Ok, so debunk the physical events in Seveneves. I've had only two conversations about it, with competent astrophysicists, and they weren't willing to call BS on any of it. One, though, worked up an experiment to possibly prove some of the plot, involving Chinese satellites and a weapon now alluded to as 'Rod of God', even though it was a pipe dream then. Yeah, we need more space junk in LEO.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the deafening soundtrack, and can see the premise for the third installment, making more sense than another Star Trek reboot.
It doesn't take much to make me happy with a movie, and this has such cinematography that I'm pleased. The lousy opening weekend ticket sales are as much the overstatement of Blade Runner fandom as anything, but patience - this is at least as good as anything from Marvel.
Mostly rural, so the lines are long, and low density so subscribers per mile are pretty low outside of the metro areas of Burlington/Montpelier.
The business 'climate' is somewhat less than friendly, though Comcast can make any business climate hostile. Anywhere.
The topology is downright hostile to telecom, with north-south ridges through out the state, making long-haul cabling a serious challenge, and expensive when traversing those ridges. This is not a new problem.
Comcast has plenty of excuses to gouge their Vermont customers. And Vermont will probably just try to legislate the costs out of the equation. Good luck with that.
YYeeeaaahh, "* Help SPREAD THE WORD that I'm right by posting links to the many INFORMATIVE posts I've made about these issues."
I'm all over posting links to your INFORMATIVE posts on these and other issues.
Right after I've waded through all the other AC posts.
You do know what the A in AC means, right? Gawd, the stupid is strong in ACs, so strong. Please, go back to your racist homophobic trolls. Those entertain first-time visitors at least.
Add/S for more fun, though having 2 command.com files is indeed a old trick for those who got derfed regularly - finding the right command.com can be more trouble than worth, and hiding one is a nuisance.
There are more devious ways to munge the command executable...
We were living about 50 miles apart, mostly rural area. But our SSNs are 4827 serial numbers apart. My sister's is consecutive. My two brothers not so much, and my other sister's further apart.
4827 SSNs could have been issued over to years in that region back then.
I doubt the 'next two' were alphabetical. My wife and I were born more than 2 years apart, in the same state, and our SSNs differ only by the last four digits. Our last names were not close at all, the difference between a 'C' and a 'T'.
And a reasonable interpretation of the phrase 'for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666' is that while 7 is the number of completion, and the number 3 often found to refer to completion.
"Interestingly, man was created on the sixth day of creation. In some passages of the Bible, the number 6 is associated with mankind. In Revelation “the number of the beast” is called “the number of a man. That number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). If God’s number is 7, then man’s is 6. Six always falls short of seven, just like “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Man is not God, just as 6 is not 7."
If you reject the Bible and/or God, then this is merely informative for you - knowing what other people believe and why is rarely a bad thing, and should not be offensive, unless you're offended by the truth, which in this instance is merely the truth of others' beliefs. You're free to believe what you will.
It's not even limited to Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al.
The momentary news cycle is leading to the rush-to-publish, with the inevitable errors. When you measure the news cycle by minutes or even less, you will get this. Somehow lamenting that we are not getting accurate, to the second valid reporting is not a symptom, it is THE problem.
Learn to let go. Let a story be reported with valid, accurate facts, which may take up to an hour, God forbid. Accept that initially you will get only general statements, conflicting facts, and confusion, and be willing to let a comprehensive report be delivered when it can be accurate, not merely FIRST.
This has afflicted CNN and FOX for decades, lest anyone forgets, and they have been trolled mercilessly in some high-profile cases. The second-tier networks have been abused even more, deservedly so. If you are looking for a sub-minute lead on some other network, you will make terrible mistakes.
This also highlights our distraction by celebrity and horror. We have to, HAVE TO KNOW NOW what happened and WHY WHY WHY.
No, we do not. Waiting for accuracy will not diminish the importance of the event, and will not diminish your experience, unless you revel in the agony of others.
Sure. And you should expect competence in the military, at the level of basic training, marksmanship, transport, and seamanship where appropriate, and discipline. The Navy has a problem with this - bridge crews not paying enough attention, captains not on the bridge when the ship is in congested waters, and the obvious problem of the bridge command structure failing. Time for a reset.
Going back to paper, pencils, compasses, etc. is a good step. Get the sextants out and take sightings. Throw the sounding line.
Military personnel should understand this. When you fail, you should expect consequences such as retraining, strict adherence to procedure, double shifts, the whole gamut of realigning behavior and performance with expectations. This is better, in every way, than dead sailors because someone wasn't paying sufficient attention. The loss of life is not merely inexcusable, it's criminal. Captains that lose crewmen in accidents suffer loss of promotion and shortened careers, as they should. Their subordinates who failed should also suffer. None of these sailors deserve even the dubious honor or duty of notifying the families of the dead, for that is both honor and duty, and these failed officers have failed at both.
If that were true, it would be sad indeed. But the mayor or San Juan complaining about the lack of aid while standing in front of pallets of supplies not yet even unpacked, wearing a t-shirt commemorating the failure as if these were magically available without the usual effort of design, print, and distribution, lacks credibility. She should be handing out the supplies she is standing in front of.
