Right, because people couldn't navigate before there was GPS. And lets not forget that all soldiers learn how to navigate with a map and a compass in basic, and other school during their career give them refreshers. Even in the Navy they still navigate the old fashioned way, using GPS to verify their chart plotting. Same with the Air Force.
Yup a good EMP blast would knock out any GPS so map/compass is necessary
So the aliens are coming down to Earth from hundreds of light years away, and leaving hints in crop circles about what planets they are coming from instead of just saying hi?
It's either that or talk to the US President who's responsible for the deaths of 150,000 humans in Iraq, I wouldn't travel 100,000 light years to speak to a murderer.
I would first search the exoplanets pointed to by the most interesting crop circles from the global crop circles database why do the hard work when the aliens have done it for us, just draw a line from the centre of the Earth, through the crop circle to the appropriate starsystem
Im at city.ac.uk doing a C# evening course and most of the people there have at least 10 years experience coding for aerospace, private sector, mobile handsets, etc and all apart from me are having trouble in Lecture 2 out of 10 implementing bubblesort after being given the algorithm in pseudocode. Coding is a very rare skill, even given the garbage collection and stuff in c#
The number is overstated. It's in the 1-2 trillion dollar range. And putting money in a bank is more productive than buying gold or "investing" by buying stock. Stock purchase doesn't fund growth, R&D, expansion, or anything else (except in the rare case of IPOs and such). It just helps inflate the stock prices so people think there's a recovery on. If they sold all their stock and tossed it in a bank (so that the bank could make loans against it), then it would actually go to the things you state.
You're making some great posts such that if you were a woman I'd marry you, but you have made a slight error here. A corporation can print stock (like the US government printing dollars) people buy/sell this stock and if the stock goes up in value (lots of people buy it), this then allows the company to sell more stock, giving the company cash which they use to invest, and so on and so on. By buying a stock you are in effect voting for a company to print more stock, the company gets its hands on your cash indirectly via the stock exchange rather than directly from a bank.
And via the stock exchange the investors choose which companies to give their cash to.
It's well known the heroes and the noble people from school enter the fire service and military and doctors, passive introverted people join electronics and computing, people that say the right stuff in public end up in politics, leaving scum to enter the private sector and manage us introverted people that do electronics and computing
I've worked for one of the biggest IT companies in the USA, they actually call you "resource" from Microsoft Project, and they strip mine you like companies strip mine for minerals, it's the only way companies know how to operate. Everyone has their own agenda in a company, for many it's just pure greed and wanting to screw people over. Playground bullies have to end up somewhere, for all the bullies to be unemployed the unemployment rate would be around 25% so it isn't - you have to deal with those bullies at work, but usually at least they don't physically attack you but I've seen instances where they have and women have been raped at work but the managers covered it up.
how about having a huge chlorine bath under the sodium reactor, and if there's a reactor problem the barrier dividing the two is lowered resulting in radioactive NaCl being created?
If we take a look at an ADSL provider like Comcast you can see they operate with a profit margin of 20%, to maintain this amount of greed they must get us consumers to use the service as little as possible whilst charging us the highest rates.
Is global warming man made? Is it natural? Is it both? Don't know. Don't care. If it's man made it will be solved ONLY when its effects damage the bottom lines of the governments and large businesses the pump out most of the pollution
3) Damage - To apply the word damage means that something is out of norms. Consider the planet has been both hotter and colder then it is today...I say that no 'damage' has occurred...
Earth used to be a rock without an atmosphere a few billion years ago, do you believe it is right for humans to intervene if we were going back to that state? Would it be fun to turn Earth into a Venus with 400 Celsius temperatures, after all you'd get one hell of a suntan!
2) Irreversible - Once again, see above...the planet has been on both ends of the spectrium and, if you look out a window today, it has reversed
True but the existance of 6 billion humans on this planet is also reversible, especially because we need stable food supply and crops need stable climate. Servers need electricity, suppose all electricity in the USA was shut down - the entire grid including all backup generators, would the Internet survive? No, the Internet would die. Yes, the Internet would END, Google would go BANKRUPT, SLASHDOT.ORG would END, all posts would be DELETED. Affecting the climate is the same as sending a ten gigavolt power surge down the grid for 5 years, all servers would burn out in a few seconds. What if the grid randomly varied the voltage between 1 volt and 10 Gigavolts, no server or DNS server or DNS root server would survive.
