If this continues along the same path without change, at some point, a section of Brittan's population will become alienated enough from the government's activities that they will be willing to take up arms (IUDs?) against their oppressors. Enough strong arm tactics by the government trying to ferret out terrorists will create terrorists.
Also, it probably was very weak in heavier elements, so it would have been a very pure collection of hydrogen.
possibly, but it could have been a truly massive star. when the universe was much more dense, it would seem conceivable that much more massive stars could form than are seen now. I would imagine that a 100+ solar mass star would burn very fast and, being that massive, create heavier elements.
The Mailbox access rule gives the postal service exclusive access to the customer mailboxes. Your mailbox is federal property, and it would be criminal trespass, and a felony under federal law for any employee of a competitor to deposit mail in anyone's mailbox.
That particular law isn't there for preserve a monopoly, its there to let them really put a dent in anyone foolish enough to steal mail. (mail related crimes are usually a federal offense.) My father was a postmaster, and mail theft is a very real problem. Postal Inspectors are the USPS equivalent of the FBI, and you do not want to get on their bad side.
No 'cybers' where harmed during this attack, nor were any cybers assisting the attackers, so I don't think you can accurately call it a 'cyber attack'
More accurate would be to label it a 'boltcutter terrorisim'. We should move quickly to ban and outlaw bolt cutters, wire strippers and pen knives, since all could be used in future attacks of this sort.
Given that actively infiltrating another country's critical infrastructure and sabotaging it would be considered a provocative act of war by a good number of states, it seems unlikely that China would be eager to do this. Yes, they are communists, but they are not particularly eager to get in a big pissing match with the USA, when they seem to be doing so well selling us anything that isn't nailed down. It is possible that such an act is the action of a independent minded general or politburo functionary, but if it is, I expect that they will get slapped down. China gets no real benefit by provoking a major trade partner and heavily armed world power. They are doing quite well right now, and we aren't even really an enemy. Rivals perhaps, but there is nowhere the level of animosity between the US and China that there was between the US and the USSR in the 60s or 80s.
However, China has a number of slavering nationalistic hacker groups operating inside their borders. This seems like the sort of stunt they might pull. If they are responsible, and they blew the job, China will just round up a bunch of them and ship them off to inner Mongolia work camps as an object lesson to their peers. China might be willing to turn a blind eye to their activities while they are a nuisance, but they cannot allow rogue nationalist groups provoke international incidents. It is possible that they are working with the Chinese military, but that doesn't seem that likely, as any link revealed would be a major embarrassment to China and you are back to the same issue of risk vs. reward. States aren't generally eager to cut loose non-government entities to act on their behalf.
The unspoken reality at Microsoft is that there is a large minority of Mormons working in and around Microsoft. While something like caffeinated drinks can be overlooked, something as potent and mind-altering as alcohol is a spit in the face of the Mormon employees.
Wait, what are you smoking? There aren't that many Mormons in the Seattle or east side area on the whole, and nobody cares what they think about drinking. When I worked at MS, the Muslims had a more visible presence (they had a prayer room), and nobody cared about offending them when the Friday beer parties rolled around.
but in a silently ultra-religious state like WA
Again, Huh? For the most part, Washington pretty liberal in religious terms, but the few religious conservatives we have are not silent. Just ask MS about their good friend Rev Hutcherson and his famous anti-gay MS boycots.
I find it rather hard to believe that MS would cave to any religious group after the local PR fiasco that resulted in the whole Hutcherson affair.
Wait what? That sounds silly...when someone dies, all their organs become oxygen deprived when the circulatory system fails. If you rips someone's head off or suffocate them, the kidneys are going to end up in the exact same condition either way.
Hanging could only be worse than suffocation, since the body is decelerated abruptly. It would have the possibility of bruising soft tissue from the force.
Just out of curiosity, did you wear a little black burgler mask when you robbed a house? I was wondering if it was a union thing, or just a popular fad among the sticky fingered.
Perhaps this might be the thing to spark a true third-party movement in the USA?
Yes, the immense dissatisfaction that the american public has with the Obama presidency will spark off a independent party revolution, and both major parties will be shut out in the next round of elections. Either that, or a bunch of nerds on the Internet will just get pissed off over a relatively minor ruling on IP law.
Even if the voting laws magically changed overnight, Obama is going to have to screw up pretty badly to not be in Washington for the next eight years. The GOP is behaving like a pack of drooling idiots, and it doesn't look like they are going to shape up and get back in the game anytime soon.
If a third party is going to be created in the next few years, it isn't going to be dissatisfied Democrats, its going to be conservatives that are pissed off at the neocon fuckups that are alienating the voters. This will splinter the conservative base, and help keep Obama in office until 2016.
