Just because you don't agree with elected government officials doesn't give you the right to stop paying taxes and push the cost onto other citizens under some retarded form of social protest. By living in the country, you are accepting the whole package, including agreeing paying taxes, regardless of who is elected.
Actually, one CAN do that. Here's the problem with social protest though. One still is held accountable for it. Mandela was held in prison for a very long time because of his social protest.
The idea that social protest should be automatically except from punishment because it's protest is the silly notion. If you want to change the system by doing something illegal, expect punishment and reprisal. Rosa Parks knew she was going to be arrested, and so did many other people fighting injustice the same way.
That really was the most interesting thing that I noticed when I was in the Netherlands for the Olympics. That each country kind of filters the events to show during the most likely hours to those that the country they're targeting dominates.
I do suppose it's almost a tautological statement that they would want to do this. Who doesn't like to see their own country dominate a sport? On the other hand, I'm a weirdo because I'm pseudo-german, and so I'm essentially trapped in the US wanting to watch the German-dominated sports.:)
If the rats are indoors, you're better off killing them where you live (out in the open) than where they live (in the walls). Snap traps are the way to go for that.
Your argument and the arguments of others are very persuasive.:) Yes, snap traps would be a good choice for an area where smell is a highly weighted value.
Heh. I wouldn't have pegged you for a big poison proponent. I agree though; if you can't shut off their food, there really isn't any other option.
As far as humane-ness, if you're killing them, does it really matter how?
Why not peg me for a poison proponent? Science and rationality are based on what is accurate, and effective. I am a rationalist.:)
There are more humane ways of killing things than others. The least suffering and pain caused to the organism the better. Jewish Kosher protocols require one to slit the carotid artery of the animal with a blade with no defects. Cutting oneself with a super sharp blade, a number of humans can attest that it is fairly painless. The animal then bleeds out very quickly bringing unconsciousness within seconds.
Not only is it the Jewish Kosher protocol, but it also is similar to the protocol for the Japanese ritual suicide used by women, "Jigai".
Now, throwing them into a fire or boiling pot is pretty mean and wrong, unless the animal is proven to "not experience pain".
However, Polio has been eradicated over the majority of the world (geographically). This is for sure, because it has been eradicated in the western hemisphere (or rather the western continents).
The last time parents chose about vaccinations was the vast public trial of the polio vaccine.
The government didn't authorize it, and the FDA still didn't even regulate vaccines at that point. Parents simply offered their children up to be experimental guinea pigs because the fear of polio was THAT BAD.
I'd rather not see mumps measles and rubella get so common that parents are willing to risk their children's safety upon unproven technologies, when the vaccines are proven.
Universe knows we need to protect people against bogus medicine... there's a reason why we started regulating drugs, because of patent medicine and swindlers.
There are some choices that are just so simple and basic that the government should be dictating them. Like "hey, the only active ingredient in a drug should not be cocaine."
Where have you been? Courts have always not only made medical decisions, but ones in various other areas of science, too, when there is a dispute. What exactly do you think forensics are, anyway? They do the same things courts have always done - rely on expert witnesses. As soon as you come up with a better way to correctly solve disputes involving factual claims, please do let the world know.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Tomato is a Vegetable.
Ok, sure that's just for import/export laws and tariffs, but still.
Yes thank them, but they should still be giving the polio vaccine, so don't thank the cdc. One 3rd world country carrier could bring it back to the US and we are once again sitting ducks since none of the current generation are vaccinated.
Polio has been eradicated in the entire Western Hemisphere. I know that there are 3rd world countries outside of the western hemisphere, however the only 3rd world countries that have polio still are outside of the western hemisphere.
Since legal immigrants are required to get polio vaccines if they're from a location that still hasn't eradicated polio, we are left only with illegal immigrants. 50% of undocumented aliens arrived on a legal visa, that means they had their polio vaccination if necessary. So, we're left with some 50% or illegal immigrants all of which had to have arrived without a valid visa. The likelihood of them being outside of the western hemisphere is pretty low.
