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It seems that the only reason they are selling is that it's a $7500 tax write off for the rich.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=tesla+subsidized

Works on my Machine

Complete with streetview.

This whole thing is just a solution looking for a problem.

I didn't realize a quick settlement with EMC was getting their "asses handed to them". This lawsuit was very much debatable as IBM may very well have invented the technology in the 1970s but did not patent software (aka prior art). (Isn't that the sort of attitude we seem to extoll in 2013?). As far as I can tell, the quality of the patent was THE principal issue, which proving in court is a gamble. IBM does not gamble. At some point, (especially to IBM in 1999 whom was hurting at the time), it was completely pointless and less cost effective to litigate. So again, I guess the kid who doesn't show up for the street fight at 3pm because he conceded "got his ass handed to him".

http://books.google.ca/books?id=ypJmzqt7JdUC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=AS/400+Data+general&source=bl&ots=PozEgSVRW6&sig=k07JHo7KYmCcV4wnbDXoDtNdAzQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eje7UbvzJo7e8wTlhIDYCQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=AS%2F400%20Data%20general&f=false

In this case the police didn't have a chance to fall back as the accident occurred 1.2 miles from the start of the pursuit. That is about a minute into the pursuit.

Two item: 1) They were smelting iron in the Lake Region of Africa (Rwanda) thousands of years ago. So it is possible that the Egyptian either knew how or they could of traded for it if they needed iron. 2) The Egyptian used iron from Meteor for sacred purpose. It was important to them that this iron came from the stars/heaven. The item was made of Meteor iron not because the Egyptian couldn't smelted iron but because it was important that the object be sacred.

Iron smelting in Africa dates back to somewhere in the range of 1500-1750 BC (see Google books link and wikipedia link on the topic). However, per the Nature article the artifact in question dates back to about 3300 BC, over a thousand years earlier. So at the time point 1 is invalid (at least based on present evidence). Point 2 seems pretty likely, though.

Largely because it's all been demonstrated to be either fake, a gross misunderstanding of what's happening, or so totally un-repeatable by anyone else as to be suspect.

There also was an issue called the "dead graduate student problem". If cold fusion was occurring, you would generate neutron radiation, which is very deadly and needs a LOT of shielding to protect people.

Cold fusion "scientists" didn't have any radiation shielding, and didn't have any dead graduate students.

If fusion was actually occurring, you would have had a lot of dead graduate students. Since there were no dead grad students, there was no fusion.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=dead+grad+student+problem+cold+fusion&btnG=Search&hl=en-CA&biw=&bih=&gbv=1

These are the people that most citizens depend on

A good portion of the citizenry have already realized that the only difference between police and any other organized crime gang is that the former is backed by government while the later are viewed as competition. The others will catch up after they have their first interaction with the police.

This view will not change until members of the force are at least as accountable as the average Joe.

Yes, crazy. Yes, genocidal.

When he arrived on Hispaniola in 1508, Las Casas says, "there were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it...." Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas. ...
Past the elementary and high schools, there are only occasional hints of something else. Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, was the most distinguished writer on Columbus, the author of a multivolume biography, and was himself a sailor who retraced Columbus's route across the Atlantic. In his popular book Christopher Columbus, Mariner, written in 1954, he tells about the enslavement and the killing: "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."

That is on one page, buried halfway into the telling of a grand romance. In the book's last paragraph, Morison sums up his view of Columbus:

"He had his faults and his defects, but they were largely the defects of the qualities that made him great-his indomitable will, his superb faith in God and in his own mission as the Christ-bearer to lands beyond the seas, his stubborn persistence despite neglect, poverty and discouragement. But there was no flaw, no dark side to the most outstanding and essential of all his qualities-his seamanship."

One can lie outright about the past. Or one can omit facts which might lead to unacceptable conclusions. Morison does neither. He refuses to lie about Columbus. He does not omit the story of mass murder; indeed he describes it with the harshest word one can use: genocide.

But he does something else-he mentions the truth quickly and goes on to other things more important to him. Outright lying or quiet omission takes the risk of discovery which, when made, might arouse the reader to rebel against the writer. To state the facts, however, and then to bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader with a certain infectious calm: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important-it should weigh very little in our final judgments; it should affect very little what we do in the world.

