FW Tau is perhaps the most interesting of the three systems. The star is actually a binary, two stars orbiting each other. Both stars are cool red dwarfs, about a quarter of the mass of the Sun each, orbiting about 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion miles) apart, roughly the distance of Saturn to the Sun. The stars are a bit less than two million years old, and are 470 light years from Earth.
Oracle services may at times make a hash of things.
But we are too quick to blame Oracle and the developer of healthcare.gov for problems that come down to what is simply, a bad and incomplete spec that is impossible to build a good system against.
Indeed the "re-launch" of Healthcare.gov recently only works so much better because they scrapped the requirement that an application had to be completed in order for you to see prices (so you would not see the real price). The application process still is deeply flawed; but you can at least see raw static data now...
So don't place too much blame on Oracle for not succeeding at a Herculean task.
Bullshit. Oracle and the devs of Healthcare.gov are responsible for what they put out, since they bid on the contracts. They shouldn't of been bidding if it wasn't something they could do. It's funny how we have hundreds of thousands websites that work fine out there, and yet we get big companies (Oracle) and big projects (Healthcare.gov) that fail miserably. Not funny as in haha, but funny how we should accept that failure is okay when it comes to computer companies and programming.
Sorry, but I don't buy that. If you are a software company and you accept a contract to delivery a working system, you damn well better make sure that system is working when you say it will.
I own a cat, but I got it fixed. I don't want it fucking, you know that female cats in heat meow all the time? It's annoying. More annoying then watching where you are walking, tbh.
If someone hacks my bank and steals my money, the bank replaces it. If someone steals my wallet and takes off with my credit cards, I'm not liable for the transactions.
Cept bitcoins aren't credit card, they are money.
So if you had any cash in your wallet, that would be gone and you could NOT replace it, much like bitcoins.
So had Metallica...and we all know how that turned out for them.
Metallica cut their hair.
Then they went on a rampage against napster.
Then the quality of their music started to suck.
But the biggest problem? They cut their hair.
Rockers have long hair. Anything else is just posing.
You may have a strong point in identifying the genre, but a balding rocker sporting anything but a short 'do is wearing nothing more than a desperate comb over that would make Donald Trump laugh.
Heavy Metal artists aren't magically immune to genetics.
Ya, well, I'd feel sorry, 'cept my genetics allow me to have long thick hair for the rest of my life. Anyways, it was a joke.
Just because you get arrested and taken to the police station does NOT make you a criminal. Being convicted of a crime is what makes you a criminal. So far the summary is just plain wrong and makes me wonder if the article is any better.
The police arrest a lot of people that they end up letting go, whether or not charges are brought up against them later. None of those people are criminals, unless they have been previously convicted of a crime.
While the USA spends more on education, we still aren't learning better then anyone else.
Funny how Lincoln educated himself with a piece of coal and a shovel to write on (according to stories I was told in school), yet today kids have to have an tablet to learn?
Maybe the kids could do a high tech film about how throwing money at technology doesn't actually improve education.
I need mister Starr's help to write a smartphone app that will tell me where mister Starr is at any given moment of every day. So that I can be at least one mile away at all times.
I am mostly in the U District, Fremont and Ballard orbit here in Seattle, so don't get up to Capitol Hill much, but I will need to make a trip to the Lost Lake Cafe
Starr? Glasshole.
I live up on Capital Hill, if I see him, I'll accidentally his google glasses and possibly step on them.
It's not mentioned in the summary, but the two stories linked are related. The current one involves the Lost Lake Cafe, which is owned by Dave Meinert. Dave Meinert also owns the 5 Point Cafe, and made the old story by posting to 5 Point's facebook page: "For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators."
I don't live in Seattle, but if I did, I'd make it a point to find out what other establishments Mr. Meinert owns, and not patronize any of them. Not because I have a Glass I won't take off (I don't have one at all) or because I object to the idea of certain places being off-limits for wearable cameras (I'm not convinced of the value, and think it would be a bad thing if every restaurant or every bar had such a ban; I do think having some with and some without is an experiment worth trying), but because using a threat of violence to get free advertising makes it quite clear who the real "glasshole" is.
I live in Seattle and glad to know peeps like you would not be going to the 5 Point Cafe.
