The limited range of electric cars is a myth. They already have the power and range of a gasoline-powered cars.
Err... which electric car would that be? I know that Ford's Think model runs about 40 miles on a battery. And breaks every two weeks, which may have something to do with the fact that they stopped making them.
Luckily, you don't have to live there. And quite honestly, I have to say that the USA's record of "protecting the minorities' rights" is pretty damn abysmal for us to go dictating to other countries how to do it.
USA's human rights record is bad? You should try and visit a few other countries sometimes. I have lived in a country with a bad human rights record, and I know what I am talking about. You don't.
Basically you're saying that your moral judgement of what is right matters more than the moral judgement of those who actually have to live there.
Have you even read my post? Sunni Muslims, Kurds and Christians do live there, what gives you the right to disregard their moral judgement?
And that's insane, not to mention arrogant, colonialist, and wrong.
Yawn... labels, labels. Try and find some real arguments next time.
See, that's wrong. Because besides the majority faction there are also the minorities. If a Shiite islamic theocracy is established in Iraq, what's going to happen to Sunni Muslims? Kurds? Christians? Only a form of government that will protect the minorities' rights is acceptable.
Well, we (in the US) sort of have it too, in the form of discounts for calls within the same carrier (e.g., Sprint's PCS-to-PCS call discounts) that some plans offer.
You're missing the point. He already has one built into his laptop. He has no problem with the existing (binary) driver. What does your rant about how bad winmodems are have to do with anything?
A less heavy-handed approach would be to let users compile lists of words that they personally find offensive, and have messages containing them filtered out, or even replace those words with $%#&. All completely optional, of course.
That's insightful? Osama is a multi-millionaire. Lindh's family is rather well to do. Stepping out of the terrorism context, what about the recent wave of corporate fraud investigations? Are all those guys poor?
It's sad to see how the amount of left-wing bullshit here is starting to resemble Kuro5hin.
That's what encryption is for. Plus, the fact that people only have a single email address linked to their name, address, and social security number would be a good thing, as this could be used to stop people from creating multiple accounts.
And why are multiple accounts a bad thing? Having a single email account will just facilitate tracing your online presense.
It would cost us money per email
I highly doubt it. But even if so, the price would be absolutely miniscule. I'd much rather have the U.S. government charging me for email and not making a profit off it than a private corpoation making a profit off it.
And why is that? Don't you know that private corporations making profit is what makes the economy work? While the government will just cheerfully piss away your money along with all the kajillions dollars of taxes it gets every year?
This kind of attitude makes me sick. It's like you don't mind being screwed as long as someone doesn't do better. That's the king of mediocre egalitarianism that brought about communism.
I think everyone on slashdot would agree that doubling or tripling NASA's budget would be better than sending cash to Israel, or sending that extra fighter wing to the "war against terrorism", or even wasting it on keeping pot smokers in jail...
Think again. NASA doesn't effectively utilize the funds it gets right now; why do you think throwing more money at it would help? A government bureaucracy sometimes just isn't the most effectrive way of doing things. Instead, private enterprises should be encouraged to engage in space exploration, e.g. through tax incentives.
(I agree with you on the war on drugs though - it's just stupid.)
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You were actually able to get the wireless to work? Which version of RedHat was that? Was it a straight installation or did you need any additional tricks? I sort of installed Mandrake on mine, but no wireless and no ACPI:(
It's pretty clear that Columbus knew that the Vikings, and possibly others, had journeyed out into the Atlantic, and found a continent on the other side, within reach of an open longboat from Greenland.
Do you have any evidence to support this? Recall that it's only recently that the Viking's voyages to America became an accepted theory.
P.S. Never play D&D with Physics majors - our DM never gave us wish spells because he knew we'd do stuff like changing fundamental constants of nature - i.e. resetting Planck's constant to 1 - high enough so we could quantum-tunnel through walls and stuff.
