The fiery Trinidad Scorpion Butch T registers 1,463,700 Scoville heat units, placing it ahead of the current leader recognised by Guinness World Records, the Naga Viper, which comes in at 1,382,118. Jalapenos measure about 2500-5000 and the hottest Tabasco is 30,000. ...
The chilli is so scorching, that Marcel and his team have to wear protective gear when handling the new variety. "If you don't wear gloves your hands will be pumping heat for two days later," he says.
Are all our bitches now.. You'll enforce our IP laws and fucking like it. And we might pretend to enforce your IP laws if it suits us. But i wouldn't bet on it if an american company is involved.
Don't bet for it for the future, though. It's not like the creation of new IP is a monopoly of US... and while US companies will be busy fighting among themselves and the rest of the world (Apple, Oracle, Google, ) the rest of the world won't stop, watch and eat popcorn, "Berne convention" or ACTA be damned.
I have no kind of inkling about the first sentence of the previous poster, but the part about 'teaches kids to ask "why?"' I'd like to amend: Hope it teaches them to want to ask "why?".
(Or maybe that would obviously be implied?)
Sesame Street is for pre-school kids - they are already asking "why?" quite a lot. The problem starts when they go to school and the only answer they get is: "Shut up, listen and obey".
teaches kids to ask "why?" and devise experiments to test ideas.
Straight from the "too little, to late" pool: much good it will do them when the corporate boss will say "Because I said so. And, BTW, this is 1... pray you don't count to 3".
"Let's see what happens when we put nitro glycerine into a blender. Timmy, why don't you push that button whilst I get behind this big tungsten shield!"
RU sure you don't make a confusion with MythBusters?
I'd be very curious to know what the cost/benefit is for them to seek FDA approval is...
Well, for starters, you'll be able to present the game to schizo lab mice, during trials... who knows, maybe there'd be a new market? (and thanks for all the fish)
Obviously to track and identify those with an interest in this material so they can sell that information, complete with maps and street view, to ancient aliens intent on probing and implanting their mind control chips.
See now why Wikileaks is good and Assange a God-sent?
...duck...
Hah, protons are so 3 minutes ago. I'm waiting for one that uses neutrons.
I'm waiting for one using neurons. Not mine, mind you... letting aside they are in small numbers, they are unusable even by me (need to have the wake-up coffee).
I'm sure your envisioned "open-source target acquisition system" can distinguish between the reflection from a surveillance camera lens and the reflection from my eyeglasses, right?
Well, Linus used to say: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - in this context, the law becomes... well... even more in-sight-ful, so to say.
Your purchasing habits have never been known exclusively to the CC issuer. They have always been available to the authorities and to hackers.
Authorities - with a warrant, I presume? Not necessary looking for "buying habits" but with the limited scope of certain transactions relevant to the case?
Hackers - well, yes... if they manage to break the eBanking system of my bank. In which case, I think I might have bigger headaches than caring about someone detecting my "purchasing habits".
Tell that to the passengers on a bus or the other people in the car. And putting WiFi on buses would not help, since the bus would still need a way to get internet.
Yawn. It's clearly progress. Ideally everything in your wallet could be in your phone, so this is just a step towards that. It's not pointless, its progress.
Progression rather - can't call it progress thought, not yet.
You don't use a credit or debit card? because, uh, those details about your buying habits might already be everywhere. And you didn't even get $10 for that.
I'd expect that the purchases I make (as a habit) are known only to the CC issuer. Did this change lately?
According to Popovic, “Foldit shows that a game can turn novices into domain experts capable of producing first-class scientific discoveries. We are currently applying the same approach to change the way math and science are taught in school.”
On the "just kidding" track: if that could happen, I wonder how the exams will look like? Will they resemble a FPS?
In a related question, why does anyone still do this? As far as I know, all the modern browsers have spell check built in and I can't think of any other reasons off the top of my head.
Using lynx without a spell-checker and being afraid of the grammar nazi?
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The fiery Trinidad Scorpion Butch T registers 1,463,700 Scoville heat units, placing it ahead of the current leader recognised by Guinness World Records, the Naga Viper, which comes in at 1,382,118. Jalapenos measure about 2500-5000 and the hottest Tabasco is 30,000.
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The chilli is so scorching, that Marcel and his team have to wear protective gear when handling the new variety. "If you don't wear gloves your hands will be pumping heat for two days later," he says.
what hobby can't be militarized?
Blowing soap bubbles?
This is a bad idea, because in genetics, you only have the 4 letter A, C, G, and T. What kind of message could you make with those?
