There's reason to believe Stalin would have attacked Hitler at some point, so he'd have the war no matter what. Attacking first allowed him to choose the timing and take the destruction to enemy territory.
A really big German mistake: (from Wikipedia)
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, even though it was not obliged to do so under the Tripartite Pact of 1940. Hitler made the declaration in the hopes that Japan would support him by attacking the Soviet Union. Japan did not oblige him, and this diplomatic move proved a catastrophic blunder which gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the pretext needed for the United States joining the fight in Europe with full commitment and with no meaningful opposition from Congress.
I modded it insightful. The post just looked so much cooler with an "insightful" tag. Since that tag's gone now anyway I might as well undo the mod by posting.
I might not get mod points again for a year - so what?
Leadership? Government? Excuse me, but a government represents the people of the country.
ROFL!
If the people don't like the government, or don't think it's representing them properly, it's their responsibility to change that government. Otherwise, the people are absolutely to blame for any actions the government takes.
Well yeah, but we just might be a tad forgiving when changing the government means risking life and limb rather than voting every 4 years mightn't we?
Incidentally the lebanese interior minister resigned over the incident.
If the middle-eastern governments are indeed to blame for this violence, then that blame directly transfers to the citizens of these countries.
Small percentage? There's thousands of Muslims rioting and attacking embassies.
Blame the leadership. For instance, in Beirut many people attended what they expected to be a peaceful demonstration that then turned violent. Also, several Danes in Beirut have said that they have felt support from the local population and have wanted to stay. Some of them have gotten cold feet along the way, but that's somewhat understandable since 100 good neighbours might not be enough to save you from one crazy islamofascist.
Once you get down to it, maybe a few hundred people torched that embassy. With some unspoken support from the government I'm sure you could rally that many nazis to torch a mosque in Denmark. (In Beirut the support has been alleged to come from pro-Syrian factions, I wouldn't know).
Yes, many muslims today has a tendency to overreact violently but simplifying that into a case of us against "muslims" and "islam" is really lazy thinking at the expense of making enemies. I think that has also been made clear in Denmark where the crisis has at least had the benefit of seeding the crystallization of the muslim community into islamists and moderates. If we could get that reaction going in general we might wake up to find the "Clash of Civilizations" to be a rather more manageable problem.
Is beer really that simple? I like sampling different beers when I have the chance, and the range of tastes found wildly exceeds that of wine (only occasional wine-drinker) I'd expect brewers to have just as subtle discussions as vintners.
I don't mind beer being simple, I'll drink it anyway for sure, but I'm wondering, what part of your job gave you that impression?
I hope there's a foot of lead included in that shielding somewhere. To me that would seem the most vital shielding they could provide.
AFAIK lead is a very effective radiation shield per thickness but for a given weight of material it's not all that superior. This means that 3-5 feet of soil would probably be just as good, and it's a whole lot cheaper to drill a bit deeper rather than taking a shipload of lead to Spitzbergen.
The only problem is that the RIAA will be able to home in on your filesharing - you'll see their agents (all named Smith) in the Subway soon.
I propose some simple method of authorizing users. Maybe you could exchange keys with people by pressing some button while shaking their hands. Even with just the people I trust enough to exchange the keys to my mp3s that way I'd be able to build a fairly sizeable collection. Now, moving on to friends of friends etc. I'd have all music in the world within a few years - and the popular stuff within days. That is, if I cared for illegal file sharing.
I think it's your administrator that needs contacting.
Yep. On two occasions I've found them blocking the gateway IP for the UCopenhagen institute of physics - and I'm just one user. Something about bots scanning from our network. Not that I can really think of anyone who'd want to do that. The bot alarm is probably just oversensitive. Now of course you can get around that by using for instance de.arxiv.org instead, but the admin really should cut down on the paranoia.
I believe that we in the United States have a certain right to an expectation of privacy, but at the same time we cannot rely on that expectation to safeguard information regarding ourselves.
In Europe that expectation is formalized in the EU charter on fundamental rights. (See art. 8, p.10) At the same time, neither can we rely on that to safeguard our privacy. Still, I think "privacy by default" is an idea to emulate.
In Denmark it's simply illegal to hold and spread data on others without "legitimate reason". Too bad the government watchdog in this area isn't working too well:-/
Anyone writing that the hypothetical hydrino "exhibits traits promising for many applications" just lost a big deal of credibility. I see the same trend in his treatment of other subjects - he seems to like "free energy".
