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If you can convert energy to matter and have a near limitless source of energy, where's your limitation?

As long as the near-limitless source of energy is being used on Earth, the limitation is the ability of the Earth to dissipate heat. That civilizations may find themselves overwhelmed by their own waste heat is an idea that has been considered in science-fiction for decades now. (It forms a major subplot of Niven's Ringworld for instance.)

The main limitation I could see is space, but as long as you can put people off world, even that's no limit.

I have never actually verified the claim from a non-fictional publication, but in his trilogy starting with Red Mars , Kim Stanley Robinson notes that with the world population being what it is, even with multiple space elevators you could not move more people off-planet then are simultaneously being born on it.

If you can convert energy to matter and have a near limitless source of energy, where's your limitation?

As long as the near-limitless source of energy is being used on Earth, the limitation is the ability of the Earth to dissipate heat. That civilizations may find themselves overwhelmed by their own waste heat is an idea that has been considered in science-fiction for decades now. (It forms a major subplot of Niven's Ringworld for instance.)

The main limitation I could see is space, but as long as you can put people off world, even that's no limit.

I have never actually verified the claim from a non-fictional publication, but in his trilogy starting with Red Mars , Kim Stanley Robinson notes that with the world population being what it is, even with multiple space elevators you could not move more people off-planet then are simultaneously being born on it.

some of the EU's enforced regulations are truly head-scratching (eg: bottled water packaging cannot claim to combat dehydration

That's part of a set of regulations aimed at limiting the marketing of basic necessities such as water.
For the most part, tap water within EU countries is of excellent quality. There's really no reason to buy bottled water unless you need the portability.

So marketing companies did as they will and started making shit up. Since they can't claim tap water is bad for you -- that would get them immediately in hot waters with the advertisement watchdogs -- they go the other way and claim their water has components which presumably you won't find in regular tap water.

One of the things they were doing was implying that their water was better at killing your thirst than regular water. Of course they could't come out and say it, so they went about it in a roundabout fashion, simply saying it's a thirst-killer or some stuff.
Nevermind the stupidity of it all. Even if it were true, why would you want to buy water at 100x times the price just to drink a bit less of it?
But that's the reality of the consuming public -- they're stupid. And get off your high horse, we all make stupid purchasing decisions one way or another, which is why advertisement watchdogs and legislation are so important.

Try reading Bad Science to get an idea on how companies like to stretch the truth, and why it's important to limit their ability to do so.

But your link isn't to a 521. Here is a Lumia 521 for $90 off Amazon

You can buy a Lumia 521 for 115$ without any contract
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lu...

In India Lumia 520 is sold for around 130$ - fully paid for
http://www.flipkart.com/nokia-...

the teacher who gave her students oral sex for good achievement on their math tests (in the novel "Cocksure" by Mordecai Richler).

I give it a solid 8 out of 10, based on the following:

• On the internet, nobody know's your a dog.
• Charlie the Unicorn
• xkcd
• Amazon Prime

Deductions given for trolls and things like this.

They also have some great electronics kits and books.

Like pong.
http://www.amazon.com/Velleman...

http://www.amazon.com/Illustra...

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Unfortunately, they don't seem to have done one for Physics.

http://www.amazon.com/Illustra...

http://www.amazon.com/Illustra...

Unfortunately, they don't seem to have done one for Physics.

No. I looked it up to be sure

a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.

Creationism is not testable so it cannot be a theory. It is a good story, it is a anecdotal way to try and explain our origins, but it is not a theory. Creationism cannot explain, nor establish tests to show here. As this link mentions, you can look at the question of Cain's wife from either a literal (were did she come from other then incest) or interpretive which really cannot be tested. God wiped out humanity after the flood and from just the loins of Noah;'s son came all of humanity? Not even possible or testable. So how then can Creationism be a theory? it is a set of stories meant to interpret the origins of man (and do so poorly). We might as well say that these stories are alternative theories about the creation of man and the world.

