This sounds like a problem that could easily be solved with some radar-seeking missiles tuned to the appropriate frequency. I bet the problem would stop pretty quickly.
last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.
That discrepancy is sad. Looks like the Australian news agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel for science reporters. Sadly, it's not much better in the US.
So you feel that women deserve to be raped and mugged if they make poor decisions?
Thanks for the Star Wars quote. It really cleared things up for me. I now understand that you must have a lot of time to memorize movie lines while sitting at home alone after having alienated any potential dates with your offensive logic.
Don't be a turd. The military is testing craft with these capabilities, but they are not deployed.
Autonomous military craft currently have the ability to loiter in a specific area and scan for targets.
US manned military craft such as the Apache Longbow currently have software that analyzes radar and imaging data to identify and target possible threats. Vehicle shapes are compared to a database for identification. This data is then relayed to the gunner. He can toggle through all of the targets to make the final decision.
You can be sure that the military has put two and two together and is developing autonomous UAV's with the ability to make a limited set of decisions using transponder data as well and imaging data. Look at their recent funding opportunities if you are interested in more detailed information. And yes, there will be problems with misidentification with any system. But humans also make poor decisions in battle that lead to friendly fire.
This little turd is only starting starting to get what he deserves.
Personally, I am impressed that the individual wronged took him to court. If I had his name and address, I would have probably been a lot less gentle. People have been taking advantage of the anonymity of the internet to get away with completely unacceptable behavior for too long.
Human beings are social creatures and the defective ones need to be corrected or weeded out.
Overtaxed? Are you kidding me? If anything, Americans are extremely UNDER taxed.
Have you looked at your deficit recently? Have you ever compared your personal income tax rates to any other country's other than tax heavens? I didn't think so.
Have you looked at what we get for our personal income taxes? Health care? (No.) Pension that will actually support life? (No.)
We are undertaxed relative to the unspecified countries you are comparing us to because we also have to put $16K of our income into a 401K (which we immediately lose in the stock market), a few thousand a year into health insurance, and the rest into our bank account to cover our retirement since our 401K has no money in it. Then we spend the rest on transportation since our nation's public transit system is incredibly undeveloped.
Meanwhile, our government spends upwards of $10 billion a month dropping bombs on some shitty little country in the Middle East. It's OK though, they are fixing the situation by giving more of my tax dollars to crap car manufacturers and greedy people who bought houses they couldn't afford.
I thought that sharing meat was the same thing as having sex?
All lewdness aside, is it really an exchange? Perhaps the sharing food establishes a relationship that makes them mate more. Or maybe frequent mating makes them more likely to share meat because they grow fond of one another.
Either way, I wish this worked on my wife. Sigh, I knew I should have married someone who looked like a monkey.
Yeah, because obviously the answer is to have a hundred different systems with a hundred different sets of vulnerabilities. That will be much easier to keep patched.
His point was that you don't need to keep things patched as regularly if you have a wider variety of OSes because there will be less people finding vulnerabilities, less incentive to exploit them,and less hackers writing worms for a given OS.
Why would any nation want to isolate itself the way the DPRK is isolated?
Seriously, how about we stop eating the BS they feed us and doing a little analytical thinking for ourselves for a change? Anyone?
Yeah, how about you do a little analytical thinking.
The GOVERNMENT of the DPRK isolates themselves so that they can stay in power. By being isolated, they have total control of their citizens and are able to prevent uprisings.
For North Korea, it's not about the welfare of the citizens, it's about maintaining the phat lifestyle of the people in charge. Having the potential to attack other countries (even if it is suicidal), helps ensure the North Korea will be left alone from international meddling and possibly even get some concessions for "giving up" nukes and ballistic missiles in the future.
Funny considering you're the only country who has actually used them in a war.
And I doubt you'd hesitate once vs russia or china if they attacked first.
Nothing say north korea will attack first either, but it will prevent them from getting attacked in the first place, as is the situation with all nuclear forces.
My aren't you smug.
The US is the only country that used them in war because we were able to successfully develop the atomic bomb BEFORE Japan and Germany. Both had nuclear development programs ongoing during WWII.
You think that WWII-era Japan and Germany would have showed as much restraint with their application of atomic bombs to the enemy? Maybe you should ask all the Jews or Chinese that were murdered during WWII because they were not part of the "perfect" race.
