no, but it does put us in a group which develops a good understanding of something. So while we might not necessarily be smarter than the medical group or the junk bond group, we're definitely smarter than the average joe that doesn't have a good understanding of anything.
well no, US cannot bomb pakistan at will simply because the pakistani don't possess ICBMs capable of reaching USA. North Korea doesn't either (or at least they didn't until very recently) and Dubya couldn't touch them because they might nuke S. Korea and Japan.
US bombing Islamabad could very well result in Pakistan bombing India.
no, what you're describing is not "Fucking with them".
Fucking with them would be, launching airstrikes and cruise missiles on Pakistani capital trying to kill the leaders of the Pakistani government. Which is precisely what Obama/Hillary is doing in Libya.
Kaddafi has no nukes, so Obama is free to bomb Libya.
Pakistan has nukes, so he can't do that even if they suddenly decide today they hate the US and announce an alliance with Al Qaeda and declare jihad.
Best thing to do would've been for USA to mind its own fucking business and not get involved in the territorial disputes and internal politics of the Middle East. Btw this isn't an Obama bashing session, Dubya was three times worse than him, and actually it goes all the way back to Churchill and FDR, when they decided to play Emperor and carve out new nation-states on a whim.
I thought there was no sound in the vacuum of space.
But then maybe all that manmade global warming New Scientist likes to report is causing air molecules in our atmosphere to heat up and expand into the other reaches of space, causing all that whooshing noise as the mars lander speeds by the camera.
Or maybe they consulted with George Lucas before making the video...
and he was right. Just one shuttle launch needed how many thousands of people and billions of dollars? And for the price of 1 shuttle mission, how many Falcon launchers can you buy?
But then that was irrelevant, since the primary purpose of the program was to generate jobs and keep the esteemed senator from Utah happy.
I don't disagree, but I'm curious: how were the Japanese "desperate"?
They were desperate in late 1944 which is when they started launching kamikaze attacks. They were NOT using kamikazes in 1942 when they were flying high and winning battles all over the place. In fact they would've laughed in your face if you suggested it.
I'm pretty sure that the connection between Islamist suicide bombers and kamikazes has to do with extremist ideology/religion and not being "desperate".
Well you're wrong, and you need to read some history. Suicide attacks are always a desperation measure of last resort. Nobody does them unless they feel there's no other way to retaliate.
Germans as far as I know don't have an "extremist" religion, and even they resorted to suicide attacks late in the war when all hope seemed lost.
And Islam was just as an "extremist" back in the Crusader days as it is now. But back then, the Muslims actually had an army that was competitive. So when foreigners invaded their land, they launched a military offensive to kick them out. And they succeeded after a while.
In 1947 when Israel was created out of Arab land, the Arabs didn't launch suicide bombers. They attacked with their army. Again and again. It is only after they failed for the umpteenth time and realizing they have absolutely no chance of defeating the Israeli/USA alliance, that they started resorting to suicide bombers.
for people who really do value their privacy (me) and want to use the service, we'll forever be screwed by their ever changing garbage "updates" and changes without prior notice.
Well, you could do what I did... sign up for Facebook using an alias. Yup, my Slashdot username is also the same as my Facebook ID. I just tell the 3 or 4 people that want to keep in touch with me on Facebook what my made-up name is. Now they know it's me.
I've never had to fiddle with any facebook privacy settings, I just leave them all on default.
it's not just human teeth that suck, or that civilization/agriculture ruined our teeth. Animal conservation people often tranquilize lions in the wild to relocate them/take blood samples for studies, etc... very often they find the lion with cavities and gingivitis, even though it's been living on a diet of meat exclusively (as all lions have for millenia).
I saw this on NatGeo once -- scientists tranqulized a lion took some samples and gave it a checkup, and one of the things they did was to drill out a cavitity and fill it, and give him a dental cleaning (with dental floss). It was pretty funny.
what if you need to access a web account (let's say Gawker) and you're not at home? And you can't remember any of your passwords because they're all strong 35-character random characters stored in your password safe? Do you carry a USB stick with your password safe around with you everywhere you go?
And if you do, you still have to insert your USB stick into a foreign computer and type in your master password. What if that gets owned by a keylogger? Then not only is your Gawker password compromised, every password you have is compromised.
