On another note Independence day was about an Alien invasion. I think you might be thinking along the lines of the Armegeddon film and it's ilk.
I do not think you remember Independence Day very well. The presidential adviser was all gung-ho about shooting down one of the alien spaceships with a nuke and the general responds, "and risk turning one large object into many small falling objects" (paraphrased). That is what the OP was talking about when he mentioned Independence Day.
Your comment looks interesting... but damn. Have you ever heard of this new invention called a paragraph? It is very useful for people like me who have a hard time tracking line after line embedded into an amazing huge wall of text.
Social security is not discretionary spending, and it is not part of the federal budget. It is a separate trust fund funded by separate taxes.
Umm... you do realize that in the early 80s congress passed a bill to put the Social Security funds into the General Fund on the theory that having all that money just sitting around was wasted money? Yeah, all that money was spent and now Social Security has to be paid for out of the General Fund.
Note that they call what I am saying a myth. Do more research. They are playing fast and loose with words. Congress emptied out the Social Security trust fund. That is why "entitlements" are such a huge part of the budget now. We have been robbed.
Your idea is funny but it is unethical. Good people do not deceive. They actively try to ensure that the potential customer knows what they are buying.
No. He merely used examples that are applicable to his situation, which is in the US. What he is really saying is that living anywhere that there are judgmental and prejudiced people is a problem. I have news for you: They are _everywhere_ and in some situations, you are likely one of THEM.
Aaaaand, you missed the forest for the trees. The whole point was not to detail an actual profit statement; rather, it was to give you the idea that Free Software is making a very large contribution to the wealth of the world... How much? Well, we can let the trees argue over that.
So if porn is the only thing they can do to survive, you want to take that option away from them? You are seriously fucked up buddy. Better dead than morally compromised? I am sure dying from starvation or freezing to death is infinitely preferable to acting in a nice warm studio while participating in something wholly natural like sex.
You have it backwards kind sir. Pornography is used most where sexuality is most repressed. In other words porn is sought after by the sexually repressed. Porn is not the cause but the symptom.
Increase the cylinder pressure (via a turbo possibly) and the loss of power is less dramatic. That 10% ethanol makes the fuel act like a higher octane rating and reduces the pollution. All good things. If you can not increase cylinder pressures, then yeah, adding ethanol is kind of a bummer.
Actually, if you increase the compression ratio in the cylinder, you will be able to extract more power out of ethanol. Yes, you will still not get as much energy gallon to gallon out of it, but you will get much more than you currently are.
There is another thing that ethanol is VERY useful for: race fuel.
E85 is essentially equivalent to a high octane fuel. What that means is you can run your engine at higher compression ratios or higher air pressures inside of the cylinders. This allows you to pull absolutely jaw dropping amounts of power out of engines. My friend modified a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution with a 4 cylinder engine to over 900 horsepower with E85 as the fuel. Myself, I have an Eagle Talon 4 cylinder car that pushes 650 horsepower using E85. I could easily pull more horsepower out of it but I am aiming for reliability.:)
Are you a moron or a shill? Sure, Secure Boot is required to have a method of disabling for Windows 8... but what about Windows 9? Windows 10? Is your righteous indignation going to allow everyone to turn off Secure Boot then?
You are ahead price-wise, granted, but are you ahead satisfaction-wise? I only own one cheap casio g shock watch and i never even wear it, but to some people, a nice watch brings a certain satisfaction when it looks nice with their suits and is reliable.
DRM isn't fool proof. However it is a case of keeping the honest, honest.
I would argue two things against this:
No, it is not a case of keeping the honest, honest. It is a case of lock-in and rent seeking disguised as keeping the honest, honest.
The second argument is that the current rules are not a fair deal anyways. I refuse to fucking pay someone to sing Happy Birthday and I resent the fuck that the traditional childhood song is no longer able to be sang. What. The. Fuck.
Fuck every single one of you who supports this fucking insane system. I refuse to participate.
The biggest difference between Science and Religion is how easy Science is able to discard previous ideas when new evidence is brought forward whereas Religion will fight tooth and nail until it is impractical for it to not adjust, e.g. Mormons and polygamy, or Mormons and blacks.
What evidence made Mormons give up polygamy? This does not make sense. Perhaps you are Mormon or dislike Mormons? Just weird.
Actually, you most certainly are part of Anonymous even if you are not intending to be. You are faceless (Anonymous Coward) and you are sharing information and ideas about resisting abusive power. You do NOT have to be a criminal mastermind, you do NOT have to be the one initiating action, you just have to be there and be faceless... which you are.
People seem to forget in orbital mechanics, to move in one direction, you have to displace an equal amount of mass x energy in the opposite direction.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't E=MC^2 essentially say that mass and energy are equivalent?
I am guessing what people are trying to get at is that nuclear weapons are super powerful and that exploding them on the side of the planet currently facing the inside of the orbit would result in a push outwards from that orbit...
But what they failed to realize is that E really does equal MC^2. If you want to compare the energy of atomic bombs to the energy required to move the planet then you need to actually consider how much energy the planet holds in rest mass...
