Not to mention Action Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Force, a catoon series that re-edited the 1980s GI Joe series into a "International heroes" team with no specific references to them being the US in dialogue, for the British audience.
Nowadays I think even they have gotten into the pink = girls thing, but I like how their traditional children's colors are bolder primary colors instead of the washed-out pastels of the west.
IIRC, in Japan it used to be black for boys, red(crimson) for girls. Way more powerful, even for the girls.
You don't have to believe the claim of reincarnation, any more than you have to believe that God selected the pope through divine influence on the ballots of the college of cardinals. Basically, what you're saying is like holding the Christian God responsible for all the bad things popes have done over the centuries, and then saying that God is evil.
If you don't believe the theology of a particular theocracy, using an argument that presupposes the truthfulness of their beliefs is illogical. The vast majority of those who support Tibetan independence are not Buddhists, let alone Tibetan Buddhists.
It's a good thing you're not their lawyer, or you'd get them in a lot of trouble.
I don't get the attempted denial of the request in the first place. Yes, for space reasons you might not log traffic on your site, but when a judge tells you to, why the hell would you think that it being in RAM and not disk would make it immune from subpeona? Just buy another hard drive and start logging the relevant data.
And if you actually gave them a actual recording of all the data going into RAM in a way that could be replayed step-by-step (Not possible without a VM, I know), they would probably be okay with that.
Just a guess, but I'd assume it's because his worldview of "clash of civilizations" actually mirrors the Islamists, but from a different side. The fact that he's a serious scholar of history also makes it less likely to have threats, I'd imagine.
If you look at things like Japanese nationalism in the 30's or other nationalist movements, they tend to get pissed of not at serious critiques of their country, but at trivializing depictions of them. I suspect that for a Christian precher to say that Muhammad was a false prophet would not get the kind of reaction that the cartoons did.
Also, you are asking a movement with perhaps millions of people, out of a religion with billions, to have a consistent response to something. This is clearly impossible, even the U.S. government has contradictory views on matters like whether to support repressive regime X or condemn it.
1. That's because the rest of the western industrialized countries decided that manned spaceflight (or suborbital slingshot) was not worth pursuing. Certainly the UK and France would have been able to do it, not just their governments but their private aerospace firms. It's just that manned aerospace ventures in or near space were basically publicity stunts performed by the US and Soviets, as is the X-Prize for companies. Because they have very little in scientific or economic returns, the rest of the west decided to build other "prestiege projects", like a supersonic airliner or supercolliders.
2 & 3 - ??? You have to be a musician to claim the White Stripes are the best rock band ever. Users must have coding experience & their own news site before commenting on the quality of Slashdot. That's about the quality of your arguments there.
I do know amatuer rocket builders who have gotten their rockets to 10,000 feet, who are really psyched about the SS1/X-Prize stuff. But even they would not consider it to be impressive in terms of historical comparisons with NASA. What's impressive is not how far they went, but how little resources they used to get there.
Sorry to take some time in replying. Here are my thoughts on the matter, admittedly not from a professional policeman/scientist/assasin (that would be an interesting movie character!:)
A 7.62mm Nato bullet has the following advantages over a pistol round like the 9mm pistol round you mentioned.
Greater mass:
- More momentum in the bullet, which means:
--- Longer range due to reducing the reduction in speed from air resistance
--- Greater force on impact from the decceleration on the target
--- Greater resistance to sideways wind drift Bullet shape:
- Smaller profile
- More aerodynamic shape
--- Both add to the range by decreasing drag and air resistance.
I think the problem is that most of the uses of silenced/suppressed weapons is very different from that of a long-range assasin. Mostly they are used so that team members can hear each other, to suppress flash, and at close range. In theory, for the purposes of the "silent assasin" from the movie, the best type of bullet would be a small diameter, long length and large mass subsonic round.
I personally tested the Coke bottle silencer with 3 different types of ammunition. If you are in the U.S., that would require a ATF license, I forget what kind. I suggest you don't mention it if you didn't get a license, because they have been known to prosecute people for having makeshift silencers, no matter their effectiveness.
Sounds like typical UK Ingsoc behavior - fuck up the public services, then take the prole's anger and direct it against the private sector because it's so unfair that not everyone gets equal(bad) treatment, how dare the rich not suffer!
Site was interesting, but sometimes comes across as nitpicky about things that really shouldn't be criticized, like the whole visible lasers or flashing bullet impacts - he doesn't really ask himself if it would make the movie any better if the lasers weren't visible or you couldn't see the impacts. Hell, you'd think the fact they're using hand-held laser weapons would be the bigger problem, if you can accept that why not visible lasers.
