Ok, more bad history. The Soviets certainly did the brunt of the work in defeating *Germany* - although with a lot of material help from the US (For instance, the Soviet Union built almost no trucks in the war. They relied almost exclusively on truck shipped from the US which allowed them to concentrate on building tanks yet still provide their armored and mechanized divisions with the mobility needed to actually conduct the 1944 and 1945 offensives) And besides Germany, there was still Japan. The Soviets barely fought against them at all, not coming in to the conflict until a couple of weeks before it was over.
Well, there no way anyone can prove the theory of anything is true. It may not be gravity holding me on the Earth - it may be a group of ultra-powerful sorcerers using force beams that only *appear* to be gravity by some freak chance. But at some point you need to accept what is overwhelmingly implied. If you are using reasoning like you did in your post in you SE career, it's no wonder you are unemployed.
I was a member of the other group mentioned in the article- a stoner. So I don't really remember many of the conversation I had. Just that they were hilarious. Actually, everything got hilarious.
Yep thats exactly what certification is for. The only thing that government licensing would do is make it mandatory that you would get some minimum certification before you could advertise yourself as a computer technician (or whatever). Actually I'm not really sure if I advocate a government solution. I was just pointing out what it was useful for. Too often licensing is used by a group to keep others out artificially.
The post of the link itself. The assumption was made that only MS was vulnerable when MS was not vulnerable at all according to CERT. That's pretty baseless.
What licensing is *supposed* to do is to let customers be assured that the person you are choosing *is* competent. If you could judge correctly someone's competence then you probably don't need them to do the repair. Nor do these licensing requirement usually prevent you from choosing an unlicensed person. I can have my friend Joe fix my car if I like, but he cannot advertise himself as an auto repairman without certification.
Nor does that inability validate that possibility. So both arguments are moot and we have just an example of another case of humans trying to argue a point that cannot be comprehended by those humans. Round and round we go.
That works only because MS isn't a real monopoly - no matter what they or anyone else would like to think. I haven't seen any Open Source cable/DSL connections/Power lines/Roads in my neighborhood.
I remember reading that a 50 megaton nuke wouldn't do as much damage as 10 5 megaton nukes scattereed around. Has to do with inverse square (or cube) laws affecting the blast. I think the same dynamics would apply to meteorite strikes.
You don't need to make engineers liable. It management (executive management to be precise) that needs to be liable. Hell I keep getting turned down on projects to improve the code in my company. The only way I could possibly put reeally good security would be to put 20-30 hours a week of my own time in - past the 50-60 I already work. No thanks.
Most anything invented after 1950 has been science fiction. Of course terraforming is *possible* but way beyond our (economic) capabilities at the moment.
And the boss gets fired in turn by his boss who wants to know why the hell he screwed up the productivity of his employees just to perform a silly social experiment.
Its simple math mostly. Take the known rates from volcanos (and they do know a lot of them, volcanos are fairly well studied.) and add them up. Take the rates from human activity and add it up also.
Nope, didn't get me. Not even a really good attempt at it. You didn't get a bill passed to make lifts owned by a government organization available to private citizens. Also he said "create" not "invent". If create means invent then every d*mn politician in this country has claimed to invent employment.
Actually it looks more like just bad phrasing. He certainly seems to have played a large role in helping create the modern commercial internet, on the political side, of course, not the technical.
Scratch the heavy snow areas. I got along just fine for 7 years in the Tug Hill snow belt of upstate NY. 4 wheel drive helps but saying you need an SUV to drive in the snow is just saying you shouldn't be allowed to drive in the snow.
I dunno where you are getting that statistic from. Dick Cheney maybe? A little checking and what I found was:
"Volcanoes contribute about 110 million tons/year, whereas other sources contribute about 10 billion tons/year"
(http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/cl imate_effects.html)
And
"Do Volcanoes Put Out as Much Carbon Dioxide as We Do?
Terry Gerlach, US Geological Survey, Cascades Volcano Observatory
The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most abundant gas (after water) emitted by volcanoes.
Volcanologists estimate an annual global output of 200 million tons of volcanic CO2 per year. This natural source is balanced by natural processes that remove CO2 from the atmosphere-specifically by the weathering of rock into soil by atmospheric CO2 dissolved in rain and surface waters.
By comparison, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation produce 130 times more CO2 than all the world's volcanoes put together (adding 26,000 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of 8,000 Kilaueas (Hawaii's most active volcano). This comparison suggests humans are producing CO2 at a rate unprecedented in a geological history stretching back many millions of years. "
(http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/education/Summer _Geology_Seminars.htm)
Although single large eruptions can produce huge amount, perhaps even enough to jump the volcano total up by 100 times, I don't think it can produce more than all of human history.
I just finished reading that. It was good although I think the hurricanes seemed to get a ridiculously large (Mach 1+ winds with 1000 ft+ waves) and I found it weird that the kind of heat that could get ocean temps up to 37 degrees C didn't seem to have any other effects on the planet.
They did that for B-52's during Vietnam also. Camo on top and gray on the bottom. Nowaday they seem to be painting them Black or a very dark green. Guess thats becuase they fly them at night mostly.
Depends on which country you talk about. India of course had a lot of English speakers due to the British empire but other in countries such as Russia and Japan owed it more to American control of 20th century technology (most of the newer technical fields (computers, aerospace) use English.
Right! Plus, as far as the 9th Circuit Court's ruling, they merely restored it to its original version. The "under God" part was added well after the fact.