Proving that your software is correct. Dijkstra was one of the first, strongest advocates of it. He created a method of teaching programming where you essentially prove everything. If you ever hear a quote by Dijkstra that, "OOP is an exceptionally bad idea" or "BASIC causes irreversible brain damage," it was because those things aren't based in formal verification, which he wanted everyone to learn.

It would be impossible. Even if your code is technically "bug-free", your compiler or assembler will have bugs. Even firmware and microprocessors have bugs in them.

As the authors of the book Transaction Processing point out, all bugs are in software. All bugs are in software. All bugs are in software because we know how to overcome hardware flaws by having the proper software setup (in essence, certain forms of redundancy).

In fact, it's been done. It took an entire year to verify each 250 lines of code, even with automation. So it is labor intensive, but if an OS can be verified, an assembler (that one's easy) or a compiler can be done (and Intel actually uses formal verification to ensure an ever growing portion of their chips are correct). So don't believe it's not doable.

On the subject of large scale ventures, author Dennis Wingo wrote, " think what having access to rights over a billion kilos of platinum would do for your corporate portfolio." http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

> like Apple 2 and Commodore systems were 8 bit but really didn't have OSes.

Amnesia much? Do you even understand what the acronym RWTS - Read/Write Track/Sector means? Do you even understand what a File System is? Do you understand what a Device Driver is??

I also guess these books are just figments of my imagination:

  * Beneath Apple DOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...
  * Beneath Apple ProDOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...

Gee, I wonder what these programs are?

* Apple DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 = Disk Operating System.
* ProDOS/8 = Professional DOS
* ProDOS/16

Maybe you should try reading the source code before making ignorant claims:

"Apple ][ ProDOS 1.7 Operating System Source Listing "
* ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub...

References:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

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Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft

> like Apple 2 and Commodore systems were 8 bit but really didn't have OSes.

Amnesia much? Do you even understand what the acronym RWTS - Read/Write Track/Sector means? Do you even understand what a File System is? Do you understand what a Device Driver is??

I also guess these books are just figments of my imagination:

  * Beneath Apple DOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...
  * Beneath Apple ProDOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...

Gee, I wonder what these programs are?

* Apple DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 = Disk Operating System.
* ProDOS/8 = Professional DOS
* ProDOS/16

Maybe you should try reading the source code before making ignorant claims:

"Apple ][ ProDOS 1.7 Operating System Source Listing "
* ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub...

References:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

==
Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft

There are entirely different reasons why you should worry about huge masses of rock being produced on the moon and thrown down to Earth.

I guess it depends on your point of view. Most of the little kids I know don't like the loud sound or the intense pressure generated by his hand dryers. Another problem for kids is that they don't work if you aren't tall enough to reach them. Not to mention, you could buy a lot of paper towels for $1350 or $1899. Other electric hand dryers are much cheaper, some under $200.

I guess it depends on your point of view. Most of the little kids I know don't like the loud sound or the intense pressure generated by his hand dryers. Another problem for kids is that they don't work if you aren't tall enough to reach them. Not to mention, you could buy a lot of paper towels for $1350 or $1899. Other electric hand dryers are much cheaper, some under $200.

Speaking of Amazon, has anyone seen that new Amazon show "Betas"?

You may want to read up on representation in the U.S. The founding generation considered it important enough to draft an amendment that would prevent Congressional districts from ever exceeding a population of 50,000. Democracy is not the sole cause of increases in prosperity. China and India are democracies, as are other countries that have not prospered as the U.S. has. When the factors are all weighed, what tends to be most prevalent is the freer the market, the more prosperity. We can find the same to be true with representation: the smaller the districts, the more economic freedoms and justice will prevail.

You're right, I misread your statement. What you're actually stating is worse: regardless of how much better bridges would be if they were all private, it wouldn't be worth it. I really don't understand this.

