The reason the poachers are bold is because nobody has done the math. 6 billion monkeys on the planet = common. ~3k tigers left on the planet = rare. Perhaps they should start demonstrating that they value tigers more than monkeys.
Start guarding the park. anyone found inside for any reason without evidence of poaching will be killed on sight. People found poaching will be horribly public tortured for a month and then executed. Put severed heads on stakes around the borders of the park. Anyone found with tiger parts in the country will be immediately executed. Quite simply, they need to make entering the park seem like a automatic death sentence. Until they show a will to go farther than the poachers, they will lose and tigers will die.
'm not saying a Rorschach test is crap. I'm just explaining why I think it's probably crap.
No you are right, it IS crap. If it is simply a tool to help divine the subject's mood or mindset, why use ink blots at all? Why not just show them a mirror and ask them to describe themselves? Or a front page of a news paper? Or talk about the weather? Any number of 'tools' could allow a quack, er psychiatrist a way of opening a dialogue with a subject that is tangential to the topic of mental health. If the whole point of the 'test' is to communicate with them in an indirect fashion and observe their reactions, there are many way of doing it that don't involve what is a widely know trope. One might actually say that BECAUSE the 'test' is such a widely know cliche, you won't get a unguarded response from a subject and is therefore a worthless tool.
I have met a few psychiatrists over they years. I wouldn't trust one further than I could throw em.
A psychiatrist is sitting in the park, eating lunch. A duck lands next to his bench, and waits for a handout. After a few minutes of being ignored, he quacks loudly at the psychiatrist . The psychiatrist says, "yeah, but the money is good."
His modus operandi became evident when he ignored the highly voted Internet town hall topic of legalizing marijuana.
Or perhaps, he is just waiting for the right time to take up the topic. Just because he hasn't legalized weed in the first few months of his presidency does not mean he is ignoring the issue. Don't you suppose that, while anti-drug laws are pointless and archaic, they are SLIGHLTLY less important making sure that the economy doesn't implode further, getting out of the Iraq war, winning the Afghanistan war, Dealing with North Korean nuclear proliferation issues, and drafting national healthcare reform? Perhaps? Maybe?
I know a right wing nut who insists that Obama is a failure as a president because he hasn't SINGLE HANDEDLY FIXED THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLICATED ECONOMY in the world yet. Let's get some perspective here. There are only so many hours in the day, and only so much the president can do. Just because he hasn't willed weed laws away with sheer psychic might (remember the president can't draft laws, just stamp yes or no on it.) doesn't mean he is ignoring things.
I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense
Amen. I won't say that all the programmers in India suck, because that would be an inaccurate stereotype. However, I will say that The worst code I have ever seen from American programmers I have worked with was better than the best code that came back from Indian outsourced groups. I suspect that all the GOOD INDIAN PROGRAMMERS CAME TO AMERICA TO MAKE BETTER MONEY.
Why would you hire the leftovers? Really, you think that you can just get better quality by spending less? Really?
She is in essence, incapable of escaping poverty for her entire life. Every extra nickel she gets will be taken.
You know, taking every last thing a person has leaves you with someone who has nothing to lose. One of these days the RIAA's laywers are going to win a punitive suit against the wrong person, and I just hope that I am nowhere near the building the lawfirm is in when it happens.
It's the perfect storm of internet flamewars, completely immune to Godwin's Lawn!
Ignoring the other points you raised, didn't you just make it immune to Godwin's by mentioning Godwins? In effect isn't Godwin's just a case of Schodinger's cat, because you can't really discuss a thread's Godwin status in the thread without mentioning Godwin's, thus invoking the exception to the law?
I'm also not clear on what kind of radiation such a bubble would give off, but it's possible it would be intense enough to fry anything inside...
Also there isn't much talk about acceleration rates, which is for my money, a little more important that maximum speeds, since humans start dying in droves around 10gs...
Please just stop trying to justify yourself and just say, "I like free stuff, and since I can get it, I'm not paying!" At least it would be honest instead of hiding behind a thinly veiled curtain of "complaints."
Are they? Personally, I they are getting close to where I am considering paying for the stuff. You pretty much enumerated why I wouldn't buy digital music in your points. I don't think its rationalizing to tell the media companies what you don't like about their product.
While this might be a motivation thing, there is another point to be made: Kids that are getting money for grades are less likely to need to get jobs to buy all the junk they want. After school jobs might be good experience, but I suspect that focusing more on education might be better.
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is threatening to move Microsoft employees offshore if Congress enacts President Obama's plans to curb tax avoidance by US corporations.
