They just need to make the war sufficiently expensive either financially or politically to continue.
Perhaps, but Iran isn't in a vacuum. They would need to carry on that fight in the face of serious opposition from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Russia, & China, all of whom don't particularly care for the kind of conflict such action would bring. As much as Russia may hate the US, neither China nor Russia particularly care for a belligerent Iran attempting to close the Strait or flinging missiles at people trying to use it. There would be nothing simple at all about Iran making war sufficiently expensive for anyone.
I'm just wondering how much longer it will be until companies like Verizon simply hire thugs to go house to house and empty people of their wallets once a week.
I'm sorry to hear you say that about Ron Paul. I don't agree at all that he says he has any easy solutions. I think he has has real solutions though. The cure for over spending is to cut back. Its simple enough, but in practice could be one of the most difficult solutions the Fed would ever put into place. Paul is hardly a conservative's dream- he has arguments enough with them. I just think he has fewer with than than with Liberals.
Empirically derived evidence, not anecdotal hearsay evidence.
When was the last time you heard sleighbells in the snow in December?
We had some of the coldest winter on record here in Washington last year, and looking outside my window I see snow on the ground. But you're right- I'm going to give all my income to Greenpeace this year because you cite some statistics. They'll know how to fix the planet.
I met a couple of execs from GoDaddy years ago (about '05) during an internet conference in Seattle. I don't remember if they were founding execs or just high ups, but they seemed pretty up there. They also struck me as slimy. Slippery. I don't know how to put it, but I wouldn't want them alone with my 6 year old daughter. I'm not kidding. They weren't... *right*.
I can't believe Hawking is still around. Someone with his diagnosis usually checks out 10-12 years after the first signs. That he's hung on this long is some testament. I can't see him lingering on for much longer.
The last few times I installed an os (which were Windows and Linux machines) they came with ipv6 stacks, and it seemed like very little configuration was nessessary. In fact, if I recall, the configuration instructions were how to turn the ipv6 stack off if you wanted to do that. It seemed to be on by default.
Global warming doesn't preclude local cooling. In fact, it's a natural consequence as weather patterns change.
Maybe, maybe not. In any case, do you have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell me? If so I'll just hand over my checkbook to you right now. Do you get my point? Or should I sledgehammer it home? In otherwords, whats your evidence for that statement? I'm not ready to take 5 steps backwards economically becuase you and your friends have fears with regards to this supposed phenomena. Even if the the world's climate were warming, you have no evidence to support that it is more than a perodic aberration.
I don't think people in the anti-warming camp are saying its not possible. What I do think they are saying is that its not really possible to say definitely that global warming is happening as pro-warming people are saying it is with certainty. There are mitigating circumstances, including figures that show there is dramatic cooling occuring in certain areas that fly in the face of the doomsayers. You can't point at the world and say "Now theres warming happening on that planet." You appear to want to force a complete upheaval of the world's economic system based on hype and heresay, and they are saying "Hang on a second, lets take a look at this." Big difference.
Here's the issue; yes we may not be able to prove beyond a showdow of a doubt that God does or does not exist (the issue was settled fir me a long time ago but that evidence isn't going to saisfy you no matter how empirically sound it is, this I know) , but if you insist that your pov is sound using non-empirical methods and insist on putting it next to the legacy of correct and sound knowlege gained through 2000 years of tried and true methods you have effectively decided that anything anyone says with enough conviction deserves a place in that legacy. This includes praying tp pink elephants for rain. Rendering any scientific method we might want to employ in the future useless. We might as well g back to the socratic method of scientific research.
(the)...U.S. has never been about, or seek to know, science.
Incorrect. Most advances in science have been made here. I'll go with the comment that the US is losing steam but your opening statement is wildly innacurate. The very technology we are both using to post these thoughts was developed here.
real-live implementations of "forth" and images of "naked lady martians" are considered a good thing...
I must not be living in your universe then. The last time I experienced Forth was an interpreter on a cart I bought for my C64 back in the 80's. I think I popped it in the slot once, then it sat on a shelf for the next 10 years and finally got round filed. I can't think of anyone I know who would consider Forth more than a curiosity and more than one of them would try to re-write the module in Python, probably.
