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I think the author of th previous post was implying that since Bush's brother runs the state, and is therefore responsible for seeing that all the votes are counted, and in a propper manner, may have been a bit lax in enforcing the rules when it would have helped gore, and strict in enforcing the rules when it became clear that that was the only way for gore to lose.
200k votes is hardly in the margin of error. in FLA yes, it was within the margin, but overall, Gore won by about 2% of all people who voted, wheras the margin of error for vote counting is half a percent.
Support the office and the institution, even if you don't support the person
The thing is, we already started down th slippery slope awhile ago, and now that were on it, we find tha tit is indeed a slippery slope, and theres very little that anyone can do to stop this kinda thing from happening and continuing to happen.
The short answer, yes, the long answer, No, not really. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, according to newton. So as long as the player is firmly fastened to the station, when the motor starts the disk spinning, the station will react in the opposite direction. Angular momentum of the system is conserved. Since the station is huge(about 140 tons) and the disk is tiny, the amount of movement is imperceptible. Technically it does move, but you wouldnt be able to notice it.
no, circumventing region coding or any other encryption means is illegal under the DMCA. The question is, does this apply only when over US airspace? if so, then theyre probably in the right region after all, at least when its legal to rebroadcast. its a conundrum
Troll? what idiot moderater modded my post troll? This is my actual opinion, yes. If you dont like it, this is a free county, you are free to post a counter argument to my points. To simply slam me down for no good reason is an insult. Im trying to express myself, and maybe start an interesting discussion in the process, if thats a troll, then call me a troll.
The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door...
Yes, humans are going to "destroy" themselves. For the last 50k years or so, or at least since we killed off all the neanderthals, humanity has been exampt from evolution. We have been the master of our domain. However in the end, we have outsmarted ourselves. Our own greed and narcisism will become the driving force for a new evolution, brought about not by lions and tigers and bears eating us, but by genetic alteration of our own genome. Within 500 years, homo sapiens sapiens will no longer exist as a species. Some new species of humans, derived from the current one will be in control of the earth. Someday there will be that famous knock at the door, as the last man on earth sits alon in a room. It wont be aliens knocking, but our own creations. The question is, are we ready to take the next step? maybe.
Now if only they could produce a spider-man that could shoot webs out of his.... wrists. Has anyone else thought of this? I think it would make a great saturday morning cartoon show, or comic book. This spider-man could fight super villians like Ox-boy and Microsoft Bob. I volunteer the famous news-paper photographer peter parker to be the first test subject. Huzzah for science!
THEYRE LEARNING FOR FREE! This is america, nothing is free here. We cant have young children, some as young as 5 years old, thinking they can just waltz into any library in america and start learning for free. they need to find out that in the united states, everything costs money, from the lowliest candy bar, to the priciest congressman. Learning is no different, if we had children thinking that having things be free isnt damaging to big buisness, they might grow up to contribute to the bane of all existance, open source software. DAMN YOU OPEN SOURCE! Sure libraries have been around for along time without any visible harm to the publishing industry, but if software companies can do it, so can we. After all we have to milk every last dollar out of the consumer, whos only purpose is to be a mindless automaton consuming any and everything that we throw out at them. Soon consumers will not even have a choice fo what to buy, youll buy the book of the month and well send it to you every month and you have to send us a check no matter what, ah Itll be glorious!
Those sites that dont have any redeeming quality go out of buisness. ( I know, I know, why is AOL.com still up, go figure) If you dont make any money from yoru site, its because nobody likes it and nobody visits it. You cant expect to make a million dollars from a site that has say a thousand visitors a week. On the other hand, you were very clever and now probably have had your site slashdotted. You got free advertising thanks to posting on slashdot and the momentary insanity of a few moderators who didnt quite realize what you were doing. Kudos to you for screwing the system
Couple of dollars a week? Im a slashdot regular, and I wouldnt pay that. Remember, slashdot gets most of its stories from other news sources, its just convinient to have them all in one place. While The idea of a digital tip jar for slashdot would be a nice one, it should not be manditory or a prerequisite for registering. Money would flow in because people want to donate, not because they are forced to pay. Didnt we learn our lesson with Salon?