Isn't this basically an admission that MS is Avoiding US taxes? If MS is paying their fair share, why would anything change anything for them financially if the government came down on companies that don't pay what they should?
'It makes US jobs more expensive,' complained billionaire Ballmer. 'We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the US as opposed to keeping them inside the US.'
That's fine. Get the fuck out of out of the US then, you cheap bastard. Then you can pay import taxes to sell MS products in the US. Either you are a US corporation and you pay your taxes, or you aren't and you get treated like any other foreign company.
Basically, the only way to know for sure is go back and see. Unfortunately this may well result in discovering that the human races first footprint on the moon was perfectly preserved until we trashed it finding out if it was there.
We don't have any optical telescopes powerful enough to just look at the landing site with enough resolution to be meaningful so the only way to see if the footprint is still there is go land and look. If we do that, it would be quite possible to destroy it in the process. If we cannot verify that it is still there, we have no way of knowing if we should prohibit people from going there to preserve it.
Gentlemen, Schrodinger's cat has left the box, and is currently living on the moon.
It's kind of the same as graffiti artists (vandals) spray painting their names all over the Grand Canyon.
...Since we aren't debating allowing people to literally 'tag up' the moon landing site, can I presume that by 'preserve' you agree with the article that people should be kept away from the sites?
I agree with your logic, we should also 'preserve' the Grand Canyon by prohibiting people from going within 100km of it.
(BTW, if I ever land on the moon, I will now have to violently suppress the urge to tag up the lander.)
Also: Without atmosphere, no turbulence. Additional protection.
True, but you also have weaker gravity, which will allow pressure from a rocket motor to have a greater effect than on earth. Also, debris will fly farther.
whether a footprint is going to disappear someday. It will
If it hasn't been already destroyed. Wasn't the photo of where he first stepped on the moon next to the lander? Wouldn't the lander module have toasted the ground around it when it fired it's engines up to re-enter lunar orbit?
Of course, what is the point of preserving a site that nobody can really go to anyway? Sure, if someone went there, they could 'ruin' the artifacts that remain, but who cares? It's not like anyone can visit the site and appreciate it. The best you could hope for would be to preserve it for future generations' camera equipped robotic lunar rovers.
[NOTE: If you need to google KSR, CAFC and section 101 before you respond to this post, that's a good clue that you're fighting a battle you don't understand]
This is teh Intarweb, since when do you have to know what you are talking about to share your opinion?
Give them pr0n. Everybody likes pr0n. EVERYBODY. They might pretend to be shocked or aghast, but they like it.
Now, the real social blunder to watch for is the type of pr0n you give people. You have to watch them very closely and get in their head to get this one right. You don't want to give grandma donkey pr0n when she is really into GILF on GILF action. If in doubt, get some orgy pr0n, since there is likely to be something in there that....titilates.
Here is why you would want it:
You have the ear of the president of the USA. You get to put down on your resume that you were the cyber-security czar.
Yeah, the very idea that a cyber-security czar has any control over US cyber-security is truly silly, but who knows. Your suggestions might get a few positive changes to be made, and in the event of a catastrophic cyber-security catastrophic event (like, terrorists flying virtual 747s into the virtual world trade center in Microsoft's flight simulator...) you can just resign and write a tell all book about how you were prevented from doing the right thing by idiots and red tape.
Everyday the local metropolitan newspaper (in my case the Boston Globe) provides coverage of dozens and dozens of events...
Do they? Or do they just buy a AP or Reuters story, chop it down to 2 paragraphs and print it? Because pretty much every story I see in newspapers is just rehashed AP news.
They might cover local news, but how much local news is truly 'news worthy'?
Agreed. Why should I care if the media as it exists now fails? Something will evolve to replace it that works. I'm sure that the 'messengers & criers guild' had similar meetings once the first printing presses started cranking out daily papers, why would this be any different? Of course the people with vested interests are having secret meetings. Their monopolies that they have worked to carve out are threatened.
Human technological advancement is a history of the 'new' dragging the 'old' out in the street and beating its brains out with a dull rock. It's always messy, and anyone tied to the 'old' never makes it easy.
can people recommend some backup programs? It should work on my GFs Vista desktop
If you are hoping to be able to re-create the scenario described in the article, you have nothing to worry about. Putting Vista on your girlfriend's computer has just insured that NOBODY will ever try to steal it...
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The reason the poachers are bold is because nobody has done the math. 6 billion monkeys on the planet = common. ~3k tigers left on the planet = rare. Perhaps they should start demonstrating that they value tigers more than monkeys.
