A lot of things are "might", but the likelihood is low.
I don't think the country will collapse, which implies suddenness. Rather, I foresee slow disintegration followed possibly by regional secessions. Or Northern Mexico-Western Bangladesh.
Unless the elimination of the Pax Americana has the very undesirable effect of countries who have lived for decades under the protection of the US military decide to rearm because the countries that they fear have no check on expansion.
stretch of memory beyond the buffer, zero it out, and check it to see if it's zeros later.
I don't remember the correct term for such regions, but nulls are a very bad sequence to put there, since... they can't be distinguished from actual, purposeful zeros.
Better to initialize the area with something like 0xDEADBEEF.
Hell, you can (and we do) make any shorter-chain molecule by cracking.
Diesel oil is a bunch of mid-length chains and rings, which naturally exist in crude oil, and have been used that way for 110 years.
But since we want more gasoline & diesel oil than is naturally in crude, we crack the high-carbon molecules into the ones that we want more of (and then reform those too small into longer ones), instead of burning it in building boiler rooms, ships and making candles.
To reiterate, though: the chains that we call "diesel oil" absolutely, positively do exist naturally in crude oil.
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In which post? Not in #47287767 nor 47290415.
A lot of things are "might", but the likelihood is low.
I don't think the country will collapse, which implies suddenness. Rather, I foresee slow disintegration followed possibly by regional secessions. Or Northern Mexico-Western Bangladesh.
If we tweak the UN governing before that happens then we could have a benevolent dictatorship.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Run by who? The Chinese? The Russians? The Congolese? The Iranians? The British? The Saudis?
And I propose that you stop fantasizing Utopian nonsense.
but developed a clean room implementation of all the hardware and microcode.
So, they reverse engineered... an American chip.
If you want to to be truly independent, go make your own fscking chips from the god damned ground up!
You really deserve a "+5 Insightful" (mainly because I was thinking the exact same thing).
it's to weaken the USA.
Unless the elimination of the Pax Americana has the very undesirable effect of countries who have lived for decades under the protection of the US military decide to rearm because the countries that they fear have no check on expansion.
Well, MIPS is an American architecture too.
That is a very confusing post. Are you saying that the US military might implement a coup d'etat?
An anonymous contributor submits a link-free Oh Noes 1984!!!!, and the End Of All Our Freedoms comments just flood in.
it would also be darned useful to non-fascists.
stretch of memory beyond the buffer, zero it out, and check it to see if it's zeros later.
I don't remember the correct term for such regions, but nulls are a very bad sequence to put there, since... they can't be distinguished from actual, purposeful zeros.
Better to initialize the area with something like 0xDEADBEEF.
Hell, you can (and we do) make any shorter-chain molecule by cracking.
Diesel oil is a bunch of mid-length chains and rings, which naturally exist in crude oil, and have been used that way for 110 years.
But since we want more gasoline & diesel oil than is naturally in crude, we crack the high-carbon molecules into the ones that we want more of (and then reform those too small into longer ones), instead of burning it in building boiler rooms, ships and making candles.
To reiterate, though: the chains that we call "diesel oil" absolutely, positively do exist naturally in crude oil.
As I recall, plastic is the leftover waste from refining oil.
You recall wrong. Very, very wrong.
100 mm^3 of plastic per m^3 of water doesn't sound much like a garbage patch to me...
who will let you know that you are wrong but are entitled to your opinion and move on about their day.
Or some New Age woo-meister who's mind is so open their brains have fallen out.
Why worry about something I can't stop or even slow down?
"Why do the people keep voting for the last commercial they saw on TV?"
Short attention span? Not actually being human (which is why Frank Herbert conceived of the gom jabbar")?
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Because people like power, and don't like giving it up. (If you really had to ask that, then you're too young to vote.)
but the IRS sure is doing an excellent job of looking guilty as hell right about now.
Purdy much... "What can we do to inflame Glenn Beck's foam horde even more? I know!!! Let's shred all the evidence proving our innocence!"
And these are the type of people They want running nationalized health care?
Memory-safe languages and their compiler can provide the same "safety" net
But no one uses them.
I thought this was the descendant of Burroughs B5000?
TFA explains that one line is from Sperry, and the other from Burroughs.
The TU Delft paper explicitly states Detection of respiratory movement of a person in laboratory conditions has been demonstrated.
Tell that to the actually worthless fucks who are still breeding like rabbits.
You have a *lot* more disposable income that me. Childless?