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Ya...they tend to be safer because of all of the other jackasses that drive SUVs. It created its own nasty cycle. Having said that, you can NOT say, across the board that SUVs are safer. SUVs tend to be in more accidents because low performance drivers dumbly believe they are "safer", therefore, they can drive faster and closer; thinking, screw the other drivers...I'll be safe.
SUVs also suffer significantly from roll overs and loss of control at high speed. These types of accidents often cause significant injury, or death, for all involved. I personally believe all SUVs over a specific weight class should require a governer which prevents speeds in excess of 80mph. That sounds crazy, but I can't tell you how many times I see these things with lowperformance drivers tooling along at 90 - 100 mph, while they talk on the phone...and gosh...what a surprise that idiots like them kill themselves or others.
The long of the short, SUVs have become a status symbol for small penis men. The VAST majority (based on 2004 number; 72%) of SUVs never carry more than four people. Of those that 72%, 80%+ of them normally drive around with a single occupant. Likewise, some 80% (again 2004 numbers...probably even worse today) never tow anything or go off road. We would have lower gas prices, lower insurance rates, less polution, and vastly safer roads if it were not for SUVs. The only plus here is that small penis drivers are being removed from the gene pool.
Well...like most things...those which are factally based...there is reality and then there is fact... Sometimes they are the same. Sometimes they are only on the same page. Sometimes reality significantly departs from what people say.
Actually humans are EM generators. We have devices (sorry...don't know the name...and it is easy to detect) which show this all day long. The tricky part..and by far the more important part...are they EM receivers...which may not be so trivial to diagnose...depending on how it may or may not be wired to the brain. It potentially could be processed subconciously by the brain just like most body language is.
Just some food for thought. And yes...I completely agree...which was exactly my point...there need not be a paranormal explanation for any of this...should anything actually exist (doubtful).
So were giant see creatures until proven (and documented) otherwise.;)
My point being...perhaps there really is some scientific validation of what some have called telepathy. People often associate words with cultural meanings...for example, UFO's REALLY do exist. Absolute fact. Period. But people immediately equate that to be ET from space. A UFO is any unidentified, fly object..most any plane will do. In otherwords, don't let your bais automatically associate something that *may* have factual basis for what is often considered superstition. After all...common to much lore and myth is often some tidbit of truth. You may well be right (I actually agree)...but a little scientific study never hurts to validate what we think we know.;) After all, it would be cool if some humans actually had a sixth sense of some type...founded in scientific fact.
Considering many animals use what could be dubbed, "telepathy" (using that word makes me cringe). Many, many animals have sensativity to electromagnetic information from both their environment and other creatures around them. In most species the exact purpose and type of information of this abiity is completely unknown; or at least minimally understood. For example, sharks can sense each other and prey...possilby signal to one anothers. In fact, it's thought the last several feet of a great white shark strikes are performed strictly by this sense as their eyes are rolled back and closed. Initial tests have confirmed that EM generation during this phase can confuse them, causing them to miss. Rays and skates often use this to sense to locate prey hidden just under the sea floor. Some species of eels actually use it for communication (breeding signals, warning...etc... with lots still unknown) Pigeons use it for direction finding like a compass, using visual cues to correct like a VFR pilot with a compass. So it's not far fetched at all to wonder if this mechanism is also available in a select few, higher order animals. If it were available, the exact nature of information conveyed is certainly open for debate.
Those types of issues are normally motherboard specific. In other words, you bought a crappy board...that has nothing to do with AMD. And for the record, based on historic record, you won't have trouble finding crappy SMP boards for Intel chips either. Lastly, depending on the OS and/or the kernel you run, you might have a finger to point there too. Long story short, saying AMD = buggy SMP is a total fabrication, misrepresentation of the facts, or simple ignorance of the facts.
I'm not saying you have SMP issues with your setup. I am saying, it's very, very, very unlikely that it has anything to do with AMD.
