I was an assistant at a company, and spent a lot of my time running around buying things with the company credit card. I'm very clearly male, and the name on the card was very clearly female. No one EVER questioned it, and i used it daily for over a year.
On my first job, my boss sent me do to some errands with the company credit card. At the fist store, it went fine, and at the second one, the store called the credit card company, and I eventually talked to the woman at the CCC. The purchase was declined. I then went to a third store, and they also called the CCC and I also talked to the very same woman at the second store. The said "I'm gonna cancel your boss's credit card!". I replied "go ahead!!!", and I left the store without making the purchases.
My boss called the credit card company (dunno if he spoke to the same woman) and gave them shit, but the card wasn't cancelled.
I was actually just watching an IMAX Nasa special the other day and was shocked to hear that the current space suits weigh in at almost 250lbs!!
So? I SCUBA dive for fun, and for the dive I like the most, under-ice diving, the drysuit, the underwear, the weights (because the suit floats), the tanks and the rest of the diving gear weight a full 100 pounds. And when you ice dive, you suit-up a long way from the hole, to which you have to walk with the gear on, and when you wear it all around you and on your back, you don't really feel it. So 250 pounds is not going to be that much of a burden, for somebody as fit as an astro-nut...
Who wants a camera which enables anyone to remotely cripple it.
Something tells me this item is NOT going to be a big seller.
Who wants a video recorder which enables any producer to remotely cripple it?
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Until this "feature" is mandated by law (not likely), I don't see it as a concern...
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Please note that nowhere on that blurb there is any indication of
Fusion has first been achieved more than 50 years ago. What is important is BREAKTROUGH, that is, more energy produced than has been poured in the system.
They look strange (perfect for a geek) and the three huge flowers, then they pop-out, are a huge gratification.
Plus the time it takes to grow will make everyone wonder what's going on, and before long, everyone will pay you a visit everyday to see how it's doing.
And when it finally blooms, everyone will congratulate you for a job well done!
The proof that this is totally bogus is that even though I LOVE graham crackers, I nevertheless manage to masturbate 2-3 times a day (down from 5-6 times in my younger days).
OH come on! I make a slightly displeasing comment that sparked an informed discussion and I get modded flamebait??!!? It's pitifull that instead of actually arguing like the laudable posters in this thread you choose to protest by censoring me!
Welcome to Slashdot, pal. Your lot in life ain't nothing; myself I've had my IP blocked "for being modded down too much", and those mod-downs were mostly for that website linked above: http://216.138.229.143/bo.html
Jesus did exist 2000 yeas ago. That is a known historical fact. Whether or not he was the Son of God sent to earth to save mankind is, of course, still debateable.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ isn't the son of any god, he's the son of Joseph. Thing is, the reason of the "immaculate" conception is that, in order to avoid being tempted, Joseph, when he was dating Mary, would masturbate before meeting her.
However, personal hygiene was very poor for jews (who loathed bathing because it would enable them to see their own weenies), so when Joseph did what he thought was perfectly innocuous digital fingerplay on Mary, some sperm that deviously hid beneath his fingernail made it's way up Mary's fallopian tubes and eventually fecunded an egg that eventually developped into Baby Jesus.
So? In Europe, governments have no problems giving-out straight subsidies to important industries. It's solely an anglo-saxon/bourgeois ideological conception that the State shall not involve itself with the Economy; only thing is that anglo-saxon countries still do it hypocritically with huge inflated defense contracts...
Same thing with farm subsidies; the US is a notorious hypocrite there, bitching against European farm subsidies while pouring lots of money to US farmers...
That's because the brits, a nation of shopkeepers, are dominated by the bourgeois.
What a mind-boggling conclusion. The mind reels at trying to find the beginning of the thread of thought that lead to this stereotype.
This is because you're an anglo-saxon and you can't see yourself from outside.
Anglo-saxon countries are dominated by bourgeois, and bourgeois politics is always petty, dominated by the short-term, by strictly local policies at the expense of everything else, and solely catering the more powerful/wealthy.
