i wonder if there are any high level Scientologists in the NSA?
There are people in the Netherlands, who sink old fishing nets with attached bits to the bottom of the Oosterschelde estuary (it's a natural reserve, so it doesn't bother boats). Then they wait a few year, put on their diving suits, and go looking at those old fishing nets underwater.
You may wonder why people have this as a hobby.
They do it, because they fully expect that the extremely elusive and rare (in NL) Sepia squids have found those fishing nets as a useful habitat, and found a mate in those murky waters, and have begun a family.
In a similar vein, your question seems really stupid and weird.
But I wonder what you get, if you create a habitat for extremely paranoid people, who like to sit in Captain Picard's chair, swim the murky waters of the Internet all day, unobserved by anyone else, give them the opportunity to meet and work with like-minded individuals, and take pride in manufacturing lies targetted for effect in the broader population. What would happen if you left such a habitat abandoned to the ebb & flow of the normal HR process of a large and rich organization for, say, 20 years. What kind of fascinating creatures would come floating to the top of the food chain?
Who knows. You're not allowed to find out. You'll never find out.
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
Yeah, and what about the stupid idea of building fuel tanks into the wings of planes?
Jesus H Christ what the fuck is the matter with this site? I never met as many Debbie Downers in one place in all my life!
Your division into 'reputable, mainstream journalists publishing in MSM' and 'the unprofessional, misinformation rest of us' is very bogus.
My division is between quality journalism and misinformed crap. I never named any names. Do try to refrain from putting words in my mouth.
Where did I say that the MSM is all reputable? CNN is pretty mainstream but I wouldn't have a terribly high opinion of it and wouldn't say it's all reputable, except for the likes of Fareed Zakaria. Similarly there are plenty of bloggers out there who do a better job than mainstream sources.
The headline has been fixed. Stop modding up this shite, it's getting in the way of an actual interesting discussion.
(BTW, it's "humanity's" not "humanities." If you're going to be a smartassed cunt about someone else's grammar, you'd better have all your own grammar in pristine condition. People who live in glass houses shouldn't take a dump in broad daylight.)
Here's an actual bit of steady progress in nuclear fusion which I happen to think is quite exciting, but cue the standard/. "it's not going to work because progress has been slow" armchair experts and smartass cunts in 5-4-3-2-1...
"Blogging sites and online news did not make journalists obsolete, rather created 10 million journalists, while making news much more interactive and exciting."
Blogging sites have created ten million bloggers, not ten million journalists. They have made it easier to disseminate information, but they've also made it easier to disseminate misinformation. A serious issue that needs to be addressed in modern education is teaching people how to tell the difference between a reputable source and a propaganda piece, and the difference between science and pseudo-science. The amount of crap being passed around FB that has already been debunked by Snopes is very worrying.
USAian approach to fighting terrorism: Let's have a trillion dollar war on some random country. That'll show em. Nobody will mess with us afterwards. Oh, and let's spend a fortune in tax dollars on an elaborate security theatre in all airports so that we turn air travel into an ordeal. Let's also hire goons to intimidate anyone who wants to enter the country as a tourist, especially if their skin is dark or if there's any stamps in their passports that show they've been to muslim countries. And let's spend more than then next half dozen countries combined on super-duper high tech weapons even if our own armed forces are telling us they don't want them.
British approach to fighting terrorism: Keep plugging away behind the scenes. Use the intelligence agencies to infiltrate terror groups and arrest them before they can strike. Keep it discreet, keep it quiet, and don't announce anything publicly until there's been an arrest. Meanwhile, let life go on as normal, keep going to work, keep on flying, keep shopping in busy streets, keep commuting on crowded trains and buses, and on no account do we change our way of life in search of an impossible-to-obtain standard of security because to do so would be to let the terrorists win.
Because your roads are heavily subsidized by the federal income tax, allowing you to enjoy some of the cheapest gas in the western world. If your gas taxes covered the full cost of the infrastructure you're using you'd be paying at least $8/gallon at the pump like they are in Europe.
Soon the Navajo will have better internet than the rest of the West!
Given what's out there on the internet, that ain't exactly a hard thing to do.
What good is served by spending all kinds of money to get "rural broadband"?
Seriously. What real societal good does broadband internet access bring? It's not anything like electricity, which has a direct impact on sanitation and health.
Oh for fuck's sake! Why did one of the first posts have to be the old "technology is useless to impoverished areas" trope? When are you people going to get it into your thick skulls that internet access and technical know-how are actually quite useful enablers of education and upward social mobility, hmm?
Rail is far more efficient. The track itself is cheap, the major cost is actually buying the land. There is very little friction resistance as well.
