Wasn't the air so devoid of moisture there that you needed a breathing apparatus to not dessicate that way?
Which brings me to a serious point: does that "up to 1000 liters of water per day" mean "If you put it right next to a lake with a really strong wind and the humidity is 99%"? The yield must depend on moisture. Is this going to be useful in the Sahara or just outside of Las Vegas?
"rogue scientist unwittingly gives the terrorists their dream weapon"
Terrorists generally aren't too adept at molecular biology. Knowing the DNA sequence does not mean you'd be able to will it together in a functional virus. I'm a molecular biologist, and I wouldn't know where to start making this flu. Terrorists aren't even that advanced with conventional bombs. The 9/11 attacks, they didn't even actually HAVE a bomb, they just had box cutters and a promise that they did have a bomb.
While some government bent on censoring the internet obviously wouldn't care about the truth and might use it as an excuse anyway, it's also true that voters aren't too concerned about censoring the net anyway.
Why worry about science as an excuse, when saying "Child porn!" is a more effective cover for taking away free speech anyway?
Apple got slammed in court for one simple reason: they guaranteed replacement for 4 years. 3 years in, they reneged on their promise. Simple, blatant double talk.
It seems like with any statement to consumers, businesses add fine print to the effect of "Unless we change our minds." Did Apple not do that in this case, or did they, and the courts found that was bullshit?
Depends on what you want to do. I'm guessing there are things you can do on windows phones that you can do on an iphone only if you jailbreak it.
Having switched from an iphone and having never tried WP7, I don't know what features iOS is still lacking that are common features on the other ones, but I'd be surprised if they aren't there. Can you create new text tones on iOS yet without jailbreaking and can you do that with WP7? My Razr had that feature 5 years ago, how or why apple stepped backwards on that is beyond me. There didn't even seem to be an option to buy new ones.
For that comparison to work, dealerships would need to hold you to a contract to buy a set amount of gas from them every month for years and not actually charge you for the car itself.
Eliminate the Monsantos and corn subsidies of the world and monocropping disappears.
That's a much taller order than what Feyshtey was suggesting, given public apathy. Which is sickening, but lets be honest: the only way monsanto and corn subsidies are going to be "eliminated" is if a catastrophe with monoculture actually happens, and people care enough to override monsanto and corn farmers' lobbying efforts.
In other words, the only way to prevent such problems before they occur on a wide scale is to do calculated entropy.
Shills these days. Back in my day, if you were going to make a pointless first post on slashdot, you did it AC. And we liked it! We loved it! Didn't have to waste time registering just to make a silly shit of a post.
A generation of young people who don't know which way is up and which way is down is a tyrant's wet dream, for they will be needy and dependent and that's always been the ticket to real power... You don't think this, the side effects it will have, or the fact it comes from government is one great big accident do you? It's not so much a carefully planned conspiracy.
Tyrants these days don't really thinking that far in advance though. I mean, these kids are what, 10 years from voting? Why bother teaching them complacency when they'll just be someone else's serfs?
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. The school officials are trying to teach kids to be followers because they're easier to manage then and there. And also because making a test that is correct is harder.
No arguments here though that this will make them more sheeplike to government orders, but it's a happy accident for our future overlords, not by design I think.
Serious problems with anti-competitive regulators, or serious problems from a lot of sore losers whining through their lobbyists and media? I have yet to hear a good explanation for how google is being anti-competitive. Mail, search, maps, adsense... I can't think of a single thing they do that there isn't healthy competition going on.
The closest thing I've heard is whining about how they won't release their methods for ranking pages, and the only people that seem to be whining about that are SEOs who want to spam it, breaking google search for everyone else.
putting everything for Google to datamine and crawl is just stupid. They already know so much - hell, they track Slashdot too.
Not a very good example there: I don't really write anything I intend to keep private on slashdot.
Which of our opponents are developing missile defense? I suppose some people consider China to be an opponent, but I think it would be beyond foolish to escalate that into a war. Iran and North Korea?