If you are a dictator, reasonably smart and been paying attention to current events, the following points should be occuring to you:
1. Be like Mike... er, I mean China.... be proactive about the interwebs. Put in a nationwide firewall, slowly censor the net so that stuff like twitter, facebook, gmail, etc. are not accessible to most of the normal population (i.e. non-geeks). This helps you avoid having to shut off the whole thing off later when the riots in the street reach epic levels.
Encouraging domestic, tightly-regulated and spied upon alternative companies, like China's Baidu and Renren, to substitute for the blocked USAsian sites is a bonus.
2. Never relinquish power, and be ruthless. Your only other option is imprisonment or death.
Nice guys like Mubarak who voluntarily give up power and refuse to annihilate protesters with cluster bombs end up getting arrested for (insert reason here). Kadaffi seems to have learned this lesson well.
3. Get nukes, and get them fast. If you don't, you can be bombed, invaded and arrested by USA/NATO at their whim. North Koreans and Iranians know this. Saddam didn't, and look what happened to him. Kadaffi is finding out right now the hard way.
This last one is a shame, and wouldn't be necessary if our leaders took to heart the founding fathers' plea about avoiding entangling alliances, not getting involved in the territorial disputes of Europe (and by extension the Middle East which is like 18th century Europe squared), be a friend of liberty everywhere but guardians only of our own. But noooo, Dubya had to avenge his father's wimpy mistake and prove to the world his dick size, and Obama had to... well I have no idea what motivates him but he is diving headlong into the Mideast and proving himself a clone of Dubya.
knee landing doesn't seem to be a problem with the compressed-air jetpacks from the 60's. Every landing I've seen was like feather. As long as the guy flying is not a total noob, and he has some thrust left, he can control the rate of descent that results in a super-soft landing every time.
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have you ever heard of UAW? Teamsters? The Democratic Party?
no, but it does put us in a group which develops a good understanding of something. So while we might not necessarily be smarter than the medical group or the junk bond group, we're definitely smarter than the average joe that doesn't have a good understanding of anything.
you're one of those people who LIKE being fondled by TSA employees, aren't you?
still buying Sony shit? Especially on Slashdot?
Haven't they learned anything about how Sony treats its customers?
well no, US cannot bomb pakistan at will simply because the pakistani don't possess ICBMs capable of reaching USA. North Korea doesn't either (or at least they didn't until very recently) and Dubya couldn't touch them because they might nuke S. Korea and Japan.
US bombing Islamabad could very well result in Pakistan bombing India.
did you even watch the video? You can hear star-wars like sound effects while it's in interplanetary space, on the way to mars.
no, what you're describing is not "Fucking with them".
Fucking with them would be, launching airstrikes and cruise missiles on Pakistani capital trying to kill the leaders of the Pakistani government. Which is precisely what Obama/Hillary is doing in Libya.
Kaddafi has no nukes, so Obama is free to bomb Libya.
Pakistan has nukes, so he can't do that even if they suddenly decide today they hate the US and announce an alliance with Al Qaeda and declare jihad.
Best thing to do would've been for USA to mind its own fucking business and not get involved in the territorial disputes and internal politics of the Middle East. Btw this isn't an Obama bashing session, Dubya was three times worse than him, and actually it goes all the way back to Churchill and FDR, when they decided to play Emperor and carve out new nation-states on a whim.
I thought there was no sound in the vacuum of space.
But then maybe all that manmade global warming New Scientist likes to report is causing air molecules in our atmosphere to heat up and expand into the other reaches of space, causing all that whooshing noise as the mars lander speeds by the camera.
Or maybe they consulted with George Lucas before making the video...
and he was right. Just one shuttle launch needed how many thousands of people and billions of dollars? And for the price of 1 shuttle mission, how many Falcon launchers can you buy?
But then that was irrelevant, since the primary purpose of the program was to generate jobs and keep the esteemed senator from Utah happy.
I don't disagree, but I'm curious: how were the Japanese "desperate"?
They were desperate in late 1944 which is when they started launching kamikaze attacks. They were NOT using kamikazes in 1942 when they were flying high and winning battles all over the place. In fact they would've laughed in your face if you suggested it.
I'm pretty sure that the connection between Islamist suicide bombers and kamikazes has to do with extremist ideology/religion and not being "desperate".
Well you're wrong, and you need to read some history. Suicide attacks are always a desperation measure of last resort. Nobody does them unless they feel there's no other way to retaliate.
Germans as far as I know don't have an "extremist" religion, and even they resorted to suicide attacks late in the war when all hope seemed lost.