C and C++ are great languages, but 90% of programming positions need you to write can be done much faster and cleaner in C# or Java. C and C++ for grabbing stuff from databases is like using a bazooka to kill a roach.
Learn assembly to understand what is going on on the chip when code is being processed. Learn C++ to understand how the OS fits together. Learn VB because dumb ass 'programmers' who don't have comp sci degrees will write reams of code in this language, and you will end up having to fix them when they don't work properly.
(Yeah, I'm bitter. But I have yet to meet a programmer who works in VB willingly who doesn't suck...)
I worked at ChimpUSA in college (same shit, different company), and once of my co-workers with less than stellar morals managed to sell some lady a 1 year warranty on printer ink.
When the boss found out, he yelled at the guy, not for being a total slimeball, but because the woman could have probably come back and got free replacements for her 'defective' (re:empty) ink cartridges for the next year...
You should really not comment on a game you've obviously not played for more than 15 minutes.
main 80, w/ multiple 70+ alts, full t7.5 epics, 50+ mounts, 5k+ achievement points, 4500+ dps currently, cleared all heroic raid instances in WoTLC by December. Guild is #5 on server for progression, based on completion dates. Started raiding when MC, BWL, and Ony were progression raids.
Now, as I was saying dumbass, the writing in WoW sucks.
I have to take issue with this, WoW has little to no story. Now, there are volumes of drivel that have been published outside the game, but the game's ideas about plot are one paragraph quest descriptions. You can get the idea of a story, but angsty teenager poetry has more depth than the in game quests....
Strangely enough, i think this can work both ways.
I have worked as a software contractor for a few years, and I have seen some disfunctional companies. I have to agree with your practices, captain HR sqeakyclean, because I do the same to you.
The boss I work for, the CIO, even you, get the same treatment you give me. So, if you are having problems with talent passing on your critical positions, well...you gave us the idea. Cat's out of the bag, good luck.
To Slashdot: Yeah, I am sort of being ironic and cute turning the parent poster's idea around. But, really, do this. I have been called in for contracts where half the company is suing the other half, I have worked with religious right wing bigots, and I almost went to an interview with Infinnium labs before I found out about their craziness. As embarrassing as some photos of a drunken kegger might be for you, your employers probably have a whole lot more to hide than you do.
Actually, you are wrong. You are probably thinking of the first manned moon landing. The first unmanned ones stretched back a good decade before the first manned one, with dozens of attempts by the US and USSR. We sent a whole slew of stuff to the moon before we even tried to put a man up.
Also, computers have advanced just a tad since 1969, so I think that comparison might be a little out of date. For specific tasks, computers can out think humans by orders of magnitude.
I disagree. The amount of material you would have to ship to the moon to support an extended human visit would *far* exceed the cost to ship a small army of robots. And in the case of humans, you would still have to give them the tools to do the work.
Robots visited mars first for a reason, and they worked quite nicely. Manned space exploration is a romantic 20th century leftover. Until a whole slew of new technology is invented, robots are smaller, faster, cheaper, and safer.
Every mile of road we build takes a team of twenty people working at least a couple days. And it's crap work that nobody wants to do, and only a small subset of the population is physically capable OF doing -- which is why, regardless of how well it pays, there's going to remain a shortage.
I think you are missing the point. I really don't care what you advocate as a solution for road construction in Minnesota.
The article is about robots building things on the moon. Your initial post suggested that humans would be a better choice, and you attempted to back your thesis with examples from Minnesota, which although they are both composed primarily of cheese, bear no resemblance to each other from logistical standpoints. Therefore, I would suggest that your thesis is flawed, and should be discounted.
However, your above post is quite informational, and should/. post an article on Minnesota road construction, I would encourage you to repost it.
If there was any way to automate the process more than it already is, it would be done by now.
Do you have any concept of which you are speaking? Why on earth (lol) would you want to further automate road construction in Minnesota? Human labor on this planet is pretty cheap, even if it is unionized. When you have fly that labor to off word, hiring someone to scrub the great wall of china with a toothbrush is cheap in comparison.
Robots don't need air, food, or water. They can work for long periods of time in utterly hostile environments with little to no supervision. They don't get sick or bored. They can be mass produced. When you are done with them, they don't want to go home. And, they have yet to rise up and try to enslave humanity, which is more than we can say for humanity.
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If this continues along the same path without change, at some point, a section of Brittan's population will become alienated enough from the government's activities that they will be willing to take up arms (IUDs?) against their oppressors. Enough strong arm tactics by the government trying to ferret out terrorists will create terrorists.
Also, it probably was very weak in heavier elements, so it would have been a very pure collection of hydrogen.
possibly, but it could have been a truly massive star. when the universe was much more dense, it would seem conceivable that much more massive stars could form than are seen now. I would imagine that a 100+ solar mass star would burn very fast and, being that massive, create heavier elements.
