Comment Re:Well, I guess I've got to watch it now. (Score 1) 356
Crime is down to historic lows right now.
Rape is consistently underreported.
Crime is down to historic lows right now.
Rape is consistently underreported.
Bull. I got a simple Seiko for 400 euro.
I got a simple Casio for ten dollars. Keeps time at least as well as your Seiko and as a nice side benefit it's a nice gitmo talking point. (Yes, that's really truly the watch I own.) As a side benefit, if it gets damaged, lost, stolen etc., I don't care.
Your watch is a bracelet. It's jewelry, and being a watch is secondary.
If the video contains anything copyrighted by the Indian government or by a corporation friendly to the Indian government, then anyone hosting the video is liable for copyright infringement. Not all countries recognize fair use to the same extent.
I always wanted to copyright my name, do something outrageous, and then sue all the media that runs a story on it.
Hey India: "Sticking your head in the sand ignoring the issue doesn't make it go away!"
I suspect you could say that to all governments, on lots of issues.
AIUI, the blue is caused by refraction and all other colors by pigments.
That was just an example. Even with more realism, more colors and better graphics it doesn't explain why the same kind of game needs 4-5 GB today (except for bloated coding).
Well, mostly it's textures and audio. Look at any AAA game and that's where the bulk of the install comes from.
We had enough to destroy them 10x over. Being able to do it 20x over doesn't make us any more powerful.
Of course, it does. Your logic only works, if all missiles available will remain operational and reach their targets if launched.
But that's not a valid assumption. Consider, for example, the possibility of one side's launchers — submarines, bombers, mobile launchers, or stationary silos — being disabled and/or taken-over somehow. They aren't run always by the best, unfortunately...
If a mere handful of such installations need to survive for us to remain capable of annihilating the enemy, they would not risk it. But, if our counter-attack requires, say, 50% of them to be operational, the enemy might attempt such an action.
Similar arithmetic applies, if the target's defenses are deemed capable of destroying a significant fraction of incoming missiles. Russia already fears our interception technology, for example, and has its own. If such defenses can take out 90% of the incoming, you do need to fire 10x more. And you better use 20x more to be sure...
the current intepretation is a product of late 20th century judicial activism in an era of increasing crime and bernie goetz/ dirty harry style anger. it has to do with handguns, individual action, and urban environments
but the second amendment is about long guns, community action, and rural hinterland
as crime declined and continues to decline (due to the waning of the crack epidemic and better policing like COMPSTAT, not handgun ownership) we are at a crossroads where a loud minority insists hothead douchebags walking around half cocked with guns in civil society is good. it's fucking stupid, it's a recipe for unnecessary death, and doesn't impact crime at all
our social and economic peers control hand guns far better, and are not cesspools of rape, murder, and robbery. in fact, they are a mostly equivalent on crime measures as us, but a lot lower than us on measure of murder. because we're the morons with all the extra pointless easy guns
so we shall return to the original intent of the founding fathers: long guns, community action, and rural hinterland (no one wants to take away your shot gun, farmer/ hunter, and you deserve it), and do away with this late 20th century judicial activism about handguns, individual action, and urban environments
you get trained, tested, THEN you get a gun. and we will cut down on the USA's absolutely insane sky high homicide rate compared to our social and economic peers
do you see a problem here that needs correcting? the majority of americans do:
Meanwhile back in the '80s a C64 or Apple][+ could run a combat flight simulator in about 40K of RAM and 1 *MHZ* Cpu.
I wonder what Chuck Yeager thought about 4-color graphics.
News flash - atheists get married too. It's only a religious construct for those who want to believe it is (such as religions that don't want to see same-sex marriage for "religious reasons").
Restricting it to specific peoples or groups of peoples is a religious construct. Religion as we know it in the west is rooted in Judeo-Christian ceremonies intended primarily to account for the disposition of wealth and the care of children in the case of the death of one spouse.
Pretty much everything in their Ultra PCI range was simply uncompetitive with Linux PCs.
That depends on the era you're thinking about. Up through about the UltraSparc 10, they still had more power than any PC. Around then, PC processors caught up to UltraSparc and the writing went up on the wall. PCs and UltraSparc "workstations" were literally being built out of the same chips (the disk controllers and whatnot) and the specialness faded quickly.
In current context, yes, SJW is a bad thing. Their focus is not on justice at all but persecution.
That's how everybody is most of the time, or most people are all of the time, whichever you prefer.
The Big Astronomy does not want you to know, that big planets are getting bigger, while the small ones are getting smaller.
I'd rather have as much functionality as I can from the developer of the browser itself. Extensions are helpful (particularly for obscure features that no browser developer would bother writing because the user base would be too small) but all to often they break more than they fix.
The obvious rebuttal is that features should be moved into official extensions. There is NO REASON WHATOSEVER why default Firefox should have debugging tools. The whole goddamn point of Firefox is that it is a platform, there should be no benefit to building any functionality in as opposed to adding it as an extension.
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.