1) Unnatural - What the hell gives them the right to decide what is natural or unnatural? Thew world has been MUCH MUCH hotter and MUCH MUCH colder then it is today. So where do you draw the line between natural and unnatural?
I would define unnatural as mass extinction. Would you like to try mass extinction? Go and live in the Sahara desert for 3 months, you'll be dead within a few hours.
Utterly incorrect. CO2 levels rising dramatically doesn't mean the percentage composition of CO2 in the atmosphere has changed by a large number. The atmosphere is still less than.5% CO2 today; even if it had started at 0% CO2, adding.5% concentration of something only half again as heavy (or dense, if you prefer; not that dense and heavy are synonyms but either way my point stands) as the vast majority of the atmosphere would not logically explain "the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years" without some serious synergy compounding the effect of that minimal impact on atmospheric density
You Sir are the one who is utterly incorrect, a quick search on wikipedia reveals that CO2 has increased from 300 to 400 - a 30% increase, the Earth's temperature is on average 273 Kelvin, meaning a 30% increase in warmth increases the temperature of the Earth by 100 degrees Celsius, in other words Carbon Dioxide is a very weak greenhouse gas, and it's causing all this damage already, showing how little the Earth needs the human race living on top of it at all. In the same way God is telling us that Jesus overturned the market stalls in the Church - is the human race willing to get together all countries in the world with no exceptions to warp capitalism into socialism by imposing aggressive carbon trading? Is the US economy God - do we fire nuclear weapons at countries that refuse to give us oil? If Obama's God is Capitalism, then is the human race really running the show? Is the human race in charge of its own destiny? Will all Americans, yes, 100% of the population drop tools and say "change capitalism!" what would it take? Americans don't have the guts to overthrow their government any more, just a nation of workers, burning oil till the day they die and nuking any country that gets in the way!
The logical conclusion should be, "disconnect security sensitive systems from the Internet, go back to the older ways of managing those systems and design more secure networks for those systems."
What keeps countries like India poor is the corrupt politicians. India can afford to build a nuclear arsenal but they can't manage to provide clean water to all of their people? That's India's fault and no-one elses'
Are you sure? The country has a GDP per capita of $7000 and even with a 50% tax rate that's $3500 per person, what on Earth could that buy? Nothing decent methinks, and certainly not that many nukes
Tesla theorised that unlimited amounts of power could be transmitted anywhere on earth, without wires and with virtually no loss of energy. It is not clear exactly how he intended to do this, but right up until the end of his life he maintained that it was quite possible and that he only needed sufficient funds to make it a reality
I've been to Tesla's museum in Serbia, Tesla theorised that extremely high voltage AC which alternates at Earth's resonant frequency could deliver electricity to the whole planet, but the Americans bombed it during World War Two because the Communist model of "electricity free for all to use" was incompatible with the American Capitalist model of "Restrict electricity to power lines and bill for it in proportion to use".
And it is true - who would pay for the consutruction of power stations a mile long? Only Ameriuca has that amount of money - so why should it provide electricity to the entire world for free? That's why the American government bombed it. CNN and all American news channels censor this fact, mod me down if you love Ruper Murdoch's censorship and the censorship of the American powers-that-be
Doctors do get personally invested. That is the problem. If there is one fact that can be stated to be true about doctors it is this: we are so stupidly invested emotionally, that we have allowed insurance companies to take over medicine and endured quietly while our patients vilify us
Don't worry about it, IT people get treated like cattle, and because of cognitive disonance they have to believe that everyone else gets treated the same way and works for the same reason. If you tell an IT worker that "If everybody wants money out of life instead of love and caring, then China will pay Obama $1billion in cash to fire US nukes at I dunoo some country, the laws of economics dictate that Obama being a selfish capitalist individual will take that money, fire the nukes at an innocent country, fly Air Force One to his new friends and live there for the rest of his life and split the money with the top military commanders that pushed the button with him. Ask an IT person why he doesn't do that and they'll become like robots "Money is God, work for.. err money is... errr if you're the President of the United States the laws of Capitalism no longer apply to you because errr.... are a different human because errr...." and their entire world would fall apart, for instance someone I know went up to an American and asked "What baseball team do you support?" He said "Oh I don't follow baseball" and the dude was like "Errr what the? I? Err but all Americans support baseball, errr are you sure you're an American, errr my beliefs about everything are errr wrong or something errrr."
