Thanks for convenience, but in this day and age we are really working to bring our energy efficiency up rather than waste any more. I would prefer a standard for DC, low voltage charges to become as widely accepted as one for electrical outlets. Hopefully, every car, airplane and coffee table will have one to use then.
I want a voucher to take my daughter to a non-religious private school with emphasis on overall personality and life skill development. Why should I subject her to all the bullies that can not be expelled because "education is for everyone"? Why should she spend so much time learning math and spelling - useless for me, even as a software developer, beyond calculating a 15% tip - and not fitness, leadership skills, world cultures, personal money management...? Why should she be subject to anal-retentive political correctness, demonized for occasionally cutting a class to go to beach, taught to suppress natural sexuality?
The thing is, I can not say that I want to raise my children according to my values and then deny the same opportunity to other parents. Let them teach their son that Earth is 6000 years old if they want. The next generation will be composed of people with different ideas about life rather than a bunch of mindless drones.
Fortunately, this time it's not really a law. No adult or teen will be punished for not fearing the Internet. In fact, that's perhaps how it should be - parents told about what can happen and then making sure their son knows where to find clean, safe porn sites rather than tubgirl. It does make me sad that Democrats - and Obama in particular, who I thought was decent otherwise - moved on from ending the war to wanting to control our private lives and morals so quickly. I guess that's about all I can expend from a guy who made me hand over my id and sign papers to get some cold medicine from Longs.
Just curious, if both of you think you might develop enough interest in other people to actually have a fling, why not have a more open relationship that still has boundaries (ok to have a fling, not ok to spend lots of time with other people)?
So basically all agricultural land should be dedicated to human crops and fertilized with chemicals? I would think there is a respectable place for grazing fields with a wild mix of plants and manure as fertilizer as well as fish ponds fed by algae.
Basically, if they find the Higgs boson, every particle physicist can go home and retire, as any possible non-theoretical work in our lifetimes (and possible, ever) will turn up absolutely nothing new.
So we already perfected the techniques for synthesizing every possible atomic nucleus, making and storing anti-matter, making energy from fusion, rocket engine accelerating propellent to relativistic speeds....?
Why do you think conventional farming is any better for environment? If tomatoes are not frost resistant, they would have to be planted over a bigger area to meet people's needs in case some are lost to frost. They would need more herbicide and pesticide use and more fertilizers to bring up crop volume in other ways. The resulting product, with nerve toxins designed to kill insects, may well be not nutritionally the same as a naturally grown tomato.
Clearly, the real solution is responsible family planning to bring world's population down to, say, 3 billion in a few generations. Then we can all eat organic food grown on a small portion of the land. But until then, I don't see genetic engineering as being any worse than pesticides or conventionally bread monocultures.
Why should any scientist hope that standard model will or will not turn out to be true? Nature doesn't care how many billions was spent on a new particle accelerator. Just be happy that we may have discovered something new and move on to a million things that we still don't understand, including much of what's happening on our own planet.
Do you suggest Gimp should alter a global system preference without explicit request from the user. The script icon is right next to application icon and most users are familiar with the concepts of mouse and focus. Is it a stretch for someone to put two and two together when they have problem with mouse not focusing on the desired window?
Your rant is the reason why usually programmers are not sent in Photoshop to draw icons and artwork. Designers do that.
Do you think each software product should either have ugly graphics or be institutionalized in a big company that can afford both a photoshop license and a dedicated graphics designer? Products created by small teams and by developers who understand more than one aspect of their operation are often time superior. For example, Adobe failed to create a logical feature set for software developers and other people who do not want to do graphics design full time.
What do you do with Photoshop to justify forking out two and a half grand? Do you think most people who need to draw icons or publish an artsy family newsletter can say the same?
What, should we ban helicopters next because you don't hold a pilots license?
No, we should just recognize that helicopters are not appropriate for most transportation (too expensive and too difficult to fly) and help the submitter of the article explore free or low cost alternatives such as walking, driving or "hosted" air travel.
