Well obviously, dumping a few heavy metals into the environment is preferable to releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere. I'd rather have mercury poisoning than live in a world that's a few degrees warmer.;)
I'm always wondering WTF these people did 10 or 11 years ago when cellphones were strictly for businessmen and gadget nerds?
They had to put up with a horrible mental disorder called thinking. You younger people may not have heard of this, but many of us were afflicted with it in the past. For those of you unfamiliar, imagine being in a waiting room with no cell phone, not even a magazine to read, and no one but strangers around you. At first you try to occupy your mind by examining the pattern on the carpet, but slowly -and no matter how hard you try, you can't help it- your mind will start to wander. You will start to have the most unnerving thoughts. It starts with things that aren't too bad like "what am I going to have for dinner," but will escalate to things like "I wonder what it would be like to go out with that girl over there," or "why did we invade Iraq." These thoughts will leave you very uncomfortable because there is no way to know the answer to them for sure. Essentially, "thinking" leads to more thinking, and just pushes you closer to insanity. And if you think you can avoid the problem by talking to the person next to you, think again. Just imagine trying to talk to someone you don't know. You have no idea how they will react to what you say (unlike your friends and family, whose responses are very predictable). I, for one, am so glad I have a cell phone to help preent the onset of insanity.
Can I really talk on my cell phone, just like a regular phone? Tell me how this works, I've never seen anyone do it. I have to show my friends. They will be so happy that they don't have to spend all that time and money texting each other when they find out they can actually talk to people and hear their voice.
Actually, he meant to say, "That's one giant leap for a man, but one small step for mankind"
I read the "leap" to mean leaping from the earth to the moon, and the "small step for mankind" as indicating that he foresaw us traveling much further in space.
That is a mining road. That thing's not really on mars. I stumbled accross it one day while hiking in the desert. I wrote some graffiti on it, that's why the none of the pictures show the rover itself. It's the same place they faked the moon landings.
I don't know why it's like that here, but it really pisses me off. Back when I had VHS, I would buy or rent the widescreen version when available, but they were hard to find. Then, the first time I rented a DVD, I saw that it had one version on each side and thought "this is great, now they don't have to make two separate versions, they can just put it all on one disk and the user can decide." Unfortunately, this is America, and ideas that make a lot of sense don't last long. I guess some people couldn't learn how to flip over the disk if they put it in wrong. I know most stores sell both versions, but sometimes they are out of the widescreen, or I just accidentally grab the wrong one because I'm in a hurry. I don't understand why they have to purposely make everything so complicated.
There are no 3-format hybrid disks that I can find.
I don't think it's posible. Blu-ray puts the data on the front of the disc, DVD and HD-DVD put it on the back. You could combine Blue-ray with either of the DVD formats, but not both.
Uh, you have that backwards, dude. Blu-Ray has the shitty name. It doesn't mean anything to anyone but a geek.
I know plenty of people who are not geeks, and most of them know what the color blue is (even when you leave out the e). Most of them even know that a ray has something to do with light. However, it doesn't matter if they think it's called Blu-ray because it was invented by a guy named Ray. All that matters is that "Blu-ray" looks and sounds cool and sexy, and is easy to say and remember. HD-DVD has the shitty name. It is hard to say (it's even hard to type), and most people don't know what it means. In fact, DVD supposedly doesn't mean anything! wtf?
Well, I'm gonna go watch my new "MIB" HD-DVD, on my DLP HDTV with DSP in my BVDs. Too bad I can't watch it on my PSPs LCD while I drive my SUV to the DMV.
I don't know if you've ever lived around the Amish and Mennonites, but I can tell you that many of them are overweight. However, I have never seen one who is morbidly obese.
This is the problem, we Americans are such big pussies. We are so terrified of a few little brown people with box cutters, or a few tweakers wanting to steal our TVs, that we can't hand our freedom over fast enough to the government (do you really think they can protect you anyway). I like the idea of an armed populous to deter crime or the government from abusing power, but I really can't imagine most Americans actually having the balls to pick up their weapons and stand up to the tyrants. Since 9/11, I have been amazed by the irrational fear of all the people around me. I recognize the threat to my safety posed by terrorism. I also recognize the threat to my safety posed by lightning (only slightly less) or car accidents (way more), But I still drive and I still go out in stormy weather. The reason terrorists attack us is because we are the perfect victims. Their weapon is terror, it's right there in the name, they know they can't really do any significant harm to us, so they just try to scare the shit out of us, and it has worked so far. People need to wake up and realize where the dangers really are. We need to demand that the government protect what really matters. Not just our liberties, but also physical dangers that are real threats, like disease and poverty.
