Soon they'll have Gb/s+ internet access to all those people, now if they could only figure out how to FEED THEM. But no, great job guys. Maybe if they're spending so much time online playing MMMMMORPG's, they won't notice they're starving to death. If only you could stream a bowl of rice...
I think I'll record/release a few albums in Canada, (never mind I cannot sing, play an instrument, or even whistle, it'll just be me banging out random notes on a synthesizer,) and sit back and start collecting my share of royalties. I suggest everyone else do the same. Eh?
Um... all this new rule would seem to be saying is that teachers won't be able to be prosecuted for speaking out against a theory. I'm totally NOT in favor of someone trying to pump kids' heads full of the false-cause and illicit appeal to authority fallacy-based arguments so common to science's skeptics, but isn't this basically reinforcing the first amendment as it applies to educators? If the science is truly sound, it should be able to weather ANY attack from ANYONE, and oh by the way, isn't that the heart and soul (if you'll pardon the expression) of science, people questioning and challenging things? Or are teachers not allowed to deviate from whatever the book they're using to teach says at all... in which case, why do we need teachers at all? (A rhetorical question, before you all jump me...) Why not just use teachers to teach kids to read, and then hand them books? Teachers ARE needed, and they need to have the latitude to explain things and answer kids' questions. That's their job. This new rule sounds like it's just going to protect them from the consequences of doing THEIR JOBS. Wish Iowa had extended its judiciary the same courtesy, before it let the voters oust a group of them for DOING NOTHING MORE, OR LESS, THAN THEIR JOBS. Bravo NM. I may not agree with what your teachers are going to say, but I'm glad you're giving them room to breathe, and not gagging them and hanging a sword a-la Damocles over their heads.
When has M$ ***EVER*** admitted to doing anything wrong? They could have been (metaphorically) standing over a dead body, weapon in hand, covered in blood, had 50 credible witnesses, a half-dozen video cameras, and a high-speed holographic image recorder ALL trained on them, after screaming "I, Misro$oft, am going to kill you, [victim's name] with this [weapon] right now!" and when someone said "OMG, you KILLED him!" they'd say, "Nope. Wasn't us. That was someone else."
You can if you know the enemy must pass through a specific area, like when they sail into a harbor. Then you just aim at where they have to pass through... I don't care what Adam & Jamie said, the sun's putting out lotsa power, and it can be focused. The question is whether they, in ancient times, had smooth enough, clear (efficient) enough mirrors, or enough of them to overcome the lack of efficiency. If you had reflectors that only operated at 50% efficiency, on a bright sunny day, and you could aim them reliably at a point, and had say, a square mile of them, you could melt ROCK with it, I would think. I don't know the amount of power the sun puts out on the Earth in Greece, or what time of year... but I'm sure it could be figured out by trial and error, if you had to.
OTOH... as soon as word got out, the enemy would simply attack only on cloudy days, or at night. HOWEVER, what if they could re-aim them at a big bon-fire? Maybe history has it wrong, and the point of the mirrors was to BLIND, not burn. In such a case, even a big bonfire could work. If the sailors on the enemy boats were unable to see, they could then blast the boats with flaming pitch from catapults, or whatever, or just hose them down with something flammable using high-pressure monitors, or maybe just flood the area through which they had to sail with oil, and set THAT on fire with the sun. Maybe they did that.
OTO, OH, maybe they didn't use the sun at all. What if they used a bonfire, and the mirrors were for focusing not visible light, (although they doubtless used that for aiming) but instead was for directing IR? They didn't have to know what IR was to know fire was HOT!!!
So how about when they're flying aircraft that cost more than their LIFETIME salary, plus retirement, medical, dental, and housing? How much is a B-1 bomber?
For that kind of money, plus what we spend on each soldier's armor, training, etc., I think we are approaching a point where it will be less costly, in money and American soldiers' lives, to simply develop and field battle-droids. Also, remember the dark side: any technology that is developed and fielded by our military is in the hands of our government, and may be used at some point by them to oppress the people. Think it can't happen?
Use a read-only drive for your OS, such as booting from a live Linux distro, then websurf from there. When you're done, turn off the computer. Poof. Histroy, cookies, flashcookies, 'nillacookies, all gone.:)
The article doesn't mention that at some point during the sale, the seller said something like "If you can find a better deal on this mower, I'll eat my beard!"