The Mailbox access rule gives the postal service exclusive access to the customer mailboxes. Your mailbox is federal property, and it would be criminal trespass, and a felony under federal law for any employee of a competitor to deposit mail in anyone's mailbox.
That particular law isn't there for preserve a monopoly, its there to let them really put a dent in anyone foolish enough to steal mail. (mail related crimes are usually a federal offense.) My father was a postmaster, and mail theft is a very real problem. Postal Inspectors are the USPS equivalent of the FBI, and you do not want to get on their bad side.
...its called 'bit torrent', and it streams all sorts of games...
...I mean, how often can you tell that a web site will be utter crap before you even visit it simply based off the web host?
R.I.P., Geocities, the web just got 10% better...
No 'cybers' where harmed during this attack, nor were any cybers assisting the attackers, so I don't think you can accurately call it a 'cyber attack'
More accurate would be to label it a 'boltcutter terrorisim'. We should move quickly to ban and outlaw bolt cutters, wire strippers and pen knives, since all could be used in future attacks of this sort.
Given that actively infiltrating another country's critical infrastructure and sabotaging it would be considered a provocative act of war by a good number of states, it seems unlikely that China would be eager to do this. Yes, they are communists, but they are not particularly eager to get in a big pissing match with the USA, when they seem to be doing so well selling us anything that isn't nailed down. It is possible that such an act is the action of a independent minded general or politburo functionary, but if it is, I expect that they will get slapped down. China gets no real benefit by provoking a major trade partner and heavily armed world power. They are doing quite well right now, and we aren't even really an enemy. Rivals perhaps, but there is nowhere the level of animosity between the US and China that there was between the US and the USSR in the 60s or 80s.
However, China has a number of slavering nationalistic hacker groups operating inside their borders. This seems like the sort of stunt they might pull. If they are responsible, and they blew the job, China will just round up a bunch of them and ship them off to inner Mongolia work camps as an object lesson to their peers. China might be willing to turn a blind eye to their activities while they are a nuisance, but they cannot allow rogue nationalist groups provoke international incidents. It is possible that they are working with the Chinese military, but that doesn't seem that likely, as any link revealed would be a major embarrassment to China and you are back to the same issue of risk vs. reward. States aren't generally eager to cut loose non-government entities to act on their behalf.
Compare Indian pornography to Japanese, to Chinese, to European, to American, to South American, to African,
Ok, will do. Links please.
The unspoken reality at Microsoft is that there is a large minority of Mormons working in and around Microsoft. While something like caffeinated drinks can be overlooked, something as potent and mind-altering as alcohol is a spit in the face of the Mormon employees.
Wait, what are you smoking? There aren't that many Mormons in the Seattle or east side area on the whole, and nobody cares what they think about drinking. When I worked at MS, the Muslims had a more visible presence (they had a prayer room), and nobody cared about offending them when the Friday beer parties rolled around.
but in a silently ultra-religious state like WA
Again, Huh? For the most part, Washington pretty liberal in religious terms, but the few religious conservatives we have are not silent. Just ask MS about their good friend Rev Hutcherson and his famous anti-gay MS boycots.
I find it rather hard to believe that MS would cave to any religious group after the local PR fiasco that resulted in the whole Hutcherson affair.
Wait what? That sounds silly...when someone dies, all their organs become oxygen deprived when the circulatory system fails. If you rips someone's head off or suffocate them, the kidneys are going to end up in the exact same condition either way.
Hanging could only be worse than suffocation, since the body is decelerated abruptly. It would have the possibility of bruising soft tissue from the force.
Your argument makes no sense.
Just out of curiosity, did you wear a little black burgler mask when you robbed a house? I was wondering if it was a union thing, or just a popular fad among the sticky fingered.
Perhaps this might be the thing to spark a true third-party movement in the USA?
Yes, the immense dissatisfaction that the american public has with the Obama presidency will spark off a independent party revolution, and both major parties will be shut out in the next round of elections. Either that, or a bunch of nerds on the Internet will just get pissed off over a relatively minor ruling on IP law.
Even if the voting laws magically changed overnight, Obama is going to have to screw up pretty badly to not be in Washington for the next eight years. The GOP is behaving like a pack of drooling idiots, and it doesn't look like they are going to shape up and get back in the game anytime soon.
If a third party is going to be created in the next few years, it isn't going to be dissatisfied Democrats, its going to be conservatives that are pissed off at the neocon fuckups that are alienating the voters. This will splinter the conservative base, and help keep Obama in office until 2016.
