So all those north-east Asians are secretly Anglo-Saxon? Or have you considered the possibility that the positive correlation between native English-speaking (and Japanese, etc) and average IQ is real but not causal?
If it were only between Russia and the US, then our stockpiles would have shrunk already,...
They have shrunk. And Russia is the only plausible reason for having more than, say, 1000 warheads. Look at who is lobbying for more, and you'll see it is about supporting the US arms industry.
One of the better quotes in this regard is that a nuclear arms race is like 2 generals standing waist deep in gasoline, the first with 3 matches, the second with 5.
Among the many faults in that analogy, a lit match dropped into gasoline will most likely just go out. Its not so easy as Hollywood thinks.
MADD can only work if you are willing to retaliate in kind. It would be foolish of the US NOT to retaliate with nukes as it would empower enemies with the idea that we won't attack.
Nonsense - MAD is irrelevant here, as NK has no ability to destroy the US, only SK. (Mothers Against Drink Driving even more irrelevant.) A massive retaliation by the US would be essential, and I bet they'd be itching to test out some of those new bunker-busting nukes, but to start dropping H-bombs on Pyongyang would just lose the moral high ground, which is in short supply with the US military since invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
... completely missed by ACs, apparently. I'm saying that the common factor amongst stereotypical hijacking terrorists is not religion. It is ethnicity.
The PFLP and PLO were secular of course, not Christian groups. But not Muslim either.
And on the subject, it was the United States who blew up an Iranian Airbus A300, killing 290 people. No apology has ever been made. Not saying the US government is quite as bad as some of the middle eastern ones, just that they are lying, evil hypocrites.
America is a large place. There is plenty to do here,
I agree totally. But he already lives there. And how can he appreciate it if he has limited experience of elsewhere?
and if he's like most students he's going to need his money.
Then head for Central America. Even Mexico still has some great places to visit, though I admit its not looking much different to the US these days, with all the guns, and Mexicans.
That one is so obvious, I wonder why he did not mention it in the question. Maybe he is a rich kid who did that before college? If not, then do it! Or if not into backpacking, rent a room somewhere like Berlin for the summer. Is that still popular with American students? Great city, though less central for travel than the old favourites like Prague and Paris.
Why not? The appalachian trail is driveable relative to you, or if you want an even more amazing experience go out to California
Why limit your horizons so tightly? He is young, has a whole summer, and there is a world out there. No need to be a parochial American. Get a passport.
It's never too late to go back to middle school; hopefully, this time they can teach you that commas don't go before "and.":p
Your use of semicolons is archaic; did you attend middle school in 1854? And there is nothing wrong with a comma before a conjunction. (Were you thinking of lists?) If you want to be picky, formal grammar would like an "I" pronoun in the second clause, but it is a slashdot question, not his thesis.
BTW, for us non-yanks (sic), hwo do you move from "liberal arts" to a science Ph.D. ? Have they lowered the entry requirements that much?
There is no chance of restarting the three damaged reactors. Are you comparing to hydro dam failure? That is indeed worse. But what about coal power in Japan? They must have numerous coal and gas-power stations along the coast, but I can find no information about any of them being seriously damaged by the tsunami.
In what sense? The only real way Wall St can punish a company is by not loaning them money, which Apple has no need of. Are you complaining about the stock price? $400billion valuation is "punishment"!? It is very high already in terms of revenue, employees, etc. Apple is not a big company like Ford or General Electric, just very profitable at the moment. Stock price reflects the market opinion of future profit.
The tone was obviously sarcastic, but it is normal all over the world for utilities to provide gas/water/electricity/telephone to rural areas at the same price as city customers pay, or at least heavily subsidised. This works best with natural monopolies, but runs into trouble when there are competing providers. You may have to deal with competitors who want to cherry-pick the most profitable customers, and ignore others.
Back in the olden days when the internet was still fun, it would have been *@gmail.oz.
The internet is run by bureaucrats now.
Actually,.au was administered for many years by bearded benign dictator Robert Elz, before the bureaucrats took over.
