So, what hypothetical threat are the DHS agents protecting America from?
They are protecting America from all those unspent tax dollars! I wonder what the wages bills from those 40 stops would add up to? Would it buy a Mercedes? Two? More?
Liberal weenies love to crow about Obamacare but all it really did was to provide corporate welfare for the insurance industry
That's because you have an insurance system with a health system as an afterthought. Efforts to change that at the base level from Nixon to Clinton failed so you ended up with a bandaid on top just so you've got something that may work after the leeches in the middle have taken their cut. Conservative politics is about not changing much, and it's hard to find someone more conservative than a constitutional lawyer by training.
Not streamed at 256Kbps so I really have no idea why you wrote all the irrelevant stuff above. This is about streaming audio and not some download once track for your mp3 player. Consider how your post looks after such a basic mistake that renders it entirely offtopic. Those insults to the guy who was talking about something else don't look so clever now do they?
started making digital copies that were visually indistinguishable from the former analog copies
That's a very faulty premise for a start. Some streaming sites use very lossy files to save on bandwidth and you could tell the difference even if half deaf.
So? He's done a shitload since and is still less of a self-promoter than many others who have done far less. His song "piece of crap" sums up a lot of things, including the quality of streaming audio.
on the planet is vulnerable to planet-destroying meteor impacts, for example
WTF? WTF squared? Why don't you just say you are only here for an argument and will do anything to win at all costs and get it over with? Once you've done that the grown ups can discuss the stupidity of newbies calling RAID a backup or other things related in some way to reality.
On the serious side I went from tiled window managers to "tmux" - textmode can be awesome with multiple panes and named tabs. With multiple monitors a text screen and GUI screen (firefox, thunderbird etc) works very well.
No, it isn't, but there's no reason why a backup can't be stored on a RAID array, separate from the original data.
Electricity usage, disk lifetime and being online so that somebody who messes up your system can fuck with it are three reasons. The third killed off a hosting provider near me. It automatically "backed up" the corrupted system over the top of the good version. While snapshots can get around that you've still got an online system someone can mess with, maybe deleting your snapshots too - or electricity hassles can toast both lots of hardware if they are geographically close. Online copies are very handy but they are not a "backup" by any useful definition. If it can be wiped by the same event that wipes the original it's not a backup adequate to deal with such an event.
Ironically the new gedit is so fucked up that it's been used as the extreme outlier by Wayland fanboys to show how X is slow. Other X applications, including previous versions of gedit, are not slow enough to demonstrate how much slower X is than Wayland. Don't get me wrong - Wayland should be faster than X at some point if not already but at least one fanboy and the people who saw his half finished powerpoint presentation couldn't wait. See also "X sends full bitmaps over the network so is slow" only being true with gnome3 and not gnome2.
You've already given an example (investment in nuclear power) where your strawmen are not shutting down the global economy, so I suggest you stop fucking around with ridiculous absolutes that only idiots are pushing and either take things seriously or stop the yelling at imaginary idiots. Maybe you could try some real idiots to yell at - Monckton is available. Bjorn Lomborg is another. Sudoko and Economics are all you need to answer all the questions you need to answer about CO2 in their books - idiots! Would you want a supermarket cash register operator to "correct" you on a technical detail of your job and get it completely backwards?
Other than a few common 'alternative pronunciations' just as "dat" for "that", he is using complete sentences
Hence my comment above "Jar-jar is a dumbed down and more annoying Snarf" instead of what you seem to think I wrote, perhaps something about it having to be a photocopy to be a ripoff. I really don't get why you are pushing so hard about an expression of an opinion, based on a bit more than your brief glance, while apparently not noticing much about the opinion apart from a few key words.
How ever many it took, even if it was a hundred thousand of them, would be a much lower cost than shutting down the global economy like you idiots want to do.
Wrong address. You are looking for the imaginary idiots in your own head.
Actually phlogiston was real science and led to the discovery of oxygen when oxidation of iron did not fit the phlogiston model - at which point the model was universally abandoned. However it is always easier to laugh at what you don't understand and those funny guys with test tubes than see it as a step towards understanding.
Others have posted the course summary, and it's clearly brain destroying bullshit itself - eg:
We will delve into a quantum physics
understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific
hypothesis of how these modalities may work
As a line from some alien in Star Trek it's merely tacky, in a University it should ring alarm bells.
Describe the mechanism for "filtering of photons based on time of emission" and there is a Nobel Prize waiting for you.
Greg Egan did that - but no Nobel Prize for him because he's set his fiction in a Riemannian universe where time is a little different: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html
Of course he got a bad review once from a steampunk fantasy guy for having "too much science" in his SF and his aliens being a bit too alien:) Way offtopic maybe but cool books that make you look at the real stuff a bit differently.
With all the climate science deniers getting pushed by politics to the point where it's now mainstream to take them seriously of course we are going to get other such symptoms of blind hope being treated as far more important than reality.
How did I forget that one? Slight spoiler, but the anime (and book) of "Sword Art Online" did a good version of Thor as a woman (NPC in a game quest) based loosely on the wedding myth. One of the very manly male characters is of course very taken by how cute the disguised Thor is.
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Enough that tollbooth guy has no chance?
