"Newer datacenters don't have raised floors because it is more energy efficient to have concrete floors.
Hogwash."
Oh, well, thank goodness we got that out of the way.
In all seriousness though, do you have any verifiable information about this? I was under the assumption that every datacenter had a raised floor but I really don't have any idea where this idea came from.
This is just one more fad diet. Your blog post reads like an advertisement full of bullshit pseudo-science. You know what's really happening? YOU'RE STARVING YOURSELF. Call it whatever the fuck you want, but this isn't a diet, it's just not eating.
As for your claims of weight loss: of course it works, not eating will cause you to loose weight. It also causes other health problems. I suggest you talk to your doctor rather than whatever unlicensed moron (a.k.a "diet expert") looked up what happens when your body goes into starvation (one of those things is ketosis) and called it a "health plan".
OK, yes, he misspoke. He meant "density". Enough with the nonsense semantic arguments.
I agree with the comment about muscle density though. I stopped weight training when I graduated from high school (I took weight training for my mandatory phys ed credits). I weight the same now as I did then, but I look a lot fatter because I haven't been to the gym in forever.
I remember that I was quite fat before I started weight training. I was very surprised by the gain I saw when I started. 2-3 times per week of 50 mins. of weight training and within a month I already looked noticeably more fit. No amount of running around in phys ed classes has ever shown such an improvement.
That said, some people much prefer running to weight lifting. Personally, I hate running and I have thus hated every single phys ed class I have ever taken with the exception being weight training. But there are other people that run to work, run from work, run for fun on the weekend and they are some of the most in-shape people I know. It really depends on what kind of person you are. There's no one universal solution to weight loss.
"We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.'"
Why the hell is this so hard to figure out? Hold cooperation responsible for the negative effects caused by their negligence. Power going out because a skilled hacker found an exploit that the best security experts couldn't find is one thing. But power going out because the IT dept. at the power company decided that they didn't need to take basic security measures is another, that's negligance.
If people die because the power went out and the power went out due to negligence (i.e. some 15 year old managed to ssh into the power plant and fuck everything up because the root password was "password") then charge the company with criminally negligent homicide.
We don't need some special, new incentive to get companies to protect the public interest. We just need to remove all of the immunity we've given the companies. The only question we have to answer here is why the fuck did we give companies immunity from the consequences of their actions?
"It's his decision and your opinion is irrelevant."
Well, yeah. This is a discussion forum.... where people express OPINIONS. It's his decision to express his opinion, yours is irrelevant.
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Saying that consistent behavior isn't a good thing because people go to war in the name of religion doesn't make sense. I have yet to see anything in any religion that says "Thou shalt kill everyone that doesn't believe the same things as you". All these religious wars are done by people acting AGAINST critical portions of their own religion. "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty universal and yet people are killing each other in the name of religion. That's not consistent behavior.
Pirate them and, if you must, send some money to the authors in the form of cash in an envelope without a return address (or a fake one because now apparently no return address means it's filled with anthrax). Either way, you're a criminal because the DMCA says you can't unlock anything you actually purchase. The only difference is that pirating things doesn't support the dipshits that put the DRM there.
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In this case, the free market should do fine.
The free market only has problems when: 1) People are allowed to do unethical things 2) Monopolies or oligopolies are created 3) There's a moral hazard
None of these conditions exist here. The difference is a product with DRM vs. a product without it. It's like the difference between cereal with new, poor tasting marshmallows or without them. No one is being forced into anything, there's no monopoly, etc.
I didn't have one at my school. The way I see it, if a kid actually spent the time and effort to make his car into a badass machine then he deserved it. The kids that know how to mess with their cars that don't drive like morons because they have at least some idea of what they're actually doing.
I had a fuckload of morons at my school that all had expensive cars bought by their parents. BMWs, audis, etc. They drove like morons, texting while driving, doing 50 through the parking lot, etc. I had so much fun brake checking them in my subaru outback. These morons have no idea how to drive properly. They tailgate someone (me) who slams on the brakes and they end up swerving into oncoming traffic half the time. Too bad they never wrecked their car in a ditch, we'd be done with them.
What in the hell kind of math are you doing? 68 miles an hour? You seem to have completley forgotten that you're dealing with units of feet and seconds and you need to convert them to miles per hour.
Here: (2040 ft/ 30 sec)(60 sec/ 1 min)(60 min/ 1 hr)(1 mile/ 5280 ft) = 46.36 miles per hour.