Don't use facebook. Seriously though, why would you allow random strangers to post stuff on your page? Wouldn't making your facebook page private/by invitation only prevent these problems?
Japanese university students succeed in creating worlds smallest cyborg thinking-machine robots. Fleshy, squishy micro-borg can now outdo me in Sudoku?!? RUN! FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!
I think they might, for a few femptoseconds see a formation of particles that could, from the right angle, be mistaken for the words, "We're sorry but the universe does not have imagery at that zoom level." Or, just possibly, "We apologize for the inconvenience."
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords..." - "The Operative"
That's what you get for buying into the idea of the moderated, controlled app store. Someone can control what you can put on what is supposed to be YOUR machine. That's why I won't own any Cripple products, like the iFad, iTampon, iPhony, nor will I buy a Sony Gaystation, nor any AndroidBS based equipment, etc. If I own it, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it, that's the rule. If your system is designed to allow someone else to restrict what I can do, then fuck you and fuck your system. I have a PC with Linux, and I do what the fuck I want with it. I dual boot into WinDOS to play games, (just about all it's good for) and eschew anything with a "marketplace," for that exact reason. The DMCA (Disgusting Money Control Act) and the people who use/abuse it have the ability to stop you from doing what you want, but not me. Want the latest, hotest movies, music, etc., FREE? Don't *download* them or get them from a "market," etc., just share amongst yourselves. When I was a kid and played games, my friends and I had a neat way of not all having to pay the outrageous cost of buying them. We simply traded them. When I got tired of playing Ultima III, for example, I traded it to someone for BardsTale II, and he got Ultima III in exchange for BardsTale II, etc. Sure, ONE of us had to pay for any given copy of a title, but we didn't ALL have to pay, and no one could have sued any of us because there was no electronic trail for some bitch-shyster to follow. End-of-Rant.
You can mine my movements all you want, you can even sell the info to the highest bidder, but it's worthless, I assure you. I cannot be marketed to in this way, I don't click on ads on my computer unless I am personally searching for a product... basically, to use an old analogy, I don't buy anything over the phone unless I initiated the call. So there is no way for you to get money out of me, more effectively, or indeed at all, by simply knowing my location. Sorry, you can't do it. Knowing where I am and attempting to bombard me with advertisements won't work. I am fairly confident I am not the only one who defends his hard-earned dollars that way, so the people who might sell this information are tricking the assholes who might pay for it, and so I just have to laugh, since what's being sold is utterly worthless as far as I am concerned. They might as well be making the information up.
What makes you think that's safe? Your prejudice against plastic and cardboard packaging won't help you, Lumpy. Unless you personally verified the quality of the food, water, and air going into the animals whose carcasses are being carved up at the meat counter, as well as the drugs they may have been given, you're not really any safer. The beef you get, for example, was fed with a mixture that included the extracts of OF THE FAT OF OTHER COWS, which I'm told is permitted only in some countries. (I think Japan, for instance, had the good sense to outlaw this...) since the cows can pass diseases to each other this way. It's how they make extra money off the fat they can't do anything else with, they use it to make the other cows fatter without having to buy or produce more of the other ingredients, like hay, corn, molasses, etc. I can't imagine they do things much different with other animals. As for the wheat, since the GMO wheat you're so scared of is modified before it even goes in the ground, making your own pasta won't help you, since you'll be using flour made from the same wheat. Here's what you need to do, Lump, if you really want to live "healthy" without the fear you will be contaminated by FrankenFood. Live in a cave, thousands of miles from anyone else. Raise all your own crops yourself, inside the cave, seal it off from the outside world, so the bad air won't contaminate them. Purify your own air and water, use NO spices you didn't also grow yourself. Test all the seeds and plants and animals you started with, to ensure no GMO contamination, etc., and prepare to live a miserable, sad, lonely existence. You know what, this would be way easier to do on a spaceship, or space station, off earth altogether. Why not just get off the planet, since there are so many dangers here you might eat something "bad". By the way, do you like corn? You do know that corn, A.K.A. maize, is something the Native Americans/Mexicans modified from thousands of years ago, when it started out as a species of grass, right? So no matter how pure you might think corn is, for instance, it's not. That goes for many of our other crops and animals, (domesticated) though not to the extent corn has been. You just can't get away from it, so might as well enjoy it.
