I have seen various groups lately (one of which I am a member) advocating a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, each for there own reasons.
I fail to see how this would have much effect. After all, it's not like many of us actually pay to `consume' it in any way to begin with. If I never intended to buy tickets or merchandise and my only experience of the Games is via free-to-air TV, then how would my protest even be noticed?
Perhaps these groups are suggesting that I become a star athlete so I can defiantly refuse to grace the event with my presence? Hate to point it out, but I see a flaw in that plan.
I suspect mach 1 on Mars is not the same as mach 1 on Earth (due to different speeds of sound in the planet's respective atmospheres). Which are they actually refering to in this case?
Not to be picky or anything, but the tanks often aren't 10+ feet under ground. Not at the retailer, anyway.
I know this because it was once part of my job to manually measure the levels of these tanks. The dip-stick was at most 6 feet long at the sites I worked.
In my experience the tank can be as little as 2 feet below the often hot concrete surface.
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At first I thought you were implying that the article was about another kind of "camp".
Excuse my ignorance, but I found that more amusing for some reason.
I'm sure all these people complaining about lack of infrastructure have looked at other options.
I live in our nation's capital. Half an hour away from the nice shiny house in which Mr Howard made this generous promise. The best speed I can get here (in a practical sense) is about 1.5mbit. Until last year I wasn't able to get DSL at all, and it was only with the help of a very good alternative ISP that I was able to put enough pressure on Telstra to upgrade the dodgy copper lines to my home, making DSL a possibility.
(Handy Hint: if the other ISPs say that DSL is not available in your area, try Internode)
In order to receive accurate compensation they would need some way to quantify the signals that pass through their land. How do they intend to do this?
How?
How?
(I know, that was weak.)
It's not much longer than normal. Those lines seem to growing exponentialy of late.
I predict next week we will see "from the oh-fuck-it-we-ran-out-of-clever-dept-names-months- ago-and-are-reluctant-to-reuse-an-old-one-because- that-would-not-be-very-clever-of-us-now-would-it dept".
Does anybody know where I can buy a clock radio that doesn't bathe the room in light? I find it hard to sleep even when the display is "dimmed". It's amazingly difficult to find a clock radio these days which doesn't produce some source of light.
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I have seen various groups lately (one of which I am a member) advocating a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, each for there own reasons.
I fail to see how this would have much effect. After all, it's not like many of us actually pay to `consume' it in any way to begin with. If I never intended to buy tickets or merchandise and my only experience of the Games is via free-to-air TV, then how would my protest even be noticed?
Perhaps these groups are suggesting that I become a star athlete so I can defiantly refuse to grace the event with my presence? Hate to point it out, but I see a flaw in that plan.
I suspect mach 1 on Mars is not the same as mach 1 on Earth (due to different speeds of sound in the planet's respective atmospheres). Which are they actually refering to in this case?
Who needs this? We've had a convenient book of random numbers available from the RAND Corporation since 1955.
I take it that you are not a synesthete, or you would already know the answer to that.
Not to be picky or anything, but the tanks often aren't 10+ feet under ground. Not at the retailer, anyway.
I know this because it was once part of my job to manually measure the levels of these tanks. The dip-stick was at most 6 feet long at the sites I worked.
In my experience the tank can be as little as 2 feet below the often hot concrete surface.
At first I thought you were implying that the article was about another kind of "camp".
Excuse my ignorance, but I found that more amusing for some reason.
I'm sure all these people complaining about lack of infrastructure have looked at other options.
I live in our nation's capital. Half an hour away from the nice shiny house in which Mr Howard made this generous promise. The best speed I can get here (in a practical sense) is about 1.5mbit. Until last year I wasn't able to get DSL at all, and it was only with the help of a very good alternative ISP that I was able to put enough pressure on Telstra to upgrade the dodgy copper lines to my home, making DSL a possibility.
(Handy Hint: if the other ISPs say that DSL is not available in your area, try Internode)
This looks like a man-object.
http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/P SP/ORB_001700_001799/PSP_001760_2160/PSP_001760_21 60_RED.browse.jpg
Oh, you said man-made object. Nevermind.
To make things worse, how will you know when it really runs out?
In order to receive accurate compensation they would need some way to quantify the signals that pass through their land. How do they intend to do this? How? How? (I know, that was weak.)
Because you might have thought it was an accidental frame-job.
It's not much longer than normal. Those lines seem to growing exponentialy of late. I predict next week we will see "from the oh-fuck-it-we-ran-out-of-clever-dept-names-months- ago-and-are-reluctant-to-reuse-an-old-one-because- that-would-not-be-very-clever-of-us-now-would-it dept".
Does anybody know where I can buy a clock radio that doesn't bathe the room in light? I find it hard to sleep even when the display is "dimmed". It's amazingly difficult to find a clock radio these days which doesn't produce some source of light.
I thought Slashdot was a spell-checking game.
Or the common example, "Man eating shark".
If they aren't selling the stuff...