... and a world of good it does to Iran wanting to have the bomb... not that having the bomb without intercontinental ballistic missiles would help much, except as a conversation piece whenever they will ask in vain for trade restrictions to be lifted.
... no harm in planing, except it won't work: population never increased exponentially.
no more worries about Iran
are there any worries about Iran and concerning the energy supply ? The worry is about a regime that does not do well with openness attempting to develop nuclear technology.
Using terms such as 'zombie', "decrepit" and 'unprecidented' without a shred of evidence makes me think that the article and the author have a bit too much bias to really believe.
yes... "rash of" also indicates negative bias... could have written "series of", "number of", but it had to go into the colloquial register...
The carp loves hydro... the salmons might have something to object, but who cares about those wasteful scoundrels... just think: 100 miles for a gallon of zoo-plankton, and abusing their juveniles all day long...
I suppose the tables that the scientologists put on the side-walk were not authorized in any way, or the space rented from the city...
The anons in the clip showed a lot of self control... that was a difficult performance, keeping cool while being openly threatened (the "name and phone number" requests ).
Not many "scilons" in the open around here... I suspect because the traditional churches would sic their neo-fascist dogs on them the instant they set the booth... though that would fun to watch...
They would buy Cell processors, but then then it would take an year and a half for the papers to be processed, six month for IBM and Dep.Def. to spec the systems, and about two years while competitors contest the order... everything costing about 10 times as much for one half of the computing power, and would not be able to run much else besides floating point calculations.
If you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, and pay no attention to the successful Inuit, then
your policies have all the likelihood of success of [no, _______ wasn't mentioned].
if you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, you'll die in a couple of days... unless there was something different about Greenland at the time tie vikings lived there "like they were still in Europe".
I'm sorry, you sure you're from the same US I'm from? Where growing up learning only Spanish becomes a serious barrier in life? And many people are xenophobic and arrogant when it comes to languages?
No, being poor is a serious barrier in life... not speaking the same dialect as the minority in charge is a lot less important. My bet is not speaking English (or the official language some place else) with the proper accent (and that depends on the state/country) is a lot worse than speaking it with Spanish accent.
... when, in fact, they were fighting the Japanese in Mongolia: the first large scale confrontation of the war, and won by the Soviets; guess who was in charge there... hint: same person that was in charge at Stalingrad, and he employed the same tactics: give way in the center, then press a bit to keep the opponent busy there, but aim the main thrust at the flanks. That the Germans, with all their superior staff and military, did not think it's interesting to keep troops in reserve, was a bonus. Funny thing is, Béla Kun was beaten using the exactly the same tactics in 1919, not to speak of the manner in which a certain general from Carthage kicked Roman ass on one occasion (google for Cannae).
Even when they "won" battles the Soviet Union usually lost two or three times as many men as the Germans did.
Care to provide a quote ?
If I remember well, the great Russian losses came from the prisoners of war from the first year of war that were either executed on the spot or starved afterward. Otherwise, loses in combat were more balanced on the Eastern front that they were on the Western front.
Stalin's purges of the Army in the 1930s had eliminated a good deal of talent in the Red Army
yeah, like that guy, what's his name... Tucha...something, that believed the an army does not need reserves... the Poles love that talented genius:-) ; or the dumb asses that lost Hungary while facing the outgunned and outnumbered Rumanian army in 1919; or the former mahnovists (sincere anarchists), Socialist Revolutionaries (oh, those indeed loved discipline and good order... even more than they loved the chain of command, rank insignia and infantry formations ). Yeah, big loss...
Joke aside, probably the Nazis were helped a bit by having one million more soldiers in the field, and knowing the day the war will start.
The Russian were sending human waves of starving, pressed "soldiers"
but of course... starving soldiers can carry 30kgs of gear while storming enemy trenches. The losses on the Eastern front were 4/3... like the Soviets lost 4 soldiers for 3 soldiers lost by the Nazis... the proportion of losses on the Western front was even more skewed, but a lot of the skew is due to losses in 1940. Germany and their allies had about 3.5 mil. soldiers in 1941 against about 2.5 mil. soldiers on the other side,... after 1943 the ratio of troops and losses would have been favorable to the Soviets except the survival rate of Russian war prisoners was under 20%, while about 80% of the German prisoners of war returned home after an unpleasant trip to Siberia.
If you're Russian you probably know that during the cold war and after USSR (or Russian) propaganda against US was a lot milder than US propaganda... in fiction, even during Stalin's time, the "Capitalist" spy was more likely to be a bumbling idiot than a blood thirsty murderer (that was reserved for the Nazis).
The game will be available soon (if it's not already) on bittorrent, where no censorship would reach it, but Russia's govt. had to take a stand before being forced to take a stand by the press or opportunist politicians.
