Unless of course in the future revived cryonauts will have no legal status as humans and will be revived to create a slave population to work in the Overlords sugar mines for all eternity. Or you do get revived, but as a zombie. and you become the bringer of complete destruction to all of humankind. Actually that last one sounds rather cool...
Either way, it's your body, your money, your life to lead, don't let the naysayers get to you. Good luck to ya and hope you wake up in a blissful utopia someday. At least you can live every day as if it were your last, and then some!
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Even their name, "Alcor Life Extension Foundation" is completley dishonest. They sell death suspension perhaps, but saying they provide life extension is a flat out lie.
Look, I know you guys are proud of your version of the Office, and really your homage to it is very good, but you're sort of doing it wrong. It's meant to be a form of self-deprecating humour called satire. Don't let the lack of a laughter soundtrack fool you, it's really truly not meant to be taken seriously.
That said, fantastic work on the awkward, stilted dialouge, shaky camera and the deadpan acting. There's potential there for a decent campaign if you stopped taking yourself so seriously and injected an inkling of humanity into the performance.
No need to worry about a militarized police state then, these were just state police in military uniform playing with experimental military technology.
As far as I can see, they are legitimate protesters with a grievance against multinational companies atrocious human rights and environmental records, and protesting their governments for the collusion and collaboration they enjoy with these multinationals in that they not only do nothing to punish these companies for their sins but actively encourage them.
Either way they should be allowed to protest, denial of a permit be damned.
Hi, I'm posting from the future. At first I thought, "Don't worry, be happy", but then it was more like, "It's gonna be a hard days night" and now it's pretty bad, almost "Heaven knows I'm miserable @#%^H!*( NO CARRIER
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war.
And by us, you mean North America, Western Europe and Australiasia.
Tell that to Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East and Asia, even the Pacific Islands and you'll see we never stopped shooting for a minute. Nukes did not stop a clash of the superpowers, just diverted it into foreign territories. We were quite open about fighting the 'Red Menace' the world over, just convinently not in our own backyard.
I've got it! We could say replace the virtual paddles in Wii Tennis with real ones, then replace the 2D screen with a realistic stage that recreates the conditions of the game. All we would need is some sort of ball... damn, it's just all too hard. These LARPers are wierd.
Actually, the Maori people were very conservation aware and utilised temporary taboos on resources to preserve them, known as Rahui. It might not have helped the Moa, but to call the close connection of their spirituality and natural conservation a myth is quite disingenuous.
If anyone was astroturfing for MS they would never say the word 'botnet' unless they are insane.
This is definately not the first time a unix system has been comprimised by an administrator being slack about their passwords. Why it's an issue is because each system is being used to control multiple infected windows machines, something I doubt an astroturfer would want to draw attention to (excepting the previously mentioned insane ones).
It's far more likely that this sort of activity has been going on for years and it's just the first time any mainstream media has caught up on the fact.
The solution is so simple, just protect your root passwords for fucks sake, yet we know there are countless incompetent admins without any clue out there and this shit should be expected, in that it is impossible to aviod voluntary security breaches.
Programmers are teachers, scientists, mathematicians and artists all in one. In that I've never met a programmer unwilling to share their insight and knowledge, hypothesize, construct a proof or make something cool appear on the screen.
Your wish is granted - it's called encryption. DRM and DPP is just crackpot vapourware which cannot work by definition, it's just encryption that assumes the eavesdropper and the recipient are the same person.
Even her prison colonies still love her. Well, 54.87% of them to be precise, but it's more that:
(A) She has no power in Australia really (the last time her representative the Governer General tried to use his powers he got neutered)
(B) Nobody trusts politicians at all here really, especially when they want to change our constitution or parlimentary system in any way. We like to think we have the best of the pommies and yanks in that regard with a Westminster style system with US style seperation of powers and we like it that way.
If we rule out T/C winning as there is no stop codon when we use only those from that group, we can go with A/G winning instead. This works out better, but there is still ambiguity. I'll just go with my arbitary instinct and pick only one stop codon, leaving G as the winner as follows:
codon set, G wins
AA........... K
AC........... T
AG........... S
AT........... I
CA........... Q
CC........... P
CG........... R
CT........... L
GA........... E
GC........... A
GG........... G
GT........... V
TA........... STOP
TC........... S
TG........... W
TT........... L
Though perhaps it's two stop codons (A wins), or something completley different. However it might work, its a brilliant idea.
