Because life, at least from the baseline we have on our planet, tends to expand exponentially.
Using our own planet, it appears that once a culture reaches a certain level of advancement, it may not continue to expand. Look at Japan. The US would likely be stagnant if it wasn't for immigrants. The EU is similar. What happens when and entire planet gets to the level of first world nations, or more advanced? Once the cultural pressures of getting married and having children subside, will the population continue at these rates?
Look at how diverse life is on our planet. It's probably more so else where. Ant and bees have extremely different societies from humans. Or coral colonies. Just think if a species breed only by division. What if the offspring retain all of the memories of their parents? What if their lifespan was only 5 years? How much different it would be if a species lived 10 or 100 times as long as we do. Perhaps most species that evolved off of this planet aren't as curious as we are, or aren't as aggressive as humans. Hell, our ancestors could have evolved on another planet with several other intelligent species and they decided that we were too damn aggressive and banished us here. Who knows.
Quite possibly the worst, stupidest, generation in the history of mankind.
Until the the next generation comes of age. My generation was the laziest, dumbest, etc. until the next one, then the one after that,and so on. Hell, this has been going on since Socrates, at least. Granted, I do find things millennials do and say baffling quite often, but I'm still not too old to remember hearing the same thing about my generation when we were up and coming too.
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
I don't know if you've noticed, but in Cuba they drive cars that are from the 40's and 50's. There is no way they have this advanced tech.
I don't know if you noticed, but most of those cars retain little of what was originally there other than the frame and the original shape of the car. Most have engines that are from more modern (though not the latest tech) Russian, EU and Japanese manufacturers. Besides, the US had such weapons in the 1960's. So it's not like you would need a bleeding edge chip fab in order to do this.
What if I were to tell you that an event so devastating is going to occur over the next 150 years that it will kill everyone presently living upon on the earth?
Natural causes? Who do you know that has lived 150 years?
An event so imminent that I can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt that it is going to happen? What would you do?
Vote Libertarian Immortalist. They're against death and taxes.
It is indeed true my friend. All humanity will perish over the next 150 years, 99% within the next 100 years,
Is this just the ones that are alive today? I'm pretty sure more than 99% of them will be dead in 150 years time.
The loss of human and animal life will be massive. This tragic natural event will be so powerful and widespread that no living creature will escape.
Does PETA know about this? I mean dead humans are one thing, but animals? Hell no. Pamela Anderson won't stand for that.
Howbeit, the event of which I am warning you certainly will wipe out every person alive today! It is coming! You cannot run and hide!
Is it Ebola Tourette's zombies?
We hear concerns in the news about SARS, AIDS, global warming, nuclear weapons, smallpox, weapons of mass destruction, overpopulation, terrorism, etc. The world is afraid of the boogie man, while the greatest enemy to our existence lurks right under our nose, like a predator just waiting for the right moment to take us out of this world.
Yep, it's gotta be Ebola Tourette's zombies
It is none other than DEATH itself.
But we're gonna have Trump care soon. And most of the EU has single payer. We're all going to live for hundreds of years. I think you better worry about the Ebola Tourette's zombies. Do you have a bunker? Is it in a dependable position? What about food and ammo? You probably don't even have any napalm. How do you expect to survive without any napalm?
at first glance it looks little more than a circuit board with a few parts attached and the caller must wear headphones and press a button to switch between talking and listening
This was on/. within the last three months.
Also, judging by the description above it's not a phone, it's a walkie talkie.
Possibly. A lot can change though. People who live in rural areas in the US, Australia, etc are probably a very long way from electric. Some countries are looking to phase out new gasoline powered cars in 23 years. But the majority of the planet is not yet committed to this. I don't think this is something that the engineers at Mazda just started working on last week either. I'm sure it's been in the refinement stages for some time.
Unfortunately they used an FPU intensive program on a Pentium processor to predict the time for the eclipse. Their reveal is going to be 42.68715972 hours too late.
I just wish they hadn't put in so much intrusive advertising.
I agree. I almost started looking for something else the first time it came up. But once I realized it was only when I paused the video, I didn't care too much. Though it is annoying if I'm looking for something during the credits.
On his screen are some of the world's most popular apps -- Google's search, Facebook's WhatsApp -- but also many that are unfamiliar in the developed world, including UC Browser, MX Player
I never knew that WhatsApp was for Facebook, but I've been using MX Player for at least five years. It plays most videos files that I've put on my phone and I don't have to worry about resizing them because it lets me zoom in/out. There's probably something better out there these days, but it was the first app that I found that worked and I haven't had a reason to look for something else.
