The problem is that 99.99% of Christ's followers here in the USA firmly believe that gay marriage is horrible and must be banned, and that somehow Jesus would have wanted this. So if you run around calling yourself a Christian, or a "follower of Christ", you're going to get lumped into that group unless you immediately disclaim your involvement with any church.
99.99% eh?
Modded insightful? Perhaps we could make use of a 'Citation Needed' moderation.
I've always viewed it as a measurement of intensity that is rebuilt over time. Since we aren't dealing with something as simple as magnetic fields (which would be amazing if projected to something the size of the enterprise).
I don't know exactly as I'm not really that into ST. But what's wrong with the % measurement?
We are a long way off from full organ replacement in the form of Adult Stem Cells. In the meantime, we have to make due with transplants. Understanding how our immune system works (and can be controlled) is still important research.
It isn't just tissue rejection. Lots of issues are caused by over-reaction by the immune system. Allergies are a good example. In fact, the gauze I have wrapped on my hand right now indicates that I would love a bit of reduction in my immune systems response.
But, there are much more serious conditions caused by overactive immune systems. One that comes to mind might be eclampsia (if the source is an immune response to the fetus). It is a condition where there is no known cure except for abortion or delivery.
the government force you to take down posts on the internet? I know little of the Italian legal system, but even if he was pretending to be an expert, wouldn't that fall under some form of freedom of speech? We have pseudo-experts on/. all the time, wouldn't this fall under a similar "just ignore him" sentiment?
Yelling fire in a crowded theater. Crying earthquake in a volcanically active region.
I think the issue isn't that he posted predictions, but that he called for evactuations.
It also helps to highlight one of the major issues with the long length of copyright in the United States. Given that information is owned by the Public once it is produced and We the Public actually limit our own rights to reproduce a work for a limited period of time in the form of copyright, isn't someone witholding the work or getting this effort tangled up actually a violation of the spirit of the agreement between the creator and the Public?
In that sense, I think what google is doing is Right. In the interest of the Public their actions will do more to promote mankind than the perversion that copyright has become in the United States.
When it comes to Google's right to reproduce such works for profit, I become hesitant, but my level of fear from this sort of action only rises to a level I might call 'slight concern'. I HOPE that Google's effort succeeds. If they end up being able to charge a reasonable (w/ respect to cost) amount for the imaging, processing, storing, and production of this database, I think that would be more than fair.
Books are cheap. Just 1 cent on amazon if you buy used. Radio is totally free if you can put-up with the ads, and ditto television if you invest in an antenna, or buy the DVDs which are just $1 an episode. As for movies - well most are )))) anyway, so don't bother. Boycott Hollyweird
One of the reasons that I selected my new house is because it was w/i walking distance from Alexandria's library. Unfortunately, the buildings in the area preclude my use of an antenna.
But for entertainment value, I couldn't imagine how much use I would get from my iPhone and internet radio. I used to drive for 6hrs every weekend, and used satellite radio, which was nice, but the commercials started creeping in. It still was the best option for that long lonely stretch in the middle of Pennsylvania where you had your choice of terrible country and crazy bible radio.
But getting a phone or card that can access the internet while you are driving and pulling in Pandora or Last.fm (Any other recommendations?) is amazing. If you drive more than 1 hour a day it's definately worth the cost. And, like the state of copyright or not, the people who own the copyrights do get paid.
Oh yeah, popcorn is ridiculous. A soda and popcorn costs me $13 here. I'm sorry, but soda + popcorn isn't worth that. Still, though, at $5 for a matinee, I can't complain about my ticket prices.
There was a theatre in my old town. Popcorn, drinks (slushies) and tickets for my wife and I came out to.... $6 (total)
The screen was small (maybe 240"), the seats were... well some of them might have been folding chairs, and the picture/sound wasn't so great.
But for $6 it was still a fun time. I'd go there again if I still lived there.
I'm in the US, and where I live, evening tickets are $8 each. Matinee tickets are $5.
When I'm in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I expect tickets to run 9.50-10 Matinee is $8. In Alexandria, I spent $12/ticket. Matinees were something like before noon on a Sunday. Even when I was in upstate NY, ticket prices were $9.
I think he is exagerating, but not by much.
