we could build industrial manufacturing systems and a launching point on the moon. industry would be pollution-less on the moon, and the lesser gravity couldn't hurt. launching missions from the moon would remove a lot of the problems and costs inherent in launching missions from earth. Building some infrastructure could make space exploration a lot more feasable.
these tactics used by comcast, microsoft, sony etc. to kill/discredit/make net neutrality look really scary are starting to sound like the CIA's pathetic but persistent attempts to snuff Fidel Castro.
Next thing you know they'll be paying washed out 90's MS programmers to DDos torrent sites..and get caught.I can see it now : The Pirate Bay of the pigs XD
After all the debate and pomp and circumstance, it's just another depressing fact about the future of north american infrastructure.
also, Yet another reason to move to Japan, and failing that, Amsterdam XD.
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All in all, the best we can hope for is that he trains some young, incredulous punk to take over, and doesn't even start doing that until he's almost out. It should be obvious to jobs that no ordinary corporate suit could successfully run apple
get wordpress and use one of the many free wordpress servers listed on its website and you can give blogger the laugh. If its a piece of junk, why use it?
scribbles is a great program for drawing that Im actually grooming to replace photoshop for simple drawing-but is also meant to be a simple childrens' drawing program. Unfortunately, its a mac only program so linux or windoze could be a problem..
neverball on the otherhand is an awesome cross platform game that is free.Highly addictive though-you may want to consider putting a time limit on it!
The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.
Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.
Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.
My thoughts exactly. I was surprised, however, that some of the brutal more harmful radiation out there (which is filtered out by our atmospher and would be blinding) didn't fry the negatives-I guess this helps explain the slightly over exposed/hard light look of the photos
I'm counting the minutes until I can buy one:D Those things were so cool when I was a kid. I'll put it next to my transformer action figures and other novelty killing machines!XD
China plans to export Democracy to the US. Film at 11:00.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees it too. When MS comes up with an effective business model (or, you know,starves as a company) wake me up.
interesting indeed. As an aside, I'm also Canadian and I dabble in photography(Illustration is more my thing)..but i definitely don't live in China-But cities in western Canada (Vancouver being most notable) are known for having massive chinese populations, in some places outnumbering whites. Its an interesting culture mix to say the least.
Unless you end up getting involved in some crazy ass frat, university as a rule is easy and a lot more relaxed than highschool. The rule of thumb is that in your classroom you are considered an adult so most profs will treat you like one. There are always the crazy few, but if enough students have a problem you can always complain to the dean, and the university will take your opinion into consideration as a reasonable human being rather than a smelly delinquent teen.
The flipside is you have to work your ass off compared to highschool..Just in a more relaxed, learning before discipline manner.
Is part of their/Comcast's previously mentioned and pathetically wrong argument against net neutrality by doomsday mongering about an exaflood that, like Y2K, gigalapses, and marijuana, will be the end of civilization as we know it-unless we allow them to start throttling bandwidth and selling off top speeds to companies
This is all well and good-i might get one for my girlfriend-but if you need anything special out of the phone like internet or data of any kind, you are, of course, S.O.L
Overall it looks A lot like our market with the currency difference and GSM thrown in. Except of course that our subscriptions are usually 36 months..x_x This is probably due to the population density as you mentioned-ours is just about 1 person per square kilometer..we're one of the two most sparse populations in the world along with Australia.. Although this is misleading because most Canadians live in modern cities-they are just very far apart by normal standards.
Doubtless there are some complicating factors here -- but what is the best way to keep a confidentiality-centric site like Wikileaks trustworthy?
There isn't. By verifying that anyone is anyone the cover is blown. Regardless the best use of it is still to post anonymously and link as many people as humanly possible. Then even if your cover is blown, the message still gets out. If you're a whistleblower, this is something you should have accepted long before you blew the whistle
Every time someone stands up to the US (or CNN) and thoroughly pwns them, it makes me chuckle-especially when you can see that it was such a blatantly bad idea (even if it was free speech, they had to see this coming)
China and the US have both done some grievous things in our day, but there is a reason I would never blame China or expect it to act otherwise, while I will always be outraged when the US pulls off something similar.:
The US is a democracy..China is no such thing and never has been
China has never, EVER been a soft, benevolent country. In Ancient times Emperor Xi Huangdi (the guy who built the great wall, was buried with the clay soldiers, and is seen in the movie Hero) used the exact same strong arm tactics to build and protect China. The Chinese have always played hardball and placed the value of human life as a *very* distant second to the sanctity and wellbeing of their nation and its people as a whole. Yes, sometimes this makes them do horrible, horrible things-especially by our western standards, but as a person I respect them for it. Its not like they try and make out their human rights violations as being in the name of 'Freedom and Justice.' Their reactions are also always quite predictable and they always live up to the letter of their word when dealing politically. In summary, their ways and values are radically different, but they are consistent and if I was charged with governing a quarter of the world's population, my policies would be very similar.
