Before we go too far solving the space radiation issue, am I the only one that noticed it's the Chinese scientists flogging how good silk worms are?
This weeks news: "Chinese scientists announce silkworms great for space travel!"
Next weeks news: "Australia scientists announce Koala's make great inter-planetary snacks while Skippy the bush kangaroo is great with a little mash and gravy?"
Sorry, sorry, for a moment I got a little worried, but then I saw in TFA that it was 200 students that were hallucinating. Well, given all the other drugs that the youth of today are doing it's no wonder that a cup of joe makes these wimpy, pimply faced teenagers think that the incredible hulk is fighting to get out of their nostrils and rip out their trachea!
Now, I bet if you got 200 sweet old ladies to drink three cups of coffee a day, there would be no phantoms or voices floating about in their heads.
I had to take one of these tests for my job, but it's not a low end position. My package is in the low six figures.
The amusing this was however that while I scored fantastically in the IQ side of the test, apparently I showed (I was in a foul mood that day I recall, so I answered quite truthfully) that I was likely to be disgruntled with upper management and that I would likely be a potential trouble maker.
Since then, I have been promoted three times due to being disgruntled with our business processes and taking a direct approach to making loud complaints about how we operate here, and moving to improve these things as much as possible.
My point is that you can look at the same qualities in a positive or negative manner. What you do with them and how the end up influencing your work is up to you.
ow much higher your marginal tax rate is on the last few hours income each week.
And if you knocked off the last few hours of each working week, you could then apply the same logic to the last few hours of your new shorter week and say that you pay most tax on the last few hours - and so on and so on.
To put short, I would much prefer to earn an extra few figures on my salary and pay a higher rate on that last bit than not get it at all and pay no tax on it.
repeatedly made promises to reform copyright laws and eliminate the private copying levy
Just because someone says they will do something many times doesn't mean they will. The chances of them doing it are in fact smaller. Seriously, if they really wanted to do it, they would have done it, not said many times how they WILL do it.
I had to sign up for iTunes when I bought my iPhone. I could have given them any email address in the world I liked. But here is the catch:
When you sign up with any old email address, you also pop in your credit card details.
So, you have an email linked to an account, which is linked to banking information. Sure, that email in itself might not mean anything, but it's linked to your account, which is indeed quite identifying.
Having said that, again, it's perfectly reasonable to me to have your name on something you buy.
This is high quality non-DRM music. It's just like buying a CD with your name on it - If you are really buying it for yourself, what do you care that it's got a name sticker on it?
The bricks could survive around 2450 punds of pressure per square inch.
That pretty much covers your outward pressure of an atmosphere - and a lot more to boot. Having said that, you can make a wall out of the strongest bricks in the world and push it over if it isn't built right. The bricks wouldn't be the weak point in the equation, it would be the engineering design underneath it that would provide the strength/weakness of the overall building.
And you are a moron if you think that nuclear waste isn't a huge ecological disaster.
Burying tons and tons (about 30 tons per nuclear power plant, per year) of Uranium 238 which has a half life in the thousands of years is not a good "green" solution just because people want to have nice cool houses in the middle of summer and positively toasty ones in the winter.
I agree with you face-palming yourself, but it's not for the same reasons that you have. Honestly, if my backyard and my children's backyards weren't polluted by other people's mess, I wouldn't say a word. Sadly we all have to sleep in the bed you make though.
No, not quite really so, but if he wants to take that sort of aggressive stance, I am happy to play the opposing role.
As for your logic, back away, before you even start on the opposing forces in this Greenie Vs Anti-Greenie situation, this is slashdot. Unless your logic comes in the form of a car analogy, it might well be lost in your words.
Greenies won't be happy until we are back in caves gnawing on wood bark for food.
Of course, to gnaw on wood bark, we would probably kill a tree or two, so they still wouldn't be happy...
While people like you won't be happy till we totally over-populate this planet, strip its resources and then cry foul when our population is suffering centuries of mismanagement and environmental blunder.
