Your have absolutely no property rights, other than what your Government protects. Realize what you call your property rights is something people of this country have voluntarily agreed to respect. You can imagine all sorts of rights. Enforcing them without the cooperation of the people around you is impossible. You will be reduced to yet another old man yelling at kids to get off "his" grass.
The science teacher actually read a little bit of physics and learned that technically the Sun is a black body, since it emits radiation in all frequencies. The town decided it is is too politically incorrect to state their real objection to the black body, at least not until Donald J Trump becomes the President. So they pulled a little euphemism and misdirection to give some vague reason for the ban.
There is hate. And there is hate speech. Banning it only drives it underground. Better to allow such haters to speak freely and openly so that we get an idea of how many such people there are. And we can develop ways to talk to them and try to convince the errors in their way. But we will not be able remove all hate and all haters. Some low level of hate has to be tolerated.
Having said that, I wish Facebook would stand for free speech in all spheres. Not just racist speech. If some misguided group decides to offend some religion by depicting their deities in bad light, or even merely depicting their deity itself is considered offensive, Facebook should defend that too, to be consistent.
I think there is enough justification and probably cause to collect such information. It is no different than setting up a cordon and road blocks and stopping all motorists in the vicinity.
There is a device that detects barking of dogs and sends a high pitched sound beam only dogs can hear towards them. The dogs hear a screeching sound. They very quickly learn not to bark.
Ted Cruz is the douchebag of the first order and can't believe he would do anything good. I think he is doing this to be vindictive against Google, Facebook and Microsoft and other tech billionaires who are not sufficiently submissive to GOP. Probably to teach them a lesson and to extort some campaign donations. He is a louse, a weasel and the revenge by Texas on the Union for having defeated the confederacy.
Not a big problem. As long as Tesla allows others to create compatible charging stations and shares the charging network it would be fine. Actual interface does not matter as much as the inter operability.
"We plan to revolutionize the automobile industry by creating an integrated, intelligent mobility system that protects the earth and improves the living environment of mankind," wrote Jia Yueting (ZHAW' YOO'-weh-ting), who's the founder and CEO of the holding company LeTV.
... also came with the revelation that it's backed by a Chinese billionaire investor who styles himself after Apple's late Steve Jobs...
California-based automaker Faraday Future's choice of Nevada over three other states is contingent on state lawmakers' approval of tax incentives that haven't been publicly described.
Already Tesla is striking its own trail, its superchargers not inter operating with nascent common charging interfaces of other companies. At least Tesla has declared it will not sue others copying its designs, so Tesla chargers might end up as the de-facto standards. Hope this new venture interoperates with the existing infrastructure and not be another walled garden.
I think the tipping point would be something like charging stations as ubiquitous as gas stations and one gets a 120 mile range in 20 minutes. Not as good as gas car for long distance, but good enough to tolerate it for the occasional long drives a few times a year.
This program by SAP seems to be very similar to the very successful program that has been used by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, RBS, Credit Suisse etc. The only variation seems to be, SAP is seeking people with autism related disorders. The pioneering companies mentioned earlier exclusively recruited people with psychopathy, narcissistic disorders, extreme apathy and similar disorders. It has been going on for so long the top management consists entirely of people with these afflictions, often multiple afflictions. Their "alumni" who have left for other companies have created similar hiring and promotion programs in other companies that the entire top echelon of Fortune 500 companies consists of these psychopaths.
That was my point. It is relatively easy to put a Faraday's cage on a comfortable, airy, sunny room. Wire woven wall papers, draperies and carpets would the trick. Why wouldn't or didn't they do it?
I don't know if you are really a Muslim or some one pretending to be one to troll Muslims. But threatening violence against anyone for drawing any picture would put one squarely in the extremist/terrorist category.
But we Americans do have the right to draw any figure we want, and our government has the obligation to protect it. This is our home, and this is the law of the land. Do not come to America if you are not willing to abide by our constitution.
Certain users have already been selected for testing, and a Twitter search for "timeline out of order" revealed a lot of confused Tweeters. A
The summary is perpetuating the fundamentally flawed notion that the people who tweet, read tweets and re-tweets are the "users". The fact of the matter is they are the "used"s. The site twitter.com is the user, the tweeters are the useds. Sooner we get used to the notion, sooner we make all understand this relationship, better it would be for all.
... The channel's forthcoming debut might seem remarkably ill-timed, given recent shootings at...
