We were leaving from vacation in Florida a few years ago (post 9-11), and they stopped my sister at the screener because they didn't know what to make of here Disney pouch of squished pennies. You would think that of all the aireoports in the country, that at least the TSA's in FLORIDA would recognize them! go figure...
Damn, and I almost started looking for the land equivalent of the international waters rule of:
"You are under the laws of the country who's flag you fly".
I read the title thinking it was going to be something about the ethics of sending robots to their death... I guess people are still more worried about protecting the soft little fleshies than preventing harm to the metal lords.
I completely agree that people need to learn first-aid training. The problem is that there is not always a person available who knows it themselves! I know that there usually is, and you would think it would not be a problem, but it is. In elementary school, my younger sister's teacher did a first-aid thing with them. Unfortunately, she told them things like
-gloves are optional
-tilt your head back if you have a nose-bleed among other things.
There are also many other things people should be taught. I mean come on, what is more important, knowing which settlers landed on the continent first, or how to do first-aid or drive a car without killing someone?
It is sad what our so-called education systems have become...
I know what you mean. At night I shut down my computers and turn off the tv (everything that would SEEM to make noise), but it wasn't until we had a power failure which killed the router, cordless phones, etc. that I learned how TRULY quiet the house could be.
Dead parrot sketch.
Seen in:
-Flying Circus Series (forgot which season/episode)
-And Now For Something Completely Different
in case you were still wondering....
I think a good way to fix the problems with wikipedia is not for them to spend all their time figuring out which articles to delete, since most of those articles aren't even read, but to spend some more time adding positive tags to the tops of articles.
I've noticed articles tagged as "This article may be biased...", etc. But why not have some people that can prove they know the material to give the article an approval rating. for instance, add a "This article has been verified for errors...", etc. This way instead of simply trying to avoid bad articles we can actually look for good articles.
Even a point system (5/10 stars, etc.) would work. With this system a quality assurance block could even be initiated where any article with a certain approval rating would be locked from anonymous editing and require a submission approval (same as editing but the admins have to approve it first). I'm not saying do this for the majority of articles (that would be mayhem), but instead just for high ranking articles (9 or 10 stars, etc.)
This seems to have two uses, both of which are, by them selves very amazing, together even more amazing: 1. It reduces garbage 30:1 and turns it into "ash" which seems to be a very easy thing to dispose of (especially at 1/30th of the amount) 2. It CREATES energy in the process.
As for the 90% thing, i believe they are saying that the input power would be what-ever power source you give it to turn the trash into electricity, I am pretty sure that the energy already in the trash is not counted in the input.
Just think, not only could you use your own garbage to power this thing, but just consider the fact that the one thing we have been trying to find a way to get rid of, and inadvertently stockpiling in land fills, can now be reduced by a factor of 30 and turned into electricity, just take a bunch of these to a local landfill and viola, less garbage and more electricity.
Any municipal government that does not take advantage of this (assuming it gets further developement) should be considered completely incompetent.
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Actually, I saw "SQL".
I think it's time to give my databases a break for a while...
We were leaving from vacation in Florida a few years ago (post 9-11), and they stopped my sister at the screener because they didn't know what to make of here Disney pouch of squished pennies. You would think that of all the aireoports in the country, that at least the TSA's in FLORIDA would recognize them! go figure...
And someone else probably got his broken Xbox360.
Just imagine the other guy: "What is with all these marks on my case?!?"
Yeah, I thought I had read this before... And the comments seem to be about the same as well!
So what you are saying is "no, they have absolutely no rights, just like our citizens."
Damn, and I almost started looking for the land equivalent of the international waters rule of: "You are under the laws of the country who's flag you fly".
Are you sure it was the "manufacturer" who glued it in? ;)
Could you not theoretically run the exploit yourself and use your newly found root access to install one of the "no reboot required" patches?
Just think of the irony...
I read the title thinking it was going to be something about the ethics of sending robots to their death...
I guess people are still more worried about protecting the soft little fleshies than preventing harm to the metal lords.
-Supernova_hq
I completely agree that people need to learn first-aid training. The problem is that there is not always a person available who knows it themselves!
I know that there usually is, and you would think it would not be a problem, but it is.
In elementary school, my younger sister's teacher did a first-aid thing with them. Unfortunately, she told them things like
-gloves are optional
-tilt your head back if you have a nose-bleed
among other things.
There are also many other things people should be taught. I mean come on, what is more important, knowing which settlers landed on the continent first, or how to do first-aid or drive a car without killing someone?
It is sad what our so-called education systems have become...
I wonder if they will ever make a remote control for this thing?
... speed him up.
Worker not picking potatoes fast enough
Worker getting too close to your daughter, make him kiss the ground.
All without leaving the comfort of your front window!
Hold on, so in the analogy, "You can only have lock-picking tools if you know how to use them"?!?
The only people that couldn't get certified would be those that can't use the software anyways! haha!!
Well, we may have finally found a solution to the population crisis in India...
I know what you mean. At night I shut down my computers and turn off the tv (everything that would SEEM to make noise), but it wasn't until we had a power failure which killed the router, cordless phones, etc. that I learned how TRULY quiet the house could be.
Yeah, just look at us here in Canada, we don't mess with nobody and nobody messes with us!
-supernova_hq
Dead parrot sketch. Seen in: -Flying Circus Series (forgot which season/episode) -And Now For Something Completely Different in case you were still wondering....
Quake II was full of easter eggs, from the level where you weight almost nothing to the underground cave past the dev posters in the last level.
That game actually tells you how many secrets there are and how many you found!
I think a good way to fix the problems with wikipedia is not for them to spend all their time figuring out which articles to delete, since most of those articles aren't even read, but to spend some more time adding positive tags to the tops of articles.
I've noticed articles tagged as "This article may be biased...", etc. But why not have some people that can prove they know the material to give the article an approval rating. for instance, add a "This article has been verified for errors...", etc. This way instead of simply trying to avoid bad articles we can actually look for good articles.
Even a point system (5/10 stars, etc.) would work. With this system a quality assurance block could even be initiated where any article with a certain approval rating would be locked from anonymous editing and require a submission approval (same as editing but the admins have to approve it first). I'm not saying do this for the majority of articles (that would be mayhem), but instead just for high ranking articles (9 or 10 stars, etc.)
This seems to have two uses, both of which are, by them selves very amazing, together even more amazing:
1. It reduces garbage 30:1 and turns it into "ash" which seems to be a very easy thing to dispose of (especially at 1/30th of the amount)
2. It CREATES energy in the process.
As for the 90% thing, i believe they are saying that the input power would be what-ever power source you give it to turn the trash into electricity, I am pretty sure that the energy already in the trash is not counted in the input.
Just think, not only could you use your own garbage to power this thing, but just consider the fact that the one thing we have been trying to find a way to get rid of, and inadvertently stockpiling in land fills, can now be reduced by a factor of 30 and turned into electricity, just take a bunch of these to a local landfill and viola, less garbage and more electricity.
Any municipal government that does not take advantage of this (assuming it gets further developement) should be considered completely incompetent.