911 is overrated. The chances that you are going to really, life-or-death, need it are pretty small. Maybe if you live with a bunch of people who've already got medical conditions - maybe. But I'm pretty confident that even in almost all of those cases, a delay of a couple of minutes wouldn't make a bit of difference.
These days, errors are very common, and I'm literally amazed that x86s don't have better-than-ECC error detection and correction. All the commercial Unix vendors have them.
Intel's been trying to 'protect' the market for itanium - those cpus have had it for years, probably from day 1. HP definitely markets MCA has a big feature of their itanium based systems.
If AMD were smart, they would have incorporated it into their Opteron line just like they did x64 to cut Intel off at the knees.
Where is "here?" Everywhere in Europe that I know about, the customs officials' only interest in "foreign merchandise" is to make sure VAT gets paid.
I've purchased from Amazon's France, Japan and UK stores for shipment to the USA without a problem and I know plenty of people in various parts of Europe who have done the same.
There is very little stopping you from purchasing the content you want from places where it is available. There are even some stores that cater to that market and will import the content for you and sell it to you at retail.
Clearly, you have yet to learn about the 'strawman' in your quest to be the most logical and consistent being that ever existed.
Right back at you lowgain. Seriously, you've just demonstrated that you don't know what a strawman is - hint it isn't any characterization that makes your arguments look stupid.
Your next sentence doesn't even make sense (unanswered questions but nothing to play out...?) so I won't even approach it. Just face it - you're choking on your foot.
It should have read "no unanswered questions" simple enough typo that I didn't bother to post a correction. I should have realized that someone arguing for making decisions without thinking about them wouldn't be able to figure that out either.
Then you could have said "the evidence TC presented is hearsay at best" rather than claiming there was none.
Only if I wanted to lose a fight about semantics.
The only options as I see it are that Last.fm were done over by CBS selling user info to RIAA, or TC's informant was nobbled by someone with a huge grudge.
Or someone at TC has made up the story for any variety of reasons.
I am saying this to people who thinks just because Russia and USA doesn't blow stuff up, nukes are over. Nukes just explode digitally these days which means they must be progressing way better than ''Lets blow this thing and see what it does'' ages.
There is a difference. The nuke testing done on computers by the USA and Russia is done for purposes of maintenance of current stockpiles and was key to implementing the 1992 moratorium on testing. The simulations aren't generally about simulating explosions, they are about simulating decay and related aging of the current stockpiles so that we can know what nukes will still go boom if we launch them.
Speaking of 24, I love how the one person who tried to express concern for the Bill of Rights (this is around 02:00-05:00 in the bioweapon crisis) was portrayed as a villain who only wants to slow the police down and kill thousands of innocent people.
Do you mean when Garafolo's character complained about "racial profiling" because Jack wanted records of all muslims in the area? She was definitely wrong because the only clue they had was that the real bad guys were going to use muslims as fall guys. If instead the only clue they had was that the fall guys were going to be harvard graduates, then Jack would have wanted a list of all harvard graduates in the area instead.
On the flip side, they could have given her character a valid scenario to complain about, so in that sense they did portray people concerned about civil rights as being stupid and misguided.
According to the New Yorker magazine, Gen Finnegan, who teaches a course on the laws of war, said of the producers: "I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires... The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24'?"
I've been watching 24 with a critical eye since the first episode and I think they frequently portray torture as backfiring. The example that most comes to mind is when Jack tortured his brother - this brother told him a "small truth" in order to make the torture stop and avoid telling Jack the really big truth about his and his father's central role in that season's big plot. They've also tortured innocent people on at least one occasion. My impression has been that, until this most recent season, torture and other extreme interrogation methods (drugs) almost always impede Jack -- but they do move the story along and provide plausible reasons for people to do otherwise stupid things on the show that keep the tension high.
Since he was the original poster, he's entirely justified in wooooshing, since he clearly knows what his intent was -- whether or not anyone else knew it is a separate issue.
Some people don't go full-courtroom when making personal decisions, perhaps?
Sorry, an argument for not thinking isn't going to fly.
Why did you cancel on the day of the CBS buyout? Don' you think you should have given it a few more days or weeks to see how it really played out?
Because there were unanswered questions at the time, there was nothing to play out - the acquisition was a done deal. I cancelled because I didn't want to have anything to do with "old media" like CBS.
I cancelled my Last.fm account immediately after I read this article. Fu** them for this.
