And that is the murdering bunch of facist, misogynist, islamic assholes
Oh I think we can add a few names for contributing - starting with the CIA for fabricating evidence of WMDs that lead to the invasion of Iraq, and a slaughter of civilians on a scale that makes ISIS look like a bunch of schoolboy puppy-stranglers.
The CIA may well be nice guys compared to ISIS, but they have done far more damage.
The cataloging, rounding up, and internment of the Japanese
No question they took it too far, but given all the suicide attacks by the Japanese against the allies as they got more desperate, its hard to argue that some sort of registration and restriction of movement of Japanese civilians in the US could not be justified. That was a real war, with millions killed. The stakes were far higher than now.
And yet has become the most used, most useful operating system in the world.
Kind of.
Windows as we know it really is 22 years old, first released in July 1993 as Windows NT. It was a complete re-design that bore only superficial resemblance to that grotesque piece of excrement that was bolted onto DOS, and reached its nadir in Windows ME.
That original windows was utter junk, and died when MS released XP, a version of NT with the nice desktop UI from Windows'95, but totally rewritten and redesigned underneath.
As for "most used, most useful", that is only on the desktop, and due to monopoly power. Linux dominates everywhere else, from supercomputers to embedded, and even phones (followed by BSD).
You mean Muslims like Timothy McVeigh, or the IRA?
Totally different. The IRA bore some resemblance to the PLO - remember them? In the 70's and 80's the stereotypical terrorist was middle-eastern, and probably muslim but that was not their defining characteristic. They were political, not religious in essence, like the IRA. No suicide bombers back then. They held hostages for ransom, instead of simply murdering them. Nowadays Islam is absolutely central to the violence.
Lobster - arthropods that live on the floor of the ocean, hiding in the dark and scurrying out at night to scavenge on whatever dead muck they can find. Yes, thay are aquatic cockroaches. We used to use those awful creatures as fish bait, but now it is all exported to those weirdos in Japan who'll eat anything.
Shrimp? Now you are talking. They can be grown in vats in your garage at home, and are big enough that unlike mealworms you can break off the head, guts and shell, and just eat the meat. Yumm.
Personally, I'll just keep the chooks in my back yard coop. They are reasonably efficient at turning grain and scraps into tasty eggs, plus fertiliser for the veggie garden.
Some of the highest protein sources out there are vegetable-based.
The problem is not the total amount of protein, but about getting all the nine essential amino acids (ones our body cannot make). These are present in the right amounts in meat, but not vegetables. It is possible to get the right balance by combining different vegetable proteins, but not all vegans make the effort consistently, and are often deficient in methionine and lysine.
And white supremacist terrorism is more coordinated than you seem to think, as is anti-Islamic terrorism such as Anders Brevik's.
Brevik was not exactly anti-Islamic. He did not want to conquer muslim lands. He even had Muslim friends. He was anti mass-muslim-immigration, and his terrorism was an act of revenge against those whose white Norwegians who were responsible. If there were thousands more "white-jihadis" like him, it might have been an effective strategy.
Yes, it is All Hallows Day. Its almost like we have forgotten what comes after Christmas Eve or New Years Eve. All three were considered important holidays (as in "holy days") once.
Maybe, just maybe if we stopped waging wars at $3 trillion apiece we'd have money for kooky stuff like healthcare.
But there is money! The US government already spends more per-capita on healthcare than most other nations in that list, but just does not get much for it.
The US health-care system is far more expensive overall, and produces much worse outcomes (both medical and other) than other industrialised nations.
However, sadly, doctors in Europe may not be paid quite as much, so they may be forced to drive around in a 3-year-old Mercedes.
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How did a blimp get from the middle of the ocean, against prevailing winds, to Pennsylvania?
Is this another example of the Americans' legendary prowess in geography?
Trust an AC to miss the point.
Informally, "resolution" is often used these days to mean pixel count, and clueless newbies may think that is the only meaning.
But I was pointing out that clearly the GP was using the more technical (proper?) and relevant meaning. Resolution is the detail - it may be dots per inch on a display or printer, or seconds of arc for a telescope.
GP was talking about actual resolution, not pixel count.
15" 1440:900 is about 100 dpi. The Fire tablet is about 160 dpi, or 0.15mm pixels. Thats not bad.
"There were about 25 workers from Los Alamos National Laboratory who inhaled a considerable amount of plutonium dust during 1940s; according to the hot-particle theory, each of them has a 99.5% chance of being dead from lung cancer by now, but there has not been a single lung cancer among them."[124][126]
Plutonium has a metallic taste.[127]
and while you are at it, plutonium 239 is not "highly radioactive" as claimed in TFA. They might be thinking of pu-238 used in RTGs, or just have no idea what they are talking about.