Actually the problem with railguns is that they tend to melt when you get to high enough temperatures. Once the little link that goes across the rails gets enough juice going through it, Zap! no more metal. When the military was talking about making these thwy would use Plasma in place of a metal conductor in order to prevent this problem. Also youre right about the coils, A coil gun exists as well, and it doesnt have as much of a problem of overheating as the rail gun but its more complex.
Members of the University of maryland Scholars program also build a railgun as a semester project. They tested it out in Lot 4 (the largest and most distant parking lot) and were able to shoot a small projectile out of the lot to parts unknown. The second shot broke up in the launcher due to G forces and basically put it out of comission. The studenst then realized that hey, their first shot could have killed somone if it had landed, and hightailed it out of there along with the railgun. Location of the railgun is currently unknown, possibly sold to Iraq in exchange for free textbooks
Back in Hs, everybody i knew who was smart used a daily planner or some sort of calendar to keep thingss straight. I always just remembered everything, starting in grade school. Now I have a much better memory than most people i know. Sure, sometimes i forget an assignment or something, but this is very rarely, in fact i dont believe it has happened in the last year or more. If you get in the habit of just remembering everything youll always have your schedule around and you wont be lost when your pda gets fried or your date book gets lost.
Fuck yeah Im fucking advocating fucking censorship. If any fuck on this fucking planet could just up and say fuck any fucking time he pleased it would be fucking chaos. Fuck man, think of the children. They would be so fucking corrupted its not even fucking funny. I for one agree that CBS fucked up big time when they didnt bleep out fuck.
Yes, thats right, get over it. Was it a tragedy? yes. Should it never have happened? Yes. Were mistakes made? Yes. Ultimately though, this is going to happen. How many people died colonizing the americas? How many people died exploring the new world, africa, sailing around the world? Alot more people are going to die getting into space, but humanity wont stop trying because ultimately we know that our future is off of this rock and out there in the great black depths of the universe. Nobody ever said that getting into space was a safe activity. in fact, strapping yourself to enough explosives to rival a nuclear weapon would be ground for a quick trip to the loony bin in most cases. There are no humans within 3 miles of the shuttle when it launches, for safety reasons. America needs to move on, we need to do the things that no one has ever done before because we know theyre right. Get over Challenger
And about drilling for oil in alaska, isnt it a lot cleaner than bringing in oil on barges and having the occasional spill?
Refresh my memory as to where the Exxon Valdez was coming from when it ran aground and dumped all its oil into a pristine environment? Oh yes, Alaska. My point is we need to move away from fossil fuel based resources towards nuclear, solar and other non polluting power sources.
Youre right, dispersing particles into the upper atmosphere would work great. Unfortunately, no matter hoe fine you make your particles, they are still essentially rocks, and they will fall down again. your particle screen will cease to be effective after about 2 years and all the particles will be gone after about 4. this means that particles must be pumped into the atmosphere at the rate of about 1 mount Pinatubo Eruption every 2-4 years. This equates to maybe 10 Cubic miles of Rock. Thats alot of rock, and it needs to be continuously replenished. Second, how are you going to get all that rock up there? you first need to powder it, then you need to raise it to altitude somehow. Pinatubo put out a hell of alot of energy, much more than the most powerful nuclear weapon, and probably more than the entire us arsenal, i dont know the exact numbers. The point is, where is all that energy coming from? Polluting power sources. Additionally, youre not solving the problem, youre only solving the symptoms. Fossil fuels will run out someday, this is only a stopgap solution. Do we really want to get to that point though? What happens if all the carbon produced in the entire history of earth were suddenly released into the atmosphere? That would be pretty catastrophic. As a stopgap measure, a better solution than dust would be a very large, very thin, reflective film placed at the lagrange point between the earth and the sun, providing a partial eclipse of the sun. Even reducing 1% of the incoming solar radiation might be enough to prevent global warming. At that point we would be able to control the amount of solar enegy reaching the surface of the earth, and we could literally stabilize the climate for changes in the suns output. It would be cheap and effective and would only need to be done once.