Flying cars are too expensive, and still require a runway. The sh*t I'm talking about is hardly a dream. Wireless connectivity easier than bluetooth is coming, and cheap lcd technology will make needing an attached display a thing of the past. In ten years we'll be telling our machines what to do vocally, and gesturing at those cheap displays to open browser objects. We'll be wondering why we used mice and keyboards for as long as we did. Siri is just the first generation.
There's a caveat to this; or an exception- The world is moving AWAY from beefy laptops and TOWARDS mobile machines. And KDE as it is is the WORST thing to use on mobile devices, like Windows. Notebooks and desks will be a thing of the past sooner than you think. And you may think "well, I'll always use a lappy, a note, or a desk." Well, good for you. But after you're dead there won't be a machine larger than a calculator (remember those?) left to stuff a desktop in. Oh, the Desktop? Going bye bye too. Look at some kind of "gestures" like interface in 3d (as in; snap your fingers and twist them around above the screen.) Or a voice command thing like Siri, one that works. And screens? They'll be large, cheap, and ubiquitus- whenever you need a view larger than the one on your phone you'll simply tell your phone to connect to the nearest unused display. This will all start happening soon. If no display is available and you really need one; pull out a can of spray on lcd. You'll then tell your phone to connect to that. Say good by to the mouse and keyboard. This stuff is being developed NOW. Look for big changes to HMI in the next 5-10 years.
I guess its not going to do any good AT ALL to bring up (yet again) how wrongly the term "hacking" is applied to script kiddies, hijackers, and black hat ops. The classic MIT (and correct) def of "hacker" is just a distant memory now.
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They just need to make the war sufficiently expensive either financially or politically to continue.
Perhaps, but Iran isn't in a vacuum. They would need to carry on that fight in the face of serious opposition from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Russia, & China, all of whom don't particularly care for the kind of conflict such action would bring. As much as Russia may hate the US, neither China nor Russia particularly care for a belligerent Iran attempting to close the Strait or flinging missiles at people trying to use it. There would be nothing simple at all about Iran making war sufficiently expensive for anyone.
Yeah! Like Britain is France's bitch!!
I'm just wondering how much longer it will be until companies like Verizon simply hire thugs to go house to house and empty people of their wallets once a week.
I'm sorry to hear you say that about Ron Paul. I don't agree at all that he says he has any easy solutions. I think he has has real solutions though. The cure for over spending is to cut back. Its simple enough, but in practice could be one of the most difficult solutions the Fed would ever put into place. Paul is hardly a conservative's dream- he has arguments enough with them. I just think he has fewer with than than with Liberals.
What evidence would convince you?
Empirically derived evidence, not anecdotal hearsay evidence.
When was the last time you heard sleighbells in the snow in December?
We had some of the coldest winter on record here in Washington last year, and looking outside my window I see snow on the ground. But you're right- I'm going to give all my income to Greenpeace this year because you cite some statistics. They'll know how to fix the planet.
Believe it or not, some of us don't get a cut on the sales of those t-shirts.
Well, believe it or not, not all of us are in the one world government cabal.
I met a couple of execs from GoDaddy years ago (about '05) during an internet conference in Seattle. I don't remember if they were founding execs or just high ups, but they seemed pretty up there. They also struck me as slimy. Slippery. I don't know how to put it, but I wouldn't want them alone with my 6 year old daughter. I'm not kidding. They weren't... *right*.
I can't believe Hawking is still around. Someone with his diagnosis usually checks out 10-12 years after the first signs. That he's hung on this long is some testament. I can't see him lingering on for much longer.
...I guess. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-to-boycott-now-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/
You are actively admitting that you have a financial incentive as an individual for man-made climate change to be untrue.
Sure, as long as you actively admit that you have an interest yourself. Those Greenpeace t-shirts aren't going to sell themselves...
The last few times I installed an os (which were Windows and Linux machines) they came with ipv6 stacks, and it seemed like very little configuration was nessessary. In fact, if I recall, the configuration instructions were how to turn the ipv6 stack off if you wanted to do that. It seemed to be on by default.
