Does he drive a car made in the last 20 years? That undoubtedly has some kind of "computer" in it.
That said, it's amazing how many slashdotters think that playing dumb and ignorant of the contextual or common meaning of a word or phrase makes them appear really smart.
It appears that google's market cap is about $120B. According to the stock screener on Yahoo, there are 32 companies with mrkt caps above $100B, so google is pretty big but not the biggest (ExxonMobil, $390B). If I owned 51% of google, I wouldn't sweat an occasional 12% swing.
I am not saying that the police should stop every photographer (or tourist or whatever) but merely it is not "common sense" that a terrorist is going to look like anything other than an average citizen.
On the other hand, common sense would also be to realize that most people claiming to be amateur photographers really are amateur photographers, and not terrorists.
True. There is probably no solution to protect against the nefarious few without harassing the innocent many.
Police need to use common sense- if people are wearing dark clothing, and hiding in the woods taking long range telephoto lens pics of stuff, then maybe they are suspicious. But my friends who are railfans are at least as non threatening and gee geeky as my tech friends, and when asked by police they always tell them that what they are doing.
Common sense would be to realize that not everyone with ill intent is going to be sneaking around looking suspicious. What better cover story for a terrorist casing a site than claiming to be an amateur photographer?
Oh, I agree that the higher ups from both parties try to be divisive as possible and make themselves seem different from each other. I was speaking more about the everyday type party loyalists who hurl insults at each other on slashdot and myriad sundry newsgroups, discussion boards, etc.
Part of the problem may be that you have gotten older as well and your reflexes just ain't what they used to be. Set a 10 year old up with a 10 button controller and they will probably learn it almost as quick as you learned the 2 button one. At least that's what I tell myself when my 8 years younger brother owns me over and over again at mario kart,etc.
I think you're looking for the word causation here. Correlation doesn't tell you much.
Right on. Why not blame decreasing IQ's on global warming, loss of the rain forest, decreasing number of piratesm (of the arrr! variety), increased computer usage (blasphemy), the rise of the cell phone, or the hundreds of other things that have changed in the last xx years?
If Clinton is literally the antichrist and the example of every possible vice this does not make Bush any better.
Agreed. I always wonder why the right wingers inevtiably try to bring up Clinton in defense of Bush. They paint Clinton to be the worst, immoral, ineffective President of all time and then are satisified to make Bush out to be only slightly better.
They also seem blind to the fact that one can dislike Bush and Clinton! I didn't vote for Clinton and voted for Bush the first time but not the second. While I am currently leery of the Republicans, I don't think I could ever vote for Hillary!
Certainly, that alone is not sufficient to allow a parent to stay home in most cases, but it can be sufficient to provide for a decent private education.
One of the reasons that private schools can be more efficient with their money is because of all the things they don't have to do like accept dumb kids or behavior problems and provide special education services.
It's not surprising that if you have well-behaved kids with parents who care enough to pay going into private schools that you will get well educated kids coming out.
The lack of special education services is a real bonus for the private schools. My wife is a school psychologist and is the third highest pay grade at her school. After her the special ed teachers, occupational therapist, counselor, speech pathologist, and some other specialists all get paid more than the rank and file teachers. None of those specialists is required to be provided by a private school. In fact, home schooled children (maybe even the private schooled) can request the services of the public school specialists if they find it necessary.
While the fairness of someone with normal or no children having to pay for the education of someone else child with autism is debatable, just thought I would point out that private schools aren't inherently better just because they are non-government.
So run the tractors and processing plants on ethanol too! As long as it's net energy output is positive -- which it is -- it'll be fine.
True. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the net energy calculation. As long as it doesn't take more energy to produce ethanol than the ethanol itself produces than it should be carbon neutral. If it was energy negative (not saying it is) then some other renewable energy source would need to be used to maintain that neutrality.
Also, growing corn to produce ethanol is stupid. There are a lot more efficient crops than that, such as sugar cane and hemp.
I'm sure there are and those will have their own energy/carbon/money cost analyses that need to be done as well.
I don't even think huge global programs are the proper response: I think the correct thing is a proper response from everyone on the smallest level possible and the large problems will sort themselves out.
I believe that is wishful thinking. Often the solution on the local level is ineffective or even contributes to the problem on the large scale. For example, a power plant in Indiana that uses a tall stack to reduce local ground level air pollution contributes to acid rain in the Northeast. Here the "global" response, the Clean Air Interstate Rules, will be much more effective than the local solution, i.e. a taller stack.