And Islam was just as an "extremist" back in the Crusader days as it is now. But back then, the Muslims actually had an army that was competitive. So when foreigners invaded their land, they launched a military offensive to kick them out. And they succeeded after a while.
In 1947 when Israel was created out of Arab land, the Arabs didn't launch suicide bombers. They attacked with their army. Again and again. It is only after they failed for the umpteenth time and realizing they have absolutely no chance of defeating the Israeli/USA alliance, that they started resorting to suicide bombers.
instead of wallets, he thinks everyone will be carrying man-purses like him by 2015
so it's an aero-plane that transforms into an auto-mobile, but used motor-cycle tires... very inter-resting
and nothing of value was lost...
for people who really do value their privacy (me) and want to use the service, we'll forever be screwed by their ever changing garbage "updates" and changes without prior notice.
Well, you could do what I did... sign up for Facebook using an alias. Yup, my Slashdot username is also the same as my Facebook ID. I just tell the 3 or 4 people that want to keep in touch with me on Facebook what my made-up name is. Now they know it's me.
I've never had to fiddle with any facebook privacy settings, I just leave them all on default.
Plus Taco has a tiny penis that is so small that it takes the world's most powerful microscope to resolve.
I almost never respond to trolls but this one was so funny it made me laugh out loud... literally. (people in nearby cubicles are staring at me)
you can download the Netscape web browser:
http://netscape-browser.brothersoft.com/
it's not just human teeth that suck, or that civilization/agriculture ruined our teeth. Animal conservation people often tranquilize lions in the wild to relocate them/take blood samples for studies, etc... very often they find the lion with cavities and gingivitis, even though it's been living on a diet of meat exclusively (as all lions have for millenia).
I saw this on NatGeo once -- scientists tranqulized a lion took some samples and gave it a checkup, and one of the things they did was to drill out a cavitity and fill it, and give him a dental cleaning (with dental floss). It was pretty funny.
green hornet... was better than this drivel... and that's saying alot considering how green hornet also sucked
Valador must be the aerospace consulting arm of Tropicanti & Gotti, LLC.
really? What kind of insanity is this? Why??
If anything, you'd think that old fogeys who create awards like this would've mandated the winner be AT LEAST 40 years old.
what if you need to access a web account (let's say Gawker) and you're not at home? And you can't remember any of your passwords because they're all strong 35-character random characters stored in your password safe? Do you carry a USB stick with your password safe around with you everywhere you go?
And if you do, you still have to insert your USB stick into a foreign computer and type in your master password. What if that gets owned by a keylogger? Then not only is your Gawker password compromised, every password you have is compromised.
If you are a dictator, reasonably smart and been paying attention to current events, the following points should be occuring to you:
1. Be like Mike... er, I mean China.... be proactive about the interwebs. Put in a nationwide firewall, slowly censor the net so that stuff like twitter, facebook, gmail, etc. are not accessible to most of the normal population (i.e. non-geeks). This helps you avoid having to shut off the whole thing off later when the riots in the street reach epic levels.
Encouraging domestic, tightly-regulated and spied upon alternative companies, like China's Baidu and Renren, to substitute for the blocked USAsian sites is a bonus.
2. Never relinquish power, and be ruthless. Your only other option is imprisonment or death.
Nice guys like Mubarak who voluntarily give up power and refuse to annihilate protesters with cluster bombs end up getting arrested for (insert reason here). Kadaffi seems to have learned this lesson well.
3. Get nukes, and get them fast. If you don't, you can be bombed, invaded and arrested by USA/NATO at their whim. North Koreans and Iranians know this. Saddam didn't, and look what happened to him. Kadaffi is finding out right now the hard way.
This last one is a shame, and wouldn't be necessary if our leaders took to heart the founding fathers' plea about avoiding entangling alliances, not getting involved in the territorial disputes of Europe (and by extension the Middle East which is like 18th century Europe squared), be a friend of liberty everywhere but guardians only of our own. But noooo, Dubya had to avenge his father's wimpy mistake and prove to the world his dick size, and Obama had to... well I have no idea what motivates him but he is diving headlong into the Mideast and proving himself a clone of Dubya.
and suck the air out of the housing, the stored energy lasts forever!
knee landing doesn't seem to be a problem with the compressed-air jetpacks from the 60's. Every landing I've seen was like feather. As long as the guy flying is not a total noob, and he has some thrust left, he can control the rate of descent that results in a super-soft landing every time.