BTW, the disintegration "proof" on the one site doesn't hold water either. As the upper portion of the tower started to descend, pancaking the lower floors, the resistance created at that interface would have begun to pancake the lower floors of the upper structure, in reverse.
That collapse would have happened ever faster, in fact, as the floors were never designed to resist loads pushing up from beneath. Hence, the rapid "disintegration" of the upper floors.
Also, the "tossing" a block of concrete off a building wouldn't cause it to pulverize is a red herring as well. Try tossing said block off a building... with about a half-million tons of weight and momentum behind it.
You don't think q couple of hundred million tons of descending building isn't going to rapidly compress the air in elevator shafts and stairwells, and that none of that air isn't going to blow out doors and windows and vent?
Yep. That makes sense. Of course, you probably need ex-military pilots willing to commit suicide as they'd need that skill to hit both towers on the exact levels where sufficient high-explosives were pre-positioned to pancake the structure.
Or is video footage of the towers collapse beginning at the same floors where the planes struck them coincidence? Or did demolition experts also willing to commit suicide and wearing fireproof suits run into the building and onto those floors and, in the middle of a raging inferno, place high explosives in the exact spots need to "pull" the building?
Yeah, I can see how that kind of "theory" is more plausible...
"One flaw in the "19 Arab taking out the towers" theory is the military precision required for an effort like this."
Military precision? I'm confused. How much "military precision" does one need to book tickets on four different airline flights that will be taking off at about the same time? And then say, "Okay, twenty minutes into the flight, get up and..."
I once arranged flights for people leaving from NY, San Diego, Indy, and Chicago to go skiing in Denver. We all ARRIVED within 30 minutes of one another, gathered up our gear, headed out to the waiting rental car, and took off to the prearranged condo.
And get too parnoid and trigger happy and a young twenty-year old National Guard pilot will be spilling passengers into the sky after he shots a jet with a busted transponder or into a General Aviation flight running under VFR.
Then listen to all the cries about how we have no control and why did we automate shooting down helpless civilians....
Personally, I think it also lies with the nature of the information.
CIA prisons outside of the US? That strikes me as someone trying to sidestep the entire process, while leaving the administration free to state, "We don't torture people here in the US. Period."
Much like, " I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Depends entirely on what you mean when you say "the same experience". In a multiplayer game, we could both be running down the same corridor, the walls of which on your high-end machine looks like procedurally dented brushed aluminum and on my lower-end machine looks a flat gray.
As such, we can both be chasing the same demon down the same hallway, having the same experience, without having to see the same exact thing, just as your running at 1024x768 doesn't impact my running at 800x600.
Oh great. We've gone from needing set designers to create real sets to creating virtual sets and now back to needing real set designers to decorate virtual sets.
They aren't. Most organizations these days have the sense not to store complete card numbers in the first place. They don't want the liability. And with "reference" transactions, there's really no need.
Apparently your degrees aren't advanced enough. While they might have had access to your addresses, at no point in time did they have access to your credit card information. When asked Amazon only shows the last four digits of your card, not the complete number. Moreover, should they have attempted to buy something and have it shipped to them, Amazon would have asked for a new number.
About the worst they could have done was order 500 romance novels in your name and have them delivered to you. The modern equivalent of the "you ordered a pizza" gag.
And the most interesting aspect of the "war" on terrorism is that it can never be won. And as such can be used to justify these excesses for as long as the state of 'emergency" exists.
BTW, I'd be prepared to see the number of increased "threat" levels rise as we get closer and closer to the mid-term elections. The government, after all, has to remind us of why we need it.
The NSA has also refused to grant investigators the needed security clearances. As such I believe at least one of the other cases has been dropped, as without access to any of the NSA's information on the subject they can't go any further. More stonewalling.
A bank account is definitely a "tax/finance related purpose" as any interest generated is taxable and must be reported. So in that case it actually is a requirement, and not just a "de facto" one.
"Almost all society has nothing to do with business."
Right. That's why the vast majority of adults here in the US are able to sleep in and enjoy their breakfast in bed every day.