My real complaint is that they have raised the prices of food so much, that I do avoid it. Hell, if they charged a 10% markup on cost for popcorn, I'd buy it every single time. As it is now, I refuse to purchase it on principle.
Thanks for the math contribution. Where would we be without your mad skills?
You'll surely note that I said my case had five different court appearances and the GP's had one. Hence I think my question was valid. Now bugger off unless you have something meaningful to say.
Depends on your case. I spent thousands on lawyer fees before and never saw the inside of the courtroom or was subject to charges. Of course, that was the point. I know that if there was anything that might land me on the sex offender registry, I'd lawyer up like you wouldn't believe.
disclaimer: I'm not an IT guy. What if a newspaper doesn't want to be indexed by Google news, but still wants to be searchable by people using Google search? would robots.txt accommodate that?
I can't answer your question, but would like to discuss it.
Isn't it a bit hypocritical if you want to use google's services to improve your site for free, but you don't want google profiting off the indexing of your site?
Actually, you'd be misleading people to say 5 year old hardware isn't likely to have any issues.
Well I didn't mean it that way. What I meant was that *my* 5 yr old hardware isn't seeing any issues. It's a Dell Inspiron 8600 (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/a-new-notebook-hosts-the-athlon64,review-209-9.html) But the post implied that you needed something like a gaming PC to run Hulu, which hasn't been the case for any PC that I've used which is sufficiently de-malwared.
It is probably true that 5 yrs old is about the edge for where Hulu will work, but a very cheap but modern machine shouldn't have much trouble with the service.
I'm not sure what your issue with Hulu is hardware wise. I've run the service on a 4-5 year old laptop, running XP (and god knows what other malware) that I loaned to my parents. It's on its last legs, but doesn't appear to have any issues with Hulu.
Granted, I'm not sure if it would run much else in the meantime, but even on a 1mpbs connection, Hulu seems ok if you give it a moment or two to fill the buffer before you start.
Slippery Slope as it applies to government is not a fallacy IMHO. If you give the government an inch they will take a mile.
Since I don't have mod points the least I can do is post and agree.
The issue isn't even that if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, the issue is that if you give them an inch, and by some miracle they don't take a mile, you can be assured that you will NEVER get that inch back.
At this point, I'm not giving them anything. They already have enough rope to hang themselves, I just hope that it's not enough to take me with them.
Isn't the point of small 's' survivalism (as opposed to Survivalism) to have the ability to survive without those conveniences, not necessarily to go without them entirely?
I agree, though my point was that to make a system that is to the point where it could be rugged (unsophisticated) enough to withstand a solar storm of this magnitude, you would be faced with a choice: Either do away with a lot of the conveniences, or be prepared for a rather expensive system (either in terms of labor to design and build, or one that is resiliant to the storms while still supporting some conveniences and thus monetarily costly).
A refund on a $50 component isn't comforting when all of a sudden your latest units start failing infant mortality tests.
Actually, now that someone posted a comment about some of the Chinese factories... I think this is exactly what happened with our components.
These components were manufactured to a tolerance, and sold in lots of 50-100k. I have no doubt that as production continued, the factory stripped out what it could from the components in terms of structural support gradually. They kept removing it while it continued to work, and we kept using the components over the course of 20 years.
Now, 20 years later, the components that worked for us so long ago, have now been stripped down to eggshell thickness. We began a new production that required some specific qualification tests. Quite literally we ended up with the Rattle in our Shake, Rattle, and Roll tests. The component had snapped off during vibration tests.
Pulling out the microscopes, we found that the newer components used less glue at their adhesion points than the previous components, or components manufactured in the company's flagship plant. The glue was just enough so that the components would survive safety qualification tests, but when exposed to HALT, they were the first things to go.
Depends on where you are - I recommend working with someone local. This is the kind of project where you would want to work very closely with the manufacturer.
I second this sentiment. A 3 hr flight to your supplier just puts a big wall betwen you and them. I don't know the scale of operations you are looking into, but you may want to do a few site visits/surveys to make sure that they are up to snuff.
Parts control is important. Just because a component comes from the same supplier, doesn't mean that it was manufactured in the same plant. I learned the hard way that some plants produce on the high side of their tolerances, and some plants produce on the low side of their tolerances. And some plants just don't meet their tolerances.