I would love to know what retarded mod, moderated my other post as offtopic. Some metamod, please fix what some retarded mod horribly screwed up. Is it really that hard for moderators to use their brain... One can hope that metamods didn't actually mod my post as it would only show how broken metamods have become./. has really gone down hill in quality of moderators and users in general over the last couple of years...shesh...
In what way is this off topic? Where are these retarded mods and how do they keep getting access to a computer!? Shesh! Metamods, please fix what the incompetent mods have rated. My reply is most certainly on topic for this thread of discussion!
Most people don't realize that many moons ago, some CPUs had really odd bit sizes...like 7-bit bytes, 31-bit ints, etc...etc...I forgot the odd reason why this sometimes happened...but those odd beasts really did exist...I'm surprised someone is still running an OS based on these odd balls.
That's not even close to any dictionary definition of "terrorism". Rather, it has names like "mass murder" and "genocide", which are different kinds of evil.
Absoluetely agree. Most people do not use the word, "terrorist", properly...I believe this is on purpose by law enforcement and it's simply translating to the press and the man on the street. Law enforcement is trying to use it whenever possible because it often enables additional power, harsher sentences, and less rights for those they accuse. This is bad for everyone as *everyone* is now considered a terrorist. This will ultimately delute their power when people pull their heads from their asses and realize the police have been very abusive here.
Most definitions of "terrorism" are variants on the original (French) definition: Attacking civilian noncombatants in order to put pressure on their government.
I would say you're 95% there with your definition. I would reword it as: Attacking civilian, noncombatants, in order to create choas and disfunction within society by creating mass fear within the affected population, thereby forcing pressure on the assciated government. In other words, people do bad things that may scare others, but if the INTENT is not squarely aimed at causing political change, it most certainly is NOT terrorism.
Terrorist. Most everyone else you mention are simply nut jobs. The word terrorist is tossed around far, far, far too often often, especially by law enforcement. I believe you're making the same mistake.
Let's be realistic here, which I believe was your intent...there are non-Arab and non-Muslim terrorists in the world. That, no one doubts. Having said that, right now, at this point in time, they are the *most likely* source of terrorist activity. Like so many things, profiling is woefully misunderstood by the press and especially the public at large. Sadly, this often translates poorly to the enforcement officier on the street that has taken it on themselves to do just that.
Think of profiling as a list of check boxes. If you have a lot of check boxes checked, some of which may include nationality, then that person should be further interrogated. Sadly, your average TSA agent or policeman on the street simply use a one check box system, which screws everything up. Profiling is a PROVEN technique...it's the layman's interpretation and common street implementation which is completely screwed up. Profiling, especially by agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA have been extremely successful at catching people. And yes, that profiling often includes race and/or religion. Saying it's ineffective is simply ignorant of the facts and the reality of the situation.
I do agree that untrained people which attempt to implement their own form of self trained profiling is ineffective and often wasteful of law enforcement resources. But let's be clear here and not give the wrong impression. The problem here is one of stupid people doing stupid things...not that profiling is bad or ineffective. Again, to be clear, profiling is an awesome and excellent tool...*if used properly by properly by trained, intelligent people*.
All employers are required by law to provide a reasonably threat free and safe environment! The district was required by law to act.
For anyone to defend that kid without actually knowing what's going on inside his head is terribly irresponsible! First of all...most cops are in no position to determine if something of this nature is crediable or not. Period. So their opinion is wholely without value. Second of all, you can shop around and find someone in mental health that will agree to just about any conclussion you want...so that opinion is wholey discredited too. At the least, only someone terribly ignorant would be willing to take it at face value without know a whole lot more details.
