Tell me, if you burn a gallon of gasoline in an engine, where do you think the products of the reaction go?
You have liquid hydrocarbons and oxygen and you react them in a chamber. Then you empty that chamber and fill it with new reactants. Do that repeatedly until you have no gasoline left. Where are the products of this reaction?
Where does all the mass go? I mean, I assume your car doesn't have a waste tank you have to empty every time you fill your car with fuel.
Honestly, this comes up a lot and I have to wonder. Your contacts, calendars, email, files, music etc are all in formats that you can easily move to other platforms if you want to leave.
The only things you can't take with you are movies from the iTunes store (DRM) and apps (since they are specific to the OS, like most apps on other OSes).
Tax cuts are a source of revenue. Spending is the removal of revenue.
What Bush did was cut 2 trillion dollars from the "income" pile while simultaneously increasing spending in the "outgoing" pile.
What the Repubs suggested doing in response was to "cut all this wasteful spending!!" citing things like NPR (0.01% of the budget) and Planned Parenthood (double whammy on abortions! again, fractions of a percent of the total) while being totally unwilling to listen to any argument that suggested perhaps we need some more income, as well as a reduction in spending.
Put it this way, the Bush tax cuts are barely affordable even if *everything* but social security and the defence budget are gutted completely.
The deficit is driven by *both* spending and by tax cuts - with less income, the deficit grows, with increased spending the deficit grows. And while cutting spending is a good way to reduce the deficit, the single most expensive thing on the whole plate are that batch of tax cuts - at *twice* the cost of the supposedly "unaffordable" healthcare bill.
The absence of tax collection (via cuts) is directly equivalent to spending the same amount of money.
Tell me, what chance do you think he'd have had with healthcare (you remember how that went) if he went against the repubs with his supermajority on their other sacred cow (tax cuts)?
The "supermajority" also lasted for a shot time and included people who were not automatic lockstep supporters.
What's the thing I'm looking for? Something about grey areas and complexity?
Also, he's not my president - I did not vote for him (I'm not a US citizen, and I do not live in the US although I have in the past). He's also far too right wing for my tastes, but what can you do? Most of the US political spectrum is shifted across that way.
Planning a terrorist attack, shopping for guns and ammo, writing down your intentions to go on "jihad" and then admitting to the police that you intend to do so... well, that will get you in a spot of bother.
Yes, I can totally see how you got that from a counter terrorism operation where the guy wrote out his intentions and was ready "spiritually and financially for jihad" and then pleaded guilty to four offences.
That and writing a letter that said he was "spiritually and financially ready for jihad" and the shopping list of weapons, ammo, combat gear and bomb materials.
Also the fact that he pled guilty to terrorism offences.
Might have had something to do with it too. Not just having basic knowledge that any undergraduate chemist would be able to tell you. The summary is another "lol look how ineffective and privacy-destroying government is! thought crimes! lolz!"
Yes, because they prosecuted a potential terrorist after finding evidence that he was preparing to do something - he'd priced up weapons, was seeking guidance on how best to do it, etc. It's in the article, but I think it's not even fashionable to read the summary any more.
Also, it's the UK. England is a country that is part of the UK. While the guy lived in Bolton (which is in England), the term you're actually looking for is United Kingdom, or Great Britain.
It still happens in XRD though, and is potentially a problem when trying to image protein crystals, which are tough enough to image accurately as it is without your probing source ionising atoms in your sample.
"I fucked everything up, but thanks for blaming it on the black guy".
Obama had little choice but to extend those cuts - the repubs were willing to slash and burn the US and default on their debt - you really think Obama would have been able to do anything in that situation.
When faced with a lunatic holding a live grenade and threatening to pull the pin you don't do things he's sure to find antagonising.
Obama's time in office has been 4 years of diffusing a bomb with the republicans repeatedly questioning whether he was bomb technician and setting off air horns at the moments he was asking for quiet, and not offering to help when he said "hold this here, it will make it easier - that was a republican suggestion btw" only for them to stand back and say "no can do!".
They were also very good at convincing the general public to hit the motion-and-sound-activated bomb with sticks and yell and scream loudly, because they paid a lot of money convincing them it was in their best interests.
