That doesn't make you an "expert", that makes you a "cheater" for using a power source that clearly has no real world analogue. I should know, I've done it myself. (Generally, a waterfall 3 tiles deep along an entire edge is enough to power the entire map). But the point was to teach you that all energy sources have tradeoffs, and make you think about what could be done in the real world.
From TFA, "Saturn moon may contain life". And I thought slashdot used sensationalist headlines! This amounts to slightly more evidence that Enceladus may be capable of supporting life, no evidence of the existence of life at all. Given the extreme conditions that bacteria have already been found under, there are LOTS of extraterrestrial objects capable of supporting life. Get back to me when Cassini captures a photo of a penguin waving...
Boycott buying hard copies of the book, and make electronic copies widely available via bittorent. Simple test: If all the copied text was in quotes or italics, I would say he actually intended to attribute it. If not, it would appear that he was trying to claim it as is own, and only made up an excuse after he got caught. Which is it?
Doesn't the fact that WiFi hot spots exist in the first place count as prima facia evidence that there are already in existence methods of selecting and connecting to them? There would be no mobile hot spots if clients couldn't connect!
Orwell summed it up pretty well: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Fuck the Dutch and their fucking tax attitudes, though. You could always move. Me might even let you into the states, provided you clean up your language!
Anything stored digitally can be altered, often without a trace. Ever heard of the Wayback machine? If information is made available for free, and massively redundant copies are made of it, then revisionism is very easy to detect by doing diffs against the copies. You can only run a Ministry of Truth if you control ALL the copies of the information.
If the internet nerds are so needy and desperate for a role model in politics, they should try to elect a scientist or engineer. You mean like Jimmy Carter?
I can't help but think that Clinton's disposition for sexually harassing ugly girls and getting blow jobs from fat chicks might have lessened our respect for the office a bit. Sure, JFK was a philanderer too, but he had much better taste in women, and the press had the good sense not to report it.
And of course we can't forget Obama -- I hear rumors he's been sleeping with a Black chick!
Although in general people should be responsible for themselves, there are so many problems with your rant I can't begin to cover them all.
1) Are current model is if you get heart disease without insurance, you have the operation anyway, run up hundreds of thousands in debt, then declare bankruptcy, leaving all the paying health care customers to make up the difference. Good luck with passing a law restricting health care to only those who pay fully in advance!
2) Not all diseases are directly caused by behavior. Some people are genetically predisposed to cancer, diabetes, and even obesity, and will contract diseases no matter how healthy their lifestyle. I'm sorry, but "Born with a congenital medical condition? Well, you should have picked better parents, asshole!" doesn't really cut it.
3) Your philosophy of "do whatever it takes to pay for your own health care" seems to encourage armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, drug dealing... whatever it take to afford it. Faced with committing a crime or dying, most people would choose to do the crime. After all, if they fail, they won't live long in jail anyway.
4) It is human nature to not place a high value on preventative care, and only seek treatment when symptoms start to have a tangible effect on their life. It is in the best interests of all of us to subsidize preventative medicine, e.g. vaccinations. I agree that not all procedures should be subsidized. The Oregon Health Plan sorts all procedures by cost/benefit ratio, then draws a cut line based on available funds. A national health plan would need to do the same; we simply cannot afford to take extraordinary measures to prolong the life of everyone. Note that we already have a system that rations scarce donor organs, e.g. one cannot get a liver transplant if they have a history of alcohol use.
5) Demand curves for medical services are the most inelastic imaginable. The free market simply doesn't work to keep medical costs in check. (When was the last time you heard of someone shopping around for an emergency room?) Individuals paying out of their own pocket must pay whatever the supplier demands. The consumer would be better off with a system in which medical goods and services are purchased in bulk by a large enough player to lean on suppliers and drive costs down, the way Walmart does with everything it sells.
6) There is a fine line between being true to libertarian ideals and being an asshole.
Wait, this might be a good thing -- wouldn't you like to see all the a-holes that drive down the road with the volume on 11 pounding out the bass so load it makes their mirrors rattle get fined by ASCAP for their "public performance"? I sure would!
