The weight of a rifle is determined mainly by the ammunition used. The higher the caliber you go, the more weight a rifle will need to absorb the recoil. The reason the M16 is so light is because it is a pea-shooter that uses what is almost.22 ammunition. The M16 was designed to be light -- that was its main feature.
But regardless of all that, the G.I. Jane woman you see pictured only exists in make believe.
Great. Another use of that ludicrous invention of Hollywood: The Ass-Kicking Chick. Screenshot Notice how the lady obviously does not have the upper body strength required to even hold up the weapon. These aren't women, they are nothing like women, and it's only sexy if you have never held a conversation with a real woman. Of course, I suppose that the Chip makes American women unattractive enough as is. Maybe some guys find these girls to be an improvement. Anyway, the silliest aspect of the whole mess is that it makes our culture inclined towards idiocy like women in combat.
Ian Clarke is just saying that Freenet is imperfect, and some people are overreacting to what he said. Freenet is not about to start divulging anybody's anonyminity anytime soon. Actually the "research" is looking into continually better ways of protecting it. Freenet still has a long way to go, and creating some sort of pseudo-"stable" branch is not going to help things. Ian Clarke was talking about the bugs found in all software programs, not actual design failures. Of course, perfect security is a pipe dream, and those people who are throwing this tantrum can stop asking for it.
It would have been so easy for the RIAA to only go after people who hosted both illegal mp3s and child porn in this first round. Congress would have given them medals. Then they could have quietly expanded their lawsuits.
My own feeling is that Japanese culture is in a depression even deeper than the economic malaise of the past decade. Their political system has moved from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal. Their mass media has gotten steadily more insane. Their population decline on the demographic front looks grim -- and, as in the West, is accompanied by a collapse in social tradition and in values. There is also a serious bleakness about the future that has infected their society, corrupting an already somewhat apocalyptic-minded high culture, and with obvious impact in art and entertainment.
The real movement to watch out for is the rearmament of Japan which will come sometime in the next decade. This is a logical move for them, and I support it, but it is quite possible that Japan will enter into yet another period of social destabilization and social revolution after it. Which may or may not be so bad. The current mess in unsustainable.
Oldest according to the Out of Africa theory. The Multiregional theory claims that Neanderthals are part of the human race. (Check out the second linked pdf for a good paper on the DNA evidence: "Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution")
Spamming is such a dirty business that most spammers will commit some illegality somewhere. Their character is rarely that of a saint. And most ISPs will do anything to keep a spammer off of their bandwidth. So if you go after a spammer, there will probably be some dirt to smear him with somewhere.
"Slouching Towards Bedlam" is, I believe a reference to this poem by Yeats:
The Second Coming
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
And, of course, the word Bedlam comes from the colloquial pronunciation of "Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem" founded in 1247 as a priory, and converted to a lunatic hospital sometime before 1402. It was converted to a state lunatic asylum on the dissolution of the monasteries in 1547. (From The Online Etymological Dictionary).
This may or may not be a reasonable business decision, but do they really have to flat out lie to their customers?
"If this has affected the way in which third parties interact with our service, it is merely a byproduct of our efforts to implement preventative measures to protect our users from potential spammers," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said.
Who the hell decided that it was okay to to treat all your customers like I treat my retarded cousin Larry? I hope that they understand that a lot of us know and resent it when we are being lied to.
Is there something that is meant to interest me other than the brand name? Frankly I could care less whether this game had a Blizzard Vulture or a Microsoft Dune Buggy. What is interesting about the gameplay? I mean Starcraft was fun and all, but it is not like I identify with the characters or story from it.
Anybody remember Heinlein's character from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? The one who worked on computers, and had a different bionic arm attachment for every job?
Another alternative to Fortran is C++ with Blitz++. Using templates, library builders are able to close the gap with or surpass Fortran speeds. And that is without any compiler optimization, which C++ recieves a lot of attention on because of its market status. Anyway, here is Blitz++. Here are their goals and philosophy. Eat your hearts out, C programmers.
I am a sometimes Linux user, but I am not personally convinced that Open Source is a better deal for my tax dollars. If Microsoft can offer a better TCO, then the government should buy Microsoft products. And I fail to see how their current procurement procedures are inadequate for making that sort of decision. The government's job is not to interfere with the market by promoting one product over another. If you really want to advocate Linux, make it a better product so that the private sector adopts it. The government sector will follow.
The real secret to this Luddite's success against spam is the provision in the bill banning spammers from possessing computers or electronic equipment of any kind. Apparently, he felt that carrier pidgeon would be the the best way to transport the spam of the future.
I know what you are talking about, and I agree that the TI beats HP in symbolic computation. I have known people who use it for just what you do, and they're pretty good with it. But for me, I am far more likely to make the errors when I am entering the equation into the machine. That is probably from lack of use, but I still prefer to do my own algebra and do the basic checks at the end. I am very fast with the HP when it comes to actually crunching the numbers at the end if necessary.
