Nah, look up the German nuclear program on Wikipedia, they weren't even close to getting an A bomb, not that they couldn't have if they had wanted to from the start, but their program was really half-assed.
And I strongly doubt that no matter what they would have tried they could have turned a V-2 and its 200 miles range and used a timer as a guidance (which was fine tuned by reports of spies in the London area, all of which had defected to the Allies) into delivering an atomic bomb (have you seen the size of the atomic bombs of back then?) across the Atlantic Ocean by 1945. Although that's unless you take U-boats into account I guess, but still, that's a hell of a stretch.
Can't blame you for not reading while you must still be feeling the pain of that idiocracy thing.
lol, of all the people I got to troll for saying stupid things on Slashdot this one had to be the slam dunk of the year. Too bad it was so late in the thread probably no one else got to see it. So it's just a secret between you and I, MrIdiocracy (oh yeah that is so my new name for you). Matter of fact if anything I'm gonna be the one stalking you now:D.
That's getting pathetic. You're not fooling anyone, you're just making an ass out of yourself.
Between your "more like hard in the butt" that came out of nowhere and for no purpose, your forced "Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha" or "you're my bitch again, hahahaha", your shameless denial of what's obvious to anyone and your insistence on calling me by my real name like it's a sort of "power word", your quasi-stalking, your forced attempts at using big words like "phraseology" or "idiocracy" (lol..) and your inability to know when to stop (I'd stop but it's not like you're gonna leave me alone, are you?), I've got to ask, how old are you really? I'd give you 19 at most, but if I had to put money on it I'd say 17.
I believe it's not the same pressure. The pressure that builds up before an earthquake is I believe the pressure between the two sides of the fault that as they grind against each other. Adding pressure to fracture the rocks adds nothing to that, however fracture the rocks/turning the underground into a fractured muddy mess would make the other kind of pressure between the two sides of the fault get released earlier, so in a way you're helping triggering the earthquake, but because you lower the threshold by messing with the ground in the fault it means you're preventing the pressure from building up to much, meaning you trigger a less earthquake which helps you avoid the big one.
Yeah, too bad they were so far behind when it comes to their atomic bomb program. I just read about it yesterday, it's like they were barely backing it.
Right, you intentionally used an archaic word that nobody uses in that sense and which only definition comes from the Webster of 1913 and that most dictionaries don'tevenlist. Even the Meriam-Webster doesn't list it anymore. Not to mention that the definition you found doesn't make any sense for the word in the sentence you said.
Or to put it into words, you said idiocracy when you meant idiocy because of the movie, I laughed at you, so you went looking for a rare and obscure definition that would make you look less like a moron, you had a good laugh thinking you'd get away with it. Yeah, nice try, honestly, but you're still the moron who confuses such a common word as idiocy with a neologism from a movie.
Oh I see, so your definitions are mutually exclusive. That's convenient. However I doubt if you look at the definitions given from more authoritative sources you'll find that they are so neatly mutually exclusive.
You like OS X and Cocoa? That was the kind of platform that Xerox PARC had developed in the 1970's, only what PARC had was even easier to develop for and better integrated.
Troll please. I'm not even reading the rest of this comment.
So, if Apple/Jobs was good for the industry, then Microsoft must have been a ten times as good, right? I don't think so.
Not the industry, the economy. And yes, at least if you look at how many people they employ, their activity and the consequences. Who they drive out of business is a different story, but it's not like any of that could possibly be reliable quantised anyways. Nothing to do with innovation, that's just unrelated.
Or would the have been fallen into pieces, like any giant Empire ever (Egyptians, Romans, Chinese, Nazis, UDSSR, USA?, Arabic Union?)
I'd say the Mongol empire is missing from this list. This thing covered 20% of the ground of this planet in 1280. And yes, they quickly crumbled too, because conquering and maintaining large empires takes great leadership, and not every leader is a Genghis Khan or a Sonni Ali, it only takes a lacklustre leader or an internal feud between leaders to see it all go down.
By the way the being powerful and nice tactic wouldn't have worked for Hitler, you don't intimidate with a smile the British empire of the 1930s into making them accept you as their new benevolent overlord. If you try to fuck with nations/empires that size it doesn't matter how nicely you do it they're still gonna kick your ass just because they know they can and they feel they have to.
I'm French but I must agree. The US can suffer criticism for a lot of reason, but when it comes to free speech and its protection we can shut up. And it's not just legal, if you make a joke of dubious taste about the Jews then not only will you get prosecuted and fined but you'll get publicly crucified on television even after you're done flatly apologising.
then in all probability Europe would still be in the hands of the Third Reich.
Until Truman would have atomic bombed German cities? Remember, atomic bombs had Germany written on them, unfortunately (in a way) they were completed after Germany capitulated so Japan got to feel their heat instead. I know that Germany was researching atomic bombs too but I still think that even in a scenario where Germany wouldn't have fucked with USSR then the US still would have gotten the bomb first and they would have bombed Germany until they would have surrendered.
