Another way would be to drop some drink containers filled with liquid explosives in that drink trash can that is right next to the security line and have that go off later.
I'm honestly surprised this hasn't happened yet. There must not be as many multi-component explosives that react at room temperature as MacGyver led me to believe. But still, there has to be some multi-component mixture that would go off after your plane has already taken off. You'd never get discovered, since everybody dumps liters upon liters of crap in there all the time.
Four soldiers surrounded the car holding automatic weapons... we were intercepted and interviewed by another heavily armed soldier
Yeah! That's what I want. Fuckin armed police checking every goddam car. Why wait until they approach the airport. Let's just go house to house and check every car in every driveway. Why stop there? Let's just storm everybody's house too! We should anal probe babies while we're at it. Cain't never be too safe!
I see you covered the murder, rape, pillaging, and wife stealing. Don't forget all the torture! The Old Testament is frightening. It's strange that modern Judaism isn't the most violent religion out there. It's like they've forgotten the God of Abraham was one mean SOB. He even persuaded one of His main prophets to murder his own son. That's pretty fucked up.
One difference is that (most) Christians see suicide as a mortal sin. So you can't go to heaven if you do it. That kinda precludes Baptist suicide bombers. Who would want to risk an Eternity of Damnation just to make a political point? But there have been plenty of "Christian" non-suicide bombers, even in recent memory. The Troubles ring a bell? That conflict was killing innocent people in terrorist attacks even into the 90s, including 29 civilians in August of 1998. I know Wikipedia says it wasn't a religious conflict, but I don't know of anybody who believes that.
Not against "lone wolf" attacks. But there's no SIGINT there either. Basically if I decide tomorrow to by myself blow up/shoot/knife a bunch of people, there's really not fuckall that can be done about it. The best protection against terrorism is to a) not get terrified, and b) make sure people have opportunities to live a meaningful life. You're a lot less likely to blow yourself up if you've got a wife and kids. [citation needed]
But I agree with the rest of your point. We're much more likely to die of the regular flu than the bird flu. But which one gets funding?
Even if any data was still there, it was his work phone. It probably had no goodies on it anyway. If it is other bad guys they are looking for, that would be in the metadata, which anybody can get with a warrant. So it's obvious the FBI is just using teh terrorist to scare Americans into giving up more of their rights.
Why not just change the program so the Google car doesn't sneak past cars using the parking lane, and instead wait for a proper right turn at the intersection? Is there some expectation for people to pull to the parking are to make a right turn? That seems odd to me. But I'm not from an area that has a lot of on-street parking. Either it was one lane, and Google was wrong to make a second right turn lane. Or it was two lanes, and Google was wrong to veer into the other lane. I'd like to root for Google here, but I just can't figure out how it wouldn't be their fault. I'm glad they owned up and already fixed the software.
This was the problem all the engineers had with microeconomics 101. The prof spent all semester teaching dozens of forms of the same equation, when it could have boiled down to one complicated one that would have made more sense. (That and the legal/history stuff that I missed due to skipping classes to study for my mechanics mid term)
If you don't at least use algebra, you're probably not doing actual engineering. You're probably just a draftsman and purchasing agent who happens to have a degree. My first "engineering" job out of college was that way. Pushing paper, attending meetings, reading drawings and bills of material, making sure parts were ordered. Boring as hell. I did more engineering as an intern. I got promoted quickly due to a couple of people leaving, and I actually got to design control panels and verify generator protection schemes. So I was lucky. Definitely needed algebra, and even a little diff eq at that level.
Here's the thing, a good welder can do algebra and trigonometry. It takes algebra to determine missing dimensions. It takes trigonometry to do anything at an angle. A good truck driver can do algebra and calculus. Figuring out how far you've traveled when you go various speeds along various parts of your journey is integration. I will pay a lot more for a welder/fabricator who can do these extra mathematical gymnastics than I would for one who can't.
I don't disagree that statistics should be taught, to some extent, in high school. I just don't know that it should be at the expense of the existing curricula. At my high school you could choose between AP Calculus, AP (I think) Statistics, or any other elective. Since I was in three musical ensembles, I didn't get to take an extra math class senior year. I am glad I didn't, because learning it in college from a super-inspiring professor (who wrote her own book) was a great experience for me.
