Calling me blind not an insult?
You also didn't answer my point- which, btw, was a jab at your ability as a critical thinker too. But I guess you didn't see the ridicule in that proposition.
And your arguing is what, an Ad Hominem? Le me partake also.
Your God isn't provable or disprovable, and the old dino bones were just put here to test our faith.
Riiiight.... sorry, but the burden of proof still rests on those making the most outlandish assertion. Between macro-evolution and an omnipotent deity, it's your half-baked theory that wins, noodly appendages down.
You can believe you have your Venus rising and an opposing Mars. You can talk about it at parties, and I probably will just smile and nod if I meet you: "oh cool, another excentric." And if you only ever keep it to yourself, you have your right to privacy.
That said, you shouldn't try to get a school board to teach astrology.
If you try to challenge the scientific consensus around astrology (that it's a crock), expect ridicule if you can't prove it.
Seriously, you can believe whatever you want. It's when you start dissing evolution that we've got a problem: now the burden of proof is yours.
And you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better than challenging the accuracy of carbon dating. Ideally, you'd have an alternative explanation that wasn't half-baked.
According to the Andrew Orlowski, those that are lobbying hardest for CC licenses are neurotic Aspies, pleading for their pet project but uninterested in helping creators.
Ad hominem, impuning motives and infantilization of those you don't agree with. That's no way to argue.
Except maybe on/.
Oh... never mind then. Way to go editors, we need more troll posts!:)
So bad guys can communicate through even more opaque channels. Woop-dee-doo.
The too-often referenced 9/11 attack was not a failure of signals intelligence. Secret services whose job it is to capture communications did their job in this regard.
Information was not translated and/or acted upon.
Getting more sigint will lead to a panopticon society, without actually resolving the fundamental problem of our lack of human intelligence.
I wouldn't put it past the NDP to not understand the importance of fighting such a law.
And the conservatives will support it if they think it will help their American friends.
The Liberals can be stopped from passing this BS law if enough people take notice and make a fuss.
If we win, idiots will complain that minority governments are bad because nothing ever gets done- the rest of us will understand that's what so great about them. A government that doesn't pass stupid laws is better than one that does.
Funny TFA insists the house always wins while admitting they are looking for counters.
One correction though: no need to be a math whiz to win at Blackjack. And in Canada, it's illegal for the Casino to eject you for counting, although they can take some countermeasures.
Yeah, it's cute. The really odd thing is this is the first time I hear of a government using text ads to further its PR war in an international dispute.
This could legitimize adwords and similar programs for many governments and advocacy organizations- and spell more profits for Google. Hopefully, this will also raise the level of discourse!
Perhaps the most revolutionary element is the social introduction service mentionned in the last 2 paragraphs (ie, I actualy RTFA).
This type of service wouldn't even have to be taken up by very many people- but if those that want to change the world use it and it does connect them, the implications could be enormous. I wonder what Gladwell would think of it.
I wouldn't be surprised if DIY turbines were bad for birds. Smaller turbines tend to move faster and be more deadly. Modern blades spin far more slowly and result in few bird casualties.
To put it in perspective you could look at birds getting killed running into smokestacks from your nearest coal-fired energy plant or residential/office high-rise buildings. Even cats are more deadly than turbines.
I would choose a model carefully if it was installed near habitat for endangered birds. But most of the time, we're looking at something that is several orders of magnitude less problematic than the status quo.
In the larger scheme of things, the Plame story might have more impact.
Anyone with half a clue expected another terrorist attack. Markets may adjust after a period of irrationality- it didn't take that terribly long after 9/11. Since the UK has been used to terrorism, they may get over this even faster.
However what are the consequences of Karl's outing of Plame now being public knowledge? How will this affect relations with the intelligence community?
Take a series of letters, makes nouns, create your own poem or story. Link words and phrases with absurd images (the more absurd, the better), and you suddenly can remember long series of numbers.
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Calling me blind not an insult? You also didn't answer my point- which, btw, was a jab at your ability as a critical thinker too. But I guess you didn't see the ridicule in that proposition.
Dropping solar-powered wireless mesh nodes where needed.
/. right now! Don't you think they'd appreciate this?
Hey, imagine all those nerds stuck in emergency shelters that can't read
And your arguing is what, an Ad Hominem? Le me partake also.
Your God isn't provable or disprovable, and the old dino bones were just put here to test our faith.
Riiiight.... sorry, but the burden of proof still rests on those making the most outlandish assertion. Between macro-evolution and an omnipotent deity, it's your half-baked theory that wins, noodly appendages down.
It's a reasonnable trade-off.