I shouldn't have done this from the start. I feel stupid. I should've seen something like this coming.
Talk about over-reacting. Don't you think you should give it a few more days or weeks to see how it really plays out?
I cancelled the day they announced the CBS buyout myself. But you waited through the buyout and the first variation of this story, maybe its true, maybe its false, but since you gave them the benefit of the doubt then, why are you cancelling now when there is really no new evidence, just a new variation on an old story?
Craigslist charges listing fees for real estate ads and job offer ads in major metropolitan centers. I'm pretty sure they are raking in a huge amount of cash.
And now, thanks to a bunch of clueless AGs, they also charge $5 per "Adult Services" ad too.
They'll either say no, or no comment. Then we'll know.
Lol. You think they wouldn't lie? What is the punishment if they lie and get caught? Nothing more than bad press. There are no fiscal penalties for lying about something like this. Of course they would lie if they thought there was even a remote chance of getting away with it, they have nothing to lose.
when you are the one projecting a ridiculous personal conception of science fiction authors?
Yeah, now we get down to your real issues. You've got some sort of hero worship bullshit going on and when I criticized the DHS you took it personally as a criticism of "science fiction authors."
That's why you totally misrepresented what I said and tried to portray it as some sort of endorsement of George Bush.
so hell: dump every nasty little bug out of every research lab into the biosphere. We could probably eliminate humanity (and every other furry thing with 2 or more legs) with what we have today.
Unlikely, bioweapons are really, really hard to get right. The real world is a bazillion times more complex than a lab. Something that works great under controlled conditions is probably gonna croak real quick once it gets into the real world. Sure it might kill a few thousand, maybe even a few million if released in the right place. But it isn't likely to last.
Just look at any of the bugs that have evolved in the real world - the more nasty they are, the more limited they are in the ability to spread. Stuff that was created without the benefit of evolving in the real world will have even more problems dealing with it.
IN general, this is a good thing. Keep it in mind the next time some talking-head goes on a fear-rant about bioterrorism.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you, but they've been lying to you. Not every single work of fiction is some deep allegory for some aspect of the human condition.
Just because the author does not intend his creation to be such doesn't mean it isn't. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and so is just about any sort of literary criticism.
Fucking control the borders and you cut out a lot of the need for first responders,
Because we will never have natural disasters like hurricanes Katrina, Ike or Gustav, wildfires or tornadoes, earthquakes, or plane crashes or chemical spills or landslides or tsunamis. Good plan.
My credibility, that derives from knowing how to read, and having read the SIGMA website and several of the blogs of its members?
And yet, you are completely incapable of providing a single link to back up your claims. Funny that.
As to your assertion, that a bureaucrat can anticipate threats better than science fiction authors
Not at all what I wrote. What I wrote was that focusing on the billions of one-off threats is a total waste of time and money because we can't afford to protect against every single threat someone can dream up.
But thanks for providing a perfect example of what I was talking about. So far we've had one semi-movie plot threat come true - just one. And look at the billions of dollars we've wasted on preventing it from happening again. Pick 10 more threats just like that and the war in Iraq starts to look cheap.
But lets take a step further and look at the kind of utterly ridiculous and pointless ideas these sci-fi writers have proposed:
Gee, he even comes right out and admits they aren't about broad-based planning, they are about conjuring up the improbable stuff.
And finally, the group includes fucking Jerry Pournelle. Anyone who has ever read his columns in Byte knows the guy is a bumbling narcissist who has a completely mis guided view about his own technical competence.
So yeah, I DO know WTF I'm talking about and you've proven quite well that YOU don't know jack shit.
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Remember, in real life, the RNG does not have a "streak compensator" built in.
That should help actually - if they are streaking it makes it a lot easier to tell if they are cunts or dicks.
Personally, I wouldn't want to drive on a surface that bright; I'd be squinting even with my sunglasses on!
If you've driven on an interstate in the mid-west, chances are you've driven on cement. It really isn't any worse than asphalt.
911 is overrated.
The chances that you are going to really, life-or-death, need it are pretty small.
Maybe if you live with a bunch of people who've already got medical conditions - maybe.
But I'm pretty confident that even in almost all of those cases, a delay of a couple of minutes wouldn't make a bit of difference.
These days, errors are very common, and I'm literally amazed that x86s don't have better-than-ECC error detection and correction. All the commercial Unix vendors have them.
Intel's been trying to 'protect' the market for itanium - those cpus have had it for years, probably from day 1. HP definitely markets MCA has a big feature of their itanium based systems.