It always amused me that Scotty, who had apparently never touched a keyboard and mouse (let alone would have had no familiarity with the software used in the 1980s) was able to pick up that keyboard after learning voice wouldn't work, and smash away and within 5 seconds he had come up with the blue-print for transparent aluminum despite not having any knowledge of touch-typing or the software being used.
I haven't seen that in a while. But I thought he started out doing the two finger hunt an peck thing and progressed quickly. I took it as showing that Scotty was extremely adept at picking things up. Plus it's a movie, would you have stayed in the theater if it spent 45 minutes of him poking at a keyboard?
It's like when hackers on TV shows come across a network they've never seen before... smash a few keys and they're instantly connected to everything on the network and instantly know how to operate it all.
Don't forget the spinning graphics with no command line at all.
Nope, there was a hole big enough to put a tennis ball through the sidewall. I'm guessing it was a defective tire, but who knows. I'm fairly sure it was inflated properly because I had just checked the tires the day before. I had a lot more time back then and drove my cars pretty hard.
I remember the switch from bias ply to radials. Like everything, people found something to bitch about. The big complaint I remember was that radials always looked like they had low pressure compared to bias ply.
4) Tesla Motors did get - like the Big Three - government loans during the auto bailout. But unlike some of the Big Three, they paid theirs back 100% with interest - and more to the point, years before they were due.
Ford never took a bailout. GM paid back their loan with interest, ahead of schedule. Chrysler also paid back their loan with interest, though I don't recall if it was on time, or ahead of schedule.
We, the tax payers, still ended up losing $1.3 billion on Chrysler and $10.5 billion on GM due to the government selling its shares in those companies at a loss. Chrysler in 2011 and GM in 2013. .
It's pretty rare since radials became common. I was driving the first time I was ever in a car that had a blow out and was in my teens. I was pretty sure of what it was and between the noise, and the way it caused the car to handle, I pulled over right away to check it. I can't say there was ever a time in my life that I would hear a noise I didn't know coming from my car that I would keep driven. I suppose if Godzilla was chasing me I'd keep going. Other than something crazy or life threatening, it tends to get more expensive to fix things if you just keep going.
See, this is the way you used to do it. You keep driving.
This is not how you used to do it. This is what you do now because GPS will update for you. If you're using a map, then you pull over and find the road you're on or ask someone. In the worst case you keep driving until you find a cross road that is on the map too.
You may keep driving if you have decent sense of direction and know that you can get back on your route. But obviously this person was not capable of that. And you certainly don't decide to get a map while your already lost. Hell, I still keep an atlas in the back seat pocket, just in case.
I had a tire blowout, which I hadn't noticed until I saw my tire go flying off into the field.
What kind of vehicle was it? I'm curious if it had that good of a suspension, run flats, or you're just that inattentive of a driver. If it's the latter, then I'm glad I'm on the opposite coast.
I forgot all about having that printer. It had three or four different pens that it would use one of at a time. It had to go the the far left in order to switch colors and could only rotate the pens in one direction.
A molecule is simply a group of atoms that are bonded together to form the smallest unit of a chemical. H2O is a molecule, NH3 (ammonia) is a molecule. (CN)2, cyanogen is also a molecule. An ion can be a molecule or an atom that has a positive or negative charge due to gaining or losing (an) electron(s). A molecule or atom can both be an ion.
carbon atom and a nitrogen atom triply bonded
This is a molecule. if it didn't have a charge, it wouldn't be an ion but it would still be a molecule.
The waste isn't pumped into ponds. It's pumped into basins. The solid parts settle to the bottom and the liquid ends up on top, giving it the appearance of a pond. Since most of those basins are at least 8 feet deep, they are already anaerobic and produce methane. I suppose you could cover and seal them to capture the methane, but it's going to add a layer of complexity and, no offense to any pig farmers, they aren't the brightest group of people. Do you really want them to be responsible for maintaining multiple systems that have the potential to explode? Additionally, you'll have many of these in close proximity, so a chain reaction is likely if there is an explosion. It's also going to add to the cost of farming and the land needed. I also fail to see how it's going to "cook" faster in a sealed environment. If anything, it's going to require many more basins since they won't be evaporating. Those basins also leak, even the modern clay lined ones. I'm not sure what kind of bags you think can be used, but if there was a simple liner that could be used in the waste ponds, they would be using it already.
Slashdot Mirror
1968, one year before Woodstock.
And one year after the Summer of Love
Because life, at least from the baseline we have on our planet, tends to expand exponentially.