It is very well known that every mass shooting actually creates a spike in gun sales, run on the ammunition stores. My friends, yes I do have a few gun enthusiast/nutcase friends, were complaining that they could not get any ammo, especially 0.22 after Newtown.
If they had enclosed the whole room inside a Faraday's cage, the carrier beam from outside would not have penetrated the room to illuminate the "thing". Its echo, even fainter would not have escaped out either. And it is not all the difficult to create a cage. Wall paper with thin wires pasted on the walls, ceiling and under the carpet would cover it. If there are windows, the curtains, sheers and/or drapery could have woven into the fabric these wires.
Or did they? Is it possible they had been trolling the Soviets for 7 years to discuss phony "top secret" things in such rooms that are not covered with Faraday's cage wall paper?
Or have I been reading too many Irwin Wallace, Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, Jack Higgins and am giving too much credit to the bureaucrats working on Government pay-scale GS-11 counting days till retirement?
Or am I so showing my age with this list of authors which makes the slashdot reading whippersnappers go "Irwin who? What Forsyth?"
See, terrorists WANT a war with the West. They WANT us to kill them - they have no fear of death because when they die, they are delusional enough to think that there is some sort of awesome afterlife when they die for their Jihad. It's religious fanaticism at its extreme. Every time the US or coalition forces kill terrorists, it is seen as an attack on Islam. And Muslims in other countries rush in to help their "Muslim Brothers".
So them Muslims (moderate or otherwise) would not distinguish between West's attempt to kill terrorists and West's attempts to wage war on Islam. But the West is expected to very carefully distinguish between terrorists and non-terrorists. And every mistake by West is yet another round of moderate Muslims condoning/justifying/excusing/tolerating/accepting more Muslims turning terrorists. Why is this double standard?
Even the moderate Muslims are not tolerating non Muslims doing things that are not binding on them. If someone draws the picture of Mohammad or Allah, the moderates are NOT saying, "that depiction is hurtful to our sentiments, please do not do it, but I do recognize your first amendment free speech rights to draw such pictures". They are saying "that depiction is hurtful to our sentiments, so some Muslims will kill you, they won't recognize your free speech first amendment rights, so please don't do it". What goes without being noticed is that the moderate Muslim is refusing to teach his extremist factions to recognize our first amendment rights.
One thing the West can do is to show the Muslims how to earn the real deep respect from the West by avoiding violence and confrontation. Hindus and Buddhists and native religions and pagan religions are not engaged in a war with the West. If Americans go out of their way to show obvious, open, highly publicized respect to these religions it would draw a contrast. It would allow the moderate Muslims to tell their extremists, "See how that pagan deity or that Buddhist temple is being congratulated, praised and respected by the Christians and the Jews of America! Islam is drawing hatred and violence only because
of your terrorism!".
But even the atheists and secularists were showing extremely disrespectful depictions of Jesus, Moses, Ganesha and Abraham to show off the "tolerance" of these religions. What Muslim sees is not the "tolerance" of these religions but cowardice of them not defending their deities.
Not all our adversaries are going to have a capable air defense systems. It is probably worthwhile to develop strategies to attack and degrade enemy air defense systems. So B-52s and A-10s can continue to operate.
With hindsight it might have been a good idea to create a separate aircraft with the express purpose of enhancing B-52's air defense. With modern high speed communications we could even have a couple of drones designed to follow B-52s in very close formation providing air defense alone, while leaving B-52 with its main purpose of being a bomb truck. Or even many sacrificial drones to be carried along with bombs. This is what we did back in 1944 with B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29(?) Super Fortress with long range escort fighters P-51 Mustangs. Instead of developing a long range escort air defense electronic counter measures platform, they went for all-in-one bomber with self contained air defense. It did not work then, (remember the bombers with so many machine guns they were called flying porcupines that were ridiculously easy to shoot down?) It did not work later.
But real money is in developing new aircraft. So most defense contractors would pitch all-new, exciting projects. Not mundane cost effective ones that would be sufficient.
Man! That looks ugly. Uglier than even Steve Job's aluminum yacht with iMacs in the bridge. Waste of money too. There ain't nothing our enemies got that is even worth putting 4.4 billion in jeopardy.
