Heard about this some years ago, scientists were developing a bioluminescent bacteria that feeds on the trace chemicals given off by explosives. Supposedly you can sprinkle some of this stuff over a suspected minefield and in a week or two the dirt around the mines will glow under ultra-violet light.
You think slashdot gets $$ per post? I imagine the number of readers is more important than posters, don't you? 800 posts is 800 extra impressions, which is a drop in the fricken' bucket compared to the number of visitors per day. Maybe the editors are actually trying to perform some kind of editorial service?
Pretty much anything the editors do here, some bozo is gonna complain.
As stated elsewhere in this thread, the available evidence says otherwise. There have been studies that show that talking to someone in the car is not as dangerous as talking to someone on the phone. It has to do with the fact that when talking on the phone your attention is someplace else. When talking to someone in the car, your attention is still in the car. When talking on the phone, people often look up and away as they visualize the other person. Because they are not getting all the conversational cues that they would get from someone physically present, their imagination has to fill in the details.
But I'm sure none of that applies to you, so you can just go on talking on the cell phone while driving all you like.;)
Funny results. Smoking a whole joint impairs you about as much as one drink. As one might expect, smoking a joint and drinking one drink impair you more, as far as reaction times go. However, people who smoke and drink are less likely to get in an actual accident, becuase they feel more impaired than they actually are and drive more carefully.
The worst I've seen, I kid you not: a guy reading a frickin' newspaper while driving.
The worst I've done, personally: gotten head while driving. I wouldn't recommend it. Unless she's really, really good.
The number one worst named game on the list is based on a real Japanes gameshow where contestants carry a metal rod through a maze with electrified walls, where the walls are only slightly wider than the stick.
You must be a little "l" libertarian. You seem to have a social conscience and care about the little guy. Big "L" Libertarians are often social Darwinists, I find. Libertarian's rabid focus on property rights can be a tad disconcerting. Property is Theft after all. But Proudhon also said, "Property [is] a triumph of Liberty. For it is born of Liberty... Property is the only power that can act as a counterweight to the State, because it shows no reverence for princes, rebels against society and is, in short, anarchist." So I tend to take the syndicalist view towards ownership of natural resources. But anarcho-syndicalism still supports the basic idea that the fruits of a person's labor are there own.
There really is something innately satisfying about stomping the fascists, isn't there? Most humans are born with a desire for equity and justice, and stomping the fascists satisfies those drives like eating a gourmet meal satisfies the hunger drive.
Well, they have a system of cooperative banking, like credit unions. They have far less risk in business lending than in our system, as any business has access to cooperative business planning and management companies that make sure a new business has all the planning and support they need. Mondragon has only a 10% new startup failure rate! As for corporate ownership, well, anything that limits the power of corporations is a good thing in my book. Let's go back to the way things were originally: corporations could only do the business they were chartered to do, in the area chartered; they are dissolved when the last original owner dies; and they have no human rights.
The law in San Francisco is no permit, no sharing. Period. The wonders of selctive enforcement mean the law is only used for its real intended purpose, keeping homeless and hungry people out of sight and out of mind. Why else would you outlaw giving away food? Health issues? You mean like starving? Unlicensed Vendors? Last time I checked, vending involved selling, not giving.
This was with Food Not Bombs and it wasn't a one time thing. It was a two year battle royale. We even went against our principles and tried to get a permit. They did away with the permit application process. The incident in question happened after Mayor Jordan created a special squad of uber-goons to deal with us, as the normal police didn't have the heart to keep pouring out soup in front of hungry people.
This was with Food Not Bombs and the whole point was to do it in public to draw attention to the hunger problem. It was in the UN Plaza, not near any houses or businesses. Not that that should matter to anyone with a shred of human decency. If you want to play it like that, I hope you lose your job and are forced onto the street.
Suppose the laptop owner had some bad gambling debts. Suppose the creditors involved offered him a choice: steal us some names for our ID theft operation or you sleep with the fishes. Laptop owner gets permission and brings the laptop home, leaving it in plain sight with the porch light on while he goes to get some smokes. He comes back and Horrors! the laptop, but nothing else in his house, is gone. The thugs take the hard drive out and image it, spend some time verifying that he didn't give them a bogus list, then unobtrusively return it. Everyone assumes the names are safe and goes happily about their business.
True, there is a different feeling coming from a charity than a church. I would go further and say that a faceless government bureaucracy detroys the feelings of self worth so vital to getting people back on their feet, whereas a church or other charity can (not always will, but can) provide a feeling of belonging and acceptance in a community that really helps people believe in themselves.
However, the big problem I have with this is it still goes through the government. So the government will find a way to make sure the money goes only to approved churches. And seeing as there are already ways for churches to get government funding through grants for charitable programs, this really looks like a power play designed to both gut social services and blur the seperation of church and state.