A good example is Rabies in Japan. The likelihood that an animal will enter the respective country with the respective disease without having the respective vaccine is super low.
Yeah, this is "inhumane" etc, whatever. But that's the only way to reduce the population fast enough to make a difference. Most pest control people want to use poisons, because they know it's the only way that works, but then people insist "omg no! you have to be humane about it!"
Look people. If you want the pests gone, there's really only one option that works.
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As the proud parent of a Linux user I advocate throwing a bare bones slackware install on strange hardware, giving the 4-year-old the root password, and walking away.
She's six now and she knows if she wants to be networked she has to roll her own cat 5 and figure out the appropriate network settings. She's almost there. (Boy was she mad when she finally figured out I had originally installed token ring on her box!) If she wants internet access she has to hack into the firewall and give herself that access.
You know, you see them struggling and you really want to help them, but you have to resist the urge. Otherwise they'll never learn!
I think we would raise wonderful kids together. You need to make it harder by constantly using a new foreign language to get anything done. Then they have to learn each of the 10-some foreign languages that you know in order to just get a glass of milk.
You can't make all the trouble in cyberspace, there must be meatspace conditioning as well.
Last time I installed Silverlight on my Mac was to stream the Beijing Olympics from NBC, and that was only because I was stuck in a foreign country where it wasn't broadcast in English. I uninstalled it pretty soon after.
I recall being in a foreign country for the last two olympics. At the very least the last winter olympics. I actually found it really cool to watch it in Dutch. What about the sports can I not gleam in and of my own? Do you really care that much about the "fluff" they add?
Or, perhaps, you just prefer to watch the US-dominated sports. In the Netherlands I did tend to see more of the Netherlands-dominated sports than anything else. YAY SPEED SKATING!
The notion of "...there will be a time of trouble such as there has never been before nor will ever be again after that time..." is entirely arbitrary. If we can imagine things being worse, then it's obviously not what we're witnessing now.
As for the mark of the beast, it's easy. When I go clubbing they mark me on the hand, so that when I attempt to reenter, they can tell if I had already been there that night, and thus allowed to reenter without paying. A simple tattoo on the hand required in order to make legal purchases is just as qualifying for "mark of the beast" as anything else.
As well, the Bible doesn't specify that it is a number. It simply says "the mark of the Beast, who's number is 666". The number identifies the beast, not the mark.
The human mind is incredibly powerful at making these connections between arbitrary information. Why do you think people believe horoscopes, and other such prophetical text? Forer Effect. Look it up, and all prophecy that isn't specific and falsifiable is now worthless.
The first sentence of TFA says that "not only will it do the security of IT systems but also carry out..."
Why does everyone focus immediately on the "black hat" side of the story, and neglect that the group is supposed to do BOTH sides, which in some ways, is a good aspect of ANY security team... just hopefully, your security team follows ethics.
And I imagine that the Bundeswehr is going to follow ethics as well, "no hacking friendly networks......... overtly".
I suggest you look at Shintau beliefs from Japan. They deal with destruction events on a very short cycle, and thus have come to accept this destruction-renewal process. In fact, most shintau shrines are rebuilt every century or so. It's actually a modern western belief system that seems bent upon this idea of stasis.
As such, once we remove our cultural bias of statis, "a time of upheaval" becomes a target larger than the side of a barn, and just as easy to hit.
"Prophecy" relies heavily upon this... that is; the high likelihood that some described event no matter how arbitrary, will have actually occurred, or will have occurred at some point in the future. As long as the prophecy remains "possible" it cannot be discredited, and people will shift their goal posts constantly simply because "hey, it's still possible!"
There is also a prophecy in the Bible concerning the end of the age, where the sun will be seven times hotter: Isaiah 30:26
In the book of Revelation, which is about the end times, we also read about a very much hotter sun: Rev 16:8-9
Ah yes, the perfectly accurate Bible... I forgot about that when I was evaluating my scientific results. Should I run any more data past your particular religious authority of choice?
CRT technology is so mature and LCD so comparatively half baked that I'm totally revolted by the general consensus to throw out completely superior performance in favor of smaller form factor (it's not like they're moved often).
