While you do have a point so does he - after all minature human kidneys are being printed now. It's not an infinite leap from there to printing babies in boxes and raising them with the help of some sort of mostly autonomus robot technology. Besides, it's a "flying car" way out there sort of thing that is being discussed and not a near future trip to collect stuff from a near earth asteroid. Leeway has to be given for way out suggestions that will look insane in hindsight.
Did you even read what I wrote? Please read it again and then look at the piece of text of yours I just quoted. Consider the connection. Then try again. Note that I stil have not mocked you yet so lay off on the "confirm your biases" pre-emptive bullshit attack.
If you are too lazy to think the point I'm making is that sadly there is still a very large amount of medical evidence to show that the assault injury statistics show a much larger number of assaults are occuring than the reported crime statistics. For cultural reasons a lot of rapes and other assaults end up in medical reports without ending up in criminal reports. Such a thing is general knowledge among the majority of most communities but for some reason you appear to have been sheltered from such awareness or are for some reason denying what is occurring around you.
Unless of course you think women are getting beaten and just don't talk about it
Talk to your local doctor or someone in emergency at your local hospital if you desire enough grounding in reality to avoid being mocked for making such silly statements. Domestic violence sucks, let alone the unreported rapes where the victims do not want their sex lives paraded in court.
Since the claim is really pretty stupid we may as well discuss other stuff. How many nerds are narciscistic, let allone to the level of mental illness? It would be such a tiny subset that "standard frustrated angry geeky guy" is not a label that comes remotely close to fitting this person.
Manson also fucked up his revenge plans yet the History Channel made him out to be a criminal supergenius instead of a loser lashing out as an opportunistic killer. The myths are already starting on this new loser.
That's exactly the sort of comment that the press could use as "proof" that nerds have difficultly finding the boundary between fantasy and reality. Please don't make it easy for them even if it's just a joke.
True, among the ravings of a homocidal narciscistic sociopath there was some misogyny but it's clearly a side issue. The feminist music etc columnist Helen Razer had an interesting piece on it this week.
You appear to be using an example of the opposite of "nothing they could do about it". Clearly they were doing plenty about it. The myth is that it wasn't done before. As an obvious example I suggest you read something about raids during the prohibition that failed to find any booze but still pulled people in for anything else found during such raids.
I've seen it spun as him being a traitor becuase he revealed data from those investigations into US citizens therefore giving enemies an advantage, so no win either way it appears. He served his country above government officials while it appears people who call him a traitor want him to serve government officials above his country. The funny thing is back in the day the people with that attitude would be called Royalists, so I find it incredibly amusing that they are calling Snowden a traitor.
If they had a warrant to look for a missing kidnapped girl and found an illegal handgun, or a stolen car. There was nothing they could do about it.
This myth is very common and probably was spread via a vector of TV sitcoms or badly written police procedurals. Where did you get exposed to that myth? There's a difference between a Judge telling somebody to fuck off over an obvious fishing expedition warrant and police finding something unrelated but illegal in the course of an investigation.
Early Excel had a nice little scripting language for that. Slightly later MS Excel had a different, totatally incompatible scripting language for that as well. Then there was another, totally incompatible scritping language that also let you do things with other parts of MS Office as well. I lost track after that and it seemed that by then not many people were using native scripting tools with MS Excel. There were some third party things that kept their front end the same through each change of the MS back end
IMHO he does know better and is telling people to stop trying to get a tangled web of spreadsheet formulas to do what MATLAB or any of a very long list of other things could do better. Lots of people use a spreadsheet like a version of assembly with no access to registers, just memory locations.
Some time before Carter it became about being a taxpayer funded cashcow instead of viable commercial projects. There has been no incentive to improve and a large incentive to prevent anything that makes the installed reactors look obsolete.
When you say valves, do you mean what in the US are referred to as vacuum tubes
Sorry, I'd forgotten that thermionic valves in English is thermionic tubes in American and vacuum tubes on wikipedia presumably because that was more commonly used.
Either way I haven't seen inside one of those planes myself and should probably try to talk my way aboard one to have a look while there are still some flying. Being unpressurised they may have a few more decades yet but the surviving ones are certainly running up the hours.
The nuclear industry killed off the molten thorium salt reactor by lobbying against it due to fears of it's success cutting back on the lifetime of their investment in Uranium reactors and infrastructure. They drove the head of that project out of the nuclear industry for daring to suggest that thorium designs would be safer than existing plants. Unless something changes to prevent their opposition or to prevent them getting money into the right pockets your thorium dream is not going to happen in the USA. However there is some hope in India, although some of their earlier thorium stuff was partly smokescreen for a weapon program. Molten stuff is potentially vastly cheaper than conventional reprocessing.