Mathematica is an amazing program, and I have loved using it whenever I have come into contact with it. But I usually find that its symbolic capabilities are only useful for problems that I should be able to do myself. When I need numeric answers, it is usually MATLAB, or more often C++ armed with Boost and Blitz.
I am all agreed on the Fiona is a bitch link. But I thought that HP committed the travesty of killing of its wonderful calculator line before Fiona took charge. I may be wrong.
Regardless, HP created the greatest engineering calculators ever made. TI just doesn't cut it--their calculators are for students. What does a student need with a graphing calculator anyway? He should be learning to multiply, divide, and take the square roots of insanely large numbers in his head. That's what school is all about. (That's an overstatement, but still, most of the advanced functions on a graphing calculator are a damaging crutch until you have learned the stuff. Until you are past differential equations, you shouldn't be using anything more than a scientific calculator. And in any advanced math course after that, you barely need any calculator at all. Engineering and Physics are different stories.)
I have always felt that a P2P network could protect itself by requiring in a license to use said network that no users will use the service to collect IP addresses. In that case they could go after the RIAA for either theft of network services or even DMCA abuse for using an illegal client.
This would not protect network users if law enforcement were to request valid subpoenas for the job, but it would stop non-law enforcement bodies like the RIAA from doing what they are doing now.
This is using our enemies methods against them, which makes it sweet.
Books, movies, theater, even television may not make people kill each other.
Tell that to Ronald Reagan or John Lennon--both of whom were shot by people who claimed that their influence was "Catcher in the Rye." I do not even need to mention Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, the Bible. I could go on and on. We also have Nazi and Soviet propaganda movies that made people kill each. There is Natural Born Killers as well. I cannot think of any television program that has killed people except MTV's Jackass--but arguably, they deserved it.
Of course you a right, I should have been clearer. But then again, a negative correlation is just as much a correlation as a positive correlation is. Its opposite is a non-correlated event. Clearly we have a "positive" bias in our language that needs to be eliminated. I am preparing letters to the English Teachers of the world even now.
Since when does "We don't know" count as a debunking?
Full-spectrum light sources and health. Full-spectrum light sources will not provide better health than most other electric light sources. Recent research has shown that human daily activities are strongly influenced by the solar light/dark cycle. The most notable of these daily, or circadian, cycles is the sleep/wake cycle; but other activities including mental awareness, mood, and perhaps even the effectiveness of the immune system go through regular daily patterns. Light is the most important environmental stimulus for regulating these circadian cycles and synchronizing them to the solar day. Short wavelength (blue) light is particularly effective at regulating the circadian system; long wavelength (red) light is apparently inconsequential to the circadian system. Thus, to maximize efficiency in affecting the circadian system, a light source should not mimic a full spectrum, but instead should maximize only short wavelengths. Even if a full-spectrum light source includes short wavelength light in its spectrum, it will not necessarily ensure proper circadian regulation because, in addition, the proper intensity, timing and duration of the light exposure are all equally important for satisfactory circadian regulation (Rea et. al, 2002).
I would actually be surprised if there were no benefits at all. We already know that sunlight is well correlated to depression levels in a population. And depression is quite well correlated to any number of health factors.
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You didn't read the sentence after the one you quoted, did you?
The weight of a rifle is determined mainly by the ammunition used. The higher the caliber you go, the more weight a rifle will need to absorb the recoil. The reason the M16 is so light is because it is a pea-shooter that uses what is almost .22 ammunition. The M16 was designed to be light -- that was its main feature.
But regardless of all that, the G.I. Jane woman you see pictured only exists in make believe.
Great. Another use of that ludicrous invention of Hollywood: The Ass-Kicking Chick. Screenshot Notice how the lady obviously does not have the upper body strength required to even hold up the weapon. These aren't women, they are nothing like women, and it's only sexy if you have never held a conversation with a real woman. Of course, I suppose that the Chip makes American women unattractive enough as is. Maybe some guys find these girls to be an improvement. Anyway, the silliest aspect of the whole mess is that it makes our culture inclined towards idiocy like women in combat.
Ian Clarke is just saying that Freenet is imperfect, and some people are overreacting to what he said. Freenet is not about to start divulging anybody's anonyminity anytime soon. Actually the "research" is looking into continually better ways of protecting it. Freenet still has a long way to go, and creating some sort of pseudo-"stable" branch is not going to help things. Ian Clarke was talking about the bugs found in all software programs, not actual design failures. Of course, perfect security is a pipe dream, and those people who are throwing this tantrum can stop asking for it.
It would have been so easy for the RIAA to only go after people who hosted both illegal mp3s and child porn in this first round. Congress would have given them medals. Then they could have quietly expanded their lawsuits.
My own feeling is that Japanese culture is in a depression even deeper than the economic malaise of the past decade. Their political system has moved from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal. Their mass media has gotten steadily more insane. Their population decline on the demographic front looks grim -- and, as in the West, is accompanied by a collapse in social tradition and in values. There is also a serious bleakness about the future that has infected their society, corrupting an already somewhat apocalyptic-minded high culture, and with obvious impact in art and entertainment.