That's actually a problem past a certain speed. At least in the U.S., they don't allow trains to travel at high speeds in populated areas because they can't usefully stop if somebody walks across the rail. They can't stop because there is very little friction possible. With a closed tube, you don't have that risk, so you can shoot through downtown L.A. doing 250 MPH.
I suspect it's got more to do with the sub-standard rickety tracks that keep getting thrown out of whack by the freight trains that have priority on them. Tracks in America are usually owned by freight companies, passenger trains piggyback on those tracks. Kinda the reverse of how it works elsewhere. Roads are maintained by the public sector, people provide their own cars, for example. Hence why American railroads are pretty decent at hauling cargo over long distances, but terrible at carrying passengers since they have to run on track and signalling technology that dates from the industrial revolution.
Musk had a supply of good crack that week. Also thinks anything he doesn't understand is easy.
Yeah. Who the hell is he anyway? All he ever did was make a fortune on the internet and started a car company and a space tourism company. What the fuck would he know compared to a smartass cunt like you trolling on the internet? I'll bet you've done more in your life than he has.
It seems to me he has absolutely NO idea about the very real engineering challenges to something like this.
As opposed to some smartass cunt on the Internet.
By your logic we should be hand-carrying water buckets around to wash our ass with. FUCK I wish this site would go back to what it once was.
Preach it brother! I once read the comments on a regular basis because there used to be a bit of informed comment. But the rot started to set in with the "no wirelss, less space than a Nomad, lame" episode. Now it's just a bunch of basement-dwelling know-it-alls who think they know better than the man who made a fortune on the internet, started an electric car company, and is on the edge of establishing commercial space flight for tourists! And these dickheads truly think they know better than him even though they didn't bother their sorry asses reading TFA! It beggars belief.
Kudos on your choice of language. "Smartass cunt" just about sums up the typical/. commenter these days.
Slashdot Mirror
>And this is the system Democrats want the United States to emulate?
No. Where did you get that idea?
Probably a certain "news" channel that claimed the government shutdown is no big deal because it doesn't personally affect Sean Hannity.
Everyone in the UK pays National Insurance.
There are people in the Netherlands, who sink old fishing nets with attached bits to the bottom of the Oosterschelde estuary (it's a natural reserve, so it doesn't bother boats). Then they wait a few year, put on their diving suits, and go looking at those old fishing nets underwater.
You may wonder why people have this as a hobby.
They do it, because they fully expect that the extremely elusive and rare (in NL) Sepia squids have found those fishing nets as a useful habitat, and found a mate in those murky waters, and have begun a family.
In a similar vein, your question seems really stupid and weird.
But I wonder what you get, if you create a habitat for extremely paranoid people, who like to sit in Captain Picard's chair, swim the murky waters of the Internet all day, unobserved by anyone else, give them the opportunity to meet and work with like-minded individuals, and take pride in manufacturing lies targetted for effect in the broader population. What would happen if you left such a habitat abandoned to the ebb & flow of the normal HR process of a large and rich organization for, say, 20 years. What kind of fascinating creatures would come floating to the top of the food chain?
Who knows. You're not allowed to find out. You'll never find out.
Er, what was the middle bit?
... we could prosecute the fraudsters raking in big bucks in America posing as faith healers and mediums.
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
Yeah, and what about the stupid idea of building fuel tanks into the wings of planes?
Jesus H Christ what the fuck is the matter with this site? I never met as many Debbie Downers in one place in all my life!
You were talking through your backside.
Quoth TFA:
"Waveforms?" What does that mean? Does it work by convection, conduction, radiation or what?
Personally I like the little space heater I keep under my desk. Makes it nice and cozy in winter. Much nicer than wrapping up with more layers.
No it doesn't. My comment history has plenty of insightful mods. Fuck off.
"A bit of steady progress in nuclear fusion" sounds like something on the subject to me. Did you miss that part, you amusingly stupid mucksavage?
Your division into 'reputable, mainstream journalists publishing in MSM' and 'the unprofessional, misinformation rest of us' is very bogus.
My division is between quality journalism and misinformed crap. I never named any names. Do try to refrain from putting words in my mouth.
Where did I say that the MSM is all reputable? CNN is pretty mainstream but I wouldn't have a terribly high opinion of it and wouldn't say it's all reputable, except for the likes of Fareed Zakaria. Similarly there are plenty of bloggers out there who do a better job than mainstream sources.
The headline has been fixed. Stop modding up this shite, it's getting in the way of an actual interesting discussion.
(BTW, it's "humanity's" not "humanities." If you're going to be a smartassed cunt about someone else's grammar, you'd better have all your own grammar in pristine condition. People who live in glass houses shouldn't take a dump in broad daylight.)
The headline has been fixed. Stop modding up this shite, it's getting in the way of an actual interesting discussion.
