In the carolinas and most of the south, this star spangled rag does a disappearing act every 2-3 years. Governors demand it removed and champion equality/unity. successors have it reinstated and champion heritage and history. its removal is about as permanent as the debt ceiling and it in no way addresses the core issue:
in 1865 a band of wealthy plutocrats refused to give up the concept of owning people as pets and cattle. they were so ardently committed to slaves they invented concepts like 3/5ths of a man and an entire caste system of inferiority to justify this system. it worked to prevent poor white sharecroppers form colluding with blacks, but it also kept the federal government from really bothering with the whole thing until it was legitimately scrutinized. 150 years later after a crushing civil war loss, civil rights amendment loss, interracial marriage equality loss, equal housing opportunity HUD loss, equal employment opportunity loss, and an intractable legacy of hate and misery toward blacks, the south is grappling with the seemingly incomprehensible intolerance and disgust for their flag by a majority of americans that no longer care to quietly pretend 13 states are just 'racist' and thats okay. The problem is a neoconservative theocratic moral and ethical sewer culture that feigns patriotism whenever its challenged and cries bloody murder at the very thought of putting its money where its southern hospitality mouth so readily rests.
we have held your hand long enough. Gay marriage, women's healthcare, minority rights, and the abortion debate have all been settled for you by a majority of your peers.
As a committed member of the management team working to facilitate synergy in my group, it disturbed me to learn the delicious donuts and cookies id been bringing to work each friday morning for my team were in fact turning them into knuckle dragging dullards. The crisp crullers and warm cheese danishes that melt in the mouth were stymying their creativity. Action had to be taken and being an ITIL six sigma pirouette jolliette corvette and pork chop marionette certified manager I had to facilitate this actionable the only way I knew how.
Instead of sickening sweets and donuts, I've changed things up. Each friday morning I treat my team to delicious asparagus and baked beans. The beans I'm told provide powerful protein and nutrition, while the asparagus is good for the mind and helps regulate glucose and blood pressure. I only wish the facilities team could get on the bandwagon and start eating healthier. Maybe then they would be able to make some progress on their continuous restroom repair that seems to have lasted for nearly a month now.
Then you have no one to blame but yourself. Congress can't approve or even discuss meaningful tax and funding increases to NASA because lobbyists and networks of nonprofits like ALEC work around the clock to justify gutting it and other programs meaningful and important to advancing mankind. These nonprofits get their cash and impetus from people like you, and others whom for which taxation at any level is simply outrageous and not to be tolerated.
You're one man, Elon. Organized systems like NASA are designed to circumvent the single point of failure. Once you shuffle off this mortal coil, your estate will likely take great pains to eliminate this whimsical space travel endeavor of yours and instead re-invest the money into something like oil or war machines, focusing solely on their own profit. If you want to help, if your dream is space and not some aggrandized ego stroke, then you fund nasa and make mars a reality for everyone.
disclaimer:im not your lawyer.
for those outside the states copyright here is taken incredibly seriously as im sure we're all well aware. If your name becomes a commonplace descriptor it can lose its trademark status entirely. for example, if everyone started saying " I need to pepsi jim about the proposal" or "I cant pepsi this document outside the firewall" then pepsi would lose that trademark. Better examples are in the case of
Kleenex and velcro, who sat around until their trademarks became ubiquitous references to a process or commonplace task. IMAX is working to prevent their technology from being relegated to a vague descriptor of large size and high quality.
Resurs-P No.2 Can we stop at a rest stop russian space agency you just stopped like 2 days ago.... Resurs-P No.2 yeah but i have to go again... russian space agency fine Resurs-P No.2 but make it quick you need to be on the other side of the planet soon... NOAA-4 SATCOM!!! NOAA-16 wont stop touching me. stcom: NOAA-16 stay on your side of the orbit. NOAA-16 ARE WE THERE YET I NEED TO STOP stcom no you orbit the poles you'll be there in another hour or so. just be quiet NOAA-19 my Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer is sore can we stop at a rest stop stcom damnit NOAA-19 not until you stream the rest of your data.
As a supervillain I for one am appalled by this. Armored trucks have always been a private citizens right. whats next? we're going to call into question the dazzling array of flamethrowers and toxic gas rocket launchers theyre equipped with? insufferable. I remember the city council (may they rest in peace) raised a fit after I constructed an army of armored tanks programmed to autonomously roam the streets in search for violators of my holy curfew as their new godking. But, and stay with me here, are we really going to let a bunch of bureaucrats dictate our freedoms? our rights? This country was founded on the principle of liberty and by god (plauthar the vengeful, as has been decreed) I as a private citizen should be allowed to build and command my unstoppable aramda of highly lethal airships to blanket the cities and darken the skies in my mission to root out the uncleansed. Its my american dream, nay, my soverign duty to continue construction of the fifth of my 32 story tall octoped cybernetic death harbingers to scour both mountain and sea for the jade sepulchre of the crest of immortality. What would our founding fathers (not the ones that I've reanimated and chained to the 4 beacons of unholy light in what was once syberia) think of this today.