Key phrase:"but only if they know they've been victimised"
You think they're going to tell people they've been spying on them when the shouldn't have?
And what does it mean to be "financially responsible for double damages" when you haven't done any physical or monetary damage, and the victim didn't even know his privacy was violated.
I wonder if the simulation takes into account the effect of consumers switching to the content provider that pays the fee, and the effect this would have on the amount of content consumers have to choose from.
"thigns, ont he, benifit, hcangign, nothign, cannto, whiel, nto, int he, bets, aregresive, makign"
Its nveer two ealry inthe dday too strat dirkning! Cheers!
Seriously though, I agree. And if we didn't have such a complicated tax system, tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of accountants would be free to pursue professions that actually contribute to society. I hear we have a shortage of math teachers.
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is there one theory, which does not take the 'you cannot exceed the speed of light' as axiom, but tries to explain it? It is a core prediction of Einstein's theory of relativity. I'm not familiar enough to get too technical, but basically, before then, people believed that the speed of light in a vacuum should appear different to different observers, depending on their movement through space. Similar to how sound works. Velocity = distance/time. Distance and time were thought to be absolute, never changing, the same for everyone. So, your movement through space should influence the speed of light from your perspective. But experiments constantly showed the same speed of light. Einstein said that instead of seeing different velocities, different observers would experience differences in distances and times. There is a lot more to it than that, but if that part of the theory is wrong, from what I understand, the whole theory falls apart. And that theory has held up to experiment so well, that most people don't think it is wrong.
Physicists get hung up on that whole faster-than-light thing because going faster than the speed of light and going backwards in time are the same thing, just from different relative perspectives.
I remember reading that, and it made sense, but I can't remember why. Can someone refresh my memory on how sending information faster than light would allow you to influence the past. It will really help my scheme to make billions in the stock market, or destroy the universe, whichever happens.
Proof (The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as true.-answers.com) of Chaos
Actually, Prof. Chaos and Professor Chaos were already taken....And I was kind of drunk.
If you don't do anything valuable on it, just remember that your clock will be off by an hour for a couple of weeks. I've known people who go all summer, or all winter, with their vehicle clocks off by an hour because they don't know how to change them.
You obviously don't like to RTFA. Our government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to change the date on which daylight saving time starts. Just one more example of congress and the president's short sightedness.
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Well obviously, dumping a few heavy metals into the environment is preferable to releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere. I'd rather have mercury poisoning than live in a world that's a few degrees warmer. ;)
They had to put up with a horrible mental disorder called thinking. You younger people may not have heard of this, but many of us were afflicted with it in the past. For those of you unfamiliar, imagine being in a waiting room with no cell phone, not even a magazine to read, and no one but strangers around you. At first you try to occupy your mind by examining the pattern on the carpet, but slowly -and no matter how hard you try, you can't help it- your mind will start to wander. You will start to have the most unnerving thoughts. It starts with things that aren't too bad like "what am I going to have for dinner," but will escalate to things like "I wonder what it would be like to go out with that girl over there," or "why did we invade Iraq." These thoughts will leave you very uncomfortable because there is no way to know the answer to them for sure. Essentially, "thinking" leads to more thinking, and just pushes you closer to insanity. And if you think you can avoid the problem by talking to the person next to you, think again. Just imagine trying to talk to someone you don't know. You have no idea how they will react to what you say (unlike your friends and family, whose responses are very predictable). I, for one, am so glad I have a cell phone to help preent the onset of insanity.
Can I really talk on my cell phone, just like a regular phone? Tell me how this works, I've never seen anyone do it. I have to show my friends. They will be so happy that they don't have to spend all that time and money texting each other when they find out they can actually talk to people and hear their voice.
Actually, he meant to say, "That's one giant leap for a man, but one small step for mankind" I read the "leap" to mean leaping from the earth to the moon, and the "small step for mankind" as indicating that he foresaw us traveling much further in space.
That is a mining road. That thing's not really on mars. I stumbled accross it one day while hiking in the desert. I wrote some graffiti on it, that's why the none of the pictures show the rover itself. It's the same place they faked the moon landings.
