Doesn't it seem strange to celebrate what was, after all, a major loss for our civilization? The fact that we lost both opening chapters of the space race (Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1) is a national shame, which should be burned into our memory to be sure, but celebrated? Hardly.
Celebrating the victories of our enemies is like spitting on the graves of the hundreds of thousands who died in the cold war.
I suppose you're still pissed off that the Chinese invented gunpowder three thousand years ago?
The funniest thing is the guy's handle is "molotov303", so he named his online persona after a protege of Stalin. Nice going, comrade!
Wind and solar, while definitely on the rise, will never completely replace base load power generation such as nuclear plants.
Why not? Use wind and solar power to pump water uphill all day (or heat up some big mass of salt to 5000F or whatever) and tap that energy (water running downhill runs turbine, or heat boils water and steam runs turbine) when wind and solar aren't producing.
Natural Selection suggests that mutations occour over time & those that are beneficial to the species get carried forward. But not every monkey would suddenly mutate....some wouldn't mutate at all & would carry on as fucking monkeys, while another group moved up the evolutionary ladder.
They get out-competed (food, breeding, not dying as often, etc) by the mutants who are better adapted to their environment and eventually die out. See Neanderthals.
By the way, back to evolution, shouldn't there be dozens... maybe hundreds... maybe thousands of fossils of creatures somewhere between monkeys and humans? Or did that evolution happen in one generation?
In constant dollars, the poor (20th percentile) are making 225% more now than in 1947, and the rich (95th percentile) are making about 300% more. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distribution_1947-2007.svg)
Talk about being diingenuious. Percentages mean nothing. It's about DOLLAR AMOUNTS.
20% in 1947: $14,000 20% in 2007: $28,000 increase: $14,000
95% in 1947: $66,000 95% in 2007: $190,000 increase: $124,000
Meanwhile, the costs of basic necessities (food, energy to heat/cool a home, housing, transportation to get to a job) have gone through the roof. Those costs are the same for a 20%er (large portion of their income) and a 95%er (tiny portion of their income).
Either way it's not a justification for taking away my right of free association and compelling me to do business with a scum-sucking for-profit insurance company as a condition of American citizenship.
Hmmmm, looks like you should have supported single-payer when you had the chance...
Care to venture a guess as to how many Iraqis died at the hands of the Saddam regime?
So why did we wait 2years after the gas attacks to go into Iraq? It clearly was not a civilian-protecting mission, it was a protect-Kuwait-and-(wait for it)-OIL mission.
Actually? No, it is not a serious issue. 800,000 GOVT employees *not working* is status quo, is it not?
You know, I get really fucking sick of this attitude. I can't tell if you're joking or not, but [rant mode on].
I used to be a Fed working for an Inspector's General office (as an IT guy), which recovered funds to the tune of FOUR TIMES our operating expenses/budget by performing financial criminal fraud/audit investigations. Yes, we paid for ourselves 3 times over. I went to the office every day and WORKED like any other private worker. So did my auditor and investigator co-workers.
Hell, I do LESS work/have more downtime now as a programmer at a small, privately-held IT company than I did as a Fed.
I still have friends at that office (6 years later) and they'll pretty much ALL be furloughed due to a shutdown. So yeah, this does affect real, normal people with families and bills to pay.
I use Gingerbread as my daily driver on my MT3G (original). Works fine, seems just as fast as CM6/Froyo. A little swap and overclocking goes a long way, as does the new (well, months ago new) radio that frees up about 10MB of RAM.
"My recommendation is they should consider establishing a small commission to independently convert the data into comprehensible units of risk for the public so people know what they are dealing with and can take sensible decisions," he added.
I can do that!
Water in turbine room emitting 1000 mSv/hr
Average background radiation abosrbed by a US resident in a year: 2.98044 mSv (.00034 mSv/hr)
One hour in turbine room = 335.5 years worth of background radiation
Radiation exposure health effects (if exposed to listed amounts in a 24 hour period):
1000 - 3000 mSv: Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3000 - 6000 mSv: Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
(Incidentally, traffic from Steam and quite a few other popular sources is 'free' on my ISP, i.e. not counted towards my usage - as a gamer this makes a huge difference and is one of the reasons I picked this particular ISP).