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Ok, more bad history. The Soviets certainly did the brunt of the work in defeating *Germany* - although with a lot of material help from the US (For instance, the Soviet Union built almost no trucks in the war. They relied almost exclusively on truck shipped from the US which allowed them to concentrate on building tanks yet still provide their armored and mechanized divisions with the mobility needed to actually conduct the 1944 and 1945 offensives) And besides Germany, there was still Japan. The Soviets barely fought against them at all, not coming in to the conflict until a couple of weeks before it was over.
Well, there no way anyone can prove the theory of anything is true. It may not be gravity holding me on the Earth - it may be a group of ultra-powerful sorcerers using force beams that only *appear* to be gravity by some freak chance. But at some point you need to accept what is overwhelmingly implied. If you are using reasoning like you did in your post in you SE career, it's no wonder you are unemployed.
I was a member of the other group mentioned in the article- a stoner. So I don't really remember many of the conversation I had. Just that they were hilarious. Actually, everything got hilarious.
Yep thats exactly what certification is for. The only thing that government licensing would do is make it mandatory that you would get some minimum certification before you could advertise yourself as a computer technician (or whatever). Actually I'm not really sure if I advocate a government solution. I was just pointing out what it was useful for. Too often licensing is used by a group to keep others out artificially.
The post of the link itself. The assumption was made that only MS was vulnerable when MS was not vulnerable at all according to CERT. That's pretty baseless.
What licensing is *supposed* to do is to let customers be assured that the person you are choosing *is* competent. If you could judge correctly someone's competence then you probably don't need them to do the repair. Nor do these licensing requirement usually prevent you from choosing an unlicensed person. I can have my friend Joe fix my car if I like, but he cannot advertise himself as an auto repairman without certification.
Nor does that inability validate that possibility. So both arguments are moot and we have just an example of another case of humans trying to argue a point that cannot be comprehended by those humans. Round and round we go.
That works only because MS isn't a real monopoly - no matter what they or anyone else would like to think. I haven't seen any Open Source cable/DSL connections/Power lines/Roads in my neighborhood.
I remember reading that a 50 megaton nuke wouldn't do as much damage as 10 5 megaton nukes scattereed around. Has to do with inverse square (or cube) laws affecting the blast. I think the same dynamics would apply to meteorite strikes.
You don't need to make engineers liable. It management (executive management to be precise) that needs to be liable. Hell I keep getting turned down on projects to improve the code in my company. The only way I could possibly put reeally good security would be to put 20-30 hours a week of my own time in - past the 50-60 I already work. No thanks.
Oh for some mod points!
I think the atmosphere is already too think. It needs to be thinned out a bunch. Why would it need a moon though? Just to have tides?
Most anything invented after 1950 has been science fiction. Of course terraforming is *possible* but way beyond our (economic) capabilities at the moment.
And the boss gets fired in turn by his boss who wants to know why the hell he screwed up the productivity of his employees just to perform a silly social experiment.
Its simple math mostly. Take the known rates from volcanos (and they do know a lot of them, volcanos are fairly well studied.) and add them up. Take the rates from human activity and add it up also.
Nope, didn't get me. Not even a really good attempt at it. You didn't get a bill passed to make lifts owned by a government organization available to private citizens. Also he said "create" not "invent". If create means invent then every d*mn politician in this country has claimed to invent employment.
Actually it looks more like just bad phrasing. He certainly seems to have played a large role in helping create the modern commercial internet, on the political side, of course, not the technical.
Scratch the heavy snow areas. I got along just fine for 7 years in the Tug Hill snow belt of upstate NY. 4 wheel drive helps but saying you need an SUV to drive in the snow is just saying you shouldn't be allowed to drive in the snow.
I dunno where you are getting that statistic from. Dick Cheney maybe? A little checking and what I found was: "Volcanoes contribute about 110 million tons/year, whereas other sources contribute about 10 billion tons/year" (http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/cl imate_effects.html)
And
"Do Volcanoes Put Out as Much Carbon Dioxide as We Do?
Terry Gerlach, US Geological Survey, Cascades Volcano Observatory
The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most abundant gas (after water) emitted by volcanoes.
Volcanologists estimate an annual global output of 200 million tons of volcanic CO2 per year. This natural source is balanced by natural processes that remove CO2 from the atmosphere-specifically by the weathering of rock into soil by atmospheric CO2 dissolved in rain and surface waters.
By comparison, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation produce 130 times more CO2 than all the world's volcanoes put together (adding 26,000 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of 8,000 Kilaueas (Hawaii's most active volcano). This comparison suggests humans are producing CO2 at a rate unprecedented in a geological history stretching back many millions of years. "
(http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/education/Summer _Geology_Seminars.htm)
Although single large eruptions can produce huge amount, perhaps even enough to jump the volcano total up by 100 times, I don't think it can produce more than all of human history.
I just finished reading that. It was good although I think the hurricanes seemed to get a ridiculously large (Mach 1+ winds with 1000 ft+ waves) and I found it weird that the kind of heat that could get ocean temps up to 37 degrees C didn't seem to have any other effects on the planet.
Hmmmm, I dunno where you work. I'm at 500% of my starting pay through 16 years. With only a 2 year degree.
They did that for B-52's during Vietnam also. Camo on top and gray on the bottom. Nowaday they seem to be painting them Black or a very dark green. Guess thats becuase they fly them at night mostly.
But all the code that creates the Web (HTML tags, Javascript Java) is in English. At least I've never seen a localized version of any of these.
Depends on which country you talk about. India of course had a lot of English speakers due to the British empire but other in countries such as Russia and Japan owed it more to American control of 20th century technology (most of the newer technical fields (computers, aerospace) use English.
Right! Plus, as far as the 9th Circuit Court's ruling, they merely restored it to its original version. The "under God" part was added well after the fact.