Why are we still concerned with first strike? If a nuclear bomb kills Americans, it's not going to be in a missile.
I like how mod my comments are modded as Troll when I'm trying to explain why the situation is what it is
AND took pains to point out you weren't endorsing the status quo. Aside from putting "I'm not saying its right. I'm not saying it's how things should be. I'm just telling you it's how they are" in bold, it would have been hard to make your point any more clear.
Forget reading the article, these days we don't even bother reading the post we're responding to.
Should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
Should be, but obviously it isn't. Plenty of voters hear "This bill is important to protect american jobs" and they support it. Even more people hear "We're preventing child porn" and support it. The people who want to gain control over the internet aren't taking those approaches because they believe those lines.
So the guy who brought us Half Life, a bunch of other really awesome games, and a game delivery system which is dramatically lowering prices on games IS A BAD GUY?!?
The government in response passed legislation that all citizens would have to wear microphones around their necks which would monitor everything they said. To prevent someone else from yelling out fire.
Inquiries about whether the microphones would be used just to monitor words like "Fire" and not used to monitor political speech were met with uncontrollable laughter from the government spokesperson.
Governments don't try to prevent panic. They try to USE panic to their own purposes. At least the governments that really have control of their populace. 9/11 and the moves the government took after that, which had absolutely nothing to do with preventing another attack, should have amply demonstrated that fact.
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Wasn't the air so devoid of moisture there that you needed a breathing apparatus to not dessicate that way?
Which brings me to a serious point: does that "up to 1000 liters of water per day" mean "If you put it right next to a lake with a really strong wind and the humidity is 99%"? The yield must depend on moisture. Is this going to be useful in the Sahara or just outside of Las Vegas?
Practically everything has a malicious use to it.
Which is perhaps why they wrote the law like that.
Yes: fear is a fucking idiotic reason to silence our scientists.
Anyway, the terrorists won't know what to do with it.
"rogue scientist unwittingly gives the terrorists their dream weapon"
Terrorists generally aren't too adept at molecular biology. Knowing the DNA sequence does not mean you'd be able to will it together in a functional virus. I'm a molecular biologist, and I wouldn't know where to start making this flu. Terrorists aren't even that advanced with conventional bombs. The 9/11 attacks, they didn't even actually HAVE a bomb, they just had box cutters and a promise that they did have a bomb.
While some government bent on censoring the internet obviously wouldn't care about the truth and might use it as an excuse anyway, it's also true that voters aren't too concerned about censoring the net anyway.
Why worry about science as an excuse, when saying "Child porn!" is a more effective cover for taking away free speech anyway?
Apple got slammed in court for one simple reason: they guaranteed replacement for 4 years. 3 years in, they reneged on their promise. Simple, blatant double talk.
It seems like with any statement to consumers, businesses add fine print to the effect of "Unless we change our minds." Did Apple not do that in this case, or did they, and the courts found that was bullshit?
I believe that would be the joke restated without subtlety.
I'm sure there are more constructive ways to protest than stripping in an airport in front of people
Yes, and we've done many of them already.
Yeah, people shouldn't stand up against abuses of their rights: there might be NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES TO IT!!!
Depends on what you want to do. I'm guessing there are things you can do on windows phones that you can do on an iphone only if you jailbreak it.
Having switched from an iphone and having never tried WP7, I don't know what features iOS is still lacking that are common features on the other ones, but I'd be surprised if they aren't there. Can you create new text tones on iOS yet without jailbreaking and can you do that with WP7? My Razr had that feature 5 years ago, how or why apple stepped backwards on that is beyond me. There didn't even seem to be an option to buy new ones.
For that comparison to work, dealerships would need to hold you to a contract to buy a set amount of gas from them every month for years and not actually charge you for the car itself.
ok what are you guys dumb or something all
There are simpler ways of saying "Don't bother reading the rest of this post," you know.
Eliminate the Monsantos and corn subsidies of the world and monocropping disappears.
