Bearing in mind what happens when it comes into contact with the most common (i.e. oxygen), at least here on earth, I don't think it's *that* much of a mystery.
Dude, your username is at the top of your post, right underneath the subject line.
You *really* don't need to add you initials at the bottom. Furthermore, this is not a formal letter "to whom it may concern", it's a bloody forum post. Would you initial a post-it note in the same way ?
A related rumor holds that Apple has ordered 40-45 million 5-megapixel cameras, which might hint at new functionality
Oooo, on June 28th -- July 2nd 2010, the Apple fanbois can enjoy the same functionality the rest of the world has had for at least 2 years. How proud you must all be of this latest Apple "groundbreaking innovation".
Pity there's no Sarcasm mod, I'll have to put up with the usual Flamebait or Offtopic I guess.
If anyone is spending 80% of their time on the computer looking at about:blank, then they're doing it wrong.
Think about it. If you were writing a C++ struct or something to hold the structure tree of something (for example, an essentially empty DOM for an HTML page), and it took you 350 megs to do it, then you'd be a pretty poor programmer.
A linked list of (zero) objects should never take more than 2 words (8 / 16 bytes depending on your OS)... one word to define the current count of objects in the list i.e. 0, and one word to define the pointer to the first object i.e. 0 or NULL or whatever.
about:blank pseudo DOCUMENT
HEAD
SCRIPTS = 0
CSS = 0
META INFO = 0
BODY
CHILD HTML ELEMENTS = 0
Why does this take so much memory ? And note this is not just Firefox, this is ALL browsers... FF just seems to be one of the worst offenders.
Throwing more memory at something should always be the last option. Optimise, optimise, optimise !
It's only circular reasoning because it doesn't agree with your point of view. There has to be some cut-off point, otherwise presumably the morning-after-pill would be immoral in your eyes ? The cut off point has been set, now *if* for whatever reason it is demonstrated that a reasonable percentages of foetuses are capable of surviving prior to that point, then perhaps the limit should be changed. Note I said changed, not abolished.
Your argument vis-a-vis old people on heart and lung machines is nonsense. They have fully developed organs that worked for years (without assistance), and have simply failed with age. The people who put them on those machines want them to survive. That's a hell of a difference from birthing a ball of unwanted cells at 3 months and saying "let's spend thousands in medical bills for an unwanted pregnancy, just because it doesn't agree with amillo100's moral stance".
Conciousness of a 3 month old foetus is yet to be demonstrated... see my point above about lowering the limit. This is something only science, NOT morality or religion can prove. To argue that something already has a semi-developed heart or nervous system is conscious, means that *every* mammal is conscious and should be due the same rights as you would grant a human. You'll note that pretty much every mammal instinctively kills the runt of the litter... is the mother of a litter of dogs or cats acting "immoral" when she does this ?
Your arguments are biased in the extreme, and you only pull in science or logic when it suits your case... the rest of the time you fall back on emotive language like "murder" and "immorality" to make your case. And I'm tired of arguing with someone who is not prepared to even modify their stance based on debate. You'll see above I feel the current limits are not written in stone and perhaps will need modifying in future, based on science. I can be flexible in my stance, you cannot.
Notwithstanding that, I still maintain that it is every woman's right to do what she's fit with her body, and the banning or otherwise making illegal of abortions will do nothing to solve the problem, it'll simply mean we lose more mothers as well as unborns.
I hear ya bro, you've got 2 gigs, you might as well fill 350 megs with bytes to display about:blank.
Hang on though, which bytes are actually needed to display an EMPTY PAGE ?
Even considering he's storing the DOM which is basically a set of empty containers for js, document head, document body, css objects etc., why in fucks name does it take 350 meg ???
Firstly, why are abortions in the 7th months illegal
Because it is quite viable for a premature born baby to survive after 7 months gestation without any aid. Note in this case I said "baby" because that is what it is at that stage.
As far as I know, there is no case of a 3 month old gestated foetus surviving outside the womb, even with the miracles the doctors can perform today.
It has been mandated by law that a 7 month shall not be aborted because it is viable outside the womb, and therefore by a scientific definition, it is a life.
Your 3 month old ball of cells is *not* a life by the above definition, except according to your own moral / religious beliefs.
