No - you're confusing energy efficiency with energy self-sufficiency. Two vastly different things. And yes, California Public Utilities are a giant joke. Californians, however, are pretty savvy when it comes to energy savings.
True. I've been to NYC many times before, and that was the first time I had seen that type of behavior. But the contrast was striking, as was the contrast in how people interacted. I'm not saying that NYC is bad in general, but that everything is quicker and more intense there.
You're right - the analogy is not 100% right. No analogy ever is. Feel free though to repeat the exercise and replace the mistake with an actual drug lord taking refuge in your house.
As for attempts versus actual targets - does it really matter what people try to do when the end result is so much the same? Yes, Israel tries to do the right thing - and fails miserably. As I had up on the wall at a previous company, "No Results+Explanation is not equal to Results". Finally, I think you touched on the fundamental problem when you said that the given officer acts correctly: it's a political problem being solved with deadly force. The problem lies at the top, not at the bottom. At that point, there are exactly three outcomes: 1 party is wiped out, 1 party changes its mind or the small set advocating war in one party get wiped out, and no one takes their spot. Right now, we're on the path to one party having to be wiped out. Are you really ok with that?
Can you just explain to me what that line is, and how Israel expects Hamas to step back? What is the endgame here? You're right that there's no way to wage a war in that area without collateral damage. But that also means that there is no way to wage a war without making combatants out of everybody - and that just leads to genocide. Do you really want to go down that road?
If 3 men rob a bank, and the SWAT team has to storm it, and innocent people die, do you blame the SWAT team, or the bank robbers? Any harm that comes to someone as a result of your criminal actions is your fault.
Let me rephrase that for you: If 3 men rob a bank, and the SWAT team launches rockets at the bank, and your family dies inside, do you blame the SWAT team, or the bank robbers?
There is such a thing as excessive force. I can guarantee you you'd be singing a different song if it was your family sitting in Gaza, getting blown up by Israeli shells.
The military has a responsibility, first, to its people, second, to its land, and third, to preventing casualties to other county's civilians.
No. The military has a responsibility to defend its people. How do you defend your people when your actions create far more terrorists than it kills?
It might be bullshit to you, but that's only because you didn't have your house and family obliterated because a SWAT team thought there was a drug lord holed up in your house. You can yell bullshit all you want. It's not going to change human nature, nor is it going to change how people react to seeing their friends, children and parents die in their schools, apartments and mosques, just so that a few people with guns are taken out. Have fun prolonging the bloodshed.
Both sides are idiots, hard headed and are in serious need for an adult conversation.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that adult conversation will only come about once every side has bled too much for the current state to continue. Yes, this means that Israel will have to bleed just as much as the Palestinians.
I don't know how that will happen, but it will have to be something where both sides cry uncle. Judging from what hasn't made either side cry uncle, I can only shudder at what that might be.
You don't really buy the no-live-jew-on-the-face of-earth line do you? That's a bunch of rhetoric that you too would probably spout were you and your family evicted from your house/land.
It's the same type of rhetoric that's used by government departments when budget cuts come along. Anytime a budget is supposed to be cut, all hell is supposed to break loose. Garbage will pile up in streets, parks will rot, etc. This is just the same type of exaggeration. You claim the worst to settle for average.
Not to mention that Bohemian Rhapsody took liberally from existing Public Domain. Why do people think that all art is created in a vacuum? On the contrary - art that is created in a vacuum is completely worthless, as it has no context.
This alone tells me that copyright ought to be limited to less than the lifetime of the artist.
True - a city slicker being transported into any remote wilderness will be very stressed. But provide basic shelter and food for a week, and then watch the stress levels drop like a rock. Have you ever stayed in a mountain cabin? A rainforest hut? As long as food is stocked, it's about the most peaceful you can get. Rainforests have a bit of an issue with malaria and fire/bullet ants, but that's really the biggest danger you'll face.
The point is that if basic needs are settled, a big city environment is more stressful than pretty much any other environment.
Generally, I have found people in Manhattan to be pleasant and helpful... although one must make allowances for their adaptations to living in large crowds.
