You've never seen images of a plasma discharge then? The two look nothing alike, and don't even radiate/reflect the same frequencies of light! That's not even "grasping at straws" ridiculous, it's just plain dumb.
The FBI and local/state police do criminal investigations. The NSA and CIA do not, and almost without exception refuse to share data with other non-intel agencies, even when those agencies are investigating terrorism.
Don't know where you've been, but everywhere that I've traveled professional fishermen are loud, obnoxious drunks any time they're onshore. Fun to party with, but quiet? Not hardly!
Or be at a closer range. If you want to fire at something 500 miles away you need to be out of the atmosphere because 1) your target is over the horizon, 2) the energy is dissipated in the atmosphere. Directed energy weapons are worthwhile if you're up close and line of sight, and EMP weapons (not the same thing) work through walls over short distances as long as the attacker keeps the inverse square rule in mind.
I had one of the resident Libertardians, roman_mir I think, tell me that the problem was the the Cuyahoga River didn't have an owner. If it had an owner the chemical companies couldn't have polluted the river because the owner would have sued them. When I asked what would stop the chemical companies from either buying the river from the owner, or paying them for permission to dump in it, he replied that the owner of the next waterway downstream would sue. That would mean that Lake Erie would need an owner.
I'm eternally amused by their bizarre methodologies for protection of what we today view as The Commons, generally consisting of courts and judges that are somehow incorruptible and unfailingly just, and thundering herds of lawyers.
I suggest you look at flux compression generators. They've been around since the 1950s, fairly low tech and inexpensive to construct, the one that I've seen a plan for was supposed to have a nominal range of half a mile and would fit into a minivan.
Yes. My in-laws in Peru have ATM cards for our accounts, we've even had them buy property for us. Costs an extra $1.50 for the international ATM charge.
And if your house burns down and takes your computer with the wallet? I can cash in fragments of burned bank notes for new ones, but I think that might be a problem with Bitcoins.,
I think it must depend on where you are. When I went to the credit union and did a withdrawal fairly recently she had a drawer full of cash in front of her, and since it was a couple thousand dollars she filled out a form and took what was lacking from the next teller's drawer.
At least you won't have to worry about security, as you step out the door you'll probably be followed by more Federal, state, county and local cops of various flavors than would respond to a presidential assassination attempt. I've always wanted to do something like pay for a new car in cash rather than by check, just to see how many hoops there are and what the law enforcement response would be, but my wife always puts down my more entertaining ideas before I can actually carry them out.
In the 1970s the Soviets designed a simple EMP device that could be built in any machine shop inexpensively, and the plans have been in the wild since the fall of the Soviet Union. It's interesting that it's not used by the terriers, imagine what the effect would be on Wall Street or Las Vegas.
Oracle? Let me guess, you're a fan of SAP as well? In all the dozens of businesses that I have worked with over the last decade and a half only two of them had Oracle installations. Implementing both were multi-year multi-million dollar fiascoes, and both have been phased out and replace with SQL Server and Informix. Very, very few companies have the need for a beast like Oracle, and even fewer have the staff to support it. Claiming that Oracle rules its segment of the business software world because WalMart uses it is rather like claiming that Lamborghini rules the automotive world because the Prince of Monaco drives one.
Microsoft has only two inroads, OS and the office suite.
OK, there you have just defined 90+ percent of all the computers every business (that isn't a data farm) owns. That would still be THE dominant position in the business software world even if your statement were correct (which it isn't). Almost every company of any size uses Active Directory for its LDAP authentication, and Exchange is the world's dominant email server. Oh, and Microsoft's cloud infrastructure is one of the largest in the world and it runs Windows. Although Apache is the largest Internet-facing web server, IIS is the largest internally-deployed web server.
Rare??? What fracking planet do YOU live on? Here on Earth they slice the tops off mountains to get at the coal, dump ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, pour antibiotics by the ton through farm animals and into waterways, suck ancient aquifers dry, create massive dead zones in the ocean with animal waste runoff, etc. ad nauseum. These are **ALL** long-term issues that no corporation will address until some outside body forces them to. The Free Market Fairy isn't going to wave her magic wand and make it suddenly profitable to respect the Commons.
So how would your phantasmagorical free market magic have protected the Cuyahoga River? It didn't seem to be doing a very good job prior to the foundation of the EPA, today kids can swim in the river.
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You've never seen images of a plasma discharge then? The two look nothing alike, and don't even radiate/reflect the same frequencies of light! That's not even "grasping at straws" ridiculous, it's just plain dumb.
You said that much more politely than I was going to do.
Is this more 'electric universe' foldorol? Good grief, I that that foolishness was finally dying out
The FBI and local/state police do criminal investigations. The NSA and CIA do not, and almost without exception refuse to share data with other non-intel agencies, even when those agencies are investigating terrorism.
