Okay, I'll give a stranger on the Internet the benefit of the doubt. Congratulations, you're one of the exceptions. Judging by all the people who knee-jerked at my post to defend themselves, it seems like there's a few exceptions here.
But seriously, "projecting my own dishonest tendencies?" Do you really think your average USB Loader is used to play games that are legally owned? I don't believe that you, or the people who modded me flamebait, are actually that naive. You don't like the truth, and you're trying to convince yourself that it's not the truth because *you* don't do it. Yes, there are exceptions, and I even admitted that. Exceptions are not the rule.
Ultimately, it seems as if everyone missed my point. I thought the note that "Region shifting is legitimate" would demonstrate that I'm pretty liberal when it comes to media-shifting.
Allow me to reiterate the point: Emulation is okay for systems that have been abandoned. Emulating a system still available in retail is piracy, even if you own the games, because the hardware has not been abandoned. It's not *software* piracy, as in stealing games; it's *hardware* piracy.
Consider this: it's okay to install "pirated" Windows 98, because 98 is abandoned. It is NOT okay to install "pirated" Windows 7, even if you own a legitimate copy of Windows 7 on some other PC.
Yeah, because someone who hacks their Wii to load games from a hard drive is going to load it only with games they actually own. Right. uh-huh. You might, but that would make you the exception.
I consider it legitimate to download a game that you own. I even consider it legitimate to download the game you own *for a different region*, as I think region-shifting should be as legitimate as format-shifting. But emulating a retail system? That's piracy, whether you own the game or not.
Yanno, emulators are okay once a system has been abandoned...but the Wii is still selling in retail. Emulating retail systems is piracy. Only very rare DVD drives can even read Wii games, so you're all but required to download from warez sites.
Uhm, no. When I read the translation of his statement, the message that I get is "we want Israel to collapse just like the USSR did".
Calling for regime change in Israel doesn't mean "kill every last Jew in Jerusalem". If regime change did mean genocide, then we would killed all the Iranians back in the 50s when our CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran.
Also, Ahmadinejad is very careful to elaborate a difference between Jews and what he sees as "Zionists". It is a careful elaboration that is often forgotten when it comes time for him to be a pariah. For instance, he will proudly state that there are Jews in the Iranian Parliament. I wonder how many Iranians are in the Knesset.
Look deeper. Most of those query results are not Muslims bombing mosques.
Of the ones that are, by and large they are committed by fringe lunatics blowing up other people's holy lands. For instance, a Shi'a blowing up a Sunni mosque probably doesn't view the Sunni mosque as holy land.
None of them are religious leaders like Khomeini, who is ultimately the man who calls the shots in Iran.
The Persian language has no idiom for "wipe off the map". That idiom belongs to English.
Also, he was quoting Khomeini. A better translation is "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time". Doesn't have quite the same scary ring to it, so some "journalists" decided to spice it up a bit by adding idiomatic language that doesn't exist in the native tongue.
You should also look into the long history of covert CIA ops that the US has taken in Iran. It's not very diplomatic when you engineer the overthrow of the Democratically elected government of another sovereign country.
Are you fucking kidding? "No one is threatening Iran"? I had to rub my eyes to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
The US and Israel threaten Iran all the time. Journalists usually refer to it as "saber rattling". Mind you, Iran does not have a single nuclear weapon, and yet they are threatened repeatedly by two countries that do have an inventory of nuclear weapons.
If you really want to deal with "regional threats", how about getting Israel to ditch all their nukes? For that matter, how about getting Israel to stop stealing land from Palestinians? The settlements have done more to destabilize the region then any bellicose Iranian rhetoric.
Meanwhile, you seriously think that devout fundamentalist Muslims would really drop a nuclear weapon on their own holy land? Jerusalem is pretty important to them, too. For that matter, what evidence do you have that they want nuclear weapons, as opposed to nuclear energy?
Oh, and by the way, please leave the strawman "traitorous lover of Persians!" at the door. I can dislike Iran while simultaneously standing up against stupid people who wish to exploit the ridiculous behavior of the Iranian government for political gain.
