The battle at Stalingrad killed 1,130,000 Russians. This is almost equal to the number of lives America has lost in all the wars it has ever fought.
1/10th that were lost at Normandy. (In a shorter time of course).
And unless you are saying that they did precisely the same amount of damage obviously one side did more, it is just hard to tell.
Somewhat off-topic but for people that don't really know world history:
Germany is like a 2 mob boss fight. Poland noob pulled by being too close. Got one shot. Belgium was a mage that got too much threat before the tank came in and pulled agro. France was likely the healer, tried to cast a heal on Belgium but it didn't help, belgium goes down, agro shifted to france which got wiped out. This whole time of course Russia was solo tanking the second boss mob (called the eastern front). Then England (a druid) started tanking and dpsing western front. And the US (warlock) and Canada (hunter) came in and started putting some heavy dps on the western front. Somehow they pull through and the western front goes down, and they all go over and help out the tank with the eastern front. Raid over. I call all the epics. Sadly since everyone wants the same epic they end up getting into a fight over it (this is called the Cold War).
Oh and the warlock (US) used soulfire on japan (random additional mob) got a massive crit and one shot it.
I would go further and say that google has gone along with copyright holders SO much and so excessively that if youtube had any sizable competition it would die in a matter of months.
Audio being removed from tons of videos (such as the background music of an arcade game in japan my gf filmed). Accounts deleted, a bass player (MarloweDK) giving free online lessons had over a million views on many videos, banned because some of the music he taught was copyrighted. All of the 'not available in your country' BS. Going above and beyond what is remotely required of them by law to stop any form of piracy. And claims abuses where anyone with contraversial views gets banned every once in a while because their enemies got together and reported them for infringement. Putting the onus on the uploader often to proove he was the creator of the content rather than the one with the takedown claim.
I realize that Google is mostly just following the law but... It is one that they should be trying to subvert whenever they can (like restricted-speech in China, or net-neut breaking ISPs everywhere). If not for the people, then do it for the business, one day youtube will have a decent competitor and it will drop like a stone (likely though Google search will take over (ie everyone takes over) as it should have from the start rather than centralizing in youtube).
You got it all wrong, you should be paying THEM for the privilege of building on their previous art (namely being a lazy douchebag and frivilous lawsuits).
Uh... obviously it would. If we banned all forms of energy production, deforestation and.... forest fires the agw climate crisis would be solved. Itd suck for humans and such for a while. But I imagine we'd come up with a really clean alternative in a few years being sufficiently motivated. That OR we could just switch over to nuclear plants and electric cars within 20years and end the issue entirely for another 100+ years.
You need the money the will AND the political will to get something big done. Global warming has political will atm, doom us all volcano doesn't. Perhaps people focus on things that they can actually progress with?
He is. $300,000 is a tiny drop of his investments. This is the equivalent to one of us buying a newspaper to see where a story goes. He is making an investment to see what comes of it.
Random article when googling "gates invests": "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates seems to want a piece of the action when it comes to renewable energy. The billionaire's investment company, Cascade Investment, has agreed to invest $84 million in Pacific Ethanol (nasdaq: PEIX - news - people ) which will help it finance construction of several planned fuel-additive plants on the West Coast. Cascade's investment gives Gates a 27% stake in Pacific Ethanol. "
Note the difference in scale, Ethanol is something he seems genuinely curious about. He also invested 10s of millions in nuclear tech, news folks say that that that investment could run into the BILLIONS of dollars. Clearly something that he is very serious about. He's also pledges 10s of BILLIONS of dollars into fighting malaria/aids. So try to keep scale into account.
This would create white clouds which cause global cooling. Water in the air causes warming and cooling, clouds do more cooling than warming, white clouds do even more.
Water vapour traps heat greenhouse style which sucks. Clouds reflect light mirror style which is good, white clouds reflect things even better (which is why white cars in the summer are nice).
As to why this is the case it is the basic property of colours. The sun shines down full spectrum light. Black things are reflecting little of that light back into your eyes, all the light is being used up in heat. White things are reflecting all of the light into your eyes so it heats only a little.
I really think that Bill Nye should be manditory viewing for the planets population before they are allowed to say or ask anything about science.
I think he was closer related to 'the morons' than any particular middle-eastern group. Seriously, the guy was so stupid and disorganized that you can hardly even call it a terrorist attack.
"He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views."
