Thanks for giving an Indian perspective, but that's a lot of speculation there with the all the words like "likely," "unlikely," and the multiple uses of "probably." What really jumped out at me was not that they made the mistake but that it took about six months for them to discover that they were looking at planets. In any case, I know that the Indian military does not have near the resources (be it equipment, cool technology, or funding) that their Western counterparts take for granted, but that seems like an embarrassingly long time to be doing counter-recon on Venus and Jupiter. Come on India, you have nukes!:)
But this story has spawned WhackoFest 2013, so there are plenty of folks on the fringe trying to be louder, post more words, and tell the majority that they are all stupid and uninformed. I'll ignore their comments without a grain of salt, even though some of them claim it is a lie that excess salt is bad for you.
that almost everything you know about nutrition is wrong
Maybe the real truth is that almost everything you know about knowing things is wrong.
BTW the move from "healthy animal fats/butter" to transfats had nothing to do with incorrect beliefs about what was healthy. That had much more to do with production, economics, and marketing. And don't kid yourself into thinking that butter and animal fat are all that much better than alternatives. Slightly, maybe, but they'll still kill you if you don't eat them sparingly.
I hate the shit out of Monsanto but it isn't because their seeds don't produce good crops. I hate them because they force farmers to buy their products by suing them once their fields become contaminated with Roundup-ready pollen. Once your fields are contaminated with their intellectual property, through no fault of your own other than trying to exist near another farmer who buys Monsanto products, you can't save your own seed without violating patents, and you get sued out of business or have to pay them anyway Monsanto is evil, and this is just one example of why I say that, though I must admit their products work fine mostly (including their seed).
Dey done took'd out all da bro-speak, G-talk, lolcatese and redneckonized language in da commentz, accounting for about 9000 of da changes, u feelz me dog?
Yeah, I'm a nerd, I guess. As soon as I started reading the summary I thought of the song "Return of the Mack," except as "Return of the Slashvertisement." But I did like the subtle juxtaposition of two statements: "The company has been in Flash storage since the late '80s and manufactures products used in everything from smartphones to digital cameras." and "In the benchmarks, SanDisk's Extreme II SSD showed it has the chops to hang with some of the fastest drives on the market from Samsung, Corsair and OCZ." So a market leader is finally catching up? Sorry, don't really care, though for the sake customers buying on name recognition I hope their drives don't fail as soon as the OCZ crap they're now on par with.
We often do what we have to do, and nothing more. It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention, and I think if it becomes absolutely necessary for you to do something, like speak a new language, you're going to put more effort into figuring it out.
The article explains that the person in question had NOT been arrested, had been freely answering other questions, but refused to answer one that concerned shotgun shells found at the murder scene.
So when exactly do you forfeit your Constitutional rights these days? If a cop says, "Come here, I need to ask you some questions", then asks my name and where I'm going, and I answer, am I no longer protected by the Fifth Amendment if I don't want to answer any other questions? What if the next question is, "Did you stop beating your wife?" What if I answer dishonestly and say, "I'm Joe Shmoe, and going to bang your wife right now because I've never gotten married." We have to STFU to even simple, obvious, or harmless questions, just so we can refuse to answer once the questions become more significant or accusatory? Do I have to explicitly state that I wish to be protected by the Constitution, and can the timing of that be used against me? What a crock. As far as reality goes, immediately refusing to answer simple questions when you HAVEN'T even been arrested is a great way to get yourself arrested in a hurry.
How long then until we have to request, explicitly claim, or be offered other constitutionally guaranteed protections in order to retain them, like those guaranteed under the first, fourth, eighth, 13th, 15th, and 19th amendments? We already have to file paperwork (voter registration form) to request rights guaranteed by the 26th, which can be problematic for some people (just ask Latinos in Arizona, for example), and the second amendment (according to some people, who I happen to disagree with).
That's exactly what this is. I don't doubt that Liberty Reserve was used to launder some money, but that isn't what this is really about. Or at least there is a bigger issue than money laundering, which is an attempt to kill digital currencies that governments can not control. With its central authority Liberty Reserve was a much easier target than say, Bitcoin. Make no mistake about it, lots of governments would just love to squash Bitcoin because they fear losing control over money, but they'll have to settle for payment processors and intermediaries, at least for now.
