Habitable? It 'potentially' has liquid water and that makes it habitable?
It also says it has a "Heavy carbon dioxide atmosphere... so we wouldn't be able to breath there... and the pressure at sea level might kill us as well. Not to mention all that CO2 as probably turned the oceans highly acidic. It maybe habitable... but not to humans.
Would be nifty if I EVER used bing except when forced to by some app that forced me to open IE and I mistyped something at which point Bing brought up a search page full of all kinds of stuff I might have meant to type when what I was REALLY trying to type was www.google.com
The tax code is confusing BY DESIGN. Do you have any idea what you pay in taxes? Your neighbors? Your relatives? I'd hazard a guess that the government isn't even sure exactly how much you pay. You pay income tax, property tax, sales tax, and dozens of others. By the time you're done you've usually paid taxes on something you buy 3 or more times over. This is all part of a system designed to keep you oblivious to just how much you are taxed... any simplification would lead to the people getting an understanding of just how terribly they are getting screwed over and therefor will never happen.
But sports have a know, quantifiable benefit to the students that participate. Overall children are healthier because of them. Cellphones on the other hand, have little if any benefit to children. Their affect on their lives is detrimental in almost every respect. Do they give them cancer? That's still up for debate. But does it really matter? The only thing your child should be taking into a school are books and pencils. Everything else is a distraction.
The utter silliness of the idea that "Life" must exist on "earthlike" planets shows the short-sightedness of the SETI project. They continue to look for life that is similar to our own, at approximately the same technology level. How long will it be before we abandon radio transmission as our primary means of communication? 50 years? 100 years? Even if we still are using radio waves for an extremely long time, the power of our transmissions are decreasing over time as our equipment gets more and more sensitive. On top of all that, we're assuming that life needs to be in this habitable zone in which liquid water can exist. Which, on its face, is utterly silly. I'd only be slightly surprised if we found life inside the corona of a star. Everything outside of that is completely believable... even probable. Life on Jupiter? Saturn? Even Pluto? Totally plausible. Interstellar space isn't even that far fetched. It wouldn't look or act anything like us, but that's not really the point is it?
I think you underestimate the revenue growth "The Cloud" generates for it's vendors. I also think you over estimate how many people will ever even hear that Amazon was involved, much less care about it.
Newer HDMI can carry audio... The content protection? Well if your source is protected yea, but it shouldn't be if you're doing it right. It's easier... 1 plug. How many video cards have you seen with component video out?
So I consider HDMI superior to component video for practicality, but yes, you should by the absolute cheapest HDMI cable you can find that's the right length for your application. Gold connectors and such are silly as hell. As long as the connector is still conductive, the material it's made out of is irrelevant.
This will only insure that the data they collect on you is actually from you... there-by making it more valuable to the tens of thousands of businesses they then turn around and sell the information to.
Because it wasn't a failure. The reactor performed as it should have. The only failure here is the reactor should have been upgraded. Despite the fact that it wasn't, it still contained the fuel during one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.
But you have no idea what you're talking about. This means nothing. We knew the control rods were damaged from about the 2nd day of this happening. The POINT of the reactor containment system is to contain the radioactive material in the event of a catastrophe. A Mag 9.2 earthquake followed by a 30ft Tsunami would qualify as a catastrophe in my book. The containment system operated as it should have, and contained the fuel. Unlike Chernobyl where it was shot into the atmosphere. One of the oldest and crappiest reactor designs still in use survived one of the worst catastrophes to ever befall mankind. This was an unqualified success. Now, lets get over this endless nonsense about how you'd like us to return to an agrarian society and starve several billion people to death because you hate the word "Nuclear" and lets start investing in newer reactor designs that are orders of magnitude safer than even this one.
"But there's one option the administration appears to have never seriously considered: taking bin Laden alive." "The SEALs’ decision to fatally shoot bin Laden -- even though he didn’t have a weapon – wasn’t an accident. The administration had made clear to the military’s clandestine Joint Special Operations Command that it wanted bin Laden dead, according to a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the discussions. A high-ranking military officer briefed on the assault said the SEALs knew their mission was not to take him alive. " http://www.nationaljournal.com/for-obama-killing-not-capturing-nobr-bin-laden-nobr-was-goal-20110503
"Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad." "The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members. " “Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the US forces and their choppers. Their chopper developed some technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot,” a well-informed official explained. 

 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/04/147782.html http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/04/147782.html
The Russians have, and use, tear gas grenades filled with an opiate based knockout gas. I guarantee we have the same. Throw the shit in from a distance, it either knocks him out cold or he blows up the building. Either way we win. It's that fucking simple and you and I both know the CIA/Seals probably have even better stuff. I suppose we wanted a body to prove to the public he was dead didn't we... oh wait, we dumped it in the fucking ocean didn't we?