Damned near anything made with the leftover bits of various farm animals could be regarded as "FrankenFood" without tinkering with anything's DNA, and people have been eating that shit by the tonne for YEARS!!! Why worry now, just because they're trying to make the garbage you call food HEALTHIER?:)
It would take more than enlarging certain items. The "over-sized starter motor" would have to provide enough power to turn the engine against its internal resistance, and keep the car going forward overcoming all the internal resistances of the parts, (with the car potentially dragging a trailer, or loaded to capacity, or both, while possibly moving into a headwind, uphill, or all of the above.) The real solution is not a half-measure like you've suggested, but just to go whole-hog hybrid. Or I guess that would be no-hog, or whatever. A starter motor is only designed to produce enough force to get the engine going against it's internal resistance, up to about the engine's idle speed. If you try to start moving the car under it's power, you have the additional internal friction of the transmission, the hubs, to say nothing of the aforementioned force needed to keep the car going. Then you have to use the starter to crank the engine (or whatever it's attached to) that much faster because of gearing. If you don't step it down, the starter motor will have to be vastly larger, (think approaching the size of the engine itself) to provide the torque at lower RPM's to move the vehicle. The added fuel consumption from having to make the car about 500 pounds heavier with all that extra starter motor, (to say nothing of extra battery) will negate the cost savings, and then some. If you go all the way to hybrid, then the advantage is realized because that vehicle is DESIGNED to do that, and the motor isn't attached to the engine in the same way, (AFAIK). In fact, I think a hybrid probably has a starter motor for the engine altogether separate from the motor which drives the wheels, which makes sense, that way the engine operates fully independently of forward speed, and the transmission doesn't need to be designed around the idea of having to also make it pull starter-motor duties. Good idea, though.
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Soon they'll have Gb/s+ internet access to all those people, now if they could only figure out how to FEED THEM. But no, great job guys. Maybe if they're spending so much time online playing MMMMMORPG's, they won't notice they're starving to death. If only you could stream a bowl of rice...
I think I'll record/release a few albums in Canada, (never mind I cannot sing, play an instrument, or even whistle, it'll just be me banging out random notes on a synthesizer,) and sit back and start collecting my share of royalties. I suggest everyone else do the same. Eh?
Um... all this new rule would seem to be saying is that teachers won't be able to be prosecuted for speaking out against a theory. I'm totally NOT in favor of someone trying to pump kids' heads full of the false-cause and illicit appeal to authority fallacy-based arguments so common to science's skeptics, but isn't this basically reinforcing the first amendment as it applies to educators? If the science is truly sound, it should be able to weather ANY attack from ANYONE, and oh by the way, isn't that the heart and soul (if you'll pardon the expression) of science, people questioning and challenging things? Or are teachers not allowed to deviate from whatever the book they're using to teach says at all... in which case, why do we need teachers at all? (A rhetorical question, before you all jump me...) Why not just use teachers to teach kids to read, and then hand them books? Teachers ARE needed, and they need to have the latitude to explain things and answer kids' questions. That's their job. This new rule sounds like it's just going to protect them from the consequences of doing THEIR JOBS. Wish Iowa had extended its judiciary the same courtesy, before it let the voters oust a group of them for DOING NOTHING MORE, OR LESS, THAN THEIR JOBS. Bravo NM. I may not agree with what your teachers are going to say, but I'm glad you're giving them room to breathe, and not gagging them and hanging a sword a-la Damocles over their heads.
When has M$ ***EVER*** admitted to doing anything wrong? They could have been (metaphorically) standing over a dead body, weapon in hand, covered in blood, had 50 credible witnesses, a half-dozen video cameras, and a high-speed holographic image recorder ALL trained on them, after screaming "I, Misro$oft, am going to kill you, [victim's name] with this [weapon] right now!" and when someone said "OMG, you KILLED him!" they'd say, "Nope. Wasn't us. That was someone else."