Sounds like a liability. "That car accident wasn't my fault. That particular robotic bartender always manages my alcohol intake perfectly, so it is the one at fault for screwing up and letting me drink a little too much, too fast. It was programmed to cut me off one drink sooner but a bug let it give me one more drink, and made me t-bone a taxi full of nuns on vacation."
I'll take the bartender I know, who pours me a beer the moment I walk in the door and makes sure I have a ride on the rare occasion when I allow myself to get carried away. He's a better bullshitter than any robot I've met, too.
So they turned a 4-year program into a 5-year program, with all 5 years at full price, I presume. If you need a year to acclimate freshmen, you either aren't doing it right, or you have the wrong students. Are the low-income target students dumber than high-income students? God help the low-income students when they leave school not only with bigger loans than their classmates, but now also an extra year's worth of debt.
Congrats to the Canadian Revenue Agency. You just forced all legitimate future Bitcoin transactions in Canada to either move out of Canada or be conducted in a manner that is technically illegal. Maybe a few large companies that are based around Bitcoin will submit to taxation (are there any in Canada?), but smaller companies and average citizens will either ignore this or circumvent it. Maybe they don't expect anyone to pay up and are just covering their asses, or even discouraging Bitcoin-based businesses from setting up shop there?
I bet that devilish hacker ate rice sometimes and probably used toilet paper on a regular basis, so why not push to ban those things, too? Surely no one uses those things, or Tor, for legitimate reasons. We have got to stop allowing comfort for the wicked.
Would perceptions be different if this hacker when by the name Kitten Lover rather than Demon Killer? Should we encourage people who apparently kill Demons?
Comprehensive, universal healthcare is an absolute must in my book. Senator Obama hinted at it, just enough to entice folks like me, then completely caved to the right once elected President. They love to pick on "Obamacare," though I am one liberal who is thoroughly disappointed in its scope and failure to ensure all are well covered in a truly affordable manner. Our watered-down non-system lags far behind those in France, Canada, and even England, both in terms of comprehensiveness and cost efficiency. I fully believe we have the greatest country in the world, thus we can do much better than we have.
Also net neutrality, copyright reform and greater consumer protection, severely limiting corporate political donations, and common sense and the spirit of laws being placed above loopholes. Congressional term limits have already been mentioned and are worth considering, as might be reforms to make it easier for non- GOP/Dem. candidates to get on ballots. Income tax reforms to close loopholes?
A reasonable living wage. Who can live without 4 roommates and raise a child on minimum wage or slightly above? The college kids my company pays $8-$9 an hour are surviving by taking on serious long term debt, and the older folks with kids rely on assistance programs and in some cases compassionate family members. Inexperienced and uneducated workers, or those with criminal records, too often seem to be doomed to lives of government cheese and perpetual poverty. Can't we do better?
We'd do that if we could in the US. There are just a few small unfortunate details that keep us from competing solely on cost, such as minimum wages, child labor laws, reasonable workplace safety laws, and relatively little currency manipulation. Work out those bugs and you can stop the Chinese copycats dead in their tracks.
There may be some good news in this particular case. For instance, we should be happy that a domestic company is involved at all in this. And OTEC, as it stands now, may only be a transitional technology in its infancy, meaning further development is necessary to make it widely commercially viable (so it isn't like China is stealing too much from us, if/when they copy it), and it is good practice and a chance for Lockheed to do science they and we can learn from. I don't think they expect this to become their core business, though they need to build OTEC plants (if they can do it while more or less breaking even, or better) to find out and to see what else they may lead to.
Do you want a 500E car to use all of that 100kph speed limit, too? If you want to use it all, you can't set prices arbitrarily based only on your own desires. I've driven on the Autobahn but was only wealthy enough to rent a tiny car capable of about 130kph. Too bad, I guess.
I think it's an extremely reasonable price given U.S. conditions.
That's why the summary says it is inexpensive. $51 is almost exactly what I pay for 12Mb Uverse DSL in the midwest USA, which is making me a little bit sick right now.
'I now realize graduate school was a terrible idea because the full-time, tenure-track literature professorship is extinct. After four years of trying, I've finally gotten it through my thick head that I will not get a job—and if you go to graduate school, neither will you.