I guess Net Neutrality is already needed today, not some far-off tomorrow. Le sigh.
This this a million times this. Stay as FAR AWAY from police as possible at all times. They're like a tornado of trouble and being in their vicinity, **even when you're doing good for society**, can damage you in all kinds of horrible ways.
both are malformed in the darwinian sense, the sense that neither, biologically, results in offspring
Ah, I don't think that's true. Just because homosexuality results in *those individuals* not having offspring doesn't mean that it's not good for the group of animals/species. Having some non-mating pairs that don't have offspring of their own obviously has some kind of biological advantage to the species, otherwise we wouldn't see it in the majority of mammals (and not just homosexual "acts", but bonded same-sex pairs).
I gotcha on pedophilia though. I feel great sympathy for people with that condition, so long as it is not acted upon.
Well thank you, Taco, for calling everybody who doesn't approve of homosexuality a bigot.
You're welcome! Bigot.
I'm being 100% serious, not trolling. You are a bigot, and the fact that you can't see if make it all the more telling.
most important of all of those factors is conditioning (like, allowing/encouraging yourself to think homosexual thoughts, or hanging around with homosexuals, for example)
That's not how personal preferences are formed. You don't have a genetic program that determines who you will have sex with.
Oh really? So why is homosexuality found in essentially every mammal species? I really doubt they *all* have some kind of socially-based sexual-preference-building apparatus that happens to make a small proportion of almost every mammal species gay.
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Texas actually has a very highly rated public school system
By whom? The Republic of Texas Education Board?
And what the hell kinda URL *is* net.princeton.edu.nyud.net anyway?
http://www.coralcdn.org/
It's been around since, what, 2005 or so? Where have you been?
Europeans and Asians who have real money, don't speak so loudly in restaurants, and wear something other than dirty T-shirts, shorts and flip flops...
Don't Asians pretty much keep the world flip-flop economy afloat? :)
http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
Doesn't it seem strange to celebrate what was, after all, a major loss for our civilization? The fact that we lost both opening chapters of the space race (Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1) is a national shame, which should be burned into our memory to be sure, but celebrated? Hardly.
Celebrating the victories of our enemies is like spitting on the graves of the hundreds of thousands who died in the cold war.
I suppose you're still pissed off that the Chinese invented gunpowder three thousand years ago?
The funniest thing is the guy's handle is "molotov303", so he named his online persona after a protege of Stalin. Nice going, comrade!
We are to connect to the VPN after we get there and download it if we need it.
And I hope you don't just drag that stuff to the recycle bin when you're done with it, otherwise it's still there for your next border crossing...
Wind and solar, while definitely on the rise, will never completely replace base load power generation such as nuclear plants.
Why not? Use wind and solar power to pump water uphill all day (or heat up some big mass of salt to 5000F or whatever) and tap that energy (water running downhill runs turbine, or heat boils water and steam runs turbine) when wind and solar aren't producing.
Natural Selection suggests that mutations occour over time & those that are beneficial to the species get carried forward. But not every monkey would suddenly mutate....some wouldn't mutate at all & would carry on as fucking monkeys, while another group moved up the evolutionary ladder.
They get out-competed (food, breeding, not dying as often, etc) by the mutants who are better adapted to their environment and eventually die out. See Neanderthals.
By the way, back to evolution, shouldn't there be dozens... maybe hundreds... maybe thousands of fossils of creatures somewhere between monkeys and humans? Or did that evolution happen in one generation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Homo
In constant dollars, the poor (20th percentile) are making 225% more now than in 1947, and the rich (95th percentile) are making about 300% more. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distribution_1947-2007.svg)
Talk about being diingenuious. Percentages mean nothing. It's about DOLLAR AMOUNTS.
20% in 1947: $14,000
20% in 2007: $28,000
increase: $14,000
95% in 1947: $66,000
95% in 2007: $190,000
increase: $124,000
Meanwhile, the costs of basic necessities (food, energy to heat/cool a home, housing, transportation to get to a job) have gone through the roof. Those costs are the same for a 20%er (large portion of their income) and a 95%er (tiny portion of their income).
