It already has. People with a lot of money are trying to scale back the changes that took place in social democracies around the end of the industrial revolution, which were designed to reduce the power of the rich over the poor.
How about they actually work on a plan to prevent ACTUAL attacks from HARMING US CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS?
You know, seeing as that's what the present danger to the nation actually is?
It's all well and good to think of ways we could possibly be attacked while our people aren't dying every day, but right now, these people should be hung as traitors for wasting time and taxpayer dollars doing anything OTHER than finding the best possible way to protect our soldiers abroad, and our people at home.
For the strongest forms of extensible Kraft paper, some companies use slightly slower growing pine, such as the black spruce, which has exceptionally long fibres. Regardless, your point remains completely correct. I work for a paper mill, and we use pine. We also plant a tree for every tree we use, because it would be stupid to not have any trees in 10 years.
If you're an American, please contact your congressman about this. I think if people in charge are forced to see the consequences of these laws and their implementation, we can change this situation.
Yes, when I first encountered the site, I ended up spending the next 8 hours reading every single case on there. I couldn't look away. If there's one thing I want to change in my life, this is it.
Like I said, these kids being charged for sending pictures of themselves to other people their age, it's just the tip of the iceburg in a whole system designed to 'cure' children of sexuality with the same discredited methods used to 'cure' homosexuals in the 1930s. Anyone who hasn't, check out that link. It's definitely horrifying.
Judging from the literature I've read, they'll remain on the sexual offender registry. This leads many children who are charged with 'sex crimes' (read: Playing doctor) to suicide.
Hydroelectric is cheap, plentiful, and effective. Long before things get THAT bad, we'll likely see a massive increase in hydroelectric power and possibly others like nuclear. With the increased electrical power generated, we should be able to move many of our larger energy consumers over with relative ease.
Actually, the reality of the situation is that if the police caught those 6 year olds, they COULD be charged, and most likely WOULD. They'd then be sent to perverse brainwashing camps that are designed to first convince them that they are sexual predators, then destroy their self-esteem and tell them that they can never be trusted, that they're worthless human beings, that they're irredeemable.
This is part of a moral panic in America about 'Children who molest'. Every time I think about what Americans are doing to innocent children, I get very mad.
I urge every slashdotter who reads this to go out and learn more about this phenomenon. Ethical Treatment for All Youth documents what's happening to kids across America right now in situations like this, and the devastating consequences.
Yes, because that's the answer to all problems...Except the ones that we want to actually solve.
The problem with ignorant jackasses who think that three letter word is at all useful for anything is they don't ever remember that old phrase, 'God works in mysterious ways'. By claiming to have all the answers, fundamentalists commit sacrilege against their own God's omnipotence and omniscience. On the other hand, a scientist knows full well that there's more left that he will never understand, but rather than be a defeatist and go 'Well, if I can't know much, I can't know anything. God did it all!', the scientist goes out and tries to know all he can, even though he knows he doesn't know much.
Not all materials are metals which can be relatively inexpensively melted back down and used with no negative effects in the next recycled generation. Paper recycling, for example, might be a cure worse than the disease.
The harsh chemicals used to remove the many and varied dyes from paper to be recycled are pretty terrible to begin with (And unlike bleaching regular pulp, you don't know what's going to be there, so you can't reformulate all that well), then you end up throwing the recovered pulp right back into the pulper anyway, so while there are likely some gains in energy, it's not necessarily friendly to the environment. Making matters worse, recycled paper seems to have less strength than original pulp.
In the end, you're making more use of toxic chemicals for a product of lower quality. I'm sure there are other similar materials where the friendly concept meets unfriendly process control reality.
Playing moral calculus with lives is the sort of monstrosity which allowed Saddam to rule in the first place. Continuing to do so only proves that we're not that much better.
What are you talking about? He pressed a button. There's nothing violent about pressing a button.
NOW, sending tens of thousands of troops to a foreign country in a war of aggression and occupation and subjugation which results in 40,000 civilian casualties. THAT is violent.
