Why do their crops seem to fail year after year ? Do they put ALL their resources in the military and nothing for the rest of the country ?
That is a large part of it. Military first is a main guiding principle in NK. They justify it due to the threat of the USA and their puppet government in SK. Even when the country was starving, food first went to the military as well as other resources.
Other points are that NK just isn't a good place for growing crops. Most of the good farm land is in the south and the north is good for mining. Another is that the country very seriously follows the guidence of their supreme leaders, and at one time, the eldest Kim advised crop and irrigation methods that nobody with an agricultural degree would have because they would have caused serious erosion of the soil, which it has. So, in the end, they have bad land for growing crops which has been made much worse over the years because nobody can contradict the dictates of the leader without also attacking the state, their resources and money go to the military first and what is left over go to things like agriculture, and what crops they do grow, first go to the military, including making sure they have a stockpile incase of a sustained war.
It would be an incredible opportunity for third parties if BOTH of the Ruling Party candidates were on trial during the election.
-jcr
Well, since both parties are in a battle against non-party members who have only joined their respective races due to our de facto two party system, it could be said that it has already been an incredible opportunity for third parties.
Ignore the classification issue entirely. The private mail server was a way of dodging accountability by hiding any potential evidence from where investigators would be able to access it. The whole thing was an attack on government transparency and accountability.
While I totally agree with you, I'd bet that as she is a lawyer with the power of the Secretary of State at the time, that everything is at least arguably ethical in a court and will have been found to follow the letter of the law, which will count more than the spirit.
ISIS grew out of Al Qaeda which wasn't in Iraq until the war. ISIS didn't just magically appear in Syria.
Not from the sources I have read. ISIL* grew out of Egyptian radicalism which states that anybody who does not agree with them is not muslim and may/should be killed. Al Qaeda grew out of Bin Laden's idea of jihad but only really came into being when alligned with similar Egyptian radicals to give them the backing and people it needed to grow their network. Al Qaeda is specifically an anti-USA organization. ISIL is specifically an anti-shiite organization looking to create a race/religious war to not just make the sunnis the only branch of Islam, but to make their specific branch of sunni islam the only version of Islam. With the disatisfaction (and starvation) caused by previous middle eastern and north african governments followed by the chaos of the arab spring, young men have swarmed to them. They were further bolstered by the old Iraqi baathists who are also anti-shiite sunnis. Currently, ISIL and Al Qaeda are competing for resources and people as much of Al Qaeda was shiite, and much that wasn't has left for ISIL. ISIL is in Syria because the Syrian baathists are shiites and the sunni Iraqi baathists hate each other and have support with the oppressed sunnis of Syria just as the shiites of Iraq were oppressed.
* I choose not to call them ISIS because it causes confusion with the Egyptian goddess so much and changed Archer, even if the new non-spy seasons have been great.
I keep reading that analogy, but it makes no sense... there's no car in there anywhere !
Apple Cars has built a car that is sold via retailers. One person who bought such a car committed a crime then died. (Really, it was his company car, but anyway...). The cops think there are things in the trunk that might be evidence that somebody helped him commit the crime but the trunk is locked by a programmed code set by the owner of the car. A feature of the iCar, is that the trunk can only be opened with the code while the engine is running and if the trunk is broken into or the wrong code is entered into the trunk keypad too many times, the gas tank explodes, destroying everything in the trunk. The cops could try and remove the gas tank and then break in, but the chances are they'l set fire to the gas tank and trunk in doing so. So, what the FBI wants, is for Apple Cars to build a new engine that has its own internal gasoline supply so it can run as well as a special pump to empty the gas tank under the trunk. Apple Cars does not have such an engine, so to provide one, they would have to have professional automotive engineers design a new engine, make sure there were no bugs, build it in their engine factories, test it on other iCars, and then have their own mechanics do the engine swap, so all the FBI has to do is use their automated key pad button pushing machine till the trunk opens (and blame Apple Cars if anything goes wrong).
