Yeah. Cut NOAA funding. Who cares about tsunamis anyway? Whoops! No more tornado warnings either?
Now all those God-fearing Tea party rednecks can watch their mobile homes fly away.
the mobile homes fly away anyways? you're not helping your point. besides, good liburuls r supposed to "care" for the downtrodden and poor working schlep. you're letting your elitist stripes show.
on a slightly more serious note (though still clearly fantasy) i expect connectivity, routing, and cooling to be an issue preventing integration on a scale allowing for androids walking about with us. which leads to the first androids "having the big head" or "being hot-headed". ba-da-bam. tsss! I'm here all the week. Try the chicken.
i think it also reflects the degree to which starcraft has been sid meier-ed, that is to say ossified by its own past success and petrified of messing it up. I don't really think anyone knows what makes a good game. it's an art and a lottery all at once, and one that you can't learn from e.g. majoring in game development at college.
It's the same reason that movie sequels are usually terrible.
i'm pretty sure that since the Storm (and possibly before) all blackberry products have suffered the same sorts of flaws caused by terrible management decisions.
also, getting rid of the clicky wheel was a terrible decision. and even then they should have put its replacement (mini-trackball/touch plate) in the same location (side of the phone)
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honey also has living (or recently killed through pasteurization) organisms and other things in it. I find that i can only take so much honey and that amount is far less than pure sugar or corn syrup. might have something to do with my body telling me there's stuff it doesn't want more of in the honey. or it might be psychosomatic.
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it will also reduce the tortilla consumption of the rest of our hemisphere, many of whom actually have the opposite problem as us: food insecurity.
subsidizing corn to make anything is a bad idea.
if we want ethanol fuel, research shows that sugar cane is far more efficient.
reducing sugar tariffs and eliminating corn subsidies could help feed the rest of the world, give us a more positive trade balance, and reduce poverty in places like Haiti all at once.
"I do not want the 'Froggy' ones. All my life I have had Frenchie's best rammed down my throat. This is the one area where I can stick two stinky, blue-veined fingers up in all of that. English Stilton is 'Cheese One'! Everyone knows that."
how can Kudzu be improved upon? and is it really wise to do so? i foresee our new, improved Kudzu overlords covering the planet, including the poles and deserts.
true. now. in the scientific community. but they were taken quite seriously for a long time and had quite a lot of money lavished on them. and the general population still has a cultural memory of e.g. Popular Science selling everyone on its promise that it could easily make a comeback PR campaign.
it's just like laundry balls. like a bad penny, they just keep turning up.
For some people, yes I guess it is a matter of faith. But only because they are lazy. But the difference between religion and science is that religion is a matter of faith for everyone. The roots of religion trace back to hearsay and legend. The roots of science trace forward, asymptotically, with many dead ends along the way to provably true axioms which are constant or predictably variable through space and time. Anyone with the motivation, latent developmental ability, and money for equipment can educate themselves enough to trace the logic behind any scientific claim to assess its validity.
FTFY
science is a method for understanding the world/universe we inhabit. if we already knew the damned answers why would we need to investigate anything? we'd just apply some of those provably true axioms and Bam! Emeril Science. We hope to discover provable true axioms, and sometimes we have bits of success, Maxwell's equations being an example.
it does kind of hurt that the "publish or die" part of the scientific-academic culture produces vast reams of untestable hypotheses or unrepeatable claimed results. the structure of the scientific community, the complexity of contemporary scientific knowledge, and its funding apparatus virtually guarantee charlatanism and exploitation of the priest-lay relationship that has developed between scientists and the community at large.
*cough* cold fusion *cough*
and the inability to directly observe phenomena coupled with the vast expense and complexity of equipment needed to verify through experimentation leads to the condition where verifiers are essentially buying an answer box or oracle that itself must be trusted rather than recursively verified. This isn't the 1800s any more where we're verifying Brownian motion.
except that patent and especially copyright are becoming effectively permanent, not temporary. so the system has been subverted by the beneficiaries of those monopolies. to our detriment. just try to start a product company these days and see how long before all your hard earned profits evaporate into a patent troll's pockets.
will you please stop your lame and hyperbolic attempts to shove words into people's mouths? let's see how you like a dose of your own medicine, and one that, as pointed out above is more apt than your Godwin attempts or 9-11 Godwinesques: You support a company that is attempting to subvert the rule of law to benefit itself against a group of people engagued in political protest speech that happens to have a denial of service effect. You therefore must support segregation because the people staging sit-ins at segregated lunch counters were just vigilante attacks on that lunch counter company. See. Now how does that feel? Was it constructive to the conversation? No? Oh, I see, it's only an allowed tactic when you do it. Jerk.
some companies make you buy the box. in that case, since you own it you should be able to hack it to your heart's content. if it is a rental then you're obligated to return it in its original condition when you're done renting or pay whatever damage is specified in the rental agreement. pretty simple really. OMG property rights work when applied to... property. it's amazing.
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And this doesn't even count the off-budget spending. Like, say, wars which are much more expensive than disaster relief which is also off-budget.
FTFY
Yeah. Cut NOAA funding. Who cares about tsunamis anyway? Whoops! No more tornado warnings either?
