I wasn't talking about you. He clearly wasn't arguing with you. It would have made more sense if he was. He was arguing with some bizarre liberal straw man.
Well done! You just won an argument with the straw liberal. And then linked to a post disputing a bunch of (mostly liberal) dumbass conspiracy theorists. Yes, there are dumbasses with no critical thinking skills on both sides of the divide. But invading Iraq had nothing to do with Western Ideals. And it is a total clusterfuck. I am a left wing loony, I admit, but it drives me crazy when people try to be measure and rational and end up just making excuses for a long series of policy disasters. These people got in power by scaring people and pandering to the ones that don't believe in evolution. If you don't see a connection between the christian radicals and the repulicans you're fooling yourself.
According to John Dean (in Conservatives without Conscience) these people are authoritarian followers. They'll believe what they are told with no need for critical thought.
Enlighting thing about chistians, browse through those AOL search logs. The people who search for "pro-life" "biblical creation", ministries and other fundementalist christian items also search for pretty crazy dirty porn. Because they are constitutionally capable of deep hypocracy because being and authoritarian allows them to compartmentalize. They believe what they are told by perceived authorities. If these things are all incompatible they don't care because they don't stop to think critically.
You are completely wrong about this. Flash is a client side rich client that can communicate asynchronously with a server. (look at yahoo maps for an example). Animation is a small part of what flash is used for.
God, the LGF people that are posting here today do not understand this. Because reuters was posting pictures from someone that was unethical, dishonest or just stupid does not make the every story coming out of Lebenon false. The ongoing conflict in the middle east is so polarizing people can't think straight. Could it be that both sides are wrong? Could it be that Israel's response has been excessive and strategically foolish?
You can't catch terrorists or gorillas with missiles at their neigborhoods. Israel has made hezbollah look good with this war. And although Hezbollah is a bunch of extremist nuts their position in this conflict has made their stock rise on the arab street. Where was the celebrated Israeli special forces? How is this not collective punishment? How is this smart policy? I feel like the Israeli response to terrorism is the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Responding to terrorists with air strikes has not reduced terrorism. This is not working, its time for a new respone.
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I meant metric tons! And I got my info from wikipedia, I think that is just spent fuel. Anyway, my point still stands, it would be insanelt expensive.
And yes, it really is too bad I was off so much due to typing the wrong units...oh well.
Yeah, as noted elsewhere, I pulled a NASA. Wrong units. 12,000 metric tonnes was what I meant, not pounds. Thats 26,000,000 pounds. (in my other response i was wrong too...I used imperial pounds! Good thing I'm not designing this kind of thing)
My calculations were based on that, so $10k to orbit per pound, times 26,000,000....$260 billion
I know this is snark...but...aside from the challenger issue, it would be highly cost-prohibitive. The world produces about 12,000 pounds of nuclear waste a year. At current rates this would cost about $250 billion just to get into orbit. The US has It would be much more expensive to actually escape the earth and get it to the sun, even considering the sun's gravity could do a lot of the work.
Yeah I guess so, reminds me of the old SGI Onyx. I was an intern at sgi in 1997 and I recal playing GL quake on an Onyx2, list price $110k. 50fps @ 1600x1200. Compared to what sgi used to charge for their stuff $17k is a steal considering this thing is vastly more powerful than any of those old $100k sgi machines.
Is there really any demand for this though? Like what can't a dual SLI Quadro do for you?
This is doable, if this product is for real and sells at a good price it will be great. The only software that can do this right now is very expensive camera tracking tools, like:Bijou
Another thing that really fast procs and huge amounts of memory for users that don't need it has allowed is AJAX. If the browsers run javascript interpreters that are multi-threaded the feasibility of doing fancier and fancier things in through ajax is going to become greater.
JIT/interpreted code is the thing that is going to keep driving faster processors. Machines are fast enough now that JIT environments or even interpreted languages are really usable for big apps. If the interpreters and JIT compilers are written to really be as multithreaded as possible it will really speed up what can be done with out fully compiling the code, allowing real portable apps to start to take over.
Can the government seize all firearms in a time of war? What defines a time of war? When will we know the time of war is over? How can we be sure we'll get our rights back after the war ends?