The same thing happened with carburetors and fuel-injection.
Motorcycles still use carburetors because of the history of development behind them, and that they can be made to be more efficient than fuel-injection systems (which can yes be modeled to be arbitrarily close to a carburetor.)
However, in this case, it's one of convenience. Fuel-injection systems have automated chokes, and so you don't have to fiddle with that stuff (I know I've never driven a car with a choke, but have owned 3 modern motorcycles that do have a choke.)
So, your question is, "why would someone throw out completely superior performance in favor of a smaller form factor?" Well, you answered your own question. Most people aren't looking for performance, but rather convenience.
In the same way, you can get stupid crazy power by putting a GSXR engine in a Smart Car (look at youtube for videos) and still have good if not better gas mileage. However, you lose a ton of convenience in the process.... this is coming from a girl who is interested in cars, but is not a geek in the field... so, a lot of this may be total bullshit, but it should be close enough for government work.
Not when timing is included into the picture. Drag racing is an example of this. Top level drag racers typically have timed responses of around 1ms.
As the person noted, it's not about his actual ability to perceive the delay, but rather the cumulative effect of "clock drift" between him, and the system, and when the video lag is too high, his natural internal clock drift will vary enough to fall outside of the range of the system's clock.
This is still a special case. He cannot respond any faster than any other human to stimuli, but rather through the accumulation of stimuli he is able to establish an internal clock with a precision that can be hampered by a 2ms lag.
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Just because you don't agree with elected government officials doesn't give you the right to stop paying taxes and push the cost onto other citizens under some retarded form of social protest. By living in the country, you are accepting the whole package, including agreeing paying taxes, regardless of who is elected.
Actually, one CAN do that. Here's the problem with social protest though. One still is held accountable for it. Mandela was held in prison for a very long time because of his social protest.
The idea that social protest should be automatically except from punishment because it's protest is the silly notion. If you want to change the system by doing something illegal, expect punishment and reprisal. Rosa Parks knew she was going to be arrested, and so did many other people fighting injustice the same way.
Taking a page from the major IT thought leaders I have moved my porn to the cloud - all of it is on BitTorrent.
What are you going to do when Bittorrent collapses from The Pirate Bay servers going offline?
That really was the most interesting thing that I noticed when I was in the Netherlands for the Olympics. That each country kind of filters the events to show during the most likely hours to those that the country they're targeting dominates.
I do suppose it's almost a tautological statement that they would want to do this. Who doesn't like to see their own country dominate a sport? On the other hand, I'm a weirdo because I'm pseudo-german, and so I'm essentially trapped in the US wanting to watch the German-dominated sports. :)
If the rats are indoors, you're better off killing them where you live (out in the open) than where they live (in the walls). Snap traps are the way to go for that.
Your argument and the arguments of others are very persuasive. :) Yes, snap traps would be a good choice for an area where smell is a highly weighted value.
Heh. I wouldn't have pegged you for a big poison proponent. I agree though; if you can't shut off their food, there really isn't any other option.
As far as humane-ness, if you're killing them, does it really matter how?
Why not peg me for a poison proponent? Science and rationality are based on what is accurate, and effective. I am a rationalist. :)
There are more humane ways of killing things than others. The least suffering and pain caused to the organism the better. Jewish Kosher protocols require one to slit the carotid artery of the animal with a blade with no defects. Cutting oneself with a super sharp blade, a number of humans can attest that it is fairly painless. The animal then bleeds out very quickly bringing unconsciousness within seconds.
Not only is it the Jewish Kosher protocol, but it also is similar to the protocol for the Japanese ritual suicide used by women, "Jigai".
Now, throwing them into a fire or boiling pot is pretty mean and wrong, unless the animal is proven to "not experience pain".
Smallpox is the only virus eradicated world-wide.
However, Polio has been eradicated over the majority of the world (geographically). This is for sure, because it has been eradicated in the western hemisphere (or rather the western continents).
The last time parents chose about vaccinations was the vast public trial of the polio vaccine.
