Well, there is some pretty decent evidence for "fore-shocks", or a swarm of activity immediately before SOME big quakes.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon isn't always present, and significant fore-shocks (3,4,5 on the richter scale) tend to happen within hours of the bigger hit. There MAY be a swarm of small (2 or less) quakes for weeks beforehand, but these are tough to distinguish from regular background noise (and in fact may be just that.).
I live in earthquake country, and don't worry about it too much. At least in california, if you have time to be scared, you're probably ok. The poor SOBs who get crushed rarely survive 30 seconds.
I like to listen to it and play "spot the bad logic" (it isn't hard). I DO feel bad for the real scientists who get asked the stupidest shit.
For example, a guy was talking about the statistical probability of an asteroid strike in the next 100 years. Then the host is like "So, how likely is it that aliens are deflecting the asteroids at us in the first place? There's no proof that they're NOT, after all..."
You can just hear the poor guy wilt.
Also fun is Richard "the scientific establishment is against me. they expect me to have evidence for my wild claims, the bastards" Hoagland. He can't go 10 seconds without a logical error:)
I should clarify... apparently once he went on trial a lot of doors shut to him, that's what I meant. Not that he was ashamed or anything. Perhaps I was being lazy:)
Interesting... the fellow may be a troll, but this post is not. Turing DID kill himself, and most likely due to the ramifications of his homosexuality becoming public knowledge.
Wow, I didn't realize that we had posters that were around in the 1800's. They should really be ashamed of themselves.
The natives got screwed royally. No one denies that. This does not mean that white people are evil for the rest of time. Funny how people decry racism until it fits their needs...
I think "crap" is a bit harsh (I know you didn't mean it as an attack), he was limited to a single machine(his), not much time with the language, and being the first time he'd written an OS.
Plus, it's cold there and he had to fight off Yetis...
(I just read Linus's autobiography... interesting read. Not a tech book, but an interesting history of Linux.)
Yeah, I finally figured out how to turn that shit off!:) I like my autoscroll click-the-center-button thingie. Never could figure out why it was trying to load a URL.
As a side note, what kind of weird default behavior is that... we have the primary button (for selecting, clicking links, etc), and alternate (usually for context sensitive jazz) and the URL button? Those wacky hackers...
Which is, effectively, traveling as far horizontally (if space is "up" that is. Actually you're moving in a circle) as the curvature of the earth make it fall away from you in a given period of time.
No, schmuck. Perhaps I didn't phrase it so that you could understand it, but I never troll. I was attempting to explain a phenomenon in terms that might make sense to the lay person. Setting up straw men doesn't help.
Well, on the train you don't feel any acceleration once you've reached crusing speed, do you? It's kind of similar, but in a perpendicular sense.
If there was no gravity (acceleration), you'd be "weightless", relative to the acceleration of the train. This is why it's harder to walk forward on an accelerating train than one that is moving steadily... you're not fighing the acceleration.
I live about 2 miles west of Interstate 5 in So. California (right near disneyland). My understanding is that, in the event of a coastal attack, the plan is to fall back to the 5 as a defense line.
Good plan, except that a couple million of us are between the 5 and the ocean...
No, I'm pretty sure that undefended copyrights are also lost (the whole RIAA thing was about more than just greed... they HAD to protest their stuff being stolen)
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Shit, more like a harmonic resonance caused by millions of us shaking our heads in disbelief...
Well, there is some pretty decent evidence for "fore-shocks", or a swarm of activity immediately before SOME big quakes.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon isn't always present, and significant fore-shocks (3,4,5 on the richter scale) tend to happen within hours of the bigger hit. There MAY be a swarm of small (2 or less) quakes for weeks beforehand, but these are tough to distinguish from regular background noise (and in fact may be just that.).
I live in earthquake country, and don't worry about it too much. At least in california, if you have time to be scared, you're probably ok. The poor SOBs who get crushed rarely survive 30 seconds.
