Your attempt to change the subject and calling me a fool based on nothing but your own words on a different subject is what was ridiculous. Why are you wasting so much time on setting up a strawman to attack over such a trivial subject?
Now you are just throwing senseless darts in the dark
Projection now? Pathetic.
You stupid little game is an utter waste of time. Why are you still trying the "gaslighting" to pretend it never happened? Are you really that pathetic? Do you really crave feedback from the target of your pathetic attempt at bullying over something so utterly trivial so much?
Indeed, in the theoretical case, but consider the way he has operated in reality. He proudly relates corrupt practices in his ghostwritten book for example.
The fact that you were modded +5 insightful
It's because people remembered items about him in the media over the decades on the topic.
It seems impossibly hard to believe for some that Trump won because people were honesty, genuinely fed up with the alternative
I wonder if it will take the full four years to wake up and see how stupid that is in hindsight - thinking the alternative is worse than Trump I mean not the observation that people were doing it. He's already playing chicken with nukes (which not even Hillary or any of the Republicans at the primaries would do) so what's going to happen next? You got scammed by a slick salesman. Enjoy the snake oil.
eventual turning of computing technology and user data against democracy
That's not a prediction but an observation, at the risk of going a Godwin over a division of IBM long ago. It's an ever present threat to watch over for as long as the technology existed so it's good for him to remind us of it.
The irony is that even if this is true it's just a new way of doing what Rupert Murdoch has been doing for years in a lot of different places (including the US in the last election), and other media magnates did it before him. One of the reasons he pulled out of Chinese media is because he couldn't use it to influence government.
I still find it incredibly funny that people think anybody at all in US politics is less corrupt than a casino owning property developer. Atlantic City is such a bastion of law and order after all.
There's a long list of reasons why they should be ignored especially now. The main one would be that none of those contributed much to her loss. She failed to get the attention of what is supposed to be the Democrat "core" demographic, average people with average jobs, and put a focus on special cases instead. Most Americans appears to think so little of their country to bother to go out and vote so complacency about the sort of people that always vote Democrat was fatal. Trump wasn't complacent about the people who always vote Republican and it appears that they did bother to turn up and vote instead of staying home.
I can't imagine why she lost the election it must be "the Russians"
Even though that may not have had much of an impact do you really think that sort of thing should be encouraged? There's a disturbing amount of Putin loving going on from people who should know better and would be called traitors in another situation.
Just give up on your troll game this time and chalk it up as a "win" if you like. You've got form so pretending innocence isn't going to work. I just don't get why you do it - what a total waste of everyone's time.
Thirty years? Maybe it's worth that but I find it very strange and disturbing that raping children draws far less a penalty than possessing an image of a naked child. Why are they not tracking down the people making the images instead of a vast sting operation on patsies looking at them while the FBI is running the site?
Considering that I only made one point, and you challenged it, there really is no question that you were pushing the line that wind doesn't matter. I really don't get why you play such silly games. "Gaslighting" is the trendy name for such petty attempts at bullying where you try to get someone to think different thing have happened before isn't it? What a stupid game. "Reading comprehension" indeed - WTF is this shit about trying to find some sort of weakness and pick on people? Are you really the age your username suggests or a petty and destructive teenager? Are you really surrounded by the sort of people where "reading comprehension" is an insult that people will take seriously - and if so why are you picking on them?
I really do not get the point of you jumping on a post to deny the obvious just to start some sort of argument. Is your life really that empty? Have you reached some sort of silly troll goal due to me typing out an indication of how utterly worthless you appear to be?
It's not the only question - there is also the question of "what can I run my existing stuff on that is better than a now very old RISC based system?".
So you are saying ocean currents are not a primary factor to be considered
No! I did not suggest that at all! So you are just here to argue and are using nasty little tricks or is it just a memory lapse? I suggested that wind can not be ignored in the situation being considered here were the wind loading is quite extreme and the icebergs follow the wind direction far more than the current. Do a google image search for "tabular iceberg" and you will get the picture. Wind just cannot be ignored in that situation as distinct from the north Atlantic situation.