That's horrible role-playing, you know. Your D&D spellcaster isn't supposed to know anything about Planck's constant. Not to mention that our laws of physics don't necessarily apply in D&D world.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go here [politicalcompass.org] to understand how these are not the same thing.
Okay. I did. And while I agree that the two-dimensional model of politics is more accurate than the simple left-right paradigm, we need to look at the distribution of people on the map as well as the map itself.
In particular, if you look at the dots for the mainstream UK politicians, you'll see that they form a cloud that is clearly stretched from south-west to north-east, i.e. from left-wing social libertarians to right-wing social conservatives. I believe the US politicians generaly fall onto the same trend. That is why the left-right approximation is sufficient for a lot of people.
Note also that the totalitarianists form their own little cloud at the top that is clearly distinct from the mainstream trend. And Stalin (which is associated with communism for a lot of people) is indeed quite close to Hitler (i.e., fascism).
Your statement that it's not the same thing is probably based on the fact that they marked the left end of the X axis "Communism". But you will notice that there is nobody there! We have either ultra-liberals on the SW, or totalitarian communists on the NW. So it's all a matter of terminology: you can either associate communism with the (non-existant) authority-neutral community on the far left, or with the traditional form of communism, which is quite close to fascism.
The two-dimensional model is interesting, but it is probably not perfect either. Politics are a multi-dimensional field, and this is also just an approximation.
To go back on topic: the current Chinese model is probably actually closer to Hitler than Stalin, because their economy is no longer Communist.
The article:
... two crucial pieces of construction equipment badly damaged when cargo dropped from a U.S. military transport plane smashed into the ground "without assistance" from a parachute.
Well, at least the NASA methods for delivering payloads to Mars (smashing them into the rock) are being realistically simulated:)
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Smells very strongly of Vapor.... No details, and bogus claims of "Artificial Intelligence".
We can't do AI on big-ass supercomputers, you expect me to believe these little wristpade have AI in them?
There's AI and AI. Things like handwriting recognition are typically based on AI technology (neural networks.) In this case,they are probably using something similar to try to come up with the best guess on what was it you typed.
I would think they have training on the proper handling of a side arm. Maybe its time to arm them all.
I see a few replys to your post saying "shooting a gun in pressurized cabin is dangerous, blah blah blah." May I remind them that since yesterday, the safety of the plane and its passengers is NO LONGER the chief concern. That era is gone, say bye bye.
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Oh my god! That thing is ugly beyound belief.
No, acceptable to the Iraqi minorities.
USA's human rights record is bad? You should try and visit a few other countries sometimes. I have lived in a country with a bad human rights record, and I know what I am talking about. You don't.
Have you even read my post? Sunni Muslims, Kurds and Christians do live there, what gives you the right to disregard their moral judgement?
Yawn... labels, labels. Try and find some real arguments next time.
See, that's wrong. Because besides the majority faction there are also the minorities. If a Shiite islamic theocracy is established in Iraq, what's going to happen to Sunni Muslims? Kurds? Christians? Only a form of government that will protect the minorities' rights is acceptable.
Well, we (in the US) sort of have it too, in the form of discounts for calls within the same carrier (e.g., Sprint's PCS-to-PCS call discounts) that some plans offer.
You're missing the point. He already has one built into his laptop. He has no problem with the existing (binary) driver. What does your rant about how bad winmodems are have to do with anything?
A less heavy-handed approach would be to let users compile lists of words that they personally find offensive, and have messages containing them filtered out, or even replace those words with $%#&. All completely optional, of course.
Out on bail right now. give it time.
I'm with you here - it's nuts.
So he filed a bunch of forms late. Big whoop-de-doo.
That's insightful? Osama is a multi-millionaire. Lindh's family is rather well to do. Stepping out of the terrorism context, what about the recent wave of corporate fraud investigations? Are all those guys poor?
It's sad to see how the amount of left-wing bullshit here is starting to resemble Kuro5hin.
kajillions dollars of taxes it gets every year?
