Hey! how do you know that it wasn't set up to look like he killed his wife by an evil business lady who needs him to be her new star in a competition where programmers compete for their lives?
I have noticed the anti-immigrant bias in a lot of European news. It always stuck me as laughable when a country like France, where an Orthodox Jewish friend of mine was openly spit on in the street, can claim any kind of moral highground.
You know its not all milk and honey. Theres a good pile of evidence that this Texas wind thing is one giant con so that Oil man Mr. Pickens can use newly created government power of eminent domain to snatch up land and sell his water pet project under the radar. Like they always say, follow the money. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories
for those who won't read it Pickens has been buying rights to a massive water reserve in Texas and has been having trouble building a pipeline through peoples property, so he is buying the law instead "In January, 2007, the Texas Legislature convened.. helped win Pickens a key new legal right. It was contained in an amendment to a major piece of water legislation. The amendment, one of more than 100 added after the bill had been reviewed in the House, allowed a water-supply district to transmit alternative energy and transport water in a single corridor, or right-of-way." and then "Pickens still needed the power of eminent domain if he was going to build his pipeline and wind-power lines across private land. And by happy coincidence, the legislators passed a smaller bill that made that all the easier. The new legislation loosened the requirements for creating a water district."
Long story short he's creating a new water and power district to sell this and is using public feel good green hype to get subsidy's and push through his new project that will drain a water resource that is very slow to renewal, out from under everyone else around it, to sell at low prices to Dallas, which is one of the most wastfull cites in Texas when it comes to water. Anyone who thinks someone who was part of the 80's raiders and swift boating can actually do something without a hidden con is a fucking idiot.
Uhhh. How about instead of a new one to push an unproven technology, they fix the old one that is falling into sever disrepair due to the feds and everyone else earmarking the money for it into other uses?
Ranch cows have magnets in their bellies to collect scrap iron. They are pretty big magnets too. I'm putting my money on fact that big lumps of north aligning metal are most comfortable when you face the same way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
I used to play with these as a kid, they are F---ing strong.
All cows have a magnet in their belly, it is a little known fact outside of ranching, but true. It is fed to them by farmers to collect any pieces of iron that might be left in fields from wire and machines. It may be that these are most comfortable to the cow when facing north. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
well, yeah. Thats the problem of composition. like how they say Denmark or Netherlands or one of those countries get 20% of their power from wind, yet they import carbon heavy goods and are blessed with some of the finest farm land allowing for carbon neutral exports. But in the case of Dharavi they probably get their food from manual labor heavy local farms and most of goods they consume are second hand. It just happens that dire poverty and low carbon footprints coincide. Which happens also to be my main area of resistance to the green movement.
It's not like they don't already have people living at the same density they quoted "Spread over an area of 175 hectares, Dharavi has a population of more than 1 million people." thats from wikipedia.
I often think that people in the west hold too much of the world to their ideals. Sure people from the US suburbs might not like living in such close proximity.
Dharavi, which is probably Asia's largest slum, has roughly 1 million people living on roughly 2 sq. kilometers already and is damn low in carbon footprint, with most things done by hand. The Fact that they can design a building to do the same isn't that impressive, What would be impressive is if they can do it without turning the lower floors into slave pens.
H. G. Wells? Who's stories could be boiled down to thinly veiled allegory for england at the time: a superior power invading what was though the premier power with nightmarish force saying 'Mars, bitches!', and a man venturing to different lands where there happens to be a society that resembles what his is like at the extremes in 'teh future!'. Very few sci-fi writers actually write fiction based on science. More tend to be allegory's of the modern society set against different backdrops. You may not like Bradbury's stories but attacking them on their merit as qualifying as "sci-fi" is probably the worst place for you to pick your battle
How many of those dinky text adds run on the web version of those conventional media's stories? It's pretty easy to make money when you got a finger in everyones pie, and very hard when everyone has a finger in yours.
Absolutely, My local paper is one of those shells, and a few Local PRINT weeklies have been popping up doing just that and making a tidy profit off it too. The decline of circulation mostly tells me that the empty corporate shell model of print papers isn't working, more then it tells me the print medium is a dinosaur being slain by teh Webz.
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Hey! how do you know that it wasn't set up to look like he killed his wife by an evil business lady who needs him to be her new star in a competition where programmers compete for their lives?
If they were smart they would have tied this release in with the Evangelion rebuild series.
Take an old vinyl record.
What the hell is a vinyl record? Links please.
They already fixed this problem year ago on paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_breeder_reactor
The only problems have been that oil was cheep and nuclear scary, so its never really left the design stages.
I have noticed the anti-immigrant bias in a lot of European news. It always stuck me as laughable when a country like France, where an Orthodox Jewish friend of mine was openly spit on in the street, can claim any kind of moral highground.