The most succesful the would probably be bubonic plague used from the middle ages by Europeans and Mongols who hurled plague ridden corpses into besieged camps and towns, diseased clothing and blankets given to natives in the Americas, Australia, Africa and other colonial settlements, in WWI by Germany and others right up to WWII with the Japanese dropping infected fleas into Chinese towns, killing an aproximated 400,000.
Anthrax deserves a mention as one that many militaries vaccinate against, and though it's been used since WWI it's never seen large scale deployments, except perhaps in tests (especially WWII PoW tests), as does smallpox which was used on the French and various native populations by the British.
In the nonhuman realm, myxamitosis is probably the best known animal killer deliberately deployed by humans, while with plants it's use of wheat and rice blast during the cold war. Potato blight also deserves a mention as a plant weapon agent. From it's origin in the great Irish famine (where it wasn't used as a weapon, though some saw the British indifference as at least utilising it to weaken the Irish) it was extensively studied and stockpiled by the US and European powers, but I don't know of it ever being deployed.
Moral of the story is, if you're honest and polite, you may get more help than if you go into the store and whine, complain, lie, and curse at the top of your lungs, which is probably happening in most of these exploding battery scenarios.
My phone explodes and you expect me not to whine, complain and curse at the top of my lungs? You really think people are lying simuntaneously worldwide about their phones exploding and it's not a hardware fault but the user? Tone down that RDF a little please.
The existing FFXI MMORPG already works on PS2, PC and 360, so it's definitely possible to do, probably just more effort than it's worth for a non-MMO title.
It's not just crash data. It sends that too, but it also uploads your GPS coordinates daily along with the app use data (what you've used and for how long) according to TFA. It's customer profiling, not bug testing.
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Unless of course in the future revived cryonauts will have no legal status as humans and will be revived to create a slave population to work in the Overlords sugar mines for all eternity. Or you do get revived, but as a zombie. and you become the bringer of complete destruction to all of humankind. Actually that last one sounds rather cool...
Either way, it's your body, your money, your life to lead, don't let the naysayers get to you. Good luck to ya and hope you wake up in a blissful utopia someday. At least you can live every day as if it were your last, and then some!
Even their name, "Alcor Life Extension Foundation" is completley dishonest. They sell death suspension perhaps, but saying they provide life extension is a flat out lie.
Look, I know you guys are proud of your version of the Office, and really your homage to it is very good, but you're sort of doing it wrong. It's meant to be a form of self-deprecating humour called satire. Don't let the lack of a laughter soundtrack fool you, it's really truly not meant to be taken seriously.
That said, fantastic work on the awkward, stilted dialouge, shaky camera and the deadpan acting. There's potential there for a decent campaign if you stopped taking yourself so seriously and injected an inkling of humanity into the performance.
No need to worry about a militarized police state then, these were just state police in military uniform playing with experimental military technology.
As far as I can see, they are legitimate protesters with a grievance against multinational companies atrocious human rights and environmental records, and protesting their governments for the collusion and collaboration they enjoy with these multinationals in that they not only do nothing to punish these companies for their sins but actively encourage them.
Either way they should be allowed to protest, denial of a permit be damned.
Hi, I'm posting from the future. At first I thought, "Don't worry, be happy", but then it was more like, "It's gonna be a hard days night" and now it's pretty bad, almost "Heaven knows I'm miserable @#%^H!*( NO CARRIER
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war.
And by us, you mean North America, Western Europe and Australiasia.
Tell that to Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East and Asia, even the Pacific Islands and you'll see we never stopped shooting for a minute. Nukes did not stop a clash of the superpowers, just diverted it into foreign territories. We were quite open about fighting the 'Red Menace' the world over, just convinently not in our own backyard.
I've got it! We could say replace the virtual paddles in Wii Tennis with real ones, then replace the 2D screen with a realistic stage that recreates the conditions of the game. All we would need is some sort of ball... damn, it's just all too hard. These LARPers are wierd.
Actually, the Maori people were very conservation aware and utilised temporary taboos on resources to preserve them, known as Rahui. It might not have helped the Moa, but to call the close connection of their spirituality and natural conservation a myth is quite disingenuous.
