You seem to be arguing against reality here: The EM drive is doing something. Fine, you reject all theories of why it "works". No problem. Regardless, your arguments that it can't work fly in the face of reality because it actually does seem to work.
The real question here is why does it seem to work? Observational error? Exotic physics? No matter how many theories you shoot down, a theory still has to be advanced otherwise, the results can never be explained. That leaves us in a much darker place.
My posting was on-topic. I can find citations to show the proof about who Trump's support comes from.
I did not mod you up or down, and now I can't do either since I have posted...
I would have modded this comment up if it had actually contained the citations that you and the moderators are fighting about. Since you did not, I thought I would leave this little message for you so you could understand how non-partisan modding works for many people.
(As an aside, the last enemy the US fought that signed the Geneva convention was the Nazis - everyone since then has behaved worse than the Nazis towards captives and civilians)
Hm. I will grant that burning people alive is pretty horrid but putting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people into trains without food or water and without concern for their survival (after all they were only going to get gassed. gotta love that zyklon b) seems to be against the Geneva Conventions. The Nazis also used the Jews for sexual pleasures so the forced marriages and outright rapes by subsequent aggressors can not really be considered "worse".
You are aware, I trust, that the majority of Muslims aren't Arabs, right?
The majority of Muslims are not white and/or eurocentric; therefore, it does not matter if they are A-Rabs or Malaysian. They are not "us". That is all that counts... (I know you can not see my eyes rolling right now but that is ok)
Is there really anyone who can't see that it's mocking racism? That the bugs are just a replacement for badguy-of-the-month, be it Muslims, or whatever else we've decided to fear and attack?
But of course, none of this had anything at all to do with the book. The movie just grabbed a few items from the book and tried to write a whole new narrative; therefore, it should have never been called Starship Troopers based on Heinlein's book. It should have been called anything else at all. I was so disappointed when walking out of the theater. It may have been a good movie, but I never noticed. I was expecting the movie to, in some way, actually relate to the book.
I see this so often and yet it still annoys me: 7,000 million is NOT a proper number. WTF? Are you smoking dope or something? Try this: 7 billion.
Try it again, I will wait... 7 billion, not seven thousand million. You can say hundreds of millions, tens of millions, or just millions. You can not say thousands of millions; instead, you are supposed to say billions. There is a reason that comma is there.
I do not mean to pick on you since I see this everywhere... but you are the only one I can speak to.
The UI sucked, the OS was buggy as hell, and the hardware designs were clunky. I gave up using mine after it crashed and lost all of it's data for the fourth time.
I gave up on mine after my wife wanted to argue with me over the phone and the phone kept hanging up on her. Seriously. Less, seriously, *I* should have been the one hanging up on her, not my phone.
Why dont you fuckers form Unions? This shit is exactly why other trades formed unions. Follow the Electrician Union model and all of it will be fixed almost overnight.
Um... because Unions are corrupt as hell. Trading one master for another is not the way to get to the greener grass. Why don't you come up with a solution that is better than what has already been done in the past and has been proven to be a scam?
It is cute that you think a corrupt organization will solve all of the problems overnight. Oddly, you are old enough that you should not be this naive. *sigh*
Oh, pardon me. You must be from a country that has laws on the books and people to enforce them. Here in America, laws only get enforced against people who do not have any power... and that enforcement is abusively used against the powerless frequently. Sure, the organization will have power and will have "elevated" privileges, but the leaders of that organization will not give a fuck about you and start collecting huge sums of money... all while making sure you know how much they are doing for you... a;; while you are paying due and making less money than you were before.
If your job is stable, buy a house because that will fix your monthly payments. The house payment stays about $1200 a month while the apartment rent goes from $1200 to $1800 over a decade.
Either you do not own a house or you have an ethical (roflmao) mortgage company. A decade ago, my house payment was $900/month. It is now, a little over 10 years later, at $1500/month. The amount that is going towards the house has not changed in all of that time, roughly $700. It is all of the other fees and taxes that have changed.
