Shouldn't this be obvious? No one in their right mind shops at Best Buy unless they've been stuck with a $50 gift card (that'll get you a 2-pack of AA batteries). I once saw two copies of the same movie being sold for $10 difference (one was title "Leon", the other, "The Professional"). I moved copies of the (still overpriced) cheaper version over to the more expensive version.
If everyone questioned the evidence for the beliefs they are taught, it would be damn near impossible for groups of people to emerge who blindly accept beliefs without so much as asking for evidence. The existence of believers who blindly accept religious claims (even if they're nice to thine neighbors) makes it easier for nutjobs to justify their blind acceptance. Your freely-professed blind faith is excusable and detrimental to society. As for Sam Harris, I can't say I've ever read any books by him.
Well, of course there are multiple problems with the world. Religion is definitely in the top 3. This has nothing to do with social grouping, but with blindly accepting claims without evidence; this practice is very dangerous and naturally leads to fundamentalist lunacy. If everyone questioned what they are taught to believe blindly, we wouldn't have this issue. The existence of good people who blindly accept what they are taught makes it easier for others to blindly accept the corruption they are taught.
The existence of good believers validates the existence of bad believers. Religion is the source of the problem and the only cure is irreligion. You can worship a book full of hatred and murder and be stunned when someone else worships the same book and is filled with murderous hate. Your willingness to accept and "spread the Word" paves the way for religious intolerance, hatred, and holy wars.
There's a difference between shutting your doors but not locking them, and putting huge signs outside your house saying "ANYONE CAN ENTER FREELY AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT"
Definitely overkill. I once switched the keys around on the keyboards in my keyboarding/word processing class in high school, and only got a couple days in-school suspension (and only from that one class). I also once shot a string of staples from a rubber band across the cafeteria (accidentally, I was trying to hit my friend in front of me) and hit the teacher right in the face, and only got a couple days in-school suspension. The next year, however, I was in his "study hall" class, and he made me sit out in the hall every day.
Here's the deleted text that was repeatedly copied/cropped in their documents. This shows how absurdly inept those in charge were. Note that the most likely theory is the one the administrator rebuts as "a boring theory".
Why are the Attacks Down in Al Anbar Province - Several Theories
1. Over the past month attacks against Coalition Forces in Al Anbar province have gone from over 20 per day to next to none. There are a number of theories for why this is. It is entirely possible that it is merely a blip on the screen or a statistical aberration and we will return to larger numbers of attacks, but it has held for nearly five weeks now and both military commanders and Anbar's citizens are starting to openly talk about it and offer their theories for why it is happening. Among the reasons given:
Rounding up the Bums: MG Swannack and all military commanders (as well as GC) believe that the many high yield raids of the past weeks have made a difference both in getting off the streets some of the leaders and financiers of the resistance and especially some of the technical experts that attackers rely on to carry out their attacks. This has had the spin off effect of causing others to go underground out of fear that they might be next. Most raids also leave in their wake a number of innocents who were either rounded up and detained or had their houses busted up. These can conceivably lead to bitterness over the occupation and spawn new attacks. But there appears to be sufficient care in how the attacks are carried out, adequate information in the community about the mild reality of detention, and sufficient civil affairs clean up afterwards that this has not been a major factor.
Crossed the Line: Violence in Iraq is a form of political discourse as well as being culturally acceptable for settling disputes and scores. Thus for a people which is nearly universal in its opposition to being occupied, attacking the occupier is a natural reaction and is widely accepted, even by those who are friendly to us. "It is nothing personal," one businessman told me, "I like you and believe you could be bringing us a better future, but I still sympathize with those who attack the coalition because it is not right for Iraq to be occupied by foreign military forces." Thus a low level of violence has been widely accepted in Al Anbar and those carrying out the attacks have even been the recipients of admiration and praise. But with the spate of attacks in mid to late November, culminating with the shootdown of the Chinook, there may have been a sense that the insurgents had crossed a line. This was reinforced strongly by General Abizaid when he came here on the heels of that incident and told some 70 Sheikhs and community leaders that he planned to unleash hell if they kept it up. It was further reinforced by the dropping of several JADMs which may have served to get the attention of the province. It is possible that Anbar's leaders realized they had crossed a line and reeled the attacks in.
Operational Pause: A boring theory is that the terrorists are in an operational pause, needing to regroup after the recent spate of roundups. There are very few persons we have met who subscribe to this.
Occupation Ending: A number of individuals have expressed satisfaction at the announcement of the new political calendar, although they don't appear to fully understand it. What has caught their attention is the simple expression that in June a sovereign Iraqi government will be in place. What they have gotten wrong is the idea that the military will be leaving Iraq in June, which one individual said he was sure was a major factor in the diminishing attacks. Oh well, this is one time it might be best that folks don't fully understand things. By June, when there is a transition of the force rather than a pullout, we will have a new set of challenges anyway, but if this bought us some months of peace it will be worth the confusion.
