Well, they would also have to well....
a) have electricity unless we are planning to have them use them for only 2 hours
b) know how to use a device they have never seen before in their lives
c) be literate, a lot of North Korean kids are skipping school to go help their family forage for food. Obviously North Korea does't release reliable statistics on literacy, but my bet is that it's dropping, and of course, it's in the governments best interest to let it drop for all but the smartest of individuals(somebodys gotta build those bombs)
d) find a way to hide/dispose of the laptops in houses that don't even have enough plates/bowls for people to eat out of, let alone furniture. You could bury them, but that has the potential to harm already poor farmland, exasperating famine.....
The North Korean government hates it's people, but damn if it isn't good at what it does.....
Not to mention, provided you don't have you know, a concience, Kim Jong Il lives better than Bill Gates and anyone else on thie planet for that matter; he gets as many virgins as he wants, drives whatever he wants, drinks whatever he wants, hell even kills whoever he wants just for fun I bet..........
If anything this will make it worse in North Korea, the government will see what is happening in places like China and make sure nobody but the elite of the elite even get internet access at all, let alone unfiltered access. China can't keep up a high level of policing as more and more people get internet access, the sheer numbers make it impossible. However propaganda is still valuable there. It seems that most people won't get upset if you tell them that the government is blocking something for your own good...
It's interesting to see how NK and China diverged. About 30 years ago they had very similiar styles of government, but China decided that in order to become prosperous it had to give up some control, but in the end China itself would be more powerful, whereas NK chose to keep it's people in the dark as much as possible. Interesting to compare the "success"(of course it depends on your definition of success in this case) of each government and it's plans
The Romans used to fling diseased corpses into the towns that they were laying siege to, and not surprisingly the tactic worked quite well. But can you fling a player into a town in WoW?
What could cause a person to get repeatedly shocked? I ask this from personal experience, my 2nd semester of college I was receiving well over 50 shocks(of various intensity) per WEEK. Didn't matter what I wore or were I was, I would get shcoked. On staircases, metal parts of chairs, the freezer in the cafeteria etc. It got so bad that I was constantly grounding myself with the back of my hand(hurts a lot less than the front of the hand). It got so bad my roomate could hear the cracking sound. I once even tried to beat it by touching the metal part of my pencil against a door, and that made an awesome blue spark. However, anything like that never happened before that semester or since.... What could have caused it?
Why?
If Nintendo was a Sega then we would probably would have never seen some of the great games that have come out and are coming out on the DS because they would have had to develop for other people's(Sony)'s platform. The only reason Sega did what they did was because that was the only other choice besides going bankrupt. Sega was losing tons of money and could no longer afford to design and manufacture new devices, so they were forced pretty much against their will to become a software only company.
Nintendo isn't exactly losing tons and tons of money likeRemember, Nintendo has only had 1 unprofitable quarter, and a big reason for that was Nintendo did not accurately predict the large downward swing in the dollar(hurt a company that measures profits in Yen). However, they have since taken corrective measures that shield them a bit from currency fluctuations....
If North Korea is going to nuke anybody, it will be Japan. Remember, they hate Japan almost as much as they hate the US(stemming from the colonization of Korea, but now it's just another enemy to saber rattle against). North Korea can easily hit Japan, a key US ally in East Asia and also a stationing point for US troops in the Pacific, with a nuclear weapon very easily(provided they have one). Remember, they shot a missile over Tokyo in the late 90's(1998 maybe?) as a warning of sorts....
Hate to break it to you, but in terms of failure rate, the Japanese space program is so far ahead of NASA it isn't even funny, yeah this one was successful, but overall the Japanese space program has been an expensive disaster. They have sent probe after probe after probe only to have them destroyed, they struggle to get even a basic satellite in orbit.....
NASA isn't perfect, but saying they are "behind" the Japanese space program is well, simply not true.
Or you could live in Japan which gets all of the above!(Well, I don't know how prevalent tornadoes are, but you do get a large mixture of natural disasters!)
are just going to leave the city for good? Seriously, if it takes 2 months to get things back to something that even remotely resembles "normal" what are people going to do in the intervening time? Esp. considering that most children were looking to go back to school soon. My bet is that there will be a significant "brain drain" out of the city/state. Young educated people are going to find a job somewhere else and not look back. I wonder if that will be taken into account when the final tolls are reached....