Are you kidding me? My first experience of NYC after a long absence was two cabbies at the airport almost coming to blows over who was going to going to take a customer to NYC. It pretty much stayed like that my entire stay. Considering that this was after spending a week in Toronto, the culture shock was intense.
NYC is not as bad as movies and popular culture make it to be. But it is intense. Everything moves fast, and people move fast as well. This means that tempers flare fast as well. I'm pretty sure that stress is a major component of the NYC resident. Compare this to some of the major cities north of the border, and the difference is night and day.
That said, I agree that compared to (sub)-urban sprawl, anything is better, including NYC. But I'd also argue that part of Manhatten's appeal is Central park. Without it, it'd be damn near unlivable.
Not to mention that the Wii and Xbox360 aren't really targeting the same market, or overlap 100% in their functionality.
People underestimate the long-term planning of Microsoft at their own risk. If you have a few billion in the bank, you can afford to put out multiple losers to gain profitable long-term marketshare.
Wow - you never plan for farther than the next quarter, do you? XBox represents MS last great hope for ruling the living room. It doesn't matter how much money the previous iterations lost, as long as the next ones have a chance at creating the next monopoly.
Actually, you misread. The article at CNN explicitly stated: "The conversation did not contain the words "bomb," "explosion," "terror" or other words that might have aroused suspicion, Atif Irfan said." See linky: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/02/family.grounded/index.html
Not to mention that merely saying the word bomb and attack is not cause for concern. Are we really less capable than the various chat bots for understanding context?
Informative? Seriously? I hope this is some metamod effort at providing Karma... but just in case someone does take this seriously, I should take out a patent on this. That way, when Monster sells their butterfly-patterned head arms for 20K to audiophiles who don't like the lack of warmth in SSDs, I can get in on the racket.
I've long thought that MMOs should try to haul in players outside of the actual game engine. Example, WoW: why do I have to spend 30 minutes in game repairing armor, checking mail, checking auction house prices or guild messages? Why can't I do that through some web browser interface? The benefit is two-fold: I don't feel like I'm spending so much time grinding, and the developers have another way of hooking me into the game. Next website that I have input on, I'll make that suggestion to the developers.
Or, you could say that a naked picture in and of itself is not pornography. It would solve a lot of problems of parents being arrested for taking pictures of their kids in the bathtub. Again, google is your friend for links to actual news stories.
Some statistic to wrap your head around: 75%+ of all child abuse is done by immediate family. If you're concerned about your kids, keep them away from the creepy uncle/grandfather/babysitter.
Or is this part of the conservative agenda that needs to be solved by a bigger government?
Not to mention that some "changes to the language" are a step back when it comes to clear communication. "I could care less", I'm looking at you. Sometimes, ignorance is not an excuse to do something different.
A prank is always designed to cost something. Honor, face, social standing, time, money.... a good practical joke knows what the victim can laugh about. A good practical joke perpetrated on the wrong person can always be reclassified as vandalism.
All that you're saying is that you recommend reeducation about what is proper. Not to say that is bad in and of itself, but be careful what it is that you want to teach. 16 hours of picking up roadside trash might help someone who is tossing crap out the car window. I'm not sure it helps someone who decided to put glue over the laser in the mouse of the wrong person.
Depends how it's done. It sounds like they're planning on just spraying it in the air, and have the surrounding temperature evaporate the water. This means that water will evaporate from everywhere, which makes the salt residue about as recoverable as the one from regular irrigation: not at all. Finally, I think you're a little off in your calculation: The surface of a sphere is 4PiR^2, with R=6378 (approximately). For a 1cm height everywhere, this amounts to about 5000 cubic kilometers of water. That's a bit more than 171000 gallons of water.
Somehow, I don't think that measurement is very accurate.
1) It measures percent of people on the internet reading slashdot. I don't know about you, but I'd argue that the number of people who get on the internet who don't care about slashdot grows faster than the number of those who do. 2) There's a massive spike right before the decline. I don't recall anything happening then that would correlate with a 75% drop in traffic. 3) Year over year, traffic has supposedly dropped by a factor of 10. Somehow, I don't buy that.