You know its not all milk and honey. Theres a good pile of evidence that this Texas wind thing is one giant con so that Oil man Mr. Pickens can use newly created government power of eminent domain to snatch up land and sell his water pet project under the radar. Like they always say, follow the money.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories
for those who won't read it Pickens has been buying rights to a massive water reserve in Texas and has been having trouble building a pipeline through peoples property, so he is buying the law instead "In January, 2007, the Texas Legislature convened.. helped win Pickens a key new legal right. It was contained in an amendment to a major piece of water legislation. The amendment, one of more than 100 added after the bill had been reviewed in the House, allowed a water-supply district to transmit alternative energy and transport water in a single corridor, or right-of-way." and then "Pickens still needed the power of eminent domain if he was going to build his pipeline and wind-power lines across private land. And by happy coincidence, the legislators passed a smaller bill that made that all the easier. The new legislation loosened the requirements for creating a water district."
Long story short he's creating a new water and power district to sell this and is using public feel good green hype to get subsidy's and push through his new project that will drain a water resource that is very slow to renewal, out from under everyone else around it, to sell at low prices to Dallas, which is one of the most wastfull cites in Texas when it comes to water. Anyone who thinks someone who was part of the 80's raiders and swift boating can actually do something without a hidden con is a fucking idiot.
Uhhh. How about instead of a new one to push an unproven technology, they fix the old one that is falling into sever disrepair due to the feds and everyone else earmarking the money for it into other uses?
Where the hell did you learn HTML?
and also to "see" things like a drinking glass and reach out and grab it.
Seems like that might not be such a good idea with all that hardware in your mouth, unless you drink it with your eye.
Is it weird if I have 20/20 but still want this?
Could just eat the legs and put the cow on some kind of pivot.
Cows don't have magnetic sensitive Ions, but they do have magnetic sensitive stomachs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
Ranch cows have magnets in their bellies to collect scrap iron. They are pretty big magnets too. I'm putting my money on fact that big lumps of north aligning metal are most comfortable when you face the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
I used to play with these as a kid, they are F---ing strong.
All cows have a magnet in their belly, it is a little known fact outside of ranching, but true. It is fed to them by farmers to collect any pieces of iron that might be left in fields from wire and machines. It may be that these are most comfortable to the cow when facing north.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
How about a Sperm whale and Bowl of petunias?
well, yeah. Thats the problem of composition. like how they say Denmark or Netherlands or one of those countries get 20% of their power from wind, yet they import carbon heavy goods and are blessed with some of the finest farm land allowing for carbon neutral exports.
But in the case of Dharavi they probably get their food from manual labor heavy local farms and most of goods they consume are second hand. It just happens that dire poverty and low carbon footprints coincide. Which happens also to be my main area of resistance to the green movement.
It's not like they don't already have people living at the same density they quoted "Spread over an area of 175 hectares, Dharavi has a population of more than 1 million people." thats from wikipedia.
and looks exactly like the Arcology on wikipedia's page! talk about a rip off.
I often think that people in the west hold too much of the world to their ideals. Sure people from the US suburbs might not like living in such close proximity.
Dharavi, which is probably Asia's largest slum, has roughly 1 million people living on roughly 2 sq. kilometers already and is damn low in carbon footprint, with most things done by hand. The Fact that they can design a building to do the same isn't that impressive, What would be impressive is if they can do it without turning the lower floors into slave pens.
I'll give you all of them except Ursula K Le Guin.
Worst.
Writer.
Ever.
H. G. Wells? Who's stories could be boiled down to thinly veiled allegory for england at the time: a superior power invading what was though the premier power with nightmarish force saying 'Mars, bitches!', and a man venturing to different lands where there happens to be a society that resembles what his is like at the extremes in 'teh future!'. Very few sci-fi writers actually write fiction based on science. More tend to be allegory's of the modern society set against different backdrops. You may not like Bradbury's stories but attacking them on their merit as qualifying as "sci-fi" is probably the worst place for you to pick your battle
Well i think it's news worthy in that it wasn't an obituary. How many of the great Sci-fi authors are left?
A Controlled Demolition and an Uncontrolled Demolition look the same because, at their root, they are the same thing: A demolition.
How many of those dinky text adds run on the web version of those conventional media's stories? It's pretty easy to make money when you got a finger in everyones pie, and very hard when everyone has a finger in yours.
Absolutely, My local paper is one of those shells, and a few Local PRINT weeklies have been popping up doing just that and making a tidy profit off it too. The decline of circulation mostly tells me that the empty corporate shell model of print papers isn't working, more then it tells me the print medium is a dinosaur being slain by teh Webz.