A refund on a $50 component isn't comforting when all of a sudden your latest units start failing infant mortality tests.
Sounds like another good reason for those who can to take a serious look at getting off the grid, or at least being able to disconnect from the grid and mostly sustain their own needs on the homefront. Kinda funny that wacky survivalists might have the last laugh in an event like this.
Having almost been one of those wacky survivalists (mostly interested in turning my property into a self-sustaining system), it's damned hard.
First, if you aren't willing to give up all your modern conveniences, you are going to have a great deal of equipment that is still vulnerable to this type of solar storm. Not quite ready to redo my well, it was still electric. My heat was from a wood stove, backed up by natural gas. But I really don't want to think what would happen to the battery bank from a wind turbine or solar panels in this sort of situation.
The systems that would probably fare best, are the mechanical energy systems. Wind-powered water pumps, and potentially a hydro-electric generator if properly shielded. I can just imagine solar cells acting like an antenna for the solar storms. I also doubt that the grid-connecting equipment is designed to handle anything beyond normal generator malfunctions, so you would have to be completely offgrid unless you REALLY want to send some cash for protected equipment.
Luminous Blue Variables (like Eta Carine) are so massive and so bright that gravity can barely hold them together. Should it be such a shock that such a star might blow itself apart given their inherent instability.
The stars likely shed a good deal of their mass to their solar wind, but there are several orders of magnitude between fusion bursts and supernovae. Kind of like the difference between 100 lbs of black powder and 100 lbs of TNT... actually its probably more like 100lbs of nuclear bomb.
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The problem is that 99.99% of Christ's followers here in the USA firmly believe that gay marriage is horrible and must be banned, and that somehow Jesus would have wanted this. So if you run around calling yourself a Christian, or a "follower of Christ", you're going to get lumped into that group unless you immediately disclaim your involvement with any church.
99.99% eh?
Modded insightful? Perhaps we could make use of a 'Citation Needed' moderation.
99.99% of internet trolls maybe.
Anyone have a tic-tac?
That depends.
How much sex will it buy me?
Amusing, that you're willing to write fuck but not hell (heck is a sanitised version of hell)
Well, a lot of people don't believe in hell, but everyone believes in actions assocated with fuck.
All life on this planet?
All life that a paleolithic society would have the means to even know about.
First screening impressions sometimes don't mean anything.
Careful there, you don't want come across as too definitive.
"shields down to whatever percent"
Out of curiosity, what is wrong with that?
I've always viewed it as a measurement of intensity that is rebuilt over time. Since we aren't dealing with something as simple as magnetic fields (which would be amazing if projected to something the size of the enterprise).
I don't know exactly as I'm not really that into ST. But what's wrong with the % measurement?
We are a long way off from full organ replacement in the form of Adult Stem Cells. In the meantime, we have to make due with transplants. Understanding how our immune system works (and can be controlled) is still important research.
It isn't just tissue rejection. Lots of issues are caused by over-reaction by the immune system. Allergies are a good example. In fact, the gauze I have wrapped on my hand right now indicates that I would love a bit of reduction in my immune systems response.
But, there are much more serious conditions caused by overactive immune systems. One that comes to mind might be eclampsia (if the source is an immune response to the fetus). It is a condition where there is no known cure except for abortion or delivery.
the government force you to take down posts on the internet? I know little of the Italian legal system, but even if he was pretending to be an expert, wouldn't that fall under some form of freedom of speech? We have pseudo-experts on /. all the time, wouldn't this fall under a similar "just ignore him" sentiment?
Yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Crying earthquake in a volcanically active region.
I think the issue isn't that he posted predictions, but that he called for evactuations.
It also helps to highlight one of the major issues with the long length of copyright in the United States. Given that information is owned by the Public once it is produced and We the Public actually limit our own rights to reproduce a work for a limited period of time in the form of copyright, isn't someone witholding the work or getting this effort tangled up actually a violation of the spirit of the agreement between the creator and the Public?
In that sense, I think what google is doing is Right. In the interest of the Public their actions will do more to promote mankind than the perversion that copyright has become in the United States.