Howard Zinn, The People’s History of the United States

Among the Taino people of Hispaniola, Columbus decreed a system of tribute, requiring each adult to submit a specified quantity of gold, on pain of death. But he was also fervently determined to spread the Christian faith. Christianize or exploit? Convert or enslave? The two goals were plainly antithetical. For a time, Columbus hoped to resolve the quandary by enslaving the diabolical Caribs and converting the more benign peoples. But what did conversion even mean? A priest wrote that “force and craft” were required to impose Christianity on the Indians, but there was little hope that they would observe the rites after their overlords had left.

The Less Than Heroic Christopher Columbus, IAN W. TOLL,The Less Than Heroic Christopher Columbus

I'm just taking the first things I find on Google, this shit isn't hard to find

Google agrees

3.3 (mph per second) = 1.475232 m / (s^2)

It kind of occurs to me that they would most likely say that there is no evidence if there was none. Since they didn't say there was no evidence, I suppose there is some. I would also point out that there is an active lawsuit (first google hit) going against the EPA and possibly this is the reason for the article. I also read that there was at least one paper on the cause of colony collapse disorder. Don't know if they/it can be found on Google Scholar here. Bayer crop science is the villan for promoting the use of this. Anyway you look at it, the disappearance of bees may be good for selling one particular seed, but in general very, very bad for the rest of nature and most other agricultural industries too. Think of how Biologist Jonas Salk said: "If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”. This does not mean that all humans have to disappear in order for life to survive however. I would prefer a balance.

join non-stamp-collector organizations

Pray tell, what would that non-stamp-collector organization be?

Since Google apparently wasn't working for you when you asked:

https://www.google.ca/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=atheist+organizations&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&redir_esc=&ei=Szx8UaboGMnN0AGxnoGAAw

This exercise is the middle-men trying to keep their leech-type jobs.

With copyright trying to create artificial scarcity, projects should be funded by donations or kickstater-like methods.

Anything else is playing little dutch boy:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=dutch+boy+finger+dam

Why would anybody touch it after this:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=bittorrent+MPAA+Team

https://www.google.ca/search?q=cockroach+recipes&aq=f&oq=cockroach+recipes&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.7062j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

One of the top page result is recipes for cockroach pesticides. The rest are... not. Enjoy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8570506/Police-covered-up-violent-campaign-to-turn-London-area-Islamic.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374443/Police-hid-abuse-60-girls-Asian-takeaway-workers-linked-Charlene-Downes-murder.html
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/muslim-paedophile-gangs-have-been-operating-%E2%80%9Cdecades%E2%80%9D-admits-former-police-chief
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/iran-gay-men-executed-hanging_n_1515207.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/07/iran-executes-men-homosexuality-charges
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2006/11/27/gay-holocaust-in-iran-4000-killed-and-counting/
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/26/disgust-over-muslim-wife-beating-book
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/03/23/19543371.html
https://www.google.ca/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=police+in+UK+scared+of+muslims&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&redir_esc=&ei=PpFhUd0HwpaIAojLgagO#hl=en&gs_rn=8&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=YRHZtAg-ihnWR_44H-nTgw&pq=muslim%20wife%20beating%20canada&cp=11&gs_id=9oj&xhr=t&q=islam+acid+attacks&es_nrs=true&pf=p&client=ubuntu&hs=AVY&channel=fs&sclient=psy-ab&oq=islam+acid+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44770516,d.cGE&fp=d05afac0920070b6&biw=1390&bih=672r
I could post links for you all day but it would be pointless you love Islam because it lets you be a terrorist and get away with it because people are to scared to stand up to terrorists of the false prophet Muhammad. Your above post is exactly what your Muhammad stands for, way to represent he must be proud.

