As far as I could tell (as an about to graduate or just graduated CS major) the economy crashed somewhere around 2000/2001 and never really did recover. It's only been downhill since. That's what I remember hearing in the media at the time too. The economy was crashing. It was only after the housing market did it's thing that suddenly history was rewritten and the crash didn't happen until later. I guess the world just cares more about realestate agents than geeks.
No, in the context of a man physically raping a woman and the Taliban punishing the woman I'm pretty sure most of us here, myself included disagree with the Taliban. I think we can all also agree that Kazaryan is the only one involved who set out to harm others (in a sense) and is the only one deserving of legal punishment.
However.. these victims ARE also at fault. They did something stupid. They sent naked pictures of themselves to someone on the internet without even verifying who it really was. It cannot be called anything else, it was STUPID. I'm sorry, but there is way to much stupid out there. It's long past time to give up on political correctness and call it what it is. STUPID! Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Um, no. Those aren't systems, those are individual units. Even units of seemingly different things are very interelated and together constitute a system.
Actually, the more I learn about electronics, taking it down to the physics behind it I am finding out that units measuring different things are all very much interrelated. At least in the metric system (hey, there's that word system and I don't think I am the first to call it that) it seems that somebody planned for this and made units such that conversion is simple. Maybe in the US/UK/Imperial system (there's that word again!) some more multipliers and offsets are required but the fundamental things being measured are still related.
For example, 1 Joule is the amount of energy used when 1 Newton of force is extended over 1 Meter. 1, 1, 1. That sure sounds related to me. Ohm's law (E=IR & P=IE) tells us that resistance, current, electromotive force and power are all closely interelated. 1 Watt, a unit of power is equivalent to 1 Joule over a period of 1 second. (hey didn't we previously relate Joules to meters?) Also, 1 Volt is equivalent to 1 Joule per Coloumb. 1 Coloumb is ~6.24X10E18 Electrons. 1 Amp is 1 Coloumb of electrons per second. All these equations together give us multiple ways we can relate Watts, a unit of power to Meters, a unit of distance, two seemingly totally unrelated things!
As I learn more physics I expect to learn that all measurements are related this way. I bet there are plenty of Slashdotters who already know more physics than I can just confirm it right now. So, back to my original point, what you are calling a system is just a unit and not a complete system.
You can only have gerrymandering if there are enough supporters of the status quo to make significant population pockets where they are in the majority. Even if the politicians in charge are 'cheating' through gerrymandering I still see this as fundamentally a failure of the people.
So... has anyone asked this conservative Islamic government why they chose a monkey? Do they have any idea what makes primates such good testing substitutes for human beings? I'm very surprised they didn't go the USSR route and use dogs or some other non-primate just to avoid this point.
Fortunately there are only two major measurement systems out there. Imagine if there were as many as there are languages. Actually, I suspect it is possible there could be on large enough of a timescale, not that I expect this article to be relevant and in circulation long enough for that. If unit conversions are only done to the precision of the original number, how many conversions can you go through and still have any meaning at all?
I don't think the km measurement needs to reflect the precision of the statement. It's just a 'translation' of the original information for people who are more familiar with the metric system. It's not a statement about the precision of the measurements the article is written about. If the km measurement were the 'main' one of if rather than using parenthesis both measurements were worked into the sentence in an equal way then I would expect them to reflect the precision of the main statement of the article. As it is written though it's more like a translation and 1609km is just a conversion of 1000mi to km, not a statement about the waste heat from cities. As such I think it is properly done to a reasonably accuracy of down to the nearest km. I would say the same thing if the article said "1500 km away (932 mi)" or similar.
You know why they call it a Representative Democracy? Because you are supposed to be electing the people that will represent you. Stop re-electing these asshats America!
Because the world is full of people willing to work very hard for very shitty wages. A couple of generations ago, workers fought hard in this country to get a decent lifestyle in return for the work that still made the executive chair-warmers filthy rich. Now the markets have opened up to the world and people that have not and will not do this are undercutting jobs.
Ok, anything that stops AIDS is great, don't get me wrong. I really do hope this works. But, can a person undergoing this therapy spread HIV? My guess is it is a lot less likely but still possible but that is an amateur, uneducated guess.