Judges have consistantly interpreted this to exclude option 3 outright and option 2 is also out. The cops MUST have probably cause to search you or tap your phone. Unreasonable searches aren't just what sounds ok. It is legally defined as being a search for which there was probable cause.
This means your home can't be searched because the cops know you bought a gun recently. They have to go to a judge and prove that they have probably cause to believe you were involved in a crime. Even then they must enumerate what they are looking for. That is how we have protected american citizens from their own government. Our freedoms don't come from fighting terrorists. They come from a system designed to protect them.
One of our freedoms that they are supposed to protect is the freedom from unreasonable search & seizure. That means probable cause and a warrant. Not a promise to be nice. If you were really a conservative mr AC you would know that an important part of the american system is protecting us from tyranny...home grown tyranny. So far, so good. Lets keep the streak shall we?
I believe the amendment at question here is the FOURTH:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This doesn't seem ambiguous to me. Its not about a right to privacy. Its about the fact that the government needs probable cause and a warrant. This isn't the same as the spam in the inbox or your credit history (which you consented to sharing anyway). The issue here is that the ISP allegedly let the government tap your phone/spy on your internet traffic without probable cause or a warrant. A better analogy would be your landlord letting the FBI into your apartment with no warrant.
As I mentioned elsewhere, if I had a few billion dollars and five years I think I could come up with a decent OS. I would probably go find an orphaned closed-source UNIX os (IRIX?) and graft a windows UI on top and then use virtualization to maintain backwards compatibility. Security problems, memory problems, clustering problems: gone overnight. Then spend the rest of the money getting exchange and active directory running and writing drivers.
I would use this oppurtunity to buy Irix and use it to build the next windows ala Mac OS X. Just graft a new UI based on the aero code on top and presto...secure os with really memory management, XFS, clustering and more. Legacy apps could run in a virtualization layer and Microsoft would get a solid, tried and true OS that is also proprietary and closed-source. It would be a big job to replicate windows on a UNIX base (especially on the server) but I suspect it wouldn't take as long as Vista has.
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I wasn't talking about you. He clearly wasn't arguing with you. It would have made more sense if he was. He was arguing with some bizarre liberal straw man.
Well done! You just won an argument with the straw liberal. And then linked to a post disputing a bunch of (mostly liberal) dumbass conspiracy theorists. Yes, there are dumbasses with no critical thinking skills on both sides of the divide. But invading Iraq had nothing to do with Western Ideals. And it is a total clusterfuck. I am a left wing loony, I admit, but it drives me crazy when people try to be measure and rational and end up just making excuses for a long series of policy disasters. These people got in power by scaring people and pandering to the ones that don't believe in evolution. If you don't see a connection between the christian radicals and the repulicans you're fooling yourself.
That is the point the gp was trying to make as well. Flash and AJAX do the same thing. Flash just requires a plug-in to do it.
According to John Dean (in Conservatives without Conscience) these people are authoritarian followers. They'll believe what they are told with no need for critical thought.
Enlighting thing about chistians, browse through those AOL search logs. The people who search for "pro-life" "biblical creation", ministries and other fundementalist christian items also search for pretty crazy dirty porn. Because they are constitutionally capable of deep hypocracy because being and authoritarian allows them to compartmentalize. They believe what they are told by perceived authorities. If these things are all incompatible they don't care because they don't stop to think critically.
You are completely wrong about this. Flash is a client side rich client that can communicate asynchronously with a server. (look at yahoo maps for an example). Animation is a small part of what flash is used for.
God, the LGF people that are posting here today do not understand this. Because reuters was posting pictures from someone that was unethical, dishonest or just stupid does not make the every story coming out of Lebenon false. The ongoing conflict in the middle east is so polarizing people can't think straight. Could it be that both sides are wrong? Could it be that Israel's response has been excessive and strategically foolish?
You can't catch terrorists or gorillas with missiles at their neigborhoods. Israel has made hezbollah look good with this war. And although Hezbollah is a bunch of extremist nuts their position in this conflict has made their stock rise on the arab street. Where was the celebrated Israeli special forces? How is this not collective punishment? How is this smart policy? I feel like the Israeli response to terrorism is the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Responding to terrorists with air strikes has not reduced terrorism. This is not working, its time for a new respone.
I meant metric tons! And I got my info from wikipedia, I think that is just spent fuel. Anyway, my point still stands, it would be insanelt expensive.
