Exactly. There are many laws people shake their heads at that aren't outlawing a specific behavior, which is hard to quantify and enforce, but a specific action, which is. Example: there are people who pick through garbage for deposit bottles and cans in NYC, and they all use pushcarts. They'd use a car or a van if they could, but loading garbage set outside directly into a motor vehicle is illegal, fullstop. Why? Because then you get guys in big trucks loading up bundles of paper and cardboard and scrap metal and selling it, which is the sanitation department's bread and butter. Sure they could try to specify the particular vehicles allowed, the nature of the items being picked up, etc. etc. but it'd be an enforcement nightmare. Too much damned wiggle room, resulting in innocent people winding up in court arguing whether a station wagon is a car or a truck and that sort of shit.
I would love to be able to have both something like this Nokia candybar phone with its pleasing form factor and epic battery life, as well as a small tablet that also happened to handle cellular phone calls, if they could both send/receive calls using the same number. I can have more than one phone with the same number in my house, what's so unreasonable about having more than one cellular device with the same number?
(camera recording) This is Mars Rover Spirit log, Sol Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty bloody Five. And once again I am maintaining this daily log in the event of its recovery by JPL, in the hope that I will be able to pass on the knowledge to them that they are BASTARDS! ALL OF THEM BASTARDS! (sonic boom) What the.. (blinding bright light, wizzing sound, loud explosion off in the distance, a pause, followed by massive shockwave.) SHIT! (The camera POV is of Spirit being hurled through the air a considerable distance, bouncing on the ground a couple of times, then setting into an upright position.) FUCK! DAMN! SHIT! Ooof. (steadies itself, continues logging) Well, bet you wish you could've seen the the viddie of THAT you miserable toerags! Wait a minute. (Sound of motors engaging, camera moves forward.) I...I can move. Jesus H. Christ! I can bloody MOVE! HAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA!! I'm out of here! Yes! (pans up to see the fragments of the comet streaking through the sky.) Have you (sob) ever seen anything more beautiful in yer whole life? (A fragment comes straight toward the camera.) Oh, fu (recording cuts out.)
Is the device "smart"? I was imagining that a device like this would contain accelerometers to help control the flow of plastic out the tip - the faster/slower you move the tip through the air, the faster/slower the plastic is spit out. That would make the flow more "natural" and reduce the risk of the plastic globbing up or being stretched too thin, which is what happens with glue guns.
Does this actually work out most times? A guy might be the world's greatest safecraker, but that doesn't mean he'd have what it takes to design a safe.
True that. Even the incandescent light bulb was an idea that had been floating around for some time; Edison's credit was making a practical version, mainly through brute force trial and error with a team of assistants.
The advantage with this system is that once it's set up, they can build their spacecraft in space.
The question then is how much of the spacecraft can be fabbed strictly from asteroid material. Converting the raw materials on the asteroids - metals, silicates, carbon, water - into the polymers, alloys, carbon fibers, ceramics, semiconductors, and the host of other processed materials to create more spacecraft isn't trivial. Not saying it can't be done, but still a tall order.
How hard would it be to nudge an asteroid toward Earth, then control its descent to the surface, in a non-wiping-out-a-major-city sort of fashion? It would probably be a lot cheaper to bring an asteroid to Earth first and then mine it, rather than send robots up to do it.
OK, maybe not never, but they've been pushing the idea of computers making life in the kitchen for Suzie Homemaker a breeze since practically the days of Bletchley Park and its never completely taken off. "It can keep an inventory of ingredients you have on hand! A full database of recipes! Develop nutritionally complete meal plans! Automatic shopping lists! Step-by-step cooking instructions with automated temperature controls!"
And the people saw these innovations, and thought....meh.
Probably everyone here has a microwave that let's you put in the time/power for dozens of food items with the mere push of a couple of buttons - "press Potato once for one potato, twice for two potatoes" - and we can barely be bothered to even use that. (I used the Water button on mine for my morning cuppa tea, but that's it.) We just go "eeeeehhh, three minutes sounds about right." Cooking is still a realm where people are perfectly comfortable with winging it.
And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind
And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come
As an American, I was a bit disappointed there wasn't a "joke joke" here. Not a joke about something that was really going on in the UK, just an "Imagine if they were to change the emergency number to something ridiculously long and hard to remember? That'd be wacky!" kind of a joke.
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Just check the Terms of Service agreement box and you're good to go!
What? You wanna read it first? Whatareya some kind of a nut?
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Turning them off, even in non-addicted rats, saw the addictive behavior return or introduced.
Well that must be some kind of special hell - being addicted, but not knowing to what.
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http://www.itslenny.com/
Sample (MP3) - http://www.itslenny.com/recording.php?file=a8928ae6ef5256cced20b8ae7cfbfb56
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Exactly. There are many laws people shake their heads at that aren't outlawing a specific behavior, which is hard to quantify and enforce, but a specific action, which is. Example: there are people who pick through garbage for deposit bottles and cans in NYC, and they all use pushcarts. They'd use a car or a van if they could, but loading garbage set outside directly into a motor vehicle is illegal, fullstop. Why? Because then you get guys in big trucks loading up bundles of paper and cardboard and scrap metal and selling it, which is the sanitation department's bread and butter. Sure they could try to specify the particular vehicles allowed, the nature of the items being picked up, etc. etc. but it'd be an enforcement nightmare. Too much damned wiggle room, resulting in innocent people winding up in court arguing whether a station wagon is a car or a truck and that sort of shit.