You should consider yourself lucky to have us greenies about. If we yell enough, you might end up implementing something that inadvertently helps you out. Irony huh?
While I agree with the majority of your picking apart of the post - it is quite short on real information, it makes wild assumptions and so forth, I have to pick a bone with you on this comment:
Is it me or is the point of this article "feel guilty for doing anything with your computer 'cause it ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard"? while acting like using power is inherently polluting whereas it really depends on the source?
Renewable energy represents 5 percent of global power capacity and 3.4 percent of global power generation. source
So, for around 97 users out of a hundred, doing anything with your computer ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard!
I am all for green energy and using proper reusable resources, but don't be counting your chickens before they are laid, let alone hatch.
Sorry, but a game where you can max a toon out in 3 days won't survive for long. Add in rampant botting, and it was doomed to fail.
Yes, of course, this would be why UO is still alive now! Don't believe it? Check it out for yourself at UO.com and stop spouting rubbish.
UO did allow a characters skills be to maxed out in a relatively quick time compared to other games - but I can tell you right now that a freshly maxed out player pitted against a character who has been maxed out for a few months was a non contest. UO was one of the rare games that relied almost totally on player skill when it came to combat rather than game mechanics.
Hey! I ain't stating that Obama was not born in America! omg omg! I am stating that he is an alien overlord imposter! omg! Clearly he has been "infected" and is now seeking to rule our planet with his overlord minions! mmm Scully's cleavage! omg! We managed to obtain a glass used by Obama, and tested it, and it's true, he isn't human! When will the world finally see it?
In other news, I for one welcome our new alien overlords!
In other news: Use http://blackle.com/ if you are interested in combining a search with saving power. Sure, it might run the same amount of power from the server end, but at least it's not using as much power to display the results.
No need for gasoline, and no need for expensive and heavy batteries.
The gross inefficiency of sending enough power through wireless means to a car would far outweigh the benefits of having a car that runs on electricity.
It's like replacing a burning candle with a low power LED that has power transmitted through a laser to it that draws power from the grid. Sure, you might say that you are no longer burning a candle and therefore not releasing carbon dioxide, but the amount of pollution you are creating by removing the candle far outweighs the emissions of the candle. I am not saying that cars don't pollute a lot, but sending them electricity through a laser would be even worse.
This is three knotty ropes, which is the same as a quarter mule's kicked bucket, which is the same as a spilled beer's smell range, which is of course a tenth of the range of ten small children's screams which in turn are around half a busy intersection in the morning - which everyone knows is around a quarter of a Library of Congress.
Really, did it need to be drawn out in that much detail?
let them see the items firsthand, and they would STILL deny that we went there 40-ish years ago.
I ain't buying into your charade! Clearly you are willing to fly me to a landing site that you have staged to cover up the fact that you didn't go there forty years ago! omg! omg! The truth is out there! Fox Mulder forever! omg!
I ran host on that IP, and it belongs to zeldauniverse.net -- so, its probably more fun than you meant it to be.
Only on slashdot would you get people who run random IPs listed in threads just to see where they point to, and then make a funny comment about where it leads them to. I loves it.
There are theories that within each black hole is a universe all to itself, but even if it's true we'd never be able to observe it.
OMG! Th4ts only b3cause you arnt c00l en0ugh to go INTO a black hole. Go w4tch h4ck3rs and st4rgat3 a few m0re time and l34rn!
*cough* *spit*
I can't understand how typing like that comes second nature to some people. Makes me feel dirty just trying. Anyhow, that's my bit of humor for the day.
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Shame that reply didn't get modded funny. Very good :)
Before we go too far solving the space radiation issue, am I the only one that noticed it's the Chinese scientists flogging how good silk worms are?
This weeks news: "Chinese scientists announce silkworms great for space travel!"
Next weeks news: "Australia scientists announce Koala's make great inter-planetary snacks while Skippy the bush kangaroo is great with a little mash and gravy?"
Also, the ocean is already inhabited.