.net was microsofts misguided attempt to staunch bleeding from open source competitors and recover from the increasingly drunken shit show that was ActiveX. The idea being that while most of the technology existed under Apache 2.0 license, the core redistributed package was proprietary. In typical day-late-dollar-short microsoft fashion the whole thing was hinged on a JIT compiler (because Java in 2002 was a godsend of speed and stability) and came with C++ support in 2005 (more than 20 years after the language was written...nice) via visual studio. Redmond still had a problem though, and that was without a proprietary language, the framework was pointless because C and company were all well known and reasonably portable languages that didnt net any extra cash to Microsoft. So borne of a committee C# came to be, and for many moons C# was wedged into most code shops the same way any other microsoft technology gets there: License bundles. You see programmers were writing plenty of windows software on windows machines, and compiling in windows, but discounts to licenses for the desktop OS the greybeards use was hinged upon accepting free licenses for.NET and the new C# visual studio compiler. Management, ever needful to maximize value, prevented their bosses from yelling at them and in turn started most projects down the intractable cobblestone back alley we know today as.net.
What made matters worse for everyone was now microsoft had an underhanded way to slash the tires of its competitors. If your software beat the pants off Microsoft they might buy it, but if you didnt sell and they knew you wrote C# they used the proprietary compiler against you and simply reimplemented your software with undocumented methods and subroutines that ran faster than yours. Theyd sit out your litigation until you folded, buy up your shop for cheap, and with a few modifications rebrand your application as a microsoft component.
There are two approaches the article betrays through its conjecture...neither are feasible entirely destruction/annihilation: although our arsenal is massive, it is dwarfed by shear size and velocity alone of the objects most are considering hazardous. firing a pyrric volley would fragment the NEO, resulting in a clusterbomb effect of partially radioactive high velocity material, and highly radioactive fallout in most cases. the shockwave from the blasts would be felt in all directions and all objects, including our cities. the EMP would also be a sizeable consideration. fun science fact: this was our solution to russian ICBM's in the cold war. that our missiles would blanket major cities in moderate fallout, but prevent an ICBM from landing. it was purile at best.
Deflection:possibly, but into what or where? with no guarantee the object would become less dangerous in numerous quantities or into how many masses it would fissure into, this is just a hail mary. Very small objects could be obliterated using conventional ballistics but, again, its a technology we employ to eradicate old satellites as a show of military force...not a nuclear option.
TL;DR: nuclear retalliation is a powerful, but awful idea that would result in debilitating destruction of satellites, hazardous fallout, and a loosely based plotline to the next bethesda video game.
I experienced the same chicanery with my credit union recently. A system upgrade took everything (offices, ATM's, network transactions, credit card access and online sites) offline for 3 days. On monday the issues still werent resolved. Credit cards didnt work, online transfers failed, networks that normally recognized the payment cards suddenly didnt, and the on-hold wait time ballooned to nearly 40 minutes. My direct deposits stopped working due to the fact that my accounts had, without explanation, been suffixed with an additional integer. No one cared.
No one cared for a very important reason: there are no repercussions. Banks dont fail in america as im sure they dont fail in europe. theyre secured by the FDIC which raids and reassigns bank ownership quickly and quietly to prevent runs because the very concept of a bank operates on the principle of too big to fail. During the 2008 financial crisis hundreds of banks across the country failed, but were quietly never reported and instead gobbled up by larger institutions. most of the staff, management, and customers just changed letterhead. no one lost a job and the old bank fines became a pittance; a frosting the larger banks kindly paid.
so if a run happened after 600,000 payments were bungled here in the states, the bank manager would keep his job and just assume a new name like 'ally bank.'
does 'certified for iDevice' even matter anymore? I could see it being a concern for the average consumer about a decade ago but so many products, uncertified mind you, exist for the apple to channel audio from soundcard to headbone that the logo itself seems of little merit.
