Speaking of dishonest, I present you with a quote from the biggest liar of the day (so far):
Vox Day and others stepped in the try to "correct" that and argue that only things conforming to their ideology deserved awards instead of just what people enjoyed reading.
For the last few decades, a small cabal has run the Hugos as their own personal award mill, and they ensured that nearly nothing could win if it didn't fit their ideology.
And guess what, sales figures show pretty damn clearly that people do NOT enjoy reading that crap. Go check the long tail sales figures on some winners and nominees. It isn't hard to find single books by pre-SJW writers selling more copies per year than a decade's worth of Hugo winners.
And the claim that Day is pushing for ideological purity is totally fucking insane and can be trivially disproved by reading nothing more than one-paragraph summaries of the nominated works. There is no common ideology in the puppy lists.
You are a lost cause, but I urge anyone else reading this to go see for themselves.
I think most people just want the site to force map the unicode versions of quotes and dashes to the ASCII versions so that we don't have to do it ourselves when we copy/paste.
My guess is that Trump's working hours lately (but pre-campaign) were difficult for outsiders to distinguish from his non-working hours. Schmoozing potential investors and evaluating potential hires and promotions probably looks a lot like attending charity events and hosting parties.
As you say, it is hard to imagine him sitting down with Excel to personally run the numbers on an apartment building. I could easily see him personally sketching out a golf course layout on some topo maps with colored pencils, but I really doubt that he does that himself either.
For the last two and a half years he's been busy preparing to Make America Great Again. I think that'll turn out to be a full time job.
The flaw is that you are vastly vastly underestimating how much computing power is needed to simulate the universe, and/or vastly vastly overestimating the amount of computing power available in the universe.
Of course, all bets are off if the parent universe builds computers out of "something other than matter" and stores them in "something other than space".
Popper would disagree with you. Science is in the testing, not the hypothesising.
When I speculate that maybe that car I see was made by elves in a magic underground forge, that is not science. When I dig up my neighbor's yard to find out, that is science.
In mating, it is the guy that sleeps with lots of women. It has nothing to do with his appearance, cliques, strength, etc. Your opinion of him has no bearing on his status as (mating) alpha male.
He could be the dudebro asshole you are describing. He could also be the rich, successful guy (Trump). He could be an outlaw biker. He could be a serial rapist (Clinton). He could be some invisible average guy that has mastered game.
Since the practice is named for the cuckoo bird, and the bird isn't having interspecies sex, but is tricking other birds into raising cuckoo offspring, I don't think we can say that children have nothing to do with it.
I was going off the top of my head in my earlier post, and I did get some things wrong. I was indeed thinking ball instead of the old WWII AP round.
The general rule of thumb (from naval guns, of all things) is that you need your mild steel armor to be about as thick as the incoming projectile to stop it. You add about 50% if the projectile is designed to pierce armor. You can take that 50% back if your armor is face hardened. (Or if you have a decapping layer, but that's a whole 'nother story.)
That rule of thumb works with small arms too, as long as the small projectile is built like a naval round. Ball is. The more modern SLAP is. The old school M2 AP is not. Oops, my bad. With face hardening, like AR500 plate, you need 50% extra thickness (more if you want to avoid dimpling). Without it, you need something like 200% extra thickness just to stop it, and you have no hope of preserving the face.
I think I was getting the upmods more for the video than anything else, and the video is still fantastic.
Stopping a 30-06 M2 isn't actually that hard. A half inch of steel will do it easily. If that steel is of the Abrasion Resistant (AR) variety of decent grade (like AR400 or AR500), it will hold up to thousands of shots with virtually no wear.
Of course, a half inch steel plate is very heavy and not the sort of thing an infantryman wants to have to wear. Which is why Type IV plates are made of exotic materials like this.
This armor is actually a laminate. The impact surface is ceramic and very hard. The metal foam is in the middle and it distributes the load over a wider area. The Kevlar layers are presumably there to catch any fragments that penetrate. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like the Chobham that we use on the M1 Abrams.
And, since it is finally on topic, here is a link to a video with a bunch of bullet impacts in slow motion. It is amazing!.
DoJ calls Apple's rhetoric in the San Bernardino standoff as "false" and "corrosive" because the Cupertino firm dared suggest that the FBI's court order could lead to a "police state."
DOJ's response to Apple's claim that the DOJ is trying to make a police state? You guessed it: create a police state.
Note to everyone: burn your backdoors. Do it now. Apple wouldn't be in this mess if the phone was secure against updates while locked.
The headline for this story is very misleading. It should be "Another pointless anti-cheap-power article, brought to you by a paid shill for the expensive-power industry."
From an article written by the same author in 2014: "Woodson said the rate of cancer in Reagan sailors was actually nearly 50 percent lower than in the control population."
