So true. If Hitler did not invade the Soviet Union, he would have won the war. 7 out of 8 German soldiers that died in WWII died in the campaign against the Soviets. Britan was not invaded just because Hitler wanted to take our Russia.
Oh, and the Soviets had 50% of ALL the causulties in the war. Something like 20-25+ million Russians people died fighting Nazis. By the time US got involved, the war already turned against Hilter in Russia, it was just a mater of time.
It might be interresting to think how would the Russians do if Stalin was not in control of Russia, but Trotzky was (as Lenin wanted in his wil - Lenin said that Stalin was too brutal and paranoid to govern)
PS. Japan would still be defeated. As soon as they attached the US, the game was over for them. They did not have the natural or economic resources to beat the US.
You are lucky. I connected on *dial-up* with Windows to just DL one form from a gov't website and got infected in under 10 seconds. Before I could actually type the URL into Mozilla, the box was already infected.
If I ran my household finances the way the gov't. currently handles its finances, my ass would be out cold on the street.
Anyway, defecit -> debt -> devaluation of currency -> inflation -> redistribution of wealth. You see, it is the poor that will loose it all in inflation times. Why? Because the "rich" will move their money to Euros or gold and thus bypass the inflation. Hence they emerge richer in comparison to the poor living from paycheck-to-paycheck.
People don't give a damn about the deficit. They buy sound bites "strong dolar", "tax cuts", "strong economy", "strong military", "arrogant french", "liberate iraq", "terrorists will get you" and the rest of the bull shit. People have no idea what these issues mean. They just care that the slogans sound good.
Most people don't know what "the market" means as long as it has a word "free" in it, then it must be good. It kind of reminds me of what people thought of Nuclear Magnetic Resonanace. Simply put it, people freaked out about "nuclear" without understand what actually happens. So, NMR was renamed to Magnetic Resonance Imaging and people are happy, still ignorant, but happy.
You see, you don't understand why national budgets are run the way they are because you don't have a clue about the backdoor deals, "scams" (borderline legal, hence quotation marks) and "favours' that are done. Why? Because it is not *their* house. They are only there for a few years and end up "on the street" regardless. In the time that they run the house, they will do whatever they have to to forward *their*, not *our*, best interrests. If all politians wanted to forward *our* best interrests, there would be no wars. Heck, there would be no need for national military and the $450 billion dolar waste that goes into it because it has nothing to do with *our* interrests.
But this is not the fault of politians. This is the fault of our entire society(ies). It is always "us vs. them" or some other bullshit. People need to realize that there is no "them". It is only "us" on *our* little blue planet. </rant
1.Home/retail licensing I'll bet that #1 is insignificant. Maybe even disposable, given all the trouble -- cost/benefit analysis here.
What, are you on crack or something? I wouldn't be suprised if *most* of the revenue they get is from the home market. Every computer people buy comes with Windows for the Home market. Without this consumer base MS would NOT exist.
In Minnesota, "reasonabley bundled up" on a balmy "5 degree C" day means that you are ready to throw on a t-shirt and go for a jog!
You know, your north is not as far north as our (Canada's) south. The same thing applies to temperatures. Up here, we get closer to 5F right now (normal high). Heck, our geese go to Minnesota to "winter over"!/me ducks
I just did a quick test on my mail server (~2500 users) to bounce only the spam that our filtering system identifies as 90% probability or higher. That's about 45-50% of the spam we get. Here are the results
No no no. DO NOT bounce mail that doesn't pass though spam filter after you accepted it for delivery. You are only spamming someone else.
What you need to do is to reject the email BEFORE you accept it in the queue. That is, after DATA is complete, scan the email and if it fails the test, then reject it at the MTA level. If you accept the email in MTA (ie. after DATA is complete), then DO NOT bounce it because the headers do not have the real FROM: anyway (in case of spam)
Also, if you are bouncing mail after DATA, then your servers will try connecting to some other MTA raising your load. Bad idea.
Since 9/11 how many people died from terrorist attacks?
In US? Probably 5 or so thanks to the Anthrax thingy (and a lot of people didn't even want their mailman on their property, not to mention their mail!)
And how many died from car accident?
Probably about 150,000. Historical sources are here and here. Oh, and there were about 10,000,000 people injured in crashes since 9/11...