When it comes to Google's right to reproduce such works for profit, I become hesitant, but my level of fear from this sort of action only rises to a level I might call 'slight concern'. I HOPE that Google's effort succeeds. If they end up being able to charge a reasonable (w/ respect to cost) amount for the imaging, processing, storing, and production of this database, I think that would be more than fair.
Our Government should have done this years ago.
Books are cheap. Just 1 cent on amazon if you buy used. Radio is totally free if you can put-up with the ads, and ditto television if you invest in an antenna, or buy the DVDs which are just $1 an episode. As for movies - well most are )))) anyway, so don't bother. Boycott Hollyweird
One of the reasons that I selected my new house is because it was w/i walking distance from Alexandria's library. Unfortunately, the buildings in the area preclude my use of an antenna.
But for entertainment value, I couldn't imagine how much use I would get from my iPhone and internet radio. I used to drive for 6hrs every weekend, and used satellite radio, which was nice, but the commercials started creeping in. It still was the best option for that long lonely stretch in the middle of Pennsylvania where you had your choice of terrible country and crazy bible radio.
But getting a phone or card that can access the internet while you are driving and pulling in Pandora or Last.fm (Any other recommendations?) is amazing. If you drive more than 1 hour a day it's definately worth the cost. And, like the state of copyright or not, the people who own the copyrights do get paid.
Oh yeah, popcorn is ridiculous. A soda and popcorn costs me $13 here. I'm sorry, but soda + popcorn isn't worth that. Still, though, at $5 for a matinee, I can't complain about my ticket prices.
There was a theatre in my old town. Popcorn, drinks (slushies) and tickets for my wife and I came out to.... $6 (total)
The screen was small (maybe 240"), the seats were... well some of them might have been folding chairs, and the picture/sound wasn't so great.
But for $6 it was still a fun time. I'd go there again if I still lived there.
I'm in the US, and where I live, evening tickets are $8 each. Matinee tickets are $5.
When I'm in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I expect tickets to run 9.50-10 Matinee is $8. In Alexandria, I spent $12/ticket. Matinees were something like before noon on a Sunday. Even when I was in upstate NY, ticket prices were $9.
I think he is exagerating, but not by much.
My real complaint is that they have raised the prices of food so much, that I do avoid it. Hell, if they charged a 10% markup on cost for popcorn, I'd buy it every single time. As it is now, I refuse to purchase it on principle.
Keir Thomas has just proved that Linux does have critics.
That was a critique of the community and development process, not the product itself.
Why not trickle this energy you are generating into battery cells that work to power your home in tangent with a solar panel array? hmmm...
It's all fun and games till someone turns on a hair dryer and throws the breaker. Or your house gets struck by lightning with YOU plugged in. ;)
Thanks for the math contribution. Where would we be without your mad skills?
You'll surely note that I said my case had five different court appearances and the GP's had one. Hence I think my question was valid. Now bugger off unless you have something meaningful to say.
Depends on your case. I spent thousands on lawyer fees before and never saw the inside of the courtroom or was subject to charges. Of course, that was the point. I know that if there was anything that might land me on the sex offender registry, I'd lawyer up like you wouldn't believe.
Yeah, because not getting to play 'Heroes of Might and Magic V' is totally equivalent to a 16.667% chance of blowing your brains out ;)
16.667%? Real men use automatics.
disclaimer: I'm not an IT guy. What if a newspaper doesn't want to be indexed by Google news, but still wants to be searchable by people using Google search? would robots.txt accommodate that?
I can't answer your question, but would like to discuss it.
Isn't it a bit hypocritical if you want to use google's services to improve your site for free, but you don't want google profiting off the indexing of your site?
Actually, you'd be misleading people to say 5 year old hardware isn't likely to have any issues.
Well I didn't mean it that way. What I meant was that *my* 5 yr old hardware isn't seeing any issues. It's a Dell Inspiron 8600 (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/a-new-notebook-hosts-the-athlon64,review-209-9.html) But the post implied that you needed something like a gaming PC to run Hulu, which hasn't been the case for any PC that I've used which is sufficiently de-malwared.
It is probably true that 5 yrs old is about the edge for where Hulu will work, but a very cheap but modern machine shouldn't have much trouble with the service.
