If you grow orchids from seeds, you need to have a laboratory setup because the seeds are microscopic and difficult to propagate. You need stuff like an autoclave to sterilize your tools and agar as a growing medium. Sales of some of the tools you need, like flasks in which to start the seedlings, are being restricted now according to the article. I know other people, myself included, who grow orchids in semi-hydroponic media. All perfectly innocent and harmless uses of these materials. I worry that thanks to people who grow other, less innocent plants using these methods, gardening and having houseplants are soon going to be considered criminal activities.
This gives me an idea: grow orchids in your basement, but be really sloppy - let people see the lights and call the cops. After the cops know you by name and stop asking to see the orchids (perhaps the neighbors got bored), convert part of the basement to other plant life. You're still selling lots of orchids, and everybody knows you're the orchid guy, so no problem.
Is if fraud when hard drive companies sell you a "250GB" HDD? It's the same thing here, you pick the description that makes you look the best.
Not here - they now state that they measure GB as 10^9 rather than the more common 2^30 at the time. In this case, it'd be reasonable if you commonly got 80-90% of the top speed, but not if it's always half.
My cable connection (Comcast) is the same, and specifically includes a disclaimer that no guarantee is made that I will actually receive the rated throughput.
Doesn't matter. If they never give you the speed you pay for, it's fraud. Otherwise, why wouldn't they sell you 12M internet?
And then you claim that girls should be responsible for condoms, to the point of forcibly wrapping their partner's meat? (At least, that's how it reads...) Give. Me. A. Break. If a guy isn't mature enough to protect both himself and his partner, he shouldn't be having sex. Period.
Here's where you miss the boat. A girl should forcibly wrap her partner's meat because she's the one that can get pregnant. If the guy is a dirtbag, then she gets the consequences, so she has a rather large stake in the matter.
Personally, I have spoken with one neocon named Hugh over in Fairfax, Va. I try to avoid them normally, as they mostly spew talking points and never listen to dissenting opinions, but this one I did meet. I also lurk on fark.com, and every time someone posts a story about protestors being arrested for not being in a free speech zone or some such crap, somebody spews about consequences, like it's ok to arrest someone for protesting. They're usually neocons, too.
Then why is it that whenever I drive past the Tulalip casino, the parking lot is half empty, but the larger parking lot for the outlet mall next door is packed?
I like how the article talks about the hallowed right to spout off without reprisal, while every neocon I've talked to says that getting arrested for booing the president is accepting the consequences of your speech.
Sadly, it isn't sounding so unusual, but damn, that seems VERY fucking cruel.
Unusual in this context refers to the relation between the crime and its punishment - unusually harsh punishments are illegal, like, for instance, sentencing a 6 year old to prison for kicking her teacher.
Sorry kid but when you put fireworks off inside you are either mentally retarded or criminally insane or trying to start a fire. In any case you belong in jail for live or on the chair.
It was the last Great White show (ever, I would imagine) - the pyro was deliberate, but buring down the club with everyone locked inside was accidental.
If you remove their economic incentive and put control of research into the hands of bureaucrats and politicians you could be looking at a disaster in the making. Why mess with success?
Because it's screwing a lot of people. How about giving the pharma companies 5 years, more or less to sell their wonder drug (when funded by gov't cash), then open it to everyone? It's not like we should be paying for the drug twice.
Everyone's favourite Evil MegaCorps open offices in Sweden to take advantage of the bonanza, rip of the Linux kernel and sell it for money because the free versions have presumably vanished in a puff of logic, and besides which they can rely on Sweden's newly repealed IP laws to protect their own closed source kernel and... you know, that doesn't sound right somehow.
Yeah, they want a 5 year term, it would only be valid in Sweden (not terribly big), and who's going to buy a copy of linux for $100 when they can buy one for $10 and copy it as much as they like? Besides, what's the market value of an OS by itself? PRetty damn low.
Yeah, where would we all be if George Lucas "couldn't" make Star Wars 4, 5, 6 (or ep 1, 2, 3 - whatever). What a cultural travesty! Or if Sylvester Stallone "couldn't" make Rocky 6 (currently in production). Perhaps they'd get off their ass and have another original idea.
Sure he could. Just trademark Luke, Leia and Rocky and you're done - "ADRIAN! Use the Force!"
Let's try an MBTF of 50k hours. That gives us a 0.002% chance of failure per hour. Take 0.99998 to the seventh, and we get 0.9998600084... Or "seven times as likely", accurate to better than one part in a thousand.