And his section on silenced guns is wrong. Subsonic 7.62mm ammo exists that won't make a sonic boom, and despite his hand-waving about how it's only theoretical and not better than pistol rounds, it is used in the real world. He does not seem to do any fact-finding before doing his math. I have heard in person a silenced Mac-11 firing 9mm subsonic, and it did indeed make only a "pfft" sound and a mechanical cycling sound.
They don't just copy the look and feel or general shape, they copied the Apple logo, and actually put the Apple name on their products. If that's not the most blatant fraud I've ever seen, I don't know what is.
The problem with many of the arguments I've heard against climate change are that they are taking the philosophy of science out of the lab and into the real world without considering what the differences are between real-world descision making and abstract notions of proof and truth.
In scientific research, there is no consequence to whether a hypothesis turns out to be true or false, there is only a consequence to getting the answer wrong. In the real world, one must weight the possible consequences of each side and the likelyhood of each outcome in order to make a rational decision.
I would much rather trust an economist, a math person trained to factor in the possible consequences of the courses of action, than a lab scientist who is not in the habit of thinking through the results of his research.
ITT: We talk out of our asses about stuf we don't even bother to research.
Follow the link, go to the last page, and watch the fucking video. If that's not the most blatant ripoff I've ever seen, I've got some swampland in Senzhen to sell you.
Did you even see the fucking video? They didn't copy the iPhone hardware, which is what you're implying. Instead, they made what appears to be a very inferior copy, and slapped the iPhone label and even the Apple logo on it. It would count as fraud even if we didn't have trademark laws, as it is trying to pass off your inferior product as someone else's.
The fact that it's packaged as an Apple product means that consumers could be tricked into buying this inferior product, or assume that Apple made it and thus conclude that Apple is a shitty company. False Flag operations are a bad thing, in both warfare and business.
We are not talking about Platonic ideas of knowledge here, this is just a ripoff.
I know Coke/Pepsi use different sweetners for its drinks based on local price and taste variations, so is there a possibility the caffine levels could vary as well? Also, what do they put in Coke that caffinates it? Do they just pour an amount of pure caffine in, or what?
I just gotta love this - I guess Clinton was looking out for his redneck friends?
BOREL, Arthur David Little Rock, Arkansas Odometer rollback BOREL, Douglas Charles Conway, Arkansas Odometer rollback DUNCAN, Larry Lee Branson, Missouri Altering an automobile odometer
Heh. I'm east Asian, and I have been mistaken for Mexican, and have friends mistaken for Native American. I think the US categorization scheme works something like, White/Black/Mexican/Other.
Agreed. My mom has hated Apple COMPUTERS ever since she had to do tech support for a college using OS 9 iMacs, but she loves her iPod nano. And yesterday, I got a call from her saying she really wanted to get an iPhone after using it at the store. I talked her out of it because it is $500 for a v1.0 product, and we would have to switch phone providers, but she really liked it. My mom is by no means a tech illiterate, but she doesn't take pleasure from working on it like most slashdotters do. The fact that Apple were able to impress her is a good sign, I think.
I think Apple has come a long way in the past five years. Becoming a consumer electornics-centered company is really helping them, because I think it fits their philosophy of controlling the user experience much better than trying to simplify computers into consumer electronics, which is what they used to do.
Care to name the tests that go to such lengths? FWIW, I've not heard of any major tests doing this. I know I was advised to guess on SAT and ACT, and I doubt TOEFL, AVSAB, GRE, GMAT, are much different.
Basically, it sounds like you're talking about a very few tests in niche areas.
Why was the parent post modded down? it's an opposing viewpoint to the usual/., and it's presented in a thoughtful, thinking manner. This is the kind of comment that should be modded up, not down.
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Not to mention Action Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Force, a catoon series that re-edited the 1980s GI Joe series into a "International heroes" team with no specific references to them being the US in dialogue, for the British audience.
For extra LOLs, check out their openings: They removed the "American hero" part from the dub, but they still have rather prominent American flags and landmarks in the animation.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BRf4c-p6VWg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eCaoBYYj3_I
The concept is based on the British equivalent to the old GI Joe, Action Man.
Nowadays I think even they have gotten into the pink = girls thing, but I like how their traditional children's colors are bolder primary colors instead of the washed-out pastels of the west.
