I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees the real problem behind this.
The federal government never should have gotten involved in funding schools. If the states wanted a national body to set standards for education, they should have formed their own - not relied on the federal government. Education should not be subjected to this corporate political bullshit.
Further, if a state does not accept national funding for some project, then that state's population should not be required to pay taxes to support said project. It is utterly mind blowing how many rights states are giving up to the federal government.
If people around the world dramatically cut back on their daily electronic entertainment dosage, the world would probably be a better place. Energy demands would fall slightly. People might start reading (perhaps even non-fiction). Average intelligence might rise.
Then again, this is all just a pipe dream. We live in a society where it is "cooler" to [get drunk/play video games] than to do something intellectually challenging.
Hopefully there isn't a "smart" gene (beyond some set mean and standard deviation). Otherwise, we are all in for a future similar to that depicted in Idiocracy.
So does that mean the NSA really does have a 3 million processor supercomputer? I find the individually soldered in by hand part hard to believe (not to mention everything else in dan brown books).
I would argue that the intelligent but misguided (I.B.M. for short (purely coincidental, i assure you)) are the true source of the problem, but that the ignorant are the tool by which the I.B.M.s achieve their rank of power.
The type of people I would vote for happen to be the type of people who would not lie (or simply cover part of the truth) to get public support. Unfortunately, lying seems to work pretty damn well on the general populace, as they just can't tell the difference (how do you distinguish a lie from truth, when you have no alternative source of information?).
The problem with requiring some kind of test to be able to vote is, how can you possibly separate people interested in the common good from those interested only in themselves just by asking them a few questions?
Now, to be on topic of the debate. I think this is a great idea. What ever happened to well educated (on multiple topics) politicians? May I remind you that Ben Franklin (perhaps one of our most important founding fathers) made very novel advances in science?
Not to mention the required years of experience and training. Also, at least for American Airlines, pilots are required to go through reoccurring training every 6 months.
Commercial flying IS MUCH safer than driving.
Even a catastrophic systems failure can sometimes be recovered from (emergency crash landing). Try living through a catastrophic failure on a highway going 70. The odds are probably similar.
The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you'd need would probably cost less than 50 pounds [about 100 US dollars]. Unless, of course, you actually live in the US - in which case it would only cost 50 US dollars.
Mainly because I believe the real problem is the people who think their way is the only truth.
I'm a strong atheist, and have only become more so in the past few years. I (like everyone else) sometimes find myself angry at others for their beliefs. However, I try my best to stay calm and logical any time a heated discussion comes up. When we let ourselves get angry, it only builds barriers that become harder and harder to break down.
The best thing to do is to step back, and imagine yourself in the other persons shoes. See it from their perspective. Only then can you give a calm and useful explanation for why you see it differently.
The people who let their emotions get the best of them are the people that are going to suck no matter what religious views they have. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist... It doesn't matter, as long as you have a reason for believing what you believe, and let other people have their own reason for believing what they believe.
The article clearly states that the number of pirated copies was less than half that of non-pirated copies... Why such a blatant mistake?
Anyways, I didn't pirate it because my friend put it on my USB stick for me (fair use).
I'm glad they (supposedly) found a way to cut out the middleman, though. The more money that goes to the creators, the better. If I wasn't a poor student, I would be glad to give them some.
I guess they'll just have to wait till they go on tour near where I live.
The funny thing is, this is SO absurd, that I feel that whoever came up with it meant it to be that way.
Perhaps this person was under a lot of pressure to come out with a new proposal, and rather than proposing some stupid idea that could actually have been accepted (to the dismay of the American people) by his superiors, he chose this absolutely absurd proposal that had no chance in hell.
Then again, maybe they really are just crazy, and really do want to live in a police state.
I think I could get pretty close to perfect with a physical model of the strings. Of course, it would need to supercomputer to run in real-time. It would give some advantages, though (perfect tuning and intervals, etc).
Lets say I am at a 7-11, and the guy at the counter is selling lottery tickets for a dollar.
The ticket is either a winner, or it is not.
I can either choose to buy the ticket, or not too.
If I choose not to buy the ticket, and it does happen to be a winner, than I just missed out on millions of dollars that I could have used to put forth my plan to solve world hunger, thereby saving millions of lives.
If I choose to buy the ticket, then the worst that can happen is I lose a dollar.
I wish i had not commented so that I could mod this up.