And because of this insignificant little incident that killed nobody, and had little to no effect on the health of people near it, nuclear power, a safe, clean, mature power generation technology, was (and continues to be) drastically set back. It's stuff like this that makes me worried that humanity as a whole will be just too incredibly stupid to make it through this century without killing ourselves in one of many ways.
But according to the article, the only reason it didn't kill anybody was because the containment vessel was overdesigned.
Let's face it. Our society does not have the necessary follow through to manage nuclear power. We don't place enough value on public safety to properly train nuclear reactor operators, nor can we be relied upon to safely store nuclear waste for more than a human lifetime.
It's a product of the capitalistic mindset: "As long as I get rich and live a happy life, who gives a shit what happens to people after I die."
There are always plenty of suggestions as to where society should apply its best and brightest. It is much harder to place the worst and dumbest. Consider the bottom 25%. They have to have jobs.
I don't really think that it would be that hard to find jobs for the under-achievers:
1. President
2. Presidential advisers
3. Congress
4. Investment bankers
5. Actors and actresses
6. CEOs
7. Lawyers
I'm sure that I have missed a few key positions, feel free to help me out.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I wouldn't expect a huge problem either, except that extra cheap energy could lead to massive heat pollution from inefficient electronics, toasters, and manufacturing plants.
Why do you think it will be cheap? Just because it may be freely available doesn't mean the suppliers won't charge to the hilt for it.
You know how gas prices jump up during hurricanes? Imagine what the price of electricity will do during a storm when our entire offshore coastline is covered with these things.
This story distills the essence of the US-Russian relationship: The Russian and American people have no problem getting along with one another, but our governments are completely incapable of any form of cooperation.
Your situation obviously worked for you, and that's great.
But it is not beyond expectations for an 18 year old to go to college and actually pay attention. Not all young students are spoiled little prats. Just the ones that get crappy jobs when they graduate.
There are places in the bay area that would be entirely unfazed by your rifle and NRA tee-shirt but you have to seek them out. But, considering the fact housing is dense enough that to safely and legally hunt deer you would have to drive 2 to 3 hours away, it's not too surprising you got the response you did. Drive that 2 or 3 hours and you will get the reception you want without looking for it. California is a big and diverse state. Generalizations about it usually usually indicate a lack of experience with it.
Like I said in my other reply, I don't actually hunt out of pure laziness. I just picked an example that I knew would get a rise out of the people who live in that area based on my experience living there.
As you say, California is a big and diverse state and there are tons of cool people living there. There are also tons of self-obsessed pricks, just like everywhere else in the world.
I moved from Cali to New Mexico several years ago. Obviously it isn't the same as California. But there are some pretty darn nice people here too, and in my opinion, (as a generalization:) they are even less judgmental than California. I think it's because they just want to live their lives and let others live theirs.
Probably directly proportional to how nice you are to animals. In some places, they don't like it when you shoot animals for fun.
Thank you for proving my point.
I actually don't hunt myself, but I am of the opinion that animals need to die for humans to live and I would have no problem killing something that I needed to eat. If someone actually wants to go through with all the BS it takes to hunt nowdays (hunting permit/draw, gun permit, learning to shoot reliably under pressure, finding the animal, skinning the animal and packing it out), more power to them. It's a little piece of history that most of us don't appreciate about when we are in a hurry to buy our chicken and cow meat in the supermarket, on the way home to watch Survivor or get on the internet.
People were meant to kill animals and plants to eat them and use them as resources to live. Much in the same way that animals kill each other for life to continue. The key is to do it responsibly, like the other animals do.
Sometimes, humans even need to die for other humans to live.
So by logical extension, would an air filter in the home help to some degree?
Obviously the effect is statistical in nature and even if there was any benefit to an individual, it wouldn't be as effective as living in an area with low pollution. But still...?
Silicon Valley is special to me because of its cultural diversity. In one medium sized company you can work shoulder to shoulder with people from every major world ethnic group and every major world religion (including no religion). They work together, peacefully, to make better lives for themselves and their children. Look around the rest of the world. This place is unique and special. I see lots of other places around the world where folks insist on segregating themselves by ethnicity and/or religion. They must hate my home, Silicon Valley.
Peace.
Hate to break it to you, but this happens in most of the United States. In my experience, a lot of the people in California just think they are special.
I used to live in California. They may not discriminate on ethnicity or religion, but go visit the Bay Area with an NRA teeshirt and a rifle to hunt some deer and see how nice everyone is to you.
Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!
And turbulent boundary layer theory says that at nonzero distances from the wall there will be regions of high shear flow that will not be good for him.