Well, that's never stopped us before, lets just kill those ocean living things off and go build suburbs!
Sorry, sorry, for a moment I got a little worried, but then I saw in TFA that it was 200 students that were hallucinating. Well, given all the other drugs that the youth of today are doing it's no wonder that a cup of joe makes these wimpy, pimply faced teenagers think that the incredible hulk is fighting to get out of their nostrils and rip out their trachea!
Now, I bet if you got 200 sweet old ladies to drink three cups of coffee a day, there would be no phantoms or voices floating about in their heads.
Now, get of my porch you young whipper snappers!
He simply didn't publish any of his work.
Oh come on! That's like me saying "Well, if you don't know... I ain't going to tell you!"
Better yet, that's lke me saying "I know a lot more than you, but I ain't going to tell you what I know!"
I appreciate the post, but I was wondering if you might be able to repost it with a more slashdot friend car analogy?
What would happen to a car with this thought control magnetic ray wave you are talking about?
I had to take one of these tests for my job, but it's not a low end position. My package is in the low six figures.
The amusing this was however that while I scored fantastically in the IQ side of the test, apparently I showed (I was in a foul mood that day I recall, so I answered quite truthfully) that I was likely to be disgruntled with upper management and that I would likely be a potential trouble maker.
Since then, I have been promoted three times due to being disgruntled with our business processes and taking a direct approach to making loud complaints about how we operate here, and moving to improve these things as much as possible.
My point is that you can look at the same qualities in a positive or negative manner. What you do with them and how the end up influencing your work is up to you.
ow much higher your marginal tax rate is on the last few hours income each week.
And if you knocked off the last few hours of each working week, you could then apply the same logic to the last few hours of your new shorter week and say that you pay most tax on the last few hours - and so on and so on.
To put short, I would much prefer to earn an extra few figures on my salary and pay a higher rate on that last bit than not get it at all and pay no tax on it.
repeatedly made promises to reform copyright laws and eliminate the private copying levy
Just because someone says they will do something many times doesn't mean they will. The chances of them doing it are in fact smaller. Seriously, if they really wanted to do it, they would have done it, not said many times how they WILL do it.
That's cute.
I had to sign up for iTunes when I bought my iPhone. I could have given them any email address in the world I liked. But here is the catch:
When you sign up with any old email address, you also pop in your credit card details.
So, you have an email linked to an account, which is linked to banking information. Sure, that email in itself might not mean anything, but it's linked to your account, which is indeed quite identifying.
Having said that, again, it's perfectly reasonable to me to have your name on something you buy.
This is high quality non-DRM music. It's just like buying a CD with your name on it - If you are really buying it for yourself, what do you care that it's got a name sticker on it?
From TFA:
The bricks could survive around 2450 punds of pressure per square inch.
That pretty much covers your outward pressure of an atmosphere - and a lot more to boot. Having said that, you can make a wall out of the strongest bricks in the world and push it over if it isn't built right. The bricks wouldn't be the weak point in the equation, it would be the engineering design underneath it that would provide the strength/weakness of the overall building.
If that's the case, I want to write off the depreciation of my leet T6 sets that are now worthless after another expansion.
I invested a lot of time (therefore money) to get those things, now they aren't worth diddly.
In a way, I don't mind being taxed, but it works both ways.
You're a moron for excluding nuclear energy.
And you are a moron if you think that nuclear waste isn't a huge ecological disaster.
Burying tons and tons (about 30 tons per nuclear power plant, per year) of Uranium 238 which has a half life in the thousands of years is not a good "green" solution just because people want to have nice cool houses in the middle of summer and positively toasty ones in the winter.
Still not convinced? Here is an article from Business Net about what we are (not) going to do with all this radioactive waste.
I agree with you face-palming yourself, but it's not for the same reasons that you have. Honestly, if my backyard and my children's backyards weren't polluted by other people's mess, I wouldn't say a word. Sadly we all have to sleep in the bed you make though.
No, not quite really so, but if he wants to take that sort of aggressive stance, I am happy to play the opposing role.
