I understand they have oil and we want it, but there are PLENTY of other reasons to be there, even if you are too stupid to stop listening to politicians to realize it.
The genocide and torture being a couple reasons off the top of my head.
Get some perspective, not everything is done for money alone, even if you're too blinded by ignorance to realize it.
Maybe you should consider adjusting what you consider to be a 'living wage' cause I'm pretty sure something is more than nothing.
You are bitter because you've been replaced by someone who better fits the needs of their employers. Your fault, not anyone else's.
As someone who is the highest paid employee at the company I'm working at, which is a struggling company, the FIRST thing I did when I found out about the financial situation is said 'a pay cut is FAR better than a layoff, talk to me before you do it!'. Since then, 4 people have been released and I'm still here.
As a general rule, people who act like you really aren't that qualified, just arrogant.
And the alternative is what? Let criminals roam free? Let them commit more crimes? Whats it take, someone murdering your first born for you to finally wake up and smell reality?
And result in far more crime, what the fuck are you smoking?
I could give a fuck about vengeance for some guy that killed your family, I'm far more concerned about him not killing mine. You have an incredibly ignorant view of the world.
Don't want to live in the cruel prison system, don't commit the crime. Don't want people to get revenge DON'T COMMIT THE CRIME.
Spend a few days IN a prison and get some perspective. Murders as a rule, don't sit around feeling remorseful while in prison.
If you want to be nice to them, put one of your children in prison for a week. Go live with them yourself, get some perspective. You are seriously out of touch with reality.
Shouldn't it be sold by what you are promised to get, not what you might get if the solar flares, lunar alignment, and the Unicorn roaming Yellowstone are all just right?
They need to stop selling UP TO 15MB!!!@$!@$ and sell 5MB all the time, to everyone.
Selling by burst speeds are retarded. You don't by a car that can 'burst to 150hp for 15 minutes', you buy a car that has 150hp at X rpm, and Y torque.
They aren't lying, but they are misleading, as most women will tell you, its really the same thing. Okay, at least mine does.
As a British person living in the USA I notice that the majority of my sockets outside kitchen and bathroom are not GFI protected (either at the socket or the fuse panel) and that most appliances do not use an Earth Pin.
Move out of the apartment/house/building that was built 30 years ago and you'll notice a major change. All of these issues are attributed to older homes, most cities have had wiring codes that require GFI anywhere near water for a long time, even though its silly for a number of reasons. If they are going to be installed you should do it everywhere, not just near water.
If you have appliances without common grounds, then you have appliances that are old. You won't find anything sold new that doesn't require a common ground anywhere in the US, and haven't been able to for 10 to 20 years.
I also am in awe that socket adapters are legally sold that convert non earthed sockets into earthed sockets and light bulb sockets into earthed sockets, the safety implications are huge.
Not really. An issue occurs if there is a wiring problem in the appliance, in which case the Earth ground runs the risk starting a fire. A wiring fault is dangerous, regardless of backup protections in place, theres only so much you can do. GFI helps and is the best solutions, but it can fail in dangerous ways as well.
Also, before adapters were sold, the solution was to simply cut off the third prong.
I also notice that no appliance I own in the USA uses insulation on the live pins of the plug to prevent accidental shocks when the plug is slightly out of the socket,
Uhm, don't touch the metal on the plug and it won't matter. I'm tired of this bullshit of doing all sorts of stuff to protect stupid people.
none of the sockets contain safety shutters
They may use GFI breakers, so the whole circuit is protected rather than just the outlet, of course its probably back to the original problem of you being in a building thats not using current standards.
high wattage appliances such as vacuum cleaners get warm
All wires get warmer as more current flows through them due to the resistance in them, just like the processor in your PC. Theres nothing wrong with it from a safety perspective as long as the cord is kept in good condition. There are plenty of reasons why its inefficient and they shouldn't cheap out on the wire, but thats another story.
