I've really not been impressed by all of the Hillary-bashing Wikileaks has been doing lately
So you only like the truth leaked when it's about people you don't like? If there's damning evidence that's being hidden about people you agree with, you would want it hidden?
they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.
Trump was not a gov't official so there isn't gonna be any classified material to reveal about him. He had a real estate business and a TV show. There's plenty of dirt on Trump, like the recording of him talking about groping pussies and such, but revealing those do not require whistleblower protection or the assistance of Wikileaks. You can just take that straight to Extra or CNN.
Dirt about Hillary's doings while a high ranking gov't official is not so safe to reveal. If you get caught leaking it you go to jail. That's where wikileaks comes in.
Or maybe not support the candidate that wants to stop all trade with Latin countries and calls all Latinos bad hombres.
Actual quote is "some bad hombres". Not "all". I know you believe your cause is just and the other side is evil and therefore it's okay to lie or fudge things here and there, but to neutral observers it makes whatever you say less credible.
If the block in a game of Pong became sentient... There would be no information in these rules of physics that would allow the Pong block to determine
If this universe really is a simulation, then we are the player(s).
Imagine if you're playing a role-playing computer game, and to make it as fun as possible you suspend all thoughts or memories outside of the game while playing it. (no thinking about the job or the wife, you ARE Ragnor the barbarian with 35 STR and 16 DEX).
Perhaps there is a one-to-one ratio and there are 7 billion sentient player-entities from outside this universe. But this does not seem likely since new humans are being born all the time and they would have to bring a new player-entity every time a baby is born. It's more likely that one player-entity is playing multiple humans, but purposely forgetting about all the other characters he has while he's on that char.
Sorry, but you were right the first time. Jobs brought some fashion sense into a world of beige-box PC's, and gave us the first smartphone that didn't suck, but really what else? Oh I guess the iPod and iTunes, but those are starting to die already.
Nice anecdote grandpa. Since your time, we invented this idea of "statistics" and "collecting data". Fact is, more than 6,000 kids died in the eight years before lawn darts were banned. Now, is it worth banning just to save 763 lives a year? That's a judgement call. But it's not "this activity is perfectly safe, overreaching 'crats." Fun sidenote, apparently the most common cause of injury wasn't among the contestants, but because someone overthrew it into someone else's yard.
Well I'm 44 now... imma assume you're 24 and everything going on today looks normal and peachy to you. But in 20 years when you're my age you're gonna look around in disgust and say "WTF happened, things used to be so much better when I was young"
I have never heard that phrase until fairly recently. Now every time something out of ordinary happens, there's a wild overreaction and statement from pussified officials saying "out of an abundance of caution".
Not sure if it's because females have been more power (females tend to be more safety-oriented and risk-averse). Maybe not, maybe all this cowering in fear and craving for safety would've happened regardless of femlib and is just a sign of general decline in a society.
I don't feel all that old, but lemme tell ya... when I was a kid nobody wore bicycle helmets. None of my friends died in bicycle accidents and none of us died from lawn darts either.
Not revisionist history, honest. I would've happily written "Bush" instead of "Clinton" had I known that Clinton was not the first president to give China MFN status. In fact, I would've preferred writing "Bush" because it would've gotten my point across better.
(any time I say anything negative about Clinton, liberals start foaming at the mouth and all rational discussion ceases)
Bush and Clinton do pretty much the same things, for the most part. Both take money from corporations and do their bidding. Different sides of the same coin.
You are the reason not to mount them on the smokestacks.
No, he's not the reason. Globalists pushing endlessly for free trade (i.e. rich people) are the reason.
Not that long ago, nearly all computers and computer-related peripherals were made in USA. For example my IBM model M clicky keyboard says "MADE IN USA" and the date is 1991. This was before Clinton gave China most-favored trading nation status and stuff were still being made here because corporations couldn't just move all their factories to any "third world hellhole" (as you put it) any time they wanted.
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting.
*No* possibility? And you know this how? Through an exhaustive analysis of all the sentient ET species in the galaxy?
Now your arguments are reasonable and I agree that it's quite possible things will be like that. But then maybe not, we just don't know.