I took this to refer to the well documented effects of information overload. The dangers of multi-tasking. And all data SEEMING equal whereas random blogs are FAR less valuable sources for information than say Reuters. All of this is important and true; things we SHOULD be worried about or mindful of.
Lamenting the move from lone tinkerer to big money laden constructions makes sense, it is sad. It turns out that it is also completely unavoidable, and in reality the lone tinkerer has been a myth for some time (in regards to science not inventions).
Uh huh... and how many days did bush go to his ranch for? 500? Looking at just golf is pretty fucking stupid. I must be the hardest working man in the world, havent played golf in 2years... thinking of signing up for WoW though.
Also, if you are harassing the left about this; The left was happy Bush took so many vacations, better to pay him to do nothing than have him do what he thought was best.
Climbing a steep mountain doesn't mean you go upwards super fast. It means that it is tiring and laborious. So rather than thinking that the curve is knowledge_rate x time. Think effort x total_knowledge.
You only have Cogeco cable as an option... which you have to pay 40$/mnth to get UP TO 60GB (and that's only for the 1st year). Their site doesn't say what they do when you go over. When I was with them before they just disconnect you until the end of the month. Fiber (in hamilton) starts at like 900$~1200$/mnth
Bell won't loose many customers because they have the power to make their competition worse. Teksavvy getting a bittoo many customers? Lower their cap a bit, maybe raise the cost a little. That is what they are doing now and the CRTC is showing that they are ok with it.
In Canada all DSL is owned by Bell. They are forced to resell without profit to competitors who resell that bandwidth and create a health economy. This will KILL that competition. So the 2 issues are very much related.
Bell's network was paid for by Canadian Citizens. There was one condition, that they had to resell their lines at good rates to allow for competition to pop up. This ruling ENDS that.
And moving from a handful of competitors to just 1 (Cogeco on cable). Is a really bad thing, and a really shitty deal for OUR money. Everything else in this debate is meaningless.
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The battle at Stalingrad killed 1,130,000 Russians. This is almost equal to the number of lives America has lost in all the wars it has ever fought.
1/10th that were lost at Normandy. (In a shorter time of course).
And unless you are saying that they did precisely the same amount of damage obviously one side did more, it is just hard to tell.
Somewhat off-topic but for people that don't really know world history:
Germany is like a 2 mob boss fight. Poland noob pulled by being too close. Got one shot. Belgium was a mage that got too much threat before the tank came in and pulled agro. France was likely the healer, tried to cast a heal on Belgium but it didn't help, belgium goes down, agro shifted to france which got wiped out. This whole time of course Russia was solo tanking the second boss mob (called the eastern front). Then England (a druid) started tanking and dpsing western front. And the US (warlock) and Canada (hunter) came in and started putting some heavy dps on the western front. Somehow they pull through and the western front goes down, and they all go over and help out the tank with the eastern front. Raid over. I call all the epics. Sadly since everyone wants the same epic they end up getting into a fight over it (this is called the Cold War).
Oh and the warlock (US) used soulfire on japan (random additional mob) got a massive crit and one shot it.
I would go further and say that google has gone along with copyright holders SO much and so excessively that if youtube had any sizable competition it would die in a matter of months.
Audio being removed from tons of videos (such as the background music of an arcade game in japan my gf filmed). Accounts deleted, a bass player (MarloweDK) giving free online lessons had over a million views on many videos, banned because some of the music he taught was copyrighted. All of the 'not available in your country' BS. Going above and beyond what is remotely required of them by law to stop any form of piracy. And claims abuses where anyone with contraversial views gets banned every once in a while because their enemies got together and reported them for infringement. Putting the onus on the uploader often to proove he was the creator of the content rather than the one with the takedown claim.
I realize that Google is mostly just following the law but... It is one that they should be trying to subvert whenever they can (like restricted-speech in China, or net-neut breaking ISPs everywhere). If not for the people, then do it for the business, one day youtube will have a decent competitor and it will drop like a stone (likely though Google search will take over (ie everyone takes over) as it should have from the start rather than centralizing in youtube).
You got it all wrong, you should be paying THEM for the privilege of building on their previous art (namely being a lazy douchebag and frivilous lawsuits).
Uh... obviously it would. If we banned all forms of energy production, deforestation and .... forest fires the agw climate crisis would be solved. Itd suck for humans and such for a while. But I imagine we'd come up with a really clean alternative in a few years being sufficiently motivated. That OR we could just switch over to nuclear plants and electric cars within 20years and end the issue entirely for another 100+ years.