Maybe it's good for people who "do graphics work a decent bit", but Photoshop absolutely sucks for programmers who want to draw some icons and artwork. Undo is limited to ridiculously low number of operations. Layer styles produce ridiculous results on common images and randomly refuse to work with different layer types. Simple things take forever to complete. Gimp still has a learning curve but also features logical design that appeals to programmers.
While this may be true in the literal sense, I doubt that sacrificing safety and emission standards is going to solve our environmental problems. Acid rain, for example, is not good for forests. And medical care of quadriplegic crash victims results in emission of a lot of greenhouse gases. In the meantime, I suspect that a big factor in gas mileage and even car weight is use of ridiculously oversized engines. UK models of BMW have 90HP, 4 cylinder engines. You could go lower even without a hybrid system as long as your goal is to go posted speed limit on highways and say 45MPH on hills. Perhaps some people are willing to lose 5 seconds when accelerating onto a highway in return for financial savings and good karma.
Take a look at US and UK BMW websites. The UK entry level model gets 40MPG, which is not much worse than our Prius. Living proof that we can double our car fuel efficiency NOW if we just stop being apathetic about it. And this is nothing compared to the impact of living in apartments and having a working Metro.
It was never a given that Cold War would stay cold. On many occasions, only dedicated people on both sides and lots of luck stopped full fledged nuclear strikes and counterstrikes that would be far worse than US and USSR during it out conventionally. Futhermore, all threat of MAD did is push the warfare to the territory of other countries, which was not exactly fair to Vietnam, Korea and Afganistan. Today, we have a situation where any bully with nuclear weapons - North Korea, Pakistan, China - can do whatever they please without being checked by international community.
Transmitting photons has nothing to do with transporters. It doesn't exceed speed of light or go through any opaque materials like starship hulls. But most importantly, it doesn't address the little problem of moving non-light particles or else assembling the exact copy at the destination.
Basically this is no different than sending a file over a fiber optic link, except that you get some additional hardware-based security.
Do I have to explain that the current US president and vice president have a pretty tenuous grasp on reality?
What happened to the lasers in space idea?
Same thing that happened to the idea of notebooks lasting a week on a single charge - lack of a suitable source of high capacity or high discharge rate power, especially if we don't want nuclear bombs in orbit (which will necessarily fall back down within a decade). A series research in fusion should be able to overcome this at least for military use, where you don't care about cost and efficiency.
that's why the US must deploy interceptors in Europe, instead of Japan, Taiwan, or South Korea.
The idea is to provide defense for all NATO members. The reality of course is that the technology to find and destroy missiles which are designed with interceptors in mind is not feasible at this moment. For example, there is nothing stopping the enemy from launching a large number of decoy missiles to overwhelm the defense system. If G.W.Bush thinks he can overcome a full fledged russian nuclear strike, he is even more of a nutcase than Putin.
something tells me that if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose
Hey, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan have or are developing nuclear weapons now and US is not doing anything against these relatively weak in military sense countries. Russia has a huge number of nuclear bombs which are not managed securely these days and US does nothing. I don't see deployment of a purely defensive technology even making it to CNN headlines.
I call Putin's bullshit. Defense is defense, it's not necessarily aimed against US. Iran and North Korea could come up with some primitive missiles in a few years. A mere defense mechanism doesn't "force" anyone to target nukes at a peaceful country.
It's the whole different matter that the missile shield is ineffective and a colossal waste of money.
Actually, I'll keep an open mind. Just show me some evidence - not necessarily videos - of AK-47s and the appropriate ammunition being produced today in Iraq, below the radar of new government and american troops making an effort to find and arrest troublemakers.
Let gun production grind to a halt due to patent issues. In fact, let RIAA lawyers join the fight to express solidarity of assholes worldwide. The point is, African child soldiers don't know how to make guns. Iraq doesn't have any manufacturing capacity for AK-47s or bombs. Someone has to make those guns and sell it to all those people. If that someone goes to jail for intellectual property violations, all the merrier.
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Thanks for convenience, but in this day and age we are really working to bring our energy efficiency up rather than waste any more. I would prefer a standard for DC, low voltage charges to become as widely accepted as one for electrical outlets. Hopefully, every car, airplane and coffee table will have one to use then.