Not to mention that if Germany had the atomic bomb I'm not sure how they would have delivered it to the USA.
Cue the counter-trolling backed by statistics about how producing vegetables is in countless ways polluting and harmful to the environment in 3, 2, 1...
Technologically, the limitations of the MacOS architecture (and its Microsoft imitations) held back the industry for at least a decade.
Yeah, that would be the decade when Jobs was out of Apple (Mac OS was arguably the best PC OS until Jobs left in 1985) and that during this time he went on to create NeXT which OS went on to be the basis of Mac OS X when he got back at Apple.
Not like this point had to be made, but I felt like making it anyways.
Broken window fallacy works both way. If he didn't, someone else would've.
God fucking damnit Slashdot. No seriously, no one on this site ever gets any claim right when it comes to economics. That's not the broken window fallacy because value is being created. Although I can't blame you, people on Slashdot know little more than taxes and the broken window fallacy, and few get any of that right.
This. That's retarded. Although perfectly consistent with American thinking and thus proving my point. It's only sad you guys can't see that you have a pigeonholing/manicheanism problem even when explained to you.
sure, sure. It's entertaining to see what troll ridden flamebait you have come up with.
Yeah, more like I trolled you hard in the first place so now you gotta stalk me cause you're butthurt.
perhaps for fear of demonstrating the true nature of your deep idiocracy
lol, fucking moron trying to use big words, that's not a word except for being the title of a gay ass movie, and even if that was you obviously don't know what the suffix -cracy means.
The English suffix -cracy means a form of government or a state having such government. It is derived from the ancient Greek kratein, meaning "to rule". Typically, the suffix is encountered in distinguishing between the following different forms of government.
You know I'm not even reading your comments anymore, right? You realise that replying to every of my comments you see and using my first name makes you sound like a creepy stalker?
I got that, but you too missed my point. The point is, while it would keep its momentum, it would die out. In a way, Apple would keep going straight as Jobs left it, with eventually a new leader trying to move it in new directions, but it wouldn't be lead any better than the other companies, and slowly it would lose its edge, and die slowly (although not necessarily actually ever die).
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Nah, look up the German nuclear program on Wikipedia, they weren't even close to getting an A bomb, not that they couldn't have if they had wanted to from the start, but their program was really half-assed.
And I strongly doubt that no matter what they would have tried they could have turned a V-2 and its 200 miles range and used a timer as a guidance (which was fine tuned by reports of spies in the London area, all of which had defected to the Allies) into delivering an atomic bomb (have you seen the size of the atomic bombs of back then?) across the Atlantic Ocean by 1945. Although that's unless you take U-boats into account I guess, but still, that's a hell of a stretch.
Can't blame you for not reading while you must still be feeling the pain of that idiocracy thing.
lol, of all the people I got to troll for saying stupid things on Slashdot this one had to be the slam dunk of the year. Too bad it was so late in the thread probably no one else got to see it. So it's just a secret between you and I, MrIdiocracy (oh yeah that is so my new name for you). Matter of fact if anything I'm gonna be the one stalking you now :D.
That's getting pathetic. You're not fooling anyone, you're just making an ass out of yourself.
Between your "more like hard in the butt" that came out of nowhere and for no purpose, your forced "Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha" or "you're my bitch again, hahahaha", your shameless denial of what's obvious to anyone and your insistence on calling me by my real name like it's a sort of "power word", your quasi-stalking, your forced attempts at using big words like "phraseology" or "idiocracy" (lol..) and your inability to know when to stop (I'd stop but it's not like you're gonna leave me alone, are you?), I've got to ask, how old are you really? I'd give you 19 at most, but if I had to put money on it I'd say 17.
Give them video cameras, clean water, some canned goods, and a P38.
I'm confused, do you want to give them a WWII fighter aircraft or a WWII Nazi handgun?
I believe it's not the same pressure. The pressure that builds up before an earthquake is I believe the pressure between the two sides of the fault that as they grind against each other. Adding pressure to fracture the rocks adds nothing to that, however fracture the rocks/turning the underground into a fractured muddy mess would make the other kind of pressure between the two sides of the fault get released earlier, so in a way you're helping triggering the earthquake, but because you lower the threshold by messing with the ground in the fault it means you're preventing the pressure from building up to much, meaning you trigger a less earthquake which helps you avoid the big one.
Oh. I'll put that on me for inferring the meaning of words based on how people (mis)use them :D.
Yeah, too bad they were so far behind when it comes to their atomic bomb program. I just read about it yesterday, it's like they were barely backing it.
A nuclear ICBM in 1945? Yeah, very fucking likely.
Right, you intentionally used an archaic word that nobody uses in that sense and which only definition comes from the Webster of 1913 and that most dictionaries don't even list. Even the Meriam-Webster doesn't list it anymore. Not to mention that the definition you found doesn't make any sense for the word in the sentence you said.
