i don't understand people who have an idea how the world should be, yet they decide it's not worth bringing a child into the world as it is. if people like us don't breed, then the world will never be as we would like it.
if you can affect A, but not B, and A is correlated with B, then you can affect B, regardless of C through Z (which you can figure out some other time).
this is an argument for hellfire preaching as a means to reduce crime.
fuck the cinemas. they've had it surprisingly good for a long time.
switching to DCI saves money all round. there's an initial outlay for the gear. the really good gear will last a looong time - people's vision isn't going to get much better, and at the nominal 2.5 screen-heights viewing distance a 4k projector is "lol retina". compare this to the decades old projectors that they thrashed to buggery. they whinged when they had to upgrade to digital sound... that's a new sound head and a decoder, whacked into the film path somewhere between the film gate and the take up spool. not a big deal.
i know of post facilities (that Peter Jackson would be quite familiar with) that deliberately grade to a too-dark and too-brown colour profile to compensate for the fact that most cinemas are too tight to change their projector bulbs when they're meant to be changed.
multiplexes quite often only employ 1 projectionist to handle all 10 cinemas. this is why when something's wrong it doesn't get picked up unless someone makes a noise about it. the projectionists are all starry-eyed film students on minimum wage.
film prints cost LOTS. lots and lots. you ever get a roll of 24 shots processed for 7 bucks? well how many frames are in a movie? you're looking at about 10 grand per print. moving to DCI means distributors save bucketloads. cinemas pass the negative costs on to the consumers by charging them more for "lol 3d".
cinemas dictate what local content gets played. usually that's bugger-all if you don't live in the states. in Australia, you're lucky if you get on 5 screens in a city (that's screens, not whole cinemas). the screen is often the size of what most offices have for powerpoint.
so requiring the cinemas to buy some new gear for the first time in decades is not such a bad thing. i certainly have no sympathy for them.
wow, i didn't think anybody would rise to my troll:)
fragile egos? who knows? i lack the ability to understand the motivation of those who are not "baby crazed breeders", you see. i have no memory of three years ago (when my wife and I were 28 and 27 respectively).
i'll get back to that conspicuous consumption... see, having a child has made me wealthier than not having a child, and thus i spend more on big TVs and iPads than i do on... whatever that baby stuff is. i'm a man of leisure without a care in the world, and i consume to fill the void in my life.
oh, wait, we're both utterly and hopelessly misrepresenting each other. except i did it for the lulz, you seem to have done it because you care what somebody on slashdot thinks about you.
i think the point is that Tor is meant for places like China, Burma, any of the arab spring countries, etc. they can and will pull the plug on the entire internet if it comes to that, but if there's one easily detectable network that all the dissident traffic uses, they can pull the plug on that without hurting the rest of the net.
Tor is not illegal in the USA, or any other "freedom loving" country, but neither is free speech. so the idealist purpose of Tor is not needed there, and the criminal purpose of Tor gets all the traffic.
our governments might wish to monitor us completely, but right now it's still prohibitively expensive and very politically dangerous to just jump in and do so. hopefully it stays that way.
lol. virgin. don't take your teenage angst out on parents.
we'll defeat you with our superior numbers.
this is how the game works - if only stupid people breed, then you'd better (supposing you're not stupid) produce as many offspring as you possibly can, or there'll be nobody left but stupid people.
so why not go ask out that girl you've been obsessing over?
the drives were taken because they _allegedly_ contain **AA material.
you have to establish they contain copyrighted material before you can claim **AA had right to the contents of those drives. and to do that you need to basically conduct an illegal search.
besides, they are Dotcom's _personal_ drives. they weren't megaupload server drives. there's very little chance they contained anything covered by copyright that your average joe doesn't also have. the FBI were going after business documents, for someone based in another country, without an extradition or permission of authorities in that country.
it amounts to an incursion on a sovereign, allied state. if only New Zealand could reconsider their anti-nuke stance...
exactly. an honest application of scientific method, even by a creationist, would tend to dissolve ideas of creation.
besides, i wonder what's with the false dichotomy of "creation OR evolution". there's plenty of sciences that cut God's lunch, evolution only undermining parts of Genesis (the rest being thoroughly trashed by Cosmology, Geology, etc).
it'd be naive to say they weren't at least thinking about making nukes. seriously.
it doesn't all add up, i agree, but here's the few things that seem to have got out of the bullshit cycle:
- they have rather more centrifuges than they need for LEU - they have a research reactor that's capable of making enough Pu239 for about 2 bombs a year - they refused inspectors entry to a conventional explosive lab - this has been inferred to be something to do with high explosive lenses
on the flipside:
- the bushehr plant is not usable in weapons, and the centrifuges make sense for making fuel for it - high explosive lenses are typically for Pu bombs, not U, so why the enrichment program? are they trying to make two different bombs, like the manhattan project? or is it as they say it is?
i'm not sure what the GPL says about classified projects, but the US government doesn't have an obligation to release _all_ the things they do as public domain.
you certainly can't download the schematics for the W88 warhead from.gov sites.
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so out-breed them! :)
i don't understand people who have an idea how the world should be, yet they decide it's not worth bringing a child into the world as it is. if people like us don't breed, then the world will never be as we would like it.
you miss the point.
if you can affect A, but not B, and A is correlated with B, then you can affect B, regardless of C through Z (which you can figure out some other time).
this is an argument for hellfire preaching as a means to reduce crime.
yeah... correlation != causation :)
proof that modpoints aren't for repressing arguments you don't agree with, i suppose.
this is very true. failed the subject, had to catch it again next semester.
