You know, while I know it's popular opinion to hate on Microsoft on slashdot, doesn't it seem to me that it's the Russian government abusing their own laws in order to screw the opposition, rather than Microsoft sitting there plotting how to hurt people? If it wasn't this, it would be something else.
Just sayin'..
Well, modern Russia is known for extreme corruption, literally from the level of local police up to the top. They will use any method possible, regardless as to Microsoft's involvement.
I was watching Fareed Zakaria GPS about 2 weeks ago, and he had a guy on whose business was literally stolen by local police. They raided the offices, took a set of papers required to own the business as part of the raid, transferred it to an inmate's name, who was serving a long sentence, then had a shell corporation sue the business. The judge entered a billion-dollar judgment within a day. Then, the lawyer who discovered all of this testified against the cops. He got thrown in jail for 6 months, where his water purifier was stolen while he was moved around a whole bunch of times in the prison, and eventually died there.
William Browder was the man running Hermitage in Russia before this whole thing happened.
That's theoretically true, but the difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference. In practice, no matter how bright you turn a blue lamp, you will always see it as being dark because blue reminds you of nighttime. Psychologically speaking, blue-tinted light is perceptually darker than reddish light even if it is of far greater brightness in terms of your actual ability to see and distinguish objects and color. And other things like skin tone are poorly perceived in fluorescent light as well, which contributes to that perception.
What? I literally started using f.lux a few weeks ago, and I get to sleep better at night now. I don't get as tired during the day. The nighttime light isn't blue-hued; it's red-hued.
Also, blue light is daytime light. Red light is the light you see closer to sunset. The sunset is red for a reason.
2k bulbs are shit for growing algae, too. The spectrum is too far towards red with the lower K bulbs to provide adequate PAR. This applies to both red and green macroalgae, and cyanobacteria, for sure.
If you discover, as I did, that it requires significantly more lights to provide the same perception of brightness in a particular room, a 3x difference in wattage can disappear like that.
Then buy a 2k temperature bulb, instead of the closer-to-actual-daylight 6k bulbs. They're even easier to find at your local Home Depot than the 6k, since they have more of them on the shelf. Don't hold back progess because you can't pick bulbs of the same color as your incandescents that are right next to the blue-er ones.
No, because your mind created the image of a person who is out to get you, is a shitty asshole, a fucktard, or a douchebag. I personally think a douchebag is the best way to describe one person doing things to fuck with you.. The entire point of a conspiracy requires the involvement of 2 or more people.
You know, of all the things the military could be spending money on, I really can't bring myself to complain about this... Funding science is pretty much the only nearly universally accepted upside to having a military.
Even better is that our military isn't small, or underfunded. Having a military like Liberia's leaves you with no room for R&D, unlike the US military, which has more money going into R&D than active duty personnel in combat operations.
I agree with some of your points. However, biodiesel from algae is already a sustainable fuel source. There's no need to eliminate cars from the equation.
In actuality, that algae will help keep a portion of the carbon we've already released, and will release before the rest of these measures are necessary, locked in a form where it's not causing the greenhouse effect.
Plus, there'll actually be a good use for Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico's gigantic tracts of shitty desert. 2 birds, one stone.
what I meant by that was using the SSN or its non-US equivalent as a lazy way to get a primary key or something analogous to one. The SSN does work for that, just with a lot of other issues.
A non-SSN number to serve a similar ID purpose sounds like a good idea for that combining reason, yes
I have a lot of database theory/design-type classes fall term, so this phrasing is especially likely to come to mind, sorry
Yes, I was thinking database too. The thing is, it's never used as a primary key in a good database; just as its own unique value for easy lookup. That why student ID cards have an ID number on them. That's the school's primary key.
But, for the purposes of finding a student's record, SSN is much easier than student ID when the student is present.
Well, it's not about that. It's because people shouldn't have to remember 12 different numbers for 12 places, so it's just a unique attribute that happens to be the same across every institution.
It's much easier to find something when people are there, rather than remotely operated machines with a very small, specific number of tests that can be performed.
Exactly. The places that "need" it tend to use it as an easy, unique ID number that everyone already has memorized. For example, colleges use it so you can get help to get a new ID card without memorizing your ID number. Why memorize 12 different numbers for different places (which may change frequently), instead of just the single SSN?
They specifically mentioned this study, and how the Phoenix lander found perchlorates, and how Viking's info may have been wrong. There's nothing in the article that indicates anything different than the episode, which is why I posted the comment about the "speedy delivery" of the news by Science News. That episode is at least a couple months past shooting by now.
Yeah, I've seen it too. Some tower defense games (not flash) have it for their cursor, lots of newer RTS use it, and I think I've seen something similar in some FPS.
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You know, while I know it's popular opinion to hate on Microsoft on slashdot, doesn't it seem to me that it's the Russian government abusing their own laws in order to screw the opposition, rather than Microsoft sitting there plotting how to hurt people? If it wasn't this, it would be something else.
Just sayin'..
Well, modern Russia is known for extreme corruption, literally from the level of local police up to the top. They will use any method possible, regardless as to Microsoft's involvement.
