This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
I was thinking about setting up a Reggie Pole for my wife to dance on.
Indeed. Which is why words and phrases like "pushing the envelope" and "quantum leap" are so often used wrong, and marks the CEO (who reflects on the company) as a dummy.
wasn't quantum leap that tv show starring Jonathan Archer
Also you are far more likely to get laid if you already have the girl in a hot tub than if you are still using your laptop to converse with her. so, in attempting to reproduce, the cycle goes, laptop, hot tub, bedroom (unless you are in a porn movie in which case you do her right there in the hot tub.) As some of the geeks here are having trouble processing, before reproduction can, they must have a female partner who is willing to copulate with them. (or semi-willing, or drugged in some way).
this whole article makes me wonder where some of our biology research dollars are going. I mean really, c'mon? I know there are people out there struggling with infertility and looking for any scapegoat as to why they can't get pregnant, but most of these ray gun type theories are complete crap. Don't live under power lines, don't sit too close to a tube tv, don't use your phone, don't use your laptop, watch that microwave. Sounds like instead of tin foil hats, they need tin foil underpants.
I guess its just my generation. but I kinda laugh when I think of someone referring to Apple as a "mega giant" or an "evil overlord dominating the market place" since that's how I always thought about microsoft in the microsoft vs apple wars.
Social Security is a national ponzi scheme. no amount of money is going to keep it going. National Education problems are not simply solved by throwing more money at the problem. And the US Government is cutting weapon systems one after another. very soon our entire defense posture will be compromised.
Not to mention that the idea is that these are "secret" bunkers. If you start laying rebar and pouring concrete over top of them, you are kinda shouting out, "HEY, THERE'S A SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER HERE". kinda defeats the purpose of putting it underground in the first place. If I was Iran, I'd do my nuclear testing in a nice safe place. Turkey. After all, the US isn't going to start bombing Turkey anytime soon.
yeah. the US government just adores telling people what to do. "You there, go vote for a leader" "You, over there, foster religious freedom." "Hey you, stop oppressing your people and your neighbors." "enough with that sponsoring international terrorism." Damn big bullies, these united states people. Must be why everyone hates us. all this disgusting freedom.
Actually, he has a point. (though not a horrendously good one.
if we're at a point where we're using nuclear weapons, international treaties aren't going to really be a factor.
Because digging deeper and pouring more concrete costs money. Money that they could instead be spending on the Nuclear research. the more expensive and dangerous we make their nuclear program, the more likely they are to give it up.
you obviously know very little about atomic devices if you think that they can be set off by someone blowing up the facility. In order to form the chain reaction necessary for an atomic explosion, the forces must be very precisely directed. And with the radioactive material so far underground already, there's no danger of releasing radiation into the surrounding countryside.
Its far more dangerous to let the Iranians have a working nuclear device than to worry about putting extra large pot holes all over their country. Which is sad, because if their government cared at all for their people, they'd realize that pissing off the US is a good way to look more like large parking lot than an industrialized country.
You are talking about a time scale in days, if not weeks. I was referring to a time scale in hours, if not days. Emergency systems of those type are designed to withstand the EMP to allow for immediate deployment. More long term recovery would certainly involve fixing the civilian infrastructure. But an EMP would not hamper our ability to deploy a conventional (or even nuclear) counterstrike.
Heck, if it could, then you wouldn't need to even target even near the ground, as the range of the EMP is significantly larger than the blast radius.
Incorrect. In a war situation, our military is mostly EMP Proof. its designed that way.
but civilian life is not, so it would be affected.
given the choice of retaliating or restoring services, our military would do their duty and retaliate. Then they'd work on restoring the internet so that you could tweet about WWIII
I once new a guy who found a unique ex military profession. he went back into the military.
This guy signed on at 18 as an enlisted. did 20 years. after retiring at 38, he got dispensation to re-enlist, but this time as an officer, and then retired again as a full bird at 58 years old. (airhead)
it is discriminatory, in the strictest sense of the word. But its not illegal. its not even immoral. To provide preferential treatment to those who gave up their time to help defend our freedom is not a bad thing. To offer a job to someone who risked their life to ensure our way of life is never a bad thing.
Of all the things our government does that they shouldn't do, it should do more for veterans.
low wages, check.
no respect from superiors, check.
hazardous working conditions, check.
surly attitudes, check.
sounds like it would make sense. plus it would discourage people from attacking your it folks when the server goes down.
(would YOU want to complain about slow download speeds to your IT guy if you knew he was an ex-green beret with PTSD?)
I'm unconvinced that FDR deliberately caused the deaths of thousands of americans and allies by provoking an attack on Pearl Harbot. Your site shows memos which indicate that such an attack would make for a great excuse for entering the war, but fail in many ways. First off, the Japanese could just has easily attacked the Presidio in San Francisco. Or Alameda, or San Diego, or the Aleutians.