Rough numbers here: More energy than all of the nuclear weapons combined:
Maximum yield of a nuclear weapon built so far is about 50 Megatons. In 2002 there were about 40,000 nuclear weapons in the world (according to wikipedia). If we assume those were all 50 Megaton weapons (a gross exageration), that gives us a total of 2 million, or 2 * 10^6 megatons.
To compare like against like, we need to turn the rest mass of the planet into the same energy as an atomic bomb... so: E= MC^2 is E=6x10^1024 x 9x10^16 E=~5x10^1041
So we are talking about using ~2x10^15 kilograms to have an effect on ~5x10^1041 kilograms.
In short, the orbital change will be so miniscule that it is not even worth calculating... especially since I do not know the math of orbital mechanics.
But all that said, stereotypes exist because of an overwhelming preponderance of anecdotal evidence.
No. Stereotypes exist because there is enough non-randomness in the chaos to see what we think is order. A behavior does not have to be performed by a majority of a population to become a stereotype, it only has to happen often enough to be recognizable as a pattern. It (stereotyping) is a natural consequence of not having infinite processing power... The problems start when extra processing power is required (dealing with individuals) and none is given.
I disagree. GIMP started because there were no free methods of dealing with images, specifically jpegs. GTK is the GIMP Tool Kit... so there were things "lying around" with which to act against a "strong" desktop environment (KDE) that was built on non-free software(QT)... so you are kind of correct that Gnome is a reaction to KDE but I suspect Gnome would have begun at some point anyways since all of the buildings blocks were already being created.
For myself, I like that they went with C. I am allergic to C++ and KDE is all C++. As you can C, Gnome was inevitable and should not be viewed as having "always been on the wrong track from day 1"... of course their recent ultra-disasterous UI decisions have put them so far on the wrong side of the tracks that I am unsure if they will ever come back to reality. Just wow. The depth of arrogance and stupidity required for their UI decisions are so bad that they could not have been purposefully evil as nobody is that creatively evil.
Then don't write code in Javascript that is hard to debug. Just because it gives you the choice (like perl) to write lousy code, that does not mean that you are forced to write lousy code.
Now if you are talking about having to debug other people's crap, I highly agree. Most/many people can not be self disciplined enough to write code that is debuggable unless the language forces them (Python seems to try (but fail) that route).
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On another note Independence day was about an Alien invasion. I think you might be thinking along the lines of the Armegeddon film and it's ilk.
I do not think you remember Independence Day very well. The presidential adviser was all gung-ho about shooting down one of the alien spaceships with a nuke and the general responds, "and risk turning one large object into many small falling objects" (paraphrased). That is what the OP was talking about when he mentioned Independence Day.
Your comment looks interesting... but damn. Have you ever heard of this new invention called a paragraph? It is very useful for people like me who have a hard time tracking line after line embedded into an amazing huge wall of text.
Thanks for listening.
Social security is not discretionary spending, and it is not part of the federal budget. It is a separate trust fund funded by separate taxes.
Umm... you do realize that in the early 80s congress passed a bill to put the Social Security funds into the General Fund on the theory that having all that money just sitting around was wasted money? Yeah, all that money was spent and now Social Security has to be paid for out of the General Fund.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/InternetMyths2.html
Note that they call what I am saying a myth. Do more research. They are playing fast and loose with words. Congress emptied out the Social Security trust fund. That is why "entitlements" are such a huge part of the budget now. We have been robbed.
Your idea is funny but it is unethical. Good people do not deceive. They actively try to ensure that the potential customer knows what they are buying.
Eh? The database is the DNA that you transfer to the woman for a merge sort.
I prefer noscript. It is weird seeing that checkbox up there when I see no ads anyways.
No. He merely used examples that are applicable to his situation, which is in the US. What he is really saying is that living anywhere that there are judgmental and prejudiced people is a problem. I have news for you: They are _everywhere_ and in some situations, you are likely one of THEM.
Aaaaand, you missed the forest for the trees. The whole point was not to detail an actual profit statement; rather, it was to give you the idea that Free Software is making a very large contribution to the wealth of the world... How much? Well, we can let the trees argue over that.
So if porn is the only thing they can do to survive, you want to take that option away from them? You are seriously fucked up buddy. Better dead than morally compromised? I am sure dying from starvation or freezing to death is infinitely preferable to acting in a nice warm studio while participating in something wholly natural like sex.
You have it backwards kind sir. Pornography is used most where sexuality is most repressed. In other words porn is sought after by the sexually repressed. Porn is not the cause but the symptom.
Increase the cylinder pressure (via a turbo possibly) and the loss of power is less dramatic. That 10% ethanol makes the fuel act like a higher octane rating and reduces the pollution. All good things. If you can not increase cylinder pressures, then yeah, adding ethanol is kind of a bummer.
Actually, if you increase the compression ratio in the cylinder, you will be able to extract more power out of ethanol. Yes, you will still not get as much energy gallon to gallon out of it, but you will get much more than you currently are.
There is another thing that ethanol is VERY useful for: race fuel.