No, you just because you suck at what you insist on doing despite considerable difficulties doesn't mean no one else can do it, or that you should be so bitter about it. Sorry you weren't instantly handed an awesome job immediately upon graduation, but maybe that is on you, not the world. Truth hurts sometimes, sorry about your crappy choice of a career path, and better luck next time.
Because "linux" is toxic to 90% of the population out there.
I think this statement is very wrong, or at best inaccurate. "Linux" is not toxic to 90% of the population, because 98% of the population have no idea what the hell linux is and thus have no idea what to make of it. There is no stigma, just a severe lack of information that makes "linux" largely a useless, confusing and cluttering name for consumer-oriented electronics. In general, consumers don't care what the hell is inside their computers (for evidence, see the crap hardware Dell, HP, etc. put in their bazillions of machines), they just want them to work, and they know "Intel Inside" and "Windows" on a box mean they will probably be able to use what is inside.
I always say: If you find yourself in a BIG-ass hole, stop digging, or you'll look like a big asshole. Apparently Peter Moore disagrees with me, or just likes looking like a big asshole. Way to use an apology to make yourself look like an even bigger asshole, Pete.
'I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve made plenty of mistakes. These include server shut downs too early, games that didn’t meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this.' However, he ignores or contests many of the common complaints about the company — issues that earned it a spot in the finals for the second year in a row. Quoting: 'Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.... Some people think that free-to-play games and micro-transactions are a pox on gaming. Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games."
To rephrase EA's CEO's words into how customers see things, you get this: "Yeah, you all know we suck, so we have to admit it, finally. We screwed you by shutting down servers we knew you were still rightfully using, some of our games were complete crap, we gouged you on price (and we'll continue to do that, duh!), and we totally fucked up with SimCity. But too bad, suckers. You can suck it. And oh yeah, stop bitching and buy the next game, cause we wuv you, or whatever. Where else ya gonna go? So like, sorry or something?"
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Some of us don't have tiny girly pockets, in which case the Nexus 7 is indeed borderline pocket-sized.
Thanks for giving an Indian perspective, but that's a lot of speculation there with the all the words like "likely," "unlikely," and the multiple uses of "probably." What really jumped out at me was not that they made the mistake but that it took about six months for them to discover that they were looking at planets. In any case, I know that the Indian military does not have near the resources (be it equipment, cool technology, or funding) that their Western counterparts take for granted, but that seems like an embarrassingly long time to be doing counter-recon on Venus and Jupiter. Come on India, you have nukes! :)
But this story has spawned WhackoFest 2013, so there are plenty of folks on the fringe trying to be louder, post more words, and tell the majority that they are all stupid and uninformed. I'll ignore their comments without a grain of salt, even though some of them claim it is a lie that excess salt is bad for you.
that almost everything you know about nutrition is wrong
Maybe the real truth is that almost everything you know about knowing things is wrong.
BTW the move from "healthy animal fats/butter" to transfats had nothing to do with incorrect beliefs about what was healthy. That had much more to do with production, economics, and marketing. And don't kid yourself into thinking that butter and animal fat are all that much better than alternatives. Slightly, maybe, but they'll still kill you if you don't eat them sparingly.
Ironic then that Linus Pauling actually waddled like a duck and had the dead-on annunciation of Daffy Duck.
I hate the shit out of Monsanto but it isn't because their seeds don't produce good crops. I hate them because they force farmers to buy their products by suing them once their fields become contaminated with Roundup-ready pollen. Once your fields are contaminated with their intellectual property, through no fault of your own other than trying to exist near another farmer who buys Monsanto products, you can't save your own seed without violating patents, and you get sued out of business or have to pay them anyway Monsanto is evil, and this is just one example of why I say that, though I must admit their products work fine mostly (including their seed).
Dey done took'd out all da bro-speak, G-talk, lolcatese and redneckonized language in da commentz, accounting for about 9000 of da changes, u feelz me dog?
Yeah, I'm a nerd, I guess. As soon as I started reading the summary I thought of the song "Return of the Mack," except as "Return of the Slashvertisement." But I did like the subtle juxtaposition of two statements: "The company has been in Flash storage since the late '80s and manufactures products used in everything from smartphones to digital cameras." and "In the benchmarks, SanDisk's Extreme II SSD showed it has the chops to hang with some of the fastest drives on the market from Samsung, Corsair and OCZ." So a market leader is finally catching up? Sorry, don't really care, though for the sake customers buying on name recognition I hope their drives don't fail as soon as the OCZ crap they're now on par with.
