But humans are more easily swayed by fear, emotion and political pressure.
Let's just remove the human factor already and welcome our new electromechanical overlords.
Wasn't there a Star Trek episode that did just that? The computers battled it out and determined who would have been killed and those killed in the simulations were then sent to their deaths.
I'm sure you know I was just trying to be a dick:D.
That's considered being friendly on/.;-)
You did say THROUGH the outer core implying we were in the inner core or beyond though.
True, but I thought it sounded funnier that way.
Unfortunately the textbooks in middle school (the last time anything geology related is mentioned) show an illustration of the crust as solid rock, the mantle as solid magma, the outer core as dense magma, and the inner core as solid iron. Damn you public school system you've failed me again.
Don't get me started on public education. I have a 10 year old in school who questions everything. Fortunately she's much better at keeping her mouth shut (at school) than I was at her age. She's just about to the point that she realizes that there are times when the "right answer" is not always the best answer.
When I was in school the text books were not updated as often as they have to be now. Most of the science texts were 20 years old and the information that was in them was out of date by the time they were printed. Plate Tectonics was more of an intriguing theory in the crap books we had (yes, I'm old), and the core was "solid iron". The current thoughts the last time I checked was that it's a nickle-iron mix. It's also believed to be over 5,000C. Iron has a boiling temperature just under 2900C and nickle is just a few degrees higher., so without pressure it would boil away. It's the pressure that is making the core a "solid", not that it's a cool lump of nickle-iron as we would think of it on the surface. There's also evidence that the core is more dense than it should be. So it's theorized that there are significant amounts of heavy metals mixed in there too.
I read some interesting stuff about Jupiter a while back regarding its' core. When I was a kid it was supposedly some kind of rocky lump. But this didn't explain its massive magnetic field. It's supposedly metallic hydrogen. The gravitational pressure is so great that it has compressed the hydrogen into a solid metal! This causes it to become a superconductor and that is where the magnetic field is coming from.
Doesn't the mantle hold most of the magma? If we're in the inner core aren't we in solid metal?
Nope. That's the outer core actually. The mantle is mostly rock with a few pockets of magma. Regardless, I was going for humor more so than geological accuracy.
Patients have had their DNA patented in the US by companies/researchers, and denied the right to grant others access to it.
Do you have a link to this? Did the patient grant this? Or was it patented w/o their permission (not that it makes too much of a difference)? I realize that the patent thing is really out of whack, particularly regarding DNA, software, drugs, etc. But if a company can patent your DNA and claim legal ownership w/o your permission; we have gone down the slippery slope in a rocket powered sled and broken through the ground at the bottom, passed through the crust, mantle and outer core and are floating in magma.
A 2 litre engined vehicle that only manages 24mpg? It's shocking how inefficient US cars are compared to those in Europe. Even Cosworth engined RS Ford Escorts did better over 20 years ago. The fact that it is a Nissan makes it even more surprising.
That was 24 mpg combined. I didn't read the article. But if they tested in actual NYC cab conditions, then I'm not surprised. Actually, it's better than I would have guessed. Manufacturers mpg numbers are pretty dicey to begin with. NYC roads are jokingly refereed to as "driving on the moon". These cabs are also typically loaded with at least two people. mpg ratings are taken with just a driver. Driving in Manhattan is much more stop and go than normal city mpg tests. Cab drivers also tend to be a lot less careful about using the gas pedal.
That being said, if the 24 mpg rating was not calculated from actual NYC driving, it is pretty bad. I currently have one 10 and one 12 year old car, both with V8 engines that get close to that(combined). One is a sports car and I don't beat it, but I also don't baby it.
Are you that stupid? I've never seen a gun that was non-military claim to be for "killing people". I guess target shooting and hunting do not exist in your world. You need to get out more.
I'll give you target practice. But pistols have no other purpose than to kill/injure people. That very well may be in self defense. But they aren't for hunting. Why do you think police carry them? To keep polar bears off the streets? Don't get me wrong, I own guns and have no wish to see them banned. But let's be honest about what pistols are designed for. Self defense from other people.
I think people are only months away from making a printable machine gun. These printed guns are improving pretty quickly. And everyone is going to have to scramble to figure out what to do about them.
