This passage is NOT referring to maximum human lifespan. It is a statement that is said exactly 120 years before the great flood. People always take it out of context, then point at the guy that lived for 120 years and 200 some days and go aha! Fun fact: according to the chronology given in Genesis Chapter 4 Methuselah (Noah's grandpa, oldest guy in the bible) died the year of the flood.
The one verse vaguely referencing lifespan is Psalm 90:10 "The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." (NIV) and it's not a hard limit as much as a general guide. And to be honest, even today after 80 years your warranty is pretty well expired. I bet you can't find very many people over 80 who are not being treated for *some* condition or another, the vast majority of which would be lethal without treatment.
5-10 million. At least, as people value their own lives based on willingness to accept risk and such.
Dollars earned in a working lifetime from 1-4 million depending on level of education primarily. You would have to pro-rate it based on age, that's for ~40 years working at an average salary.
The problem with the world today is that most high profile business people, CEO's and the like all show symptoms of being a sociopath. Our society is setup to reward sociopath's who are intelligent.
I would add: and don't hurt others too much. Although the level of hurt that society is willing to put up with is directly proportional to how much money the sociopath in question is able to raise.
As for Korea and Vietnam? Did you miss the bit where the US was getting so worked up about the "godless commies" that they changed their national motto to "in god we trust".
As far as that goes, the U.S. made it long-term strategy to hedge in and put a stop to Russian hegemony. At the time the USSR was the one entity with a viable shot at challenging U.S. power and world-wide interests. Korea and Vietnam (and later Afghanistan in the 1980's) were essentially power plays aimed at stopping the expansion of Russia. Sure, some rhetoric will invoke religion and such, but it's aimed at whipping up the masses to support the strategy, not the reason for the strategy in the first place.
Throughout history, religion has much more been an enabler of national strategy than a cause of it. See also: nationalism, patriotism, propaganda, and fear-mongering.
The Soviet-Afghan war was actually a civil war between socialist secularists and moderate-to-radical Islamists, with the first faction backed by USSR, and the second backed by Pakistan and USA.
No. The Soviet-Afghan war was actually a U.S.-Soviet proxy war. The Soviets were trying to extend their influence and power into Afghanistan and the U.S. was trying to stop that from happening. The reasoning is incidental, it was going to happen one way or another regardless.
The second war was against Taliban - 'nuff said.
Except that Afghanistan wasn't itself directly responsible for 9/11 - they were responsible for not handing over Bin Laden when we asked them for which they got roflfacestomped by a group of countries that didn't want to be on the U.S.'s bad side. That war was triggered by a religious zealot, but it was fought because the U.S. had some righteous anger to burn and the Taliban made the dire mistake of painting a target on themselves.
Kosovo?
Definitely religious. Serbs are Orthodox Christian, Albanians are mostly Muslim. Kosovo itself is called "Kosovo and Metohija" in Serbian, and "Metohija" literally means "monastery lands" - because that was the historical seat of the Church in Serbia, and it's where most of its monasteries were. Then it also has Kosovo Polje, the place of the historical battle where (Christian) Serbian forces were defeated by the invading (Muslim) Ottoman army, after which Serbia was annexed into Ottoman Empire.
The Balkans have been in a constant state of flux since at least the 16th century. You can blame the fact that it's a good overland route between the east and the west as to why it's been conquered and overrun so many times over the years. The consequence of which is there's numerous cultures over there that have centuries-long blood feuds that need very little motivation for fighting. It's not essentially religious in nature, the culture is vastly more influential.
It's not logarithmic, it's sqrt(). For a given number of bits (n) adding 1 extra bit requires n additional entanglements. Thus for n-qubits you must have n(n-1)/2 = (n^2 - n) / 2 entanglements. Doubling that increases the difficulty quadratically instead of linearly, but it's not the exponential growth in difficulty that you're implying.
More to the point, you could extrapolate roughly how many lives are saved by the TSA each year - lets be generous and say one plane and 300 passengers. Now, assign a value of approximately $10 million per life (approximate value that an individual, on average, places on their own life) + $300 million for the plane and factor in a 100% overage for government waste and you're looking at right around $6.6 billion / year as the reasonable cost of transportation security. Given that their annual budget is $6.3 billion, I'd have to rather disturbingly say that we're close to the mark.
That said, the money could be better spent on actual preventatives, and the numbers definitely change if you want to amortize it out and say that it's more likely that there's going to be one event per 5 years on average (drops the number to $1.3 billion / year). I think they're definitely overfunded and way too full of themselves, but something is necessary, perhaps just trimmed down.
It's just not the same since you can't actually get Majel Barrett to do the voice. Having my phone sound exactly like the computer from Star Trek would've been just too awesome.