Can't you even acknowledge the difference between a gestation period of something that is 3 months old and something that is 7 months old ?
Of course you can't, because the first time you used the word "murder" in your post, it becomes plainly obvious which side of the fence you sit on.
Fine, if you have such an objection to "the taking of a life", I assume you must also be a vegetarian, and that you have never killed a cockroach or swatted a fly ? Because that is plainly "murder" by your definition.
At the end of the day, when staying within what is the current "laws" regarding abortion, it is the choice of the mother, not the state, not the church, no one else.
Rape and Incest account for less than 1% of abortions. Fine, whatever the statistic is, you *have* to make an exemption for those cases. So what will happen ? *Every* unwanted pregnancy will simply be attributed to rape / incest, and nothing will change.
My second point (possibly badly worded) meant to say that in the cases of rape / incest, there *is* no choice in contraception... therefore it isn't effective to say "using contraception is an alternative to abortion".
In general terms, I am saying that the *only* person who is qualified to make the decision whether something is "justified" or not is the person who will spend the next 9 months carrying it, and the next 21 years nurturing it. Unwanted children are often unloved and abused, simply perpetuating the cycle of rape, incest etc into the next generations.
And here was me thinking that the President was supposed to represent the people's interestes, not just his own interest in staying "safe" enough to get a 2nd term.
Can I be the first to heap scorn on the fat kid in the photo.
You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pie ! (And a bucket of chicken too by the look of it).
Why do people allow their kids to turn into such bloaters ? And don't give me any of that "oh it's genetic crap". There is no DNA strand that codes for "being a fat little piggy who Mommy overfeeds in the hope you'll amount to something more than your Father when you grow up".
I blame Mario... come on, he eats pizza all day and has a right paunch on him too... what kind of a roll model is that ? (Note the deliberate misspelling of roll, thats a pune or play on words, that is). And Sonic too, I mean he was so fat, after 5 seconds of running he starting rolling head over heels.
That's okay, because after that embarassing "Global Cooling" scare in the 70's and then the "Global Warming" that doesn't actually warm us and makes winters worse than ever, we now call it "Climate Change" to cover ALL our bases, and stop Michael Fish looking silly after he fails to predict hurricanes etc.
Funny that weather is always "Theres a chance of changeable weather with sunny periods and frequent showers"... nothing is ever dealt with in absolutes.
But AGW is always "it's going to happen, we are certain, 110% certain, as certain as a certain thing can be if you feed it certain for a week and make sure it's pooping certain regularly".
And what about the events that they DIDN'T detect ? Just because they weren't detected doesn't mean they didn't happen, the scientists might have had their backs turned, or were looking the other way, or trying to find the spare detector batteries etc.
Perhaps dark matter deliberately avoids being detected, and the 23% that were could have been the one who didn't get the memo about "being dark", and were wearing spotted ties and green dinner jackets. Oh, and riding Segways.
In a universe of infinite possibilities, only one thing is certain. You need to get your anger issues sorted out, and drink less coffee. No, make that two things. I need to learn to stop posting at 3.22am when I should be asleep.
It might possibly bring down the Berlusconi regime, but then it'll be Prodi's turn again and he'll fuck it up like always. Expect Silvio in power again after a nice little 6 month vacation.
The problem in Italy is not that people are "brainwashed" by Silvio, it's just that he sucks slightly less than the only other choice.
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Yeah, my grandad always used to fart at the dining table during family reunions ... it didn't make that right either
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That's no moon, that's a space station.
Bearing in mind what happens when it comes into contact with the most common (i.e. oxygen), at least here on earth, I don't think it's *that* much of a mystery.
Dude, your username is at the top of your post, right underneath the subject line.
You *really* don't need to add you initials at the bottom. Furthermore, this is not a formal letter "to whom it may concern", it's a bloody forum post. Would you initial a post-it note in the same way ?
A related rumor holds that Apple has ordered 40-45 million 5-megapixel cameras, which might hint at new functionality
Oooo, on June 28th -- July 2nd 2010, the Apple fanbois can enjoy the same functionality the rest of the world has had for at least 2 years. How proud you must all be of this latest Apple "groundbreaking innovation".
Pity there's no Sarcasm mod, I'll have to put up with the usual Flamebait or Offtopic I guess.