As for your logic, back away, before you even start on the opposing forces in this Greenie Vs Anti-Greenie situation, this is slashdot. Unless your logic comes in the form of a car analogy, it might well be lost in your words.
Greenies won't be happy until we are back in caves gnawing on wood bark for food.
Of course, to gnaw on wood bark, we would probably kill a tree or two, so they still wouldn't be happy...
While people like you won't be happy till we totally over-populate this planet, strip its resources and then cry foul when our population is suffering centuries of mismanagement and environmental blunder.
You should consider yourself lucky to have us greenies about. If we yell enough, you might end up implementing something that inadvertently helps you out. Irony huh?
Is it me or is the point of this article "feel guilty for doing anything with your computer 'cause it ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard"? while acting like using power is inherently polluting whereas it really depends on the source?
Renewable energy represents 5 percent of global power capacity and 3.4 percent of global power generation. source
So, for around 97 users out of a hundred, doing anything with your computer ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard!
I am all for green energy and using proper reusable resources, but don't be counting your chickens before they are laid, let alone hatch.
Sorry, but a game where you can max a toon out in 3 days won't survive for long. Add in rampant botting, and it was doomed to fail.
Yes, of course, this would be why UO is still alive now! Don't believe it? Check it out for yourself at UO.com and stop spouting rubbish.
UO did allow a characters skills be to maxed out in a relatively quick time compared to other games - but I can tell you right now that a freshly maxed out player pitted against a character who has been maxed out for a few months was a non contest. UO was one of the rare games that relied almost totally on player skill when it came to combat rather than game mechanics.
Hey! I ain't stating that Obama was not born in America! omg omg! I am stating that he is an alien overlord imposter! omg! Clearly he has been "infected" and is now seeking to rule our planet with his overlord minions! mmm Scully's cleavage! omg! We managed to obtain a glass used by Obama, and tested it, and it's true, he isn't human! When will the world finally see it?
In other news, I for one welcome our new alien overlords!
You insensitive clods!
In other news: Use http://blackle.com/ if you are interested in combining a search with saving power. Sure, it might run the same amount of power from the server end, but at least it's not using as much power to display the results.
No need for gasoline, and no need for expensive and heavy batteries.
The gross inefficiency of sending enough power through wireless means to a car would far outweigh the benefits of having a car that runs on electricity.
It's like replacing a burning candle with a low power LED that has power transmitted through a laser to it that draws power from the grid. Sure, you might say that you are no longer burning a candle and therefore not releasing carbon dioxide, but the amount of pollution you are creating by removing the candle far outweighs the emissions of the candle. I am not saying that cars don't pollute a lot, but sending them electricity through a laser would be even worse.
Oh goodness me!
This is three knotty ropes, which is the same as a quarter mule's kicked bucket, which is the same as a spilled beer's smell range, which is of course a tenth of the range of ten small children's screams which in turn are around half a busy intersection in the morning - which everyone knows is around a quarter of a Library of Congress.
Really, did it need to be drawn out in that much detail?
let them see the items firsthand, and they would STILL deny that we went there 40-ish years ago.
I ain't buying into your charade! Clearly you are willing to fly me to a landing site that you have staged to cover up the fact that you didn't go there forty years ago! omg! omg! The truth is out there! Fox Mulder forever! omg!
I ran host on that IP, and it belongs to zeldauniverse.net -- so, its probably more fun than you meant it to be.
Only on slashdot would you get people who run random IPs listed in threads just to see where they point to, and then make a funny comment about where it leads them to. I loves it.
There are theories that within each black hole is a universe all to itself, but even if it's true we'd never be able to observe it.
OMG! Th4ts only b3cause you arnt c00l en0ugh to go INTO a black hole. Go w4tch h4ck3rs and st4rgat3 a few m0re time and l34rn!
*cough* *spit*
I can't understand how typing like that comes second nature to some people. Makes me feel dirty just trying. Anyhow, that's my bit of humor for the day.