Do you know anything about guns? Or is that just hyperbole? Why not go all out? Perhaps we are just a few months away from printed cruise missiles, or a nuclear implosion devices or a ray-guns.
quote from the ggp:
FTA: " Over the course of its test firing, Joe and Guslick say it misfired several times, and some of its screws and its firing pin had to be replaced. After each firing, the ammo cartridges expanded enough that they had to be pounded out with a hammer."
Sure, so other than that...
You can build a zip-gun for less than $10 out of two different diameter metal pipes an end-cap and a screw. You don't need any special tools that aren't in most houses already. You won't have to worry about hammering the fired shell out or any other the other issues involved with a plastic printed gun. But it's still a very long way from a machine gun. Perhaps we should think about the possibility of it becoming an issue, but it's still a long way off from cranking out M61 Vulcans.
haha, I knew that would get me a troll. but seriously, even if they work at all, its not worth the risk of the poisons they put in them (mercury, msg, etc).
MSG? Why is that in vaccines? To enhance their flavor? As far as I know there has been no conclusive evidence regarding the harmful effects of MSG. It takes 5 times as much MSG per weight to kill you vs. table salt. You can buy MSG at most grocery stores.
When will the IRS start issuing jack boots to all agents? I didn't read TFA, but the summary seems to make it clear that someone understood that there was a potential HIPPA issue. Incompetence is one thing, but it sounds like this goes beyond that. I wonder who's going to take the fall for this one? There appears to be a bit of a vacuum developing in the upper echelon of the IRS.
The total dollar amount given by the US is $28.67 billion That's more than number two and three (France and Germany) combined. If you factor in military and financial aid for 2011 was $49.5 billion. There's also an additional 10 to $30 billion donated by private non-government sources.
They are not "only humans"! They are *Americans*!
And *that* explains their fucked-up mindset of instead of *stopping destroying the planet*, getting jaded.
Fuck that! Go fuck yourselves! Nobody cares how "jaded" you are! Reality check: YOU. ARE. ACTIVELY. MURDERING. AN. ENTIRE. PLANET!
NOBODY cares if you like being yelled at and stopped at doing that! It's our existence on the line! And in that case, you can bet your ass that we'll end yours before you end ours! (And in the end, nature always wins. We're just not interested in going extinct *with* you.)
How fuckin' hard is that for you to get in your thick retarded ignorant delusional American skulls, you fucktards??
I realize talking shit about America is just so cool on/. Especially by anonymous little bitches like you. But why don't you take that electricity powered computer that is filled with toxic crap and use if for something useful if you are so concerned with "murdering an entire planet" instead of posting crap on/.? If you can't do that, then I would suggest you think of the environment and shove it up your ass and go live in a fucking cave.
It seems to me that most of the people I see bitching about the USA(who are not from there) tend to be from a country that was formerly a major power compared to the rest of the world. And after you and your countrymen got finished fucking up some large region you collapsed in on yourselves. Leaving someone else to un-fuck what you did. For the last half a century or so that has been the US. While we have done some colossally stupid things, I'm not sure there has been a more benevolent leading nation. Yes you can bitch about atomic bombs and wars all you want. But considering the capacity for destruction the US has, it has remained more restrained than most if not all before it. What do you think would happen if North Korea or Iran had the arsenal the US does? What if the Germans or Italians had in it in the 30's or 40's? Or the Ottoman empire?
I'm so happy that you come from such a peace loving enlightened country. And that you are such an enlightened individual. Oh wait, you're not. You just threatened my country with genocide. What have you and your countrymen done for the world? I'd seriously like to know what country you even come from. For all the stupid shit we americans do, have you ever looked at the amount of financial aid we give to countries that have absolutely no strategic value? Or the amount of food we give away, or the number of paid and volunteer americans who go to help other countries? As much as I hate war and violent conflict, I'm also not stupid enough to sit idol if my home is attacked. Fortunately with the current arsenal if you feel the need to "end our existence" I'm sure as a last resort we'll be plenty happy to turn your home into a shiny new glass parking lot.
Personally I am tired of seeing and hearing, "According to an annonymous government source" or "According to a source who was not authorized to comment on this matter" or other such BS. Why, because when you do not know the source of a supposed story or information, you can just as easily assume that they just made this shit up for ratings or to push and agenda. If something is classified, and you think it is really so important to leak that information, then grow a set and take credit for making the information public.
You kind of lose credibility by posting this as an AC.
Who finds it frightening as hell that the press now has to do this? It's a dark day when the press has to take measures like this because the government is ignoring the first amendment.
