Oh, BTW, there has never been anything like a "secret military shuttle" (you simply can't hide anything like that in space).
Again, what makes you geeks think you're privy to the governments' secret goings on? I mean, they hid the Manhattan Project for *years*.
I think by definintion that a *secret* program is conducted in *secret* without all and sundry being privy to its progress. Please pull your head out of your arse and realise there are probably numerous *secret* programs going on *right now* that you don't know about, because they are being conducted in *secret*
That, and go look up "secret" some time in a dictionary, if you can even read past a 3rd grade level.
IF THESE PEOPLE DON'T SEE ANY OBLIGATION TO THE END USER THEN WHY THE FUCKING HELL DO THEY EVEN BOTHER WRITING SOFTWARE? I'm sorry for yelling, but this whole "OSS devs don't owe anybody shit" attitude makes me wanna go postal. If that's how they really feel then why do they bother developing it at all? Maybe because they're such shitty devs that no one would pay them to work so they feel the need to develop OSS for bragging rights? Fuck them is all I can say.
I have to agree. I was using KDE4.1 until now and while it worked well for a start, it went downhill slowly and surely to the point where I just couldn't be fucked anymore.
I'm using FF3.0.1 on KDE4.1 now and it....rocks, altho my computer has been Linux-friendly, i.e. most things usually "just work" but I understand that there are users out there with machines that have issues...
However, problem of the Dark Ages was not so much that there was no central empire to act as a beacon of light, but more that education and knowledge was available only to the clergy
Uh , the Vatican WAS the centre of control of its own empire during the era called the dark ages.
You're assuming that the people these systems are going to be used against are that technically savvy and have access. Judging from the "insurgents" in Iraq, I doubt they have the skills or means.
Can you quantify or even qualify "better"? I used to be in extremely good shape but now just do a bit of exercise here and there to avoid atrophy and haven't noticed the difference to be honest.
Yep bike accidents make up 2% of vehicle fatalities. What they fail to mention is that bikes make up 3% of all road vehicles.
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This basically guarantees that your muscles will be toned but will not bulk up
dude, I challenge you to try and build more muscle than you "want" without using steroids. If you're like me and 99% of the people I have trained with, no matter how much weight you can lift/press/squat etc, it is almost impossible to end up looking even close to a modern bodybuilder without using copious quantities of human growth hormone.
A lot of good suggestions here, but what you people are also missing (amongst other things) is the number of calories that get used up building extra muscle. It takes something like 24 calories to build a gram of muscle which would only yield 4 calories if eaten (insert cannibal jokes here), so there's a lot more to the weight-training-picture than all of the above posts take into account by focusing on the number of calories that get used in the activity.
Also, people who only focus on calories are missing 90% of the nutrition picture. If calories were the only thing that mattered when it came to body composition, then we could all drink vegetable oil and eat sugar without any worries. There is a lot more to the nutritional picture than calories, such as vitamins, minerals and the "side effects" and chemical interaction of any food upon the body. For example one can obtain amino-acids from nuts or tobacco leaves but I can guess which one we would all prefer.
When it comes to diet, just try and eat "clean" i.e. stay away from food you haven't prepared yourself and learn to read food labels. This will generally keep a lot of hidden crap out of ones diet. Learn to like rice, lean meats/fish, raw/lightly cooked veges and fruits. Eating a good deal of fibre and nutrient-rich food will go a long way toward moving ones body composition in a favourable direction, and in my experience will solve 90% of the problem
I was shown how secure the average mac is when I was able to crack into a passworded ibook by following some instructions I found using google. Yeah, great OS that MacOS, about as secure as windows.
But macs are great hardware....for running Linux;o)
2.The size of the nuclear warhead would have to be enormous in order to blast a huge rock out of the way. Blowing up a huge nuclear warhead would create alot of radiation, and some of it will come back down to Earth.
Oh noes!! Radiation from space!! Whatever shall we do!!?
Pretty much right. When was the last time the Earth got hit with a life-endangering asteroid? Sometime around the time the dinosaurs became extinct I think (not counting Tunguska - it didn't threaten life on a global scale)
The residual radiation from a nuclear blast is pretty much zero after a week. Ask any physicist who has visited Hiroshima or Nagasaki (i.e. me;o) ). The idea that debris from a nuclear explosion is permanently radioactive (and maybe glows green!) comes from fiction.
You, 'sir', are incredibly arrogant and closed minded!
***WHHOOOOOOOOSH***
Say my tag quickly and you might understand what it means, but then I'm guessing you live nowhere near the sea
I am a physicist so I know how physics is done. Since the time of Newton, discoveries have been coming at a decreasing rate and are more about effects that are subtle at our level of existence. More discoveries about finer and finer details of reality leads me to conclude that we probably DO know the majority of what there is to know about 'physics', yet this does not imply that we know all or even the majority of the consequences and effects that follow on from the discovery of various aspects of reality. The parent I was responding to was saying , in effect that humans are a more ignorant than they realise, yet this assumption is inherently contradictory. Socrates was proclaimed the wisest man in Greece because he knew that he didn't know everything. Just because we don't know everything and probably never will, does not necessarily mean we know next-to-nothing.
And oh noes!! I misused an apostrophe! That must be the reason you misunderstood my entire post...
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Anyway, USA and Russia dont exactly have a history of following treaties they have signed.
Yeah, like the Geneva Convention.
Oh, BTW, there has never been anything like a "secret military shuttle" (you simply can't hide anything like that in space).
Again, what makes you geeks think you're privy to the governments' secret goings on? I mean, they hid the Manhattan Project for *years*.