If so, what happens when the world is no longer afraid of AIDS but this medicine is still patented. No doubt it will be extended as many times as possible. Maybe they will even find a way to patent it in parts, staggered over time too.
Don't get me wrong, free love for all sounds great! With no AIDS though I can imagine a world where the majority of the population caries HIV. It would be not unlike how we almost all carry EBV now. Think of the power that puts in the hands of whoever holds that patent. Wow! Should we be scared?
Well, yes, if you broke a different law you still broke a law! This is similar to all the other 'with a computer' or even the 'with a gun' laws out there. If somebody robbed somebody with a chainsaw why should they get less jailtime then the guy who used a gun?
Not really. This isn't 1930 anymore. You would be amazed what people are building in their garages these days. If criminals and crazy people had to make their own it wouldn't be the single shot zip guns that blew up in people's hands during prohibition. Those days are long past.
For the most part I agree with what you are saying but I am not convinced that this explains the recent event very well. First, the shooter was well beyond his school years. If he were badly bullied in school, I'm not saying that all the damage would be healed by now but he should have been less likely to explode now than he was years ago when he didn't. Also, anyone he wanted revenge on was long gone.
More importantly than either of those two things, it was a kindergarten classroom that he shot up. Even if f he was venting on the school itself for his bullying wouldn't he have likely gone after the school where most of it happened? Are we to believe that he suffered the brunt of the bullying in kindergarten? Much more likely it happened in Junior High or even High School.
I think bullying might explain some of the other school shootings in recent history but I really doubt it played that much of a roll in this one. More likely, he just wasn't right in the head. Something probably just wasn't connected in the way it should have been in his brain. There are 7 billion people on the planet, 312 million in the US. Every one is at least a little different than the others. No doubt at any moment there are a handful whose brains are 'wired' to do something truly terrible. Sometimes it actually happens.
Wait... did you just argue for eugenics and then in the same post claimed that Nazis are running the country and implied this is a bad thing? You realize that the Nazis were really big on eugenics right? If you really want to get rid of all the stupid people then maybe you have more in common with the Nazis yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting the Nazis. I'm just point out that your post is really stupid.
You seem to be under the common delusion that the way to protect oneself with a gun is to shoot the criminal. You are correct that bringing out your gun could cause the criminal to fire their own. If I were armed and someone had a gun pointed at me I for one would NOT reach for my own. Obviously I would be shot before I got it out.
The best defense value of a gun is deterence. I have been in two situations where a gun was used to scare off a would be assailant. The gun was brought out before the situation escalated. The robbers saw it and moved on. A third time I did this myself by appearing to have a gun. Never was a shot actually fired!
Guns in the hands of the general population also serve as a deterrent. A criminal doesn't know who does and doesn't have one. Maybe he knows he can have his own out first, but then he knows he can be locked up for murder. It is impossible to measure how many crimes are prevented by this knowledge. One can see however that there is far more violence per-person in the cities, most of which have stricter gun laws than in the country where everybody knows that a good percentage are armed, even if only with hunting weapons.
If you could people would build more anyway. It's always been possible for people to make their own guns but these days the equipment available to the common person rival what was available to factories a few decades ago. There is absolutely no way to put the gun genie back in the bottle. Any attempt to do so is foolishness.
Maybe if it happened in a High School or a Junior High but in a Kindergarten? And he was already in his 20s. If he did get bullied in that classroom it was a very long time ago by a different set of kids.
"For self defense, you want the smallest revolver possible "
I don't know about that. First off, for self defense you don't really want to shoot anybody. You want to scare the would be attacker off. A little boot gun might not do that. Second, iff you do have to fire the thing (hope you don't) you want good aim. The smaller the gun the harder it is to hit your target. Try shooting a rifle and then a handgun some time. Big difference! I admit, I've never actually fired one of those little tiny purse sized guns but I have to imagine that if a larger pistol is so difficult to aim then those things must be horrible!
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As far as I could tell (as an about to graduate or just graduated CS major) the economy crashed somewhere around 2000/2001 and never really did recover. It's only been downhill since. That's what I remember hearing in the media at the time too. The economy was crashing. It was only after the housing market did it's thing that suddenly history was rewritten and the crash didn't happen until later. I guess the world just cares more about realestate agents than geeks.