Start guarding the park. anyone found inside for any reason without evidence of poaching will be killed on sight. People found poaching will be horribly public tortured for a month and then executed. Put severed heads on stakes around the borders of the park. Anyone found with tiger parts in the country will be immediately executed. Quite simply, they need to make entering the park seem like a automatic death sentence. Until they show a will to go farther than the poachers, they will lose and tigers will die.
'm not saying a Rorschach test is crap. I'm just explaining why I think it's probably crap.
No you are right, it IS crap. If it is simply a tool to help divine the subject's mood or mindset, why use ink blots at all? Why not just show them a mirror and ask them to describe themselves? Or a front page of a news paper? Or talk about the weather? Any number of 'tools' could allow a quack, er psychiatrist a way of opening a dialogue with a subject that is tangential to the topic of mental health. If the whole point of the 'test' is to communicate with them in an indirect fashion and observe their reactions, there are many way of doing it that don't involve what is a widely know trope. One might actually say that BECAUSE the 'test' is such a widely know cliche, you won't get a unguarded response from a subject and is therefore a worthless tool.
I have met a few psychiatrists over they years. I wouldn't trust one further than I could throw em.
A psychiatrist is sitting in the park, eating lunch. A duck lands next to his bench, and waits for a handout. After a few minutes of being ignored, he quacks loudly at the psychiatrist . The psychiatrist says, "yeah, but the money is good."
Modern psychology is rather different from psychology in the first part of the 20th century
Amen! For example, back then there was no '1' in the current century number.
Also, if Tom Cruse says psychiatry is quack medicine, it's good enough for me!
If you answer 'inkblot on paper' to all ten, are you obsessed with inkblots?
His modus operandi became evident when he ignored the highly voted Internet town hall topic of legalizing marijuana.
Or perhaps, he is just waiting for the right time to take up the topic. Just because he hasn't legalized weed in the first few months of his presidency does not mean he is ignoring the issue. Don't you suppose that, while anti-drug laws are pointless and archaic, they are SLIGHLTLY less important making sure that the economy doesn't implode further, getting out of the Iraq war, winning the Afghanistan war, Dealing with North Korean nuclear proliferation issues, and drafting national healthcare reform? Perhaps? Maybe?
I know a right wing nut who insists that Obama is a failure as a president because he hasn't SINGLE HANDEDLY FIXED THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLICATED ECONOMY in the world yet. Let's get some perspective here. There are only so many hours in the day, and only so much the president can do. Just because he hasn't willed weed laws away with sheer psychic might (remember the president can't draft laws, just stamp yes or no on it.) doesn't mean he is ignoring things.
I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense
Amen. I won't say that all the programmers in India suck, because that would be an inaccurate stereotype. However, I will say that The worst code I have ever seen from American programmers I have worked with was better than the best code that came back from Indian outsourced groups. I suspect that all the GOOD INDIAN PROGRAMMERS CAME TO AMERICA TO MAKE BETTER MONEY.
Why would you hire the leftovers? Really, you think that you can just get better quality by spending less? Really?
She is in essence, incapable of escaping poverty for her entire life. Every extra nickel she gets will be taken.
You know, taking every last thing a person has leaves you with someone who has nothing to lose. One of these days the RIAA's laywers are going to win a punitive suit against the wrong person, and I just hope that I am nowhere near the building the lawfirm is in when it happens.
It's the perfect storm of internet flamewars, completely immune to Godwin's Lawn!
Ignoring the other points you raised, didn't you just make it immune to Godwin's by mentioning Godwins? In effect isn't Godwin's just a case of Schodinger's cat, because you can't really discuss a thread's Godwin status in the thread without mentioning Godwin's, thus invoking the exception to the law?
Thanks for 'killing Godwin's cat', you nazi.
What's next?
I dunno, they will probably start tagging animals once they run out of people...
I'm also not clear on what kind of radiation such a bubble would give off, but it's possible it would be intense enough to fry anything inside...
Also there isn't much talk about acceleration rates, which is for my money, a little more important that maximum speeds, since humans start dying in droves around 10gs...
Please just stop trying to justify yourself and just say, "I like free stuff, and since I can get it, I'm not paying!" At least it would be honest instead of hiding behind a thinly veiled curtain of "complaints."
Are they? Personally, I they are getting close to where I am considering paying for the stuff. You pretty much enumerated why I wouldn't buy digital music in your points. I don't think its rationalizing to tell the media companies what you don't like about their product.
Forget the still suit, I'm trading my ticket for passage to Alderan for a used land speeder so I can become a moisture farmer!
Now, if I could only find a droid who speaks the binary language of moisture evaporators...
While this might be a motivation thing, there is another point to be made: Kids that are getting money for grades are less likely to need to get jobs to buy all the junk they want. After school jobs might be good experience, but I suspect that focusing more on education might be better.