I'm not sure why they weren't invalidated for prior art
The patent office stopped caring about that and became a revenue collection agency. First to pay trumped prior art, and everything else was a problem to be sorted out in court without involvement from the patent office. They just do not have enough staff to consider prior art and have to trust filers to have done the search for that themselves, so it breaks down at even the slightest touch of dishonesty.
In this case the movement of icebergs in the southern ocean in the direction of the prevailing winds very strongly indicates it as does years of research so perhaps your gut feeling is not a primary factor. Using google will help.
Slow currents versus fast winds and a lot of area above water - very different to the northern hemisphere situation you are thinking of. Perhaps you should look up "the roaring 40s" to see why wind is an issue there but not so much in the north Atlantic.
Wind blowing around bergs in areas of low current doesn't negate the point
It kind of does when we are discussing the specific case of getting a tabular iceberg into the Indian Ocean.
With most of the volume below the surface, ocean currents become a primary factor
Fifty knot winds for days on hundred foot high faces three hundred yards long don't matter? The winds push the tabular icebergs of the size mentioned about far more quickly than the currents move and in different directions. They have a high "sail to draft ratio" compared with the arctic icebergs. An iceberg the size of a city on the other hand will act as you suggest, but nobody is planning to move any of those any time soon.
The dirty little secret is that Universities want a lot of students to pass. Thus a lot of cheating is ignored, and the point where someone is going too far is not consistent. I had a lot of students cheat in my lab classes some years back but was told to put up with it since it had been changed to be only a tiny fraction of the assessment.
Oil is so much easier to get out of the ground, ship and store than many other things so that is IMHO why it has value and the others are not used as much (eg. the US natural gas producers who went under when the Saudi's dropped the oil price to bankrupt their competition). Around a century ago oil replaced coal for transport due to those factors. That made the value of coal decline.
As demand increases, the supply drops. As supply drops, the price goes up
To a point, yes, but that two-dimensional way of looking at things doesn't apply very well when there are other options that are less convenient in current conditions but become a serious option when conditions change.
The "irony" is that oil is of so much value because it's dirt cheap. If it becomes rare it's suddenly not worth using instead of something else so is then of very little value. Neat little 2D economic ideas (price vs time) sometime fare poorly in a 4D (lots of stuff and time) world.
So only free speech in praise of Dear Leader? Do we really want to got that way? This comment is nothing compared to a lot of the "alt-right" stuff, some of Trump's own words, or a lot of comedy in general. I think we should let Trump take him through the courts if necessary if he wants to sue instead of self-censorship.
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Quote it gaslight troll.
The ridiculous words were your own that you attempted to put in my mouth.
I really don't get why you jumped on here to build up a strawman to attack.
Why are you wasting so much time on setting up a strawman to attack over such a trivial subject?
Projection now? Pathetic.
You stupid little game is an utter waste of time. Why are you still trying the "gaslighting" to pretend it never happened? Are you really that pathetic? Do you really crave feedback from the target of your pathetic attempt at bullying over something so utterly trivial so much?
It's because people remembered items about him in the media over the decades on the topic.
So you still think that even now? If so you are really in for a shock some time.
Oh really?
What's with acting like a poorly raised five year old?
I wonder if it will take the full four years to wake up and see how stupid that is in hindsight - thinking the alternative is worse than Trump I mean not the observation that people were doing it. He's already playing chicken with nukes (which not even Hillary or any of the Republicans at the primaries would do) so what's going to happen next?
You got scammed by a slick salesman. Enjoy the snake oil.
That's not a prediction but an observation, at the risk of going a Godwin over a division of IBM long ago.
It's an ever present threat to watch over for as long as the technology existed so it's good for him to remind us of it.
The irony is that even if this is true it's just a new way of doing what Rupert Murdoch has been doing for years in a lot of different places (including the US in the last election), and other media magnates did it before him.
One of the reasons he pulled out of Chinese media is because he couldn't use it to influence government.
I still find it incredibly funny that people think anybody at all in US politics is less corrupt than a casino owning property developer. Atlantic City is such a bastion of law and order after all.
The main one would be that none of those contributed much to her loss. She failed to get the attention of what is supposed to be the Democrat "core" demographic, average people with average jobs, and put a focus on special cases instead. Most Americans appears to think so little of their country to bother to go out and vote so complacency about the sort of people that always vote Democrat was fatal. Trump wasn't complacent about the people who always vote Republican and it appears that they did bother to turn up and vote instead of staying home.