They technically had the option of reporting it, but if you do report it you may well end up dead. It's like how wife-beating goes under-reported even in the U.S. Oppression of women is historically under-reported so the French government felt the need to step in and stop at least that form of it.
The Salton Sea alternately existed and didn't for thousands of years before man got in there and made it a permanent thing. And the actions of Americans in the southwest were primarily directed at stopping the Colorado River from flooding the Imperial Valley every few years. The permanent establishment of the Salton Sea was merely a side effect of the push to enable irrigation and cultivation of the land in the Imperial Valley.
I wish I had mod-points. That's funny but it's also brilliantly insightful (well, once I read it in context, GP was hidden at first which made it...odd).
Actually women have two X chromosomes and men have one X and one Y chromosome, leading to fundamental differences in body makeup between the sexes and different hormones running around their respective bodies. This can, and often does influence brain chemistry and can skew statistics towards a gender bias.
That said, this says nothing about capability or capacity, and certainly there are still far too many instances of unjust gender discrimination which must be stopped. But to say that our gender has no effect on us whatsoever is utterly disingenuous.
No, it will often default to void type for main if unspecified, and so will not expect a return value. void main(void) was a VERY common start to programs in my early days with C/C++ (as mentioned before though, this depends on how lax or strict the compiler is). He would also need to #include or it won't know what printf means.
Ye gods. If it's more than one line you have a problem. More to the point if they actually use a function to do this you have a problem. If they don't know to avoid a MOD in the code you have another problem (unless they can explain to you how the optimizer will fix it anyway and it's just more readable as a MOD operation).
Well, theoretically a sovereign nation could make such a declaration and purge their country of scum like that, but there's still international considerations to be made. The wholesale slaughter of anyone connected with the music industry would probably be considered an act of war by the countries of whom they are citizens, and would at the very least invoke sanctions against a country pulling such a stunt.
Of all the countries in the world right now I am of the opinion that only North Korea and Iran are batshit crazy enough to maybe possibly do such a thing, and already hard hit enough by sanctions that more won't matter. Iran perhaps even more so because at the moment they're looking for anything they can do to piss off the United States.
Ultimately though, there's even more fun things you can do to a corporation like revoking their right to operate in your country. Corporations are simply legal fictitious persons created by the state in the first place so if they lose their recognition they lose any legal standing to act as a single entity at all.
I'll put it another way. You could teach someone to read, pronounce words and sounding them out. If you stopped there and didn't get into grammar, sentence structure, parts of speech, paragraphs, and writing essays then you would be doing your children a great disservice.
It's similar with computers. You don't have to teach the kids how to write a modern multi-tasking operating system any more than you have to teach them how to write novels, but if you at least understand the mechanics of programming computers you have a solid workable foundation. Fundamental programming should be considered just as important as fundamental natural language writing skills. Nothing more than a first semester programming course: loops, branches, and basic I/O. That's it, but that's enough. Anything beyond is rather vocational, but it at least gives you an understanding of the logic of computers.
Signed, not encrypted. It's designed to protect data integrity, not confidentiality. It stops spoofing attacks basically, so that a rogue group can't redirect traffic intended for bofa.com, for example, to their own servers to do whatever evil with.
Why in CS is there a BIG GAP from what you learn in college and the real job? tech schools have alot more real job skills.
Colleges are not there to teach you specific job skills. The greatest value of a college education is teaching you how to think about a given problem set. Once you actually have the skills to properly approach a problem, it's the same basic technique whether it's in Java, C++, C, Fortran, Cobol,.NET, Basic, C# or whatever other flavor of the month comes along.
Half the glass out there has strange effects through polarized lenses. Automotive glass (especially small car rear windows for some reason) looks like a dot-grid, the windows outside my workplace turn into rainbows, and even the sunlight reflecting off of the road gets brighter or dimmer depending on how I tilt my head with my sunglasses on.
The first week that I wore polarized sunglasses was very interesting.
I have a 3DS and so far the Nintendo titles at least are awesome on it. Zelda Ocarina of Time, Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 are all strongly improved with the 3D look. Especially Mario Kart. Navigation makes more sense and feels closer to actually driving a go-kart when there's depth involved. Though I'm sure that, just like the movies, it's very VERY easy to screw up and induce nausea. So far Nintendo seems to "get it" and does their games right.
Well, more to the point 720p non-interlaced vs. 480p interlaced was a substantial difference. Old 480p interlaced made it blurry and annoying (and effectively like have 240 vertical scan lines). So, yeah, 3x resolution and sharper images was huge. Added bonus: TV's become thinner and vastly lighter. A modern 55" LED flat screen weighs less than a 27" CRT box.
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This passage is NOT referring to maximum human lifespan. It is a statement that is said exactly 120 years before the great flood. People always take it out of context, then point at the guy that lived for 120 years and 200 some days and go aha! Fun fact: according to the chronology given in Genesis Chapter 4 Methuselah (Noah's grandpa, oldest guy in the bible) died the year of the flood.
