I have it on good word from The Umbrella Corporation... Ahem... Monsanto, that there is nothing to worry about. This bacteria could in no way affect their GMO products. Nor did they have any involvement in it's creation. The reports of carnivorous plants attacking independent farmers and their families are simply not true. Their fields and homes were torched, ahem, sterilized simply as a safety precaution.
I think it's a very interesting find, but a little ridiculous to involve the term zombie.
It's a vogue term. Just like everything is in "the cloud" even when it's just remote on one system. Next month the plants will be taking selfies of themselves twerking.
I realize that I typo-ed this hell out of the subject line, It was supposed to be "What a difference a couple of years can make." But that was my entire point.
No kidding. Back in the 80's 4-5 of us would pick up compact cars and move them onto the sidewalk out of drunken stupidity.
One of my friends had an MG back then. A couple of people lifted the rear end off the ground right before he was getting ready to drive off. While they were all laughing, he put the car in reverse and stepped on the gas. While laughing himslef, he asked them how long they thought they could hold it.
Most movie goers want an hour and a half to two hours of explosions
Think about it: When that's what they show, those are the people who will be going.
Then remember that those movie goers are actually so few people that the cinemas and MPAA continuously complain about lack of income.
You'd have a point, but the top 20 highest grossing movies says otherwise. There are still movies that are not 2 hours of gun shots and explosions, but they rarely do well.
Will Hollywood react and install POS scanners on every theater door so patrons can "swipe" to see the next 3-minute micro-movie?
Hollywood has been reacting for years. Just look at a movie from 50 years ago compared to today. Lawrence of Arabia was considered the greatest action movie made. Today it would be a drama at best. Most movie goers want an hour and a half to two hours of explosions, choreographed kung-fu dance fights, and physics defying car/plane/spaceship chases. There's a reason Michael Bay movies do so well. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I enjoy the occasional explosion-fest too. Just look at the original Matrix movie. They spoon fed what the Matrix was to the audience, and there are still people today who don't know what it was supposed to be about.
Will they even bother selling popcorn and soda?
As long as movie theaters are in business, yes. That's where they make their money after the studios get done shaking them down.
Will Stephen King give up on novels and start writing really scary comic books 12 times a year?
We can only hope.
When everything in life warrants no more than 30 seconds of peoples precious time, good luck finding value or reward in anything you do. Even something fun.
Congratulations, you are starting to get the same type of mindset your grandparents have/had. Now get in front of a mirror and start working on your "get off my lawn" face.;-)
They filed a patent for a rectangular tablet with rounded corners on Sept 14, 2012, and were granted a 14 year patent term on Sept. 24, 2013. But don't let reality get in the way of the Dunning–Kruger effect. That would be silly.
But the question is, given that any musician's ultimate target is to eventually have an audience, shouldn't how an instrument sounds to them be the quintessential point of evaluating the quality of an instrument?
Remember: Price and rarity are another set of entities altogether.
Giora Schmidt, one of the participants in this study plays a Hiroshi Iizuka violin. At the time the linked article was written he had been in the business of making violins for 30 years and was 61 years old. At that point he was just starting on his 285th violin. By comparison, there are estimated to be somewhere around 500 Stradivarus violins still in existence.
Slander someone? Libel them? Threaten immediate bodily harm? Extort? Divulge information during a trial despite court order? Reveal medical or financial information you become privy to in an official capacity?
I think you should be free to do all of that.
So you fully support what Senator Joe McCarthy did? Peoples lives were ruined over this kind of shit. And you really think that's fine? If someone takes out a full page add in your local newspaper with you face and declares you to be a pedophile, you think that's alright?
Speak against the authority of a judge or other court official in proceedings? Display contempt for said judge in open court? Swear at or otherwise intimidate a person being constrained to remain on the spot by law enforcement?,Just interrupt or speak over the speech of a person being questioned by law enforcement at the time? Verbally challenge the policeman him or herself during his or her otherwise legitimate excercise of police powers? Give verbal aid or comfort to an enemy nation during time of war
And it's absolutely disgusting that all of these things are not considered egregious violations of free speech rights. Seriously, even if you want free speech to be at least partially restricted, how can you support this utter bullshit?
I'll agree with you regarding the verbal challenge of an officer. Even speaking out during a time of war, to a point. But shouting down a person who has been detained for questioning is interfering with a police investigation andis a stupid thing to support. You really believe that it would be alright to interrupt a judge in a courtroom during proceedings? Are you 12? Or just mentally ill?
You have religious people denying evolution. For extraterrestrial life to be relevant it has to be visible with the bare eye, alien enough to clearly not be from earth and you have to bring it alive to the very presence of the religious person to prove that it isn't fake.
Funny. I thought the religious nut jobs were supposed to be the gullible ones who believe without proof and the atheist scientists types questioned everything. The last time I checked, we did have the technology to fake video of just about anything, Fortunately we have a government who has never lied to or deceived the public in the past, right?