$5 says that George "lets drill in Alaska" Bush does absolutely nothing about this. They could predict that the earth will be turned into a molten ball of rock due to global warming and as long as it happens in more than 8 years, Bush will do nothing. Why? First and foremost, hes an oil man, second, Dick "The Real President" Cheny is also an Oil man. Third, Lots of corparate entities that would stand to lose alot if we reduced our carbon emissions paid alot of money to be elected president, and theyre not going to sit around and do nothing if bush dares to raise a finger to do anything but sign orders to drill for oil in Teddy Roosevelts Head on mount rushmore. Remember, reading this is binding under the terms of the DMCA, so you all owe me $5 when nothing gets done.
This is a good point, as a comparison, if some other alien civilization had sent out this signal, we wouldnt have picked it up. SETI looks in a very small bandwith around 1.412 MHZ, since this is the spot where there is the smallest amount of natural interferance.
You could take a train from any where on the planet to anywhere else
Ok, I want to take a train to Sidney, Austrailia. How about the south pole? how about Duluth, Minnesota. Australia and antarctica arent connected, and most places in america dont have regular passenger train service, if any. Oh, and go watch the $6 million dollar man to get my bit about not having the $6 million.
Its a great plan, but it will never happen. There needs to be an economic reason to connect the two points of land. England needed to be connected to the rest of europe because it does alot of buesness in europe, and alot of tourists to europe fly into Heathrow airport in london, so you could make alot of money on cargo and passangers if you had a rail line and highway link that connected the two. Alaskas Main Export is Snow and Cold air. Its third most popular export is Oil. Siberias main exports are Cold and Ex Pollitical Prisoners. Third again is Oil. Alaska already has oil and cold, so does siberia. Nobody wants to live in either place, and we both have too many dissidents, most of whom read Slashdot. Find an economic reason to make a rail link, and itll happen, we have the technology, the $6 million dollars just isnt there.
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I think the author of th previous post was implying that since Bush's brother runs the state, and is therefore responsible for seeing that all the votes are counted, and in a propper manner, may have been a bit lax in enforcing the rules when it would have helped gore, and strict in enforcing the rules when it became clear that that was the only way for gore to lose.
Support the office and the institution, even if you don't support the person
where were you when Clinton was president?
Yes, humans are going to "destroy" themselves. For the last 50k years or so, or at least since we killed off all the neanderthals, humanity has been exampt from evolution. We have been the master of our domain. However in the end, we have outsmarted ourselves. Our own greed and narcisism will become the driving force for a new evolution, brought about not by lions and tigers and bears eating us, but by genetic alteration of our own genome. Within 500 years, homo sapiens sapiens will no longer exist as a species. Some new species of humans, derived from the current one will be in control of the earth. Someday there will be that famous knock at the door, as the last man on earth sits alon in a room. It wont be aliens knocking, but our own creations. The question is, are we ready to take the next step? maybe.
In case you couldnt tell, i was being sarcastinc
-H. Simpson
Well duh
-M Simpson
Refresh my memory as to where the Exxon Valdez was coming from when it ran aground and dumped all its oil into a pristine environment? Oh yes, Alaska. My point is we need to move away from fossil fuel based resources towards nuclear, solar and other non polluting power sources.
Ok, I want to take a train to Sidney, Austrailia. How about the south pole? how about Duluth, Minnesota. Australia and antarctica arent connected, and most places in america dont have regular passenger train service, if any. Oh, and go watch the $6 million dollar man to get my bit about not having the $6 million.