If anyone is spending 80% of their time on the computer looking at about:blank, then they're doing it wrong.
Think about it. If you were writing a C++ struct or something to hold the structure tree of something (for example, an essentially empty DOM for an HTML page), and it took you 350 megs to do it, then you'd be a pretty poor programmer.
A linked list of (zero) objects should never take more than 2 words (8 / 16 bytes depending on your OS) ... one word to define the current count of objects in the list i.e. 0, and one word to define the pointer to the first object i.e. 0 or NULL or whatever.
about:blank pseudo
DOCUMENT
HEAD
SCRIPTS = 0
CSS = 0
META INFO = 0
BODY
CHILD HTML ELEMENTS = 0
Why does this take so much memory ? And note this is not just Firefox, this is ALL browsers ... FF just seems to be one of the worst offenders.
Throwing more memory at something should always be the last option. Optimise, optimise, optimise !
God, I sound like Balmer now :-(
It's only circular reasoning because it doesn't agree with your point of view. There has to be some cut-off point, otherwise presumably the morning-after-pill would be immoral in your eyes ? The cut off point has been set, now *if* for whatever reason it is demonstrated that a reasonable percentages of foetuses are capable of surviving prior to that point, then perhaps the limit should be changed. Note I said changed, not abolished.
Your argument vis-a-vis old people on heart and lung machines is nonsense. They have fully developed organs that worked for years (without assistance), and have simply failed with age. The people who put them on those machines want them to survive. That's a hell of a difference from birthing a ball of unwanted cells at 3 months and saying "let's spend thousands in medical bills for an unwanted pregnancy, just because it doesn't agree with amillo100's moral stance".
Conciousness of a 3 month old foetus is yet to be demonstrated ... see my point above about lowering the limit. This is something only science, NOT morality or religion can prove. To argue that something already has a semi-developed heart or nervous system is conscious, means that *every* mammal is conscious and should be due the same rights as you would grant a human. You'll note that pretty much every mammal instinctively kills the runt of the litter ... is the mother of a litter of dogs or cats acting "immoral" when she does this ?
Your arguments are biased in the extreme, and you only pull in science or logic when it suits your case ... the rest of the time you fall back on emotive language like "murder" and "immorality" to make your case. And I'm tired of arguing with someone who is not prepared to even modify their stance based on debate. You'll see above I feel the current limits are not written in stone and perhaps will need modifying in future, based on science. I can be flexible in my stance, you cannot.
Notwithstanding that, I still maintain that it is every woman's right to do what she's fit with her body, and the banning or otherwise making illegal of abortions will do nothing to solve the problem, it'll simply mean we lose more mothers as well as unborns.
I hear ya bro, you've got 2 gigs, you might as well fill 350 megs with bytes to display about:blank.
Hang on though, which bytes are actually needed to display an EMPTY PAGE ?
Even considering he's storing the DOM which is basically a set of empty containers for js, document head, document body, css objects etc., why in fucks name does it take 350 meg ???
We should ALL demand that our employers use Ubuntu
Mr Employer, can I interest you in an open-source, free, screensaver ?
Firstly, why are abortions in the 7th months illegal
Because it is quite viable for a premature born baby to survive after 7 months gestation without any aid. Note in this case I said "baby" because that is what it is at that stage.
As far as I know, there is no case of a 3 month old gestated foetus surviving outside the womb, even with the miracles the doctors can perform today.
It has been mandated by law that a 7 month shall not be aborted because it is viable outside the womb, and therefore by a scientific definition, it is a life.
Your 3 month old ball of cells is *not* a life by the above definition, except according to your own moral / religious beliefs.
Can't you even acknowledge the difference between a gestation period of something that is 3 months old and something that is 7 months old ?
Of course you can't, because the first time you used the word "murder" in your post, it becomes plainly obvious which side of the fence you sit on.
Fine, if you have such an objection to "the taking of a life", I assume you must also be a vegetarian, and that you have never killed a cockroach or swatted a fly ? Because that is plainly "murder" by your definition.
At the end of the day, when staying within what is the current "laws" regarding abortion, it is the choice of the mother, not the state, not the church, no one else.
This will mean there will be no inconsistencies
Come on now, there's optimism, and then there's batshit crazy.