What the fuck are you talking about. I said it was WRONG. Being legal, and being the right thing to do are 2 entirely separate concepts. Doing the right thing is often more important than doing the legal thing.
But lets say there's some big loophole we missed... or we got the math wrong... where are all the aliens? Shouldn't there be ships zipping in and out all the time? Trying to trade with us? Shouldn't the galaxy be awash in their activity?
Interstellar travel is totally and completely possible. We have the technology now. It's just very very very slow. That's not the end of the world, but we have to accept it and deal with it... not fantasize about magic warp drives.
Lets just get this out in the open: Obama ordered the execution of the guy. The seals went in, took him unarmed, knelt him down in front of his family and shot him execution style in the head. The reports from both the administration and the family members after the fact pretty much confirm this but the press have gone so far out of their way to dilute the facts it's almost silly.
If they release the photos, forensic analysts will look at them and immediately say: "That was at point blank range with a pistol from an elevated position" and the idea that somehow democrats are less evil than republicans will be ruined. This is what our government does. Accept it or stop voting for the 2 party system. They aren't even trying very hard to cover this up and it seems the majority of the country is just going right along with it.
I didn't want the guy to get away... but we are a nation of laws. We could have easily taken him alive and tried him and eventually executed him. It would have been a legal nightmare, it would have likely ended up in front of the supreme court. But it's what's just and what's right.
I agree... Conforming, or acting like those around me seemed like a recipe for failure at the time. Not only was I not good at it, even those that did try to conform seemed to be failing miserably. Even in the top clicks in school there was a pecking order, and being the 3rd most popular person in school still meant you were picked on and looked down on by the 1st and 2nd.
One things I seemed to be very successful at was completely bewildering my classmates and teachers. They say you should do what you're good at so I became a master at bewilderment. If I was going to get picked on at least it wouldn't be for my failures. I wore red corduroys today intentionally. I knew they weren't in style and wore them anyway. You don't like them, fine. But I knew you wouldn't and that's, in fact, exactly why I wore them. Tease me all you like but that inside out sweatshirt looks a lot more silly in the yearbook pics 20 years later than my cords ever did.
When you take a new guy, immediately stick him on your most critical project and then start bitching about his code and re-writing what he does, what's really going on is you're being a bunch of drama queens. I'm not sure how groups of programmers got like this but I see it all the time and it's ridiculous. Management doesn't want to offend you by telling you you're acting like a bunch of stuck up bitches on your periods but that's exactly what you're doing. Knowing the syntax of the language you're coding in is not the only thing going on at work... knowing the ins and outs of the company is at least 1/2 the job and they're not going to know that sort of stuff for months. "OMG Pete is trying to hit the ODBC on the corp server on port 3412! What a rube!!" or "He pulled the employee table down from the exchange server instead of using the Emp_Agent table on oracle3!!!"
Just because you and the rest of your hen house have been working together for 4 long years and have your little click doesn't mean you have to treat the new guy like shit. You were a retard once as well. Put him on non-critical projects for a while, let him figure out how YOU do things, figure out who are the right people to ask questions to so he can avoid the dickheads and after he proves himself let him work on the big stuff.
A material that allows evergy to only pass one way seems like it would defy some sort of law of physics. Imagine a cube made of this stuff that only lets sound in... Would the energy inside the cube continue to build until it erupted in a sonic boom?
since neither Alki David or his failing company FilmOn do not own ANY of the content their talking about, what right do they have to sue? This is a publicity stunt to try and bolster his idiotic idea for streaming TV on mobile devices thats clearly doomed to failure from the start.
So these "Scientists" think the problem with "schizophrenic" people is they can't forget enough eh? I think the problem is what we CAN remember that no one else can. What's next? You're going to start wiping our memories for us? You already TRIED THAT!!!! IT DIDN'T WORK DID IT?!?! If you think I'm getting on that damned ship again and going to the pyramid, you're wrong. Johns told me about your plan and I'm on to you! The four corner day will supplant your illusion of euclidean time. ALL HAIL THE TIME CUBE!!!!! http://www.timecube.com/
If you were injured by someone in a rental car and you tried to get their license plate: YOU WOULDN'T GET IT. You would report the incident to the police, who would then subpoena the information and charge the person with something and fine/imprison them. If you wanted damages you would sue the rental agency... win and take their money. THEY would sue the person that they rented the car from. They could chose to give you the name of the person they rented the car to, but they'd be under no requirement to do so.
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Habitable? It 'potentially' has liquid water and that makes it habitable?
It also says it has a "Heavy carbon dioxide atmosphere... so we wouldn't be able to breath there... and the pressure at sea level might kill us as well. Not to mention all that CO2 as probably turned the oceans highly acidic. It maybe habitable... but not to humans.