Censorship ? Game (or movie) ratings are censorship, the GTA incident was censorship, and yeah, this is censorship too, except in two month nobody will care and the uncut version will be freely available, and any entrepreneur of violence that would try to stir the s..t up by pointing at this game will be reminded that the govt. is still in charge and took the appropriate measures. P&M have to deal with cold war zombies (such as the dumb frobnicators that wrote and approved the script for the episode in question) from both sides of the visa wall, and they are doing rather well in keeping a balance. They are also busy keeping the lid on the National-Bolsheviks (those might be an "bitter and ironic dadaist joke" party, but from a distance they look like Nazis in scary black uniforms).
Anyway, if a similar game were to be published in Russia, we would be swamped by the Guardian, The Economist, Washington Post, and of course, a whole bunch of slashdotters, with protests against revisionist propaganda, with predictions of doom, and all the defenders of freedom will be foaming at the mouth about "the return of the red commies".
... there is no "feminization", only children are evaluated as more or less "feminine" based on 50 years old standards, while the younger parents don't care so much about red/blue or dolls/tanks and even if they cared, it's kind of difficult to find clothes that are either blue or red/pink, and the children can play boyish or girlish games no matter what kind of puppets they have available... waterproof dolls make excellent "battleships", or even "space frigates" when necessary, only a bit of imagination is needed:-P
Some chemicals might mess up the hormonal balance or influence the development of internal organs, but saying that they influence the way children play with their toys is just plain bollocks... after 11 or 12 years this might be of some import, but before that only the pressure of the older relatives prevents girls from playing with toy guns or getting into fights, or the boys from getting involved into "make-pretend" games...
"There is a big difference between reading a book and having professors with years of experience... "... teaching hundreds of students in the same time, the ratio being something like 1 prof. + 4 asistents to 100 undergrads... indeed a big difference... made meself good money tutoring CS students:D
I can read Wikipedia, no problem in that area. Anyway, why has this become an important issue only since 2007 ? As you wrote, BPA is known to be dangerous since the 1930s...
Why only a very specific class of products is targeted, since there are a scary lot of chemicals (most of them occurring naturally) in common use who have known and dangerous side effects ?
This being EU, the first question is "qui prodest"... "mad cows" were found all over Western Europe, still only UK got their cattle killed: I still remember watching John Major begging for the ban to be lifted. "Bird flu" was found wherever there were water fowls, yet only former Eastern Europe countries had their poultry farms wiped out... at that time the Czech minister of agriculture was quite pathetic when he begged to be allowed higher farm subsidies, since between the panic and the much higher subsidies paid by more respectable neighboring countries the poultry farms in the Czech Republic were close to being wiped out financially, too. Genetic engineering is practiced all over EU, yet only a handful of companies and, paradoxically, only the safest technologies were targeted during the "GM food" panic.
We don't need more research into this shit
Yeah, and malaria is caused by "exhalations", and is cured by moving to another place. No need for more research.
I don't know about the BPA research, but the articles linked above are not worth the electrons used for keeping them online: there is not a word about controls for social causes or food habits. Yeah, let's get scared, and while we're in the business of being scared, why not forbid breathing ? A percentage of the gases in the air are radioactive (including some oxygen). Water is also very dangerous, not to speak of 98% of all the plants, most meats and virtually all alcoholic beverages.
Of course, genetic information evolved over the last two million years can help identify dolls dressed in red as "feminine" and dolls dressed in green and wearing a hard hat as "masculine"... except for 3000 years red was the "male warrior" color and only during the last 100 years were the "camo" colors fashionable in the army... and the same genes are helping young children identify plastic tanks or knifes as "male toys" while plastic beds, plastic baby carriages and plastic table sets are identified (due to genes, hormone concentrations or something else of physiological origin) as "female toys".
so, Mr. or Mrs. AC, who is going to protect the crops from wild pigs ?
When the boys were marching on Champs Elisees on their way to impale the boys marching on Unter den Linden on bayonets, there were a lot of girls cheering them on... my bet was they went marching because they knew that was their only hope of getting laid (when they came back just before Christmas), not because they liked to run in the mud, to be shot at with high caliber bullets, and to bash heads.
He has, sort of, a point: in the fine article there is not a word about "masculinising" or "neutralising" substances, and there is not a word about controls for social causes or food habits; my take it is another scare aiming to blackmail governments to fund otherwise legitimate research by playing on the fear of being transformed into "wusses" by the "big evil multinationals"... fear that is perfectly legitimate, but has less to do with "chemicals" and more with office bureaucracy, procedures and discipline.
Slashdot Mirror
+1 insightfull, please, for timeOday ...
do nothing
indeed, the perfect solution, because:
fossil fuels are harmless
plan on increasing the population exponentially
... no harm in planing, except it won't work: population never increased exponentially.
no more worries about Iran
are there any worries about Iran and concerning the energy supply ? The worry is about a regime that does not do well with openness attempting to develop nuclear technology.