You do know that every patron in almost EVERY place you eat is ALREADY being videoed, right? Surveillance is ubiquitous and NOW you want to complain because individuals wish to engage in something business has been doing for literally decades?
Well, by your argument, child abuse is okay since it's been going on since the beginning of time and no one has been able to do anything to stop it from happening, so that makes it okay...
But then, this is the man who worked tirelessly to reintroduce circumcision to the US as a preemptive way discourage masturbation, so screw him.
Corn flakes were a variation on that theme. Kellogg was a follower of the ideas of Sylvester Graham (who also invented the "masturbation causes blindness" nuttery). He believed that spicy or sweet foods led to "passions" and "impure thoughts".
Weird, I was raised that the devil whispered those thoughts to you...
When Terrorism is 'Any action that is intended to influence the government', what is extremism? Any idea that the current sitting government doesn't like?
There was once another group of people that went out of their way to censor information their people received, to hide atrocities committed in their name and smash an idea that didn't fit the party line.
As I recall, at one stage, the UK did quite a bit to stop them.
Churchill is most likely a bit miffed how the UK government pissed away all the hard work he accomplished. Then again, it's not bad when you are doing it, only when someone else is doing it to you.
How is it a crappy argument? The point is that if they weren't illegal people could take drugs and still do great things: like Dr. Halsted did. If you want an example of someone who's taken drugs in the 2000s and done something good with their lives, I could point you to one of many musicians, or come back to the argument that making their addiction illegal is holding them down.
How is it a crappy argument? The point is that if they weren't illegal people could take drugs and still do great things: like Dr. Halsted did. If you want an example of someone who's taken drugs in the 2000s and done something good with their lives, I could point you to one of many musicians, or come back to the argument that making their addiction illegal is holding them down.
You can point to a small hand full of people, while I can point to hundreds of thousands of junkies who aren't functional, and are scum of the earth, doing what they can to get their drugs.
I'm all for legalizing all drugs, but the reality of the USA in 2013 is that they do NOT care about our rights, and the police and other law agencies make too much money off the "war on drugs" to allow it to stop. So keep thinking pipe dreams and don't go crying when some junkies break into your house to steal stuff to sell.
> Going to point out again that heroin isn't that cheap cheap and > America's stance on making money because of the war on drugs will never allow it to be legal.
Its not that cheap BECAUSE of our drug policy. It would be that cheap if not for it.
Call it the real world if you like.... I call it the cause of the problem. Seriously, the best thing a prohibitionist can do is die... because if enough of them did, we could change that policy and fix the actual problem.
Blaming the victims and saying they should die....is every bit as unrealistic of a solution, and possibly more so. Addicts have existed longer than drug laws. A LOT longer. They will continue to exist longer than drug laws, a LOT longer.
Let me put it this way.... I can forsee a future day when there are still humans but not drug laws. I can't reverse those and still think I am considering a possible future.
making drugs legal would solve a lot of problems, except the reason why people are using drugs. I'm completely for them legalizing drugs. But I live in the USA, where the war on drugs is a big fucking money maker for the police. We also have a government that is walking over peoples rights, so what's the point of talking about how it would be if drugs are legal when there is little chance in hell of that happening any time soon?
Just so you know, i was a heroin addict for 15 or so years, and my insight is gained from being a junkie and hanging around junkies and the culture that places like methadone clinics produce. Heroin junkies choose to be junkies, they choose to live like they do, and they do NOT care about anything but getting high and stay well. You can feel sorry for them, but they'd rip you off the second you turn your back.
The only reason a heroin addict might steal and do whatever is because he can't get his fix legally. Opiates can be produced for pennies a dose. It's a lot cheaper for society to maintain addicts on opiates than it is to imprison them, or to deal with the costs incurred by addicts getting an illegal fix. As a bonus, when they don't have to spend all their effort in getting drugs, they can actually take advantage of their tolerance and become productive members of society, holding down a job, going to school, and paying taxes just like everyone else. Heroin and morphine maintenance programs have proven this, but have been shut down for political reasons.
William Stewart Halsted (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor of Medicine), Howard Atwood Kelly (Professor of Gynecology) and William H. Welch (Professor of Pathology), Halsted was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.[1] Throughout his professional life, he was addicted to cocaine and later also to morphine,[2] which were not illegal during his time.