Basically we will need some combination of migration, new construction, etc. to mitigate the changing environment. I don't think any one of those things is necessarily bad. The problem is, humans typically don't handle change well and will just end up fighting each other.
I think you are underestimating the potential economic and political consequences. Rising sea levels could result in hundreds of New Orleans around the world. Wholesale redistribution of arable land and freshwater would be interesting to say the least. Wholesale reduction of arable land and freshwater could be devastating. Your last sentence is really key.
Why do people in the US seem fixated with Ethanol?
Diesel engines are way less prevalent here (at least among passenger vehicles) compared to in Europe. This is likely due to a number of factors some of which include the high sulfur content in most diesel has led to prohibitions in some states and the perception among much of the public of diesel engines being smelly and noisy. I think VW is the only manufacturer who has sold passenger cars with diesel engines here in the past decade or so, with some old Mercedes diesels still kicking around as well.
Biodiesel does seem to have gained some traction with those that do own diesel cars, but is obviously less attractive to those who don't own a diesel and have few choices in obtaining one. Honestly, even ethanol is little talked about outside of enviro-type circles. Gas-electric hybrids and hydrogen vehicles are all the rage in the mass media here.
But now you are neglecting the fuel that had to be burned to plant, harvest, and process the corn to produce the ethanol. Not to mention that a lot of that "waste carbon" will likely end up finding its way back into the atmosphere via decomposition and some other process. There is also the question of what the effect will be of switching from whatever was already growing on that land to growing corn for ethanol production. It is a very complicated problem to figure out the net effect of ethanol.
Indeed, I think he must have a band of groupies that follow him around modding all his comments insightful. He's totally off the mark with the govt intervention angle, yet he still gets modded +5.
I looked at several different news sources and I didn't see anywhere where it said that the convention center was making the rules, but rather the organizers of the convention, the Enterntainment Software Association, made the new rules. Look like the free market spoke afterall.
I don't see how the qualities of the multiculturists as you've described jives with being leftists. Rich warlords ruling over the poor masses, torture and sham trials, privileged classes... these all sound like qualities of a rightist utopia to me.;)
I don't want to get into a flame war though. No amount of criticism means squat unless you can threaten some type of action to back it up. Military action is only feasable in the most dire situations and against relatively weak countries. Economic punishment only works when it will hurt them more than us. In the case of China, both sides of th aisle are so beholden to their corporate interests that there is not a snowball's chance in hell that we might do something that would hurt trade with China.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a very bad idea?
Aren't some of the Improvised Explosive Devices used in Iraq triggered by calling a cell phone strapped to the bomb?
Blowing up a military convoy as it drives by requires precise timing. Blowing up a subway car full of people does not. An egg timer set to go off two minutes after you get off the train or leave a subway platform would be sufficient to kill quite a few people.
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Snopes confirms that it was a hoax.
If everybody would boycott DRM enabled media and stop pirating it, the distributors would no longer have anyone to blame but themselves.
That said, it's amazing how many slashdotters think that playing dumb and ignorant of the contextual or common meaning of a word or phrase makes them appear really smart.
It appears that google's market cap is about $120B. According to the stock screener on Yahoo, there are 32 companies with mrkt caps above $100B, so google is pretty big but not the biggest (ExxonMobil, $390B). If I owned 51% of google, I wouldn't sweat an occasional 12% swing.
I am not saying that the police should stop every photographer (or tourist or whatever) but merely it is not "common sense" that a terrorist is going to look like anything other than an average citizen.
I RTFA but didn't see any mention of a lawsuit.
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True. There is probably no solution to protect against the nefarious few without harassing the innocent many.
Common sense would be to realize that not everyone with ill intent is going to be sneaking around looking suspicious. What better cover story for a terrorist casing a site than claiming to be an amateur photographer?
Oh, I agree that the higher ups from both parties try to be divisive as possible and make themselves seem different from each other. I was speaking more about the everyday type party loyalists who hurl insults at each other on slashdot and myriad sundry newsgroups, discussion boards, etc.
Part of the problem may be that you have gotten older as well and your reflexes just ain't what they used to be. Set a 10 year old up with a 10 button controller and they will probably learn it almost as quick as you learned the 2 button one. At least that's what I tell myself when my 8 years younger brother owns me over and over again at mario kart,etc.
Right on. Why not blame decreasing IQ's on global warming, loss of the rain forest, decreasing number of piratesm (of the arrr! variety), increased computer usage (blasphemy), the rise of the cell phone, or the hundreds of other things that have changed in the last xx years?
