The universe is the simulation. Why run a simulation of a universe when you can run a universe? After all, any simulation is going to be just an approximation of what would happen in a universe. And you can't create a complete universe, start to finish, unless you create a deterministic universe. To create a universe where random events occur you have to run the universe so the random events resolve themselves into one outcome or another. I postulate that a run of a universe is over once all of the random events have resolved.
"WWII would have been so much less of a problem if the Third Reich hadn't invaded Europe..."
Why is it that whenever someone decries war, WWII seems to be the only war mentioned in response? Was that the last war we ever had?
I am not sure what you mean by "bilateral in its fakeness", but to respond to your question, have you heard of the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident, a fake incident which Lyndon Johnson used as justification for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War without need for a declaration of war? This was the Vietnam equivalent of the Iraq 'use of force' resolution which Bush used to start the Iraq war.
The Constitution applies to the government of the US, and that includes the military.
That soldier with the warrent engraved on the sole of his boot will find his head splattered all over the soldier behind him if he thinks that warrent is real. Sure, they will kill me for it, but if the army decides it is at war with the citizens of the US, what choice do we have?
"the older boss just wants it to work and is more prone to hit the "I'm feelin' lucky" button and trust what that tells them"
Do you have any references that bear this out, other than your imagination? Oh wait, you're from the younger generation, you think that because you thought it up, it must be true! Don't bother providing evidence, you don't need any.
This is a non-story? The White House can't provide information they are required by law to have, the only way that is possible is by systematically destroying both hard drives and multiple backups, and this is a non-story? This is a non-story only to the fools and idiots that have empowered these scum to shit on America.
$100/quarter was the cost to attend the school, not including living expenses. My 1st year I stayed in the cheapest student housing available: Smyth-Fernwald, former WWII barracks, now married student housing. Afraid I don't remember how much that cost, but working a year before attending school, and working part-time while in school meant I didn't have to take out any loans. After year 1 I and people I met at the dorm rented an apartment together, $60 each per month, still no loan needed.
"when the corruption comes from the top down, it's hard to determine what's right/legal and what isn't"
No it isn't, that is what laws are for. Break the law and you have done something illegal, it is no more difficult than that. That is why companies have legal departments. Appeared valid to their legal department? ALL of their legal departments? Nonsense.
This is exactly what makes the IT staff far more important than those who maintain basic utilities. The playground is constantly shifting, and if you don't recognize the value of those that can keep up with it you will end up with dummies that can't do the job.
Hey, were you on the GCFI Grand Canyon Supergroup hike, 10 days Nankoweap to Bright Angle? Just a week or so after the '96 flood? If so then I was a fellow hiker! That hike was so awsome, I shudder to think of how hard it was.
"The cavitation damage to the solid rock of the spillway walls was truly incredible."
They found that the solution to keeping the spillway tubes (they don't actually spill over the dam but run through manmade culverts cut through the canyon walls) from being damaged in a flood was to cut 'key' slots into the ceiling.
The 'average' flow either deposited or removed sediment, depending on the amount of sediment already present when the flow occured. The Colorado River was named 'red' for a reason: it always carried a huge sediment load which it had picked up along the whole length of its run from the rocky mountains. The canyon and the river were in dynamic equilibrium: if the river was a little under in it's sediment load it would scour some from the canyon; if it had a little more than usual it would deposit sediment. The reason the Arizona monsoon has come to play a dominent role is because almost all of the pre-canyon sediment load is deposited at the head of lake Powell now, so now the only significant sediment is what is deposited by the Paria, the Little Colorado and other side canyons below the dam, when they flood during the monsoon. And that amount is pathetically small compared to what the river carried in the pre-dam period.
The Arizona monsoon floods were not necessary to keep species from collapsing, the river always had a huge sediment load that was inimical to species like trout that need clear water. Thus there was basically no competition for habitat until Glen Canyon Dam turned the water clear. All that the artifical floods do is churn up the 'monsoon' deposited sediment from the bottom and move it up onto the existing and previously existing beach sites, benificial for plant and animal habitat. It does nothing for the hump-back chub because in very short order the water will run clear again. And the previous 2 floods have demonstrated that these newly deposited beach sands do not stay long. As long as the Colorado River through Grand Canyon runs clear it will scour and carry away sediment to Lake Meade.
