Rather obviously. However, the same techniques, only somewhat modifies to changed circumstances and language, are now used against the US population, and it is falling just as much for it as the Germans did back then. People do not learn one bit from history, it seems.
People are people. Social engineering works. Training can help against specific and obvious threats, but history isn't much help if the very information you have access to is only partial or wrong to begin with.
My grandparents on my mother's side where both part of some 3rd Reich organizations. They believed back then they were doing good and in hindsight never were sure they could have seen what they were really doing and supporting at the time they did it. Gave them a life-long extreme distaste for politics, because they realized it is easy to trick people into doing utter evil while they think that do good. The NSA workers that felt betrayed are lacking that insight, and they do so in a situation where finding out what it actually going on is much easier.
Remember, Goebbel's propaganda wasn't primarily used to fool other nations, but to fool the Germans themselves.
Why not send an unmanned habitat lander? Something that lands, deploys a habitat, then monitors the performance of that habitat and the health of the return vehicle *before* committing a crew? Knowing that they have a safe and established home base on Mars and a ride ready to take them back home would add some redundancy and encouragement to the crew. If a meteorite crashes into the habitat or an Exogorth eats it, the crew aborts the landing and returns home.
We probably will, but that is still far in the future. Besides testing any Mars lander on the scale needed to land people, it is usually part of most plans to land additional supplies including something to extract needed gases for survival and launch from the surface before hand. Probably need at least two as we'll need to not only test ability to land large crafts on the surface of Mars but also ability to land them very close to each other as astronauts won't be able to make use of supplies kilometers away from them. Still, there is so much work needed before that hard lining to do such would be putting the cart before the horse. We still need to get up to speed with getting such large objects into space, possibly assembling them, having them move probably under their own power out of orbit, and making them safe for humans. Much of this could be worked on in parallel but essentially we still need to work on getting to Mars before we can worry about landing on Mars. Personally, I bet we'll see a test of such manned technology to the Moon again before it is used on Mars.
Seals can be replaced. And I have no idea what "not radiation rated" means. If materials succumb like that, then they should be shielded better.
The entire space station thing smells suspiciously like a welfare program for the military-industrial complex.
Thank you mister "I have no idea". Replacing the seals would take a dismantling and reassembling project costing more than putting up a new station. Sending up more shielding would have probably also cost more than sending up a new station later. In the end, it's up there to do experiments enabling them to to build a new space station after twenty years so three can then build a better space station.
We're trying to explain inflation and the motions of stars orbiting galaxies not matching our naive model.... couldn't a non-linear gravity model explain all this without the dark energy/matter hocus pocus?
Sure, but that would involve even greater hocus pocus than the current theory and fails at explaining other observations. So far, trying to come up with any hypothetical explanation involving MOND has been so complex that nobody has been able to come up with one that explains even the rotation of galaxies. If you or any other person could come up with a good law of nonlinear gravity that works, even if it completely fails at any of the other observations, there's a paper in a prestigious journal and some physics cred for you.
I didn't realize putting thieves and liars in prison for their crimes is 'revolution'. In my dictionary this is called 'due process' and is a function of a properly functioning government.
Yes, but in these cases it is less about due process and rule of law and more about a shift in power between rival factions. Sort of like one Chinese Communist party memeber being kicked out of the party and then tried and convicted of corruption that all the other party members are also part of. Or Hitler having somebody executed for murder when he was probably the one that gave the order to do the killing in the first place.
ISIS is worth an estimated $2 billion and has been around since 1999 and would love to nuke any Western target but they haven't. That they haven't tells me they don't have a bomb. That they don't have a bomb tells me that it isn't that easy.
They might be able to, but would we let them? Building a bomb might be easy, but building a bomb in secret is much, much harder. The infrastructure needed is large and still requires expensive equipment which is why people are all on Iran's office.
That's odd because Japan was on the brink of surrender anyway.
Well, Japan's idea of "surrender" was returning to previous borders, which would still include Korea and Manchuria, and then forgetting WW2 ever happened with no occuptation. They were no where near the unconditional surrender that the US was demanding. As it was, the Emperor said it was the bombs that made him to decide to surrender, and even then, there was an attempted coup by the military to keep the war going. Certainly, they could have tried using the bomb in Tokyo bay or out to sea as a demonstration attack. However, we were at war. Had Japan not surrendered and we would have invaded including dropping any more bombs we got made. I can't see any reason for a demonstration attack when they might have to just bomb those cities later.
