Viewed (justified or not?) as selfish, "we're the best and the good ones" rhetoric (that's why such things are also good, bad people deserve it) with sometimes very little in support of it... but rhetoric which typically requires constant reassurances to oneself, belittling disagreeing voices, wanting everyone to want... what you want.
But the most tragic thing - self-marvel after "winning" (a lot of that could be almost by accident... heck, can you assure me that the US would mostly peacefully dissolve itself, would recognize its bankrupt, like the evil Soviet Union did?) the Cold War, not noticing how the rhetoric from that era loses its power. At the turn of millennium basically everybody still loved you, as far as I can tell. Turns out one can blow it in few short years / we know what happened afterwards.
"Peaceful North Korean research vessel - conducting independent contamination assessments off the coast of Japan in international waters, to determine risk to its population and marine food stocks - savagely attacked by militant imperialists and sunk with all hands on board"
Political / etc. viability isn't the focus of "How could North Korea get light artillery within range of Fukushima?" nor, clearly, of my response (and "retaliatory response" is constrained by causality)
the response from Japan and its Western allies would be to bomb North Korea back into the Mesozoic Era
I would expect something "better" from "the good guys" - say, disrupting enough of core infrastructure, strategic targets for the junta to lose grip on the place and its population.
Oh well...
I've heard they use so called "boteu", "bae", "chuánbó", "chuán" or "fune" in that part of the world... even underwater ones! Generally, those appear to be using, forgotten by our hemisphere, "Archimedes' principle".
Supposedly some of them can even carry artillery or missiles!
This has nothing to do with Neanderthals ("according to wiki... because"?). Just our classification / there were earlier forms - definitely anatomically modern humans, but not quite us. Homo sapiens idaltu would be another subspecies, extinct one.
Strictly speaking, it's inhabited by homo sapiens sapiens, a subspecies... (plus - some areas do appear to have slight genetic admixture of hominid species living there previously)
It's probably a bit the other way around. Tsunamis appear[1] simple, understandable; easy to avoid, to protect against. Radiation OTOH... not only people generally do feel they barely understand it (and they basically know it; and they also externalize it to others "if I can't understand it, can't feel in control..."[2]) - it actually is a "hidden menace"! Stalking people - you can't detect it yourself, can't see the danger. You'd have to listen to few distant "experts" via impersonal means of communication, you would have to do what they tell. Those circumstances don't play nice with few of our cognitive biases...
1. Appearances are enough here.
2. Similar effects with science denialisms or perception of pilots & risks of air disaster; vs. car accident and how we are obviously a competent driver (~80% thinks they are in the top half of driving skills and avoiding risky behavior; "I'm below average" is typically a one-digit percentage answer when asking about any such positive trait... and the best part: those giving it are quite likely to be definitely above the average). How we can feel in control (again, feel - say, a massive & high car which offers powerful change of perception to our primate minds; how such cars don't fare particularly great in mortality rates is irrelevant; how compact cars fare at least as well (and actually give better control on the road) also irrelevant)
Talking as somebody in the general downwind direction of Chernobyl, close enough to be (then) behind the Iron Curtain... the (too late) announcement by the Soviets must have been an interesting gift for one of my earliest birthdays. As was (too late) being stuffed with Lugol's solution.
That doesn't seem to be what they are saying - rather, they "feel confident we will have a strong portfolio of new products during our transition period - i.e. 2011 and 2012"...at the least?
Together with "The truth is, it is very difficult to provide a single answer.... where Symbian is currently the lead smartphone platform with significant market share such as China, India, Russia and Turkey, we will continue to make our Symbian portfolio as competitive as possible while we work with Microsoft to introduce Windows Phone. For that reason certain markets will play a more significant role in selling the 150 million Symbian devices than others and we will be selling devices long after Windows Phone devices from Nokia have already started to appear in other markets.", they seem to leave open a possibility it might take longer.
TFS question (and the resulting thread - just look at the waste of energy & thought, ~700 replies and counting) could almost be a nicely done work of a concern troll of sorts, TBH... particularly with the "less choice is better" thrown in, oblivious to how it works for Apple only as long as their positional goods live among all the rest on the market.
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Not to other gods / engineers / miracle workers (how nicely the last one bridges...)
Maybe the reason some of us are not laughing anymore is because we have a sense of humor.
Sometimes I slightly hope for the joke of such fairly big site without "jokes" on 1IV... maybe one year, maybe I'll live long enough.
Conveniently, a poster with appropriate sig in one of current Hot Comment threads... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2063320&cid=35682626
Not only minority - lesser people everywhere should abstain from making more lesser people!
Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?
The more "fancy" and "fashionable" (as in: aiming for the fashion of the moment) a car is, the quicker it gets old...
traditional American values like free speech and personal responsibility!
...or traditionally popular myths?
because the vast majority of health care costs are consumed in the first 6 and last 6 months of life
How should we factor in huge neglect of preventative care throughout life?