Au contraire, mon frere. My friend who the cop beat down for trying to serve food to hungry homeless people? A cute young woman. Unfortunatly, the cop was a woman too.
I just play two year old games I find in the bargain bin for under $30. Often they come with one or more expansion packs and are pre-patched. I don't have to spend insane amounts of cash on a gaming rig, either. And hey, the games are still new to me.
The problem comes in determining which religious groups get the funding. Scientology? I'm sure they're gonna ask. The second problem comes in making sure they are spending the money on whatever they say they're gonna spend it on, not defending child molesting priests in court, a big new glass church, or a new radio broadcast tower.
If you throw a Steve Ballmer in a pot of boiling water, he'll throw chairs at you, but if you put him in a pot of cold water and gradually turn up the heat, he'll start chanting "developers, devlopers, DEVLOPERS!" when he gets all hot and sweaty.
Here in Albuquerque police did something similar recently. The police have been cracking down on drinking of any kind. Police were stopping all patrons leaving a particular bar and breath testing them. Even patrons taking a cab or a limo were harrassed. The bar owner had a friend come and videotape them. They said he was interfering with a police investigation, and since some of the officers also worked undercover, he was endangering the officers. So they arrested him. His friend started to videotape them arresting him, so they arrested the friend. Then the bar owner came out and started videotaping them arresting friend one and friend two, so they arrested the owner. Never mind these supposedly undercover cops were in full uniform on a busy street, they were endangered by these evil videotapers.
On the other hand, not all cops are bad. Once in college I got a flat tire while driving an unregistered uninsured hippy painted VW bus carrying a bag of weed. A nice officer stopped (in the rain no less) and helped me change the tire without even checking my license or registration, let alone whether a hippy painted VW bus might have contraband onboard.
On the third hand (yes, it's a Larry Niven reference) I've seen cops beat my friends for trying to feed homeless people on the street in San Francisco. Then they poured our soup down the drain and poured bleach over our bagels right in front of about 100 homeless folks.
So YMMV where police are concerned, some are cool, some are total dicks.
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Heard about this some years ago, scientists were developing a bioluminescent bacteria that feeds on the trace chemicals given off by explosives. Supposedly you can sprinkle some of this stuff over a suspected minefield and in a week or two the dirt around the mines will glow under ultra-violet light.
Well aren't I a humorless dolt? D'oh! :)
You think slashdot gets $$ per post? I imagine the number of readers is more important than posters, don't you? 800 posts is 800 extra impressions, which is a drop in the fricken' bucket compared to the number of visitors per day. Maybe the editors are actually trying to perform some kind of editorial service?
Pretty much anything the editors do here, some bozo is gonna complain.
As stated elsewhere in this thread, the available evidence says otherwise. There have been studies that show that talking to someone in the car is not as dangerous as talking to someone on the phone. It has to do with the fact that when talking on the phone your attention is someplace else. When talking to someone in the car, your attention is still in the car. When talking on the phone, people often look up and away as they visualize the other person. Because they are not getting all the conversational cues that they would get from someone physically present, their imagination has to fill in the details.
;)
But I'm sure none of that applies to you, so you can just go on talking on the cell phone while driving all you like.
Funny results. Smoking a whole joint impairs you about as much as one drink. As one might expect, smoking a joint and drinking one drink impair you more, as far as reaction times go. However, people who smoke and drink are less likely to get in an actual accident, becuase they feel more impaired than they actually are and drive more carefully.
The worst I've seen, I kid you not: a guy reading a frickin' newspaper while driving.
The worst I've done, personally: gotten head while driving. I wouldn't recommend it. Unless she's really, really good.
You can take a fish head out to a movie
Wouldn't have to pay to get it in.
OH NO! Now it's in my head, too!
The number one worst named game on the list is based on a real Japanes gameshow where contestants carry a metal rod through a maze with electrified walls, where the walls are only slightly wider than the stick.
I love the Japanese!
Most people in the US are too stupid to not believe the government propoganda about a "terrorist" behind every Bush.
I had no idea the government was being that honest. What does Cheney think about them calling him that?
I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and stick it on a pike...
Why would you put Darl's head on a fish?
You must be a little "l" libertarian. You seem to have a social conscience and care about the little guy. Big "L" Libertarians are often social Darwinists, I find. Libertarian's rabid focus on property rights can be a tad disconcerting. Property is Theft after all. But Proudhon also said, "Property [is] a triumph of Liberty. For it is born of Liberty ... Property is the only power that can act as a counterweight to the State, because it shows no reverence for princes, rebels against society and is, in short, anarchist." So I tend to take the syndicalist view towards ownership of natural resources. But anarcho-syndicalism still supports the basic idea that the fruits of a person's labor are there own.
There really is something innately satisfying about stomping the fascists, isn't there? Most humans are born with a desire for equity and justice, and stomping the fascists satisfies those drives like eating a gourmet meal satisfies the hunger drive.
