Think of the billions of dollars this will save all the big corporations that require road transportation. This is going to get rammed through the legal system, and rammed as hard as campaign cash can ram it.
There you go. It is far easier for one person to "act as a group" than 1000 people. It is also far easier for 1000 fanatical religious people to act as a group than 1000 secular people. That's why we have policies that favor the rich, and why the fanatically religious have a skewed amount of influence. The problems of our age can be answered by the relative difficulties of coordinating wealth and power by different groups.
More and more, the reason that we're hearing about the abuses is because someone was willing to go to jail to expose them.
My hope comes from that fact that there are people brave enough to sacrifice for their beliefs, and that the authorities aren't powerful enough to silence them completely. We are not completely lost.
I'd rather live in a country where you actually hear about the abuses instead of those countries where the abuses are hidden. The fact that we actually know about the abuses in Anglo countries gives me hope.
The title of TFA, 4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Protein Resurrected, Thioredoxin May Have Lived On Mars
In the article, the word "resurrected " is in quotes, so I'll give then a pass on that, although they should have put them in the title. While one expects headlines to be dramatic, this is a science article and we want to be accurate. The "May Have Lived On Mars" part is interesting. I suppose if the protein was active inside a living organism, one could legitimately say it "lived".
I'm middle-aged so I remember the first "Death of Movies", back when television was supposed to make movies obsolete. The first thing they tried was to make the movie experience bigger and more spectacular, with Technicolor and stereo sound. On the high end you got "Ben Hur" and "Cleopatra." On the low end you got cheesy 3D horror. But then, by the mid to late 60s Hollywood seemed to give up on the big blockbuster and tended more toward art house films. By the 70s, kids were starved for some good old fashioned swashbuckling adventure. The closest thing you could get to it was "Planet of the Apes", which was filled with all sorts of social commentary. By the time "Star Wars" came out, it was such a breath of fresh air, just some meaningless fun, that kids just ate it up. The next thing you know the blockbuster adventure was back and better than ever. I suspect we are going to go back to the art house phase where you are going to have experimentation with plots and character studies. Movie producers are just going to be too unwilling to bet on the big smash. I have a feeling it's going to be a good thing.
I very much doubt that once an intelligent species develops the technology for interstellar travel it will find it economically profitable to kill, subdue, or drive out a native population, including our species. There's a reason James Cameron invented a magical substance that was valuable to humans in Avatar, otherwise we could just mine their asteroids. An alien intelligent species would be far more valuable as a source of study (and maybe reality shows.) However, we may want to prevent them from becoming interstellar travelers themselves and keep them contained on their planet. I can see that happening.
Camera shooting from the left and at a shallow downward angle. Now the camera starts to pull ahead, drawing around so that Mann's car remains in sight. After a while, the truck is revealed foot by foot; a gigantic gasoline tanker truck pulling a tank trailer, each of them having six wheels. It is not a new rig but dented and in need of renovation, its tanks painted a cheap looking silver color. We hear the grinding strain of the truck's motor. The vertical pipe to the left of the cab is spewing dark smoke which clouds back across the trailer.
This is fairly detailed. 92 pages. The movie is 90 minutes.
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And then swab for DNA.
Just wait until it is mandatory for vendors to scan currency serial numbers at every transaction.
Think of the billions of dollars this will save all the big corporations that require road transportation. This is going to get rammed through the legal system, and rammed as hard as campaign cash can ram it.
When I hear Oakland I think of O-fries.
Exercise doesn't make you healthy, it's your body's response to exercise that makes you healthy. Of course it can be simulated.
There you go. It is far easier for one person to "act as a group" than 1000 people. It is also far easier for 1000 fanatical religious people to act as a group than 1000 secular people. That's why we have policies that favor the rich, and why the fanatically religious have a skewed amount of influence. The problems of our age can be answered by the relative difficulties of coordinating wealth and power by different groups.
To be fair, they did make a mention of modern global warming at the end of TFA.
They should send up a copy of the book, "To Serve Man", just in case.
Why are they wasting time with all these studies? Just send Bear Grylls, he'll find some way to survive.
More and more, the reason that we're hearing about the abuses is because someone was willing to go to jail to expose them.
My hope comes from that fact that there are people brave enough to sacrifice for their beliefs, and that the authorities aren't powerful enough to silence them completely. We are not completely lost.
Edison saved us from the Martians!
I'd rather live in a country where you actually hear about the abuses instead of those countries where the abuses are hidden. The fact that we actually know about the abuses in Anglo countries gives me hope.
The title of TFA, 4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Protein Resurrected, Thioredoxin May Have Lived On Mars
In the article, the word "resurrected " is in quotes, so I'll give then a pass on that, although they should have put them in the title. While one expects headlines to be dramatic, this is a science article and we want to be accurate. The "May Have Lived On Mars" part is interesting. I suppose if the protein was active inside a living organism, one could legitimately say it "lived".
My vote would go to Hugh Laurie. With House done with, what the heck else does he have to do?
I should know better than to try to write this stuff from memory on /. Compiles are too fast these days to look stuff up!
You are absolutely correct. It has been a number of years since I've read the book or seen the movie. I officially facepalm.
So what you are saying is that both Linus and Richard Stallman won.
No, Google won.
Pity your poor, humble narrator, my brothers. What a horrorshow I am now forced to viddy with my glassies!
I'm middle-aged so I remember the first "Death of Movies", back when television was supposed to make movies obsolete. The first thing they tried was to make the movie experience bigger and more spectacular, with Technicolor and stereo sound. On the high end you got "Ben Hur" and "Cleopatra." On the low end you got cheesy 3D horror. But then, by the mid to late 60s Hollywood seemed to give up on the big blockbuster and tended more toward art house films. By the 70s, kids were starved for some good old fashioned swashbuckling adventure. The closest thing you could get to it was "Planet of the Apes", which was filled with all sorts of social commentary. By the time "Star Wars" came out, it was such a breath of fresh air, just some meaningless fun, that kids just ate it up. The next thing you know the blockbuster adventure was back and better than ever. I suspect we are going to go back to the art house phase where you are going to have experimentation with plots and character studies. Movie producers are just going to be too unwilling to bet on the big smash. I have a feeling it's going to be a good thing.
I very much doubt that once an intelligent species develops the technology for interstellar travel it will find it economically profitable to kill, subdue, or drive out a native population, including our species. There's a reason James Cameron invented a magical substance that was valuable to humans in Avatar, otherwise we could just mine their asteroids. An alien intelligent species would be far more valuable as a source of study (and maybe reality shows.) However, we may want to prevent them from becoming interstellar travelers themselves and keep them contained on their planet. I can see that happening.
When I'm sad will I suddenly see lots of adds for antidepressant?
By 2020, all operating systems will be Android.
Everything should be as complicated as it needs to be, and no more complex.
thanks!
Camera shooting from the left and at a shallow downward angle. Now the camera starts to pull ahead, drawing around so that Mann's car remains in sight. After a while, the truck is revealed foot by foot; a gigantic gasoline tanker truck pulling a tank trailer, each of them having six wheels. It is not a new rig but dented and in need of renovation, its tanks painted a cheap looking silver color. We hear the grinding strain of the truck's motor. The vertical pipe to the left of the cab is spewing dark smoke which clouds back across the trailer.
This is fairly detailed. 92 pages. The movie is 90 minutes.