I want a voucher to take my daughter to a non-religious private school with emphasis on overall personality and life skill development. Why should I subject her to all the bullies that can not be expelled because "education is for everyone"? Why should she spend so much time learning math and spelling - useless for me, even as a software developer, beyond calculating a 15% tip - and not fitness, leadership skills, world cultures, personal money management...? Why should she be subject to anal-retentive political correctness, demonized for occasionally cutting a class to go to beach, taught to suppress natural sexuality?
The thing is, I can not say that I want to raise my children according to my values and then deny the same opportunity to other parents. Let them teach their son that Earth is 6000 years old if they want. The next generation will be composed of people with different ideas about life rather than a bunch of mindless drones.
Fortunately, this time it's not really a law. No adult or teen will be punished for not fearing the Internet. In fact, that's perhaps how it should be - parents told about what can happen and then making sure their son knows where to find clean, safe porn sites rather than tubgirl. It does make me sad that Democrats - and Obama in particular, who I thought was decent otherwise - moved on from ending the war to wanting to control our private lives and morals so quickly. I guess that's about all I can expend from a guy who made me hand over my id and sign papers to get some cold medicine from Longs.
Just curious, if both of you think you might develop enough interest in other people to actually have a fling, why not have a more open relationship that still has boundaries (ok to have a fling, not ok to spend lots of time with other people)?
oh that and everybody should be vegetarian!
So basically all agricultural land should be dedicated to human crops and fertilized with chemicals? I would think there is a respectable place for grazing fields with a wild mix of plants and manure as fertilizer as well as fish ponds fed by algae.
Basically, if they find the Higgs boson, every particle physicist can go home and retire, as any possible non-theoretical work in our lifetimes (and possible, ever) will turn up absolutely nothing new.
So we already perfected the techniques for synthesizing every possible atomic nucleus, making and storing anti-matter, making energy from fusion, rocket engine accelerating propellent to relativistic speeds....?
Why do you think conventional farming is any better for environment? If tomatoes are not frost resistant, they would have to be planted over a bigger area to meet people's needs in case some are lost to frost. They would need more herbicide and pesticide use and more fertilizers to bring up crop volume in other ways. The resulting product, with nerve toxins designed to kill insects, may well be not nutritionally the same as a naturally grown tomato.
Clearly, the real solution is responsible family planning to bring world's population down to, say, 3 billion in a few generations. Then we can all eat organic food grown on a small portion of the land. But until then, I don't see genetic engineering as being any worse than pesticides or conventionally bread monocultures.
Why should any scientist hope that standard model will or will not turn out to be true? Nature doesn't care how many billions was spent on a new particle accelerator. Just be happy that we may have discovered something new and move on to a million things that we still don't understand, including much of what's happening on our own planet.
Do you suggest Gimp should alter a global system preference without explicit request from the user. The script icon is right next to application icon and most users are familiar with the concepts of mouse and focus. Is it a stretch for someone to put two and two together when they have problem with mouse not focusing on the desired window?
Your rant is the reason why usually programmers are not sent in Photoshop to draw icons and artwork. Designers do that.
Do you think each software product should either have ugly graphics or be institutionalized in a big company that can afford both a photoshop license and a dedicated graphics designer? Products created by small teams and by developers who understand more than one aspect of their operation are often time superior. For example, Adobe failed to create a logical feature set for software developers and other people who do not want to do graphics design full time.
What do you do with photoshop that justifies forking over $649 rather than googling for a Gimp solution?
You should have just ran "Focus on Mouse" AppleScript that comes in the root directory of Gimp.app DMG file.
What do you do with Photoshop to justify forking out two and a half grand? Do you think most people who need to draw icons or publish an artsy family newsletter can say the same?
What, should we ban helicopters next because you don't hold a pilots license?
No, we should just recognize that helicopters are not appropriate for most transportation (too expensive and too difficult to fly) and help the submitter of the article explore free or low cost alternatives such as walking, driving or "hosted" air travel.