He was obviously looking for insights on how to market his new product, which is targeted at polyamorous gay men. There slogan is: "New Circle Jerk(TM) Beer! For men who like men -- lot's of them!"
But, helmets and seat belts supposedly keep people alive who would otherwise have died in accidents. These people may then require health care for the rest of their lives. Wouldn't be cheaper for the rest of us to have more of these people die? What have you got against letting Darwinian natural selection work it's magic?
P.S. Why don't motorcycles have seat belts? Because you have a better chance of surviving a motorcycle accident if you are thrown clear than if you stay with the vehicle.
TDS knew they were never going to succeed in blocking this, but they DID succeed in delaying the cities roll-out by a couple years! So, the company lawyers have achieved their objective.
I am SHOCKED and AMAZED that a compiler specifically implemented for x86 (with assistance from Intel) produces more efficient x86 machine code than a compiler that is based on a general purpose architecture with just a back-end code generator for x86. Next you'll be telling me that a Swiss army knife isn't as good for skinning animals as a Bowie knife and that an amphibious vehicle is neither as fast on land as a Ferrari nor as fast in the water as a cigarette boat!
Didn't gcc 4.0 strip out all the processor-specific optimizations? I don't think it has ever been put back in. Sure, optimizing for x86 and not other processors shows a certain bias, but I'll take x86 bias over poorly optimized code any day.
Somebody with enough power and money could always hire a P.I. to dog you everywhere you go anyway. At least with publicly available fully transparent video monitoring, the average schmuck has a chance of catching somebody rich and powerful with their pants down. Monitoring is a two-edged sword; it protects suspects from police brutality as much as it protects citizens from criminal mischief.
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That doesn't make you an "expert", that makes you a "cheater" for using a power source that clearly has no real world analogue. I should know, I've done it myself. (Generally, a waterfall 3 tiles deep along an entire edge is enough to power the entire map). But the point was to teach you that all energy sources have tradeoffs, and make you think about what could be done in the real world.
You're right. They should just use this instead.
From TFA, "Saturn moon may contain life". And I thought slashdot used sensationalist headlines! This amounts to slightly more evidence that Enceladus may be capable of supporting life, no evidence of the existence of life at all. Given the extreme conditions that bacteria have already been found under, there are LOTS of extraterrestrial objects capable of supporting life. Get back to me when Cassini captures a photo of a penguin waving...
Boycott buying hard copies of the book, and make electronic copies widely available via bittorent. Simple test: If all the copied text was in quotes or italics, I would say he actually intended to attribute it. If not, it would appear that he was trying to claim it as is own, and only made up an excuse after he got caught. Which is it?
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson
That sounds like something they would do here. Oh, you Brits and your colorful expressions!
Doesn't the fact that WiFi hot spots exist in the first place count as prima facia evidence that there are already in existence methods of selecting and connecting to them? There would be no mobile hot spots if clients couldn't connect!
Orwell summed it up pretty well: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Fuck the Dutch and their fucking tax attitudes, though. You could always move. Me might even let you into the states, provided you clean up your language!
Well, that's a strategy that has worked out pretty well for Cher, hasn't it?
Anything stored digitally can be altered, often without a trace. Ever heard of the Wayback machine? If information is made available for free, and massively redundant copies are made of it, then revisionism is very easy to detect by doing diffs against the copies. You can only run a Ministry of Truth if you control ALL the copies of the information.
If the internet nerds are so needy and desperate for a role model in politics, they should try to elect a scientist or engineer. You mean like Jimmy Carter?
The most beautiful women in the world, AND they protect pirates!?! Damn, I wish I were Norwegian!
I can't help but think that Clinton's disposition for sexually harassing ugly girls and getting blow jobs from fat chicks might have lessened our respect for the office a bit. Sure, JFK was a philanderer too, but he had much better taste in women, and the press had the good sense not to report it.
And of course we can't forget Obama -- I hear rumors he's been sleeping with a Black chick!
