Fair point, although the difference between chicken and wild goose is pretty huge... Anyway, I still think the same applies to red meat -- It's great on it's own, and different (but still great) with extra flavours. After all, they do say that variety is the spice of life...
You jest, but I actually think that turbo buttons would be a great idea on laptops. Sure, you can throttle the CPU using software to save power, but a button would just be easier, and would have miles of old-skool charm. Bring back the turbo button!
Hmmm, I'd agree that it doesn't require it, but it can be nice for a change. For example, I had a beautiful wild goose breast marinated in soy sauce, onions, garlic etc. last week -- one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. Not to say that it doesn't taste good on it's own, it's just different.
And nor should it -- In addition to a wild animal tasting better because it is healthier than a factory farmed animal, it also keeps you healthier by burning off all the fat you get from eating it! Not to mention the pure fun of it.
It's possible that this artificially grown meat could close the taste gap though (may be easier to get optimum nutrients/exercise), in which case it would be a brilliant improvement for those of us who don't get the time/opportunity to get enough wild meat to satisfy our needs. I, for one, don't buy much farmed meat at all -- it just tastes so rubbish compared to the 'real' stuff.
Which wont be an issue if the net does it's job. If the net fails, then you can argue other measures could be required, but you may as well try the net first. Do you have something against the designer of this, or are you just against non lethal methods of defense all together? I don't see why having a net launcher precludes the use of other weapons.
In no nation that I know of are you expected to lie down and surrender when faced with such an extreme violation of your person and rights.
Expected, maybe not, but certainly advised. Faced with a potentially violent kidnapper, who in most cases will have the upper hand (if the kidnapping is even slightly well planned), the fight option is likely to get you needlessly injured or killed. Any sane country advises it's citizens to do exactly that -- lie down and surrender. It simply offers the best chance of survival.
Of course something needs to be done, but shooting them all is just ridiculous. There is no need for us to resort to behaving like animals. As someone already mentioned, most of the guys doing the groundwork are young and desperate -- in many cases, their choice will be to let their family die of starvation and disease, or join the pirates.
Maybe the ships need to unionize.
Seriously. Be it private or commercial, someone has to get the damn thing moving
Since when have unions helped to get things moving? Sure, back in the day when there was a legitimate need for them, they helped bring about much needed change. But these days, they seem to just get in the way and prevent any progress.
Dunno about where you're from, but over here (New Zealand) there are plenty of long lasting water jet based craft, ranging from Jet Skis (AKA water lice), to recreational/racing river boats to moderate sized ferries. Treated properly, they can last just as well as propeller based propulsion. Boats running in shallow rivers tend to go through a few impellers (still, they last a good few years for recreational uses) due to the amount of gravel that gets sucked through them, but in these situations a propeller would last seconds/not work at all.
I would venture a guess that the only downsides to a jet boat for a pirate would be slightly higher fuel consumption, and lack of low speed maneuvering ability. However, larger units must presumably be fairly efficient -- I believe the smaller (less than 500kW ish) ones are pretty inefficient, but for ferries to use them the large ones must be OK -- and I'm presuming pirates wont be too worried if the scratch the sides of their boats a little due to their limited low speed maneuvering ability.
no one wants to support people dieing in explosions.
I'm not so sure about that. How many people go to things like nascar just to watch crashes? In fact, I'd imagine that more frequent, bigger explosions could be a great source of revenue to NASA if they marketed it right!
So which of these is more desirable? Personally, I'd have to go with Stargate:Atlantis. It may be rather infantile at times, but it doesn't tend to kill droves of people....
It also seems like common sense too. Makes sense to me that out bodies would have evolved to cope with whatever 'dirt' we were normally exposed to. Homo Sapiens did not come about in a time where everything was wiped with detol before use. It disgusts me how many TV ads there are now telling mothers they need to disinfect absolutely everything in their homes. Kids are filthy, that's how they're supposed to be!
Seems to work for adults too -- I live in a dirty student flat that gets cleaned about once a year, and we are all sick much less often than our 'civilised' friends. There you go, an anecdote, it must be true!
Given the choice between a crappy mp3 player and my own personal minstrel to follow me around, I know which one I'd pick.... Minstrels are splash proof (even water proof with the optional snorkel kit), shock resistant, voice controllable, and they can even update their own collections. Plus, it's still easier to find a dead squirrel than an AA battery in many parts of the world.
I agree. I'm already using it to share the my files relating to my thesis, so that if I *happen* to want to work on it away from the office, I don't need to keep a separate copy on a USB stick or something. Using the drop box add on, I can then save it back to my office computer. Very handy, and takes a matter of minutes (or less) to set up.
It gives you the option of using UPnP, it does not require it. All you need to do is untick the "Use UPnP port forwarding from my router" box. Not too diffcult.