Regardless, buying a house is still smarter than renting for most people.
I am not a fan of margarine but this sounds like when the butter lobby managed to do things like prevent margarine from being coloured yellow after an unsuccessful attempt to get it banned.
Hydrogenated oils are partially responsible for the incredibly poor health that many Americans suffer from. You are, of course, correct that lies and other malicious tactics are evil; however, in this case, if they had succeeded, it would have been a good thing overall.
Even without the ethical quandaries (blood diamonds anyone?) I'd still feel like a chump. I remember growing up thinking a diamond engagement ring was a 1000 year old tradition and finding out it was all made up in the 20s by marketing execs to sell diamonds.
The narrative is powerful... the majority of women buy into it and you have no choice but to be a chump if you want to participate in the creation of children or the sharing of feelings with someone of the opposite sex. It gets worse though... when she decides to leave you, you have to PAY her for all of the "free" sex that you had. In my case, I had to pay $60k for 10 years of poor sex... not including the diamond engagement ring. What a fucked up world.
And "the attraction" would be the blood of Africans that is spilled in obtaining them? The horrible working conditions that they are mined under? The environmental destruction that is wreaked by digging them up? Please help me out here, there are so many "attractions" to choose from.
Well duh. I prefer my diamonds to have LOTS of blood. I mean, how else can I feel above everyone else here in the first world if there are not thousands, possibly even millions, of people suffering and bleeding while mining my diamonds? Wiping out villages is a plus, especially if you kill the children in nasty terrible ways.. such as burning them alive.
Hey! Money, power, and greed is not pretty. Stop your whining and join in on the fun! Weakling. The Romulans and the Klingons would be ashamed to have you as one of their race. I am not rich if you are not poor. I am not powerful if you are not weak. Others HAVE to suffer. Your only other option is to kill me and everyone else who thinks like me... but that is not so simple as we do not clearly reveal ourselves because we know that you weaklings fear us and would try to harm us.
Just kidding. I am not in the same class as Hillary Clinton. lol
I don't understand people's obsession with this crystallized carbon, but pretending that mined ones are somehow superior or worth more seems just completely irrational.
It IS irrational; however, that is the narrative that we live in. Reality does not matter, only narrative does... until you hit a wall, but who cares? De Beers has all of your money already and THAT is all that counts.
Why anyone would spend thousands of dollars on a ring is beyond me anyways. Take all of the money you would have spent and put it towards a house or if that's not an issue, spend it traveling. Experiences together are worth more than a piece of carbon.
WTF? You are a misogynist! Women WANT that expensive diamond. It is how she measures her self worth. She knows her vagina is valuable if she gets an expensive ring to prove it. Of course, you can't tell her it is a reward for having nice packaging around a vagina.
Regardless, women want that rock and who are you to take it away from them? A paid off house? A nice summer travelling? None of these matter. What matters is that SHE feels happy... and a useless rock will do that more than a paid off house will.
Welcome to the real world... where everything is so fucked up that it can't be navigated with reason and logic.
Pointing out her corruption and lying isn't "character assassination." Is it "weather assassination" when the meteorologist tells you it's raining?
Of course it is. What have you got against the weather?
Facts are useless or contraindicative (this is really not a word? it follows all of the guidelines of how words are made. Did I just make a new word or is Mozilla not actually capable of implementing a full dictionary. time to research it i guess, i do this soooo often. wtf Mozilla? http://www.thefreedictionary.c...) when we are this deep in corruption. Reality does not matter. it only matters which narrative you choose... and NONE of the narratives are based on reality.
Have a nice life. This will NOT end well. Nuclear Armageddon? Biological weapon released? When reality is ignored, the worst things tend to happen.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Then why aren't any peons getting prosecuted? Because that is not the issue at all. Everyone knows something illegal happened. Everyone knows jack and shit will happen concerning these illegal doings. Why? Because power.
