"Every one of you needs to think back over what a mostly volunteer military has done for you over the last 100 years."
Point1: Yes, the US military has done a lot of good in the world in the past 100 years (since ww2, by my count, these are the few honorable, US-had-nothing-to-gain exercises of military power: Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia). But they've also done a lot of shitty things, too, that make people hate us even more. Massacres in Vietnam, training Bin Laden's ilk in Afghanistan, training contras in Central America (who then committed horrible attrocities), and to cap it off with Abu Graib, and current unpleasantness in Iraq (minor things like shooting captured soldiers). So before you start thumping your chest about how awesome (and infallible) the US military is, consider the examples above.
"The same people that sent 19 highjackers to the US want to bring shira law to the US. Under shira law the establishment of a religion is required of the government. Remeber they invented the janissary."
Point2: You go from Iraq to 19 highjackers in a span of one sentence. Iraq didn't send those people, they were Saudi Arabian nationals and an Afghan-based Bin Laden did. Iraq doesn't have anything to do with that. Sharia law in the US. Yes, after Bin Laden invades us with his mighty armies, we'll have sharia law here. Jesus H. Christ. Does everything have to be so dramatic and extreme an example? Sure, Bin Laden's crew wrecked two buildings, and killed 3000 of our people in the process. Then Bush sent another 2000+ of our soldiers to die to avenge that (not to mention another 10K+ maimings), killed tens of thousand of innocent Iraqis in the process... so who should really be afraid of whom here?
And what do jannissaries have to do with anything? You saying we'll be overrun by Bin Laden and his 200 million troops he's hiding somewhere, and then they'll make our children into Arab fighters? Do you understand how delusional that sounds?
One of my favorite quotes for people blindly believing in the market like you is: "... they believe that when the price is high enough, God will put more oil into the ground".
According to your theory, stock market crashes would never happen... Everything will slowly work itself out. Well you know what, it won't. When there are shortages, people stop being rational. See what happened with Katrina, when the supply contracted... Expecting a shortage, people mobbed the gas stations.
There is always going to be a base "oil demand". To fuel the heavy machinery (agricultural and otherwise), to produce plastic, to make medicine... We will never replace all the things that need oil in time to meet this curve... never. That means we'll have to sharply reduce our intake of the oil. Economic stagnation, slowdown, however you want to put it. And then our deficit is going to hit us. And then we're screwed.
Market forces indeed. Look at just cars: There are 500 million cars in the world. Global car production is 40 million, so even at current peak capacity (and those factories gob up oil too), it would take about 13 years of global car production to replace what we have now with non-oil guzzlers. That's presuming that people will have the money, each and every person driving a 10-year old chevy, to replace their car. If you don't presume that, to wean ourselves off of oil, I'm guessing at least 3x as long. 30+ years. At the increasing rate we're burning this stuff, people will either have to reduce their mobility (not work as much), or sacrifice essentials (food, lights, etc). And this is just a single oil-dependent item out there!
Supply is going to curve downwards. Demand is currenly an exponential curve upwards. What do you think will happen when they meet?
What if it was an early Rembrandt, before he invented or perfected this technique? Or if he went with something else he discovered later? If it's not done exactly to these multi-layer specs, and it's done by Rembrandt, is it not a masterpiece, would people not shell out million$ to own this piece of art?
Let's admit it, it's all about the name... Once somebody does something different, all his stuff is suddenly worth gob$.
I don't support Bush, but he's no better than Clinton or any President going back 3 generations...
Maybe his daddy, or the senile one before him... But you leave Clinton alone. The man was a freaking genius compared to Monkey Boy.
I get so angry when I read stuff like (and I paraphrase):... where Clinton arrived at decisions based on his thorough knowledge of the fact, Bush prefers to make decisions based on his gut feeling.
And somehow the articles always equate the two. THAT IS BULLSHIT! Bush is so underqualified for the office he makes Brownie look like Lex Luthor, a mastermind at work.
For ordinary people, life was getting much better while Clinton was in office. Clinton himself got out of the Oval Office almost penniless, if I remember correctly. He appointed competent people, and would actually talk to folks outside of his fucking frat circle.
REPEAT AFTER ME: Bush = idiot. Clinton = genius. Just listen to them speak, side by side. Hear the difference?
Had carpal tunnel for a while. Then as soon as switched to MS natural keyboard, the pain went away. Figured it was the angle of my hands vs the forearm... with a natural keyboard, it's flat, there's no angle, while with a standard kb, wrists are always laid back at an angle, especially if your elbows are on your desk.