Know anyone who would pay for a 50% reduction in cancer risk? They should bottle that contamination, it is apparently magically lucky. Either that or hormesis.
Yes, I support offering refuge to Syrian refugees.
Awesome. How many can we sign you up for? I don't recommend taking more than 3 or 4 per room in your house or apartment. Don't forget that you need to feed them 2 or 3 times a day, and we will hold you responsible for any crimes they commit.
Oh, never mind. I read that wrong. I thought you were offering refuge, but you are just in favor of someone else doing it.
One of the biggest problems that Americans face when talking about stripping power from our Federal government is that people forget that they can do things locally. It is a bizarre form of mental atrophy.
If the UK is currently sending $100 to the EU for science, and getting $50 back, or $60 or whatever, there are two options on what to do after quitting the EU.
Option one, the one you seem to be advocating, is to stand around whining that you don't know how to spend money on science.
Option two is to rebuild that infrastructure locally, and be able to spend nearly twice as much for the same cost.
With online banking, anyone with a scanner and photoshop can pull money from any account into theirs, and it takes about 3 seconds to process, and the money usually "shows up on their account" immediately.
You do know that Europe and North America use different fraud liability and transaction reversion models, right? And that those legal differences are the root cause of all of the procedural and technical differences between the systems?
North America is on the pull model, there is very close to zero liability for fraud on the innocent party, and transfers can routinely be reversed up to 6 months later. Many years later under unusual situations. Because reverses are so easy to do, there is no incentive to verify things in advance. Under this model, security is a joke, because there isn't actually anything that needs to be protected.
Remember the stories about chip and pin getting hacked a while back? The European banks knew, but they had convinced the governments to place all of the liability burden on the customers, so what did they care? They just sat back shouting "Unsinkable!" as their customers lost everything.
Er, might have been "Unhackable!", now that I think about it.
At any rate, bank transfers are about as far away from cash as you can possibly get. You might have missed that tiny detail in your haste to proclaim your imagined superiority.
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Well, she did get a 7% bump in the stock price.
When news got out that the board sacked her.
The question was about highly skilled workers, which is what we imagine H1B to be. But that's not what H1B is.
The sales pitch is Einstein and von Braun. The reality is the foreign guy that answers the phone when you call Dell for tech support.
If Trump gets screwed, I can easily see a 3-way race: Cruz/Fiorina vs. Clinton/Moloch vs. Trump/Sanders.
When Larry started talking about it, the reply was, "well, get your fans involved then, if you don't like it."
He took their advice, Vox ran with it, and here we are.
Speaking of dishonest, I present you with a quote from the biggest liar of the day (so far):
For the last few decades, a small cabal has run the Hugos as their own personal award mill, and they ensured that nearly nothing could win if it didn't fit their ideology.
And guess what, sales figures show pretty damn clearly that people do NOT enjoy reading that crap. Go check the long tail sales figures on some winners and nominees. It isn't hard to find single books by pre-SJW writers selling more copies per year than a decade's worth of Hugo winners.
And the claim that Day is pushing for ideological purity is totally fucking insane and can be trivially disproved by reading nothing more than one-paragraph summaries of the nominated works. There is no common ideology in the puppy lists.
You are a lost cause, but I urge anyone else reading this to go see for themselves.
Please tell me more about the puppy demographics.
A "science-based life"?
I think you are going to need to explain that one.
I think most people just want the site to force map the unicode versions of quotes and dashes to the ASCII versions so that we don't have to do it ourselves when we copy/paste.
Kinda like having the demoronizer built in.
My guess is that Trump's working hours lately (but pre-campaign) were difficult for outsiders to distinguish from his non-working hours. Schmoozing potential investors and evaluating potential hires and promotions probably looks a lot like attending charity events and hosting parties.
As you say, it is hard to imagine him sitting down with Excel to personally run the numbers on an apartment building. I could easily see him personally sketching out a golf course layout on some topo maps with colored pencils, but I really doubt that he does that himself either.
For the last two and a half years he's been busy preparing to Make America Great Again. I think that'll turn out to be a full time job.
The flaw is that you are vastly vastly underestimating how much computing power is needed to simulate the universe, and/or vastly vastly overestimating the amount of computing power available in the universe.
Of course, all bets are off if the parent universe builds computers out of "something other than matter" and stores them in "something other than space".
Popper would disagree with you. Science is in the testing, not the hypothesising.
When I speculate that maybe that car I see was made by elves in a magic underground forge, that is not science. When I dig up my neighbor's yard to find out, that is science.
Nope, those guys are all corrupt because one of them has a gas company branded credit card that earns him a slight discount when he fills up his car.
You shouldn't listen to paid shills. Trust the guys raking in billions of government dollars instead.
Secret paternity testing? Bah.
Make it mandatory for all births.