Notice that the drugs he was addicted to wasn't illegal at the time? So he could get it from a pharmacy or mail order no problem. He didn't have to deal with the stigmas of being a drug addict in this modern world.
So no offense, but a crappy argument on your part. Jump to the 2000's with us and try for a better example.
Except that there is no evidence that junkies do this when their drugs are available at reasonable prices. In fact, there is ample evidence (thousands upon thousands of prescription "junkies", the swiss heroin study, portugal) to the opposite.
So the reality is....the best thing a prohibitionist can do, is die.
Going to point out again that heroin isn't that cheap and America's stance on making money because of the war on drugs will never allow it to be legal.
So while you wish that the world was that way, the rest of us are living in the real world.
The only reason a heroin addict might steal and do whatever is because he can't get his fix legally. Opiates can be produced for pennies a dose. It's a lot cheaper for society to maintain addicts on opiates than it is to imprison them, or to deal with the costs incurred by addicts getting an illegal fix. As a bonus, when they don't have to spend all their effort in getting drugs, they can actually take advantage of their tolerance and become productive members of society, holding down a job, going to school, and paying taxes just like everyone else. Heroin and morphine maintenance programs have proven this, but have been shut down for political reasons.
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nothing says creepy like an adult pokemon fan
Ya, i creep myself out at times.
FTA:
FW Tau is perhaps the most interesting of the three systems. The star is actually a binary, two stars orbiting each other. Both stars are cool red dwarfs, about a quarter of the mass of the Sun each, orbiting about 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion miles) apart, roughly the distance of Saturn to the Sun. The stars are a bit less than two million years old, and are 470 light years from Earth.
Two Million? Really?
No, I'm sure they meant 6k years old.
Oracle services may at times make a hash of things.
But we are too quick to blame Oracle and the developer of healthcare.gov for problems that come down to what is simply, a bad and incomplete spec that is impossible to build a good system against.
Indeed the "re-launch" of Healthcare.gov recently only works so much better because they scrapped the requirement that an application had to be completed in order for you to see prices (so you would not see the real price). The application process still is deeply flawed; but you can at least see raw static data now...
So don't place too much blame on Oracle for not succeeding at a Herculean task.
Bullshit. Oracle and the devs of Healthcare.gov are responsible for what they put out, since they bid on the contracts. They shouldn't of been bidding if it wasn't something they could do. It's funny how we have hundreds of thousands websites that work fine out there, and yet we get big companies (Oracle) and big projects (Healthcare.gov) that fail miserably. Not funny as in haha, but funny how we should accept that failure is okay when it comes to computer companies and programming.
Sorry, but I don't buy that. If you are a software company and you accept a contract to delivery a working system, you damn well better make sure that system is working when you say it will.
You should own a fucking cat instead.
I own a cat, but I got it fixed. I don't want it fucking, you know that female cats in heat meow all the time? It's annoying. More annoying then watching where you are walking, tbh.
If someone hacks my bank and steals my money, the bank replaces it.
If someone steals my wallet and takes off with my credit cards, I'm not liable for the transactions.
Cept bitcoins aren't credit card, they are money.
So if you had any cash in your wallet, that would be gone and you could NOT replace it, much like bitcoins.
So had Metallica...and we all know how that turned out for them.
Metallica cut their hair.
Then they went on a rampage against napster.
Then the quality of their music started to suck.
But the biggest problem? They cut their hair.
Rockers have long hair. Anything else is just posing.
You may have a strong point in identifying the genre, but a balding rocker sporting anything but a short 'do is wearing nothing more than a desperate comb over that would make Donald Trump laugh.
Heavy Metal artists aren't magically immune to genetics.
Ya, well, I'd feel sorry, 'cept my genetics allow me to have long thick hair for the rest of my life. Anyways, it was a joke.
... I guess it's safe to say incest is the best when you keep in Europe?
I am an active listener.
I do not pay for music.
I will NOT support the copyright cartels at all.
Plus I've never been an Iron Maiden fan. But then I've never really listened to their music.
Now I'm sort of curious. Do you think I'll pay for their albums?