This is exactly the point I am trying to get across. The fact of the matter is that the police officers walking around with MP5s aren't really there to catch people. They are there to deter people. Any time they see someone walking by them carrying something that "looks like it could have been a bomb" they should probably not get to worried. The people they should be worried about are the people holding inconspicuous objects, possibly looking really nervous.
I do not know if it is a lack of training, or just bad training that leads to these incidents, but something needs to be changed.
Yes, because obviously, if someone wanted to hijack a plane after 9/11 they would do it the same way it had been done in the past (you know, to throw off the police's scent).
Come on guys. Quite thinking from the perspective of a cop, and start thinking from the perspective of a terrorist. If you can't do that, then you shouldn't be giving advice on how to stop them.
Hrmmmm.... looking at the "device" from the images on the link makes me think the police overreacted. Come on now.... holding her at gunpoint? Granted, it was likely not the smartest move on her part not to respond about the "device" when asked, but once again, I am dismayed that people are getting owned by fears of terrorism and things and people that look "abnormal".
And even more importantly--how is holding someone at gunpoint and yelling at them going to deter them from setting off a bomb strapped to their chest?
I think these Boston Police need to take some courses based in reality, and not fantasy terror land.
I understand that there is a large amount of energy that could be captured from wind, waves and solar. My point is that it is an order of magnitude more expensive than fission, and that the money spent on it could be better spent. From my point of view there is only one source of energy truly worth researching - fusion.
Until we can build commercial fusion power plants, we should be building fission plants to supplant all of the coal and natural gas power plants. With enough fission plants our energy concerns would be all but dead. We would have plenty of fuel to last us until we can perfect fusion.
If you insulate the drive plate from the rest of the craft, and make it out of a material that can sustain very high heats, then it will radiate at an extremely high rate, possible as high as the heat is provided.
However, on another note. Wouldn't the drive plate be reflective, so that you get double the boost from the photons colliding then bouncing away? In that case, not too much heat would be absorbed.
I feel sorry for the poor schmucks who actually believe stories like this. They are the type of people who believe in holy magicians and ghosts, and all that BS.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees the real problem behind this.
The federal government never should have gotten involved in funding schools. If the states wanted a national body to set standards for education, they should have formed their own - not relied on the federal government. Education should not be subjected to this corporate political bullshit.
Further, if a state does not accept national funding for some project, then that state's population should not be required to pay taxes to support said project. It is utterly mind blowing how many rights states are giving up to the federal government.
I think we should extend this idea beyond WoW.
If people around the world dramatically cut back on their daily electronic entertainment dosage, the world would probably be a better place. Energy demands would fall slightly. People might start reading (perhaps even non-fiction). Average intelligence might rise.
Then again, this is all just a pipe dream. We live in a society where it is "cooler" to [get drunk/play video games] than to do something intellectually challenging.
Hopefully there isn't a "smart" gene (beyond some set mean and standard deviation). Otherwise, we are all in for a future similar to that depicted in Idiocracy.
They totally got the idea from Digital Fortress.
So does that mean the NSA really does have a 3 million processor supercomputer? I find the individually soldered in by hand part hard to believe (not to mention everything else in dan brown books).
I think the police would find it hard to believe your encryption key was the same size as the data.
Then again... It WOULD make cracking it impossible...
maybe not a single polar magnet, but I would be surprised if a powerful alternating pole electromagnet didn't do some damage.
Is it really a waste of time?
Is it odd for me to want a president who is more intelligent than the average American?
Um... I don't think you read the question right.
I'm pretty sure it would take temperatures and and pressures outside of those currently found in the universe.
I would argue that the intelligent but misguided (I.B.M. for short (purely coincidental, i assure you)) are the true source of the problem, but that the ignorant are the tool by which the I.B.M.s achieve their rank of power.
The type of people I would vote for happen to be the type of people who would not lie (or simply cover part of the truth) to get public support. Unfortunately, lying seems to work pretty damn well on the general populace, as they just can't tell the difference (how do you distinguish a lie from truth, when you have no alternative source of information?).
The problem with requiring some kind of test to be able to vote is, how can you possibly separate people interested in the common good from those interested only in themselves just by asking them a few questions?
Now, to be on topic of the debate. I think this is a great idea. What ever happened to well educated (on multiple topics) politicians? May I remind you that Ben Franklin (perhaps one of our most important founding fathers) made very novel advances in science?
Surveys are not statistically random samples. They have a tendency to bring out the weirdo's.
Not to mention the required years of experience and training. Also, at least for American Airlines, pilots are required to go through reoccurring training every 6 months.
Commercial flying IS MUCH safer than driving.