You can believe you have your Venus rising and an opposing Mars. You can talk about it at parties, and I probably will just smile and nod if I meet you: "oh cool, another excentric." And if you only ever keep it to yourself, you have your right to privacy.
That said, you shouldn't try to get a school board to teach astrology.
If you try to challenge the scientific consensus around astrology (that it's a crock), expect ridicule if you can't prove it.
I welcome our new Flying Spaghetti Monster overlord.
Seriously, you can believe whatever you want. It's when you start dissing evolution that we've got a problem: now the burden of proof is yours.
And you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better than challenging the accuracy of carbon dating. Ideally, you'd have an alternative explanation that wasn't half-baked.
According to the Andrew Orlowski, those that are lobbying hardest for CC licenses are neurotic Aspies, pleading for their pet project but uninterested in helping creators.
/.
:)
Ad hominem, impuning motives and infantilization of those you don't agree with. That's no way to argue.
Except maybe on
Oh... never mind then. Way to go editors, we need more troll posts!
No one takes IQ tests seriously anymore, so it's not surprising that a racist crackpot would use them to publish such BS.
Not just jealousy: fear.
The first person quoted is Max Levchin, "a founder of PayPal". Might he be shitting his pants that Google is to eat his lunch with Google Wallet?
Peter Thiel, is quoted on page 2, "a founder of PayPal who has invested in roughly 15 Internet start-ups in recent years."
I wonder who hired the PR flack for this story, but they're not getting any of my sympathy.
Exactly. To motivate rich people, you pay them more- with poor people, you pay them less.
MS Office still breaks a lot of MS Office documents.
Choose your poison
So bad guys can communicate through even more opaque channels. Woop-dee-doo.
The too-often referenced 9/11 attack was not a failure of signals intelligence. Secret services whose job it is to capture communications did their job in this regard.
Information was not translated and/or acted upon.
Getting more sigint will lead to a panopticon society, without actually resolving the fundamental problem of our lack of human intelligence.
Heh. They're pretty progressive on a lot of issues. Do you think they'll be an ally on this?
:(
Seems to me none of the parties are clued in on the OSS, copyfight and info front. Save perhaps some Greens
That's not a given.
I wouldn't put it past the NDP to not understand the importance of fighting such a law.
And the conservatives will support it if they think it will help their American friends.
The Liberals can be stopped from passing this BS law if enough people take notice and make a fuss.
If we win, idiots will complain that minority governments are bad because nothing ever gets done- the rest of us will understand that's what so great about them. A government that doesn't pass stupid laws is better than one that does.
Funny TFA insists the house always wins while admitting they are looking for counters.
One correction though: no need to be a math whiz to win at Blackjack. And in Canada, it's illegal for the Casino to eject you for counting, although they can take some countermeasures.
Oblig reading on Worldchanging: Terraforming Earth IV: The Question of Methane, in which Jamais Cascio explores different avenues to engineering the climate to avoid a catastrophe.
That old pentium might cost you more in electricity over a year than a simple router.
Yeah, it's cute. The really odd thing is this is the first time I hear of a government using text ads to further its PR war in an international dispute.
This could legitimize adwords and similar programs for many governments and advocacy organizations- and spell more profits for Google. Hopefully, this will also raise the level of discourse!
When you already have lots of RAM and your DB indexes and temp tables are constantly being swapped, this might make sense.
Perhaps the most revolutionary element is the social introduction service mentionned in the last 2 paragraphs (ie, I actualy RTFA).
This type of service wouldn't even have to be taken up by very many people- but if those that want to change the world use it and it does connect them, the implications could be enormous. I wonder what Gladwell would think of it.
I wouldn't be surprised if DIY turbines were bad for birds. Smaller turbines tend to move faster and be more deadly. Modern blades spin far more slowly and result in few bird casualties.
To put it in perspective you could look at birds getting killed running into smokestacks from your nearest coal-fired energy plant or residential/office high-rise buildings. Even cats are more deadly than turbines.
I would choose a model carefully if it was installed near habitat for endangered birds. But most of the time, we're looking at something that is several orders of magnitude less problematic than the status quo.
I think you meant "idling" :)
In the larger scheme of things, the Plame story might have more impact.
Anyone with half a clue expected another terrorist attack. Markets may adjust after a period of irrationality- it didn't take that terribly long after 9/11. Since the UK has been used to terrorism, they may get over this even faster.
However what are the consequences of Karl's outing of Plame now being public knowledge? How will this affect relations with the intelligence community?
Check out the Mnemonic alphabet.
Take a series of letters, makes nouns, create your own poem or story. Link words and phrases with absurd images (the more absurd, the better), and you suddenly can remember long series of numbers.