"Hollyweird isn't really into thought" - FTFY
they're quiet hard working people
Don't know where you've been, but everywhere that I've traveled professional fishermen are loud, obnoxious drunks any time they're onshore. Fun to party with, but quiet? Not hardly!
Or be at a closer range. If you want to fire at something 500 miles away you need to be out of the atmosphere because 1) your target is over the horizon, 2) the energy is dissipated in the atmosphere. Directed energy weapons are worthwhile if you're up close and line of sight, and EMP weapons (not the same thing) work through walls over short distances as long as the attacker keeps the inverse square rule in mind.
I thought the reign in Spain fell mainly on the planes . . .
I had one of the resident Libertardians, roman_mir I think, tell me that the problem was the the Cuyahoga River didn't have an owner. If it had an owner the chemical companies couldn't have polluted the river because the owner would have sued them. When I asked what would stop the chemical companies from either buying the river from the owner, or paying them for permission to dump in it, he replied that the owner of the next waterway downstream would sue. That would mean that Lake Erie would need an owner.
I'm eternally amused by their bizarre methodologies for protection of what we today view as The Commons, generally consisting of courts and judges that are somehow incorruptible and unfailingly just, and thundering herds of lawyers.
I suggest you look at flux compression generators. They've been around since the 1950s, fairly low tech and inexpensive to construct, the one that I've seen a plan for was supposed to have a nominal range of half a mile and would fit into a minivan.
And never let your hard drive crash, or your removable drive go through the washer.
Yes. My in-laws in Peru have ATM cards for our accounts, we've even had them buy property for us. Costs an extra $1.50 for the international ATM charge.
And if your house burns down and takes your computer with the wallet? I can cash in fragments of burned bank notes for new ones, but I think that might be a problem with Bitcoins.,
I think it must depend on where you are. When I went to the credit union and did a withdrawal fairly recently she had a drawer full of cash in front of her, and since it was a couple thousand dollars she filled out a form and took what was lacking from the next teller's drawer.
At least you won't have to worry about security, as you step out the door you'll probably be followed by more Federal, state, county and local cops of various flavors than would respond to a presidential assassination attempt. I've always wanted to do something like pay for a new car in cash rather than by check, just to see how many hoops there are and what the law enforcement response would be, but my wife always puts down my more entertaining ideas before I can actually carry them out.
The sacrificial lamb has been slaughtered, fingers can now be pointed, and now Washington will be happy and work fixing the site can proceed.
In the 1970s the Soviets designed a simple EMP device that could be built in any machine shop inexpensively, and the plans have been in the wild since the fall of the Soviet Union. It's interesting that it's not used by the terriers, imagine what the effect would be on Wall Street or Las Vegas.
My understanding is that while Wozniak is a great techie he hates administration, which is what this job entails.
Just having Ballmer step down should do that, even if he was replaced with a wooden cigar store Indian.
Oracle? Let me guess, you're a fan of SAP as well? In all the dozens of businesses that I have worked with over the last decade and a half only two of them had Oracle installations. Implementing both were multi-year multi-million dollar fiascoes, and both have been phased out and replace with SQL Server and Informix. Very, very few companies have the need for a beast like Oracle, and even fewer have the staff to support it. Claiming that Oracle rules its segment of the business software world because WalMart uses it is rather like claiming that Lamborghini rules the automotive world because the Prince of Monaco drives one.
Microsoft has only two inroads, OS and the office suite.
OK, there you have just defined 90+ percent of all the computers every business (that isn't a data farm) owns. That would still be THE dominant position in the business software world even if your statement were correct (which it isn't). Almost every company of any size uses Active Directory for its LDAP authentication, and Exchange is the world's dominant email server. Oh, and Microsoft's cloud infrastructure is one of the largest in the world and it runs Windows. Although Apache is the largest Internet-facing web server, IIS is the largest internally-deployed web server.
So yeah, you're full of crap.
No Ellison, we don't want you. Go back to your island and fly your Mig around.
You're right. I missed your point.
With American hookers you can't limit their intoxicant choice to just alcohol, so it would be harder to control the study group.
Rare??? What fracking planet do YOU live on? Here on Earth they slice the tops off mountains to get at the coal, dump ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, pour antibiotics by the ton through farm animals and into waterways, suck ancient aquifers dry, create massive dead zones in the ocean with animal waste runoff, etc. ad nauseum. These are **ALL** long-term issues that no corporation will address until some outside body forces them to. The Free Market Fairy isn't going to wave her magic wand and make it suddenly profitable to respect the Commons.
So how would your phantasmagorical free market magic have protected the Cuyahoga River? It didn't seem to be doing a very good job prior to the foundation of the EPA, today kids can swim in the river.