(9) As one of only two presidents to have ever been impeached, it's probably worth noting Bill Clinton's impeachment. While proceedings were dropped, I'd keep Nixon in the list (and they do).
Oh dear, it seems that there have been some revisionist changes in the history books.
You are right, there have only been two US presidents impeached to date, but Nixon was not one of them. He was going to be impeached but resigned prior to this. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two presidents that have been impeached to date. I'd suggest that you don't keep Nixon "in the list". Well, if you wish to be accurate anyhow.
"information can't travel faster than the speed of light"
Who ever said this obviously never left their basement. Gossip about two co-workers sleeping together can travel so fast that tachyons appear motionless in comparison.
No one knew if there would be enough wind to wipe the dust off of the solar panels. That was the limiting factor, it was figured it could go for 90 days before its solar panels would be too dusted to power the rover.
That, and the homeless martians keep squeegeeing the panels.
To my mind, XP is the most stable release of an operating system since MS-DOS 5. Everybody hailed it as uncharacteristically stable and usable.
Strange, that's not how I remember it. As I recall everyone hailed Windows 2K as uncharacteristically stable for a MS product. Compared to BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc. XP was seen as a bloated disaster until SP1. In all honesty I finally upgraded my Windows machines from 2K to XP around a year and a half ago.
I wonder how many of those 255 decry Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism. If they are among the fanatics who totally refuse to even consider the possibility then I'm not sure they have a leg to stand on in regards to being open minded. And by ID I don't necessarily mean Creationism. Personally I'm not sure which is right and can even except the possibility that both are correct. My thoughts on global warming are pretty fluid as well as I can see compelling arguments on either side. When people become so sure they are right that they can no longer even consider the possibility that they could be wrong they enter more into the realm of a religious fanaticism than that of good science IMHO. Frankly I think they way people on either side of the argument have been targeted by the opposition is truly shameful.
He also didn't specify that the server or backup server were in the Chemistry department. He only said that the *nix boxes in the department were named after elements. [/pedantic]
I agree with you, the oil companies are ridiculously rich and powerful. Hell Eisenhower toppled the govt of Iran to put the Shah back in power so that the company that eventually turned into BP could control the oil there. The UK carved up the middle east for much the same reason and thus we have the disaster that is there today.
Not to sound like a tin foil hat wearing nut job, but I'd guess that big oil has developed plenty of tech that we could use now. It's just not in their interest to mass produce it. Considering they are probably one of the last industries left that do think far into the future I'm sure that they'll eventually start to release this once reserves start to become more scarce. As far as oil no longer being viable in 4 or 5 years, I seriously doubt it. The oil companies have a better idea of how much oil there is than any of us ever will. There have been scares that we'll be out of oil within the next decade since I was a kid, which has been a while. Yet the oil keeps coming. Frankly it's better for the price of a barrel if everyone thinks it's almost gone.
I'm so tired of the Bush Cheney oil in Iraq crap. Yes obviously they have ties to oil but I really don't believe that had much of anything to do with Iraq. Since we're going to bring up conspiracy theories, frankly I wonder more about the timing of this spill and the recent coal mine disasters during the current administration. Mean while the current president is pushing green energy and admonishing the fossil fuel industries. How's that for a coincidence?
After this current mess in the gulf I seriously doubt we will have to wait until August before we have that talk about $4/ gal. gas. Again, if we could have been drilling in shallower water this would not have happened. If a leak did it could have been more manageable than at a mile under the ocean. These deep water wells may have only been necessary far enough into the future that alternatives could have been more profitable and it may have never been needed to begin with.
Gunpowder used essentially the same formula for nearly a thousand years.
That's like saying that gasoline is essentially the same formula for the last 100 years. It also lead to the use of more powerful explosives for warfare.
The Magna Carta has nothing to do with Democracy.
Strange, most people credit it as such.
The funding for the printing press came from the church.
Yes, and the church certainly wasn't responsible for spreading any misery at that time. I'm sure they had no intentions to use those printed books to spread the word to the Muslim world whether they liked it or not. Don't get me wrong, I do not hold any malice toward the christian faith, but that was a dark time for it.
Life may not be fair, does that then mean it should not be fair? You are attempting to excuse unfairness by saying, "That's just how it is." Yes, I know. But it should not be unfair, and we as humans have both the desire and the ability to make it fair. Except, we have a bunch of people like you who throw up their hands and say, "We can't do anything about it!" Usually, and I'm not saying this is the case with you, but usually, people who say things like that are some how profiting from the unfairness. You'll have to excuse me if I don't listen to folks like you. I think fairness is worth fighting for.