I don't know why it's like that here, but it really pisses me off. Back when I had VHS, I would buy or rent the widescreen version when available, but they were hard to find. Then, the first time I rented a DVD, I saw that it had one version on each side and thought "this is great, now they don't have to make two separate versions, they can just put it all on one disk and the user can decide." Unfortunately, this is America, and ideas that make a lot of sense don't last long. I guess some people couldn't learn how to flip over the disk if they put it in wrong. I know most stores sell both versions, but sometimes they are out of the widescreen, or I just accidentally grab the wrong one because I'm in a hurry. I don't understand why they have to purposely make everything so complicated.
I prefer to buy my shit in bags.
I don't think it's posible. Blu-ray puts the data on the front of the disc, DVD and HD-DVD put it on the back. You could combine Blue-ray with either of the DVD formats, but not both.
I know plenty of people who are not geeks, and most of them know what the color blue is (even when you leave out the e). Most of them even know that a ray has something to do with light. However, it doesn't matter if they think it's called Blu-ray because it was invented by a guy named Ray. All that matters is that "Blu-ray" looks and sounds cool and sexy, and is easy to say and remember. HD-DVD has the shitty name. It is hard to say (it's even hard to type), and most people don't know what it means. In fact, DVD supposedly doesn't mean anything! wtf?
Well, I'm gonna go watch my new "MIB" HD-DVD, on my DLP HDTV with DSP in my BVDs. Too bad I can't watch it on my PSPs LCD while I drive my SUV to the DMV.
"The Departed"(Blu-ray has more sales), and "Happy Feet" (HD has more)
http://www.hdgamedb.com/amazon/versus.aspx
I don't know if you've ever lived around the Amish and Mennonites, but I can tell you that many of them are overweight. However, I have never seen one who is morbidly obese.
This is the problem, we Americans are such big pussies. We are so terrified of a few little brown people with box cutters, or a few tweakers wanting to steal our TVs, that we can't hand our freedom over fast enough to the government (do you really think they can protect you anyway). I like the idea of an armed populous to deter crime or the government from abusing power, but I really can't imagine most Americans actually having the balls to pick up their weapons and stand up to the tyrants. Since 9/11, I have been amazed by the irrational fear of all the people around me. I recognize the threat to my safety posed by terrorism. I also recognize the threat to my safety posed by lightning (only slightly less) or car accidents (way more), But I still drive and I still go out in stormy weather. The reason terrorists attack us is because we are the perfect victims. Their weapon is terror, it's right there in the name, they know they can't really do any significant harm to us, so they just try to scare the shit out of us, and it has worked so far. People need to wake up and realize where the dangers really are. We need to demand that the government protect what really matters. Not just our liberties, but also physical dangers that are real threats, like disease and poverty.
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Remember, they have a lot more people. 4 Americans are worth about 3000 Chinese.
Key phrase:"but only if they know they've been victimised"
You think they're going to tell people they've been spying on them when the shouldn't have?
And what does it mean to be "financially responsible for double damages" when you haven't done any physical or monetary damage, and the victim didn't even know his privacy was violated.
I wonder if the simulation takes into account the effect of consumers switching to the content provider that pays the fee, and the effect this would have on the amount of content consumers have to choose from.
"thigns, ont he, benifit, hcangign, nothign, cannto, whiel, nto, int he, bets, aregresive, makign"
Its nveer two ealry inthe dday too strat dirkning! Cheers!
Seriously though, I agree. And if we didn't have such a complicated tax system, tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of accountants would be free to pursue professions that actually contribute to society. I hear we have a shortage of math teachers.
Excellent link. That explains it better than anything else I have seen here. Thanks
Maybe the speed of light limit has something to do with why nothing can be "enormously rigid," despite what those bottles of pills claim ;)
I think he meant the speed of electromagnetic radiation is faster in uranium than water
I remember reading that, and it made sense, but I can't remember why. Can someone refresh my memory on how sending information faster than light would allow you to influence the past. It will really help my scheme to make billions in the stock market, or destroy the universe, whichever happens.
Proof (The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as true.-answers.com) of Chaos Actually, Prof. Chaos and Professor Chaos were already taken. ...And I was kind of drunk.
If you don't do anything valuable on it, just remember that your clock will be off by an hour for a couple of weeks. I've known people who go all summer, or all winter, with their vehicle clocks off by an hour because they don't know how to change them.
You obviously don't like to RTFA. Our government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to change the date on which daylight saving time starts. Just one more example of congress and the president's short sightedness.