Not enough I'd say.
No re-education camp for you citizen.
That other guy who has the law books - take them away from him quick so he can't contradict!
Nobody is above or below the law.
It doesn't matter if she talks or not, the point is the petty harrassment of delays etc.
They are protecting America from all those unspent tax dollars! I wonder what the wages bills from those 40 stops would add up to? Would it buy a Mercedes? Two? More?
That's because you have an insurance system with a health system as an afterthought. Efforts to change that at the base level from Nixon to Clinton failed so you ended up with a bandaid on top just so you've got something that may work after the leeches in the middle have taken their cut.
Conservative politics is about not changing much, and it's hard to find someone more conservative than a constitutional lawyer by training.
It would be on topic if the music was streamed at 256kbps, but since it isn't you are writing about something completely different to the summary.
Not streamed at 256Kbps so I really have no idea why you wrote all the irrelevant stuff above. This is about streaming audio and not some download once track for your mp3 player.
Consider how your post looks after such a basic mistake that renders it entirely offtopic. Those insults to the guy who was talking about something else don't look so clever now do they?
These are not average mp3 files. Look around and you'll find some sites with worse quality than expected with an AM broadcast.
That's a very faulty premise for a start. Some streaming sites use very lossy files to save on bandwidth and you could tell the difference even if half deaf.
With some streaming services - definitely. You may be getting stereo with streaming but that can just mean it's compressed to shit on two channels.
So? He's done a shitload since and is still less of a self-promoter than many others who have done far less.
His song "piece of crap" sums up a lot of things, including the quality of streaming audio.
WTF? WTF squared?
Why don't you just say you are only here for an argument and will do anything to win at all costs and get it over with?
Once you've done that the grown ups can discuss the stupidity of newbies calling RAID a backup or other things related in some way to reality.
You mean buttons hidden offscreen like in Win8 or do you mean stuff in easy to find config files with easy to find manuals about them?
On the serious side I went from tiled window managers to "tmux" - textmode can be awesome with multiple panes and named tabs. With multiple monitors a text screen and GUI screen (firefox, thunderbird etc) works very well.
He was in the early stages when we were all swearing at him for forcing pre-beta software on us.
Electricity usage, disk lifetime and being online so that somebody who messes up your system can fuck with it are three reasons. The third killed off a hosting provider near me. It automatically "backed up" the corrupted system over the top of the good version. While snapshots can get around that you've still got an online system someone can mess with, maybe deleting your snapshots too - or electricity hassles can toast both lots of hardware if they are geographically close.
Online copies are very handy but they are not a "backup" by any useful definition. If it can be wiped by the same event that wipes the original it's not a backup adequate to deal with such an event.
Ironically the new gedit is so fucked up that it's been used as the extreme outlier by Wayland fanboys to show how X is slow. Other X applications, including previous versions of gedit, are not slow enough to demonstrate how much slower X is than Wayland.
Don't get me wrong - Wayland should be faster than X at some point if not already but at least one fanboy and the people who saw his half finished powerpoint presentation couldn't wait.
See also "X sends full bitmaps over the network so is slow" only being true with gnome3 and not gnome2.
You've already given an example (investment in nuclear power) where your strawmen are not shutting down the global economy, so I suggest you stop fucking around with ridiculous absolutes that only idiots are pushing and either take things seriously or stop the yelling at imaginary idiots.
Maybe you could try some real idiots to yell at - Monckton is available. Bjorn Lomborg is another. Sudoko and Economics are all you need to answer all the questions you need to answer about CO2 in their books - idiots! Would you want a supermarket cash register operator to "correct" you on a technical detail of your job and get it completely backwards?
Hence my comment above "Jar-jar is a dumbed down and more annoying Snarf" instead of what you seem to think I wrote, perhaps something about it having to be a photocopy to be a ripoff. I really don't get why you are pushing so hard about an expression of an opinion, based on a bit more than your brief glance, while apparently not noticing much about the opinion apart from a few key words.
Wrong address.
You are looking for the imaginary idiots in your own head.
Actually phlogiston was real science and led to the discovery of oxygen when oxidation of iron did not fit the phlogiston model - at which point the model was universally abandoned. However it is always easier to laugh at what you don't understand and those funny guys with test tubes than see it as a step towards understanding.
As a line from some alien in Star Trek it's merely tacky, in a University it should ring alarm bells.
Describe the mechanism for "filtering of photons based on time of emission" and there is a Nobel Prize waiting for you.
Greg Egan did that - but no Nobel Prize for him because he's set his fiction in a Riemannian universe where time is a little different:
:)
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html
Of course he got a bad review once from a steampunk fantasy guy for having "too much science" in his SF and his aliens being a bit too alien
Way offtopic maybe but cool books that make you look at the real stuff a bit differently.
With all the climate science deniers getting pushed by politics to the point where it's now mainstream to take them seriously of course we are going to get other such symptoms of blind hope being treated as far more important than reality.
How did I forget that one?
Slight spoiler, but the anime (and book) of "Sword Art Online" did a good version of Thor as a woman (NPC in a game quest) based loosely on the wedding myth. One of the very manly male characters is of course very taken by how cute the disguised Thor is.