The first iteration will have everybody posing unmoderated, and anon. The 4chan guys will quickly demonstrate to Google the foolish error of it's ways.
The second iteration will allow moderation via some sort of community ranking or tagging. This will seem awesome until the spammers write bots to boost their spam postings to the top of the moderation heap. Google will be shamed again.
The third iteration will allow people to create accounts, and track their karma. Users will be able to filter out comments below a certain level, and moderate statements they disagree with as 'trolls'.
Their results could mean that the group recieving the test vaccine came into contact with the virus 31.2% less.
No, you don't need to control their exposure. You can study the infection rate for the general population, and provided that your study group isn't unusually different from the general population (say, by being all sexually active gay men), you can expect a similar infection rate over time.
yes, there are potentially statistical deviations that could occur, but the larger the sample group and the more test that occur, the less likely this is. Go take some stats classes if you are curious about the methodology, but if they did the trial correctly your suggested interpretation is very unlikely.
This isn't really a doomsday machine, its just a automated mechanisim for retaliation after a US nuclear attack. Neither the US or Russia's military aersenal is designed to be a Doomsday device. They are designed to accurately hit remote targets. While wiping out all life on earth as a result of 10k+ nuclear devices being detonated, it is far from the goal.
The real doomsday device is far more terrifying than the system described. It is quite easy for a country that has multistage thermonuclear devices to build a single weapon that could produce a yeild that could crack the mantle of the earth and destroy all life on the planet (along with a good portion of the planet). A thermonuclear device can have its yield boosted by basically dumping more hydrogen into a multistage fusion reaction, and hydrogen isn't hard to come by. The US and Russia built increasingly massive devices in the 60's arms race, so the technology has been around for quite awhile. If anything it is simpler than weponizing a device for tactical use, since nothing needs to be micronized and it doesn't have size or weight restrictions for delivery. There are likely quite a few countries in the 'nuclear club' that could build such a device.
If you want a good argument for keeping our nuclear weapon program, consider what will happen if/when a rouge country like N. Korea achieves this technology. You will want the option turn the entire country in to a crater with 100% fatalities and zero warning if it comes to that to keep the entire world from being destroyed.
You seem to be missing the point of the basic social contract in a free society. You are allowed to do anything you want, provided it does not infringe upon anther's rights to life, liberty, and a pursuit of hot chicks. Operating a motor vehicle is a privilege you are granted, but the implicit understanding is that you will operate it in such a manner that you don't put other people at risk. Your statement
It's not my job as a driver to keep idiots safe.
is incorrect. It is exactly your responsability to keep other people safe when you exercise your right to operate a motor vehicle. If I were to take a gun into a public place and start shooting at random, it wouldn't even begin to fly with a judge if I tried to claim that I had the right to fire wildly about, and it was other people's responsibility to not get shot.
Joking aside, if we found an exoplanet, with earthlike environment that would be completely amazing and would have interesting philosophical implications. If we found such a planet with life on it, that has profound implications. If we found a planet with roads and a city - civilisation, that has truly astonishing implications for our entire culture.
...And once we got over that momentous wonder and awe, we would have to go kill them.
Why would you have it on the 256th day and not the 255th day? Since most of the time you count from zero, you don't really see 256 on an 8 bit counter.
The real question is why are all these people getting bent out of shape over the 'commit acts of lust' contest?
Yeah, you are gay, bi, or just some sort of feminist who is offended by anything with a penis. Whatever. The contest is just asking for you to take a picture of yourself with a booth babe. That's it. Take a freaking picture.
Now, last time I checked, a lot of people take pictures of booth babes. in general, its a pretty acceptable practice (except in England, where cameras are only used by terrorists...) that has been going on for years. Now, you can complain that there isn't equal representation of 'booth beefcakes' (or whatever else you might want), but that really has nothing to do with EA's contest, does it? You might be a transgendered feminist lesbian hemaphrodite, all you have to do is stand next to a booth babe and have your picture taken. IS THAT REALLY SO AWFUL?
Pretty much anyone complaining about this PR campaign are idiots in my book.
I put my faith in SpaceX and places like China to put man into space. The US government has to many bean counters who won't risk losing a few beans.
interestingly enough, wasn't a lot of ship exploration of the new world done by private companies?
I suspect that once someone figures out how to make a quick buck with off world colonies, there will be off world colonies. Or, some religious nuts will decide that they have been persecuted enough, and become 'space pilgrims'.