The government didn't authorize it, and the FDA still didn't even regulate vaccines at that point. Parents simply offered their children up to be experimental guinea pigs because the fear of polio was THAT BAD.
I'd rather not see mumps measles and rubella get so common that parents are willing to risk their children's safety upon unproven technologies, when the vaccines are proven.
Universe knows we need to protect people against bogus medicine... there's a reason why we started regulating drugs, because of patent medicine and swindlers.
There are some choices that are just so simple and basic that the government should be dictating them. Like "hey, the only active ingredient in a drug should not be cocaine."
From what I can tell, the media defines pretty much everything.
I heard the same thing on TV, so it must be true.
Where have you been? Courts have always not only made medical decisions, but ones in various other areas of science, too, when there is a dispute. What exactly do you think forensics are, anyway? They do the same things courts have always done - rely on expert witnesses. As soon as you come up with a better way to correctly solve disputes involving factual claims, please do let the world know.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Tomato is a Vegetable.
Ok, sure that's just for import/export laws and tariffs, but still.
Yes thank them, but they should still be giving the polio vaccine, so don't thank the cdc. One 3rd world country carrier could bring it back to the US and we are once again sitting ducks since none of the current generation are vaccinated.
Polio has been eradicated in the entire Western Hemisphere. I know that there are 3rd world countries outside of the western hemisphere, however the only 3rd world countries that have polio still are outside of the western hemisphere.
Since legal immigrants are required to get polio vaccines if they're from a location that still hasn't eradicated polio, we are left only with illegal immigrants. 50% of undocumented aliens arrived on a legal visa, that means they had their polio vaccination if necessary. So, we're left with some 50% or illegal immigrants all of which had to have arrived without a valid visa. The likelihood of them being outside of the western hemisphere is pretty low.
A good example is Rabies in Japan. The likelihood that an animal will enter the respective country with the respective disease without having the respective vaccine is super low.
Rat Poison.
Yeah, this is "inhumane" etc, whatever. But that's the only way to reduce the population fast enough to make a difference. Most pest control people want to use poisons, because they know it's the only way that works, but then people insist "omg no! you have to be humane about it!"
Look people. If you want the pests gone, there's really only one option that works.
Monkeys are not Apes.
Apes are not Monkeys.
Humans are Apes.
Therefore, your silly joke holds no water. :P lololololololol
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As the proud parent of a Linux user I advocate throwing a bare bones slackware install on strange hardware, giving the 4-year-old the root password, and walking away.
She's six now and she knows if she wants to be networked she has to roll her own cat 5 and figure out the appropriate network settings. She's almost there. (Boy was she mad when she finally figured out I had originally installed token ring on her box!) If she wants internet access she has to hack into the firewall and give herself that access.
You know, you see them struggling and you really want to help them, but you have to resist the urge. Otherwise they'll never learn!
I think we would raise wonderful kids together. You need to make it harder by constantly using a new foreign language to get anything done. Then they have to learn each of the 10-some foreign languages that you know in order to just get a glass of milk.
You can't make all the trouble in cyberspace, there must be meatspace conditioning as well.
Last time I installed Silverlight on my Mac was to stream the Beijing Olympics from NBC, and that was only because I was stuck in a foreign country where it wasn't broadcast in English. I uninstalled it pretty soon after.
I recall being in a foreign country for the last two olympics. At the very least the last winter olympics. I actually found it really cool to watch it in Dutch. What about the sports can I not gleam in and of my own? Do you really care that much about the "fluff" they add?
Or, perhaps, you just prefer to watch the US-dominated sports. In the Netherlands I did tend to see more of the Netherlands-dominated sports than anything else. YAY SPEED SKATING!
The notion of "...there will be a time of trouble such as there has never been before nor will ever be again after that time..." is entirely arbitrary. If we can imagine things being worse, then it's obviously not what we're witnessing now.
As for the mark of the beast, it's easy. When I go clubbing they mark me on the hand, so that when I attempt to reenter, they can tell if I had already been there that night, and thus allowed to reenter without paying. A simple tattoo on the hand required in order to make legal purchases is just as qualifying for "mark of the beast" as anything else.