Project Money Flowing: Some individuals have expressed satis
"Gonzales said that this was critical as the US moved to digital television. This will strike EU readers as a bit odd as it was not vital when we all moved over to digital television."
Did you also know that among suicide victims, the cases of death by cancer, disease, or AIDS are on average 0.0! This is strong evidence that we should advocate suicide to our children.
Just because something causes fewer deaths in one particular category doesn't mean that overall it causes fewer deaths, or that it won't increase other causes of death (for example... oh I dunno... heat exhaustion, maybe).
"The report did not indicate what kinds of coins were involved. A service spokeswoman said details of the incidents were classified."
So, basically, a weird looking coin led the government to believe there was an international threat, and the reason this belief remained intact for more than... say... 30 seconds, is that these idiots were too dumb to Google "remember souvenir" (the words on the coin), and yet they're given the ability to classify such nonsense, escalating a problem that could've been resolved by asking any Canadian to empty their pockets, into a threat to national security.
Are they really stupid enough to think that spies are going to make tracking devices in the form of big red X's, and then put those devices on coins that are unlikely to stay in their possession for more than a day?
The most hilarious part are the comments by one of the U.S. contractors, who sounds like he just got his Official Little Orphan Annie secret decoder pin in the mail:
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."
I was referring to one shot per 0.1 second, not per 10 seconds. 0.1 second frequency is needed for fusion power; 10 second frequency is just what they currently can do.
The chamber is not the size of a thimble; that's just the wire array. I don't remember how large the chamber is that is actually destroyed, but I've seen shrapnel from it that is larger than your hand.
Firing 11,000 times would last a whopping 18 minutes. This thing would have to run continuously. The 11,000 firings were with proper care/repairs/cleanup occurring in between each firing. You wouldn't get that chance when firing 10 times a second.
You don't seem to know much about geology if you think that simply sticking something on the ground means that it won't move as long as "it's not over a cave". They have to drill down to bedrock to give structures the most stability, but I'm not sure that would even work in this situation.
I remember seeing a powerpoint lecture given by one of the researchers there, who calculated that to make the Z machine feasible for providing fusion power, they would need to fire one of these off every 0.1 second, so once every 10 seconds is not even close. Plus, the simple fact that there's an enormous explosion going off ten times a second, which destroys the chamber that holds the capsule, makes it seem like there's a definite engineering feat to overcome, otherwise the whole thing is liable to crumble to bits. Right now, they only fire off the Z machine a few hundred times a year... going from that to a few hundred times a minute is a big step.
I also wouldn't want to live anywhere near there; it feels like a moderately strong earthquake in the area everytime they fire that thing; it seems like the ground beneath and around a rapid-fire facility would quickly weaken and collapse.
So yes, the Z machine is an excellent source of x-rays, and those x-rays can definitely be used to collapse a fusion capsule, but how applicable is it for fusion power?
"There is an effective way to deal with these things. Vote. When elections are lost because of this kind of thing, this kind of thing will stop happening."
Voting only works when a significant portion of the population is informed. Such is not the case in the US. People here vote based on physical appearance, ability to sound cool in the debates, and most importantly, whether the candidate is Democrat or Republican (the only 2 choices, right?). Uninformed voting is not voting at all. We might as well flip a coin.
"Apathy is the only reason politics is in it's current cesspool state."
Actually, it's ignorance, combined with the ability to vote while remaining ignorant.
"You can only be prosecuted for a public peformance"
The RIAA will simply argue in favor of Cartesian dualism - that in fact the mind is a separate entity/observer, viewing the performance of the body, and is therefore an audience member, thus making it a public performance.
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Shouldn't this be obvious? No one in their right mind shops at Best Buy unless they've been stuck with a $50 gift card (that'll get you a 2-pack of AA batteries). I once saw two copies of the same movie being sold for $10 difference (one was title "Leon", the other, "The Professional"). I moved copies of the (still overpriced) cheaper version over to the more expensive version.
If everyone questioned the evidence for the beliefs they are taught, it would be damn near impossible for groups of people to emerge who blindly accept beliefs without so much as asking for evidence. The existence of believers who blindly accept religious claims (even if they're nice to thine neighbors) makes it easier for nutjobs to justify their blind acceptance. Your freely-professed blind faith is excusable and detrimental to society. As for Sam Harris, I can't say I've ever read any books by him.
Well, of course there are multiple problems with the world. Religion is definitely in the top 3. This has nothing to do with social grouping, but with blindly accepting claims without evidence; this practice is very dangerous and naturally leads to fundamentalist lunacy. If everyone questioned what they are taught to believe blindly, we wouldn't have this issue. The existence of good people who blindly accept what they are taught makes it easier for others to blindly accept the corruption they are taught.
The existence of good believers validates the existence of bad believers. Religion is the source of the problem and the only cure is irreligion. You can worship a book full of hatred and murder and be stunned when someone else worships the same book and is filled with murderous hate. Your willingness to accept and "spread the Word" paves the way for religious intolerance, hatred, and holy wars.
