There's no other way to say it - "won't somebody THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is the "Godwin's Law" of todays generation.
Extra points if you recognize the irony in screaming "think of the children" (ie the problem is that someone was THINKING OF CHILDREN far too much already).
What preventing the researchers from focussing on 'cyclic change' and discovering (and publishing that) "clearly that is not what is going on here" (if that is actually, provably the case).
This is merely a case of "hidden agenda" - it was ALWAYS about Copyright Violations, for the simple and extremely obvious reason that THERE'S NO DIRECT FINANCIAL PROFIT TO BE MADE FROM PREVENTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR CHILD ABUSE.
The caption will read "when asked, The Government implied this person may be a terrorist, or perhaps a paedophile, then again they might just be feeling depressed and suicidal."
The term "cherry picking" relates to selecting a small sample of data which proves your point.
All this study has proved is that AT THIS SITE fracking HAS NOT YET produced contamination of the water-table.
The problem is that The Industry will now point to this SAMPLE OF ONE as proof that "fracking is non-polluting" and therefore needs to be LEGISLATED as "not requiring environmental evaluation, not requiring pollution checks, and generally ignoring concerned scientists/enrivonmentalists/local people dying from(or concerned about dying from) industrial pollution.
The simple fact is that some people STILL believe The Earth Is Flat. Just like some people believe that a Fibre-to-the-home National Broadband Network is A Bad Thing.
Sure it's a huge bucket of money.
Sure there needs to be oversight, to ensure the money is well spent not just pork-barrelled.
Sure, you *could* achieve some (but only a little) of that by being (slightly) cheaper.
The bottom line is that the VAST overwhelming MAJORITY of backlash against the NBN has been spearheaded by The Opposition - People who (as in America) OPPOSE things for no reason other than it was somebody elses idea, therefore Ahm Agin' it!
for a split second I saw some sort of bright thunderbolt approach from the left and sweep all the stuff away. It felt like a relief somehow but I'm not sure WTF I was seeing.
Probably $DEITY (insert appropriate value according to what you truly worship, in the deepest and most secret depths of who you really are)
It's not just the basic chemicals but the molecules and how they are 'folded' which makes a MASSIVE difference to what happens.
I predict this will be technically correct but completely useless, as seen in that classic joke about mathematicians:
Two Physicists were riding in a hot air balloon and were blown off course sailing over a mountain trail, and were completely lost.
They spotted a jogger running on the trail and they shouted "Can you tell us where we are?" After a few minutes, the jogger yelled back "You're up in a balloon."
One physicists said to the other, "Just our luck to run into a mathematician". "How do you know he was a mathematician?" asked the other.
"Well, in the first place he took a long time to answer; second, his answer was 100% correct and third,,it was totally useless."
Any day soon we'll have $RANDOM TERRORISTS running around with little bottles of nasal-spray, each encoded to INFECT $ONE SINGLE PERSON with an insanely specific , desperately infectious, 100% fatal disease.
This band is not useful for long haul carriage due to atmospheric water vapor absorption. According to this chart, absorption between 200 and 280 GHz varies between 3 and 40 dB/km. That means at the low end only 50% of your signal is absorbed every km. At the high end, only 1/10,000th of your signal remains after each km.
this post speaks to similar issues including refraction.
That has not and will NEVER stop $TELCO from selling services across this with "UP TO" marketingspeak which means "we fuck you royally for a service which is online but effectively unuseable".
.... when I say "shaddup and take my money already!" (where do I sign up for this magical island experience)
People are happy to "go explore and the consequences can go fuck themselves". In fact, some people are HAPPIEST in such circumstances.
Long before there was ever proposed a ONE WAY Mars Mission I was saying that the NASA/US insistence on human safety during exploration missions was THE WRONG ATTITUDE.
I said that should such a mission be proposed, with a well explained and clearly stated intention to NEVER even ATTEMPT to return these pioneers to earth (yes folks, you're gonna die out there - one way or another) they'd STILL have squilliions more applicants than they could ever accept.
And I was proven right.
The Same Goes for this (as yet hypothetical) 'Google Island', there's be literally thousands of people who would rationally consider all the possible negative outcomes and despite everything still choose to explore-the-possibilities.
To deny such a thing is true is to completely misunderstand something fundamental about what it is to be human.
For some opportunities the reward is so great that it is worth any risk.
And before anyone tries to belittle such an atitude, remember folks that without such a pioneering risk-accepting attitude The US of A would never have been discovered (by anyone). In fact without such attitudes your great-to-the-umpteenth primate ancestors would never have left the trees (ditto THEIR great-to-the-umpteenth fishlike ancestors and water).
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“It’s not something that’s going to cause major issues. You’d have to have a huge, huge eruption.”
Which leads me to say:
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM!
WHY DOES half the population of the world ruins shit and hold the other half back? (half being just an arbitrary number)
All numbers are arbitrary, not just the ones used in statistics.
There's no other way to say it - "won't somebody THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is the "Godwin's Law" of todays generation.
Extra points if you recognize the irony in screaming "think of the children" (ie the problem is that someone was THINKING OF CHILDREN far too much already).
What preventing the researchers from focussing on 'cyclic change' and discovering (and publishing that) "clearly that is not what is going on here" (if that is actually, provably the case).
You may perhaps be surprised to find there's a Wikipedia article about Prostitution in Australia.
Pregnancy isn't an illness.
How can you say that? Pregnancy is OBVIOUSLY a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
You're all fools if you honestly believe that your elections are significantly more honest and trustworthy than theirs.
All of the 401ks are backed by the stork market.... Another crash and it'll be 60 something hippies in business casual firing Ronald Rayguns.