Plutonium 239 is an alpha emitter, so very dangerous if inhaled - a risk after the explosion 50 years ago, but not now that it is bound up in the soil and water.
You could safely grown vegetables in the soil and eat them. Just don't grow tobacco - getting pu239 traces in your lungs could give you cancer.
Over 1% of the population will be diagnosed with leukaemia at some point in their lives.
So of 44,000 people, that is many hundreds. One case is statistical noise.
If his exposure was really only 19.8 millisieverts, its probably not the cause.
If you want an "efficient" mars mission, the last thing you want is to send people. That sort of thinking is just stuck in the past, like old science fiction whose idea of an automated car was one driven by a robot. They are successfully reducing launch mass by using smaller robot probes. Miniaturisation is the key.
Exploration and research is good, but does not need bodies in a can. If you want to establish a colony, do it somewhere far cheaper and more sensible, like the bottom of the Pacific.
immigrants != refugees. Refugees are less than 10% of net immigrants, and tend to settle where they are told, as they are usually dependent on public housing.
The issue of course is population growth in the crowded cities, which is being driven by immigration, not births. Partly internal migration, but mostly external. This is no criticism of the individual migrants, but of government policy driven by the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
us 99c = AUD 1.36 at todays rate.
Australia, like most countries, includes tax in the quoted price, so add 10% tax to get $1.49 .
The only surprise here is that Apple actually collects and pays the tax.
Australia would probably benefit from an influx of skilled people. It's got the space,
Australia may have space, but the immigrants all flock to Sydney, which most certainly does _not_ have space. Its now impossible to buy a decent family home within cooee of the city for under a million dollars. Other major cities are not much better. None of the immigrants want to go to Woopwoop, Tasmania.
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And that is the murdering bunch of facist, misogynist, islamic assholes
Oh I think we can add a few names for contributing - starting with the CIA for fabricating evidence of WMDs that lead to the invasion of Iraq, and a slaughter of civilians on a scale that makes ISIS look like a bunch of schoolboy puppy-stranglers.
The CIA may well be nice guys compared to ISIS, but they have done far more damage.
The cataloging, rounding up, and internment of the Japanese
No question they took it too far, but given all the suicide attacks by the Japanese against the allies as they got more desperate, its hard to argue that some sort of registration and restriction of movement of Japanese civilians in the US could not be justified. That was a real war, with millions killed. The stakes were far higher than now.
And yet has become the most used, most useful operating system in the world.
Kind of.
Windows as we know it really is 22 years old, first released in July 1993 as Windows NT.
It was a complete re-design that bore only superficial resemblance to that grotesque piece of excrement that was bolted onto DOS, and reached its nadir in Windows ME.
That original windows was utter junk, and died when MS released XP, a version of NT with the nice desktop UI from Windows'95, but totally rewritten and redesigned underneath.
As for "most used, most useful", that is only on the desktop, and due to monopoly power. Linux dominates everywhere else, from supercomputers to embedded, and even phones (followed by BSD).
You mean Muslims like Timothy McVeigh, or the IRA?
Totally different. The IRA bore some resemblance to the PLO - remember them?
In the 70's and 80's the stereotypical terrorist was middle-eastern, and probably muslim but that was not their defining characteristic.
They were political, not religious in essence, like the IRA. No suicide bombers back then. They held hostages for ransom, instead of simply murdering them.
Nowadays Islam is absolutely central to the violence.
Lobster - arthropods that live on the floor of the ocean, hiding in the dark and scurrying out at night to scavenge on whatever dead muck they can find. Yes, thay are aquatic cockroaches.
We used to use those awful creatures as fish bait, but now it is all exported to those weirdos in Japan who'll eat anything.
Shrimp? Now you are talking. They can be grown in vats in your garage at home, and are big enough that unlike mealworms you can break off the head, guts and shell, and just eat the meat. Yumm.
Personally, I'll just keep the chooks in my back yard coop. They are reasonably efficient at turning grain and scraps into tasty eggs, plus fertiliser for the veggie garden.
Some of the highest protein sources out there are vegetable-based.
The problem is not the total amount of protein, but about getting all the nine essential amino acids (ones our body cannot make).
These are present in the right amounts in meat, but not vegetables. It is possible to get the right balance by combining different vegetable proteins, but not all vegans make the effort consistently, and are often deficient in methionine and lysine.
And white supremacist terrorism is more coordinated than you seem to think, as is anti-Islamic terrorism such as Anders Brevik's.