Monster and Beats cultivated a brand all their own. Sure, Dr. Dre doesnt have his doctorate in accoustic waveform theory, but neither does Monster when it comes to a $600 pair of mission control headphones on the average teenager. Its all about the image, and in this case that image is perpetuated by pop culture and not dictated by apple.
one down, about a dozen to go.
on
FDA Bans Trans Fat
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
trans fats we've known for nearly 10 years are killing us but its not enough. the industry has sat on no brainers for too long and shuffled their lobbyists to the tune of profit. Among others that could be and should be banned: High Fructose Corn Syrup has turned us into a nation too fat for everything from coffins to military service. numerous studies concur this isnt sugar. Palm Oil most foods with this ingredient either dont need it, or source it out of a 40 year old legacy habit from colonial dominionism of US trade. the WHO has declared it an abomination, and its destroying rainforest at an alarming rate. Cigarettes full stop. this shouldnt even be a fucking debate. Margerine. this is a culinary abortion with as much or more cardiovascular destructiveness as the butter it so readily supplanted in the 70s. ban this sick filth and lets work on diets that contain respectable, conservative amounts of solid fats when needed.
among other things we could cut down on are processed foods in general. its an industry that scams billions out of americans who are manipulated into willfully and ignorantly assuming boiling water and dispensing corn+soy+sodium from a cardboard box is cooking. Jamie oliver was right. Children should be taught at minimum 25 recipes they can use in life for healthy meals and the recipes should then be a required component of graduation.
Im sure Linus enjoys the title of benevolent leader, but at some point packing it up is best for ones own sanity. Ive been in systems administration so long its easy to lose patience at the slightest question perceived to be too mundane or pedestrian. Developers seem way more apt to fly off the file handle after being chained to a project for a decade.
Cultivate a hobby. For me i moved into management as one is apt to do, and learned how to make soap.
Continuing to pay more and more to music producers, not artists, incentivizes content mills. Nowhere is this more obvious than American pop music and radio. the same 5 songs are played, 15 times a week, for 3 months in a concerted effort to sell a product or vision. that vision once packaged is then augmented slightly and cloned to other artists. themes of independence, individuality, triumph, and scandal therefore become omnipresent themes in every artist from pitbull to kesha. artists no longer write their own songs or compose their own melodies; they are merely a delivery vehicle for revenue.
Producers realize Apple and Spotify will eventually cast them aside like so much chaff, and in an effort to ensure continued revenue now perform tie-ins to markets and products. LMFAO, Pitbull, and several rap artists have found themselves opining for various branded liquor and apparel despite their personal convictions. older artists are in turn being repackaged for sale to advertisement firms, political campaigns, soft drink companies and films in order to continue generating revenue for producers. John Legend hasnt done anything meaningful in 2 years, for example, yet he still managed to show up on the Django: unchained soundtrack without pay im certain.
Producers will eventually exhaust their creative pool of old brands, having disenfranchised the majority of them into either creative commons licenses or retirement with periodic litigation.
For those of you new to the idea of the internet and its related jargon, here are a few definitions for words we use quite a bit:
Comcastic: When someone tells you its comcastic, it generally means an untreatable state of general malease and agony. Example: "the cancer has become comcastic" bundling: this is a business strategy used by internet service providers to ensure that when your internet quits working, so does your phone and your television. the only thing that wont stop working however are the recurring payments you make for the service.
Also, when calling for technical support and service it is a common misconception to assume the phrase" your call is very important to us" is actually true. In fact, this is entirely false. Many ISP's have entire departments of hundreds, even thousands of dedicated representitives working hard to ensure your misery.
Outrage!
Scandal!
fat-cat politicians and their greedy elite
the car insurance news you won't believe is true!
best hair color 2015 announced!
how this company is disrupting shaving!
University of Illinois: guys we just invented a process to unscramble an egg. Fire up that nobel prize and tell ken to keep his quiches out of the breakroom microwave.. Iowa State University: not so fast losers, we just invented an ant catching robot tentacle. NIST so...uh...hows that grant money working out...did you guys hear about that new horizons probe? heck of a lot of science there... Iowa State University Illinois just figured out how to ruin breakfast for the tenured faculty and I invented ant hentai
so the purveyors of unlicensed, unregulated public transportation services by potentially non directly employed third party contractors not required to submit to drug or background checks is complaining their service, which has been banned in spain, thailand, india and briefly germany, is being bilked for incentive payments in a country with markets for such exotiques as recycled cooking oil rendered from waste food. I guess the best solution could be to stop running an unregulated, unlicensed transit network thats been charged of raping and assaulting passengers in the past...or i guess just try another country and see if the idea of ayn rand on wheels works any better.