20 houses listed on kijiji in my town never mind the ones being sold by realators. There are ten houses on my street five were for sale last year. 2 took down the signs, 2 took a little over 2 years to sell at a loss to the owners, one is still for sale.
Here is a town of 5700 by edmonton
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/f-vegreville-real-estate-houses-for-sale-W0QQCatIdZ35QQKeywordZvegrevilleQQisSearchFormZtrue
http://www.calgarysrealestate.ca/vegreville.php
https://www.google.ca/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=real+estate+vegreville+alberta&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&redir_esc=&ei=uWpPUZjXOc3PigLfm4G4Aw#hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=CrY&channel=fs&q=vegreville+real+estate+listings&revid=1903828307&sa=X&ei=umpPUfCqAqqDjALCmYD4Bw&ved=0CKgBENUCKAA&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.cGE&fp=fc703c3c98ada1dc&biw=1393&bih=672
Sorry $6.79 for 4 litres of milk, $4.65 for 1 litre chocolate milk. Bananas are $1.96 -$2.20/kg at the local store. All the small town goceries are run by koreans or chinese and although they use KG at the till everything is labled in LB on the shelf. Most rural people in Alberta use english measure for daily activities (ie. miles, pounds,feet,inches, bushels etc) so does residential construction we buy 2x4's, 4x8 sheets of plywood, floor tiles are in inches, pipes (electrical and plumbing are sold by inches/diameter and foot/lengths) even the Home depot in Edmonton sells construction materials in english measure.
My neighbor has 8 kids other neighbour has 10 kids both are from Mexico. Parents ,sometimes grandparents and even 4-6 kids is a lot of people in a house. Temporary foreign workers usually live 2/4 per basement suite due to high rent cost. Low unemployment is because many low income people work 2-3 part time jobs because none of the bussnesses that hire min/wage employes hire full time to avoid paying pensions and benefits. It cost me $1,500 to get 2 teeth pulled on my 4 year old since my benefits don't kick in till May and I'm fortunate to make a decent income. Not everyone lives in Edmonton or Calgary buddy.

Pretty broad brush you're using there. I'm sure that the people who can perceive 100 million separate colours are also experiencing a placebo effect. and are REALLY good at guessing during tests to verify as such.

I imagine the vast majority of audiophiles are just experiencing the placebo effect, but it would be foolish to believe that a similar condition to tetrachromacy is biologically incapable of existing for audio as well.

B&E and other more "minor" felonies should be dealt with with labor camps.

I think you're behind the times a bit, except they've improved the formula such that those you would kill offhand are instead kept as taxpayer subsidized labour as well, to reduce costs for American corporations.

Except for the amount of products that are recalled because they contain lead paint or heavy metals, because quality control suffers when you're just trying to do things on the cheap.
You know, things like stuff your children would play with or put in their mouths.

We were making inroads into product safety, but apparently that made things too expensive. Now we'll just source it out to China where it's cheap and full of dangerous chemicals. Don't worry though, after a bunch of kids get sick it'll be recalled!

https://www.google.ca/search?q=lftr+Plutonium-238

But US laws exists to prevent developing the technology created in the 70s in the US.

Accidents happen because somebody does something stupid.

That's too harsh a view. No one can foresee everything. There are accidents in which no one did anything stupid. Races have many of those. Was Evel Knievel stupid? Are astronauts and test pilots stupid? Professional racers are all excellent, attentive drivers, yet accidents still happen because they are pushing the limits, taking more risks.

Evil Knievel, astronauts, test pilots, and professional racers do not perform their duties on public roads. I'm not talking about doing 160MPH 3 feet from the rear bumper of the car ahead of you. I'm talking about doing 160km/h on a road with traffic that looks something like this:
http://maps.google.ca/?ll=43.136154,-80.501831&spn=0.012996,0.027595&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=43.136154,-80.501831&panoid=XBjL3hLanETodiKA9RE26g&cbp=12,92.82,,0,0

Many accidents that do result from stupidity may not be driver stupidity. The stupidity is sometimes on the part of the road designers, or the car designers. We still have a lot of Dead Man's Curves and Corners.

It's still stupidity, but for the sake of argument, how do you justify going into a dead man's curve at 70 MPH, and still say you're not a stupid driver? If it's a particularly invisible one, which some are, all the municipality needs to do is put up a sign - make it a very unique, standout design - for dead man's curves. If you're paying attention, you'll see it, and if you're not stupid, you'll slow down.
Paying attention and not being stupid are prerequisites for not being a bad driver, so I don't see the problem with this approach.

There's bad weather, steep mountains, deer strikes, stuck accelerators, tire blowouts, and more.

