You completely fail to understand where the conflict would have taken place: Europe, not some antiseptic battlefield. Furthermore, the carpet bombing that took place over Vietnamese jungles would have taken place over european population centers. For someone who thinks himself a historian, you sure know crap about history - and yes, those military plans were well known. At least in Europe. Maybe the US didn't care enough.
Feel free to argue semantics. Yes, the guarantee is not a mathematical proof or scientific certainty of p > 0.95. That's why it is a guarantee, not a proof.
And while we're on sophistic arguments that bring nothing to the table, your argument amounts to a tautology, with an insult thrown in for good measure. Once you get to the real world, you will realize that everyone operates with less than perfect data, and continuously makes decisions based on less than perfect data. In the meantime, keep arguing that nothing can be known for sure, except the depth of the arrogance of UN bureaucrats and diplomats.
No one brags about 5 9s, because no one can maintain a system like that. The very best I've seen in my days monitoring some of the top tier companies and their top tier applications is 3 9s. Most companies are happy to hit 1 nine - yes, they're happy about up-time in the 95% area. 5 9s is for people powering up a server and checking ping responses. in other words, it's not a real metric.
The cold, hard reality no one wants to acknowledge is that it is incredibly hard to keep a modern application working properly. Everyone wants their fancy always-on, always-connected, always-available and easy-to-maintain application to be available all the time, but only very few people know what that takes. Sir_Sri is one of the few people who managed to list the even very basic and common components that can fail. I'll add croaking routers, dug-up cables, fu-bared patches, admins hosing their instance and, in the case of multi-tenant environments (aka The Cloud), upgrades that don't properly account for edge-cases to the list.
The UN's post World War I precursor the League of Nations collapsed in complete failure as the Axis powers walked out one by one in the 1930's
Technically, WW1 and WW2 were the same war, with a 20 year pause for rebuilding.
The UN might not be perfect, and it might not have prevented a new WW on its own. However, it has provided a forum to talk, which is a pre-requisite to not fight. As a result, I can guarantee you that there were less wars than if there were no UN. Heck, even the Balkan area had only one actual war, and that was just everyone telling the locals to stop machine-gunning random people.
It was designed for that purpose, and it does it well. If you want to make the UN an international leading body, a true world government, then you'll need to change its structure.
Precisely. The UN, as much good as it does through its mere existence, would be a disaster as the official controlling body of the Internet. It is set up as a talking shop, and designed to allow for compromise along the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, in the area of free speech, that means almost nothing.
Screw SOPA and ACTA - UN control of the Internet might very well be what kicks off the Darknet explosion.
You realize that voting present in the Illinois Senate is similar to voting no, except it has a different impact on how the bill in question gets handled after the vote gets tallied, right? That it has nothing to do with not having an opinion?
You realize that voting present in the Illinois Senate is similar to voting no, except it has a different impact on how the bill in question gets handled after the vote gets tallied, right? That it has nothing to do with not having an opinion?
So think of him as a guy that creates a device on paper that looks like it would logically work, and then sells it to people without ever knowing if it will really work or not. (A coder that never tests his code)
You have no idea what the scientific method is, how it is used in science, or what the difference between a claim and a test is.
Water Memory? I remember that stuff. It was pretty much instantly laughed out of the room, because of two things: the main fact behind water memory - that water retains some sort of knowledge of a compound it has been exposed to - runs counter every known law of physics and chemistry, and water memory doesn't work in any setup other than that of homeopathy. For example, if water memory is true, the gulf oil spill should have had a near permanent effect on the environment.
In other words, the claims of water memory are so unbelievable that they require evidence that goes far, far beyond "Hey, we're getting some weird effects here - Water Memory!" For that reason alone, Randi's debunking is good enough.
And that's why noscript is so important. Yes, with time, everyone is going to consolidate their scripts under the main domain. But there will be ways to control that as well. And ultimately, that's why Firefox, despite all its problems, is a super-important part of the open web.
Eh? The flag button that lets you repost to various social networks? The FAQ has had the delete for a long time. And the source of the comment page shows no delete link and no check-mark to allow such. Besides, why the hell would it? The proper way to do this is to create specific pages for specific users, not to hide elements via javascript. If the ability to delete posts exists, you can't see it - or you can be sure it would already have been abused.
Not really. If you use a heart rate monitor, you can actually check out how much just walking around does to your heart rate. Even just at a strolling pace, my heart-rate is sitting at about 100. A brisk walk, and I'm quickly at 110-120. Jogging is about 135, and racing will get me to about 160.
Since my resting heart-rate is about 60, just walking can double it. That means that even walking for even 30 minutes does a lot to your basic health.