"If the average speed is 45 mph" It never once in the article nor in the summary said that the AVERAGE speed was 45 mph. It says the ping showed an speed of 0 mph and then 30 seconds later it showed a speed of 45 mph. There's no mention of the distance covered here, so there is no way anyone here can find the average speed and invoke the intermediate value theorem.
"There are no radical militant staircases out there waiting for us to let down our guard. Staircases do not step up their efforts when funding for prevention of stair-related incidents is decreased. Staircases are not manipulated by promises of 72 untouched banisters in the afterlife. Staircases do not hijack airplanes, take hostages, or blow themselves up in crowded marketplaces."
You moron. Stairs are some of the most cunning, vile, and ruthless killers out there. You use them every day. You are FORCED to use them every day. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government. They're in the white house, they're in congressional buildings, they're even in the airports themselves. The threat posed by staircases is immense. You ever fall down an entire flight of stairs? They'll leave you bleeding out at the bottom of the staircase, just sitting there, mocking you. At least a suicide bomber has the courtesy to kill you quickly. Suicide bombers don't covertly infiltrate the government. Suicide bombers don't make you dependent on them. etc, etc
See? I can say a bunch of bullshit fear-mongering too.
"If Hassan decides to blow up the coffee shop I frequent, I can't mitigate that risk by just laying down some non-slip texturing on the stair edges or hanging on to the railing."
First of all, it's interesting that you seem to assume that all suicide bombers have a name like "hassan". Secondly, you CAN mitigate the risk of terrorist attacks. You can stay in your house. I guarantee you that no terrorist is going to seek out a pussy too afraid to leave their home.
This won't ever happen. Any innocent person that the police arrest inappropriately was always because "They were acting suspicious" or "I thought I saw a gun" or "I thought I heard them say that they were going to blow up the airplane".
When presented with evidence to show that this is completely untrue, the person presenting the evidence is immediately "UN-AMERICAN! and UNPATRIOTIC!!" or equally rubbish bullshit.
Unfortunately, whenever "terrorism" is involved, it is impossible to fight for your civil liberties without incurring a bunch of bullshit nonsense. People everywhere from the highest levels of government down to the general public are willing to waive YOUR rights to an impartial trial, due process, free speech, 4th and 5th amendment rights, because some jackass mentions the word "terrorism".
No, if she weighs as much as a duck, she's a witch. If he/smells/ like a duck, he's a terrorist..... And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.
"By your interpretation a toddler put in a crib is also a prisoner. "
NO! They're not. You clearly didn't bother to actually didn't read his post, did you? You missed the first line of his post: "C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions" Toddlers are not mentally stable and can't make their own rational decisions, which is exactly what he was referring to.
"My landline phone, never needs external power" What is this amazing source of limitless power you speak of? Yes, your phone draws power. It draws it from the phone line. By LAW, all cell phones must always be able to call 911 with or without a sim card, with or without service. Go take any cell phone whether you've paid for it or not, it will call 911.
That sticky plastic strip comes off. The point of that is actually mark the bananas as "organic" (organic, of course, not meaning carbon based which is its actual definition but rather "bullshit hippie approved might not have pesticides but maybe it actually does" nonsense it's come to mean now.), not to prevent you from buying small amounts of produce.
Organic bananas are 94011 whereas normal bananas are 4011. Also, if you remove that strip, you'll get charged for regular bananas, which are ALWAYS cheaper than organic ones.
With the efficiently two party system we have in the U.S. voting for the democrat is the same as voting against the republican. In either case the democrat has exactly one more vote than the republican. (Same the other way around)
Voting for a third party candidate is exactly the same as throwing your ballot in the garbage. In both cases, the person you voted for doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. And no, it doesn't "send a message" to the primary candidates that people want certain policies of the third party candidate. There is absolutely NO threat from third parties whatsoever, end of story.
"regolith is especially difficult to dig because its dust particles want to stick together"
This is not why it's difficult to dig. Regolith is the exact same dust and sand that you see here on earth...before it was broken down by mechanical weathering. You start with rock, big rocks. Over time these break down into smaller and smaller rocks and then finally you get sand like you'd find on a beach. On the moon you have amazingly sharp, tiny rocks. This is because there's no process to weather them down into smooth particles. Thus, you end up with what basically amounts to crushed diamonds. They're sharp, jagged, tiny rocks.