I am not sure what you mean in the sentence fragment "...before they need to dump sediment for the Dam's sake...", but no sediment is being removed from behind the dam. In fact, geologists estimate that it will probably be only a couple of hundred years before lake Powell is full of sediment and the dam will become a waterfall. The waterfall will then undercut the damn pretty quickly, as it has undercut lava flows in the past, and the dam will be gone.
As for the articles comment that half the camp sites in the canyon are disappearing, this only refers to camp sites used by river runners. If you backpack in the canyon back country, the best place to go, you will find an unlimited number of camp sites.
'I don't think "Hypocrite" means what you think it does.'
Let's get a third party opinion: from dictionary.com we get
"hypocrite: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives"
I think that applies, the U.S. uses the words 'human rights violators, 'undemocratic' etc. etc. to justify the embargo of Cuba. However, everything we say is wrong with Cuba applies in spades to China. This means that the real motive for the embargo of Cuba has been concealed, and what we profess about Cuba is an opinion we do not actually hold, as in the definition of hypocrite above.
The rest of your post is somewhat opaque to me, we are not proposing the equivalent of marrage to other countries, but simply treating them without prejudice, evenhandedly.
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Close cases, fine, but not on something so fundamental that it was decided by the Magna Carta.
but I quess I won't now.
A dog is accurately described as man's best friend, cat person, and nothing you say can or will change that.
Who cares? How about people that would like a sustainable, livable environment?
The universe is the simulation. Why run a simulation of a universe when you can run a universe? After all, any simulation is going to be just an approximation of what would happen in a universe. And you can't create a complete universe, start to finish, unless you create a deterministic universe. To create a universe where random events occur you have to run the universe so the random events resolve themselves into one outcome or another. I postulate that a run of a universe is over once all of the random events have resolved.
that if I open a paint can with a screwdriver, the screwdriver manufacturer can sue me?
"WWII would have been so much less of a problem if the Third Reich hadn't invaded Europe..."
Why is it that whenever someone decries war, WWII seems to be the only war mentioned in response? Was that the last war we ever had?
I am not sure what you mean by "bilateral in its fakeness", but to respond to your question, have you heard of the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident, a fake incident which Lyndon Johnson used as justification for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War without need for a declaration of war? This was the Vietnam equivalent of the Iraq 'use of force' resolution which Bush used to start the Iraq war.
a machine that drinks coffee, and we can take people out of the equation altogether!
did our astronomers see their astronomers peering back as us?
The Constitution applies to the government of the US, and that includes the military.
That soldier with the warrent engraved on the sole of his boot will find his head splattered all over the soldier behind him if he thinks that warrent is real. Sure, they will kill me for it, but if the army decides it is at war with the citizens of the US, what choice do we have?
"NATO is not the US."
No, but we control NATO and tell it what to do.
Has NATO ever used military force at the initiative of another country? If so, when?
Has NATO ever refused to engage in force when the US wanted it to? If so, when?
Were the other 9 digits lost in an accident?
"the older boss just wants it to work and is more prone to hit the "I'm feelin' lucky" button and trust what that tells them"
Do you have any references that bear this out, other than your imagination? Oh wait, you're from the younger generation, you think that because you thought it up, it must be true! Don't bother providing evidence, you don't need any.
This is a non-story? The White House can't provide information they are required by law to have, the only way that is possible is by systematically destroying both hard drives and multiple backups, and this is a non-story? This is a non-story only to the fools and idiots that have empowered these scum to shit on America.
I think if he were to come up with something today, it would be more along the lines of
"Because people inevitable fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it endlessly."
