There is a well-established non-violent market for hammers. For Bittorrent, use of the technology to do legal things like download Linux ISOs is statistically negligible.
Y'know, there was a time when the same thing could be said about the VCR. Just imagine what the world would be like if enough of the right people hadn't realized how ludicrous it would be to banish it on the simple fact that it was a new technology that had the potential to be abused.
But if their creator created them in the creator's image, and the creator is capable of bestowing a soul, it is not improbable to think that some may believe that mankind too is capable of giving a soul to something we have created.
he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer â" Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing & Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.'
Hmm, so it is different. I was banking on GP being honest, given it was right in TFS, so didn't bother to scroll up and confirm.
Wait until we find signs of human civilization there and discover they made a last ditch effort to escape their destructive lifestyle by migrating to a new planet they called Earth.
You've also seen E.Y.E.S. of Mars?
Note: that's an anime which was basically about exactly what parent mentioned. There's no wiki entry or I'd have linked to it.
That's.. almost scary if it wasn't intentional. But I'm sure someone else could explain why such a coincidence is really more common than I would think.
I am beginning to question whether or not that money could be better spent maintaining our first planet
I'm not opposed to the idea of focusing on fixing the problems we've got here before venturing out into space, but there are far more useless programs with far far far larger budgets that could be trimmed to produce much more currency than scrapping the space program would.
2b. Does this mean that humankind should just sit back and let things play out, doing nothing to try and understand what's going on, regardless of what our actual impact may be?
ANSWER: Not if we expect to continue surviving.
(Not claiming that you think we should sit back and do nothing, just that I feel that whenever a discussion about Global Warming comes up, both sides seem to miss the fact that it doesn't matter if we are the main cause or not, we could still end up just as dead.)
The DVD or Bluray versions doesn't have any annoying ads during the movie.
So you mean they removed the scene where Tony Stark was eating that Whopper from Burger King? Of course, personally I found that whole scene to be a rather humorous way of performing product placement, so I guess while it was an ad, it fails at being an annoying ad.
Except in Canada, where Bell has to play nice and share their copper with the other kids.
In the US, the phone companies also have to share the copper. Just the copper though, not the fiber. Which is why you see Verizon cutting the copper from your house when they install your FIOS.
I was merely trying to point out that, while the parent poster was trying to be funny, they were incorrect in when we gain the extra hour, and that the poster they themselves were replying to was correct in that regard, that we get the extra hour in winter. I admit that I didn't do a good job portraying that.
Lets use Eastern Time an an example. Say it is 5:00pm in Eastern Standard Time. That's GMT-5. Eastern Daylight Time is GMT-4, or 6:00pm.
That being said, I think we need to simply do away with DST (though that does not mean having Standard time year-round, but having a consistent time and none of this springing forwards or falling backs would be ideal).
When you enter DST, you jump ahead one hour, skipping completely over it. That hour is being saved until you switch back to standard time, where it is then used up.
And this is why I believe light pollution is a conspiracy to make the universe appear smaller than it really is in order to make the public more likely to accept the idea that it couldn't be random chance that any of us are here to begin with.
stranger_to_himself: Biodiversity is very important.
You: Why? Feel free to justify your opinion with evidence.
Now it could just be that you like a good debate, playing devil's advocate, or what have you, but when you simply leave it at that, it is not unwarranted to believe that you feel biodiversity to not be important.
Now I too may have misrepresented myself. Please don't think that I care if a species is "lost forever," it was never my intent to imply that I was arguing from the emotional viewpoint of "all creatures are cute and must be protected forever and never ever ever change." All that I'm discussing is the underlying ecosystem.
Ecosystems are in a balance, some more precarious than others. The problem is, we do not truly understand how these extinctions will end up effecting things. It could be that all those amphibians did not have enough of an impact on their ecosystem for it to be noticed when they go missing. Or the situation could end up becoming analogous to rabbits in Australia. But again, we do not know.
Now I'm also not saying that we need to completely rid ourselves of industrial expansion, simply that we should not ignore such events if we expect to continue to progress as a species.
LITTLE TOWN: "Hey BIG CORP, you gonna build fiber in our little town?"
BIG CORP: "Nope."
LITTLE TOWN: "Ok. *to everyone* Hey everyone, lets build our own fiber network!"
EVERYONE: "Ok!"
BIG CORP: "Hey, you can't do that! We'll sue!"
*BIG CORP sues LITTLE TOWN, faces JUDGE*
JUDGE: "So let me get this straight, you're suing LITTLE TOWN for doing something that you never intended to do yourself?"
BIG CORP: "YUP!"
JUDGE: "...GTFO BIG CORP!"
BIG CORP: "We appeal!"
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
I beg to differ. It may not appeal to you or even to me personally, but Text Adventure games were hugely popular back in the day, and, dare I say, I'm sure even today it continues to garner support from a loyal following.
Note: I don't actually know if any of this is true, but it sounds plausible, depending on how one might define "hugely popular".
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If I may play Devil's Advocate for a second...
Did the liquor salesmen deserve to lose their lively-hood during prohibition? Just because something is illegal does not make it wrong.
(I truly don't have any direction to take this, just seemed like something to bring up)
There is a well-established non-violent market for hammers. For Bittorrent, use of the technology to do legal things like download Linux ISOs is statistically negligible.
Y'know, there was a time when the same thing could be said about the VCR. Just imagine what the world would be like if enough of the right people hadn't realized how ludicrous it would be to banish it on the simple fact that it was a new technology that had the potential to be abused.