No more sweet tea, coke, or adding sugar to my coffee. Sucked for about a week, after that, no problems, and I've dropped 30lbs with no real effort other than breaking the sugar habit in that first week.
Anedote time. Same here. I quit having soad in the fridge and switched to unsweetened tea and water and ten pounds disappeared pretty quick without any work. I started using dumbbells for some simple weight lifting, built up my upper body strength, and another ten pounds (besides the muscle built up) disappeared. However, I tried cardio, and while I felt great and could run for an hour on a eliptical at what was supposed to be heavy exercise mode several times a week, it didn't affect my weight at all.
I have been to Europe many times. I like it there and might even think about moving to Germany if it wasn't for my conscience not letting me subject new coworkers to my horrible American accent on a daily basis. But by dominance, I do not mean strict military oppression. It's all about the dollar and economies and the Euro has enough troubles and the EU fractured enough that there is no need for any military against them. Instead we use our military as leverage for them against others in many cases so they will fall on our side. The only reason the US was involved in Tunisia is because Europe discovered it couldn't run large operations there without NATO/US resources. When push comes to shove we'll use our military like we did in Iraq. The only countries against our adventurism there were France and Germany, coincidentally the countries running the oil operations already for Iraq. In the end, they had to deal with it. Russia doesn't want to deal with it, but we'll probably not encounter them directly, but just sell arms to their enemies like we have been doing since the end of WW2. The idea of actually using the military for acquisition of land has pretty much been put to bed along with installing noble houses. Instead, militaries are being used to keep economies strong.
Which worries me some. The US is spending lots of money on the military and it doesn't seem to be making us money. Well, I'm sure it's making somebody money, but is the US coming out in the black? If we shrink our military, would our economy shrink with it, causing a lack of confidence which will cause it to shrink some more in a vicious cycle?
The only reason Germany ran wild twice was because we (the victors of WWI) botched the unholy shit out of things the first time, basically wrecking Germany and creating a power vacuum.
I'd say it was a bit more complicated than that. The issues were not Germany's alone, nor that of the losers, nor even the occurance of the Great Depression. The entire 20's and 30's was a three way battle between the idealogies and factions of Democracy, Fascism, and Communism. Italy, Spain, Austria, and Germany fell to fasicsm before WW2 even started.Before they did, there was a see-saw battle in the streets. The foundations of the Nazi party gained prestige when they helped overthrown a communist coup in Bavaria. There was even debate in the US along those idealogical lines.
Microsoft is going to allow people with pirated copies of Windows to upgrade by essentially giving away pirated copies of Windows 10? They should just get it over with and give away a "play for free" version of Windows.
My first job in Seattle was delivering pizzas in Bellevue. It's pretty much the easiest grid-like part of the Seattle metro and only got hard once you tried to find the specific apartment building you wanted. There are a few gotchas going from once side of 405 to another but the hardest part is asking if the address is for North or South and no knowing the location of 148th is like not knowing where Pine is in Seattle.
The wags would say that if voting could change anything, the politicians would make it illegal.
Then it's probably a good sign that they are trying to make it illegal, at least for certain demographics in certain states. If voting didn't have any effect, there wouldn't be so much effort to keep people from voting and to do things like gerrymandering. It's bad that such things are being done, but it at least hopeful indication that voting is worth it.
Hey there are lots of talented and dedicated people who end up settling for shitty jobs - we aren't all privileged hipsters with flawless resumes living in big US coastal cities with hot startup scenes.
Most everybody ends up settling for shitty jobs, even in the big US coastal cities with hot startup scenes and flawless resumes. Thing is, in those big US coastal cities, you get some experience at a shitty job to put on your resume and get a better job fairly quick. In fly over states, you're stuck with the shitty job. I was dedicated enough to move out of those places and to civilization, I recommend others do too.
Pretty ballsy for a cab driver to claim not to know how to get to 148th Street.
Ballsy or just stupid. Despite all the tests they are supposed to have taken on area streets, Seattle cab drivers seem outside their depth when going to anywhere outside of the core downtown and the airport. Several times I've got tired of them consulting road guides and talking to the dispatcher and just start giving directions: "Straight through the light, get on I-5, take the Olive St exit - this one right here!, left at the next light, take a right, stop next to that tree". I've never had similar situations in any other city in any other country (which is good because I can't always direct them).
