He traveled, presumably alone, across the alps. Something you didn't do back then, there was nothing to prove or no reason to go for some kind of misguided "self-realization"
Otzi wasn't on a glacier. He lived during a warm period when there was little if any snow at the altitude he was found, although it was cold and dry enough to mummify his body.
His last days were far more interesting and violent than you think. He had cuts on his hands consistent with defending himself against a knife attack. He also had someone else's blood on the back of his shirt consistent with carrying a companion who was injured. He was carrying at least three weapons (a knife, an axe, and a bow/arrow). What killed him was an arrow in the back. It isn't clear if he was part of a raiding party or he was defending his village against one, but he was in a battle.
Beyond the obvious targeting of Apple, the most profound and harmful effect of this ruling will be on investment and job creation in Europe. Using the Commission’s theory, every company in Ireland and across Europe is suddenly at risk of being subjected to taxes under laws that never existed.
The EU's conundrum is that without the tax break there's no reason for Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. to have any European operations other than sales fullfillment. Do they really want to kiss those tens of thousands of jobs goodbye?
Sadly, I'm pretty sure I have shipped code with Python syntax errors in error handling paths. My C or Go might have been buggy, but at least it friggin' compiled!
Your Python program compiled too. If you didn't test every path through the program written in C or python you probably did miss some bugs. Don't blame the language.
Studies consistently show that the number of bugs per thousand lines of code is roughly the same across different languages. For the same functionality, a verbose language like Java will have more bugs than a concise language like Python. Go ahead and write websites in C if you want.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or by several other names, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.
Where I live gunshots don't bother them at all. They're used to people shooting at woodchucks, crows, etc. Something they've never seen or heard before might spook them.
Youngman said the intruding pair quickly brought attention to themselves when they exited their SUV, parked in front of Duvall's residence.
Youngman said a series of burglaries in the area a few years ago, coupled with sightseers, has caused an increase in neighborhood awareness, as well as action by Duvall's security team.
Youngman said she believed in 2nd Amendment rights and also was irritated that people would try to disturb Duvall.
“The man is a national treasure and they should leave him the fuck alone,” she said.
The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said it had no record of anyone formally complaining about this incident.
Someone modded me Troll? Seriously, you don't think that knowing the experiment can be ended makes a huge difference in the subjects' stress level?
As mentioned elsewhere here, sailors in any ocean voyage prior to the early 20th century, or some of the early Arctic or Antarctic explorations are far better examples. Even in recent times a long ocean voyage can drive a person crazy
stop holding their actions up as a paradigm that you and everyone else should follow.
Can you point out in GP's post where I can find the part about "making excuses"?
He was mocking the idea that a union would help in a country that's supposed to be socialist (yeah, we all know that real socialism doesn't exist anywhere).
it was in an era where they were selling off long term industrial businesses and focusing a lot on GE Capital.
That's correct. At the time the government was trying to stimulate investment by giving generous tax breaks to companies that bought and leased out capital equipment. It seemed like a good idea, essentially let the company with the money take the depreciation; otherwise a small/startup would need to borrow money to buy the equipment - but they weren't making a big profit so the depreciation didn't help them. GE went all in on the deal because of the very good short term financial return.
Eventually the government backed off on it because profitable companies like GE were getting such huge tax breaks. The increased tax revenues looked good for a few years (remember Clinton's "balanced budget"?), but of course the negative impact on business investment eventually led to the series of recessions we've had since then.
"I was just a college student a couple of years ago and now I am working on an actual space mission, how cool is that," said Karan Vaish, 23, who is helping the team to design the lunar rover.
Pffft. I designed a lunar rover when I was 8 years old. And a spaceship for traveling to distant galaxies.
Indian executives say early investments by GE in India gave their technology and business service sectors crucial credibility and cash when other companies still viewed the country as a risky backwater. Moreover, exposure to Mr. Welch's culture of cost-cutting and efficiency taught them business skills they are now using to compete globally, often against U.S. firms.
The location Bing has for Melbourne is home to the gigantic squid, the most dangerous squid in the world. So of course they assumed it was in Australia.
I generally support the stated goals of Wikileaks, but complete lack of discretion helps no cause
Discretion? Okay, but who gets to decide what should be kept private and what should be made public? Julian Assange? You give him that power?
That's the problem with sites like Wikileaks and Gawker. Whether the information they publish is about a government or an individual, they can't be trusted to use any discretion.
He never left. If you follow the submissions you would see him on a regular basis. Almost all of his are quickly voted down, but once in a while the editors let one through to stir the pot..
Slashdot Mirror
Would the author prefer meaningful names like:
Lucid Lynx
Karmic Koala
Jaunty Jackalope
Intrepid Ibex
Hardy Heron
Gutsy Gibbon
Feisty Fawn
Edgy Eft
Yeah, I know they're sorted alphabetically. But which is Version 8.x, 9.x, etc?
PayPal is evaluating the major cloud service providers but hasn't made a decision. Meh.
Given the unemployment rate in the EU, I question who would sweep them up if the big guys leave.
so we're descended from the ones that fell... or pushed, or slipped on a banana peel...
More likely from the ones that didn't.
He traveled, presumably alone, across the alps. Something you didn't do back then, there was nothing to prove or no reason to go for some kind of misguided "self-realization"
Otzi wasn't on a glacier. He lived during a warm period when there was little if any snow at the altitude he was found, although it was cold and dry enough to mummify his body.