So thanks Microsoft... your products can literally cure diseases!
Interesting idea, but I think baloons are a bit too flimsy for this kind of an operation. For one, these baloons would have be gi-normous. Looking at one of the articles has the baloons at 60 million cubic feet, (the biggest they've ever built) and a payload of 1500 pounds. Now imagine the size of teh baloon for an actual platform. They're also too fragile - as thick as sandwich paper.
No, I say we wait for the anti-gravity device that powers those star wars floating platforms... Then we go for it.
Yeah, you only have to do that if you're on a jury. If not, you're free to assume whatever you want. Like, yeah, OJ probably did kill Nicole, and yeah, Michael Jackson is an aging pervert who likes to molest boys.
I'm pretty sure I'm correct on both counts. Not only am I assuming they're guilty, I'm maintaining they're guilty after they were pronounced innocent of these charges. See how that works? It's called common "just look at 'em" sense.
Yeah, they need to work on Series 3 TiVo. Here's what they need to do: 1) HDTV support? A must these days. 2) Give us high speed networking - Gb ethernet... better yet, some sort of an exchangable network card (even proprietary is OK) for when we get something faster. 3) Faster CPU in it (menus are way too slow to react). 4) Bigger HDs 5) Better media options - make TiVo into a home media center. Right now, I cannot stream music from my desktop for more than a song or two, the connection just kinda dies... And no, I'm pretty sure it's not the network. Release good tools to install on PC's and Linii to drive these media centers if one wants.
Currently no option for steaming movies from the computers either. 6) Free file copying, unencrypted video each way, network TiVo.
TIVO, we're hoping for a lot this time around! Hey, I'm allowed to dream, am I not?
Whatever happens, good luck with them. Just wanted to say that in case my initial comments about breaking all their toys came off as too mean. Seriously, wish you all the best.
I'll tell you, it's a few minutes, give or take a minute. When they feel clean. Since when has this nation developed this exactness about the stupidest of tasks? Here, use this toothbrush, when it beeps your teeth are clean. Or - here, wear this underwear, when you hear little bells ring, that means it's dirty and you have exactly 5 minutes to dispose of it before the underwear police come!
If this is a true story that is sad indeed. Interesting how back in the day when our lives weren't that easy, we just didn't have the *time* to indulge like this... So here's what you do: get them out of the house one day, somehow. Then when they're gone, pay someone to come in and break all their toys. Smash the TVs and XBox's and entertainment, put it all in a big pile and take a nice watery crap on it.
Given that one doesn't have a job and the other is just making ends meet, maybe that'll rouse them from their sleepwalking lives... they certainly won't be able to replace their toys that quickly.
The time for a serious intervention like this is long past.
"If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid"
1) Depends on the body design. Prius still gets about 50mpg on a highway, due to its extreme aerodynamic body design. True, doesn't have jack to do with the hybrid part, but I just wanted to point out you can still make it work. 2) There's also something about the way the engine is constructed. It's only a 70HP or so gas engine, but the car gets excellent acceleration... I'm pretty sure on the highway both the gas and electric motors work.
First they came for my TV. But I didn't care much cause I had TiVo, and a lot of the programming was crap anyway.
Then they came for my games... outrageous in-game commercial placements, interrupting game play to see the latest offers in entertainment. But I didn't care too much because after the first 15 versions of Civ, the gameplay tends to blend together anyway.
Then I tried to go to the movies, but they took that away too. In-movie commercials, and quarter-time commercial breaks while they "change the digital reels upstairs". But I didn't care cause I've seen enough cars blow up to last me a lifetime. Even the Simpsons parody of that got old already.
Next was my cell phone. Every two minutes, my phone calls were interrupted by a 15-second product slogan. My cell phone Pacman turned into the Pepsi sign overnight. But I didn't care cause I hate phones anyway.
When all the indoor entertainment was taken away and I hate to face the daylight, they came for that too. Huge billboards sprung up everywhere, they started painting the roads with Ford logos, the traffic lights were hung from McDonald's arches, and no building was left untouched without a product placement (Informed Consumer Act of 2015). I had nowhere to go to escape.
Finally, when they came to tattoo corporate logos on my family, I could do nothing. I couldn't even call for help, for I had already tossed my cell phone.
Why take us such an all-or-nothing argument? You could own a car, but only fire it up when you need to (ie when hauling groceries or going to work with tools).
The rest of the time - if you have a quick way to bike to public transportation - you probably should. The issue right now is that such easy routes do not exist is many places. Even if you wanted to bike, you couldn't.