Yes we do, that's trivial. We've done it in one gee field
No more trivial than just getting everybody back to earth with the data and samples. There are lots of tech not developed yet for a manned Mars trip. Long term space habitats for one as the trip there will take a long time. Landing is another as there is not enough air to air brake or parachute an too much to use rockets easily. There are articles on the subject by NASA people out there. That's why there are so many weird landing methods for past Mars missions and once you increase the landing craft to something people can land in, and the issues increase. Even then, any such attempt will require multiple landings that will all have to land with precision enough that they can support each other. Musk might get it done. But still, the issue is that a one way trip is just a red herring to make people think that it is possible. It's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist to lure people into thinking it's some magical solution. Simply put, getting the people back off Mars and to Earth is less of a problem than looking at any type of extended stay.
I imagine working inside Microsoft is much like living in North Korea, where your chances for survival depend not on your truthfulness or work results but rather on how much you agree with the leadership. "Yes boss, Metro UX is the greatest thing ever!" = promotion. "Metro is a crime against humanity" = firing squad for your career.
Living in Seattle, I have lots of friends that work at Microsoft. Typically, I get the impression it's actually a really nice place to work. The only thing people really care about it their own group and they are free to use their iPhones, ect. The true danger is not speaking ill of another group, or even your own, but rather then endless reorgs that happen without any sort of reason that the employees can tell, and getting your group downsized or dissolved because of them.
Amazon however. That company is supposed to be hell with an average employment time of 18 months before you leave or are fired.
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Rather obviously. However, the same techniques, only somewhat modifies to changed circumstances and language, are now used against the US population, and it is falling just as much for it as the Germans did back then. People do not learn one bit from history, it seems.
People are people. Social engineering works. Training can help against specific and obvious threats, but history isn't much help if the very information you have access to is only partial or wrong to begin with.
My grandparents on my mother's side where both part of some 3rd Reich organizations. They believed back then they were doing good and in hindsight never were sure they could have seen what they were really doing and supporting at the time they did it. Gave them a life-long extreme distaste for politics, because they realized it is easy to trick people into doing utter evil while they think that do good. The NSA workers that felt betrayed are lacking that insight, and they do so in a situation where finding out what it actually going on is much easier.
Remember, Goebbel's propaganda wasn't primarily used to fool other nations, but to fool the Germans themselves.
Why not send an unmanned habitat lander? Something that lands, deploys a habitat, then monitors the performance of that habitat and the health of the return vehicle *before* committing a crew? Knowing that they have a safe and established home base on Mars and a ride ready to take them back home would add some redundancy and encouragement to the crew. If a meteorite crashes into the habitat or an Exogorth eats it, the crew aborts the landing and returns home.
We probably will, but that is still far in the future. Besides testing any Mars lander on the scale needed to land people, it is usually part of most plans to land additional supplies including something to extract needed gases for survival and launch from the surface before hand. Probably need at least two as we'll need to not only test ability to land large crafts on the surface of Mars but also ability to land them very close to each other as astronauts won't be able to make use of supplies kilometers away from them. Still, there is so much work needed before that hard lining to do such would be putting the cart before the horse. We still need to get up to speed with getting such large objects into space, possibly assembling them, having them move probably under their own power out of orbit, and making them safe for humans. Much of this could be worked on in parallel but essentially we still need to work on getting to Mars before we can worry about landing on Mars. Personally, I bet we'll see a test of such manned technology to the Moon again before it is used on Mars.
Seals can be replaced. And I have no idea what "not radiation rated" means. If materials succumb like that, then they should be shielded better.
The entire space station thing smells suspiciously like a welfare program for the military-industrial complex.
Thank you mister "I have no idea". Replacing the seals would take a dismantling and reassembling project costing more than putting up a new station. Sending up more shielding would have probably also cost more than sending up a new station later. In the end, it's up there to do experiments enabling them to to build a new space station after twenty years so three can then build a better space station.
We're trying to explain inflation and the motions of stars orbiting galaxies not matching our naive model.... couldn't a non-linear gravity model explain all this without the dark energy/matter hocus pocus?