Your idea of what the alpha is, is wrong.
In mating, it is the guy that sleeps with lots of women. It has nothing to do with his appearance, cliques, strength, etc. Your opinion of him has no bearing on his status as (mating) alpha male.
He could be the dudebro asshole you are describing. He could also be the rich, successful guy (Trump). He could be an outlaw biker. He could be a serial rapist (Clinton). He could be some invisible average guy that has mastered game.
Since the practice is named for the cuckoo bird, and the bird isn't having interspecies sex, but is tricking other birds into raising cuckoo offspring, I don't think we can say that children have nothing to do with it.
Today, kids, we are going to learn the difference between the mean and the median...
Want to see it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I was going off the top of my head in my earlier post, and I did get some things wrong. I was indeed thinking ball instead of the old WWII AP round.
The general rule of thumb (from naval guns, of all things) is that you need your mild steel armor to be about as thick as the incoming projectile to stop it. You add about 50% if the projectile is designed to pierce armor. You can take that 50% back if your armor is face hardened. (Or if you have a decapping layer, but that's a whole 'nother story.)
That rule of thumb works with small arms too, as long as the small projectile is built like a naval round. Ball is. The more modern SLAP is. The old school M2 AP is not. Oops, my bad. With face hardening, like AR500 plate, you need 50% extra thickness (more if you want to avoid dimpling). Without it, you need something like 200% extra thickness just to stop it, and you have no hope of preserving the face.
I think I was getting the upmods more for the video than anything else, and the video is still fantastic.
Stopping a 30-06 M2 isn't actually that hard. A half inch of steel will do it easily. If that steel is of the Abrasion Resistant (AR) variety of decent grade (like AR400 or AR500), it will hold up to thousands of shots with virtually no wear.
Of course, a half inch steel plate is very heavy and not the sort of thing an infantryman wants to have to wear. Which is why Type IV plates are made of exotic materials like this.
This armor is actually a laminate. The impact surface is ceramic and very hard. The metal foam is in the middle and it distributes the load over a wider area. The Kevlar layers are presumably there to catch any fragments that penetrate. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like the Chobham that we use on the M1 Abrams.
And, since it is finally on topic, here is a link to a video with a bunch of bullet impacts in slow motion. It is amazing!.
DOJ's response to Apple's claim that the DOJ is trying to make a police state? You guessed it: create a police state.
Note to everyone: burn your backdoors. Do it now. Apple wouldn't be in this mess if the phone was secure against updates while locked.
The headline for this story is very misleading. It should be "Another pointless anti-cheap-power article, brought to you by a paid shill for the expensive-power industry."
From an article written by the same author in 2014: "Woodson said the rate of cancer in Reagan sailors was actually nearly 50 percent lower than in the control population."
Know anyone who would pay for a 50% reduction in cancer risk? They should bottle that contamination, it is apparently magically lucky. Either that or hormesis.
Reagan?
Eisenhower?
Grant?
Lincoln?
Awesome. How many can we sign you up for? I don't recommend taking more than 3 or 4 per room in your house or apartment. Don't forget that you need to feed them 2 or 3 times a day, and we will hold you responsible for any crimes they commit.
Oh, never mind. I read that wrong. I thought you were offering refuge, but you are just in favor of someone else doing it.
Add drug dealers and money launderers, and you have The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse. It is actually 2 years older than Godwin's Law.
One of the biggest problems that Americans face when talking about stripping power from our Federal government is that people forget that they can do things locally. It is a bizarre form of mental atrophy.
If the UK is currently sending $100 to the EU for science, and getting $50 back, or $60 or whatever, there are two options on what to do after quitting the EU.
Option one, the one you seem to be advocating, is to stand around whining that you don't know how to spend money on science.
Option two is to rebuild that infrastructure locally, and be able to spend nearly twice as much for the same cost.
With online banking, anyone with a scanner and photoshop can pull money from any account into theirs, and it takes about 3 seconds to process, and the money usually "shows up on their account" immediately.
You do know that Europe and North America use different fraud liability and transaction reversion models, right? And that those legal differences are the root cause of all of the procedural and technical differences between the systems?
North America is on the pull model, there is very close to zero liability for fraud on the innocent party, and transfers can routinely be reversed up to 6 months later. Many years later under unusual situations. Because reverses are so easy to do, there is no incentive to verify things in advance. Under this model, security is a joke, because there isn't actually anything that needs to be protected.
Remember the stories about chip and pin getting hacked a while back? The European banks knew, but they had convinced the governments to place all of the liability burden on the customers, so what did they care? They just sat back shouting "Unsinkable!" as their customers lost everything.
Er, might have been "Unhackable!", now that I think about it.
At any rate, bank transfers are about as far away from cash as you can possibly get. You might have missed that tiny detail in your haste to proclaim your imagined superiority.