"Foxes guarding the hen house"? This implies that the government wants the nuclear reactor safety to be sub-par. It also implies that the government actually wrote the regulations, as opposed to some corporate lobbyist.
But to answer your question, yes, the government should be in charge of the plant that it regulates. Government does not have shareholders pounding on their door demanding a profit.
Wow, look at the hyperbole. "Can't build that wind turbine unless it can withstand the sun going supernova." Surely even you realize that the sun going supernova has exactly nothing to do with the safety of wind turbines. Also, consider the consequences of a wind turbine experiencing a worst-case scenario, say a tornado. Weigh that against the consequences of an earthquake causing a nuclear meltdown. Long-tail risks like nuclear meltdown are precisely the instances where the government should front all the costs for safety, to prevent private corporations from cutting corners to save costs because "we won't have a 9.0 earthquake in our life time!"
And your conjecture about "you can't plan for a 1000 year disaster"?
In the past 60 years there have been FIVE earthquakes that exceeded 9.0, all along the Ring of Fire. That sounds more like a 12 year disaster to me.
Are you seriously comparing speed limits to nuclear reactor regulations?
Just consider for a moment: if you speed and cause an accident, you might die. Maybe you kill someone in another car. Maybe a few people.
If a nuclear reactor melts down, we're looking at thousands of deaths. At least.
The problem is in fact with capitalism. The ruthless pursuit of profit means cutting corners where the risks are considered acceptable. There are no acceptable corners to cut when it comes to nuclear reactor safety. Therefore, nuclear power should be a public utility, to prevent the pressure to profit from compromising safety.
Please point me to the SCOTUS ruling that says they can use GPS tracking on private vehicles without warrants. Last I heard, this was still held up at the Federal Appeals level. SCOTUS hasn't even ruled on whether the GPS tracking in your phone can be accessed without a warrant.
There may be no expectation of privacy on public roads, but you aren't always on public roads. Your garage is not public. Your driveway is not public.
Also, while following an individual in public for a single stake-out may not be a "search", an automated system that keeps tabs on everyone's movements all the time would probably rise to such a level.
This article is one of the stupidest things I've read in a while.
"Just press the right button and follow the beeping lights, and you can churn out flawless 1.6 oz burgers faster than anybody else on the planet. However, if you need to make a 1.7 oz burger, you simply can’t."
I assume by this, he means there's something you can't do in it, because all of the shit is built in.
What he seems to forget is that.NET and native code are not mutually exclusive. If you need a 1.7 oz burger, and.NET can only make 1.6 oz burgers...then you should P/Invoke into a native library that makes your 1.7 oz burger. Problem solved.
*You* might only drive on local roads...but what about your food? Your flat screen TV? The computer you're typing this on? Could these economic goods make it to your home without interstate highways?
Promoting interstate commerce is definitely one of Congress' enumerated powers, and ensuring the existence of interstate highways definitely qualifies as interstate commerce, as opposed to some of the other charades that get passed by Congress under the commerce clause.
Do you consider it slimy for the data in Tokyo to be quoted in fractions of a uSv/h? I mean, after all, using the fractional uSv's instead of whole nSv's is likely to bias people into believe that the radiation threat is smaller than it is.
Now, had I started quoting cigarettes in pSv or fSv, then maybe you might have a point. Or had the Tokyo data been quoted in mSv/h or sV/h, you may have a point.
Finally...slimy is changing units on a reader. Going from nSv/h in Tokyo to uSv/cigarette. Sure, only an idiot would think that 1 uSv is smaller than 50 nSv. But there are a lot of idiots in the world. It's better to keep your units consistent, even if it means a few extra 0's.
Though I must admit, it is frustrating to go looking for a 1 nF capacitors on digikey by having to punch in 1000 pF.
Actually, it's not slimy, you just epic failed at context.
If you read my linked post, you will see that the measurements for natural background radiation in Tokyo are 0.05 uSv/h. Some folks struggle with understanding fractional parts of metric numbers. Therefore, I started quoting Tokyo as having 50 nSv/h. That is why I chose to express the amount of radiation in a cigarette in nSv; to facilitate comparison between standing in downtown Tokyo and smoking a single cigarette.