The reality is pressure groups who do not wish the stuff stored in any form in the desert in California or an apparently less suitable site in Nevada. It could scare off the tourists. Cut back on lobbying from the gambling industry, or bribery in general, and there's some hope other than storing the stuff in place waiting for another comedy of errors like what happened at Fukushima.
Another example is a DC-3 that took part in a search and rescue operation in Antarctica a few months ago. It was a situation where cost is not a consideration yet an airframe built in the 1930s was used because it was suitable for the job. That DC-3 has turboprops and has been cut in half then lengthened but every major structural part is over 70 years old. There's a few other DC-3s around. As with the B52 the modes of failure are very well known now so maintainance is going over a checklist and the nasty surprises happened decades ago.
Apparently the large cargo Antanov has control systems made up of racks of gear with valves. A retired electrical transmission engineer I know (who did plenty of design work with valves in his career) was shown around inside one, and he suspected it was to deal with an EMP pulse. There's probably American stuff that is EMP hardened as well but there are solid state ways of doing it that were used by NASA before they sent the first probe near Jupiter.
When the records were released in Russia apparently a US historian went looking for references to such games played when Nixon was doing his "madman theory" sabre rattling and failed to find anything to indicate they were taken seriously. Then again, they were used to real madmen in charge why fall for a fake? Reagan on the other hand managed to restart the cold war to an extent and couldn't resist poking the dying empire of the USSR - I wonder if he knew how dangerous that was with the USSR on a vast building spree of nuclear bombs corruptly engineered for the personal profit of some people involved in bomb production? The "missile gap" invented by Kennedy really did exist when the USSR fell.
It's over. There's no point pushing the propaganda of a perfect machine anymore, especially since the truth has come out about civilian spooks playing James Bond, leapfrogging chains of command and fucking up military operations.
The Japanese, French and Germans or anyone that has paid some attention to the history of those places would disagree. Vast amounts of destruction in China and Russian just meant that defence material had to be supplied from a different few hundred little cities or towns that were not destroyed.
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I prefer "Westworld".
While you do have a point so does he - after all minature human kidneys are being printed now. It's not an infinite leap from there to printing babies in boxes and raising them with the help of some sort of mostly autonomus robot technology.
Besides, it's a "flying car" way out there sort of thing that is being discussed and not a near future trip to collect stuff from a near earth asteroid. Leeway has to be given for way out suggestions that will look insane in hindsight.
Did you even read what I wrote?
Please read it again and then look at the piece of text of yours I just quoted. Consider the connection. Then try again.
Note that I stil have not mocked you yet so lay off on the "confirm your biases" pre-emptive bullshit attack.
If you are too lazy to think the point I'm making is that sadly there is still a very large amount of medical evidence to show that the assault injury statistics show a much larger number of assaults are occuring than the reported crime statistics. For cultural reasons a lot of rapes and other assaults end up in medical reports without ending up in criminal reports. Such a thing is general knowledge among the majority of most communities but for some reason you appear to have been sheltered from such awareness or are for some reason denying what is occurring around you.
Talk to your local doctor or someone in emergency at your local hospital if you desire enough grounding in reality to avoid being mocked for making such silly statements. Domestic violence sucks, let alone the unreported rapes where the victims do not want their sex lives paraded in court.
Also how many people in mainstream movies or TV are ugly? Don't blame the demographic for the machinations of those selling to them.
Since the claim is really pretty stupid we may as well discuss other stuff. How many nerds are narciscistic, let allone to the level of mental illness? It would be such a tiny subset that "standard frustrated angry geeky guy" is not a label that comes remotely close to fitting this person.
Manson also fucked up his revenge plans yet the History Channel made him out to be a criminal supergenius instead of a loser lashing out as an opportunistic killer. The myths are already starting on this new loser.
That's exactly the sort of comment that the press could use as "proof" that nerds have difficultly finding the boundary between fantasy and reality. Please don't make it easy for them even if it's just a joke.
True, among the ravings of a homocidal narciscistic sociopath there was some misogyny but it's clearly a side issue.
The feminist music etc columnist Helen Razer had an interesting piece on it this week.
You appear to be using an example of the opposite of "nothing they could do about it". Clearly they were doing plenty about it. The myth is that it wasn't done before. As an obvious example I suggest you read something about raids during the prohibition that failed to find any booze but still pulled people in for anything else found during such raids.