Using binary for message encoding is a bad idea. I mean, you have only 0 and 1: what kind of message could you make of these?
No, actually, guilty until finally proven guilty.
Justice will never give up.
Huh! Double-speak already, eh? Miniluv and Minipeace?
(is that still justice?)
Mod parent up +Informative, please.
Are all our bitches now.. You'll enforce our IP laws and fucking like it. And we might pretend to enforce your IP laws if it suits us. But i wouldn't bet on it if an american company is involved.
Don't bet for it for the future, though. It's not like the creation of new IP is a monopoly of US... and while US companies will be busy fighting among themselves and the rest of the world (Apple, Oracle, Google, ) the rest of the world won't stop, watch and eat popcorn, "Berne convention" or ACTA be damned.
I have no kind of inkling about the first sentence of the previous poster, but the part about 'teaches kids to ask "why?"' I'd like to amend: Hope it teaches them to want to ask "why?".
(Or maybe that would obviously be implied?)
Sesame Street is for pre-school kids - they are already asking "why?" quite a lot. The problem starts when they go to school and the only answer they get is: "Shut up, listen and obey".
teaches kids to ask "why?" and devise experiments to test ideas.
Straight from the "too little, to late" pool: much good it will do them when the corporate boss will say "Because I said so. And, BTW, this is 1... pray you don't count to 3".
</pessimistic>
"Let's see what happens when we put nitro glycerine into a blender. Timmy, why don't you push that button whilst I get behind this big tungsten shield!"
RU sure you don't make a confusion with MythBusters?
I'd be very curious to know what the cost/benefit is for them to seek FDA approval is...
Well, for starters, you'll be able to present the game to schizo lab mice, during trials... who knows, maybe there'd be a new market? (and thanks for all the fish)
There is no single player version. Co-op/multi only :-)
Doh... I really can't afford to buy a computer and a game license for all my personalities.
Should violent videogames be considered narcotics?
FPS - to be sold on prescription only and administered by qualified medical personnel.
Obviously to track and identify those with an interest in this material so they can sell that information, complete with maps and street view, to ancient aliens intent on probing and implanting their mind control chips.
See now why Wikileaks is good and Assange a God-sent?
...duck...
"build a tunnel"
The tunnel doesn't exist. Fucking morons.
FTL travel without space warping will get you news from the future.
What is this? A case of the system working?
Did I miss something? Was the 2011 World Peace and Utopia Act passed without me noticing? Is it opposite day?
Nah, mate, nuthin' changed... just an upside down world here.
Shiny. Want one.
I don't... not until it doesn't emerge from a stick while the driver takes a fwd plunge.
Hah, protons are so 3 minutes ago. I'm waiting for one that uses neutrons.
I'm waiting for one using neurons.
Not mine, mind you... letting aside they are in small numbers, they are unusable even by me (need to have the wake-up coffee).
I'm sure your envisioned "open-source target acquisition system" can distinguish between the reflection from a surveillance camera lens and the reflection from my eyeglasses, right?
Well, Linus used to say: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - in this context, the law becomes... well... even more in-sight-ful, so to say.
Your purchasing habits have never been known exclusively to the CC issuer. They have always been available to the authorities and to hackers.
Authorities - with a warrant, I presume? Not necessary looking for "buying habits" but with the limited scope of certain transactions relevant to the case?
Hackers - well, yes... if they manage to break the eBanking system of my bank. In which case, I think I might have bigger headaches than caring about someone detecting my "purchasing habits".
Tell that to the passengers on a bus or the other people in the car. And putting WiFi on buses would not help, since the bus would still need a way to get internet.
Simple... FTTBus
;)
Yawn. It's clearly progress. Ideally everything in your wallet could be in your phone, so this is just a step towards that. It's not pointless, its progress.
Progression rather - can't call it progress thought, not yet.
You don't use a credit or debit card? because, uh, those details about your buying habits might already be everywhere. And you didn't even get $10 for that.
I'd expect that the purchases I make (as a habit) are known only to the CC issuer. Did this change lately?
Or...
According to Popovic, “Foldit shows that a game can turn novices into domain experts capable of producing first-class scientific discoveries. We are currently applying the same approach to change the way math and science are taught in school.”
On the "just kidding" track: if that could happen, I wonder how the exams will look like? Will they resemble a FPS?
In a related question, why does anyone still do this? As far as I know, all the modern browsers have spell check built in and I can't think of any other reasons off the top of my head.
Using lynx without a spell-checker and being afraid of the grammar nazi?