But I guess context is a silly thing. We don't need that.
To be fair, the writing was incredible in those games, but the voice acting was just astronomical, and was really what let the plot work, where poor voice acting could have easily killed it. Who would give a rats ass about some set of pillars that you only get to walk past a few times if it weren't for Raziel, whose voice was constantly filled with cynicism and disgust for the world, but at the same time, determination and idealism that he could follow the best path, or Kain, whose voice was filled with malice and arrogance, utter contempt for the entire world and everyone in it, and utter confidence that he is superior to it all, except for the tiny times when he breaks character because his ambitions are so much bigger than he is?
I don't care how much it costs, they need to hire everyone back and do more of those games. It's the only series I've consistently paid good money to buy again and again.
If we could get the gameplay of Oblivion with the storytelling and acting of the Legacy of Kain series, we'll have a game experience so powerful, nobody would be able to play a video game ever again.
With AMDs Hammer platform, every new processor adds a hypertransport link, increasing memory bandwidth. I haven't paid any attention for 5 years and even *I* know that.
Wouldn't there be a speed hit for having to deallocate excess cache? I'm sure you'd have to check if it's available, and from there, I'm sure the disk subsystem would love to know that it's lost a bunch of memory. Also, while all this is happening, does the CPU cache get all blown to hell because it has to muck around in the kernel getting all this stuff done?
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It already has. People with a lot of money are trying to scale back the changes that took place in social democracies around the end of the industrial revolution, which were designed to reduce the power of the rich over the poor.
How about they actually work on a plan to prevent ACTUAL attacks from HARMING US CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS?
You know, seeing as that's what the present danger to the nation actually is?
It's all well and good to think of ways we could possibly be attacked while our people aren't dying every day, but right now, these people should be hung as traitors for wasting time and taxpayer dollars doing anything OTHER than finding the best possible way to protect our soldiers abroad, and our people at home.
For the strongest forms of extensible Kraft paper, some companies use slightly slower growing pine, such as the black spruce, which has exceptionally long fibres. Regardless, your point remains completely correct. I work for a paper mill, and we use pine. We also plant a tree for every tree we use, because it would be stupid to not have any trees in 10 years.
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Reality vs. idealistic fantasy.
If you're an American, please contact your congressman about this. I think if people in charge are forced to see the consequences of these laws and their implementation, we can change this situation.
Yes, when I first encountered the site, I ended up spending the next 8 hours reading every single case on there. I couldn't look away. If there's one thing I want to change in my life, this is it.
Like I said, these kids being charged for sending pictures of themselves to other people their age, it's just the tip of the iceburg in a whole system designed to 'cure' children of sexuality with the same discredited methods used to 'cure' homosexuals in the 1930s. Anyone who hasn't, check out that link. It's definitely horrifying.
Actually, there are pretty large reserves in a lot of places that can be tapped, but haven't because it's politically unprofitable to do so.
Judging from the literature I've read, they'll remain on the sexual offender registry. This leads many children who are charged with 'sex crimes' (read: Playing doctor) to suicide.
Hydroelectric is cheap, plentiful, and effective. Long before things get THAT bad, we'll likely see a massive increase in hydroelectric power and possibly others like nuclear. With the increased electrical power generated, we should be able to move many of our larger energy consumers over with relative ease.
Actually, the reality of the situation is that if the police caught those 6 year olds, they COULD be charged, and most likely WOULD. They'd then be sent to perverse brainwashing camps that are designed to first convince them that they are sexual predators, then destroy their self-esteem and tell them that they can never be trusted, that they're worthless human beings, that they're irredeemable.
This is part of a moral panic in America about 'Children who molest'. Every time I think about what Americans are doing to innocent children, I get very mad.
I urge every slashdotter who reads this to go out and learn more about this phenomenon. Ethical Treatment for All Youth documents what's happening to kids across America right now in situations like this, and the devastating consequences.