And if he did fall off, I'll bet he didn't survive his trip through rocket plume.
You are making a mistake: With or without a degree, with or without a grant, anyone practicing science is a scientist.
Ha ha, no.
So am I a mechanic if I work on my car engine?
Am I a machinist if I drill a hole in a piece of metal?
Am I an astronomer if I use a telescope?
No. I am an amateur at all of those activities unless I am certified in the field by getting a degree, passing a test, or having the requisite experience to yield acceptance by experts in the field.
I never looked into the Blockbuster plan, but if you were able to exchange mailers for movies in the store AND get the next mailers, it kinda sounds like double-dipping. Someone probably overlooked that little detail when writing up the procedure.
But with Netflix, you can get movies by mail AND simultaneously watch them online.
Speaking as a woman who has a successful career in a male dominated environment (not STEM but the military), I can say that it is possible for a woman to rise to the top, if she is willing to make one of two choices (or falls into one of two choices):
1. She has no children
2. If she has children she has a spouse who has a work schedule which allows him/her to be the one 'on call' for the children.
These are also the same choices a man must make to have a successful career.
Politicians get money because voters chose to be influenced by the things money buys. Fancy consultants, advertising gurus, branding specialists -- they pay big bucks for these things because they work, which is no one's fault but our own.
A democracy is defined by giving the populace the government that it richly deserves (credit to Mencken, I think).
While your statement is true, it doesn't mean that it is the people's fault. These companies spend billions of dollars to influence voter opinion to their benefit. And there are no large corporations counter-lobbying "for the good of the American public" because that goes against the mindset of a corporation. The average, nonparanoid citizen doesn't stand a chance.
The corporations infiltrate your government and guide the law to their advantage. They force propaganda into your home through magazines, newspapers, TV and online ads. They lie to you so they can meet their objectives. Sounds like espionage to me.
And if you disagree with what is going on, you can waste your time by writing to your congressmen (who will ignore you), protesting legally (being ignored), or protesting aggressively (and getting arrested). Meanwhile you will still have to buy some products from the corporations and they profit.
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This sounds like a problem that could easily be solved with some radar-seeking missiles tuned to the appropriate frequency. I bet the problem would stop pretty quickly.
last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.
That discrepancy is sad. Looks like the Australian news agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel for science reporters. Sadly, it's not much better in the US.
So you feel that women deserve to be raped and mugged if they make poor decisions?
Thanks for the Star Wars quote. It really cleared things up for me. I now understand that you must have a lot of time to memorize movie lines while sitting at home alone after having alienated any potential dates with your offensive logic.
Don't be a turd. The military is testing craft with these capabilities, but they are not deployed.
Autonomous military craft currently have the ability to loiter in a specific area and scan for targets.
US manned military craft such as the Apache Longbow currently have software that analyzes radar and imaging data to identify and target possible threats. Vehicle shapes are compared to a database for identification. This data is then relayed to the gunner. He can toggle through all of the targets to make the final decision.
You can be sure that the military has put two and two together and is developing autonomous UAV's with the ability to make a limited set of decisions using transponder data as well and imaging data. Look at their recent funding opportunities if you are interested in more detailed information. And yes, there will be problems with misidentification with any system. But humans also make poor decisions in battle that lead to friendly fire.
Good.
This little turd is only starting starting to get what he deserves.
Personally, I am impressed that the individual wronged took him to court. If I had his name and address, I would have probably been a lot less gentle. People have been taking advantage of the anonymity of the internet to get away with completely unacceptable behavior for too long.
Human beings are social creatures and the defective ones need to be corrected or weeded out.
Overtaxed? Are you kidding me? If anything, Americans are extremely UNDER taxed. Have you looked at your deficit recently? Have you ever compared your personal income tax rates to any other country's other than tax heavens? I didn't think so.
Have you looked at what we get for our personal income taxes? Health care? (No.) Pension that will actually support life? (No.)
We are undertaxed relative to the unspecified countries you are comparing us to because we also have to put $16K of our income into a 401K (which we immediately lose in the stock market), a few thousand a year into health insurance, and the rest into our bank account to cover our retirement since our 401K has no money in it. Then we spend the rest on transportation since our nation's public transit system is incredibly undeveloped.
Meanwhile, our government spends upwards of $10 billion a month dropping bombs on some shitty little country in the Middle East. It's OK though, they are fixing the situation by giving more of my tax dollars to crap car manufacturers and greedy people who bought houses they couldn't afford.