This makes particles "lock" together when you step on them and such. This is why the footprints from the first moon landing are visible. It's very crisp and detailed because the regolith "locks" or meshes together so well. It didn't move since then because there's no wind, rain, etc. to destroy it. But the particles do not "stick together" as if they were all made of magnets or something, as the summary implies.
The reason it's hard to dig is because it literally shreds anything you put up there. Sand in a bearing here on earth is difficult enough to deal with. Now imagine hard, very, very, sharp sand. Basically, the difference between a rock in your shoe and a razor blade. You can't wash this stuff off (you're on the fucking moon), and it gets EVERYWHERE and on EVERYTHING. Keeping regolith off a robot is like trying to jump in the ocean without getting wet.
The consequence of this is obviously that anything you send to the moon is going to last a lot shorter than it will here on earth. Here on earth you fix something when it breaks. You take your car to the mechanic and they take out their tools, replace broken parts, fix others, etc. But this is on the moon. To fix something there you'd have to fly up spare parts, tools, and the labor. This labor requires either power (robots) in which case you need a lot of electricity, or power and air, food, water, shelter (humans), in which case you're flying a lot of shit up to the moon just to fix a couple robots.
It's all an amazingly large pain in the ass, but none of it is because the regolith "sticks together" is all because it "shreds fucking everything".
"some have no incentive to try and improve their speech." If they have no incentive then don't bother with them. If someone isn't willing to work at something then there's no point helping them, they're still going to fail. If they have trouble getting employment, then that's an incentive right there. You don't need to create incentives for someone who doesn't want to try.
If there isn't an incentive then there usually isn't a problem. If they don't have trouble getting a job, don't have trouble working with people, don't want to talk to people online, then they're not likely to bother trying to improve their speech.
Arguments like yours are bullshit, just complete bullshit. The pirate bay is used for nothing BUT legitimate downloads. Not a single piece of pirated software is on that website. See, I can make up nonsense too!
Why don't you actually give us some evidence next time you want to make a claim like that.
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"Newer datacenters don't have raised floors because it is more energy efficient to have concrete floors.
Hogwash."
Oh, well, thank goodness we got that out of the way.
In all seriousness though, do you have any verifiable information about this? I was under the assumption that every datacenter had a raised floor but I really don't have any idea where this idea came from.
This is just one more fad diet. Your blog post reads like an advertisement full of bullshit pseudo-science. You know what's really happening? YOU'RE STARVING YOURSELF. Call it whatever the fuck you want, but this isn't a diet, it's just not eating.
As for your claims of weight loss: of course it works, not eating will cause you to loose weight. It also causes other health problems. I suggest you talk to your doctor rather than whatever unlicensed moron (a.k.a "diet expert") looked up what happens when your body goes into starvation (one of those things is ketosis) and called it a "health plan".
OK, yes, he misspoke. He meant "density". Enough with the nonsense semantic arguments.
I agree with the comment about muscle density though. I stopped weight training when I graduated from high school (I took weight training for my mandatory phys ed credits). I weight the same now as I did then, but I look a lot fatter because I haven't been to the gym in forever.
I remember that I was quite fat before I started weight training. I was very surprised by the gain I saw when I started. 2-3 times per week of 50 mins. of weight training and within a month I already looked noticeably more fit. No amount of running around in phys ed classes has ever shown such an improvement.
That said, some people much prefer running to weight lifting. Personally, I hate running and I have thus hated every single phys ed class I have ever taken with the exception being weight training. But there are other people that run to work, run from work, run for fun on the weekend and they are some of the most in-shape people I know. It really depends on what kind of person you are. There's no one universal solution to weight loss.
"We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.'"
Why the hell is this so hard to figure out? Hold cooperation responsible for the negative effects caused by their negligence. Power going out because a skilled hacker found an exploit that the best security experts couldn't find is one thing. But power going out because the IT dept. at the power company decided that they didn't need to take basic security measures is another, that's negligance.
If people die because the power went out and the power went out due to negligence (i.e. some 15 year old managed to ssh into the power plant and fuck everything up because the root password was "password") then charge the company with criminally negligent homicide.
We don't need some special, new incentive to get companies to protect the public interest. We just need to remove all of the immunity we've given the companies. The only question we have to answer here is why the fuck did we give companies immunity from the consequences of their actions?
"It's his decision and your opinion is irrelevant."
