But that comparison is unfair, since the most disgusting cartoon porn about imaginary creatures is ultimately not harming anyone, it's simply an eyesore, while your crap is directly and actively hindering humanity's efforts to rise above its past and seek a better tomorrow.
You break it - you buy it. And you broke a lot of countries.
So you want the US to go full imperialist? It's an idea; solve the Mexican illegal immigrant problem by annexing Mexico. Send in a team of special prosecutors (perhaps ex-US Attorneys headed by Christie) to bring the corruption down to New Jersey levels, then admit the Mexican States to the US.
Yes, the social justice clique burned the awards to the ground to stop any Puppy-nominated candidate from winning. But all Vox Day (the Rabid Puppy leader) wanted was to take the award away from that clique, and he was openly willing to burn it down. They did it for him. Bravo.
The Sad Puppies this year were run by Brad R. Torgersen. He's the most moderate of the puppy group. He explicitly wanted the Sad Puppy slate to be apolitical, the best works around. So on the slate were works by people in the Social Justice clique, and works by those who were neither puppy nor SJ. All the clique had to do to save the award for themselves is vote for those works. But instead they hounded some of their own people into withdrawing their nomination, and refused to vote for those neutrals (e.g. Jim Butcher) who remained. Once again, bravo, SJW/CHORFs; in stomping on as decent a person as Torgersen you gave victory to Vox Day.
I just checked out the University of Maryland College Park (my alma mater) Computer Science program. They have no prerequisites in Calculus or Physics. In fact, they have no prerequisites (beyond general university entrance requirements) at all: "If you list Computer Science as your preferred major and are admitted to the university, you will start directly in our program."
There are 4 CS classes you can test out of (but without credits) if you do have previous experience; you can also test out of Calculus II. AP credit is accepted for Calculus I & II; IB for Calculus I.
US primary and secondary schools are good largely at smothering any love of learning or a subject that children have. Like to read? Here's a bunch of dull books you are required to read and give a report on. Like math? Here's a billion problems to work on, and don't dare sneak a peak ahead in the book to find the easy way (or write a program on your computer to solve them). Interested in history? Here it is in the driest form possible, please regurgitate on command.
Of course AT&T had a choice, they could have gone to court. That would have stopped it right there. What could the NSA do, shut them down?
Trump up criminal charges and get the CEO of AT&T thrown into pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison, just like they did to the only telecom executive to refuse them. This ain't the bush leagues.
Expand the tweet to say "Well, yes, I did have sex with my high school teacher."
Why not expand it to "Well yes, I did have sex with Morgan Fairchild, who I have seen naked on numerous occasions?" Because that would be about equally accurate.
The tweet being responded to:
âoedid @R_Sagehorn3 actually make out with [name of female teacher redacted in court filings]? prolly not.â
The response: "Actually, yes".
Now, I'm an old fart, but I'm pretty sure "making out" still refers to amorous activities _short_ of actual sex. So you can't even get unchastity.
This wasn't a felony, it wasn't a misdemeanor, it wasn't an accusation of any sort. It was one person talking shit and another person playing along. No reasonable person (of which, I will grant, there are few in evidence in the administration of any high school) would take it seriously.
If a masters degree or a PhD from anywhere in the world were a reliable indication of intelligence, you might have a point. It isn't. There's any number of learned idiots.
When the 97% of nature is in balance, then the 3% of mankind's emissions will be enough to put it out of balance.
It seems that someone doesn't understand how an equilibrium works. You can use your brain and still be wrong if you don't understand the problem in the first place.
This is only true if it's an unstable equilibrium. There's ample evidence it is not; the fact that the planet has gone in and out of ice ages and warm periods and returned to status quo ante after large impactors and eruptions indicates the equilibrium is quite stable.
It's interesting but the fatalistic conclusion is nonsense; people in the US have been getting fatter (even controlling for age) for years, they can get thinner too. I got down from 170 to 150 through the simplest diet of all: eat less. It's been 20 years. I was in the 145-155 range most of that time; I'm now in the low 140s for other reasons. Did this make me hungry all the damn time? You bet. Did that pass after some time? Mostly. I also started exercising pretty hard, but that was after I'd lost the weight; that let me eat more without gaining back.
Willpower works. You just actually have to have some and not fool yourself with "oh those calories don't count", or "I used an elliptical for 10 minutes, I can afford that donut" and other such nonsense. And if you notice yourself gaining, you have to cut back. And you have to understand that yes, you will be hungry.
That's a serious point. They're not losing money "on every car sold", in that it implies that it's the cost of making the cars that's losing them money. It's the cost of scaling up by orders of magnitude that's losing them money. But that's obviously to be expected.
Well, the summary claims they're losing money on "operating margin", which would exclude capital expenditures due to scaling up. I suppose it's possible a slashdut summary isn't infallible, but I'm pretty sure they've never been wrong before.
I worked for Apple for a time. And many other companies. I never revealed my race on those forms and I don't know of anyone who did. I doubt there are any valid statistics to be found.
If you don't choose a race, the company is required to guess.
The question is whether *higher* octane gas than required for an engine (engines can be tuned for high octane gas) improves performance.