Well, if I had to bet money on whether politicians or professors had the peer reviewed articles to back up their claims, I know which one my money would be on.
At this point, I consider Bernie Sanders a 3rd party candidate (who happens to be running for the Democrat nomination).
Well, let's be honest, that's what Trump is except he's running under the Republican side. The establishments of both sides are taking a thrashing by people that come out of nowhere to scoop up the voters. It's a de facto two party system where possibly most or the people don't like either party.
To be fair we Americans are usually referring to French politicians and "elites" in such jokes, not ordinary citizens. We understand that there is often a great disparity in beliefs and actions between a nation's political/social/economic elites and the ordinary citizen... whether that nation is France, Russia, China, Iran, etc.
To be fair, some Americans are usually referring to French politicians and "elites" in such jokes, Most Americans don't know why they're joking about the French except as blind us versus them prejudice ingrained by the popular culture. I spoke to my dad that I was going on a trip to Paris and he and his friends said you couldn't pay them to go to Paris, yet they had no reason beyond "because, freedom fries" for why they harbor such. Even then, our "jokes" about WW2 are usually just taking cheap shots due to political reasons caused post war by De Gaulle and following administrations in pissing over the US, Britain, and NATO in an attempt to prove to the world they were still a greater power than Britain, followed more recently by lack of support in American adventurism in the middle east since the point was to pretty much kick out their oil companies so we could put ours into place in Iraq.
Sure, they might take you there, but you'll only be passing by , because unless someone has built another laser array ON mars you won't be stopping until you hit something. Which could be the same day or a billion years later as the dried out dust that used to be your corpse slowly orbits the galaxy.
If you have a laser propulsion system on the moon, you accelerate the ship up to speed, then the ship separates a mirror to go ahead of the ship and the laser hits the forward mirror and is reflected back to the ship, slowing it down. The forward mirror will continue to accelerate on it's way out of the solar system like a Voyager, but so long as it's mass is less than what it would take for equivalent thrust from fuel, it's all good.
...how would you slow down when you get there? Acceleration without deceleration won't work.
Laser propulsion systems usually are intended to decelerate by breaking off a section of the solar sail and sends it forward. The laser now hits that section of sail and bounced back to hit the main body, causing it to decelerate. So, just like a rocket, accelerate halfway there, then decelerate the second half. For added efficiency, the laser can continue be be bounced between the two making them separate even faster. Of course they could use that method to accelerate faster in the first half too.
Slashdot has a strange obsession with Uber. They post literally everything Uber related. I just don't get it.
It's probably the same as it was with Apple articles, Drovak's articles, anything that people can complain about SJW, or anything that goes to Forbes: they all draw in lots of comments and therefore create the click counts that drive the website. If people just brushed past them without commenting, they'd probably stop getting posted. As long as that continues, they'll still keep giving the readers what it seems like they want. If you don't want to see them anymore, stop reading them and posting to them.
But Tumblr is only 9 years old -- they can't be 30 yet!
Well, all the users weren't 17. I do have a friend that has a blog that caters to teenage girls and young women and she keeps track of what they use and how. It's been a while since I've had the current situation explained to me, but many of the users I see on tumbr are quite older than 17 these days and the young crowd tends to find their own methods that differ from the previous generation. I think things have all moved to mobile sharing apps for some time.
I thought it was just for the ramblings of 17 year old girls? Or is that LiveJournal?
Wow, and I was afraid I was out of touch. All those 17 year old girls on Tumblr are now in their twenties and thirties, but most have moved to Pinterest. LJ is pretty much all Russian bloggers.
On iOS your employer can put a certificate on your device that allows them to get into the device they loan you.
Too bad they didn't do it, HR could have gotten the FBI in.
It's not all that easy to do however. We had a meeting with Apple about going that route, and to start with, you have to buy everything through a certain Apple program to get that done. If your business has contract agreements with other vendors or the users buy the actual device and are reimbursed for them later like my work, that is not possible from the start. Then if you do, you're thrown into a world of third party vendors for management software IIRC.