Indeed, that would be insulting to paperclips.
No, in the context of a man physically raping a woman and the Taliban punishing the woman I'm pretty sure most of us here, myself included disagree with the Taliban. I think we can all also agree that Kazaryan is the only one involved who set out to harm others (in a sense) and is the only one deserving of legal punishment.
However.. these victims ARE also at fault. They did something stupid. They sent naked pictures of themselves to someone on the internet without even verifying who it really was. It cannot be called anything else, it was STUPID. I'm sorry, but there is way to much stupid out there. It's long past time to give up on political correctness and call it what it is. STUPID! Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Um, no. Those aren't systems, those are individual units. Even units of seemingly different things are very interelated and together constitute a system.
Actually, the more I learn about electronics, taking it down to the physics behind it I am finding out that units measuring different things are all very much interrelated. At least in the metric system (hey, there's that word system and I don't think I am the first to call it that) it seems that somebody planned for this and made units such that conversion is simple. Maybe in the US/UK/Imperial system (there's that word again!) some more multipliers and offsets are required but the fundamental things being measured are still related.
For example, 1 Joule is the amount of energy used when 1 Newton of force is extended over 1 Meter. 1, 1, 1. That sure sounds related to me. Ohm's law (E=IR & P=IE) tells us that resistance, current, electromotive force and power are all closely interelated. 1 Watt, a unit of power is equivalent to 1 Joule over a period of 1 second. (hey didn't we previously relate Joules to meters?) Also, 1 Volt is equivalent to 1 Joule per Coloumb. 1 Coloumb is ~6.24X10E18 Electrons. 1 Amp is 1 Coloumb of electrons per second. All these equations together give us multiple ways we can relate Watts, a unit of power to Meters, a unit of distance, two seemingly totally unrelated things!
As I learn more physics I expect to learn that all measurements are related this way. I bet there are plenty of Slashdotters who already know more physics than I can just confirm it right now. So, back to my original point, what you are calling a system is just a unit and not a complete system.
You kind sir can turn in your geek card now.
You can only have gerrymandering if there are enough supporters of the status quo to make significant population pockets where they are in the majority. Even if the politicians in charge are 'cheating' through gerrymandering I still see this as fundamentally a failure of the people.
Nah... animal husbandry isn't strictly required. We won't be talking about the other alternative though.
So... has anyone asked this conservative Islamic government why they chose a monkey? Do they have any idea what makes primates such good testing substitutes for human beings? I'm very surprised they didn't go the USSR route and use dogs or some other non-primate just to avoid this point.
Fortunately there are only two major measurement systems out there. Imagine if there were as many as there are languages. Actually, I suspect it is possible there could be on large enough of a timescale, not that I expect this article to be relevant and in circulation long enough for that. If unit conversions are only done to the precision of the original number, how many conversions can you go through and still have any meaning at all?
No.
I don't think the km measurement needs to reflect the precision of the statement. It's just a 'translation' of the original information for people who are more familiar with the metric system. It's not a statement about the precision of the measurements the article is written about. If the km measurement were the 'main' one of if rather than using parenthesis both measurements were worked into the sentence in an equal way then I would expect them to reflect the precision of the main statement of the article. As it is written though it's more like a translation and 1609km is just a conversion of 1000mi to km, not a statement about the waste heat from cities. As such I think it is properly done to a reasonably accuracy of down to the nearest km. I would say the same thing if the article said "1500 km away (932 mi)" or similar.
You know why they call it a Representative Democracy? Because you are supposed to be electing the people that will represent you. Stop re-electing these asshats America!
Because the world is full of people willing to work very hard for very shitty wages. A couple of generations ago, workers fought hard in this country to get a decent lifestyle in return for the work that still made the executive chair-warmers filthy rich. Now the markets have opened up to the world and people that have not and will not do this are undercutting jobs.
And? Didn't they replace that dictator with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Obviously you have never had sex.
Wow, that's the 'perfect medicine' think of the money that must bring the drug industry!
