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The curvature is relative to other points, hence the name "relativity".
What we're talking about was the reply to the comment " gravity ain't zero at the space station" , that said "Gravity aint 0 anywhere in the universe." You say it is some places. I say it ain't.
It doesn't correlate.
I have an $1800 velocity sitting dead in the living room waiting for a reinstall when I get the time. Meanwhile my $499 HP continues to chug away.
Meanwhile... I have a new 2560x1440 monitor that neither will push. I need a box with a gx670.
The only reason to buy an expensive rig is if you are a power gamer and need 120fpx at 1960x1080.
For all other purposes, other cheaper machines do the job these days.
No, relativity says that all mass in the universe acts on all the other mass, even though the effect moves at the speed of light which is pretty slow over most of the vast universe, but most of the mass has already curved space by now since it has existed for so long. Newton's gravitation also says that all masses act on each other. Both of which models support my point that every point in the universe is affected by gravity, and there is nowhere that is "absolute zero gravity" as the comment to which I replied claimed.
Your point is irrelevant. The point, to which you replied, is that using Mint instead of the user doing what Mint did to Ubuntu, saves time.
You just tried to move the goalposts again to your point. And then you tried to "just saying" your way into moving them again into disagreeing that installing Mint saves time over installing Ubuntu and changing it yourself. Moving the goalposts again. And moving them into just being wrong.
You don't even know what you're arguing about, and you're wrong on what you want to argue about. Helping you perpetuate it is distasteful. That's all the help from me you'll get.
It clearly matters who is president of America Inc. As I pointed out, Republican presidents of it are intolerable, while Democratic presidents of it suck, but are tolerable. There's plenty of other supporting data. Like the GDP and the stock market each growing faster under every Democratic president than Republicans, since Eisenhower. Of course we can always do better. Then there's the warmonger record, which Republicans dominate (except are roughly equal on Vietnam, which is now just a middling war). It's absolutely false that the two parties are equivalent. And when there are only two on the ballot that can govern, let alone win, we have to be honest about which one is an unacceptable choice.
Of course America was designed for the Congress to primarily determine how much the country sucks, and Republicans are the source of most of the suck. If we call them "Conservative" (and its "Libertarian" flavor that's really "corporate anarchy"), we can include the Democrats who make the case for equivalence. This is the problem. But it's far too easy, because it's wrong, to say that it doesn't matter which party rules. When Republicans rule, all but a few suffer and pay for it. When Democrats rule, far fewer suffer.
Yeah... I'd be surprised if his sister even knew what a right-click-drag was. You're really, really, really reaching.
Reaching for what, exactly ?
I made mention precisely because I've been very surprised at people who do use it (ie: secretaries, CEOs, etc).
But the truth is, making guns in a new caliber and making ammunition to match is easy enough that some hobbyists do it in their garage.
Yup. And a lot of times, those self-packed loads fail. Gunpowder mixture is the wrong type, wasn't packed tight enough, moisture, grease, etc. I've seen these hobbyists you speak of; All of them have at least one story of how they ruined their gun because their custom ammo was shit. You do it amateur, you get amateur results. But hey, don't let me stop you from taking your custom-built guns and ammo into a combat situation...
There are, apparently (I Am Not A Military Expert), valid military reasons to make your guns and ammunition incompatible with the enemy's. America and the rest of NATO were the first to use 5mm-caliber small arms - the M16, FAMAS, L86, etc. are all chambered for a standard 5.56mm round, and I believe most even have compatible magazines.
The "valid military reason" is called "economy of scale". We don't want to blow their budget on ammo, and by happy coincidence, our allies don't either.
Iran is simply doing the same thing. Instead of using NATO-standard 7.62mm miniguns, 20mm autocannons, 40mm grenade launchers or 2.75" rockets, they'll use ones that are just slightly incompatible, but nearly identical in performance.
That would be stupid. Iran doesn't have much of a defense industry; they rely on importing arms. It makes no sense to outfit some of your military with Mark I whatchamagigies and some of them with the incompatible Mark II whatchamagigies. There are few things more damning than sitting next to three full ammo boxes, and not one round that'll fit the only gun you have.
One reason is economics - trying to stimulate their own arms industry,
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to stimulate your industry: That's a purely American thing. In the rest of the world, you steal tech, duplicate it, and save yourself the R&D costs. See also: North Korea, China, India, Egypt, Iraq...
Another could be that they are more concerned about being invaded, rather than invading others. You are, after all, more likely to be the one capturing supplies, rather than having your supplies captured, when you are on the attack.
The traditional response to this is to decentralize your weapons depots, caches, and supply lines, and to be as covert as possible. Every ground war we've fought against similarily sized and equipped militaries has been massively asymetrical, and the enemy wears us down by hit and run tactics (which we invented), and urban guerilla warfare. They don't give two shits how much you capture, as long as they've got just enough left to keep costing us economically. They know if we invade, we're out a few more trillion dollars -- and our economy just can't handle that right now (it couldn't before!). Stop thinking like this is conventional warfare: It isn't. It hasn't been since the 70s.
History would seem to bear this view out - during the Cold War, neither side used intercompatible ammunition, and as it turns out, neither side much wanted to invade the other.
History remembers that it doesn't really matter what ammo you use, as long as you've got a fuckton of it. And by ammo, I mean nukes.
The most notable case of cross-compatible weaponry was in WW2, when the British designed the Sten gun to use the same ammunition as the German MP40. And guess what (spoiler alert)? Britain later invaded Germany!
Yeah, why would a country who's factories were burning, a third of its population dead or injured, and entire cities leveled want to put their limited resources towards making sure they could use whatever ammo was available. The mind boggles.
OK, that's probably a massive simplification of things (remember, IANAME), but still, look at things from Iran's view for a second.
I am looking at things from Iran's point of view. I think you should go work for them. The kind of advice you're spouting could set them back an extra decade, easy. Save us a lot of money so we wouldn't have to build IED-resistant personnel carriers, missile defense platforms, and more stealth tech to give us a greater force multiplier.
You need to imagine Strong Bad's voice saying it for full effect:
HANDSPRING'D!!!
I remember when the CEO of Handspring announced that smart phones were the future for Handspring, and sales of the Visor PDA went almost to zero immediately, and sales of Visor accessories (Springboard cards, etc.) also went almost to zero immediately.
The Cius Tablet has been shipping for less than a year, and the CEO just announced that no further development will ever be done. The chances of anyone getting interested in this now: 0%
And wow, Android 2.2 on a $750 device with a 7 inch screen and a funky Intel chip? 680 grams (about 1.5 pounds)? The review didn't say anything about an ARM emulator so I assume any Android apps with native code for ARM just won't run on this thing. I'd sooner put CyanogenMod 7 on an old Nook Color. 448 grams (just under a pound) by the way.
(Oh wait, I already did that. A Nook Color makes a surprisingly nice Android tablet! It is a lot faster with CM7 than with the factory Nook software.)
The fact that the CEO was willing to Handspring this device probably means that the sales were already close to zero, so he didn't feel there were any sales left to discourage.
Because we didn't have nearly the amount of mall rentacops as we had real cops. They didn't have the power of real cops. They mostly didn't even have guns. They didn't get sent to face the kind of threats that real cops face.
You are talking nonsense, and it's perfectly clear your libertarian trance cannot be broken. Enjoy your paradise in Somalia. Goodbye.
What a completely naive statement, completely ignoring all the ways in which rentacops suck far worse than government cops. To the point where rentacops generally aren't allowed the kind of power that government cops are allowed.
You do listen to what you say before you try to convince someone with your anarchist word salads, right?
Sum quod eris.