If you have the swine flu, there's nothing your doctor can do for you;
Oh, but how would you know you had swine flu IF YOU DIDN'T GO SEE A DOCTOR? Swine flu? Possibly. Regular flu? hmmm. Food poisoning? Could be. Appendicitis? I dunno. e.coli? Guess we won't know unless we consult a FUCKING PROFESSIONAL.
I work in a subset of the public health field, and we're really fucking annoyed when we hear a bunch of well-meaning idiots telling people to go to their doctor for something that a doctor cannot possibly do anything about.
You sir, are a fucking tool.
If someone isn't feeling well, and they don't know why, they should go see a doctor. Doctors are well trained professionals who are aware of occupational hazards. If I were to extend your idiotic argument, someone with Ebola should really stay the hell away from a hospital, because they could infect and kill everyone there. Sure, the flu is untreatable, but a doctor can diagnose the severity and risk it presents to a patient. They can prescribe drugs and hospital treatment if it is life threatening. They can call the CDC and institute quarantine measures if it is the next 'black plague'.
Why don't you just leave the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses to people who actually know what the hell they are doing.
Even more immediately, Peter Jackson made Rings which is damn close to perfect,
*cough* *hack* *choke*
LoTR was craptacular. Now, I'll admit I was enchanted at first, but it doesn't stand up once you get over the initial, 'Gee whiz, 200 bajillion dollars buys some cool CGI' phase. It is one of the greatest fantasy movies ever made, but that's not a very high bar to get over.
He took an epic story and made it into a average movie. Only averag because of countless crap like:
Nazguls screaming at 200db in Fellowship to make them more 'frightening'.
Dwarf tossing jokes. Sure, humor keeps the films light, but is this the fucking best he could do?
The bridge collapse scene. Because just being chased by a balrog isn't exciting enough.
Sam and Frodo making a extra side trip at the end of TTT.
Orcs with ASPLOSIVES in TTT? WTF?
Elvish shield surfing?
Legolas pretending to be luke skywalker battling oilphants like AT-ATs?
LoTR didn't need Peter Jackoff's giving the script 'the hollywood touch' to make it exciting. He just made it look like yet another shitty hollywood action film. You could probably edit out a good hour of fluff like that from the trillogy, and only make it better
Any DRM will fail in the end. Why? Because all it takes is one person creating an identical product to a DRM'ed product without DRM, and they have just 'built a better mousetrap'. Implimenting DRM costs time and money, and isn't a 'feature' that an end user benefits from, so not doing something is a way of improving a product and lowering its cost.
God, you have way more testicular fortitude than I do. I barely could finish the first book it was so bad. It read like a bad LoTR derivative until about half way through the book it just plain started sucking. I cannot imagin what the remaining 10 books are like.
You're sending them there on a one trip for one reason and one reason only: saving money. You're not sending them to a new world with more people there and more people coming and food everywhere ripe for the picking. They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
Miserable by your definition. I am willing to bet you that there are more than a few people who might be willing to sign up for that trip. Just because you think the lifestyle that would be entailed by living on Mars is bad, doesn't make it so.
No sounds do not exist in space, even though many think it does.
Wrong. Sound is pressure waves that propagate through a medium. Space is not an absolute vacuum, just a very, very, very thin medium. So, sound would exist, but it would dissipate very quickly, and it would have to be VERY loud to be heard at any distance.
Yes, sound would not exist in space as you see it in the movies, but saying that it doesn't exist at all is just as inaccurate.
..but there is one problem. SW isn't science fiction, its fantasy (and possibly space opera to boot). A lot of the so called 'science fiction' stories that people love to bash for being utterly scientifically silly aren't actually sci-fi.
Regardless if you are maintaining a persistent connection via a non-HTTP protocol, or setting up a dual web servers to chatter back and forth, you are still missing the point.
This is yet another stupid patch for the fundamental design flaw of HTTP: I was never supposed to used to mimic a persistent connection. Why keep running through ever more complicated mazes, and just build a freakin browser that maintains a connection with the host? (rhetoric, I'm not really asking this as a question...)
if you want plain HTML, use a browser. If you want a TCP/IP connection, use a HTTP connection with AJAX, Java applets, server state, cookies, keep alive headers, hidden form values and viewstate to SIMULATE ONE...
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This will be awesome.
The first iteration will have everybody posing unmoderated, and anon. The 4chan guys will quickly demonstrate to Google the foolish error of it's ways.
The second iteration will allow moderation via some sort of community ranking or tagging. This will seem awesome until the spammers write bots to boost their spam postings to the top of the moderation heap. Google will be shamed again.
The third iteration will allow people to create accounts, and track their karma. Users will be able to filter out comments below a certain level, and moderate statements they disagree with as 'trolls'.