Ok, anything that stops AIDS is great, don't get me wrong. I really do hope this works. But, can a person undergoing this therapy spread HIV? My guess is it is a lot less likely but still possible but that is an amateur, uneducated guess.
If so, what happens when the world is no longer afraid of AIDS but this medicine is still patented. No doubt it will be extended as many times as possible. Maybe they will even find a way to patent it in parts, staggered over time too.
Don't get me wrong, free love for all sounds great! With no AIDS though I can imagine a world where the majority of the population caries HIV. It would be not unlike how we almost all carry EBV now. Think of the power that puts in the hands of whoever holds that patent. Wow! Should we be scared?
Well, yes, if you broke a different law you still broke a law! This is similar to all the other 'with a computer' or even the 'with a gun' laws out there. If somebody robbed somebody with a chainsaw why should they get less jailtime then the guy who used a gun?
Who cares what country things are produced in if nobody is hired to do the production?
Not really. This isn't 1930 anymore. You would be amazed what people are building in their garages these days. If criminals and crazy people had to make their own it wouldn't be the single shot zip guns that blew up in people's hands during prohibition. Those days are long past.
Oh yeah! The internet is the perfect thing to prevent deviant sex!
For the most part I agree with what you are saying but I am not convinced that this explains the recent event very well. First, the shooter was well beyond his school years. If he were badly bullied in school, I'm not saying that all the damage would be healed by now but he should have been less likely to explode now than he was years ago when he didn't. Also, anyone he wanted revenge on was long gone.
More importantly than either of those two things, it was a kindergarten classroom that he shot up. Even if f he was venting on the school itself for his bullying wouldn't he have likely gone after the school where most of it happened? Are we to believe that he suffered the brunt of the bullying in kindergarten? Much more likely it happened in Junior High or even High School.
I think bullying might explain some of the other school shootings in recent history but I really doubt it played that much of a roll in this one. More likely, he just wasn't right in the head. Something probably just wasn't connected in the way it should have been in his brain. There are 7 billion people on the planet, 312 million in the US. Every one is at least a little different than the others. No doubt at any moment there are a handful whose brains are 'wired' to do something truly terrible. Sometimes it actually happens.
Wait... did you just argue for eugenics and then in the same post claimed that Nazis are running the country and implied this is a bad thing? You realize that the Nazis were really big on eugenics right? If you really want to get rid of all the stupid people then maybe you have more in common with the Nazis yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting the Nazis. I'm just point out that your post is really stupid.
You seem to be under the common delusion that the way to protect oneself with a gun is to shoot the criminal. You are correct that bringing out your gun could cause the criminal to fire their own. If I were armed and someone had a gun pointed at me I for one would NOT reach for my own. Obviously I would be shot before I got it out.
The best defense value of a gun is deterence. I have been in two situations where a gun was used to scare off a would be assailant. The gun was brought out before the situation escalated. The robbers saw it and moved on. A third time I did this myself by appearing to have a gun. Never was a shot actually fired!
Guns in the hands of the general population also serve as a deterrent. A criminal doesn't know who does and doesn't have one. Maybe he knows he can have his own out first, but then he knows he can be locked up for murder. It is impossible to measure how many crimes are prevented by this knowledge. One can see however that there is far more violence per-person in the cities, most of which have stricter gun laws than in the country where everybody knows that a good percentage are armed, even if only with hunting weapons.
If you could people would build more anyway. It's always been possible for people to make their own guns but these days the equipment available to the common person rival what was available to factories a few decades ago. There is absolutely no way to put the gun genie back in the bottle. Any attempt to do so is foolishness.
Maybe if it happened in a High School or a Junior High but in a Kindergarten? And he was already in his 20s. If he did get bullied in that classroom it was a very long time ago by a different set of kids.
"For self defense, you want the smallest revolver possible "
I don't know about that. First off, for self defense you don't really want to shoot anybody. You want to scare the would be attacker off. A little boot gun might not do that. Second, iff you do have to fire the thing (hope you don't) you want good aim. The smaller the gun the harder it is to hit your target. Try shooting a rifle and then a handgun some time. Big difference! I admit, I've never actually fired one of those little tiny purse sized guns but I have to imagine that if a larger pistol is so difficult to aim then those things must be horrible!