Not that I doubt the word of AC, but you got a source for that? And how many is xxx?
It can always get worse. The trick to these things is not forgetting what your worst case scenario is. People tend to go, "well, we're ok for everything up to Carrington." In retellings, that gets abbreviated to "We don't have to worry about EMP." Then you count on the system to an inappropriate level, and then it goes out.
If it goes long enough, "We don't have to worry about EMP" will become "It will never go down." I've never seen a system that lasts long enough not get this treatment. There's no reason to think this one will be any different. The only proof is to continually inspect your assumptions, but let's be realistic, that ain't happening.
One on each tower, and Nerf gatling guns and water-balloon slingshots facing across to let them take out their frustrations on each other in a more mature way.
"Ladies. Gentlemen. Mr. Burger. I'm afraid, and I don't understand.
"America is the most powerful nation that has ever existed in God's kingdom. Our susp... citizens spend more on the opening weekend of a movie than the... ga... gadup... of 40$ of the planet. We provide AIDS to Africa. We are going to shoot down the moon, and we will sip coffee there.
*wipes coffee from tie*
"I masterfully stroked off a group of madmen.... God will murder the civilians. We are going to war! We know who you are, and we are going to punish you by bringing you to the USA. If you come to New York County, you are guilty, and we will charge you with the death penalty. Heh, heh. Just like Texas. String 'em high!
*realizes where he is*
"Ahem... In the meantime, we are the most powerful nation on earth. By the end of this year, we will be gone, and you will stroke your towers. Never forget... uh... never!... Never surrender! <approval-seeking grin> You cannot attack us, because we have tougher challengers, who murdered, and then left Earth for the Moon. Guess that's why we're shooting it down. We are America!
A car has about 5' of shock-absorbing material in front of the passengers. A jet has about 50'. Survivable crashes at 650 mph aren't achievable in a car. Luckily, cars don't go 650 mph. And even in a crash situation, jets aren't usually going top speed (570 mph for a 747) in the jet stream (usually
Now, there's the whole issue where we can take a much larger shock over a very short time, so simply taking the max survivable shock over the time period of a car crash and extrapolating that out to 10x the duration and saying that it can protect against 10x the impact is specious, but so is the opposite reasoning in the parent post. We could also say that surviving atmospheric re-entry is impossible because meteorites much larger than the shuttle or capsules explode, or that flight in a metal jet is impossible because neither a DeLorean nor a can of tomato soup can fly, but they would be just as crazily myopic.
That said, I've always wondered why there aren't more people with nothing to lose out there righting the world's wrongs. Always chalked it up to, when you get that old, you just don't have the energy care anymore.
As for Gen-Y killing the **AA--hah. Good luck. You realize that when Gen-Y is in power, they'll be in power in the **AA too, and won't want to give that up, right?
You've made me curious. How is someone supposed to tell when you're being sarcastic, considering how many silly statements get made on the internet?
Think, for three seconds. Then consider how stupid you'll look if you missed some irony. If that's below your tolerance or you really think it's genuine after thinking for said three seconds (about whether it's a real post, not about how mad the way you took it makes you), and you feel like you need to post about it, go nuts.
Many people use smilies, italics, excessive punctuation, sarcasm tags, etc., but you use none of the above.
Those things are, at best, the literary equivalent of a *rimshot*. I tend to picture somebody who has to regularly wipe drool from their keyboard when I see that stuff used earnestly.
I particularly like how they call letters that apparently expose corruption, including money laundering, embezzlement, and possible motivations for kidnapping, as "trivial".
Whatever anyone else thinks, I think they're not only extremely solid languages that have stood the test of time, but they're both really fun to program in. I know it's at least somewhat subjective, and right tool for the job and all, but that doesn't mean you can't have preferences and it's good to see the "Yankees" of programming not headed into obscurity.
Oh, they call Windows Runtime WinRT all over the place. Just to confuse you even more, there's two names for one thing, both of which are easily confused as being a different way to say yet other things.
Wait wait wait, WinRT is completely different from Windows RT. The first is an API (which has nothing to do with "realtime", although they probably have some of that in there to be extra confusing), the second is an operating system that runs on ARM processors and is not a realtime OS. It does implement WinRT though, maybe that's why they named it that. Except Windows 8 implements WinRT too.
The whole thing is so stupidly confusing, there has got to be some motivation behind it, although I can't for the life of me figure out what it would be. It's not like they're going to get people to buy the wrong OS and then spend more to buy the right OS--that's just an invitation to get sued if they try to mislead and double-charge like that. But why? It's bad enough when two things that are completely unrelated are named confusingly, but one thing that implements another? It's insane!
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Not that I doubt the word of AC, but you got a source for that? And how many is xxx?
It can always get worse. The trick to these things is not forgetting what your worst case scenario is. People tend to go, "well, we're ok for everything up to Carrington." In retellings, that gets abbreviated to "We don't have to worry about EMP." Then you count on the system to an inappropriate level, and then it goes out.
If it goes long enough, "We don't have to worry about EMP" will become "It will never go down." I've never seen a system that lasts long enough not get this treatment. There's no reason to think this one will be any different. The only proof is to continually inspect your assumptions, but let's be realistic, that ain't happening.