Agreed. I always wonder why the right wingers inevtiably try to bring up Clinton in defense of Bush. They paint Clinton to be the worst, immoral, ineffective President of all time and then are satisified to make Bush out to be only slightly better.
They also seem blind to the fact that one can dislike Bush and Clinton! I didn't vote for Clinton and voted for Bush the first time but not the second. While I am currently leery of the Republicans, I don't think I could ever vote for Hillary!
One of the reasons that private schools can be more efficient with their money is because of all the things they don't have to do like accept dumb kids or behavior problems and provide special education services.
It's not surprising that if you have well-behaved kids with parents who care enough to pay going into private schools that you will get well educated kids coming out.
The lack of special education services is a real bonus for the private schools. My wife is a school psychologist and is the third highest pay grade at her school. After her the special ed teachers, occupational therapist, counselor, speech pathologist, and some other specialists all get paid more than the rank and file teachers. None of those specialists is required to be provided by a private school. In fact, home schooled children (maybe even the private schooled) can request the services of the public school specialists if they find it necessary.
While the fairness of someone with normal or no children having to pay for the education of someone else child with autism is debatable, just thought I would point out that private schools aren't inherently better just because they are non-government.
True. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the net energy calculation. As long as it doesn't take more energy to produce ethanol than the ethanol itself produces than it should be carbon neutral. If it was energy negative (not saying it is) then some other renewable energy source would need to be used to maintain that neutrality.
Also, growing corn to produce ethanol is stupid. There are a lot more efficient crops than that, such as sugar cane and hemp.
I'm sure there are and those will have their own energy/carbon/money cost analyses that need to be done as well.
I believe that is wishful thinking. Often the solution on the local level is ineffective or even contributes to the problem on the large scale. For example, a power plant in Indiana that uses a tall stack to reduce local ground level air pollution contributes to acid rain in the Northeast. Here the "global" response, the Clean Air Interstate Rules, will be much more effective than the local solution, i.e. a taller stack.
Basically we will need some combination of migration, new construction, etc. to mitigate the changing environment. I don't think any one of those things is necessarily bad. The problem is, humans typically don't handle change well and will just end up fighting each other.
I think you are underestimating the potential economic and political consequences. Rising sea levels could result in hundreds of New Orleans around the world. Wholesale redistribution of arable land and freshwater would be interesting to say the least. Wholesale reduction of arable land and freshwater could be devastating. Your last sentence is really key.
Diesel engines are way less prevalent here (at least among passenger vehicles) compared to in Europe. This is likely due to a number of factors some of which include the high sulfur content in most diesel has led to prohibitions in some states and the perception among much of the public of diesel engines being smelly and noisy. I think VW is the only manufacturer who has sold passenger cars with diesel engines here in the past decade or so, with some old Mercedes diesels still kicking around as well.
Biodiesel does seem to have gained some traction with those that do own diesel cars, but is obviously less attractive to those who don't own a diesel and have few choices in obtaining one. Honestly, even ethanol is little talked about outside of enviro-type circles. Gas-electric hybrids and hydrogen vehicles are all the rage in the mass media here.
But now you are neglecting the fuel that had to be burned to plant, harvest, and process the corn to produce the ethanol. Not to mention that a lot of that "waste carbon" will likely end up finding its way back into the atmosphere via decomposition and some other process. There is also the question of what the effect will be of switching from whatever was already growing on that land to growing corn for ethanol production. It is a very complicated problem to figure out the net effect of ethanol.
Indeed, I think he must have a band of groupies that follow him around modding all his comments insightful. He's totally off the mark with the govt intervention angle, yet he still gets modded +5.
I looked at several different news sources and I didn't see anywhere where it said that the convention center was making the rules, but rather the organizers of the convention, the Enterntainment Software Association, made the new rules. Look like the free market spoke afterall.
I don't want to get into a flame war though. No amount of criticism means squat unless you can threaten some type of action to back it up. Military action is only feasable in the most dire situations and against relatively weak countries. Economic punishment only works when it will hurt them more than us. In the case of China, both sides of th aisle are so beholden to their corporate interests that there is not a snowball's chance in hell that we might do something that would hurt trade with China.
Hey, we engineers have to make a living too, you know!
Nay, New Horizons should have been outfitted with weapons to destroy the older probes before they return to wreak destruction.
Aren't some of the Improvised Explosive Devices used in Iraq triggered by calling a cell phone strapped to the bomb?
Blowing up a military convoy as it drives by requires precise timing. Blowing up a subway car full of people does not. An egg timer set to go off two minutes after you get off the train or leave a subway platform would be sufficient to kill quite a few people.