I thought that sharing meat was the same thing as having sex?
All lewdness aside, is it really an exchange? Perhaps the sharing food establishes a relationship that makes them mate more. Or maybe frequent mating makes them more likely to share meat because they grow fond of one another.
Either way, I wish this worked on my wife. Sigh, I knew I should have married someone who looked like a monkey.
Yeah, because obviously the answer is to have a hundred different systems with a hundred different sets of vulnerabilities. That will be much easier to keep patched.
His point was that you don't need to keep things patched as regularly if you have a wider variety of OSes because there will be less people finding vulnerabilities, less incentive to exploit them,and less hackers writing worms for a given OS.
Why would any nation want to isolate itself the way the DPRK is isolated?
Seriously, how about we stop eating the BS they feed us and doing a little analytical thinking for ourselves for a change? Anyone?
Yeah, how about you do a little analytical thinking.
The GOVERNMENT of the DPRK isolates themselves so that they can stay in power. By being isolated, they have total control of their citizens and are able to prevent uprisings.
For North Korea, it's not about the welfare of the citizens, it's about maintaining the phat lifestyle of the people in charge. Having the potential to attack other countries (even if it is suicidal), helps ensure the North Korea will be left alone from international meddling and possibly even get some concessions for "giving up" nukes and ballistic missiles in the future.
Funny considering you're the only country who has actually used them in a war.
And I doubt you'd hesitate once vs russia or china if they attacked first.
Nothing say north korea will attack first either, but it will prevent them from getting attacked in the first place, as is the situation with all nuclear forces.
My aren't you smug.
The US is the only country that used them in war because we were able to successfully develop the atomic bomb BEFORE Japan and Germany. Both had nuclear development programs ongoing during WWII.
You think that WWII-era Japan and Germany would have showed as much restraint with their application of atomic bombs to the enemy? Maybe you should ask all the Jews or Chinese that were murdered during WWII because they were not part of the "perfect" race.
And because of this insignificant little incident that killed nobody, and had little to no effect on the health of people near it, nuclear power, a safe, clean, mature power generation technology, was (and continues to be) drastically set back. It's stuff like this that makes me worried that humanity as a whole will be just too incredibly stupid to make it through this century without killing ourselves in one of many ways.
But according to the article, the only reason it didn't kill anybody was because the containment vessel was overdesigned.
Let's face it. Our society does not have the necessary follow through to manage nuclear power. We don't place enough value on public safety to properly train nuclear reactor operators, nor can we be relied upon to safely store nuclear waste for more than a human lifetime.
It's a product of the capitalistic mindset: "As long as I get rich and live a happy life, who gives a shit what happens to people after I die."
There are always plenty of suggestions as to where society should apply its best and brightest. It is much harder to place the worst and dumbest. Consider the bottom 25%. They have to have jobs.
I don't really think that it would be that hard to find jobs for the under-achievers:
1. President
2. Presidential advisers
3. Congress
4. Investment bankers
5. Actors and actresses
6. CEOs
7. Lawyers
I'm sure that I have missed a few key positions, feel free to help me out.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I wouldn't expect a huge problem either, except that extra cheap energy could lead to massive heat pollution from inefficient electronics, toasters, and manufacturing plants.
Why do you think it will be cheap? Just because it may be freely available doesn't mean the suppliers won't charge to the hilt for it.
You know how gas prices jump up during hurricanes? Imagine what the price of electricity will do during a storm when our entire offshore coastline is covered with these things.
This story distills the essence of the US-Russian relationship: The Russian and American people have no problem getting along with one another, but our governments are completely incapable of any form of cooperation.
Your situation obviously worked for you, and that's great. But it is not beyond expectations for an 18 year old to go to college and actually pay attention. Not all young students are spoiled little prats. Just the ones that get crappy jobs when they graduate.
There are places in the bay area that would be entirely unfazed by your rifle and NRA tee-shirt but you have to seek them out. But, considering the fact housing is dense enough that to safely and legally hunt deer you would have to drive 2 to 3 hours away, it's not too surprising you got the response you did. Drive that 2 or 3 hours and you will get the reception you want without looking for it. California is a big and diverse state. Generalizations about it usually usually indicate a lack of experience with it.
Like I said in my other reply, I don't actually hunt out of pure laziness. I just picked an example that I knew would get a rise out of the people who live in that area based on my experience living there.
As you say, California is a big and diverse state and there are tons of cool people living there. There are also tons of self-obsessed pricks, just like everywhere else in the world.