I think by definintion that a *secret* program is conducted in *secret* without all and sundry being privy to its progress. Please pull your head out of your arse and realise there are probably numerous *secret* programs going on *right now* that you don't know about, because they are being conducted in *secret*
That, and go look up "secret" some time in a dictionary, if you can even read past a 3rd grade level.
IF THESE PEOPLE DON'T SEE ANY OBLIGATION TO THE END USER THEN WHY THE FUCKING HELL DO THEY EVEN BOTHER WRITING SOFTWARE? I'm sorry for yelling, but this whole "OSS devs don't owe anybody shit" attitude makes me wanna go postal. If that's how they really feel then why do they bother developing it at all? Maybe because they're such shitty devs that no one would pay them to work so they feel the need to develop OSS for bragging rights? Fuck them is all I can say.
GNOME still rules the Linux DE IMO
How can someone be so disinformed in this day and age???
It's called "being American".
(I'm sorry, but that's my opinion).
And your opinion makes you look like a dumbass ;o)
I'm using FF3.0.1 on KDE4.1 now and it....rocks, altho my computer has been Linux-friendly, i.e. most things usually "just work" but I understand that there are users out there with machines that have issues...
However, problem of the Dark Ages was not so much that there was no central empire to act as a beacon of light, but more that education and knowledge was available only to the clergy
Uh , the Vatican WAS the centre of control of its own empire during the era called the dark ages.
God bless AmerIsrael and to hell with everyone else!
You're assuming that the people these systems are going to be used against are that technically savvy and have access. Judging from the "insurgents" in Iraq, I doubt they have the skills or means.
Squash is the greatest sport in the world (no exceptions)
You've obviously never been surfing ;o) and sitting for hours out in the freezing ocean burns calories like you wouldn't believe....seriously!
No I will not do that with your goat!
It feels great.
Yep. WHo needs crack when you've got endorphins? ;o)
Can you quantify or even qualify "better"? I used to be in extremely good shape but now just do a bit of exercise here and there to avoid atrophy and haven't noticed the difference to be honest.
Well you could do all that...or just not sit on your nuts when you cycle...
Yep bike accidents make up 2% of vehicle fatalities. What they fail to mention is that bikes make up 3% of all road vehicles.
This basically guarantees that your muscles will be toned but will not bulk up
dude, I challenge you to try and build more muscle than you "want" without using steroids. If you're like me and 99% of the people I have trained with, no matter how much weight you can lift/press/squat etc, it is almost impossible to end up looking even close to a modern bodybuilder without using copious quantities of human growth hormone.
A lot of good suggestions here, but what you people are also missing (amongst other things) is the number of calories that get used up building extra muscle. It takes something like 24 calories to build a gram of muscle which would only yield 4 calories if eaten (insert cannibal jokes here), so there's a lot more to the weight-training-picture than all of the above posts take into account by focusing on the number of calories that get used in the activity.
Also, people who only focus on calories are missing 90% of the nutrition picture. If calories were the only thing that mattered when it came to body composition, then we could all drink vegetable oil and eat sugar without any worries. There is a lot more to the nutritional picture than calories, such as vitamins, minerals and the "side effects" and chemical interaction of any food upon the body. For example one can obtain amino-acids from nuts or tobacco leaves but I can guess which one we would all prefer.
When it comes to diet, just try and eat "clean" i.e. stay away from food you haven't prepared yourself and learn to read food labels. This will generally keep a lot of hidden crap out of ones diet. Learn to like rice, lean meats/fish, raw/lightly cooked veges and fruits. Eating a good deal of fibre and nutrient-rich food will go a long way toward moving ones body composition in a favourable direction, and in my experience will solve 90% of the problem
But macs are great hardware....for running Linux ;o)
2.The size of the nuclear warhead would have to be enormous in order to blast a huge rock out of the way. Blowing up a huge nuclear warhead would create alot of radiation, and some of it will come back down to Earth.
Oh noes!! Radiation from space!! Whatever shall we do!!?
Pretty much right. When was the last time the Earth got hit with a life-endangering asteroid? Sometime around the time the dinosaurs became extinct I think (not counting Tunguska - it didn't threaten life on a global scale)
The residual radiation from a nuclear blast is pretty much zero after a week. Ask any physicist who has visited Hiroshima or Nagasaki (i.e. me ;o) ). The idea that debris from a nuclear explosion is permanently radioactive (and maybe glows green!) comes from fiction.
Lets face it, while NASA has done a lot of great things their success rate hasn't exactly been spectacular.
oh really? and how does it compare with your success rate with interplanetary travel?
Yes! And in completely fair and undisputed elections...I mean is he *really* the best person the USA could come up with to "lead" the country?
Wow. Talk about *whoosh*!
You, 'sir', are incredibly arrogant and closed minded!
***WHHOOOOOOOOSH***
Say my tag quickly and you might understand what it means, but then I'm guessing you live nowhere near the sea
I am a physicist so I know how physics is done. Since the time of Newton, discoveries have been coming at a decreasing rate and are more about effects that are subtle at our level of existence. More discoveries about finer and finer details of reality leads me to conclude that we probably DO know the majority of what there is to know about 'physics', yet this does not imply that we know all or even the majority of the consequences and effects that follow on from the discovery of various aspects of reality. The parent I was responding to was saying , in effect that humans are a more ignorant than they realise, yet this assumption is inherently contradictory. Socrates was proclaimed the wisest man in Greece because he knew that he didn't know everything. Just because we don't know everything and probably never will, does not necessarily mean we know next-to-nothing.
And oh noes!! I misused an apostrophe! That must be the reason you misunderstood my entire post...
And the fact that the word "quantum" has absolutely nothing to do with healing and 99% of the other terms and fields where it is abused.