Nope.
So had Metallica...and we all know how that turned out for them.
Metallica cut their hair.
Then they went on a rampage against napster.
Then the quality of their music started to suck.
But the biggest problem? They cut their hair.
Rockers have long hair. Anything else is just posing.
okay, either I am seeing shit, or someone fixed that shit, because the summary say nothing about criminals.
fuck, maybe i should go back to bed.
Just because you get arrested and taken to the police station does NOT make you a criminal. Being convicted of a crime is what makes you a criminal. So far the summary is just plain wrong and makes me wonder if the article is any better.
The police arrest a lot of people that they end up letting go, whether or not charges are brought up against them later. None of those people are criminals, unless they have been previously convicted of a crime.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-global-list-study-shows/
While the USA spends more on education, we still aren't learning better then anyone else.
Funny how Lincoln educated himself with a piece of coal and a shovel to write on (according to stories I was told in school), yet today kids have to have an tablet to learn?
Maybe the kids could do a high tech film about how throwing money at technology doesn't actually improve education.
I need mister Starr's help to write a smartphone app that will tell me where mister Starr is at any given moment of every day. So that I can be at least one mile away at all times.
I am mostly in the U District, Fremont and Ballard orbit here in Seattle, so don't get up to Capitol Hill much, but I will need to make a trip to the Lost Lake Cafe
Starr? Glasshole.
I live up on Capital Hill, if I see him, I'll accidentally his google glasses and possibly step on them.
It's not mentioned in the summary, but the two stories linked are related. The current one involves the Lost Lake Cafe, which is owned by Dave Meinert. Dave Meinert also owns the 5 Point Cafe, and made the old story by posting to 5 Point's facebook page: "For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators."
I don't live in Seattle, but if I did, I'd make it a point to find out what other establishments Mr. Meinert owns, and not patronize any of them. Not because I have a Glass I won't take off (I don't have one at all) or because I object to the idea of certain places being off-limits for wearable cameras (I'm not convinced of the value, and think it would be a bad thing if every restaurant or every bar had such a ban; I do think having some with and some without is an experiment worth trying), but because using a threat of violence to get free advertising makes it quite clear who the real "glasshole" is.
I live in Seattle and glad to know peeps like you would not be going to the 5 Point Cafe.
You do know that every patron in almost EVERY place you eat is ALREADY being videoed, right? Surveillance is ubiquitous and NOW you want to complain because individuals wish to engage in something business has been doing for literally decades?
Well, by your argument, child abuse is okay since it's been going on since the beginning of time and no one has been able to do anything to stop it from happening, so that makes it okay...
But then, this is the man who worked tirelessly to reintroduce circumcision to the US as a preemptive way discourage masturbation, so screw him.
Corn flakes were a variation on that theme. Kellogg was a follower of the ideas of Sylvester Graham (who also invented the "masturbation causes blindness" nuttery). He believed that spicy or sweet foods led to "passions" and "impure thoughts".
Weird, I was raised that the devil whispered those thoughts to you...
When Terrorism is 'Any action that is intended to influence the government', what is extremism? Any idea that the current sitting government doesn't like?
There was once another group of people that went out of their way to censor information their people received, to hide atrocities committed in their name and smash an idea that didn't fit the party line.
As I recall, at one stage, the UK did quite a bit to stop them.
Churchill is most likely a bit miffed how the UK government pissed away all the hard work he accomplished. Then again, it's not bad when you are doing it, only when someone else is doing it to you.
"The USA isn't always like that, only when I do something wrong. I love the USA, I could never stop being it's partner." - EU
if they are fearing what he hasn't released yet.
They know what they did was wrong, and apparently have done even worse stuff.
Time for a change in Government.
How is it a crappy argument? The point is that if they weren't illegal people could take drugs and still do great things: like Dr. Halsted did. If you want an example of someone who's taken drugs in the 2000s and done something good with their lives, I could point you to one of many musicians, or come back to the argument that making their addiction illegal is holding them down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock_musicians_who_died_of_drug_overdose
Start point out the "many musicians" you claim are functional heroin addicts. Can you back up your claim?