That's a much taller order than what Feyshtey was suggesting, given public apathy. Which is sickening, but lets be honest: the only way monsanto and corn subsidies are going to be "eliminated" is if a catastrophe with monoculture actually happens, and people care enough to override monsanto and corn farmers' lobbying efforts.
In other words, the only way to prevent such problems before they occur on a wide scale is to do calculated entropy.
The subjective pro of "meat/cheese/etc. tastes good" is beginning to look weaker and weaker against the many cons.
No. Nope. Bacon, cheese, steak, pizza etc are still fucking delicious no matter what goes on before it's on my plate.
Now, when we get in vitro meat, maybe that will make this natural cheeseburger look hideous by comparison, but in the meantime... (nom nom nom nom)
Shills these days. Back in my day, if you were going to make a pointless first post on slashdot, you did it AC. And we liked it! We loved it! Didn't have to waste time registering just to make a silly shit of a post.
A generation of young people who don't know which way is up and which way is down is a tyrant's wet dream, for they will be needy and dependent and that's always been the ticket to real power... You don't think this, the side effects it will have, or the fact it comes from government is one great big accident do you? It's not so much a carefully planned conspiracy.
Tyrants these days don't really thinking that far in advance though. I mean, these kids are what, 10 years from voting? Why bother teaching them complacency when they'll just be someone else's serfs?
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. The school officials are trying to teach kids to be followers because they're easier to manage then and there. And also because making a test that is correct is harder.
No arguments here though that this will make them more sheeplike to government orders, but it's a happy accident for our future overlords, not by design I think.
The closest thing I've heard is whining about how they won't release their methods for ranking pages, and the only people that seem to be whining about that are SEOs who want to spam it, breaking google search for everyone else.
putting everything for Google to datamine and crawl is just stupid. They already know so much - hell, they track Slashdot too.
Not a very good example there: I don't really write anything I intend to keep private on slashdot.
Which of our opponents are developing missile defense? I suppose some people consider China to be an opponent, but I think it would be beyond foolish to escalate that into a war. Iran and North Korea?
Why are we still concerned with first strike? If a nuclear bomb kills Americans, it's not going to be in a missile.
Any tool can be used offensively. A shield is defensive, but get a row of shields pushing someone off a cliff, that's not defense anymore.
If we develop an airtight missile defense system, and give it to Israel, Taiwan, and/or India, that's clearly an offensive move.
I like how mod my comments are modded as Troll when I'm trying to explain why the situation is what it is
AND took pains to point out you weren't endorsing the status quo. Aside from putting "I'm not saying its right. I'm not saying it's how things should be. I'm just telling you it's how they are" in bold, it would have been hard to make your point any more clear.
Forget reading the article, these days we don't even bother reading the post we're responding to.
we know exactly how to prevent AIDs
And yet there are 34 million people worldwide with HIV, including over 300k children, and the disease is still spreading. You may take that as "Well since it's preventable, I don't have to care" if you wish. The rest of us take that as "Still a major problem to be solved."
I think you meant "artificially manipulated stem cells" or something along those lines, since your cells all came from your own, "natural" stem cells.
Should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
Should be, but obviously it isn't. Plenty of voters hear "This bill is important to protect american jobs" and they support it. Even more people hear "We're preventing child porn" and support it. The people who want to gain control over the internet aren't taking those approaches because they believe those lines.
So the guy who brought us Half Life, a bunch of other really awesome games, and a game delivery system which is dramatically lowering prices on games IS A BAD GUY?!?
Please, tell me more!
The government in response passed legislation that all citizens would have to wear microphones around their necks which would monitor everything they said. To prevent someone else from yelling out fire.
Inquiries about whether the microphones would be used just to monitor words like "Fire" and not used to monitor political speech were met with uncontrollable laughter from the government spokesperson.
Governments don't try to prevent panic. They try to USE panic to their own purposes. At least the governments that really have control of their populace. 9/11 and the moves the government took after that, which had absolutely nothing to do with preventing another attack, should have amply demonstrated that fact.