This kind of attitude makes me sick. It's like you don't mind being screwed as long as someone doesn't do better. That's the king of mediocre egalitarianism that brought about communism.
I think everyone on slashdot would agree that doubling or tripling NASA's budget would be better than sending cash to Israel, or sending that extra fighter wing to the "war against terrorism", or even wasting it on keeping pot smokers in jail...
Think again. NASA doesn't effectively utilize the funds it gets right now; why do you think throwing more money at it would help? A government bureaucracy sometimes just isn't the most effectrive way of doing things. Instead, private enterprises should be encouraged to engage in space exploration, e.g. through tax incentives.
(I agree with you on the war on drugs though - it's just stupid.)
You were actually able to get the wireless to work? Which version of RedHat was that? Was it a straight installation or did you need any additional tricks? I sort of installed Mandrake on mine, but no wireless and no ACPI :(
It's pretty clear that Columbus knew that the Vikings, and possibly others, had journeyed out into the Atlantic, and found a continent on the other side, within reach of an open longboat from Greenland.
Do you have any evidence to support this? Recall that it's only recently that the Viking's voyages to America became an accepted theory.
P.S. Never play D&D with Physics majors - our DM never gave us wish spells because he knew we'd do stuff like changing fundamental constants of nature - i.e. resetting Planck's constant to 1 - high enough so we could quantum-tunnel through walls and stuff.
That's horrible role-playing, you know. Your D&D spellcaster isn't supposed to know anything about Planck's constant. Not to mention that our laws of physics don't necessarily apply in D&D world.
Oh my god! I don't reflect in it! I must be a vampire!
Actually, yes they did. At least, I was quite happy with the speed and service I got here in Palo Alto.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go here [politicalcompass.org] to understand how these are not the same thing.
Okay. I did. And while I agree that the two-dimensional model of politics is more accurate than the simple left-right paradigm, we need to look at the distribution of people on the map as well as the map itself.
In particular, if you look at the dots for the mainstream UK politicians, you'll see that they form a cloud that is clearly stretched from south-west to north-east, i.e. from left-wing social libertarians to right-wing social conservatives. I believe the US politicians generaly fall onto the same trend. That is why the left-right approximation is sufficient for a lot of people.
Note also that the totalitarianists form their own little cloud at the top that is clearly distinct from the mainstream trend. And Stalin (which is associated with communism for a lot of people) is indeed quite close to Hitler (i.e., fascism).
Your statement that it's not the same thing is probably based on the fact that they marked the left end of the X axis "Communism". But you will notice that there is nobody there! We have either ultra-liberals on the SW, or totalitarian communists on the NW. So it's all a matter of terminology: you can either associate communism with the (non-existant) authority-neutral community on the far left, or with the traditional form of communism, which is quite close to fascism.
The two-dimensional model is interesting, but it is probably not perfect either. Politics are a multi-dimensional field, and this is also just an approximation.
To go back on topic: the current Chinese model is probably actually closer to Hitler than Stalin, because their economy is no longer Communist.
The article:
... two crucial pieces of construction equipment badly damaged when cargo dropped from a U.S. military transport plane smashed into the ground "without assistance" from a parachute.
:)
Well, at least the NASA methods for delivering payloads to Mars (smashing them into the rock) are being realistically simulated
Smells very strongly of Vapor.... No details, and bogus claims of "Artificial Intelligence".
We can't do AI on big-ass supercomputers, you expect me to believe these little wristpade have AI in them?
There's AI and AI. Things like handwriting recognition are typically based on AI technology (neural networks.) In this case,they are probably using something similar to try to come up with the best guess on what was it you typed.
AI doesn't necessarily mean Commander Data.
Yeah, but she doesn't appear until The Two Towers.
I would think they have training on the proper handling of a side arm. Maybe its time to arm them all.
I see a few replys to your post saying "shooting a gun in pressurized cabin is dangerous, blah blah blah." May I remind them that since yesterday, the safety of the plane and its passengers is NO LONGER the chief concern. That era is gone, say bye bye.