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No - you're confusing energy efficiency with energy self-sufficiency. Two vastly different things. And yes, California Public Utilities are a giant joke. Californians, however, are pretty savvy when it comes to energy savings.
True. I've been to NYC many times before, and that was the first time I had seen that type of behavior. But the contrast was striking, as was the contrast in how people interacted. I'm not saying that NYC is bad in general, but that everything is quicker and more intense there.
You're right - the analogy is not 100% right. No analogy ever is. Feel free though to repeat the exercise and replace the mistake with an actual drug lord taking refuge in your house.
As for attempts versus actual targets - does it really matter what people try to do when the end result is so much the same? Yes, Israel tries to do the right thing - and fails miserably. As I had up on the wall at a previous company, "No Results+Explanation is not equal to Results". Finally, I think you touched on the fundamental problem when you said that the given officer acts correctly: it's a political problem being solved with deadly force. The problem lies at the top, not at the bottom. At that point, there are exactly three outcomes: 1 party is wiped out, 1 party changes its mind or the small set advocating war in one party get wiped out, and no one takes their spot. Right now, we're on the path to one party having to be wiped out. Are you really ok with that?
Can you just explain to me what that line is, and how Israel expects Hamas to step back? What is the endgame here? You're right that there's no way to wage a war in that area without collateral damage. But that also means that there is no way to wage a war without making combatants out of everybody - and that just leads to genocide. Do you really want to go down that road?
Let me rephrase that for you: If 3 men rob a bank, and the SWAT team launches rockets at the bank, and your family dies inside, do you blame the SWAT team, or the bank robbers?
There is such a thing as excessive force. I can guarantee you you'd be singing a different song if it was your family sitting in Gaza, getting blown up by Israeli shells.
No. The military has a responsibility to defend its people. How do you defend your people when your actions create far more terrorists than it kills?
It might be bullshit to you, but that's only because you didn't have your house and family obliterated because a SWAT team thought there was a drug lord holed up in your house. You can yell bullshit all you want. It's not going to change human nature, nor is it going to change how people react to seeing their friends, children and parents die in their schools, apartments and mosques, just so that a few people with guns are taken out. Have fun prolonging the bloodshed.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that adult conversation will only come about once every side has bled too much for the current state to continue. Yes, this means that Israel will have to bleed just as much as the Palestinians.
I don't know how that will happen, but it will have to be something where both sides cry uncle. Judging from what hasn't made either side cry uncle, I can only shudder at what that might be.
It's the same type of rhetoric that's used by government departments when budget cuts come along. Anytime a budget is supposed to be cut, all hell is supposed to break loose. Garbage will pile up in streets, parks will rot, etc. This is just the same type of exaggeration. You claim the worst to settle for average.
Not to mention that Bohemian Rhapsody took liberally from existing Public Domain. Why do people think that all art is created in a vacuum? On the contrary - art that is created in a vacuum is completely worthless, as it has no context.
This alone tells me that copyright ought to be limited to less than the lifetime of the artist.
True - a city slicker being transported into any remote wilderness will be very stressed. But provide basic shelter and food for a week, and then watch the stress levels drop like a rock. Have you ever stayed in a mountain cabin? A rainforest hut? As long as food is stocked, it's about the most peaceful you can get. Rainforests have a bit of an issue with malaria and fire/bullet ants, but that's really the biggest danger you'll face.
The point is that if basic needs are settled, a big city environment is more stressful than pretty much any other environment.
Are you kidding me? My first experience of NYC after a long absence was two cabbies at the airport almost coming to blows over who was going to going to take a customer to NYC. It pretty much stayed like that my entire stay. Considering that this was after spending a week in Toronto, the culture shock was intense.
NYC is not as bad as movies and popular culture make it to be. But it is intense. Everything moves fast, and people move fast as well. This means that tempers flare fast as well. I'm pretty sure that stress is a major component of the NYC resident. Compare this to some of the major cities north of the border, and the difference is night and day.