The simple fact is, UNDER THE LAW, his actions constitute a clear, poster-boy definition of a threat! This fact was completely reaffirmed by the courts. So for the police to have said otherwise suggest the police are idiots and don't even know or understand the law. As such, it means jack if the boy intended to act on it or not. To excuse this means EVERYONE is allowed to run around my community, just for the fun of it, to drop off dead animals...threatening pictures and letters...and generally terrorize my community. But wait...someone made a law and agreed that we can not have a society the functions like that. The boy crossed the line and SHOULD be punished....very...very...very harshly to make an example out of him and other recklessly stupid kids that think in this day and age it's funny to terrorize and threaten people! Personally, I think he got off light!
On a side note, in this day and age, for a child and obviously the parents, to think that behavior is accecptible only proves how reckless and out of touch those parents are. That simply conclusion only further re-enforces that courts and the school district did the right thing. Period.
I've read that skeletal issues are only a concern for those that make the trip...not for those that would live there. So I do not believe it to be an issue. If it is, I've never read anything about it before; that is, specific to Mars.
I believe the intent is to have an "Earth-like" environment...mean we can grow crops and breath the air. Because of radiation, I do not believe the intent is to live under the open sky.
It seems you have uniquely redefined the term, "terrforming". Any environment which can be reproduced on earth on a planet wide scale, on another planet, qualifies as terrforming. Do keep in mind, the environments here are earth vary a lot, for human standards. Some of those environments are not terribly nice for humans. As such, I do not believe anyone seriously considers your definition as terraforming. Rather, your definition qualifies as a very narrow subset for what actually qualifies.
I suggest you read any number of a "billion" articles available on the subject. Don't be confused with technological hope and a sure thing. Nonetheless, the answer I gave is the correct one. Long story short, various terraforming plans require anywhere from a century or two to a couple of millennium or two to complete. Many of them are fairly realistic; while some of the plans require some giant leap in technology. Like I said, go read about the subject before you bother to answer again. There's more published on the notion than just about any other facet of futurist space exploration. That, combined with the fact that you're asking here about it, doesn't reflect well on you.
I believe the great hope for Mars is that it may one day be terraformed. As I understand it, of all the planets here, Mars is the best chance of any terraforming pipe dream.
No structure shall contain more than two toilets that use potable water for flushing.
This is a very good law. It's for an island. The explanation provided as to why this is funny is dumb because it ignores the word, "potable" from the text. People ignoring this law should be punished! The explanation assumes that you only ever need two toilets; which is dumb. The logic is, if you have a large number of toilets (more than two in the law's eyes) on an island, you better not be flushing the drinking supply. In stead, use non-potable water which may include tainted wellwater , fresh lake water, river water, salt water, reclaimed water, etc...
I love how some loser loves to troll me....they specifically watch and moderate my posts. Now THAT is a serious fucking loser in life. That's is just oh so funny. I wonder how pethetic you have to be in real life to stalk someone online. Oh well...all you can do is laugh at how worthless they are. Hmmm....wonder if they still breast feed from mommy too... lol...
Not saying this is the case with you, but time and time again, I see "artists" steal software. After all, we know that theft is wrong only if it's a picture...but if it's software, the company, programmers, and/or engineers all deserve it. It's really, really odd how there exists such a warped view of reality. [on soap box] To get a good dose of such moronic thinking, feel free to check out the Plane Shift http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index. php?page=PlaneShift project. In their eyes, the software (90+% of the entire project) is worthless and the art must never be released else it will somehow damage the artist. What a double standard. Feel free to stop by to remind the "artists" that they are double-standard idiots without a clue. And to be clear...this retarded thinking is hardly unique to Plane Shift. [off soap box]
Opps! You are absolutely correct! Sorry, I was thinking of the "treat the body" of alternate medicines. I can't seem to recall the name at this time. Homeopathy is quack based. I'll shut up now and go back under my rock.;)
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Ya...they tend to be safer because of all of the other jackasses that drive SUVs. It created its own nasty cycle. Having said that, you can NOT say, across the board that SUVs are safer. SUVs tend to be in more accidents because low performance drivers dumbly believe they are "safer", therefore, they can drive faster and closer; thinking, screw the other drivers...I'll be safe.
