You can always recognize a real gun from a prop, my ass. Here's a G11, which looks like a goddamn 2x4 someone attached a pistol grip to. Not production enough for you? How about the P90, which looks like it might be part of a comfy chair. There are tons of guns that don't look like normal guns, it's ridiculous to expect someone to be able to identify them all at a distance. The idea that they should saunter out to go check is even more ludicrous, hell half the people in this thread are so damn scared they won't even walk out the door unarmed, much less confront someone in a mask.
And it's working as (currently) designed. Really, you can make the case it is obviously fair and impartial, as it's going to town on one of the powerful people who ran it in the first place. He had a chance to change it and didn't think it necessary, if anything he made it more draconian and all-encompassing, so why should we intervene now to save him from it? If you're going to ask people to change the system, I'd suggest starting with a sympathetic case, lest you encourage people that they actually prefer the way it is now.
"In the end, one could say it was the bird flu that killed us, a mutated strain that overwrote a couple of sequences of chicken DNA. We didn't notice it's spread, because throughout the world it never infected a single person. So while one could technically say the bird flu destroyed mankind, in a more direct sense it was the dinosaurs that killed us all."
-50 Billion Tyrannosaurs: A Concise History of the End of the World
You are failing on the reading comprehension here, buddy. This is far more involved than a couple of AC posts These organizations use registered accounts, including personae that they build up over months. Unless you want to go to verified, real name posting you aren't getting away from this kind of manipulation.
Not all scientists work for universities, you know. Also a pet peeve, "Scientist" with a capital S is not a thing, stop treating it as though it were. Scientists are not paladins, there is no gold standard of purity for scientists, no science deity will strip them of their powers if they don't follow some moral code. There are thousands of amoral scientists out there right now doing far worse things, mostly at the behest of governments and corporations.
The density of the microbeads is actually slightly less than the water, though that can change if they attract dirt. As for settling out, yes hypothetically if you put them in an isothermic tank of completely still water then maybe over the course of a couple months they would all float to the top. However, there is no time for that. In actual treatment processes there are always currents, both from the flow through the system and from thermal gradients, that will keep them mixed in the water column. The treatment process is just not designed to remove them.
There absolutely is a plot. Is it incredibly nuanced? No. It's pretty damn straightforward. There is a more nuanced subplot, however, if you like that sort of thing.
I just got back from it and it is a Mad Max movie. There is a shitload of Mad Max. There are other characters also, so if you watched the first Mad Max, and were upset by there being other characters ("I didn't pay to see Goose!") then maybe don't go.
So another country wants to develop space capability, and this is what Slashdot has to say about it? A bunch of half-assed racist remarks? It's not just shameful, it's lame. Of all places, here we should be celebrating people choosing to take part in scientific progress, not getting involved in ethnic or regional pissing contests.
So the main complaint seems to be that admitted Asians have significantly higher test scores than their counterparts. This would be slam-dunk evidence if really good SAT scores were all it took to get into Harvard, but they aren't and never have been. They are going to have to go into a lot more in-depth with their analysis to prove their point.
Also, to echo a point made on Reddit, haven't we been saying for years that standardized test scores are not good indicators of performance? Why in this case are we suddenly acting like they are the only criteria that matter?
Finally someone picking up on this. The study has nothing to do with "calcification", it has to do with how popular the bands you listen to are. If I had a bare interest in music and just listened to whatever top 40 radio played, I would rate "Younger" by their metrics than if I took up a sudden musical interest in exploring Vaporwave, Noise, and Witch House and listened to a dozen new albums a week.
If you could cure cancer, tomorrow, by yourself, you would be a billionaire. Not any piddly millionaire, a billionaire. Genentech, the leading cancer drug company, makes north of 10 billion annually. The US alone pays 120 billion a year to treat cancer. If you have a cure, walk your ass to the patent office, then call up the world at large and name your price.
But you can't cure cancer, anymore than you can fly to the moon yourself. The previously mentioned Genentech has 13,000 employees, and it is one of dozens of companies just like it. Doing big things, like curing an entire class of diseases, require the work of thousands of people, most of whom are surprisingly well paid.
As for the rest of your "argument", if you are paid very little, it may be because someone has outright tricked you, but more likely than not it's because you are replaceable. Maybe you work a cash register, or do yardwork, or move objects from one place to another, but the theme is that just about anyone can do your job. So when your company makes money from your work, it doesn't have to share much with you. You don't like it? You get replaced. Sometimes people can't be replaced, though, and then they have the power to demand a bigger share of the pie. Harry Shearer is one of these people.
I have no love for income inequality. It is an incredibly serious, timely issue. But there are different types of income, and when you start whining about entertainers or athletes it tells me that you don't understand economics and can't even grasp the real roots of income inequality.
Athenians couldn't vote until 18, were in school until age 20, they were not allowed to participate in politics until age 30. All in all not much different than our system today.
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You can always recognize a real gun from a prop, my ass. Here's a G11, which looks like a goddamn 2x4 someone attached a pistol grip to. Not production enough for you? How about the P90, which looks like it might be part of a comfy chair. There are tons of guns that don't look like normal guns, it's ridiculous to expect someone to be able to identify them all at a distance. The idea that they should saunter out to go check is even more ludicrous, hell half the people in this thread are so damn scared they won't even walk out the door unarmed, much less confront someone in a mask.
