Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison.
Thats a stretch! All of those men were brilliant high achievers, but only one group was ruthless enough to launch a war that killed a hundred thousand people, mostly their own, and achieved no obvious gain except to the 1%-ers. (Were Canadian commoners so much worse off?)
Much as I admire the intellect of people like Jefferson and Adams, they took assholeness (ruthlessness?) to a level that makes Bill Gates look like a saint.
Are you saying you think objecting to an adult having sexual relations with a 13 year old girl is puritanical?
I'm saying it is a lesser issue than rape, an aggravating factor, but mostly objecting to the emotional language that equates it with child abuse. Puritans tend to see things in black and white, and accuse anyone else of condoning the crime.
Your puritanism is showing. Do you want to lock up her boyfriend at the time, also?
The real crime is non-consensual sex, and I wouldn't forgive that easily at 16 or 26 either.
Its not quite so simple. Polanski pled guilty only to a lesser charge, and fled when there was the threat of a very long sentence, despite the plea bargain. Unfortunately the case became political, and the judge was later removed from it, after he fled. Even the victim was , and remains, sympathetic to his plight. The guilt is not in question though. Nothing like the Assange case in that way.
Whens Pied Piper going to release their Algorithm?
Apparently, they just discovered that such algorithms can in practice be patented in the US. All they needed to do is license the patent, and watch the money roll in. All that coding was a waste of time, and has been shut down.
given so few wild rhinos are left, how about giving them all prosthetic horns, to reduce their value? It would still be a story, because you can use 3D printers for that too, if you really wanted to.
It started when bicycle helmets became mandatory across all Australian states in the early 90s. They've been hacking chunks out of personal freedom ever since.
No - it started long before that. Seatbelts in cars compulsory from 1970. Motorcycle helmets before that. Horns on horseless carriages.
If bicycle helmets are your biggest whinge, you've been lucky so far. Try something like building a house, or running a small business, and see how many pointless regulations there are to make your life difficult. At least helmets are useful, even if the laws are not.
The Navy is always fighting the last war. In 1939 they had too many battleships. Now they have too many aircraft carriers and too many SSBNs. This wastes massive resources. A good thing they are paying at least a little attention to newer threats.
Your English is OK, but you misunderstood my native idiom. Your quote agrees with my point - weight of mammals does not increase with cube of height as Stormy Dragon said, but with the square. Hope that is clear now. We agree!
No idea what the AC is trying to say there, but there is some relevance in the last section 'Biomechanics' and a link to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Animals, including people, do not scale isometrically, ie no cube law.
Ya, let's ignore the 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer.
GP was talking deaths. Were any of those cases fatal? 5000 is the total diagnoses, not excess, and many only discovered because of increased screening. Even the severe cases are treatable, and most would never have happened if the kids were not given contaminated milk to drink after the disaster. None of that will happen in Japan.
Right, there's no way to accurately count the people...
There is a very powerful tool called epidemiology. In simple terms, you look for an increase in disease rates over time compared to a control population. In the case of Chernobyl, there is far less effect than was expected. There has been a small increase in childhood thyroid cancer (treatable, BTW), but not much else. No detectable increase in Lukemia or adult cancers. The predictions were overwhelmingly pessimistic.
In Fukushima, the radiation effects can reasonably expected to be much smaller for a number of reasons. But while the radiation may not kill anyone, there are known serious health consequences of displacing large numbers of people. Still small compared to the devastation of the tsunami.
What cube law? Humans are not cubes. For adult men, a healthy waistline is almost independent of height. And BMI is based on the square of height, as a more accurate model. Just look at the old family photo albums, if you think people are not a lot fatter now.
So much for post-911 interagency cooperation. While one agency is inserting weaknesses, another is having to buy then on the open market. Though the Navy approach is probably cheaper.
I've yet to see anyone sent off to rot in a prison for 20 years or so just for bitching about the government.
If the Russians did that, there'd be nobody left to guard the gulags. Anyway, he said the US is getting more like Russia. We still have a few decades before they meet. Until then, yes, the US is better. But is being better than Russia enough for you?
You can also run a full OS_X on the surface 3. Makes more sense than IOS or Android on that hardware. Wifi not working yet, but as lumpy said, wifi doesn't work in Windows 8.1 either, half the time. (fix the bugs ffs!)
due to a design error in the solar charging module, the payload shut down at high noon each month for several days, however this means the device was able to keep operating well into the lunar night.
No, why should I have heard of a domestic event on the other side of the globe? Only the Kentucky Derby is familiar (one of 3 things I have heard of in that state, the others being bourbon and greasy chicken). The Crown is hardly a big international event like the tennis Grand Slam, or formulae one Grand Prix.
But - we should not have to read five sentences past the headline to discover the story is about horse racing. Could they not have mentioned horses in the title? I thought the CIA must have installed a new puppet dictator in Egypt.
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No, I prefer it before he had an Americanised accent, thanks.
Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison.
Thats a stretch! All of those men were brilliant high achievers, but only one group was ruthless enough to launch a war that killed a hundred thousand people, mostly their own, and achieved no obvious gain except to the 1%-ers. (Were Canadian commoners so much worse off?)