I dont have any issues with additional CS or code education in schools, but we need to reconsider how we go about this. educators should take aim at systemic inequality in the classroom and foster a more collaborative experience for everyone. What we typically get from Microsoft and company is half-assed attempts to make computer science pink, cuddly, and dollhouse-shaped. as fo the whole 'The U.S. is facing a shortage of CS graduates.' drumbeat, it is disingenous in its wording. What Microsoft bemoans is the lack of CS graduates as disposably plentiful and affordable as fry-o-lator cooks at McDonalds. Weve spent so much time asking why everyone doesnt code, that we never stopped to ask if everyone could or even should code.
its 2015. we have autonomous vehicles and spacecraft that land on asteroids. we even have a cure for chicken pox, battery powered cars, and all the worlds knowledge in a single handheld device we all keep in our pockets or purses. So, based on TFA, when did it become a standard requirement to include 'the cloud' and a tiny condescending diagram of a raincloud into every single announcement of a new product
The real question isnt who attacked Kaspersky, but why Kaspersky still runs a punching bag OS like Windows. One would expect a major security vendor would have hardened everything from the secretaries desktop to the coffee maker.
I still use a full tower PC, built by hand, in the tradition of the greybeards that went before me. The ram is 16 gigabytes, mostly because it was cheap enough but partly because every gigabyte lets me stick it to old 64k bill. I have a six core AMD and a fancy fanless power supply. My video card is whatever was under a hundred dollars at newegg (X doesnt need much.) I have about 1tb of disk between two seagates, and a 64 gigabyte SSD for slackware. Ive recently switched to two monitors at home, as my last few jobs have all insisted i have two...although back in my day we only used one monitor in the office (and we liked it that way.) Keyboard? thats a model M and ill thank you to keep those lilly white chiclet keys of yours on the coffee shop laptop. Ive got a mouse somewhere but its buried under a mountain of ham radio equipment and some books on circuits.
In this foul year of our lord 2051 I come with dire prophecy indeed. We ushered in 6k and 8k. We were fools tampering with the very godlike fabric of reality. We couldnt understand that during the advent of 12k and 24k society would be forever unravelled. Here now i speak to you through a nonillion K display capable of focusing the very aetherous quarks that bind the very reality in which we live. Taylor swift is experienced now in a depth and purity no human should ever be subjected to. Gangnam style has been, as was our foolhardy command, re-recorded and upsampled ad infinitum until Psy himself was determined to be the collective realization of the abstract concept of the human genome. We no longer eat, we simply gaze into our septillion K smartphones and derive sustinance and nutrition itself from the very image itself. We cannot sleep, for to sleep would serve a willing respite from a Buzzfeed top 10 that in such clarity and sharpness has rendered us all wracked with madness in the very iteration of the decimals. Justin Bieber is now a monastic tribute for many, nay, all. We through our duodecillion K display pay homage and tribute during sunday mass. We are in fact like Baby. Baby. Baby.
Its not part of the general discussion of the firefox backlash, but for those of us neckbeards that dont care for chrome or safari, Qupzilla provides a workable fork of Mozilla firefox with a functional adblock and a much, much slimmer disk footprint on the system.
The batteriser as its been advertised, a veritable christs knickers of portable energy, serves to lather and condition your batteries into perfect servitude. This conditioning, which as was duly noted in the article, has existed since the dawning of the world. when batterus first descended the hill of power with the first golden iphone and decreed there to be wifi and roaming atop the mount, he also eluded to the batteriser. Indeed, sometimes the battery will approach 80% but did you know? sometimes the power level will reach untold fathoms of pure radiant fullness, capable of streaming both music and video at 1080p and also bending the very laws of time and space. Sell like hot cakes? yes, yes it would, but the batteriser is too powerful, too potent for syrupy maple extractions or whipped creams. Its deliciousness is a pure pleasure not even the most refined of pallets could taste. Batteriser resorts to claims of 8x battery life because batteriser is incomprehensible by the purile unwashed. Touching on quantum thermodynamic mastication, the batteriser works simply by folding a predetermined number of muons in subspace and in doing so reanimating the corpse of abraham lincoln to harness the tachyons at the center of the dying star that secretly controls charlie sheen. Its really quite simple.
as a school administrator, i can explain.