Would be nifty if I EVER used bing except when forced to by some app that forced me to open IE and I mistyped something at which point Bing brought up a search page full of all kinds of stuff I might have meant to type when what I was REALLY trying to type was www.google.com
The tax code is confusing BY DESIGN. Do you have any idea what you pay in taxes? Your neighbors? Your relatives? I'd hazard a guess that the government isn't even sure exactly how much you pay. You pay income tax, property tax, sales tax, and dozens of others. By the time you're done you've usually paid taxes on something you buy 3 or more times over. This is all part of a system designed to keep you oblivious to just how much you are taxed... any simplification would lead to the people getting an understanding of just how terribly they are getting screwed over and therefor will never happen.
But sports have a know, quantifiable benefit to the students that participate. Overall children are healthier because of them. Cellphones on the other hand, have little if any benefit to children. Their affect on their lives is detrimental in almost every respect. Do they give them cancer? That's still up for debate. But does it really matter? The only thing your child should be taking into a school are books and pencils. Everything else is a distraction.
The utter silliness of the idea that "Life" must exist on "earthlike" planets shows the short-sightedness of the SETI project. They continue to look for life that is similar to our own, at approximately the same technology level. How long will it be before we abandon radio transmission as our primary means of communication? 50 years? 100 years? Even if we still are using radio waves for an extremely long time, the power of our transmissions are decreasing over time as our equipment gets more and more sensitive. On top of all that, we're assuming that life needs to be in this habitable zone in which liquid water can exist. Which, on its face, is utterly silly. I'd only be slightly surprised if we found life inside the corona of a star. Everything outside of that is completely believable... even probable. Life on Jupiter? Saturn? Even Pluto? Totally plausible. Interstellar space isn't even that far fetched. It wouldn't look or act anything like us, but that's not really the point is it?
I think you underestimate the revenue growth "The Cloud" generates for it's vendors.
I also think you over estimate how many people will ever even hear that Amazon was involved, much less care about it.
It should rather telling that the peoples republic of China has better privacy protection laws than the United States does.
Newer HDMI can carry audio...
The content protection? Well if your source is protected yea, but it shouldn't be if you're doing it right.
It's easier... 1 plug.
How many video cards have you seen with component video out?
So I consider HDMI superior to component video for practicality, but yes, you should by the absolute cheapest HDMI cable you can find that's the right length for your application. Gold connectors and such are silly as hell. As long as the connector is still conductive, the material it's made out of is irrelevant.
This will only insure that the data they collect on you is actually from you... there-by making it more valuable to the tens of thousands of businesses they then turn around and sell the information to.
Because it wasn't a failure. The reactor performed as it should have. The only failure here is the reactor should have been upgraded. Despite the fact that it wasn't, it still contained the fuel during one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.
But you have no idea what you're talking about. This means nothing. We knew the control rods were damaged from about the 2nd day of this happening. The POINT of the reactor containment system is to contain the radioactive material in the event of a catastrophe. A Mag 9.2 earthquake followed by a 30ft Tsunami would qualify as a catastrophe in my book. The containment system operated as it should have, and contained the fuel. Unlike Chernobyl where it was shot into the atmosphere. One of the oldest and crappiest reactor designs still in use survived one of the worst catastrophes to ever befall mankind. This was an unqualified success. Now, lets get over this endless nonsense about how you'd like us to return to an agrarian society and starve several billion people to death because you hate the word "Nuclear" and lets start investing in newer reactor designs that are orders of magnitude safer than even this one.
"But there's one option the administration appears to have never seriously considered: taking bin Laden alive."
"The SEALs’ decision to fatally shoot bin Laden -- even though he didn’t have a weapon – wasn’t an accident. The administration had made clear to the military’s clandestine Joint Special Operations Command that it wanted bin Laden dead, according to a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the discussions. A high-ranking military officer briefed on the assault said the SEALs knew their mission was not to take him alive. "
http://www.nationaljournal.com/for-obama-killing-not-capturing-nobr-bin-laden-nobr-was-goal-20110503
"Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad."
"The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members. "
“Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the US forces and their choppers. Their chopper developed some technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot,” a well-informed official explained. 


http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/04/147782.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/04/147782.html
The Russians have, and use, tear gas grenades filled with an opiate based knockout gas. I guarantee we have the same. Throw the shit in from a distance, it either knocks him out cold or he blows up the building. Either way we win. It's that fucking simple and you and I both know the CIA/Seals probably have even better stuff. I suppose we wanted a body to prove to the public he was dead didn't we... oh wait, we dumped it in the fucking ocean didn't we?
What the fuck are you talking about. I said it was WRONG. Being legal, and being the right thing to do are 2 entirely separate concepts. Doing the right thing is often more important than doing the legal thing.