C and C++ are great languages, but 90% of programming positions need you to write can be done much faster and cleaner in C# or Java. C and C++ for grabbing stuff from databases is like using a bazooka to kill a roach.
Learn assembly to understand what is going on on the chip when code is being processed. Learn C++ to understand how the OS fits together. Learn VB because dumb ass 'programmers' who don't have comp sci degrees will write reams of code in this language, and you will end up having to fix them when they don't work properly.
(Yeah, I'm bitter. But I have yet to meet a programmer who works in VB willingly who doesn't suck...)
I worked at ChimpUSA in college (same shit, different company), and once of my co-workers with less than stellar morals managed to sell some lady a 1 year warranty on printer ink.
When the boss found out, he yelled at the guy, not for being a total slimeball, but because the woman could have probably come back and got free replacements for her 'defective' (re:empty) ink cartridges for the next year...
If raising taxes is a method of fighting crime (it's not, but supposing it is) then why not raise taxes on the sale of knives ?
That is a damn good idea. And to stop rape, we should tax penises. By the pound.
You should really not comment on a game you've obviously not played for more than 15 minutes.
main 80, w/ multiple 70+ alts, full t7.5 epics, 50+ mounts, 5k+ achievement points, 4500+ dps currently, cleared all heroic raid instances in WoTLC by December. Guild is #5 on server for progression, based on completion dates. Started raiding when MC, BWL, and Ony were progression raids.
Now, as I was saying dumbass, the writing in WoW sucks.
Where I live, prostitution is a normal, regulated service industry.
So how is life in Washington, DC these days?
I have to take issue with this, WoW has little to no story. Now, there are volumes of drivel that have been published outside the game, but the game's ideas about plot are one paragraph quest descriptions. You can get the idea of a story, but angsty teenager poetry has more depth than the in game quests....
Strangely enough, i think this can work both ways.
I have worked as a software contractor for a few years, and I have seen some disfunctional companies. I have to agree with your practices, captain HR sqeakyclean, because I do the same to you.
The boss I work for, the CIO, even you, get the same treatment you give me. So, if you are having problems with talent passing on your critical positions, well...you gave us the idea. Cat's out of the bag, good luck.
To Slashdot: Yeah, I am sort of being ironic and cute turning the parent poster's idea around. But, really, do this. I have been called in for contracts where half the company is suing the other half, I have worked with religious right wing bigots, and I almost went to an interview with Infinnium labs before I found out about their craziness. As embarrassing as some photos of a drunken kegger might be for you, your employers probably have a whole lot more to hide than you do.
Actually, you are wrong. You are probably thinking of the first manned moon landing. The first unmanned ones stretched back a good decade before the first manned one, with dozens of attempts by the US and USSR. We sent a whole slew of stuff to the moon before we even tried to put a man up.
Also, computers have advanced just a tad since 1969, so I think that comparison might be a little out of date. For specific tasks, computers can out think humans by orders of magnitude.
go right ahead.
I disagree. The amount of material you would have to ship to the moon to support an extended human visit would *far* exceed the cost to ship a small army of robots. And in the case of humans, you would still have to give them the tools to do the work.
Robots visited mars first for a reason, and they worked quite nicely. Manned space exploration is a romantic 20th century leftover. Until a whole slew of new technology is invented, robots are smaller, faster, cheaper, and safer.
Every mile of road we build takes a team of twenty people working at least a couple days. And it's crap work that nobody wants to do, and only a small subset of the population is physically capable OF doing -- which is why, regardless of how well it pays, there's going to remain a shortage.
/. post an article on Minnesota road construction, I would encourage you to repost it.
I think you are missing the point. I really don't care what you advocate as a solution for road construction in Minnesota.
The article is about robots building things on the moon. Your initial post suggested that humans would be a better choice, and you attempted to back your thesis with examples from Minnesota, which although they are both composed primarily of cheese, bear no resemblance to each other from logistical standpoints. Therefore, I would suggest that your thesis is flawed, and should be discounted.
However, your above post is quite informational, and should
If there was any way to automate the process more than it already is, it would be done by now.
Do you have any concept of which you are speaking? Why on earth (lol) would you want to further automate road construction in Minnesota? Human labor on this planet is pretty cheap, even if it is unionized. When you have fly that labor to off word, hiring someone to scrub the great wall of china with a toothbrush is cheap in comparison.
Robots don't need air, food, or water. They can work for long periods of time in utterly hostile environments with little to no supervision. They don't get sick or bored. They can be mass produced. When you are done with them, they don't want to go home. And, they have yet to rise up and try to enslave humanity, which is more than we can say for humanity.
(Good thing I'm not American)
Moot point, we send someone to come get you. When has outmoded concepts like, 'borders' and 'sovereignty' stopped us before...