I sure hope we can find better renewable energy sources, but this blog is hardly the one to take the pointers from.
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If I 0wned Santa I'd query his database for naughty girls age 15-30 in my area. Then just cover my tracks and leave...
In the winter, when visitors commented on the "waste" of heated sidewalks, it was fun to explain that it was a side effect of the cost-saving heating system.
In Denmark, we isolate the pipes of our cost-saving heating systems.
And we do implement them city-wide, pulling waste heat from the power plants.
Oh, and another thing: If your name is on the "voted for" side of a law that was overturned by the SC, you should be able to be held accountable for any losses incured while the law was being enforced.
I don't think that would really improve anything. Many times it's not really clear cut whether something is constitutional or not and the Supreme Court often makes split decisions. In these cases it makes sense to let congress vote to the best of their conviction and then have a test case afterwards. It's not like it's completely free to support laws that are struck down - it's associated with a certain political loss of face, not to mention that the law then can't serve it's original purpose. I think this mechanism is quite sufficient, especially when backed by a vigilant voting public* that punishes accordingly - with lenience shown in the fuzzy cases.
* "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" -- Thomas Jefferson
Unless you reach escape velocity anything fired will always be on a trajectory through the point of last acceleration. (Modulo Earth rotation). If the last point your satellite was accelerated was the mouth of the gun it WILL touch down again. Of course you could use course-adjusting rockets, maybe in combination with some kind of steering fins - basically something akin to the upper stage of current rockets.
Anyway I think the system is not very feasible - see the other comments to your post.
The strand would be composed of many individual shorter tubes so there would be losses coupling the current in and out of them. Also the couplings must be metallic for efficiency which gives weight problems.
Apart from that no one has grown single walled tubes longer than a few cm. I don't remember if they were metallic or semiconducting (or if they even could tell).
The real victims in this case are the ones who were kept longer in jail without conviction. It's quite scary that no one at WLNS apparently cares about them. A toast to the future of the american justice system. I hope it has one.
So when I log in I'm asked "Does the key 26.MM exist on your card?" - if it doesn't I'm not supposed to enter my password. There's still some kind of middle man attacks possible (if I trust the wrong SSL certificate), but it helps a bit.
Watch out, you might be setting yourself up for a disappointment.
I know politicians and activists that do fantastic things in some areas of "geek policy" but are aligned directly against me in other areas. The lesson to be drawn is that your (political) friend today may be your enemy tomorrow - or even both at the same time. It's not like you can apply for "good guy membership" anyway.
We think that at the moment the screens will appear first in more expensive magazines in the form of high-impact adverts. But as the price sinks we expect them to appear in papers as well, possibly as a really attention-grabbing front page.
How about selling blank screens to customers, then have them download content? I mean, we don't throw away our computer screens at every page update. Does anyone know why this guy seems to think completely backwards?
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A really big German mistake: (from Wikipedia)
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, even though it was not obliged to do so under the Tripartite Pact of 1940. Hitler made the declaration in the hopes that Japan would support him by attacking the Soviet Union. Japan did not oblige him, and this diplomatic move proved a catastrophic blunder which gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the pretext needed for the United States joining the fight in Europe with full commitment and with no meaningful opposition from Congress.
I might not get mod points again for a year - so what?
ROFL!
If the people don't like the government, or don't think it's representing them properly, it's their responsibility to change that government. Otherwise, the people are absolutely to blame for any actions the government takes.
Well yeah, but we just might be a tad forgiving when changing the government means risking life and limb rather than voting every 4 years mightn't we?
Incidentally the lebanese interior minister resigned over the incident.
If the middle-eastern governments are indeed to blame for this violence, then that blame directly transfers to the citizens of these countries.
Bullshit.
If he becomes the first in a race of cyborgs to exterminate humans, can we get a collective darwin award?
Blame the leadership. For instance, in Beirut many people attended what they expected to be a peaceful demonstration that then turned violent. Also, several Danes in Beirut have said that they have felt support from the local population and have wanted to stay. Some of them have gotten cold feet along the way, but that's somewhat understandable since 100 good neighbours might not be enough to save you from one crazy islamofascist.
Once you get down to it, maybe a few hundred people torched that embassy. With some unspoken support from the government I'm sure you could rally that many nazis to torch a mosque in Denmark. (In Beirut the support has been alleged to come from pro-Syrian factions, I wouldn't know).
