That's the answer I was looking for. I was just wondering how a resource that's even less renewable than fossil fuels is "nearly infinite", even though it's relatively plentiful.
(d) Creating a dependence on yet another finite resource found under the ground in various countries that may or may not welcome you to dig it up, now and in the future.
Actually, they're not called taikonauts any more than their American colleagues are called spaceonauts. It's a play with words by some lame journalist (whose nationality I can't recall, I only remember he's not Chinese), that has unfortunately caught on in the media. Nobody involved in the Chinese space program has ever called them anything that even remotely resembles "taikonauts".
Umm....can someone please remind me how this is the greatest and most free country in the world?
It's not supposed to be free anymore. In the days after 9/11 Bush said that terrorists hate Americans because of their freedom, but he also said he was going to "strike at the root causes of terrorism".
Macs ship with the amount of RAM the customer wants. I was a PC user for 15 years before I switched, and in that time I never found a manufacturer whose minimum configurations had enough RAM either.
Flying is complicated ONLY if you: 1) care what all the dials mean 2) plan on landing
Likewise, using a computer to communicate is complicated ONLY if you: 1) care about what big/little endian is 2) plan on disassembling all software you use to see what it really does
I would assume that because of his previous record--such as bowling for columbine. Check out www.mooreexposed.com
Ah, yes... and here is my favorite passage from mooreexposed.com:
While we're at it: Bowling shows footage of a B-52 on display at the Air Force Academy, while Moore scornfully intones that the plaque under it "proudly proclaims that the plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve of 1972."
The plaque actually reads that "Flying out of Utapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield in southeast Thailand, the crew of 'Diamond Lil' shot down a MIG northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972." This is pretty mild compared to the rest of Bowling, but the viewer can't even trust Moore to honestly read a monument.
I now have a question for the reader: What is a B-52 doing northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972?
A) Sightseeing. B) Planting flowers. C) Killing Vietnamese people.
Apparently, the viewer can't trust mooreexposed.com to fully understand what the plaque tells us about this plane's actions on Christmas eve 1972.
That the mentioned conduct being felonious (or even just criminal) is philosophically dubious doesn't have much to do with the legitimacy of DNA fingerprinting. I'd imagine it would be little consolation to a rape victim that her assailant couldn't be identified (or that she was attacked by someone who wasn't caught) because someone decided that it wouldn't be unfair to sample graffiti artists.
That's not an argument for DNA fingerprinting graffiti artists/vandals. That's an argument for DNA fingerprinting every citizen, guilty or innocent. And that does not make sense.
I am not sure about any use for perfect numbers, but the Mersenne primes themselves can be used to create random number generators with extremely long periods. That takes some additional work, although not as much work as finding this prime among tens of thousands of composite candidates.
And a P4 GHz is worth a good deal less than either a P3 or Athlon GHz...
No, it's not. Not for finding Mersenne primes anyway. You see, the relative performance of different CPU types depends on the kind of work being done.
The benchmark charts at mersenne.org show that a P4 1800 MHz beats the Athlon 64 3400+ running at 2200 MHz. Even my own old P4 1600 MHz comes in ahead of the AthlonXP 3200+ running at 2200 MHz.
So, my guess is that there is some kind of work where the Itanium beats the P4 and the Athlon. Who knows, maybe this cluster was not bought to run MS Word or UT2004, or some other application where the Athlon beats the crap out of an Itanium or a P4?
And don't even get me started about guns, bureaucrazy, corruption and the oppresive regime controlled by big business.
That's quite an attitude for someone who's begging for money. You'd better hope the Europeans and Australians have enough generosity to fund you. I can't see how you'll get many donations from the U.S.A. with such a chip on your shoulder.
Maybe the American FreeBSD users actually like freedom? The other Americans who are big fans of bureaucrazy, corruption and the oppresive regime controlled by big business are probably using BSDOfHomelandSecurity instead of FreeBSD and would be unwilling to donate to FreeBSD anyway.
On a related topic, does anyone know what the Pfa (probability of false alarm) for fingerprint matches is? It would be interesting to take this number, multiply it by the number of people coming into the country every day (subtracing out those from the magic 28 countries) and figure out how many jet-lag weary travelers are going to be in for one hell of a rude shock when they get to America.
Then again, since they are travelling to the US they probably want to experience what it's like to be persecuted in a nazi police state.
That doesn't make much sense to me (about Columbia). As noted upthread, the Hubble is 130 mi higher than ISS, which you may recall the Columbia was too heavy to reach.
I don't really see how they could have brought it down in the Columbia--what was special about Columbia that made it their pick for retrieving the Hubble?
It did not have an ISS docking adapter taking up space in the cargo bay, like all other shuttles have.
The only things Reagan destroyed were Democrats, high taxes, lack of confidence in America, the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Empire. The guy's face deserves to be on Mount Rushmore.
You forgot Saddam Husseins lack of biological weapons.
I have got another list for you. Unfortunately, the lamness filter won't let me list all the biological weapons Ronald Reagan sold to Saddam Hussein, but if you need more you can se a longer list here.
Date: May 2, 1986 Sent to: Ministry of Higher Education Materials Shipped:
1. Bacillus Anthracis Cohn (ATCC 10)
Batch # 08-20-82 (2 each)
Class III pathogen.
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Well, guess what? Oil won't run out in Henry Ford's lifetime either.
That's the answer I was looking for. I was just wondering how a resource that's even less renewable than fossil fuels is "nearly infinite", even though it's relatively plentiful.
And when they run out?
Do you even know where uranium comes from in the first place?
(d) Creating a dependence on yet another finite resource found under the ground in various countries that may or may not welcome you to dig it up, now and in the future.