Right?
Absolutely right.
Using terms such as 'zombie', "decrepit" and 'unprecidented' without a shred of evidence makes me think that the article and the author have a bit too much bias to really believe.
yes ... "rash of" also indicates negative bias ... could have written "series of", "number of", but it had to go into the colloquial register ...
The carp loves hydro ... the salmons might have something to object, but who cares about those wasteful scoundrels ... just think: 100 miles for a gallon of zoo-plankton, and abusing their juveniles all day long ...
except where boats need to enter/exit riverways, and for that matter fish.
... you _should_ think of the fish ... they have children, too
John Carmichael on youtube
oh ...
I suppose the tables that the scientologists put on the side-walk were not authorized in any way, or the space rented from the city ...
The anons in the clip showed a lot of self control ... that was a difficult performance, keeping cool while being openly threatened (the "name and phone number" requests ).
Not many "scilons" in the open around here ... I suspect because the traditional churches would sic their neo-fascist dogs on them the instant they set the booth ... though that would fun to watch ...
They would buy Cell processors, but then then it would take an year and a half for the papers to be processed, six month for IBM and Dep.Def. to spec the systems, and about two years while competitors contest the order ... everything costing about 10 times as much for one half of the computing power, and would not be able to run much else besides floating point calculations.
BTW, has anybody tried DwarfFortress on a PS3 ?
neah... that's 25$ at least, second-hand ...
So, what do you do that's legally untouchable but still bothers them ?
If you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, and pay no attention to the successful Inuit, then
your policies have all the likelihood of success of [no, _______ wasn't mentioned].
if you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, you'll die in a couple of days ... unless there was something different about Greenland at the time tie vikings lived there "like they were still in Europe".
and sometimes climatologists have a bias for telling the truth, except not when they are getting quoted in media: 1203631942.txt .
I'm sorry, you sure you're from the same US I'm from? Where growing up learning only Spanish becomes a serious barrier in life? And many people are xenophobic and arrogant when it comes to languages?
No, being poor is a serious barrier in life ... not speaking the same dialect as the minority in charge is a lot less important. My bet is not speaking English (or the official language some place else) with the proper accent (and that depends on the state/country) is a lot worse than speaking it with Spanish accent.
Is there any reason they can't just give it to both of them?
They might be insulted: Gorbachev, Arafat and the scientists of the IPCC are not very good company.
Had they joined forces with the Allies in 1939
... when, in fact, they were fighting the Japanese in Mongolia: the first large scale confrontation of the war, and won by the Soviets; guess who was in charge there ... hint: same person that was in charge at Stalingrad, and he employed the same tactics: give way in the center, then press a bit to keep the opponent busy there, but aim the main thrust at the flanks. That the Germans, with all their superior staff and military, did not think it's interesting to keep troops in reserve, was a bonus. Funny thing is, Béla Kun was beaten using the exactly the same tactics in 1919, not to speak of the manner in which a certain general from Carthage kicked Roman ass on one occasion (google for Cannae).
Even when they "won" battles the Soviet Union usually lost two or three times as many men as the Germans did.
Care to provide a quote ?
If I remember well, the great Russian losses came from the prisoners of war from the first year of war that were either executed on the spot or starved afterward. Otherwise, loses in combat were more balanced on the Eastern front that they were on the Western front.
Stalin's purges of the Army in the 1930s had eliminated a good deal of talent in the Red Army
yeah, like that guy, what's his name ... Tucha...something, that believed the an army does not need reserves ... the Poles love that talented genius :-) ; or the dumb asses that lost Hungary while facing the outgunned and outnumbered Rumanian army in 1919; or the former mahnovists (sincere anarchists), Socialist Revolutionaries (oh, those indeed loved discipline and good order ... even more than they loved the chain of command, rank insignia and infantry formations ). Yeah, big loss ...
Joke aside, probably the Nazis were helped a bit by having one million more soldiers in the field, and knowing the day the war will start.
The Russian were sending human waves of starving, pressed "soldiers"
but of course ... starving soldiers can carry 30kgs of gear while storming enemy trenches. The losses on the Eastern front were 4/3 ... like the Soviets lost 4 soldiers for 3 soldiers lost by the Nazis ... the proportion of losses on the Western front was even more skewed, but a lot of the skew is due to losses in 1940. Germany and their allies had about 3.5 mil. soldiers in 1941 against about 2.5 mil. soldiers on the other side, ... after 1943 the ratio of troops and losses would have been favorable to the Soviets except the survival rate of Russian war prisoners was under 20%, while about 80% of the German prisoners of war returned home after an unpleasant trip to Siberia.