Before I get any smarmy comments on my grammar: "their parents" = "the parents of their students". It is common for teachers to call the children their children (or kids), and the children's parents their parents.
No, the biggest reason math is hard is because math teachers are forced to use really stupid curricula that their parents don't/can't understand. My son got counted incorrect for answering a word problem "3 x 5 = 15". The teacher would only accept "5 x 3 = 15". This is not an exaggeration. He ended up missing 3 of 8 problems that way. I got a perfect 800 on the math SAT, graduated with honors with a minor in mathematics, and use calculus and difference equations on a regular basis at work. But I would have about a B- in my son's math elementary school math class.
First of all, your example of a bad word problem is actually a good one. It gives you enough information to answer the problem, and it's actually something you can apply to the real world. I've measured a tree using it's shadow before. You are right that there are a lot of word problems that don't make sense, and it is getting worse.
It's not just due to Common Core, though. Texas is not using Common Core, but their math curriculum has seriously gone down the tubes. My personal favorite is when they ask you "How did you come up with your answer?" When it is something trivial, like "Jimmy has 4 apples. Sarah has 2 apples. Jimmy says he has more apples than Sarah. Is he right? Why or why not?" WTF?! How do you even answer that: Yes, 4 is more than 2. The problem is, my kid is so smart that these ridiculously inane "explanations" are too simple for him to fathom bothering to write down.
We evolved from communal apes whose groups... a leader (we might call him a "silverback")... may not always be right, but he must be decisive.... assert their authority in unfair ways. They randomly bite and strike others, apparently just to keep them apprised of who is the boss.
Just to play devil's advocate, how is unlocking a phone any different than our existing warrant-based searches?
There are a lot of differences between what the FBI is doing and just executing a search warrant. When the FBI wants to search a home, they don't call the door maker asking them to come unlock the door for them, and then insist that home builders from now on install extra doors in all future homes, and then tell the public, "it's OK because only the good guys will have keys to these extra doors." They might pay a safecracker to get into a safe inside the home. But they can't force one to do it against his will.
I guess they could through the All Writs Act. Hell, I guess they could use the AWA to force the extra door thing. Luckily that's just not how things are done.
It's possible that the SCOTUS will say that I am wrong (if the case ever makes it that far). They could argue that this is like US v. NY Telephone. But I think that's a stretch, since there's no urgent investigation that Apple is slowing down. Also, Apple is not a public utility.
I have a friend who is very right-wing nut job. In most cases he's staunchly "anti-big-gub'mint." Yet in this case, he thinks that Apple is being downright traitorous. I guess the only thing he hates more than Uncle Sam's grubby paws on his cell phone, is terr'ists. So strange. I even pointed out that this is forcing a company to do something on behalf of the government. When "Obamacare made Hobby Lobby provide abortions," he got all upset about that. But it's OK if it's Apple working for the FBI. WTF?!
I think the poster meant that people who get vaccines for things before traveling, sometimes experience negative side effects. Sore arm at the injection site, low-grade fever, etc. If you are a top-notch athlete competing against other top-notch athletes, even a minor annoyance like a muscle spasm at the wrong time can greatly affect the outcome of the competition. I don't think spaceman was implying the athletes were going to become autistic. I can't imagine doing a routine on the rings after getting a shot in the arm. Can you?
I thought this was going to be a scientific article about how the unit called a calorie is screwed up. I was hoping for a treatise on thermodynamics and standards and some new measurement technology. So sad to find out it was just about losing weight. Is it too much to expect a news site for nerds to geek out on units of measurement, without fretting about real-world applications?
Besides, if you're looking at real-world applications, how about looking at a nerdy version of it? Weight loss is just a mass balance problem. Just inhaling and exhaling loses weight. So as long as you poop out more than you eat, you will lose weight. How you do that might or might not involve counting calories. The article I linked to has an easier solution; just skip a meal every now and then. But that doesn't sell meal plans and gym memberships, so don't expect it to catch on.
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Another way would be to drop some drink containers filled with liquid explosives in that drink trash can that is right next to the security line and have that go off later.
I'm honestly surprised this hasn't happened yet. There must not be as many multi-component explosives that react at room temperature as MacGyver led me to believe. But still, there has to be some multi-component mixture that would go off after your plane has already taken off. You'd never get discovered, since everybody dumps liters upon liters of crap in there all the time.