Sorry, do companies actually make money polluting, as in that is their business strategy?
Energy companies make money by using what are currently cheap fossil fuels. Not having to worry about the pollution byproducts increases their bottom line and lowers the price of their product.
Because otherwise, not polluting isn't going to increase the cost of living or cause cripling distress on the poor. The only ones distressed are those making profits from pollution. I.e. the wealthy.
Wrong. Then everyone will be affected if energy prices increase. The poor will have to pay a lager percentage of their income for electricity. They will also have to pay more for products that are produced or moved using energy. This includes the cost of food. So again, they will be spending a larger portion of their income on necessities.
But if the environment were clean, there would be less illness, which reduces the time the poor work, reduces their pay and can get them fired. So pollution can be causing cripling distress to the poor.
I agree, we need to do something to take better care of our environment. It's not good for anyone to keep going the way we have been. However the less fortunate already can't afford do purchase decent healthy food. How healthy do you think they will be if they can afford even less?
I have not seen a plan yet that would phase out fossil fuels and transition us to renewables without a considerable cost. So the cost of electricity will likely increase. If all of the farms have to switch to electric equipment, then the farmers cost of electricity is going to go up and they are going to need to pay for the new heavy equipment. That means they will need to make more money in order to stay in business. The produce then needs to be moved by truck or train to a processing location. The entire electrical grid will need to be upgraded/replaced. This will have to be paid for somehow too. I'm sure it could be done, but it's going to take a serious change in the mindset of everyone. What about countries like Canada with a huge land mass but low population density? Or poorer countries. How are they going to afford this change?
I'm afraid you're going to have to make up something better.
I'm afraid you're going to have to come up with a better straw man.
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But humans are more easily swayed by fear, emotion and political pressure. Let's just remove the human factor already and welcome our new electromechanical overlords.
Wasn't there a Star Trek episode that did just that? The computers battled it out and determined who would have been killed and those killed in the simulations were then sent to their deaths.
I'm sure you know I was just trying to be a dick :D.
That's considered being friendly on /. ;-)
You did say THROUGH the outer core implying we were in the inner core or beyond though.
True, but I thought it sounded funnier that way.
Unfortunately the textbooks in middle school (the last time anything geology related is mentioned) show an illustration of the crust as solid rock, the mantle as solid magma, the outer core as dense magma, and the inner core as solid iron. Damn you public school system you've failed me again.
Don't get me started on public education. I have a 10 year old in school who questions everything. Fortunately she's much better at keeping her mouth shut (at school) than I was at her age. She's just about to the point that she realizes that there are times when the "right answer" is not always the best answer.
When I was in school the text books were not updated as often as they have to be now. Most of the science texts were 20 years old and the information that was in them was out of date by the time they were printed. Plate Tectonics was more of an intriguing theory in the crap books we had (yes, I'm old), and the core was "solid iron". The current thoughts the last time I checked was that it's a nickle-iron mix. It's also believed to be over 5,000C. Iron has a boiling temperature just under 2900C and nickle is just a few degrees higher., so without pressure it would boil away. It's the pressure that is making the core a "solid", not that it's a cool lump of nickle-iron as we would think of it on the surface. There's also evidence that the core is more dense than it should be. So it's theorized that there are significant amounts of heavy metals mixed in there too.
I read some interesting stuff about Jupiter a while back regarding its' core. When I was a kid it was supposedly some kind of rocky lump. But this didn't explain its massive magnetic field. It's supposedly metallic hydrogen. The gravitational pressure is so great that it has compressed the hydrogen into a solid metal! This causes it to become a superconductor and that is where the magnetic field is coming from.
Doesn't the mantle hold most of the magma? If we're in the inner core aren't we in solid metal?
Nope. That's the outer core actually. The mantle is mostly rock with a few pockets of magma. Regardless, I was going for humor more so than geological accuracy.
Patients have had their DNA patented in the US by companies/researchers, and denied the right to grant others access to it.
Do you have a link to this? Did the patient grant this? Or was it patented w/o their permission (not that it makes too much of a difference)? I realize that the patent thing is really out of whack, particularly regarding DNA, software, drugs, etc. But if a company can patent your DNA and claim legal ownership w/o your permission; we have gone down the slippery slope in a rocket powered sled and broken through the ground at the bottom, passed through the crust, mantle and outer core and are floating in magma.