Bourgeois are totally unable to do long-term planning that exceeds their own limited personal scope, and again, when they do that planning for themselves, it has extremely low concerns for others.
Of course, I don't expect you to understand that; my experience with anglo-saxons is that they are utterly incapable of understanding some other people's wiewpoints.
To address your point, though... the French themselves under Chirac and Sarkozy are actively trying to figure ways of importing and domesticating formerly-derided 'Anglo-Saxon capitalism' [their term] -- if they thought it really wasn't so appealing, they certainly wouldn't be doing it now.
They follow those policies simply because they happen to be fashionable now, just as it was in the early 60's and 70's. But inevitably the french will tire of that and re-elect socialists that are closer to their culture and tradition.
Things should get really interesting here. As I understand it, Airbus and the European aerospace industry in general has been gradually overtaking Boeing and the US industry for a decade or more now. This plane is sort of symbolic - after 40-odd years as the only game in town, the 747 is suddenly no longer the biggest passenger plane suitable for regular use.
You have to account the end of the cold-war, which meant the drastic reduction of the huges disguised subsidies to Boeing and Douglas and Lockeed whenever they landed a big USAF contract for overpriced military planes...
Make no mistake, Boeing was able to flatten canadian, british and french passenger jetliners because most of it's development costs have been borne by military bomber contracts like the B-47.
Look, Airbus is showing us images of bars and water fountains inside these planes. Boeing did the same thing when the 747 first came out 35 years or so ago. I have flown in a lot of 747s and have NEVER seena bar.
The original plan for the 747 called for an elaborate bar below the cock-pit with a huge picture window right in front of the plane. But it was apparently nixed because some dude thought that the passengers would be frightened by lightning if the plane had to fly through a thunderstorm...
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My boss called the credit card company (dunno if he spoke to the same woman) and gave them shit, but the card wasn't cancelled.
And I was never sent again to do the errands... :)
(More than 30 years ago, Larry Niven proposed such spacesuits in his "Known Space" novels).
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Fusion has first been achieved more than 50 years ago. What is important is BREAKTROUGH, that is, more energy produced than has been poured in the system.
Just look at Canada, which does a good job at making sure french people forget the french language if they live outside Québec for a few years...
I'm past 40 and whenever it's about what interests me the most, I have no problem learning new stuff.
Plus the time it takes to grow will make everyone wonder what's going on, and before long, everyone will pay you a visit everyday to see how it's doing.
And when it finally blooms, everyone will congratulate you for a job well done!
Yet they are as strong as they ever were.
The proof that this is totally bogus is that even though I LOVE graham crackers, I nevertheless manage to masturbate 2-3 times a day (down from 5-6 times in my younger days).
However, personal hygiene was very poor for jews (who loathed bathing because it would enable them to see their own weenies), so when Joseph did what he thought was perfectly innocuous digital fingerplay on Mary, some sperm that deviously hid beneath his fingernail made it's way up Mary's fallopian tubes and eventually fecunded an egg that eventually developped into Baby Jesus.
The ink cartridges are gonna cost an arm and a leg!!!
They knitted it???
Same thing with farm subsidies; the US is a notorious hypocrite there, bitching against European farm subsidies while pouring lots of money to US farmers...
Anglo-saxon countries are dominated by bourgeois, and bourgeois politics is always petty, dominated by the short-term, by strictly local policies at the expense of everything else, and solely catering the more powerful/wealthy.
Bourgeois are totally unable to do long-term planning that exceeds their own limited personal scope, and again, when they do that planning for themselves, it has extremely low concerns for others.
Of course, I don't expect you to understand that; my experience with anglo-saxons is that they are utterly incapable of understanding some other people's wiewpoints.
Make no mistake, Boeing was able to flatten canadian, british and french passenger jetliners because most of it's development costs have been borne by military bomber contracts like the B-47.