Stuck accelerators only happen regularly on Toyotas, so that's not a problem for me. :P
Seriously, though...you seem to think I'm saying everybody should be able to drive at 100 MPH on any road under any conditions, as long as they don't do anything stupid, and we'll all be safe. I'm not saying that.
Driving beyond the traction of your tires in bad weather is being stupid. Driving faster than your line of sight allows you to stop on a mountain road is stupid. Stuck accelerators.....how is this an argument for driving slowly? I don't follow.
Tire blowouts tend to only happen when you hit something big in the road, in which case you weren't paying attention, or when you're driving on a damaged or bald tire. Either way, you're being stupid.
Having said that, have you ever had a tire blow out at speed? Years ago, when I was younger and stupid, I had a 1985 Camaro 5 speed. It was fast, and I enjoyed misbehaving in it. I was driving somewhere north of 140 km/h (85 MPH) - the speedometer only went up to that, and it was buried - and a tire on the back that was, yes, bald in one spot, turned out to have an internal defect that made it go bald. It was actually so thin in that spot that it wore clear through, and in the time it took for me to stop, had worn a 3/8 inch hole through the tread section. Not exactly catastrophic blowout, but still going flat *very* quickly, and at high speed.
Loss of control was virtually zero.

What are you expecting, perfection?

When a single mistake with your 2.5 ton urban assault weapon can kill multiple people, then yes....I'm pretty much expecting perfection. However, mistakes happen, so a single mistake shouldn't get your driver's licence pulled, but you should have to verify that you're a capable driver after you make it. If you can't, *then* you get your licence pulled.

It wasn't hard to debunk this last time it was in slashdot when they were finding obviously terrestrial diatom species. Why is it showing up yet again? I mean, yeah, I know dupes are the norm here, but sheesh. This new paper isn't any better. It's just more people not really knowing what the heck they are doing (i.e. they don't really know terrestrial microbiology and meteorite mineralogy/petrology) finding something else and saying the equivalent of "Obviously it's life from somewhere else, because our [actually completely undiagnostic] testing shows it can't be Earthly contamination."

Hystrichospheres? Seriously? That's an archaic (pre-1960s) term for spiny organic-walled microfossils that we now know (post-1960s) to be the cysts from dinoflagellates. That link is to a classic paper by Evitt that pretty much settled the issue decades ago. We don't even call these things hystrichospheres anymore because the term is redundant and therefore almost completely abandoned in modern the literature (and that's why you won't find "hystrichosphere" on the Wikipedia page for dinoflagellates). You may as well be referring to phlogiston in a paper about fire. It's also inaccurate to refer to them as "mostly extinct" as the article in Cosmology claims, because plenty of modern dinoflagellates produce cysts that if you found them as fossils would have been historically called "hystrichospheres". Modern examples are *common*. That's one of the reasons it was eventually figured out the fossils were the same things. Anyway, if you want an organic-walled spiny microfossil that isn't a dinoflagellate, those we generally call "acritarchs", at least until they can be recognized as a known group and properly assigned. It's like a temporary holding pen. Some of those have been found in meteorites before (back in the 1950s and 1960s), but they were just terrestrial contamination or completely unspecific organic spheres that could be produced by non-biological processes too. The lack of understanding of basic modern biology / paleontology terminology and historical work does not inspire confidence.

Interplanetary dinoflagellates? They are indeed durable little aquatic creatures, especially in cyst form, but I don't think so. The SEMs show blobby organic glop that is completely unconvincing of dinoflagellate anatomy or really anything else. Show me a TEM section through them with actual cellular contents, and then maybe I'd be convinced they were once something alive, but there's no diagnostic structure shown in the current paper.

I was programming some temperature sensors and ran into some overflow error due to negative temperatures. For that application Fahrenheit would have not failed.

Seriously?

0f is only -17c...

For that matter, -40c and -40f coincide with each other and that temperature occurs, not infrequently, in nature. For your purposes only Kelvin would assure that your BS unsigned counter didn't barf because of a negative number.

-AC

174,000/450,000 is not a landslide.

Bullshit.

Bullshit bullshit.

a) Do you wash your clothes one article at a time? Seriously

b) https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=&q=garbage+island&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=fRIjUfnRH6asigLZpIGIBA&biw=1366&bih=620&sei=gBIjUcq3O6G7igKTyYHgDQ

Thanks for making my point about people saying anything to justify the status quo.

http://www.google.ca/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=gdp%20of%20the%20united%20states#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gnp_mktp_kd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&ifdim=region&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

The US economy had a little downturn in 2008 that it's largely recovered from. That's it. The rest has been almost all pure, unsustainable, growth.

What you mean is that the economy failed to grow the way it was expected to in 2000.

Please reread my earlier comment. I wasn't refering to his 1985 paper but his more recent work (i.e. not more than a quater century ago) to make these points:

• This line of research is still quite active.
• The work that I pointed to has been overlooked, although it has been around for quite a while.