Even though that may not have had much of an impact do you really think that sort of thing should be encouraged? There's a disturbing amount of Putin loving going on from people who should know better and would be called traitors in another situation.
I also did not write that currents can be ignored you annoying troll.
You do not come up to your own standards.
Just give up on your troll game this time and chalk it up as a "win" if you like. You've got form so pretending innocence isn't going to work.
I just don't get why you do it - what a total waste of everyone's time.
Moving target.
Thirty years? Maybe it's worth that but I find it very strange and disturbing that raping children draws far less a penalty than possessing an image of a naked child.
Why are they not tracking down the people making the images instead of a vast sting operation on patsies looking at them while the FBI is running the site?
Considering that I only made one point, and you challenged it, there really is no question that you were pushing the line that wind doesn't matter. I really don't get why you play such silly games. "Gaslighting" is the trendy name for such petty attempts at bullying where you try to get someone to think different thing have happened before isn't it? What a stupid game. "Reading comprehension" indeed - WTF is this shit about trying to find some sort of weakness and pick on people? Are you really the age your username suggests or a petty and destructive teenager? Are you really surrounded by the sort of people where "reading comprehension" is an insult that people will take seriously - and if so why are you picking on them?
I really do not get the point of you jumping on a post to deny the obvious just to start some sort of argument. Is your life really that empty? Have you reached some sort of silly troll goal due to me typing out an indication of how utterly worthless you appear to be?
It's not the only question - there is also the question of "what can I run my existing stuff on that is better than a now very old RISC based system?".
No! I did not suggest that at all! So you are just here to argue and are using nasty little tricks or is it just a memory lapse? I suggested that wind can not be ignored in the situation being considered here were the wind loading is quite extreme and the icebergs follow the wind direction far more than the current.
Do a google image search for "tabular iceberg" and you will get the picture. Wind just cannot be ignored in that situation as distinct from the north Atlantic situation.
The patent office stopped caring about that and became a revenue collection agency. First to pay trumped prior art, and everything else was a problem to be sorted out in court without involvement from the patent office. They just do not have enough staff to consider prior art and have to trust filers to have done the search for that themselves, so it breaks down at even the slightest touch of dishonesty.
In this case the movement of icebergs in the southern ocean in the direction of the prevailing winds very strongly indicates it as does years of research so perhaps your gut feeling is not a primary factor.
Using google will help.
Perhaps you should look up "the roaring 40s" to see why wind is an issue there but not so much in the north Atlantic.
It kind of does when we are discussing the specific case of getting a tabular iceberg into the Indian Ocean.
Fifty knot winds for days on hundred foot high faces three hundred yards long don't matter? The winds push the tabular icebergs of the size mentioned about far more quickly than the currents move and in different directions. They have a high "sail to draft ratio" compared with the arctic icebergs.
An iceberg the size of a city on the other hand will act as you suggest, but nobody is planning to move any of those any time soon.
The dirty little secret is that Universities want a lot of students to pass. Thus a lot of cheating is ignored, and the point where someone is going too far is not consistent.
I had a lot of students cheat in my lab classes some years back but was told to put up with it since it had been changed to be only a tiny fraction of the assessment.
Around a century ago oil replaced coal for transport due to those factors. That made the value of coal decline.
To a point, yes, but that two-dimensional way of looking at things doesn't apply very well when there are other options that are less convenient in current conditions but become a serious option when conditions change.
The "irony" is that oil is of so much value because it's dirt cheap. If it becomes rare it's suddenly not worth using instead of something else so is then of very little value.
Neat little 2D economic ideas (price vs time) sometime fare poorly in a 4D (lots of stuff and time) world.
You don't have to imagine, you can read them if you dig up some cartoons from when Clinton was President.
So only free speech in praise of Dear Leader?
Do we really want to got that way?
This comment is nothing compared to a lot of the "alt-right" stuff, some of Trump's own words, or a lot of comedy in general. I think we should let Trump take him through the courts if necessary if he wants to sue instead of self-censorship.