is it the river that was slowed down by the dam and made to turn a turbine (in exchange for extracting some of its total energy). Is it the uranium that was mined and refined and made to give up its heat and neutrons quickly - in exchange for removing billions of year's worth of slowly releasing that energy into the environment? Do you SERIOUSLY think that an air conditioner produces more heat than the total energy that goes into it? What about all the cold air coming out the other end?
In fact the ONLY net energy input into our system is fossil fuel burning. But even that was produced by energy over millions of years. When it's all gone, that extra source of heat will be gone.
Do the words "closed system" mean anything to you? Sheesh, it's like the people who claim that the earth will "run out of resources". There may not be enough copper to go around if we keep growing our population like we are, but the copper isn't going anywhere. It's still here. But now you have to share it among 7+ billion people instead of the 4 billion we were 30 years ago. Everyone gets less, but we won't ever "run out" until we start putting it on rockets and shooting it out of the solar system.
I dunno, some people just don't think. Well no, many philosophers argue MOST people don't think.
So which is it, Global Warming or Climate Change?
Depends. Do you call it "Christmas" or "Holidays"? The only reason "global warming" was changed to "climate change" was an attempt to take out the "warming" part so that they wouldn't get jumped on every time the odd year ended up colder than expected (which is completely normal - natural phenomena don't follow graphs exactly). However the change neither adds value or information to the name. It's a political thing, it's lame, and I refuse to be forced to change by people in a country that doesn't even adopt the metric system.
A rose, by any other name, is still a rose.
Personally I don't give a damn what they call it. People who go for the brand new words and try to change everyone else are just brainless followers trying to look "hip" and "fashionable" to make up for their lack of personality and willpower.