Either way it's not a justification for taking away my right of free association and compelling me to do business with a scum-sucking for-profit insurance company as a condition of American citizenship.
Hmmmm, looks like you should have supported single-payer when you had the chance...
Care to venture a guess as to how many Iraqis died at the hands of the Saddam regime?
So why did we wait 2years after the gas attacks to go into Iraq? It clearly was not a civilian-protecting mission, it was a protect-Kuwait-and-(wait for it)-OIL mission.
Actually? No, it is not a serious issue. 800,000 GOVT employees *not working* is status quo, is it not?
You know, I get really fucking sick of this attitude. I can't tell if you're joking or not, but [rant mode on].
I used to be a Fed working for an Inspector's General office (as an IT guy), which recovered funds to the tune of FOUR TIMES our operating expenses/budget by performing financial criminal fraud/audit investigations. Yes, we paid for ourselves 3 times over. I went to the office every day and WORKED like any other private worker. So did my auditor and investigator co-workers.
Hell, I do LESS work/have more downtime now as a programmer at a small, privately-held IT company than I did as a Fed.
I still have friends at that office (6 years later) and they'll pretty much ALL be furloughed due to a shutdown. So yeah, this does affect real, normal people with families and bills to pay.
Actually, the new high-THC Cannabis strains have been shown to cause psychosis.
Actually, you're full of shit.
I use Gingerbread as my daily driver on my MT3G (original). Works fine, seems just as fast as CM6/Froyo. A little swap and overclocking goes a long way, as does the new (well, months ago new) radio that frees up about 10MB of RAM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932118
I'm running RC6.1 as we speak.
"My recommendation is they should consider establishing a small commission to independently convert the data into comprehensible units of risk for the public so people know what they are dealing with and can take sensible decisions," he added.
I can do that!
Water in turbine room emitting 1000 mSv/hr
Average background radiation abosrbed by a US resident in a year: 2.98044 mSv (.00034 mSv/hr)
One hour in turbine room = 335.5 years worth of background radiation
Radiation exposure health effects (if exposed to listed amounts in a 24 hour period):
1000 - 3000 mSv: Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3000 - 6000 mSv: Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
(Incidentally, traffic from Steam and quite a few other popular sources is 'free' on my ISP, i.e. not counted towards my usage - as a gamer this makes a huge difference and is one of the reasons I picked this particular ISP).
I guess Net Neutrality is already needed today, not some far-off tomorrow. Le sigh.
This this a million times this. Stay as FAR AWAY from police as possible at all times. They're like a tornado of trouble and being in their vicinity, **even when you're doing good for society**, can damage you in all kinds of horrible ways.
Not worth the risk, ever.
both are malformed in the darwinian sense, the sense that neither, biologically, results in offspring
Ah, I don't think that's true. Just because homosexuality results in *those individuals* not having offspring doesn't mean that it's not good for the group of animals/species. Having some non-mating pairs that don't have offspring of their own obviously has some kind of biological advantage to the species, otherwise we wouldn't see it in the majority of mammals (and not just homosexual "acts", but bonded same-sex pairs).
I gotcha on pedophilia though. I feel great sympathy for people with that condition, so long as it is not acted upon.
a (former) gay man
There is no such thing, you idiot. Only a repressed and damaged one.
Well thank you, Taco, for calling everybody who doesn't approve of homosexuality a bigot.
You're welcome! Bigot.
I'm being 100% serious, not trolling. You are a bigot, and the fact that you can't see if make it all the more telling.
most important of all of those factors is conditioning (like, allowing/encouraging yourself to think homosexual thoughts, or hanging around with homosexuals, for example)
Uh huh. [CITATION NEEDED]
commodore64_love has been on my foes list for AGES, I guess I just need to add a few of his other aliases.
There's this amazing technology called EMAIL you may have heard of. I understand it's even available on smart phones...
Do you have any proof that homosexuality is not a preference? Because I haven't seen science offer any evidence yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
That's not how personal preferences are formed. You don't have a genetic program that determines who you will have sex with.
Oh really? So why is homosexuality found in essentially every mammal species? I really doubt they *all* have some kind of socially-based sexual-preference-building apparatus that happens to make a small proportion of almost every mammal species gay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_displaying_homosexual_behavior