But if their creator created them in the creator's image, and the creator is capable of bestowing a soul, it is not improbable to think that some may believe that mankind too is capable of giving a soul to something we have created.
he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer â" Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing & Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.'
Hmm, so it is different. I was banking on GP being honest, given it was right in TFS, so didn't bother to scroll up and confirm.
President-Elect Obama happened?
Sounded more like jigga than jigger to me.
Wait until we find signs of human civilization there and discover they made a last ditch effort to escape their destructive lifestyle by migrating to a new planet they called Earth.
You've also seen E.Y.E.S. of Mars?
Note: that's an anime which was basically about exactly what parent mentioned. There's no wiki entry or I'd have linked to it.
That's.. almost scary if it wasn't intentional. But I'm sure someone else could explain why such a coincidence is really more common than I would think.
Wine Is Not An Emulator.
WINAE? Is that a fork of WINE? ;)
Why does it matter if the screen is color or not?
You're asking this at /.? Surely we're all still comic book fans here. ;)
I am beginning to question whether or not that money could be better spent maintaining our first planet
I'm not opposed to the idea of focusing on fixing the problems we've got here before venturing out into space, but there are far more useless programs with far far far larger budgets that could be trimmed to produce much more currency than scrapping the space program would.
2b. Does this mean that humankind should just sit back and let things play out, doing nothing to try and understand what's going on, regardless of what our actual impact may be?
ANSWER: Not if we expect to continue surviving.
(Not claiming that you think we should sit back and do nothing, just that I feel that whenever a discussion about Global Warming comes up, both sides seem to miss the fact that it doesn't matter if we are the main cause or not, we could still end up just as dead.)
It doesn't matter if preteens/teens would. The mere fact that someone is able to read Harry Potter in that way is enough for some people to ban it.
The DVD or Bluray versions doesn't have any annoying ads during the movie.
So you mean they removed the scene where Tony Stark was eating that Whopper from Burger King? Of course, personally I found that whole scene to be a rather humorous way of performing product placement, so I guess while it was an ad, it fails at being an annoying ad.
Except in Canada, where Bell has to play nice and share their copper with the other kids.
In the US, the phone companies also have to share the copper. Just the copper though, not the fiber. Which is why you see Verizon cutting the copper from your house when they install your FIOS.
I was merely trying to point out that, while the parent poster was trying to be funny, they were incorrect in when we gain the extra hour, and that the poster they themselves were replying to was correct in that regard, that we get the extra hour in winter. I admit that I didn't do a good job portraying that.
Simpler, perhaps, but not nearly as much fun!
Maybe for Bubba the jailhouse inmate, but if you'll recall from OP's link, the officer turned on the guy who called in the cops on Circuit City.
DST makes it get dark later, not earlier.
Lets use Eastern Time an an example. Say it is 5:00pm in Eastern Standard Time. That's GMT-5. Eastern Daylight Time is GMT-4, or 6:00pm.
That being said, I think we need to simply do away with DST (though that does not mean having Standard time year-round, but having a consistent time and none of this springing forwards or falling backs would be ideal).
When you enter DST, you jump ahead one hour, skipping completely over it. That hour is being saved until you switch back to standard time, where it is then used up.
Spring forward, fall back.
In Summer, the time goes 01:59:58, 01:59:59, 03:00:00. You lose an hour there.
In Winter, the time goes 01:59:58, 01:59:59, 01:00:00. You gain an hour there.
Make sense?
And this is why I believe light pollution is a conspiracy to make the universe appear smaller than it really is in order to make the public more likely to accept the idea that it couldn't be random chance that any of us are here to begin with.
stranger_to_himself: Biodiversity is very important.
You: Why? Feel free to justify your opinion with evidence.
Now it could just be that you like a good debate, playing devil's advocate, or what have you, but when you simply leave it at that, it is not unwarranted to believe that you feel biodiversity to not be important.
Now I too may have misrepresented myself. Please don't think that I care if a species is "lost forever," it was never my intent to imply that I was arguing from the emotional viewpoint of "all creatures are cute and must be protected forever and never ever ever change." All that I'm discussing is the underlying ecosystem.
Ecosystems are in a balance, some more precarious than others. The problem is, we do not truly understand how these extinctions will end up effecting things. It could be that all those amphibians did not have enough of an impact on their ecosystem for it to be noticed when they go missing. Or the situation could end up becoming analogous to rabbits in Australia. But again, we do not know.
Now I'm also not saying that we need to completely rid ourselves of industrial expansion, simply that we should not ignore such events if we expect to continue to progress as a species.
LITTLE TOWN: "Hey BIG CORP, you gonna build fiber in our little town?"
BIG CORP: "Nope."
LITTLE TOWN: "Ok. *to everyone* Hey everyone, lets build our own fiber network!"
EVERYONE: "Ok!"
BIG CORP: "Hey, you can't do that! We'll sue!"
*BIG CORP sues LITTLE TOWN, faces JUDGE*
JUDGE: "So let me get this straight, you're suing LITTLE TOWN for doing something that you never intended to do yourself?"
BIG CORP: "YUP!"
JUDGE: "...GTFO BIG CORP!"
BIG CORP: "We appeal!"
That sound like the jist of it?
Metal Gear would be no fun if it started with:
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
I beg to differ. It may not appeal to you or even to me personally, but Text Adventure games were hugely popular back in the day, and, dare I say, I'm sure even today it continues to garner support from a loyal following.
Note: I don't actually know if any of this is true, but it sounds plausible, depending on how one might define "hugely popular".
You do realize that there are other activities that one can partake of aside from watching TV, right?