A 2 litre engined vehicle that only manages 24mpg? It's shocking how inefficient US cars are compared to those in Europe. Even Cosworth engined RS Ford Escorts did better over 20 years ago. The fact that it is a Nissan makes it even more surprising.
That was 24 mpg combined. I didn't read the article. But if they tested in actual NYC cab conditions, then I'm not surprised. Actually, it's better than I would have guessed. Manufacturers mpg numbers are pretty dicey to begin with. NYC roads are jokingly refereed to as "driving on the moon". These cabs are also typically loaded with at least two people. mpg ratings are taken with just a driver. Driving in Manhattan is much more stop and go than normal city mpg tests. Cab drivers also tend to be a lot less careful about using the gas pedal.
That being said, if the 24 mpg rating was not calculated from actual NYC driving, it is pretty bad. I currently have one 10 and one 12 year old car, both with V8 engines that get close to that(combined). One is a sports car and I don't beat it, but I also don't baby it.
The end of the world would be somewhat pretty.
...to the cockroaches and our new ape overlords.
Are you that stupid? I've never seen a gun that was non-military claim to be for "killing people". I guess target shooting and hunting do not exist in your world. You need to get out more.
I'll give you target practice. But pistols have no other purpose than to kill/injure people. That very well may be in self defense. But they aren't for hunting. Why do you think police carry them? To keep polar bears off the streets? Don't get me wrong, I own guns and have no wish to see them banned. But let's be honest about what pistols are designed for. Self defense from other people.
I think people are only months away from making a printable machine gun. These printed guns are improving pretty quickly. And everyone is going to have to scramble to figure out what to do about them.
Do you know anything about guns? Or is that just hyperbole? Why not go all out? Perhaps we are just a few months away from printed cruise missiles, or a nuclear implosion devices or a ray-guns.
quote from the ggp:
FTA: " Over the course of its test firing, Joe and Guslick say it misfired several times, and some of its screws and its firing pin had to be replaced. After each firing, the ammo cartridges expanded enough that they had to be pounded out with a hammer."
Sure, so other than that...
You can build a zip-gun for less than $10 out of two different diameter metal pipes an end-cap and a screw. You don't need any special tools that aren't in most houses already. You won't have to worry about hammering the fired shell out or any other the other issues involved with a plastic printed gun. But it's still a very long way from a machine gun. Perhaps we should think about the possibility of it becoming an issue, but it's still a long way off from cranking out M61 Vulcans.
Dr. Doom decides what's fair use.
haha, I knew that would get me a troll. but seriously, even if they work at all, its not worth the risk of the poisons they put in them (mercury, msg, etc).
MSG? Why is that in vaccines? To enhance their flavor? As far as I know there has been no conclusive evidence regarding the harmful effects of MSG. It takes 5 times as much MSG per weight to kill you vs. table salt. You can buy MSG at most grocery stores.
When will the IRS start issuing jack boots to all agents? I didn't read TFA, but the summary seems to make it clear that someone understood that there was a potential HIPPA issue. Incompetence is one thing, but it sounds like this goes beyond that. I wonder who's going to take the fall for this one? There appears to be a bit of a vacuum developing in the upper echelon of the IRS.
The total dollar amount given by the US is $28.67 billion That's more than number two and three (France and Germany) combined. If you factor in military and financial aid for 2011 was $49.5 billion. There's also an additional 10 to $30 billion donated by private non-government sources.
They are not "only humans"! They are *Americans*! And *that* explains their fucked-up mindset of instead of *stopping destroying the planet*, getting jaded. Fuck that! Go fuck yourselves! Nobody cares how "jaded" you are! Reality check: YOU. ARE. ACTIVELY. MURDERING. AN. ENTIRE. PLANET! NOBODY cares if you like being yelled at and stopped at doing that! It's our existence on the line! And in that case, you can bet your ass that we'll end yours before you end ours! (And in the end, nature always wins. We're just not interested in going extinct *with* you.)
How fuckin' hard is that for you to get in your thick retarded ignorant delusional American skulls, you fucktards??
I realize talking shit about America is just so cool on /. Especially by anonymous little bitches like you. But why don't you take that electricity powered computer that is filled with toxic crap and use if for something useful if you are so concerned with "murdering an entire planet" instead of posting crap on /.? If you can't do that, then I would suggest you think of the environment and shove it up your ass and go live in a fucking cave.