Much as I admire the intellect of people like Jefferson and Adams, they took assholeness (ruthlessness?) to a level that makes Bill Gates look like a saint.
Are you saying you think objecting to an adult having sexual relations with a 13 year old girl is puritanical?
I'm saying it is a lesser issue than rape, an aggravating factor, but mostly objecting to the emotional language that equates it with child abuse. Puritans tend to see things in black and white, and accuse anyone else of condoning the crime.
> He fucked a child, barely a teenager.
Your puritanism is showing. Do you want to lock up her boyfriend at the time, also?
The real crime is non-consensual sex, and I wouldn't forgive that easily at 16 or 26 either.
Its not quite so simple. Polanski pled guilty only to a lesser charge, and fled when there was the threat of a very long sentence, despite the plea bargain.
Unfortunately the case became political, and the judge was later removed from it, after he fled.
Even the victim was , and remains, sympathetic to his plight. The guilt is not in question though. Nothing like the Assange case in that way.
Its not HFCS specifically.
Other countries like Australia use plain old sucrose, and have followed the same path of increased obesity and diabetes.
And sugar is only one part of the changes is diet and activity.
Whens Pied Piper going to release their Algorithm?
Apparently, they just discovered that such algorithms can in practice be patented in the US.
All they needed to do is license the patent, and watch the money roll in.
All that coding was a waste of time, and has been shut down.
given so few wild rhinos are left, how about giving them all prosthetic horns, to reduce their value?
It would still be a story, because you can use 3D printers for that too, if you really wanted to.
It started when bicycle helmets became mandatory across all Australian states in the early 90s. They've been hacking chunks out of personal freedom ever since.
No - it started long before that. Seatbelts in cars compulsory from 1970. Motorcycle helmets before that. Horns on horseless carriages.
If bicycle helmets are your biggest whinge, you've been lucky so far. Try something like building a house, or running a small business, and see how many pointless regulations there are to make your life difficult. At least helmets are useful, even if the laws are not.
ladies with a house-full of cats are just self-medicating?
The US has ten carriers. China, Russia and France have one each.
The Navy is always fighting the last war. In 1939 they had too many battleships. Now they have too many aircraft carriers and too many SSBNs. This wastes massive resources. A good thing they are paying at least a little attention to newer threats.
Your English is OK, but you misunderstood my native idiom.
Your quote agrees with my point - weight of mammals does not increase with cube of height as Stormy Dragon said, but with the square. Hope that is clear now. We agree!
OK, I guess English is not the AC's first language. The question was rhetorical and idiomatic. See the sentence that came after it.
No idea what the AC is trying to say there, but there is some relevance in the last section 'Biomechanics' and a link to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Animals, including people, do not scale isometrically, ie no cube law.
Ya, let's ignore the 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer.
GP was talking deaths. Were any of those cases fatal? 5000 is the total diagnoses, not excess, and many only discovered because of increased screening.
Even the severe cases are treatable, and most would never have happened if the kids were not given contaminated milk to drink after the disaster.
None of that will happen in Japan.
Right, there's no way to accurately count the people ...
There is a very powerful tool called epidemiology.
In simple terms, you look for an increase in disease rates over time compared to a control population.
In the case of Chernobyl, there is far less effect than was expected. There has been a small increase in childhood thyroid cancer (treatable, BTW), but not much else. No detectable increase in Lukemia or adult cancers. The predictions were overwhelmingly pessimistic.
In Fukushima, the radiation effects can reasonably expected to be much smaller for a number of reasons.
But while the radiation may not kill anyone, there are known serious health consequences of displacing large numbers of people. Still small compared to the devastation of the tsunami.
What cube law? Humans are not cubes.
For adult men, a healthy waistline is almost independent of height. And BMI is based on the square of height, as a more accurate model.
Just look at the old family photo albums, if you think people are not a lot fatter now.
So much for post-911 interagency cooperation. While one agency is inserting weaknesses, another is having to buy then on the open market. Though the Navy approach is probably cheaper.
I've yet to see anyone sent off to rot in a prison for 20 years or so just for bitching about the government.
If the Russians did that, there'd be nobody left to guard the gulags.
Anyway, he said the US is getting more like Russia. We still have a few decades before they meet. Until then, yes, the US is better.
But is being better than Russia enough for you?
You can also run a full OS_X on the surface 3. Makes more sense than IOS or Android on that hardware.
Wifi not working yet, but as lumpy said, wifi doesn't work in Windows 8.1 either, half the time. (fix the bugs ffs!)
http://www.insanelymac.com/for...
due to a design error in the solar charging module, the payload shut down at high noon each month for several days, however this means the device was able to keep operating well into the lunar night.
And would you rather be questioned by Talkie Toaster?
"Triple Crown" was not a large enough indicator?
No, why should I have heard of a domestic event on the other side of the globe? Only the Kentucky Derby is familiar (one of 3 things I have heard of in that state, the others being bourbon and greasy chicken). The Crown is hardly a big international event like the tennis Grand Slam, or formulae one Grand Prix.
But - we should not have to read five sentences past the headline to discover the story is about horse racing.
Could they not have mentioned horses in the title? I thought the CIA must have installed a new puppet dictator in Egypt.