With the absolute global meltdown of religion that would likely happen in the event of the world learning that life exists beyond our planet, literally shattering damn near every major religion's core belief of a sky daddy/master creator/Adam and Eve,
Why would it "shatter" anything? It may change some things. I'm sure you would probably consider me a religious nut job. But I have no issue with evolution, or that the age of the earth is 4.5 billion years (give or take). There is no where in the bible that says the earth is 6K years. That was a very flawed inference to begin with. I also would not be surprised if what many of us believe is god turns out to be an advanced alien, or alien race. If we brought someone from from biblical times to our time, they'd probably think we were gods. Just imaging if they met a non-corporeal being or even something like the Vorlons from B5. I'm not sure there wouldn't be a large portion of the population even today who wouldn't worship them.
I may not be the only one who thinks having three kids and a house in the suburbs either indicates a serious IQ issue or some sort of mental illness is at work. If one can get sold on the yuppie way of life one has already been lost.
Yuppie = Young Urban Professional, usually childless
The GP is so smart and mentally balanced that not only didn't he get sold on the yuppie way of life. He doesn't even know what it means.;-)
I have a skylight in my bedroom. I'm going to start opening the blind on it in the morning and go back to sleep for an hour or two. And eat cake and ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That should drop my BMI by 20% according to the summary.
I absolutely do not want to hit any buttons to pan the camera while driving.
Let's make the steering wheel itself surround a giant screen showing everything behind you then,
with an additional "pannable" view as a heads-up display projected on the windshield.
If you want to TURN you rotate the wheel.
If you want to pan the camera, you tilt one side of the steering wheel forward and the other side backward, vice-versa.
If it comes down to that, I'm selling my car and getting an M1 Abrams. That way I don't have to check my mirrors before I change lanes.
Have you noticed that not too many years ago, Americans would hear about some neat new technical military thing and think, "Wow, I'm glad that's on OUR side!" And now, they just expect it to be used for domestic purposes.
I know. This thing is awesome. Just think about the advances we're going to see in vacuum cleaner and dishwasher tech from this project.
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Indeed. Guns are not unknown.
They probably were to the indigenous tribes.
So, all videogames should be banned.
Yes, but only as a subset of everything.
I have it on good word from The Umbrella Corporation... Ahem... Monsanto, that there is nothing to worry about. This bacteria could in no way affect their GMO products. Nor did they have any involvement in it's creation. The reports of carnivorous plants attacking independent farmers and their families are simply not true. Their fields and homes were torched, ahem, sterilized simply as a safety precaution.
I think it's a very interesting find, but a little ridiculous to involve the term zombie.
It's a vogue term. Just like everything is in "the cloud" even when it's just remote on one system. Next month the plants will be taking selfies of themselves twerking.
I realize that I typo-ed this hell out of the subject line, It was supposed to be "What a difference a couple of years can make." But that was my entire point.
With IBM also making progress in this realm, the days of silicon could actually be numbered.
IBM: Graphene as it is won't replace silicon in CPUs
No kidding. Back in the 80's 4-5 of us would pick up compact cars and move them onto the sidewalk out of drunken stupidity.
One of my friends had an MG back then. A couple of people lifted the rear end off the ground right before he was getting ready to drive off. While they were all laughing, he put the car in reverse and stepped on the gas. While laughing himslef, he asked them how long they thought they could hold it.
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Think about it: When that's what they show, those are the people who will be going.
Then remember that those movie goers are actually so few people that the cinemas and MPAA continuously complain about lack of income.
You'd have a point, but the top 20 highest grossing movies says otherwise. There are still movies that are not 2 hours of gun shots and explosions, but they rarely do well.
Will Hollywood react and install POS scanners on every theater door so patrons can "swipe" to see the next 3-minute micro-movie?
Hollywood has been reacting for years. Just look at a movie from 50 years ago compared to today. Lawrence of Arabia was considered the greatest action movie made. Today it would be a drama at best. Most movie goers want an hour and a half to two hours of explosions, choreographed kung-fu dance fights, and physics defying car/plane/spaceship chases. There's a reason Michael Bay movies do so well. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I enjoy the occasional explosion-fest too. Just look at the original Matrix movie. They spoon fed what the Matrix was to the audience, and there are still people today who don't know what it was supposed to be about.
Will they even bother selling popcorn and soda?
As long as movie theaters are in business, yes. That's where they make their money after the studios get done shaking them down.
Will Stephen King give up on novels and start writing really scary comic books 12 times a year?
We can only hope.
When everything in life warrants no more than 30 seconds of peoples precious time, good luck finding value or reward in anything you do. Even something fun.
Congratulations, you are starting to get the same type of mindset your grandparents have/had. Now get in front of a mirror and start working on your "get off my lawn" face. ;-)
These are the same kind of idiots that seriously think apple patented a rounded rectangle,
US D690,300 S
1. The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described.
It's easier to see all of the images from this link: http://www.google.com/patents/...
They filed a patent for a rectangular tablet with rounded corners on Sept 14, 2012, and were granted a 14 year patent term on Sept. 24, 2013. But don't let reality get in the way of the Dunning–Kruger effect. That would be silly.
But the question is, given that any musician's ultimate target is to eventually have an audience, shouldn't how an instrument sounds to them be the quintessential point of evaluating the quality of an instrument?