I made a post lower down that can help apply some context to your charts. It includes a chart of data which shows the radiation levels in Tokyo for March 15-18. It also helpfully points out that each cigarette contains at least 1000 nSv of radiation inhaled into the lungs.
Current radiation rate is almost nill which means that it did not reach Tokyo yet
Look at the Bloomberg data, and go back to March 15 and 16. The maxes for those two days were 809 nSv and 161 nSv, respectively. So much for not reaching Tokyo yet, huh?
Being near sea level, the radiation levels in Tokyo are normally about 35 nanoSieverts per hour (nSv/h). This doesn't include dietary sources of radiation.
According to this chart, the radiation level for the past couple days has been 50 nSv/h. (the chart uses microGrays per hour (uGy/h), but 1 uGy = 1 uSv)
Mexico City, being about 2.2 km elevation, has a higher background radiation because the atmosphere is thinner. They average 90 nSv/h there, almost double what's in Tokyo for the past two days.
The real kicker? Each cigarette contains at least 1000 nSv, smoked directly into the lungs. Every cigarette someone smokes is like spending at least 20 hours standing in downtown Tokyo right now.
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Okay, I'll give a stranger on the Internet the benefit of the doubt. Congratulations, you're one of the exceptions. Judging by all the people who knee-jerked at my post to defend themselves, it seems like there's a few exceptions here.
But seriously, "projecting my own dishonest tendencies?" Do you really think your average USB Loader is used to play games that are legally owned? I don't believe that you, or the people who modded me flamebait, are actually that naive. You don't like the truth, and you're trying to convince yourself that it's not the truth because *you* don't do it. Yes, there are exceptions, and I even admitted that. Exceptions are not the rule.
Ultimately, it seems as if everyone missed my point. I thought the note that "Region shifting is legitimate" would demonstrate that I'm pretty liberal when it comes to media-shifting.
Allow me to reiterate the point: Emulation is okay for systems that have been abandoned. Emulating a system still available in retail is piracy, even if you own the games, because the hardware has not been abandoned. It's not *software* piracy, as in stealing games; it's *hardware* piracy.
Consider this: it's okay to install "pirated" Windows 98, because 98 is abandoned. It is NOT okay to install "pirated" Windows 7, even if you own a legitimate copy of Windows 7 on some other PC.
Yes, you can do 6 DOF, with only magnetic fields, with sub-mm precision. Ascension and Polhemus are two companies that sell such products.
Look at the stats for Polhemus' Patriot. About 0.01 mm resolution at 1 foot. That beats your "liars" stat by about two orders of magnitude.
http://www.polhemus.com/?page=Motion_Patriot
Yeah, because someone who hacks their Wii to load games from a hard drive is going to load it only with games they actually own. Right. uh-huh. You might, but that would make you the exception.
I consider it legitimate to download a game that you own. I even consider it legitimate to download the game you own *for a different region*, as I think region-shifting should be as legitimate as format-shifting. But emulating a retail system? That's piracy, whether you own the game or not.
Yanno, emulators are okay once a system has been abandoned...but the Wii is still selling in retail. Emulating retail systems is piracy. Only very rare DVD drives can even read Wii games, so you're all but required to download from warez sites.
Uhm, no. When I read the translation of his statement, the message that I get is "we want Israel to collapse just like the USSR did".
Calling for regime change in Israel doesn't mean "kill every last Jew in Jerusalem". If regime change did mean genocide, then we would killed all the Iranians back in the 50s when our CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran.
Also, Ahmadinejad is very careful to elaborate a difference between Jews and what he sees as "Zionists". It is a careful elaboration that is often forgotten when it comes time for him to be a pariah. For instance, he will proudly state that there are Jews in the Iranian Parliament. I wonder how many Iranians are in the Knesset.
What a stark demonstration of ignorance.
Look deeper. Most of those query results are not Muslims bombing mosques.
Of the ones that are, by and large they are committed by fringe lunatics blowing up other people's holy lands. For instance, a Shi'a blowing up a Sunni mosque probably doesn't view the Sunni mosque as holy land.
None of them are religious leaders like Khomeini, who is ultimately the man who calls the shots in Iran.