To Hurd's credit, he was in the process of turning around HP. He at least knew how to run a tech company, especially one that was floundering about. I'm still on the fence about Meg, considering that it's really hard to see how much of Ebay's success she was actually responsible for. But it's not looking good.
It has been, and yes, in my opinion vaccines is an area where patents should be overturned and/or completely overhauled. There is some precedent for the US government applying pressure to vaccine makers to not receive full price for their vaccines. But that does little to spur more competition in their supply.
The problem is that when talking to anti-vaxxers, there is no winning. If you couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, they take from it that there's an obvious danger, and there's a conspiracy to keep the research results quiet, or to spin them to the advantage of Big Pharma. If you use everyday language to describe the overall result of the research, those people point to completely known risks with vaccines, and tell you that you don't know what you're talking about.
The biggest mistake they make though is that they've completely forgotten the very real dangers that mumps, measles and chickenpox represent. I won't even go into the details for polio. To them, measles is something you get over in a few weeks. They have no idea that even today, it can kill just as much as it did 100 years ago.
At some point, you just have to call them uneducated morons, and make sure that you keep as far away as possible from them.
Because some vaccines are difficult to create on a large scale through certain methods. Furthermore, companies may hold patents on certain vaccine creation techniques, and are asking for sums that the vaccine producers find non-economical.
Actually, it was an endangered tortoise, not a lizard. And it wasn't shut down, the company behind it had to acquire more land to manage habitat for displaced animals.
So really, nothing actually happened to that particular solar plant. I swear, sometimes I think environmentalists are the new all-powerful bogeyman. Everything goes wrong is their fault, even the stuff that doesn't go wrong.
Fair enough, especially on the hypocrisy part. It's not a guaranteed relationship, merely a heuristic I found fairly accurate in the past. I'm sure I'm tarring some people unfairly with that approach - but fortunately, it's not actual tar, and I'm quite happy to update my opinion in the cases where I'm shown to be wrong. But I found it to be pretty accurate if there's a lack of other information.
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You completely fail to understand where the conflict would have taken place: Europe, not some antiseptic battlefield. Furthermore, the carpet bombing that took place over Vietnamese jungles would have taken place over european population centers. For someone who thinks himself a historian, you sure know crap about history - and yes, those military plans were well known. At least in Europe. Maybe the US didn't care enough.
Feel free to argue semantics. Yes, the guarantee is not a mathematical proof or scientific certainty of p > 0.95. That's why it is a guarantee, not a proof.
And while we're on sophistic arguments that bring nothing to the table, your argument amounts to a tautology, with an insult thrown in for good measure. Once you get to the real world, you will realize that everyone operates with less than perfect data, and continuously makes decisions based on less than perfect data. In the meantime, keep arguing that nothing can be known for sure, except the depth of the arrogance of UN bureaucrats and diplomats.
No one brags about 5 9s, because no one can maintain a system like that. The very best I've seen in my days monitoring some of the top tier companies and their top tier applications is 3 9s. Most companies are happy to hit 1 nine - yes, they're happy about up-time in the 95% area. 5 9s is for people powering up a server and checking ping responses. in other words, it's not a real metric.
The cold, hard reality no one wants to acknowledge is that it is incredibly hard to keep a modern application working properly. Everyone wants their fancy always-on, always-connected, always-available and easy-to-maintain application to be available all the time, but only very few people know what that takes. Sir_Sri is one of the few people who managed to list the even very basic and common components that can fail. I'll add croaking routers, dug-up cables, fu-bared patches, admins hosing their instance and, in the case of multi-tenant environments (aka The Cloud), upgrades that don't properly account for edge-cases to the list.
The UN's post World War I precursor the League of Nations collapsed in complete failure as the Axis powers walked out one by one in the 1930's
Technically, WW1 and WW2 were the same war, with a 20 year pause for rebuilding.
The UN might not be perfect, and it might not have prevented a new WW on its own. However, it has provided a forum to talk, which is a pre-requisite to not fight. As a result, I can guarantee you that there were less wars than if there were no UN. Heck, even the Balkan area had only one actual war, and that was just everyone telling the locals to stop machine-gunning random people.
It was designed for that purpose, and it does it well. If you want to make the UN an international leading body, a true world government, then you'll need to change its structure.
Precisely. The UN, as much good as it does through its mere existence, would be a disaster as the official controlling body of the Internet. It is set up as a talking shop, and designed to allow for compromise along the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, in the area of free speech, that means almost nothing.
Screw SOPA and ACTA - UN control of the Internet might very well be what kicks off the Darknet explosion.
Clearly, you have no idea that the world and its use of language has changed since the Cold War.
Hyperbole is fun, isn't it?
Ugh. Comment got attached to the wrong post. Sorry.
You realize that voting present in the Illinois Senate is similar to voting no, except it has a different impact on how the bill in question gets handled after the vote gets tallied, right? That it has nothing to do with not having an opinion?