I can easily imagine an alien race that is genetically driven to multiply and expand above anything else. Other races to them are just obstacles to be eliminated, kind of like how humans expand into new areas (e.g. Amazon rainforest) and destroy existing lifeforms that get in the way of what they wanna do (e.g. burning down the rainforest so they can use the land to plant crops). Even with FTL travel and advanced energy sources (fusion or anti-matter or w/e), exponential population growth would mean they are constantly looking for new planets to take over.
Like his previous do-gooder effort by throwing money at a problem. Zuck gave New Jersey's failing school system $100 million, and other matching contributions added up the total to almost $200 million. All that money was pissed away on various things and today the New Jersey school system is still failing.
Zuck seems to think that just because he's brilliant with computers (and making money with computers), he's brilliant at other things.
CEO/Mastermind had suffered a serious accident and everything had slowed to a virtual halt.
What kind of serious accident? Was it while testing a Lit motorcycle? Or was it a completely unrelated accident like hitting a tree while snowboarding?
I don't see how you can "force" cells in an organism to perform 100% identical copies, unless you genetically alter its DNA and put in place a new and better cell division mechanism. Which seems pretty far-fetched, in the same ballpark as creating Dyson spheres and Ringworlds.
You could probably treat cancer with a 100% success rate when they occur (which isn't quite the same as eliminating it, but close enough) with millions of advanced nanobots that swim around in your body and kill (or render impotent) cancer cells. This is also pretty far-fetched, but I'd say it's slightly more realistic than the previous method.
My Lenovo laptop has an option where instead of the normal mode (if plugged in, laptop charges until 100%), you can select "Battery Longevity" mode. In this mode the laptop will start charging if batter is under 45%, and stop at 50%. So basically the battery will always be between 45 and 50%. This is supposed to greatly increase the lifespan of the battery.
If you put a hammer inside a box marked "Newegg" and send it to someone, upon opening the box he will most like *not* use it to destroy his computer.
But if you do the same thing with a USB stick zapper, there's a pretty good chance that he will stick it in his computer and end up with a fried computer.
I'm an Apple user and currently do not own any Android devices, but the constant force-feeding of updates by Apple might make me jump ship to Android.
I had an iPad 2 that I bought in 2011. It was a great device, very snappy and a pleasure to use. It came with iOS 4. When it upgraded itself to iOS 5, it slowed down a little but was still usable. At this point an alarm went off in my head and I have refused all the pop-ups telling me to update to IOS 6 ever since.
Well lo and behold, in the fullness of time an ignorant member of my family tapped "YES" to the "Update to iOS 6" message. Running iOS 6, the iPad became a complete dog. Launching web browser took 3 seconds whereas it used to be well under a second in iOS 4. Not just the web browser either, doing just about *anything* with the ipad (even viewing photos stored locally) became a lag-fest.
Eventually I upgraded to iOS 7 in hopes that it might help (because Apple does not let you downgrade back to an older iOS version, ever). It did not help. At all. I ended up giving away the iPad because it was pretty much unusable.
But why should it be like that? The iPad's hardware was just as fast in 2015 as it was back in 2011. Aside from the ability to hold a battery charge, it should perform the same.
I would be happy with a setting somewhere that lets you turn off the "Update" pop-ups, but no, Apple does not let you do that. They want you on the latest bloated OS, and if your older hardware can't handle it, buy a new device.
We've known for decades that long-term exposure to zero-g causes all kinds of health problems in humans. Including messing up your eyesight/.
We've also known for decades how to solve this problem. Create some gravity by spinning the spacecraft. If spacecraft is too small to make this feasible, attach a ballast on a tether and have the spacecraft and ballast orbit each other.
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I've really not been impressed by all of the Hillary-bashing Wikileaks has been doing lately
So you only like the truth leaked when it's about people you don't like? If there's damning evidence that's being hidden about people you agree with, you would want it hidden?
they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.
Trump was not a gov't official so there isn't gonna be any classified material to reveal about him. He had a real estate business and a TV show. There's plenty of dirt on Trump, like the recording of him talking about groping pussies and such, but revealing those do not require whistleblower protection or the assistance of Wikileaks. You can just take that straight to Extra or CNN.
Dirt about Hillary's doings while a high ranking gov't official is not so safe to reveal. If you get caught leaking it you go to jail. That's where wikileaks comes in.