Face it. We all have jobs. We all work. We all have to pay the rent and buy food, clothing, make car payments, and so on, or are dependent upon those that do. And to many, who they are is bound up in what they do: doctor, teacher, lawyer.
They all have "boxes", but Michael's design with only the shaded upper left corner of the article block looks the cleanest, and with the curved header looks the most "designed". That said, I agree with one point, and think Michael needs to bump up the headline font size a couple of notches to improve scanability.
As to the CSS errors, perhaps we need to just pick the best looking design, and then hand it off to an expert to implement correctly.
"..,but but to enforce a strict and precise security policy."
Precisely. All the arguments to date focus on performance issues, whereas with today's high-performance multi-core machines I'd be more than happy to lose a bit of performance if it means processes and systems have better isolation and protection from one another.
Gaining a couple of extra FPS's in Quake doesn't do much good if the entire system is down with a virus...
Actually, if it's the first time you're looking at that particular code it's more like spending 4 hours breaking down the macro so you can understand it enough to fix it. And then changing it and hoping you didn't break the 54 sections of code that use it.
Macros are to C what operator overloading is to C++: unsually abused beyond belief.
"I thought I know C until I tried to fix a bug in the kernel."
High-level isn't about knowing C. It's about being able to hack a five-level-deep macro created so you can inline a function used three times in your code.
The OS community is committed to refactoring... usually because some developer can't figure out how the previous developer wrote some unintelligible function, and decides the best way to "fix" it is to rewrite it in his own unintelligible style.
"And there's a reason they don't have a stable ABI: Having that restricts the freedom and creativity of the kernel hackers to choose the best possible solution to every problem."
If it changes that often then it sounds like they're not thnking about the the ramifications of their decisions and designing their code, thery're just hacking whatever comes to mind.
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BTW, the disintegration "proof" on the one site doesn't hold water either. As the upper portion of the tower started to descend, pancaking the lower floors, the resistance created at that interface would have begun to pancake the lower floors of the upper structure, in reverse.
That collapse would have happened ever faster, in fact, as the floors were never designed to resist loads pushing up from beneath. Hence, the rapid "disintegration" of the upper floors.
Also, the "tossing" a block of concrete off a building wouldn't cause it to pulverize is a red herring as well. Try tossing said block off a building... with about a half-million tons of weight and momentum behind it.
" the visual evidence of squibs "
You don't think q couple of hundred million tons of descending building isn't going to rapidly compress the air in elevator shafts and stairwells, and that none of that air isn't going to blow out doors and windows and vent?
Yep. That makes sense. Of course, you probably need ex-military pilots willing to commit suicide as they'd need that skill to hit both towers on the exact levels where sufficient high-explosives were pre-positioned to pancake the structure.
Or is video footage of the towers collapse beginning at the same floors where the planes struck them coincidence? Or did demolition experts also willing to commit suicide and wearing fireproof suits run into the building and onto those floors and, in the middle of a raging inferno, place high explosives in the exact spots need to "pull" the building?
Yeah, I can see how that kind of "theory" is more plausible...
"One flaw in the "19 Arab taking out the towers" theory is the military precision required for an effort like this."
Military precision? I'm confused. How much "military precision" does one need to book tickets on four different airline flights that will be taking off at about the same time? And then say, "Okay, twenty minutes into the flight, get up and..."
I once arranged flights for people leaving from NY, San Diego, Indy, and Chicago to go skiing in Denver. We all ARRIVED within 30 minutes of one another, gathered up our gear, headed out to the waiting rental car, and took off to the prearranged condo.
I guess I must be ex-military...
And get too parnoid and trigger happy and a young twenty-year old National Guard pilot will be spilling passengers into the sky after he shots a jet with a busted transponder or into a General Aviation flight running under VFR.
Then listen to all the cries about how we have no control and why did we automate shooting down helpless civilians....
Your emphasis indeed is in the wrong place, but since you insist, try "missle-armed Predator".