SUVs also suffer significantly from roll overs and loss of control at high speed. These types of accidents often cause significant injury, or death, for all involved. I personally believe all SUVs over a specific weight class should require a governer which prevents speeds in excess of 80mph. That sounds crazy, but I can't tell you how many times I see these things with lowperformance drivers tooling along at 90 - 100 mph, while they talk on the phone...and gosh...what a surprise that idiots like them kill themselves or others.
The long of the short, SUVs have become a status symbol for small penis men. The VAST majority (based on 2004 number; 72%) of SUVs never carry more than four people. Of those that 72%, 80%+ of them normally drive around with a single occupant. Likewise, some 80% (again 2004 numbers...probably even worse today) never tow anything or go off road. We would have lower gas prices, lower insurance rates, less polution, and vastly safer roads if it were not for SUVs. The only plus here is that small penis drivers are being removed from the gene pool.
Well...like most things...those which are factally based...there is reality and then there is fact... Sometimes they are the same. Sometimes they are only on the same page. Sometimes reality significantly departs from what people say.
EM generation which could be trivially detected
Actually humans are EM generators. We have devices (sorry...don't know the name...and it is easy to detect) which show this all day long. The tricky part..and by far the more important part...are they EM receivers...which may not be so trivial to diagnose...depending on how it may or may not be wired to the brain. It potentially could be processed subconciously by the brain just like most body language is.
Just some food for thought. And yes...I completely agree...which was exactly my point...there need not be a paranormal explanation for any of this...should anything actually exist (doubtful).
So were giant see creatures until proven (and documented) otherwise. ;)
;) After all, it would be cool if some humans actually had a sixth sense of some type...founded in scientific fact.
My point being...perhaps there really is some scientific validation of what some have called telepathy. People often associate words with cultural meanings...for example, UFO's REALLY do exist. Absolute fact. Period. But people immediately equate that to be ET from space. A UFO is any unidentified, fly object..most any plane will do. In otherwords, don't let your bais automatically associate something that *may* have factual basis for what is often considered superstition. After all...common to much lore and myth is often some tidbit of truth. You may well be right (I actually agree)...but a little scientific study never hurts to validate what we think we know.
Considering many animals use what could be dubbed, "telepathy" (using that word makes me cringe). Many, many animals have sensativity to electromagnetic information from both their environment and other creatures around them. In most species the exact purpose and type of information of this abiity is completely unknown; or at least minimally understood. For example, sharks can sense each other and prey...possilby signal to one anothers. In fact, it's thought the last several feet of a great white shark strikes are performed strictly by this sense as their eyes are rolled back and closed. Initial tests have confirmed that EM generation during this phase can confuse them, causing them to miss. Rays and skates often use this to sense to locate prey hidden just under the sea floor. Some species of eels actually use it for communication (breeding signals, warning...etc... with lots still unknown) Pigeons use it for direction finding like a compass, using visual cues to correct like a VFR pilot with a compass. So it's not far fetched at all to wonder if this mechanism is also available in a select few, higher order animals. If it were available, the exact nature of information conveyed is certainly open for debate.
Those types of issues are normally motherboard specific. In other words, you bought a crappy board...that has nothing to do with AMD. And for the record, based on historic record, you won't have trouble finding crappy SMP boards for Intel chips either. Lastly, depending on the OS and/or the kernel you run, you might have a finger to point there too. Long story short, saying AMD = buggy SMP is a total fabrication, misrepresentation of the facts, or simple ignorance of the facts.
I'm not saying you have SMP issues with your setup. I am saying, it's very, very, very unlikely that it has anything to do with AMD.
This is not really to you...
/. has really gone down hill in quality of moderators and users in general over the last couple of years...shesh...
I would love to know what retarded mod, moderated my other post as offtopic. Some metamod, please fix what some retarded mod horribly screwed up. Is it really that hard for moderators to use their brain... One can hope that metamods didn't actually mod my post as it would only show how broken metamods have become.