Indeed. ISPs don't seem to mind about other p2p upload traffic (yes, my ISP does have a clause about not allowing servers, and I upload at least 10GB/month) so why would they care about this? If you're just sharing photos and a bit of music, the volume of data transferred will be negligible....
Not sure of the exact model, but its a Samsung flip-phone from about a year ago... one of their cheaper ones... not still being sold by the looks of things.
I'm from New Zealand, and plenty of phones over here don't display the time when out of coverage. It's not only the old CDMA phones either. I have also always had Nokias, all of which will display the time when out of coverage, but plenty of other brands do not.
Some modern phones still do not keep the time when out of service. A friend of mine has a cheap Samsung phone which is an example of this. It has always baffled me that a phone with a camera, games and a whole lot of other unnecessary rubbish can't even tell you the time when you go behind a mountain....
It amazes me that there are still people out there who are afraid of vaccinations. They are an important tool in preventing disease, and without them many of us would have died before we reached the age of 5. Just because a vaccine may cause adverse reactions in a tiny percentage of people does not make it bad -- for every life they take, they save many millions more. Vaccinations need a certain percentage of the population to take them to be effective at stopping disease outbreaks. Not submitting to vaccinations is socially irresponsible and selfish.
If it comes to my quitting, I'll just quit and be done with it - like millions of people have before).
So why are you still smoking? You surely realise that it has no up sides? I quit a couple of months ago after ~10 years smoking, best decision I made in ages.
2 seconds is a LOT longer than 'pretty much instantly'. I'm not very familiar with Outlook itself, but presumably it behaves similarly to Thunderbird/Opera etc -- when you hit send, you are instantly able to move on to the next task without waiting 2 seconds (or more on slower connections).
I honestly don't understand why you'd use gmail -- Any vaguely modern computer can run a decent email client, pretty much any email service offers web access for when you're on another PC, and gmail is horribly slow when you try and access it over imap/pop3 (admittedly I haven't tried this in well over a year, but it used to be awful).
You've got it almost right -- but the sheep farmers had to convert to dairy farming to raise enough capital for all the beer required. Obviously your inside information is a few years out of date.
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Fair point, although the difference between chicken and wild goose is pretty huge... Anyway, I still think the same applies to red meat -- It's great on it's own, and different (but still great) with extra flavours. After all, they do say that variety is the spice of life...
You jest, but I actually think that turbo buttons would be a great idea on laptops. Sure, you can throttle the CPU using software to save power, but a button would just be easier, and would have miles of old-skool charm. Bring back the turbo button!
Hmmm, I'd agree that it doesn't require it, but it can be nice for a change. For example, I had a beautiful wild goose breast marinated in soy sauce, onions, garlic etc. last week -- one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. Not to say that it doesn't taste good on it's own, it's just different.
And nor should it -- In addition to a wild animal tasting better because it is healthier than a factory farmed animal, it also keeps you healthier by burning off all the fat you get from eating it! Not to mention the pure fun of it.
It's possible that this artificially grown meat could close the taste gap though (may be easier to get optimum nutrients/exercise), in which case it would be a brilliant improvement for those of us who don't get the time/opportunity to get enough wild meat to satisfy our needs. I, for one, don't buy much farmed meat at all -- it just tastes so rubbish compared to the 'real' stuff.
Which wont be an issue if the net does it's job. If the net fails, then you can argue other measures could be required, but you may as well try the net first. Do you have something against the designer of this, or are you just against non lethal methods of defense all together? I don't see why having a net launcher precludes the use of other weapons.
Uhh, for one thing, the net only strands them for ~45 minutes. Gun wounds tend to be more permanent.
In no nation that I know of are you expected to lie down and surrender when faced with such an extreme violation of your person and rights.
Expected, maybe not, but certainly advised. Faced with a potentially violent kidnapper, who in most cases will have the upper hand (if the kidnapping is even slightly well planned), the fight option is likely to get you needlessly injured or killed. Any sane country advises it's citizens to do exactly that -- lie down and surrender. It simply offers the best chance of survival.
Of course something needs to be done, but shooting them all is just ridiculous. There is no need for us to resort to behaving like animals. As someone already mentioned, most of the guys doing the groundwork are young and desperate -- in many cases, their choice will be to let their family die of starvation and disease, or join the pirates.
Maybe the ships need to unionize. Seriously. Be it private or commercial, someone has to get the damn thing moving
Since when have unions helped to get things moving? Sure, back in the day when there was a legitimate need for them, they helped bring about much needed change. But these days, they seem to just get in the way and prevent any progress.