China's going through a very interesting transition period, and they're doing a lot of things that the average citizen might not agree with. It kind of makes sense in their society to crack down further on dissent at this point. For example, it's coming to light now that those "ghost cities" that the West laughed off as pyramid-building are actually part of a mass-urbanization movement. China's going to take hundreds of millions of rural farmers and move them to cities to jump-start their consumer-driven phase of economic development. Pulling something like that off requires total control over the population and the messaging around it. It will be very interesting to see if this can be done successfully -- the Cultural Revolution or Great Leap Forward didn't produce the expected results, and the Soviet crash program of industrialization had major side effects.
Now, how in the world do you enforce a ban like this? I guess the Chinese versions of internationally-owned news services are off limits now?
Wow. It's like Agenda 21: China. Glen Beck should write another book.
Wasn't it already figured out that trying to blow nukes off on an asteroid surface would achieve approximately JACK SHIT?
They're not sufficiently powerful to break up mass, and due to being nuked in space, the kinetic transfer is significantly less, therefore "deflection" wouldn't happen either.
No they didn't. Yes it would. They have done research and while there is a better way, that is not what they found. All that kenetic transfer you are looking for would be from things vaporizing from the release of x-rays and other high energy EM radiation. In lack of an atmosphere, the same such rays would vaporize the surface of the asteroid and be ejected from it like rocket exhaust. If they could bury it somewhat in the asteroid, that would work better for trasnfer of energy and directionality of the resultant ejection. However, the plan they actually came up with was for a nuclear device built do what they wanted. The bomb itself would be shielded in an x-ray reflector, similar to how they focus the same x-rays on the hydrogen in fusion bombs, but instead focus them on an x-ray absorber that would vaporize and be sent quite near the speed of light in the direction of the target. Calcuations showed that such a design should be able to direct 95% of the energy of an atomic bomb into the target as a kinetic energy weapon.
Why would Apple want to shield the communications of mass murderers and their accomplices whom the FBI is trying to track down? A court of law ordered it. Seems to me a good reason to unlock the phone. Fine Apple $1 billion a day until they comply.
Because they are also shielding our President, congressmen, and military personnel.
Head over to NY Times and Washington Post websites and look at the comments. You joke, but many people there are actually saying things like this. I see comments calling for Tim Cook to be charged with treason, saying Apple shouldn't be able to do business in the U.S., etc. The reason shit like this flies in the U.S. is not because of slashdoters, it's people like that who vote congress critters into office.
They seem to forget that this also means that we put backdoors in the phones of all the military personnel, congressmen and Presidents as well. This case may be Apple, but it will apply to all phone companies, and other electronic devices, in the US. That leaves the government to order or build their own secure phones and devices, or trust a foreign supplier who says they have them.
Asking an Atheist to define Religion is about as fucking stupid as like asking a Blind Man to define Color.
It's more like asking a neuroscientist to define Alzheimer's.
Well, possibly, if there is a sizable group of vocal neuroscientists running about screaming about how Alzheimer's has caused most memory loss, seizers, and hallucinations since the beginning of time.
In the 50s, there were any number of jobs he could have been trained to do. He could have been trained to handle packages at UPS (probably would be nicer to the packages than most handlers these days). He could have gotten a job as a shop assistant, or a job assembling do-dads for some company or other.
-snip-
Right now, my son is in the 5th percentile.
I really think you over estimate how well the 5th percentile had it in the 50's, or you are assuming that your son benefiting from his modern care and education would be in a higher percentile in the 50's. If the first, I'd really like to see your data because what I have seen indicates that even the middle class had it rough back then compared to what we have now.
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Why do their crops seem to fail year after year ? Do they put ALL their resources in the military and nothing for the rest of the country ?
That is a large part of it. Military first is a main guiding principle in NK. They justify it due to the threat of the USA and their puppet government in SK. Even when the country was starving, food first went to the military as well as other resources.