Viewed (justified or not?) as selfish, "we're the best and the good ones" rhetoric (that's why such things are also good, bad people deserve it) with sometimes very little in support of it... but rhetoric which typically requires constant reassurances to oneself, belittling disagreeing voices, wanting everyone to want... what you want.
But the most tragic thing - self-marvel after "winning" (a lot of that could be almost by accident... heck, can you assure me that the US would mostly peacefully dissolve itself, would recognize its bankrupt, like the evil Soviet Union did?) the Cold War, not noticing how the rhetoric from that era loses its power. At the turn of millennium basically everybody still loved you, as far as I can tell. Turns out one can blow it in few short years / we know what happened afterwards.
"Peaceful North Korean research vessel - conducting independent contamination assessments off the coast of Japan in international waters, to determine risk to its population and marine food stocks - savagely attacked by militant imperialists and sunk with all hands on board"
(that, and coastal subs are damn hard to spot)
Political / etc. viability isn't the focus of "How could North Korea get light artillery within range of Fukushima?" nor, clearly, of my response (and "retaliatory response" is constrained by causality)
Now think a bit about how your answer, empathy, works when it comes to experiences of others & ourselves, and how to soothe them.
the response from Japan and its Western allies would be to bomb North Korea back into the Mesozoic Era
I would expect something "better" from "the good guys" - say, disrupting enough of core infrastructure, strategic targets for the junta to lose grip on the place and its population.
Oh well...
One which travels, say, 97% of that distance on some moving platform...
I've heard they use so called "boteu", "bae", "chuánbó", "chuán" or "fune" in that part of the world... even underwater ones! Generally, those appear to be using, forgotten by our hemisphere, "Archimedes' principle".
Supposedly some of them can even carry artillery or missiles!
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. - Lily Tomlin
This has nothing to do with Neanderthals ("according to wiki... because"?). Just our classification / there were earlier forms - definitely anatomically modern humans, but not quite us. Homo sapiens idaltu would be another subspecies, extinct one.
Strictly speaking, it's inhabited by homo sapiens sapiens, a subspecies... (plus - some areas do appear to have slight genetic admixture of hominid species living there previously)
It's probably a bit the other way around. Tsunamis appear[1] simple, understandable; easy to avoid, to protect against. Radiation OTOH... not only people generally do feel they barely understand it (and they basically know it; and they also externalize it to others "if I can't understand it, can't feel in control..."[2]) - it actually is a "hidden menace"! Stalking people - you can't detect it yourself, can't see the danger. You'd have to listen to few distant "experts" via impersonal means of communication, you would have to do what they tell. Those circumstances don't play nice with few of our cognitive biases...
1. Appearances are enough here.
2. Similar effects with science denialisms or perception of pilots & risks of air disaster; vs. car accident and how we are obviously a competent driver (~80% thinks they are in the top half of driving skills and avoiding risky behavior; "I'm below average" is typically a one-digit percentage answer when asking about any such positive trait... and the best part: those giving it are quite likely to be definitely above the average). How we can feel in control (again, feel - say, a massive & high car which offers powerful change of perception to our primate minds; how such cars don't fare particularly great in mortality rates is irrelevant; how compact cars fare at least as well (and actually give better control on the road) also irrelevant)
Talking as somebody in the general downwind direction of Chernobyl, close enough to be (then) behind the Iron Curtain... the (too late) announcement by the Soviets must have been an interesting gift for one of my earliest birthdays. As was (too late) being stuffed with Lugol's solution.
So... sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist party? ;p
Well, it's not like many people have definition of "right" or "left" which doesn't rely on... party affiliation.
That doesn't seem to be what they are saying - rather, they "feel confident we will have a strong portfolio of new products during our transition period - i.e. 2011 and 2012" ...at the least?
... where Symbian is currently the lead smartphone platform with significant market share such as China, India, Russia and Turkey, we will continue to make our Symbian portfolio as competitive as possible while we work with Microsoft to introduce Windows Phone. For that reason certain markets will play a more significant role in selling the 150 million Symbian devices than others and we will be selling devices long after Windows Phone devices from Nokia have already started to appear in other markets.", they seem to leave open a possibility it might take longer.
Together with "The truth is, it is very difficult to provide a single answer.
Japan might be getting used to "accumulate in the top of the food-chain" deal: Japanese schoolchildren fed toxic dolphin meat ... containing dangerous levels of mercury, Dolphin meat causing dangerous mercury levels in Japanese diners - a flawless revenge on the part of dolphins, given their circumstances? (even if only post mortem one)
On the bright side - I, for one, welcome upcoming wave of Kaiju overlords (and maybe even more posters in such style, from my part of the woods)
TFS question (and the resulting thread - just look at the waste of energy & thought, ~700 replies and counting) could almost be a nicely done work of a concern troll of sorts, TBH... particularly with the "less choice is better" thrown in, oblivious to how it works for Apple only as long as their positional goods live among all the rest on the market.