Took me 5 seconds https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&tbo=d&spell=1&q=robots+.txt+for+images&sa=X&ei=FJYRUeytEIeGiQLemYGIDg&ved=0CCsQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41934586,d.cGE&fp=7c0022b148dcff04&biw=1680&bih=860 with the results http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35308

How about a small effort from the site owners?

Your link is utterly irrelevant because no one denied that Apple does actual product placement, and does it well. No one denies Apple *does* pay for advertising, but product placement is a specific form of advertising that Apple claims they don't pay money for.

Google for "apple pays for product placement"

Link after link including from respectable news sites saying Apple says/insists/claims they don't pay [money] for their prolific product placement. That is more than enough reputable second-hand sources to cover the fact you know perfectly well Apple won't have an official written statement about it on their website, so your demand for an "official source" is a red herring. How about you provide an official source where Apple confirms they do pay money for product placement?

Heck I'll make it easier for you. Find me some reputable second-hand sources saying Apple does pay money for product placement. Loaning or other in-lieu doesn't count.

Can't speak for the Forgotten Realms stuff. I was never in to that.

It fully depends on the writer.

The vast majority of them are good, some are terrific (anything by either Greenwood, for example, and some of the Salvatore), and some are so bad that I couldn't make myself finish them. Something about actually having the gall to use the phrase 'shrill bellow' just set my teeth on edge...

The main benefit to the Forgotten Realms (as it is with any serial novel set) is that it's a common world with pre-defined locations / gods / major characters. Authors can pare back on the background and setting descriptions somewhat and focus on character and plot development (sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much, again it depends on the author). Generally, they're a good 'candy' read, if you're in the mood for something quick and relaxing, but not too intellectually challenging. A better use of your time than watching sitcoms, though, unless you're watching Community or Modern Family :o)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=lawsuit+over+disk+usage+on+surface+tablets

MS is being taken to court over this already.

Where are the scientific studies that prove that renewables, carbon capture and storage, fossil fuel phase-out or carbon taxation, etc. leave us globally with a better standard of living?

Good point. There are many studies that investigate the cost of implementing various strategies vs the cost of climate change - for some examples look at the works of William D. Nordhaus.

There are also some strategies that would ease us away from carbon fuels without imposing high economic impacts. One such option is a revenue neutral carbon tax. By making this revenue neutral it also has the advantage of lowing taxes on things that we ought to be encouraging like income and spending.

So, half your family was murdered by Nazis? Jews, I presume?

You are now aware that in 1938, Germany prohibited the possession of firearms by Jews. Specifically Jews.

Makes it easier to make them do as told, you see, when they have no way to defend their lives.

I'm skeptical that this is true about the law, but after googleing around I really wish wikipedia had a '-nutjobs' feature.

I dont see this setting from Canada. My search settings show "no filtering" option set and selected. Im not sure whether they plan to change this in Canada in the future. But for now, anyone who really wants this type of search should be able to go to the google.ca website and go from there. The link it shows for me is: https://www.google.ca/imghp Google may redirect to ur local country image search from here... not sure. But I think there is a way to tell google to set it to a remote country search, as I sometimes do this to get .com instead of .ca searches.

Actually I'll tell you a true story. In the late 80's when I lived in the interior of BC (Kamloops) me and my buddy use to walk probably close to 5 km each way down and up hill from Aberdeen area to Overwaitea which is a large grocery store chain to rent Sega Genesis games on his moms account.

This was when they were just finishing the Coquihalla HWY so we walked on the unpaved way. Kamloops use to get some nasty winters and there was lots of snow threading and frozen feet as we though we were cool walking in running shoes.

Whats sad that 24 year later getting your entertainment is not much different here as the online streaming services are almost non existent.

Here's our route :P

http://maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=Hugh+Allan+Dr&daddr=50.6511139,-120.3686384+to:Columbia+St+W&hl=en&ll=50.65931,-120.360117&spn=0.01986,0.055747&sll=50.659337,-120.360074&sspn=0.01986,0.055747&geocode=FYjWBAMdml3T-A%3BFenfBAMdAlLT-CkLrr04cix-UzGusDWyI0KqgQ%3BFZ4UBQMdyIvT-A&t=h&gl=ca&mra=dme&mrsp=2&sz=15&via=1&z=15

5+ TRILLION according to google

what the hell's wrong with this place, today???