Other points are that NK just isn't a good place for growing crops. Most of the good farm land is in the south and the north is good for mining. Another is that the country very seriously follows the guidence of their supreme leaders, and at one time, the eldest Kim advised crop and irrigation methods that nobody with an agricultural degree would have because they would have caused serious erosion of the soil, which it has. So, in the end, they have bad land for growing crops which has been made much worse over the years because nobody can contradict the dictates of the leader without also attacking the state, their resources and money go to the military first and what is left over go to things like agriculture, and what crops they do grow, first go to the military, including making sure they have a stockpile incase of a sustained war.
It would be an incredible opportunity for third parties if BOTH of the Ruling Party candidates were on trial during the election.
-jcr
Well, since both parties are in a battle against non-party members who have only joined their respective races due to our de facto two party system, it could be said that it has already been an incredible opportunity for third parties.
Ignore the classification issue entirely. The private mail server was a way of dodging accountability by hiding any potential evidence from where investigators would be able to access it. The whole thing was an attack on government transparency and accountability.
While I totally agree with you, I'd bet that as she is a lawyer with the power of the Secretary of State at the time, that everything is at least arguably ethical in a court and will have been found to follow the letter of the law, which will count more than the spirit.
On the other hand, Trump looks to get the GOP nod...so does the world really make sense?
Trump's got his own fraud trial coming up.
ISIS grew out of Al Qaeda which wasn't in Iraq until the war. ISIS didn't just magically appear in Syria.
Not from the sources I have read. ISIL* grew out of Egyptian radicalism which states that anybody who does not agree with them is not muslim and may/should be killed. Al Qaeda grew out of Bin Laden's idea of jihad but only really came into being when alligned with similar Egyptian radicals to give them the backing and people it needed to grow their network. Al Qaeda is specifically an anti-USA organization. ISIL is specifically an anti-shiite organization looking to create a race/religious war to not just make the sunnis the only branch of Islam, but to make their specific branch of sunni islam the only version of Islam. With the disatisfaction (and starvation) caused by previous middle eastern and north african governments followed by the chaos of the arab spring, young men have swarmed to them. They were further bolstered by the old Iraqi baathists who are also anti-shiite sunnis. Currently, ISIL and Al Qaeda are competing for resources and people as much of Al Qaeda was shiite, and much that wasn't has left for ISIL. ISIL is in Syria because the Syrian baathists are shiites and the sunni Iraqi baathists hate each other and have support with the oppressed sunnis of Syria just as the shiites of Iraq were oppressed.
* I choose not to call them ISIS because it causes confusion with the Egyptian goddess so much and changed Archer, even if the new non-spy seasons have been great.
I keep reading that analogy, but it makes no sense... there's no car in there anywhere !
Apple Cars has built a car that is sold via retailers. One person who bought such a car committed a crime then died. (Really, it was his company car, but anyway...). The cops think there are things in the trunk that might be evidence that somebody helped him commit the crime but the trunk is locked by a programmed code set by the owner of the car. A feature of the iCar, is that the trunk can only be opened with the code while the engine is running and if the trunk is broken into or the wrong code is entered into the trunk keypad too many times, the gas tank explodes, destroying everything in the trunk. The cops could try and remove the gas tank and then break in, but the chances are they'l set fire to the gas tank and trunk in doing so. So, what the FBI wants, is for Apple Cars to build a new engine that has its own internal gasoline supply so it can run as well as a special pump to empty the gas tank under the trunk. Apple Cars does not have such an engine, so to provide one, they would have to have professional automotive engineers design a new engine, make sure there were no bugs, build it in their engine factories, test it on other iCars, and then have their own mechanics do the engine swap, so all the FBI has to do is use their automated key pad button pushing machine till the trunk opens (and blame Apple Cars if anything goes wrong).
The real reason to vote for Trump?
I want to see the world burn!
Well, if I had to bet money on whether politicians or professors had the peer reviewed articles to back up their claims, I know which one my money would be on.