If you're Russian you probably know that during the cold war and after USSR (or Russian) propaganda against US was a lot milder than US propaganda ... in fiction, even during Stalin's time, the "Capitalist" spy was more likely to be a bumbling idiot than a blood thirsty murderer (that was reserved for the Nazis).
The game will be available soon (if it's not already) on bittorrent, where no censorship would reach it, but Russia's govt. had to take a stand before being forced to take a stand by the press or opportunist politicians.
Censorship ? Game (or movie) ratings are censorship, the GTA incident was censorship, and yeah, this is censorship too, except in two month nobody will care and the uncut version will be freely available, and any entrepreneur of violence that would try to stir the s..t up by pointing at this game will be reminded that the govt. is still in charge and took the appropriate measures. P&M have to deal with cold war zombies (such as the dumb frobnicators that wrote and approved the script for the episode in question) from both sides of the visa wall, and they are doing rather well in keeping a balance. They are also busy keeping the lid on the National-Bolsheviks (those might be an "bitter and ironic dadaist joke" party, but from a distance they look like Nazis in scary black uniforms).
Anyway, if a similar game were to be published in Russia, we would be swamped by the Guardian, The Economist, Washington Post, and of course, a whole bunch of slashdotters, with protests against revisionist propaganda, with predictions of doom, and all the defenders of freedom will be foaming at the mouth about "the return of the red commies".
Some chemicals might mess up the hormonal balance or influence the development of internal organs, but saying that they influence the way children play with their toys is just plain bollocks ... after 11 or 12 years this might be of some import, but before that only the pressure of the older relatives prevents girls from playing with toy guns or getting into fights, or the boys from getting involved into "make-pretend" games ...
"There is a big difference between reading a book and having professors with years of experience ... " ... teaching hundreds of students in the same time, the ratio being something like 1 prof. + 4 asistents to 100 undergrads ... indeed a big difference ... made meself good money tutoring CS students :D
Insulted by an AC ... fun :)
I can read Wikipedia, no problem in that area. Anyway, why has this become an important issue only since 2007 ? As you wrote, BPA is known to be dangerous since the 1930s ...
Why only a very specific class of products is targeted, since there are a scary lot of chemicals (most of them occurring naturally) in common use who have known and dangerous side effects ?
This being EU, the first question is "qui prodest" ... "mad cows" were found all over Western Europe, still only UK got their cattle killed: I still remember watching John Major begging for the ban to be lifted. "Bird flu" was found wherever there were water fowls, yet only former Eastern Europe countries had their poultry farms wiped out ... at that time the Czech minister of agriculture was quite pathetic when he begged to be allowed higher farm subsidies, since between the panic and the much higher subsidies paid by more respectable neighboring countries the poultry farms in the Czech Republic were close to being wiped out financially, too. Genetic engineering is practiced all over EU, yet only a handful of companies and, paradoxically, only the safest technologies were targeted during the "GM food" panic.
We don't need more research into this shit
Yeah, and malaria is caused by "exhalations", and is cured by moving to another place. No need for more research.
I don't know about the BPA research, but the articles linked above are not worth the electrons used for keeping them online: there is not a word about controls for social causes or food habits. Yeah, let's get scared, and while we're in the business of being scared, why not forbid breathing ? A percentage of the gases in the air are radioactive (including some oxygen). Water is also very dangerous, not to speak of 98% of all the plants, most meats and virtually all alcoholic beverages.
Of course, genetic information evolved over the last two million years can help identify dolls dressed in red as "feminine" and dolls dressed in green and wearing a hard hat as "masculine" ... except for 3000 years red was the "male warrior" color and only during the last 100 years were the "camo" colors fashionable in the army ... and the same genes are helping young children identify plastic tanks or knifes as "male toys" while plastic beds, plastic baby carriages and plastic table sets are identified (due to genes, hormone concentrations or something else of physiological origin) as "female toys".
so, Mr. or Mrs. AC, who is going to protect the crops from wild pigs ?
When the boys were marching on Champs Elisees on their way to impale the boys marching on Unter den Linden on bayonets, there were a lot of girls cheering them on ... my bet was they went marching because they knew that was their only hope of getting laid (when they came back just before Christmas), not because they liked to run in the mud, to be shot at with high caliber bullets, and to bash heads.
When you hear the word 'manly' what are your first thoughts, I'd like to know what /.'s reaction to the word is?
Just a sec, to ask me wife ...
He has, sort of, a point: in the fine article there is not a word about "masculinising" or "neutralising" substances, and there is not a word about controls for social causes or food habits; my take it is another scare aiming to blackmail governments to fund otherwise legitimate research by playing on the fear of being transformed into "wusses" by the "big evil multinationals" ... fear that is perfectly legitimate, but has less to do with "chemicals" and more with office bureaucracy, procedures and discipline.