Personally, I think it also lies with the nature of the information.
CIA prisons outside of the US? That strikes me as someone trying to sidestep the entire process, while leaving the administration free to state, "We don't torture people here in the US. Period."
Much like, " I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Depends entirely on what you mean when you say "the same experience". In a multiplayer game, we could both be running down the same corridor, the walls of which on your high-end machine looks like procedurally dented brushed aluminum and on my lower-end machine looks a flat gray.
As such, we can both be chasing the same demon down the same hallway, having the same experience, without having to see the same exact thing, just as your running at 1024x768 doesn't impact my running at 800x600.
Oh great. We've gone from needing set designers to create real sets to creating virtual sets and now back to needing real set designers to decorate virtual sets.
They aren't. Most organizations these days have the sense not to store complete card numbers in the first place. They don't want the liability. And with "reference" transactions, there's really no need.
Apparently your degrees aren't advanced enough. While they might have had access to your addresses, at no point in time did they have access to your credit card information. When asked Amazon only shows the last four digits of your card, not the complete number. Moreover, should they have attempted to buy something and have it shipped to them, Amazon would have asked for a new number.
About the worst they could have done was order 500 romance novels in your name and have them delivered to you. The modern equivalent of the "you ordered a pizza" gag.
And the most interesting aspect of the "war" on terrorism is that it can never be won. And as such can be used to justify these excesses for as long as the state of 'emergency" exists.
BTW, I'd be prepared to see the number of increased "threat" levels rise as we get closer and closer to the mid-term elections. The government, after all, has to remind us of why we need it.
Sorry, but the word "accountability" is not in the current administration's dictionary.
The NSA has also refused to grant investigators the needed security clearances. As such I believe at least one of the other cases has been dropped, as without access to any of the NSA's information on the subject they can't go any further. More stonewalling.
You don't have an interest bearing checking account? Sad.
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"You can't afford the duck. You can have the chicken."
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And would you like champange with your Happy Meal too?
A bank account is definitely a "tax/finance related purpose" as any interest generated is taxable and must be reported. So in that case it actually is a requirement, and not just a "de facto" one.
"Almost all society has nothing to do with business."
Right. That's why the vast majority of adults here in the US are able to sleep in and enjoy their breakfast in bed every day.
Face it. We all have jobs. We all work. We all have to pay the rent and buy food, clothing, make car payments, and so on, or are dependent upon those that do. And to many, who they are is bound up in what they do: doctor, teacher, lawyer.
They all have "boxes", but Michael's design with only the shaded upper left corner of the article block looks the cleanest, and with the curved header looks the most "designed". That said, I agree with one point, and think Michael needs to bump up the headline font size a couple of notches to improve scanability.
As to the CSS errors, perhaps we need to just pick the best looking design, and then hand it off to an expert to implement correctly.
"..,but but to enforce a strict and precise security policy."
Precisely. All the arguments to date focus on performance issues, whereas with today's high-performance multi-core machines I'd be more than happy to lose a bit of performance if it means processes and systems have better isolation and protection from one another.
Gaining a couple of extra FPS's in Quake doesn't do much good if the entire system is down with a virus...
Actually, if it's the first time you're looking at that particular code it's more like spending 4 hours breaking down the macro so you can understand it enough to fix it. And then changing it and hoping you didn't break the 54 sections of code that use it.
Macros are to C what operator overloading is to C++: unsually abused beyond belief.
"I thought I know C until I tried to fix a bug in the kernel."
High-level isn't about knowing C. It's about being able to hack a five-level-deep macro created so you can inline a function used three times in your code.
The OS community is committed to refactoring... usually because some developer can't figure out how the previous developer wrote some unintelligible function, and decides the best way to "fix" it is to rewrite it in his own unintelligible style.
"And there's a reason they don't have a stable ABI: Having that restricts the freedom and creativity of the kernel hackers to choose the best possible solution to every problem." If it changes that often then it sounds like they're not thnking about the the ramifications of their decisions and designing their code, thery're just hacking whatever comes to mind.