It can. If your car has a knock sensor, it works by retarding the timing when knocking is detected (usually before you can detect it by ear while sitting in the drivers seat); this reduces performance. If your spark plugs are dirty or there's other problems with the ignition system, you might get more knock with regular than premium, so you could have a loss of power that is "fixed" by moving to premium.
A properly operating engine tuned for regular won't show increased performance with premium. It won't "see" the premium and advance the timing.
I've heard of another case were the MPAA was getting an order against "all third parties" to block a website they didn't like. This looks a lot more limited: Align Technologies says ClearCorrect is performing a patented process in Pakistan to evade Align's US Patent, and the ITC is ordering ClearCorrect (not third parties) to stop receiving the models which are supposedly the results of this process. Whether this is or is not within the ITCs jurisdiction, it doesn't look like wide-ranging SOPA-like powers.
We're not using linear power bricks any more. And coal efficiency is ~33%, not half that; that takes the steam turbine into account already. Transmission and distribution is about 6%, and current chargers should be at least 80% efficient. So, actually you get 24% coal-to-phone efficiency, not 16%.
What this guy has done is outsource or hide his power use. He eats processed "food" with the power baked right in, or goes out to restaurants where they have big refrigerators and other power users. He uses a butane stove to avoid having to count the power use for boiling water. He uses Uber and the bus to get around; both these use more energy per passenger mile than a high-efficiency automobile. He uses his clothes until they are too dirty and outsources the energy of the washing to the next owner (and fails to account for the energy of the making).
I'd love to believe in a cabal of evil sexist building managers setting temperatures to make men in suits comfortable and women cold. That'd be a fixable problem. But in every building I've worked in with central AC, the main system is either "off" or "on" (on a schedule) and blows very cold air through the main ducts. Then the individual thermostats control dampers for branches or registers (not necessarily in a sensible fashion, and some or all thermostats may actually be dummies). So why is it always cold? Because the system is typically either oversized entirely or is sized so it will work on all but the hottest days. So, usually cold.
Rubbish. If satellites can be capable of visually following individual cars from orbit, a drone could easily be equipped to "peep" when operating a mere 200 feet up.
Really? So a drone 200 feet above your yard is going to look into your windows and see what exactly? Never mind the quality of the lens, the angle means you aren't going to see much.
The telemetry also shows that it was at -45.9 feet when it crashed (see the video.) We can presume the telemetry is accurate and it crashed so hard that it buried itself 46 feet under the ground, or we can assume that this "telemetry" is bullshit.
Or the telemetry altitude was referenced to a zero point 46 feet higher than point it crashed. Or the altimeter was damaged when the drone was shot.
I invite you to carry on working at your normal job for the next year, but sign all the pay cheques over to some random criminal who did literally nothing to deserve that money. Oh, and sign over those of all your colleagues as well.
Oh, so kind of like taxes? I see why the government doesn't like it; seems like competition.
Weep? Ben Franklin would be shitposting and bragging of his threesome with women a third of his age. Jefferson would be posting about how slave girls were the best. Hamilton and Burr would be having a heated argument that would end with a realspace meeting in Weehawken. Sam Adams would be trying to recruit a mob. Only Washington would be above it all; he would not deign to take notice.
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A lot of US government shills in the comments today. Did you think you wouldn't be noticed?
It goes by several names, including Monaco 9, fixed, and 6x13, all of which are quite similar. We don't need another.
Spotted the SJW.
So you want the US to go full imperialist? It's an idea; solve the Mexican illegal immigrant problem by annexing Mexico. Send in a team of special prosecutors (perhaps ex-US Attorneys headed by Christie) to bring the corruption down to New Jersey levels, then admit the Mexican States to the US.
Yes, the social justice clique burned the awards to the ground to stop any Puppy-nominated candidate from winning. But all Vox Day (the Rabid Puppy leader) wanted was to take the award away from that clique, and he was openly willing to burn it down. They did it for him. Bravo.
The Sad Puppies this year were run by Brad R. Torgersen. He's the most moderate of the puppy group. He explicitly wanted the Sad Puppy slate to be apolitical, the best works around. So on the slate were works by people in the Social Justice clique, and works by those who were neither puppy nor SJ. All the clique had to do to save the award for themselves is vote for those works. But instead they hounded some of their own people into withdrawing their nomination, and refused to vote for those neutrals (e.g. Jim Butcher) who remained. Once again, bravo, SJW/CHORFs; in stomping on as decent a person as Torgersen you gave victory to Vox Day.
I just checked out the University of Maryland College Park (my alma mater) Computer Science program. They have no prerequisites in Calculus or Physics. In fact, they have no prerequisites (beyond general university entrance requirements) at all: "If you list Computer Science as your preferred major and are admitted to the university, you will start directly in our program."
There are 4 CS classes you can test out of (but without credits) if you do have previous experience; you can also test out of Calculus II. AP credit is accepted for Calculus I & II; IB for Calculus I.
US primary and secondary schools are good largely at smothering any love of learning or a subject that children have. Like to read? Here's a bunch of dull books you are required to read and give a report on. Like math? Here's a billion problems to work on, and don't dare sneak a peak ahead in the book to find the easy way (or write a program on your computer to solve them). Interested in history? Here it is in the driest form possible, please regurgitate on command.
