And the incredible arrogance of the movie "industry", in trying to tell US how we should use our computers, make them a bunch of pariahs who should be crushed at the first opportunity.
Well, yes, of course I was "power-shifting" all the time. How do you think I was able to travel at 100 km/h on the motorway and then at 40 km/h on the residential streets????
Someone I know once had to drive across London with a gearbox that wouldn't come out of 3rd gear.
Reminds me of one day, when I had a motorcycle. At around midnight, I started to go home from about 30 kilometers away, and my clutch cable just broke. I could not stop and be able to restart again... So I took my chances and got onto the motorway just fine (at midnight, there is no traffic) and from the exit, I took a roundabout route where I knew the traffic lights were precisely synchronized. The only hitch was a red light accross a heavily travelled boulevard, which was solved by going in circles until the light changed... The few stop signs left to my home were done, as we say here american style... I finally got home fine. But I had to wait 3 days before getting the proper clutch cable, though...
Actually, you can hold a chunk of plutonium in your hand with little side effect.
When the plutonium core of the Trinity device was delivered to the site, the commander insisted that the courier open the case containing it - he said something along the lines of "I won't sign for anything unless I have actually seen it".
So, the courier opened the case, the BC took the sphere out, held it briefly (noting the warmth and "feeling of potential"), then returned it and signed for it.
The US Navy has developped a diving suit that is heated by plutonium decay.
It is not very popular amongst divers...
If positrons can't be stored for long periods, they're as useless to the military as an armored personnel carrier without a gas tank. So Edwards is funding investigations of ways to make positrons last longer in storage.
I dont understand the corporate America distinction. Is he talking about people downloading stuff to their iPod from the computers at work and stealing it that way?
He means serfs who work for croporations - versus - hordes of unwashed barbarians who are in their own (gasp!) houses on their own (gasp!) time. The croporate environment being as holy as any given monastery (or religious order) during the medieval period (AKA dark ages).
In principle I'm very pro-European and so are most I know - the free momement of goods and labour in Europe is fantastic. To realise this, some harmonization is necessary. But the way it's done is lousy - the whole system is rife with corruption and non-democratic processes. That's what most people in Britain don't like - not the free market, but silly bureaucratic rules being imposed on British people for which they've had absolutely no involvement in a democratic process - because there isn't one.
What's unfortunate about the british is that they have that inability to fathom the motivations of other people, and their actions are solely oriented towards short-term economics with an attendant total disregard of everything else (the Economy is not all that is; there are many things just as important as the economy around). European bureaucracy is precisely there to address those other concerns and insure that the Economy does not run slipshod over other things like the social sector or the environmental like it does in the U.K. (I'll only need to point out the rail privatization utter fiasco to illustrate this. Oh, I might as well add that the U.K. also has the weakest social protections of the EU. And what about refusing to adhere to the Schengen accords - thus making France having to be subject to the affront of having to have british border controls within it's capital?).
I liken GW Bush as the President to what would happen if Inspecter Jacques Clouseau were President. In fact, it's really too bad Peter Sellers is dead, because when it's time to make a movie about GW Bush, they need to cast Peter Sellers.
Just to demonstrate that I mean what I say, please explain to us what is socialism, and why do you think it's almost as bad as communism. Oh, and if in case you believe France is socialist, please note that it's president, Jacques Chirac, is nothing less than the french version of Bush. And the prime minister is of the same ilk.
Assuming by AFRAID you mean not desiring to kowtow or go along with because of presumed social superiority, yes. If you mean fear, no.
A country that executes retarded children certainly cannot boast of any social superiority. A country that detains people without trial nor access to a lawyer cannot claim to promote Liberty. A country that sends canadians abroad to be tortured cannot be a serious proponent of human rights.
Interesting you mention our not invading Europe. I thought you considered us empirialists?
Your empire is not ran and fought for from officer's messes, but in croporate boardrooms. It is not built by generals and gunpowder, but by MBAs and stock options. It is not wrought by soldiers and sweat, but by PHBs and tears. But it is foremost fought by infecting the minds of the bourgeoisie who then thrive to annihilate the State to cripple it and prevent it from being the protector of everyone; instead, they thrive to turn it into the protector of sole rich. Just like in the USA.
In the waning years of the cold war, the Russians found that the whole "turn the world into nuclear ash" idea was becoming a tad expensive.
So it is for the US. Have you had a look at the US national debt? And how come the US is the only industrialized country without public health-care????
In all fairness here, would 20 guys with boxcutters be able to do that today?
Plenty. U.S. border security is a joke. 4 months after 9/11, I went down to the US with a friend. The border stop took 30 seconds (including a peek at the trunk - they didn't even blink at the beer in there). And the kicker is that they don't even looked at my face nor at my ID either (which is funny, because my father routinely gets questionned because he looks like Saddam Hussein).
Last time I went, the immigration officer looked at my ID, then let us through laughing because we had the same last name...
It's very simple. I have the highest respect for the military ... The role of military is protection. However, the ONE thing that kept me from signing up is the fact that they are controlled by some of the most evil, self centered and self riteous race ever to set foot on Earth... politicians. I can trust the military much more than politicians simply because the chain of command is much better at filtering out idiots than the electoral system.
When the military is in power, INVARIABLY, human rights are abused horribly. Worse yet, the civilians are unable to vote them out of power.
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All they need is to declare that the FBI is an ISP... Voilà, problem solved!
Just do it abroad, voilà, problem solved!
They will not be able to export their technology as other countries are protecting the right of their citizens to make private copies.
Expect the EU to adopt another HDTV standard.
Movies are bullshit.
And the incredible arrogance of the movie "industry", in trying to tell US how we should use our computers, make them a bunch of pariahs who should be crushed at the first opportunity.
Well, yes, of course I was "power-shifting" all the time. How do you think I was able to travel at 100 km/h on the motorway and then at 40 km/h on the residential streets????
What's wrong with being innocent of bullshit? (Movies - no matter how good the director is - are institutionalized bullshit).
Only an american would think of going to the abovementionned websites for news.
Stupid media. Always going after the useless thing.
It is not very popular amongst divers...
95% of my collection are MP3s which I either downloaded from Napster or copied from CDs borrowed from the library or friends/relatives.
Film at 11.
If Microsoft starts to get seriously hobbled, perhaps they will buy legislation to ease their plight???
Plenty. U.S. border security is a joke. 4 months after 9/11, I went down to the US with a friend. The border stop took 30 seconds (including a peek at the trunk - they didn't even blink at the beer in there). And the kicker is that they don't even looked at my face nor at my ID either (which is funny, because my father routinely gets questionned because he looks like Saddam Hussein).
Last time I went, the immigration officer looked at my ID, then let us through laughing because we had the same last name...But the more he tighten his grip, the more systems will slip through his fingers...