Well, yeah. This is a discussion forum.... where people express OPINIONS. It's his decision to express his opinion, yours is irrelevant.
Saying that consistent behavior isn't a good thing because people go to war in the name of religion doesn't make sense. I have yet to see anything in any religion that says "Thou shalt kill everyone that doesn't believe the same things as you". All these religious wars are done by people acting AGAINST critical portions of their own religion. "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty universal and yet people are killing each other in the name of religion. That's not consistent behavior.
Pirate them and, if you must, send some money to the authors in the form of cash in an envelope without a return address (or a fake one because now apparently no return address means it's filled with anthrax). Either way, you're a criminal because the DMCA says you can't unlock anything you actually purchase. The only difference is that pirating things doesn't support the dipshits that put the DRM there.
In this case, the free market should do fine.
The free market only has problems when:
1) People are allowed to do unethical things
2) Monopolies or oligopolies are created
3) There's a moral hazard
None of these conditions exist here. The difference is a product with DRM vs. a product without it. It's like the difference between cereal with new, poor tasting marshmallows or without them. No one is being forced into anything, there's no monopoly, etc.
That was Lockheed martin, not NASA.
I didn't have one at my school. The way I see it, if a kid actually spent the time and effort to make his car into a badass machine then he deserved it. The kids that know how to mess with their cars that don't drive like morons because they have at least some idea of what they're actually doing.
I had a fuckload of morons at my school that all had expensive cars bought by their parents. BMWs, audis, etc. They drove like morons, texting while driving, doing 50 through the parking lot, etc. I had so much fun brake checking them in my subaru outback. These morons have no idea how to drive properly. They tailgate someone (me) who slams on the brakes and they end up swerving into oncoming traffic half the time. Too bad they never wrecked their car in a ditch, we'd be done with them.
What in the hell kind of math are you doing? 68 miles an hour? You seem to have completley forgotten that you're dealing with units of feet and seconds and you need to convert them to miles per hour.
Here:
(2040 ft/ 30 sec)(60 sec/ 1 min)(60 min/ 1 hr)(1 mile/ 5280 ft) = 46.36 miles per hour.
His average speed is 46.36 miles per hour.
"If the average speed is 45 mph"
It never once in the article nor in the summary said that the AVERAGE speed was 45 mph. It says the ping showed an speed of 0 mph and then 30 seconds later it showed a speed of 45 mph. There's no mention of the distance covered here, so there is no way anyone here can find the average speed and invoke the intermediate value theorem.
It could grab it by the husk!
"There are no radical militant staircases out there waiting for us to let down our guard. Staircases do not step up their efforts when funding for prevention of stair-related incidents is decreased. Staircases are not manipulated by promises of 72 untouched banisters in the afterlife. Staircases do not hijack airplanes, take hostages, or blow themselves up in crowded marketplaces."
You moron.
Stairs are some of the most cunning, vile, and ruthless killers out there. You use them every day. You are FORCED to use them every day. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government. They're in the white house, they're in congressional buildings, they're even in the airports themselves. The threat posed by staircases is immense. You ever fall down an entire flight of stairs? They'll leave you bleeding out at the bottom of the staircase, just sitting there, mocking you. At least a suicide bomber has the courtesy to kill you quickly.
Suicide bombers don't covertly infiltrate the government.
Suicide bombers don't make you dependent on them.
etc, etc
See? I can say a bunch of bullshit fear-mongering too.
"If Hassan decides to blow up the coffee shop I frequent, I can't mitigate that risk by just laying down some non-slip texturing on the stair edges or hanging on to the railing."
First of all, it's interesting that you seem to assume that all suicide bombers have a name like "hassan". Secondly, you CAN mitigate the risk of terrorist attacks. You can stay in your house. I guarantee you that no terrorist is going to seek out a pussy too afraid to leave their home.
This won't ever happen. Any innocent person that the police arrest inappropriately was always because "They were acting suspicious" or "I thought I saw a gun" or "I thought I heard them say that they were going to blow up the airplane".
When presented with evidence to show that this is completely untrue, the person presenting the evidence is immediately "UN-AMERICAN! and UNPATRIOTIC!!" or equally rubbish bullshit.
Unfortunately, whenever "terrorism" is involved, it is impossible to fight for your civil liberties without incurring a bunch of bullshit nonsense. People everywhere from the highest levels of government down to the general public are willing to waive YOUR rights to an impartial trial, due process, free speech, 4th and 5th amendment rights, because some jackass mentions the word "terrorism".