You should start your research here.
If anyone was astroturfing for MS they would never say the word 'botnet' unless they are insane.
This is definately not the first time a unix system has been comprimised by an administrator being slack about their passwords. Why it's an issue is because each system is being used to control multiple infected windows machines, something I doubt an astroturfer would want to draw attention to (excepting the previously mentioned insane ones).
It's far more likely that this sort of activity has been going on for years and it's just the first time any mainstream media has caught up on the fact.
The solution is so simple, just protect your root passwords for fucks sake, yet we know there are countless incompetent admins without any clue out there and this shit should be expected, in that it is impossible to aviod voluntary security breaches.
Programmers are teachers, scientists, mathematicians and artists all in one. In that I've never met a programmer unwilling to share their insight and knowledge, hypothesize, construct a proof or make something cool appear on the screen.
Your wish is granted - it's called encryption. DRM and DPP is just crackpot vapourware which cannot work by definition, it's just encryption that assumes the eavesdropper and the recipient are the same person.
Luckily brickarms is there to fill the gap.
Being that this is slashdot, I'd like to amend a flowchart to my comment: Legislative Process in Australia.
Note that the Queen only gets involved in the last step, and the last time her representitive tried (1975) he was hung out to dry.
Even her prison colonies still love her. Well, 54.87% of them to be precise, but it's more that:
(A) She has no power in Australia really (the last time her representative the Governer General tried to use his powers he got neutered)
(B) Nobody trusts politicians at all here really, especially when they want to change our constitution or parlimentary system in any way. We like to think we have the best of the pommies and yanks in that regard with a Westminster style system with US style seperation of powers and we like it that way.
If we rule out T/C winning as there is no stop codon when we use only those from that group, we can go with A/G winning instead. This works out better, but there is still ambiguity. I'll just go with my arbitary instinct and pick only one stop codon, leaving G as the winner as follows:
codon set, G wins
AA
AC
AG
AT
CA
CC
CG
CT
GA
GC
GG
GT
TA
TC
TG
TT
Though perhaps it's two stop codons (A wins), or something completley different. However it might work, its a brilliant idea.
The most succesful the would probably be bubonic plague used from the middle ages by Europeans and Mongols who hurled plague ridden corpses into besieged camps and towns, diseased clothing and blankets given to natives in the Americas, Australia, Africa and other colonial settlements, in WWI by Germany and others right up to WWII with the Japanese dropping infected fleas into Chinese towns, killing an aproximated 400,000.
Anthrax deserves a mention as one that many militaries vaccinate against, and though it's been used since WWI it's never seen large scale deployments, except perhaps in tests (especially WWII PoW tests), as does smallpox which was used on the French and various native populations by the British.
In the nonhuman realm, myxamitosis is probably the best known animal killer deliberately deployed by humans, while with plants it's use of wheat and rice blast during the cold war. Potato blight also deserves a mention as a plant weapon agent. From it's origin in the great Irish famine (where it wasn't used as a weapon, though some saw the British indifference as at least utilising it to weaken the Irish) it was extensively studied and stockpiled by the US and European powers, but I don't know of it ever being deployed.
For Tron 2 of course.
Moral of the story is, if you're honest and polite, you may get more help than if you go into the store and whine, complain, lie, and curse at the top of your lungs, which is probably happening in most of these exploding battery scenarios.
My phone explodes and you expect me not to whine, complain and curse at the top of my lungs? You really think people are lying simuntaneously worldwide about their phones exploding and it's not a hardware fault but the user? Tone down that RDF a little please.
The existing FFXI MMORPG already works on PS2, PC and 360, so it's definitely possible to do, probably just more effort than it's worth for a non-MMO title.
It's an ever increasing mass I believe is the problem. How do you get a stable orbit when one party just keeps growing larger?
idk teh grmr is evol? grmr evol always has no sez grmr use is bttr 2 make data usefl short form comms good prac. i <3 how ppl assume lol ;)
It's not just crash data. It sends that too, but it also uploads your GPS coordinates daily along with the app use data (what you've used and for how long) according to TFA. It's customer profiling, not bug testing.
There's still Sasquatch in North America, a population of Yeti in the Himalayas, the Australian Bunyip and of course the Belgians.