Comment Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! (Score 1, Flamebait) 718
Give Obama four more years and his foreign opinion will drop just as low as Bush after his 4+4 years.
Give Obama four more years and his foreign opinion will drop just as low as Bush after his 4+4 years.
>>>Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.
Unfortunately multiple studies have shown using Real names doesn't make conversations more civilized. It just invites more revenge scenarios from those who feel insulted & strike back in real life. So real names actually make things worse.
Anonymity is also important for one's longterm sanity. Nothing sucks more than to have an employee dig-up an old postings from 1990-something and say, "Do you really feel Michael Jackson should have been castrated for his abuse of children? I'm sorry but we can't hire such a vocal person. You would be a liability for our company."
A worse scenario is if the government comes after you because they think you might be a terrorist. "What did you mean when you posted in 1997 that you think Clinton should be shot for raping Monica Lewinsky?" - Remember a guy just recently spent 4 nights in jail for saying things far less damaging on non-anonymous facebook. Anonymity goes as far back as the Founders who posted anonymous flyers in order to avoid arrest by the UK Government. It protects you from blowback from those desirign revenge.
>>>their MAIN weaponry is the planes that they carry
Better yet: Just eliminate the men and the planes. They take-up too much room. Replace them with self-guided missiles that don't need to eat or sleep. You can carry thousands of them in the space of an aircraft carrier and project power as quickly as you press a button. No need to wait for waking-up the men, fueling the planes, moving them into position, et cetera. Missiles are ready near-instantly.
Yes. Aircraft carriers == countries grandstanding about how big & strong they are. Politicians like Romney brag about "showing strength to discourage attack" and the voters eat it up.
Of course a better projection of power instead of obsolete battleships or airplane carriers would be the Arsenal Ship I worked on in the 90s. It was filled with nothing but self-guided missiles & required very minimal staffing. Just enough to watch the radar and load targeting solutions. Nothing says "power" like a ship that can launch 500 nuclear-tipped tomahawks in less than ten minutes. Or a barrage of ship-to-air missiles to shoot aircraft carrier attacks from the sky.
>>>Are you fucking kidding me? you think it is OK for anyone to abuse the public power to prevent academics from doing their job?
Are you fucking kidding me? you think it is OK for anyone to hide their crimes just because they are "academics"? I don't care about Mann but this judge set bad precedent. Mann is now an employee of PSU. The judge's ruling means his fellow PSU employees Jerry Sandusky, Gary Schultz, Tim Curley, and Grahm Spanier can also hide their emails. These child abusers/accomplices can coverup their emails and hide their potential crimes by simply saying, "We're college administrators and immune per the Virgina v. Mann ruling." Way to go judge.
In my opinion ALL government employees should be subject to the FOIA. Perhaps impose a time limit of 7 years to protect current info, but otherwise everything should be open for review by the Taxpayers who are funding whatever goes-on behind closed doors (or in lockerroom showers).
I really don't care either way. As an employee of the government (first of UVA now PSU) the guy should have NO more privacy of his emails than does Jerry Sandusky, Gary Schultz, Tim Curley, and Grahm Spanier. If this Mann fellow can claim "private emails" to hide his communcations then so too can the other guys I listed..... and that would be wrong. The judge has set a bad precedent that will allow these child abusers/accomplices to coverup their emails and hide their potential crimes.
The problem is that a lot of those "NASA inventions" actually came from private companies & private individuals (like the guy who discovered velcro while hiking & then developed it on his own). So we would have had these inventions even without the space program, and for far less money than the trillions spent.
Yeah except it says "..... something Linux has HAD working since 2007". i.e. functional dynamic ticks.
And my comment was about how I'm not surprised another OS is ahead of windows.
>>>or that they've lost $15,000 in loans to Goldman Sachs and Solyndra
Thanks for demoing how easily people are duped. Solyndra went out of business (as did almost all the other green companies that received loans). That money is GONE and the taxpayers will never get it back. As for Goldman & other banks they still exist but they also still owe the U.S. Treasury (i.e. the taxpayers' treasury) trillions of dollars.
And no TARP was not paid back. I wish people would stop repeating that myth. All the companies did was borrow money from a *different* loan program and then use that second loan to pay off the original loan. It's called accounting trickery. Similar to how Hollywood claims no movie ever makes a profit.
READ: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/242731/did-tarp-money-really-get-paid-back-kevin-d-williamson#
>>>My kids are in their twenties and I doubt either one ever saw a typewriter, period, let alone a manual one.
They've never watched old movies with secretaries typing-away on their manual or selectronic typewriters?
>>>Rather off-topic considering this is about an Intel processor and not Windows though.
Not off-topic at all. I was merely responding to this part of the
>>>Lol, behind Linux? Right. Who gets better battery life? I shouldn't even argue, your desperate desire to "beat" Microsoft seems to be all you cling on to
I will never comprehend people who look at Micrsoft and believe it's a good OS. Maybe they are Xbox fanboys and that love is spilling-over to all the MS? It's a workable OS but certainly not the best. It was hard-to-use when it was invented in the 80s, crashprone in the 90s, buggy in the first decade of 2000s, and even now still has major flaws (mostly with security holes and illogical behaviors that confuse users... like claiming "there's no USB drive" just because the drive went into a low-power energy-saving state).
You'd think after 27 years of development they'd finally eliminate the flaws & make it near-perfect like Apple did with OS X. But no. ALSO: I was merely responding to this part of the
Your post led me to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics#DNA_methylation_and_chromatin_remodeling
"Chromosomal regions can adopt stable and heritable alternative states resulting in bistable gene expression without changes to the DNA sequence. Epigenetic control is often associated with alternative covalent modifications of histones.[23] The stability and heritability of states of larger chromosomal regions are often thought to involve positive feedback where modified nucleosomes recruit enzymes that similarly modify nearby nucleosomes. A simplified stochastic model for this type of epigenetics is found here"
Problem with Brave New World, 1984, THX-1138 and other dystopias is that no society like that would ever emerge. People won't allow themselves to be suppressed so readily. Instead you have to TRICK the people into believing their suppression is actually freedom & democracy. For example:
- Convincing people that private profits and shared losses is a good thing. - When the rich corporate managers "win" they get to keep the money for themselves, but when they "lose" then the loss is spread across the entire taxpayer base. (TARP and Stimulus Bills and QE1/2/3 are what I'm talking about.) Many people actually believe making the workers bear the burden of the loss is a good thing!
Somehow I fail to see how my losing ~$15,000 funding Goldman Sachs and Solyndra with free cash is benefiicial for me, but millions of other people think it is. That's a True dystopia. Rob from the poor/middle incomes and give to the rich.
I was merely responding to this part of the
I program, therefore I am.