Sure, but that would involve even greater hocus pocus than the current theory and fails at explaining other observations. So far, trying to come up with any hypothetical explanation involving MOND has been so complex that nobody has been able to come up with one that explains even the rotation of galaxies. If you or any other person could come up with a good law of nonlinear gravity that works, even if it completely fails at any of the other observations, there's a paper in a prestigious journal and some physics cred for you.
Whether it works is orthogonal to quality.
I'd say that if it doesn't work, it's of pretty poor quality.
Good code does one thing well:
It communicates clearly what it is trying to do.
Personally, I'd say that good code does what it is trying to do. Great code will do that and communicate what it is doing clearly.
Maybe for a bricks and mortar business, but online businesses have nearly no start up cost at all.
Bless your sweet, little heart.
I didn't realize putting thieves and liars in prison for their crimes is 'revolution'. In my dictionary this is called 'due process' and is a function of a properly functioning government.
Yes, but in these cases it is less about due process and rule of law and more about a shift in power between rival factions. Sort of like one Chinese Communist party memeber being kicked out of the party and then tried and convicted of corruption that all the other party members are also part of. Or Hitler having somebody executed for murder when he was probably the one that gave the order to do the killing in the first place.
Having been to GenCon 7 times in Milwaukee and twice in Indy, Milwaukee is the better place for it.
Trouble is, IIRC, is that GenCon has outgrown Milwaukee. Indinapolis was one of the few places it could still grow.
ISIS is worth an estimated $2 billion and has been around since 1999 and would love to nuke any Western target but they haven't. That they haven't tells me they don't have a bomb. That they don't have a bomb tells me that it isn't that easy.
They might be able to, but would we let them? Building a bomb might be easy, but building a bomb in secret is much, much harder. The infrastructure needed is large and still requires expensive equipment which is why people are all on Iran's office.
That's odd because Japan was on the brink of surrender anyway.
Well, Japan's idea of "surrender" was returning to previous borders, which would still include Korea and Manchuria, and then forgetting WW2 ever happened with no occuptation. They were no where near the unconditional surrender that the US was demanding. As it was, the Emperor said it was the bombs that made him to decide to surrender, and even then, there was an attempted coup by the military to keep the war going. Certainly, they could have tried using the bomb in Tokyo bay or out to sea as a demonstration attack. However, we were at war. Had Japan not surrendered and we would have invaded including dropping any more bombs we got made. I can't see any reason for a demonstration attack when they might have to just bomb those cities later.
No more sweet tea, coke, or adding sugar to my coffee. Sucked for about a week, after that, no problems, and I've dropped 30lbs with no real effort other than breaking the sugar habit in that first week.
Anedote time. Same here. I quit having soad in the fridge and switched to unsweetened tea and water and ten pounds disappeared pretty quick without any work. I started using dumbbells for some simple weight lifting, built up my upper body strength, and another ten pounds (besides the muscle built up) disappeared. However, I tried cardio, and while I felt great and could run for an hour on a eliptical at what was supposed to be heavy exercise mode several times a week, it didn't affect my weight at all.
Believe me, I know all that and have experienced it first hand.
What seems strange to me is the way that its so consistent across English speaking cultures. Maybe its an emergent property of the English language?
I say we blame the Puritans.
I have been to Europe many times. I like it there and might even think about moving to Germany if it wasn't for my conscience not letting me subject new coworkers to my horrible American accent on a daily basis. But by dominance, I do not mean strict military oppression. It's all about the dollar and economies and the Euro has enough troubles and the EU fractured enough that there is no need for any military against them. Instead we use our military as leverage for them against others in many cases so they will fall on our side. The only reason the US was involved in Tunisia is because Europe discovered it couldn't run large operations there without NATO/US resources. When push comes to shove we'll use our military like we did in Iraq. The only countries against our adventurism there were France and Germany, coincidentally the countries running the oil operations already for Iraq. In the end, they had to deal with it. Russia doesn't want to deal with it, but we'll probably not encounter them directly, but just sell arms to their enemies like we have been doing since the end of WW2. The idea of actually using the military for acquisition of land has pretty much been put to bed along with installing noble houses. Instead, militaries are being used to keep economies strong.
Which worries me some. The US is spending lots of money on the military and it doesn't seem to be making us money. Well, I'm sure it's making somebody money, but is the US coming out in the black? If we shrink our military, would our economy shrink with it, causing a lack of confidence which will cause it to shrink some more in a vicious cycle?