on
Stormtrooper Arrested
·
· Score: 4, Funny
The stormtrooper was easily and clearly observed brandishing a blaster (obviously a danger to people.) This of course is totally different than the numerous calls from parents and students about the recent appearance of the moon during all hours of the afternoon. The moon visible near the school is clearly a celestial body, and poses no harm to the students. This morning we've even observed its brilliant glimmer from th$T22$@@%%^[CARRIER LOST]
Slashdot Mirror
In the carolinas and most of the south, this star spangled rag does a disappearing act every 2-3 years. Governors demand it removed and champion equality/unity. successors have it reinstated and champion heritage and history. its removal is about as permanent as the debt ceiling and it in no way addresses the core issue:
in 1865 a band of wealthy plutocrats refused to give up the concept of owning people as pets and cattle. they were so ardently committed to slaves they invented concepts like 3/5ths of a man and an entire caste system of inferiority to justify this system. it worked to prevent poor white sharecroppers form colluding with blacks, but it also kept the federal government from really bothering with the whole thing until it was legitimately scrutinized. 150 years later after a crushing civil war loss, civil rights amendment loss, interracial marriage equality loss, equal housing opportunity HUD loss, equal employment opportunity loss, and an intractable legacy of hate and misery toward blacks, the south is grappling with the seemingly incomprehensible intolerance and disgust for their flag by a majority of americans that no longer care to quietly pretend 13 states are just 'racist' and thats okay. The problem is a neoconservative theocratic moral and ethical sewer culture that feigns patriotism whenever its challenged and cries bloody murder at the very thought of putting its money where its southern hospitality mouth so readily rests.
we have held your hand long enough. Gay marriage, women's healthcare, minority rights, and the abortion debate have all been settled for you by a majority of your peers.
As a committed member of the management team working to facilitate synergy in my group, it disturbed me to learn the delicious donuts and cookies id been bringing to work each friday morning for my team were in fact turning them into knuckle dragging dullards. The crisp crullers and warm cheese danishes that melt in the mouth were stymying their creativity. Action had to be taken and being an ITIL six sigma pirouette jolliette corvette and pork chop marionette certified manager I had to facilitate this actionable the only way I knew how.
Instead of sickening sweets and donuts, I've changed things up. Each friday morning I treat my team to delicious asparagus and baked beans. The beans I'm told provide powerful protein and nutrition, while the asparagus is good for the mind and helps regulate glucose and blood pressure. I only wish the facilities team could get on the bandwagon and start eating healthier. Maybe then they would be able to make some progress on their continuous restroom repair that seems to have lasted for nearly a month now.
but I dont have faith in Congress to fund them.
Then you have no one to blame but yourself. Congress can't approve or even discuss meaningful tax and funding increases to NASA because lobbyists and networks of nonprofits like ALEC work around the clock to justify gutting it and other programs meaningful and important to advancing mankind. These nonprofits get their cash and impetus from people like you, and others whom for which taxation at any level is simply outrageous and not to be tolerated.
You're one man, Elon. Organized systems like NASA are designed to circumvent the single point of failure. Once you shuffle off this mortal coil, your estate will likely take great pains to eliminate this whimsical space travel endeavor of yours and instead re-invest the money into something like oil or war machines, focusing solely on their own profit. If you want to help, if your dream is space and not some aggrandized ego stroke, then you fund nasa and make mars a reality for everyone.
disclaimer:im not your lawyer.
for those outside the states copyright here is taken incredibly seriously as im sure we're all well aware. If your name becomes a commonplace descriptor it can lose its trademark status entirely. for example, if everyone started saying " I need to pepsi jim about the proposal" or "I cant pepsi this document outside the firewall" then pepsi would lose that trademark. Better examples are in the case of Kleenex and velcro, who sat around until their trademarks became ubiquitous references to a process or commonplace task. IMAX is working to prevent their technology from being relegated to a vague descriptor of large size and high quality.
Resurs-P No.2 Can we stop at a rest stop
russian space agency you just stopped like 2 days ago....
Resurs-P No.2 yeah but i have to go again...
russian space agency fine Resurs-P No.2 but make it quick you need to be on the other side of the planet soon...
NOAA-4 SATCOM!!! NOAA-16 wont stop touching me.
stcom: NOAA-16 stay on your side of the orbit.
NOAA-16 ARE WE THERE YET I NEED TO STOP
stcom no you orbit the poles you'll be there in another hour or so. just be quiet
NOAA-19 my Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer is sore can we stop at a rest stop
stcom damnit NOAA-19 not until you stream the rest of your data.