It then will be the perfect system.
Their results could mean that the group recieving the test vaccine came into contact with the virus 31.2% less.
No, you don't need to control their exposure. You can study the infection rate for the general population, and provided that your study group isn't unusually different from the general population (say, by being all sexually active gay men), you can expect a similar infection rate over time.
yes, there are potentially statistical deviations that could occur, but the larger the sample group and the more test that occur, the less likely this is. Go take some stats classes if you are curious about the methodology, but if they did the trial correctly your suggested interpretation is very unlikely.
Fortunately, that gives the the researchers plenty of time...
And its also ok, to have your US business with corporate headquarters in the caymans, because that isn't cheating the system, either.
You want to show us how patriotic you are, corporate America? Pay your fucking taxes like you are supposed to.
This isn't really a doomsday machine, its just a automated mechanisim for retaliation after a US nuclear attack. Neither the US or Russia's military aersenal is designed to be a Doomsday device. They are designed to accurately hit remote targets. While wiping out all life on earth as a result of 10k+ nuclear devices being detonated, it is far from the goal.
The real doomsday device is far more terrifying than the system described. It is quite easy for a country that has multistage thermonuclear devices to build a single weapon that could produce a yeild that could crack the mantle of the earth and destroy all life on the planet (along with a good portion of the planet). A thermonuclear device can have its yield boosted by basically dumping more hydrogen into a multistage fusion reaction, and hydrogen isn't hard to come by. The US and Russia built increasingly massive devices in the 60's arms race, so the technology has been around for quite awhile. If anything it is simpler than weponizing a device for tactical use, since nothing needs to be micronized and it doesn't have size or weight restrictions for delivery. There are likely quite a few countries in the 'nuclear club' that could build such a device.
If you want a good argument for keeping our nuclear weapon program, consider what will happen if/when a rouge country like N. Korea achieves this technology. You will want the option turn the entire country in to a crater with 100% fatalities and zero warning if it comes to that to keep the entire world from being destroyed.
You seem to be missing the point of the basic social contract in a free society. You are allowed to do anything you want, provided it does not infringe upon anther's rights to life, liberty, and a pursuit of hot chicks. Operating a motor vehicle is a privilege you are granted, but the implicit understanding is that you will operate it in such a manner that you don't put other people at risk. Your statement
It's not my job as a driver to keep idiots safe.
is incorrect. It is exactly your responsability to keep other people safe when you exercise your right to operate a motor vehicle. If I were to take a gun into a public place and start shooting at random, it wouldn't even begin to fly with a judge if I tried to claim that I had the right to fire wildly about, and it was other people's responsibility to not get shot.
Would it be in poor taste to use a recording of someone being hit by a car?
This is just natural selection at work...People who are blind aren't well adapted for an environment filled with quite electric motor equipped trucks.
Now if we only had a book to tell us how to use these unsecured cargo bays to get around the Galaxy...
Joking aside, if we found an exoplanet, with earthlike environment that would be completely amazing and would have interesting philosophical implications. If we found such a planet with life on it, that has profound implications. If we found a planet with roads and a city - civilisation, that has truly astonishing implications for our entire culture.
...And once we got over that momentous wonder and awe, we would have to go kill them.
Why would you have it on the 256th day and not the 255th day? Since most of the time you count from zero, you don't really see 256 on an 8 bit counter.
The real question is why are all these people getting bent out of shape over the 'commit acts of lust' contest?
Yeah, you are gay, bi, or just some sort of feminist who is offended by anything with a penis. Whatever. The contest is just asking for you to take a picture of yourself with a booth babe. That's it. Take a freaking picture.
Now, last time I checked, a lot of people take pictures of booth babes. in general, its a pretty acceptable practice (except in England, where cameras are only used by terrorists...) that has been going on for years. Now, you can complain that there isn't equal representation of 'booth beefcakes' (or whatever else you might want), but that really has nothing to do with EA's contest, does it? You might be a transgendered feminist lesbian hemaphrodite, all you have to do is stand next to a booth babe and have your picture taken. IS THAT REALLY SO AWFUL?
Pretty much anyone complaining about this PR campaign are idiots in my book.
I put my faith in SpaceX and places like China to put man into space. The US government has to many bean counters who won't risk losing a few beans.
interestingly enough, wasn't a lot of ship exploration of the new world done by private companies?
I suspect that once someone figures out how to make a quick buck with off world colonies, there will be off world colonies. Or, some religious nuts will decide that they have been persecuted enough, and become 'space pilgrims'.