Our company vpn runs a virus scan on my home computer before letting me log in through vpn. If auto updates to the OS are disabled, or if I don't have one of the approved anti-virus product installed, or if the firewall is not on, it would not let me use vpn. So turning off auto update is not an option. If the vpn still works after
this forced update, I will use the desktop only for VPN. Everything else is on my chromebook anyway
Underground tests are not conducive to estimating the yield precisely. The atmospheric tests and the movies made of the explosion and the speed and size of the shock fronts are more useful. And that kind of testing is banned.
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Your have absolutely no property rights, other than what your Government protects. Realize what you call your property rights is something people of this country have voluntarily agreed to respect. You can imagine all sorts of rights. Enforcing them without the cooperation of the people around you is impossible. You will be reduced to yet another old man yelling at kids to get off "his" grass.
The science teacher actually read a little bit of physics and learned that technically the Sun is a black body, since it emits radiation in all frequencies. The town decided it is is too politically incorrect to state their real objection to the black body, at least not until Donald J Trump becomes the President. So they pulled a little euphemism and misdirection to give some vague reason for the ban.
Having said that, I wish Facebook would stand for free speech in all spheres. Not just racist speech. If some misguided group decides to offend some religion by depicting their deities in bad light, or even merely depicting their deity itself is considered offensive, Facebook should defend that too, to be consistent.
I think there is enough justification and probably cause to collect such information. It is no different than setting up a cordon and road blocks and stopping all motorists in the vicinity.
Surprised a government agency acted this fast. But still there is no need to reveal to the terrorists all the tools we have at out disposal.
There is a device that detects barking of dogs and sends a high pitched sound beam only dogs can hear towards them. The dogs hear a screeching sound. They very quickly learn not to bark.
Ted Cruz is the douchebag of the first order and can't believe he would do anything good. I think he is doing this to be vindictive against Google, Facebook and Microsoft and other tech billionaires who are not sufficiently submissive to GOP. Probably to teach them a lesson and to extort some campaign donations. He is a louse, a weasel and the revenge by Texas on the Union for having defeated the confederacy.
Not a big problem. As long as Tesla allows others to create compatible charging stations and shares the charging network it would be fine. Actual interface does not matter as much as the inter operability.
"We plan to revolutionize the automobile industry by creating an integrated, intelligent mobility system that protects the earth and improves the living environment of mankind," wrote Jia Yueting (ZHAW' YOO'-weh-ting), who's the founder and CEO of the holding company LeTV.
California-based automaker Faraday Future's choice of Nevada over three other states is contingent on state lawmakers' approval of tax incentives that haven't been publicly described.
Already Tesla is striking its own trail, its superchargers not inter operating with nascent common charging interfaces of other companies. At least Tesla has declared it will not sue others copying its designs, so Tesla chargers might end up as the de-facto standards. Hope this new venture interoperates with the existing infrastructure and not be another walled garden.
I think the tipping point would be something like charging stations as ubiquitous as gas stations and one gets a 120 mile range in 20 minutes. Not as good as gas car for long distance, but good enough to tolerate it for the occasional long drives a few times a year.
This program by SAP seems to be very similar to the very successful program that has been used by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, RBS, Credit Suisse etc. The only variation seems to be, SAP is seeking people with autism related disorders. The pioneering companies mentioned earlier exclusively recruited people with psychopathy, narcissistic disorders, extreme apathy and similar disorders. It has been going on for so long the top management consists entirely of people with these afflictions, often multiple afflictions. Their "alumni" who have left for other companies have created similar hiring and promotion programs in other companies that the entire top echelon of Fortune 500 companies consists of these psychopaths.
That was my point. It is relatively easy to put a Faraday's cage on a comfortable, airy, sunny room. Wire woven wall papers, draperies and carpets would the trick. Why wouldn't or didn't they do it?
But we Americans do have the right to draw any figure we want, and our government has the obligation to protect it. This is our home, and this is the law of the land. Do not come to America if you are not willing to abide by our constitution.
Certain users have already been selected for testing, and a Twitter search for "timeline out of order" revealed a lot of confused Tweeters. A
The summary is perpetuating the fundamentally flawed notion that the people who tweet, read tweets and re-tweets are the "users". The fact of the matter is they are the "used"s. The site twitter.com is the user, the tweeters are the useds. Sooner we get used to the notion, sooner we make all understand this relationship, better it would be for all.
It is very well known that every mass shooting actually creates a spike in gun sales, run on the ammunition stores. My friends, yes I do have a few gun enthusiast/nutcase friends, were complaining that they could not get any ammo, especially 0.22 after Newtown.