The US on the other hand is supposed to be a democracy and all about the individual and their rights. Anyone can see, however that in practice this is almost never the case. Capitalism and democracy didn't mix quite well and frankly its difficult to do anything unless corporations or the government deem it ok. How is this different from China? Actually its very similar. The thing is that the US government pulls the 1984 move of making all of their human rights violations in the name of Freedom, when clearly it is quite the opposite. When The US went into Iraq, we all know that Bush claimed it was to free the oppressed Iraqi people, find the weapons of mass destruction, and apparently save the world from evil terrorists. We all now know it was for oil and a vantage point in the Middle East. The reason for China being in Tibet is quite plainly because of an age old conflict and an assertion that is was at one point theirs and a valuable strategic position. (am i saying they are right?? NO! I'm just pointing out the lack of equivocation, although they are trying to avoid the subject with Olympic committees)Both countries also censor and coach their media to varying degrees. The difference here? China doesn't claim that they aren't censoring-they claim (validly in some cases)that the do it to prevent mass hysteria, political unrest often due to international criticism (which as you see they take very seriously). The US pulls the same shit, but they do it while touting freedom and democracy. Which in turn leaves me quite angry and bitter as i sit around wondering where in the world all the freedom and democracy is.
I can only speculate at what 18.000sek would buy..but if you want to see prices that are at least equally ridiculous, hop a plane to Canada. We have a triumverate monopoly here that keeps you from walking out of the cell phone store without paying an average of $50-60 CAD ($50-60 USD or 1 Canadian dollar = 5.93180398 Swedish kronor,) per month. And thats without any support for data-If you want 3G data it will cost you another 50-60 on top of that. Furthermore only one of our carriers is GSM and its been said that the iphone won't come to Canada until their data rates drop...so never
Its even more depressing when you look at a coverage map for any given carrier. I guess it's hard to cover a country a bit bigger than Russia that is mostly untamed forest, but they barely cover most of the highways, making a car accident very dangerous if your are alone..
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we could build industrial manufacturing systems and a launching point on the moon. industry would be pollution-less on the moon, and the lesser gravity couldn't hurt. launching missions from the moon would remove a lot of the problems and costs inherent in launching missions from earth. Building some infrastructure could make space exploration a lot more feasable.
oh man.. all I can think of is the friction burns D:
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these tactics used by comcast, microsoft, sony etc. to kill/discredit/make net neutrality look really scary are starting to sound like the CIA's pathetic but persistent attempts to snuff Fidel Castro.
Next thing you know they'll be paying washed out 90's MS programmers to DDos torrent sites..and get caught.I can see it now : The Pirate Bay of the pigs XD
After all the debate and pomp and circumstance, it's just another depressing fact about the future of north american infrastructure. also, Yet another reason to move to Japan, and failing that, Amsterdam XD.
All in all, the best we can hope for is that he trains some young, incredulous punk to take over, and doesn't even start doing that until he's almost out. It should be obvious to jobs that no ordinary corporate suit could successfully run apple
or you could always lure a jock into the party with promises of beer bongs and buttsex and then trap him and beat him with foam bats?
get wordpress and use one of the many free wordpress servers listed on its website and you can give blogger the laugh. If its a piece of junk, why use it?
scribbles is a great program for drawing that Im actually grooming to replace photoshop for simple drawing-but is also meant to be a simple childrens' drawing program. Unfortunately, its a mac only program so linux or windoze could be a problem.. neverball on the otherhand is an awesome cross platform game that is free.Highly addictive though-you may want to consider putting a time limit on it!
Welcome to democracy, my friend.
The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.
Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.
Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.
My thoughts exactly. I was surprised, however, that some of the brutal more harmful radiation out there (which is filtered out by our atmospher and would be blinding) didn't fry the negatives-I guess this helps explain the slightly over exposed/hard light look of the photos
I'm counting the minutes until I can buy one :D Those things were so cool when I was a kid. I'll put it next to my transformer action figures and other novelty killing machines!XD
China plans to export Democracy to the US. Film at 11:00. I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees it too. When MS comes up with an effective business model (or, you know,starves as a company) wake me up.
One can always hope. Unfortunately all that will catalyze the trip would be another arms race..
interesting indeed. As an aside, I'm also Canadian and I dabble in photography(Illustration is more my thing)..but i definitely don't live in China-But cities in western Canada (Vancouver being most notable) are known for having massive chinese populations, in some places outnumbering whites. Its an interesting culture mix to say the least.