Yes, many muslims today has a tendency to overreact violently but simplifying that into a case of us against "muslims" and "islam" is really lazy thinking at the expense of making enemies. I think that has also been made clear in Denmark where the crisis has at least had the benefit of seeding the crystallization of the muslim community into islamists and moderates. If we could get that reaction going in general we might wake up to find the "Clash of Civilizations" to be a rather more manageable problem.
Taxing vices is dangerous. States too become addicts.
Is beer really that simple? I like sampling different beers when I have the chance, and the range of tastes found wildly exceeds that of wine (only occasional wine-drinker) I'd expect brewers to have just as subtle discussions as vintners.
I don't mind beer being simple, I'll drink it anyway for sure, but I'm wondering, what part of your job gave you that impression?
The brilliance of x-ray sources are right now undergoing a revolution much faster than Moore's law.
Perhaps that just goes to show there's no market.
Don't get me wrong, I wish there was, but I'm a bit skeptical about it.
AFAIK lead is a very effective radiation shield per thickness but for a given weight of material it's not all that superior. This means that 3-5 feet of soil would probably be just as good, and it's a whole lot cheaper to drill a bit deeper rather than taking a shipload of lead to Spitzbergen.
I propose some simple method of authorizing users. Maybe you could exchange keys with people by pressing some button while shaking their hands. Even with just the people I trust enough to exchange the keys to my mp3s that way I'd be able to build a fairly sizeable collection. Now, moving on to friends of friends etc. I'd have all music in the world within a few years - and the popular stuff within days. That is, if I cared for illegal file sharing.
Yep. On two occasions I've found them blocking the gateway IP for the UCopenhagen institute of physics - and I'm just one user. Something about bots scanning from our network. Not that I can really think of anyone who'd want to do that. The bot alarm is probably just oversensitive. Now of course you can get around that by using for instance de.arxiv.org instead, but the admin really should cut down on the paranoia.
In Europe that expectation is formalized in the EU charter on fundamental rights. (See art. 8, p.10) At the same time, neither can we rely on that to safeguard our privacy. Still, I think "privacy by default" is an idea to emulate.
In Denmark it's simply illegal to hold and spread data on others without "legitimate reason". Too bad the government watchdog in this area isn't working too well :-/
I sure hope we can find better renewable energy sources, but this blog is hardly the one to take the pointers from.
If I 0wned Santa I'd query his database for naughty girls age 15-30 in my area. Then just cover my tracks and leave...
In Denmark, we isolate the pipes of our cost-saving heating systems.
And we do implement them city-wide, pulling waste heat from the power plants.
If you get a hardcopy license it could become a real collectors item - imagine it in a montre at some future "History of Open Source Museum".
I don't think that would really improve anything. Many times it's not really clear cut whether something is constitutional or not and the Supreme Court often makes split decisions. In these cases it makes sense to let congress vote to the best of their conviction and then have a test case afterwards. It's not like it's completely free to support laws that are struck down - it's associated with a certain political loss of face, not to mention that the law then can't serve it's original purpose. I think this mechanism is quite sufficient, especially when backed by a vigilant voting public* that punishes accordingly - with lenience shown in the fuzzy cases.
* "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" -- Thomas Jefferson
Anyway I think the system is not very feasible - see the other comments to your post.
Apart from that no one has grown single walled tubes longer than a few cm. I don't remember if they were metallic or semiconducting (or if they even could tell).
The real victims in this case are the ones who were kept longer in jail without conviction. It's quite scary that no one at WLNS apparently cares about them. A toast to the future of the american justice system. I hope it has one.
24.VF 2887
25.XE 7598
26.MM 4747
So when I log in I'm asked "Does the key 26.MM exist on your card?" - if it doesn't I'm not supposed to enter my password. There's still some kind of middle man attacks possible (if I trust the wrong SSL certificate), but it helps a bit.
Watch out, you might be setting yourself up for a disappointment.
I know politicians and activists that do fantastic things in some areas of "geek policy" but are aligned directly against me in other areas. The lesson to be drawn is that your (political) friend today may be your enemy tomorrow - or even both at the same time. It's not like you can apply for "good guy membership" anyway.
How about selling blank screens to customers, then have them download content? I mean, we don't throw away our computer screens at every page update. Does anyone know why this guy seems to think completely backwards?
Me too. And now I have my first -1, I feel so worthless. Gotta go to counseling.