I do like his section on his beliefs, he raises some very good points. I used to be cynical and thought all relgious people were idiots, but lately I've come to realize that this was just my own sense of inflated ego fucking with me. Some of the smartest people have been religious believers. There have even been really smart fanatics, Mohamed Atta had a masters degree, and pretty much all the attackers in the sarin gas attack on Tokyo had degrees in engineering, many of them at least masters.
One minor gripe though, he discredits macro-evolution by calling into question the accuracy of carbon dating. This may be true, but Carbon-14 dating is just one tool in the arsenal of the macro-evolution scientist. For instance, even if carbon-14 dating isn't accurate, there is still the fossil record. Wordlwide dinosaur fossils and human fossils have been seperated by layers and layers of earth. Even without carbon 14 dating, geologists can study those layers and give a (very rough) estimate about how much time transpired between the most recent known dinosaur fossils and the oldest known human ones.
Say what you will about passwords, the thing is the require *NO* extra equipment to keep running(well, a keyboard, but you probably need that for other purposes anyway) However, all sorts of biometric scanners need equipment to keep running, equipment that will fail one day, and of course it will be the day that you have to log into your account to fix a critical problem in a critical production system....
Question, what kind of bike computer do you use? I've been looking into getting one, but I would actually like something that dumps onto my mac and/or linux box. Any suggestions?
You call it "exploiting", but guess what, the person who released their code under the BSD license knew that was a possibility and released it anyway, indicating that they find NOTHING wrong with that. So why is this bad again? It's their choice to release it under whatever license they choose.
I couldn't agree with you more. I have lived in Japan and Germany, and the one thing I REALLY missed about the US was the food. One can only take so much udon and schnitzel(yeah, stereotypical foods but you get the point) before you just want something different. Do you know how hard it is to find a Chinese restaurant in rural Germany? Not to mention the whole "water isn't free, and we don't have refills" policy:P Great beer though...but of course you can get the beer imported in America.
Maybe if they combined udon and schnitzel....
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Well, they would also have to well....
a) have electricity unless we are planning to have them use them for only 2 hours
b) know how to use a device they have never seen before in their lives
c) be literate, a lot of North Korean kids are skipping school to go help their family forage for food. Obviously North Korea does't release reliable statistics on literacy, but my bet is that it's dropping, and of course, it's in the governments best interest to let it drop for all but the smartest of individuals(somebodys gotta build those bombs)
d) find a way to hide/dispose of the laptops in houses that don't even have enough plates/bowls for people to eat out of, let alone furniture. You could bury them, but that has the potential to harm already poor farmland, exasperating famine.....
The North Korean government hates it's people, but damn if it isn't good at what it does.....
Not to mention, provided you don't have you know, a concience, Kim Jong Il lives better than Bill Gates and anyone else on thie planet for that matter; he gets as many virgins as he wants, drives whatever he wants, drinks whatever he wants, hell even kills whoever he wants just for fun I bet..........
If anything this will make it worse in North Korea, the government will see what is happening in places like China and make sure nobody but the elite of the elite even get internet access at all, let alone unfiltered access. China can't keep up a high level of policing as more and more people get internet access, the sheer numbers make it impossible. However propaganda is still valuable there. It seems that most people won't get upset if you tell them that the government is blocking something for your own good...
It's interesting to see how NK and China diverged. About 30 years ago they had very similiar styles of government, but China decided that in order to become prosperous it had to give up some control, but in the end China itself would be more powerful, whereas NK chose to keep it's people in the dark as much as possible. Interesting to compare the "success"(of course it depends on your definition of success in this case) of each government and it's plans
The Romans used to fling diseased corpses into the towns that they were laying siege to, and not surprisingly the tactic worked quite well. But can you fling a player into a town in WoW?
The goatse man would be the next to be launched into space...
You just set yourself up for a VERY easy "your mom" joke.....
and cats!
What could cause a person to get repeatedly shocked? I ask this from personal experience, my 2nd semester of college I was receiving well over 50 shocks(of various intensity) per WEEK. Didn't matter what I wore or were I was, I would get shcoked. On staircases, metal parts of chairs, the freezer in the cafeteria etc. It got so bad that I was constantly grounding myself with the back of my hand(hurts a lot less than the front of the hand). It got so bad my roomate could hear the cracking sound. I once even tried to beat it by touching the metal part of my pencil against a door, and that made an awesome blue spark. However, anything like that never happened before that semester or since.... What could have caused it?
Why?