The real movement to watch out for is the rearmament of Japan which will come sometime in the next decade. This is a logical move for them, and I support it, but it is quite possible that Japan will enter into yet another period of social destabilization and social revolution after it. Which may or may not be so bad. The current mess in unsustainable.
Ways that America loves illegals more than citizens.
I do not have anything, however, to buttress your last statement.
Oldest according to the Out of Africa theory. The Multiregional theory claims that Neanderthals are part of the human race. (Check out the second linked pdf for a good paper on the DNA evidence: "Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution")
Spamming is such a dirty business that most spammers will commit some illegality somewhere. Their character is rarely that of a saint. And most ISPs will do anything to keep a spammer off of their bandwidth. So if you go after a spammer, there will probably be some dirt to smear him with somewhere.
I just thought all that was neat.
Portable Handwarmers, yay! Now I don't need to buy any more mittens.
Is there something that is meant to interest me other than the brand name? Frankly I could care less whether this game had a Blizzard Vulture or a Microsoft Dune Buggy. What is interesting about the gameplay? I mean Starcraft was fun and all, but it is not like I identify with the characters or story from it.
Anybody remember Heinlein's character from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? The one who worked on computers, and had a different bionic arm attachment for every job?
Another alternative to Fortran is C++ with Blitz++. Using templates, library builders are able to close the gap with or surpass Fortran speeds. And that is without any compiler optimization, which C++ recieves a lot of attention on because of its market status. Anyway, here is Blitz++. Here are their goals and philosophy. Eat your hearts out, C programmers.
I am a sometimes Linux user, but I am not personally convinced that Open Source is a better deal for my tax dollars. If Microsoft can offer a better TCO, then the government should buy Microsoft products. And I fail to see how their current procurement procedures are inadequate for making that sort of decision. The government's job is not to interfere with the market by promoting one product over another. If you really want to advocate Linux, make it a better product so that the private sector adopts it. The government sector will follow.
The real secret to this Luddite's success against spam is the provision in the bill banning spammers from possessing computers or electronic equipment of any kind. Apparently, he felt that carrier pidgeon would be the the best way to transport the spam of the future.
I know what you are talking about, and I agree that the TI beats HP in symbolic computation. I have known people who use it for just what you do, and they're pretty good with it. But for me, I am far more likely to make the errors when I am entering the equation into the machine. That is probably from lack of use, but I still prefer to do my own algebra and do the basic checks at the end. I am very fast with the HP when it comes to actually crunching the numbers at the end if necessary.
Mathematica is an amazing program, and I have loved using it whenever I have come into contact with it. But I usually find that its symbolic capabilities are only useful for problems that I should be able to do myself. When I need numeric answers, it is usually MATLAB, or more often C++ armed with Boost and Blitz.
I am all agreed on the Fiona is a bitch link. But I thought that HP committed the travesty of killing of its wonderful calculator line before Fiona took charge. I may be wrong.
Regardless, HP created the greatest engineering calculators ever made. TI just doesn't cut it--their calculators are for students. What does a student need with a graphing calculator anyway? He should be learning to multiply, divide, and take the square roots of insanely large numbers in his head. That's what school is all about. (That's an overstatement, but still, most of the advanced functions on a graphing calculator are a damaging crutch until you have learned the stuff. Until you are past differential equations, you shouldn't be using anything more than a scientific calculator. And in any advanced math course after that, you barely need any calculator at all. Engineering and Physics are different stories.)
I have always felt that a P2P network could protect itself by requiring in a license to use said network that no users will use the service to collect IP addresses. In that case they could go after the RIAA for either theft of network services or even DMCA abuse for using an illegal client.
This would not protect network users if law enforcement were to request valid subpoenas for the job, but it would stop non-law enforcement bodies like the RIAA from doing what they are doing now.
This is using our enemies methods against them, which makes it sweet.
Books, movies, theater, even television may not make people kill each other.
Tell that to Ronald Reagan or John Lennon--both of whom were shot by people who claimed that their influence was "Catcher in the Rye." I do not even need to mention Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, the Bible. I could go on and on. We also have Nazi and Soviet propaganda movies that made people kill each. There is Natural Born Killers as well. I cannot think of any television program that has killed people except MTV's Jackass--but arguably, they deserved it.
Duke Nukem Forever: Out this Holiday season!
Of course you a right, I should have been clearer. But then again, a negative correlation is just as much a correlation as a positive correlation is. Its opposite is a non-correlated event. Clearly we have a "positive" bias in our language that needs to be eliminated. I am preparing letters to the English Teachers of the world even now.
From Kuro5hin.org: Schopenhauer's guide to dishonest argument. 38 methods to cheat your way into winning an argument.
The scary thing is that SCO is probably quite familiar with this kind of thing, and knows exactly what it's doing.