...now you know who is important to Google. And it is not virtually everyone reading this forum. Both politicians reading this will be encouraged that they are in the clear.
Just another example of terrible headline writing, with the added bonus of uninformed authorship, and a dose of failure-to-consult-experts, though in this case a minute with Wikipedia would have sufficed for an author of average intelligence.
"If your long-term national security plan is border security then you have already failed"
If you think I, as an observer, consider our 'long-term national security plan' to be merely border security focused on illegal entry, you are either naive or trying to define my comments as childish.
I vote for the latter. A useful tactic to convince others to dismiss views you disagree with, rather than offer a convincing rebuttal.
He's not complaining about right-wing AM talk radio. That's pretty much the only profitable AM radio market in the US.
I mean, he may be, but complaining about the only profitable political discussion media in America seems dumb. And yes, I'm assuming that the mainstream media outlets are not making any money spewing left-wing propaganda (and profit is not their goal, so no problem).
More than anything, I'm surprised but heartened that such vitriolic, hateful, and bigoted claims are made in the article. We should be convinced by now that the Left in America is intent on ruling, and prepared to use all means, political, legislative, judicial, and violent, to achieve that goal. All means, without limitation. We are seeing only the beginning of the Left's revolt in America, and this lament that the Government hasn't silenced dissent opposed to that is just a small, but instructive, example.
The SEC is sometimes slow to act. But when it has a plainly illegal situation, it acts. Mostly for the PR, perhaps, but this will not go well for the Equifax execs involved.
Proving mostly that they were incompetent at a breathtakingly broad scope. God, bad security head hire, bad management, bad response, and trying to cash out before the fan went on high speed. Almost as bad as it can get. Only when we learn they backed their security head's destruction of the careers of the whistlelblowers who knew they were vulnerable will this finally come full circle. But that may or may not ever be known.
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Ok, so debunk the physical events in Seveneves. I've had only two conversations about it, with competent astrophysicists, and they weren't willing to call BS on any of it. One, though, worked up an experiment to possibly prove some of the plot, involving Chinese satellites and a weapon now alluded to as 'Rod of God', even though it was a pipe dream then. Yeah, we need more space junk in LEO.
And that explains how Phillip K Dick short stories become such blockbuster (and/or fabulous) movies.
I dumped a text file of Neuromancer off a Gopher server way back. Sorry, Bill, I never bought a copy. It seemed meta at the time.
But it is still prophetic.
And backups.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the deafening soundtrack, and can see the premise for the third installment, making more sense than another Star Trek reboot.
It doesn't take much to make me happy with a movie, and this has such cinematography that I'm pleased. The lousy opening weekend ticket sales are as much the overstatement of Blade Runner fandom as anything, but patience - this is at least as good as anything from Marvel.
Oh, and Flame On!
Ah. You read the write-up.
Or not.
Mostly rural, so the lines are long, and low density so subscribers per mile are pretty low outside of the metro areas of Burlington/Montpelier.
The business 'climate' is somewhat less than friendly, though Comcast can make any business climate hostile. Anywhere.
The topology is downright hostile to telecom, with north-south ridges through out the state, making long-haul cabling a serious challenge, and expensive when traversing those ridges. This is not a new problem.
Comcast has plenty of excuses to gouge their Vermont customers. And Vermont will probably just try to legislate the costs out of the equation. Good luck with that.
YYeeeaaahh, "* Help SPREAD THE WORD that I'm right by posting links to the many INFORMATIVE posts I've made about these issues."
I'm all over posting links to your INFORMATIVE posts on these and other issues.
Right after I've waded through all the other AC posts.
You do know what the A in AC means, right? Gawd, the stupid is strong in ACs, so strong. Please, go back to your racist homophobic trolls. Those entertain first-time visitors at least.
You could try
del c:\command.com /F
or
del c:\command.com /A:HS
Add /S for more fun, though having 2 command.com files is indeed a old trick for those who got derfed regularly - finding the right command.com can be more trouble than worth, and hiding one is a nuisance.
There are more devious ways to munge the command executable...
We were living about 50 miles apart, mostly rural area. But our SSNs are 4827 serial numbers apart. My sister's is consecutive. My two brothers not so much, and my other sister's further apart.
4827 SSNs could have been issued over to years in that region back then.
Thank you for the information. Now please take your pills and get into the car.
I doubt the 'next two' were alphabetical. My wife and I were born more than 2 years apart, in the same state, and our SSNs differ only by the last four digits. Our last names were not close at all, the difference between a 'C' and a 'T'.
Six Hundred
Three Score
Six
How this is anything but '666' is not obvious. The contemporary language of the KJV requires careful interpretation, not reinterpretation.
You may want to steer clear of the original "Pilgrim's Progress'.
Numerology is more Gnosticism than theology.
Revelation 13:18. Is that so hard to know?
And a reasonable interpretation of the phrase 'for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666' is that while 7 is the number of completion, and the number 3 often found to refer to completion.