In what way is this off topic? Where are these retarded mods and how do they keep getting access to a computer!? Shesh! Metamods, please fix what the incompetent mods have rated. My reply is most certainly on topic for this thread of discussion!
Most people don't realize that many moons ago, some CPUs had really odd bit sizes...like 7-bit bytes, 31-bit ints, etc...etc...I forgot the odd reason why this sometimes happened...but those odd beasts really did exist...I'm surprised someone is still running an OS based on these odd balls.
That's not even close to any dictionary definition of "terrorism". Rather, it has names like "mass murder" and "genocide", which are different kinds of evil.
Absoluetely agree. Most people do not use the word, "terrorist", properly...I believe this is on purpose by law enforcement and it's simply translating to the press and the man on the street. Law enforcement is trying to use it whenever possible because it often enables additional power, harsher sentences, and less rights for those they accuse. This is bad for everyone as *everyone* is now considered a terrorist. This will ultimately delute their power when people pull their heads from their asses and realize the police have been very abusive here.
Most definitions of "terrorism" are variants on the original (French) definition: Attacking civilian noncombatants in order to put pressure on their government.
I would say you're 95% there with your definition. I would reword it as: Attacking civilian, noncombatants, in order to create choas and disfunction within society by creating mass fear within the affected population, thereby forcing pressure on the assciated government. In other words, people do bad things that may scare others, but if the INTENT is not squarely aimed at causing political change, it most certainly is NOT terrorism.
What about Eric Robert Rudolph
Terrorist. Most everyone else you mention are simply nut jobs. The word terrorist is tossed around far, far, far too often often, especially by law enforcement. I believe you're making the same mistake.
Let's be realistic here, which I believe was your intent...there are non-Arab and non-Muslim terrorists in the world. That, no one doubts. Having said that, right now, at this point in time, they are the *most likely* source of terrorist activity. Like so many things, profiling is woefully misunderstood by the press and especially the public at large. Sadly, this often translates poorly to the enforcement officier on the street that has taken it on themselves to do just that.
Think of profiling as a list of check boxes. If you have a lot of check boxes checked, some of which may include nationality, then that person should be further interrogated. Sadly, your average TSA agent or policeman on the street simply use a one check box system, which screws everything up. Profiling is a PROVEN technique...it's the layman's interpretation and common street implementation which is completely screwed up. Profiling, especially by agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA have been extremely successful at catching people. And yes, that profiling often includes race and/or religion. Saying it's ineffective is simply ignorant of the facts and the reality of the situation.
I do agree that untrained people which attempt to implement their own form of self trained profiling is ineffective and often wasteful of law enforcement resources. But let's be clear here and not give the wrong impression. The problem here is one of stupid people doing stupid things...not that profiling is bad or ineffective. Again, to be clear, profiling is an awesome and excellent tool...*if used properly by properly by trained, intelligent people*.
All employers are required by law to provide a reasonably threat free and safe environment! The district was required by law to act.
For anyone to defend that kid without actually knowing what's going on inside his head is terribly irresponsible! First of all...most cops are in no position to determine if something of this nature is crediable or not. Period. So their opinion is wholely without value. Second of all, you can shop around and find someone in mental health that will agree to just about any conclussion you want...so that opinion is wholey discredited too. At the least, only someone terribly ignorant would be willing to take it at face value without know a whole lot more details.
The simple fact is, UNDER THE LAW, his actions constitute a clear, poster-boy definition of a threat! This fact was completely reaffirmed by the courts. So for the police to have said otherwise suggest the police are idiots and don't even know or understand the law. As such, it means jack if the boy intended to act on it or not. To excuse this means EVERYONE is allowed to run around my community, just for the fun of it, to drop off dead animals...threatening pictures and letters...and generally terrorize my community. But wait...someone made a law and agreed that we can not have a society the functions like that. The boy crossed the line and SHOULD be punished....very...very...very harshly to make an example out of him and other recklessly stupid kids that think in this day and age it's funny to terrorize and threaten people! Personally, I think he got off light!