I don't see that as such a bad thing, if The Stork Market crashes it will help offset the global overpopulation crisis we're in the process of having.
Perhaps those who are misusing the word so much should be sent to the waters off Somalia to learn what it means.
Preferably in a rubber dingy with no sunscreen.
You appear to be misinformed.
This is IN NO WAY "mission creep".
This is merely a case of "hidden agenda" - it was ALWAYS about Copyright Violations, for the simple and extremely obvious reason that THERE'S NO DIRECT FINANCIAL PROFIT TO BE MADE FROM PREVENTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR CHILD ABUSE.
Seriously folks, follow the money.
You heard it here first, folks: Forget BitCoin , FUCKS are The Currency Of The Future!
Which , by definition, makes most slashdot'ers as poor as dirt.
It's easy to tell what is a crime and who has committed one.
The person with the highest paid lawyer wins.
Not only that but person-or-interest-group with the largest bucket of cash writes most laws these days anway.
Being poor IS a crime these days (effectively).
Almost there....
The caption will read "when asked, The Government implied this person may be a terrorist, or perhaps a paedophile, then again they might just be feeling depressed and suicidal."
Medical science has been saying for YEARS that frying Scented Candles is bad for your health.
The term "cherry picking" relates to selecting a small sample of data which proves your point.
All this study has proved is that AT THIS SITE fracking HAS NOT YET produced contamination of the water-table.
The problem is that The Industry will now point to this SAMPLE OF ONE as proof that "fracking is non-polluting" and therefore needs to be LEGISLATED as "not requiring environmental evaluation, not requiring pollution checks, and generally ignoring concerned scientists/enrivonmentalists/local people dying from(or concerned about dying from) industrial pollution.
Then only outlaws will have encryption.
Of course, OUTLAWING it would incur a MASSIVE backlash from the population (insert legal challenge here).
By denying encryption FINANCIALLY, you achieve the same thing with SIGNIFICANTLY less opportunity for a legal challenge.
As Paul once said "He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing."
The simple fact is that some people STILL believe The Earth Is Flat. Just like some people believe that a Fibre-to-the-home National Broadband Network is A Bad Thing.
Sure it's a huge bucket of money.
Sure there needs to be oversight, to ensure the money is well spent not just pork-barrelled.
Sure, you *could* achieve some (but only a little) of that by being (slightly) cheaper.
The bottom line is that the VAST overwhelming MAJORITY of backlash against the NBN has been spearheaded by The Opposition - People who (as in America) OPPOSE things for no reason other than it was somebody elses idea, therefore Ahm Agin' it!
Wake me up when it lands on its feet (after being dropped).
Sure it runs like the wind (a very slow and mostly tired out wind).
for a split second I saw some sort of bright thunderbolt approach from the left and sweep all the stuff away. It felt like a relief somehow but I'm not sure WTF I was seeing.
Probably $DEITY (insert appropriate value according to what you truly worship, in the deepest and most secret depths of who you really are)
It's not just the basic chemicals but the molecules and how they are 'folded' which makes a MASSIVE difference to what happens.
,it was totally useless."
I predict this will be technically correct but completely useless, as seen in that classic joke about mathematicians:
Two Physicists were riding in a hot air balloon and were blown off course sailing over a mountain trail, and were completely lost.
They spotted a jogger running on the trail and they shouted "Can you tell us where we are?" After a few minutes, the jogger yelled back "You're up in a balloon."
One physicists said to the other, "Just our luck to run into a mathematician". "How do you know he was a mathematician?" asked the other.
"Well, in the first place he took a long time to answer; second, his answer was 100% correct and third,
Todays "social media" is much more of a bane than a boon, but for none of the reasons given by the Turkish PM.
The argument is NOT generalized-demolition vs specific targets, but WHAT you could be specific for (insert politico-religious/racial warcrimes here).
Any day soon we'll have $RANDOM TERRORISTS running around with little bottles of nasal-spray, each encoded to INFECT $ONE SINGLE PERSON with an insanely specific , desperately infectious, 100% fatal disease.
This band is not useful for long haul carriage due to atmospheric water vapor absorption. According to this chart, absorption between 200 and 280 GHz varies between 3 and 40 dB/km. That means at the low end only 50% of your signal is absorbed every km. At the high end, only 1/10,000th of your signal remains after each km.
this post speaks to similar issues including refraction.
That has not and will NEVER stop $TELCO from selling services across this with "UP TO" marketingspeak which means "we fuck you royally for a service which is online but effectively unuseable".
.... when I say "shaddup and take my money already!" (where do I sign up for this magical island experience)
People are happy to "go explore and the consequences can go fuck themselves". In fact, some people are HAPPIEST in such circumstances.
Long before there was ever proposed a ONE WAY Mars Mission I was saying that the NASA/US insistence on human safety during exploration missions was THE WRONG ATTITUDE.
I said that should such a mission be proposed, with a well explained and clearly stated intention to NEVER even ATTEMPT to return these pioneers to earth (yes folks, you're gonna die out there - one way or another) they'd STILL have squilliions more applicants than they could ever accept.
And I was proven right.
The Same Goes for this (as yet hypothetical) 'Google Island', there's be literally thousands of people who would rationally consider all the possible negative outcomes and despite everything still choose to explore-the-possibilities.
To deny such a thing is true is to completely misunderstand something fundamental about what it is to be human.
For some opportunities the reward is so great that it is worth any risk.
And before anyone tries to belittle such an atitude, remember folks that without such a pioneering risk-accepting attitude The US of A would never have been discovered (by anyone). In fact without such attitudes your great-to-the-umpteenth primate ancestors would never have left the trees (ditto THEIR great-to-the-umpteenth fishlike ancestors and water).