Phoronix Filesystem Benchmarks 1

Phoronix Filesystem Benchmarks 2

Google search site:phoronix.com ext4 xfs benchmark

And I'd heard, repeatedly, that if you scramble an XFS filesystem, say goodbye forever to your data:
that recovering anything from it in scrambled-state is like brain-surgery on a trauma patient.

Anyways, to the poster whose post I placed this under,
thank you for the tips about PostgreSQL-compatible stuff!

Namaste, eh?

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Actually it was the CFX-9800g:

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.griffin-contracting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/casio_cfx-9800g.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.griffin-contracting.com/?p%3D2788&h=780&w=650&sz=74&tbnid=sOHnS5IBG_LfWM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=75&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcasio%2B9800g%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=casio+9800g&usg=__8q8cC3Oq_JirN4GUSryGeflPwjI=&docid=6Km24fi4LlSJpM&sa=X&ei=1qi4UPbrL4Hm9ATx7ICQBw&ved=0CDAQ9QEwAA&dur=116

Mine is around somewhere. I've only replaced the battery once.

THAT is who you should sue or prosecute.

Sometimes that is quite difficult, for example, they might be in Pakistan or Nairobi or Russia. But without Google, pretty much nobody would find their page. Google does play a role here, they aren't the innocent bystanders they are making themselves out to be.

I don't think they should pay damages for the libel. I do think it should be possible to force them to remove search results, via the proper legal channels, i.e. a court order. Google is not above the law.

What you in essence are saying is that GOOGLE should police the internet because it does the data search work. This is ridiculous if it was Bing that was in question here because it found the same results when a search for Bing.ca then would you recommend that Microsoft should police its search results?

Or if Google did the same thing?

Skewing and screwing around with search result by either Google or Bing or whatever to slant what comes up makes the whole concept of a search engine invalid does it not? I think a companies should be sued for skewing searches as otherwise we will wind up with Chinese style "mind police" search results!

Australia you ought to be ashamed because you are heading down one evil slippery slope to a world where the ghost of Joseph Goebbels is looking down and smiling upon you!

Nothing a few caterpillar generators can't do. Platforms have more than that available, they could just stop drilling and divert the power to counter-measures. :

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3268803&cid=42071527

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=how+many+MW+on+a+diesel+elecric+drill+rig&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CHcQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cat.com%2Fcda%2Ffiles%2F3072695%2F7%2FGP11PR6.docx&ei=YievULnYJOrg0gGSkoHACw&usg=AFQjCNEn8gYamAjnWDX7SF9lpTpqpFljpw

No, not that kind,... ... this kind. http://books.google.ca/books/about/?id=WyypzVblUa0C

Right. Because a windows update or AV update never nuked a machine, and IOS never broke anything on an update. It never happens with OSX either

Right. Because a windows update or AV update never nuked a machine, and IOS never broke anything on an update. It never happens with OSX either

Well, now it's a less magical place.

The loss of the Springs doesn't diminish the experience I had on Haida Gwaii in anyway. Was lucky enough to experience a Haida wedding with full dress Haida dancers (Crow). I also got to experience Tow Hill in Naikoon Provincial Park. The deep sea fishing expedition did not settle well with my inner ear, but I got to play a round of golf in one of the most North West regions of Canada.

In my younger days I spent many an hour at sea as a commercial herring fisherman off the coast of British Columbia. Skiffs used in the herring industry, while varying slightly in design, are all made entirely from aluminum. You can see many examples of such boats here.

I have no recollection of corrosion being a big issue. I assume there are aluminum alloys that make it resistant to corrosion the way that adding chromium to steel makes it "stainless".

The story "Division by Zero" by Ted Chiang. Can be found in the collection Stories of Your Life and Others (they're all great stories, actually).

The story "Luminous" by Greg Egan, from the collection of the same title. What happens when mathematicians discover that: (a) there is a flaw in the structure of mathematical truth; and (b) that mathematical truth can be altered by performing calculations around the flaw.

Someone has already collected a bunch of mathematical fiction here.

The solution for this was invented and extensively tested over two hundred years ago.

The only trick is finding the people responsible for making the calls. That's where this guy comes in.

To the FTC: You're welcome. You can donate my $50k to the EFF.

The solution for this was invented and extensively tested over two hundred years ago.

The only trick is finding the people responsible for making the calls. That's where this guy comes in.

To the FTC: You're welcome. You can donate my $50k to the EFF.

I hope you realize that when you make fun of MS-Bob you make fun of Bill Gates' wife.