The.oz predates in internet, and was never the same thing as.au .
If it is something that big and it hits. I wonder if would provide enough energy to melt the polar caps and send water around the planet.
Why wonder? It is the age of Wikipedia. The Mars polar caps are 2 x 1.6m cubic km, so latent heat of fusion alone is 10 to-power-of 24 (curse slashdot's inability to show exponential symbols) joules, or 250 million Mt TNT, by the back of my envelope. Above-linked article says 2x10 to-tpo 10 Mt, so 80 times the latent heat of fusion of the ice-caps.... I'm waiting for it to sink in, but I don't think my brain can comprehend those numbers.
The interesting question then is which came first?
Find a way to answer that and similar questions definitively, and a Nobel Prize awaits you. For bonus points, incorporate IQ differences into your theory.
I'll cop out and say "a bit of both".
It's not meant to test bribery. It's meant to test a sense of fairness.
Worse - he got it backwards. The test illustrates sense of fairness and "altruistic punishment. " Anyone who has travelled will recognise this as a basic difference between developed countries, and third-world countries. In developed societies, people are more likely to punish cheats at their own expense. e.g. challenging queue-jumpers or reporting corruption.
If something can be done on a small scale, it can be done better on a large scale This is why we have power stations.
Many cities pipe hot water from those power stations to homes for heating and washing. I suppose you think anyone who has their own home heating furnace or water heater is backward and inefficient?
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So all those north-east Asians are secretly Anglo-Saxon?
Or have you considered the possibility that the positive correlation between native English-speaking (and Japanese, etc) and average IQ is real but not causal?
you are thinking war with Russia is impossible now? 1,000 is not enough against them.
It is plenty if you add in conventional arms superiority. The Russian military is a pale shadow of what it once was.
If it were only between Russia and the US, then our stockpiles would have shrunk already, ...
They have shrunk. And Russia is the only plausible reason for having more than, say, 1000 warheads.
Look at who is lobbying for more, and you'll see it is about supporting the US arms industry.
One of the better quotes in this regard is that a nuclear arms race is like 2 generals standing waist deep in gasoline, the first with 3 matches, the second with 5.
Among the many faults in that analogy, a lit match dropped into gasoline will most likely just go out. Its not so easy as Hollywood thinks.
I don't know of anything that gets less convenient if measured in metric units. Care to name an example?
Penis length. I've no idea why.
MADD can only work if you are willing to retaliate in kind. It would be foolish of the US NOT to retaliate with nukes as it would empower enemies with the idea that we won't attack.
Nonsense - MAD is irrelevant here, as NK has no ability to destroy the US, only SK. (Mothers Against Drink Driving even more irrelevant.)
A massive retaliation by the US would be essential, and I bet they'd be itching to test out some of those new bunker-busting nukes, but to start dropping H-bombs on Pyongyang would just lose the moral high ground, which is in short supply with the US military since invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
A salt-free low-fat diet with no tobacco or alcohol may not make you live to 200, but it will feel that long.
Your point being?
... completely missed by ACs, apparently. I'm saying that the common factor amongst stereotypical hijacking terrorists is not religion. It is ethnicity.
The PFLP and PLO were secular of course, not Christian groups. But not Muslim either.
And on the subject, it was the United States who blew up an Iranian Airbus A300, killing 290 people. No apology has ever been made.
Not saying the US government is quite as bad as some of the middle eastern ones, just that they are lying, evil hypocrites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
America is a large place. There is plenty to do here,
I agree totally. But he already lives there. And how can he appreciate it if he has limited experience of elsewhere?
and if he's like most students he's going to need his money.
Then head for Central America. Even Mexico still has some great places to visit, though I admit its not looking much different to the US these days, with all the guns, and Mexicans.
Backpack Europe or somewhere more exotic
That one is so obvious, I wonder why he did not mention it in the question. Maybe he is a rich kid who did that before college?
If not, then do it! Or if not into backpacking, rent a room somewhere like Berlin for the summer. Is that still popular with American students?
