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Comment: Re:They aren't heroes (Score 0) 336

by Darby (#38948773) Attached to: Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call

One major problem with your ratings is that you have 8, the military as heroes while they are the major tool owned and used against everybody by villains 4 and 7.

There is no way you can build a consistent system of this nature and have the military as good guys. They are the weapons used by the bad guys and since it's a volunteer force, there is no way to justify membership in the military unless you are a hard core villain.

Comment: Re:Jeff Goldblum (Score 0) 368

by Darby (#38530758) Attached to: Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn

NEVER? Be careful using that word. The fact that you are alive depends entirely upon the fact that it has happened in nature. Your cells generate the energy that keeps you alive due to the presence of mitochondria which are there due to the integration of bacteria into the genome of humans and (many?, most?, all?) animal species on the planet.

Seriously, life is a heck of a lot more wild than you think. Dawkins' "Ancestor's Tale" is a great read for the layman ( like myself) to get a decent grasp of how far out things really are.

Comment: Re:Jeff Goldblum (Score 1) 368

by Darby (#38530378) Attached to: Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn

That doesn't quite fit. Walmart itself is the predator on both Walmart shoppers and their ecosystems. There is some sort of coevolution between them, but it's definitely a predatory relationship of some sort. I don't know enough about evolutionary biology to recognize any analogous systems in nature though. Perhaps you do?

Supercomputing

Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors 201

Posted by Soulskill
from the keep-the-kids dept.
dcblogs writes "The Russians are building a 10-petaflop supercomputer as part of a goal to build an exascale system by 2018-20, in the same timeframe as the US. The Russians, as well as Europe and China, want to reduce reliance on U.S. tech vendors and believe that exascale system development will lead to breakthroughs that could seed new tech industries. 'Exascale computing is a challenge, and indeed an opportunity for Europe to become a global HPC leader,' said Leonardo Flores Anover, who is the European Commission's project officer for the European Exascale Software Initiative. 'The goal is to foster the development of a European industrial capability,' he said. Think what Europe accomplished with Airbus. For Russia: 'You can expect to see Russia holding its own in the exascale race with little or no dependence on foreign manufacturers,' said Mike Bernhardt, who writes The Exascale Report. For now, Russia is relying on Intel and Nvidia."

Comment: Re:Uh, oh... (Score 0) 135

by Darby (#38466312) Attached to: China Now Top Patent Filer

assuming SOPA doesn't pass. Your genuine evil won't materialize till the economy is far past saving.

The fact that something so far out on the fascist fringe was even proposed in Congress without those proposing it being dragged out and shot in the street as tyrants and traitors demonstrates conclusively that the genuine evil has already long since materialized.

Comment: Re:scarecrow (Score 0) 135

by Darby (#37681150) Attached to: Ancient Krakens Making Self-Portraits?

What does it say about society that if you advocate legalizing almost everything you'll be labelled a conservative?

Nothing about society. It says about you that you're completely delusional. The right wingers/ conservatives are the police staters by definition.

What are the names of the forms of right wing government that have existed?
Fascism, Nazism, Feudalism.

Yeah sparky, that's all about everything being legal all right...but only for the elite... including murdering the peons at will.

The ignorance of people these days, I mean "conservative" means "opposed to liberalism". Liberalism is the principle upon which the US was founded.
WW2 was a showdown between Liberalism and the Left on one side (Allies) versus the Right ( the axis).

How soon people piss in the face of the sacrifices of their grandparents because the new Nazis tell them to on the idiot box.

Comment: Re:The problem isn't the currency (Score 0) 1799

by Darby (#37671540) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests?

Do you think bankers taking advantage of a situation to make a profit is materially different from a homeowner refinancing their house in a bubble, taking out $150k, blowing that on cars, vacations and expensive clothes and wanting a bailout when they can no longer afford the mortgage?

Obviously. The majority of the people who aren't bankers didn't take out $150K to blow on nonsense. That's something that some did that you're dishonestly trying to blame everyone for. The bankers lobbied for the repeal of the oversight that would have prevented the damage they caused. Further after causing that damage they're far richer than ever. When a system is designed to reward the worst failures the most it's broken.

these dimwit protesters now,

From what I've seen with my own eyes rather than through the filter of a media owned by the people they're protesting against, these dimwit leeches as you refer to them are composed of a large number of professionals (teachers, professors, nurses and so on) as well as college students.

They are brightwitted enough to recognize that their future was screwed and to recognize who is sitting there with all the money that was stolen from everybody else.

This is in direct opposition to the Tea Baggers who are just spouting the ignorant lies that were fed to them by Koch industries to support rule by unearned wealth.

So, no, they're not all the same. The bankers caused the problem intentionally and reaped the only benefits to be had hence are clearly the bad guys here.

The Tea Baggers are the brownshirts of the bad guys funded and fed the lies of the bad guys.
The Occupy crowd are patriotic citizens standing up for their real actual rights. Like the right not to be robbed and defrauded.

If you're truly so ignorant of current events and of historical trends, why wouldn't you be ashamed to spout such blatant willful ignorance? Oh yeah, the anti-intellectual movement also funded by the bad guys made knowing what you're talking about uncool and spouting ignorant crap the new cool thing.
Congrats, you're cool like Paris Hilton. Good little doggie.

Comment: Re:Some Anecdotes That Don't Make the News (Score 0) 659

by Darby (#37665774) Attached to: How Do You Educate a Prodigy?

Perhaps only pure mathematicians do their greatest work when they are young (like Srinivasa Ramanujan, or Ãvariste Galois)

Not really the best examples since they didn't fail to do better work later in life because they were no longer young, but because they didn't live to be old ;-)

Gauss, Cauchy and Euler all were still publishing through old age.

Comment: Re:Of course he had a point (Score 0) 1271

by Darby (#37333636) Attached to: Marx May Have Had a Point

. Smith on the other-hand misjudged human nature and didn't think regulations would be necessary (and he has some good points about propping up incumbents at the cost of society)

No he didn't. He explicitly stated that both over *and under* regulation were problems that needed to be addressed and why.
The Randroid dipshits who never actually read Smith like to trot that garbage out all the time, but it's not true.
 

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