Or did they? Is it possible they had been trolling the Soviets for 7 years to discuss phony "top secret" things in such rooms that are not covered with Faraday's cage wall paper?
Or have I been reading too many Irwin Wallace, Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, Jack Higgins and am giving too much credit to the bureaucrats working on Government pay-scale GS-11 counting days till retirement?
Or am I so showing my age with this list of authors which makes the slashdot reading whippersnappers go "Irwin who? What Forsyth?"
See, terrorists WANT a war with the West. They WANT us to kill them - they have no fear of death because when they die, they are delusional enough to think that there is some sort of awesome afterlife when they die for their Jihad. It's religious fanaticism at its extreme. Every time the US or coalition forces kill terrorists, it is seen as an attack on Islam. And Muslims in other countries rush in to help their "Muslim Brothers".
So them Muslims (moderate or otherwise) would not distinguish between West's attempt to kill terrorists and West's attempts to wage war on Islam. But the West is expected to very carefully distinguish between terrorists and non-terrorists. And every mistake by West is yet another round of moderate Muslims condoning/justifying/excusing/tolerating/accepting more Muslims turning terrorists. Why is this double standard?
Even the moderate Muslims are not tolerating non Muslims doing things that are not binding on them. If someone draws the picture of Mohammad or Allah, the moderates are NOT saying, "that depiction is hurtful to our sentiments, please do not do it, but I do recognize your first amendment free speech rights to draw such pictures". They are saying "that depiction is hurtful to our sentiments, so some Muslims will kill you, they won't recognize your free speech first amendment rights, so please don't do it". What goes without being noticed is that the moderate Muslim is refusing to teach his extremist factions to recognize our first amendment rights.
One thing the West can do is to show the Muslims how to earn the real deep respect from the West by avoiding violence and confrontation. Hindus and Buddhists and native religions and pagan religions are not engaged in a war with the West. If Americans go out of their way to show obvious, open, highly publicized respect to these religions it would draw a contrast. It would allow the moderate Muslims to tell their extremists, "See how that pagan deity or that Buddhist temple is being congratulated, praised and respected by the Christians and the Jews of America! Islam is drawing hatred and violence only because of your terrorism!".
But even the atheists and secularists were showing extremely disrespectful depictions of Jesus, Moses, Ganesha and Abraham to show off the "tolerance" of these religions. What Muslim sees is not the "tolerance" of these religions but cowardice of them not defending their deities.
With hindsight it might have been a good idea to create a separate aircraft with the express purpose of enhancing B-52's air defense. With modern high speed communications we could even have a couple of drones designed to follow B-52s in very close formation providing air defense alone, while leaving B-52 with its main purpose of being a bomb truck. Or even many sacrificial drones to be carried along with bombs. This is what we did back in 1944 with B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29(?) Super Fortress with long range escort fighters P-51 Mustangs. Instead of developing a long range escort air defense electronic counter measures platform, they went for all-in-one bomber with self contained air defense. It did not work then, (remember the bombers with so many machine guns they were called flying porcupines that were ridiculously easy to shoot down?) It did not work later.
But real money is in developing new aircraft. So most defense contractors would pitch all-new, exciting projects. Not mundane cost effective ones that would be sufficient.
[snip] I'm not saying this is bad thing; it is just the way most women are wired.
I read that as women are weird. I am not saying it is a bad thing; Just the way I am wired.
Man! That looks ugly. Uglier than even Steve Job's aluminum yacht with iMacs in the bridge. Waste of money too. There ain't nothing our enemies got that is even worth putting 4.4 billion in jeopardy.
I never knew Mark Watney had a Japanese brother on the Venus mission at the same time!
Our company vpn runs a virus scan on my home computer before letting me log in through vpn. If auto updates to the OS are disabled, or if I don't have one of the approved anti-virus product installed, or if the firewall is not on, it would not let me use vpn. So turning off auto update is not an option. If the vpn still works after this forced update, I will use the desktop only for VPN. Everything else is on my chromebook anyway
Underground tests are not conducive to estimating the yield precisely. The atmospheric tests and the movies made of the explosion and the speed and size of the shock fronts are more useful. And that kind of testing is banned.
Hmm... Unless I am not reading something properly, Wikipedia agrees with me.
No, it does not agree with you. Don't believe me? Give me five minutes and then check wikipedia.
These were movies made by the engineers on actual nuclear explosions.
Don't believe me? OK, Just give me five minutes and then check Wikipedia.