If AMD were smart, they would have incorporated it into their Opteron line just like they did x64 to cut Intel off at the knees.
Where is "here?" Everywhere in Europe that I know about, the customs officials' only interest in "foreign merchandise" is to make sure VAT gets paid.
I've purchased from Amazon's France, Japan and UK stores for shipment to the USA without a problem and I know plenty of people in various parts of Europe who have done the same.
There is very little stopping you from purchasing the content you want from places where it is available.
There are even some stores that cater to that market and will import the content for you and sell it to you at retail.
Clearly, you have yet to learn about the 'strawman' in your quest to be the most logical and consistent being that ever existed.
Right back at you lowgain. Seriously, you've just demonstrated that you don't know what a strawman is - hint it isn't any characterization that makes your arguments look stupid.
Your next sentence doesn't even make sense (unanswered questions but nothing to play out...?) so I won't even approach it. Just face it - you're choking on your foot.
It should have read "no unanswered questions" simple enough typo that I didn't bother to post a correction. I should have realized that someone arguing for making decisions without thinking about them wouldn't be able to figure that out either.
Then you could have said "the evidence TC presented is hearsay at best" rather than claiming there was none.
Only if I wanted to lose a fight about semantics.
The only options as I see it are that Last.fm were done over by CBS selling user info to RIAA, or TC's informant was nobbled by someone with a huge grudge.
Or someone at TC has made up the story for any variety of reasons.
I am saying this to people who thinks just because Russia and USA doesn't blow stuff up, nukes are over. Nukes just explode digitally these days which means they must be progressing way better than ''Lets blow this thing and see what it does'' ages.
There is a difference. The nuke testing done on computers by the USA and Russia is done for purposes of maintenance of current stockpiles and was key to implementing the 1992 moratorium on testing. The simulations aren't generally about simulating explosions, they are about simulating decay and related aging of the current stockpiles so that we can know what nukes will still go boom if we launch them.
In the US, the federal program that handles this stuff (and puts a lot of systems on the Top500 list) is ASCI - the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative.
TC presented evidence. You may not find it convincing, but that is entirely different to it not existing.
What evidence? Undocumented claims by anonymous sources? That's not evidence, that's hearsay at best.
Speaking of 24, I love how the one person who tried to express concern for the Bill of Rights (this is around 02:00-05:00 in the bioweapon crisis) was portrayed as a villain who only wants to slow the police down and kill thousands of innocent people.
Do you mean when Garafolo's character complained about "racial profiling" because Jack wanted records of all muslims in the area? She was definitely wrong because the only clue they had was that the real bad guys were going to use muslims as fall guys. If instead the only clue they had was that the fall guys were going to be harvard graduates, then Jack would have wanted a list of all harvard graduates in the area instead.
On the flip side, they could have given her character a valid scenario to complain about, so in that sense they did portray people concerned about civil rights as being stupid and misguided.
According to the New Yorker magazine, Gen Finnegan, who teaches a course on the laws of war, said of the producers: "I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires... The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24'?"
I've been watching 24 with a critical eye since the first episode and I think they frequently portray torture as backfiring. The example that most comes to mind is when Jack tortured his brother - this brother told him a "small truth" in order to make the torture stop and avoid telling Jack the really big truth about his and his father's central role in that season's big plot. They've also tortured innocent people on at least one occasion. My impression has been that, until this most recent season, torture and other extreme interrogation methods (drugs) almost always impede Jack -- but they do move the story along and provide plausible reasons for people to do otherwise stupid things on the show that keep the tension high.
If the authors intent isn't important, why bother even reading the story?
I didn't say that the author's intent isn't important. I said that his intent isn't the only factor.
Since he was the original poster, he's entirely justified in wooooshing, since he clearly knows what his intent was -- whether or not anyone else knew it is a separate issue.
Some people don't go full-courtroom when making personal decisions, perhaps?
Sorry, an argument for not thinking isn't going to fly.
Why did you cancel on the day of the CBS buyout? Don' you think you should have given it a few more days or weeks to see how it really played out?
Because there were unanswered questions at the time, there was nothing to play out - the acquisition was a done deal. I cancelled because I didn't want to have anything to do with "old media" like CBS.
I cancelled my Last.fm account immediately after I read this article. Fu** them for this.
I shouldn't have done this from the start. I feel stupid. I should've seen something like this coming.