Read this story about a 2Gb RAM disk. I think this was tom's hardware site. They installed WinXP on it, and got a speedup of only a few seconds I believe (31 vs 35s). Apparently, there are a lot of initialization routines that run and apart from getting a super fast CPU and memory, it's not really the disk speed that's holding the boot times back by that much.
I have to say I agree with you as well as your parent poster. Taken by itself, one year of temperature readings don't mean much - *if temperature is all you're looking at*. However, as you've so noted, we know that there's a whole lot more CO2 in the air than there used to be.
It's not that global warming people start with the temperature and stay there. Like good scientists, they look at all the data, CO2 and other gas emissions, solar and volcanic activity, etc, etc, AND temperature readings. Higher temperatures than average are just one part of the proof, not all of it. All the data fits the puzzle.
Yeah, I know, the hull is black and the sails were white or some other color (red, blue, whatever they painted them). But the hull is constantly cooled by water splashing on it. It's also a relatively small target over a mile away (most of the hull is under water?).
The whole point of fire arrows and stuff like that is to set the sails and the upper deck on fire. Once that's burning, it's hard to keep rowing and ignore it.
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No by default, not as a part of the standard equipment. Sure, you can graft whatever you want on your console, but it's one of a kind and nobody codes for it. Games are made for the lowest common denominator, i.e. the standard controller.
That's why the PC games won't die... The ability to move the cursor mouse-like to any part of the screen (not just providing speed and direction for the cursor, but actually providing actual position) is almost essential for strategy and slower paced thinking games. You can make a much more complex game with a mouse than a controller.
There's also a windows version of colonization. You could pick it up in the $5 bin at Best Buy. Of course, you have to run the process in 95/98 emulation mode, but overall it's solid.
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"Every one of you needs to think back over what a mostly volunteer military has done for you over the last 100 years."
Point1: Yes, the US military has done a lot of good in the world in the past 100 years (since ww2, by my count, these are the few honorable, US-had-nothing-to-gain exercises of military power: Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia). But they've also done a lot of shitty things, too, that make people hate us even more. Massacres in Vietnam, training Bin Laden's ilk in Afghanistan, training contras in Central America (who then committed horrible attrocities), and to cap it off with Abu Graib, and current unpleasantness in Iraq (minor things like shooting captured soldiers).
So before you start thumping your chest about how awesome (and infallible) the US military is, consider the examples above.
"The same people that sent 19 highjackers to the US want to bring shira law to the US. Under shira law the establishment of a religion is required of the government. Remeber they invented the janissary."
Point2: You go from Iraq to 19 highjackers in a span of one sentence. Iraq didn't send those people, they were Saudi Arabian nationals and an Afghan-based Bin Laden did. Iraq doesn't have anything to do with that.
Sharia law in the US. Yes, after Bin Laden invades us with his mighty armies, we'll have sharia law here. Jesus H. Christ. Does everything have to be so dramatic and extreme an example?
Sure, Bin Laden's crew wrecked two buildings, and killed 3000 of our people in the process. Then Bush sent another 2000+ of our soldiers to die to avenge that (not to mention another 10K+ maimings), killed tens of thousand of innocent Iraqis in the process... so who should really be afraid of whom here?
And what do jannissaries have to do with anything? You saying we'll be overrun by Bin Laden and his 200 million troops he's hiding somewhere, and then they'll make our children into Arab fighters? Do you understand how delusional that sounds?
Let's make it the lifetime of the primary author. While you're alive, you can make money off of it.
What doesn't make sense is that Elvis, dead, made more money than 99% of the US, alive. That sucks.
One of my favorite quotes for people blindly believing in the market like you is:
"... they believe that when the price is high enough, God will put more oil into the ground".
According to your theory, stock market crashes would never happen... Everything will slowly work itself out. Well you know what, it won't. When there are shortages, people stop being rational. See what happened with Katrina, when the supply contracted... Expecting a shortage, people mobbed the gas stations.
There is always going to be a base "oil demand". To fuel the heavy machinery (agricultural and otherwise), to produce plastic, to make medicine... We will never replace all the things that need oil in time to meet this curve... never.
That means we'll have to sharply reduce our intake of the oil. Economic stagnation, slowdown, however you want to put it. And then our deficit is going to hit us. And then we're screwed.
