Aw...those fluffy little Iranians wouldn't hurt anyone, they only want to protect themselves...from the women and children in Syria that Assad is busy killing with the Iranian lapdogs, Hezbollah, or the useful idiots from Iraq they've convinced to fight in Syria, or their own poor suckers they've sent there? Them are some ferocious women and children they're killing. Or those naughty Jews in Israel who never gave a flying rat's ass about Iran until Iran decided to care about Israel? Or is it the Big Bad Sunnis in Iraq they can use as a foil to re-kindle their centuries long theocratic war?
And how do you know the Iranians don't think they can use nukes? There's no deterrent unless you actually have plans to use the damn things.
Well, seismic waves travel differently between what we define to be the crust and the mantle. So yes, there is something else down there that is not crust, we call it the mantle. You might try wikipedia, this is the teens, honey.
Well, that...but it is also a nice tidy way to effectively patent the unpatentable. This is an end run around the notion that mathematics is not patentable. Nope, now it's a "trade secret"...cue the angelic choir of thousands of lawyers giving thanks.
Appease? Hah? Ask them how much the spirits want and which escrow account to deposit the funds. And no naughty siphoning off the money by the natives, they aren't dead yet.
"continued American presence in the Middle East (which has arguably created much of this situation)."
Certainly arguably. The Middle East has been a cesspool of competing murderers for millennia. The current crowd didn't need the U.S. to get all wound up about Allah, Muhammed, women's rights, women's ankles, movies, etc. If the U.S. didn't exist, they'd invent some other dragons to attempt to slay. It is all about the size of their dicks and being able to tell others what to do. In that sense, Islam itself is superfluous for them, they'd use some other inflammatory vehicle or merely invent a new one. They aren't particular, anything for political power will do.
Ah, so your argument is that because he doesn't have an adequate theory to replace yours, your flea bitten theory must prevail.
I don't know what the right theory is either, and neither do you. Attributing the extra gravity phenomenon to dark matter is nothing more than a variation on the G-d-of-the-Gaps. Got a problem with gravity, Dark Matter. You could give the alien guy Georgio with the electric hair a run for his money.
Where did you get the idea that the Syrian refugees to the U.S. were poorly vetted? It takes the Feds about 2 years to vet one and that's using FBI and military databases as well as European databases. They are properly vetted, stop repeating Republican talking points from T.V., it is bad for you.
Yeah, yer right. It is easy to figure out which messages to decrypt, all you have to do is ask the sender and receiver if it is important and dangerous to U.S. security.
I can see where it might be useful in certain situations. However, when it gets used with other Agile fluff to simply produce a dirty snowball of design layers with no overall architecture produced, then it becomes a headless snake. It also tends to get misused by management who see it as a way to micro-manage developers thereby pissing off the very developers upon whom they are depending.
The future of air warfare (neglecting space) is pilotless aircraft. They can pull much higher Gs and no pilot means you don't have to put up with propaganda showing captured pilots. Just about all of the U.S. military knows this except a few spaghetti splattered uniformed Air Force generals.
Oh, which country has the U.S. stolen since WWII, Tibet? Which sea is the U.S. claiming to entirely own, the S. China Sea? And them missiles aimed at Taiwan, the U.S. is claiming to own that as well?
I guess being a world renown logician don't mean you can reason. For how long are the now half idled pinmakers to be kept on the company payroll? Is the total number of pinmakers static over time neglecting that economies shift over time? Suppose a new company is formed to make pins and starts producing pins with half the workforce, so their pins are cheaper and the first company goes out of business.
This reminds me of the philosophers and Deep Thought when Deep Thought tells them they could have the lifestyle of their dreams by becoming more or less sales-droids for Deep Thought during the run up to his solution to the question of life, the universe, and everything. One turns to the other and says, how come we don't reason like that.
The interesting part seems to be that at least scientists use different weights between asking their opinion (such as a poll) and gambling on outcomes with real money.
" This stuff is regularly abused in the US, with no technological barriers to a political operative misusing the system currently (i.e. without a warrant.)"
Reference or are you just talking out of your ass?
Roughly 25 years ago, I did work on a system that went to a major drug company. I learned that at that time, it cost roughly $1 billion to get a new drug to market. Of the hundreds of candidates that they would start testing, only 1 or 2 would have the right properties of not killing the patient, not having horrible side effects, etc. And the documentation required by the regulators would fill several semis, because it isn't enough to prove to yourselves that you have a wonder drug, you must prove it to the regulators. This is to prevent Joe's Bait and Pharmacology Shop from putting snake oil on the market. Once on the market, your drug must compete against others. And if those others are in their generic phase, you can express pricing pressure as well.
Then the market for the drug must be assessed. In the case of antibiotics, there are many of them out there, many in generics, so bringing a new one on the market is destined to not sell well...at least as long as too many people aren't dying from super-bugs.
This is a prime area for government research and development. The conservatives and libertarians will whine about the fed. gov. getting into the drug business. However, this is what we expect our government to do, i.e., make up for the shortfalls of private industry. The way I look at it, private industry has a big tote board. When frequency of deaths due to super-bugs rise above a certain level, they'll move. Until then, the conservatives and libertarians will gladly attend your funeral...just kidding, they don't give a flying rat's ass about you.
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Blow thorium reactors out your ass, they won't work.
Um....the oil market is a Market, hence the name. Shut off mideast oil and watch how high the price goes.
Aw...those fluffy little Iranians wouldn't hurt anyone, they only want to protect themselves...from the women and children in Syria that Assad is busy killing with the Iranian lapdogs, Hezbollah, or the useful idiots from Iraq they've convinced to fight in Syria, or their own poor suckers they've sent there? Them are some ferocious women and children they're killing. Or those naughty Jews in Israel who never gave a flying rat's ass about Iran until Iran decided to care about Israel? Or is it the Big Bad Sunnis in Iraq they can use as a foil to re-kindle their centuries long theocratic war?