You are correct of course. Her enemies are so powerful that no matter what she tries, she would be fucked if she had actually done anything illegal. I will rest well tonight knowing that she is safe from all of those big bullies who are trying to so hard to make her life miserable. The fact that none of them have taken down one of the most powerful women in the world is surely proof that she is innocent.
I'm familiar with all of those cases, and they all contain one, if not two, critical elements that Clinton's lacks.
1) They all knew the information was classified when they mishandled it.
2) In most of the cases they shared either that information with someone they knew to be unauthorized, or looked like they were going to.
You are correct. Despite breaking the law, Clinton should be let off because she did not know the information was classified, even after reading it and she had no intent to share it with unauthorized people. I feel so sad that they are persecuting Mrs. Clinton like this. She is such an innocent soul who is trying so hard to do what is best for this ungrateful nation. We should be ashamed at ourselves for trying to uphold the law when it comes to people who are trying to do the right thing.
I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that.
It is clear that Microsoft has some sort of plant inside of Mozilla. How else could Mozilla be so utterly stupid after people like me lifted them up and got Firefox installed on US Government computers as well as within numerous other organizations. Going directly against what your users want (UI)? Changing add-on behaviour so that noscript is as useless on Firefox as it is on Chrome? Violating the base concepts that the browser was built on (lean and mean) Whatever. This goose is cooked. Stick a fork in it, it is done.
I am saddened that the beautiful things are always trampled underfoot. Mozilla will die because there is no way to remove the plant that Microsoft put inside of Mozilla... just like there was no way to remove the plant that Microsoft had inside of Nokia. All things must die a horrible and evil death to satisfy the greedy urges of this corporation.
This was a conscious decision by Activision to do this. Why? I have no idea, but let's simply skewer Microsoft over Activision's choice and not ask them why this was done.
No. Nobody gets a free ride on this one. We skewer them both: Microsoft for making a platform that is incompatible and Activision for choosing a customer hostile solution.
Just because you have a disc doesn't mean you own anything, in fact you license the software and that's the way it has worked for decades.
No, no no. That is the paradigm that they want you to believe. I have never believed it for an instant. If I give you money to use something, *I* get to choose how I use it. This "licensing" bullshit is just that, bullshit. Nobody gets to dictate to me how I use something.
Does that mean that I break software that tries to enforce some sort of licensing scheme? Certainly. Do I care if it what I am doing is considered illegal? Not at all. Fuck everyone who thinks they can control me. I am free and independent. I will do what I want. Go ahead society, cage me. I have already won more than you can take. Take your "licensing" paradigm and shove it where the sun does not shine.
This is not Windows 10's fault. The game dev and/or publisher is responsible for this.
Eh? How is it NOT Windows 10's (Microsoft's) fault? They are the ones who enabled the behaviour to begin with! Sure, we can hate Activision for "taking advantage" of what was offered but what did you expect a publishing company to do? They would kill themselves directly if they thought it would give a penny extra profit... never realizing that they just killed themselves.
Oddly, I am reminded of the situation of the woman wearing provocative clothing and walking down dark alleys... It is clear that the rapist and the rape victim both bear some responsibility for what happens next.
Not yet sure what I will get, my Note4 probably has a bunch of life left in it, but whatever I get won't likely be from Samsung.
Might I humbly suggest a Note 3? My Note 3 (Over 2 years old) has 28 days of standby time, is built very strong, has a good screen size with a properly sized bezel, has an SD slot, and a removable battery.
Why does only *my* Note 3 have 28 days of standby time? Because I installed a custom ROM on it and did not install any Google stuff, like the Play Store. That takes standby time from 2 days to 28 days.
The Note 3 was the last "perfect" phone. Buy one now while you still can.
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You seem to be arguing against reality here: The EM drive is doing something. Fine, you reject all theories of why it "works". No problem. Regardless, your arguments that it can't work fly in the face of reality because it actually does seem to work.