Clearly you have never looked at crime stats (originally I was able to find this data on the FBI website, but I can only find data there going back to 1992 now). Violent crime rates in the U.S. are up dramatically from when the USG first began keeping statistics around 1960. The trend was a steep rise until 1990 or so and a dramatic fall since then. However, rates are still up considerably from where they were in 1960. Why, I don't know, but there is one peculiar exception: the murder rate is lower. How can this be? There is no way to know, but my hypothesis is that missing persons are essentially no longer being investigated, which would result in lowered crime statistics since a reported missing person is not a report of a crime, but investigatng missing persons less will result in fewer reported crimes, and being that murder is already very low (.005%), it will have a real impact on the statistic. So when you are talking about murder, you are talking about something that is so infinitesimal that it has very little bearing when comparing to arguments on things that affect 100% of the population, which is why I consider the argument absurd.

A book I have not read, but have seen quoted many times, is The Not So Wild, Wild West, where the authors demonstrate that by every measure, the "wild west" was one of the most peaceful, least violent places in the history of the U.S., and it was mostly anarchy. However, even with that, I am not an anarchist, but my issues regarding this nation and democracy are that it doesn't work - reading about the history of the U.S. Constitution and what it was supposed to do is a miserable exercise that reveals how all sides (philosophically speaking) want to use the central government and bend the law to carry out their idea of how things should be, while the only group that really wins is special interests, the 'sides' both lose while the republic is transformed into a centrally controlled plutocracy.

The United States, through direct murder through wars of aggression and indirect murder through violently enforced policies such as at the 'drug war' make the United States Government one of the, if not the, biggest killer in the world. The point is not to be content that modern-day life in the U.S. is better than life in Spain during the Inquisition, but that we can always improve and make things better, and doing such will require casting aside those things which make life worse, and the U.S. Government is a single package that we should be weighing the total costs and total benefits of.

It turned into modern wheat, the varieties we call Spelt, Common, Durum, etc.
Here is a book detailing some of its history: http://www.amazon.com/Evolutio...
Here is some genetic research: http://genome.cshlp.org/conten...

While this may not matter to a lot of people, the human driven evolution of this plant is the root of all civilization, and it would not be possible without evolution.

Wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides[Triticum turgidum (L) Thell. ssp. dicoccoides(Koern) Thell.] with genome AABB, was discovered in Northern Israel by Aaron Aaronsohn in 1906 (Aaronsohn 1910). It is the tetraploid, predominantly self-pollinated, wild progenitor from which modern tetraploid and hexaploid cultivated wheats were derived (Zohary 1970).

It's $495, http://www.amazon.com/Intel-D5... if you scroll down and look at the "Frequently Bought Together" section.
That is, if you consider an Intel 5000 GPU decent...

Having century old recordings of Mickey go into the public domain will have zero effect on Disney's bottom line, since they do not sell these old cartoons anyway.

Actually, they do.

Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2 DVD

Listmania: Walt Disney Treasures Collection

They cost a lot? $10 is less than the cost of an HDMI cable from a retail store. And with a couple of thousand reviews and four stars I expect reliability isn't bad for the price, especially given you can return to Amazon if it's DOA.

I've done commercial crab fishing, and you're mistaken.

Depends where you did it. Fishing for king crab in the Bering Sea is far more dangerous than, say, fishing for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. The Bering Sea commonly has 25 foot waves and 80mph winds. The decks get icy, the big metal cages are heavy, and there is extreme time pressure because the king crab season only opens for a few weeks. Crushed limbs and even fatalities are common. But, hey, the pay is good.

You can read a lot more in this book.

Try to create a decontaminated area around the bad code where you have tests, good new code and, specially, confidence on the new stuff you're building. Every time you have to touch the old codebase, try creating new code that replicate the old behavior. If you absolutely need to change the old code be sure to at least cover the affected area with many functional tests BEFORE you change anything. That safety net will make you fell relaxed and confident on your changes. Most developers really love greenfield projects but renewing an old one could be just as rewarding. If you want some hardcore insight on how to handle that, read 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' from Michael Feathers. http://www.amazon.com/Working-...

https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...
"Scientific evidence suggests that the re-sensitization of taste nerves takes between 30 and 90 days of consistent exposure to less stimulating foods. This means that for several weeks, most people attempting this change will experience a reduction in eating pleasure. This is why modern foods present such a devastating trap--as most of our citizens are, in effect, "addicted" to artificially high levels of food stimulation! The 30-to-90-day process of taste re-calibration requires more motivation--and more self-discipline--than most people are ever willing to muster.
    Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits--and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health. Instead, most people think that if they were to eat more healthfully, they would be condemned to a life of greatly reduced gustatory pleasure--thinking that the process of Phase IV will last forever. In our new book, The Pleasure Trap, we explain this extraordinarily deceptive and problematic situation - and how to master this hidden force that undermines health and happiness."