Even a catastrophic systems failure can sometimes be recovered from (emergency crash landing). Try living through a catastrophic failure on a highway going 70. The odds are probably similar.
*Dodge*
I would have to agree with you.
Mainly because I believe the real problem is the people who think their way is the only truth.
I'm a strong atheist, and have only become more so in the past few years. I (like everyone else) sometimes find myself angry at others for their beliefs. However, I try my best to stay calm and logical any time a heated discussion comes up. When we let ourselves get angry, it only builds barriers that become harder and harder to break down.
The best thing to do is to step back, and imagine yourself in the other persons shoes. See it from their perspective. Only then can you give a calm and useful explanation for why you see it differently.
The people who let their emotions get the best of them are the people that are going to suck no matter what religious views they have. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist... It doesn't matter, as long as you have a reason for believing what you believe, and let other people have their own reason for believing what they believe.
The article clearly states that the number of pirated copies was less than half that of non-pirated copies... Why such a blatant mistake?
Anyways, I didn't pirate it because my friend put it on my USB stick for me (fair use).
I'm glad they (supposedly) found a way to cut out the middleman, though. The more money that goes to the creators, the better. If I wasn't a poor student, I would be glad to give them some.
I guess they'll just have to wait till they go on tour near where I live.
The funny thing is, this is SO absurd, that I feel that whoever came up with it meant it to be that way.
Perhaps this person was under a lot of pressure to come out with a new proposal, and rather than proposing some stupid idea that could actually have been accepted (to the dismay of the American people) by his superiors, he chose this absolutely absurd proposal that had no chance in hell.
Then again, maybe they really are just crazy, and really do want to live in a police state.
I think I could get pretty close to perfect with a physical model of the strings. Of course, it would need to supercomputer to run in real-time. It would give some advantages, though (perfect tuning and intervals, etc).
Why didn't I think of that?
Oh well.. I can still build one for me I suppose.
Now I can actually learn some of those songs with alternate tunings! It's to much of a pain to do it myself!
Lets say I am at a 7-11, and the guy at the counter is selling lottery tickets for a dollar.
The ticket is either a winner, or it is not.
I can either choose to buy the ticket, or not too.
If I choose not to buy the ticket, and it does happen to be a winner, than I just missed out on millions of dollars that I could have used to put forth my plan to solve world hunger, thereby saving millions of lives.
If I choose to buy the ticket, then the worst that can happen is I lose a dollar.
I'll go with the second option, thank you.
I wish i had not commented so that I could mod this up.
This is exactly the point I am trying to get across. The fact of the matter is that the police officers walking around with MP5s aren't really there to catch people. They are there to deter people. Any time they see someone walking by them carrying something that "looks like it could have been a bomb" they should probably not get to worried. The people they should be worried about are the people holding inconspicuous objects, possibly looking really nervous.
I do not know if it is a lack of training, or just bad training that leads to these incidents, but something needs to be changed.
Yes, because obviously, if someone wanted to hijack a plane after 9/11 they would do it the same way it had been done in the past (you know, to throw off the police's scent).
Come on guys. Quite thinking from the perspective of a cop, and start thinking from the perspective of a terrorist. If you can't do that, then you shouldn't be giving advice on how to stop them.
And even more importantly--how is holding someone at gunpoint and yelling at them going to deter them from setting off a bomb strapped to their chest?
I think these Boston Police need to take some courses based in reality, and not fantasy terror land.
Well said. I can't argue with that.
I still think biofuels are a waist of time and energy, though.
I understand that there is a large amount of energy that could be captured from wind, waves and solar. My point is that it is an order of magnitude more expensive than fission, and that the money spent on it could be better spent. From my point of view there is only one source of energy truly worth researching - fusion.
Until we can build commercial fusion power plants, we should be building fission plants to supplant all of the coal and natural gas power plants. With enough fission plants our energy concerns would be all but dead. We would have plenty of fuel to last us until we can perfect fusion.
Big deal. I have light speed through 4 dimensions sitting at my desk.
(Thank you relitivity!)
If you insulate the drive plate from the rest of the craft, and make it out of a material that can sustain very high heats, then it will radiate at an extremely high rate, possible as high as the heat is provided.
However, on another note. Wouldn't the drive plate be reflective, so that you get double the boost from the photons colliding then bouncing away? In that case, not too much heat would be absorbed.
I feel sorry for the poor schmucks who actually believe stories like this. They are the type of people who believe in holy magicians and ghosts, and all that BS.