As a supervillain I for one am appalled by this. Armored trucks have always been a private citizens right. whats next? we're going to call into question the dazzling array of flamethrowers and toxic gas rocket launchers theyre equipped with? insufferable. I remember the city council (may they rest in peace) raised a fit after I constructed an army of armored tanks programmed to autonomously roam the streets in search for violators of my holy curfew as their new godking. But, and stay with me here, are we really going to let a bunch of bureaucrats dictate our freedoms? our rights? This country was founded on the principle of liberty and by god (plauthar the vengeful, as has been decreed) I as a private citizen should be allowed to build and command my unstoppable aramda of highly lethal airships to blanket the cities and darken the skies in my mission to root out the uncleansed. Its my american dream, nay, my soverign duty to continue construction of the fifth of my 32 story tall octoped cybernetic death harbingers to scour both mountain and sea for the jade sepulchre of the crest of immortality. What would our founding fathers (not the ones that I've reanimated and chained to the 4 beacons of unholy light in what was once syberia) think of this today.
.net was microsofts misguided attempt to staunch bleeding from open source competitors and recover from the increasingly drunken shit show that was ActiveX. The idea being that while most of the technology existed under Apache 2.0 license, the core redistributed package was proprietary. In typical day-late-dollar-short microsoft fashion the whole thing was hinged on a JIT compiler (because Java in 2002 was a godsend of speed and stability) and came with C++ support in 2005 (more than 20 years after the language was written...nice) via visual studio. Redmond still had a problem though, and that was without a proprietary language, the framework was pointless because C and company were all well known and reasonably portable languages that didnt net any extra cash to Microsoft. So borne of a committee C# came to be, and for many moons C# was wedged into most code shops the same way any other microsoft technology gets there: License bundles. You see programmers were writing plenty of windows software on windows machines, and compiling in windows, but discounts to licenses for the desktop OS the greybeards use was hinged upon accepting free licenses for .NET and the new C# visual studio compiler. Management, ever needful to maximize value, prevented their bosses from yelling at them and in turn started most projects down the intractable cobblestone back alley we know today as .net.
What made matters worse for everyone was now microsoft had an underhanded way to slash the tires of its competitors. If your software beat the pants off Microsoft they might buy it, but if you didnt sell and they knew you wrote C# they used the proprietary compiler against you and simply reimplemented your software with undocumented methods and subroutines that ran faster than yours. Theyd sit out your litigation until you folded, buy up your shop for cheap, and with a few modifications rebrand your application as a microsoft component.
There are two approaches the article betrays through its conjecture...neither are feasible entirely
destruction/annihilation: although our arsenal is massive, it is dwarfed by shear size and velocity alone of the objects most are considering hazardous. firing a pyrric volley would fragment the NEO, resulting in a clusterbomb effect of partially radioactive high velocity material, and highly radioactive fallout in most cases. the shockwave from the blasts would be felt in all directions and all objects, including our cities. the EMP would also be a sizeable consideration. fun science fact: this was our solution to russian ICBM's in the cold war. that our missiles would blanket major cities in moderate fallout, but prevent an ICBM from landing. it was purile at best.
Deflection:possibly, but into what or where? with no guarantee the object would become less dangerous in numerous quantities or into how many masses it would fissure into, this is just a hail mary. Very small objects could be obliterated using conventional ballistics but, again, its a technology we employ to eradicate old satellites as a show of military force...not a nuclear option.
TL;DR: nuclear retalliation is a powerful, but awful idea that would result in debilitating destruction of satellites, hazardous fallout, and a loosely based plotline to the next bethesda video game.
I experienced the same chicanery with my credit union recently. A system upgrade took everything (offices, ATM's, network transactions, credit card access and online sites) offline for 3 days. On monday the issues still werent resolved. Credit cards didnt work, online transfers failed, networks that normally recognized the payment cards suddenly didnt, and the on-hold wait time ballooned to nearly 40 minutes. My direct deposits stopped working due to the fact that my accounts had, without explanation, been suffixed with an additional integer. No one cared.
No one cared for a very important reason: there are no repercussions. Banks dont fail in america as im sure they dont fail in europe. theyre secured by the FDIC which raids and reassigns bank ownership quickly and quietly to prevent runs because the very concept of a bank operates on the principle of too big to fail. During the 2008 financial crisis hundreds of banks across the country failed, but were quietly never reported and instead gobbled up by larger institutions. most of the staff, management, and customers just changed letterhead. no one lost a job and the old bank fines became a pittance; a frosting the larger banks kindly paid.
so if a run happened after 600,000 payments were bungled here in the states, the bank manager would keep his job and just assume a new name like 'ally bank.'
does 'certified for iDevice' even matter anymore? I could see it being a concern for the average consumer about a decade ago but so many products, uncertified mind you, exist for the apple to channel audio from soundcard to headbone that the logo itself seems of little merit.