On a side note, in this day and age, for a child and obviously the parents, to think that behavior is accecptible only proves how reckless and out of touch those parents are. That simply conclusion only further re-enforces that courts and the school district did the right thing. Period.
Are you really this fucking dumb? If I were a betting man, I'd bet you are a smoker!
I've read that skeletal issues are only a concern for those that make the trip...not for those that would live there. So I do not believe it to be an issue. If it is, I've never read anything about it before; that is, specific to Mars.
I believe the intent is to have an "Earth-like" environment...mean we can grow crops and breath the air. Because of radiation, I do not believe the intent is to live under the open sky.
It seems you have uniquely redefined the term, "terrforming". Any environment which can be reproduced on earth on a planet wide scale, on another planet, qualifies as terrforming. Do keep in mind, the environments here are earth vary a lot, for human standards. Some of those environments are not terribly nice for humans. As such, I do not believe anyone seriously considers your definition as terraforming. Rather, your definition qualifies as a very narrow subset for what actually qualifies.
BTW, your comment about gravity is the first I've ever heard is even worth consideration. What does it matter? No return trip for Marslings to Earth?
I assume you mean live in the open air as care free as we do on Earth versus simply living there in some type of habitat?
I suggest you read any number of a "billion" articles available on the subject. Don't be confused with technological hope and a sure thing. Nonetheless, the answer I gave is the correct one. Long story short, various terraforming plans require anywhere from a century or two to a couple of millennium or two to complete. Many of them are fairly realistic; while some of the plans require some giant leap in technology. Like I said, go read about the subject before you bother to answer again. There's more published on the notion than just about any other facet of futurist space exploration. That, combined with the fact that you're asking here about it, doesn't reflect well on you.
I believe the great hope for Mars is that it may one day be terraformed. As I understand it, of all the planets here, Mars is the best chance of any terraforming pipe dream.
I learned of lies
Except truthfulness is a learned behavior...lying comes natural... Only in science fiction is it the other way around.
Rotorwing craft have huge friggen radar signatures which is contrary to the entire notion here.
No structure shall contain more than two toilets that use potable water for flushing.
This is a very good law. It's for an island. The explanation provided as to why this is funny is dumb because it ignores the word, "potable" from the text. People ignoring this law should be punished! The explanation assumes that you only ever need two toilets; which is dumb. The logic is, if you have a large number of toilets (more than two in the law's eyes) on an island, you better not be flushing the drinking supply. In stead, use non-potable water which may include tainted wellwater , fresh lake water, river water, salt water, reclaimed water, etc...
I love how some loser loves to troll me....they specifically watch and moderate my posts. Now THAT is a serious fucking loser in life. That's is just oh so funny. I wonder how pethetic you have to be in real life to stalk someone online. Oh well...all you can do is laugh at how worthless they are. Hmmm....wonder if they still breast feed from mommy too... lol...
Not saying this is the case with you, but time and time again, I see "artists" steal software. After all, we know that theft is wrong only if it's a picture...but if it's software, the company, programmers, and/or engineers all deserve it. It's really, really odd how there exists such a warped view of reality.. php?page=PlaneShift project. In their eyes, the software (90+% of the entire project) is worthless and the art must never be released else it will somehow damage the artist. What a double standard. Feel free to stop by to remind the "artists" that they are double-standard idiots without a clue. And to be clear...this retarded thinking is hardly unique to Plane Shift.
[on soap box]
To get a good dose of such moronic thinking, feel free to check out the Plane Shift http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index
[off soap box]
That's it! Thanks!
Opps! You are absolutely correct! Sorry, I was thinking of the "treat the body" of alternate medicines. I can't seem to recall the name at this time. Homeopathy is quack based. I'll shut up now and go back under my rock. ;)