Yes, because that's the answer to all problems...Except the ones that we want to actually solve.
The problem with ignorant jackasses who think that three letter word is at all useful for anything is they don't ever remember that old phrase, 'God works in mysterious ways'. By claiming to have all the answers, fundamentalists commit sacrilege against their own God's omnipotence and omniscience. On the other hand, a scientist knows full well that there's more left that he will never understand, but rather than be a defeatist and go 'Well, if I can't know much, I can't know anything. God did it all!', the scientist goes out and tries to know all he can, even though he knows he doesn't know much.
But neither Steve Ballmer nor Bill Gates were on trial, Microsoft the corporate person was.
If Bill Gates and Steve Balmer can lie in court without getting charged, why not the rest of us?
Christianity doesn't need help from ANYONE to look bad.
Maybe a few lonely priests.
Not all materials are metals which can be relatively inexpensively melted back down and used with no negative effects in the next recycled generation. Paper recycling, for example, might be a cure worse than the disease.
The harsh chemicals used to remove the many and varied dyes from paper to be recycled are pretty terrible to begin with (And unlike bleaching regular pulp, you don't know what's going to be there, so you can't reformulate all that well), then you end up throwing the recovered pulp right back into the pulper anyway, so while there are likely some gains in energy, it's not necessarily friendly to the environment. Making matters worse, recycled paper seems to have less strength than original pulp.
In the end, you're making more use of toxic chemicals for a product of lower quality. I'm sure there are other similar materials where the friendly concept meets unfriendly process control reality.
Playing moral calculus with lives is the sort of monstrosity which allowed Saddam to rule in the first place. Continuing to do so only proves that we're not that much better.
What are you talking about? He pressed a button. There's nothing violent about pressing a button.
NOW, sending tens of thousands of troops to a foreign country in a war of aggression and occupation and subjugation which results in 40,000 civilian casualties. THAT is violent.
But I guess context is a silly thing. We don't need that.
I don't know what you're talking about. We all came from ebaumsworld.
To be fair, the writing was incredible in those games, but the voice acting was just astronomical, and was really what let the plot work, where poor voice acting could have easily killed it. Who would give a rats ass about some set of pillars that you only get to walk past a few times if it weren't for Raziel, whose voice was constantly filled with cynicism and disgust for the world, but at the same time, determination and idealism that he could follow the best path, or Kain, whose voice was filled with malice and arrogance, utter contempt for the entire world and everyone in it, and utter confidence that he is superior to it all, except for the tiny times when he breaks character because his ambitions are so much bigger than he is?
I don't care how much it costs, they need to hire everyone back and do more of those games. It's the only series I've consistently paid good money to buy again and again.
From tfa: "I think that in 50 years or 15 years people will be able to articulate it a lot better than we can now. "
It depends on if you use cheat codes or not. It's kind of like Super C for NES.
If we could get the gameplay of Oblivion with the storytelling and acting of the Legacy of Kain series, we'll have a game experience so powerful, nobody would be able to play a video game ever again.
Do you REALLY want that?
It's abuse to mod a comment Overrated, Flamebait or Troll just because you disagree with it. The goal is to share ideas.
If they had a (-1, factually incorrect) I'd use it.
With AMDs Hammer platform, every new processor adds a hypertransport link, increasing memory bandwidth. I haven't paid any attention for 5 years and even *I* know that.
Video games are among the most technologically demanding of applications, and so still have not reached this point.
Look again. There might be more impressive shaders, but most of the really big and amazing things are already out there.
Are you sure? I mean, I haven't clicked the link, but it sounds like some sort of pretentious blog or webcomic.
Wouldn't there be a speed hit for having to deallocate excess cache? I'm sure you'd have to check if it's available, and from there, I'm sure the disk subsystem would love to know that it's lost a bunch of memory. Also, while all this is happening, does the CPU cache get all blown to hell because it has to muck around in the kernel getting all this stuff done?
Honestly, I think you're overstating your case.