Malpractice insurance only softens the blow. It's still a big deal, it's still stressful and it's still costly when a doctor gets hit with a malpractice suit.
There are many doctors that have had to claim on malpractice insurance, and once you do they don't generally reinsure you so your career is ended for life, I've heard of Doctors working in McDonalds.
In slashdot speak, would you open up a friend's computer and play with the graphics card without insurance if it was a million dollar graphics card? Hell no!
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
It's because the water's polluted with industrial waste producing PCBs for our motherboards, etc. drink it accidentally and you die, it's the same with the river Ganges in North India
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Right, because people couldn't navigate before there was GPS. And lets not forget that all soldiers learn how to navigate with a map and a compass in basic, and other school during their career give them refreshers. Even in the Navy they still navigate the old fashioned way, using GPS to verify their chart plotting. Same with the Air Force.
Yup a good EMP blast would knock out any GPS so map/compass is necessary
The plot would generate an arc through the sky
The aliens would probably expect us to be able to solved all trivial problems like that.
It's either that or talk to the US President who's responsible for the deaths of 150,000 humans in Iraq, I wouldn't travel 100,000 light years to speak to a murderer.
I would first search the exoplanets pointed to by the most interesting crop circles from the global crop circles database why do the hard work when the aliens have done it for us, just draw a line from the centre of the Earth, through the crop circle to the appropriate starsystem
Im at city.ac.uk doing a C# evening course and most of the people there have at least 10 years experience coding for aerospace, private sector, mobile handsets, etc and all apart from me are having trouble in Lecture 2 out of 10 implementing bubblesort after being given the algorithm in pseudocode. Coding is a very rare skill, even given the garbage collection and stuff in c#
Education is a system of programming our brain wiring and then testing our brain wiring (SATs), and life is the process of using our brain wiring
The number is overstated. It's in the 1-2 trillion dollar range. And putting money in a bank is more productive than buying gold or "investing" by buying stock. Stock purchase doesn't fund growth, R&D, expansion, or anything else (except in the rare case of IPOs and such). It just helps inflate the stock prices so people think there's a recovery on. If they sold all their stock and tossed it in a bank (so that the bank could make loans against it), then it would actually go to the things you state.
You're making some great posts such that if you were a woman I'd marry you, but you have made a slight error here. A corporation can print stock (like the US government printing dollars) people buy/sell this stock and if the stock goes up in value (lots of people buy it), this then allows the company to sell more stock, giving the company cash which they use to invest, and so on and so on. By buying a stock you are in effect voting for a company to print more stock, the company gets its hands on your cash indirectly via the stock exchange rather than directly from a bank. And via the stock exchange the investors choose which companies to give their cash to.
It's well known the heroes and the noble people from school enter the fire service and military and doctors, passive introverted people join electronics and computing, people that say the right stuff in public end up in politics, leaving scum to enter the private sector and manage us introverted people that do electronics and computing
I've worked for one of the biggest IT companies in the USA, they actually call you "resource" from Microsoft Project, and they strip mine you like companies strip mine for minerals, it's the only way companies know how to operate. Everyone has their own agenda in a company, for many it's just pure greed and wanting to screw people over. Playground bullies have to end up somewhere, for all the bullies to be unemployed the unemployment rate would be around 25% so it isn't - you have to deal with those bullies at work, but usually at least they don't physically attack you but I've seen instances where they have and women have been raped at work but the managers covered it up.
how about having a huge chlorine bath under the sodium reactor, and if there's a reactor problem the barrier dividing the two is lowered resulting in radioactive NaCl being created?
If we take a look at an ADSL provider like Comcast you can see they operate with a profit margin of 20%, to maintain this amount of greed they must get us consumers to use the service as little as possible whilst charging us the highest rates.
Symbian smartphones are 3 times more popular than iphones - source Apple has 14% marketshare and Symbian smartphones has 41% marketshare
Oh really, a five Celsius rise a few million years ago caused this mass extinction
... Or if the human race gets wiped out
Earth used to be a rock without an atmosphere a few billion years ago, do you believe it is right for humans to intervene if we were going back to that state? Would it be fun to turn Earth into a Venus with 400 Celsius temperatures, after all you'd get one hell of a suntan!