See also:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/libra...

Also, advice to eat home-made food:
http://www.thersa.org/events/r...
http://www.thersa.org/events/v...

"We're all time poor, and a lot of people are money poor too,"

Sadly, so true... Yet we in the USA so often ironically claim somehow we are "rich". As Iain Banks said in the Culture series: "Money is a sign of poverty".

Here is some advice on building a healthier and happier society from cultures that achieved that: http://www.bluezones.com/

Yet, adapting that for a world of "pleasure traps" or "supernornal stimuli" or "the acceleration of addictiveness" in the 21st century is a huge challenge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://www.amazon.com/Supernor...
http://paulgraham.com/addictio...

I think regulations and politics can help with that, but it has to probably be of a deeper more thoughtful form than much of what passes as mainstream politics today. Things like a basic income, an expanded gift economy, internet-empowered democratic decision making, rethinking education to move beyond "compulsory schooling", reconstructing our dwellings and towns and cities to be more walkable and human-friendly and sustainable and healthy, and so on...

Phenylpiracetam actually carries a phenyl group. Methylphenedate and dexamphetamine also carry a phenyl group, which is where the primary effect of those comes from. Phenylpiracetam causes the same stimulant effects as amphetamine, mainly, as well as the same physical changes in relation to tolerance--that being a reduction in density of D2 dopamine receptors and a loss of dopamine sensitivity.

Phenylpiracetam has the phenyl stimulant mechanism of action and the racetam mechanism of action. Both.

Mark Shriner edited an interesting research compilation, although there's piles and piles of these. Assertions of toxicity aren't much covered, but there's some discussion about getting high off Methylphenedate and Dexamphetamine. The main concern is that the amount required for pharmacological effectiveness is fairly close to the amount that causes euphoria; comparisons to cocaine are made for a neurological reference, but not really for magnitude or toxicity's sake.

Dexamphetamine is better than Methylphenedate by far, which is why it's now much more prescribed. I mean really, there's a medical condition called "methylphenedate psychosis", and it's almost guaranteed if you're on MPH for more than a year. They had me on anti-psychotics because of MPH psychosis--this was routine and common. Adderall causes worse psychosis, but much less often.

I could always have a friend run a clinical trial. I mean hell, they let them get away with anything here. A couple dudes I knew in college had an ad up for clinical trials for... wait for it... spiritual meditation while under the influence of psylocybin. Sponsored and conducted by the university here (John's Hopkins). This goes on constantly--we've got kids in college genetically modifying HIV and injecting it into people with cancer to try and cure cancer (spoiler: it worked). It's everything from incredible medical breakthroughs to just probing around for more information about what happens when you get high. You can't deny that ADHD research is interesting, or that the similarity in known mechanisms of action doesn't make phenotropil a good candidate drug. This is a perfect medical research topic for a Ph.D..

Better not be, they already have that.

Honestly this has been done for centuries, http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb... and there are tons of books on it.

E.D. Hirsch coined the term "cultural literacy" to describe aspects of culture which have meaning that goes beyond the basic words.

An example from his book is the phrase "there is a tide".

Those four words carried not only a lot of complex information, but also the persuasive force of a proverb. In addition to the basic practical meaning, "act now!" what came across was a lot of implicit reasons why immediate action was important.

For some of my younger readers who may not recognize the allusion, the passage from Julius Caesar is:

        There is a tide in the affairs of men
        Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
        Omitted, all the voyage of their life
        Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
        On such a full sea are we now afloat,
        And we must take the current when it serves,
        Or lose our ventures.

The phrase "A Scanner Darkly" was the title of a book (and movie) by Phillip K. Dick. It's part of the cultural literacy of science fiction, something that nerds might recognize. As in Hirsch's example, a few words convey a great deal of complex information.