Trust me, I'm not the type of person who throws their hands up in the air and accepts things. I go out of my way very frequently to help people. But I'm also realistic. I have no delusions that I can change the world, but I do what I can to help people and often times defend them when they are being treating unfairly. Unfortunately if the world was full of people who thought this way, it would only take a hand full of greedy bastards to ruin it for all of us. Besides if everything was fair their would be shallow wells along the east and west coasts instead of this deep water one in the coastal region of the poorest states in the US.
Why is it that no one ever thinks about the materials that will be needed to switch to solar? Solar panels don't work so well at night and require some sort of batteries. Currently lithium batteries appear to be the wave of the future. Do you think that the lithium for the batteries can be grown on trees? Right now the demand for lithium is fairly low compared to what it will be if the world goes solar. Since Bolivia currently has half of the worlds lithium, who do you think will become the next Saudi in the great solar revolution?
What about EOL panel disposal? Or the toxic byproducts of solar panel production?
Please don't get me wrong, I think solar power is one of several options that need to be explored and used to stop the burning of fossil fuels, however I wish people would stop treating it like a magic cure for our energy needs. It has it's own set of problems as well.
I realized this is Slashdot, but did you even read past my first sentence?
I ended with:
"Or, even better, by the time deep water oil wells became necessary other means of energy production could have advanced enough to make wells such as this much less practical/profitable."
We can't just snap our fingers and suddenly magic fairy dust power will come to be. We need time to come up with alternatives. IF we can drill in shallow areas which are easier to deal with then it will buy more time to find alternatives. IF we don't then we will have to look at riskier wells and further advance our tech. When the simpler means of extracting oil are exhausted then...
We do not make our best leaps forward due to tragedy and war. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese while looking for an elixer of immortality.
And it didn't make the considerable advances until it became weaponized.
Democracy was not invented by a general, or due to a tragedy.
The Magna Carta was drafted in response to the disastrous rule of King John and his abuses of power.
Neither was calculus. Nor astronomy. Nor the printing press.
No. But a hell of a lot of funding went into them for military purposes.
I mean, come on, what WAS invented due to war or tragedy, that is actually useful?
I didn't say that everything was invented due to tragedy and war, I said that most advances were due to such. The entire space program for the US and USSR was due to the fear of one gaining the military advantage over the other. Granted Werner Von Braun, Robert Goddard, et. al. had pure space travel in mind when they thought up such vehicles, however it was the military that saw their usefulness and funded the research. Do you know how many inventions have come from NASA or NASA funding alone? None of that would have happened if the V2 rocket and resulting military paranoia hadn't existed.
You present a false dichotomy: accept the status quo, or go back to living in caves. Do you realize how silly that sounds? We have more options than that, you know.
Yes, obviously. I was being facetious.
It sounds like you are saying, "Wait until a bunch of people get sick, then make society shoulder the cost while private industry takes all the profit."
I didn't say it was right, that just seems to be how it works. No one gave a damn about the levys in New Orleans until thousands were dead and then the construction industry makes money rebuilding.
You'll pardon me if I don't quite think that's fair.
That may be, but in case no one has told you yet, "life is not fair"
Why exactly is it that the corporate apologists *always* fall back on either a strawman or a false dichotomy? As if there was no alternative between drilling for as much oil as we can get our hands on and living in sub-saharan conditions. As for the cleanup in the Gulf - you realize that the liability of BP is capped by law at a ridiculously low amount? As always, the profit is funneled to the corps, mostly bypassing taxation, while the externalities are offloaded on society.
That pisses me off too.
If all those investments into drilling for oil under ever more extreme conditions, which were largely funded by tax-breaks and deregulation, would have been directed to alternative energy sources and infrastructures, we would be quite a bit closer to the point where we could finally stop squandering a valuable chemical resource like oil by burning it.
Do you also realize that if shallow wells along the east and west coast were available then this would not have happened until further into the future? Drilling at a depth of a mile underwater would not have been as attractive if easier more proven AKA less risky wells were available. Possibly the deep water oil well tech may have even been more mature and this disaster could have been avoided all together. Clean up tech may have been better in the future as well for that matter. Or, even better, by the time deep water oil wells became necessary other means of energy production could have advanced enough to make wells such as this much less practical/profitable.
Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact? If BP were forced to shoulder the entire cost of this mistake, they would go bankrupt. And so, as usual, it is the rest of us who will have to pay. Socialism for the rich, paid for by the poor.
We all pay. In this case every time you fill up your car, or purchase something that required a petroleum product to make or move.
If you and I lived next to each other, and I ran a pipe from my toilet into your yard, you would be pretty pissed off, wouldn't you? You'd probably demand I stop shitting in your yard. And I would say, "Human civilization can not exist without environmental impact, shit happens, get over your knee jerk reaction and get used to it, hippie."
Yes and that's just about how it used to work in most cities. When enough people got sick this necessitated the need to develop plumbing as well as sewage and waste management. Unfortunately we as a species tend to make our biggest leaps forward due to great tragedy and war. Or would you prefer we all go back to living in caves and write the last 6000 or so year off as a bad idea?
Oh yes, my favourite part of that whole movie... pleasure and fear messin with ma consentrashun... and oh look I successfully hacked into the most secure computer in the U.S.! Yeah right... I always get the pleasure over with before concentrating. And fear? It'll freeze me up like Windoze.
With the cost of ink, it would cost less to just buy a car.
Depends on the car. I'm guessing a 1931 Bugatti Royale would be cheaper to 3D print since there are only three on the planet. The last time one was sold was in 1987 for $8.7 million.
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(9) As one of only two presidents to have ever been impeached, it's probably worth noting Bill Clinton's impeachment. While proceedings were dropped, I'd keep Nixon in the list (and they do).
Oh dear, it seems that there have been some revisionist changes in the history books.
You are right, there have only been two US presidents impeached to date, but Nixon was not one of them. He was going to be impeached but resigned prior to this. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two presidents that have been impeached to date. I'd suggest that you don't keep Nixon "in the list". Well, if you wish to be accurate anyhow.
"information can't travel faster than the speed of light"
Who ever said this obviously never left their basement. Gossip about two co-workers sleeping together can travel so fast that tachyons appear motionless in comparison.
They're not features until they get documented.
Wait... they're easter eggs?
Exactly.
I know of a certain company in Redmond that sold vulnerabilities in bulk packages. They seem to be doing alright.
They didn't sell vulnerabilities. Those were features - added at no additional cost. Loss-leaders, if you will.
They're not features until they get documented.
No one knew if there would be enough wind to wipe the dust off of the solar panels. That was the limiting factor, it was figured it could go for 90 days before its solar panels would be too dusted to power the rover.
That, and the homeless martians keep squeegeeing the panels.
To my mind, XP is the most stable release of an operating system since MS-DOS 5. Everybody hailed it as uncharacteristically stable and usable.
Strange, that's not how I remember it. As I recall everyone hailed Windows 2K as uncharacteristically stable for a MS product. Compared to BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc. XP was seen as a bloated disaster until SP1. In all honesty I finally upgraded my Windows machines from 2K to XP around a year and a half ago.
we just need to blast it out of the path it's going to some other one.
I'm not to fond of memes but in this case; What could possibly go wrong?
Apparently it also affects cameras too.
http://www.google.com/images?q=ball+lightning&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=48vpS-vZB8T7lwfijKn_Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQsAQwAA
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually a better question is; Is there a problem that a nuke can't get rid or? If so, you needed simply an even bigger nuclear device.
It really takes the punch out of Star Wars Special^n Edition if you can't see the stars.
Didn't George Lucas do that already?
I wonder how many of those 255 decry Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism. If they are among the fanatics who totally refuse to even consider the possibility then I'm not sure they have a leg to stand on in regards to being open minded. And by ID I don't necessarily mean Creationism. Personally I'm not sure which is right and can even except the possibility that both are correct. My thoughts on global warming are pretty fluid as well as I can see compelling arguments on either side. When people become so sure they are right that they can no longer even consider the possibility that they could be wrong they enter more into the realm of a religious fanaticism than that of good science IMHO. Frankly I think they way people on either side of the argument have been targeted by the opposition is truly shameful.
Uranus isn't an element.
He also didn't specify that the server or backup server were in the Chemistry department. He only said that the *nix boxes in the department were named after elements. [/pedantic]
Congrats, that's the dumbest thing I've read this week.
So you're saying this is the only thing you've read on Slashdot this week.