Or maybe not support the candidate that wants to stop all trade with Latin countries and calls all Latinos bad hombres.
Actual quote is "some bad hombres". Not "all". I know you believe your cause is just and the other side is evil and therefore it's okay to lie or fudge things here and there, but to neutral observers it makes whatever you say less credible.
You thought senators and secretaries of state were supposed to work for your benefit?
Almost too cute.
Bears do not walk like that. It's either a human in costume or an upright ape more closely related to humans than any currently existing ape.
If the block in a game of Pong became sentient... There would be no information in these rules of physics that would allow the Pong block to determine
If this universe really is a simulation, then we are the player(s).
Imagine if you're playing a role-playing computer game, and to make it as fun as possible you suspend all thoughts or memories outside of the game while playing it. (no thinking about the job or the wife, you ARE Ragnor the barbarian with 35 STR and 16 DEX).
Perhaps there is a one-to-one ratio and there are 7 billion sentient player-entities from outside this universe. But this does not seem likely since new humans are being born all the time and they would have to bring a new player-entity every time a baby is born. It's more likely that one player-entity is playing multiple humans, but purposely forgetting about all the other characters he has while he's on that char.
More than that, how is she not in jail for criminal negligence?
Holmes donated to and was a fundraiser for .... you guessed it .... Hillary Rodham Clinton. Who also is not in jail for criminal negligence.
They are not a competition for SpaceX since SpaceX does not do suborbital flights.
Blue Origin's actual competition is Virgin Galactic, which is also trying to get paying passengers on 15-minute suborbital flights.
The difference between a suborbital and an orbital flight is like the difference between a Schwinn bicycle and a Ford F-150 pickup truck.
Sorry, but you were right the first time. Jobs brought some fashion sense into a world of beige-box PC's, and gave us the first smartphone that didn't suck, but really what else? Oh I guess the iPod and iTunes, but those are starting to die already.
Nice anecdote grandpa. Since your time, we invented this idea of "statistics" and "collecting data". Fact is, more than 6,000 kids died in the eight years before lawn darts were banned. Now, is it worth banning just to save 763 lives a year? That's a judgement call. But it's not "this activity is perfectly safe, overreaching 'crats." Fun sidenote, apparently the most common cause of injury wasn't among the contestants, but because someone overthrew it into someone else's yard.
Well I'm 44 now... imma assume you're 24 and everything going on today looks normal and peachy to you. But in 20 years when you're my age you're gonna look around in disgust and say "WTF happened, things used to be so much better when I was young"
because, "abundance of caution".
I have never heard that phrase until fairly recently. Now every time something out of ordinary happens, there's a wild overreaction and statement from pussified officials saying "out of an abundance of caution".
Not sure if it's because females have been more power (females tend to be more safety-oriented and risk-averse). Maybe not, maybe all this cowering in fear and craving for safety would've happened regardless of femlib and is just a sign of general decline in a society.
I don't feel all that old, but lemme tell ya... when I was a kid nobody wore bicycle helmets. None of my friends died in bicycle accidents and none of us died from lawn darts either.
Not revisionist history, honest. I would've happily written "Bush" instead of "Clinton" had I known that Clinton was not the first president to give China MFN status. In fact, I would've preferred writing "Bush" because it would've gotten my point across better.
(any time I say anything negative about Clinton, liberals start foaming at the mouth and all rational discussion ceases)
Bush and Clinton do pretty much the same things, for the most part. Both take money from corporations and do their bidding. Different sides of the same coin.
You are the reason not to mount them on the smokestacks.
No, he's not the reason. Globalists pushing endlessly for free trade (i.e. rich people) are the reason.
Not that long ago, nearly all computers and computer-related peripherals were made in USA. For example my IBM model M clicky keyboard says "MADE IN USA" and the date is 1991. This was before Clinton gave China most-favored trading nation status and stuff were still being made here because corporations couldn't just move all their factories to any "third world hellhole" (as you put it) any time they wanted.
that gov't intelligence services are putting up that money.
UN has its own space program?
*mind blown*
Whatever problem NASA has with bureaucracy and money-wasting, compared to the UN they are like Henry Ford and Jeff Bezos combined.
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting.
*No* possibility? And you know this how? Through an exhaustive analysis of all the sentient ET species in the galaxy?