Remember: Price and rarity are another set of entities altogether.
Giora Schmidt, one of the participants in this study plays a Hiroshi Iizuka violin. At the time the linked article was written he had been in the business of making violins for 30 years and was 61 years old. At that point he was just starting on his 285th violin. By comparison, there are estimated to be somewhere around 500 Stradivarus violins still in existence.
Slander someone? Libel them? Threaten immediate bodily harm? Extort? Divulge information during a trial despite court order? Reveal medical or financial information you become privy to in an official capacity?
I think you should be free to do all of that.
So you fully support what Senator Joe McCarthy did? Peoples lives were ruined over this kind of shit. And you really think that's fine? If someone takes out a full page add in your local newspaper with you face and declares you to be a pedophile, you think that's alright?
Speak against the authority of a judge or other court official in proceedings? Display contempt for said judge in open court? Swear at or otherwise intimidate a person being constrained to remain on the spot by law enforcement? ,Just interrupt or speak over the speech of a person being questioned by law enforcement at the time? Verbally challenge the policeman him or herself during his or her otherwise legitimate excercise of police powers? Give verbal aid or comfort to an enemy nation during time of war
And it's absolutely disgusting that all of these things are not considered egregious violations of free speech rights. Seriously, even if you want free speech to be at least partially restricted, how can you support this utter bullshit?
I'll agree with you regarding the verbal challenge of an officer. Even speaking out during a time of war, to a point. But shouting down a person who has been detained for questioning is interfering with a police investigation andis a stupid thing to support. You really believe that it would be alright to interrupt a judge in a courtroom during proceedings? Are you 12? Or just mentally ill?
Just like 6 is not between 2 and 3, despite of infinite number of numbers being there.
Yes it is (depending on the context):
263
2... 6... 30
6.2, 6.3
2,6,3,7...
I don't see how that would be different from living here.
Yeah, well living here can make you pretty damn crazy too.
You have religious people denying evolution. For extraterrestrial life to be relevant it has to be visible with the bare eye, alien enough to clearly not be from earth and you have to bring it alive to the very presence of the religious person to prove that it isn't fake.
Funny. I thought the religious nut jobs were supposed to be the gullible ones who believe without proof and the atheist scientists types questioned everything. The last time I checked, we did have the technology to fake video of just about anything, Fortunately we have a government who has never lied to or deceived the public in the past, right?
With the absolute global meltdown of religion that would likely happen in the event of the world learning that life exists beyond our planet, literally shattering damn near every major religion's core belief of a sky daddy/master creator/Adam and Eve,
Why would it "shatter" anything? It may change some things. I'm sure you would probably consider me a religious nut job. But I have no issue with evolution, or that the age of the earth is 4.5 billion years (give or take). There is no where in the bible that says the earth is 6K years. That was a very flawed inference to begin with. I also would not be surprised if what many of us believe is god turns out to be an advanced alien, or alien race. If we brought someone from from biblical times to our time, they'd probably think we were gods. Just imaging if they met a non-corporeal being or even something like the Vorlons from B5. I'm not sure there wouldn't be a large portion of the population even today who wouldn't worship them.
I may not be the only one who thinks having three kids and a house in the suburbs either indicates a serious IQ issue or some sort of mental illness is at work. If one can get sold on the yuppie way of life one has already been lost.
Yuppie = Young Urban Professional, usually childless
The GP is so smart and mentally balanced that not only didn't he get sold on the yuppie way of life. He doesn't even know what it means. ;-)
It's that most people are apathetic and unintelligent, all in one convenient package.
It's more efficient that way.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
I don't know about healthy. But late to bed, late to rise, seems to make you more intelligent and wealthier That study looked at 1000 people, rather than 54. If both studies are accurate, it looks like you can be smart, fat, and rich, or healthy, poor and stupid.
I have a skylight in my bedroom. I'm going to start opening the blind on it in the morning and go back to sleep for an hour or two. And eat cake and ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That should drop my BMI by 20% according to the summary.
This was stated over two years ago by scientists in Hungary and Sweden.
Remember that intel labs funny research paper on tinfoil hats and how they found that they actually amplify radio signals?
It has been taken offline.
FEELING PARANOID YET?
I believe that was aluminum/aluminium hats that amplified radio signals. Tin foil is still OK. But to be sure you really need a Faraday cage hat.
I absolutely do not want to hit any buttons to pan the camera while driving.
Let's make the steering wheel itself surround a giant screen showing everything behind you then, with an additional "pannable" view as a heads-up display projected on the windshield.
If you want to TURN you rotate the wheel.
If you want to pan the camera, you tilt one side of the steering wheel forward and the other side backward, vice-versa.
If it comes down to that, I'm selling my car and getting an M1 Abrams. That way I don't have to check my mirrors before I change lanes.
Have you noticed that not too many years ago, Americans would hear about some neat new technical military thing and think, "Wow, I'm glad that's on OUR side!" And now, they just expect it to be used for domestic purposes.
I know. This thing is awesome. Just think about the advances we're going to see in vacuum cleaner and dishwasher tech from this project.