You need the money the will AND the political will to get something big done. Global warming has political will atm, doom us all volcano doesn't. Perhaps people focus on things that they can actually progress with?
He is. $300,000 is a tiny drop of his investments. This is the equivalent to one of us buying a newspaper to see where a story goes. He is making an investment to see what comes of it.
Random article when googling "gates invests":
"Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates seems to want a piece of the action when it comes to renewable energy. The billionaire's investment company, Cascade Investment, has agreed to invest $84 million in Pacific Ethanol (nasdaq: PEIX - news - people ) which will help it finance construction of several planned fuel-additive plants on the West Coast. Cascade's investment gives Gates a 27% stake in Pacific Ethanol. "
Note the difference in scale, Ethanol is something he seems genuinely curious about. He also invested 10s of millions in nuclear tech, news folks say that that that investment could run into the BILLIONS of dollars. Clearly something that he is very serious about. He's also pledges 10s of BILLIONS of dollars into fighting malaria/aids. So try to keep scale into account.
This would create white clouds which cause global cooling. Water in the air causes warming and cooling, clouds do more cooling than warming, white clouds do even more.
Water vapour traps heat greenhouse style which sucks. Clouds reflect light mirror style which is good, white clouds reflect things even better (which is why white cars in the summer are nice).
As to why this is the case it is the basic property of colours. The sun shines down full spectrum light. Black things are reflecting little of that light back into your eyes, all the light is being used up in heat. White things are reflecting all of the light into your eyes so it heats only a little.
I really think that Bill Nye should be manditory viewing for the planets population before they are allowed to say or ask anything about science.
Geo-engineering is basically our only option at the 'we are fucked' stage of global warming. Otherwise I agree with you.
I think he was closer related to 'the morons' than any particular middle-eastern group. Seriously, the guy was so stupid and disorganized that you can hardly even call it a terrorist attack.
"He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views."
I took this to refer to the well documented effects of information overload. The dangers of multi-tasking. And all data SEEMING equal whereas random blogs are FAR less valuable sources for information than say Reuters. All of this is important and true; things we SHOULD be worried about or mindful of.
Lamenting the move from lone tinkerer to big money laden constructions makes sense, it is sad. It turns out that it is also completely unavoidable, and in reality the lone tinkerer has been a myth for some time (in regards to science not inventions).
Uh huh ... and how many days did bush go to his ranch for? 500? Looking at just golf is pretty fucking stupid. I must be the hardest working man in the world, havent played golf in 2years... thinking of signing up for WoW though.
Also, if you are harassing the left about this; The left was happy Bush took so many vacations, better to pay him to do nothing than have him do what he thought was best.
I like that this was marked troll as if the mods were personally offended that someone dare suggest that /. doesn't have 'Super Cow Powers'.
Climbing a steep mountain doesn't mean you go upwards super fast. It means that it is tiring and laborious. So rather than thinking that the curve is knowledge_rate x time. Think effort x total_knowledge.
Rhymes with rim.
Toenails OK then?
At least you can always turn to your pet when are in crisis... wait.... fuck!
Has anyone told you guys that you are nerds?
Used or something? 'Cause Asus doesn't have any deals like that now...
You only have Cogeco cable as an option... which you have to pay 40$/mnth to get UP TO 60GB (and that's only for the 1st year). Their site doesn't say what they do when you go over. When I was with them before they just disconnect you until the end of the month. Fiber (in hamilton) starts at like 900$~1200$/mnth
Bell won't loose many customers because they have the power to make their competition worse. Teksavvy getting a bittoo many customers? Lower their cap a bit, maybe raise the cost a little. That is what they are doing now and the CRTC is showing that they are ok with it.
In Canada all DSL is owned by Bell. They are forced to resell without profit to competitors who resell that bandwidth and create a health economy. This will KILL that competition. So the 2 issues are very much related.
This has nothing to do with net-neutrality.
Because Canada paid for the infrastructure that they are about to fuck us in the ass with?...
Bell's network was paid for by Canadian Citizens. There was one condition, that they had to resell their lines at good rates to allow for competition to pop up. This ruling ENDS that.
And moving from a handful of competitors to just 1 (Cogeco on cable). Is a really bad thing, and a really shitty deal for OUR money. Everything else in this debate is meaningless.
Did you actually look up the backround on these people in the panel? Because it sounds like you didn't.