The dimming you see is because the building you are in was probably wired with 14 gauge wire rather than 12 or 10. It was done when codes were didn't require heavier wire because you didn't draw as much current from the outlet with the things you plugged into them. I bought a house built in 1977, with 14 gauge wire (10 amp). Spent my first summer rewiring the house to use 10 gauge(20 amp), although code requires 12 (15 amp) because I'm aware that I draw more power than typical. You are in effect trying to run Win7 on your Pentium 66mhz machine. Or to use a car analogy, trying to pull a semi trailer full of goods with a Ford Focus.
If you look at the gauges and amperage I used above, you'll see that our codes are actually well within safe ranges. 12 gauge wire can safely care 20 amps without an issue. 10 gauge can carry 30 with no problems. Our codes however, throw in an extra layer to deal with the unexpected, but not everything was built to the current code. All new homes will have at least 12 or they won't pass inspection in any city I'm aware of.
If you are plugging a vacuum cleaner into a socket that only has 2 flat pins and draws more than 10 amps, then your vacuum cleaner is using the wrong plug and you are putting it in the wrong outlet. If it doesn't require more than 10 amps then the wiring is sufficient, as long as the breaker or more likely in your case, fuse, is only a 10 amp breaker. Code requires one of th
Really? What is wisdom if not experience, at least in this context? I'm fairly sure that experience in the previous equation represented knowledge gained through experience, which would be wisdom.
Considering that Verizons CDMA network covers an area much larger than all of Europe, and that most people in America stay in America, and that when traveling to Europe, most Americans get a throwaway for cell service so they don't pay $2/min...
I guess my point is, no one would care because its irrelevant to almost everyone that Verizon uses CDMA.
The real problem is that it rarely 'falls back to 2G EDGE and continues to work' .
The map shown for AT&Ts coverage area is about the only areas you can get data in, and sometimes thats not even true.
I love my iPhone, but AT&Ts network is worthless. The whole 'Fastest 3G network' is false as well, unless I'm supposed to believe that everyone else gets speeds slower than a modem on most days, and that good speeds once a week are acceptable for being defined as 'fastest'.
RIM sells several models, the iPhone is basically one model with diffrent size storage.
Symbian accounts for not only different models, but different manufactures as well. Living in America, I'd say 50% is a BS figure however, I've seen only one Symbian phone, it came from a friend visiting from Europe.
I realize America does not account for the entire world, but its really hard for me to buy those numbers when I've only ever seen one if the 'most popular selling phones' and I've seen far more of the less popular ones.
It could be that once you confirm the existence or lack of existence of a deity, that you simply don't care anymore, or know that its better not to tell anyone else.
The simple, and logical conclusion to anyone who isn't blinded by arrogance, is that the equations are wrong, or at the minimum, incomplete. Unfortunately, there are about 3 high level scientists in the world that get that bit of it.
Well, theres also that simulations would need to be exact duplicates to be accurate. You can't simulate a system in real time or faster than realtime without using more matter to simulate it than is involved in the simulation. Accuracy requires simulation of all elements involved, which when simulating something real, an actual object, not something virtual, then you have to actually simulate the entire universe, as everything in it effects everything else in it.
Making the ability to simulate physical objects in our universe accurately impossible. The very act of simulating it breaks changes the simulation. Maybe if we use some other dimension or something.
Not so much of Mark, if he doesn't want to maintain it, thats fine, it was free, I get it.
However... this is typical of MS.
They tell us (developers) that the sid will be unique. We write software that expects this and uses the sid as a unique ID.
Now they come along and say 'naaa, its not important to be unique, use the same sid all you want, no one will notice!'
And then I have to say... thank god for real OSes where backwards compatibility is a rule for a reason, not just because they need it to maintain compatibility. They throw corner cases to the wind and go back on something they've said for years, completely ignoring the fact that people have built things based on something they said was a requirement.
This is the forth change that will break (or potentially in this case) software I have to maintain. Two patches that remove existing functionality in the name of security with the argument that 'no one uses it that way', to which Google can clearly show to be wrong. Even better is that one of them, a change to the DHTML control breaks some of their own apps, OWA for instance.