The story title comes from the bible, "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.", which artfully describes a system that identifies and footnotes faces seen through Google glass.

Cultural literacy references come into and go out of style, and Phillip K. Dick may be a bit dated for today's audience.

If you're interested, there are a few online "Cultural Literacy" tests, such as this one.

Some would argue the book you seeking is this: The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)

I used to see this all over the place, where the non-Amazon sellers selling through Amazon's portal would be discounted to where, with shipping, they matched the Prime cost. Hard to find examples today - makes me wonder about price fixing.

For Marketplace items it's still common though - here's an example: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... Both hardback and paperback Amazon marketplace sellers are setting prices that, with shipping, more or less match the prime price. I suspect for marketplace items this is just the cheaper ones sell out, and the more expensive don't.

Was $1.10 in 2003, now it is $0.99

Last time I checked, it was over $40 a galon 128 fl oz.
Yeap, it starts at $45 now, but can get as high as $120,000.00 (+$13.49 shipping).

Was $1.10 in 2003, now it is $0.99

Last time I checked, it was over $40 a galon 128 fl oz.
Yeap, it starts at $45 now, but can get as high as $120,000.00 (+$13.49 shipping).

This was just after it came out around 1997. My wife and I had gotten a dog from a shelter about two years earlier, who turned out to be likely in retrospect much older than we had thought. Still, she was our "baby", as we did not have any kids then. And she was truly a wonderful dog, gentle as a lamb, but with a fearsome bark, looking a bit like a wolf. She would follow us everywhere and would spend all day laying by my feet as I programmed. She had started limping a bit from arthritis. I gave her baby aspirin which seemed to help. Our vet suggested this new "wonder drug" just out called Rimadyl. Our vet never to my recollection suggested any other options like glucosomine. I did not want to try Rymadil because the baby aspirin was working well and in general I think most drugs are best avoided, but my wife accused me of being mean to the dog, and I foolishly gave in and we bought the medicine from the vet (a conflict of interest?). We put our dog on half the prescribed dose.

Well, for a few weeks it was indeed wonderful. Our dog was prancing like a puppy at first. It was just amazing. Then a couple months later, she just collapsed in the middle of the day. We brought her to the vet. The vet did not know what it was. It was the early days of the web and we turned there for help. There were a bunch of report of Rimadyl causing just this sort of thing. A post my wife made from around then in our desperation (we got some private replies too):
https://groups.google.com/foru...

I can't prove Rimadyl killed our dog, but it was very coincidental. We took her off Rymadyl, and she lasted about a month after that, with me carrying a 70 lb dog outside several times a day to do her business in the yard, with her otherwise laying on the couch or a mat all day. We finally put her to sleep when she could not even keep her tongue in her mouth (probably we waited too long). The vet denied the connection to the end, saying instead that or dog must have had liver cancer and the Rymadyl was somehow helping her with the pain, and encouraged us to put her back on it -- which we would not.

The important thing to be aware of is that Rimadyl/Carprofen is at best a pain killer. It does nothing to improve underlying health, and likely it can cause disease in some dogs. You roll the dice with your dogs life when you try it, as this other similar example suggests:
http://www.stevedalepetworld.c...
"For both dogs, the answer seemed like a no-brainer - Rimadyl (generically called carprofen), the drug is particularly suited to treat osteoarthritis. Within days, Bernie was his old self, bounding up and down stairs - at least as much as any corgi can bound - and again he loved to be petted. Today, he's still on the twice daily pill that his owners say brought Bernie back to life. George's results were less dramatic, but Townsend noted at least some improvement, so she continued to use Rimadyl for about a month. Then, one morning George suddenly got very sick. He could barely move, he couldn't keep food down. George's condition worsened and within days he was being cared for by vets around the clock; he was no longer able to stand and could barely keep his head up. Townsend fails in her attempt to hold back tears as she recalls, "I looked into his eyes and George told me 'enough.' We ended his suffering on October 13, 1997.""

See also:
http://www.srdogs.com/Pages/ri...