And don't start with that "he was mistranslated" bullshit"
Perhaps you should educate yourself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#Translation_controversy
The Persian language has no idiom for "wipe off the map". That idiom belongs to English.
Also, he was quoting Khomeini. A better translation is "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time". Doesn't have quite the same scary ring to it, so some "journalists" decided to spice it up a bit by adding idiomatic language that doesn't exist in the native tongue.
You should also look into the long history of covert CIA ops that the US has taken in Iran. It's not very diplomatic when you engineer the overthrow of the Democratically elected government of another sovereign country.
Are you fucking kidding? "No one is threatening Iran"? I had to rub my eyes to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
The US and Israel threaten Iran all the time. Journalists usually refer to it as "saber rattling". Mind you, Iran does not have a single nuclear weapon, and yet they are threatened repeatedly by two countries that do have an inventory of nuclear weapons.
If you really want to deal with "regional threats", how about getting Israel to ditch all their nukes? For that matter, how about getting Israel to stop stealing land from Palestinians? The settlements have done more to destabilize the region then any bellicose Iranian rhetoric.
Meanwhile, you seriously think that devout fundamentalist Muslims would really drop a nuclear weapon on their own holy land? Jerusalem is pretty important to them, too. For that matter, what evidence do you have that they want nuclear weapons, as opposed to nuclear energy?
Oh, and by the way, please leave the strawman "traitorous lover of Persians!" at the door. I can dislike Iran while simultaneously standing up against stupid people who wish to exploit the ridiculous behavior of the Iranian government for political gain.
"Foxes guarding the hen house"? This implies that the government wants the nuclear reactor safety to be sub-par. It also implies that the government actually wrote the regulations, as opposed to some corporate lobbyist.
But to answer your question, yes, the government should be in charge of the plant that it regulates. Government does not have shareholders pounding on their door demanding a profit.
Wow, look at the hyperbole. "Can't build that wind turbine unless it can withstand the sun going supernova." Surely even you realize that the sun going supernova has exactly nothing to do with the safety of wind turbines. Also, consider the consequences of a wind turbine experiencing a worst-case scenario, say a tornado. Weigh that against the consequences of an earthquake causing a nuclear meltdown. Long-tail risks like nuclear meltdown are precisely the instances where the government should front all the costs for safety, to prevent private corporations from cutting corners to save costs because "we won't have a 9.0 earthquake in our life time!"
And your conjecture about "you can't plan for a 1000 year disaster"?
In the past 60 years there have been FIVE earthquakes that exceeded 9.0, all along the Ring of Fire. That sounds more like a 12 year disaster to me.
Are you seriously comparing speed limits to nuclear reactor regulations?
Just consider for a moment: if you speed and cause an accident, you might die. Maybe you kill someone in another car. Maybe a few people.
If a nuclear reactor melts down, we're looking at thousands of deaths. At least.
The problem is in fact with capitalism. The ruthless pursuit of profit means cutting corners where the risks are considered acceptable. There are no acceptable corners to cut when it comes to nuclear reactor safety. Therefore, nuclear power should be a public utility, to prevent the pressure to profit from compromising safety.
If it were up to me, I'd say scrap the current reactors and replace them with a more modern design that is more intrinsically safe
I agree wholeheartedly. Newer reactors are better reactors.
Too bad it's been...oh...about 30 years since a new reactor was built in the US.
Although the ocean does provide a convenient and unlimited source of cooling water
Another convenient fact about the ocean: no one lives there. A nuclear disaster will hurt fewer people, then.
How many of the hundreds of reactors are along known fault lines?
Of those, how many are susceptible to tsunamis?
Remember...if not for the tsunami knocking out the diesel generators, Fukushima wouldn't have been a catastrophe.
Please point me to the SCOTUS ruling that says they can use GPS tracking on private vehicles without warrants. Last I heard, this was still held up at the Federal Appeals level. SCOTUS hasn't even ruled on whether the GPS tracking in your phone can be accessed without a warrant.
There may be no expectation of privacy on public roads, but you aren't always on public roads. Your garage is not public. Your driveway is not public.
Also, while following an individual in public for a single stake-out may not be a "search", an automated system that keeps tabs on everyone's movements all the time would probably rise to such a level.