They could also have just as easily limited their attack to the Philipines.
The Summer 1941 embargo of Japn, which resulted from the breakdown in negotiations certainly did not happen in a vacuum. US leaders undoubtedly understood that there was no dealing with hitler and that since Japan was hitler's ally, if they wanted to help Britain further, they would have to go to war. Hitler did them a favor by attacking the USSR (bringing them into the war on our side). Japan's attack on Pearl had the effect of bringing the US in. Even if the attack had not been such a surprise, like if the incoming flight of zeros had not been mistaken for a returning flight of patrol planes or some-such, the Effect of Japan attacking Pearl without declaring war first is what caused the outrage.
But the outrage was unnecessary. the US didn't need it to crush the Japanese. indeed, it was production, not emotion, which won the war in the pacific. that and advanced training techniques. by the end of 1944, the US were running around in new carriers, new planes, with new pilots who knew what they were doing. The Japanese were still in Zeros (and the like) and running low on ships, oil to run the ships, fuel for the planes, and qualified pilots to fly them. Defeat was inevitable.
For me, its a race. Will our guild be able to progress into the next tier of content before this patch comes out and basically brutalizes the guild structure. What happened last time was that a guild I had been raiding with for 6 months all of a sudden lost about a third of its membership. and the rest of them had incredible amounts of trouble ajusting to their new talents. raid attendence became spotty, then non-existent. Once the actual expansion came out, some levelled their characters as fast as humanly possible to the next level cap and started pushing others to do so as well so that they would have friends in the dungeons with them. In the end, though, that guild did not survive the transition.
Well, I will say this. I'm nearly 40 years old, and have lived my entire life in the united states. I have never, in all of those years, ever seen anyone use a gun in anger. I've never been the victim of a violent crime, nor known anyone closely who had admitted to have been. I've seen television reports of crime, and shootouts, and serial killers et cetera, but sometimes I think that these things are a bit, well, unreliable. My point is not that the US has no crime, but that you cannot always believe what you see on TV, even on the news.
I will say this, the only time I was in your country, an Underground station was closed because of an IRA bombing. other than that (and having someone nearly choke because I ordered "Iced" tea) my experiences in England were very positive.
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This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
I was thinking about setting up a Reggie Pole for my wife to dance on.
Indeed. Which is why words and phrases like "pushing the envelope" and "quantum leap" are so often used wrong, and marks the CEO (who reflects on the company) as a dummy.
wasn't quantum leap that tv show starring Jonathan Archer
Also you are far more likely to get laid if you already have the girl in a hot tub than if you are still using your laptop to converse with her. so, in attempting to reproduce, the cycle goes, laptop, hot tub, bedroom (unless you are in a porn movie in which case you do her right there in the hot tub.) As some of the geeks here are having trouble processing, before reproduction can, they must have a female partner who is willing to copulate with them. (or semi-willing, or drugged in some way).
this whole article makes me wonder where some of our biology research dollars are going. I mean really, c'mon? I know there are people out there struggling with infertility and looking for any scapegoat as to why they can't get pregnant, but most of these ray gun type theories are complete crap. Don't live under power lines, don't sit too close to a tube tv, don't use your phone, don't use your laptop, watch that microwave. Sounds like instead of tin foil hats, they need tin foil underpants.
I guess its just my generation. but I kinda laugh when I think of someone referring to Apple as a "mega giant" or an "evil overlord dominating the market place" since that's how I always thought about microsoft in the microsoft vs apple wars.
Actually, I have a better idea. just introduce the Iranians to farking. let them disrupt their own portion of the earth's crust.
Social Security is a national ponzi scheme. no amount of money is going to keep it going. National Education problems are not simply solved by throwing more money at the problem. And the US Government is cutting weapon systems one after another. very soon our entire defense posture will be compromised.
and then spend all of our time talking about how England and Canada are tramps and France dresses too slutty.
Not to mention that the idea is that these are "secret" bunkers. If you start laying rebar and pouring concrete over top of them, you are kinda shouting out, "HEY, THERE'S A SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER HERE". kinda defeats the purpose of putting it underground in the first place. If I was Iran, I'd do my nuclear testing in a nice safe place. Turkey. After all, the US isn't going to start bombing Turkey anytime soon.
Actually, really, both countries have been run by some bad people. I don't really like either of them.
yeah. the US government just adores telling people what to do. "You there, go vote for a leader" "You, over there, foster religious freedom." "Hey you, stop oppressing your people and your neighbors." "enough with that sponsoring international terrorism." Damn big bullies, these united states people. Must be why everyone hates us. all this disgusting freedom.
I'm guessing that their bunkers are below the water table.
Actually, he has a point. (though not a horrendously good one. if we're at a point where we're using nuclear weapons, international treaties aren't going to really be a factor.