No, if she weighs as much as a duck, she's a witch. If he /smells/ like a duck, he's a terrorist. .... And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.
"By your interpretation a toddler put in a crib is also a prisoner. "
NO! They're not. You clearly didn't bother to actually didn't read his post, did you?
You missed the first line of his post: "C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions"
Toddlers are not mentally stable and can't make their own rational decisions, which is exactly what he was referring to.
"My landline phone, never needs external power"
What is this amazing source of limitless power you speak of? Yes, your phone draws power. It draws it from the phone line. By LAW, all cell phones must always be able to call 911 with or without a sim card, with or without service. Go take any cell phone whether you've paid for it or not, it will call 911.
That sticky plastic strip comes off. The point of that is actually mark the bananas as "organic" (organic, of course, not meaning carbon based which is its actual definition but rather "bullshit hippie approved might not have pesticides but maybe it actually does" nonsense it's come to mean now.), not to prevent you from buying small amounts of produce.
Organic bananas are 94011 whereas normal bananas are 4011. Also, if you remove that strip, you'll get charged for regular bananas, which are ALWAYS cheaper than organic ones.
Why are you complaining? Apples are cheaper than pomegranates. You saved money.
With the efficiently two party system we have in the U.S. voting for the democrat is the same as voting against the republican. In either case the democrat has exactly one more vote than the republican. (Same the other way around)
Voting for a third party candidate is exactly the same as throwing your ballot in the garbage. In both cases, the person you voted for doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. And no, it doesn't "send a message" to the primary candidates that people want certain policies of the third party candidate. There is absolutely NO threat from third parties whatsoever, end of story.
I'd love if you just checked your damn caps lock key when you got it wrong the first time. Even with cruise control, you still have to steer.
"regolith is especially difficult to dig because its dust particles want to stick together"
This is not why it's difficult to dig. Regolith is the exact same dust and sand that you see here on earth...before it was broken down by mechanical weathering. You start with rock, big rocks. Over time these break down into smaller and smaller rocks and then finally you get sand like you'd find on a beach. On the moon you have amazingly sharp, tiny rocks. This is because there's no process to weather them down into smooth particles. Thus, you end up with what basically amounts to crushed diamonds. They're sharp, jagged, tiny rocks.
This makes particles "lock" together when you step on them and such. This is why the footprints from the first moon landing are visible. It's very crisp and detailed because the regolith "locks" or meshes together so well. It didn't move since then because there's no wind, rain, etc. to destroy it. But the particles do not "stick together" as if they were all made of magnets or something, as the summary implies.
The reason it's hard to dig is because it literally shreds anything you put up there. Sand in a bearing here on earth is difficult enough to deal with. Now imagine hard, very, very, sharp sand. Basically, the difference between a rock in your shoe and a razor blade. You can't wash this stuff off (you're on the fucking moon), and it gets EVERYWHERE and on EVERYTHING. Keeping regolith off a robot is like trying to jump in the ocean without getting wet.
The consequence of this is obviously that anything you send to the moon is going to last a lot shorter than it will here on earth. Here on earth you fix something when it breaks. You take your car to the mechanic and they take out their tools, replace broken parts, fix others, etc. But this is on the moon. To fix something there you'd have to fly up spare parts, tools, and the labor. This labor requires either power (robots) in which case you need a lot of electricity, or power and air, food, water, shelter (humans), in which case you're flying a lot of shit up to the moon just to fix a couple robots.
It's all an amazingly large pain in the ass, but none of it is because the regolith "sticks together" is all because it "shreds fucking everything".
"some have no incentive to try and improve their speech."
If they have no incentive then don't bother with them. If someone isn't willing to work at something then there's no point helping them, they're still going to fail. If they have trouble getting employment, then that's an incentive right there. You don't need to create incentives for someone who doesn't want to try.
If there isn't an incentive then there usually isn't a problem. If they don't have trouble getting a job, don't have trouble working with people, don't want to talk to people online, then they're not likely to bother trying to improve their speech.
Arguments like yours are bullshit, just complete bullshit. The pirate bay is used for nothing BUT legitimate downloads. Not a single piece of pirated software is on that website. See, I can make up nonsense too!
Why don't you actually give us some evidence next time you want to make a claim like that.