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There's gold in them dar crevices!
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PS: what is ED ?
You really can't keep up, can you?
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Family Guy - The Pi Song
Kate Bush - Pi (short version)
Michael Blake - What Pi Sounds Like
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Spinning Wheel
Billy Preston - Will It Go Around In Circles
Beach Boys - I Get Around
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I would love to be able to have both something like this Nokia candybar phone with its pleasing form factor and epic battery life, as well as a small tablet that also happened to handle cellular phone calls, if they could both send/receive calls using the same number. I can have more than one phone with the same number in my house, what's so unreasonable about having more than one cellular device with the same number?
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...with the turbulence created from "CDs aren't digital" whooshing over the ACs heads.
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(In the voice of Sean Connery)
(camera recording) This is Mars Rover Spirit log, Sol Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty bloody Five. And once again I am maintaining this daily log in the event of its recovery by JPL, in the hope that I will be able to pass on the knowledge to them that they are BASTARDS! ALL OF THEM BASTARDS! (sonic boom) What the.. (blinding bright light, wizzing sound, loud explosion off in the distance, a pause, followed by massive shockwave.) SHIT! (The camera POV is of Spirit being hurled through the air a considerable distance, bouncing on the ground a couple of times, then setting into an upright position.) FUCK! DAMN! SHIT! Ooof. (steadies itself, continues logging) Well, bet you wish you could've seen the the viddie of THAT you miserable toerags! Wait a minute. (Sound of motors engaging, camera moves forward.) I...I can move. Jesus H. Christ! I can bloody MOVE! HAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA!! I'm out of here! Yes! (pans up to see the fragments of the comet streaking through the sky.) Have you (sob) ever seen anything more beautiful in yer whole life? (A fragment comes straight toward the camera.) Oh, fu (recording cuts out.)
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Is the device "smart"? I was imagining that a device like this would contain accelerometers to help control the flow of plastic out the tip - the faster/slower you move the tip through the air, the faster/slower the plastic is spit out. That would make the flow more "natural" and reduce the risk of the plastic globbing up or being stretched too thin, which is what happens with glue guns.
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Does this actually work out most times? A guy might be the world's greatest safecraker, but that doesn't mean he'd have what it takes to design a safe.
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http://i.imgur.com/Xa99lgw.jpg
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True that. Even the incandescent light bulb was an idea that had been floating around for some time; Edison's credit was making a practical version, mainly through brute force trial and error with a team of assistants.
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EXECS NIX TECHS PICKS!
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"This study was sponsored by the... Norwegian Orange Growers Council?"
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The advantage with this system is that once it's set up, they can build their spacecraft in space.
The question then is how much of the spacecraft can be fabbed strictly from asteroid material. Converting the raw materials on the asteroids - metals, silicates, carbon, water - into the polymers, alloys, carbon fibers, ceramics, semiconductors, and the host of other processed materials to create more spacecraft isn't trivial. Not saying it can't be done, but still a tall order.
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How hard would it be to nudge an asteroid toward Earth, then control its descent to the surface, in a non-wiping-out-a-major-city sort of fashion? It would probably be a lot cheaper to bring an asteroid to Earth first and then mine it, rather than send robots up to do it.
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It's never going to happen!
OK, maybe not never, but they've been pushing the idea of computers making life in the kitchen for Suzie Homemaker a breeze since practically the days of Bletchley Park and its never completely taken off. "It can keep an inventory of ingredients you have on hand! A full database of recipes! Develop nutritionally complete meal plans! Automatic shopping lists! Step-by-step cooking instructions with automated temperature controls!"
And the people saw these innovations, and thought....meh.
Probably everyone here has a microwave that let's you put in the time/power for dozens of food items with the mere push of a couple of buttons - "press Potato once for one potato, twice for two potatoes" - and we can barely be bothered to even use that. (I used the Water button on mine for my morning cuppa tea, but that's it.) We just go "eeeeehhh, three minutes sounds about right." Cooking is still a realm where people are perfectly comfortable with winging it.
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The monkey speaks his mind
And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind
And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Yea, now the monkey speaks his mind
As an American, I was a bit disappointed there wasn't a "joke joke" here. Not a joke about something that was really going on in the UK, just an "Imagine if they were to change the emergency number to something ridiculously long and hard to remember? That'd be wacky!" kind of a joke.
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~...Is this right? Why does it have 3 inch armor plating, a 5000hp rock drill, and, what are these, missiles?
. ~ Ah, yes, well, when we did that "big reveal" this week, we didn't reveal everything. Loose lips and all that.
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Drop out of Harvard University to start your tech company? This might work.
Drop out of the County College of Morris to start your own tech company? Not so much.
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~ Uh, what kind of music do you usually have here?
~ Oh, we've got both kinds. We've got Country and Western!
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Does it own spectrum it's not using or what?
(Couldn't resist - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5X721ABs4)
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