The laws of physics.
But lets say there's some big loophole we missed... or we got the math wrong... where are all the aliens? Shouldn't there be ships zipping in and out all the time? Trying to trade with us? Shouldn't the galaxy be awash in their activity?
Interstellar travel is totally and completely possible. We have the technology now. It's just very very very slow. That's not the end of the world, but we have to accept it and deal with it... not fantasize about magic warp drives.
Lets just get this out in the open: Obama ordered the execution of the guy.
The seals went in, took him unarmed, knelt him down in front of his family and shot him execution style in the head.
The reports from both the administration and the family members after the fact pretty much confirm this but the press have gone so far out of their way to dilute the facts it's almost silly.
If they release the photos, forensic analysts will look at them and immediately say: "That was at point blank range with a pistol from an elevated position" and the idea that somehow democrats are less evil than republicans will be ruined. This is what our government does. Accept it or stop voting for the 2 party system. They aren't even trying very hard to cover this up and it seems the majority of the country is just going right along with it.
I didn't want the guy to get away... but we are a nation of laws. We could have easily taken him alive and tried him and eventually executed him. It would have been a legal nightmare, it would have likely ended up in front of the supreme court. But it's what's just and what's right.
I agree... Conforming, or acting like those around me seemed like a recipe for failure at the time. Not only was I not good at it, even those that did try to conform seemed to be failing miserably. Even in the top clicks in school there was a pecking order, and being the 3rd most popular person in school still meant you were picked on and looked down on by the 1st and 2nd.
One things I seemed to be very successful at was completely bewildering my classmates and teachers. They say you should do what you're good at so I became a master at bewilderment. If I was going to get picked on at least it wouldn't be for my failures. I wore red corduroys today intentionally. I knew they weren't in style and wore them anyway. You don't like them, fine. But I knew you wouldn't and that's, in fact, exactly why I wore them. Tease me all you like but that inside out sweatshirt looks a lot more silly in the yearbook pics 20 years later than my cords ever did.
Adding tethering to your plan will probably cost you more than Googles entire offering here...
There is no such thing as warp. We will never travel faster than the speed of light.
Sub-light speed travel is the only option. Get over it.
When you take a new guy, immediately stick him on your most critical project and then start bitching about his code and re-writing what he does, what's really going on is you're being a bunch of drama queens. I'm not sure how groups of programmers got like this but I see it all the time and it's ridiculous. Management doesn't want to offend you by telling you you're acting like a bunch of stuck up bitches on your periods but that's exactly what you're doing. Knowing the syntax of the language you're coding in is not the only thing going on at work... knowing the ins and outs of the company is at least 1/2 the job and they're not going to know that sort of stuff for months. "OMG Pete is trying to hit the ODBC on the corp server on port 3412! What a rube!!" or "He pulled the employee table down from the exchange server instead of using the Emp_Agent table on oracle3!!!"
Just because you and the rest of your hen house have been working together for 4 long years and have your little click doesn't mean you have to treat the new guy like shit. You were a retard once as well. Put him on non-critical projects for a while, let him figure out how YOU do things, figure out who are the right people to ask questions to so he can avoid the dickheads and after he proves himself let him work on the big stuff.
A material that allows evergy to only pass one way seems like it would defy some sort of law of physics. Imagine a cube made of this stuff that only lets sound in... Would the energy inside the cube continue to build until it erupted in a sonic boom?
since neither Alki David or his failing company FilmOn do not own ANY of the content their talking about, what right do they have to sue? This is a publicity stunt to try and bolster his idiotic idea for streaming TV on mobile devices thats clearly doomed to failure from the start.
So these "Scientists" think the problem with "schizophrenic" people is they can't forget enough eh? I think the problem is what we CAN remember that no one else can. What's next? You're going to start wiping our memories for us? You already TRIED THAT!!!! IT DIDN'T WORK DID IT?!?! If you think I'm getting on that damned ship again and going to the pyramid, you're wrong. Johns told me about your plan and I'm on to you! The four corner day will supplant your illusion of euclidean time. ALL HAIL THE TIME CUBE!!!!! http://www.timecube.com/
Since this guy and his friends could hear the whole thing from several kilometers away, I doubt it was stealth at all... If it was, it sucked.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110501/23343014105/interesting-world-man-unwittingly-live-tweets-raid-that-killed-osama-bin-laden.shtml
If you were injured by someone in a rental car and you tried to get their license plate: YOU WOULDN'T GET IT. You would report the incident to the police, who would then subpoena the information and charge the person with something and fine/imprison them. If you wanted damages you would sue the rental agency... win and take their money. THEY would sue the person that they rented the car from. They could chose to give you the name of the person they rented the car to, but they'd be under no requirement to do so.