True but the existance of 6 billion humans on this planet is also reversible, especially because we need stable food supply and crops need stable climate. Servers need electricity, suppose all electricity in the USA was shut down - the entire grid including all backup generators, would the Internet survive? No, the Internet would die. Yes, the Internet would END, Google would go BANKRUPT, SLASHDOT.ORG would END, all posts would be DELETED. Affecting the climate is the same as sending a ten gigavolt power surge down the grid for 5 years, all servers would burn out in a few seconds. What if the grid randomly varied the voltage between 1 volt and 10 Gigavolts, no server or DNS server or DNS root server would survive.
I would define unnatural as mass extinction. Would you like to try mass extinction? Go and live in the Sahara desert for 3 months, you'll be dead within a few hours.
You Sir are the one who is utterly incorrect, a quick search on wikipedia reveals that CO2 has increased from 300 to 400 - a 30% increase, the Earth's temperature is on average 273 Kelvin, meaning a 30% increase in warmth increases the temperature of the Earth by 100 degrees Celsius, in other words Carbon Dioxide is a very weak greenhouse gas, and it's causing all this damage already, showing how little the Earth needs the human race living on top of it at all. In the same way God is telling us that Jesus overturned the market stalls in the Church - is the human race willing to get together all countries in the world with no exceptions to warp capitalism into socialism by imposing aggressive carbon trading? Is the US economy God - do we fire nuclear weapons at countries that refuse to give us oil? If Obama's God is Capitalism, then is the human race really running the show? Is the human race in charge of its own destiny? Will all Americans, yes, 100% of the population drop tools and say "change capitalism!" what would it take? Americans don't have the guts to overthrow their government any more, just a nation of workers, burning oil till the day they die and nuking any country that gets in the way!
It's gaining surface area because it's flowing faster, the Antarctic is self-destructing itself into the sea
Or it's equivalent:
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
Are you sure? The country has a GDP per capita of $7000 and even with a 50% tax rate that's $3500 per person, what on Earth could that buy? Nothing decent methinks, and certainly not that many nukes
I've been to Tesla's museum in Serbia, Tesla theorised that extremely high voltage AC which alternates at Earth's resonant frequency could deliver electricity to the whole planet, but the Americans bombed it during World War Two because the Communist model of "electricity free for all to use" was incompatible with the American Capitalist model of "Restrict electricity to power lines and bill for it in proportion to use".
And it is true - who would pay for the consutruction of power stations a mile long? Only Ameriuca has that amount of money - so why should it provide electricity to the entire world for free? That's why the American government bombed it. CNN and all American news channels censor this fact, mod me down if you love Ruper Murdoch's censorship and the censorship of the American powers-that-be
Don't worry about it, IT people get treated like cattle, and because of cognitive disonance they have to believe that everyone else gets treated the same way and works for the same reason. If you tell an IT worker that "If everybody wants money out of life instead of love and caring, then China will pay Obama $1billion in cash to fire US nukes at I dunoo some country, the laws of economics dictate that Obama being a selfish capitalist individual will take that money, fire the nukes at an innocent country, fly Air Force One to his new friends and live there for the rest of his life and split the money with the top military commanders that pushed the button with him. Ask an IT person why he doesn't do that and they'll become like robots "Money is God, work for.. err money is... errr if you're the President of the United States the laws of Capitalism no longer apply to you because errr.... are a different human because errr...." and their entire world would fall apart, for instance someone I know went up to an American and asked "What baseball team do you support?" He said "Oh I don't follow baseball" and the dude was like "Errr what the? I? Err but all Americans support baseball, errr are you sure you're an American, errr my beliefs about everything are errr wrong or something errrr."
There are many doctors that have had to claim on malpractice insurance, and once you do they don't generally reinsure you so your career is ended for life, I've heard of Doctors working in McDonalds.
In slashdot speak, would you open up a friend's computer and play with the graphics card without insurance if it was a million dollar graphics card? Hell no!
If you're in the UK, buy Maplin kits which consists of all the components you need to build the project you buy
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
It's because the water's polluted with industrial waste producing PCBs for our motherboards, etc. drink it accidentally and you die, it's the same with the river Ganges in North India