Yes it does. That's virtually the only way to take out wild fires. You burn away the fuel, and the fire dies.
Trying to put out a wild fire with water is like using your piss to fight your house fire. Not very effective.
The analogy works. Spammers will cease to exist if they cannot be profitable. If ISPs take down spam sites *fast*, then no problem. But if they don't give a damn, then they should be DDoS'd. Either they remove the cancer, or we remove it for them as it affects all of us.
If the world warms up, the gulf stream disappears (or shifts), and Norway gets colder.
The Gulf Stream is already shifting. Now for a bit of trivia, Did you know that the Gulf Stream delivers the same amount of heat to the British isles in winter as does the sun?
If the Gulf Stream is gone, Norway and most of northern Europe will enjoy the good weather of Iqualuit, Nunavut, Canada. They are at about the same laditude.:P
My understanding was that newer windmills used larger blades, which allowed them to extract the same amount of energy (or more) from the wind while turning slower. So instead of spinning very fast like propeller blades (which would kill any bird who might not be able to see it well), they spin at a speed making the individual blades easy to identify and easy for birds to avoid.
Angular speed is slower, but speed of the blades is probably faster.
Also, birds see at a much higher FPS than humans so they can probably see blades in the fast moving turbines just as well as the slow ones.
It's ironic, however, that the idea of genetic engineering has come around the time of our genetic demise.
Yeap. There are only two ways to restart "natural" selection
1. Remove it and replace it with genetic engineering.
2. Replace it with genetic selection. Still allow everyone to have kids, but if parent(s) have negative "genetic score" (or whatever), then their genes would be replaced from a random sample in the sperm and/or egg bank.
#2 would mimik a type of natural selection. #1 would not. #1 removes the notion of a "god child". We would have to deal with any mistakes we introduce into our of gene pool. #2 doesn't have that problem.
If genetic selection in any form (#1 or #2) is not instituted in the next generation(s), then our genes will deteriorate until natural selection restarts itself. I do not like this option!
The government does not want to deal with this though. They only care about being reelected in 4 or 5 years. Long term strategy cannot go against societies beliefs if they want to remain/gain "power".
Radio waves are used to heat up gas (plasma). Works just like a microwave. See tokamak for more details on how a fusion reactor works.
U235 is used to start a fusion reaction in nuclear weapons. You put some compressed 2H and 3H and put a nuke around it. When it blows up, it forces the hydrogen to very high pressures and temperatures, which causes it to undergo fusion releasing A LOT of energy.
Why are people suggesting that this will in any way affect the US's dependancy on oil. We use oil primarily for our vehicles. Unless everyone is going to get a fusion reactor in their car or someone miraculously solves all of the problems associated with electric cars
Uhhmm, think for a second, ok? What fusion -> cheap energy -> cheap way of making H2 from H2O. Then you put H2 into a fuel cell and you get electricity for your car. H2 is just a replacement for "regular" batteries.
Secondly, a lot of electricity is produced using oil.
Thirdly, many people in US use fosil fuels (oil gas) to heat their homes in winter. With fusion you can switch to electrical heating.
And finally, fusion solves all internation problems with "we need U235 for our reactors for peaceful purposes" bullshit. If fusion reactor existed today, there would be no excluse for countries like Iran enriching uranium.
Isn't the backlight powered by high voltage (100 volts or so)? Doesn't sound pleasant, although it is probably the best way for a geek to die... BZZZT!
You need to complete a circuit (battery, I hope) which will occur *in* the laptop. Sorry, no dead geeks.
Solar -- Woefully inefficient, one of the most expensive methods of generating electricity, although prices are dropping.
Not with tripple band absorption solar cells , here
Geothermal -- I've heard this is (or has been) a maintenance nightmare, and is only practical in certain geological locations anyway.
My parents have geothermal heating in central Canada for a number of years now. Cheaper than using gas heating. And as for air conditionaning in summer, well, geothermal systems are THE best. Drops a few degrees in less than five minutes!
The difference between fission and fusion is that in fission you split U235 and the resultant crap has a long halflife (millions or billions of years) before it gets to stable elements like lead.
In fusion, the result is Helium, which is NOT radioactive. The only radioactivity produced is from nutron capture (generator makes lots of nutrons and they are captured by the reactor mass, like metal supports). This radioation would require that the reactor be replaced every once in a while (few decades) since steel starts to become britle.
