Of course there's a massive difference - however pretending that the extreme elsewhere justifies heading in that direction at home is IMHO the juvenile viewpoint on display here mister "8th grade". Authoritarianism sucks even in small doses.
An amusing thing is the failsafes in the movie were vastly more elaborate than in reality - on both sides of the cold war. However that's not an entirely insane idea since the person trusted physically with a nuke could do a lot whether there were failsafes or not - hence the code of all zeros when the Rand corporation's later recommendation of launch codes was enforced. It fit the dual needs of their being a code and not getting in the way of someone with a legitimate reason to detonate it.
That assumes there's still a pit to work as a gun barrel. The fireball radius is likely to be greater than the depth of the pit, so you'd have a crater possibly in nanoseconds.
Why are you sure about that? Wouldn't such a criteria of having the missiles deep enough to minimize fallout make them very difficult to launch? It's a bit different to an underground test with a single very deep hole and no need to fire a rocket from the bottom of it.
Oh yes, hippies running the worlds banks since 1945, funny how I didn't notice. Not sure why people like to pretend to be stupid to push their cause, but please stop doing it, it's demeaning and invites sarcasm at best or accusations of mental illness at worst.
So I am lunkhead by just repeating your words back to you? Interesting self-depreciating viewpoint there! Love your petty and insulting little "victory condition" too about the last word - what a truly spectacular lack of class.
There was a change sometime in the early 1980s where the French went from being just about the most liked nation by Americans (they helped found your nation after all) to intensely disliked "cheese eating surrender monkies". It may coincide with France extending a middle finger to US requests to shut down their centuries old hemp industry or the French complaints about Reagan's missile posturing that restarted the cold war after the USSR had just about given up.
I don't want to "precipitate" an argument, but have you actually thought of the implications of a lack of gravity at all? It's not all perfect solutions or things perfectly suspended after all. You may dismiss my words as scum or dross, but I'm just floating out an idea that will hopefully sink in. What would changing the concent Biochemistry is not my field, but I did a bit of stuff with metal solidification and gravity is a pretty major factor with concentration of different phases in ingots since the crystals that don't form attached to an edge usually sink. It's a bit hard to muck about with molten metal in space though - even mercury and potassium are very nasty things to have in something where a crack would be catastrophic.
Choose a different person to be your strawman to attack. I didn't say anything about what I think, I merely commented on the price with a slight attempt a humour that probably fell as flat as those screens. Oh no, I fell for the bait - but it does appear that I was baited by a master. What is it with these ACs and their master baiting recently?
Try reading my above post again instead of assuming I'm on the side of either Nvidia or Samsung. We lose more from this situation than either of them. Consequences are inflated prices to cover costs of this idiocy and information needlessly kept secret as a result of such idiocy.
The argument works because the software patent system exists instead of it being a copyright system. There should not be any victims or any way it can escalate into the current attempt at a denial of trade.
We tried that but the banks said they preferred coal to nuclear. Environmentalists had fuckall say in anything in the 1980s. If they really had the political power you suggest they did then we would have sorted out this climate change "debate" in the 1980s as well.
I'd say it's the implementation that's the problem and not the idea. Regulation isn't helping because it has just raised the barrier to entry so that Monsanto can afford it for it's short lived hybrids that die out in a couple of generations but projects for things like using bananas for vaccine production (real project with successful results) can't. Trivial modifications such as hybrid tomatoes that taste like the "heirloom" varieties but can be shipped like the almost rock hard tasteless commercial varieties cost more than they could return - so that one is being done the slow hard way with a lot of crossbreeding. The researcher knows the gene sequence he wants but it could take a decade or two to get there without GMO. Thus GMO opposition has meant that only the solutions that can gouge the maximum amount of money Monsanto style are viable. It's been counterproductive and has resulted in only the stuff worth stopping making it through. That's my opinion anyway. Maybe if we could get some of the anti-vaxxers behind the idea of a vaccination treatment with no injections with scary preservatives, just eat a bit of raw banana that can be shipped 1/4 the way around the planet on a container ship. That could defuse the GMO opposition and turn it into the dodgy business practice of Monsanto opposition that it should be.
Not for everyone. It's only purely political for those who are so limited that everything is purely political. See also the idiots who try to cast science as a rival religion.
Are you suggesting that a few billion people burning shitloads of coal and changing the albedo of huge areas of land has had zero effect? No? Obviously not because that would be retarded. Well it doesn't look like the above poster was suggesting the Ice age was the fault of people either.
more importantly Russia can't afford to lose many tank crews due to internal public opinion
With respect, if you knew anything about Russia you would know that their greatest historical heroes sacrificed large numbers of Russians to achieve their aims. That still applies in the modern day with things like the reaction to a school hostage situation a few years ago. They celebrate as a great victory the drowning of the Teutonic Knights by sinking them into a frozen river under the weight of Russian corpses FFS. They don't mind a few dead heroes.
If you complain about no nvidia source code for linux drivers take note - it's because of this stupid patent troll shit that they get subjected to and had to deal with ever since some of the graphics team were at SGI.
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Of course there's a massive difference - however pretending that the extreme elsewhere justifies heading in that direction at home is IMHO the juvenile viewpoint on display here mister "8th grade".
Authoritarianism sucks even in small doses.