How is it a crappy argument? The point is that if they weren't illegal people could take drugs and still do great things: like Dr. Halsted did. If you want an example of someone who's taken drugs in the 2000s and done something good with their lives, I could point you to one of many musicians, or come back to the argument that making their addiction illegal is holding them down.
You can point to a small hand full of people, while I can point to hundreds of thousands of junkies who aren't functional, and are scum of the earth, doing what they can to get their drugs.
I'm all for legalizing all drugs, but the reality of the USA in 2013 is that they do NOT care about our rights, and the police and other law agencies make too much money off the "war on drugs" to allow it to stop. So keep thinking pipe dreams and don't go crying when some junkies break into your house to steal stuff to sell.
> Going to point out again that heroin isn't that cheap cheap and
> America's stance on making money because of the war on drugs will never allow it to be legal.
Its not that cheap BECAUSE of our drug policy. It would be that cheap if not for it.
Call it the real world if you like.... I call it the cause of the problem. Seriously, the best thing a prohibitionist can do is die... because if enough of them did, we could change that policy and fix the actual problem.
Blaming the victims and saying they should die....is every bit as unrealistic of a solution, and possibly more so. Addicts have existed longer than drug laws. A LOT longer. They will continue to exist longer than drug laws, a LOT longer.
Let me put it this way.... I can forsee a future day when there are still humans but not drug laws. I can't reverse those and still think I am considering a possible future.
making drugs legal would solve a lot of problems, except the reason why people are using drugs. I'm completely for them legalizing drugs. But I live in the USA, where the war on drugs is a big fucking money maker for the police. We also have a government that is walking over peoples rights, so what's the point of talking about how it would be if drugs are legal when there is little chance in hell of that happening any time soon?
Just so you know, i was a heroin addict for 15 or so years, and my insight is gained from being a junkie and hanging around junkies and the culture that places like methadone clinics produce. Heroin junkies choose to be junkies, they choose to live like they do, and they do NOT care about anything but getting high and stay well. You can feel sorry for them, but they'd rip you off the second you turn your back.
The only reason a heroin addict might steal and do whatever is because he can't get his fix legally. Opiates can be produced for pennies a dose. It's a lot cheaper for society to maintain addicts on opiates than it is to imprison them, or to deal with the costs incurred by addicts getting an illegal fix. As a bonus, when they don't have to spend all their effort in getting drugs, they can actually take advantage of their tolerance and become productive members of society, holding down a job, going to school, and paying taxes just like everyone else. Heroin and morphine maintenance programs have proven this, but have been shut down for political reasons.
What's the best thing an opiate addict could do? Found Johns Hopkins Hospital.
here's quote from the wiki page you linked:
William Stewart Halsted (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor of Medicine), Howard Atwood Kelly (Professor of Gynecology) and William H. Welch (Professor of Pathology), Halsted was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.[1] Throughout his professional life, he was addicted to cocaine and later also to morphine,[2] which were not illegal during his time.
Notice that the drugs he was addicted to wasn't illegal at the time? So he could get it from a pharmacy or mail order no problem. He didn't have to deal with the stigmas of being a drug addict in this modern world.
So no offense, but a crappy argument on your part. Jump to the 2000's with us and try for a better example.
Except that there is no evidence that junkies do this when their drugs are available at reasonable prices. In fact, there is ample evidence (thousands upon thousands of prescription "junkies", the swiss heroin study, portugal) to the opposite.
So the reality is....the best thing a prohibitionist can do, is die.
Going to point out again that heroin isn't that cheap and America's stance on making money because of the war on drugs will never allow it to be legal.
So while you wish that the world was that way, the rest of us are living in the real world.
The only reason a heroin addict might steal and do whatever is because he can't get his fix legally. Opiates can be produced for pennies a dose. It's a lot cheaper for society to maintain addicts on opiates than it is to imprison them, or to deal with the costs incurred by addicts getting an illegal fix. As a bonus, when they don't have to spend all their effort in getting drugs, they can actually take advantage of their tolerance and become productive members of society, holding down a job, going to school, and paying taxes just like everyone else. Heroin and morphine maintenance programs have proven this, but have been shut down for political reasons.
What's the best thing an opiate addict could do? Found Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Going to point out that heroin isn't that cheap and what you are talking about is currently a pipe dream in America, no where near reality.