But really, it was the accuracy that was the problem all along.
Trump up criminal charges and get the CEO of AT&T thrown into pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison, just like they did to the only telecom executive to refuse them. This ain't the bush leagues.
Why not expand it to "Well yes, I did have sex with Morgan Fairchild, who I have seen naked on numerous occasions?" Because that would be about equally accurate.
The tweet being responded to:
âoedid @R_Sagehorn3 actually make out with [name of female teacher redacted in court filings]? prolly not.â
The response:
"Actually, yes".
Now, I'm an old fart, but I'm pretty sure "making out" still refers to amorous activities _short_ of actual sex. So you can't even get unchastity.
This wasn't a felony, it wasn't a misdemeanor, it wasn't an accusation of any sort. It was one person talking shit and another person playing along. No reasonable person (of which, I will grant, there are few in evidence in the administration of any high school) would take it seriously.
If a masters degree or a PhD from anywhere in the world were a reliable indication of intelligence, you might have a point. It isn't. There's any number of learned idiots.
"Technology for Pakleds" (they are smart)
This is only true if it's an unstable equilibrium. There's ample evidence it is not; the fact that the planet has gone in and out of ice ages and warm periods and returned to status quo ante after large impactors and eruptions indicates the equilibrium is quite stable.
It's interesting but the fatalistic conclusion is nonsense; people in the US have been getting fatter (even controlling for age) for years, they can get thinner too. I got down from 170 to 150 through the simplest diet of all: eat less. It's been 20 years. I was in the 145-155 range most of that time; I'm now in the low 140s for other reasons. Did this make me hungry all the damn time? You bet. Did that pass after some time? Mostly. I also started exercising pretty hard, but that was after I'd lost the weight; that let me eat more without gaining back.
Willpower works. You just actually have to have some and not fool yourself with "oh those calories don't count", or "I used an elliptical for 10 minutes, I can afford that donut" and other such nonsense. And if you notice yourself gaining, you have to cut back. And you have to understand that yes, you will be hungry.
Well, the summary claims they're losing money on "operating margin", which would exclude capital expenditures due to scaling up. I suppose it's possible a slashdut summary isn't infallible, but I'm pretty sure they've never been wrong before.
Pretty sure they've given up on "post-racial society" and would prefer "fuck you white guys" instead.
If you don't choose a race, the company is required to guess.
It can. If your car has a knock sensor, it works by retarding the timing when knocking is detected (usually before you can detect it by ear while sitting in the drivers seat); this reduces performance. If your spark plugs are dirty or there's other problems with the ignition system, you might get more knock with regular than premium, so you could have a loss of power that is "fixed" by moving to premium.
A properly operating engine tuned for regular won't show increased performance with premium. It won't "see" the premium and advance the timing.
I've heard of another case were the MPAA was getting an order against "all third parties" to block a website they didn't like. This looks a lot more limited: Align Technologies says ClearCorrect is performing a patented process in Pakistan to evade Align's US Patent, and the ITC is ordering ClearCorrect (not third parties) to stop receiving the models which are supposedly the results of this process. Whether this is or is not within the ITCs jurisdiction, it doesn't look like wide-ranging SOPA-like powers.
We're not using linear power bricks any more. And coal efficiency is ~33%, not half that; that takes the steam turbine into account already. Transmission and distribution is about 6%, and current chargers should be at least 80% efficient. So, actually you get 24% coal-to-phone efficiency, not 16%.
What this guy has done is outsource or hide his power use. He eats processed "food" with the power baked right in, or goes out to restaurants where they have big refrigerators and other power users. He uses a butane stove to avoid having to count the power use for boiling water. He uses Uber and the bus to get around; both these use more energy per passenger mile than a high-efficiency automobile. He uses his clothes until they are too dirty and outsources the energy of the washing to the next owner (and fails to account for the energy of the making).
I'd love to believe in a cabal of evil sexist building managers setting temperatures to make men in suits comfortable and women cold. That'd be a fixable problem. But in every building I've worked in with central AC, the main system is either "off" or "on" (on a schedule) and blows very cold air through the main ducts. Then the individual thermostats control dampers for branches or registers (not necessarily in a sensible fashion, and some or all thermostats may actually be dummies). So why is it always cold? Because the system is typically either oversized entirely or is sized so it will work on all but the hottest days. So, usually cold.
Really? So a drone 200 feet above your yard is going to look into your windows and see what exactly? Never mind the quality of the lens, the angle means you aren't going to see much.
Or the telemetry altitude was referenced to a zero point 46 feet higher than point it crashed. Or the altimeter was damaged when the drone was shot.
Oh, so kind of like taxes? I see why the government doesn't like it; seems like competition.
Weep? Ben Franklin would be shitposting and bragging of his threesome with women a third of his age. Jefferson would be posting about how slave girls were the best. Hamilton and Burr would be having a heated argument that would end with a realspace meeting in Weehawken. Sam Adams would be trying to recruit a mob. Only Washington would be above it all; he would not deign to take notice.