Here's an actual bit of steady progress in nuclear fusion which I happen to think is quite exciting, but cue the standard /. "it's not going to work because progress has been slow" armchair experts and smartass cunts in 5-4-3-2-1...
Probably the people standing on the platform.
Congratulations on your ability to selectively quote left-leaning policies.
"Blogging sites and online news did not make journalists obsolete, rather created 10 million journalists, while making news much more interactive and exciting."
Blogging sites have created ten million bloggers, not ten million journalists. They have made it easier to disseminate information, but they've also made it easier to disseminate misinformation. A serious issue that needs to be addressed in modern education is teaching people how to tell the difference between a reputable source and a propaganda piece, and the difference between science and pseudo-science. The amount of crap being passed around FB that has already been debunked by Snopes is very worrying.
USAian approach to fighting terrorism: Let's have a trillion dollar war on some random country. That'll show em. Nobody will mess with us afterwards. Oh, and let's spend a fortune in tax dollars on an elaborate security theatre in all airports so that we turn air travel into an ordeal. Let's also hire goons to intimidate anyone who wants to enter the country as a tourist, especially if their skin is dark or if there's any stamps in their passports that show they've been to muslim countries. And let's spend more than then next half dozen countries combined on super-duper high tech weapons even if our own armed forces are telling us they don't want them.
British approach to fighting terrorism: Keep plugging away behind the scenes. Use the intelligence agencies to infiltrate terror groups and arrest them before they can strike. Keep it discreet, keep it quiet, and don't announce anything publicly until there's been an arrest. Meanwhile, let life go on as normal, keep going to work, keep on flying, keep shopping in busy streets, keep commuting on crowded trains and buses, and on no account do we change our way of life in search of an impossible-to-obtain standard of security because to do so would be to let the terrorists win.
I wonder which one is more effective.
I'm impressed by Brown. He paddles a little on the left, then a little on the right, and he keeps a steady path.
Because your roads are heavily subsidized by the federal income tax, allowing you to enjoy some of the cheapest gas in the western world. If your gas taxes covered the full cost of the infrastructure you're using you'd be paying at least $8/gallon at the pump like they are in Europe.
He's conveniently overlooked the things that have shut down.
. . . .who are deemed "non-essential".
Um, if they're not essential, why are they on the payroll in the first place ???
Fine. Scrap the national parks. Disband NASA. End the practice of issuing passports to anyone who wants to travel outside the country.
You want to live your life without government? Knock yourself out, but don't expect to have the same quality of life.
Soon the Navajo will have better internet than the rest of the West!
Given what's out there on the internet, that ain't exactly a hard thing to do.
What good is served by spending all kinds of money to get "rural broadband"?
Seriously. What real societal good does broadband internet access bring? It's not anything like electricity, which has a direct impact on sanitation and health.
Oh for fuck's sake! Why did one of the first posts have to be the old "technology is useless to impoverished areas" trope? When are you people going to get it into your thick skulls that internet access and technical know-how are actually quite useful enablers of education and upward social mobility, hmm?
That's actually a problem past a certain speed. At least in the U.S., they don't allow trains to travel at high speeds in populated areas because they can't usefully stop if somebody walks across the rail. They can't stop because there is very little friction possible. With a closed tube, you don't have that risk, so you can shoot through downtown L.A. doing 250 MPH.
I suspect it's got more to do with the sub-standard rickety tracks that keep getting thrown out of whack by the freight trains that have priority on them. Tracks in America are usually owned by freight companies, passenger trains piggyback on those tracks. Kinda the reverse of how it works elsewhere. Roads are maintained by the public sector, people provide their own cars, for example. Hence why American railroads are pretty decent at hauling cargo over long distances, but terrible at carrying passengers since they have to run on track and signalling technology that dates from the industrial revolution.
Musk had a supply of good crack that week. Also thinks anything he doesn't understand is easy.
Yeah. Who the hell is he anyway? All he ever did was make a fortune on the internet and started a car company and a space tourism company. What the fuck would he know compared to a smartass cunt like you trolling on the internet? I'll bet you've done more in your life than he has.
It seems to me he has absolutely NO idea about the very real engineering challenges to something like this.
As opposed to some smartass cunt on the Internet.
By your logic we should be hand-carrying water buckets around to wash our ass with. FUCK I wish this site would go back to what it once was.
Preach it brother! I once read the comments on a regular basis because there used to be a bit of informed comment. But the rot started to set in with the "no wirelss, less space than a Nomad, lame" episode. Now it's just a bunch of basement-dwelling know-it-alls who think they know better than the man who made a fortune on the internet, started an electric car company, and is on the edge of establishing commercial space flight for tourists! And these dickheads truly think they know better than him even though they didn't bother their sorry asses reading TFA! It beggars belief.
Kudos on your choice of language. "Smartass cunt" just about sums up the typical /. commenter these days.