We often do what we have to do, and nothing more. It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention, and I think if it becomes absolutely necessary for you to do something, like speak a new language, you're going to put more effort into figuring it out.
Put more simply, duh.
The article explains that the person in question had NOT been arrested, had been freely answering other questions, but refused to answer one that concerned shotgun shells found at the murder scene.
So when exactly do you forfeit your Constitutional rights these days? If a cop says, "Come here, I need to ask you some questions", then asks my name and where I'm going, and I answer, am I no longer protected by the Fifth Amendment if I don't want to answer any other questions? What if the next question is, "Did you stop beating your wife?" What if I answer dishonestly and say, "I'm Joe Shmoe, and going to bang your wife right now because I've never gotten married." We have to STFU to even simple, obvious, or harmless questions, just so we can refuse to answer once the questions become more significant or accusatory? Do I have to explicitly state that I wish to be protected by the Constitution, and can the timing of that be used against me? What a crock. As far as reality goes, immediately refusing to answer simple questions when you HAVEN'T even been arrested is a great way to get yourself arrested in a hurry.
How long then until we have to request, explicitly claim, or be offered other constitutionally guaranteed protections in order to retain them, like those guaranteed under the first, fourth, eighth, 13th, 15th, and 19th amendments? We already have to file paperwork (voter registration form) to request rights guaranteed by the 26th, which can be problematic for some people (just ask Latinos in Arizona, for example), and the second amendment (according to some people, who I happen to disagree with).
That's exactly what this is. I don't doubt that Liberty Reserve was used to launder some money, but that isn't what this is really about. Or at least there is a bigger issue than money laundering, which is an attempt to kill digital currencies that governments can not control. With its central authority Liberty Reserve was a much easier target than say, Bitcoin. Make no mistake about it, lots of governments would just love to squash Bitcoin because they fear losing control over money, but they'll have to settle for payment processors and intermediaries, at least for now.
Sounds like a liability. "That car accident wasn't my fault. That particular robotic bartender always manages my alcohol intake perfectly, so it is the one at fault for screwing up and letting me drink a little too much, too fast. It was programmed to cut me off one drink sooner but a bug let it give me one more drink, and made me t-bone a taxi full of nuns on vacation."
I'll take the bartender I know, who pours me a beer the moment I walk in the door and makes sure I have a ride on the rare occasion when I allow myself to get carried away. He's a better bullshitter than any robot I've met, too.
So they turned a 4-year program into a 5-year program, with all 5 years at full price, I presume. If you need a year to acclimate freshmen, you either aren't doing it right, or you have the wrong students. Are the low-income target students dumber than high-income students? God help the low-income students when they leave school not only with bigger loans than their classmates, but now also an extra year's worth of debt.
Congrats to the Canadian Revenue Agency. You just forced all legitimate future Bitcoin transactions in Canada to either move out of Canada or be conducted in a manner that is technically illegal. Maybe a few large companies that are based around Bitcoin will submit to taxation (are there any in Canada?), but smaller companies and average citizens will either ignore this or circumvent it. Maybe they don't expect anyone to pay up and are just covering their asses, or even discouraging Bitcoin-based businesses from setting up shop there?
"Asps. Very Dangerous. You go first."
I bet that devilish hacker ate rice sometimes and probably used toilet paper on a regular basis, so why not push to ban those things, too? Surely no one uses those things, or Tor, for legitimate reasons. We have got to stop allowing comfort for the wicked.
Would perceptions be different if this hacker when by the name Kitten Lover rather than Demon Killer? Should we encourage people who apparently kill Demons?
Comprehensive, universal healthcare is an absolute must in my book. Senator Obama hinted at it, just enough to entice folks like me, then completely caved to the right once elected President. They love to pick on "Obamacare," though I am one liberal who is thoroughly disappointed in its scope and failure to ensure all are well covered in a truly affordable manner. Our watered-down non-system lags far behind those in France, Canada, and even England, both in terms of comprehensiveness and cost efficiency. I fully believe we have the greatest country in the world, thus we can do much better than we have.