And yes, it really is too bad I was off so much due to typing the wrong units...oh well.
Yes, but if we had that we could build orbital power generation...solving the energy problem once and for all.
Yeah, as noted elsewhere, I pulled a NASA. Wrong units. 12,000 metric tonnes was what I meant, not pounds. Thats 26,000,000 pounds. (in my other response i was wrong too...I used imperial pounds! Good thing I'm not designing this kind of thing)
My calculations were based on that, so $10k to orbit per pound, times 26,000,000....$260 billion
double whoops....26,000,000lbs. METRIC tonnes, not imperial.
Oh shit, whoops. I pulled a NASA. It's not 12,000 pounds. Its 12,000 metric tonnes! (24,000,000lbs)
I know this is snark...but...aside from the challenger issue, it would be highly cost-prohibitive. The world produces about 12,000 pounds of nuclear waste a year. At current rates this would cost about $250 billion just to get into orbit. The US has It would be much more expensive to actually escape the earth and get it to the sun, even considering the sun's gravity could do a lot of the work.
d isposal, although I am skeptical, at current rates to get the 600,000 metric tonnes of waste that the DoE has into orbit would cost about $10 trillion.
Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste#Space_
Yeah I guess so, reminds me of the old SGI Onyx. I was an intern at sgi in 1997 and I recal playing GL quake on an Onyx2, list price $110k. 50fps @ 1600x1200. Compared to what sgi used to charge for their stuff $17k is a steal considering this thing is vastly more powerful than any of those old $100k sgi machines.
Is there really any demand for this though? Like what can't a dual SLI Quadro do for you?
This is doable, if this product is for real and sells at a good price it will be great. The only software that can do this right now is very expensive camera tracking tools, like :Bijou
Another thing that really fast procs and huge amounts of memory for users that don't need it has allowed is AJAX. If the browsers run javascript interpreters that are multi-threaded the feasibility of doing fancier and fancier things in through ajax is going to become greater.
JIT/interpreted code is the thing that is going to keep driving faster processors. Machines are fast enough now that JIT environments or even interpreted languages are really usable for big apps. If the interpreters and JIT compilers are written to really be as multithreaded as possible it will really speed up what can be done with out fully compiling the code, allowing real portable apps to start to take over.
If this is really the case, which we don't know because the government won't tell us and it isn't being review by the courts or the legislature, it still violates the law. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communicat ions_Privacy_Act
Can the government seize all firearms in a time of war? What defines a time of war? When will we know the time of war is over? How can we be sure we'll get our rights back after the war ends?
No it wasn't ok. It happened, but it wasn't ok.
Judges have consistantly interpreted this to exclude option 3 outright and option 2 is also out. The cops MUST have probably cause to search you or tap your phone. Unreasonable searches aren't just what sounds ok. It is legally defined as being a search for which there was probable cause.
This means your home can't be searched because the cops know you bought a gun recently. They have to go to a judge and prove that they have probably cause to believe you were involved in a crime. Even then they must enumerate what they are looking for. That is how we have protected american citizens from their own government. Our freedoms don't come from fighting terrorists. They come from a system designed to protect them.
One of our freedoms that they are supposed to protect is the freedom from unreasonable search & seizure. That means probable cause and a warrant. Not a promise to be nice. If you were really a conservative mr AC you would know that an important part of the american system is protecting us from tyranny...home grown tyranny. So far, so good. Lets keep the streak shall we?
As I mentioned elsewhere, if I had a few billion dollars and five years I think I could come up with a decent OS. I would probably go find an orphaned closed-source UNIX os (IRIX?) and graft a windows UI on top and then use virtualization to maintain backwards compatibility. Security problems, memory problems, clustering problems: gone overnight. Then spend the rest of the money getting exchange and active directory running and writing drivers.
I would use this oppurtunity to buy Irix and use it to build the next windows ala Mac OS X. Just graft a new UI based on the aero code on top and presto...secure os with really memory management, XFS, clustering and more. Legacy apps could run in a virtualization layer and Microsoft would get a solid, tried and true OS that is also proprietary and closed-source. It would be a big job to replicate windows on a UNIX base (especially on the server) but I suspect it wouldn't take as long as Vista has.
If someone calls you a "whack-job" and then you call them a "Statist" you just proved their point.