The one verse vaguely referencing lifespan is Psalm 90:10 "The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." (NIV) and it's not a hard limit as much as a general guide. And to be honest, even today after 80 years your warranty is pretty well expired. I bet you can't find very many people over 80 who are not being treated for *some* condition or another, the vast majority of which would be lethal without treatment.
5-10 million. At least, as people value their own lives based on willingness to accept risk and such.
Dollars earned in a working lifetime from 1-4 million depending on level of education primarily. You would have to pro-rate it based on age, that's for ~40 years working at an average salary.
The problem with the world today is that most high profile business people, CEO's and the like all show symptoms of being a sociopath. Our society is setup to reward sociopath's who are intelligent.
I would add: and don't hurt others too much. Although the level of hurt that society is willing to put up with is directly proportional to how much money the sociopath in question is able to raise.
Hmm. A new market for the fabulously rich: custom bone tattoos!
You need to increase the pressure every time you get concessions and scream about racism everyone someone attempts to tie violence to your ideology.
*cough* Palestine *cough*
As for Korea and Vietnam? Did you miss the bit where the US was getting so worked up about the "godless commies" that they changed their national motto to "in god we trust".
As far as that goes, the U.S. made it long-term strategy to hedge in and put a stop to Russian hegemony. At the time the USSR was the one entity with a viable shot at challenging U.S. power and world-wide interests. Korea and Vietnam (and later Afghanistan in the 1980's) were essentially power plays aimed at stopping the expansion of Russia. Sure, some rhetoric will invoke religion and such, but it's aimed at whipping up the masses to support the strategy, not the reason for the strategy in the first place.
Throughout history, religion has much more been an enabler of national strategy than a cause of it. See also: nationalism, patriotism, propaganda, and fear-mongering.
The Soviet-Afghan war was actually a civil war between socialist secularists and moderate-to-radical Islamists, with the first faction backed by USSR, and the second backed by Pakistan and USA.
No. The Soviet-Afghan war was actually a U.S.-Soviet proxy war. The Soviets were trying to extend their influence and power into Afghanistan and the U.S. was trying to stop that from happening. The reasoning is incidental, it was going to happen one way or another regardless.
The second war was against Taliban - 'nuff said.
Except that Afghanistan wasn't itself directly responsible for 9/11 - they were responsible for not handing over Bin Laden when we asked them for which they got roflfacestomped by a group of countries that didn't want to be on the U.S.'s bad side. That war was triggered by a religious zealot, but it was fought because the U.S. had some righteous anger to burn and the Taliban made the dire mistake of painting a target on themselves.
Kosovo?
Definitely religious. Serbs are Orthodox Christian, Albanians are mostly Muslim. Kosovo itself is called "Kosovo and Metohija" in Serbian, and "Metohija" literally means "monastery lands" - because that was the historical seat of the Church in Serbia, and it's where most of its monasteries were. Then it also has Kosovo Polje, the place of the historical battle where (Christian) Serbian forces were defeated by the invading (Muslim) Ottoman army, after which Serbia was annexed into Ottoman Empire.
The Balkans have been in a constant state of flux since at least the 16th century. You can blame the fact that it's a good overland route between the east and the west as to why it's been conquered and overrun so many times over the years. The consequence of which is there's numerous cultures over there that have centuries-long blood feuds that need very little motivation for fighting. It's not essentially religious in nature, the culture is vastly more influential.
It's not logarithmic, it's sqrt(). For a given number of bits (n) adding 1 extra bit requires n additional entanglements. Thus for n-qubits you must have n(n-1)/2 = (n^2 - n) / 2 entanglements. Doubling that increases the difficulty quadratically instead of linearly, but it's not the exponential growth in difficulty that you're implying.
Just put wire mesh under the stucco and you're 9/10 the way there.
More to the point, you could extrapolate roughly how many lives are saved by the TSA each year - lets be generous and say one plane and 300 passengers. Now, assign a value of approximately $10 million per life (approximate value that an individual, on average, places on their own life) + $300 million for the plane and factor in a 100% overage for government waste and you're looking at right around $6.6 billion / year as the reasonable cost of transportation security. Given that their annual budget is $6.3 billion, I'd have to rather disturbingly say that we're close to the mark.
That said, the money could be better spent on actual preventatives, and the numbers definitely change if you want to amortize it out and say that it's more likely that there's going to be one event per 5 years on average (drops the number to $1.3 billion / year). I think they're definitely overfunded and way too full of themselves, but something is necessary, perhaps just trimmed down.
It's just not the same since you can't actually get Majel Barrett to do the voice. Having my phone sound exactly like the computer from Star Trek would've been just too awesome.