Brevik was not exactly anti-Islamic. He did not want to conquer muslim lands. He even had Muslim friends. He was anti mass-muslim-immigration, and his terrorism was an act of revenge against those whose white Norwegians who were responsible. If there were thousands more "white-jihadis" like him, it might have been an effective strategy.
What does market share have to do with whether or not one uses an OS?
Low use leads to lack of support (as uneconomical), which make it insecure and reduced functionality. Was that logic chain too long?
Hydrocarbons, you say?
In other unrelated news, the NSA satellite reports evidence of WMDs on Titan.
But Halloween wasn't the day before All Hallows Day, it was the first part of it.
Same with Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. They are night-time events also.
The day after Halloween is a special day.
Yes, it is All Hallows Day. Its almost like we have forgotten what comes after Christmas Eve or New Years Eve.
All three were considered important holidays (as in "holy days") once.
Maybe, just maybe if we stopped waging wars at $3 trillion apiece we'd have money for kooky stuff like healthcare.
But there is money! The US government already spends more per-capita on healthcare than most other nations in that list, but just does not get much for it. The US health-care system is far more expensive overall, and produces much worse outcomes (both medical and other) than other industrialised nations. However, sadly, doctors in Europe may not be paid quite as much, so they may be forced to drive around in a 3-year-old Mercedes. https://danieljmitchell.wordpr...
How did a blimp get from the middle of the ocean, against prevailing winds, to Pennsylvania? Is this another example of the Americans' legendary prowess in geography?
Trust an AC to miss the point. Informally, "resolution" is often used these days to mean pixel count, and clueless newbies may think that is the only meaning. But I was pointing out that clearly the GP was using the more technical (proper?) and relevant meaning. Resolution is the detail - it may be dots per inch on a display or printer, or seconds of arc for a telescope.
GP was talking about actual resolution, not pixel count. 15" 1440:900 is about 100 dpi. The Fire tablet is about 160 dpi, or 0.15mm pixels. Thats not bad.
which is worse, is the radioactivity or the chemical toxicity of plutonium-239?
Neither. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"There were about 25 workers from Los Alamos National Laboratory who inhaled a considerable amount of plutonium dust during 1940s; according to the hot-particle theory, each of them has a 99.5% chance of being dead from lung cancer by now, but there has not been a single lung cancer among them."[124][126] Plutonium has a metallic taste.[127]
Are they able to ask us to clean up the mess in fluent Russian?
The cold war is over. You still believe the propaganda?
and while you are at it, plutonium 239 is not "highly radioactive" as claimed in TFA. They might be thinking of pu-238 used in RTGs, or just have no idea what they are talking about. Plutonium 239 is an alpha emitter, so very dangerous if inhaled - a risk after the explosion 50 years ago, but not now that it is bound up in the soil and water. You could safely grown vegetables in the soil and eat them. Just don't grow tobacco - getting pu239 traces in your lungs could give you cancer.
Over 1% of the population will be diagnosed with leukaemia at some point in their lives. So of 44,000 people, that is many hundreds. One case is statistical noise. If his exposure was really only 19.8 millisieverts, its probably not the cause.
Jefferson is well know to have grown marijuana. This was probably a meth lab, which explains why it was so well hidden.
If you want an "efficient" mars mission, the last thing you want is to send people. That sort of thinking is just stuck in the past, like old science fiction whose idea of an automated car was one driven by a robot. They are successfully reducing launch mass by using smaller robot probes. Miniaturisation is the key. Exploration and research is good, but does not need bodies in a can. If you want to establish a colony, do it somewhere far cheaper and more sensible, like the bottom of the Pacific.
immigrants != refugees. Refugees are less than 10% of net immigrants, and tend to settle where they are told, as they are usually dependent on public housing. The issue of course is population growth in the crowded cities, which is being driven by immigration, not births. Partly internal migration, but mostly external. This is no criticism of the individual migrants, but of government policy driven by the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
us 99c = AUD 1.36 at todays rate. Australia, like most countries, includes tax in the quoted price, so add 10% tax to get $1.49 . The only surprise here is that Apple actually collects and pays the tax.
Australia would probably benefit from an influx of skilled people. It's got the space,
Australia may have space, but the immigrants all flock to Sydney, which most certainly does _not_ have space. Its now impossible to buy a decent family home within cooee of the city for under a million dollars. Other major cities are not much better. None of the immigrants want to go to Woopwoop, Tasmania.
"Australians appear unconcerned with this level of scrutiny of their lives" Sad. Just sad.
If you have ever seen how much people post on Facebook, it is hardly surprising.