Heh... I like how a 6 digit # is '5, give or take'. Imprecise to an order of magnitude!
Well, DUH... use the 10 inch floppies... they hold more...
Well, in that case you shoulda kept it on floppies or something.
Losing stuff w/o backups sucks. We've all been there. Still, if you know better and don't do it, you're not gonna get much love from slashdot.
I like to listen to it and play "spot the bad logic" (it isn't hard). I DO feel bad for the real scientists who get asked the stupidest shit.
:)
For example, a guy was talking about the statistical probability of an asteroid strike in the next 100 years. Then the host is like "So, how likely is it that aliens are deflecting the asteroids at us in the first place? There's no proof that they're NOT, after all..."
You can just hear the poor guy wilt.
Also fun is Richard "the scientific establishment is against me. they expect me to have evidence for my wild claims, the bastards" Hoagland. He can't go 10 seconds without a logical error
try 'free will' or 'mind you own fucking business' next time then.
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Actually, since it wasn't a troll, it says much about what I think about GWB.
Save the passive-aggressive anonymous snipes for someone who might take offense, mmmmkay?
Yes yes, I am trolling all the bigots out there... sure. Like that's even much of a challenge.
I don't wonder at all... he'd probably be the first to wield the syringe if he could.
I should clarify... apparently once he went on trial a lot of doors shut to him, that's what I meant. Not that he was ashamed or anything. Perhaps I was being lazy :)
It was supposed to kill libido. I think that it is actually effective at that.
Of course, homosexuality isn't something to be "cured", but it was the 50's... not the most tolerant time.
Interesting... the fellow may be a troll, but this post is not. Turing DID kill himself, and most likely due to the ramifications of his homosexuality becoming public knowledge.
Wow, I didn't realize that we had posters that were around in the 1800's. They should really be ashamed of themselves.
The natives got screwed royally. No one denies that. This does not mean that white people are evil for the rest of time. Funny how people decry racism until it fits their needs...
I think "crap" is a bit harsh (I know you didn't mean it as an attack), he was limited to a single machine(his), not much time with the language, and being the first time he'd written an OS.
Plus, it's cold there and he had to fight off Yetis...
(I just read Linus's autobiography... interesting read. Not a tech book, but an interesting history of Linux.)
Yeah, I finally figured out how to turn that shit off! :) I like my autoscroll click-the-center-button thingie. Never could figure out why it was trying to load a URL.
As a side note, what kind of weird default behavior is that... we have the primary button (for selecting, clicking links, etc), and alternate (usually for context sensitive jazz) and the URL button? Those wacky hackers...
Which is, effectively, traveling as far horizontally (if space is "up" that is. Actually you're moving in a circle) as the curvature of the earth make it fall away from you in a given period of time.
No, schmuck. Perhaps I didn't phrase it so that you could understand it, but I never troll. I was attempting to explain a phenomenon in terms that might make sense to the lay person. Setting up straw men doesn't help.
Well, on the train you don't feel any acceleration once you've reached crusing speed, do you? It's kind of similar, but in a perpendicular sense.
If there was no gravity (acceleration), you'd be "weightless", relative to the acceleration of the train. This is why it's harder to walk forward on an accelerating train than one that is moving steadily... you're not fighing the acceleration.
I live about 2 miles west of Interstate 5 in So. California (right near disneyland). My understanding is that, in the event of a coastal attack, the plan is to fall back to the 5 as a defense line.
Good plan, except that a couple million of us are between the 5 and the ocean...
Heh, and condemn the poster for not GPLing everything they've ever done...
No, I'm pretty sure that undefended copyrights are also lost (the whole RIAA thing was about more than just greed... they HAD to protest their stuff being stolen)
Actually, the question is, what does the law say about someone who is unwilling to protect their copyright.
The answer is that they lose it. I'd imagine that your abandoneware fellow would be OK in court at this point.
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