There's a difference between shutting your doors but not locking them, and putting huge signs outside your house saying "ANYONE CAN ENTER FREELY AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT"
Idiotic... The "human element made sure" when he configured the network to freely accept any incoming connections within range.
Definitely overkill. I once switched the keys around on the keyboards in my keyboarding/word processing class in high school, and only got a couple days in-school suspension (and only from that one class). I also once shot a string of staples from a rubber band across the cafeteria (accidentally, I was trying to hit my friend in front of me) and hit the teacher right in the face, and only got a couple days in-school suspension. The next year, however, I was in his "study hall" class, and he made me sit out in the hall every day.
You may want to read Salon.com's analysis, which contradicts your empty review.
The Inquirer has an interesting bit in their article on the act:
"Gonzales said that this was critical as the US moved to digital television. This will strike EU readers as a bit odd as it was not vital when we all moved over to digital television."
"But on the brighter side of things, the Hummer is now rated at 75mpg on the highway."
Is that miles or meters per gallon?
Did you also know that among suicide victims, the cases of death by cancer, disease, or AIDS are on average 0.0! This is strong evidence that we should advocate suicide to our children.
Just because something causes fewer deaths in one particular category doesn't mean that overall it causes fewer deaths, or that it won't increase other causes of death (for example... oh I dunno... heat exhaustion, maybe).
"The report did not indicate what kinds of coins were involved. A service spokeswoman said details of the incidents were classified."
So, basically, a weird looking coin led the government to believe there was an international threat, and the reason this belief remained intact for more than... say... 30 seconds, is that these idiots were too dumb to Google "remember souvenir" (the words on the coin), and yet they're given the ability to classify such nonsense, escalating a problem that could've been resolved by asking any Canadian to empty their pockets, into a threat to national security.
Are they really stupid enough to think that spies are going to make tracking devices in the form of big red X's, and then put those devices on coins that are unlikely to stay in their possession for more than a day?
The most hilarious part are the comments by one of the U.S. contractors, who sounds like he just got his Official Little Orphan Annie secret decoder pin in the mail:
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."
Overnight, all the online grocery store websites will suddenly go down.
Seriously, the government needs to get its priorities straightened out if it thinks that internet access is the most important thing for its people.
I was referring to one shot per 0.1 second, not per 10 seconds. 0.1 second frequency is needed for fusion power; 10 second frequency is just what they currently can do.
The chamber is not the size of a thimble; that's just the wire array. I don't remember how large the chamber is that is actually destroyed, but I've seen shrapnel from it that is larger than your hand.
Firing 11,000 times would last a whopping 18 minutes. This thing would have to run continuously. The 11,000 firings were with proper care/repairs/cleanup occurring in between each firing. You wouldn't get that chance when firing 10 times a second.
You don't seem to know much about geology if you think that simply sticking something on the ground means that it won't move as long as "it's not over a cave". They have to drill down to bedrock to give structures the most stability, but I'm not sure that would even work in this situation.
I remember seeing a powerpoint lecture given by one of the researchers there, who calculated that to make the Z machine feasible for providing fusion power, they would need to fire one of these off every 0.1 second, so once every 10 seconds is not even close. Plus, the simple fact that there's an enormous explosion going off ten times a second, which destroys the chamber that holds the capsule, makes it seem like there's a definite engineering feat to overcome, otherwise the whole thing is liable to crumble to bits. Right now, they only fire off the Z machine a few hundred times a year... going from that to a few hundred times a minute is a big step.
I also wouldn't want to live anywhere near there; it feels like a moderately strong earthquake in the area everytime they fire that thing; it seems like the ground beneath and around a rapid-fire facility would quickly weaken and collapse.
So yes, the Z machine is an excellent source of x-rays, and those x-rays can definitely be used to collapse a fusion capsule, but how applicable is it for fusion power?
So basically you're saying that if people can't get the most updated information, they shouldn't get any information at all? Brilliant!
"totally irresponsible, abusive and in the end pointless.
Wait, are you talking about slashdot or that idiot principal?
I nominate this for besttagever. And if anyone is wondering what it refers to, first hand over your honorary nerd badge, and then watch this.
"What kind of "intelligent" designer puts a recreational facility next to a waste disposal site?"
Unless you're Neil deGrasse Tyson, you should probably credit him as the source of that hilarious quote, instead of passing it off as your own.
"There is an effective way to deal with these things. Vote. When elections are lost because of this kind of thing, this kind of thing will stop happening."
Voting only works when a significant portion of the population is informed. Such is not the case in the US. People here vote based on physical appearance, ability to sound cool in the debates, and most importantly, whether the candidate is Democrat or Republican (the only 2 choices, right?). Uninformed voting is not voting at all. We might as well flip a coin.
"Apathy is the only reason politics is in it's current cesspool state."
Actually, it's ignorance, combined with the ability to vote while remaining ignorant.
Which one has better emissions, though?
"You can only be prosecuted for a public peformance"
The RIAA will simply argue in favor of Cartesian dualism - that in fact the mind is a separate entity/observer, viewing the performance of the body, and is therefore an audience member, thus making it a public performance.