I can't explain that. If I had to guess I'd say that high end drives sacrifice reliability for performance and/or the usage patterns pushes them far beyond their designed parameters.
I can offer pointers, but the seagate drives are by design within their specs.
Heat: most drive failures are from heat
systemic failure - if one drive from a batch fails, then another from that batch is more likely to fail.
It's a nice theory but, if the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition as I assume you're suggesting, then that raises other hard questions such as "Where were the explosive charges which should have been attached to exposed structural elements that are normally covered?" and "How were the charges triggered, given that there have been no reports of unusual cables running through the building, nor of any likely radio-controlled detonation signal?"
First you have to evaluate the reports of squibs immediately preceding the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 and the near freefall speed of its collapse (especially the top floors). If you can't find alternate explanations, then the question is not 'were there explosive charges set in WTC 1 and 2' as I assume you are asking, but 'how did they do it?'.
Seriously, though, you're saying that the good of the individual should be sacrificed for the good of the majority.
No I'm not. I'm saying that civil liberties are more important than any one man. That means that curtailing them in the name of safety is a bankrupt position.
Patriotism, Nationalism, etc. I like 'em jsut fine, but they also have nothing to do with civil rights (beyond being necessary to maintain them, of course).
They have quite a bit to do with each other - Nationalists have the tendency to identify a group that is 'unpatriotic' and thus unworthy of protections.
today's weapons of mass destruction have in practice never been used by terrorists, and have only been used against civilians on a handful of occasions.
Specifically, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden. Anything else pales to insignifigance.
So let's bury our head in the sand while people who want to ram planes into buildings fly into our country?
No, let's stand up and wave our middle fingers around. Ramming a plane into a building is not an effective attack vector anymore. It never was that effective anyway - you only really kill one planeload of people plus some more from smoke inhalation, unless it's a really small building.
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Do you really believe that the weight, and ability to operate by hand, are enough to mean that the weapon is acceptable for general ownership?
Well, yes, I do have that right. Practically speaking, rifles aren't very useful for armed insurrection, but explosives work great.
If you grow orchids from seeds, you need to have a laboratory setup because the seeds are microscopic and difficult to propagate. You need stuff like an autoclave to sterilize your tools and agar as a growing medium. Sales of some of the tools you need, like flasks in which to start the seedlings, are being restricted now according to the article. I know other people, myself included, who grow orchids in semi-hydroponic media. All perfectly innocent and harmless uses of these materials. I worry that thanks to people who grow other, less innocent plants using these methods, gardening and having houseplants are soon going to be considered criminal activities.
This gives me an idea: grow orchids in your basement, but be really sloppy - let people see the lights and call the cops. After the cops know you by name and stop asking to see the orchids (perhaps the neighbors got bored), convert part of the basement to other plant life. You're still selling lots of orchids, and everybody knows you're the orchid guy, so no problem.
Is if fraud when hard drive companies sell you a "250GB" HDD? It's the same thing here, you pick the description that makes you look the best.
Not here - they now state that they measure GB as 10^9 rather than the more common 2^30 at the time. In this case, it'd be reasonable if you commonly got 80-90% of the top speed, but not if it's always half.
My cable connection (Comcast) is the same, and specifically includes a disclaimer that no guarantee is made that I will actually receive the rated throughput.
Doesn't matter. If they never give you the speed you pay for, it's fraud. Otherwise, why wouldn't they sell you 12M internet?
The disaster was that this apparently happened again in 1981.
of course, Microsoft Windows.
No, these are Engineering disasters. I'm not sure what Windows is, but it ain't engineering.
he fact that it didn't just explode in a 100 Megaton fissile explosion should be counted as a miracle.
You know, it's actually very hard to make something like that happen - even the Tsar bomb only managed half that.
How the hell did this get modded up? It's obvious that the GP is being sarcastic - nobody can be so stupid as to think gravity will fail.
And then you claim that girls should be responsible for condoms, to the point of forcibly wrapping their partner's meat? (At least, that's how it reads...) Give. Me. A. Break. If a guy isn't mature enough to protect both himself and his partner, he shouldn't be having sex. Period.
Here's where you miss the boat. A girl should forcibly wrap her partner's meat because she's the one that can get pregnant. If the guy is a dirtbag, then she gets the consequences, so she has a rather large stake in the matter.