The real question here is why does it seem to work? Observational error? Exotic physics? No matter how many theories you shoot down, a theory still has to be advanced otherwise, the results can never be explained. That leaves us in a much darker place.
My posting was on-topic. I can find citations to show the proof about who Trump's support comes from.
I did not mod you up or down, and now I can't do either since I have posted...
I would have modded this comment up if it had actually contained the citations that you and the moderators are fighting about. Since you did not, I thought I would leave this little message for you so you could understand how non-partisan modding works for many people.
(As an aside, the last enemy the US fought that signed the Geneva convention was the Nazis - everyone since then has behaved worse than the Nazis towards captives and civilians)
Hm. I will grant that burning people alive is pretty horrid but putting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people into trains without food or water and without concern for their survival (after all they were only going to get gassed. gotta love that zyklon b) seems to be against the Geneva Conventions. The Nazis also used the Jews for sexual pleasures so the forced marriages and outright rapes by subsequent aggressors can not really be considered "worse".
You are aware, I trust, that the majority of Muslims aren't Arabs, right?
The majority of Muslims are not white and/or eurocentric; therefore, it does not matter if they are A-Rabs or Malaysian. They are not "us". That is all that counts... (I know you can not see my eyes rolling right now but that is ok)
Is there really anyone who can't see that it's mocking racism? That the bugs are just a replacement for badguy-of-the-month, be it Muslims, or whatever else we've decided to fear and attack?
But of course, none of this had anything at all to do with the book. The movie just grabbed a few items from the book and tried to write a whole new narrative; therefore, it should have never been called Starship Troopers based on Heinlein's book. It should have been called anything else at all. I was so disappointed when walking out of the theater. It may have been a good movie, but I never noticed. I was expecting the movie to, in some way, actually relate to the book.
History and Moral Philosophy? WTF is THAT?
The USA burned through 7000 million
I see this so often and yet it still annoys me: 7,000 million is NOT a proper number. WTF? Are you smoking dope or something? Try this: 7 billion.
Try it again, I will wait... 7 billion, not seven thousand million. You can say hundreds of millions, tens of millions, or just millions. You can not say thousands of millions; instead, you are supposed to say billions. There is a reason that comma is there.
I do not mean to pick on you since I see this everywhere... but you are the only one I can speak to.
Good luck with that numbers thing.
The UI sucked, the OS was buggy as hell, and the hardware designs were clunky. I gave up using mine after it crashed and lost all of it's data for the fourth time.
I gave up on mine after my wife wanted to argue with me over the phone and the phone kept hanging up on her. Seriously. Less, seriously, *I* should have been the one hanging up on her, not my phone.
Why dont you fuckers form Unions? This shit is exactly why other trades formed unions. Follow the Electrician Union model and all of it will be fixed almost overnight.
Um... because Unions are corrupt as hell. Trading one master for another is not the way to get to the greener grass. Why don't you come up with a solution that is better than what has already been done in the past and has been proven to be a scam?
It is cute that you think a corrupt organization will solve all of the problems overnight. Oddly, you are old enough that you should not be this naive. *sigh*
Oh, pardon me. You must be from a country that has laws on the books and people to enforce them. Here in America, laws only get enforced against people who do not have any power... and that enforcement is abusively used against the powerless frequently. Sure, the organization will have power and will have "elevated" privileges, but the leaders of that organization will not give a fuck about you and start collecting huge sums of money... all while making sure you know how much they are doing for you... a;; while you are paying due and making less money than you were before.
If your job is stable, buy a house because that will fix your monthly payments. The house payment stays about $1200 a month while the apartment rent goes from $1200 to $1800 over a decade.
Either you do not own a house or you have an ethical (roflmao) mortgage company. A decade ago, my house payment was $900/month. It is now, a little over 10 years later, at $1500/month. The amount that is going towards the house has not changed in all of that time, roughly $700. It is all of the other fees and taxes that have changed.
Regardless, buying a house is still smarter than renting for most people.
I don't understand what drives C level officers to H1B folks.