Market forces indeed. Look at just cars:
There are 500 million cars in the world. Global car production is 40 million, so even at current peak capacity (and those factories gob up oil too), it would take about 13 years of global car production to replace what we have now with non-oil guzzlers. That's presuming that people will have the money, each and every person driving a 10-year old chevy, to replace their car. If you don't presume that, to wean ourselves off of oil, I'm guessing at least 3x as long. 30+ years. At the increasing rate we're burning this stuff, people will either have to reduce their mobility (not work as much), or sacrifice essentials (food, lights, etc).
And this is just a single oil-dependent item out there!
Supply is going to curve downwards. Demand is currenly an exponential curve upwards. What do you think will happen when they meet?
What if it was an early Rembrandt, before he invented or perfected this technique? Or if he went with something else he discovered later? If it's not done exactly to these multi-layer specs, and it's done by Rembrandt, is it not a masterpiece, would people not shell out million$ to own this piece of art?
Let's admit it, it's all about the name...
Once somebody does something different, all his stuff is suddenly worth gob$.
I don't support Bush, but he's no better than Clinton or any President going back 3 generations...
... where Clinton arrived at decisions based on his thorough knowledge of the fact, Bush prefers to make decisions based on his gut feeling.
Maybe his daddy, or the senile one before him... But you leave Clinton alone. The man was a freaking genius compared to Monkey Boy.
I get so angry when I read stuff like (and I paraphrase):
And somehow the articles always equate the two. THAT IS BULLSHIT! Bush is so underqualified for the office he makes Brownie look like Lex Luthor, a mastermind at work.
For ordinary people, life was getting much better while Clinton was in office. Clinton himself got out of the Oval Office almost penniless, if I remember correctly. He appointed competent people, and would actually talk to folks outside of his fucking frat circle.
REPEAT AFTER ME: Bush = idiot. Clinton = genius. Just listen to them speak, side by side. Hear the difference?
Had carpal tunnel for a while. Then as soon as switched to MS natural keyboard, the pain went away. Figured it was the angle of my hands vs the forearm... with a natural keyboard, it's flat, there's no angle, while with a standard kb, wrists are always laid back at an angle, especially if your elbows are on your desk.
So thanks Microsoft... your products can literally cure diseases!
All my code editors are set to black text on gray background. A beatiful 192 gray is just perfect.
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White text on black background? Still too big a contrast for me. I also have a huge flashback to DOS days
Interesting idea, but I think baloons are a bit too flimsy for this kind of an operation. For one, these baloons would have be gi-normous. Looking at one of the articles has the baloons at 60 million cubic feet, (the biggest they've ever built) and a payload of 1500 pounds. Now imagine the size of teh baloon for an actual platform. They're also too fragile - as thick as sandwich paper.
No, I say we wait for the anti-gravity device that powers those star wars floating platforms... Then we go for it.
Yeah, you only have to do that if you're on a jury. If not, you're free to assume whatever you want. Like, yeah, OJ probably did kill Nicole, and yeah, Michael Jackson is an aging pervert who likes to molest boys.
I'm pretty sure I'm correct on both counts. Not only am I assuming they're guilty, I'm maintaining they're guilty after they were pronounced innocent of these charges. See how that works? It's called common "just look at 'em" sense.
Yeah, they need to work on Series 3 TiVo. Here's what they need to do:
1) HDTV support? A must these days.
2) Give us high speed networking - Gb ethernet... better yet, some sort of an exchangable network card (even proprietary is OK) for when we get something faster.
3) Faster CPU in it (menus are way too slow to react).
4) Bigger HDs
5) Better media options - make TiVo into a home media center. Right now, I cannot stream music from my desktop for more than a song or two, the connection just kinda dies... And no, I'm pretty sure it's not the network. Release good tools to install on PC's and Linii to drive these media centers if one wants.
Currently no option for steaming movies from the computers either.
6) Free file copying, unencrypted video each way, network TiVo.
TIVO, we're hoping for a lot this time around!
Hey, I'm allowed to dream, am I not?
Whatever happens, good luck with them. Just wanted to say that in case my initial comments about breaking all their toys came off as too mean.
Seriously, wish you all the best.
This is exactly what I do. Then if you take out all the code, you're left with the pure intention of the entire function/method/block of code.
That way, you get the big picture... for the details, just look at the code.
CWFA: "You can't give it legal recognition because that would imply approval of it"
That's just the excuse. They're probably just old, ugly and bitter that noone's looking at them with anything resembling sexual interest.
"to know how long to brush their teeth"
I'll tell you, it's a few minutes, give or take a minute. When they feel clean. Since when has this nation developed this exactness about the stupidest of tasks? Here, use this toothbrush, when it beeps your teeth are clean.