Now all those God-fearing Tea party rednecks can watch their mobile homes fly away.
the mobile homes fly away anyways? you're not helping your point. besides, good liburuls r supposed to "care" for the downtrodden and poor working schlep. you're letting your elitist stripes show.
i c wat u did thar.
i missed it: where did the GP say 'God'? Maybe he's worried about Skynet. Now who's the troll?
oh, detachable brainz0rz. well that's ok.
on a slightly more serious note (though still clearly fantasy) i expect connectivity, routing, and cooling to be an issue preventing integration on a scale allowing for androids walking about with us. which leads to the first androids "having the big head" or "being hot-headed". ba-da-bam. tsss! I'm here all the week. Try the chicken.
and some of us played galaga for money in arcades in the 80s. and our parents played pinball for money in the 50s. your point is what?
i think it also reflects the degree to which starcraft has been sid meier-ed, that is to say ossified by its own past success and petrified of messing it up. I don't really think anyone knows what makes a good game. it's an art and a lottery all at once, and one that you can't learn from e.g. majoring in game development at college.
It's the same reason that movie sequels are usually terrible.
i'm pretty sure that since the Storm (and possibly before) all blackberry products have suffered the same sorts of flaws caused by terrible management decisions.
also, getting rid of the clicky wheel was a terrible decision. and even then they should have put its replacement (mini-trackball/touch plate) in the same location (side of the phone)
my favorite is this:
http://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-dangerous-toy-ever/
The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
but then Billy Mays wouldn't be a celebrity of sorts.
honey also has living (or recently killed through pasteurization) organisms and other things in it. I find that i can only take so much honey and that amount is far less than pure sugar or corn syrup. might have something to do with my body telling me there's stuff it doesn't want more of in the honey. or it might be psychosomatic.
it will also reduce the tortilla consumption of the rest of our hemisphere, many of whom actually have the opposite problem as us: food insecurity.
subsidizing corn to make anything is a bad idea.
if we want ethanol fuel, research shows that sugar cane is far more efficient.
reducing sugar tariffs and eliminating corn subsidies could help feed the rest of the world, give us a more positive trade balance, and reduce poverty in places like Haiti all at once.
And let me say this: Extremism in defense of crowdsourcing is no vice. And moderation in pursuit of moderation is no virtue.
"I do not want the 'Froggy' ones. All my life I have had Frenchie's best rammed down my throat. This is the one area where I can stick two stinky, blue-veined fingers up in all of that. English Stilton is 'Cheese One'! Everyone knows that."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2JM3YW21U
2:35 - 2:55
how can Kudzu be improved upon? and is it really wise to do so? i foresee our new, improved Kudzu overlords covering the planet, including the poles and deserts.
i think that's one of the points of TFA.
true. now. in the scientific community. but they were taken quite seriously for a long time and had quite a lot of money lavished on them. and the general population still has a cultural memory of e.g. Popular Science selling everyone on its promise that it could easily make a comeback PR campaign.
it's just like laundry balls. like a bad penny, they just keep turning up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_ball
For some people, yes I guess it is a matter of faith. But only because they are lazy. But the difference between religion and science is that religion is a matter of faith for everyone. The roots of religion trace back to hearsay and legend. The roots of science trace forward, asymptotically, with many dead ends along the way to provably true axioms which are constant or predictably variable through space and time. Anyone with the motivation, latent developmental ability, and money for equipment can educate themselves enough to trace the logic behind any scientific claim to assess its validity.
FTFY
science is a method for understanding the world/universe we inhabit. if we already knew the damned answers why would we need to investigate anything? we'd just apply some of those provably true axioms and Bam! Emeril Science. We hope to discover provable true axioms, and sometimes we have bits of success, Maxwell's equations being an example.
it does kind of hurt that the "publish or die" part of the scientific-academic culture produces vast reams of untestable hypotheses or unrepeatable claimed results.
the structure of the scientific community, the complexity of contemporary scientific knowledge, and its funding apparatus virtually guarantee charlatanism and exploitation of the priest-lay relationship that has developed between scientists and the community at large.
*cough* cold fusion *cough*
and the inability to directly observe phenomena coupled with the vast expense and complexity of equipment needed to verify through experimentation leads to the condition where verifiers are essentially buying an answer box or oracle that itself must be trusted rather than recursively verified. This isn't the 1800s any more where we're verifying Brownian motion.
except that patent and especially copyright are becoming effectively permanent, not temporary. so the system has been subverted by the beneficiaries of those monopolies. to our detriment. just try to start a product company these days and see how long before all your hard earned profits evaporate into a patent troll's pockets.
will you please stop your lame and hyperbolic attempts to shove words into people's mouths? let's see how you like a dose of your own medicine, and one that, as pointed out above is more apt than your Godwin attempts or 9-11 Godwinesques: You support a company that is attempting to subvert the rule of law to benefit itself against a group of people engagued in political protest speech that happens to have a denial of service effect. You therefore must support segregation because the people staging sit-ins at segregated lunch counters were just vigilante attacks on that lunch counter company. See. Now how does that feel? Was it constructive to the conversation? No? Oh, I see, it's only an allowed tactic when you do it. Jerk.
some companies make you buy the box. in that case, since you own it you should be able to hack it to your heart's content. if it is a rental then you're obligated to return it in its original condition when you're done renting or pay whatever damage is specified in the rental agreement. pretty simple really. OMG property rights work when applied to... property. it's amazing.
i hope you're joking, because if not, you're a dick. probably as big a dick as the christians who support gbagbo.
even if you are joking, you're still a dick, just not as big a dick as you would be if you're not joking.
and of those 99%, only 0.1% read /. much less /. comments. as opposed to say 50% of the 1% who know what SQL is who read /.
so for this audience the joke is trite.
really? you might want to look into context there. troll.