E85 is essentially equivalent to a high octane fuel. What that means is you can run your engine at higher compression ratios or higher air pressures inside of the cylinders. This allows you to pull absolutely jaw dropping amounts of power out of engines. My friend modified a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution with a 4 cylinder engine to over 900 horsepower with E85 as the fuel. Myself, I have an Eagle Talon 4 cylinder car that pushes 650 horsepower using E85. I could easily pull more horsepower out of it but I am aiming for reliability. :)
E85 is awesome race fuel.
no women have offered sex to me because I own an iPhone!
That is because you are holding it wrong. ;)
Are you a moron or a shill? Sure, Secure Boot is required to have a method of disabling for Windows 8... but what about Windows 9? Windows 10? Is your righteous indignation going to allow everyone to turn off Secure Boot then?
You are ahead price-wise, granted, but are you ahead satisfaction-wise? I only own one cheap casio g shock watch and i never even wear it, but to some people, a nice watch brings a certain satisfaction when it looks nice with their suits and is reliable.
Ah. So we should just go along with building the guillotine because the blade is not included. Right.
DRM isn't fool proof. However it is a case of keeping the honest, honest.
I would argue two things against this:
No, it is not a case of keeping the honest, honest. It is a case of lock-in and rent seeking disguised as keeping the honest, honest.
The second argument is that the current rules are not a fair deal anyways. I refuse to fucking pay someone to sing Happy Birthday and I resent the fuck that the traditional childhood song is no longer able to be sang. What. The. Fuck.
Fuck every single one of you who supports this fucking insane system. I refuse to participate.
I will not participate. Good luck with the DRM. Cheers
The biggest difference between Science and Religion is how easy Science is able to discard previous ideas when new evidence is brought forward whereas Religion will fight tooth and nail until it is impractical for it to not adjust, e.g. Mormons and polygamy, or Mormons and blacks.
What evidence made Mormons give up polygamy? This does not make sense. Perhaps you are Mormon or dislike Mormons? Just weird.
Were I Anonymous (and I am most certainly not)
Actually, you most certainly are part of Anonymous even if you are not intending to be. You are faceless (Anonymous Coward) and you are sharing information and ideas about resisting abusive power. You do NOT have to be a criminal mastermind, you do NOT have to be the one initiating action, you just have to be there and be faceless... which you are.
Welcome to Anonymous.
People seem to forget in orbital mechanics, to move in one direction, you have to displace an equal amount of mass x energy in the opposite direction.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't E=MC^2 essentially say that mass and energy are equivalent?
I am guessing what people are trying to get at is that nuclear weapons are super powerful and that exploding them on the side of the planet currently facing the inside of the orbit would result in a push outwards from that orbit...
But what they failed to realize is that E really does equal MC^2. If you want to compare the energy of atomic bombs to the energy required to move the planet then you need to actually consider how much energy the planet holds in rest mass...
Rough numbers here:
More energy than all of the nuclear weapons combined:
Maximum yield of a nuclear weapon built so far is about 50 Megatons. In 2002 there were about 40,000 nuclear weapons in the world (according to wikipedia). If we assume those were all 50 Megaton weapons (a gross exageration), that gives us a total of 2 million, or 2 * 10^6 megatons.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-257219.html
The planet seems to have roughly 6x10^1024 kilograms of mass.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/planet-earth-weigh.htm
To compare like against like, we need to turn the rest mass of the planet into the same energy as an atomic bomb... so: E= MC^2 is
E=6x10^1024 x 9x10^16
E=~5x10^1041
So we are talking about using ~2x10^15 kilograms to have an effect on ~5x10^1041 kilograms.
In short, the orbital change will be so miniscule that it is not even worth calculating... especially since I do not know the math of orbital mechanics.
But all that said, stereotypes exist because of an overwhelming preponderance of anecdotal evidence.
No. Stereotypes exist because there is enough non-randomness in the chaos to see what we think is order. A behavior does not have to be performed by a majority of a population to become a stereotype, it only has to happen often enough to be recognizable as a pattern. It (stereotyping) is a natural consequence of not having infinite processing power... The problems start when extra processing power is required (dealing with individuals) and none is given.
I disagree. GIMP started because there were no free methods of dealing with images, specifically jpegs. GTK is the GIMP Tool Kit... so there were things "lying around" with which to act against a "strong" desktop environment (KDE) that was built on non-free software(QT)... so you are kind of correct that Gnome is a reaction to KDE but I suspect Gnome would have begun at some point anyways since all of the buildings blocks were already being created.
For myself, I like that they went with C. I am allergic to C++ and KDE is all C++. As you can C, Gnome was inevitable and should not be viewed as having "always been on the wrong track from day 1"... of course their recent ultra-disasterous UI decisions have put them so far on the wrong side of the tracks that I am unsure if they will ever come back to reality. Just wow. The depth of arrogance and stupidity required for their UI decisions are so bad that they could not have been purposefully evil as nobody is that creatively evil.
Then don't write code in Javascript that is hard to debug. Just because it gives you the choice (like perl) to write lousy code, that does not mean that you are forced to write lousy code.
Now if you are talking about having to debug other people's crap, I highly agree. Most/many people can not be self disciplined enough to write code that is debuggable unless the language forces them (Python seems to try (but fail) that route).