Talk about over-reacting. Don't you think you should give it a few more days or weeks to see how it really plays out?
I cancelled the day they announced the CBS buyout myself. But you waited through the buyout and the first variation of this story, maybe its true, maybe its false, but since you gave them the benefit of the doubt then, why are you cancelling now when there is really no new evidence, just a new variation on an old story?
Craigslist charges listing fees for real estate ads and job offer ads in major metropolitan centers. I'm pretty sure they are raking in a huge amount of cash.
And now, thanks to a bunch of clueless AGs, they also charge $5 per "Adult Services" ad too.
They'll either say no, or no comment. Then we'll know.
Lol. You think they wouldn't lie? What is the punishment if they lie and get caught? Nothing more than bad press. There are no fiscal penalties for lying about something like this. Of course they would lie if they thought there was even a remote chance of getting away with it, they have nothing to lose.
If a story is about anything you want it to be, then it's not really about anything at all.
That's about as meaningful as saying, "You have to stand for something, or you will fall for anything."
when you are the one projecting a ridiculous personal conception of science fiction authors?
Yeah, now we get down to your real issues. You've got some sort of hero worship bullshit going on and when I criticized the DHS you took it personally as a criticism of "science fiction authors."
That's why you totally misrepresented what I said and tried to portray it as some sort of endorsement of George Bush.
Grow up fanboi.
so hell: dump every nasty little bug out of every research lab into the biosphere. We could probably eliminate humanity (and every other furry thing with 2 or more legs) with what we have today.
Unlikely, bioweapons are really, really hard to get right. The real world is a bazillion times more complex than a lab. Something that works great under controlled conditions is probably gonna croak real quick once it gets into the real world. Sure it might kill a few thousand, maybe even a few million if released in the right place. But it isn't likely to last.
Just look at any of the bugs that have evolved in the real world - the more nasty they are, the more limited they are in the ability to spread. Stuff that was created without the benefit of evolving in the real world will have even more problems dealing with it.
IN general, this is a good thing. Keep it in mind the next time some talking-head goes on a fear-rant about bioterrorism.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you, but they've been lying to you. Not every single work of fiction is some deep allegory for some aspect of the human condition.
Just because the author does not intend his creation to be such doesn't mean it isn't. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and so is just about any sort of literary criticism.
Fucking control the borders and you cut out a lot of the need for first responders,
Because we will never have natural disasters like hurricanes Katrina, Ike or Gustav, wildfires or tornadoes, earthquakes, or plane crashes or chemical spills or landslides or tsunamis. Good plan.
My credibility, that derives from knowing how to read, and having read the SIGMA website and several of the blogs of its members?
And yet, you are completely incapable of providing a single link to back up your claims. Funny that.
As to your assertion, that a bureaucrat can anticipate threats better than science fiction authors
Not at all what I wrote. What I wrote was that focusing on the billions of one-off threats is a total waste of time and money because we can't afford to protect against every single threat someone can dream up.
But thanks for providing a perfect example of what I was talking about. So far we've had one semi-movie plot threat come true - just one. And look at the billions of dollars we've wasted on preventing it from happening again. Pick 10 more threats just like that and the war in Iraq starts to look cheap.
But lets take a step further and look at the kind of utterly ridiculous and pointless ideas these sci-fi writers have proposed:
Grind up and aerosolize pigs, spray it over an unruly population. Let the population know what just happened and remind them they won't go to Heaven with pork in their systems so it's not a good time to die.
an antibiotic that cures martyrdom;
At the Washington conference, Bear offered to put biometrics researchers in touch with movie special-effects experts. The experts might be able to help the government determine how to match the face of someone walking through an airport to a grainy photo of a known terrorist. -- Because we all know that movie special effects let you zoom in on any picture until it is clear, but only hollywood scientists know how to do that.
Bear says the writers offer powerful imaginations that can conjure up not only possible methods of attack, but also ideas about how governments and individuals will respond and what kinds of high-tech tools could prevent attacks.
Gee, he even comes right out and admits they aren't about broad-based planning, they are about conjuring up the improbable stuff.
And finally, the group includes fucking Jerry Pournelle. Anyone who has ever read his columns in Byte knows the guy is a bumbling narcissist who has a completely mis
guided view about his own technical competence.
So yeah, I DO know WTF I'm talking about and you've proven quite well that YOU don't know jack shit.
Except that most people don't walk around on the street corner with their wang out.
What? You don't walk out with your cock out?