$100/quarter was the cost to attend the school, not including living expenses. My 1st year I stayed in the cheapest student housing available: Smyth-Fernwald, former WWII barracks, now married student housing. Afraid I don't remember how much that cost, but working a year before attending school, and working part-time while in school meant I didn't have to take out any loans. After year 1 I and people I met at the dorm rented an apartment together, $60 each per month, still no loan needed.
I went to UC Berkeley in the 60's: $100 a quarter books not included.
It is considerably more today, a shame of the baby boom generation.
"But I'd rather see a Congressman who can write sensible legislature"
Having a grounding in logic is probably a good place to start.
"when the corruption comes from the top down, it's hard to determine what's right/legal and what isn't"
No it isn't, that is what laws are for. Break the law and you have done something illegal, it is no more difficult than that. That is why companies have legal departments. Appeared valid to their legal department? ALL of their legal departments? Nonsense.
This is exactly what makes the IT staff far more important than those who maintain basic utilities. The playground is constantly shifting, and if you don't recognize the value of those that can keep up with it you will end up with dummies that can't do the job.
Hey, were you on the GCFI Grand Canyon Supergroup hike, 10 days Nankoweap to Bright Angle? Just a week or so after the '96 flood? If so then I was a fellow hiker! That hike was so awsome, I shudder to think of how hard it was.
Ever heard of missle carrying subs? Stupidity like yours is exactly the reason this country is so f**ked up.
"The cavitation damage to the solid rock of the spillway walls was truly incredible." They found that the solution to keeping the spillway tubes (they don't actually spill over the dam but run through manmade culverts cut through the canyon walls) from being damaged in a flood was to cut 'key' slots into the ceiling.
The 'average' flow either deposited or removed sediment, depending on the amount of sediment already present when the flow occured. The Colorado River was named 'red' for a reason: it always carried a huge sediment load which it had picked up along the whole length of its run from the rocky mountains. The canyon and the river were in dynamic equilibrium: if the river was a little under in it's sediment load it would scour some from the canyon; if it had a little more than usual it would deposit sediment. The reason the Arizona monsoon has come to play a dominent role is because almost all of the pre-canyon sediment load is deposited at the head of lake Powell now, so now the only significant sediment is what is deposited by the Paria, the Little Colorado and other side canyons below the dam, when they flood during the monsoon. And that amount is pathetically small compared to what the river carried in the pre-dam period.
The Arizona monsoon floods were not necessary to keep species from collapsing, the river always had a huge sediment load that was inimical to species like trout that need clear water. Thus there was basically no competition for habitat until Glen Canyon Dam turned the water clear. All that the artifical floods do is churn up the 'monsoon' deposited sediment from the bottom and move it up onto the existing and previously existing beach sites, benificial for plant and animal habitat. It does nothing for the hump-back chub because in very short order the water will run clear again. And the previous 2 floods have demonstrated that these newly deposited beach sands do not stay long. As long as the Colorado River through Grand Canyon runs clear it will scour and carry away sediment to Lake Meade.
I am not sure what you mean in the sentence fragment "...before they need to dump sediment for the Dam's sake...", but no sediment is being removed from behind the dam. In fact, geologists estimate that it will probably be only a couple of hundred years before lake Powell is full of sediment and the dam will become a waterfall. The waterfall will then undercut the damn pretty quickly, as it has undercut lava flows in the past, and the dam will be gone.
As for the articles comment that half the camp sites in the canyon are disappearing, this only refers to camp sites used by river runners. If you backpack in the canyon back country, the best place to go, you will find an unlimited number of camp sites.
'I don't think "Hypocrite" means what you think it does.'
Let's get a third party opinion: from dictionary.com we get
"hypocrite: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives"
I think that applies, the U.S. uses the words 'human rights violators, 'undemocratic' etc. etc. to justify the embargo of Cuba. However, everything we say is wrong with Cuba applies in spades to China. This means that the real motive for the embargo of Cuba has been concealed, and what we profess about Cuba is an opinion we do not actually hold, as in the definition of hypocrite above.
The rest of your post is somewhat opaque to me, we are not proposing the equivalent of marrage to other countries, but simply treating them without prejudice, evenhandedly.