At this point, I consider Bernie Sanders a 3rd party candidate (who happens to be running for the Democrat nomination).
Well, let's be honest, that's what Trump is except he's running under the Republican side. The establishments of both sides are taking a thrashing by people that come out of nowhere to scoop up the voters. It's a de facto two party system where possibly most or the people don't like either party.
To be fair we Americans are usually referring to French politicians and "elites" in such jokes, not ordinary citizens. We understand that there is often a great disparity in beliefs and actions between a nation's political/social/economic elites and the ordinary citizen ... whether that nation is France, Russia, China, Iran, etc.
To be fair, some Americans are usually referring to French politicians and "elites" in such jokes, Most Americans don't know why they're joking about the French except as blind us versus them prejudice ingrained by the popular culture. I spoke to my dad that I was going on a trip to Paris and he and his friends said you couldn't pay them to go to Paris, yet they had no reason beyond "because, freedom fries" for why they harbor such. Even then, our "jokes" about WW2 are usually just taking cheap shots due to political reasons caused post war by De Gaulle and following administrations in pissing over the US, Britain, and NATO in an attempt to prove to the world they were still a greater power than Britain, followed more recently by lack of support in American adventurism in the middle east since the point was to pretty much kick out their oil companies so we could put ours into place in Iraq.
"Lasers might take you to Mars some day."
Sure, they might take you there, but you'll only be passing by , because unless someone has built another laser array ON mars you won't be stopping until you hit something. Which could be the same day or a billion years later as the dried out dust that used to be your corpse slowly orbits the galaxy.
If you have a laser propulsion system on the moon, you accelerate the ship up to speed, then the ship separates a mirror to go ahead of the ship and the laser hits the forward mirror and is reflected back to the ship, slowing it down. The forward mirror will continue to accelerate on it's way out of the solar system like a Voyager, but so long as it's mass is less than what it would take for equivalent thrust from fuel, it's all good.
...how would you slow down when you get there? Acceleration without deceleration won't work.
Laser propulsion systems usually are intended to decelerate by breaking off a section of the solar sail and sends it forward. The laser now hits that section of sail and bounced back to hit the main body, causing it to decelerate. So, just like a rocket, accelerate halfway there, then decelerate the second half. For added efficiency, the laser can continue be be bounced between the two making them separate even faster. Of course they could use that method to accelerate faster in the first half too.
Lemmy only lived to 70. How long would he have lived without the booze and speed? (You call that living?!?)
Lemmy's last words were, "Fuck it. I've had a good run."
You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools,
But that's the way I like it baby,
I don't wanna live for ever
-Ace of Spades, Motorhead
Slashdot has a strange obsession with Uber. They post literally everything Uber related. I just don't get it.
It's probably the same as it was with Apple articles, Drovak's articles, anything that people can complain about SJW, or anything that goes to Forbes: they all draw in lots of comments and therefore create the click counts that drive the website. If people just brushed past them without commenting, they'd probably stop getting posted. As long as that continues, they'll still keep giving the readers what it seems like they want. If you don't want to see them anymore, stop reading them and posting to them.
But Tumblr is only 9 years old -- they can't be 30 yet!
Well, all the users weren't 17. I do have a friend that has a blog that caters to teenage girls and young women and she keeps track of what they use and how. It's been a while since I've had the current situation explained to me, but many of the users I see on tumbr are quite older than 17 these days and the young crowd tends to find their own methods that differ from the previous generation. I think things have all moved to mobile sharing apps for some time.
did you have to break everything?
I dunno. Seems he's been pretty constant ...
Still, even Planck has his limit.
I thought it was just for the ramblings of 17 year old girls? Or is that LiveJournal?
Wow, and I was afraid I was out of touch. All those 17 year old girls on Tumblr are now in their twenties and thirties, but most have moved to Pinterest. LJ is pretty much all Russian bloggers.
On iOS your employer can put a certificate on your device that allows them to get into the device they loan you.
Too bad they didn't do it, HR could have gotten the FBI in.