Already taken by that Movie.
Because digging deeper and pouring more concrete costs money. Money that they could instead be spending on the Nuclear research. the more expensive and dangerous we make their nuclear program, the more likely they are to give it up.
you obviously know very little about atomic devices if you think that they can be set off by someone blowing up the facility. In order to form the chain reaction necessary for an atomic explosion, the forces must be very precisely directed. And with the radioactive material so far underground already, there's no danger of releasing radiation into the surrounding countryside. Its far more dangerous to let the Iranians have a working nuclear device than to worry about putting extra large pot holes all over their country. Which is sad, because if their government cared at all for their people, they'd realize that pissing off the US is a good way to look more like large parking lot than an industrialized country.
You are talking about a time scale in days, if not weeks. I was referring to a time scale in hours, if not days. Emergency systems of those type are designed to withstand the EMP to allow for immediate deployment. More long term recovery would certainly involve fixing the civilian infrastructure. But an EMP would not hamper our ability to deploy a conventional (or even nuclear) counterstrike. Heck, if it could, then you wouldn't need to even target even near the ground, as the range of the EMP is significantly larger than the blast radius.
Incorrect. In a war situation, our military is mostly EMP Proof. its designed that way. but civilian life is not, so it would be affected. given the choice of retaliating or restoring services, our military would do their duty and retaliate. Then they'd work on restoring the internet so that you could tweet about WWIII
Patton, not MacArthur. Though maybe McArthur too. but Patton was in Germany, not MacArthur.
I once new a guy who found a unique ex military profession. he went back into the military. This guy signed on at 18 as an enlisted. did 20 years. after retiring at 38, he got dispensation to re-enlist, but this time as an officer, and then retired again as a full bird at 58 years old. (airhead)
it is discriminatory, in the strictest sense of the word. But its not illegal. its not even immoral. To provide preferential treatment to those who gave up their time to help defend our freedom is not a bad thing. To offer a job to someone who risked their life to ensure our way of life is never a bad thing. Of all the things our government does that they shouldn't do, it should do more for veterans.
low wages, check. no respect from superiors, check. hazardous working conditions, check. surly attitudes, check. sounds like it would make sense. plus it would discourage people from attacking your it folks when the server goes down. (would YOU want to complain about slow download speeds to your IT guy if you knew he was an ex-green beret with PTSD?)
I'm unconvinced that FDR deliberately caused the deaths of thousands of americans and allies by provoking an attack on Pearl Harbot. Your site shows memos which indicate that such an attack would make for a great excuse for entering the war, but fail in many ways. First off, the Japanese could just has easily attacked the Presidio in San Francisco. Or Alameda, or San Diego, or the Aleutians.
They could also have just as easily limited their attack to the Philipines.
The Summer 1941 embargo of Japn, which resulted from the breakdown in negotiations certainly did not happen in a vacuum. US leaders undoubtedly understood that there was no dealing with hitler and that since Japan was hitler's ally, if they wanted to help Britain further, they would have to go to war. Hitler did them a favor by attacking the USSR (bringing them into the war on our side). Japan's attack on Pearl had the effect of bringing the US in. Even if the attack had not been such a surprise, like if the incoming flight of zeros had not been mistaken for a returning flight of patrol planes or some-such, the Effect of Japan attacking Pearl without declaring war first is what caused the outrage.
But the outrage was unnecessary. the US didn't need it to crush the Japanese. indeed, it was production, not emotion, which won the war in the pacific. that and advanced training techniques. by the end of 1944, the US were running around in new carriers, new planes, with new pilots who knew what they were doing. The Japanese were still in Zeros (and the like) and running low on ships, oil to run the ships, fuel for the planes, and qualified pilots to fly them. Defeat was inevitable.
For me, its a race. Will our guild be able to progress into the next tier of content before this patch comes out and basically brutalizes the guild structure. What happened last time was that a guild I had been raiding with for 6 months all of a sudden lost about a third of its membership. and the rest of them had incredible amounts of trouble ajusting to their new talents. raid attendence became spotty, then non-existent. Once the actual expansion came out, some levelled their characters as fast as humanly possible to the next level cap and started pushing others to do so as well so that they would have friends in the dungeons with them. In the end, though, that guild did not survive the transition.
Well, I will say this. I'm nearly 40 years old, and have lived my entire life in the united states. I have never, in all of those years, ever seen anyone use a gun in anger. I've never been the victim of a violent crime, nor known anyone closely who had admitted to have been. I've seen television reports of crime, and shootouts, and serial killers et cetera, but sometimes I think that these things are a bit, well, unreliable. My point is not that the US has no crime, but that you cannot always believe what you see on TV, even on the news.
I will say this, the only time I was in your country, an Underground station was closed because of an IRA bombing. other than that (and having someone nearly choke because I ordered "Iced" tea) my experiences in England were very positive.
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