Personally, I have spoken with one neocon named Hugh over in Fairfax, Va. I try to avoid them normally, as they mostly spew talking points and never listen to dissenting opinions, but this one I did meet. I also lurk on fark.com, and every time someone posts a story about protestors being arrested for not being in a free speech zone or some such crap, somebody spews about consequences, like it's ok to arrest someone for protesting. They're usually neocons, too.
Then why is it that whenever I drive past the Tulalip casino, the parking lot is half empty, but the larger parking lot for the outlet mall next door is packed?
I like how the article talks about the hallowed right to spout off without reprisal, while every neocon I've talked to says that getting arrested for booing the president is accepting the consequences of your speech.
Sadly, it isn't sounding so unusual, but damn, that seems VERY fucking cruel.
Unusual in this context refers to the relation between the crime and its punishment - unusually harsh punishments are illegal, like, for instance, sentencing a 6 year old to prison for kicking her teacher.
Sorry kid but when you put fireworks off inside you are either mentally retarded or criminally insane or trying to start a fire. In any case you belong in jail for live or on the chair.
It was the last Great White show (ever, I would imagine) - the pyro was deliberate, but buring down the club with everyone locked inside was accidental.
If you remove their economic incentive and put control of research into the hands of bureaucrats and politicians you could be looking at a disaster in the making. Why mess with success?
Because it's screwing a lot of people. How about giving the pharma companies 5 years, more or less to sell their wonder drug (when funded by gov't cash), then open it to everyone? It's not like we should be paying for the drug twice.
Everyone's favourite Evil MegaCorps open offices in Sweden to take advantage of the bonanza, rip of the Linux kernel and sell it for money because the free versions have presumably vanished in a puff of logic, and besides which they can rely on Sweden's newly repealed IP laws to protect their own closed source kernel and... you know, that doesn't sound right somehow.
Yeah, they want a 5 year term, it would only be valid in Sweden (not terribly big), and who's going to buy a copy of linux for $100 when they can buy one for $10 and copy it as much as they like? Besides, what's the market value of an OS by itself? PRetty damn low.
Yeah, where would we all be if George Lucas "couldn't" make Star Wars 4, 5, 6 (or ep 1, 2, 3 - whatever). What a cultural travesty! Or if Sylvester Stallone "couldn't" make Rocky 6 (currently in production). Perhaps they'd get off their ass and have another original idea.
Sure he could. Just trademark Luke, Leia and Rocky and you're done - "ADRIAN! Use the Force!"
Let's try an MBTF of 50k hours. That gives us a 0.002% chance of failure per hour. Take 0.99998 to the seventh, and we get 0.9998600084... Or "seven times as likely", accurate to better than one part in a thousand.
Looks closer to ten times as likely to me.
I can't explain that. If I had to guess I'd say that high end drives sacrifice reliability for performance and/or the usage patterns pushes them far beyond their designed parameters.
I can offer pointers, but the seagate drives are by design within their specs.
It's a nice theory but, if the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition as I assume you're suggesting, then that raises other hard questions such as "Where were the explosive charges which should have been attached to exposed structural elements that are normally covered?" and "How were the charges triggered, given that there have been no reports of unusual cables running through the building, nor of any likely radio-controlled detonation signal?"
First you have to evaluate the reports of squibs immediately preceding the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 and the near freefall speed of its collapse (especially the top floors). If you can't find alternate explanations, then the question is not 'were there explosive charges set in WTC 1 and 2' as I assume you are asking, but 'how did they do it?'.
Just one question: Sex or weightlifting?
Seriously, though, you're saying that the good of the individual should be sacrificed for the good of the majority.
No I'm not. I'm saying that civil liberties are more important than any one man. That means that curtailing them in the name of safety is a bankrupt position.
Patriotism, Nationalism, etc. I like 'em jsut fine, but they also have nothing to do with civil rights (beyond being necessary to maintain them, of course).
They have quite a bit to do with each other - Nationalists have the tendency to identify a group that is 'unpatriotic' and thus unworthy of protections.
How about refusing to hire someone that sounds too North African? I'd riot for that.
today's weapons of mass destruction have in practice never been used by terrorists, and have only been used against civilians on a handful of occasions.
Specifically, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden. Anything else pales to insignifigance.
So let's bury our head in the sand while people who want to ram planes into buildings fly into our country?
No, let's stand up and wave our middle fingers around. Ramming a plane into a building is not an effective attack vector anymore. It never was that effective anyway - you only really kill one planeload of people plus some more from smoke inhalation, unless it's a really small building.