I agree with you, the oil companies are ridiculously rich and powerful. Hell Eisenhower toppled the govt of Iran to put the Shah back in power so that the company that eventually turned into BP could control the oil there. The UK carved up the middle east for much the same reason and thus we have the disaster that is there today.
Not to sound like a tin foil hat wearing nut job, but I'd guess that big oil has developed plenty of tech that we could use now. It's just not in their interest to mass produce it. Considering they are probably one of the last industries left that do think far into the future I'm sure that they'll eventually start to release this once reserves start to become more scarce. As far as oil no longer being viable in 4 or 5 years, I seriously doubt it. The oil companies have a better idea of how much oil there is than any of us ever will. There have been scares that we'll be out of oil within the next decade since I was a kid, which has been a while. Yet the oil keeps coming. Frankly it's better for the price of a barrel if everyone thinks it's almost gone.
I'm so tired of the Bush Cheney oil in Iraq crap. Yes obviously they have ties to oil but I really don't believe that had much of anything to do with Iraq. Since we're going to bring up conspiracy theories, frankly I wonder more about the timing of this spill and the recent coal mine disasters during the current administration. Mean while the current president is pushing green energy and admonishing the fossil fuel industries. How's that for a coincidence?
After this current mess in the gulf I seriously doubt we will have to wait until August before we have that talk about $4/ gal. gas. Again, if we could have been drilling in shallower water this would not have happened. If a leak did it could have been more manageable than at a mile under the ocean. These deep water wells may have only been necessary far enough into the future that alternatives could have been more profitable and it may have never been needed to begin with.
Gunpowder used essentially the same formula for nearly a thousand years.
That's like saying that gasoline is essentially the same formula for the last 100 years. It also lead to the use of more powerful explosives for warfare.
The Magna Carta has nothing to do with Democracy.
Strange, most people credit it as such.
The funding for the printing press came from the church.
Yes, and the church certainly wasn't responsible for spreading any misery at that time. I'm sure they had no intentions to use those printed books to spread the word to the Muslim world whether they liked it or not. Don't get me wrong, I do not hold any malice toward the christian faith, but that was a dark time for it.
Life may not be fair, does that then mean it should not be fair? You are attempting to excuse unfairness by saying, "That's just how it is." Yes, I know. But it should not be unfair, and we as humans have both the desire and the ability to make it fair. Except, we have a bunch of people like you who throw up their hands and say, "We can't do anything about it!" Usually, and I'm not saying this is the case with you, but usually, people who say things like that are some how profiting from the unfairness. You'll have to excuse me if I don't listen to folks like you. I think fairness is worth fighting for.
Trust me, I'm not the type of person who throws their hands up in the air and accepts things. I go out of my way very frequently to help people. But I'm also realistic. I have no delusions that I can change the world, but I do what I can to help people and often times defend them when they are being treating unfairly. Unfortunately if the world was full of people who thought this way, it would only take a hand full of greedy bastards to ruin it for all of us. Besides if everything was fair their would be shallow wells along the east and west coasts instead of this deep water one in the coastal region of the poorest states in the US.
Why is it that no one ever thinks about the materials that will be needed to switch to solar? Solar panels don't work so well at night and require some sort of batteries. Currently lithium batteries appear to be the wave of the future. Do you think that the lithium for the batteries can be grown on trees? Right now the demand for lithium is fairly low compared to what it will be if the world goes solar. Since Bolivia currently has half of the worlds lithium, who do you think will become the next Saudi in the great solar revolution?
What about EOL panel disposal? Or the toxic byproducts of solar panel production?
Please don't get me wrong, I think solar power is one of several options that need to be explored and used to stop the burning of fossil fuels, however I wish people would stop treating it like a magic cure for our energy needs. It has it's own set of problems as well.
Thank you for showing the plausibility of my above post.
It's so rare to find a signature as true as yours is in this case.
I realized this is Slashdot, but did you even read past my first sentence?
I ended with:
"Or, even better, by the time deep water oil wells became necessary other means of energy production could have advanced enough to make wells such as this much less practical/profitable."
We can't just snap our fingers and suddenly magic fairy dust power will come to be. We need time to come up with alternatives. IF we can drill in shallow areas which are easier to deal with then it will buy more time to find alternatives. IF we don't then we will have to look at riskier wells and further advance our tech. When the simpler means of extracting oil are exhausted then...