Money. Now. The future will take care of itself. We will worry about it when it comes. We are all set for now.
I am not a fan of margarine but this sounds like when the butter lobby managed to do things like prevent margarine from being coloured yellow after an unsuccessful attempt to get it banned.
Hydrogenated oils are partially responsible for the incredibly poor health that many Americans suffer from. You are, of course, correct that lies and other malicious tactics are evil; however, in this case, if they had succeeded, it would have been a good thing overall.
Even without the ethical quandaries (blood diamonds anyone?) I'd still feel like a chump. I remember growing up thinking a diamond engagement ring was a 1000 year old tradition and finding out it was all made up in the 20s by marketing execs to sell diamonds.
The narrative is powerful... the majority of women buy into it and you have no choice but to be a chump if you want to participate in the creation of children or the sharing of feelings with someone of the opposite sex. It gets worse though... when she decides to leave you, you have to PAY her for all of the "free" sex that you had. In my case, I had to pay $60k for 10 years of poor sex... not including the diamond engagement ring. What a fucked up world.
And "the attraction" would be the blood of Africans that is spilled in obtaining them? The horrible working conditions that they are mined under? The environmental destruction that is wreaked by digging them up? Please help me out here, there are so many "attractions" to choose from.
Well duh. I prefer my diamonds to have LOTS of blood. I mean, how else can I feel above everyone else here in the first world if there are not thousands, possibly even millions, of people suffering and bleeding while mining my diamonds? Wiping out villages is a plus, especially if you kill the children in nasty terrible ways.. such as burning them alive.
Hey! Money, power, and greed is not pretty. Stop your whining and join in on the fun! Weakling. The Romulans and the Klingons would be ashamed to have you as one of their race. I am not rich if you are not poor. I am not powerful if you are not weak. Others HAVE to suffer. Your only other option is to kill me and everyone else who thinks like me... but that is not so simple as we do not clearly reveal ourselves because we know that you weaklings fear us and would try to harm us.
Just kidding. I am not in the same class as Hillary Clinton. lol
I don't understand people's obsession with this crystallized carbon, but pretending that mined ones are somehow superior or worth more seems just completely irrational.
It IS irrational; however, that is the narrative that we live in. Reality does not matter, only narrative does... until you hit a wall, but who cares? De Beers has all of your money already and THAT is all that counts.
Why anyone would spend thousands of dollars on a ring is beyond me anyways. Take all of the money you would have spent and put it towards a house or if that's not an issue, spend it traveling. Experiences together are worth more than a piece of carbon.
WTF? You are a misogynist! Women WANT that expensive diamond. It is how she measures her self worth. She knows her vagina is valuable if she gets an expensive ring to prove it. Of course, you can't tell her it is a reward for having nice packaging around a vagina.
Regardless, women want that rock and who are you to take it away from them? A paid off house? A nice summer travelling? None of these matter. What matters is that SHE feels happy... and a useless rock will do that more than a paid off house will.
Welcome to the real world... where everything is so fucked up that it can't be navigated with reason and logic.
Pointing out her corruption and lying isn't "character assassination." Is it "weather assassination" when the meteorologist tells you it's raining?
Of course it is. What have you got against the weather?
Facts are useless or contraindicative (this is really not a word? it follows all of the guidelines of how words are made. Did I just make a new word or is Mozilla not actually capable of implementing a full dictionary. time to research it i guess, i do this soooo often. wtf Mozilla? http://www.thefreedictionary.c...) when we are this deep in corruption. Reality does not matter. it only matters which narrative you choose... and NONE of the narratives are based on reality.
Have a nice life. This will NOT end well. Nuclear Armageddon? Biological weapon released? When reality is ignored, the worst things tend to happen.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Then why aren't any peons getting prosecuted? Because that is not the issue at all. Everyone knows something illegal happened. Everyone knows jack and shit will happen concerning these illegal doings. Why? Because power.