It's not all that easy to do however. We had a meeting with Apple about going that route, and to start with, you have to buy everything through a certain Apple program to get that done. If your business has contract agreements with other vendors or the users buy the actual device and are reimbursed for them later like my work, that is not possible from the start. Then if you do, you're thrown into a world of third party vendors for management software IIRC.
China's going through a very interesting transition period, and they're doing a lot of things that the average citizen might not agree with. It kind of makes sense in their society to crack down further on dissent at this point. For example, it's coming to light now that those "ghost cities" that the West laughed off as pyramid-building are actually part of a mass-urbanization movement. China's going to take hundreds of millions of rural farmers and move them to cities to jump-start their consumer-driven phase of economic development. Pulling something like that off requires total control over the population and the messaging around it. It will be very interesting to see if this can be done successfully -- the Cultural Revolution or Great Leap Forward didn't produce the expected results, and the Soviet crash program of industrialization had major side effects.
Now, how in the world do you enforce a ban like this? I guess the Chinese versions of internationally-owned news services are off limits now?
Wow. It's like Agenda 21: China. Glen Beck should write another book.
Wasn't it already figured out that trying to blow nukes off on an asteroid surface would achieve approximately JACK SHIT?
They're not sufficiently powerful to break up mass, and due to being nuked in space, the kinetic transfer is significantly less, therefore "deflection" wouldn't happen either.
No they didn't. Yes it would. They have done research and while there is a better way, that is not what they found. All that kenetic transfer you are looking for would be from things vaporizing from the release of x-rays and other high energy EM radiation. In lack of an atmosphere, the same such rays would vaporize the surface of the asteroid and be ejected from it like rocket exhaust. If they could bury it somewhat in the asteroid, that would work better for trasnfer of energy and directionality of the resultant ejection. However, the plan they actually came up with was for a nuclear device built do what they wanted. The bomb itself would be shielded in an x-ray reflector, similar to how they focus the same x-rays on the hydrogen in fusion bombs, but instead focus them on an x-ray absorber that would vaporize and be sent quite near the speed of light in the direction of the target. Calcuations showed that such a design should be able to direct 95% of the energy of an atomic bomb into the target as a kinetic energy weapon.
Why would Apple want to shield the communications of mass murderers and their accomplices whom the FBI is trying to track down? A court of law ordered it. Seems to me a good reason to unlock the phone. Fine Apple $1 billion a day until they comply.
Because they are also shielding our President, congressmen, and military personnel.
Head over to NY Times and Washington Post websites and look at the comments. You joke, but many people there are actually saying things like this. I see comments calling for Tim Cook to be charged with treason, saying Apple shouldn't be able to do business in the U.S., etc. The reason shit like this flies in the U.S. is not because of slashdoters, it's people like that who vote congress critters into office.
They seem to forget that this also means that we put backdoors in the phones of all the military personnel, congressmen and Presidents as well. This case may be Apple, but it will apply to all phone companies, and other electronic devices, in the US. That leaves the government to order or build their own secure phones and devices, or trust a foreign supplier who says they have them.
Then they should try waterboarding the body.
How about a Speak with Dead spell?
Asking an Atheist to define Religion is about as fucking stupid as like asking a Blind Man to define Color.
It's more like asking a neuroscientist to define Alzheimer's.
Well, possibly, if there is a sizable group of vocal neuroscientists running about screaming about how Alzheimer's has caused most memory loss, seizers, and hallucinations since the beginning of time.
In the 50s, there were any number of jobs he could have been trained to do. He could have been trained to handle packages at UPS (probably would be nicer to the packages than most handlers these days). He could have gotten a job as a shop assistant, or a job assembling do-dads for some company or other. -snip- Right now, my son is in the 5th percentile.
I really think you over estimate how well the 5th percentile had it in the 50's, or you are assuming that your son benefiting from his modern care and education would be in a higher percentile in the 50's. If the first, I'd really like to see your data because what I have seen indicates that even the middle class had it rough back then compared to what we have now.