If Nintendo was a Sega then we would probably would have never seen some of the great games that have come out and are coming out on the DS because they would have had to develop for other people's(Sony)'s platform. The only reason Sega did what they did was because that was the only other choice besides going bankrupt. Sega was losing tons of money and could no longer afford to design and manufacture new devices, so they were forced pretty much against their will to become a software only company.
Nintendo isn't exactly losing tons and tons of money likeRemember, Nintendo has only had 1 unprofitable quarter, and a big reason for that was Nintendo did not accurately predict the large downward swing in the dollar(hurt a company that measures profits in Yen). However, they have since taken corrective measures that shield them a bit from currency fluctuations....
Lego is also losing money hand over fist....
I passed up an opportunity to go to the Tokyo game show one year just to have a German man ride on my lap on a Hamtaro roller coaster.....
WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!
Just FYI, it also works in Safari(and probably Konquerer as well), so it's not unique to Firefox...
If North Korea is going to nuke anybody, it will be Japan. Remember, they hate Japan almost as much as they hate the US(stemming from the colonization of Korea, but now it's just another enemy to saber rattle against). North Korea can easily hit Japan, a key US ally in East Asia and also a stationing point for US troops in the Pacific, with a nuclear weapon very easily(provided they have one). Remember, they shot a missile over Tokyo in the late 90's(1998 maybe?) as a warning of sorts....
Hate to break it to you, but in terms of failure rate, the Japanese space program is so far ahead of NASA it isn't even funny, yeah this one was successful, but overall the Japanese space program has been an expensive disaster. They have sent probe after probe after probe only to have them destroyed, they struggle to get even a basic satellite in orbit.....
NASA isn't perfect, but saying they are "behind" the Japanese space program is well, simply not true.
huge piece of spline
I found one, but it turned out just to be a piece of NURBS
When you find that a success in one sector of your business hurts another sector of your business.....
Or you could live in Japan which gets all of the above!(Well, I don't know how prevalent tornadoes are, but you do get a large mixture of natural disasters!)
are just going to leave the city for good? Seriously, if it takes 2 months to get things back to something that even remotely resembles "normal" what are people going to do in the intervening time? Esp. considering that most children were looking to go back to school soon. My bet is that there will be a significant "brain drain" out of the city/state. Young educated people are going to find a job somewhere else and not look back. I wonder if that will be taken into account when the final tolls are reached....
I do like his section on his beliefs, he raises some very good points. I used to be cynical and thought all relgious people were idiots, but lately I've come to realize that this was just my own sense of inflated ego fucking with me. Some of the smartest people have been religious believers. There have even been really smart fanatics, Mohamed Atta had a masters degree, and pretty much all the attackers in the sarin gas attack on Tokyo had degrees in engineering, many of them at least masters.
One minor gripe though, he discredits macro-evolution by calling into question the accuracy of carbon dating. This may be true, but Carbon-14 dating is just one tool in the arsenal of the macro-evolution scientist. For instance, even if carbon-14 dating isn't accurate, there is still the fossil record. Wordlwide dinosaur fossils and human fossils have been seperated by layers and layers of earth. Even without carbon 14 dating, geologists can study those layers and give a (very rough) estimate about how much time transpired between the most recent known dinosaur fossils and the oldest known human ones.
Say what you will about passwords, the thing is the require *NO* extra equipment to keep running(well, a keyboard, but you probably need that for other purposes anyway) However, all sorts of biometric scanners need equipment to keep running, equipment that will fail one day, and of course it will be the day that you have to log into your account to fix a critical problem in a critical production system....
who says he's even using a bike computer?
I'm cheating, but I think this line may have given it away:
I finally put on a bike-computer
Question, what kind of bike computer do you use? I've been looking into getting one, but I would actually like something that dumps onto my mac and/or linux box. Any suggestions?
You call it "exploiting", but guess what, the person who released their code under the BSD license knew that was a possibility and released it anyway, indicating that they find NOTHING wrong with that. So why is this bad again? It's their choice to release it under whatever license they choose.
Choice=freedom!
to send their name up as "Cha"
I couldn't agree with you more. I have lived in Japan and Germany, and the one thing I REALLY missed about the US was the food. One can only take so much udon and schnitzel(yeah, stereotypical foods but you get the point) before you just want something different. Do you know how hard it is to find a Chinese restaurant in rural Germany? Not to mention the whole "water isn't free, and we don't have refills" policy :P Great beer though...but of course you can get the beer imported in America.
Maybe if they combined udon and schnitzel....