If you have the swine flu, there's nothing your doctor can do for you;
Oh, but how would you know you had swine flu IF YOU DIDN'T GO SEE A DOCTOR? Swine flu? Possibly. Regular flu? hmmm. Food poisoning? Could be. Appendicitis? I dunno. e.coli? Guess we won't know unless we consult a FUCKING PROFESSIONAL.
I work in a subset of the public health field, and we're really fucking annoyed when we hear a bunch of well-meaning idiots telling people to go to their doctor for something that a doctor cannot possibly do anything about.
You sir, are a fucking tool.
If someone isn't feeling well, and they don't know why, they should go see a doctor. Doctors are well trained professionals who are aware of occupational hazards. If I were to extend your idiotic argument, someone with Ebola should really stay the hell away from a hospital, because they could infect and kill everyone there. Sure, the flu is untreatable, but a doctor can diagnose the severity and risk it presents to a patient. They can prescribe drugs and hospital treatment if it is life threatening. They can call the CDC and institute quarantine measures if it is the next 'black plague'.
Why don't you just leave the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses to people who actually know what the hell they are doing.
Even more immediately, Peter Jackson made Rings which is damn close to perfect,
*cough* *hack* *choke* LoTR was craptacular. Now, I'll admit I was enchanted at first, but it doesn't stand up once you get over the initial, 'Gee whiz, 200 bajillion dollars buys some cool CGI' phase. It is one of the greatest fantasy movies ever made, but that's not a very high bar to get over.
He took an epic story and made it into a average movie. Only averag because of countless crap like:
Nazguls screaming at 200db in Fellowship to make them more 'frightening'.
Dwarf tossing jokes. Sure, humor keeps the films light, but is this the fucking best he could do?
The bridge collapse scene. Because just being chased by a balrog isn't exciting enough.
Sam and Frodo making a extra side trip at the end of TTT.
Orcs with ASPLOSIVES in TTT? WTF?
Elvish shield surfing?
Legolas pretending to be luke skywalker battling oilphants like AT-ATs?
LoTR didn't need Peter Jackoff's giving the script 'the hollywood touch' to make it exciting. He just made it look like yet another shitty hollywood action film. You could probably edit out a good hour of fluff like that from the trillogy, and only make it better
They are still bitter that C64 games were better than Apple ][e games back in the day...
Any DRM will fail in the end. Why? Because all it takes is one person creating an identical product to a DRM'ed product without DRM, and they have just 'built a better mousetrap'. Implimenting DRM costs time and money, and isn't a 'feature' that an end user benefits from, so not doing something is a way of improving a product and lowering its cost.
God, you have way more testicular fortitude than I do. I barely could finish the first book it was so bad. It read like a bad LoTR derivative until about half way through the book it just plain started sucking. I cannot imagin what the remaining 10 books are like.
You're sending them there on a one trip for one reason and one reason only: saving money. You're not sending them to a new world with more people there and more people coming and food everywhere ripe for the picking. They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
Miserable by your definition. I am willing to bet you that there are more than a few people who might be willing to sign up for that trip. Just because you think the lifestyle that would be entailed by living on Mars is bad, doesn't make it so.
No sounds do not exist in space, even though many think it does.
Wrong. Sound is pressure waves that propagate through a medium. Space is not an absolute vacuum, just a very, very, very thin medium. So, sound would exist, but it would dissipate very quickly, and it would have to be VERY loud to be heard at any distance.
Yes, sound would not exist in space as you see it in the movies, but saying that it doesn't exist at all is just as inaccurate.
..but there is one problem. SW isn't science fiction, its fantasy (and possibly space opera to boot). A lot of the so called 'science fiction' stories that people love to bash for being utterly scientifically silly aren't actually sci-fi.
Regardless if you are maintaining a persistent connection via a non-HTTP protocol, or setting up a dual web servers to chatter back and forth, you are still missing the point.
This is yet another stupid patch for the fundamental design flaw of HTTP: I was never supposed to used to mimic a persistent connection. Why keep running through ever more complicated mazes, and just build a freakin browser that maintains a connection with the host? (rhetoric, I'm not really asking this as a question...)
if you want plain HTML, use a browser. If you want a TCP/IP connection, use a HTTP connection with AJAX, Java applets, server state, cookies, keep alive headers, hidden form values and viewstate to SIMULATE ONE...
I wonder what "essence of G-string" levels respective countries have on their smallest denominational bills?
Thanks, now I will be wondering what "Essence of stripper schlong" my 1's have...shudder
This my just be a wild coincidence, but isn't 90% about the market share that Microsoft has for desktop OS installation? Hmmm...