But you've already torpedoed your main point when you pointed out that the stormtrooper blaster is based off a real, actual gun. As you pointed out, it has a bunch of random attachments. Good thing nobody's ever attached anything to a stock gun before, eh?
Anyone had a look at one of these? How good is it as a CNC mill in general?
And it's working as (currently) designed. Really, you can make the case it is obviously fair and impartial, as it's going to town on one of the powerful people who ran it in the first place. He had a chance to change it and didn't think it necessary, if anything he made it more draconian and all-encompassing, so why should we intervene now to save him from it? If you're going to ask people to change the system, I'd suggest starting with a sympathetic case, lest you encourage people that they actually prefer the way it is now.
You are failing on the reading comprehension here, buddy. This is far more involved than a couple of AC posts These organizations use registered accounts, including personae that they build up over months. Unless you want to go to verified, real name posting you aren't getting away from this kind of manipulation.
Not all scientists work for universities, you know. Also a pet peeve, "Scientist" with a capital S is not a thing, stop treating it as though it were. Scientists are not paladins, there is no gold standard of purity for scientists, no science deity will strip them of their powers if they don't follow some moral code. There are thousands of amoral scientists out there right now doing far worse things, mostly at the behest of governments and corporations.
Can confirm high-voltage DC for scary as fuck
Seriously, why would you use an active trademark for something like this?
The density of the microbeads is actually slightly less than the water, though that can change if they attract dirt. As for settling out, yes hypothetically if you put them in an isothermic tank of completely still water then maybe over the course of a couple months they would all float to the top. However, there is no time for that. In actual treatment processes there are always currents, both from the flow through the system and from thermal gradients, that will keep them mixed in the water column. The treatment process is just not designed to remove them.
This is a "feminist" movie in the same way that Conan the Barbarian is a feminist movie.
I was getting so mad until I got to your sarcasm tag
There absolutely is a plot. Is it incredibly nuanced? No. It's pretty damn straightforward. There is a more nuanced subplot, however, if you like that sort of thing.
I just got back from it and it is a Mad Max movie. There is a shitload of Mad Max. There are other characters also, so if you watched the first Mad Max, and were upset by there being other characters ("I didn't pay to see Goose!") then maybe don't go.
So another country wants to develop space capability, and this is what Slashdot has to say about it? A bunch of half-assed racist remarks? It's not just shameful, it's lame. Of all places, here we should be celebrating people choosing to take part in scientific progress, not getting involved in ethnic or regional pissing contests.
So the main complaint seems to be that admitted Asians have significantly higher test scores than their counterparts. This would be slam-dunk evidence if really good SAT scores were all it took to get into Harvard, but they aren't and never have been. They are going to have to go into a lot more in-depth with their analysis to prove their point.
Also, to echo a point made on Reddit, haven't we been saying for years that standardized test scores are not good indicators of performance? Why in this case are we suddenly acting like they are the only criteria that matter?
Finally someone picking up on this. The study has nothing to do with "calcification", it has to do with how popular the bands you listen to are. If I had a bare interest in music and just listened to whatever top 40 radio played, I would rate "Younger" by their metrics than if I took up a sudden musical interest in exploring Vaporwave, Noise, and Witch House and listened to a dozen new albums a week.
So you'd rather the producers kept the money? Because that's what would happen.
If you could cure cancer, tomorrow, by yourself, you would be a billionaire. Not any piddly millionaire, a billionaire. Genentech, the leading cancer drug company, makes north of 10 billion annually. The US alone pays 120 billion a year to treat cancer. If you have a cure, walk your ass to the patent office, then call up the world at large and name your price.
But you can't cure cancer, anymore than you can fly to the moon yourself. The previously mentioned Genentech has 13,000 employees, and it is one of dozens of companies just like it. Doing big things, like curing an entire class of diseases, require the work of thousands of people, most of whom are surprisingly well paid.
As for the rest of your "argument", if you are paid very little, it may be because someone has outright tricked you, but more likely than not it's because you are replaceable. Maybe you work a cash register, or do yardwork, or move objects from one place to another, but the theme is that just about anyone can do your job. So when your company makes money from your work, it doesn't have to share much with you. You don't like it? You get replaced. Sometimes people can't be replaced, though, and then they have the power to demand a bigger share of the pie. Harry Shearer is one of these people.
I have no love for income inequality. It is an incredibly serious, timely issue. But there are different types of income, and when you start whining about entertainers or athletes it tells me that you don't understand economics and can't even grasp the real roots of income inequality.
Well, if you can do, it walk in there and try out. There's a position open.
Then you obviously have something to hide.
You have a grandiose definition of "a while" if hundreds of years doesn't make the cut.
Well, when they started talking to Microsoft it scared Google enough to buy them for $1.65B
You say the same thing about Youtube, and they have over 700 staff, plus whatever assistance they get from Google.
If anything, Socrates was executed for being sympathetic to the the Spartans, who had conquered Athens five years earlier.
Athenians couldn't vote until 18, were in school until age 20, they were not allowed to participate in politics until age 30. All in all not much different than our system today.