Defense from who, exactly?
Those that would threaten US dominance.
The only reason Germany ran wild twice was because we (the victors of WWI) botched the unholy shit out of things the first time, basically wrecking Germany and creating a power vacuum.
I'd say it was a bit more complicated than that. The issues were not Germany's alone, nor that of the losers, nor even the occurance of the Great Depression. The entire 20's and 30's was a three way battle between the idealogies and factions of Democracy, Fascism, and Communism. Italy, Spain, Austria, and Germany fell to fasicsm before WW2 even started.Before they did, there was a see-saw battle in the streets. The foundations of the Nazi party gained prestige when they helped overthrown a communist coup in Bavaria. There was even debate in the US along those idealogical lines.
Microsoft is going to allow people with pirated copies of Windows to upgrade by essentially giving away pirated copies of Windows 10? They should just get it over with and give away a "play for free" version of Windows.
A nonstandard plural of box formed by analogy with oxen.
I be actual research into the history of the word will reveal a background of faux German, another example of which would be "der blinkenlights".
My first job in Seattle was delivering pizzas in Bellevue. It's pretty much the easiest grid-like part of the Seattle metro and only got hard once you tried to find the specific apartment building you wanted. There are a few gotchas going from once side of 405 to another but the hardest part is asking if the address is for North or South and no knowing the location of 148th is like not knowing where Pine is in Seattle.
The wags would say that if voting could change anything, the politicians would make it illegal.
Then it's probably a good sign that they are trying to make it illegal, at least for certain demographics in certain states. If voting didn't have any effect, there wouldn't be so much effort to keep people from voting and to do things like gerrymandering. It's bad that such things are being done, but it at least hopeful indication that voting is worth it.
Hey there are lots of talented and dedicated people who end up settling for shitty jobs - we aren't all privileged hipsters with flawless resumes living in big US coastal cities with hot startup scenes.
Most everybody ends up settling for shitty jobs, even in the big US coastal cities with hot startup scenes and flawless resumes. Thing is, in those big US coastal cities, you get some experience at a shitty job to put on your resume and get a better job fairly quick. In fly over states, you're stuck with the shitty job. I was dedicated enough to move out of those places and to civilization, I recommend others do too.
Pretty ballsy for a cab driver to claim not to know how to get to 148th Street.
Ballsy or just stupid. Despite all the tests they are supposed to have taken on area streets, Seattle cab drivers seem outside their depth when going to anywhere outside of the core downtown and the airport. Several times I've got tired of them consulting road guides and talking to the dispatcher and just start giving directions: "Straight through the light, get on I-5, take the Olive St exit - this one right here!, left at the next light, take a right, stop next to that tree". I've never had similar situations in any other city in any other country (which is good because I can't always direct them).
Yes we do, that's trivial. We've done it in one gee field
No more trivial than just getting everybody back to earth with the data and samples. There are lots of tech not developed yet for a manned Mars trip. Long term space habitats for one as the trip there will take a long time. Landing is another as there is not enough air to air brake or parachute an too much to use rockets easily. There are articles on the subject by NASA people out there. That's why there are so many weird landing methods for past Mars missions and once you increase the landing craft to something people can land in, and the issues increase. Even then, any such attempt will require multiple landings that will all have to land with precision enough that they can support each other. Musk might get it done. But still, the issue is that a one way trip is just a red herring to make people think that it is possible. It's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist to lure people into thinking it's some magical solution. Simply put, getting the people back off Mars and to Earth is less of a problem than looking at any type of extended stay.
I imagine working inside Microsoft is much like living in North Korea, where your chances for survival depend not on your truthfulness or work results but rather on how much you agree with the leadership. "Yes boss, Metro UX is the greatest thing ever!" = promotion. "Metro is a crime against humanity" = firing squad for your career.
Living in Seattle, I have lots of friends that work at Microsoft. Typically, I get the impression it's actually a really nice place to work. The only thing people really care about it their own group and they are free to use their iPhones, ect. The true danger is not speaking ill of another group, or even your own, but rather then endless reorgs that happen without any sort of reason that the employees can tell, and getting your group downsized or dissolved because of them.
Amazon however. That company is supposed to be hell with an average employment time of 18 months before you leave or are fired.