For some health advice on pet nutrition to fix underlying problems, try Dr. Pitcairn:
http://www.amazon.com/Pitcairn...

Part of that book on arthritis:
http://books.google.com/books?...

and also shorter intestines than humans: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/qu...

So, dogs can eat a lot of old stuff that would make humans very sick.

BTW, Dr. Pitcairn is a much better than average source of nutritional advice from a vet:
http://www.amazon.com/Pitcairn...

Can I recommend some of these?

http://www.amazon.com/Etymotic...

Huge noise reduction and a lot lighter weight.

is there anyone in this field who hasn't had some societal discouragement along the way? Either been called a geek or a nerd, or told they have no life?

In fact, just right now my own coworker called me a 'true nerd.' Why? Because I am wearing 31 decibels of noise cancelling goodness. Does that make me a nerd? No, it means I like silence. He took a picture of me to post on facebook and show all his friends a 'true nerd.' Do I have to put up with unreasonable societal expectations and laughter just because of my headgear?

That is a true story of discrimination against men in the workplace. Someday I will find another headgear wearing comrade, and know that I am accepted somewhere.

This is another indication of how eager the tech industry is to get in on the same monetization model that Rovio was just implicated in with the Snowden documents--data for dollars.

Rovio was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is trying to get involved in a "goldrush" of funds that have infused the industry with a serious lack of morality.

As I pointed out in a couple of posts recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ), it is the mobile analytics market that the NSA is targeting for their data on as many people as possible. Those analytics providers are doing what the NSA cannot do themselves legally--gather data. Analytics providers do the gathering, and the NSA either steals or buys the data. It's as simple as that folks.

The really dirty secret is that pretty much every company out there with an internet presence and a mobile presence (an app) is complicit in this gathering of data, and they all know it. Both The New York Times and The Guardian use the exact same analytics firm that Rovio uses in their mobile game "Angry Birds", yet they are the ones that published articles based on Edward Snowden documents outlining NSA activity that targeted mobile analytics. Hypocrites.

Just to give you an idea of just how big this iceberg is, dig deep in the following webpages--they outline, by connections, a web of investors and customers that are perpetrating a global auction of our privacy.

Amazon -- Seattle, Wa.
https://developer.amazon.com/s...

Jaspersoft -- San Francisco, CA.
https://www.jaspersoft.com/mob...

Google -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.google.com/analytic...

Flurry -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.flurry.com/flurry-a...

Localytics -- Boston, MA.
http://www.localytics.com/

Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat...

Konitgent -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.kontagent.com/compa...

Webtrends -- Portland, OR.
http://webtrends.com/solutions...

Bango -- London, UK
http://bango.com/corporate/

Apsalar -- San Francisco, CA.
https://apsalar.com/

Piwik -- London, UK
http://piwik.org/what-is-piwik...

Mobilytics (Mobivity) -- Chandler, AZ.
http://www.mobilytics.net/

Adobe -- San Jose, CA.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions...

Openwave Mobility -- Redwood City, CA.
http://owmobility.com/about-us

Mixpanel -- San Francisco, CA.
https://mixpanel.com/

Urban Airship -- San Francisco/London
http://urbanairship.com/produc...

Cognizant -- Teaneck, NJ.
http://www.cognizant.com/enter...

Amethon -- Sydney, AU
http://www.amethon.com/

The ring to rule them all, if you believe the developers..
Segment.io -- San Francisco, CA.
https://segment.io/mobile

For the inner workings, see linked Whitepaper. A good list of other miscreants is included on that

"8. The refusal to take close up photos from various angles, the refusal to take microscopic images of the specimen, the refusal to release high resolution photos, is inexplicable, recklessly negligent, and bizarre. Any intelligent adult, adolescent, child, chimpanzee, monkey, dog, or rodent with even a modicum of curiosity, would approach, investigate and closely examine a bowl-shaped structure which appears just a few feet in front of them when 12 days earlier they hadn't noticed it. But not NASA and its rover team who have refused to take even a single close up photo."