I moved from Cali to New Mexico several years ago. Obviously it isn't the same as California. But there are some pretty darn nice people here too, and in my opinion, (as a generalization :) they are even less judgmental than California. I think it's because they just want to live their lives and let others live theirs.
Probably directly proportional to how nice you are to animals. In some places, they don't like it when you shoot animals for fun.
Thank you for proving my point.
I actually don't hunt myself, but I am of the opinion that animals need to die for humans to live and I would have no problem killing something that I needed to eat. If someone actually wants to go through with all the BS it takes to hunt nowdays (hunting permit/draw, gun permit, learning to shoot reliably under pressure, finding the animal, skinning the animal and packing it out), more power to them. It's a little piece of history that most of us don't appreciate about when we are in a hurry to buy our chicken and cow meat in the supermarket, on the way home to watch Survivor or get on the internet.
People were meant to kill animals and plants to eat them and use them as resources to live. Much in the same way that animals kill each other for life to continue. The key is to do it responsibly, like the other animals do.
Sometimes, humans even need to die for other humans to live.
Welcome to the real world, it's a messy place.
So by logical extension, would an air filter in the home help to some degree?
Obviously the effect is statistical in nature and even if there was any benefit to an individual, it wouldn't be as effective as living in an area with low pollution. But still...?
Silicon Valley is special to me because of its cultural diversity. In one medium sized company you can work shoulder to shoulder with people from every major world ethnic group and every major world religion (including no religion). They work together, peacefully, to make better lives for themselves and their children. Look around the rest of the world. This place is unique and special. I see lots of other places around the world where folks insist on segregating themselves by ethnicity and/or religion. They must hate my home, Silicon Valley. Peace.
Hate to break it to you, but this happens in most of the United States. In my experience, a lot of the people in California just think they are special.
I used to live in California. They may not discriminate on ethnicity or religion, but go visit the Bay Area with an NRA teeshirt and a rifle to hunt some deer and see how nice everyone is to you.
Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!
And turbulent boundary layer theory says that at nonzero distances from the wall there will be regions of high shear flow that will not be good for him.
And if he did fall off, I'll bet he didn't survive his trip through rocket plume.
Am I the only one who feels bad for the bat?
You are making a mistake: With or without a degree, with or without a grant, anyone practicing science is a scientist.
Ha ha, no.
So am I a mechanic if I work on my car engine?
Am I a machinist if I drill a hole in a piece of metal?
Am I an astronomer if I use a telescope?
No. I am an amateur at all of those activities unless I am certified in the field by getting a degree, passing a test, or having the requisite experience to yield acceptance by experts in the field.
I never looked into the Blockbuster plan, but if you were able to exchange mailers for movies in the store AND get the next mailers, it kinda sounds like double-dipping. Someone probably overlooked that little detail when writing up the procedure.
But with Netflix, you can get movies by mail AND simultaneously watch them online.
Would you consider that double-dipping?
Speaking as a woman who has a successful career in a male dominated environment (not STEM but the military), I can say that it is possible for a woman to rise to the top, if she is willing to make one of two choices (or falls into one of two choices): 1. She has no children 2. If she has children she has a spouse who has a work schedule which allows him/her to be the one 'on call' for the children.
These are also the same choices a man must make to have a successful career.
Politicians get money because voters chose to be influenced by the things money buys. Fancy consultants, advertising gurus, branding specialists -- they pay big bucks for these things because they work, which is no one's fault but our own.
A democracy is defined by giving the populace the government that it richly deserves (credit to Mencken, I think).
While your statement is true, it doesn't mean that it is the people's fault. These companies spend billions of dollars to influence voter opinion to their benefit. And there are no large corporations counter-lobbying "for the good of the American public" because that goes against the mindset of a corporation. The average, nonparanoid citizen doesn't stand a chance.
The corporations infiltrate your government and guide the law to their advantage. They force propaganda into your home through magazines, newspapers, TV and online ads. They lie to you so they can meet their objectives. Sounds like espionage to me.
And if you disagree with what is going on, you can waste your time by writing to your congressmen (who will ignore you), protesting legally (being ignored), or protesting aggressively (and getting arrested). Meanwhile you will still have to buy some products from the corporations and they profit.
Sounds like a fair fight to me.
I guess the problem is that either you have to accept getting spied on, or you react and unleash all fury of US of A.
Most countries would probably accept quite a lot of shit before they are willing to take the punch.
Most counties are probably willing to accept a lot of shit because they are also spying on the US.