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You realize that voting present in the Illinois Senate is similar to voting no, except it has a different impact on how the bill in question gets handled after the vote gets tallied, right? That it has nothing to do with not having an opinion?
So think of him as a guy that creates a device on paper that looks like it would logically work, and then sells it to people without ever knowing if it will really work or not. (A coder that never tests his code)
You have no idea what the scientific method is, how it is used in science, or what the difference between a claim and a test is.
You must be a homeopath's wet dream.
Water Memory? I remember that stuff. It was pretty much instantly laughed out of the room, because of two things: the main fact behind water memory - that water retains some sort of knowledge of a compound it has been exposed to - runs counter every known law of physics and chemistry, and water memory doesn't work in any setup other than that of homeopathy. For example, if water memory is true, the gulf oil spill should have had a near permanent effect on the environment.
In other words, the claims of water memory are so unbelievable that they require evidence that goes far, far beyond "Hey, we're getting some weird effects here - Water Memory!" For that reason alone, Randi's debunking is good enough.
And that's why noscript is so important. Yes, with time, everyone is going to consolidate their scripts under the main domain. But there will be ways to control that as well. And ultimately, that's why Firefox, despite all its problems, is a super-important part of the open web.
Downloadable games are any size now. I've got a few that go past the 1GB size.
Unfortunately, they are focused on the Departments of Energy and Education.
Libertarians: quite happy to keep a boot up your ass while telling you how much better off you are without education.
Interesting. The flag button is actually clickable and leads to a report functionality.
Eh? The flag button that lets you repost to various social networks? The FAQ has had the delete for a long time. And the source of the comment page shows no delete link and no check-mark to allow such. Besides, why the hell would it? The proper way to do this is to create specific pages for specific users, not to hide elements via javascript. If the ability to delete posts exists, you can't see it - or you can be sure it would already have been abused.
Not really. If you use a heart rate monitor, you can actually check out how much just walking around does to your heart rate. Even just at a strolling pace, my heart-rate is sitting at about 100. A brisk walk, and I'm quickly at 110-120. Jogging is about 135, and racing will get me to about 160.
Since my resting heart-rate is about 60, just walking can double it. That means that even walking for even 30 minutes does a lot to your basic health.
the US's republicanism
It's called a representative democracy. Republicanism just means that the head of state is not an inherited position.
To Hurd's credit, he was in the process of turning around HP. He at least knew how to run a tech company, especially one that was floundering about. I'm still on the fence about Meg, considering that it's really hard to see how much of Ebay's success she was actually responsible for. But it's not looking good.
It has been, and yes, in my opinion vaccines is an area where patents should be overturned and/or completely overhauled. There is some precedent for the US government applying pressure to vaccine makers to not receive full price for their vaccines. But that does little to spur more competition in their supply.
The problem is that when talking to anti-vaxxers, there is no winning. If you couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, they take from it that there's an obvious danger, and there's a conspiracy to keep the research results quiet, or to spin them to the advantage of Big Pharma. If you use everyday language to describe the overall result of the research, those people point to completely known risks with vaccines, and tell you that you don't know what you're talking about.
The biggest mistake they make though is that they've completely forgotten the very real dangers that mumps, measles and chickenpox represent. I won't even go into the details for polio. To them, measles is something you get over in a few weeks. They have no idea that even today, it can kill just as much as it did 100 years ago.
At some point, you just have to call them uneducated morons, and make sure that you keep as far away as possible from them.
Because some vaccines are difficult to create on a large scale through certain methods. Furthermore, companies may hold patents on certain vaccine creation techniques, and are asking for sums that the vaccine producers find non-economical.
See here for a source: http://www.news-medical.net/health/Vaccine-Production.aspx
Actually, it was an endangered tortoise, not a lizard. And it wasn't shut down, the company behind it had to acquire more land to manage habitat for displaced animals.
So really, nothing actually happened to that particular solar plant. I swear, sometimes I think environmentalists are the new all-powerful bogeyman. Everything goes wrong is their fault, even the stuff that doesn't go wrong.
One source: http://energy.gov/articles/department-announces-loan-guarantee-brightsource-energy-inc 2 minutes of googling finds you load more.
? Do you know for sure that he's a card carrying member of the denialist league?
Anyone who equates a grant with a bribe is pretty much such a card-carrying member. So yes, I know that he didn't.
Fair enough, especially on the hypocrisy part. It's not a guaranteed relationship, merely a heuristic I found fairly accurate in the past. I'm sure I'm tarring some people unfairly with that approach - but fortunately, it's not actual tar, and I'm quite happy to update my opinion in the cases where I'm shown to be wrong. But I found it to be pretty accurate if there's a lack of other information.