Actually, they're not called taikonauts any more than their American colleagues are called spaceonauts. It's a play with words by some lame journalist (whose nationality I can't recall, I only remember he's not Chinese), that has unfortunately caught on in the media. Nobody involved in the Chinese space program has ever called them anything that even remotely resembles "taikonauts".
Umm....can someone please remind me how this is the greatest and most free country in the world?
It's not supposed to be free anymore. In the days after 9/11 Bush said that terrorists hate Americans because of their freedom, but he also said he was going to "strike at the root causes of terrorism".
I hate to tell you this, but following orders is no excuse for committing war crimes.
That's right, but it's also exactly the point of the post you are replying to.
Macs ship with the amount of RAM the customer wants. I was a PC user for 15 years before I switched, and in that time I never found a manufacturer whose minimum configurations had enough RAM either.
Why does it run just fine on my iBook? Don't tell me you got yours with the default 256 meg RAM!?
Likewise, using a computer to communicate is complicated ONLY if you:
1) care about what big/little endian is
2) plan on disassembling all software you use to see what it really does
Ah, yes... and here is my favorite passage from mooreexposed.com:
While we're at it: Bowling shows footage of a B-52 on display at the Air Force Academy, while Moore scornfully intones that the plaque under it "proudly proclaims that the plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve of 1972."
The plaque actually reads that "Flying out of Utapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield in southeast Thailand, the crew of 'Diamond Lil' shot down a MIG northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972." This is pretty mild compared to the rest of Bowling, but the viewer can't even trust Moore to honestly read a monument.
I now have a question for the reader:
What is a B-52 doing northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972?
A) Sightseeing.
B) Planting flowers.
C) Killing Vietnamese people.
Apparently, the viewer can't trust mooreexposed.com to fully understand what the plaque tells us about this plane's actions on Christmas eve 1972.
That's not an argument for DNA fingerprinting graffiti artists/vandals. That's an argument for DNA fingerprinting every citizen, guilty or innocent. And that does not make sense.
Another page with some more Swedish candidates.
I am not sure about any use for perfect numbers, but the Mersenne primes themselves can be used to create random number generators with extremely long periods. That takes some additional work, although not as much work as finding this prime among tens of thousands of composite candidates.
No, it's not. Not for finding Mersenne primes anyway. You see, the relative performance of different CPU types depends on the kind of work being done.
The benchmark charts at mersenne.org show that a P4 1800 MHz beats the Athlon 64 3400+ running at 2200 MHz. Even my own old P4 1600 MHz comes in ahead of the AthlonXP 3200+ running at 2200 MHz.
So, my guess is that there is some kind of work where the Itanium beats the P4 and the Athlon. Who knows, maybe this cluster was not bought to run MS Word or UT2004, or some other application where the Athlon beats the crap out of an Itanium or a P4?
Then I bet most of you don't keep strategic nuclear weapons in the server room.
Maybe the American FreeBSD users actually like freedom? The other Americans who are big fans of bureaucrazy, corruption and the oppresive regime controlled by big business are probably using BSDOfHomelandSecurity instead of FreeBSD and would be unwilling to donate to FreeBSD anyway.
Then again, since they are travelling to the US they probably want to experience what it's like to be persecuted in a nazi police state.
Then how do you explain this?
It did not have an ISS docking adapter taking up space in the cargo bay, like all other shuttles have.
He sold biological weapons to Saddam Hussein. Is that awful enough?
You forgot Saddam Husseins lack of biological weapons.
I have got another list for you. Unfortunately, the lamness filter won't let me list all the biological weapons Ronald Reagan sold to Saddam Hussein, but if you need more you can se a longer list here.
Date: May 2, 1986
Sent to: Ministry of Higher Education
Materials Shipped:
1. Bacillus Anthracis Cohn (ATCC 10)
Batch # 08-20-82 (2 each)
Class III pathogen.
2. Bacillus Subtitles (Ehrenberg) Con (ATCC 82)
Batch # 06-20-84 (2 each)
3. Clostridium botulinum Type A (ATCC 3502)
Batch# 07-07-81 (3 each)
Class III Pathogen
4. Clostridium perfringens (Weillon and Zuber) Hauduroy, et al (ATCC 3624)
Batch# 10-85SV (2 each)
5. Bacillus subtilis (ATCC 6051)
Batch# 12-06-84 (2 each)
6. Francisella tularensis var. tularensis Olsufiev (ATCC 6223)
Batch# 05-14-79 (2 each)
Avirulent; suitable for preparations of diagnostic antigens.
7. Clostridium tetani (ATCC 9441)
Batch 03-94 (3 each)
Highly toxigenic.
8. Clostridium botulinum Type E (ATCC 9564)
Batch# 03-02-79 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
9. Clostridium tetani (ATCC 10779)
Batch# 04-24-84S (3 each)
10. Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 12916)
Batch# 08-14-80 (2 each)
Agglutinating Type 2.
11. Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 13124)
Batch# 08-14-80 (3 each)
Type A, alpha-toxigenic, produces lecithinase C.J. Appl,
12. Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14185)
Batch# 01-14-80 (3 each)
G.G. Wright (Fort Detrick) V770-NPI-R. Bovine anthrax,
Class III pathogen
13. Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14578)
Batch# 01-06-78 (2 each)
Class III pathogen.
14. Bacillus megaterium (ATCC 14581)
Batch# 04-18-85 (2 each)
15. Bacillus megaterium (ATCC 14945)
Batch# 06-21-81 (2 each)
16. Clostridium botulinum Type E (ATCC 17855)
Batch# 06-21-71
Class III pathogen.
And how do I know before typing http://www.something.se that what I am about to download was published by the copyright owner?
If everything does not work out for you, just move. There are lots of countries where slavery has been outlawed.