Instead of punishing "the CEO", we should punish the person with the highest salary. That will probably be the person who "actually runs the company."
This article is one of the stupidest things I've read in a while.
"Just press the right button and follow the beeping lights, and you can churn out flawless 1.6 oz burgers faster than anybody else on the planet. However, if you need to make a 1.7 oz burger, you simply can’t."
I assume by this, he means there's something you can't do in it, because all of the shit is built in.
What he seems to forget is that .NET and native code are not mutually exclusive. If you need a 1.7 oz burger, and .NET can only make 1.6 oz burgers...then you should P/Invoke into a native library that makes your 1.7 oz burger. Problem solved.
cut taxes if receipts > expenses AND there is no current deficit
This is a pretty good idea. Put the fiscal conservative mouth where their money is.
To compensate for cutting taxes, I think we should institute new marginal tax brackets at $1 million, $10 million, and $100 million.
For those in the new $1 million tax bracket, they would have the peak Clinton-era rate.
For those in the new $10 million tax bracket, they would have the peak Reagan-era rate.
For those in the new $100 million tax bracket, they would have the peak Eisenhower-era rate.
*You* might only drive on local roads...but what about your food? Your flat screen TV? The computer you're typing this on? Could these economic goods make it to your home without interstate highways?
Promoting interstate commerce is definitely one of Congress' enumerated powers, and ensuring the existence of interstate highways definitely qualifies as interstate commerce, as opposed to some of the other charades that get passed by Congress under the commerce clause.
They just move the AC/DC conversion somewhere else. All of the heat will go along with it.
Oh, I would also like to add...
Do you consider it slimy for the data in Tokyo to be quoted in fractions of a uSv/h? I mean, after all, using the fractional uSv's instead of whole nSv's is likely to bias people into believe that the radiation threat is smaller than it is.
Now, had I started quoting cigarettes in pSv or fSv, then maybe you might have a point. Or had the Tokyo data been quoted in mSv/h or sV/h, you may have a point.
Finally...slimy is changing units on a reader. Going from nSv/h in Tokyo to uSv/cigarette. Sure, only an idiot would think that 1 uSv is smaller than 50 nSv. But there are a lot of idiots in the world. It's better to keep your units consistent, even if it means a few extra 0's.
Though I must admit, it is frustrating to go looking for a 1 nF capacitors on digikey by having to punch in 1000 pF.
Actually, it's not slimy, you just epic failed at context.
If you read my linked post, you will see that the measurements for natural background radiation in Tokyo are 0.05 uSv/h. Some folks struggle with understanding fractional parts of metric numbers. Therefore, I started quoting Tokyo as having 50 nSv/h. That is why I chose to express the amount of radiation in a cigarette in nSv; to facilitate comparison between standing in downtown Tokyo and smoking a single cigarette.
I made a post lower down that can help apply some context to your charts. It includes a chart of data which shows the radiation levels in Tokyo for March 15-18. It also helpfully points out that each cigarette contains at least 1000 nSv of radiation inhaled into the lungs.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2045416&cid=35546574
Current radiation rate is almost nill which means that it did not reach Tokyo yet
Look at the Bloomberg data, and go back to March 15 and 16. The maxes for those two days were 809 nSv and 161 nSv, respectively. So much for not reaching Tokyo yet, huh?
13mSv = 13,000 uSv = 13,000,000 nSv
547 packs * 20 cigs/pack = 10,940 cigarettes
13,000,000 nSv / 10,940 cigarettes = 1188.3 nSv / cigarette
Being near sea level, the radiation levels in Tokyo are normally about 35 nanoSieverts per hour (nSv/h). This doesn't include dietary sources of radiation.
According to this chart, the radiation level for the past couple days has been 50 nSv/h. (the chart uses microGrays per hour (uGy/h), but 1 uGy = 1 uSv)
Mexico City, being about 2.2 km elevation, has a higher background radiation because the atmosphere is thinner. They average 90 nSv/h there, almost double what's in Tokyo for the past two days.
The real kicker? Each cigarette contains at least 1000 nSv, smoked directly into the lungs. Every cigarette someone smokes is like spending at least 20 hours standing in downtown Tokyo right now.