Now, fusion is considered "clean" because all of the resulting radioactive compounds have a short halflife. You only have to store the used reactor parts for a hundred years or so before radioation goes down to acceptable levels. And there is NO radioactive waste since He is not radioactive.
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Oh, and the Soviets had 50% of ALL the causulties in the war. Something like 20-25+ million Russians people died fighting Nazis. By the time US got involved, the war already turned against Hilter in Russia, it was just a mater of time.
It might be interresting to think how would the Russians do if Stalin was not in control of Russia, but Trotzky was (as Lenin wanted in his wil - Lenin said that Stalin was too brutal and paranoid to govern)
PS. Japan would still be defeated. As soon as they attached the US, the game was over for them. They did not have the natural or economic resources to beat the US.
Or an inch from a tree going 60 miles per hour.
You are lucky. I connected on *dial-up* with Windows to just DL one form from a gov't website and got infected in under 10 seconds. Before I could actually type the URL into Mozilla, the box was already infected.
I'd say your 10 minutes is pretty good :P
Anyway, defecit -> debt -> devaluation of currency -> inflation -> redistribution of wealth. You see, it is the poor that will loose it all in inflation times. Why? Because the "rich" will move their money to Euros or gold and thus bypass the inflation. Hence they emerge richer in comparison to the poor living from paycheck-to-paycheck.
People don't give a damn about the deficit. They buy sound bites "strong dolar", "tax cuts", "strong economy", "strong military", "arrogant french", "liberate iraq", "terrorists will get you" and the rest of the bull shit. People have no idea what these issues mean. They just care that the slogans sound good.
Most people don't know what "the market" means as long as it has a word "free" in it, then it must be good. It kind of reminds me of what people thought of Nuclear Magnetic Resonanace. Simply put it, people freaked out about "nuclear" without understand what actually happens. So, NMR was renamed to Magnetic Resonance Imaging and people are happy, still ignorant, but happy.
You see, you don't understand why national budgets are run the way they are because you don't have a clue about the backdoor deals, "scams" (borderline legal, hence quotation marks) and "favours' that are done. Why? Because it is not *their* house. They are only there for a few years and end up "on the street" regardless. In the time that they run the house, they will do whatever they have to to forward *their*, not *our*, best interrests. If all politians wanted to forward *our* best interrests, there would be no wars. Heck, there would be no need for national military and the $450 billion dolar waste that goes into it because it has nothing to do with *our* interrests.
But this is not the fault of politians. This is the fault of our entire society(ies). It is always "us vs. them" or some other bullshit. People need to realize that there is no "them". It is only "us" on *our* little blue planet. </rant
I'll bet that #1 is insignificant. Maybe even disposable, given all the trouble -- cost/benefit analysis here.
What, are you on crack or something? I wouldn't be suprised if *most* of the revenue they get is from the home market. Every computer people buy comes with Windows for the Home market. Without this consumer base MS would NOT exist.
You know, your north is not as far north as our (Canada's) south. The same thing applies to temperatures. Up here, we get closer to 5F right now (normal high). Heck, our geese go to Minnesota to "winter over"! /me ducks
read: LIFE -> a stack
GSM is 8kbps. Very good for speech. You can fit 4h speech into 28M. This is about 100 hours per CD or equivelent storage.
No no no. DO NOT bounce mail that doesn't pass though spam filter after you accepted it for delivery. You are only spamming someone else.
What you need to do is to reject the email BEFORE you accept it in the queue. That is, after DATA is complete, scan the email and if it fails the test, then reject it at the MTA level. If you accept the email in MTA (ie. after DATA is complete), then DO NOT bounce it because the headers do not have the real FROM: anyway (in case of spam)
Also, if you are bouncing mail after DATA, then your servers will try connecting to some other MTA raising your load. Bad idea.
150,000 on others... doh!!
In US? Probably 5 or so thanks to the Anthrax thingy (and a lot of people didn't even want their mailman on their property, not to mention their mail!)
And how many died from car accident?
Probably about 150,000. Historical sources are here and here. Oh, and there were about 10,000,000 people injured in crashes since 9/11...