Using our own planet, it appears that once a culture reaches a certain level of advancement, it may not continue to expand. Look at Japan. The US would likely be stagnant if it wasn't for immigrants. The EU is similar. What happens when and entire planet gets to the level of first world nations, or more advanced? Once the cultural pressures of getting married and having children subside, will the population continue at these rates?
Look at how diverse life is on our planet. It's probably more so else where. Ant and bees have extremely different societies from humans. Or coral colonies. Just think if a species breed only by division. What if the offspring retain all of the memories of their parents? What if their lifespan was only 5 years? How much different it would be if a species lived 10 or 100 times as long as we do. Perhaps most species that evolved off of this planet aren't as curious as we are, or aren't as aggressive as humans. Hell, our ancestors could have evolved on another planet with several other intelligent species and they decided that we were too damn aggressive and banished us here. Who knows.
Quite possibly the worst, stupidest, generation in the history of mankind.
Until the the next generation comes of age. My generation was the laziest, dumbest, etc. until the next one, then the one after that,and so on. Hell, this has been going on since Socrates, at least. Granted, I do find things millennials do and say baffling quite often, but I'm still not too old to remember hearing the same thing about my generation when we were up and coming too.
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Those roaming charges will be astronomical.
Something tells me that weekends won't be free either.
I don't know if you've noticed, but in Cuba they drive cars that are from the 40's and 50's. There is no way they have this advanced tech.
I don't know if you noticed, but most of those cars retain little of what was originally there other than the frame and the original shape of the car. Most have engines that are from more modern (though not the latest tech) Russian, EU and Japanese manufacturers. Besides, the US had such weapons in the 1960's. So it's not like you would need a bleeding edge chip fab in order to do this.
Everyone should just subscribe to the one same streaming service that controls ALL content.
One streaming service to rule them all, One streaming service to find them,
One streaming service to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
And it will be called The Precious
What if I were to tell you that an event so devastating is going to occur over the next 150 years that it will kill everyone presently living upon on the earth?
Natural causes? Who do you know that has lived 150 years?
An event so imminent that I can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt that it is going to happen? What would you do?
Vote Libertarian Immortalist. They're against death and taxes.
It is indeed true my friend. All humanity will perish over the next 150 years, 99% within the next 100 years,
Is this just the ones that are alive today? I'm pretty sure more than 99% of them will be dead in 150 years time.
The loss of human and animal life will be massive. This tragic natural event will be so powerful and widespread that no living creature will escape.
Does PETA know about this? I mean dead humans are one thing, but animals? Hell no. Pamela Anderson won't stand for that.
Howbeit, the event of which I am warning you certainly will wipe out every person alive today! It is coming! You cannot run and hide!
Is it Ebola Tourette's zombies?
We hear concerns in the news about SARS, AIDS, global warming, nuclear weapons, smallpox, weapons of mass destruction, overpopulation, terrorism, etc. The world is afraid of the boogie man, while the greatest enemy to our existence lurks right under our nose, like a predator just waiting for the right moment to take us out of this world.
Yep, it's gotta be Ebola Tourette's zombies
It is none other than DEATH itself.
But we're gonna have Trump care soon. And most of the EU has single payer. We're all going to live for hundreds of years. I think you better worry about the Ebola Tourette's zombies. Do you have a bunker? Is it in a dependable position? What about food and ammo? You probably don't even have any napalm. How do you expect to survive without any napalm?
It was posted on July 9 I wonder if we'll see it again on September 9 too.
at first glance it looks little more than a circuit board with a few parts attached and the caller must wear headphones and press a button to switch between talking and listening
This was on /. within the last three months.
Also, judging by the description above it's not a phone, it's a walkie talkie.
The amount of RF you receive is minuscule compared to the amount of RF your phone transmits.
So I'll just glue two phones together, back to back and never have to worry about charging them again.
Possibly. A lot can change though. People who live in rural areas in the US, Australia, etc are probably a very long way from electric. Some countries are looking to phase out new gasoline powered cars in 23 years. But the majority of the planet is not yet committed to this. I don't think this is something that the engineers at Mazda just started working on last week either. I'm sure it's been in the refinement stages for some time.
Unfortunately they used an FPU intensive program on a Pentium processor to predict the time for the eclipse. Their reveal is going to be 42.68715972 hours too late.
Are you serial or Super Duper Serial!
I'm pretty sure he's cereal, or maybe parallel.
I just wish they hadn't put in so much intrusive advertising.