From a reasonably useful site:
"Interestingly, man was created on the sixth day of creation. In some passages of the Bible, the number 6 is associated with mankind. In Revelation “the number of the beast” is called “the number of a man. That number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). If God’s number is 7, then man’s is 6. Six always falls short of seven, just like “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Man is not God, just as 6 is not 7."
If you reject the Bible and/or God, then this is merely informative for you - knowing what other people believe and why is rarely a bad thing, and should not be offensive, unless you're offended by the truth, which in this instance is merely the truth of others' beliefs. You're free to believe what you will.
Of course it's subjective, biased, and controversial.
Celebrity imposed on science, what could go wrong?
It's not even limited to Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al.
The momentary news cycle is leading to the rush-to-publish, with the inevitable errors. When you measure the news cycle by minutes or even less, you will get this. Somehow lamenting that we are not getting accurate, to the second valid reporting is not a symptom, it is THE problem.
Learn to let go. Let a story be reported with valid, accurate facts, which may take up to an hour, God forbid. Accept that initially you will get only general statements, conflicting facts, and confusion, and be willing to let a comprehensive report be delivered when it can be accurate, not merely FIRST.
This has afflicted CNN and FOX for decades, lest anyone forgets, and they have been trolled mercilessly in some high-profile cases. The second-tier networks have been abused even more, deservedly so. If you are looking for a sub-minute lead on some other network, you will make terrible mistakes.
This also highlights our distraction by celebrity and horror. We have to, HAVE TO KNOW NOW what happened and WHY WHY WHY.
No, we do not. Waiting for accuracy will not diminish the importance of the event, and will not diminish your experience, unless you revel in the agony of others.
Sure. And you should expect competence in the military, at the level of basic training, marksmanship, transport, and seamanship where appropriate, and discipline. The Navy has a problem with this - bridge crews not paying enough attention, captains not on the bridge when the ship is in congested waters, and the obvious problem of the bridge command structure failing. Time for a reset.
Going back to paper, pencils, compasses, etc. is a good step. Get the sextants out and take sightings. Throw the sounding line.
Military personnel should understand this. When you fail, you should expect consequences such as retraining, strict adherence to procedure, double shifts, the whole gamut of realigning behavior and performance with expectations. This is better, in every way, than dead sailors because someone wasn't paying sufficient attention. The loss of life is not merely inexcusable, it's criminal. Captains that lose crewmen in accidents suffer loss of promotion and shortened careers, as they should. Their subordinates who failed should also suffer. None of these sailors deserve even the dubious honor or duty of notifying the families of the dead, for that is both honor and duty, and these failed officers have failed at both.
If that were true, it would be sad indeed. But the mayor or San Juan complaining about the lack of aid while standing in front of pallets of supplies not yet even unpacked, wearing a t-shirt commemorating the failure as if these were magically available without the usual effort of design, print, and distribution, lacks credibility. She should be handing out the supplies she is standing in front of.
Word up, go find sources that aren't so biased.
...now you know who is important to Google. And it is not virtually everyone reading this forum. Both politicians reading this will be encouraged that they are in the clear.
Just another example of terrible headline writing, with the added bonus of uninformed authorship, and a dose of failure-to-consult-experts, though in this case a minute with Wikipedia would have sufficed for an author of average intelligence.
I know, big assumption there.
1. Equating naziism with right-wing philosophy is an intentional misstating of truth. You're not that uninformed, I hope.
2. Clever Ad Hominem attack you made there.
"If your long-term national security plan is border security then you have already failed"
If you think I, as an observer, consider our 'long-term national security plan' to be merely border security focused on illegal entry, you are either naive or trying to define my comments as childish.
I vote for the latter. A useful tactic to convince others to dismiss views you disagree with, rather than offer a convincing rebuttal.
He's not complaining about right-wing AM talk radio. That's pretty much the only profitable AM radio market in the US.
I mean, he may be, but complaining about the only profitable political discussion media in America seems dumb. And yes, I'm assuming that the mainstream media outlets are not making any money spewing left-wing propaganda (and profit is not their goal, so no problem).
More than anything, I'm surprised but heartened that such vitriolic, hateful, and bigoted claims are made in the article. We should be convinced by now that the Left in America is intent on ruling, and prepared to use all means, political, legislative, judicial, and violent, to achieve that goal. All means, without limitation. We are seeing only the beginning of the Left's revolt in America, and this lament that the Government hasn't silenced dissent opposed to that is just a small, but instructive, example.
The pot is on the boil.
The SEC is sometimes slow to act. But when it has a plainly illegal situation, it acts. Mostly for the PR, perhaps, but this will not go well for the Equifax execs involved.
Proving mostly that they were incompetent at a breathtakingly broad scope. God, bad security head hire, bad management, bad response, and trying to cash out before the fan went on high speed. Almost as bad as it can get. Only when we learn they backed their security head's destruction of the careers of the whistlelblowers who knew they were vulnerable will this finally come full circle. But that may or may not ever be known.