It seems to me that most of the people I see bitching about the USA(who are not from there) tend to be from a country that was formerly a major power compared to the rest of the world. And after you and your countrymen got finished fucking up some large region you collapsed in on yourselves. Leaving someone else to un-fuck what you did. For the last half a century or so that has been the US. While we have done some colossally stupid things, I'm not sure there has been a more benevolent leading nation. Yes you can bitch about atomic bombs and wars all you want. But considering the capacity for destruction the US has, it has remained more restrained than most if not all before it. What do you think would happen if North Korea or Iran had the arsenal the US does? What if the Germans or Italians had in it in the 30's or 40's? Or the Ottoman empire?
I'm so happy that you come from such a peace loving enlightened country. And that you are such an enlightened individual. Oh wait, you're not. You just threatened my country with genocide. What have you and your countrymen done for the world? I'd seriously like to know what country you even come from. For all the stupid shit we americans do, have you ever looked at the amount of financial aid we give to countries that have absolutely no strategic value? Or the amount of food we give away, or the number of paid and volunteer americans who go to help other countries? As much as I hate war and violent conflict, I'm also not stupid enough to sit idol if my home is attacked. Fortunately with the current arsenal if you feel the need to "end our existence" I'm sure as a last resort we'll be plenty happy to turn your home into a shiny new glass parking lot.
Here's another version: http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html
Bingo.
I see you found this page too.
The Silurians are going to be pissed.
...will be very pleased with this. Now every "jerky" robot can be an efficient terminator.
Didn't Hwang Woo-suk do this 9 years ago? ;-)
I think I'll wait a little while before I get too excited.
Personally I am tired of seeing and hearing, "According to an annonymous government source" or "According to a source who was not authorized to comment on this matter" or other such BS. Why, because when you do not know the source of a supposed story or information, you can just as easily assume that they just made this shit up for ratings or to push and agenda. If something is classified, and you think it is really so important to leak that information, then grow a set and take credit for making the information public.
You kind of lose credibility by posting this as an AC.
Who are "dilitants"? Dilettante militants?
I heard that the NRA and ELF were going to start painting and music courses.
They're not ignoring it.
They made rules to get around it. In the name of 'security'.
You're right. They're not ignoring it, they're wiping their ass with it.
Who finds it frightening as hell that the press now has to do this? It's a dark day when the press has to take measures like this because the government is ignoring the first amendment.
Colorado [79], Vermont, and North Dakota have passed laws enabling hemp licensure. Both states are waiting...
So three states equals 2? Is that some kind of bong math?
Sorry, do companies actually make money polluting, as in that is their business strategy?
Energy companies make money by using what are currently cheap fossil fuels. Not having to worry about the pollution byproducts increases their bottom line and lowers the price of their product.
Because otherwise, not polluting isn't going to increase the cost of living or cause cripling distress on the poor. The only ones distressed are those making profits from pollution. I.e. the wealthy.
Wrong. Then everyone will be affected if energy prices increase. The poor will have to pay a lager percentage of their income for electricity. They will also have to pay more for products that are produced or moved using energy. This includes the cost of food. So again, they will be spending a larger portion of their income on necessities.
But if the environment were clean, there would be less illness, which reduces the time the poor work, reduces their pay and can get them fired. So pollution can be causing cripling distress to the poor.
I agree, we need to do something to take better care of our environment. It's not good for anyone to keep going the way we have been. However the less fortunate already can't afford do purchase decent healthy food. How healthy do you think they will be if they can afford even less?
I have not seen a plan yet that would phase out fossil fuels and transition us to renewables without a considerable cost. So the cost of electricity will likely increase. If all of the farms have to switch to electric equipment, then the farmers cost of electricity is going to go up and they are going to need to pay for the new heavy equipment. That means they will need to make more money in order to stay in business. The produce then needs to be moved by truck or train to a processing location. The entire electrical grid will need to be upgraded/replaced. This will have to be paid for somehow too. I'm sure it could be done, but it's going to take a serious change in the mindset of everyone. What about countries like Canada with a huge land mass but low population density? Or poorer countries. How are they going to afford this change?
I'm afraid you're going to have to make up something better.
I'm afraid you're going to have to come up with a better straw man.
A Nautical Mile is one minute of arc.
So they switched from metric to imperial units?