Can't we just teach people to set their thermostats a couple of degrees higher in the summer and lower in the winter to save electricity and gas? Can't we just teach people to take colder showers?
Maybe to some extent, but remember that we developed technology in part so that we wouldn't have to be too cold or too hot. I'm all for conserving energy, but there's a difference between wasting energy and using it to have better lives.
Even if you buy one with essentially no miles on it, it might still suck. I rented a car once that had 4 miles on it. At first I thought, "Cool!" But by the time it had 500 miles on it, I had to return it for another because so many things were going wrong with it.
To all you guys saying we shouldn't tinker with natural processes, does that mean you also don't like it when women use the pill to only have periods every few months?
The less respect politicians get the better. If smart people are discouraged from government, and end up in the private sector, that's helps us all in the long run, since the private sector is the origin of real solutions.
In fact, I've always thought it would be interesting to do an index that tracks the number of people who work for government and their respective ability levels (degrees held, etc.) and compares is with the overall work force to see what percentage of human resources are wasted.
(This post dedicated to the late, great Milton Friedman.)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. As the Slashdot Faq says: Note that being moderated Funny doesn't help your karma. You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass.
That's kind of a shame considering that/. is one of the funniest sites out there. I mean, it's like Playboy -- who reads it for the articles?
Assuming he's a subscriber, and had twenty extra minutes, that's enough time to formulate a decent essay on a topic with which he is readily familiar. I say this is much ado about nothing.
A lot of the "New Age" folks say they can see a person's aura. A lot of these "New Age" folks are really hot girls! So, this is what you do: you grab this article and tell them that you believe, now. Let her just start talking about this stuff. Then, complain about some ailment that requires her "healing" touch. Lastly, ask to try it on her. Let things progress: touching , kissing, clothes off, etc... Enjoy!
Only on/. would this get modded "Informative" rather than "Funny".
Granted, maybe I'm naive - but I have the feeling that "one in five" is either inflated, or including things that most people would never consider solicitation (again, such as minors hitting on minors).
How about minors hitting on adults? I had a conversation the other day with a mother of two teenage boys who found out that they were pretending to be adults and responding to personals ads put up by adult women.
I respectfully disagree. There was a time when I had three domains for different projects, one for my personal site, and one for my resume and other professional information. I don't think that I should have had to shell out $1,175 a year for that. Besides, people would use fronts to own domain names if there were a graduated registration fee. Once it's cheaper to incorporate or register a DBA than to pay the higher fee, well, there you go.
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..."Olds for Nerds"?
So we're getting Caprica because BSG is so popular, but we're losing BSG because it's too expensive? That's confusing to me.
K-Pax II: Invasion
"More humans... please... the first one was... delicious...."
Can't we just teach people to set their thermostats a couple of degrees higher in the summer and lower in the winter to save electricity and gas? Can't we just teach people to take colder showers?
Maybe to some extent, but remember that we developed technology in part so that we wouldn't have to be too cold or too hot. I'm all for conserving energy, but there's a difference between wasting energy and using it to have better lives.
If someone paid the $25 million airfare, say you won a contest or something, does that mean you'd turn the trip down?
Even if you buy one with essentially no miles on it, it might still suck. I rented a car once that had 4 miles on it. At first I thought, "Cool!" But by the time it had 500 miles on it, I had to return it for another because so many things were going wrong with it.
Dirk Benedict sincerely hopes you're referring to the new show....
Every time I hear NASA refer to it as Orion, somehow I just feel cheated out of my galactic destiny as a human being.
Why not? We're going to end up paying one trillion just for this stupid war. Ten trillion bucks to colonize Epsilon Eridani sounds like a steal.
Banned from using the Internet? Is that like the opposite of house arrest?
Why not? People have thought that flying cars are twenty years away since what, the '30s?
To all you guys saying we shouldn't tinker with natural processes, does that mean you also don't like it when women use the pill to only have periods every few months?
The less respect politicians get the better. If smart people are discouraged from government, and end up in the private sector, that's helps us all in the long run, since the private sector is the origin of real solutions.
In fact, I've always thought it would be interesting to do an index that tracks the number of people who work for government and their respective ability levels (degrees held, etc.) and compares is with the overall work force to see what percentage of human resources are wasted.
(This post dedicated to the late, great Milton Friedman.)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. As the Slashdot Faq says: Note that being moderated Funny doesn't help your karma. You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass.
/. is one of the funniest sites out there. I mean, it's like Playboy -- who reads it for the articles?
That's kind of a shame considering that
IIRC, the sun's eventually supposed to go supernova, not nova. They're different phenomena.
Assuming he's a subscriber, and had twenty extra minutes, that's enough time to formulate a decent essay on a topic with which he is readily familiar. I say this is much ado about nothing.
The Diet Pepsi Slurpee suggestion sounded yummier.
Absolutely! I've been waiting for this myself. They say that it's coming in version three, I suppose we'll see....
-=Steve=-
A lot of the "New Age" folks say they can see a person's aura. A lot of these "New Age" folks are really hot girls! So, this is what you do: you grab this article and tell them that you believe, now. Let her just start talking about this stuff. Then, complain about some ailment that requires her "healing" touch. Lastly, ask to try it on her. Let things progress: touching , kissing, clothes off, etc... Enjoy!
/. would this get modded "Informative" rather than "Funny".
Only on
You wrote:
> To this very day if I walked outside and saw a Dalek
> or Patrick Stewart I would shit my pants
Patrick Stewart just decided never to meet you.
...weather forecasts you.
I suspect any fool could make any non-standard model measurement fit with string theory so I wouldn't read too much into that.
Well, for certain very specific values of "any fool"....
Granted, maybe I'm naive - but I have the feeling that "one in five" is either inflated, or including things that most people would never consider solicitation (again, such as minors hitting on minors).
How about minors hitting on adults? I had a conversation the other day with a mother of two teenage boys who found out that they were pretending to be adults and responding to personals ads put up by adult women.
(Why didn't they have the Web when I was a kid?)
Don't forget, there's a supercool BugMeNot Firefox extension.
I respectfully disagree. There was a time when I had three domains for different projects, one for my personal site, and one for my resume and other professional information. I don't think that I should have had to shell out $1,175 a year for that. Besides, people would use fronts to own domain names if there were a graduated registration fee. Once it's cheaper to incorporate or register a DBA than to pay the higher fee, well, there you go.