IIRC, in Japan it used to be black for boys, red(crimson) for girls. Way more powerful, even for the girls.
Household = family unit, you fucking retard.
It's pretty obvious, unless you're an idiot.
You don't have to believe the claim of reincarnation, any more than you have to believe that God selected the pope through divine influence on the ballots of the college of cardinals. Basically, what you're saying is like holding the Christian God responsible for all the bad things popes have done over the centuries, and then saying that God is evil.
If you don't believe the theology of a particular theocracy, using an argument that presupposes the truthfulness of their beliefs is illogical. The vast majority of those who support Tibetan independence are not Buddhists, let alone Tibetan Buddhists.
...and that was found out after the whole scare was over. Have you ever thought of decision-making with unknown variables?
Christ, I suppose you think shutting down air traffic on 9/11/01 was stupid because there turned out to be no more hijacked planes?
It's a good thing you're not their lawyer, or you'd get them in a lot of trouble.
I don't get the attempted denial of the request in the first place. Yes, for space reasons you might not log traffic on your site, but when a judge tells you to, why the hell would you think that it being in RAM and not disk would make it immune from subpeona? Just buy another hard drive and start logging the relevant data.
And if you actually gave them a actual recording of all the data going into RAM in a way that could be replayed step-by-step (Not possible without a VM, I know), they would probably be okay with that.
Just a guess, but I'd assume it's because his worldview of "clash of civilizations" actually mirrors the Islamists, but from a different side. The fact that he's a serious scholar of history also makes it less likely to have threats, I'd imagine.
If you look at things like Japanese nationalism in the 30's or other nationalist movements, they tend to get pissed of not at serious critiques of their country, but at trivializing depictions of them. I suspect that for a Christian precher to say that Muhammad was a false prophet would not get the kind of reaction that the cartoons did.
Also, you are asking a movement with perhaps millions of people, out of a religion with billions, to have a consistent response to something. This is clearly impossible, even the U.S. government has contradictory views on matters like whether to support repressive regime X or condemn it.
I am not the guy you were arguing with, but -
1. That's because the rest of the western industrialized countries decided that manned spaceflight (or suborbital slingshot) was not worth pursuing. Certainly the UK and France would have been able to do it, not just their governments but their private aerospace firms. It's just that manned aerospace ventures in or near space were basically publicity stunts performed by the US and Soviets, as is the X-Prize for companies. Because they have very little in scientific or economic returns, the rest of the west decided to build other "prestiege projects", like a supersonic airliner or supercolliders.
2 & 3 - ??? You have to be a musician to claim the White Stripes are the best rock band ever. Users must have coding experience & their own news site before commenting on the quality of Slashdot. That's about the quality of your arguments there.
I do know amatuer rocket builders who have gotten their rockets to 10,000 feet, who are really psyched about the SS1/X-Prize stuff. But even they would not consider it to be impressive in terms of historical comparisons with NASA. What's impressive is not how far they went, but how little resources they used to get there.
I think you missed the point... the fact is, you probably shouldn't insult the people who were injured by your (apparently defective) product.
And yes, it would be considered an insult in Japan, where the gender roles are more strongly defined than in the US.
I think this bit of disassembly and reassembly was more impressive. Probably more useful, too :D
Sorry to take some time in replying. Here are my thoughts on the matter, admittedly not from a professional policeman/scientist/assasin (that would be an interesting movie character! :)
A 7.62mm Nato bullet has the following advantages over a pistol round like the 9mm pistol round you mentioned.
Greater mass:
- More momentum in the bullet, which means:
--- Longer range due to reducing the reduction in speed from air resistance
--- Greater force on impact from the decceleration on the target
--- Greater resistance to sideways wind drift
Bullet shape:
- Smaller profile
- More aerodynamic shape
--- Both add to the range by decreasing drag and air resistance.
I think the problem is that most of the uses of silenced/suppressed weapons is very different from that of a long-range assasin. Mostly they are used so that team members can hear each other, to suppress flash, and at close range. In theory, for the purposes of the "silent assasin" from the movie, the best type of bullet would be a small diameter, long length and large mass subsonic round.
I personally tested the Coke bottle silencer with 3 different types of ammunition.
If you are in the U.S., that would require a ATF license, I forget what kind. I suggest you don't mention it if you didn't get a license, because they have been known to prosecute people for having makeshift silencers, no matter their effectiveness.
Sounds like typical UK Ingsoc behavior - fuck up the public services, then take the prole's anger and direct it against the private sector because it's so unfair that not everyone gets equal(bad) treatment, how dare the rich not suffer!