I think Bill Hicks was right, about what they should do...
One on each tower, and Nerf gatling guns and water-balloon slingshots facing across to let them take out their frustrations on each other in a more mature way.
Of course, this was G. W. Bush.
"Ladies. Gentlemen. Mr. Burger. I'm afraid, and I don't understand.
"America is the most powerful nation that has ever existed in God's kingdom. Our susp ... citizens spend more on the opening weekend of a movie than the ... ga ... gadup ... of 40$ of the planet. We provide AIDS to Africa. We are going to shoot down the moon, and we will sip coffee there.
*wipes coffee from tie*
"I masterfully stroked off a group of madmen.... God will murder the civilians. We are going to war! We know who you are, and we are going to punish you by bringing you to the USA. If you come to New York County, you are guilty, and we will charge you with the death penalty. Heh, heh. Just like Texas. String 'em high!
*realizes where he is*
"Ahem ... In the meantime, we are the most powerful nation on earth. By the end of this year, we will be gone, and you will stroke your towers. Never forget ... uh ... never! ... Never surrender! <approval-seeking grin> You cannot attack us, because we have tougher challengers, who murdered, and then left Earth for the Moon. Guess that's why we're shooting it down. We are America!
"Good night, Mr. Cheney."
A car has about 5' of shock-absorbing material in front of the passengers. A jet has about 50'. Survivable crashes at 650 mph aren't achievable in a car. Luckily, cars don't go 650 mph. And even in a crash situation, jets aren't usually going top speed (570 mph for a 747) in the jet stream (usually
Now, there's the whole issue where we can take a much larger shock over a very short time, so simply taking the max survivable shock over the time period of a car crash and extrapolating that out to 10x the duration and saying that it can protect against 10x the impact is specious, but so is the opposite reasoning in the parent post. We could also say that surviving atmospheric re-entry is impossible because meteorites much larger than the shuttle or capsules explode, or that flight in a metal jet is impossible because neither a DeLorean nor a can of tomato soup can fly, but they would be just as crazily myopic.
One old guy did this. It ain't a movement yet.
That said, I've always wondered why there aren't more people with nothing to lose out there righting the world's wrongs. Always chalked it up to, when you get that old, you just don't have the energy care anymore.
As for Gen-Y killing the **AA--hah. Good luck. You realize that when Gen-Y is in power, they'll be in power in the **AA too, and won't want to give that up, right?
You apparently don't have a Facebook account. They're not that small of a minority.
Complete indifference.
Because an omniscient deity would be aware of the herd mentality of humans. People worshiping openly would lead to more worshipers.
Of course, being omnipotent, you could personally appear to everyone, and say "Hey you, worship me, but don't tell anyone."
Just make sure to put ear-tags on the mulligans your sisters will be popping out.
No, explain it again using more allcaps.
ahaha, I love that the "see also" on that page consists solely of adequacy.org.
You've made me curious. How is someone supposed to tell when you're being sarcastic, considering how many silly statements get made on the internet?
Think, for three seconds. Then consider how stupid you'll look if you missed some irony. If that's below your tolerance or you really think it's genuine after thinking for said three seconds (about whether it's a real post, not about how mad the way you took it makes you), and you feel like you need to post about it, go nuts.
Many people use smilies, italics, excessive punctuation, sarcasm tags, etc., but you use none of the above.
Those things are, at best, the literary equivalent of a *rimshot*. I tend to picture somebody who has to regularly wipe drool from their keyboard when I see that stuff used earnestly.
Oh yeah? Well I'm awesome at EVERYTHING!
"I'll give you $2,400 to let me bring this bomb ... I mean, these drugs through your checkpoint.
I particularly like how they call letters that apparently expose corruption, including money laundering, embezzlement, and possible motivations for kidnapping, as "trivial".
Calm down guys, it's no big deal.
Well, my philandering husband was murdered, so that's a plus.
Never with a dry hand, that's for sure.
Ah, dupes, I've missed you.
Forbes is the best videogame journalist in the industry.
Awww, you posted it! You goin to jail!
My two favorite languages aren't dying!
Whatever anyone else thinks, I think they're not only extremely solid languages that have stood the test of time, but they're both really fun to program in. I know it's at least somewhat subjective, and right tool for the job and all, but that doesn't mean you can't have preferences and it's good to see the "Yankees" of programming not headed into obscurity.
Oh, they call Windows Runtime WinRT all over the place. Just to confuse you even more, there's two names for one thing, both of which are easily confused as being a different way to say yet other things.
Wait wait wait, WinRT is completely different from Windows RT. The first is an API (which has nothing to do with "realtime", although they probably have some of that in there to be extra confusing), the second is an operating system that runs on ARM processors and is not a realtime OS. It does implement WinRT though, maybe that's why they named it that. Except Windows 8 implements WinRT too.
The whole thing is so stupidly confusing, there has got to be some motivation behind it, although I can't for the life of me figure out what it would be. It's not like they're going to get people to buy the wrong OS and then spend more to buy the right OS--that's just an invitation to get sued if they try to mislead and double-charge like that. But why? It's bad enough when two things that are completely unrelated are named confusingly, but one thing that implements another? It's insane!
Oh man, are you going to be upset when you find out how rich the average Goon is.