They technically had the option of reporting it, but if you do report it you may well end up dead. It's like how wife-beating goes under-reported even in the U.S. Oppression of women is historically under-reported so the French government felt the need to step in and stop at least that form of it.
The Salton Sea alternately existed and didn't for thousands of years before man got in there and made it a permanent thing. And the actions of Americans in the southwest were primarily directed at stopping the Colorado River from flooding the Imperial Valley every few years. The permanent establishment of the Salton Sea was merely a side effect of the push to enable irrigation and cultivation of the land in the Imperial Valley.
I wish I had mod-points. That's funny but it's also brilliantly insightful (well, once I read it in context, GP was hidden at first which made it...odd).
Actually women have two X chromosomes and men have one X and one Y chromosome, leading to fundamental differences in body makeup between the sexes and different hormones running around their respective bodies. This can, and often does influence brain chemistry and can skew statistics towards a gender bias.
That said, this says nothing about capability or capacity, and certainly there are still far too many instances of unjust gender discrimination which must be stopped. But to say that our gender has no effect on us whatsoever is utterly disingenuous.
No, it will often default to void type for main if unspecified, and so will not expect a return value. void main(void) was a VERY common start to programs in my early days with C/C++ (as mentioned before though, this depends on how lax or strict the compiler is). He would also need to #include or it won't know what printf means.
Ye gods. If it's more than one line you have a problem. More to the point if they actually use a function to do this you have a problem. If they don't know to avoid a MOD in the code you have another problem (unless they can explain to you how the optimizer will fix it anyway and it's just more readable as a MOD operation).
#define IsOdd(num) ((num)&1)
Well, theoretically a sovereign nation could make such a declaration and purge their country of scum like that, but there's still international considerations to be made. The wholesale slaughter of anyone connected with the music industry would probably be considered an act of war by the countries of whom they are citizens, and would at the very least invoke sanctions against a country pulling such a stunt.
Of all the countries in the world right now I am of the opinion that only North Korea and Iran are batshit crazy enough to maybe possibly do such a thing, and already hard hit enough by sanctions that more won't matter. Iran perhaps even more so because at the moment they're looking for anything they can do to piss off the United States.
Ultimately though, there's even more fun things you can do to a corporation like revoking their right to operate in your country. Corporations are simply legal fictitious persons created by the state in the first place so if they lose their recognition they lose any legal standing to act as a single entity at all.
More to the point, they are the law. It would be like asking a bank robber to please shoot themselves because you'll be late for work if they don't.
I'll put it another way. You could teach someone to read, pronounce words and sounding them out. If you stopped there and didn't get into grammar, sentence structure, parts of speech, paragraphs, and writing essays then you would be doing your children a great disservice.
It's similar with computers. You don't have to teach the kids how to write a modern multi-tasking operating system any more than you have to teach them how to write novels, but if you at least understand the mechanics of programming computers you have a solid workable foundation. Fundamental programming should be considered just as important as fundamental natural language writing skills. Nothing more than a first semester programming course: loops, branches, and basic I/O. That's it, but that's enough. Anything beyond is rather vocational, but it at least gives you an understanding of the logic of computers.
Signed, not encrypted. It's designed to protect data integrity, not confidentiality. It stops spoofing attacks basically, so that a rogue group can't redirect traffic intended for bofa.com, for example, to their own servers to do whatever evil with.
Why in CS is there a BIG GAP from what you learn in college and the real job? tech schools have alot more real job skills.
Colleges are not there to teach you specific job skills. The greatest value of a college education is teaching you how to think about a given problem set. Once you actually have the skills to properly approach a problem, it's the same basic technique whether it's in Java, C++, C, Fortran, Cobol, .NET, Basic, C# or whatever other flavor of the month comes along.
Half the glass out there has strange effects through polarized lenses. Automotive glass (especially small car rear windows for some reason) looks like a dot-grid, the windows outside my workplace turn into rainbows, and even the sunlight reflecting off of the road gets brighter or dimmer depending on how I tilt my head with my sunglasses on.
The first week that I wore polarized sunglasses was very interesting.
I have a 3DS and so far the Nintendo titles at least are awesome on it. Zelda Ocarina of Time, Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 are all strongly improved with the 3D look. Especially Mario Kart. Navigation makes more sense and feels closer to actually driving a go-kart when there's depth involved. Though I'm sure that, just like the movies, it's very VERY easy to screw up and induce nausea. So far Nintendo seems to "get it" and does their games right.
Well, more to the point 720p non-interlaced vs. 480p interlaced was a substantial difference. Old 480p interlaced made it blurry and annoying (and effectively like have 240 vertical scan lines). So, yeah, 3x resolution and sharper images was huge. Added bonus: TV's become thinner and vastly lighter. A modern 55" LED flat screen weighs less than a 27" CRT box.