Now your arguments are reasonable and I agree that it's quite possible things will be like that. But then maybe not, we just don't know.
I can easily imagine an alien race that is genetically driven to multiply and expand above anything else. Other races to them are just obstacles to be eliminated, kind of like how humans expand into new areas (e.g. Amazon rainforest) and destroy existing lifeforms that get in the way of what they wanna do (e.g. burning down the rainforest so they can use the land to plant crops). Even with FTL travel and advanced energy sources (fusion or anti-matter or w/e), exponential population growth would mean they are constantly looking for new planets to take over.
Like his previous do-gooder effort by throwing money at a problem. Zuck gave New Jersey's failing school system $100 million, and other matching contributions added up the total to almost $200 million. All that money was pissed away on various things and today the New Jersey school system is still failing.
Zuck seems to think that just because he's brilliant with computers (and making money with computers), he's brilliant at other things.
CEO/Mastermind had suffered a serious accident and everything had slowed to a virtual halt.
What kind of serious accident? Was it while testing a Lit motorcycle? Or was it a completely unrelated accident like hitting a tree while snowboarding?
I don't see how you can "force" cells in an organism to perform 100% identical copies, unless you genetically alter its DNA and put in place a new and better cell division mechanism. Which seems pretty far-fetched, in the same ballpark as creating Dyson spheres and Ringworlds.
You could probably treat cancer with a 100% success rate when they occur (which isn't quite the same as eliminating it, but close enough) with millions of advanced nanobots that swim around in your body and kill (or render impotent) cancer cells. This is also pretty far-fetched, but I'd say it's slightly more realistic than the previous method.
I didn't say this was weird, I said it does not bode well [for Democrats].
The forces that lifted Obama to the Presidency do not seem to be present for Hillary.
Even though he was an enthusiastic supporter of Obama.
This does not bode well.
My Lenovo laptop has an option where instead of the normal mode (if plugged in, laptop charges until 100%), you can select "Battery Longevity" mode. In this mode the laptop will start charging if batter is under 45%, and stop at 50%. So basically the battery will always be between 45 and 50%. This is supposed to greatly increase the lifespan of the battery.
If you put a hammer inside a box marked "Newegg" and send it to someone, upon opening the box he will most like *not* use it to destroy his computer.
But if you do the same thing with a USB stick zapper, there's a pretty good chance that he will stick it in his computer and end up with a fried computer.
I'm an Apple user and currently do not own any Android devices, but the constant force-feeding of updates by Apple might make me jump ship to Android.
I had an iPad 2 that I bought in 2011. It was a great device, very snappy and a pleasure to use. It came with iOS 4. When it upgraded itself to iOS 5, it slowed down a little but was still usable. At this point an alarm went off in my head and I have refused all the pop-ups telling me to update to IOS 6 ever since.
Well lo and behold, in the fullness of time an ignorant member of my family tapped "YES" to the "Update to iOS 6" message. Running iOS 6, the iPad became a complete dog. Launching web browser took 3 seconds whereas it used to be well under a second in iOS 4. Not just the web browser either, doing just about *anything* with the ipad (even viewing photos stored locally) became a lag-fest.
Eventually I upgraded to iOS 7 in hopes that it might help (because Apple does not let you downgrade back to an older iOS version, ever). It did not help. At all. I ended up giving away the iPad because it was pretty much unusable.
But why should it be like that? The iPad's hardware was just as fast in 2015 as it was back in 2011. Aside from the ability to hold a battery charge, it should perform the same.
I would be happy with a setting somewhere that lets you turn off the "Update" pop-ups, but no, Apple does not let you do that. They want you on the latest bloated OS, and if your older hardware can't handle it, buy a new device.
We've known for decades that long-term exposure to zero-g causes all kinds of health problems in humans. Including messing up your eyesight/.
We've also known for decades how to solve this problem. Create some gravity by spinning the spacecraft. If spacecraft is too small to make this feasible, attach a ballast on a tether and have the spacecraft and ballast orbit each other.
Trump is one of the most dishonest political candidates I've EVER seen
I agree, Trump is one of the most dishonest political candidates I've seen.
Clinton, on the other hand, is the most dishonest. #1, numero uno.