His last days were far more interesting and violent than you think. He had cuts on his hands consistent with defending himself against a knife attack. He also had someone else's blood on the back of his shirt consistent with carrying a companion who was injured. He was carrying at least three weapons (a knife, an axe, and a bow/arrow). What killed him was an arrow in the back. It isn't clear if he was part of a raiding party or he was defending his village against one, but he was in a battle.
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields
Beyond the obvious targeting of Apple, the most profound and harmful effect of this ruling will be on investment and job creation in Europe. Using the Commission’s theory, every company in Ireland and across Europe is suddenly at risk of being subjected to taxes under laws that never existed.
The EU's conundrum is that without the tax break there's no reason for Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. to have any European operations other than sales fullfillment. Do they really want to kiss those tens of thousands of jobs goodbye?
Sadly, I'm pretty sure I have shipped code with Python syntax errors in error handling paths. My C or Go might have been buggy, but at least it friggin' compiled!
Your Python program compiled too. If you didn't test every path through the program written in C or python you probably did miss some bugs. Don't blame the language.
Studies consistently show that the number of bugs per thousand lines of code is roughly the same across different languages. For the same functionality, a verbose language like Java will have more bugs than a concise language like Python. Go ahead and write websites in C if you want.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or by several other names, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.
Where I live gunshots don't bother them at all. They're used to people shooting at woodchucks, crows, etc. Something they've never seen or heard before might spook them.
Youngman said the intruding pair quickly brought attention to themselves when they exited their SUV, parked in front of Duvall's residence.
Youngman said a series of burglaries in the area a few years ago, coupled with sightseers, has caused an increase in neighborhood awareness, as well as action by Duvall's security team.
Youngman said she believed in 2nd Amendment rights and also was irritated that people would try to disturb Duvall.
“The man is a national treasure and they should leave him the fuck alone,” she said.
The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said it had no record of anyone formally complaining about this incident.
Sounds like a good neighbor.
Someone modded me Troll? Seriously, you don't think that knowing the experiment can be ended makes a huge difference in the subjects' stress level?
As mentioned elsewhere here, sailors in any ocean voyage prior to the early 20th century, or some of the early Arctic or Antarctic explorations are far better examples. Even in recent times a long ocean voyage can drive a person crazy
hypersonic weapons could be more suitable for fast attacks in the 300-500 km range
Which, coincidentally, is roughly the width of Pakistan along its border with India.
Yes, as discussed in the exact same story yesterday the only real use of a scramjet is in weapons. It's a lousy booster for spacecraft.
stop holding their actions up as a paradigm that you and everyone else should follow.
Can you point out in GP's post where I can find the part about "making excuses"?
He was mocking the idea that a union would help in a country that's supposed to be socialist (yeah, we all know that real socialism doesn't exist anywhere).
it was in an era where they were selling off long term industrial businesses and focusing a lot on GE Capital.
That's correct. At the time the government was trying to stimulate investment by giving generous tax breaks to companies that bought and leased out capital equipment. It seemed like a good idea, essentially let the company with the money take the depreciation; otherwise a small/startup would need to borrow money to buy the equipment - but they weren't making a big profit so the depreciation didn't help them. GE went all in on the deal because of the very good short term financial return.
Eventually the government backed off on it because profitable companies like GE were getting such huge tax breaks. The increased tax revenues looked good for a few years (remember Clinton's "balanced budget"?), but of course the negative impact on business investment eventually led to the series of recessions we've had since then.
Provisions included powdered cheese and canned tuna.
And the knowledge that if anything went wrong the "experiment" could be ended in a matter of minutes.
"I was just a college student a couple of years ago and now I am working on an actual space mission, how cool is that," said Karan Vaish, 23, who is helping the team to design the lunar rover.
Pffft. I designed a lunar rover when I was 8 years old. And a spaceship for traveling to distant galaxies.
Indian executives say early investments by GE in India gave their technology and business service sectors crucial credibility and cash when other companies still viewed the country as a risky backwater. Moreover, exposure to Mr. Welch's culture of cost-cutting and efficiency taught them business skills they are now using to compete globally, often against U.S. firms.
Nobody is saying there weren't problems in the past. But the problems we have today are real problems.
I'll agree with you that Obama isn't Karl Marx. But he might still be a socialist; one has nothing to do with the other
The location Bing has for Melbourne is home to the gigantic squid, the most dangerous squid in the world. So of course they assumed it was in Australia.
19th century which make modern corruption pale in comparison...The time we live in today is a lite version of what life was like 130 years earlier
So that makes it okay?
I will say Obama is not a socialist compared to the real communists like Karl Marx and Lennin
I don't know why you would call Lenin (not Lennin) a communist or a socialist, he was a totalitarian dictator.
NY Times...neutral...those do not go together.
I generally support the stated goals of Wikileaks, but complete lack of discretion helps no cause
Discretion? Okay, but who gets to decide what should be kept private and what should be made public? Julian Assange? You give him that power?
That's the problem with sites like Wikileaks and Gawker. Whether the information they publish is about a government or an individual, they can't be trusted to use any discretion.
He never left. If you follow the submissions you would see him on a regular basis. Almost all of his are quickly voted down, but once in a while the editors let one through to stir the pot..