You are correct of course. Her enemies are so powerful that no matter what she tries, she would be fucked if she had actually done anything illegal. I will rest well tonight knowing that she is safe from all of those big bullies who are trying to so hard to make her life miserable. The fact that none of them have taken down one of the most powerful women in the world is surely proof that she is innocent.
I'm familiar with all of those cases, and they all contain one, if not two, critical elements that Clinton's lacks.
1) They all knew the information was classified when they mishandled it.
2) In most of the cases they shared either that information with someone they knew to be unauthorized, or looked like they were going to.
You are correct. Despite breaking the law, Clinton should be let off because she did not know the information was classified, even after reading it and she had no intent to share it with unauthorized people. I feel so sad that they are persecuting Mrs. Clinton like this. She is such an innocent soul who is trying so hard to do what is best for this ungrateful nation. We should be ashamed at ourselves for trying to uphold the law when it comes to people who are trying to do the right thing.
I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that.
It is clear that Microsoft has some sort of plant inside of Mozilla. How else could Mozilla be so utterly stupid after people like me lifted them up and got Firefox installed on US Government computers as well as within numerous other organizations. Going directly against what your users want (UI)? Changing add-on behaviour so that noscript is as useless on Firefox as it is on Chrome? Violating the base concepts that the browser was built on (lean and mean) Whatever. This goose is cooked. Stick a fork in it, it is done.
I am saddened that the beautiful things are always trampled underfoot. Mozilla will die because there is no way to remove the plant that Microsoft put inside of Mozilla... just like there was no way to remove the plant that Microsoft had inside of Nokia. All things must die a horrible and evil death to satisfy the greedy urges of this corporation.
This was a conscious decision by Activision to do this. Why? I have no idea, but let's simply skewer Microsoft over Activision's choice and not ask them why this was done.
No. Nobody gets a free ride on this one. We skewer them both: Microsoft for making a platform that is incompatible and Activision for choosing a customer hostile solution.
Just because you have a disc doesn't mean you own anything, in fact you license the software and that's the way it has worked for decades.
No, no no. That is the paradigm that they want you to believe. I have never believed it for an instant. If I give you money to use something, *I* get to choose how I use it. This "licensing" bullshit is just that, bullshit. Nobody gets to dictate to me how I use something.
Does that mean that I break software that tries to enforce some sort of licensing scheme? Certainly. Do I care if it what I am doing is considered illegal? Not at all. Fuck everyone who thinks they can control me. I am free and independent. I will do what I want. Go ahead society, cage me. I have already won more than you can take. Take your "licensing" paradigm and shove it where the sun does not shine.
This is not Windows 10's fault. The game dev and/or publisher is responsible for this.
Eh? How is it NOT Windows 10's (Microsoft's) fault? They are the ones who enabled the behaviour to begin with! Sure, we can hate Activision for "taking advantage" of what was offered but what did you expect a publishing company to do? They would kill themselves directly if they thought it would give a penny extra profit... never realizing that they just killed themselves.
Oddly, I am reminded of the situation of the woman wearing provocative clothing and walking down dark alleys... It is clear that the rapist and the rape victim both bear some responsibility for what happens next.
Not yet sure what I will get, my Note4 probably has a bunch of life left in it, but whatever I get won't likely be from Samsung.
Might I humbly suggest a Note 3? My Note 3 (Over 2 years old) has 28 days of standby time, is built very strong, has a good screen size with a properly sized bezel, has an SD slot, and a removable battery.
Why does only *my* Note 3 have 28 days of standby time? Because I installed a custom ROM on it and did not install any Google stuff, like the Play Store. That takes standby time from 2 days to 28 days.
The Note 3 was the last "perfect" phone. Buy one now while you still can.
2016 is the last thing The Onion would have wanted. Who wants to read a parody newspaper when the real newspapers have more outlandish content.
We have been living in a "The Onion" reality since at least January 17, 2001.
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Enjoy the fact that reality is so twisted that only an outrageous parody could predict it so accurately.