Oh sorry, you wanted a car analogy, this is slashdot.
Bush steered the car towards a cliff and locked the steering, then handed the driving seat to Obama. When Obama wanted to move the wheel to avoid the cliff the republicans in the car told him there was no way they would ever let that happen. Much more important that they oppress the reproductive right of woman and the civil rights of the gay person in the car. Those are *much* more important than avoiding the cliff.
Either way, you're fucked while you've got nutcases like the current Repub nominees holding any serious sway in the GOP, even if they have no chance of winning a presidential election.
It's to be expected for the standard slashdot groupthink - didn't you get the memo? Anything a company does, without exception, has a secret, ulterior motive designed to crush the common man, hurt open source, and destroy privacy.
It's simply not possible for a company to ever do anything accidental. This was clearly O2's plan all along and they've been "caught" trying to be evil. Score one for the little guy!
DISCLAIMER: The above comments might be facetious. YMMV.
Like they said - it (was) used for convenience with sites they were linked with, like O2 tickets and ringtone sites within their portal. There's nothing inherently Machiavellian about this, but I suppose it is the slashdot modus operandi to assume that companies can't do anything *but* be evil.
They fixed the issue before most of the stories went up, and it was also specific to cellular connections - if you visited via WiFi it would not show the error (since the problem was inside O2's network rather than happening at the handset end).
It allows for convenient billing, for example, if you buy ringtones from O2's store (if you're the type to do this - it used to be huge here before the rise of the smartphone), or O2's link with ticketing for the O2 Arena, where customers get priority and discounted tickets for being on O2.
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Tell me, if you burn a gallon of gasoline in an engine, where do you think the products of the reaction go?
You have liquid hydrocarbons and oxygen and you react them in a chamber. Then you empty that chamber and fill it with new reactants. Do that repeatedly until you have no gasoline left. Where are the products of this reaction?
Where does all the mass go? I mean, I assume your car doesn't have a waste tank you have to empty every time you fill your car with fuel.
Greenland was not named sarcastically, it was named so people would want to go there.
What lock in?
Honestly, this comes up a lot and I have to wonder. Your contacts, calendars, email, files, music etc are all in formats that you can easily move to other platforms if you want to leave.
The only things you can't take with you are movies from the iTunes store (DRM) and apps (since they are specific to the OS, like most apps on other OSes).
Yes.
Tax cuts are a source of revenue. Spending is the removal of revenue.
What Bush did was cut 2 trillion dollars from the "income" pile while simultaneously increasing spending in the "outgoing" pile.
What the Repubs suggested doing in response was to "cut all this wasteful spending!!" citing things like NPR (0.01% of the budget) and Planned Parenthood (double whammy on abortions! again, fractions of a percent of the total) while being totally unwilling to listen to any argument that suggested perhaps we need some more income, as well as a reduction in spending.
Put it this way, the Bush tax cuts are barely affordable even if *everything* but social security and the defence budget are gutted completely.
The deficit is driven by *both* spending and by tax cuts - with less income, the deficit grows, with increased spending the deficit grows. And while cutting spending is a good way to reduce the deficit, the single most expensive thing on the whole plate are that batch of tax cuts - at *twice* the cost of the supposedly "unaffordable" healthcare bill.
The absence of tax collection (via cuts) is directly equivalent to spending the same amount of money.
Tell me, what chance do you think he'd have had with healthcare (you remember how that went) if he went against the repubs with his supermajority on their other sacred cow (tax cuts)?
The "supermajority" also lasted for a shot time and included people who were not automatic lockstep supporters.
What's the thing I'm looking for? Something about grey areas and complexity?
Also, he's not my president - I did not vote for him (I'm not a US citizen, and I do not live in the US although I have in the past). He's also far too right wing for my tastes, but what can you do? Most of the US political spectrum is shifted across that way.
Well, he told the police he was planning to do - didn't really have much choice but to plead guilty, what with all the other evidence there.
Well, he also said "I'm going to do it" to the police - and subsequently entered a guilty plea.
But you got me, I have never heard of a shopping list killing anyone, unless it was from an infected paper cut or something.
Maybe read the article?
Possessing this information is not illegal.