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is threatening to move Microsoft employees offshore if Congress enacts President Obama's plans to curb tax avoidance by US corporations.
Isn't this basically an admission that MS is Avoiding US taxes? If MS is paying their fair share, why would anything change anything for them financially if the government came down on companies that don't pay what they should?
'It makes US jobs more expensive,' complained billionaire Ballmer. 'We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the US as opposed to keeping them inside the US.'
That's fine. Get the fuck out of out of the US then, you cheap bastard. Then you can pay import taxes to sell MS products in the US. Either you are a US corporation and you pay your taxes, or you aren't and you get treated like any other foreign company.
Basically, the only way to know for sure is go back and see. Unfortunately this may well result in discovering that the human races first footprint on the moon was perfectly preserved until we trashed it finding out if it was there.
We don't have any optical telescopes powerful enough to just look at the landing site with enough resolution to be meaningful so the only way to see if the footprint is still there is go land and look. If we do that, it would be quite possible to destroy it in the process. If we cannot verify that it is still there, we have no way of knowing if we should prohibit people from going there to preserve it.
Gentlemen, Schrodinger's cat has left the box, and is currently living on the moon.
It's kind of the same as graffiti artists (vandals) spray painting their names all over the Grand Canyon.
...Since we aren't debating allowing people to literally 'tag up' the moon landing site, can I presume that by 'preserve' you agree with the article that people should be kept away from the sites?
I agree with your logic, we should also 'preserve' the Grand Canyon by prohibiting people from going within 100km of it.
(BTW, if I ever land on the moon, I will now have to violently suppress the urge to tag up the lander.)
Also: Without atmosphere, no turbulence. Additional protection.
True, but you also have weaker gravity, which will allow pressure from a rocket motor to have a greater effect than on earth. Also, debris will fly farther.
whether a footprint is going to disappear someday. It will
If it hasn't been already destroyed. Wasn't the photo of where he first stepped on the moon next to the lander? Wouldn't the lander module have toasted the ground around it when it fired it's engines up to re-enter lunar orbit?
Of course, what is the point of preserving a site that nobody can really go to anyway? Sure, if someone went there, they could 'ruin' the artifacts that remain, but who cares? It's not like anyone can visit the site and appreciate it. The best you could hope for would be to preserve it for future generations' camera equipped robotic lunar rovers.
[NOTE: If you need to google KSR, CAFC and section 101 before you respond to this post, that's a good clue that you're fighting a battle you don't understand]
This is teh Intarweb, since when do you have to know what you are talking about to share your opinion?
Give them pr0n. Everybody likes pr0n. EVERYBODY. They might pretend to be shocked or aghast, but they like it.
Now, the real social blunder to watch for is the type of pr0n you give people. You have to watch them very closely and get in their head to get this one right. You don't want to give grandma donkey pr0n when she is really into GILF on GILF action. If in doubt, get some orgy pr0n, since there is likely to be something in there that....titilates.
Here is why you would want it: You have the ear of the president of the USA. You get to put down on your resume that you were the cyber-security czar.
Yeah, the very idea that a cyber-security czar has any control over US cyber-security is truly silly, but who knows. Your suggestions might get a few positive changes to be made, and in the event of a catastrophic cyber-security catastrophic event (like, terrorists flying virtual 747s into the virtual world trade center in Microsoft's flight simulator...) you can just resign and write a tell all book about how you were prevented from doing the right thing by idiots and red tape.
Everyday the local metropolitan newspaper (in my case the Boston Globe) provides coverage of dozens and dozens of events...
Do they? Or do they just buy a AP or Reuters story, chop it down to 2 paragraphs and print it? Because pretty much every story I see in newspapers is just rehashed AP news.
They might cover local news, but how much local news is truly 'news worthy'?
Agreed. Why should I care if the media as it exists now fails? Something will evolve to replace it that works. I'm sure that the 'messengers & criers guild' had similar meetings once the first printing presses started cranking out daily papers, why would this be any different? Of course the people with vested interests are having secret meetings. Their monopolies that they have worked to carve out are threatened.
Human technological advancement is a history of the 'new' dragging the 'old' out in the street and beating its brains out with a dull rock. It's always messy, and anyone tied to the 'old' never makes it easy.
can people recommend some backup programs? It should work on my GFs Vista desktop
If you are hoping to be able to re-create the scenario described in the article, you have nothing to worry about. Putting Vista on your girlfriend's computer has just insured that NOBODY will ever try to steal it...
And how many people failed to attend college because they, or their parents, gambled away the college fund?
But think of all the casino owner's children that got to go to college as a result.