Its fucked up when you have to find a hack via Google to fix a bug in MS software that they say doesn't effect anyone... except everyone that uses one of their more popular clients. Their response is 'patch exchange' which breaks OTHER things.
How do we get better at it if we don't practice, make mistakes, make surprising discoveries about what works right although we never expected it to?
We'll never learn anything if we don't try.
However, we're not really going to leave our solar system any time soon for any useful reason until we can break some things we consider 'laws of physics'. Space is just too big and it'll take too long to do anything useful. It takes too long to do anything useful other than what we can manage in orbit already. The moon is barely acceptable. Mars is a long shot and is basically a suicide mission that may but dumb luck get back home at this point. We're going to try anyway, cause thats what we do.
In the words of Brad Cooper or Wright (writers of Stargate) spoken through Jack Oneill, 'We are a curious race, we're out there now, we can use all the help we can get'
Well, I'm just a little weary of Carmack. I'm pretty sure he's just trying to get to Mars so he can open the Portal to hell. I think DOOM was more than a game, he knows about something on the surface of Mars and isn't sharing any info.
Its all part of his plans for Galactic domination.
I all seriousness though, we all know he won. After thinking about it more I can remember several times in my life were I felt like he seems to. "Yes, I'm supposed to be a good sport about losing, but the rules are sorta BS and we got shafted, so allow me to vent for a minute".
I can understand that I guess.
I mostly hope he doesn't turn away from future things like this. I think he's rather a douchebag, but a smart douchebag, and far far better than most of the smart douchebags we deal with in the world.
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There is no other reason?
I understand they have oil and we want it, but there are PLENTY of other reasons to be there, even if you are too stupid to stop listening to politicians to realize it.
The genocide and torture being a couple reasons off the top of my head.
Get some perspective, not everything is done for money alone, even if you're too blinded by ignorance to realize it.
Maybe you should consider adjusting what you consider to be a 'living wage' cause I'm pretty sure something is more than nothing.
You are bitter because you've been replaced by someone who better fits the needs of their employers. Your fault, not anyone else's.
As someone who is the highest paid employee at the company I'm working at, which is a struggling company, the FIRST thing I did when I found out about the financial situation is said 'a pay cut is FAR better than a layoff, talk to me before you do it!'. Since then, 4 people have been released and I'm still here.
As a general rule, people who act like you really aren't that qualified, just arrogant.
There is a general consensus, hence why pretty much the entire world has laws and prisons.
Arguing that there is no consensus is as retarded as arguing that the Sun didn't shine today.
And the alternative is what? Let criminals roam free? Let them commit more crimes? Whats it take, someone murdering your first born for you to finally wake up and smell reality?
And result in far more crime, what the fuck are you smoking?
I could give a fuck about vengeance for some guy that killed your family, I'm far more concerned about him not killing mine. You have an incredibly ignorant view of the world.
Don't want to live in the cruel prison system, don't commit the crime. Don't want people to get revenge DON'T COMMIT THE CRIME.
Spend a few days IN a prison and get some perspective. Murders as a rule, don't sit around feeling remorseful while in prison.
If you want to be nice to them, put one of your children in prison for a week. Go live with them yourself, get some perspective. You are seriously out of touch with reality.
Impossible to predict and measure yes, that doesn't imply it wasn't deterministic. Just because we can't model it doesn't mean there isn't a model.
To accurately predict and measure it, we would have to be outside of its realm of influence.
Just because we don't understand or know about ALL the laws of nature doesn't mean they aren't there.
Shouldn't it be sold by what you are promised to get, not what you might get if the solar flares, lunar alignment, and the Unicorn roaming Yellowstone are all just right?
They need to stop selling UP TO 15MB!!!@$!@$ and sell 5MB all the time, to everyone.
Selling by burst speeds are retarded. You don't by a car that can 'burst to 150hp for 15 minutes', you buy a car that has 150hp at X rpm, and Y torque.
They aren't lying, but they are misleading, as most women will tell you, its really the same thing. Okay, at least mine does.