I was watching Fareed Zakaria GPS about 2 weeks ago, and he had a guy on whose business was literally stolen by local police. They raided the offices, took a set of papers required to own the business as part of the raid, transferred it to an inmate's name, who was serving a long sentence, then had a shell corporation sue the business. The judge entered a billion-dollar judgment within a day. Then, the lawyer who discovered all of this testified against the cops. He got thrown in jail for 6 months, where his water purifier was stolen while he was moved around a whole bunch of times in the prison, and eventually died there.
William Browder was the man running Hermitage in Russia before this whole thing happened.
That's theoretically true, but the difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference. In practice, no matter how bright you turn a blue lamp, you will always see it as being dark because blue reminds you of nighttime. Psychologically speaking, blue-tinted light is perceptually darker than reddish light even if it is of far greater brightness in terms of your actual ability to see and distinguish objects and color. And other things like skin tone are poorly perceived in fluorescent light as well, which contributes to that perception.
What? I literally started using f.lux a few weeks ago, and I get to sleep better at night now. I don't get as tired during the day. The nighttime light isn't blue-hued; it's red-hued.
Also, blue light is daytime light. Red light is the light you see closer to sunset. The sunset is red for a reason.
2k bulbs are shit for growing algae, too. The spectrum is too far towards red with the lower K bulbs to provide adequate PAR. This applies to both red and green macroalgae, and cyanobacteria, for sure.
If you discover, as I did, that it requires significantly more lights to provide the same perception of brightness in a particular room, a 3x difference in wattage can disappear like that.
Then buy a 2k temperature bulb, instead of the closer-to-actual-daylight 6k bulbs. They're even easier to find at your local Home Depot than the 6k, since they have more of them on the shelf. Don't hold back progess because you can't pick bulbs of the same color as your incandescents that are right next to the blue-er ones.
No, because your mind created the image of a person who is out to get you, is a shitty asshole, a fucktard, or a douchebag. I personally think a douchebag is the best way to describe one person doing things to fuck with you.. The entire point of a conspiracy requires the involvement of 2 or more people.
You know, of all the things the military could be spending money on, I really can't bring myself to complain about this... Funding science is pretty much the only nearly universally accepted upside to having a military.
Even better is that our military isn't small, or underfunded. Having a military like Liberia's leaves you with no room for R&D, unlike the US military, which has more money going into R&D than active duty personnel in combat operations.
I agree with some of your points. However, biodiesel from algae is already a sustainable fuel source. There's no need to eliminate cars from the equation.
In actuality, that algae will help keep a portion of the carbon we've already released, and will release before the rest of these measures are necessary, locked in a form where it's not causing the greenhouse effect.
Plus, there'll actually be a good use for Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico's gigantic tracts of shitty desert. 2 birds, one stone.
Who cares about small breasted porn?
what I meant by that was using the SSN or its non-US equivalent as a lazy way to get a primary key or something analogous to one. The SSN does work for that, just with a lot of other issues.
A non-SSN number to serve a similar ID purpose sounds like a good idea for that combining reason, yes
I have a lot of database theory/design-type classes fall term, so this phrasing is especially likely to come to mind, sorry
Yes, I was thinking database too. The thing is, it's never used as a primary key in a good database; just as its own unique value for easy lookup. That why student ID cards have an ID number on them. That's the school's primary key.
But, for the purposes of finding a student's record, SSN is much easier than student ID when the student is present.
Well, it's not about that. It's because people shouldn't have to remember 12 different numbers for 12 places, so it's just a unique attribute that happens to be the same across every institution.
You don't know if you'll like it without at least picking it up and fooling around for a few minutes.
I think a few methods that are related is a methodology. You know, since "a few" generally qualifies as a set.
It's much easier to find something when people are there, rather than remotely operated machines with a very small, specific number of tests that can be performed.
Exactly. The places that "need" it tend to use it as an easy, unique ID number that everyone already has memorized. For example, colleges use it so you can get help to get a new ID card without memorizing your ID number. Why memorize 12 different numbers for different places (which may change frequently), instead of just the single SSN?
I post to undo my bad mods (and even sacrifice my 14 points already-used). Just sayin'.
They specifically mentioned this study, and how the Phoenix lander found perchlorates, and how Viking's info may have been wrong. There's nothing in the article that indicates anything different than the episode, which is why I posted the comment about the "speedy delivery" of the news by Science News. That episode is at least a couple months past shooting by now.
Haha, I heard this on The Universe about a month ago. Nice job guys, getting the story out there in a timely fashion
It's the theme song.
They did do everything short of a formal final rejection. They can't do the final rejection, since they require a finalized proposal first.
It had the doodle yesterday.
A comment on TFA says it came back up within 2 minutes.
Contingency plan?
By the time I got Simcity 2000 it was a normal Windows game and it didn't ask you anything of the sort.
That was released 2 years later, and called "SimCity 2000: Special Edition".
It's because nobody actually plays golf.
"Hey man, I got more points on my license! I'm ahead of you!"
- American Teen
I do not think it is ridiculous to suggest the advance of modern technology has made co-pilots possibly unnecessarily redundant.
Technology can fly a plane from JFK to Heathrow. What it can't do is take off from JFK and land at Heathrow.
Yeah, I've seen it too. Some tower defense games (not flash) have it for their cursor, lots of newer RTS use it, and I think I've seen something similar in some FPS.
I would have said more parasitic than symbiotic, actually ...
Parasitism is a form of symbiosis. So are commensalism, and mutualism.