You can if you know the enemy must pass through a specific area, like when they sail into a harbor. Then you just aim at where they have to pass through... I don't care what Adam & Jamie said, the sun's putting out lotsa power, and it can be focused. The question is whether they, in ancient times, had smooth enough, clear (efficient) enough mirrors, or enough of them to overcome the lack of efficiency. If you had reflectors that only operated at 50% efficiency, on a bright sunny day, and you could aim them reliably at a point, and had say, a square mile of them, you could melt ROCK with it, I would think. I don't know the amount of power the sun puts out on the Earth in Greece, or what time of year... but I'm sure it could be figured out by trial and error, if you had to. OTOH... as soon as word got out, the enemy would simply attack only on cloudy days, or at night. HOWEVER, what if they could re-aim them at a big bon-fire? Maybe history has it wrong, and the point of the mirrors was to BLIND, not burn. In such a case, even a big bonfire could work. If the sailors on the enemy boats were unable to see, they could then blast the boats with flaming pitch from catapults, or whatever, or just hose them down with something flammable using high-pressure monitors, or maybe just flood the area through which they had to sail with oil, and set THAT on fire with the sun. Maybe they did that. OTO, OH, maybe they didn't use the sun at all. What if they used a bonfire, and the mirrors were for focusing not visible light, (although they doubtless used that for aiming) but instead was for directing IR? They didn't have to know what IR was to know fire was HOT!!!
So how about when they're flying aircraft that cost more than their LIFETIME salary, plus retirement, medical, dental, and housing? How much is a B-1 bomber?
For that kind of money, plus what we spend on each soldier's armor, training, etc., I think we are approaching a point where it will be less costly, in money and American soldiers' lives, to simply develop and field battle-droids. Also, remember the dark side: any technology that is developed and fielded by our military is in the hands of our government, and may be used at some point by them to oppress the people. Think it can't happen?
Use a read-only drive for your OS, such as booting from a live Linux distro, then websurf from there. When you're done, turn off the computer. Poof. Histroy, cookies, flashcookies, 'nillacookies, all gone. :)
The fact that bacteria != viruses.
If you ever want to quick-format your 90GB livedrive, just give it a a quick squirt of hand sanitizer, or disinfectant spray!
The article doesn't mention that at some point during the sale, the seller said something like "If you can find a better deal on this mower, I'll eat my beard!"
Don't use facebook. Seriously though, why would you allow random strangers to post stuff on your page? Wouldn't making your facebook page private/by invitation only prevent these problems?
Japanese university students succeed in creating worlds smallest cyborg thinking-machine robots. Fleshy, squishy micro-borg can now outdo me in Sudoku?!? RUN! FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!
I think they might, for a few femptoseconds see a formation of particles that could, from the right angle, be mistaken for the words, "We're sorry but the universe does not have imagery at that zoom level." Or, just possibly, "We apologize for the inconvenience."
is insignificant compared to the power of the force...
Forgive me if I missed any embedded sarcasm, but you do know I was kidding, right?
Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!!! -Exxon.
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords..." - "The Operative"
That's what you get for buying into the idea of the moderated, controlled app store. Someone can control what you can put on what is supposed to be YOUR machine. That's why I won't own any Cripple products, like the iFad, iTampon, iPhony, nor will I buy a Sony Gaystation, nor any AndroidBS based equipment, etc. If I own it, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it, that's the rule. If your system is designed to allow someone else to restrict what I can do, then fuck you and fuck your system. I have a PC with Linux, and I do what the fuck I want with it. I dual boot into WinDOS to play games, (just about all it's good for) and eschew anything with a "marketplace," for that exact reason. The DMCA (Disgusting Money Control Act) and the people who use/abuse it have the ability to stop you from doing what you want, but not me. Want the latest, hotest movies, music, etc., FREE? Don't *download* them or get them from a "market," etc., just share amongst yourselves. When I was a kid and played games, my friends and I had a neat way of not all having to pay the outrageous cost of buying them. We simply traded them. When I got tired of playing Ultima III, for example, I traded it to someone for BardsTale II, and he got Ultima III in exchange for BardsTale II, etc. Sure, ONE of us had to pay for any given copy of a title, but we didn't ALL have to pay, and no one could have sued any of us because there was no electronic trail for some bitch-shyster to follow. End-of-Rant.