Or - here, wear this underwear, when you hear little bells ring, that means it's dirty and you have exactly 5 minutes to dispose of it before the underwear police come!
If this is a true story that is sad indeed. Interesting how back in the day when our lives weren't that easy, we just didn't have the *time* to indulge like this...
So here's what you do: get them out of the house one day, somehow. Then when they're gone, pay someone to come in and break all their toys. Smash the TVs and XBox's and entertainment, put it all in a big pile and take a nice watery crap on it.
Given that one doesn't have a job and the other is just making ends meet, maybe that'll rouse them from their sleepwalking lives... they certainly won't be able to replace their toys that quickly.
The time for a serious intervention like this is long past.
"If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid"
1) Depends on the body design. Prius still gets about 50mpg on a highway, due to its extreme aerodynamic body design. True, doesn't have jack to do with the hybrid part, but I just wanted to point out you can still make it work.
2) There's also something about the way the engine is constructed. It's only a 70HP or so gas engine, but the car gets excellent acceleration... I'm pretty sure on the highway both the gas and electric motors work.
Ahhhh... just imagine, titties unhindered by the cruel pull of gravity...
First they came for my TV. But I didn't care much cause I had TiVo, and a lot of the programming was crap anyway.
Then they came for my games... outrageous in-game commercial placements, interrupting game play to see the latest offers in entertainment. But I didn't care too much because after the first 15 versions of Civ, the gameplay tends to blend together anyway.
Then I tried to go to the movies, but they took that away too. In-movie commercials, and quarter-time commercial breaks while they "change the digital reels upstairs". But I didn't care cause I've seen enough cars blow up to last me a lifetime. Even the Simpsons parody of that got old already.
Next was my cell phone. Every two minutes, my phone calls were interrupted by a 15-second product slogan. My cell phone Pacman turned into the Pepsi sign overnight. But I didn't care cause I hate phones anyway.
When all the indoor entertainment was taken away and I hate to face the daylight, they came for that too. Huge billboards sprung up everywhere, they started painting the roads with Ford logos, the traffic lights were hung from McDonald's arches, and no building was left untouched without a product placement (Informed Consumer Act of 2015). I had nowhere to go to escape.
Finally, when they came to tattoo corporate logos on my family, I could do nothing. I couldn't even call for help, for I had already tossed my cell phone.
Why take us such an all-or-nothing argument? You could own a car, but only fire it up when you need to (ie when hauling groceries or going to work with tools).
The rest of the time - if you have a quick way to bike to public transportation - you probably should. The issue right now is that such easy routes do not exist is many places. Even if you wanted to bike, you couldn't.
And that's the problem.
You do understand it's just going to tip off the bees where the soda actually is?
Read this story about a 2Gb RAM disk. I think this was tom's hardware site. They installed WinXP on it, and got a speedup of only a few seconds I believe (31 vs 35s). Apparently, there are a lot of initialization routines that run and apart from getting a super fast CPU and memory, it's not really the disk speed that's holding the boot times back by that much.
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RTFA here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/inde
I have to say I agree with you as well as your parent poster. Taken by itself, one year of temperature readings don't mean much - *if temperature is all you're looking at*. However, as you've so noted, we know that there's a whole lot more CO2 in the air than there used to be.
It's not that global warming people start with the temperature and stay there. Like good scientists, they look at all the data, CO2 and other gas emissions, solar and volcanic activity, etc, etc, AND temperature readings. Higher temperatures than average are just one part of the proof, not all of it. All the data fits the puzzle.
Yeah, I know, the hull is black and the sails were white or some other color (red, blue, whatever they painted them). But the hull is constantly cooled by water splashing on it. It's also a relatively small target over a mile away (most of the hull is under water?).
The whole point of fire arrows and stuff like that is to set the sails and the upper deck on fire. Once that's burning, it's hard to keep rowing and ignore it.
No by default, not as a part of the standard equipment. Sure, you can graft whatever you want on your console, but it's one of a kind and nobody codes for it. Games are made for the lowest common denominator, i.e. the standard controller.
That's why the PC games won't die... The ability to move the cursor mouse-like to any part of the screen (not just providing speed and direction for the cursor, but actually providing actual position) is almost essential for strategy and slower paced thinking games. You can make a much more complex game with a mouse than a controller.
And then there's the keyboard...
There's also a windows version of colonization. You could pick it up in the $5 bin at Best Buy. Of course, you have to run the process in 95/98 emulation mode, but overall it's solid.