Rape and Incest account for less than 1% of abortions. Fine, whatever the statistic is, you *have* to make an exemption for those cases. So what will happen ? *Every* unwanted pregnancy will simply be attributed to rape / incest, and nothing will change.
My second point (possibly badly worded) meant to say that in the cases of rape / incest, there *is* no choice in contraception ... therefore it isn't effective to say "using contraception is an alternative to abortion".
In general terms, I am saying that the *only* person who is qualified to make the decision whether something is "justified" or not is the person who will spend the next 9 months carrying it, and the next 21 years nurturing it. Unwanted children are often unloved and abused, simply perpetuating the cycle of rape, incest etc into the next generations.
Even the rationale for abortion has become weaker (since the efficacy of contraception greatly increased).
So what you are saying is we should issue all rapists with condoms, and the problem is solved yeah ?
Contraception is only effective *if* you choose to use it.
And here was me thinking that the President was supposed to represent the people's interestes, not just his own interest in staying "safe" enough to get a 2nd term.
Rasperin, I think you drank too much cheesewater at the Club Spunkin tonight. I might be forced to engaged in some Welsh Unarmed Hitting.
5 times today ... or possibly 6. depends how many articles he posts.
Thank you, tears in eyes, coffee out of nose, sides aching, the whole works.
Read like a helpful tip from the pages of Viz. You're not Geordie by any chance are you ?
Can I be the first to heap scorn on the fat kid in the photo.
You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pie !
(And a bucket of chicken too by the look of it).
Why do people allow their kids to turn into such bloaters ? And don't give me any of that "oh it's genetic crap". There is no DNA strand that codes for "being a fat little piggy who Mommy overfeeds in the hope you'll amount to something more than your Father when you grow up".
I blame Mario ... come on, he eats pizza all day and has a right paunch on him too ... what kind of a roll model is that ? (Note the deliberate misspelling of roll, thats a pune or play on words, that is). And Sonic too, I mean he was so fat, after 5 seconds of running he starting rolling head over heels.
That's okay, because after that embarassing "Global Cooling" scare in the 70's and then the "Global Warming" that doesn't actually warm us and makes winters worse than ever, we now call it "Climate Change" to cover ALL our bases, and stop Michael Fish looking silly after he fails to predict hurricanes etc.
Funny that weather is always "Theres a chance of changeable weather with sunny periods and frequent showers" ... nothing is ever dealt with in absolutes.
But AGW is always "it's going to happen, we are certain, 110% certain, as certain as a certain thing can be if you feed it certain for a week and make sure it's pooping certain regularly".
And what about the events that they DIDN'T detect ? Just because they weren't detected doesn't mean they didn't happen, the scientists might have had their backs turned, or were looking the other way, or trying to find the spare detector batteries etc.
Perhaps dark matter deliberately avoids being detected, and the 23% that were could have been the one who didn't get the memo about "being dark", and were wearing spotted ties and green dinner jackets. Oh, and riding Segways.
In a universe of infinite possibilities, only one thing is certain. You need to get your anger issues sorted out, and drink less coffee. No, make that two things. I need to learn to stop posting at 3.22am when I should be asleep.
10,000 arches (joined together with bricks an stuff), would make a hell of a bridge. And then you could sell that to someone, I'm sure.
Now THAT explains the Global Warming !
The earth is moving slower, hence those bits exposed to the sun are exposed for longer. Someone call Copenhagen and tell them they can go home.
Oddly enough the levels of CO2 are 50% higher than they have been in over a million years
Oddly enough, the levels of methane follow exactly the same pattern as CO2. Strange that no one is suggesting we kill all our cows ?
global warming because at first they deny it's happening
Please don't call it global warming when we have 12 inches of fucking snow in Paris. It's climate change now, didn't you get the memo ?
Sea food can poison you from the mercury but few want to change the causes
And yet here we are, still eating fish.
Yes, and probably follow it up with some supercilious comment like "In mah state, we have hailstones bigger than that".
It might possibly bring down the Berlusconi regime, but then it'll be Prodi's turn again and he'll fuck it up like always. Expect Silvio in power again after a nice little 6 month vacation.
The problem in Italy is not that people are "brainwashed" by Silvio, it's just that he sucks slightly less than the only other choice.