Maybe it's good for people who "do graphics work a decent bit", but Photoshop absolutely sucks for programmers who want to draw some icons and artwork. Undo is limited to ridiculously low number of operations. Layer styles produce ridiculous results on common images and randomly refuse to work with different layer types. Simple things take forever to complete. Gimp still has a learning curve but also features logical design that appeals to programmers.
The one that doesn't support more than 8 bits per channel.
Oh yeah?
While this may be true in the literal sense, I doubt that sacrificing safety and emission standards is going to solve our environmental problems. Acid rain, for example, is not good for forests. And medical care of quadriplegic crash victims results in emission of a lot of greenhouse gases. In the meantime, I suspect that a big factor in gas mileage and even car weight is use of ridiculously oversized engines. UK models of BMW have 90HP, 4 cylinder engines. You could go lower even without a hybrid system as long as your goal is to go posted speed limit on highways and say 45MPH on hills. Perhaps some people are willing to lose 5 seconds when accelerating onto a highway in return for financial savings and good karma.
Take a look at US and UK BMW websites. The UK entry level model gets 40MPG, which is not much worse than our Prius. Living proof that we can double our car fuel efficiency NOW if we just stop being apathetic about it. And this is nothing compared to the impact of living in apartments and having a working Metro.
It was never a given that Cold War would stay cold. On many occasions, only dedicated people on both sides and lots of luck stopped full fledged nuclear strikes and counterstrikes that would be far worse than US and USSR during it out conventionally. Futhermore, all threat of MAD did is push the warfare to the territory of other countries, which was not exactly fair to Vietnam, Korea and Afganistan. Today, we have a situation where any bully with nuclear weapons - North Korea, Pakistan, China - can do whatever they please without being checked by international community.
Transmitting photons has nothing to do with transporters. It doesn't exceed speed of light or go through any opaque materials like starship hulls. But most importantly, it doesn't address the little problem of moving non-light particles or else assembling the exact copy at the destination.
Basically this is no different than sending a file over a fiber optic link, except that you get some additional hardware-based security.
Why did they go ahead with researching it then?
Do I have to explain that the current US president and vice president have a pretty tenuous grasp on reality?
What happened to the lasers in space idea?
Same thing that happened to the idea of notebooks lasting a week on a single charge - lack of a suitable source of high capacity or high discharge rate power, especially if we don't want nuclear bombs in orbit (which will necessarily fall back down within a decade). A series research in fusion should be able to overcome this at least for military use, where you don't care about cost and efficiency.
that's why the US must deploy interceptors in Europe, instead of Japan, Taiwan, or South Korea.
The idea is to provide defense for all NATO members. The reality of course is that the technology to find and destroy missiles which are designed with interceptors in mind is not feasible at this moment. For example, there is nothing stopping the enemy from launching a large number of decoy missiles to overwhelm the defense system. If G.W.Bush thinks he can overcome a full fledged russian nuclear strike, he is even more of a nutcase than Putin.
something tells me that if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose
Hey, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan have or are developing nuclear weapons now and US is not doing anything against these relatively weak in military sense countries. Russia has a huge number of nuclear bombs which are not managed securely these days and US does nothing. I don't see deployment of a purely defensive technology even making it to CNN headlines.
I call Putin's bullshit. Defense is defense, it's not necessarily aimed against US. Iran and North Korea could come up with some primitive missiles in a few years. A mere defense mechanism doesn't "force" anyone to target nukes at a peaceful country.
It's the whole different matter that the missile shield is ineffective and a colossal waste of money.
Actually, I'll keep an open mind. Just show me some evidence - not necessarily videos - of AK-47s and the appropriate ammunition being produced today in Iraq, below the radar of new government and american troops making an effort to find and arrest troublemakers.
Let gun production grind to a halt due to patent issues. In fact, let RIAA lawyers join the fight to express solidarity of assholes worldwide. The point is, African child soldiers don't know how to make guns. Iraq doesn't have any manufacturing capacity for AK-47s or bombs. Someone has to make those guns and sell it to all those people. If that someone goes to jail for intellectual property violations, all the merrier.