Well, they have a system of cooperative banking, like credit unions. They have far less risk in business lending than in our system, as any business has access to cooperative business planning and management companies that make sure a new business has all the planning and support they need. Mondragon has only a 10% new startup failure rate! As for corporate ownership, well, anything that limits the power of corporations is a good thing in my book. Let's go back to the way things were originally: corporations could only do the business they were chartered to do, in the area chartered; they are dissolved when the last original owner dies; and they have no human rights.
That is a fantastic idea. It creates a marketplace for charity work, while empowering people in need.
The law in San Francisco is no permit, no sharing. Period. The wonders of selctive enforcement mean the law is only used for its real intended purpose, keeping homeless and hungry people out of sight and out of mind. Why else would you outlaw giving away food? Health issues? You mean like starving? Unlicensed Vendors? Last time I checked, vending involved selling, not giving.
This was with Food Not Bombs and it wasn't a one time thing. It was a two year battle royale. We even went against our principles and tried to get a permit. They did away with the permit application process. The incident in question happened after Mayor Jordan created a special squad of uber-goons to deal with us, as the normal police didn't have the heart to keep pouring out soup in front of hungry people.
This was with Food Not Bombs and the whole point was to do it in public to draw attention to the hunger problem. It was in the UN Plaza, not near any houses or businesses. Not that that should matter to anyone with a shred of human decency. If you want to play it like that, I hope you lose your job and are forced onto the street.
Suppose the laptop owner had some bad gambling debts. Suppose the creditors involved offered him a choice: steal us some names for our ID theft operation or you sleep with the fishes. Laptop owner gets permission and brings the laptop home, leaving it in plain sight with the porch light on while he goes to get some smokes. He comes back and Horrors! the laptop, but nothing else in his house, is gone. The thugs take the hard drive out and image it, spend some time verifying that he didn't give them a bogus list, then unobtrusively return it. Everyone assumes the names are safe and goes happily about their business.
True, there is a different feeling coming from a charity than a church. I would go further and say that a faceless government bureaucracy detroys the feelings of self worth so vital to getting people back on their feet, whereas a church or other charity can (not always will, but can) provide a feeling of belonging and acceptance in a community that really helps people believe in themselves.
However, the big problem I have with this is it still goes through the government. So the government will find a way to make sure the money goes only to approved churches. And seeing as there are already ways for churches to get government funding through grants for charitable programs, this really looks like a power play designed to both gut social services and blur the seperation of church and state.
Au contraire, mon frere. My friend who the cop beat down for trying to serve food to hungry homeless people? A cute young woman. Unfortunatly, the cop was a woman too.
I just play two year old games I find in the bargain bin for under $30. Often they come with one or more expansion packs and are pre-patched. I don't have to spend insane amounts of cash on a gaming rig, either. And hey, the games are still new to me.
That's what I meant. Been a while since I read The Mote In God's Eye, which is a great book, on the off chance anyone here hasn't read it.
The problem comes in determining which religious groups get the funding. Scientology? I'm sure they're gonna ask. The second problem comes in making sure they are spending the money on whatever they say they're gonna spend it on, not defending child molesting priests in court, a big new glass church, or a new radio broadcast tower.
Not true, dead cops go very bad, very quickly, and we'll all suffer the consequences. [/stewie]
They hired Chuck Norris to do it, and he's gonna roundhouse kick any open router he finds.
If you throw a Steve Ballmer in a pot of boiling water, he'll throw chairs at you, but if you put him in a pot of cold water and gradually turn up the heat, he'll start chanting "developers, devlopers, DEVLOPERS!" when he gets all hot and sweaty.
Perfect!
Well, part of that slogan is still perfectly acceptable to the powers that be...
Here in Albuquerque police did something similar recently. The police have been cracking down on drinking of any kind. Police were stopping all patrons leaving a particular bar and breath testing them. Even patrons taking a cab or a limo were harrassed. The bar owner had a friend come and videotape them. They said he was interfering with a police investigation, and since some of the officers also worked undercover, he was endangering the officers. So they arrested him. His friend started to videotape them arresting him, so they arrested the friend. Then the bar owner came out and started videotaping them arresting friend one and friend two, so they arrested the owner. Never mind these supposedly undercover cops were in full uniform on a busy street, they were endangered by these evil videotapers.
On the other hand, not all cops are bad. Once in college I got a flat tire while driving an unregistered uninsured hippy painted VW bus carrying a bag of weed. A nice officer stopped (in the rain no less) and helped me change the tire without even checking my license or registration, let alone whether a hippy painted VW bus might have contraband onboard.
On the third hand (yes, it's a Larry Niven reference) I've seen cops beat my friends for trying to feed homeless people on the street in San Francisco. Then they poured our soup down the drain and poured bleach over our bagels right in front of about 100 homeless folks.
So YMMV where police are concerned, some are cool, some are total dicks.