Global warming doesn't preclude local cooling. In fact, it's a natural consequence as weather patterns change.
Maybe, maybe not. In any case, do you have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell me? If so I'll just hand over my checkbook to you right now. Do you get my point? Or should I sledgehammer it home? In otherwords, whats your evidence for that statement? I'm not ready to take 5 steps backwards economically becuase you and your friends have fears with regards to this supposed phenomena. Even if the the world's climate were warming, you have no evidence to support that it is more than a perodic aberration.
What a stupid comment.
I don't think people in the anti-warming camp are saying its not possible. What I do think they are saying is that its not really possible to say definitely that global warming is happening as pro-warming people are saying it is with certainty. There are mitigating circumstances, including figures that show there is dramatic cooling occuring in certain areas that fly in the face of the doomsayers. You can't point at the world and say "Now theres warming happening on that planet." You appear to want to force a complete upheaval of the world's economic system based on hype and heresay, and they are saying "Hang on a second, lets take a look at this." Big difference.
Here's the issue; yes we may not be able to prove beyond a showdow of a doubt that God does or does not exist (the issue was settled fir me a long time ago but that evidence isn't going to saisfy you no matter how empirically sound it is, this I know) , but if you insist that your pov is sound using non-empirical methods and insist on putting it next to the legacy of correct and sound knowlege gained through 2000 years of tried and true methods you have effectively decided that anything anyone says with enough conviction deserves a place in that legacy. This includes praying tp pink elephants for rain. Rendering any scientific method we might want to employ in the future useless. We might as well g back to the socratic method of scientific research.
(the) ...U.S. has never been about, or seek to know, science.
Incorrect. Most advances in science have been made here. I'll go with the comment that the US is losing steam but your opening statement is wildly innacurate. The very technology we are both using to post these thoughts was developed here.
So wrong.
Disagree. Can't really say why, so my arguments kind of weak. But certainly not centuries. 15 years at the most for that one.
You just described the death of Android.
I'm not seeing Android die anytime soon from where I'm sitting.
real-live implementations of "forth" and images of "naked lady martians" are considered a good thing...
I must not be living in your universe then. The last time I experienced Forth was an interpreter on a cart I bought for my C64 back in the 80's. I think I popped it in the slot once, then it sat on a shelf for the next 10 years and finally got round filed. I can't think of anyone I know who would consider Forth more than a curiosity and more than one of them would try to re-write the module in Python, probably.
I kinda agree with OP's sentiment but obviously Apple's inserted some new twist in the mix.
Flying cars are too expensive, and still require a runway. The sh*t I'm talking about is hardly a dream. Wireless connectivity easier than bluetooth is coming, and cheap lcd technology will make needing an attached display a thing of the past. In ten years we'll be telling our machines what to do vocally, and gesturing at those cheap displays to open browser objects. We'll be wondering why we used mice and keyboards for as long as we did. Siri is just the first generation.
the standard desktop is not going away
I'll bet you anything it is. Much sooner than you think.
There's a caveat to this; or an exception- The world is moving AWAY from beefy laptops and TOWARDS mobile machines. And KDE as it is is the WORST thing to use on mobile devices, like Windows. Notebooks and desks will be a thing of the past sooner than you think. And you may think "well, I'll always use a lappy, a note, or a desk." Well, good for you. But after you're dead there won't be a machine larger than a calculator (remember those?) left to stuff a desktop in. Oh, the Desktop? Going bye bye too. Look at some kind of "gestures" like interface in 3d (as in; snap your fingers and twist them around above the screen.) Or a voice command thing like Siri, one that works. And screens? They'll be large, cheap, and ubiquitus- whenever you need a view larger than the one on your phone you'll simply tell your phone to connect to the nearest unused display. This will all start happening soon. If no display is available and you really need one; pull out a can of spray on lcd. You'll then tell your phone to connect to that. Say good by to the mouse and keyboard. This stuff is being developed NOW. Look for big changes to HMI in the next 5-10 years.
I guess its not going to do any good AT ALL to bring up (yet again) how wrongly the term "hacking" is applied to script kiddies, hijackers, and black hat ops. The classic MIT (and correct) def of "hacker" is just a distant memory now.