I've seen it spun as him being a traitor becuase he revealed data from those investigations into US citizens therefore giving enemies an advantage, so no win either way it appears.
He served his country above government officials while it appears people who call him a traitor want him to serve government officials above his country. The funny thing is back in the day the people with that attitude would be called Royalists, so I find it incredibly amusing that they are calling Snowden a traitor.
This myth is very common and probably was spread via a vector of TV sitcoms or badly written police procedurals. Where did you get exposed to that myth?
There's a difference between a Judge telling somebody to fuck off over an obvious fishing expedition warrant and police finding something unrelated but illegal in the course of an investigation.
Early Excel had a nice little scripting language for that. Slightly later MS Excel had a different, totatally incompatible scripting language for that as well. Then there was another, totally incompatible scritping language that also let you do things with other parts of MS Office as well. I lost track after that and it seemed that by then not many people were using native scripting tools with MS Excel. There were some third party things that kept their front end the same through each change of the MS back end
IMHO he does know better and is telling people to stop trying to get a tangled web of spreadsheet formulas to do what MATLAB or any of a very long list of other things could do better.
Lots of people use a spreadsheet like a version of assembly with no access to registers, just memory locations.
So when did Slashot turn into a "the beige box is a hard drive because I say it is and fuck you elitist technical folk" site?
Some time before Carter it became about being a taxpayer funded cashcow instead of viable commercial projects. There has been no incentive to improve and a large incentive to prevent anything that makes the installed reactors look obsolete.
Good point. I wonder if there have been any engine upgrades on any B52s.
Sorry, I'd forgotten that thermionic valves in English is thermionic tubes in American and vacuum tubes on wikipedia presumably because that was more commonly used.
Either way I haven't seen inside one of those planes myself and should probably try to talk my way aboard one to have a look while there are still some flying. Being unpressurised they may have a few more decades yet but the surviving ones are certainly running up the hours.
The nuclear industry killed off the molten thorium salt reactor by lobbying against it due to fears of it's success cutting back on the lifetime of their investment in Uranium reactors and infrastructure. They drove the head of that project out of the nuclear industry for daring to suggest that thorium designs would be safer than existing plants. Unless something changes to prevent their opposition or to prevent them getting money into the right pockets your thorium dream is not going to happen in the USA.
However there is some hope in India, although some of their earlier thorium stuff was partly smokescreen for a weapon program. Molten stuff is potentially vastly cheaper than conventional reprocessing.
The reality is pressure groups who do not wish the stuff stored in any form in the desert in California or an apparently less suitable site in Nevada. It could scare off the tourists.
Cut back on lobbying from the gambling industry, or bribery in general, and there's some hope other than storing the stuff in place waiting for another comedy of errors like what happened at Fukushima.
Another example is a DC-3 that took part in a search and rescue operation in Antarctica a few months ago. It was a situation where cost is not a consideration yet an airframe built in the 1930s was used because it was suitable for the job. That DC-3 has turboprops and has been cut in half then lengthened but every major structural part is over 70 years old. There's a few other DC-3s around.
As with the B52 the modes of failure are very well known now so maintainance is going over a checklist and the nasty surprises happened decades ago.
Apparently the large cargo Antanov has control systems made up of racks of gear with valves. A retired electrical transmission engineer I know (who did plenty of design work with valves in his career) was shown around inside one, and he suspected it was to deal with an EMP pulse. There's probably American stuff that is EMP hardened as well but there are solid state ways of doing it that were used by NASA before they sent the first probe near Jupiter.
When the records were released in Russia apparently a US historian went looking for references to such games played when Nixon was doing his "madman theory" sabre rattling and failed to find anything to indicate they were taken seriously. Then again, they were used to real madmen in charge why fall for a fake?
Reagan on the other hand managed to restart the cold war to an extent and couldn't resist poking the dying empire of the USSR - I wonder if he knew how dangerous that was with the USSR on a vast building spree of nuclear bombs corruptly engineered for the personal profit of some people involved in bomb production? The "missile gap" invented by Kennedy really did exist when the USSR fell.
It's over. There's no point pushing the propaganda of a perfect machine anymore, especially since the truth has come out about civilian spooks playing James Bond, leapfrogging chains of command and fucking up military operations.
The Japanese, French and Germans or anyone that has paid some attention to the history of those places would disagree. Vast amounts of destruction in China and Russian just meant that defence material had to be supplied from a different few hundred little cities or towns that were not destroyed.