*warning -- slippery slope logical fallacy ahead*
Four soldiers surrounded the car holding automatic weapons ... we were intercepted and interviewed by another heavily armed soldier
Yeah! That's what I want. Fuckin armed police checking every goddam car. Why wait until they approach the airport. Let's just go house to house and check every car in every driveway. Why stop there? Let's just storm everybody's house too! We should anal probe babies while we're at it. Cain't never be too safe!
I see you covered the murder, rape, pillaging, and wife stealing. Don't forget all the torture! The Old Testament is frightening. It's strange that modern Judaism isn't the most violent religion out there. It's like they've forgotten the God of Abraham was one mean SOB. He even persuaded one of His main prophets to murder his own son. That's pretty fucked up.
One difference is that (most) Christians see suicide as a mortal sin. So you can't go to heaven if you do it. That kinda precludes Baptist suicide bombers. Who would want to risk an Eternity of Damnation just to make a political point? But there have been plenty of "Christian" non-suicide bombers, even in recent memory. The Troubles ring a bell? That conflict was killing innocent people in terrorist attacks even into the 90s, including 29 civilians in August of 1998. I know Wikipedia says it wasn't a religious conflict, but I don't know of anybody who believes that.
The carbons love me. I'm huge with the carbons. I've got the best, most luxurious atmospheric PPM.
Humint works.
Not against "lone wolf" attacks. But there's no SIGINT there either. Basically if I decide tomorrow to by myself blow up/shoot/knife a bunch of people, there's really not fuckall that can be done about it. The best protection against terrorism is to a) not get terrified, and b) make sure people have opportunities to live a meaningful life. You're a lot less likely to blow yourself up if you've got a wife and kids. [citation needed]
But I agree with the rest of your point. We're much more likely to die of the regular flu than the bird flu. But which one gets funding?
Even if any data was still there, it was his work phone. It probably had no goodies on it anyway. If it is other bad guys they are looking for, that would be in the metadata, which anybody can get with a warrant. So it's obvious the FBI is just using teh terrorist to scare Americans into giving up more of their rights.
Why not just change the program so the Google car doesn't sneak past cars using the parking lane, and instead wait for a proper right turn at the intersection? Is there some expectation for people to pull to the parking are to make a right turn? That seems odd to me. But I'm not from an area that has a lot of on-street parking. Either it was one lane, and Google was wrong to make a second right turn lane. Or it was two lanes, and Google was wrong to veer into the other lane. I'd like to root for Google here, but I just can't figure out how it wouldn't be their fault. I'm glad they owned up and already fixed the software.
I misread your subject as "Preach tactical math." Was not disappointed with your post, though!
This was the problem all the engineers had with microeconomics 101. The prof spent all semester teaching dozens of forms of the same equation, when it could have boiled down to one complicated one that would have made more sense. (That and the legal/history stuff that I missed due to skipping classes to study for my mechanics mid term)
If you don't at least use algebra, you're probably not doing actual engineering. You're probably just a draftsman and purchasing agent who happens to have a degree. My first "engineering" job out of college was that way. Pushing paper, attending meetings, reading drawings and bills of material, making sure parts were ordered. Boring as hell. I did more engineering as an intern. I got promoted quickly due to a couple of people leaving, and I actually got to design control panels and verify generator protection schemes. So I was lucky. Definitely needed algebra, and even a little diff eq at that level.
Here's the thing, a good welder can do algebra and trigonometry. It takes algebra to determine missing dimensions. It takes trigonometry to do anything at an angle. A good truck driver can do algebra and calculus. Figuring out how far you've traveled when you go various speeds along various parts of your journey is integration. I will pay a lot more for a welder/fabricator who can do these extra mathematical gymnastics than I would for one who can't.
I don't disagree that statistics should be taught, to some extent, in high school. I just don't know that it should be at the expense of the existing curricula. At my high school you could choose between AP Calculus, AP (I think) Statistics, or any other elective. Since I was in three musical ensembles, I didn't get to take an extra math class senior year. I am glad I didn't, because learning it in college from a super-inspiring professor (who wrote her own book) was a great experience for me.
Before I get any smarmy comments on my grammar: "their parents" = "the parents of their students". It is common for teachers to call the children their children (or kids), and the children's parents their parents.