Great city, though less central for travel than the old favourites like Prague and Paris.
Why not? The appalachian trail is driveable relative to you, or if you want an even more amazing experience go out to California
Why limit your horizons so tightly? He is young, has a whole summer, and there is a world out there.
No need to be a parochial American. Get a passport.
It's never too late to go back to middle school; hopefully, this time they can teach you that commas don't go before "and." :p
Your use of semicolons is archaic; did you attend middle school in 1854? And there is nothing wrong with a comma before a conjunction. (Were you thinking of lists?) If you want to be picky, formal grammar would like an "I" pronoun in the second clause, but it is a slashdot question, not his thesis.
BTW, for us non-yanks (sic), hwo do you move from "liberal arts" to a science Ph.D. ? Have they lowered the entry requirements that much?
I thought they'd brought the Space Shuttle orbiter out of retirement. Maybe crash it down there with a lot of seeds.
I just hope that it isn't Muslims practising to bring down another aircraft
It was actually a Christian Arab who invented hijacking as terrorism. The Islamist groups like Hamas are more recent.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1707366,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine
Natural gas is cheapest where you have a LNG pipeline doing the transport.
Liquid pipeline? Don't you mean CNG?
There is no chance of restarting the three damaged reactors. Are you comparing to hydro dam failure? That is indeed worse.
But what about coal power in Japan? They must have numerous coal and gas-power stations along the coast, but I can find no information about any of them being seriously damaged by the tsunami.
Well, apple employees are paid partly in apple shares. A falling stock price makes it harder for apple to attract staff.
If only they had something else to pay them with.
And Wall Street continues to punish it.
In what sense? The only real way Wall St can punish a company is by not loaning them money, which Apple has no need of.
Are you complaining about the stock price? $400billion valuation is "punishment"!?
It is very high already in terms of revenue, employees, etc.
Apple is not a big company like Ford or General Electric, just very profitable at the moment. Stock price reflects the market opinion of future profit.
The tone was obviously sarcastic, but it is normal all over the world for utilities to provide gas/water/electricity/telephone to rural areas at the same price as city customers pay, or at least heavily subsidised. This works best with natural monopolies, but runs into trouble when there are competing providers.
You may have to deal with competitors who want to cherry-pick the most profitable customers, and ignore others.
Back in the olden days when the internet was still fun, it would have been *@gmail.oz.
The internet is run by bureaucrats now.
Actually, .au was administered for many years by bearded benign dictator Robert Elz, before the bureaucrats took over. .oz predates in internet, and was never the same thing as .au .
The
If it is something that big and it hits. I wonder if would provide enough energy to melt the polar caps and send water around the planet.
Why wonder? It is the age of Wikipedia. The Mars polar caps are 2 x 1.6m cubic km, so latent heat of fusion alone is 10 to-power-of 24 (curse slashdot's inability to show exponential symbols) joules, or 250 million Mt TNT, by the back of my envelope. ... I'm waiting for it to sink in, but I don't think my brain can comprehend those numbers.
Above-linked article says 2x10 to-tpo 10 Mt, so 80 times the latent heat of fusion of the ice-caps.
The interesting question then is which came first?
Find a way to answer that and similar questions definitively, and a Nobel Prize awaits you. For bonus points, incorporate IQ differences into your theory.
I'll cop out and say "a bit of both".
It's not meant to test bribery. It's meant to test a sense of fairness.
Worse - he got it backwards. The test illustrates sense of fairness and "altruistic punishment. "
Anyone who has travelled will recognise this as a basic difference between developed countries, and third-world countries.
In developed societies, people are more likely to punish cheats at their own expense. e.g. challenging queue-jumpers or reporting corruption.
If something can be done on a small scale, it can be done better on a large scale This is why we have power stations.
Many cities pipe hot water from those power stations to homes for heating and washing.
I suppose you think anyone who has their own home heating furnace or water heater is backward and inefficient?
There are almost no electrically powered freight trains in the US.
Actually they are all electric, just with an onboard diesel generator. Is it possible to adapt these engines to use overhead lines when available?