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South Pole to Get Highway
tetrad writes "The New Scientist magazine reports that the US is building a road to the South Pole. The "highway" would cross the Ross Ice Shelf and then pass through the Transantarctic Mountains (map here). Convoys of tractors will be the only traffic on the road, bringing fuel and heavy equipment to the South Pole, as well as enabling the installation of a $250M fibre-optic communications cable (discussed previously)."
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Call this number and Cost Microsoft some money
There might finally be a road where I can drive as fast as I want and nobody will care...of course onn that road speeding is probably 30mph...:>
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
Microsoft pay fo this 0800 service, you call it, and ask for XBox support, something like:
/. effect begin
"X-Box support hello"
"Yes, erm, hi I am wondering something"
"We at X-Box Support love to help, do you agree to abid by the terms and conditions of... shared organs....sign your soul away... lalal.... do you lvoe bill?"
"whatever, I wondered if there was a patch for the kernel so my USB CD-rewriter would work on my XBOX?"
"erm, what game is it? we dont do cheats on this line"
"no no, I am runnign linux adn I"
"Alert alert alert alert kill kill kill"
and ergo costing them lovely money... let the
141 witheld your number tho!
Prank calls for fun and profit.
I didn't know Antarctica had its' own fairy-Congresscritter! Normally, you need to have one of those pork-barrel-lovin' sons of guns to get anything done...
In other words, it's YAWOFTM (Yet Another Waste Of Taxpayer Money).
Kierthos
(So many better things to spend it on, so little actual incentive to help people in this country...)
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
hopscotch@libero.it
to Godless greed/fear based LIEforms:
... We wipe it off and replace it with Linux, which is more reliable, but we were still contributing to the MS cash flow. Dell would not sell a desktop machine without MSWindows, because of the price break MS gives them if they force all users to buy windows. Another little way of making your OS dominant. You get 70% of the market, and you tell a manufacturer, that you will charge him $1,000,000 say if he puts your OS on say 70% of the machines he builds and only $950,000 if he puts it on a 100%. Which is he going to do? And maybe only $925,000 if he puts your browser on too. Of course the numbers were secret but this is how it is done. Both MS and Dell are really trying to help the customers. And you wonder why other OS's just don't seem to be able to compete. And it is only getting worse. Exactly as Microsoft foresaw, once they had dominance, even if nothing else changed it would be harder and harder to browse the web using the competition's browser. Perhaps all this is too subtle for the appeals court judges, I was surprised that Penfield seemed to actually understand it."
"We have 100's of machines in the math department at UT where I am a professor, and they all are running Linux. But we wanted to use Dell's from here in austin, and that forced us to have MS Windows on every machine we bought. We are free to wipe it off the machines, they do not put in the sales contract that you have to keep the OS, although they do sometimes make noises at warranty time
RrrrrrrOOOOOAAAAD TRIP!
Oh yeah.
Of course they won't. The signs will be in miles, since the US insist on maintaining their archaic measurement units instead of migrating to something more widely accepted, like metric.
As for the guy working at the station, he'll be fine, as long as they build a Tim Horton's beside it.
They don't track IP's. It's far better to let people make terroristic threats than to hold people accoutable according to Rob Malda. I've had far, far worse said about me, and the only response I got was "We don't track IP's, and we delete the MD5 hashes after 2 weeks. Sorry, they've done it to me too, and it sucks." So, at least he's willing to put up with the same crap and garbage, but until such time as someone sues slashdot and they get held liable, this policy will likely not change.
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
Arranged marriage?
RTWFA (Read the Whole Fucking Article):
"The annual capacity of the route would be about a million litres of fuel - roughly the capacity of three Hercules transporter planes that currently supply the base. "
In other words, as much fuel will be burned in a year as is burned by the three planes that currently are being used.
Sorry to bite, can't help it.
Average world temperatures ARE rising. This doesn't neccesarily mean it has anything to do with human activity, CO2, or whatever, but neither does the parent of your comment claim it does.
Let's just hope these ocean-floor methane deposits don't start leaking anytime soon.
Yeah, New England could really use some greenhouse effect right now. I walked all the way to work yesterday and was convinced that I'd never be a father.
Yeah, they should call it the Ozzy Expressway lol
When I get enough karma points, I am *so* gonna moderate you down!
2 things...
First off, snowmobiles are among the HIGHEST vehicle poluters on the market, so an SUV would be an IMPROVEMENT.
Second, Antarctica is one of the very-useful and practical places where an SUV really would come in handy. Seriously, you expect someone to cross that area in a Camry? It's not likely they'd drive a Naviagator down there, and more likely they'd have a Dodge pickup truck or something.
lol
Please post that here for the enjoyment of all.
I thought that was the plan to cryogenically freeze Walt until he could be revived by medics of the future...
Probably so the Death + X copyright limit just re-starts, innit?
Free as in mason.