Yes it does. That's virtually the only way to take out wild fires. You burn away the fuel, and the fire dies.
Trying to put out a wild fire with water is like using your piss to fight your house fire. Not very effective.
The analogy works. Spammers will cease to exist if they cannot be profitable. If ISPs take down spam sites *fast*, then no problem. But if they don't give a damn, then they should be DDoS'd. Either they remove the cancer, or we remove it for them as it affects all of us.
The Gulf Stream is already shifting. Now for a bit of trivia, Did you know that the Gulf Stream delivers the same amount of heat to the British isles in winter as does the sun?
If the Gulf Stream is gone, Norway and most of northern Europe will enjoy the good weather of Iqualuit, Nunavut, Canada. They are at about the same laditude. :P
At least he doesn't have nukes.
Let's hope that Bush doesn't do this though...
/me ducks
Kim Jong Il would be funny, banging his high heels on the podium :P (yeap, he wears high heels)
YYYY-MM-DD is international ISO standard. It is good.
The MM/DD/YY makes sense too (use the / not -). For example,
10/11/04
Oct. 11, 2004
1/11/04
Jan. 11, 2004
The text matches the numbers.
What doesn't make sense is DD/MM/YY! Either people should use YYYY-MM-DD, or MM/DD/YY or write it out in long words.
Angular speed is slower, but speed of the blades is probably faster.
Also, birds see at a much higher FPS than humans so they can probably see blades in the fast moving turbines just as well as the slow ones.
Yeap. There are only two ways to restart "natural" selection
1. Remove it and replace it with genetic engineering.
2. Replace it with genetic selection. Still allow everyone to have kids, but if parent(s) have negative "genetic score" (or whatever), then their genes would be replaced from a random sample in the sperm and/or egg bank.
#2 would mimik a type of natural selection. #1 would not. #1 removes the notion of a "god child". We would have to deal with any mistakes we introduce into our of gene pool. #2 doesn't have that problem.
If genetic selection in any form (#1 or #2) is not instituted in the next generation(s), then our genes will deteriorate until natural selection restarts itself. I do not like this option!
The government does not want to deal with this though. They only care about being reelected in 4 or 5 years. Long term strategy cannot go against societies beliefs if they want to remain/gain "power".
Not anymore. You slashdotted the coral!
U235 is used to start a fusion reaction in nuclear weapons. You put some compressed 2H and 3H and put a nuke around it. When it blows up, it forces the hydrogen to very high pressures and temperatures, which causes it to undergo fusion releasing A LOT of energy.
U235 has nothing to do with fusion power plants.
Uhhmm, think for a second, ok? What fusion -> cheap energy -> cheap way of making H2 from H2O. Then you put H2 into a fuel cell and you get electricity for your car. H2 is just a replacement for "regular" batteries.
Secondly, a lot of electricity is produced using oil.
Thirdly, many people in US use fosil fuels (oil gas) to heat their homes in winter. With fusion you can switch to electrical heating.
And finally, fusion solves all internation problems with "we need U235 for our reactors for peaceful purposes" bullshit. If fusion reactor existed today, there would be no excluse for countries like Iran enriching uranium.
Your seek time will be astronomical!
Why? Had it for a year now and it works perfectly.
You need to complete a circuit (battery, I hope) which will occur *in* the laptop. Sorry, no dead geeks.
Also, the battery can only deliver so much juice.
Solar -- Woefully inefficient, one of the most expensive methods of generating electricity, although prices are dropping.
Not with tripple band absorption solar cells , here
Geothermal -- I've heard this is (or has been) a maintenance nightmare, and is only practical in certain geological locations anyway.
My parents have geothermal heating in central Canada for a number of years now. Cheaper than using gas heating. And as for air conditionaning in summer, well, geothermal systems are THE best. Drops a few degrees in less than five minutes!
In fusion, the result is Helium, which is NOT radioactive. The only radioactivity produced is from nutron capture (generator makes lots of nutrons and they are captured by the reactor mass, like metal supports). This radioation would require that the reactor be replaced every once in a while (few decades) since steel starts to become britle.
Now, fusion is considered "clean" because all of the resulting radioactive compounds have a short halflife. You only have to store the used reactor parts for a hundred years or so before radioation goes down to acceptable levels. And there is NO radioactive waste since He is not radioactive.