No, the biggest reason math is hard is because math teachers are forced to use really stupid curricula that their parents don't/can't understand. My son got counted incorrect for answering a word problem "3 x 5 = 15". The teacher would only accept "5 x 3 = 15". This is not an exaggeration. He ended up missing 3 of 8 problems that way. I got a perfect 800 on the math SAT, graduated with honors with a minor in mathematics, and use calculus and difference equations on a regular basis at work. But I would have about a B- in my son's math elementary school math class.
First of all, your example of a bad word problem is actually a good one. It gives you enough information to answer the problem, and it's actually something you can apply to the real world. I've measured a tree using it's shadow before. You are right that there are a lot of word problems that don't make sense, and it is getting worse.
It's not just due to Common Core, though. Texas is not using Common Core, but their math curriculum has seriously gone down the tubes. My personal favorite is when they ask you "How did you come up with your answer?" When it is something trivial, like "Jimmy has 4 apples. Sarah has 2 apples. Jimmy says he has more apples than Sarah. Is he right? Why or why not?" WTF?! How do you even answer that: Yes, 4 is more than 2. The problem is, my kid is so smart that these ridiculously inane "explanations" are too simple for him to fathom bothering to write down.
And using the fast forward button on your VCR apparently makes you the Boston Strangler!
God? Is that you?
We evolved from communal apes whose groups ... a leader (we might call him a "silverback")... may not always be right, but he must be decisive. ... assert their authority in unfair ways. They randomly bite and strike others, apparently just to keep them apprised of who is the boss.
Trump makes so much more sense now!!
Sounds like a waste of a perfectly good plane.
Just to play devil's advocate, how is unlocking a phone any different than our existing warrant-based searches?
There are a lot of differences between what the FBI is doing and just executing a search warrant. When the FBI wants to search a home, they don't call the door maker asking them to come unlock the door for them, and then insist that home builders from now on install extra doors in all future homes, and then tell the public, "it's OK because only the good guys will have keys to these extra doors." They might pay a safecracker to get into a safe inside the home. But they can't force one to do it against his will.
I guess they could through the All Writs Act. Hell, I guess they could use the AWA to force the extra door thing. Luckily that's just not how things are done.
It's possible that the SCOTUS will say that I am wrong (if the case ever makes it that far). They could argue that this is like US v. NY Telephone. But I think that's a stretch, since there's no urgent investigation that Apple is slowing down. Also, Apple is not a public utility.
I have a friend who is very right-wing nut job. In most cases he's staunchly "anti-big-gub'mint." Yet in this case, he thinks that Apple is being downright traitorous. I guess the only thing he hates more than Uncle Sam's grubby paws on his cell phone, is terr'ists. So strange. I even pointed out that this is forcing a company to do something on behalf of the government. When "Obamacare made Hobby Lobby provide abortions," he got all upset about that. But it's OK if it's Apple working for the FBI. WTF?!
I think the poster meant that people who get vaccines for things before traveling, sometimes experience negative side effects. Sore arm at the injection site, low-grade fever, etc. If you are a top-notch athlete competing against other top-notch athletes, even a minor annoyance like a muscle spasm at the wrong time can greatly affect the outcome of the competition. I don't think spaceman was implying the athletes were going to become autistic. I can't imagine doing a routine on the rings after getting a shot in the arm. Can you?
Honestly I don't think any of them (except *maybe* Rubio) even understand how encryption works.
Of course Rubio understands encryption. He's a robot!!!
I thought this was going to be a scientific article about how the unit called a calorie is screwed up. I was hoping for a treatise on thermodynamics and standards and some new measurement technology. So sad to find out it was just about losing weight. Is it too much to expect a news site for nerds to geek out on units of measurement, without fretting about real-world applications?
Besides, if you're looking at real-world applications, how about looking at a nerdy version of it? Weight loss is just a mass balance problem. Just inhaling and exhaling loses weight. So as long as you poop out more than you eat, you will lose weight. How you do that might or might not involve counting calories. The article I linked to has an easier solution; just skip a meal every now and then. But that doesn't sell meal plans and gym memberships, so don't expect it to catch on.
My wife ... threatened to withhold sex from me
LOL. If you're getting laid often enough where that kind of threat means something, then I have very little pity for you.