Dunno about where you're from, but over here (New Zealand) there are plenty of long lasting water jet based craft, ranging from Jet Skis (AKA water lice), to recreational/racing river boats to moderate sized ferries. Treated properly, they can last just as well as propeller based propulsion. Boats running in shallow rivers tend to go through a few impellers (still, they last a good few years for recreational uses) due to the amount of gravel that gets sucked through them, but in these situations a propeller would last seconds/not work at all.
I would venture a guess that the only downsides to a jet boat for a pirate would be slightly higher fuel consumption, and lack of low speed maneuvering ability. However, larger units must presumably be fairly efficient -- I believe the smaller (less than 500kW ish) ones are pretty inefficient, but for ferries to use them the large ones must be OK -- and I'm presuming pirates wont be too worried if the scratch the sides of their boats a little due to their limited low speed maneuvering ability.
There was an awful lot of 'terrorism' in world war 2 by your definition....
no one wants to support people dieing in explosions.
I'm not so sure about that. How many people go to things like nascar just to watch crashes? In fact, I'd imagine that more frequent, bigger explosions could be a great source of revenue to NASA if they marketed it right!
So which of these is more desirable? Personally, I'd have to go with Stargate:Atlantis. It may be rather infantile at times, but it doesn't tend to kill droves of people....
Doesn't every grade school student know that dividing by zero gives an incoherent result?
Yes, but every (well, some anyway) senior secondary school student knows that this is not necessarily correct!
It also seems like common sense too. Makes sense to me that out bodies would have evolved to cope with whatever 'dirt' we were normally exposed to. Homo Sapiens did not come about in a time where everything was wiped with detol before use. It disgusts me how many TV ads there are now telling mothers they need to disinfect absolutely everything in their homes. Kids are filthy, that's how they're supposed to be!
Seems to work for adults too -- I live in a dirty student flat that gets cleaned about once a year, and we are all sick much less often than our 'civilised' friends. There you go, an anecdote, it must be true!
I think by decoupling space and time, it may remove the time travel part of FTL travel....
MP3s vs. 1 Man Bands
Given the choice between a crappy mp3 player and my own personal minstrel to follow me around, I know which one I'd pick.... Minstrels are splash proof (even water proof with the optional snorkel kit), shock resistant, voice controllable, and they can even update their own collections. Plus, it's still easier to find a dead squirrel than an AA battery in many parts of the world.
I agree. I'm already using it to share the my files relating to my thesis, so that if I *happen* to want to work on it away from the office, I don't need to keep a separate copy on a USB stick or something. Using the drop box add on, I can then save it back to my office computer. Very handy, and takes a matter of minutes (or less) to set up.
It gives you the option of using UPnP, it does not require it. All you need to do is untick the "Use UPnP port forwarding from my router" box. Not too diffcult.
Indeed. ISPs don't seem to mind about other p2p upload traffic (yes, my ISP does have a clause about not allowing servers, and I upload at least 10GB/month) so why would they care about this? If you're just sharing photos and a bit of music, the volume of data transferred will be negligible....
Not sure of the exact model, but its a Samsung flip-phone from about a year ago... one of their cheaper ones... not still being sold by the looks of things.
I'm from New Zealand, and plenty of phones over here don't display the time when out of coverage. It's not only the old CDMA phones either. I have also always had Nokias, all of which will display the time when out of coverage, but plenty of other brands do not.
Some modern phones still do not keep the time when out of service. A friend of mine has a cheap Samsung phone which is an example of this. It has always baffled me that a phone with a camera, games and a whole lot of other unnecessary rubbish can't even tell you the time when you go behind a mountain....
It amazes me that there are still people out there who are afraid of vaccinations. They are an important tool in preventing disease, and without them many of us would have died before we reached the age of 5. Just because a vaccine may cause adverse reactions in a tiny percentage of people does not make it bad -- for every life they take, they save many millions more. Vaccinations need a certain percentage of the population to take them to be effective at stopping disease outbreaks. Not submitting to vaccinations is socially irresponsible and selfish.
If it comes to my quitting, I'll just quit and be done with it - like millions of people have before).
So why are you still smoking? You surely realise that it has no up sides? I quit a couple of months ago after ~10 years smoking, best decision I made in ages.
2 seconds is a LOT longer than 'pretty much instantly'. I'm not very familiar with Outlook itself, but presumably it behaves similarly to Thunderbird/Opera etc -- when you hit send, you are instantly able to move on to the next task without waiting 2 seconds (or more on slower connections).
I honestly don't understand why you'd use gmail -- Any vaguely modern computer can run a decent email client, pretty much any email service offers web access for when you're on another PC, and gmail is horribly slow when you try and access it over imap/pop3 (admittedly I haven't tried this in well over a year, but it used to be awful).
You've got it almost right -- but the sheep farmers had to convert to dairy farming to raise enough capital for all the beer required. Obviously your inside information is a few years out of date.