I agree. I almost started looking for something else the first time it came up. But once I realized it was only when I paused the video, I didn't care too much. Though it is annoying if I'm looking for something during the credits.
On his screen are some of the world's most popular apps -- Google's search, Facebook's WhatsApp -- but also many that are unfamiliar in the developed world, including UC Browser, MX Player
I never knew that WhatsApp was for Facebook, but I've been using MX Player for at least five years. It plays most videos files that I've put on my phone and I don't have to worry about resizing them because it lets me zoom in/out. There's probably something better out there these days, but it was the first app that I found that worked and I haven't had a reason to look for something else.
It always amused me that Scotty, who had apparently never touched a keyboard and mouse (let alone would have had no familiarity with the software used in the 1980s) was able to pick up that keyboard after learning voice wouldn't work, and smash away and within 5 seconds he had come up with the blue-print for transparent aluminum despite not having any knowledge of touch-typing or the software being used.
I haven't seen that in a while. But I thought he started out doing the two finger hunt an peck thing and progressed quickly. I took it as showing that Scotty was extremely adept at picking things up. Plus it's a movie, would you have stayed in the theater if it spent 45 minutes of him poking at a keyboard?
It's like when hackers on TV shows come across a network they've never seen before... smash a few keys and they're instantly connected to everything on the network and instantly know how to operate it all.
Don't forget the spinning graphics with no command line at all.
Nope, there was a hole big enough to put a tennis ball through the sidewall. I'm guessing it was a defective tire, but who knows. I'm fairly sure it was inflated properly because I had just checked the tires the day before. I had a lot more time back then and drove my cars pretty hard.
I remember the switch from bias ply to radials. Like everything, people found something to bitch about. The big complaint I remember was that radials always looked like they had low pressure compared to bias ply.
4) Tesla Motors did get - like the Big Three - government loans during the auto bailout. But unlike some of the Big Three, they paid theirs back 100% with interest - and more to the point, years before they were due.
Ford never took a bailout. GM paid back their loan with interest, ahead of schedule. Chrysler also paid back their loan with interest, though I don't recall if it was on time, or ahead of schedule.
We, the tax payers, still ended up losing $1.3 billion on Chrysler and $10.5 billion on GM due to the government selling its shares in those companies at a loss. Chrysler in 2011 and GM in 2013. .
It's pretty rare since radials became common. I was driving the first time I was ever in a car that had a blow out and was in my teens. I was pretty sure of what it was and between the noise, and the way it caused the car to handle, I pulled over right away to check it. I can't say there was ever a time in my life that I would hear a noise I didn't know coming from my car that I would keep driven. I suppose if Godzilla was chasing me I'd keep going. Other than something crazy or life threatening, it tends to get more expensive to fix things if you just keep going.
See, this is the way you used to do it. You keep driving.
This is not how you used to do it. This is what you do now because GPS will update for you. If you're using a map, then you pull over and find the road you're on or ask someone. In the worst case you keep driving until you find a cross road that is on the map too.
You may keep driving if you have decent sense of direction and know that you can get back on your route. But obviously this person was not capable of that. And you certainly don't decide to get a map while your already lost. Hell, I still keep an atlas in the back seat pocket, just in case.
I had a tire blowout, which I hadn't noticed until I saw my tire go flying off into the field.
What kind of vehicle was it? I'm curious if it had that good of a suspension, run flats, or you're just that inattentive of a driver. If it's the latter, then I'm glad I'm on the opposite coast.
I forgot all about having that printer. It had three or four different pens that it would use one of at a time. It had to go the the far left in order to switch colors and could only rotate the pens in one direction.
carbon atom and a nitrogen atom triply bonded
This is a molecule. if it didn't have a charge, it wouldn't be an ion but it would still be a molecule.
The waste isn't pumped into ponds. It's pumped into basins. The solid parts settle to the bottom and the liquid ends up on top, giving it the appearance of a pond. Since most of those basins are at least 8 feet deep, they are already anaerobic and produce methane. I suppose you could cover and seal them to capture the methane, but it's going to add a layer of complexity and, no offense to any pig farmers, they aren't the brightest group of people. Do you really want them to be responsible for maintaining multiple systems that have the potential to explode? Additionally, you'll have many of these in close proximity, so a chain reaction is likely if there is an explosion. It's also going to add to the cost of farming and the land needed. I also fail to see how it's going to "cook" faster in a sealed environment. If anything, it's going to require many more basins since they won't be evaporating. Those basins also leak, even the modern clay lined ones. I'm not sure what kind of bags you think can be used, but if there was a simple liner that could be used in the waste ponds, they would be using it already.