Comment Re:More toys for the men in green suits (Score 2) 290
If they are really that important: there ought to be an interlock that means that they will only fly if there is a 5 star general strapped on board.
Or Slim Pickens.
If they are really that important: there ought to be an interlock that means that they will only fly if there is a 5 star general strapped on board.
Or Slim Pickens.
Yeah, and global warming is faked by the left wing media, and vaccines are poison, and municipal water flouridation is a communist plot. Oh, and by the way, you don't really believe that you are anonymous here on
Doubting the official line on the Sony hack is hardly the stuff of tinfoil-hat denialism. How's this for a scenario: (1) Garden-variety haxx0rz and/or a disgruntled employee steal a bunch of embarrassing files from Sony -- plenty of motive there -- and dump the files on the web. (2) Some moron in the media starts speculating that it has something to do with an idiotic movie about North Korea, and the echo chamber amplifies it as truth. (3) Haxx0rz, sensing an epic opportunity for lulz, play along with the feeding frenzy in the media with some crazy threats against screening the movie, then sit back and watch the fun as paranoia in the FBI and mindless nationalism in the population do the rest of their work for them.
Couldn't be.
I've seen the flag-on-the-truck thing many times - never seen a confederate flag.
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
http://www.tampabay.com/multim...
http://onlyoneheaven.files.wor...
http://media.cmgdigital.com/sh...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cuK...
https://historicstruggle.files...
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic...
I rest my case.
No, it's the big flag he stuck in the pickup bed 13 years ago
Confederate flag.
Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.
You really think it was the North Koreans who did the Sony hack?
Sucker. Enjoy the crappy movie.
Your cat thinks your a moron, and is going to poop in your headphones.
Long overdue. Time for cigars and mojitos all around!
Oh, come on. Somebody mod parent "funny".
So you are saying that the only reason that people do anything is for recognition or money?
Are you?
No, I am saying that the people who have an interest in assigning credit for work are the people who provide funding and jobs, because they don't want to provide either funding or jobs to people who are not actually creating new ideas. These are also the people who pay for journal subscriptions, fund conferences and professional societies, and confer degrees.
As far as the people who do the research are concerned, very few of them would be able to continue doing research in the absence of funding. Do you think lab equipment, office space, and staff are free?
Why does anyone need 'credit' for ideas?
Because it allows funding agencies, university tenure committees, etc. to determine which people are contributing useful new science to the world, and which people are dead wood sucking at the teat of an academic salary without creating anything useful to anybody.
I have two monitors: one landscape, one next to it flipped into portrait mode. It's not fucking rocket science.
I mean, really.
Or is that a phenomenally stupid idea for some glaringly obvious reasons?
It's a phenomenally stupid idea for glaringly obvious reasons.
this is the first time i've heard this claim. reference? i know of the hand wringing about if we can trust the h/w, but i didn't see any evidence that it was broken.
It's not that cryptography has failed to bring us security, it's that the people have failed to make use of the available cryptography in the first place.
It's worse than that. As an artist friend of mine told me recently: "Ten years ago I used to wonder how people would respond to the massive loss of privacy represented by social media. Now we know: the only thing people actually worry about is that nobody is watching."
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