You can mine my movements all you want, you can even sell the info to the highest bidder, but it's worthless, I assure you. I cannot be marketed to in this way, I don't click on ads on my computer unless I am personally searching for a product... basically, to use an old analogy, I don't buy anything over the phone unless I initiated the call. So there is no way for you to get money out of me, more effectively, or indeed at all, by simply knowing my location. Sorry, you can't do it. Knowing where I am and attempting to bombard me with advertisements won't work. I am fairly confident I am not the only one who defends his hard-earned dollars that way, so the people who might sell this information are tricking the assholes who might pay for it, and so I just have to laugh, since what's being sold is utterly worthless as far as I am concerned. They might as well be making the information up.
How about digital food? DigiFoods, if you will. You know, like finger sandwiches. :)
I wonder how this post will be moderated if I remark "Good idea"?
What makes you think that's safe? Your prejudice against plastic and cardboard packaging won't help you, Lumpy. Unless you personally verified the quality of the food, water, and air going into the animals whose carcasses are being carved up at the meat counter, as well as the drugs they may have been given, you're not really any safer. The beef you get, for example, was fed with a mixture that included the extracts of OF THE FAT OF OTHER COWS, which I'm told is permitted only in some countries. (I think Japan, for instance, had the good sense to outlaw this...) since the cows can pass diseases to each other this way. It's how they make extra money off the fat they can't do anything else with, they use it to make the other cows fatter without having to buy or produce more of the other ingredients, like hay, corn, molasses, etc. I can't imagine they do things much different with other animals. As for the wheat, since the GMO wheat you're so scared of is modified before it even goes in the ground, making your own pasta won't help you, since you'll be using flour made from the same wheat. Here's what you need to do, Lump, if you really want to live "healthy" without the fear you will be contaminated by FrankenFood. Live in a cave, thousands of miles from anyone else. Raise all your own crops yourself, inside the cave, seal it off from the outside world, so the bad air won't contaminate them. Purify your own air and water, use NO spices you didn't also grow yourself. Test all the seeds and plants and animals you started with, to ensure no GMO contamination, etc., and prepare to live a miserable, sad, lonely existence. You know what, this would be way easier to do on a spaceship, or space station, off earth altogether. Why not just get off the planet, since there are so many dangers here you might eat something "bad". By the way, do you like corn? You do know that corn, A.K.A. maize, is something the Native Americans/Mexicans modified from thousands of years ago, when it started out as a species of grass, right? So no matter how pure you might think corn is, for instance, it's not. That goes for many of our other crops and animals, (domesticated) though not to the extent corn has been. You just can't get away from it, so might as well enjoy it.
Damned near anything made with the leftover bits of various farm animals could be regarded as "FrankenFood" without tinkering with anything's DNA, and people have been eating that shit by the tonne for YEARS!!! Why worry now, just because they're trying to make the garbage you call food HEALTHIER? :)
It would take more than enlarging certain items. The "over-sized starter motor" would have to provide enough power to turn the engine against its internal resistance, and keep the car going forward overcoming all the internal resistances of the parts, (with the car potentially dragging a trailer, or loaded to capacity, or both, while possibly moving into a headwind, uphill, or all of the above.) The real solution is not a half-measure like you've suggested, but just to go whole-hog hybrid. Or I guess that would be no-hog, or whatever. A starter motor is only designed to produce enough force to get the engine going against it's internal resistance, up to about the engine's idle speed. If you try to start moving the car under it's power, you have the additional internal friction of the transmission, the hubs, to say nothing of the aforementioned force needed to keep the car going. Then you have to use the starter to crank the engine (or whatever it's attached to) that much faster because of gearing. If you don't step it down, the starter motor will have to be vastly larger, (think approaching the size of the engine itself) to provide the torque at lower RPM's to move the vehicle. The added fuel consumption from having to make the car about 500 pounds heavier with all that extra starter motor, (to say nothing of extra battery) will negate the cost savings, and then some. If you go all the way to hybrid, then the advantage is realized because that vehicle is DESIGNED to do that, and the motor isn't attached to the engine in the same way, (AFAIK). In fact, I think a hybrid probably has a starter motor for the engine altogether separate from the motor which drives the wheels, which makes sense, that way the engine operates fully independently of forward speed, and the transmission doesn't need to be designed around the idea of having to also make it pull starter-motor duties. Good idea, though.