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fuck the cinemas. they've had it surprisingly good for a long time.
switching to DCI saves money all round. there's an initial outlay for the gear. the really good gear will last a looong time - people's vision isn't going to get much better, and at the nominal 2.5 screen-heights viewing distance a 4k projector is "lol retina". compare this to the decades old projectors that they thrashed to buggery. they whinged when they had to upgrade to digital sound... that's a new sound head and a decoder, whacked into the film path somewhere between the film gate and the take up spool. not a big deal.
i know of post facilities (that Peter Jackson would be quite familiar with) that deliberately grade to a too-dark and too-brown colour profile to compensate for the fact that most cinemas are too tight to change their projector bulbs when they're meant to be changed.
multiplexes quite often only employ 1 projectionist to handle all 10 cinemas. this is why when something's wrong it doesn't get picked up unless someone makes a noise about it. the projectionists are all starry-eyed film students on minimum wage.
film prints cost LOTS. lots and lots. you ever get a roll of 24 shots processed for 7 bucks? well how many frames are in a movie? you're looking at about 10 grand per print. moving to DCI means distributors save bucketloads. cinemas pass the negative costs on to the consumers by charging them more for "lol 3d".
cinemas dictate what local content gets played. usually that's bugger-all if you don't live in the states. in Australia, you're lucky if you get on 5 screens in a city (that's screens, not whole cinemas). the screen is often the size of what most offices have for powerpoint.
so requiring the cinemas to buy some new gear for the first time in decades is not such a bad thing. i certainly have no sympathy for them.
but where do the wires go?
what is this i don't even?
if that's the case, wouldn't we cease to pick V1 up when it gets there?
i'm not sure how far you'll get trying to own all music related IP if you're unable to spell Copyright or Chord correctly...
lol false dichotomy. not everyone who has a child likes other kids, and supports THINK OF THE CHILLLLLRUNNNNNN legislation at all costs.
my politics didn't magically change last year. and i still enjoy a good troll if my karma allows it.
wow, i didn't think anybody would rise to my troll :)
fragile egos? who knows? i lack the ability to understand the motivation of those who are not "baby crazed breeders", you see. i have no memory of three years ago (when my wife and I were 28 and 27 respectively).
i'll get back to that conspicuous consumption... see, having a child has made me wealthier than not having a child, and thus i spend more on big TVs and iPads than i do on... whatever that baby stuff is. i'm a man of leisure without a care in the world, and i consume to fill the void in my life.
oh, wait, we're both utterly and hopelessly misrepresenting each other. except i did it for the lulz, you seem to have done it because you care what somebody on slashdot thinks about you.
just you. we don't drive, and when we do we know where we're going. ... i thought it was a Garmin thing, anyway.
rm -f `grep "system and method" `find /media/patents``
i think the point is that Tor is meant for places like China, Burma, any of the arab spring countries, etc. they can and will pull the plug on the entire internet if it comes to that, but if there's one easily detectable network that all the dissident traffic uses, they can pull the plug on that without hurting the rest of the net.
Tor is not illegal in the USA, or any other "freedom loving" country, but neither is free speech. so the idealist purpose of Tor is not needed there, and the criminal purpose of Tor gets all the traffic.
our governments might wish to monitor us completely, but right now it's still prohibitively expensive and very politically dangerous to just jump in and do so. hopefully it stays that way.
lol. virgin. don't take your teenage angst out on parents.
we'll defeat you with our superior numbers.
this is how the game works - if only stupid people breed, then you'd better (supposing you're not stupid) produce as many offspring as you possibly can, or there'll be nobody left but stupid people.
so why not go ask out that girl you've been obsessing over?
FTFY
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the drives were taken because they _allegedly_ contain **AA material.
you have to establish they contain copyrighted material before you can claim **AA had right to the contents of those drives. and to do that you need to basically conduct an illegal search.
besides, they are Dotcom's _personal_ drives. they weren't megaupload server drives. there's very little chance they contained anything covered by copyright that your average joe doesn't also have. the FBI were going after business documents, for someone based in another country, without an extradition or permission of authorities in that country.
it amounts to an incursion on a sovereign, allied state. if only New Zealand could reconsider their anti-nuke stance...
imagine is more important than knowledge.
THAT is wisdom.
God doesn't come into the equation. troll harder, buddy.
exactly. an honest application of scientific method, even by a creationist, would tend to dissolve ideas of creation.
besides, i wonder what's with the false dichotomy of "creation OR evolution". there's plenty of sciences that cut God's lunch, evolution only undermining parts of Genesis (the rest being thoroughly trashed by Cosmology, Geology, etc).
lab gear isn't too expensive if you're only buying sets of 1...
plus you can make booze with it when the kid's not using it (or you can teach them to make booze for great justice).
thanks for the link!
i intend for my son to go to school, but i think i'll handle the science and geek side of things. the above site can help me.
last thing i want is a kid who doesn't give a fuck how things work because i let the quality of one teacher ruin it for him.
wow, i find your lack of imagination disturbing.
it'd be naive to say they weren't at least thinking about making nukes. seriously.
it doesn't all add up, i agree, but here's the few things that seem to have got out of the bullshit cycle:
- they have rather more centrifuges than they need for LEU
- they have a research reactor that's capable of making enough Pu239 for about 2 bombs a year
- they refused inspectors entry to a conventional explosive lab - this has been inferred to be something to do with high explosive lenses
on the flipside:
- the bushehr plant is not usable in weapons, and the centrifuges make sense for making fuel for it
- high explosive lenses are typically for Pu bombs, not U, so why the enrichment program? are they trying to make two different bombs, like the manhattan project? or is it as they say it is?
i'm not sure what the GPL says about classified projects, but the US government doesn't have an obligation to release _all_ the things they do as public domain.
you certainly can't download the schematics for the W88 warhead from .gov sites.