Although in general people should be responsible for themselves, there are so many problems with your rant I can't begin to cover them all.
1) Are current model is if you get heart disease without insurance, you have the operation anyway, run up hundreds of thousands in debt, then declare bankruptcy, leaving all the paying health care customers to make up the difference. Good luck with passing a law restricting health care to only those who pay fully in advance!
2) Not all diseases are directly caused by behavior. Some people are genetically predisposed to cancer, diabetes, and even obesity, and will contract diseases no matter how healthy their lifestyle. I'm sorry, but "Born with a congenital medical condition? Well, you should have picked better parents, asshole!" doesn't really cut it.
3) Your philosophy of "do whatever it takes to pay for your own health care" seems to encourage armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, drug dealing... whatever it take to afford it. Faced with committing a crime or dying, most people would choose to do the crime. After all, if they fail, they won't live long in jail anyway.
4) It is human nature to not place a high value on preventative care, and only seek treatment when symptoms start to have a tangible effect on their life. It is in the best interests of all of us to subsidize preventative medicine, e.g. vaccinations. I agree that not all procedures should be subsidized. The Oregon Health Plan sorts all procedures by cost/benefit ratio, then draws a cut line based on available funds. A national health plan would need to do the same; we simply cannot afford to take extraordinary measures to prolong the life of everyone. Note that we already have a system that rations scarce donor organs, e.g. one cannot get a liver transplant if they have a history of alcohol use.
5) Demand curves for medical services are the most inelastic imaginable. The free market simply doesn't work to keep medical costs in check. (When was the last time you heard of someone shopping around for an emergency room?) Individuals paying out of their own pocket must pay whatever the supplier demands. The consumer would be better off with a system in which medical goods and services are purchased in bulk by a large enough player to lean on suppliers and drive costs down, the way Walmart does with everything it sells.
6) There is a fine line between being true to libertarian ideals and being an asshole.
It is a Gnu inferiority, not a Linux inferiority. And yes, we do need to improve it.
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all!
Does it make any difference if all 5000 pictures are porn? You don't have to look at them now, just transfer them to your hard drive....
Wait, this might be a good thing -- wouldn't you like to see all the a-holes that drive down the road with the volume on 11 pounding out the bass so load it makes their mirrors rattle get fined by ASCAP for their "public performance"? I sure would!
He was obviously looking for insights on how to market his new product, which is targeted at polyamorous gay men. There slogan is: "New Circle Jerk(TM) Beer! For men who like men -- lot's of them!"
But, helmets and seat belts supposedly keep people alive who would otherwise have died in accidents. These people may then require health care for the rest of their lives. Wouldn't be cheaper for the rest of us to have more of these people die? What have you got against letting Darwinian natural selection work it's magic?
P.S. Why don't motorcycles have seat belts? Because you have a better chance of surviving a motorcycle accident if you are thrown clear than if you stay with the vehicle.
TDS knew they were never going to succeed in blocking this, but they DID succeed in delaying the cities roll-out by a couple years! So, the company lawyers have achieved their objective.
I am SHOCKED and AMAZED that a compiler specifically implemented for x86 (with assistance from Intel) produces more efficient x86 machine code than a compiler that is based on a general purpose architecture with just a back-end code generator for x86. Next you'll be telling me that a Swiss army knife isn't as good for skinning animals as a Bowie knife and that an amphibious vehicle is neither as fast on land as a Ferrari nor as fast in the water as a cigarette boat!
Didn't gcc 4.0 strip out all the processor-specific optimizations? I don't think it has ever been put back in. Sure, optimizing for x86 and not other processors shows a certain bias, but I'll take x86 bias over poorly optimized code any day.
Somebody with enough power and money could always hire a P.I. to dog you everywhere you go anyway. At least with publicly available fully transparent video monitoring, the average schmuck has a chance of catching somebody rich and powerful with their pants down. Monitoring is a two-edged sword; it protects suspects from police brutality as much as it protects citizens from criminal mischief.