As well, the Bible doesn't specify that it is a number. It simply says "the mark of the Beast, who's number is 666". The number identifies the beast, not the mark.
The human mind is incredibly powerful at making these connections between arbitrary information. Why do you think people believe horoscopes, and other such prophetical text? Forer Effect. Look it up, and all prophecy that isn't specific and falsifiable is now worthless.
The first sentence of TFA says that "not only will it do the security of IT systems but also carry out..."
Why does everyone focus immediately on the "black hat" side of the story, and neglect that the group is supposed to do BOTH sides, which in some ways, is a good aspect of ANY security team... just hopefully, your security team follows ethics.
And I imagine that the Bundeswehr is going to follow ethics as well, "no hacking friendly networks......... overtly".
I suggest you look at Shintau beliefs from Japan. They deal with destruction events on a very short cycle, and thus have come to accept this destruction-renewal process. In fact, most shintau shrines are rebuilt every century or so. It's actually a modern western belief system that seems bent upon this idea of stasis.
As such, once we remove our cultural bias of statis, "a time of upheaval" becomes a target larger than the side of a barn, and just as easy to hit.
"Prophecy" relies heavily upon this... that is; the high likelihood that some described event no matter how arbitrary, will have actually occurred, or will have occurred at some point in the future. As long as the prophecy remains "possible" it cannot be discredited, and people will shift their goal posts constantly simply because "hey, it's still possible!"
*listens to the enormous suction noise of goal posts moving*
Doesn't matter, if we keep repeating that Goebbels made that quote, then people will believe it.
Problem solved.
This conversation has clearly already hit the Goodwin Limit... I'm done reading through it now, heheh :)
There is also a prophecy in the Bible concerning the end of the age, where the sun will be seven times hotter: Isaiah 30:26
In the book of Revelation, which is about the end times, we also read about a very much hotter sun: Rev 16:8-9
Ah yes, the perfectly accurate Bible... I forgot about that when I was evaluating my scientific results. Should I run any more data past your particular religious authority of choice?
CRT technology is so mature and LCD so comparatively half baked that I'm totally revolted by the general consensus to throw out completely superior performance in favor of smaller form factor (it's not like they're moved often).
The same thing happened with carburetors and fuel-injection.
Motorcycles still use carburetors because of the history of development behind them, and that they can be made to be more efficient than fuel-injection systems (which can yes be modeled to be arbitrarily close to a carburetor.)
However, in this case, it's one of convenience. Fuel-injection systems have automated chokes, and so you don't have to fiddle with that stuff (I know I've never driven a car with a choke, but have owned 3 modern motorcycles that do have a choke.)
So, your question is, "why would someone throw out completely superior performance in favor of a smaller form factor?" Well, you answered your own question. Most people aren't looking for performance, but rather convenience.
In the same way, you can get stupid crazy power by putting a GSXR engine in a Smart Car (look at youtube for videos) and still have good if not better gas mileage. However, you lose a ton of convenience in the process. ... this is coming from a girl who is interested in cars, but is not a geek in the field... so, a lot of this may be total bullshit, but it should be close enough for government work.
"He said the cutoff for human detection is 7ms."
Not when timing is included into the picture. Drag racing is an example of this. Top level drag racers typically have timed responses of around 1ms.
As the person noted, it's not about his actual ability to perceive the delay, but rather the cumulative effect of "clock drift" between him, and the system, and when the video lag is too high, his natural internal clock drift will vary enough to fall outside of the range of the system's clock.
This is still a special case. He cannot respond any faster than any other human to stimuli, but rather through the accumulation of stimuli he is able to establish an internal clock with a precision that can be hampered by a 2ms lag.
From TFA, actually, Boron Boride is composed of two separate molecules, both of which are allotropes.
So, it's not really BB, but B2B7 or so... I'm less interested in reading TFA again, but you should be able to look it up yourself.
Reading the intro paragraph of the article, I have an answer.
This is an IONIC compound. Someone felt that it was an unnecessary or unimportant distinction to make.
It's the first IONIC compound to be composed of only one element.