Ah, fuck it, I doubt you'll read this far anyhow.
We do not make our best leaps forward due to tragedy and war. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese while looking for an elixer of immortality.
And it didn't make the considerable advances until it became weaponized.
Democracy was not invented by a general, or due to a tragedy.
The Magna Carta was drafted in response to the disastrous rule of King John and his abuses of power.
Neither was calculus. Nor astronomy. Nor the printing press.
No. But a hell of a lot of funding went into them for military purposes.
I mean, come on, what WAS invented due to war or tragedy, that is actually useful?
I didn't say that everything was invented due to tragedy and war, I said that most advances were due to such. The entire space program for the US and USSR was due to the fear of one gaining the military advantage over the other. Granted Werner Von Braun, Robert Goddard, et. al. had pure space travel in mind when they thought up such vehicles, however it was the military that saw their usefulness and funded the research. Do you know how many inventions have come from NASA or NASA funding alone? None of that would have happened if the V2 rocket and resulting military paranoia hadn't existed.
You present a false dichotomy: accept the status quo, or go back to living in caves. Do you realize how silly that sounds? We have more options than that, you know.
Yes, obviously. I was being facetious.
It sounds like you are saying, "Wait until a bunch of people get sick, then make society shoulder the cost while private industry takes all the profit."
I didn't say it was right, that just seems to be how it works. No one gave a damn about the levys in New Orleans until thousands were dead and then the construction industry makes money rebuilding.
You'll pardon me if I don't quite think that's fair.
That may be, but in case no one has told you yet, "life is not fair"
Why exactly is it that the corporate apologists *always* fall back on either a strawman or a false dichotomy? As if there was no alternative between drilling for as much oil as we can get our hands on and living in sub-saharan conditions. As for the cleanup in the Gulf - you realize that the liability of BP is capped by law at a ridiculously low amount? As always, the profit is funneled to the corps, mostly bypassing taxation, while the externalities are offloaded on society.
That pisses me off too.
If all those investments into drilling for oil under ever more extreme conditions, which were largely funded by tax-breaks and deregulation, would have been directed to alternative energy sources and infrastructures, we would be quite a bit closer to the point where we could finally stop squandering a valuable chemical resource like oil by burning it.
Do you also realize that if shallow wells along the east and west coast were available then this would not have happened until further into the future? Drilling at a depth of a mile underwater would not have been as attractive if easier more proven AKA less risky wells were available. Possibly the deep water oil well tech may have even been more mature and this disaster could have been avoided all together. Clean up tech may have been better in the future as well for that matter. Or, even better, by the time deep water oil wells became necessary other means of energy production could have advanced enough to make wells such as this much less practical/profitable.
Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact? If BP were forced to shoulder the entire cost of this mistake, they would go bankrupt. And so, as usual, it is the rest of us who will have to pay. Socialism for the rich, paid for by the poor.
We all pay. In this case every time you fill up your car, or purchase something that required a petroleum product to make or move.
If you and I lived next to each other, and I ran a pipe from my toilet into your yard, you would be pretty pissed off, wouldn't you? You'd probably demand I stop shitting in your yard. And I would say, "Human civilization can not exist without environmental impact, shit happens, get over your knee jerk reaction and get used to it, hippie."
Yes and that's just about how it used to work in most cities. When enough people got sick this necessitated the need to develop plumbing as well as sewage and waste management. Unfortunately we as a species tend to make our biggest leaps forward due to great tragedy and war. Or would you prefer we all go back to living in caves and write the last 6000 or so year off as a bad idea?
Isn't this a rip off of a Cracked.com article of the same name?
http://www.cracked.com/article_15229_5-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do_p3.html
Oh, I'm sorry, it's 5 vs 10. That makes it okay, right?
Is it? Every time I try to go to page 4 or 5 I somehow get redirected back to page one. So it's only showing 5 things for me.
Oh yes, my favourite part of that whole movie... pleasure and fear messin with ma consentrashun... and oh look I successfully hacked into the most secure computer in the U.S.! Yeah right... I always get the pleasure over with before concentrating. And fear? It'll freeze me up like Windoze.
"Oh she's good isn't she! "
With the cost of ink, it would cost less to just buy a car.
Depends on the car. I'm guessing a 1931 Bugatti Royale would be cheaper to 3D print since there are only three on the planet. The last time one was sold was in 1987 for $8.7 million.