His claim for standing to sue is pretty funny too. It boils down to, "I did a bunch of impressive neuroscience work in the late 70s & early 80s, vanished for 20 years, and then reappeared two decades later in full Linus Pauling crank mode churning out books on astrobiology and 'proving' that the evolution of DNA predates Earth by 6 billion years, that upper atmosphere plasma are actually extremophiles, and that otherwise I'm super interested in Mars."

"Oh, and I'm a taxpayer and really interested in this rock, therefore I deserved to have control over what NASA does in regards to it since they're too boneheaded to see how important it is."

Here's one of his other books. The reviews give you an idea of how far this man has fallen as a scientist.

You should read the Doom Star series by Vaughn Heppner: Star Soldier. He have put a lot of thoughts into the matter.

Forget the "giant beasts". I want to know what happened to the giant humans.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Anci...

I heard an interview with the guy the other night and he didn't sound like a crackpot. There seems to be evidence that there were some giant people living in North America over 10,000 years ago, who were advanced enough to do mummification and sophisticated pottery. The Smithsonian covered it up because they wanted to advance the theory that there were only savages living here when the Europeans came.

I have no idea, but the "Bering Land Bridge" theory never made sense to me. I just don't see people walking across Alaska and Canada and finally settling in South America in the course of a few thousand years.

Here they are at 50 cents/disc.

http://www.amazon.com/Optical-...

Because let's face it, it's pretty unrealistic to get bent out of shape because you can't buy daisy wheels

Brother 411 Brougham 10-Pitch All Daisy Wheel Typewriters

or get 14k modem service anymore.

Earthlink

> UCD is a non-testable hypothesis.

Read Daniel J. Fairbanks's book Relics of Eden if you want to learn how UCD is being tested.

At no point has survival as a nation been under threat.

I guess you're too young to remember the Cold War. This nation was less than 60 minutes away from ceasing to exist from roughly the late 1960s until the fall of the Soviet Union. From 1949 to the late 60s we weren't threatened with total destruction, but the Soviets still had the ability to do enormous damage. It wasn't until the late 60s when they caught up and surpassed the US in the ICBM race that they really had the ability to effectively destroy the United States. They retained that ability until the fall of the Soviet Union. Heck, the Russians still have it, though the geopolitical situation is different these days.

Point being, it was a different mentality. The policymakers who were in office on 9/11 came of age during the Cold War and responded to that threat accordingly. They didn't see an isolated terrorist attack on 9/11. They saw an existential threat and responded accordingly. Part of this reaction was scenario fulfillment (Google it if you're not familiar with the term), the other part was pure panic and fear. Days of Fire has an interesting takeaway from one of the many interviews the author did with George W. Bush, something about Bush watching the towers come down and thinking to himself that he just watched more Americans die in a single moment than any President since Lincoln.

You're free to criticize the choices that American policymakers have made over the years, but you'd do well to remember that you've got the benefit of 20/20 hindsight while doing so.

Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.

Not in your or mine wildest dreams

The PS4 from Wikipedia "The CPU consists of two quad-core Jaguar modules totaling 8 x86-64 cores. The GPU consists of 18 compute units to produce a theoretical peak performance of 1.84 TFLOPS. The system's GDDR5 memory is capable of running at a maximum clock frequency of 2.75 GHz (5500 MT/s) and has a maximum memory bandwidth of 176 GB/s. The console contains 8 GB of GDDR5 memory" for US$399.99, €399.99, £349.99

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For just the base unit of the PC for the same price http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ins... Processor: Intel® Pentium® processor G2030 (3M Cache, 3.0 GHz), Memory (RAM): 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1600MHz-1X4GB, Storage (hard drive): 500GB Hard Drive, 3.5", 7200rpm, SATA, Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive, 16X, SATA Color: Black

I am a bit tired of these comments being modded up in the hope of PC gaming making a comeback.

We look forward to your publication of the flaws you have discovered in Dr. Mann ....

Here's Mann's new book on The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.

Is it claimed that Dr. Mann won the Nobel Prize in that book?

Nobel Committee Rebukes Michael Mann for falsely claiming he was ‘awarded the Nobel Peace Prize’