Move out of the apartment/house/building that was built 30 years ago and you'll notice a major change. All of these issues are attributed to older homes, most cities have had wiring codes that require GFI anywhere near water for a long time, even though its silly for a number of reasons. If they are going to be installed you should do it everywhere, not just near water.
If you have appliances without common grounds, then you have appliances that are old. You won't find anything sold new that doesn't require a common ground anywhere in the US, and haven't been able to for 10 to 20 years.
Not really. An issue occurs if there is a wiring problem in the appliance, in which case the Earth ground runs the risk starting a fire. A wiring fault is dangerous, regardless of backup protections in place, theres only so much you can do. GFI helps and is the best solutions, but it can fail in dangerous ways as well.
Also, before adapters were sold, the solution was to simply cut off the third prong.
Uhm, don't touch the metal on the plug and it won't matter. I'm tired of this bullshit of doing all sorts of stuff to protect stupid people.
They may use GFI breakers, so the whole circuit is protected rather than just the outlet, of course its probably back to the original problem of you being in a building thats not using current standards.
All wires get warmer as more current flows through them due to the resistance in them, just like the processor in your PC. Theres nothing wrong with it from a safety perspective as long as the cord is kept in good condition. There are plenty of reasons why its inefficient and they shouldn't cheap out on the wire, but thats another story.
The dimming you see is because the building you are in was probably wired with 14 gauge wire rather than 12 or 10. It was done when codes were didn't require heavier wire because you didn't draw as much current from the outlet with the things you plugged into them. I bought a house built in 1977, with 14 gauge wire (10 amp). Spent my first summer rewiring the house to use 10 gauge(20 amp), although code requires 12 (15 amp) because I'm aware that I draw more power than typical. You are in effect trying to run Win7 on your Pentium 66mhz machine. Or to use a car analogy, trying to pull a semi trailer full of goods with a Ford Focus.
If you look at the gauges and amperage I used above, you'll see that our codes are actually well within safe ranges. 12 gauge wire can safely care 20 amps without an issue. 10 gauge can carry 30 with no problems. Our codes however, throw in an extra layer to deal with the unexpected, but not everything was built to the current code.
All new homes will have at least 12 or they won't pass inspection in any city I'm aware of.
If you are plugging a vacuum cleaner into a socket that only has 2 flat pins and draws more than 10 amps, then your vacuum cleaner is using the wrong plug and you are putting it in the wrong outlet. If it doesn't require more than 10 amps then the wiring is sufficient, as long as the breaker or more likely in your case, fuse, is only a 10 amp breaker. Code requires one of th
Run Solaris or AIX some time.
Windows is better than a free OS, but its at the bottom of the barrel for commercial OSes.
Solaris wills till run most SunOS apps that weren't too tightly integrated. Show me a working OS/2 or Win1/2/3 app in Windows XP or Vista/Win7
I like to drive, can we just make it more difficult for douchebags to drive please rather than replacing them.
Really? What is wisdom if not experience, at least in this context? I'm fairly sure that experience in the previous equation represented knowledge gained through experience, which would be wisdom.
From personal experience I can tell you that AT&T's map is misleading, it shows 3G coverage where there is none, or at least none that works.
If you want to start claiming 'misleading' you need to define what each thing is, in which case AT&T will just look worse.
Considering that Verizons CDMA network covers an area much larger than all of Europe, and that most people in America stay in America, and that when traveling to Europe, most Americans get a throwaway for cell service so they don't pay $2/min ...
I guess my point is, no one would care because its irrelevant to almost everyone that Verizon uses CDMA.
The real problem is that it rarely 'falls back to 2G EDGE and continues to work' .
The map shown for AT&Ts coverage area is about the only areas you can get data in, and sometimes thats not even true.
I love my iPhone, but AT&Ts network is worthless. The whole 'Fastest 3G network' is false as well, unless I'm supposed to believe that everyone else gets speeds slower than a modem on most days, and that good speeds once a week are acceptable for being defined as 'fastest'.
RIM sells several models, the iPhone is basically one model with diffrent size storage.