And how do you know the Iranians don't think they can use nukes? There's no deterrent unless you actually have plans to use the damn things.
Well, seismic waves travel differently between what we define to be the crust and the mantle. So yes, there is something else down there that is not crust, we call it the mantle. You might try wikipedia, this is the teens, honey.
Hmmm...now we know where Donald Trump came from....don't suppose there's any chance of getting that particular toothpaste back in the tube...
Well, that...but it is also a nice tidy way to effectively patent the unpatentable. This is an end run around the notion that mathematics is not patentable. Nope, now it's a "trade secret"...cue the angelic choir of thousands of lawyers giving thanks.
Appease? Hah? Ask them how much the spirits want and which escrow account to deposit the funds. And no naughty siphoning off the money by the natives, they aren't dead yet.
Pay off the natives like they wanted, build telescope, leave religion behind.
Only after China gives Tibet back to the Tibetans and apologizes for the atrocities they've committed there.
"continued American presence in the Middle East (which has arguably created much of this situation)."
Certainly arguably. The Middle East has been a cesspool of competing murderers for millennia. The current crowd didn't need the U.S. to get all wound up about Allah, Muhammed, women's rights, women's ankles, movies, etc. If the U.S. didn't exist, they'd invent some other dragons to attempt to slay. It is all about the size of their dicks and being able to tell others what to do. In that sense, Islam itself is superfluous for them, they'd use some other inflammatory vehicle or merely invent a new one. They aren't particular, anything for political power will do.
Ah, so your argument is that because he doesn't have an adequate theory to replace yours, your flea bitten theory must prevail.
I don't know what the right theory is either, and neither do you. Attributing the extra gravity phenomenon to dark matter is nothing more than a variation on the G-d-of-the-Gaps. Got a problem with gravity, Dark Matter. You could give the alien guy Georgio with the electric hair a run for his money.
Georgio!!! I was wondering when you'd show up.
Where did you get the idea that the Syrian refugees to the U.S. were poorly vetted? It takes the Feds about 2 years to vet one and that's using FBI and military databases as well as European databases. They are properly vetted, stop repeating Republican talking points from T.V., it is bad for you.
It could have been done by Putin's little green men so that two-headed rat can claim he needs to protect the Crimea from terrorists.
Yeah, yer right. It is easy to figure out which messages to decrypt, all you have to do is ask the sender and receiver if it is important and dangerous to U.S. security.
This is why I use Seamonkey, the interface doesn't change. I don't have to stand on my head and hop up and down just to use it.
Whatever, I very much dislike the flat UI. It is hard to say just why, but it sort of has the stench of windows that won't go away.
I can see where it might be useful in certain situations. However, when it gets used with other Agile fluff to simply produce a dirty snowball of design layers with no overall architecture produced, then it becomes a headless snake. It also tends to get misused by management who see it as a way to micro-manage developers thereby pissing off the very developers upon whom they are depending.
The future of air warfare (neglecting space) is pilotless aircraft. They can pull much higher Gs and no pilot means you don't have to put up with propaganda showing captured pilots. Just about all of the U.S. military knows this except a few spaghetti splattered uniformed Air Force generals.
Oh, which country has the U.S. stolen since WWII, Tibet? Which sea is the U.S. claiming to entirely own, the S. China Sea? And them missiles aimed at Taiwan, the U.S. is claiming to own that as well?
I guess being a world renown logician don't mean you can reason. For how long are the now half idled pinmakers to be kept on the company payroll? Is the total number of pinmakers static over time neglecting that economies shift over time? Suppose a new company is formed to make pins and starts producing pins with half the workforce, so their pins are cheaper and the first company goes out of business.
This reminds me of the philosophers and Deep Thought when Deep Thought tells them they could have the lifestyle of their dreams by becoming more or less sales-droids for Deep Thought during the run up to his solution to the question of life, the universe, and everything. One turns to the other and says, how come we don't reason like that.
The interesting part seems to be that at least scientists use different weights between asking their opinion (such as a poll) and gambling on outcomes with real money.
" This stuff is regularly abused in the US, with no technological barriers to a political operative misusing the system currently (i.e. without a warrant.)"
Reference or are you just talking out of your ass?
Roughly 25 years ago, I did work on a system that went to a major drug company. I learned that at that time, it cost roughly $1 billion to get a new drug to market. Of the hundreds of candidates that they would start testing, only 1 or 2 would have the right properties of not killing the patient, not having horrible side effects, etc. And the documentation required by the regulators would fill several semis, because it isn't enough to prove to yourselves that you have a wonder drug, you must prove it to the regulators. This is to prevent Joe's Bait and Pharmacology Shop from putting snake oil on the market. Once on the market, your drug must compete against others. And if those others are in their generic phase, you can express pricing pressure as well.
Then the market for the drug must be assessed. In the case of antibiotics, there are many of them out there, many in generics, so bringing a new one on the market is destined to not sell well...at least as long as too many people aren't dying from super-bugs.
This is a prime area for government research and development. The conservatives and libertarians will whine about the fed. gov. getting into the drug business. However, this is what we expect our government to do, i.e., make up for the shortfalls of private industry. The way I look at it, private industry has a big tote board. When frequency of deaths due to super-bugs rise above a certain level, they'll move. Until then, the conservatives and libertarians will gladly attend your funeral...just kidding, they don't give a flying rat's ass about you.
Putin gets away with it because the American Administration doesn't have the balls to stand up to him.