Planning a terrorist attack, shopping for guns and ammo, writing down your intentions to go on "jihad" and then admitting to the police that you intend to do so... well, that will get you in a spot of bother.
Yes, I can totally see how you got that from a counter terrorism operation where the guy wrote out his intentions and was ready "spiritually and financially for jihad" and then pleaded guilty to four offences.
It's like... a totally straight line!
What was the secret ingredient, out of interest?
It's pretty much just iron oxide and aluminium. Not much else to be secret about.
You should probably read the article, rather than the cherry-picked, out-of-context summary.
That and writing a letter that said he was "spiritually and financially ready for jihad" and the shopping list of weapons, ammo, combat gear and bomb materials.
Also the fact that he pled guilty to terrorism offences.
Might have had something to do with it too. Not just having basic knowledge that any undergraduate chemist would be able to tell you. The summary is another "lol look how ineffective and privacy-destroying government is! thought crimes! lolz!"
Well, he pleaded guilty to four terrorism offences, so there's that.
Yes, because they prosecuted a potential terrorist after finding evidence that he was preparing to do something - he'd priced up weapons, was seeking guidance on how best to do it, etc. It's in the article, but I think it's not even fashionable to read the summary any more.
Also, it's the UK. England is a country that is part of the UK. While the guy lived in Bolton (which is in England), the term you're actually looking for is United Kingdom, or Great Britain.
By "prudent decision" you mean "punitive action to keep the unions in line".
Cool story bro.
It still happens in XRD though, and is potentially a problem when trying to image protein crystals, which are tough enough to image accurately as it is without your probing source ionising atoms in your sample.
The debt issues came months later.
Presumably when the bill for the wars for "freedom" in Iraq and Afghanistan were put on the balance sheet? ;P
"I fucked everything up, but thanks for blaming it on the black guy".
Obama had little choice but to extend those cuts - the repubs were willing to slash and burn the US and default on their debt - you really think Obama would have been able to do anything in that situation.
When faced with a lunatic holding a live grenade and threatening to pull the pin you don't do things he's sure to find antagonising.
Obama's time in office has been 4 years of diffusing a bomb with the republicans repeatedly questioning whether he was bomb technician and setting off air horns at the moments he was asking for quiet, and not offering to help when he said "hold this here, it will make it easier - that was a republican suggestion btw" only for them to stand back and say "no can do!".
They were also very good at convincing the general public to hit the motion-and-sound-activated bomb with sticks and yell and scream loudly, because they paid a lot of money convincing them it was in their best interests.
Oh sorry, you wanted a car analogy, this is slashdot.
Bush steered the car towards a cliff and locked the steering, then handed the driving seat to Obama. When Obama wanted to move the wheel to avoid the cliff the republicans in the car told him there was no way they would ever let that happen. Much more important that they oppress the reproductive right of woman and the civil rights of the gay person in the car. Those are *much* more important than avoiding the cliff.
Either way, you're fucked while you've got nutcases like the current Repub nominees holding any serious sway in the GOP, even if they have no chance of winning a presidential election.
It's to be expected for the standard slashdot groupthink - didn't you get the memo? Anything a company does, without exception, has a secret, ulterior motive designed to crush the common man, hurt open source, and destroy privacy.
It's simply not possible for a company to ever do anything accidental. This was clearly O2's plan all along and they've been "caught" trying to be evil. Score one for the little guy!
DISCLAIMER: The above comments might be facetious. YMMV.
Like they said - it (was) used for convenience with sites they were linked with, like O2 tickets and ringtone sites within their portal. There's nothing inherently Machiavellian about this, but I suppose it is the slashdot modus operandi to assume that companies can't do anything *but* be evil.
They fixed the issue before most of the stories went up, and it was also specific to cellular connections - if you visited via WiFi it would not show the error (since the problem was inside O2's network rather than happening at the handset end).
"Caught red handed"
What do you mean? It was a mistake that started on January 12th and was corrected when it was noticed, yesterday.
You make it sound like this was some secret, evil scheme.
It allows for convenient billing, for example, if you buy ringtones from O2's store (if you're the type to do this - it used to be huge here before the rise of the smartphone), or O2's link with ticketing for the O2 Arena, where customers get priority and discounted tickets for being on O2.