Monster and Beats cultivated a brand all their own. Sure, Dr. Dre doesnt have his doctorate in accoustic waveform theory, but neither does Monster when it comes to a $600 pair of mission control headphones on the average teenager. Its all about the image, and in this case that image is perpetuated by pop culture and not dictated by apple.
trans fats we've known for nearly 10 years are killing us but its not enough. the industry has sat on no brainers for too long and shuffled their lobbyists to the tune of profit. Among others that could be and should be banned:
High Fructose Corn Syrup has turned us into a nation too fat for everything from coffins to military service. numerous studies concur this isnt sugar.
Palm Oil most foods with this ingredient either dont need it, or source it out of a 40 year old legacy habit from colonial dominionism of US trade. the WHO has declared it an abomination, and its destroying rainforest at an alarming rate.
Cigarettes full stop. this shouldnt even be a fucking debate.
Margerine. this is a culinary abortion with as much or more cardiovascular destructiveness as the butter it so readily supplanted in the 70s. ban this sick filth and lets work on diets that contain respectable, conservative amounts of solid fats when needed.
among other things we could cut down on are processed foods in general. its an industry that scams billions out of americans who are manipulated into willfully and ignorantly assuming boiling water and dispensing corn+soy+sodium from a cardboard box is cooking. Jamie oliver was right. Children should be taught at minimum 25 recipes they can use in life for healthy meals and the recipes should then be a required component of graduation.
Im sure Linus enjoys the title of benevolent leader, but at some point packing it up is best for ones own sanity. Ive been in systems administration so long its easy to lose patience at the slightest question perceived to be too mundane or pedestrian. Developers seem way more apt to fly off the file handle after being chained to a project for a decade.
Cultivate a hobby. For me i moved into management as one is apt to do, and learned how to make soap.
Continuing to pay more and more to music producers, not artists, incentivizes content mills. Nowhere is this more obvious than American pop music and radio. the same 5 songs are played, 15 times a week, for 3 months in a concerted effort to sell a product or vision. that vision once packaged is then augmented slightly and cloned to other artists. themes of independence, individuality, triumph, and scandal therefore become omnipresent themes in every artist from pitbull to kesha. artists no longer write their own songs or compose their own melodies; they are merely a delivery vehicle for revenue.
Producers realize Apple and Spotify will eventually cast them aside like so much chaff, and in an effort to ensure continued revenue now perform tie-ins to markets and products. LMFAO, Pitbull, and several rap artists have found themselves opining for various branded liquor and apparel despite their personal convictions. older artists are in turn being repackaged for sale to advertisement firms, political campaigns, soft drink companies and films in order to continue generating revenue for producers. John Legend hasnt done anything meaningful in 2 years, for example, yet he still managed to show up on the Django: unchained soundtrack without pay im certain.
Producers will eventually exhaust their creative pool of old brands, having disenfranchised the majority of them into either creative commons licenses or retirement with periodic litigation.
For those of you new to the idea of the internet and its related jargon, here are a few definitions for words we use quite a bit:
Comcastic: When someone tells you its comcastic, it generally means an untreatable state of general malease and agony. Example: "the cancer has become comcastic"
bundling: this is a business strategy used by internet service providers to ensure that when your internet quits working, so does your phone and your television. the only thing that wont stop working however are the recurring payments you make for the service.
Also, when calling for technical support and service it is a common misconception to assume the phrase" your call is very important to us" is actually true. In fact, this is entirely false. Many ISP's have entire departments of hundreds, even thousands of dedicated representitives working hard to ensure your misery.
Outrage!
Scandal!
fat-cat politicians and their greedy elite
the car insurance news you won't believe is true!
best hair color 2015 announced!
how this company is disrupting shaving!
sure feels like friday around here.
University of Illinois: guys we just invented a process to unscramble an egg. Fire up that nobel prize and tell ken to keep his quiches out of the breakroom microwave..
Iowa State University: not so fast losers, we just invented an ant catching robot tentacle.
NIST so...uh...hows that grant money working out...did you guys hear about that new horizons probe? heck of a lot of science there...
Iowa State University Illinois just figured out how to ruin breakfast for the tenured faculty and I invented ant hentai
so the purveyors of unlicensed, unregulated public transportation services by potentially non directly employed third party contractors not required to submit to drug or background checks is complaining their service, which has been banned in spain, thailand, india and briefly germany, is being bilked for incentive payments in a country with markets for such exotiques as recycled cooking oil rendered from waste food. I guess the best solution could be to stop running an unregulated, unlicensed transit network thats been charged of raping and assaulting passengers in the past...or i guess just try another country and see if the idea of ayn rand on wheels works any better.