That said, I agree that compared to (sub)-urban sprawl, anything is better, including NYC. But I'd also argue that part of Manhatten's appeal is Central park. Without it, it'd be damn near unlivable.
Not to mention that the Wii and Xbox360 aren't really targeting the same market, or overlap 100% in their functionality.
People underestimate the long-term planning of Microsoft at their own risk. If you have a few billion in the bank, you can afford to put out multiple losers to gain profitable long-term marketshare.
Wow - you never plan for farther than the next quarter, do you? XBox represents MS last great hope for ruling the living room. It doesn't matter how much money the previous iterations lost, as long as the next ones have a chance at creating the next monopoly.
Actually, you misread. The article at CNN explicitly stated: "The conversation did not contain the words "bomb," "explosion," "terror" or other words that might have aroused suspicion, Atif Irfan said."
See linky: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/02/family.grounded/index.html
Not to mention that merely saying the word bomb and attack is not cause for concern. Are we really less capable than the various chat bots for understanding context?
Informative? Seriously? I hope this is some metamod effort at providing Karma... but just in case someone does take this seriously, I should take out a patent on this. That way, when Monster sells their butterfly-patterned head arms for 20K to audiophiles who don't like the lack of warmth in SSDs, I can get in on the racket.
I've long thought that MMOs should try to haul in players outside of the actual game engine. Example, WoW: why do I have to spend 30 minutes in game repairing armor, checking mail, checking auction house prices or guild messages? Why can't I do that through some web browser interface? The benefit is two-fold: I don't feel like I'm spending so much time grinding, and the developers have another way of hooking me into the game. Next website that I have input on, I'll make that suggestion to the developers.
Or, you could say that a naked picture in and of itself is not pornography. It would solve a lot of problems of parents being arrested for taking pictures of their kids in the bathtub. Again, google is your friend for links to actual news stories.
Some statistic to wrap your head around: 75%+ of all child abuse is done by immediate family. If you're concerned about your kids, keep them away from the creepy uncle/grandfather/babysitter.
Or is this part of the conservative agenda that needs to be solved by a bigger government?
Not to mention that some "changes to the language" are a step back when it comes to clear communication. "I could care less", I'm looking at you. Sometimes, ignorance is not an excuse to do something different.
Yes, because a company cutting back expenses in the face of reduced income is evil. *rolleyes* You're new to the world, aren't you?
A prank is always designed to cost something. Honor, face, social standing, time, money.... a good practical joke knows what the victim can laugh about. A good practical joke perpetrated on the wrong person can always be reclassified as vandalism.
All that you're saying is that you recommend reeducation about what is proper. Not to say that is bad in and of itself, but be careful what it is that you want to teach. 16 hours of picking up roadside trash might help someone who is tossing crap out the car window. I'm not sure it helps someone who decided to put glue over the laser in the mouse of the wrong person.
Thankfully, there are the first rumblings that that's one part that is illegal about the NSLs. See also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/second-circuit-rules-against-national-security-let
Hand in your geek card. You've never experienced the nirvana that is a d20. /geekpolice
Depends how it's done. It sounds like they're planning on just spraying it in the air, and have the surrounding temperature evaporate the water. This means that water will evaporate from everywhere, which makes the salt residue about as recoverable as the one from regular irrigation: not at all. Finally, I think you're a little off in your calculation: The surface of a sphere is 4PiR^2, with R=6378 (approximately). For a 1cm height everywhere, this amounts to about 5000 cubic kilometers of water. That's a bit more than 171000 gallons of water.
Somehow, I don't think that measurement is very accurate.
1) It measures percent of people on the internet reading slashdot. I don't know about you, but I'd argue that the number of people who get on the internet who don't care about slashdot grows faster than the number of those who do.
2) There's a massive spike right before the decline. I don't recall anything happening then that would correlate with a 75% drop in traffic.
3) Year over year, traffic has supposedly dropped by a factor of 10. Somehow, I don't buy that.