Symbian accounts for not only different models, but different manufactures as well. Living in America, I'd say 50% is a BS figure however, I've seen only one Symbian phone, it came from a friend visiting from Europe.
I realize America does not account for the entire world, but its really hard for me to buy those numbers when I've only ever seen one if the 'most popular selling phones' and I've seen far more of the less popular ones.
Yea, because you understand it yourself ...
Maybe.
It could be that once you confirm the existence or lack of existence of a deity, that you simply don't care anymore, or know that its better not to tell anyone else.
The simple, and logical conclusion to anyone who isn't blinded by arrogance, is that the equations are wrong, or at the minimum, incomplete. Unfortunately, there are about 3 high level scientists in the world that get that bit of it.
Well, theres also that simulations would need to be exact duplicates to be accurate. You can't simulate a system in real time or faster than realtime without using more matter to simulate it than is involved in the simulation. Accuracy requires simulation of all elements involved, which when simulating something real, an actual object, not something virtual, then you have to actually simulate the entire universe, as everything in it effects everything else in it.
Making the ability to simulate physical objects in our universe accurately impossible. The very act of simulating it breaks changes the simulation. Maybe if we use some other dimension or something.
Not so much of Mark, if he doesn't want to maintain it, thats fine, it was free, I get it.
However ... this is typical of MS.
They tell us (developers) that the sid will be unique. We write software that expects this and uses the sid as a unique ID.
Now they come along and say 'naaa, its not important to be unique, use the same sid all you want, no one will notice!'
And then I have to say ... thank god for real OSes where backwards compatibility is a rule for a reason, not just because they need it to maintain compatibility. They throw corner cases to the wind and go back on something they've said for years, completely ignoring the fact that people have built things based on something they said was a requirement.
This is the forth change that will break (or potentially in this case) software I have to maintain. Two patches that remove existing functionality in the name of security with the argument that 'no one uses it that way', to which Google can clearly show to be wrong. Even better is that one of them, a change to the DHTML control breaks some of their own apps, OWA for instance.
Its fucked up when you have to find a hack via Google to fix a bug in MS software that they say doesn't effect anyone ... except everyone that uses one of their more popular clients. Their response is 'patch exchange' which breaks OTHER things.
STOP
CHANGING
BINARY
COMPATIBILITY
you worthless fucks. Yes, I'm annoyed.
Just for reference, all my NT servers are happy to speak NFS, Windows Services for Unix or whatever the new name for it is after Win2k3.
And the sun circling the Earth is also the reason used once long long ago to explain things like day and night.
It was also wrong due to ignorance and based or observations that weren't understood, not real sure why this is supposed to be magically different.
Magic?
How do we get better at it if we don't practice, make mistakes, make surprising discoveries about what works right although we never expected it to?
We'll never learn anything if we don't try.
However, we're not really going to leave our solar system any time soon for any useful reason until we can break some things we consider 'laws of physics'. Space is just too big and it'll take too long to do anything useful. It takes too long to do anything useful other than what we can manage in orbit already. The moon is barely acceptable. Mars is a long shot and is basically a suicide mission that may but dumb luck get back home at this point. We're going to try anyway, cause thats what we do.
In the words of Brad Cooper or Wright (writers of Stargate) spoken through Jack Oneill, 'We are a curious race, we're out there now, we can use all the help we can get'
Well, I'm just a little weary of Carmack. I'm pretty sure he's just trying to get to Mars so he can open the Portal to hell. I think DOOM was more than a game, he knows about something on the surface of Mars and isn't sharing any info.
Its all part of his plans for Galactic domination.
I all seriousness though, we all know he won. After thinking about it more I can remember several times in my life were I felt like he seems to. "Yes, I'm supposed to be a good sport about losing, but the rules are sorta BS and we got shafted, so allow me to vent for a minute".
I can understand that I guess.
I mostly hope he doesn't turn away from future things like this. I think he's rather a douchebag, but a smart douchebag, and far far better than most of the smart douchebags we deal with in the world.