Don't forget the other crucial ingredient, pumice. You can't have Lava Soap without pumice...
I think some cultures actually used rough stones or plants as their primary method of cleaning, too.
Site was interesting, but sometimes comes across as nitpicky about things that really shouldn't be criticized, like the whole visible lasers or flashing bullet impacts - he doesn't really ask himself if it would make the movie any better if the lasers weren't visible or you couldn't see the impacts. Hell, you'd think the fact they're using hand-held laser weapons would be the bigger problem, if you can accept that why not visible lasers.
And his section on silenced guns is wrong. Subsonic 7.62mm ammo exists that won't make a sonic boom, and despite his hand-waving about how it's only theoretical and not better than pistol rounds, it is used in the real world. He does not seem to do any fact-finding before doing his math. I have heard in person a silenced Mac-11 firing 9mm subsonic, and it did indeed make only a "pfft" sound and a mechanical cycling sound.
Example of subsonic 7.62mm here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=socgmULGVOA
Is it just me, or is Uwe Boll doing more damage to the image of the video game industry than Jack Thompson?
They don't just copy the look and feel or general shape, they copied the Apple logo, and actually put the Apple name on their products. If that's not the most blatant fraud I've ever seen, I don't know what is.
The problem with many of the arguments I've heard against climate change are that they are taking the philosophy of science out of the lab and into the real world without considering what the differences are between real-world descision making and abstract notions of proof and truth.
In scientific research, there is no consequence to whether a hypothesis turns out to be true or false, there is only a consequence to getting the answer wrong. In the real world, one must weight the possible consequences of each side and the likelyhood of each outcome in order to make a rational decision.
I would much rather trust an economist, a math person trained to factor in the possible consequences of the courses of action, than a lab scientist who is not in the habit of thinking through the results of his research.
ITT: We talk out of our asses about stuf we don't even bother to research.
Follow the link, go to the last page, and watch the fucking video. If that's not the most blatant ripoff I've ever seen, I've got some swampland in Senzhen to sell you.
Did you even see the fucking video? They didn't copy the iPhone hardware, which is what you're implying. Instead, they made what appears to be a very inferior copy, and slapped the iPhone label and even the Apple logo on it. It would count as fraud even if we didn't have trademark laws, as it is trying to pass off your inferior product as someone else's.
The fact that it's packaged as an Apple product means that consumers could be tricked into buying this inferior product, or assume that Apple made it and thus conclude that Apple is a shitty company. False Flag operations are a bad thing, in both warfare and business.
We are not talking about Platonic ideas of knowledge here, this is just a ripoff.
I know Coke/Pepsi use different sweetners for its drinks based on local price and taste variations, so is there a possibility the caffine levels could vary as well? Also, what do they put in Coke that caffinates it? Do they just pour an amount of pure caffine in, or what?
I just gotta love this - I guess Clinton was looking out for his redneck friends?
BOREL, Arthur David Little Rock, Arkansas Odometer rollback
BOREL, Douglas Charles Conway, Arkansas Odometer rollback
DUNCAN, Larry Lee Branson, Missouri Altering an automobile odometer
I guess Ferris Buhler had the right idea....
Heh. I'm east Asian, and I have been mistaken for Mexican, and have friends mistaken for Native American. I think the US categorization scheme works something like, White/Black/Mexican/Other.
Agreed. My mom has hated Apple COMPUTERS ever since she had to do tech support for a college using OS 9 iMacs, but she loves her iPod nano. And yesterday, I got a call from her saying she really wanted to get an iPhone after using it at the store. I talked her out of it because it is $500 for a v1.0 product, and we would have to switch phone providers, but she really liked it. My mom is by no means a tech illiterate, but she doesn't take pleasure from working on it like most slashdotters do. The fact that Apple were able to impress her is a good sign, I think.
I think Apple has come a long way in the past five years. Becoming a consumer electornics-centered company is really helping them, because I think it fits their philosophy of controlling the user experience much better than trying to simplify computers into consumer electronics, which is what they used to do.
Care to name the tests that go to such lengths? FWIW, I've not heard of any major tests doing this. I know I was advised to guess on SAT and ACT, and I doubt TOEFL, AVSAB, GRE, GMAT, are much different.
Basically, it sounds like you're talking about a very few tests in niche areas.
Why was the parent post modded down? it's an opposing viewpoint to the usual /., and it's presented in a thoughtful, thinking manner. This is the kind of comment that should be modded up, not down.