I'm not sure what your issue with Hulu is hardware wise. I've run the service on a 4-5 year old laptop, running XP (and god knows what other malware) that I loaned to my parents. It's on its last legs, but doesn't appear to have any issues with Hulu.
Granted, I'm not sure if it would run much else in the meantime, but even on a 1mpbs connection, Hulu seems ok if you give it a moment or two to fill the buffer before you start.
Slippery Slope as it applies to government is not a fallacy IMHO. If you give the government an inch they will take a mile.
Since I don't have mod points the least I can do is post and agree.
The issue isn't even that if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, the issue is that if you give them an inch, and by some miracle they don't take a mile, you can be assured that you will NEVER get that inch back.
At this point, I'm not giving them anything. They already have enough rope to hang themselves, I just hope that it's not enough to take me with them.
Isn't the point of small 's' survivalism (as opposed to Survivalism) to have the ability to survive without those conveniences, not necessarily to go without them entirely?
I agree, though my point was that to make a system that is to the point where it could be rugged (unsophisticated) enough to withstand a solar storm of this magnitude, you would be faced with a choice: Either do away with a lot of the conveniences, or be prepared for a rather expensive system (either in terms of labor to design and build, or one that is resiliant to the storms while still supporting some conveniences and thus monetarily costly).
And some plants just don't meet their tolerances.
A refund on a $50 component isn't comforting when all of a sudden your latest units start failing infant mortality tests.
Actually, now that someone posted a comment about some of the Chinese factories... I think this is exactly what happened with our components.
These components were manufactured to a tolerance, and sold in lots of 50-100k. I have no doubt that as production continued, the factory stripped out what it could from the components in terms of structural support gradually. They kept removing it while it continued to work, and we kept using the components over the course of 20 years.
Now, 20 years later, the components that worked for us so long ago, have now been stripped down to eggshell thickness. We began a new production that required some specific qualification tests. Quite literally we ended up with the Rattle in our Shake, Rattle, and Roll tests. The component had snapped off during vibration tests.
Pulling out the microscopes, we found that the newer components used less glue at their adhesion points than the previous components, or components manufactured in the company's flagship plant. The glue was just enough so that the components would survive safety qualification tests, but when exposed to HALT, they were the first things to go.
Depends on where you are - I recommend working with someone local. This is the kind of project where you would want to work very closely with the manufacturer.
I second this sentiment. A 3 hr flight to your supplier just puts a big wall betwen you and them. I don't know the scale of operations you are looking into, but you may want to do a few site visits/surveys to make sure that they are up to snuff.
Parts control is important. Just because a component comes from the same supplier, doesn't mean that it was manufactured in the same plant. I learned the hard way that some plants produce on the high side of their tolerances, and some plants produce on the low side of their tolerances. And some plants just don't meet their tolerances.
A refund on a $50 component isn't comforting when all of a sudden your latest units start failing infant mortality tests.
Sounds like another good reason for those who can to take a serious look at getting off the grid, or at least being able to disconnect from the grid and mostly sustain their own needs on the homefront. Kinda funny that wacky survivalists might have the last laugh in an event like this.
Having almost been one of those wacky survivalists (mostly interested in turning my property into a self-sustaining system), it's damned hard.
First, if you aren't willing to give up all your modern conveniences, you are going to have a great deal of equipment that is still vulnerable to this type of solar storm. Not quite ready to redo my well, it was still electric. My heat was from a wood stove, backed up by natural gas. But I really don't want to think what would happen to the battery bank from a wind turbine or solar panels in this sort of situation.
The systems that would probably fare best, are the mechanical energy systems. Wind-powered water pumps, and potentially a hydro-electric generator if properly shielded. I can just imagine solar cells acting like an antenna for the solar storms. I also doubt that the grid-connecting equipment is designed to handle anything beyond normal generator malfunctions, so you would have to be completely offgrid unless you REALLY want to send some cash for protected equipment.
Luminous Blue Variables (like Eta Carine) are so massive and so bright that gravity can barely hold them together. Should it be such a shock that such a star might blow itself apart given their inherent instability.
The stars likely shed a good deal of their mass to their solar wind, but there are several orders of magnitude between fusion bursts and supernovae. Kind of like the difference between 100 lbs of black powder and 100 lbs of TNT... actually its probably more like 100lbs of nuclear bomb.