I dont have any issues with additional CS or code education in schools, but we need to reconsider how we go about this. educators should take aim at systemic inequality in the classroom and foster a more collaborative experience for everyone. What we typically get from Microsoft and company is half-assed attempts to make computer science pink, cuddly, and dollhouse-shaped. as fo the whole 'The U.S. is facing a shortage of CS graduates.' drumbeat, it is disingenous in its wording. What Microsoft bemoans is the lack of CS graduates as disposably plentiful and affordable as fry-o-lator cooks at McDonalds. Weve spent so much time asking why everyone doesnt code, that we never stopped to ask if everyone could or even should code.
its 2015. we have autonomous vehicles and spacecraft that land on asteroids. we even have a cure for chicken pox, battery powered cars, and all the worlds knowledge in a single handheld device we all keep in our pockets or purses. So, based on TFA, when did it become a standard requirement to include 'the cloud' and a tiny condescending diagram of a raincloud into every single announcement of a new product
The real question isnt who attacked Kaspersky, but why Kaspersky still runs a punching bag OS like Windows. One would expect a major security vendor would have hardened everything from the secretaries desktop to the coffee maker.
I still use a full tower PC, built by hand, in the tradition of the greybeards that went before me. The ram is 16 gigabytes, mostly because it was cheap enough but partly because every gigabyte lets me stick it to old 64k bill. I have a six core AMD and a fancy fanless power supply. My video card is whatever was under a hundred dollars at newegg (X doesnt need much.) I have about 1tb of disk between two seagates, and a 64 gigabyte SSD for slackware. Ive recently switched to two monitors at home, as my last few jobs have all insisted i have two...although back in my day we only used one monitor in the office (and we liked it that way.) Keyboard? thats a model M and ill thank you to keep those lilly white chiclet keys of yours on the coffee shop laptop. Ive got a mouse somewhere but its buried under a mountain of ham radio equipment and some books on circuits.
In this foul year of our lord 2051 I come with dire prophecy indeed. We ushered in 6k and 8k. We were fools tampering with the very godlike fabric of reality. We couldnt understand that during the advent of 12k and 24k society would be forever unravelled. Here now i speak to you through a nonillion K display capable of focusing the very aetherous quarks that bind the very reality in which we live. Taylor swift is experienced now in a depth and purity no human should ever be subjected to. Gangnam style has been, as was our foolhardy command, re-recorded and upsampled ad infinitum until Psy himself was determined to be the collective realization of the abstract concept of the human genome. We no longer eat, we simply gaze into our septillion K smartphones and derive sustinance and nutrition itself from the very image itself. We cannot sleep, for to sleep would serve a willing respite from a Buzzfeed top 10 that in such clarity and sharpness has rendered us all wracked with madness in the very iteration of the decimals. Justin Bieber is now a monastic tribute for many, nay, all. We through our duodecillion K display pay homage and tribute during sunday mass. We are in fact like Baby. Baby. Baby.
Its not part of the general discussion of the firefox backlash, but for those of us neckbeards that dont care for chrome or safari, Qupzilla provides a workable fork of Mozilla firefox with a functional adblock and a much, much slimmer disk footprint on the system.
The batteriser as its been advertised, a veritable christs knickers of portable energy, serves to lather and condition your batteries into perfect servitude. This conditioning, which as was duly noted in the article, has existed since the dawning of the world. when batterus first descended the hill of power with the first golden iphone and decreed there to be wifi and roaming atop the mount, he also eluded to the batteriser. Indeed, sometimes the battery will approach 80% but did you know? sometimes the power level will reach untold fathoms of pure radiant fullness, capable of streaming both music and video at 1080p and also bending the very laws of time and space. Sell like hot cakes? yes, yes it would, but the batteriser is too powerful, too potent for syrupy maple extractions or whipped creams. Its deliciousness is a pure pleasure not even the most refined of pallets could taste. Batteriser resorts to claims of 8x battery life because batteriser is incomprehensible by the purile unwashed. Touching on quantum thermodynamic mastication, the batteriser works simply by folding a predetermined number of muons in subspace and in doing so reanimating the corpse of abraham lincoln to harness the tachyons at the center of the dying star that secretly controls charlie sheen. Its really quite simple.
The stormtrooper was easily and clearly observed brandishing a blaster (obviously a danger to people.) This of course is totally different than the numerous calls from parents and students about the recent appearance of the moon during all hours of the afternoon. The moon visible near the school is clearly a celestial body, and poses no harm to the students. This morning we've even observed its brilliant glimmer from th$T22$@@%%^[CARRIER LOST]