Good trolling, but here's what really happened : http://lol.i.trollyou.com/LOL-I-TROLL-YOU.png
Or to put it into words, you said idiocracy when you meant idiocy because of the movie, I laughed at you, so you went looking for a rare and obscure definition that would make you look less like a moron, you had a good laugh thinking you'd get away with it. Yeah, nice try, honestly, but you're still the moron who confuses such a common word as idiocy with a neologism from a movie.
Oh I see, so your definitions are mutually exclusive. That's convenient. However I doubt if you look at the definitions given from more authoritative sources you'll find that they are so neatly mutually exclusive.
TL;DR : I win.
You like OS X and Cocoa? That was the kind of platform that Xerox PARC had developed in the 1970's, only what PARC had was even easier to develop for and better integrated.
Troll please. I'm not even reading the rest of this comment.
So, if Apple/Jobs was good for the industry, then Microsoft must have been a ten times as good, right? I don't think so.
Not the industry, the economy. And yes, at least if you look at how many people they employ, their activity and the consequences. Who they drive out of business is a different story, but it's not like any of that could possibly be reliable quantised anyways. Nothing to do with innovation, that's just unrelated.
Or would the have been fallen into pieces, like any giant Empire ever (Egyptians, Romans, Chinese, Nazis, UDSSR, USA?, Arabic Union?)
I'd say the Mongol empire is missing from this list. This thing covered 20% of the ground of this planet in 1280. And yes, they quickly crumbled too, because conquering and maintaining large empires takes great leadership, and not every leader is a Genghis Khan or a Sonni Ali, it only takes a lacklustre leader or an internal feud between leaders to see it all go down.
By the way the being powerful and nice tactic wouldn't have worked for Hitler, you don't intimidate with a smile the British empire of the 1930s into making them accept you as their new benevolent overlord. If you try to fuck with nations/empires that size it doesn't matter how nicely you do it they're still gonna kick your ass just because they know they can and they feel they have to.
I'm French but I must agree. The US can suffer criticism for a lot of reason, but when it comes to free speech and its protection we can shut up. And it's not just legal, if you make a joke of dubious taste about the Jews then not only will you get prosecuted and fined but you'll get publicly crucified on television even after you're done flatly apologising.
then in all probability Europe would still be in the hands of the Third Reich.
Until Truman would have atomic bombed German cities? Remember, atomic bombs had Germany written on them, unfortunately (in a way) they were completed after Germany capitulated so Japan got to feel their heat instead. I know that Germany was researching atomic bombs too but I still think that even in a scenario where Germany wouldn't have fucked with USSR then the US still would have gotten the bomb first and they would have bombed Germany until they would have surrendered.
Not to mention that if Germany had the atomic bomb I'm not sure how they would have delivered it to the USA.
Raise cows in airtight spaces, burn the methane.
Cue the counter-trolling backed by statistics about how producing vegetables is in countless ways polluting and harmful to the environment in 3, 2, 1...
Also:
Technologically, the limitations of the MacOS architecture (and its Microsoft imitations) held back the industry for at least a decade.
Yeah, that would be the decade when Jobs was out of Apple (Mac OS was arguably the best PC OS until Jobs left in 1985) and that during this time he went on to create NeXT which OS went on to be the basis of Mac OS X when he got back at Apple.
Not like this point had to be made, but I felt like making it anyways.
Pfft yeah right. You can spin it as hard as you just tried that's just not holding up.
Hey thanks for that! I was too lazy to look it up lol.
Broken window fallacy works both way. If he didn't, someone else would've.
God fucking damnit Slashdot. No seriously, no one on this site ever gets any claim right when it comes to economics. That's not the broken window fallacy because value is being created. Although I can't blame you, people on Slashdot know little more than taxes and the broken window fallacy, and few get any of that right.
This. That's retarded. Although perfectly consistent with American thinking and thus proving my point. It's only sad you guys can't see that you have a pigeonholing/manicheanism problem even when explained to you.
sure, sure. It's entertaining to see what troll ridden flamebait you have come up with.
Yeah, more like I trolled you hard in the first place so now you gotta stalk me cause you're butthurt.
perhaps for fear of demonstrating the true nature of your deep idiocracy
lol, fucking moron trying to use big words, that's not a word except for being the title of a gay ass movie, and even if that was you obviously don't know what the suffix -cracy means.
The English suffix -cracy means a form of government or a state having such government. It is derived from the ancient Greek kratein, meaning "to rule". Typically, the suffix is encountered in distinguishing between the following different forms of government.
Who's the idiot?
You know I'm not even reading your comments anymore, right? You realise that replying to every of my comments you see and using my first name makes you sound like a creepy stalker?
I got that, but you too missed my point. The point is, while it would keep its momentum, it would die out. In a way, Apple would keep going straight as Jobs left it, with eventually a new leader trying to move it in new directions, but it wouldn't be lead any better than the other companies, and slowly it would lose its edge, and die slowly (although not necessarily actually ever die).