Also net neutrality, copyright reform and greater consumer protection, severely limiting corporate political donations, and common sense and the spirit of laws being placed above loopholes. Congressional term limits have already been mentioned and are worth considering, as might be reforms to make it easier for non- GOP/Dem. candidates to get on ballots. Income tax reforms to close loopholes?
A reasonable living wage. Who can live without 4 roommates and raise a child on minimum wage or slightly above? The college kids my company pays $8-$9 an hour are surviving by taking on serious long term debt, and the older folks with kids rely on assistance programs and in some cases compassionate family members. Inexperienced and uneducated workers, or those with criminal records, too often seem to be doomed to lives of government cheese and perpetual poverty. Can't we do better?
We'd do that if we could in the US. There are just a few small unfortunate details that keep us from competing solely on cost, such as minimum wages, child labor laws, reasonable workplace safety laws, and relatively little currency manipulation. Work out those bugs and you can stop the Chinese copycats dead in their tracks.
There may be some good news in this particular case. For instance, we should be happy that a domestic company is involved at all in this. And OTEC, as it stands now, may only be a transitional technology in its infancy, meaning further development is necessary to make it widely commercially viable (so it isn't like China is stealing too much from us, if/when they copy it), and it is good practice and a chance for Lockheed to do science they and we can learn from. I don't think they expect this to become their core business, though they need to build OTEC plants (if they can do it while more or less breaking even, or better) to find out and to see what else they may lead to.
Do you want a 500E car to use all of that 100kph speed limit, too? If you want to use it all, you can't set prices arbitrarily based only on your own desires. I've driven on the Autobahn but was only wealthy enough to rent a tiny car capable of about 130kph. Too bad, I guess.
I think it's an extremely reasonable price given U.S. conditions.
That's why the summary says it is inexpensive. $51 is almost exactly what I pay for 12Mb Uverse DSL in the midwest USA, which is making me a little bit sick right now.
ican haz fibre now??? NO.
'I now realize graduate school was a terrible idea because the full-time, tenure-track literature professorship is extinct. After four years of trying, I've finally gotten it through my thick head that I will not get a job—and if you go to graduate school, neither will you.
No, you just because you suck at what you insist on doing despite considerable difficulties doesn't mean no one else can do it, or that you should be so bitter about it. Sorry you weren't instantly handed an awesome job immediately upon graduation, but maybe that is on you, not the world. Truth hurts sometimes, sorry about your crappy choice of a career path, and better luck next time.
Because "linux" is toxic to 90% of the population out there.
I think this statement is very wrong, or at best inaccurate. "Linux" is not toxic to 90% of the population, because 98% of the population have no idea what the hell linux is and thus have no idea what to make of it. There is no stigma, just a severe lack of information that makes "linux" largely a useless, confusing and cluttering name for consumer-oriented electronics. In general, consumers don't care what the hell is inside their computers (for evidence, see the crap hardware Dell, HP, etc. put in their bazillions of machines), they just want them to work, and they know "Intel Inside" and "Windows" on a box mean they will probably be able to use what is inside.
I always say: If you find yourself in a BIG-ass hole, stop digging, or you'll look like a big asshole. Apparently Peter Moore disagrees with me, or just likes looking like a big asshole. Way to use an apology to make yourself look like an even bigger asshole, Pete.
What I read: "Our DRM is not DRM, morons."
Haha. Way to make peace with us, EA.
'I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve made plenty of mistakes. These include server shut downs too early, games that didn’t meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this.' However, he ignores or contests many of the common complaints about the company — issues that earned it a spot in the finals for the second year in a row. Quoting: 'Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period. ... Some people think that free-to-play games and micro-transactions are a pox on gaming. Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games."
To rephrase EA's CEO's words into how customers see things, you get this:
"Yeah, you all know we suck, so we have to admit it, finally. We screwed you by shutting down servers we knew you were still rightfully using, some of our games were complete crap, we gouged you on price (and we'll continue to do that, duh!), and we totally fucked up with SimCity. But too bad, suckers. You can suck it. And oh yeah, stop bitching and buy the next game, cause we wuv you, or whatever. Where else ya gonna go? So like, sorry or something?"