An amusing thing is the failsafes in the movie were vastly more elaborate than in reality - on both sides of the cold war.
However that's not an entirely insane idea since the person trusted physically with a nuke could do a lot whether there were failsafes or not - hence the code of all zeros when the Rand corporation's later recommendation of launch codes was enforced. It fit the dual needs of their being a code and not getting in the way of someone with a legitimate reason to detonate it.
Of course, it's poisonous, highly radioactive and encased in explosive - lots of reasons not to mess with it even with no chance of it going critical.
That assumes there's still a pit to work as a gun barrel. The fireball radius is likely to be greater than the depth of the pit, so you'd have a crater possibly in nanoseconds.
Why are you sure about that? Wouldn't such a criteria of having the missiles deep enough to minimize fallout make them very difficult to launch?
It's a bit different to an underground test with a single very deep hole and no need to fire a rocket from the bottom of it.
Loved that movie.
Oh yes, hippies running the worlds banks since 1945, funny how I didn't notice.
Not sure why people like to pretend to be stupid to push their cause, but please stop doing it, it's demeaning and invites sarcasm at best or accusations of mental illness at worst.
So I am lunkhead by just repeating your words back to you? Interesting self-depreciating viewpoint there!
Love your petty and insulting little "victory condition" too about the last word - what a truly spectacular lack of class.
Out of date. We're China's bitch now unless the USA is watching.
There was a change sometime in the early 1980s where the French went from being just about the most liked nation by Americans (they helped found your nation after all) to intensely disliked "cheese eating surrender monkies". It may coincide with France extending a middle finger to US requests to shut down their centuries old hemp industry or the French complaints about Reagan's missile posturing that restarted the cold war after the USSR had just about given up.
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I don't want to "precipitate" an argument, but have you actually thought of the implications of a lack of gravity at all? It's not all perfect solutions or things perfectly suspended after all. You may dismiss my words as scum or dross, but I'm just floating out an idea that will hopefully sink in. What would changing the concent
Biochemistry is not my field, but I did a bit of stuff with metal solidification and gravity is a pretty major factor with concentration of different phases in ingots since the crystals that don't form attached to an edge usually sink. It's a bit hard to muck about with molten metal in space though - even mercury and potassium are very nasty things to have in something where a crack would be catastrophic.
Choose a different person to be your strawman to attack. I didn't say anything about what I think, I merely commented on the price with a slight attempt a humour that probably fell as flat as those screens.
Oh no, I fell for the bait - but it does appear that I was baited by a master. What is it with these ACs and their master baiting recently?
True or not that's how a popular retelling goes.
Try reading my above post again instead of assuming I'm on the side of either Nvidia or Samsung. We lose more from this situation than either of them. Consequences are inflated prices to cover costs of this idiocy and information needlessly kept secret as a result of such idiocy.
The argument works because the software patent system exists instead of it being a copyright system. There should not be any victims or any way it can escalate into the current attempt at a denial of trade.
Funny how you went from something like "there is no warming" to something like "but warming is good!"
I await the next instalment.
We tried that but the banks said they preferred coal to nuclear.
Environmentalists had fuckall say in anything in the 1980s. If they really had the political power you suggest they did then we would have sorted out this climate change "debate" in the 1980s as well.
I'd say it's the implementation that's the problem and not the idea. Regulation isn't helping because it has just raised the barrier to entry so that Monsanto can afford it for it's short lived hybrids that die out in a couple of generations but projects for things like using bananas for vaccine production (real project with successful results) can't. Trivial modifications such as hybrid tomatoes that taste like the "heirloom" varieties but can be shipped like the almost rock hard tasteless commercial varieties cost more than they could return - so that one is being done the slow hard way with a lot of crossbreeding. The researcher knows the gene sequence he wants but it could take a decade or two to get there without GMO.
Thus GMO opposition has meant that only the solutions that can gouge the maximum amount of money Monsanto style are viable. It's been counterproductive and has resulted in only the stuff worth stopping making it through. That's my opinion anyway.
Maybe if we could get some of the anti-vaxxers behind the idea of a vaccination treatment with no injections with scary preservatives, just eat a bit of raw banana that can be shipped 1/4 the way around the planet on a container ship. That could defuse the GMO opposition and turn it into the dodgy business practice of Monsanto opposition that it should be.
Not for everyone. It's only purely political for those who are so limited that everything is purely political. See also the idiots who try to cast science as a rival religion.
Are you suggesting that a few billion people burning shitloads of coal and changing the albedo of huge areas of land has had zero effect? No? Obviously not because that would be retarded. Well it doesn't look like the above poster was suggesting the Ice age was the fault of people either.
That post nails the "debate".
With respect, if you knew anything about Russia you would know that their greatest historical heroes sacrificed large numbers of Russians to achieve their aims. That still applies in the modern day with things like the reaction to a school hostage situation a few years ago. They celebrate as a great victory the drowning of the Teutonic Knights by sinking them into a frozen river under the weight of Russian corpses FFS. They don't mind a few dead heroes.
If you complain about no nvidia source code for linux drivers take note - it's because of this stupid patent troll shit that they get subjected to and had to deal with ever since some of the graphics team were at SGI.
Yes, that linked monitor appears to be a 7k display. In dollars of course.