I think this is a good refocussing of their efforts-maybe in twenty years for 40 mill we can go chill on mars :D
Unless you end up getting involved in some crazy ass frat, university as a rule is easy and a lot more relaxed than highschool. The rule of thumb is that in your classroom you are considered an adult so most profs will treat you like one. There are always the crazy few, but if enough students have a problem you can always complain to the dean, and the university will take your opinion into consideration as a reasonable human being rather than a smelly delinquent teen.
The flipside is you have to work your ass off compared to highschool..Just in a more relaxed, learning before discipline manner.
THANK YOU for that. I was awaiting flamage
Is part of their/Comcast's previously mentioned and pathetically wrong argument against net neutrality by doomsday mongering about an exaflood that, like Y2K, gigalapses, and marijuana, will be the end of civilization as we know it-unless we allow them to start throttling bandwidth and selling off top speeds to companies
This is all well and good-i might get one for my girlfriend-but if you need anything special out of the phone like internet or data of any kind, you are, of course, S.O.L
Overall it looks A lot like our market with the currency difference and GSM thrown in. Except of course that our subscriptions are usually 36 months..x_x This is probably due to the population density as you mentioned-ours is just about 1 person per square kilometer..we're one of the two most sparse populations in the world along with Australia.. Although this is misleading because most Canadians live in modern cities-they are just very far apart by normal standards.
There isn't. By verifying that anyone is anyone the cover is blown. Regardless the best use of it is still to post anonymously and link as many people as humanly possible. Then even if your cover is blown, the message still gets out. If you're a whistleblower, this is something you should have accepted long before you blew the whistle
Every time someone stands up to the US (or CNN) and thoroughly pwns them, it makes me chuckle-especially when you can see that it was such a blatantly bad idea (even if it was free speech, they had to see this coming)
China and the US have both done some grievous things in our day, but there is a reason I would never blame China or expect it to act otherwise, while I will always be outraged when the US pulls off something similar.:
The US is a democracy..China is no such thing and never has beenChina has never, EVER been a soft, benevolent country. In Ancient times Emperor Xi Huangdi (the guy who built the great wall, was buried with the clay soldiers, and is seen in the movie Hero) used the exact same strong arm tactics to build and protect China. The Chinese have always played hardball and placed the value of human life as a *very* distant second to the sanctity and wellbeing of their nation and its people as a whole. Yes, sometimes this makes them do horrible, horrible things-especially by our western standards, but as a person I respect them for it. Its not like they try and make out their human rights violations as being in the name of 'Freedom and Justice.' Their reactions are also always quite predictable and they always live up to the letter of their word when dealing politically. In summary, their ways and values are radically different, but they are consistent and if I was charged with governing a quarter of the world's population, my policies would be very similar.
The US on the other hand is supposed to be a democracy and all about the individual and their rights. Anyone can see, however that in practice this is almost never the case. Capitalism and democracy didn't mix quite well and frankly its difficult to do anything unless corporations or the government deem it ok. How is this different from China? Actually its very similar. The thing is that the US government pulls the 1984 move of making all of their human rights violations in the name of Freedom, when clearly it is quite the opposite. When The US went into Iraq, we all know that Bush claimed it was to free the oppressed Iraqi people, find the weapons of mass destruction, and apparently save the world from evil terrorists. We all now know it was for oil and a vantage point in the Middle East. The reason for China being in Tibet is quite plainly because of an age old conflict and an assertion that is was at one point theirs and a valuable strategic position. (am i saying they are right?? NO! I'm just pointing out the lack of equivocation, although they are trying to avoid the subject with Olympic committees)Both countries also censor and coach their media to varying degrees. The difference here? China doesn't claim that they aren't censoring-they claim (validly in some cases)that the do it to prevent mass hysteria, political unrest often due to international criticism (which as you see they take very seriously). The US pulls the same shit, but they do it while touting freedom and democracy. Which in turn leaves me quite angry and bitter as i sit around wondering where in the world all the freedom and democracy is.
In short, at least the Chinese are honest!I can only speculate at what 18.000sek would buy..but if you want to see prices that are at least equally ridiculous, hop a plane to Canada. We have a triumverate monopoly here that keeps you from walking out of the cell phone store without paying an average of $50-60 CAD ($50-60 USD or 1 Canadian dollar = 5.93180398 Swedish kronor,) per month. And thats without any support for data-If you want 3G data it will cost you another 50-60 on top of that. Furthermore only one of our carriers is GSM and its been said that the iphone won't come to Canada until their data rates drop...so never
Its even more depressing when you look at a coverage map for any given carrier. I guess it's hard to cover a country a bit bigger than Russia that is mostly untamed forest, but they barely cover most of the highways, making a car accident very dangerous if your are alone..
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